Show TO THE SAMS SAINTS bourth A thousand happy new years yea to all saints cantal and as many more as they will live for to ware secure which we anticipate will e worlds without end and why do we wish you happy nov nev years yam because that is the summits m tabled end of mans existence all AD other good omy tends to this thi one great ob object eject happiness if gods oc angels holiness itself and in the or men were as holy as midst of all their holiness were as miserable as devils what good would their holiness do them if men were as an unholy as lucifer and his angels and the wicked men who follow their counsel and were perfectly happy what harm would their do them hem none the ile two cases are parallel pa raHel or rather opposite Happi happiness and misery are the t vo oo great ultima turns tums or objects and ends of our existence of the existence of all intelligent creation or created beings ga and the die great question is with ou all mm men how can I 1 elm shun misery and attain attai to happiness the saint says by living a holy life that id u by keeping the commandments command menta of my heavenly father in doing which I 1 lobey the voice of his servants in all things they shall communicate to me and thereby I 1 shall receive a continuation of the holy spirit to dwell with me and teach me all I 1 need to know to walk uprightly before all intelligence telli gence such holiness helium such a life continued enduring to the end will produce happiness without alloy without end interminable as the gods boundless vis as eternity calm and serene as an the zephyrs of the celestial kingdom not so with the debauchee his happiness consists in the gratification of his momentary passions and when gratified he feels ten times dines more miserable than at the commencement not so with the gambler happiness rests in the bosom of his bw power to overcome his bis antagonist if he succeed he adds another flower to his growing hopes in which perchance he be fails and the bitter tears of a bankrupts sleeping couch alone can sweeten his repose and in the end dies a martyr to ills bis folly emperors and kluge kings take their place among t U 1 lt A tl P r ti aa WHO license houses of infamy and prostitute the fairest portions of their subjects to the eagle eye of the nocturnal police of their unhallowed realms for the sake of acquiring a few dimes from those infernal licenses to support their tottering birones flu ones belong to this dams class yes by this process they r raise ise the die means to support their heathenish un godly seraglios lios and this too in professedly christian lands such things are common on the eastern continent we do not say the old world for father adam lived and died on this continent and they support their governments to a great extent by such means or newspapers and travelers belie them exceedingly but bat we would enquire if new york boston and other cities on our seaboard sea board have not dealt in the same article gentlemen of the quill and press will you yon please give us a definite answer and is this happiness Is it worthy of the name A respectable licensed lodging anywhere from Washington to cape ann which requires at least one bottle of brandy and six bottles of champagne to prepare the lodger decently for another nights lodging next comes the gold digger who leaves his wife and children and possessions to somebody or in charge who perhaps is bound for the same destination by the next boat or train and puts out for california or australia and aad because all his bis available means is used up to procure his tut outfit fitl his family are left to shift for themselves and may be the next mail brings a letter from the dear husband and another son is added to his family for the very good reason that husband and wife have not seen each other for two or three years only by letter and all because the tha wise wipe man mail has said that money answer eth au all things thus it is that whore doms and gold are an the great gra t grand embellishments kingly and princely offering and the peoples peo plea search after happiness of the present day throughout I 1 the one can most at but bat not so with utah her fame is untarnished it is too well known to need repeating that if a son 0 of shall hall defame one of war ow fair wives viva or daughters his head owl must pay il the f forfeit feit without judge or jury ift ia the most bubli place and he must get his recompense for the loss of his hearts blood where he ean can find 14 it which will be in the world is growing crazy on inventions discoveries co improvements go ahead activeness and so forth and so on and through these mediums are expecting anticipating hoping for what happiness yes never ending happiness this is 18 glory honor immortality at the patent office and eternal lives so far as they have any understanding of the subject and who envies them in their belief or end surely sorely no one who understands himself and knows right from wrong our oar information is very limited on one point that is having no communication with our little globe only once in a month and that very une uncertain artam whether we get it short of at six or eight months afterwards which leaves us to spell out our destiny and the destiny of nations by the dain dim light of nature unless we have the privilege