Show miscellaneous DEATHBED DEATH BED SCENE I 1 TRUST you will give me space apace in your valuable paper for the following items from this part of the country in regard to a peculiar death scene in the family of brother A S farnsworth Fama worth six months mong previous to the death of his daughter a personage in the form of a 06 wom woman appeared to her and conversed with her for some time she dreaded to die thinking her mission was not ended from her youth up she had been an obedient and affectionate girl observed the word of wisdom and in every way had striven to be a good latter day saint she was assistant secretary to the primary Association did most of the writing and greatly assisted the little ones to sing her mother was president of the association the poor girdling girl ling ered for eight weeks and then pk pass ed peacefully away during the last four weeks of her sickness she earnestly called for the elders to administer to her hoping hopin g j that she might recover the ineis messi enger eger that appeared the second time e j said to her may you are coming j very soon ghe told her fiao mother what she had heard said he her i r time J had come come and that she felt very J happy and would not want to re turn only on mas acco account nt ll 11 afie asked this messenger ajo dodou you iii ah awer our prayers yes may he said win will I 1 get well afie ane inquired but he answered not a word As soon as she told this to her PAVA para ants their faith failed them in ad j ministering any longer and tilt felt ready to give her up tind and acknowledge the hand of the lord dabid dureg the four weeks she was convert converting fig with messengers she saw aw her future honie home but could not describe it she J felt happy in the thought of going home as she termed it it was was such a beautiful place slie told her hei father to make her coffin fully laage and was prayerful ful day and night during her sickness she was born bom in richfield bich field sevier co utah on the ath november 1874 and died november typhoid fever at first changed to inflammation of the bow bowels fels her death occurred j OBI at idl si thou months thi from the day she first saw the babst her witness of so bibley things from the unseen world ier W remarkable for one ho so young the deceased girl was the daughter of A 8 and ana mary farnsworth Farnsw orto her faith WM was strong arong until the messenger told her her time had come she expressed tan an earnest desire to to go to the home beyond ever praying that feith faith may in crease among the saints your brother in the gospel 8 B S H juan stake A DREAM OR oft VISION so SOME fame falve in hi november last after having done doile considerable work in the temple for my dead I 1 went wen to bed as usual aul lay meditating upon temple work I 1 heard the clock strike twelve when nay my mind was led away seemingly a long iong dis distance to the foot of a very high mountain but by what means I 1 got there I 1 do not know I 1 looked ap ftp the mountain as far as my eye j could reach and beheld as if in an n other world a multitude of people ike A man camo came past me and went right in amongst the multitudes who were all while I 1 was looting looking at the happy throng I 1 saw with unspeakable joy my father and mother ft near me looking as aa they d ift when alive only more pleased adi happy the man mentioned aboa seemed semner as aa he pawed passed among the people to fco electrify elect rity them with ay y lre he said to a woman 1 I have corae to let you people know that they hy 91 9 aw 1 doing a great work down toft for you down where va she tasked there to is a place down we called manti temple Ps he answered how do you know the asked to which he an wilted 1 I have just come from there SM at this the woman broke exclamations of joy joi and praise tfx 80 god gabd th ifa which the multitude OW i must go the messenger aft and ad let other people know UY wy were unwilling to let him go but he fie departed te people appeared to increase ira im IY in number around the place ere the was received vo til it t seemed like an extensive ak ey filled WM who were atla and and iube UP the space as far as the eye add dich rateb i this th e a strange and u un n nt looking individual came VP P to 0 me he and asked me sneeringly vhf aaa I 1 wanted there q have come to the light I 1 lan an aid to the light he replied yes said 1 I to the light BOT tOVe love darkness more than light se their deeds are evil and I 1 ate aeve me to the light to make my dds twe known 11 upon this he vanphen it appeared to me that I 1 re truedy bug how I 1 got back I 1 knew when I 1 awoke the clock struck threes 60 1 had breen in the condl condi aloni have deWri bed for the space oath h 01 j hen ft ho the happiest three 1 1044 jrsn evec spent I 1 in n my 11 fe old skow henrly eighty two years arld I 1 emte this win trusting boti ray aa ottiar to encourage 11 and aad sisters in the 9 and n d gad ae 41 great dead d e 4 d work of redeeming the ga JAMMS JAMES GLEaDIE Itee ember 18 1888 A basit 14 0 ht la III with one oile art chota 1 thirty behre ago in I 1 Wae 11 1 the th resift of one wan leftt rt in that patt of the ft ae e CIMMO of ft aam atm ances were only one andl to talo th it ii belonged chaft of christ of lat v folh sick and wag waa pronounced by his doctor