| Show HOW WE PROGRESS society advances advance and recedes at the same time it advances with respect to dissipating barriers which sire are erected here and there between house holds it crumbles piecemeal the walls of separation between dwellings and abid thus brings the inmates into closer communion breaking down unreasonable prejudices destroying enmity and cultivating and fostering the relation hip that should exist between cooj people everywhere but as there ts is no forward movement without an attendant danger no sunlit season without its clouds and finally its storms po fo to is there no advancement of the kind spoken of in which are not the elements of danger and of dread the winter with its chilling blasts and freezing storms and uncomfortable snows shows gradually relaxes its hold upon the earlb and as ab surely the balmy breath 0 spring with flowers blooming ami in blo in come upon the scene to refresh the senses and lift the mind out of the shades which the darker and drearier season created yet those gentle zephyrs which we welcome so gladly may be laden with the germs germe of infection and thus be but the forerunner ot of death those flowers that delight the eye with wilh their modest splendor and which diffuse their matchless odors so BO freely may be but the means of coDe concealing ealing a loathsome poisonous viper lying in wait to destroy so bi it to Is with society 0 8 o with all things in life with all pleasures all joye all advancement at all I 1 th I 1 n its desirable diable and attainable save one th the joy which exists as 68 a perennial spring i irue r u e religion fully p versed and honestly upheld we as ae a community are in some gome respects a long way ahead of what we ever were before we have had experience wh eh ch Is the actor in the educational structure together constant instruction lost ruction from those qualified to instruct and thus and otherwise are we better educated temporal tempora audevert and everyday every day affairs have been much improved so BO that a struggle fur for life in a merely physical way is not so eo irksome business bue inese aff affairs lairs are conducted io in a more systematic and satisfactory manner we are well acquainted all around and much of the acerbity of fedeli g that may have existed through political or other divisions has been softened down all this is gratifying but it has brought some food for regret in places at least crimes of all kinds have multiplied ti and too often do we bear of marriages resorted to as a measure of escaping punishment for crime no sorer sor er accomplished and immunity secured than the author of the wron g forth a free man leaving the victim and tor A cue case has been related to us in which a young miscreant unable to ackom accomplish his purpose with the daughter of a 8 respectable family secured his mother a assistance and through lavish promises and ostentatious gifts lured her from her home and then had an i illegal marriage herfor performed aed the girl fi not at realizing her dis disgrace grabo until that fast she WM was not ft a wife how many aoh such oases there waybe may be we know ansh and have no desire to know but thai tha such practices are more nu numerous tha thai many of us are aware awake of we are well assured the adversary la Is ever on the alert and if we are not thorough thoroughly bif 2 guarded at every point and on all os chaslong ca cas tons evil will overtake us and a accomplish com its work almost before we at ats aware of its presence that fancied security which comes of over COUJIL dence in others to is the most insidious foe of all too often self sufficiency engendered by a belief that all is right in our circle to is dispelled only by a rude shock which brings the other t no longer Is there any conf confidence idene 1 art man or woman the world becomes ft hiding biding place for the agents of barkl nets nees and all things about and with thi the victim are unbearable there to is no occasion fur for either con aitio inmost in most cases treat all whether strangers or acquaint acquaintance ane 04 with kindness and civility but wit WI proper reserve in I 1 n order that there ra ma be no opportunity to betray do n provide the means whereby it to ie rag maile possible when a lurking deceptive creature seeks ad mission admission to your pers at al or family clethen cir circle then to Is the time khz thai all the manliness along with the necessary gentleness that exists to be into action and in in moat oat oak baft these will bb anva ng the individual relies wholly upon himself there la is a power greater than prime was waa the realization of richelieu and where among any people in any place should there be found a greater arelt rel t ance upon that power than among the latter jay day saints ts |
