Show A commendable MOVE BISHOP WHITNEY his has taken steps to adopt a measure in the eighteenth ward that is in unison with the ideas we have advanced for the purpose of intensifying the interest of the saints in their religious duties he proposes to establish during the winter months a system of week night meetings in the several districts of ahe the ward these are to be held in the houses of the members and to be presided over by brethren appointed for the and those residing in the divisions of the ward where they are held will be invited to attend this plan already exists in some of the other wards and has been carried into effect with good results A any m means e ans that will reach the people whee where they live so to speake calculated to awaken a kreeper interest in the work of god must be beneficial aside from the general benefits to be derived the holding of religious meetings in private dwellings can scarcely tail to leave in those habitations lations a benign influence if errors of a more or less public character such as sab sabbath bath breaking a and ad kindred wrongs are to be abolished we do not believe it will be so much by general correctives as by going to the root of matters and reaching those who indulge in them by close contact if such meetings as those under consideration win have an effect in that direction they will serve a most excellent purpose and we believe their general adoption would be advisable through the agency of similar gatherings r abroad under the direction of the elders many converts to the gospel have been made if this result is attainable tai in the missionary blehl lieli it seems reasonable that they would tend to inspire a greater interest in the church at home they wilf be an auxiliary in enabling local officers of the wards the more effectively to carry the Gos pelto the fi resides of the saints faints co comparing maaring the church to a tree if it is to be nourished and fed the process cannot be operated through the leaves limbs and brauc branches kes the sap is first absorbed by bv the roots from which it is carried to every other part so must those labors that appear to be the lesser be faithfully performed for on OB them depend the production of the greater effects otherwise spiritual vigor will not be diffused throughout the entire superstructure |