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Show ' . ' , , ... , ' t It si 4, , ,...... , ' - , '" - 11 ..--- t -- Is , ' 4 ' , ' - . 1 elf 'I' -- t- - I ,01c,' ., , ' s''1- -: ,242-- sweet and pure, and who seemed to have thetwhole world before her. tilt --.she had a jealous friend who began to spread malicious rumors and ' gossip &trout her. People.; believed the jealous a splendid repu- friend, avd,it was not long before . tation Wiaiulned. The talk may have been cheap for the jealous friend, but it was extremely costly for the innocent victim. - , , .-... -- I - , - , - AND THEN, there was a man and his young lamfly who had lived in a certain ward most of 1 their lives. In the course of his regular 'duties, a "friendswho 4-,-- this man filled an assignment.:--Bu- t did not or would not understand, placed the wrong construction upon what he saw as he observed e this man do what-hbeenisstgnedtodU to "tells and Misunderstanding being it, impelled , . , what he thought he ' saw, he spread falsehoods - - - ,, ",, -- - t - f''' '' II; -- )e)- -' . - 177- -, , ' : ,-! - - , . 1-,- -- ',. I re, 1 '. :,, r--- . -- --- - i 0 - I,' 11, ,- 1,,:' ''.., - --- - 1 I ,I . - , '77, iL....--r-. , - - 1 iq , 41 - , 4 - relates it-- - I - :, -- 1 1 , ' . -- i -,-,, - 1 , , - - -- '' - - - , , d'ell....- -,, .441,-- fir 1 ' ,, ---- ,, - . . ti, .- ' ---..---- , I By PRESTON1q1BILEIr-''. Nt4' ) of George A. Smith (Biography L''i'. ' ' Grandfather of President George Albert Smith) ' i s,-tI'' '''''''''',1'' A. SMITH was 17 years old and living hi GEORGE Ill. r," z-- ,t, . lirtland, Ohio, In 1835, When he was called to 1.11:ii.:10f-w::--go on his first mission. Before leaving home he geh 44-. .Wiltent to see his cousin, the Prophet Joseph Smith, -, .4,14,1k -: asked him what advice he had to give him. v zi, ,i.,ligna r A replied, "preach short set.. 11'4 At,11'.'George," the ,prophet 1 ;ions, make short- prayers: and deliver- your ter, '.,,,,,,t1-,--' Ilk',, A ,, -: with a prayerful heart." That was wise and ,14Xmons ,,f: I,i, :,, - timely advice, but Geoige:;'A. d14 hot always live i t s It ) ::: --, It'1 I, , ; lit, up to 1 z.i. ---todayi leittrIto Franklin D. Richards - -, '------- ---- ' , " I, --sz . '. , , -- 11 - Sermon Downs Elder Smith t,1-11- . - 11 --- ti- ,.. ,, ', - 'fs, Ax a ' , El-- r. - , t ''''--' 117-.Z - , I , .., ,. , ':: ,,, .c z , - , irly 1;1111't 'I' r, ' , Thrée-HouI ii 1..m.". 1 FI'" :4' 641 ,9 1 -- - costly practices tilivtich weindulge;!------- , There is the case ot the young lady who was ' A, 'I - --- La .r.t ' , -- - (e -- - ')--- - - ..z. , tr L1 YOUNGEST-MODERW-APOST- -- .. 4 ,-: r MOst A L'' I"-- It - ' - " ,, -- -- - .1 - B14.-hts- ' -- 5 ,,, - IF , t- All t''... ,-- -- ,,,r", ':: t i sation, and adding to their own ego by being "the ' i 'first to tell ' , ; cheap Is t'alk! . is you think about it, : yoki 7di oyerjhat- - talk is.: expensiveone of the , -- -- OFTEN said " 151 ' f- -- - - : :., tbat "talk is cheap." It is easy,: some people, to tatk and talk, for espeolally , What they think Is Interesting eonver. spreading IT x-- r- ' IT i- talk Cheap? . . a--- j . . 1 , , r;.. " 4 I , ED1TORIA - --- t A. :,..! :: ---------- 4 a ' -, , .1; 1 ) ,. t.., . " .. - - ''' it,;,,.zIk1411- . - - . ' - -- f ' &''''''' '''d - ' ' -- - ADVICE FRON,I, A FROPHETWhen George A. Smith went on his first mis'sion, the Prophet Joseph advised him to preach short sermons and offershort prayers. ' - sermen4 three hours haHle'-greachect-t- and a quarter" long and that It almost injured big health. Following Is the letter in part: "Historian's Office, Great Salt Lake City, , Oct. 31, 1855. "DEAR BROTHER FRANKLIN: The weathet for the past month has been remarkably fine,' out exceptions, the middle of the days warm, the nights chilly: but notwithstanding the fine weather a great many people have been afflicted with colds, of which I have participated largely and whichtat confine me to my room.... present 21 spent a weelqojnAt visit to Provo during thIs month, applying my time to giving a' dvice1 planting fruit seeds, attending milt. also preached iorthreehourt and a