| Show increasing prosperity til increasing rt responsibilities th the e ev evidences of gur pur indest industry ry and perseverance as a people and the increasing prosperity which is the result are arc multiplying around us daily we feel a gratification in realizing this as do ail who have bave the welfare of israel at heart those exactly who look upon wealth as a curse and riches as an I 1 abomination the rhe the 1 possession of wealth confers great power for doing good ministers to many necessary want and gratifies many legitimate desires when ats its as true value is understood and ve vve can use it in wisdom acting justly dealing honestly and t livin living righteously never permitting the tile love of gain to erciso exercise government over our minds and drive from us holier holler and nobler purposes then indeed it is a blessing budwith mankind generally elier eller the pursuit of riches when successfully followed foll owed owea js isi so apt to obtain control over the tiie thoughts and desires of men leading them into a course that ends enids in d death that somo some some somo have eme come acme to look iok upon unon their possession asan as an absolute evil to td those who yield to this thia influence which they exercise they prove a ourse and not a blessing 1 10 but every gift 1111 we receive from froin the lord izord arn read ari in like manner be abused alid arid perverted and become becomer bec bee omea a curse edw to its possessor I 1 N I 1 for nearly eighteen years tile the inhabitants of these valleys have labored and oiled foiled successfully under difficulties of no cornioli common order that they might rear around them thom comfortable homes and e enjoy lajoy in peace tile the blessings conferred V by obedience to the gospel it was not I 1 for foi the purpose of gaining wealth that they were induced to come here though wealth is with tidemand tife mand and around them those the way here hero had difficulties unties to encounter which would have appalled any other otiler people situated as they were unless sustained by the tile i divine power and buoyed up with tile knowledge which they possessed of what lay a awaiting waiting them in the tha future and what was required of them no amount of gold and silver in lit prospective could have been inducement sufficiently strong for them to start forth on the tilo dark and peril perli perilous ous journey which apparently to human eyes could result in nothing less than their destruction jn n the tile midst of multiplied horrors at the hands of hostile indians or by lingering starvation but led by a divine hand and und erthe he blessings of providence they tiley rea reached cleil these valleys settled and prospered year after year receiving accessions to their numbers not of wealthy capitalists bringing with wath them the elements of rapid increase in wealth and development of internal resources but of people as poor as themselves whose only riches were the mental and physical abilities with ith which god goa had endowed them a deep faith in the principles of truth and a desire to work righteousness W among the many valuable lessons to bo be learned from a retrospect of our history that which the last eighteen year amford afford in the matter under considers tion jion is not the ilie least important some of those who came camel here very poor through a variety of cita circumstances suddenly bounded into wealth and in lit the hour of their prosperity forgot the almighty became puffed up in their thou thoughts lits and turned awa away y from the truth making shipwreck of their salvation others are now pursuing a similar course the chink of gathering 0 dollars hoi hol being heing I 1 9 a aw sweeter adte sound in their ears cars than the song of angels present affluence ae r rapidly a p idly reached which in a few ye years yearb an they will be stripped of by the hand of death outweighing 1 all the tile hopi hopes 1 asand and assurances awakened by the dospel w which it ieh ich culminate in the future those who wiio have thus been led away have been weighed in a balance and been found wanting they have havo lave proven that they are not fit lit to be entrusted with tile the blessings which will be bestowed on those who wio faithfully keep tile tilo commandments mand ments of the tile lord but tile the bulk bull of the people have lave ahr thriven I 1 I 1 ven and prospered they hadeln have increased in wealth and importance in knowledge of doctrine and understanding of principle plu plo and can realize today to day better than at ally any previous time the nature of the tile responsibilities which they tiley are required to meet we ve have around us undeveloped sources of wealth and greatness which our in increasing creasing prosperity if rightly directed will enable Us las boonen sooner to render available resources S of the tile territory of uso use in the arts and sciences and calculated to aid md industrial progress require to be looked after and will ultimately well repay the investment of capital to bring them into a condition it in which they cabbe can ean be used this is one of the duties of those whose means is sufficiently ample to enable them to direct a portion in in that channel the whole people are nobly lab iab gning pring to accomplish objects of publio public good in the tile construction of much needed canals and I 1 other kindred work s the tile opening u up P of a new now channel of commeree commerce by w way ay of tile the Color colorado tudo tido is an enterprise the wisdom and utility of which a few years will vill sat rily prove while these great efforts to the public welfare are being made by our leaders and the people AS a whole we wish to see some of our capitalists who wilo are ire able to do it invest a portion of their means in the development of the mineral resources which are known to exist so abundantly around us and thus make themselves an in honorable name in tile the history of our people A long and tedious winter is now giving way before the advances of spring another way in lit which tile the general w wealth eaith of the community can be directed to produce ben uncial results is in the planting out of larger orchards with a better of fruit trees mhd v value a 1 ue of fruit ishwell irell known whether cheth wa for r 4 do 0 mestie ic use 6 or r trading purposes that it is needless to dwell upon it of course a superior is always pre lerable to ail an inferior quality the large quantity of cultivatable land that will be made available by increased irrigating facilities will enable this to be done improvements insull building in ding planting fencing road making etc all come within tile the range of the responsibilities placed upon us by the prosperity with which the tile lord has blessed us we z aim alm at making the eart eartle ii a paradise of beauty and kand glory and our determination to accomplish that aim can best be shown by the manner in lit which we improve and beautify that portion of it where we dwell add to these a prayerful and humble spirit a constant recognition of tile the hand of the lord ill in all ail things and a continued willingness to carry out his purposes as they are unfolded to us and the road to future and greater prosperity is not only adirent a direct one bafs buts butis drewn with the bles bies blessings slugs of peace life and salvation |