ezra N woodworth to be dying the doctor remarked to a brother of the dying man if lie ie mormon 11 elder who has just arrived here hem should heal your brother and I 1 do not care what course he may take I 1 will be a mormon and go to salt lake city the best board of physicians in the world cannot save him after anointing with oil and the laying on of hands gods power of healing became manifest and many of the mends friends of the supposed dying man believing rejoiced and praised god doctor woodworth on coming in soon afterwards examined his patient and exclaimed mr stevenson there is nothing to hinder binder this sick wah man from getting wen well he has undergone a change to this I 1 replied doctor you will have to go to U utah tah or else take your words back but this man being healed and his being able to drive a team across the plains next spring will not make you a mormon soon after this I 1 preached by invitation vi in a log school and meetinghouse which was fille I 1 with an attentive audience and subsequently when dr woodworth and myself gave out an appointment to hold forth at a double frame house at hopewell near by at the request of a relative of the sick man mad a mr daniel roher boher we were rewarded for our labors with abuse from a methodist minister who threatened to incite the people to mob us it was interesting then to hear dr woodworth say may go on mr stevenson and preach you have friends enough to protect you the doctor and others were quite prepared for any emergency although it was a very cold and snowy night we had a crowded quiet and attentive congregation the sick man was healed his finger nails and toe nails fell off in consequence of the disease but he recovered and in the following spring drove a team over the plains and lived 20 years afterwards this mans name was jesse jease 0 ballinger and he died firm in the faith at springville Spring ville utah county utah where many of his friends have gathered soon after this testimony we baptized a brother of ballinger in georgetown on the ath of december 1858 at which time the weather was so cold that the water was frozen on his hair and clothing before we arrived at the house subsequently two of bal angers et three of baw nephews besides other rela relatives and several of his ft mends lends gathered to td zion and now number in utah all told about souls all from a small beginning of one weeks work in 1868 1858 we were able while sp spending out our christmas eve of 1888 together to review the past with satisfaction and were surprised at the result of our past labors thanking god for his mighty power EDWARD Pleni pleasant sant grove utah county utah december 1888 1889 THE NEW DANGERS OF sensational FICTION taa danger to the community in the yellow covered romance has been so long celebrated that it has become somewhat tedious the dally newspaper constantly gives us fresh revelations of gangs of boy burglars B haunts of infantile pirates or perhaps some secret order with dire dim oaths and bloody daggers we are ready to cry out that the public health demands a censorship that our boys are too precious to the state to be left to such a diet of hor roland abad crime indeed we draw the cords a little tighter round our girls ao also lest they too fling away home for it a sensation and do more than dream of poison or coath coachmen men it were better if our anxiety came to some thing and remedy were to wait upon alarm but since we are content to modi meditate tAte upon the evil lot fet us follow the matter to the end and see how far it extends let us see where perchance it is leading us also the grownup grown up children this new conduct of life this government of novels A clever ob observer servet once declared that the main use of newspapers was to cause all the world to think alike at the same timed time and that out of such common thought might come any great revo i lution in ideas or action novels win will answer the same purpose if they are only widely enough read and perhaps they are even stronger motive powers lt it may not be malapropos therefore nor altogether without value to consider the probable effect deflect upon tte the general public of certain wonderfully successful novels of the day clay the survey is by no means reassuring life and religion one and the other are being swept along by the wind of fashion just now and it must be that shortly we shall be overwhelmed by the gathering whirlwind the moot meet popular novel of the season makes make life IM one wild rush of passion int pulse ts is br abr strength love to is degraded to the lowest plane heaven itself is brought down to the level of a mohammedan paradise the even tenor of a lomanis days is exchanged for an existence of leaps and jerks clothes become vital with emotion and even such stolid things as houses and furniture grow instinct with suffering whatever that may mean in this new life of the soul it is but a trifle in the midst of the more serious matters that complete changes of wardrobe must needs be ready for every changing mood and that whole suites of apartments must be dismantled and re furnished in the brief hours of a single night lest the surroundings fall out of harmony with a sudden phase of feeling even blessed sleep it would seem has grown a trine trifle critical in these artistic days