quarter, which, in addition to a severe cold on - - returrt,-t- o compelled me,- since-m- y my 'tangs keep as quiet as possible. GEMS OF THOUGHT "THE FROST has destroyed a, considerable portion. d ' wheat. Thie was the case of the late corfi-anwith Most of the crops at Fort Supply Green River ' County (now in Wyoming). Wheat bread is giving place to that made of corn, In many families; and if about this man which actually forced him to move 'many should find even the corn 'missing before from the ward. Again the talk may have been ANDOUT OF THE GROUND made L the Lord another harvest it will not be surprising. It latgood cheap for the man who spread it around, but how is pleasant to that - there is something tree, grow Saints, or the sieve. 'every naturally, - would not haVe its to try theeffect costly for the victim. as it does now. to the sight of man; and man could behold it. And cleaning , There was an employer who had working for It became a living SOUL for it was spiritual la "On Wednesday the 24th inst., Capt.. ?!lifo the day that I created it; for it remaineth in the him persons who simply had to talk. They scatAndrus Company of Perpetual Emigration Fund aU created which in tered rumors about their employer, they guessed I, even God, it, yea, sphere passengers arrived, with .banners flying, as thy at his plans, and circulated their guesses as facts, things which I prepared for the use of man; and ,went through the streets of the city by moonlight was man was saw, that It goodfor and encamped on Union Square.... The camp although they were wrong.- The bad guesses thus IT IS A DECREE OF THE LORD that every tree, circulated so injured his business that many, of In good health, but they had lost many attle- on the employes lost their jobs. Cheap talk? Or plant, and herb bearing seed should bring forth. account of hard labor, saleratut springs and scanty " ' costly? of Its kind, and cannot comelorth after any other, - Seed; and the remainder were in poor condition., "The eastern mail has been stopped for the past law or principle.Joseph Smith. Two men were close friends. With their wives two months, as we understand by Gen. Harney, al as DO NOT CHANGE, THESE PRINCIPLES reprethey engaged together in many social functions. though emigrants in apparently a helpless and unof Darwinian the school, evolutionists sented by But the wife of one was "talkative." When she condition have continued to arrive here protected but the primitive organisms of all living beiggs all It is impossible that Uncle Sam is too saw!something of interest in her friends, she would the time. n the same form as when they first received , xist-iweak to carry his mail through the country at a promptly say: "That will be wonderful to tell." few strolling savages. He does not want to take their impress from their Maker. Soon the friendship ended. trouble; he has,, by his laws, meanly prohibited , There are, indeed, very slight eXceptions, as for - the any private individual from tam ing - a letter ro ir ANYTHING more despicable than gos ass and mix with the mare Instance, the may pro. without paying him the required through duce the mule! but there it ends, the violation of thus muzzling private enterprise.... He secures the sip? Is there anything more harmful than the' laws of procreation receives a check, and its money, pockets it, and totally neglects the contract. the circulation of false and unfounded rumors If any should complain the cry is 'There are a which are injurious to others? Is there any way operation ..can go no further. Similar, compounds on the route,' although it is well known few Indians , en earth to may possibly be made by experimentalists in the justify such actions? to all the world that small parties, and many of have passed freely from the vegetable and mineral kingdoms,7 but the original them Why did the Lord command us not to bear 7 elements remain the same. - Yet this is not the nor-ma- !, Missouri River to the mountains, back and forth,-false witness? Why did he say to us: "Thou shalt without any man being harmed for nearly a year t but an abnormal condition with