| Show SUDDEN DEATHS the list of sudden deaths for the few months past has been large by ay this is meant not only that it to larger now a condition of things naturally attaching to increase of popa lation but that the ratio to te larger than ever before in this generation at least leask except perhaps during the prevalence of some p peculiarly el fatal epidemic and this refers to all parts of the country not to any particular part though it seems as though utah was wag having a little more than its proper proportion the human family almost universally treat this life as the most certain thing in possession while knowing full well when they stop long enough to think or contemplate the examples exam continually presented all around them that it to is the most uncertain they seem to look upon the wall of tion between this life and the one beyond as being composed of stone atone realizing at the same time that it 1 la not only not that anything nor else offering resistance but that it is the thinnest t bin ast kind of a veil they count a s a rule upon their final day on earth being afar off while it is being eon scantly shown them that the next moment is ia as likely to be their last as that many more years may be their allotment it is ia athis this constant self exemption from the inevitable that begets indifference and because of this there is too often no preparation made for we would not have peoples lives passed in the presence of a constant oon stant reminder of death at least we would not have all their acts and performances those of lugubrious solemnity quite otherwise but house hause ought to be in order and his affairs of a h spiritual and temporal character so well arranged in ao dance with his preferences that even if the messenger should come while he be to is in the presence of gaiety and throwing aside for the time the cares of the world it will not find him unprepared it is no more to be desired that we think of nothing but death than that we continually think of nothing but life with its ples pleasures pressure sure vanities and disappointments disappointment lL |