and comes not for all our wooing until we change our bedstead ed all this is somewhat trying and inconvenient as a rule of life but we m must make shift to follow on as best we can how shall it be but that happily married readers shall question the vows they have paid at the altar if I 1 mayhap they were repeated vows A book full AW of storm and struggle to prove that second marria marriage geare aare bigamous may well unsettle its admirers and cause much foolish rending of heart pools fools rush in we know of old but what of the consequences when they draw after them long trains of silly women 11 to invade the holy place yet these lesser and greater evils are but incidental Inel dental to the view of life presented in such a book as the quick or the dead its fair author Js is reported to have said that nearly a thousand women have written to barbaras barbara creator in gratitude and sympathy this then is the type of woman the uncounted silent multitude is emulating and these less coata contained ined ones are admiring we shall shortly see our young unformed all ignorant girls making a religion of their emotions regulating life by their impulses acting out every whim borne of the sky or the rain turning passion into play and play into passion shaming venus herself in her own bowers but as if it were not enough to smirch the sanctity of the life that now is we must tear asunder the bonds that blad bind us to heaven again at the bidding of a woman we are called upon to see the dread result of too much religion it is dim cult to discover just what john ijohn wd waw was intended to teach perhaps haps ib U clearest teach teaching ipg Is the vigorous leafon of tire the holy duty of med adling but further than that helen who has no religion at all except to pick apart that of other people is the patron saint of the book john who certainly believes in his faith and has the courage of his convictions is its mephistopheles let us all give up our faiths and teach those about us to give up theirs and let us what shall we do there does not seem to be much answer at hand many a half thinker will confound john wards temperament with his faith and glorify helens disposition into the religion of which she had not a scrap but which she so sorely needed and meanwhile the morbid conscience of him or more likely of her who has somewhat confusedly based holy living on certain long believed and never scrutinized doctrines suddenly finds itself confronted with the manoel of a sham battle of beliefs uncounted damage is like to result in the destruction of the mimic forces in faith shaken and courage daunted by a fight that means a de feat where the enemy are but friends clothed for the time in the garments of an anim imaginary agi nary hostility anna L dawes in the afao THE HUMAN MYSTERY IN HAMLET for more than a century hamlet has haa been the wonder and despair 1 1 of poets actors medical experts and philosophers and despite the vast literature that has been poured forth on the suba subject act the problem of hamlets real or feigned insanity still remains unsolved this masterpiece of the master mind in literature has not yet ceased to hold its universal power and fascination upon the minds of men even though its mystery baffles discovery and the riddle remains a riddle still thus far the discussion has been mainly between two classes of contestants the advocates of the theory of genuine insanity and those who claim that the play Is a representation of feigned insanity in his work entitled the human mystery in hamlet mr martin W cooke joins neither class but after declaring that both theories ore erroneous and that neither can ever be fully established he presents an original siad and able solution of the puzzle his view excludes the idea that hamlet is intended to present any single individual or person he believes that the office of the character is to exhibit typical mental struggles hamlet is not a person he is a type the play is a drama of the inner man it is the spiritual tragedy of humanity the strife between the higher forces of the being and the lower in other tragedies shakespeare exhibits andl individual men in this one man in each of his other tragedies he has portrayed a hero whose mind is con trolled strolled abnormally by a single passion or group of passions and by the conduct speech and results resul tas aree are shown the effect of the sway of such passions on the mind hamlet is a concentration of PA all tragedies in him bim every passion is an active powerful rebel against the will and the forces which should determine action counteract and cripple each other ills his will is As opposed by the powers within him As in the old areek plays men hopelessly struggle against fete fate so ao mr cooke sees in hamlet a being commanded by a supernatural power or will a will not of this world he is a player acting the part that typifies humanity in a play that sets forth mans spiritual life in worldly conditions of the law of the su ural this antagonism antagonist between mans man WWI will influenced by his passions and the all controlling will above him is the theme of some of the great poems of antiquity and mr cooke has shown that there are some very striking parallelism of thought and phraseology between 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