them, as with not lie?" ' Through one of his servants he said past. if we and he is take said birds, animals, etc.; man, "These six things doth the Lord hate: 'yea, DRUMMOND has removed to Fillmore; a 'JUDGE to have been made in the image of God, for the seven are an abomination unto him: " term of court comes off at that place on , regular simple reasion that he 'is a son of God; and being his the llth of November next ' "A proud look. , son, be Is, of course, his offspring, an emanation "A lying tongue. to be rip.. "The Pahvante Indians are supposed . from God,-I-n whose likeness, we are told, hell . "And hands that shed Innocent blood. prehensive of a further investigation into the Gun . left most of them have nison and made. recently "An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations. affair, The west desert. of the Fillmore and have gone HE DID NOT ORIGINATE FROM A CHAOTIC "Feet that be swift in running to mischief. sentenced by and three.Indians up given recently MASS of matter, moving or inert,- but came , "A false witness that speaketh lies. Judge Kinney to three years' imprisonment are pa.. - ' 10111k Posseningt-i-n - the And-- - he that ' soweth - discord an embryotiestate, all the fae.,,. among serving out their time4nthe penitentiary, -elites and powers of God. And when he shall be brethren." . . 'Trom the number of loafers daily visiblearound the Council House, we are led to believe Vial perfected, and have progressed' to maturity, he will WE ARE TOLD in the epistle of James that: "If the district court is in session, but the state of my be like his Fathera God; being indeed his offl , health has been such that I have not been able , As the , the the and ox, horse, swing. man to seem sheep, be every any among you religious and to take my seat among the 'distinguished bar' of the ; living creature, including man, propagates his own -- - - - hridleth' not his tongue, but -- deceiVeth his own --district.... species and perpetuates its own kind, so does God , . - . heart, this man's religion is vain." Grant his Kimball and have "Presidents Young, perpetuate made a visit to Cache Valley and Bear River during James also said: "The tongue is a little memAND WHEN THE RESURRECTION and , exalta; e this month . On their return I inquired of Brother ' bet tnd boasteth great things. Behold, how great: , tion of man shall be consummated, Although Young what the prospects were,- when ha replied,-----more kindleth."--littlea matter refined a and glorious, yet will he still ha fire pure, a good deal of bay- - cut, plenty of grass,- - in the same image, and have the same likeness, -Christian people should live the teachings of a chance for the Indians to lie in the ', ; splendid without variation or change in any of his parts or s ;Ind and steal cattle.' the Christ. They should love their. neighbors as '. substitution the of faculties, except spirit for blood. 11Thi'Mi11tia in Utah County have been or- This principle of exactitude in all the works of themselves, they should do unt(i, others as they ganized into a firtgade, of which Col. Peter VI,Con- Cod represents the principles that dwell in God would have others do to them. They should re- over has been unanimously elected brigadier himself. He is in called I scripture the AM, in member that spreading false stories Is bearing false . I other AM THAT I of because those AM. words, ' witness, and that the liar is hardly worse than the., A. Harper's division of the Inherent Charles unwhich are also and eternal "Captain principles, : -spreads those lies and delights In changeable: for where ,those principles exist, he ' ' Perpetual Emigration Fund passengers arrived on so. , the evening of the 20th instant. , , John Taylor, . doing , . . 'Yours very truly, George A... Smith." , , wmbeemier. Aimee 13, 1,52 , , SECTION , , (A S. 181123 -- Man Is Actually Offspring Of Diety - I , , r , food.--Mose- s31. t .IST1 - - ; -- - - ", almost-unarmed- ,- -- - It - I t I -- I I -- -- t I. "-- -- -- -- - k t g - - . i; , , ' general' - - ' 4 , who exists.--Preside- nt ,, 16-CHU- RCR. , -- - -- - -- - Disiitly Niws , ,, s ., |
