Show WORDS OF THE following extract from a letter from president joseph F smith appeared in the latest issue of the mitten millen A nial star we commend his words which bear the force and sacred impress of truth to te cie latter day saints it is now BOW thirty nine years since president brigham young and the pioneers entered the vailey of the great salt lake and lor for the th eArst first tune dime in three years began to contemplate a season of rest and immunity from persecutions and dr ivings of mobs and the many sad consequences incident t thereto considering the many baay imperfections and failings of the people ano and the great purpose of the almighty to hasten his work and cut it short in righteousness which must depend upon the ibe advancement of the body of the church not independent of we active priesthood I 1 think that we have passed through a long pel period iod of rest and quiet and immunity i m from the power of the enemy but buc the time seems to have come that a new and healthier impetus must be given to the cause this necessitates a sharper definition of lines and measures and to the e uprooting and over throw of th that t which is riot not firmly grounded in the truth and solid or that has any unsoundness or rottenness in it tits ties that thai are formed and that exist in impurity must be riven asunder hopes based upon mere human fauman or worldly desires must perish practices growing out of the multitude of human haman weaknesses mu must cease the love of self and of hi pleasure supplanted by the loot god and the love love of neighbor greed and ci succumb m b to chanty bakity and the wi will 11 of man as pertaining to the church swallowed up in the will of god and a more perfect unity of faitt and works be brought about among the many evils whick must be corrected that of the neglect of families wives and child reu y husbands and fathers is not the least I 1 am convinced that many have brought tk themselves und under e r the displeasure of the lord because of their slackness and unworthiness respecting the sacred obligations they have assumed in regard to their families while there has been great difference of thought and variety of opinion on these matters someway some Som emay may think that the weight of gods displeasure has fallen upon those who have been most prominent in carrying out the counsels couo sels of the almighty especially in regard rk gard to plural marriage out it e every ery man who deserves and is worthy of chastisement does not receive his bis f full all portion bedol the lord gets through with us then have not read correctly the signs times while they who are not worthy of such chastening cha shall be as a stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up ue that it shall leave them neither root nor branch it is good to be worthy of reproof lor for whomsoever the lord lorck loveth loveta he chast chastene eneth ih 7 |