Show I o I Address by hy President President Joseph F Smith The Tho following Address by Joseph p F 11 as at holm hulm on July Jul 31 I last U It I vu Wl r reported by b Mrs Bund wall Ii to whom WU wo are Iru Indebted In foi Ion Iona u a copy oC says In iii his lila letter Ieler W V Vi r ba bad a e time hero luro In tIm tho visit lalL of und uund party and ald nil all who hud hind the tho privilege of o and listening to our President lire are unanimous In expressing their for far this atud lud we cc feel teel highly hero here herl that wu we Wi could him him und anti lila his hil party Iatt with wll us ua on ti n Wo We 0 present tho the address In full tull know knowing knowIn knowIng ing In that U It I will wi bo ho by tho Iho reader of at the tile News We o as its 11 visitors unit only a brief mo moment merit ment or two with allOt you ou but lut these our who sho uro tit u her hern appointed to la ha labor II habar bar bor In the tho ministry you will vIll wi have havo with you 01 from rom one ono to two Iwo or 01 three years yearn until I for Cor them your kind intention and love late And 1 trust you tU will to tnt them such auch comfortH und aind blessings an as a you OU havo In your power u r long lone at ay they shall among you yul They rhey uro Lure good Rood boys bos Tinny have havo been leen chosen and all sent unit out here for tor tho tile tX prea Pr purpose of teach InK principles of truth und antI a by example us its 11 well tolL wel n as by hy You do tb not Hot find fill our elders ol erl drinking troll drinks drink tier nor lor tobacco nor no using It I In iii any other term form You do ito 00 not them and Ind bol boisterous or In any way WiY Unclean n but they the uro nrc Iru clean clenn sweet Spirited young men and Ind we WI e entrust them to your care the care caio of oC the thio good RO and hope hupe that they will wi trout hom Kindly while they tire are lr In their Inch midst We also hop that tho tim Lord will eill wi lead lend to tho the honest In henrt who i hI h s am seeking niter a it 1 knowledge of truth that these tee you MR men may muy be become become come Instruments In of or tho the Lord In bring 1111 hII many faithful honest souls to 10 the of ot that truth width which It If they obe v will wi loud th theta them in Into perfect fellow ship hip with wih hod und and wIth wih Ills beloved SOa Soi Una d with till nil 11 faithful Saint both In Inthe inthe the l th spirit world cUd BUd In tine tho llesh lesh leshI I 0 I 1 Uel to commend to 10 you our dear fl President who Is la Evidently nIn n a man of not nut many Words Worda but butA A 1 father In Israel Isuel u IL titan of nun age I and ate experience and u a I man who ha has loin fund and lets bus Illa had experience In tho the val yai valley ley of tho the mountains onions omon the RUth guth erel ered n It r man honored and re mc reeled Ho lie II was chosen to come hero and take the presidency pr of tine the Swedish mission because It I wu believed that ho hurt halt been blen tried III found tOi I 0 to bo be I a faith faithful ful rul In Itt H tho the Church Ills Inherit Inborn on 01 thin the mission ml ton Held field tune are drawing to t A 1 close clote clot and ami I am sure euro that ho he will vilt wi re no 1 joice Joll exceedingly In tho the privilege of ro re r returning turning again to ZIOn 11 n to enjoy the he comforts of his hil tomB family and tim the scenes cones where he h linn line mode hIs hI hoine AVo We 0 feel CI to thank you brethren and sisters and these theo our brethren who are ate laboring In your midst and we hope tind pray pray truly that those young will wi HO so 10 conduct themselves them that you cannot tall fall to place placa confidence In them and uphold and sustain them theft In their labors lubor And n I cant tn to toy enty to you 01 that are lUG gathered Kather 1 heie time the Lord expects you boys bO to l bo faithful true und and honest and Your parents expect you yott 01 to todo todo todo do them honor The Tho ho eye eyo of tho Church ChurchIn In Is 11 upon you ou and there hero are thousands of o voices ol s crying unto this the Lord ovary over day for tor your happiness and nn success Your parents and your our kindred never nover bow down before th the Lord without re r remembering you ou In their Do Donot Donot Donot not grieve the tho Lord or disappoint your kindred or the Church by to da do your duty lul anti and ln by b falling ailing to bo be 0 true trul to tn titus the thO covenants which you ou tn Jin A a tho the Lot Lord And AIt I to tha th n U Hut like a a city sot set Iet on a lull hill hi that cannot 1 be e hid Let your ur light so ito o that all al the tine world that see sie II you ou will II tea see eo your our good goon works work work and will wi bu be bl led lell there then thereby thereby by