Show THE RECENTLY inaugurated ACADEMY thic THE inauguration inaugural at ion of thet the salt lake S academy the details of which were oven given yesterday was ara an auspicious occasion the proceedings were most interesting and the serenity which w aich pervaded the assemblage indicated that the heavens smile upon such beneficent movements the only matter for regret was that the accommodations for pupils were entirety entirely inadequate to the demand while this is to be regretted in one dense sense itis a matter for congratulation in another it indicates a growing and healthier sentiment among the saints in regard to the education of their children when it gains sufficient strength it will become the soil out of which tite the needed facilities will spring when there is a powerful demand demaid the supply must sooner or later appear as a natural consequence the object is to afford the children of the saints a asymmetrical I 1 ym metrical education cultivating thaw the whole hole being embellishing the moral reli religious load aud aid constituents of the e soul as well as the intellectual the aim can only be reached in the estimation of true latter day saints by in making aking true theology as understood by them a part ot tile the curriculum in the common or district schools the introduction of such an element is impossible the deity having been practically legislated out of the system while no proper claim can be made to the he effect that infidel ideas have been promulgated in the schools by any of the public instructors yet the absence of any attention to sacred things in any system of training trai nine for the young necessarily leads to all the stages of irreligious sentiment from indifference to positive unbelief hence the growing spirit among the people to institute seminaries in which there is recognition of the divine is as already said a promising indication it is in but the commencement ommen cement of the flow of the tide in n a most salutary direction that will preserve many youths from straying into tor forbidden bidden and able paths its action will be counter to that class of schools the chief purpose of which is to lead our children away from the faith of their fathers and nt bers people who are sincere in their professions f fes of religion and sense the saving benefits to be derived from obedience to what god has revealed the constituents of the gospel will never send their children to be trained so as to induce them to travel in an opposite direction such a course would be most unnatural those who love their offspring and look upon them as a heritage from the lord desire them to be ed edu ua u a caged in a knowledge of the truth as they themselves understand it consequently those who send their children to schools SC hoo Is established es ta ba is bed J for or the t a e purpose of prejudicing their minds against those things they profess to hold bold sacred can give no stronger proof of the hollo of their pretensions and of their insincerity to call it by no harsher term those who are sincere and whose faith is unshaken being not only unimpaired but strengthened by threatening clouds and storms are yearning tor for opportunities tuni ties to have their cn ildren kept in the straight lines marked out by the gospel ot oi the redeemer this increase ing disposition is an indication of that is parit of repentance which the lord desires to see diffused throughout the community its fruits are bound to be highly beneficial they will contribute 0 W o the present strength and future f future power and glory of zion if we understand aright the desire of the leading authorities of the church on this subject it is that there should be a leaning throughout the community toward the establishment of such educational institutions as that inaugurated at the social hall on monday november jt it is the initiatory step toward the introduction of a new educational era in the salt lake stake whose ecclesiastical authorities are in active sympathy and connection with the movement the brethren who took the initiatory steps and contributed for the attainment of so laudable an object are to be congratulated on the degree of success they have achieved the academy is under the supervision of one of the most estimable men as well as devoted and efficient educators to be found anywhere success to the salt lake stake academy |