| Show UNITY IS LIFE DIVISION IS DEATH thim THE latter day satiate saints may set it down as as an axiom that whatever tends to disunite them is not of god and is not for their good union is an effect of the divine spirit unity of faith and concert of action are heavenly characteristics in the combination of homogeneous elements there is life for the spirit of life acts in such conditions dissolution means death As this la in natural things so it is in spiritual things except ye are one ye are not mine said the savior to have spiritual life we must be in ia christ if we are in him we are one with him and one with the father for he and the father are one there are various means by which the adversary who is the destroyer and who has the power of death which to is dissolution accomplishes the work of spiritual decomposition one of these is in temperence in the sentiment of nationality patriot ism iorii the love of country Is right it stimulates noble feel wings a and d it leads d to elevated thoughts nationalism however is it promotes obes sectionalism hatred and strife while the former should be en cou raged the latter should be discouraged cou raged when latter day saints come to zion they come to be made one people it matters not where they were born they leave their native lands to become identified with another politically they are no longer english or german welsh or scandinavian celtic or saxon they are americans religiously they are neither jew nor greek gentile nor hebrew they are all one in christ jesus when we hear bear then of attempts to make divisions of any kind on national issues whether it be of race or language we know that however plausible may be the pretext offered for such a separation they are wrong and spring from beneath instead of wining coming down from above here is a key to the wise you may take it friends as infallible not because we say any it nor bemuse because any man has given it but because it to is an eternal truth that governs in the material and in the spiritual universe it was in view of this that that the apostles of old said mark them that have division 3 among you we repeat the admonition remember that which on righteous principles tends to unite to is of god and that which tends to disunite and thus weaken and destroy is of that evil one whose work is disintegration and whose triumph is death |
