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Show '' ' - '', r ' ' , ' ', .: ' ' - - i , II - ' .. 1' NNW., : ... : ' , i:... ..,:., - ' . 8 , ..:, I z.,:.. f - t , ,s1 ,,, ,. " ' , THE DESERET I - ,4. ,I, .', "' t -- -- ' .!et ''!... , -- 1 I , , . .., ii ' , , - - out a hOme, for the Saints he391R1 C:TIOWWooki you like to take 11 the Rocky Mountains, where they 41", trip ,with the -original pioneer can build and inhabit, plant and Winter company of 1847.- from eat the fruits of the labors, and Great Salt Lake city? i". Quarters to done. to His laws, , serve God according and this is bow be It can administering the ordinances of it will be you can do it. Of course the without be Priesthood, Holy ' ti printed story. but soit le so well Mg interrupted by mobs, or banish. many dewritten and gives ed the wicked by governors of the laits that you can Imagine you are land." , With band that along right To read this story will increase going of pioneers. your faith. for surely they were difeel aided. Society The Genealogical vinely This wonderful story of Presithey am very fortunateof in having printing, ,' dent Kimball's will be printed in secured the privilege detail. day In their Idagasine. the day by day day. in the Utah Journal or history of Heber, i. Genealogical byand Historical MagaKimball in this original' pioneer . sine starting with the January. 19:19, number. The subscription company while on the way - to its destination In the West. price to the Magazine is $LOG a The tot will be graphically told year. This la only one ot the many new of how those pioneer leaders Plan .ined. looked ahead sod checked on features that are in the new Magaso Important for details You should start with the sine. the Many , , A trip of that kind. There must be January "number. so as to get the ' there times cattle: at food for complete story, Address the Utah , I' Would be plenty of woodat oat- Genealogical and Historical Maga-to CSITY sine at $O North Main St.. Salt take er times it Was necessary some with them for a distance; re- city. and streams be Made; must pairs must be forded before 1100K4 irLAC'em gN li4gitAny livers be bridge were built; food must STATES the company; bunters provided for were Thartia selered for this , and fishers Th uerinrn und der skandina t ts che ?Norden. Walther By There would be times of discour. and northern Treoege (Thuringia gement. How to keep alive a spir. in 17th the century, It of sacrifice and a deterMination A historical treatise.) to reach their goal was importaot. Eisenach. -Weather , conditions l presented cher Gewhlechter. Ackermann-Ag' Many 'problems. Guards must be ricola , and - Ilauer.Agricoic Eine Horses posted by day and by night. Studie by Walther Troege. , (A end cattle might stray sway or ' of old Eisenach families: in A study ' even be stolen. description and which Ackerman Sauer.) of detail the country through loWrrZElt IASI) they traveled must be recorded for the benefit or later companies. hazardous Annuaire des &dresses. , La a trip! What s c Le Lode. to start on! They were men24th ' Juurney " diedition. (Address, book for 1920 and women who believed in of i.e Si i.e Lode. vine help and they prayed for this The , Neuchatel. canton and journal Switzerland.) evening. morning t or' vividly relates how they were want ot. punctuality is cant of ganized and bow they helped each virtue---14Mason. other., . The! leaving behind of - families ---' : was and friends Better be three hours too soon they start- gotten experience whett we than one minute too late.Shakes- read of ed West. In the journal Peare those t'who have mostly left their , -- -families and friends in Winteras pioMethod is the very hinge of bustQuarters. and started Out and look nesa; and there it no method witb, 41cIA1 to preparothe way, out punetuality.---Cee- it ; , , ' r ' ' , ' , . Chaux-de-Fond- ' , Chaux-de-lron- -- 1 - - never-tobafor- - Anger la a atone els- into Malabar Proverb. i i .Si.Ti'lon !.' M91-monis- :Continued From rage Seven, Our stakes are now orworki has a ganized so that each stake intssion president and missionariesto the gospel who are teaching In the past year ma neighbors. there were about as many converted to the- Church from among the stakes gentiles in the organized converted in all ot, Zion as wertsmissions our of the 'foreign , - , , ' ; , ' - 4 , ' Church. t is not enough that people are order to mora4 end temperate. in in the advantages 'offered life. enjoyChristian philosophy of the tie of an he adoption there must life. reloglous 14e- believe that no man can be ivied in ignorance, that we are saved, no taster than we gain knowledge, and only by obedience and ordinances of the tu'the levee and gospel. There must be it faith belief in those principlea. A faith an has who being in a Supreme our lives and actions. over faith in a power greater than that his accomplishments. of man and of One mast forsake the feeling bethat his: own all not does comprehend is cause he the comprehensible