Show for the deseret news misfortune it lii iti ial no uncommon unc onmon spectacle to behold a human being assailed by misfortune our eyes are pained by the sight every day we see its manifestations in mourning garments and in in faces draped in the expression that tells of the hearts unuttered sorrows or in which false fi rilles are but the gauzy veils that far from answering their pur purpose pos but make the dark despair they were meant kohide to hide bide more painfully apparent and ald still there is something new and startling in the details of every new misfortune and in its effects upon different individuals vi adversity has been looked upon as a test of 0 character it brings to light its def deformity ormi and develops its perfection or like chemistry it displays the bidden poison that unsuspected has destroyed all that was beautiful and gracious in the moral life or produces a benign and active combination of traits of goodness that waited only for its permeating influence every person of ordinary observation must have remarked that misfortunes often follow in quick gulck succession when hen once an individual has become their victim deat deal deah h seldom retreat from a fond circle of friends with ith a single vic tion but too often his shafts hurled seemingly at random lay low the fairest and the best till those whose bold on life seemed weakest are alone left to mourn the loss of property is seldom consummated at one blow but by successive shocks the result perhaps of confusion of thought and judgment induced by the earliest reverse but not the less fatal in their effects but whether misfortunes come single spies or in battalions the wise will draw from the see bee seeming min evil a lasting good he will not brer suffer himself to be prostrated by undeserved misfortune nor wrecked by that which some unguarded moment of impulse may have brought upon him he will unfalteringly drain the bitter cup hoping nay belie belle believing believing vint that the trial may be productive in his bis own hereafter ere after of sweetest uses |