| Show BOOKS fa asa my books blohs among my best b hta 81 slad and so some of the happiest ours of my life have been spent in ety ty ibia to 18 a feeling and an ihlia annu aoh come over us while ja wa a good boot book that al almost kt description iou those only 4 duft di w Ait of it who give their wf ln to what they are reading 44 sw W what their minds desire to in the primary object of read auld be to increase our intel r 4 and bd to do this what we 1 q be impressed on our 1 5 l 0 so ao that it can be used at af wb future icare time if a book is fewing ad tog at au all it to is worth T hilly and well and the pate arts should be dwelt upon oi 11 ninda nin df after the book is ta loay kal 45 bo th at an impression will be ari t wd employ ploy your ft A roving 10 yourself youra elf by other amente um ente so ao that you shau shall come easily by what what others have base labored hard for prefer knowledge to wealth for the one is transitory the other perpetual this wise saying was written many many hundreds of years ago but how true and good it is today it is similar to the advice of our modern prophet where he tells us to seek for knowledge and wisdom out of all good books we also understand that intelligence is 9 the glory of god and according to our intelligence which we gain in this school called life so PO will our future be throughout the endless ages of eternity from this we can readily see that we have no time to waste in reading what we call rash at the best d during our short jives fives we can but read a few of the many choice works that are am written therefore pur our selection should be made with the greatest care and none but the best of books should be read the writer is pleased to note that among the young books on voyages I 1 travels and natural history are being read more than formerly in preference prefer enoe to the olk companions of his boyhood days puch such as beadles dime novels and the nickel library n this class clam of books la is like low class or lowbred low bred friends and companions they wield an evil influence wherever read the prophet nephi said 1 I love to search the Scrip tiam and ponder over the thino things of god he was he a wonderful expounder of the G gospel 06 and its principles the reason why he was so thoroughly conversant with the same is clearly explained in the above quotation if you give the matter a little attention you will find that all our well informed men and women are those who love to search the scriptures and ponder over them and as it to la with religious subjects so it is with everything you undertake you must give it your strict and constant attention whatever we intend to make our constant business in life the affie books bearing on that subject should be the first ones for us to buy this would be the foundation of our library to which we could add volume after volume as our needs required if we desire to understand the falness of the gospel we must get books treating on that subject if a man intends following a trade trad he should do likewise if that of a carpenter he should obtain such books as the steel square and row how to use it and others of a similar nature some may smile and say these things can only be acquired by practice theory alone is not good but listen most theories came from practical workmen and such books simply give you the benefit of years of experience it is not the number of books which we read that benefit us but the amount of useful knowledge which we retain in memory locke says those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too but it is not elways so reading beading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours we are of the rumi bating kind and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections unless we chew them over again they will not give us strength and nourishment 1 I boys save your dimes and ul nickels eke that you spend for toys or pleasures which are soon gone and buy useful books whose knowledge will benefit you and your future generations forever henry ward bleech er estimated that the average man could buy a hydred hundred books for his library every ekr year with the money that it tak takes es to buy his tobacco and bew beer we should all be proud of our home literature for it includes some of the best books ever written while the worth of our inspired books is inestimable wn wm 0 lee in the nineteenth ward Y af af 1 I association competitor |