things only are those who are wilreal. They believe only when evidence ling'to of demonstrable facts are produ& ed., The adoption of the religious lif& Will defeat religious- indifference. it will illiminate selfishness root of race hatred that lies at thewill make of itle an and war. It with a purpose. orderly existence which he has with Men's , talents then. be endowed may been in accord with the divine brought God. wilt of Let us rejoice that in our thee opened up to the,' way has beentestimonies have us and that Our in Witnessing been strengthened that truth will soother 'evidence God help us to so live i - ' ' , ' : , t , prevail. distinct and that we shall ever be people until all shall a peculiar find our tOrd Son. Ills know- God the Redeemer of Man. and Saviour, , ' Ring. ' From my My tindirbetl." Nut long till a car he tried to pass; There was a crash, a scream and breaking glazer. The other car was upside down About two mites from the;nearest town. The man was clear but his wife was caught And site needed the help of that drunken sot Who sat in a maudlin, drunken daze. And heard the screen and saw the blaze, But was too far gone to save a life By helping the earl from off the wife. car was burped, and the mother died. While a husband wept and a baby tried And a drunk sat byand still some think It's nobody's business what they drink. Prohibition On The Way Bark The repeal tide 'has spent its force. Prohibition Is Coming back. In March, 1037.. Geotlia rejected repeal in asa statewide referendum by twice great a'inajority as It did in 1935. In September, 1937. Tennessee rejected repeal by a dry majority of 67,000 !votes. Alabama. and Texas are alhaving local option elections s most every week And of them result in drY victories. W. S. Alexander,' Alenhol Administrator. 11 reported by the New York Times.: as telling 1.- 500 delegates to the National Retail Liquor Package Association. is that, since re'My Information peal, in 7.000 local option deelions 5.000 political units have gone dry. In the recent November elections in Ohio, for instance, the count was 13 to 1 against your In Pennsylvania business. you have lost 1.000 voting units In two years." In the issue of Dec. 4, 1937. Oollier's declared: "The same people who voted so exuberantly against prohibition four years ago are new expressingof impatience with the repeal." pmiticts The Ken-Wa- two-third- neighbors Vass. ' rrgLurtto)el.:rirlilt la So he drank, itt spite of :law or man. Then got into his old tin can, Stepped on the gas and let it go Down the highway to and fro. He took the curves at fifty miles drunken With bleary eves and smile. Fit tell the world have my glass! Here's One mans freedom cammt - - The Hope Of The World m (Continoed (Continued from Page'Three) In fact, repeal has failed to for achieve a single ,objective which it was se highly recommended. It has remedied no evil of prohibition and it has opened a floodgate of abuses and evils une, heard of in prohibitibn days. Industrial accidents have in creased under it 30 per cent. Keeley Cure patients end alcoholic patients in other hospitals have increased 70 per cent under repeal. According to Harvard Unfo versity research findings, deaths due to alcoholism have doubled since repeal. A million young women serve as bar maids or tavern hostesses in our repeal drinking establish' Ments and from these establish-meat- s pour forth a stream of drunken women who stagger Mir streets to the disgust of everybody --- a thing unknown In the days of the old saloon, to say nothing of prohibition days. Alcohol Aad Gasoline Traffic deaths, despite costly and frantic safety campaigns. have grown from 26.000 a year under National Prohibition to over 40,- 000 this past year. and In addi lion to those killed there were perhaps a quarter of a million more who were permanently injured and 'will hobble down our streets. carry empty sleeves. sit In invalid chairs or writhe upon, beds of affliction until a kind Providence shall call them from our midst. And c drivers. drunk on repeat liqAtm, have been the greatest single contributing factor in this huge increase of traffic death andauffeting. David Lawrence. in the United States News. informs us that traffic deaths due to drunk drivers and drunk pedestrians have' doubled since repeal 'Nobody's Rosiness "It's nobody's business what I Or how many laws they choose to a wasp's nest -1- , ' drink; I care not what think ...i...