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Show 0 voseamoo- J.1 - ;. !!; .- i.: .-... A.17!: - . , - I I Chtwch Department ME DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY; DECEMBER 5, 1106. ' t - Express Gratiteds At this time, we. al Anterlean and descendants, or in. 'citizens heritors of the blessings transmitted to all their successors by the Pilgrim Fathers and the Pioneers,a should express our 'gratitude to beneficent Providence foe these which we now 'priceless blessingswhich shall never enjoyblessings any land again be bestowed upon of the earth or people on the face millennium. of the side this It would be well for us to keep alive in our hearts and in the ntor . al standards of our people the ,faith and seal of the Pilgrims and the Pioneers with neither supersti. ition nor fainaticiam, their humility of spirit without their poverty. and country 'their devotion to God anddissimula;without. intolerance or We need their courage, lion. today their thrift, their industry, their ;Independence, their sweet simplici ty. their reverence for parents and Abe home; their sacred regard for ;children and their love et purity and uprightness in the lives of the boyhood and theeprihood, the man. hood and the wornaphood of ' , ; ; i ; ; , ; ; over-prepare- Z i. nations. , g c , dreifare. it io Meern eiatteria fa .) t 1 1 t, I 4 it ,t, 1 i '' i ' : - , ' I 4 lp ? to. .1 , Let us hopit that a happier" eatsay, may soon dawn upon the a day in which nations shall their swords into pruning books and their spears into plowebaree , and cease to make a scientific . out of warfare. A war or "new and creanng hope courage y the :most unproflutbie for aggresalon is world" by demon embark enterprise a Patton can that the "'course of arm: upon. In the end it must Prom ed rentlict can and will be elindtsa lasing venture because war hie 't QC. atedj from the , western hemi, come to never :' war. the is day gets sphere." In which :group of nation This Is sornetithsg to be thankmore en. shall lake the higher and ful Ion And it should be the hope has of treaty American that our Mann lightened morsel The occasion arisen. the opportunity', cries for istdshed representative may sue . ' ' itonoerted effort, Here Is where it '.' ' eeedi bt his great humnaltarien el: , la to succeed; Isaiah and other Ile. , , brew prophets' foretold the dot ''; 9 The Monroe Doctrine tuts, after when the "Law Of the Lord should end twenty years of i ', . go forth front Zion and the mad steadfast fidelity to a western doe of the Lord from Jerusalem." The I.. trtne paved the way for this most freedom is Lord , the of Law noble experiment In promoting a rIderoustwesit The Savior anion& ' spirit among neighbor. ad the decalogue 'with the trove... ' Union is organised 1 ending commandment entberlied- to Of developing come ': the Golden Rulo meets and trade, and coming to :' " i The Latterday Saints,' whomi better understanding of each of the to upon i.e., represent honor the have twenty-on- e republics, members of whole the believe this occasion, the lunion. It was organized In ,., ,.' America. "from the northern CD: s are maintained , be to the southern the to 181Heed-quartertrernity and occupy one of r. , Land of Zion, Upon these Uri buildings in the Capital. A bulletin le published In EPanuth. etreching continents the prtnciplos of political and religious freedom Belgian and English. Regular have become characteristic of Congresses of the union are held civilisation and they have every five years. Some day - the : wily triumphed, in the growth of greet and neighborly Dominion on free and Independent nations upon the north of us may affiliate with this favored lend. May, them no, '. ' ' this noble experiment in intorno tons of the Western hemisphere '' timid understanding and amity. As divine sanction In all that :seek It I4 she stands as one of the fin. be wit and their do destiny set demonstrations of What a they ,triumphantly gloater& may be.. Thisneighborly nation be- , For them things, mere hoters4 fase.inatitil , accomplisimient tween the two: nations, Is without ..' they boo,. we should ford ,, and ' a parallel In Ow history of the '' with in dime overoorroutht ' ' , ''''to modern world. The LON mike of perturbed dart . 2 boundary , between , us and theta , May the Clod of all'iniationik the ft I. undefended. Not a fort. or milk rith;r clod Hesh, so Inspire the tart defense along the whole die ' nations of tholreetern world m to ., tent" 804 Strange but delightful enable them Id again lift an entire to state instead of forts and threat, to the nation and let Zion la WM shine like a light set upon a ening battlements there has been , glory ' hill-to- p recited on the border a monument be 'that i,oannot , AMIM. . yeam comfmmoroting , ' ' .1'' .1 PI t, r ii ,44 pro-tendo- n -, , ; k 1Z ,', .-- . 2' t. : t - t ti .;;' 't ,t ; ; 4 - , I , ,rloving , ' , ' t ', , k I' l I , i !o,' 4. , , : ; t ; , ... Z t. ;., i g , I ieub , ? 1, ::, k. i ' . I ' 17: ' i !!, ' ! r?' ' . - d ' ' -- , ' ' m i I ki , -- ; lo ; . e : , , I ; ' : , : , , - ., 1 1 , , : , ' , ,, : ,,..,., , ,A C 4 l, .t , 1 , . ....