tn to glorify our Father Futler who Is II In heaven To the fathers hero here we want to say MY Live LIt In elicit n ft 0 waY a V that your our children will wil bo be b proud Jr d to follow toll ow In your foot tot footsteps steps And you mothers mother In Israel live lh so HO that your daughters will wi emulate our good examples and will rise riMe up II In after generations gner And call you ou blessed If I you will wi do this tints you will wi sow BOW the tho seeds 1 that will wi luring bring forth tho tilo fruits of righteousness In the of your our children and they time the will wi glorify God We hind find It I n a little difficult to express l ourselves In short hor and Brother Drother here finds It I to bear beur In mind long sentences sentence but we wo mean well wel anti and an we ue pray only that tim the Lord Lont will wi abundantly bless bloB every eyer one onu on of ot you ou 0 Now let me say AY to the husbands We Vo want you yon 01 tho the gospel gO Iel you ou the tha gospel opel requires you an al husbands to tob tobe tobe b be true and nd faithful to tn your our wives wl And It also olo requires that the thus wives be betrue betrue true tro and ann and pure toward to II nl their husbands l Thu Tho Lord cannot give to you any Rny greater blessings titan than chil children dren iren It la i 1 said laid In the Scriptures that thai children are lre an inn Inheritance of the Ibl Lord and Is it he who has hns his hil quiver toll full of them themI tul I have hass hae not observed of ot course COUNe so 10 much here as our time tm huu hUK hu been limit limited limited ed fd the number of ot children that you 11 tU Iro are ro blessed with But Rut wo wn observed 1 In Holland Holand that the streets In the tho cities which we 0 visited were werl Oiled filled led nearly with children and they the looked healthy health and old robust and nd In them Urn lies f tho the future strength et n th and development and Ind good 01 of that lint nation Tine hILl tine tho tb Ilton increase or growth of a n nation upon ulon tho the children AV Wo We can cun all ni readily nee that any fitly nation lulon that lit IS II barren barrett of children wilt will wi waste IWI I 1 hope Hint tho people of this nation for tur I eO Unit tit they tIO turo descended refit from Israel will wi not hinder tho the growth gr of or their Ir own nil lon by ly preventing tho tine birth of theIr children uno Un of oC tho tue greatest crimM before our Father In itt heaven heven ls Is li tho the tak lUg Inc of ot life Ufa ur yr tho the prevention of lift f tho tue lo I rd Is III well wel pleased und al ni alwn wn will wi bo ho well wel with wih those tho who sho protect their children SOul and strive to bring them up U In 11 ito tho way Wil WI they thoy should so ga o that when they get got old they tile will not depart from the right way eay 1 J wi felt led while In Holland to tu say Bay an to that people lo that they wore n a ed cit people pen Io pIe becauSe o of or their children Jive hive 10 to tl your children my nt nl brethren and tind sisters every advantage possible to learn lear the principles of oC tim the Church Toach your children to pray teach trach Illch them to tn bo ho honest I touch them faith In inthe the tho Lord Jesus Christ Never Neer N ever suffer stiffer Butr ono one of ot your our children to lice beyond b 8 I years Ir of it If ago without being baptized The Tho Lord Lr line has said hint lift lie h will wi lay Iny at atthe atthe atthe the hands bunds of ot tine tho parents tho the training of their children Thou Tinen If tho the children go astray deny lIeu tho the fulth 10 of tho tim neglect of their tho Lord wil will hold hlll tho the parents for tor their wrong doling doing Now Nov lelon bo be good 1001 to 10 your our children teach loach them to do tics right teach tibIa thom to 10 live Iho pun puro lives help holp thorn thor to 10 escape l tine Iha ha bud bad habits hobUs most of thus the world wont has fallen Into Wo Yo our little party hero tere have havo been hlen most mo t surprised t to see sec the Ills le amount of tit tobacco thAt Is it used In all il tho the coun oun countries tries wo we have visited We Ve have been In iii In lie el glum Klum and Ild tid Holland Holand In Copenhagen and und mind now In Stockholm we tind that nearly nOMI everybody lion lies hU constantly a cigar In itt II his mouth suck BUck luck ask uk to Now I want big It or a pipe Olive tile tho 11 I I Paints what good l la is lathat bod hod bodIes that to 10 them Does Doea It I fr fied CIoll il their thelt lea Ies Does Doell It them theta nourishment Dots Does It add to tu their health and their vigor Doco It 1 u meld Ul to their vitality or ortho orthe i the tho longevity of their lives liven No no Ito 10 not trot ono thing The me use usa of tobacco