- - i Weighd and Fourid Wanting - N 0 E l'o" 1 Church Diep'cirtmeni, RPpeal-- - : -, t i4 4.,J.,., ; 1938. i " 7 .:' '..: ' NEWS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER'17, :...... ,,. : .. - : , atimillating alkaloids. Nothing more waa needful, this was the expressed will and comb set of Gott, the result has been a wonderfully high average of temperance. and the v'ey general conviction that it lre'a high duty to to obey this "Word of Wisdom" the letter. Surely It evidences higher form- of influence to achieve the end of temperance through the to promulgation of God's advice His people. than to compel then of the law be abstinence enacting probibitli.n1 Were the knowledge of mom general in the world. God there would be far less need for laws to tompel virtue or suppress the world. Who first advocated "prison forni." POW such an active terest among philanthropists? ' and-,,,st- ; , ' st man-mad- i fri ; ; 'a life-lov- e, . i i ' ill- be wrote: "Let the penitentiaries be turm.d Into seminaries of learning. wlyre . would banish intelligence fragments of barbarism" (such as felonies). Who east "ihe pioneer of teminence fr,Am perance harmful drugs? h he promul- Joseph Smith, gated the "Wor , t Wisdom," rt a day when liquo drinking was general, and science had not yet tietermined its harmful character. Who first conceived- the idea of an effective national banking system? Joseph Smith. as shown in his statement of principles Issued aftei his nomination for the ?residency in 1811. Who first suggested the id u of cooperation of nations. to achieve the ontis of pence, freedom and the good of mankind? Joseph Smith, when he wrote in this same document: "Caine Mexico; ecine Canada; and come all the world: let us be Inethren, and let there be universal peace!' Wise Counsel In the days oi Joseph Smith, the nation was widely agitated on the issue of slavery. While many, even of the wisest and best, were advocating "solutions" that eventuated In bitter strife In the end, JOseph Smith advocated that the slaves be redeemed with funds from the sale of public lands, so that, at once, the evil should be terminated by ate, and the slave holders reimbursed for "investments" made In faith. Eleven years later, in Ralph Waldo Emerson i,proposed , this same volution. t Had people listened to the voice of Joseph Smith, or, later to that of Emerson. there Deed hare been . On one occasion, affairs. Who founded the first benevolent organization of, women on r; , earth? re- Joseph Smith. when crime.' Principle al Seeress the Prophet Joseph Stnith was asked how he succeeded So well in governing the people of the Church. His answer,' was; "I teach them correct principle& and they govern themselves.' In this saying, with all that was behind it. do we not beheld demoLe racy. freedom and raised to their highest Dow era? Teach men how to obey Cod. and they Will do It gladly. "it Is Impossible to be saved in ignorance." And whit a counselor of man was this Joseph Smith! Had the world listened to him, and understood who it was that had opened his mind. how much further woald the world have advanced today! Only now, nearly a hundred years after his deaths are we beginning to see some of his advocated reforms struggling into being. Who first advocated the vote for women? Joseph Smith. when ha promulgated thd details of Church and government, giving to community; women full and free voice in 411 no bloody Civil War; thousands of valuable lives would have been spared; millions in property; would have been saved, and bitter sectional resentments would never have been conceived. Thus we see that Cod does not raise tip his foe nothing. Neither does prophets he manifest His wisdom through them. In order that it should he condemned of man. There is one supreme law cl patience. justice and toleration. Joseph spoke from full consciousness of the great law. Because the 'people waauld not listen, there w as bloodshed. hatred, misery and violence threughoul this great land. If people will not listen now to God's solution-- of our "problems," even greater distress and misery may cone upol the earth. Our social unret;1. teay Injure civilization Itself. Shall we listen to God. or Shall we put our trust in philosophies? The Message at Ni4)rtafiabtat And thus have been set forth some of the conspicuous services wrought by this man who talked with God, and some of the facts regarding tile Church saliind founded through his instrumentality, The Inspiring ideal iii both was, nal cohtinues to be, that of a new r l moony. a race oCpeople whose t icry member shall have achieved h s best and moral- ly. spiritually, temporarily and rue tompotied of tile physicallya sons anti daughters of the Almighty. cooperating ceaselessly for the spread of that Kingdom of God. Is this ideal in any' particular different from that embodied in the teachings of Jest a Christi? The message ti! "Morm is the message of Jesus onis" 'hrist--t- o down the blessed life of bring Heaven int0;this world, nd to let It Increase, to the eitaltatiOn of elan and the glory Of Oo& And it is only our rathees answer to the difficul. ties which beset is at the present.-..- . to ell the difficulties and trouble at WO.. ,rMortrionisna! tal the hope of the worktbedause It Is the reo, stored Gospel of Jesus Cluist-- Joseph Smith, when he organized the first "quorum" of the Ws.talen's Relief Society, one of the .nat,t effective associations for good in Page Five) against the use of alcohcl. tobacco. and "warm drinks" containing ': . . : r , ' , . , , , |