Show THE SITUATION we confess that we have many times experienced perien ced a feeling of honest pride swell in our bosom as we have contemplated the situation of the y people veople e ople opie of Uta utah hand and have been g glad giad I 1 ad in such moments that we could bay eay there was no poor house in all the territory because there were no poor it seems a proul boast but we claim that we have therein been free from th the espirit spirit of the he braggart and have hare felt as as men should feel grateful to the giver of 0 allgood for the kind care that ile ha bas has extended over us that health has been our portion and that we have ba hal had heart and soul coal to appreciate ills his favors and to accord to him the glory for what we are and what we have we would not cot have it inferred bany by any reader that we see nothing to improve in the condition of the people that we are all overflowing with ab abundance sundance our eyes are not closed we V see many persons around us who could use conveniently more of this words worlds possessions than they can now command and add many of these thise persons probably have hare been differently and mote more ote ore favorably situated elsewhere than they afe are are here but the actual condition of any specified number for better or for worse changes in nothing the great broad table fact that as a people collectively we hava have had bad much reason to be satisfied with pur oun our par mountain Aloun tain home standing in any special locality loca Joca lity on an any y particular cc caslon occasion taking isolated individuals foi tor illustration we would boon soon run into every kind of inconsistency nid did we take the theatre or the ball room for our measure of the happiness or condition of a people we would be no nearer a proper appreciation of tae actualities of our life than are others who judge the by the chinel rg g and fau fah fault it hindin finding of the miserable few who are found in ll il all ail 11 communities ready at any moment to please the ever listening ear in the hope of gain the tle fuli tuu and over overflowing flowing wheat blu blo b m t the he well packed store room of one or 01 of a thousand band are no indication 9 of the condition conditio of other ones or other thousands the easy egey prosperity of many today to day or the d difficulties of as many others ethers are no indications of actual condition to the political economist the corpaci capacity cejo to ie le is alone standard the by which the tho situation situ alon aion can be judged As a we are alone in la in every respect our oar faith oun our ambition our labor labors shave bave nothing lathing in common with those of other foks fok s we ve think enough of today to day but hut not dot less of the morr morrow bir biu we may appear ompie to others other but we think we perfectly I 1 understand ourselves and are none nonetheless the les ies contented because others fail fall to eee gee theronid theron nd of our hope we perfectly comp eliana the tha philosophy of seed time and harvest and pre rep fer ter ferto to dow BOW to today day and reap reap to morrow than to toss up hata lata and hurrah for the goly and glitter of the passing hour we lay tip up stores for the colim coming day impelled by a faith laith that circumscribes 1 al all ail I 1 truth in the past in the tife present and in the future we are w willing illing g to con conand end for it sacra gide gee for it and devote devitt devote life to its triumph we are the pioneers of a great future and are atla atia fied hied with our lot and if we hoose choose this labor we alone take the tha vot pot the A of that f falth faith our elder de Z te issye ye home dome and friends to wander among theat the nations 4 lons ions and labor among people who cave bave have arid and raised in contentious society y they set aside personal aggrandizement and cultivate holy devolio they preach in the highways and public places where they can and gather into the net feih of every kind tae tte gospel is preached to all men and the 1 greater por portion ilon lion of its recipients have ever neen the poor the afflicted and oppressed the I 1 light of truth bursting upon their minds changes ll 11 the world to their tb e ir view and in the gratitude gratitude of their puls they in turn are as aadil wi ll 11 t ling hag to labor for others as others have labored for them self is for me the time banished j As time rolls on and with it the changes of circumstances the tr ackless ac klesi ocean and the wide spread prairie e ati or the dreary desert llave ibave been traversed and another phwe dhue of existence is before them all some favored by the change ofa of a new life and a new world at once step on to the high road to fort fortune fortine ine and wealth others find the wilderness and desert a world yet to be created and their expel lence in n the past of little advantage for today to day here commences the test lest of stability inflated by success some foget everything that they once knew and which was the light and aud glory of their in rids dis heartened by adversity ver sity Elty some others forget the experience of the past and see only god in the sun bun sunshine silme slime of pros prosperity p erity ne neither ither in these moments seemingly realize that life is a school through b which we expect to pass instructed in the uses of all things 0 in riches in poverty iu in prosperity in adversity amon among friends among foes with the trieb triet and the faithful with the deceived decel ed and the traitor there are conditions in life to which all aspire because they are congenial congeal al with the fhe aim and object of our creation but as there is no roya loya irad iraa to leas leat teaming ning 1 17 luere lucre can be no royal loyal I 1 road to the perfection of life we ve must all pass through it it if ive ike we will that eternal substance and aad not passing show ie te our inherit inheritance tance tanca T is is net not the idle vanity of a mind that seeks its gratification in the utopian idealities of its own creation but the cal cai calm caim and sober thoughts of enlightened experience based and supported on the written and un writ tenh story of every thing real and tan tangible i in the wot id that is and the worlds that have been liberally then do we feel towards allour all ali our breth brethren in whatever s situation tua tion of ife ifo they may occupy I 1 and judge of them not riot by their possessions or their adversity sooner would we acknowledge fraternity with job in his bis afflictions robet robe 1 in sackcloth hack eack cloth eloth and 1 ashes buffet ted and afflicted than would w we strike hands with a balaam cursing israel though his treachery and traitor lam iam bad lad elevated hia him to the he society of the thie eln kin einis elnis kings kinis 0 Is courtiers and his abs aes when we see men mea and women in difficulties difficult iee because lifey tuey have not thib this his and have no not 11 that we their thel r position but we envy ae less Ss the pos position 1 of those ose who nho have bowed to the idol we call no man poor because lie he has not gold and silver and fine apparel and houses and ianda landa poor only is the man who bas baa the will 1 0 to o labor and cannot find it here refe all must find a level on which they can operate j and it is only the slothful and the indolent i who will riot network work who can be so io stigmatized b i in the revolutions of a rew few short jears years ive we expect to see many who are today unseen 1 taking an active part in the king kingdon kingdo dom n of god and some who fiust in may realize a corresponding r charioe change of experience in an opposite direction but in all ail the ups and downs of life in the dige discharge harge barge of duty whether cheth thor it may be in one position or in another those who are glitch ich in faith are heirs olf olt ote tae the MD xin dom |