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Show - - il ..I :Wo have certainly tho-I'r -- hita the fulfilment bpIictVvordi f 'cpnccniinff- f t--t "the Bbtich-- fTQrrrwtir:. vre rc?n V.VPr.' IJook our foutifuTa ty; "the' fcenWy jely,':" J1 parte gran'i Kide Lvaes - and prttty -wUlmwliiiTiKz prmixsci. IjtX-take eat on Arsenal " Hill, beloved niy rieaK lormm ft uo.cii. ui: our, ciiuir : 42i-- . thd' red inaii. ; cultivating the fiaith and building J; ymi u.J ouier prediction.?, arid are sati&Ufcd that riU : irom an aMreea delivered by tho Prophet, at the grove, oil Bunchy;' July id 8th, 1814. 'i ' , iffho- bamti can testify whether 'Ena i CUyHalljburighi-bo- " , e ztytTjlM tion of that p-.. " tlm-who- fusedantoLmTSOjilJDymyrandfathersvhite the grand fundamental principles of 'Mormonism1 is , to receive truth, let it come whence it may. If I esteem mankind to be in error, shall I bear them down? No; I will lift them up, and -in their-owway. too; if I cannot persuade' them my way is better; and I will not seek to compel any man to believe as I do, only by the force of reasoning, for truth will cut its. ' own way.' : r On the : following Sabbath he preached , and I presume that hundreds are still living who will recollect these incidents. He said: "Let me be resurrected with the Saint3, whether I ascend to heaven, or descend to hell; we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it. Where this people are, there i3 good society. What do we care where, we are, if the society be good At another time- - he said, "I defy, all the world to destroy the work of God; and I prophesy they never, will have power to kill me till ray work is accomplished, and I am ready to die. I proclaim in the name of the Lord God Almighty, that I will fellowship nothing in the Church but virtue, integrity and r: uprightness." T - That same spirit which governed thePro:i :-- ; .1 -- - r t Gem together tonday; and let our enemies con j)heandJii3people-theirrcont- tmue to persecute-and-threatas'thev mav. they cannot hinder freedom of thought, nor prevent our making for ourselves a paradise on earth, nor from securing our passport to heav- en: no matter where our lot mav Via runt, can all make one for ourselves, and, a3 Joseph said, "defy all the world tor help it" or "to destroy the work of God," or any of Ins servants until their "work is accomplished," then they, like Joseph, will be "ready to die." The Missourians, with all their cruelties and whippings, could not crush out nor subdue that spirit, nor make a "Mormon" feel that he was c'onqueed, and this was" what madiy.thenr so : r , aQgry. - Our circumstances, since then, have reversed; . through the goodness of our Heavenly Father: we have gained a foot hold in these mountains, and can now sit "under our own vine and and shall "hold the fori;' God help ing en ts-- a r ; -- ; e;" To be Continued. Septem-- day, with the canopy of heaven one eternal-- . bine bending' over us, I cannot see the smallest cloud. We will climb the hills, or as it is - 7; "' "X5od.- Through v- imprtssioiifi "mere are manv ;me me ejiowrpo33e33-- d jomr"fill uswithlsilent, ana we-- " worship in the infinite." Friend of my sou), you grasp my hand, and adoration gladly I return the pressure. We too must pass away; surely, we shall meet in the eternities. Ammty is an eternal, immutable principle, and the affinity between us is firm Give me your hand, Jet us descend the hill together, - tv kq ?. k Sept. 1882. ;. A i:J shan - , p, - POETRY. Poetry, the language of the soul, "the blossom and fragrance of all human knowledge, human thou ghts, human passion, emotions, language." It is something; divine. It is the echo of the the music of that heavenly choir which causes the "strings in Being'g lyre" to vibrate, and respond in notes far from being in perfect unison. yet to - our dull eaT3 in sweetest cadence. mature ovoWwJtlTspirit of poetry. The air is full of it, and the waves cannot resist its power but dance and sparkle in its light. The : " starry heaven3 proclaim their, unseen magnificence in innumerable voices, whose melodies Z are all too perfect and delicate" foriother than the celestial beings. "The stars are the poetry' of heaven. Greater. dcsire3 and nobler purposes are awakened in man by its influence, and, as Shelley says, "it redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man." - As the sun with its bright and cheerful face "dispels the darkness and fears of night, and Around, all around are those grand old mountains. Well may we apply the Scriptural term 'the everlasting Hills" in their sublime" and eternal silence, clothed in their garments of purple haze, or the pale green robe, and their veil of mist, as the atmosphere, or time of day throw around them. Here let us sit and medi tate for a, short time. The silence of those eternal mountains speaks to our spirit ear, and to, our. spirit heart, and their voice and language is angelic and inspirational; and also com- v forting; it whispers of the great- - beyond, to 'which with noiseless tread, the hand of time is leading the whole human family; it whispers of the myriads that have Jived, and revelled, and enjoyed in the palaces of luxury, the gay denizens of the world "clothed in robes of purple and fine linen, and faring sumptuously, every day" some with crowns upon their heads, and the royal sceptre in their hands, and glitter- - r