Show approaching and fearful Beir scarcity city of it is now contemplated by careful observers observer that thai the wheat crop of the last growth is thirty per cent less all over europe than it has been for the last six searf and that england alone will need from the united states or other foreign parts not less than one hundred and twenty million bushels of wheat in order to supply the inhabitants of great britain if this estimate makes any near approach to truth we may inny prope ly calculate upon a greater scarcity of breadstuff before another harvest than existed in the year 1847 in that year not less thain twenty five thousand persons of all ages and sexes were found in in the streets of liverpool england in a zingle single day wholly destitute and dependent upon the charity of the public 0 other her cities of england felt the force of tile the famine seriously yet not I 1 10 0 so ti great an extent generally even thou thousand sandi in england came to to their death by starvation but in ireland the number that died from the same cause is said to have been immensely greater but bat what are the saints and people of utah to learn from all this why that the lord of all the earth holds the staff of life in his own hand band the issues of life are with him 11 he preva ileth with mn man and he be basseth pas seth how large a lump of gold will compensate for a loaf of bicad to a sta iving man gold gold the nations of christendom are holly in pursuit of the yellow charm it was difficult for the presidency of the sains in england last spring to get a sufficient number of vessels to transport some three thousand saints to america why 9 they were all engaged for the distant regions of gold goedl I 1 it has been the policy and popular cay of great britain to turn the force of her bar emigration from america to australia the region of gold 1 and the emigrating I 1 fund of the saints was depreciated by the competition of the god of gold but who can tell but that if the saints observe the words of sim him that is in his watch tower stirring them m up to the signs of the times peradventure god will pui pill a hook in the nose of britain and force her ships to come to the abe continent of america to buy bread will foreign saints then find it as difficult to get a single ship in that great mart and forest of ships liverpool for several weeks that is bound to new orleans or that can be hired at any reasonable rate the lord is preparing the way to drive the poor saints out of en england 9 land by the scarcity at home and the he prospect of plenty to be fo found in america is drawing and inviting them to awake and flee to a fruitful la land n d he is is also drabin drawing 11 and inviting them by one of tile most power powerful fula appeals of president I 1 young to the saints of 0 utah to conti contribute libei liberally ally and withhold not until the last righteous poor latter latler day saint is brought from britain to zion the late intelligence t concerning the approaching scarcity of bread breadstuffs stuffs in europe goes to rivet the th thrilling tilling appeal of the prophet brigham in behalf of the gathering with great force but there is another view in which the scarcity of breadstuffs bread stuffs most deeply interests the saints of utah territory Terri territory tor y how shall a great and unusual gathering 11 to these valleys be provided for will there be a plenty of bread to sustain them bliem when they come here are the people putting 11 the seed wheat into the ground with the utmost diligence or do some slumber avei the oft repeated counsel that lias has been poured into their ears time and again and year after year 11 sow and plant with an unsparing hand this is the way to the staff of life this is the road to wealth this is the way to have in order to give to him that reedeth ne edeth save the choicest seeds for spring sowing and planting and do not trust too much budh to your neighbor to lay up garden and field seeds for you lest he have no more th than an is sufficient for himself many gardens may be made to produce double i 11 r what they now do under the diligent liand band of cullia tion some fields require better irrigation and oth 1 ers require ditching and draining because they ue r too wet much may also be done in the way of increasing the he quantity of manure tobe lobe spread upon our gardens and upon our cultivated fields some of the black rich soil of the low wet lands might be ad mingled with the sand and gravel soil of dry lands and fill the place of manure andvick and vica versa As cities are becoming walled in and th people becoming numerous and thickly settled it ii 4 highly desirable that the land in the cities and immediately adjacent should undergo a rapid improvement 1 in culture and fertility much time and labor is lost in trav tra travelling elling velling to and from a distant pi piece of land when I 1 the same labor and time bestowed upon a neglected garden would produce a more valuable revenue to the cultivator crops at a distance are out of sight 1 and more liable to be injured by disorder I 1 animals besides small pieces of farming land q fed fenced ed and cultivated are often productive of waw moi real value than large tracts poorly fenced and ha hate cultivated what you cannot secure well azahaf noxious animals and cultivate highly let your bor have e ither either by sale or rent so that all the land it iii brought to its proper fruitfulness fruita and value 1 I this part of free soil doctrine we believe in an have tau taught tit from the beginning some are grasp gr aspite at at a great deal of lands in order that they may divide off to their rising sons in some soine distant future dar day i aut who can tell lell whether that land now i 1 I ably unoccupied might not be preserved from tn tu mob and the hands of the wicked if it had bad been in the j lands hands of so many man as could cultivate it perfectly arA adf i defend it tile the li tle cities of ancient greece were all powerful against numerous assailants while thea the i were of one heart and each city became a shield to i the other and each inhabitant a covering of defend i to his fellow if you want your neighbors hea he 4 1 joined to yours let him feel that he be has some 44 tr i i su sure re also joined with yours he has some land Q joins yours his house is walled into the same abon 9 to I 1 1 enclosure with yours A portion of his means mean 8 is is JB 1 vested in the same school house arid and the same bride it in the sane same public store house and emigrating fwu let church state and family all he e identified is 1 inseparable and as to the ruling 0 object of 4 faith labor and planning neither a state or fio ly can truly flourish w without the church and ta tl church must always have god and his prophet ate head of it for ever when this is the case the th lud kw will yield its increase and the barren land will lw le come cornea a fruitful field famine and pestilence YA not be known in our borders fl fi fitfulness will elip our gardens adens and vineyards vineyard and our flocks w will d over lulls and valleys and our oura f milies families b become e e as a the fruitful bough of joseph that run over the wb |