Show Friend Meakin's Book Leaves of Truth bears a good message and has the right Our old friend- John P. lias written a of is its and its contents are absolutely in accord with its It might well have been called or of or some similar for it is filled with sweetness and as well as with To read it will make anyone feel If any man correctly apprehends the God of the New it is our love-inspiring friend whose book is the topie of these inadequate but sincere He meets men face to Theology to him is simply heart-to-heartness- To God is light a light that is its own evidence streaming into every heart and conscience that are kindred with The Manly He gives us a glimpse of his own life and hope when he intro duces into his book such lines as doctrine is to lay aside Contention and be Just do your best and praise or blame That that counts just the always noticed great Is mixed with more or And it's the man who does his best That gets more kicks than all the Real And we like Friend Meakin's conception of a man here it is read it and judge for real in word and an honest Death to him is preferable to He his is genial and ever faithful to he is as true as the compass and as tender as the His influence is felt for good at on the in business and in public He is slow to and when prejudice controls the hearts of clamor and scandal fill the air- he exercises care and prudence and does run nor echo the ravings of unthinking Jewels of Thought-Many of his sayings are veritable jewels that as Tennyson says the outstretched of time will sparkle At they deserve that Notice a few of is the lamp of the mind arid the source of people call themselves but they insist on mental slavery for the other always that religion is personal and Be let your neighbor's man who is envious not hence he cannot do Defense of In the main his book is a collection of facts about Utah and its and these plainly and brightly servet many of the fables and that circulate to the J j ment of the majority I pie of this It is reff J to read facts not told in such ways as SJ and promote higher E nobler impulses and truer Where he makes a brief J ment it is drawn from cases in well known pilgrim fathers all to attain their Mj of no sooner had attained than they to enslave others- This of the human mind seems to M Nineteen years of Christian teachings iM to have eradicated but little of tyl devilish sin of public day we see brother against church against against and each to be a follower of the Nazarene who mk neighbor as walked from town to ing to the others as ye would have unto and they crutA A I facts as those just conclusions C child-SP wr God's Jl k the thunder a-iL i their bosoms fash rid their evil thoughts them AND i fl for Public in Prose is the takes noise for public clam-i I ask neither for its smiles I notice its It is It In life it strews after death aa not particular about on the Tf you dmn any to give them now words and loving deeds if if keep keep still still after I am Not It is pleasant to recall in the midst of men who urged drastic measures of coercion and persecution against the Meakin counseled patience and moderation- In the midst of the clamor of angry he has spoken hopefully he might have wounded for their he has spoken of their And his opinion of their peculiar case is well voiced in the appropriate lines which he chooses for this We gather false impressions And hug them closer years So Till virtues often come to us transgressions And thus men rise and- fall and live and Not But this book can hardly fail to be It carries a good It has a sound We wish it every success on its journey among the and we cordially recommend it to our |