| Show defor for the tha desnews descant news GOOD BEHAVIOR it is in the habits of our daily life that character asserts itself in those thosa unstudied moments when persons are onn off their guard can be best been estimated the pre pro prevailing spirit hence it has been said that to really know an individual you must live with him be with him at home and observe there the bearing which is exhibited toward the wife or child or help as the caad may be those who use all suavity abroad may bo tyrannical and petulant at their own fireside there may be much affectation ot of liberality before the eye of the world and a crush ing greed a penurious spirit toward dependents restraint thrown off before those thosa with whom association la Is common outside OL of this diplomacy hypocrisy and general urbanity ba rutty ritty it was once said that no man was wag a hero to his valet de chambre so BO it may bo be that but few are aa thoughtful as affable or as obliging to their families as aa they are to the awning fawning world every little peccadillo c every contemptible characteristic te eve every ry simple weakness every morbid fancy every brutish instinct every selfish feeling finds expression in the little opportunities which inferential power igi isi supposed to give this is the private life of many men and many women in public ilfe ilde before the curtain b bland d courteous friendly in private if life e despotic eb otie otic dogmatic and unreliable e it may bo be urged that this Is an extreme view views and that human nature is generally better than this that most men are aie gentlemen and that most women are ladies they are if they practice everywhere and carry out everywhere that restraint which outside life compels many a lonely woman submits to insult and abuse many a family groans under tyranny many an employee submits to caprice and suspicion who under other conditions would but too readily in a the righteous wrath of chastise the offender and compel retraction instanter blessed Blee sed are the mee meek ir for they shall inherit the earth blessed bles bies assed sed sod a are a the tho poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven yet how few of these classes there area are how few are really seeking and enduring all things for the realization of this ideal character and life ilfe it is the profligacy the wantonness ni abs rss the selfishness the peculation the lack of truth and honor which is disintegrating the fabric of modem em society men are lovers of themselves at the tha expense of the th reputation the motives the means of others are created the steps by which influence is bought and in many instances ee cured secured the plotter the sycophant the belf seeking beeking scale the eminences they desire over the ruins of many vastly superior to themselves there is often in experience a realizing sense benso of confidence withdrawn of coolness intervening between friends of countenance withheld where formerly there was frankness and esteem of jealousy and mistrust of neglect and anu sufferance where there was once interest and assistance meny men at times realize that there has ax blen been en an undermining hand a tattling tongue a secret enemy an assassin stabbing in the dark one ona powerless to defend himself one ono feeling only tho the result yet not knowing from whence or of where tho the blow originated there should be ba less of this among the people of this territory the mornion mormon section is referred to of course than elsewhere it Is ia or should be understood that they are members of one family of one body and their faith should ba OX exercised in the suppression of selfish ness it should be felt that any momentary achieved by fraud or misrepresentation or slander or tale bearing even probably if there is a grain of truth in the accusation will certainly pass pabs away and leave its greatest impress upon those who resort to this method of e elf advance ment mont clin in honor preferring one another said the unselfish paul but the intensity of modern life the necessities of the times the pre pro prevailing moral social rell nell religious gRus and financial atmosphere breathed in this our day stimulates feel lags the very antipodes of that yet a real gentleman or a true lady is always and everywhere prepared to surrender right privilege and enjoyment in ministering to the apparent needs and even to the encroaching crouching cro aching selfishness of another or if not altogether yielding personal claims yet willing to divide in the spirit of and respect for tor othe others 12 charity not ua it own isto to do good and communicate forget not balth baith saith another scripture and as if to point out a higher way the great teacher said ever yo would that men should do unto you do yo ye oven even so to them and still fth ther whatsoever measure sureya ye mete to others the same bame shall be to you again good measure pressed down and running over this is as a two edged sword which cuts both ways just as it may be wielded on the battlefields battie battle fields of life if conduct and duty and responsibility are used and toned by mercy and forbearance and brotherly kin hin kindness driess so shall it be bce ministered unto you again but it if tho the opportunities tuni ties a of life are sized to usurpation and oppression to harshness and hate it if the offender is delivered to the officer and the officer casts him into prison be ass assured assured ared that the accuser also shall not find perfect freedom until he hath paid the uttermost farthing 11 human nature is imperfect or man would not have needed the gospel human nature is ignorant or 0 r the counsel would never have read but with all thy getting get wisdom human nature is weak or it would never have been urged beary bear ye eone one an others othera burdens and so BO fulfill fulfil the tho law of christ human nature is wayward and selfish under the best beat circumstance circumstances El or the command gilo eilo do good anto all men but especially to those of the household of faith would never aade shave been needed among tho the saints of god human nature to be under restraint to be checked and curbed by thoughts which spring from better found foundations allons than tho the human heart henrt and human nature needs to be in penetrated ter and permeated by sharp thought of common brotherhood and common convenience and common destiny or even here among the tho saints the hereditary and inherent forces of evil will run with giant footsteps in the highways and byways by ways of belt beit agaran cli cil and all ali the evils formed in the arsenals of a doomed and fallen world would be utilized over the unsuspecting seekers brad and lovers of the kingdom and this by those who would enjoy the tho plem pleas ur urea i es of wealth of popularity and success at any expense and price providing always that this was paid by others or as little as possible by themselves lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil should be the ever present supplication of men and women who sense the tha true relationship lation ship which they hold to others that they may keep anvic lata the feelings the affection affections il the rights the privileges and the uncounted sanctities which are given biven to a man of god so BO will true friend ship enduring brotherhood and unlimited confidence foreshadow the coming time when man to man in every eveny land shall brothers be and W that 0 the telegrams stata state that jeremiah sherwood an old california Calir ornia po pioneer neer who landed on the coast in 1847 is dead in the early days he was employed as aa clerk for sam brannon |