-...,,,, , ,....: ..... .. ..101.101,,,ale, .... !. , , 1 I' , . - ,,........... :1 1 ' 4 . , f , "The World War, all told, cost- -. apart from 30,000,000 Ilests.,-4- 00 lions of dollars. With that money we could have built a 12.000 hours, furnished it Sit 21.000 worth of furniture. .placed it on five acres of land valued at $100 per acre and given this house to each and every family in the United States, Canada, Australia, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France, Belgium. Germany and Russia. We could have given to each pity of 20.000 inhabitants and over, in each country named, a five million dollar library and a 110,000.000 university. Out of what was left we could have set aside a sum at I per cent that would provide a $1.000 yearly salary for an army of 125.000 teachers and a like salary for another army of 125.000 nurses." U moral and humane considers-Bon- a do not restrain the war-maworld I Suppose economic affairs will also fail. , A Better Ersepeat The daily papers announce the, forming of a defensive treaty be- -' 'Mien Germany and Japan In the matter of resisting- Communistic Invasion and meddling. I sin not Inclined to speculate on pro phecy but this may be the very will idlignment that bring about the Armageddon spoken of the in the Apocalypec The preservation of , ),. . y ., , There is enough commerce and trade to produce splendid prow pertly in the: weatern hemisphere if Miter trade relations can be established. if the old world must go to war it nay be that after it Is all over and if the New world can keep out of it by such means here indicated, that may be the, way to ultimate peace and human, World Ceaditios;a Our geographical position with respect to the nations of Europe Is another thing which gives us some cause for gratitude and of Europe and thanksgiving. All Much of Asia are again bristling with armaments. MOBIL Italy, France, Britain. and Germany are in most eases more powerful from a military standpoint than they d were back in the 1914 when the World War day' ofout. broke Japan thinks that noceseity imposes upon her the grave responsibility of building a Dairy to equal that of the British Ernand that of the United States. pire A new and unusually powerful form of government has supplant. the older form of monarchies in a large portion of the European states. Fehr. suspicion, traditional hatreds and retaliative attitudes today place Europe in as precarious a situation as ever existed before. And scarcely eighteen years have, elapsed since the treaty at Ver. sallies was ratified wherein it was hoped a base bad beenanfounded on which might be built enduring peace. Among the large things to be thankful for just now, I am in dined to list first the Atlantic Ocean. I do not wish to assume a selfish or unsympathetic attitude toward the rest of the world but really there is occasion to feel thankful for the broad expanse of water which separates the United Staten from war threatened Europe. A Defense of Water Ancient cities and fortified 'settee were some times surrounded by moats as a matter of de. t 'I i : I - ' America. i. I ' . ! war-wear- GLORY? ' - .t. 'nations may yet be compelled to light-to- r their very existence against a common foe bent on rule of the world by might. Willie the picture abroad Is not reasserirce a far better prospect presents itself on this side of the Atlatitic. The daily press tells of the Departure of the President or the United States on a 12.000 mile journey to attend, conference of the Union called at his Instance for the purpoes of orderlyoelf-governin- pee-pare- ; ''. : '' 'neighborly histio.. Ilona. AU thin I. in sharp with the bottler., end dangerous situation throughout Europe. in addition to this encouraging aspect of the lwaitern world there has been formed a Union with somewhat similar principles to guide and promote the relations with all ,pacific lands and Be Tbankftitil For ed-fo- , ' , Pan-Parifi- o nature threw around the Western But, in these unhook. hemisphere. r days of air conquest even this natural defense loses much of its old time security. At any rate it gives 'us a splendid isolation which may be taken advantage of if the rest of the world keeps up its inhumanity. Strange as it may seem mankind is behaving true to form in that each war breeds another, except where complete conquest Do. curs. Before the debts of the last d war are paid another is being for. With absolute disregard Of the colossal lose of the war the poesibilities of another Einx to wrack the world. Here la ;17. crisp loss lines is splendidly de. to humanity as a, picted the result of the World War. This is by Nicholas Murray Butler under "WHAT the caption PRICE - . ' ''''.'. ' .1. i fenalva warfare. Thank God for the mighty defense of water which i t of Unperturbed aad (Continued From Page Onei of Europe. Three times have the American people celebrated the passing of the centuries by uenorattng their arrival here. The proud sons and daughter' of the pilgrims have properly orgardsed societies for the purpose of pee. fame and the prespetuating oftheirtheir noble, type of ervation Character. on the other hand, a century aave one short thriadrei since the Pioneers entered fertile and besutiful, valley from which spread the Civilization of this intermountain region. They, too, have drawn heavily upon the from nations of Europe as well asStates the United the older areas ofthis 'inland groat in building up the former, empire.. 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