Show vv vv v M PRINCIPLES OF FRUGALITY AND ECONOMY Address Delivered nt at tho the General Conference c Ie How flow to 10 Ot at 0 t Out of ot 01 Ot the tho Church ol or Jesus Jasu of ol Latter Lauer v I ot of poor 3 I day In tho the Ambly Hull HII i aI Salt Wot Sant N Sot t Economy u rt a City October B E WOE 1008 olle Principle Admonition 3 5 BY ELDER REED SMOOT to slave lave Wheat tn m v A A A w A the greater ater number or ot the i here thin afternoon were In the till thia morning when I 1 spoke upon tile the subject el of ot keeping out of ot debt l Since nue that meeting a II brother has hili asked aeK l me ne how to keep ko p out of at debt and there may mn be quite lulle n a number of ot thu that would like to ask allt the th Hint game Brethren and slaters I 1 can cantell till tell you In u It fw tw word worde how to get let out and how to 10 keep out ut of debt It It la I In III Indeed hadeed deed simple and If la this thle Stop Atop the waste waite that M eo many Inn i ople art are at ear ell save V a tL little every evry day from your earn earning ing and It n will not be long until you are ore out of ot d debt bt and anti It you will do this you will never nevar get Into debt I 1 er It hi Iv la I a sin In n th the eight of ot thud to towA wA wAllie te anything that He lie line halt created In IU its original state Bluto or by br the labor lahar of ot min men The Ih uld td hi Waste not 1101 want not u Is lust juit ai II true today lodo ns ne It ever evor was woe It In lit gratifying i ito to tu road rond the 1110 history of the tho different dif na nw nations and hears that thai many great men Illen by ther p and sues av 11 that they were to Waite ute In every form torm In III reading or ot Dante who WM WUI the ilio most mOlt i against waste waat uh In lilt hll day we wu unit find that mat at he the In b the seine mn circle a nit tho th miser thinking the mfr miser r would surely go to hell and the pend thrift would be he hi his close clow DAnto Dante had the Middle diddle Age Me Idea Idoa ot of hell not knowing the limited number of ot crimes that will keep a man there thero eternally Hy Ry IJ revelation we wo know that line lie iii only crimes crime man will bo be placed In ht lull halt for Cor ii la committing the unpardonable alas knowing the Christ mill anti then deny leny in Him or shedding Innocent blood Sinn JIan IRn nover never will go BO to 10 hell for Cor moans oven oen It If miserly No man Inn ever lived that looked more Inure carefully into Int household expenses than did serge n the father tather of ot our country Many SInnY of his ina servants him himl l II and that he lie should Rive give it tl to greater mutters not 1 I he honk lug Ins In after niter small email things and patty lJ ear I Ings My brethren and maters there hire me many who look upon u on a man that wives MOO fI ns nil stingy old and think that lie lit In la thus doing n wrong wron but 1 I assure you that Is he a not true 1 I have always alway 11 Insist Insisted pJ ed that under all nil circumstances end and economy in is necessary eAry You von will viii that It Is fa necessary In every livery condition of life lite whether the nun nUll he be hen bea a n millionaire or the Iho humblest and poor 1101 oat t soul foul that walks the face tace ace n lit the tho earth economy not In dollars and cents only but It Il also relates to 10 the uw use of or time one of or Gods Clods gifts that He Ito will wilt hold us ui nil all responsible for far Watch ov or overy over ery er expenditure and see sec that nothing Is la wasted I remember r rending on dint on an Inci dent In the life lite of the man lU who said he ht overcame the two to allure of or tae human t low birth and an hun that he was wag Inde Ind J an aD economist One day da be bl Will wee crota cro croIn Ing In u a street In III one ObI of d t the large cities ot of with th a companion and log Ing In down picked nicked something from um tin tn til mUll mud He The 1 to tl the nod brushed the mud tram from a piece of ot i ren i laid It on the curb urb remarking remark In to 10 his hi friend that It might do du a 11 dog dOl i i hird some good I 1 wont want to say nay II my m n nand nand and sinters It rl that thul the Ihl gret groat was 81 an en enemy to waste le and lilt Ill 11 I 1 if it its was an of ot economy H ifs was all taught by b his hI mother neer neter to waste a crumb of ot bread said nl he mother im RI impressed pressed me with the fact that bread was a to 10 man men what tho rind mind Ii is to 10 trio the soul IOUI I am pm 0 Indeed thankful Ib that Ihal the tho mother who ho gave III me birth taught re r e f that principle rI and 1 I earnestly wish IMi I h that every latt Saint had hid it II jut m Pressed upon them io ao they will practice tine tice economy In III their lives Not long on ago I was III In one olle of ot the stakes of ot lion Ion a 1 young oun mutt complained to me m how hard It was Wit to get ret along Idon ly I lie Ill asked me m In to go sa home with him hen hento to 10 dinner lInner I did to so On going o 0 the back of ot Ids his hI residence t after atler dinner I found enough good flood food rood thrown Onto into a 11 to feed tod another family yet yel In hI was nag a wondering why he lie could not make ends nd meet e eIn In the early rte dys ys of or Utah the voice olce of or Young Toung rang out warning the people to he ht saving anti and not waste watt anything that God In Ins Ills I goodness had given riven Iven them I say lay the same i me to you with all my heart Iud and I r wish our people stop Of and amI think thick about It and UM use the tie Intellect that Owl linn given then them I tell lell you It they i would do this there th re would l h be less silt sut from frum Poverty among us tie I Iwas wan In the north a couple of ot week weeks ago and ant Maw ot of whet wheat being shipped from the Whet does doea uv this W mean It 11 menns menna if it not topped that tha a great at portion Parana of or the amount an of tit wh b being shipped i ed at the present time i i have to 10 hr be ought brought bi back Into Utah i ithe the ni thus thud have han to pay feel nIJ t I charge going out and coming rom In In I Ia j ja I a profit pro I besides of at run IK la I this the way 10 to do why no ll v often have hav we WI heard t tn II t is of r the Church In times time t u Ml I t tI tell I I I sin ilu 1 hI people to L store atom their wheat Just JUat I ax all cm i ns nit II we WI live the time will sh wh thin n we n e will wish we WI had ba followed t a r and stored store l at al l least Mt enough to lD b bin Inez in t l UK ua from one harvest to another Hr and slates sisters for tor your sake paw Have enough wheat end and ke keep u lt It Iton on hand ao so 0 that we Wt can aau have hav bread breadstuff ht hr il stuff In ease cites of or any all unforeseen en contin contingency gency that may ilia arias an Suppose a 14 great strike had occurred on all the railroads railroad of ot the United Stains Atalee last lut year roar ar every wheel tied tier un up U t tand and every avenue for Cor carrying freight In to till this intermountain Inte country had bean a atop stopped top d either by II strike or through any other r cause i line In what condition would W w hats bli been Do Po you know that flour I and wheat were shipped liim your ym Into Sanpete county count once called the tI mn cry of or theft Ulah Do you rou think that suet ft n athing thing could have happened If It the Salute were following th the advice or of the lie Imph Prophet et etc of ot No never I ask asU the th poo peo pie to remember this for tor I toil tell you fOU Ii It the name of ot Jesua Christ you will vIII ice era this the wisdom of ot It II some ome div od hod wants willitS Ills III people to be for the corn CillO Inv Inic In judgments Pence Peace h ho lo to you all 1 oak ask In the name of ot Josue Jo J us Christ Amen |