of converse with the heavens and it if any editor has W got nearer the heavens nearer the tops of the highest mountains than we have on the face of the whole earth we wish he be bouw wouw report himself next matt mail and we will be happy to offer an exchange I 1 and most moat sincerely hope he will not refuse I 1 our humble offer for we want light from above when we cannot get it sidewise I 1 I 1 but we will wih take a little lateral or wim newspapers as we got get them and ana we find revelation upon revolution revelation bowein a thousand part pad of which we could not begin to enumerate but will touch a few items that are afloat amonn among almost all people who do not take the god of heaven and his bis rev revelations elat ions for a ode and directory to conduct them to happiness which has no end the great improvements on the western waters through the actions of the congress of the united states is wonderful astonishing we may not reasonably expect another life to be lost by the file blowing up of a steamboat steam boat while the mississippi runs run next follows the destroyer arideth upon these t he se waters and who can hinder him till his ride is out nobody until men will learn to behave themselves and the curse is taken from these waters we rejoice at all improvements but we dont want to see any more saluda saints on those waters till the be curse is removed and the devil has done his airing if it can be reasonably avoided stem boang are to cross the atlantic from new borit to liverpool in six day it next mail confirms the statement and that win will bring the new world close to the old if we dont get the news till six months after A J 1 davis is doing much to enlighten the christias Giris world on OB religion and a great many other things but his light goes just far ar enough to make professed christendom apost ize and this leaves them hem mow more in the dark than ever and so great is that darkness that it will take some time tim for the he Christ christians ism of the world to team leam that we his theory is ia one of those strong delusions which god said either by himself or prophets prophet a great many years tears ago he would gouid send about this time that men might belie believe a lie that they might be damned because this generation has pleasure in sorcery savery meimei mes ism clairvoyance necromancy witchcraft astro astrology loy soothsaying divining magic and the whole et cetera of ancient craft era an existed in the days of jesus and his apostles to overthrow the work of has been revived reed in this generation and that too loo for the same purpose and in no one a year of which we have any account since the wight flight of the manchild man child into heavens heaven have those demoniacal proceedings bes been so manifest on the earth as the year which has just passed 1853 but be assured saints that from this time forth year by year till the ab of man shall set his feet on mount olivet theoe signs the fulfilment fulfillment of prop prophecy becy will be more and more significant and au who amnot are not prepared to meet them will become partakers par takers 0 of like spirits and fall before them the christian Chri world is distracted mid and are looking after a sign and why because they are a wicked and adulterous generation just as jesus said honest men believe tho the testimony of my servants consequently you may know that when a man a sign that he may believe he be is ao an adulterer but religion is not all the go ahead there is in the world fors for great potion portion of this generation care r nothing lothing about religion new inventions are their themes are being constructed in every place where they are most needed on the earth except the most needed ne ad edid fsr and that is item access the land from atlantic to pacific of the united states so that men may go from pole 0 to o pole from side to side without jostling except killi killing ng a few score or hundred bundred now and then them just so as to learn men to say their prayers in season and keep a few score wid laid up in store against the time ox nem steamers are preparing to cross oceans in less time than locomotives can travel by land machinery chiam y of all kinds is going ahead beyond anything on record in history discoveries are being made on the earth in the earth under the earth and to the utmost bounds of the earth atho without t I 1 a parallel since the days of adam gold is springing forth and growing up in in all countries and in all climes till men dont know where to go to get rich the quickest and the time is near by when the god of farad has said for iron I 1 will bring brass and for bra brass bras s silver and for silver gold 07 yes so nigh is it that men are drunks drunk but not with wi wine tue they stagger but not with strong drink 9 I 1 and we have seen men staggering with gold on their backs and others with burdens to help them to the gold mines and the prophecy in parts part is fulfilled but more to come coma many of the nations of 0 the earth through their rulers are rejecting the gospel and will not have it taught in their dominions dominion ss because they do not love it it would curtail their abominations it if believed and p practiced practised it ft would annihilate their whore doms their revenues their tottering thrones tor for if their