shortens life weakens the thu virility or vitality o of the tho body boti ns as ni ull al poisons do dou Tobacco u eco Is 18 a n poison on Opium Is II 1 it poi pol poison pellon polson son And yet t people I will wil loam learnt oven even evento lon to cat opium anti and Ind the eating of opium Ilko tho tile use UHe of ot tobacco fastens Itself PO so Iko strongly that who become b ad ut addicted 10 to It cannot quit It Tine The Lord rd says nays that tobacco li is li not good for fol man manI I believe that tho tino Lord known lt tows what he and that ho wild said Id the truth Ho lie 10 said that It Il wa wo g d for sick Ick that It was n a sort sor of mOd med medicine to 10 be bo 1101 with wisdom for tor sick lck sickness ness incas eI but that It II Js is j not good for tor titan man manNow Now I 1 should like Ilko to 10 say ato to the Lot Lat lt Saints who utO In tIne the hAbit of oC using It II that they thy should quit It I anti world no so 0 set net a ft I good example to the In Iii my rny first frt mission to Great Britain I found n a l fatally family who was wan UI In the habit habitor of or using lining beer They Finey sent sont their clothes lothes every Monday Mon ay to tho pawnshop und ant took their thel wages wn es at nl tho tine ond end of the Iho week and gut got tho the cloth n out And Amt thus thul they lived I veIl tram from hand to 10 mouth In II absolute poverty from II rota day lloy to 40 day In year after year I 1 sate said to 10 If Ir you YOI will wIl quit qui using your our beer anti and Ine leave tIff off of using musing your our tobacco und use that money for or the th emigration fund It will wi not hot be 11 until yo you u enough to KO go to Iun Tny T took rny my m council and 10 within two to t I flue lIe had saved d d mone mon enough to ep e their clothe out Olt of tint the Ind emigrate to And of ot being boozy and I th thi of lf I tobacco mi ke jko thoy tho healthy h and bright anti full tul of or the time Spirit of oC Lord Lohl In instead stead of being full of ot the tho spirit of to tobacco tobacco bacco and und beer Thus 1 they IhlY better and Id began Igan to In temporal tiling Our bishop luis huts been talking to you yot 11 itts afternoon on temporal I recommend to 10 your Dur careful currul eon fon on every epry and principle tin lie set t before you antI and nUt all nI these ther o little Ut thAt I have Inave mentioned tho the ab nb abstaining abstainIng staining front from Intemperance those e ething thing which are a not riot good got Malts Make ulIe tIne tho light of or example shine shin brightly anti you ou will wi thereby enjoy n a richer Honor orton of ot tho tim Holy those e the temporal precepts of the Church of Jesus Christ I want to tell lull you oU this that no man will still wt over get t a I visit Itt from an angel from tram heaven hlIn with wih a n In his mouth Neither wIlt will wi any an men man be b permitted to niter enter Into the hl kingdom of led Oo where there them tha U lx no un un wih n R pocket let full tul ot t cigar So B go brethren and sisters Bister let un us 1 keep tho the Word of ot Wisdom observe the tine pl of ot titus the gospel spend I nd our or for food tood Instead of ot for and Injurious things which the lord hn has provided for m purpose but not for nour flour nourishing the tho body I Now XII G Go bleas ble you yuu YU nil mu al I fe feel l that I In tho the presence of KOOK Eo good l people 1 i cun cn ace SMI I goodness In your our races Your hearts ore are good IO end Ind your d he ar nr ama good od You You love lovo tho the truth and I t piny pra that tho the I rd will wi help you 1 to 10 ll I live It end and obey ob It nil all al the tho days of your lives And now mow wo we wIll wll say goodbye o and hod Oo blew bless bleS you ou We may 0 a g never have havethe the tile privilege of meeting me with wih you 01 In Inan Inon an on assembly again I l say nay this buo some nomo of UN mimi lure lre getting advanced In years 00 and we are ar widely separated on the earth It I Is itt II rot met nt likely that I Ishall Ishall shall be permitted to visit these coun count countries tries again but bt I feel to 10 bless blens tho the pw pee PIO plo of ot Hw ne TT jl r Wl sM tAnd vi 1 Ur who whim Inhabit your may th tho I bUn bless b uld and pr ft f tho the v war tun at uniti all lr Irmi m IN t the I curso o will wil eventually bo b loU d cm lam I the wicked nation nalon gC of 1 tine the a aI riV II J Kor I or after tho the testimonies ot of tim the eler of J Israel r iol will 11 come cOle end thun dor der for turn thu II Lord 1011 h 1111 hus u said All so o t 1 i j 1010 tho will wil spare yur anti the truth Lung bring them nil all ni to II a IL L HowIe le lt j And tim tho th Lord bless Ile you yu In in c name ot of Je Jl Jesus uc U In is I 0 my lY Anne I t 1 |