big3j3jni&thef ing with costly gem3 of the diamond, and the scatters the foreboding clouds of trouble poetry and the eany opal and anger, and calms 'the turbulent spirit into .the turquoise, every eye watching to gratify r t i ii perfect peace. It has power to soothe our are expresseu, ineir wisnes, even oeiore iney mind3 to rest, after "the cares that infest the every knee ready to do them honors; their day." We forget the toil and burden of life, lives so favored that it would seem a portion of and the troubled waves of anger and resentheaven had descended especially to bles3 these ment are subdued,as if a voice: had said, "peace. petted childrenof humanity. Then re verso the be still." picture. Take the poor of the.earth, who are - Nature's book lies open before us to read at jever in the majority, see how they have toiled, will. All are not equally sensitive to its how they have indeed eatenrtheir bread in the teachings, nor does everyone understand" the sweat of their brow from the raising of the language of nature; but ono who cherishes a sun to the going down of the same; from their love and.reverence for the beautiful, and its days of childhood, even to old age, labor has Creator, cannot .fail' to. have those affections been their portion. And then the mourning, continually renewed. the afflicted bearing life's burdens through the nWho can read Bryant without feeling that three score years and, ten and -- perhap3 tehe was an interpreter of nature ? He held more. Where are all these myriads ? Their "communion with her invisible forms," "and "to place know3 them no more.. These very she spoke a various language." The bid him mountains may be the sepulchre of many ' boughs always revealed some mystery to him, such ! Yes, I know these mountains are tombs and every tinyJlowerthat lifted it? drooping of many of the human family, and perhaps to be kissed by the passing breeze breathed "head some called upon them to cover them and to him of love and tenderness. Truly he was ! hoped they would cover them for ever for a poet of nature. While reading him all tho they were wretched, and "without hope, and music of our souls is awakened, and we latent without faith; think of all the heterogenous are raised above the illusions of this life, and mass of human beings that have lived upon catch glimpses of a nobler oner ; this earth, and then been buried in its bosom. is is imitative aim to art. an Its give Poetry Where, where are they ? bpeak ye grand old ; In this imitation. it pleasure by respect agrces mountains, that have beheld the age3 come -music,-sculptuwi th but they and those .are painting that and go, tell us the histories of differ in the mean3 they employ. Poetry uses now become as ye are:, the dust of the earth. a3 it3 means, words arranged in metre, and , The whole globe must be impregnated . with masic employs melodious sounds," sculpture im - ' "human dust; and that human dust has to be itatcs by reproducing ' beautiful forms, and resurrected. Think of it ! fancy we hear that painting by reproducing delicate blendingsof voice saying, "Lazarus! come forth," and at the color. These sister arts have many qualities sound of that Almighty, voice, earth had no . -- . - , 1 . - . : rer T, KING. Come with me my friend, my congenial spirit, us take a walk this beautiful calm . jet r- y, worK-manshi- ' ,. voices in the world, and none cf them are with: " t sigiii ncation-sothat iastmet, and some that fill the soul with that encourage, inexpressible poetry, for our finest feeling3 cannot be written with tho incompetent language. - EPTEMBEITWALK. BY HANNAH w comple- Tomnio finished a handsome iron palisading will enclose it ntiu luur massive gates 01 exquisite North; South,e,East and West. It will be the largest and most unique; Temple in America; it3 foundation is Jaid for eternity, and the superstructure is upon the same model. n ... Spmt-w6aytliicait- " Oiecnalj) 33undl lriTilT : - uostautiar- - .jriachiDg torttvand'Meedlie the teach ing3 of his - unique my teriou3 House of God ! which rest creat and mihtv nromi upon letruFandiaithul ones. On the game block stands the small but elegant Assembly Hall, wth its ornamental turrets clustering" round the principal tower, on the summit of which is the figure of an an eel soundin 2 " tie Gospel and also denoting the lrumpet oi Juatter-da; , ; wne omiaing, raided lor trme rgr of the whole f Yea, verily, t I - ndterniij. andibrb4Ui fjioiiion- - Eense purposes. The Theatre then presents itself, and is. a fine .and complete DmiamrA And now the grand Temple looms unm the midst, and the heart of , I am willing b"celi"dmn trated that I have! been willing to die for a Mormon I am Md toielam tliatl-beforheaven, that I am just a ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian,-. or man a of tiit, good any other denomination, lor me same principle which, would tramp upon the rights of the Roman Catholics, or of any other denomination that may be unpopular and too" weak to defend itself. "It is the love of liberty which inspires my le soul civil and rdidous liber tv to 01 the human race, .Love of liberty was drf- - fc T rxier.V:'retaia'hcr' prer.' " I?. ntrtHs a type :'J - "'You rJre talent,' dear, do you think JL am ser- ani 50 glad monizlijg ? Oh I thankr : y ou. you feel as I do; it is these mountains thai are ,: m- will )o fbitllled: lhe loiiowiflg : " |