people subjects once al should receive and obey the gospel absolute mona monarchy reby would cease the burden would be lightened from the peopled shoulder sand their kings icings and queens would have to become more noble an and d generous in m their feeling like ae victoria it is by a noble abl hearte heartedness duess of feeling aud and to hwat her subjects b to that she has acquired a confidence and good feeling in her ber dominions that few other sovereigns can boast of on the earth would to god that others would copy her examples example and make their thrones more steadfast and their crown more se secure for I 1 we love the agency that god has givert given to man and d respect every earthly sovereign that hat favors i it tf it it be a qs queen I 1 As tho th op opposite posits is the action in many nation v let all elders therein take counsel by the gospel and if they cannot tarry in the particular parti calar place assigned them because their liv lives ewars are in jeopardy take tt the next best place if they know of a better and spread the truth troth as far as they can hd and not wait for further instruct instructions im for every egr ear most be made to tingle tinia with tho th gospel of df sal salvation vat ion boore before the ike end cornea comal be subject to the powers end and authorities where you yoa are but there gun is no occasion for you to remain where there is nothing for you to do we say the same to the elders and saints in the vallies tallies of the mountains of ephraim dolt dont stay here bore when there is nothing to do when in all these vallies are covered with grain when fruit trees are an abundant in every garden when the whole vale is a paradises paradise and another dayss days work cannot ie be done to improve the income or the beauty then it will be time for saints to live wa and enjoy their labors but bat until I 1 then no man need say 1 I ew can find nothing to do I 1 car can f we anve here I 1 must go 90 somewhere else tot for if he should say my so there is not a god in all eternity that would believe him bim brethren give labor to those who are to in WW want new comers feed them ard and when spring opens if you do not need i ei tough enough others will we want one midion more acres of grain put in the ground this year than we did any previous year the land wants fence and the crops will want harvesting and it is time lor those saints who have been here hem from one to five years to stop their picayune calculations and WP kelp all I 1 who need DOW belp and do as they would be done unto onto it is aw also wisdom f te saino who have bave just arrived hom from foreign fore igia countries cow dries to leam ism that they do oat not understand dl all kinds of business bo here ben WA and it they try to the highest wages at wood chopping when thy they know nothing noti liing but cotton spinning they must expect to be without business and without breal work on reasonable terms term that is pay for what you can do and be satisfied and thankful and when you have learned how to work you can get more and you can get all your ym labor is worth any time lor a thousand laborers are wanted where one cannot be had it is the business of all saints when they arrive here if they have not done it before to pay one tenth part of all their property for tithing and if they do not they will not prosper proe per any great length of time they way may for a little season but bat god has baa his eye upon them and aad when they dont think of it a horn hone will fall fail in the ditch or a cow in the mire or something of the kind will overtake them till their property is gone mid and 0 I 1 wish I 1 had bad paid my tithing I 1 want to pay my tithing but I 1 have nothing to pay with 1 I I 1 would weald tarn tam out my cattle to fat they were so poor I 1 like to offer them to the tithing of fice 1 my dear brother ask yourself while you are before god in the secret chamber if were honest with your silver and your god when you harbored such thoughts sainte in the valleys of ephraim put pat I 1 in the grain and prepare for the tens of thoi thousands sandi that will speedily come to this land cultivate all possible improvements in home manufactory and not have it said in future ages that the children of this world are am wiser in their generations than the children of light fight for thereby you may save thousands of days labor which will be wanted next harvests harvest in the wheat fields besides saving the strength of your wives and children and servants in keeping their and your clothes clean and a thousand other wage things we have not now time to mention turn tarn no one away empty from your doom if you do you yon may expect to be turned tamed empty away in the day of need and who knows known hot but that when he I 1 to entertaining strangers agers chemay he may be entertaining magels what are am the saints going to do with the house of the lord lorda there Is not grain enough in the lords store house to support the hands on that building one month if the present moment gives such intent intelligence ence what the next be shall the house of the lord be erected on the tops of the mountains into which all nations shall flow or shall it not little will be wanting to i accomplish this work to help 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