| Show written for this paper WHAT SAY YOU the great grand difference between man and the be animal creation with which be is i inseparably connected is the capacity for advancement for development of the mental and intellectual faculties we may almost may gay without reference to tribe or nati nationality oDal the bird or beaver bearer builds as ae in the ages gone eone the domestic dom eatlo animals animal by training raining may have hare become more subservient her to intelligence than merethe we rethe originals of the species but their progress la in mainly so an adaptation to the artificial conditions with which man has environed himself and thew them the horse bone submits to the bit and the cow haa ban increased in flow of milk since that wag a desirable article of food but S freedom and neglect would speedily secure cure a return to the original type while some rome may assert that similar possibilities exist in man it Is equally true that degeneracy can only come tram from a misuse or perversion of powers which in their proper exercise must be ever enlarging grasping and advancing widening continuously the chasm between man and the brute creation the status of nations and com communities munt is I 1 not based altogether upon their ability to create the necessities for physical subsistence nor are their great men and favorite sons those who possess excessive wealth these are not the ones who glorify most a nations pride and shed undying renown upon the page of history A single eric ion on gave more fame to sweden than all her sons of toll the men who in oui our own land arrest the attention of the world are not the greatest raisers of wheat or stock nor are they the manufacturers rs of goods colossal though their industrial works may be it Is the men of brain of ideas idea who are called first on the muster roll of increasing fame it Is because of this ibis endowment which blob properly directed eclipses all others that such men man move the world forward on those lines of progress to which there are no limits keown even tha man of gold without brain to control and direct his accumulations or inheritance to is a cipher almost and can only become a miser or the prey of ee designing signing sharks the man of nazareth exer exercises els more power among the nations today aver the forces of civilization and his him ever history to more widely known than is that abat of alexander the great or all the conti of imperial rome the influence of joseph smith the leavening power dower of ideas evolved through him y are am more thor permeating tb the religious political and social world than are those of any philosopher or thinker the era of revolution and rebellion under washington the grand this thin way may not be accepted because of prejudice or ignorance but the day must come when it will be acknowledged and just as men now quote the words and present the principles of the mighty dead edwill so rill the words and philosophy of a greater than they yet be accepted as the undisputed voice of a master and a seer beer and his disciples will be more numerous than those or of Joff jefferson ereon or hamilton to say any nothing of a host of lesser lights the ideas which the fishermen of received from their great leader were no more prolific than those received and promulgated by the successors censors of joseph smith although the receptivity of our tims tim s aided by modern facilities may more speedily rive eive them place in human thought and action the press la in well nigh omnipotent in disseminating good it if its power is in invoked InVoke dj while the platform that great lever ever of the ancient world is till still used with persistence and eff efflo iracy acy in the same direction to the disciples of any school of thought the first as an auxiliary illary is in exceedingly valuable but to te that which embraces so much and to humanity means so BO much it to ia an ai a specially god given assistant for a mightier change than can be wrought by any other work extant and all the believers in the greater work should seek meek to utilize this thin wonderful agency beyond the adherents berente ad or disciples of anything inferior while for the founding and establishing for the presentation OD prorogation and perpetuation petua tion of so BO broad and potent a series of principles every adherent should seek to be specially qualified so BO he may do honor and justice to this magnificent theme it ban baa been well and truthfully said that the gospel embraces all truth it but how bow few there are accepting this axiom so heartily as to seek leek for knowledge if any obstacle presents itself or iss sacrifice orifice is needed J the mental activity the thirst for knowledge the love of reading save in a few has not kept pace with increasing membership in the church nor with the be necessities of the times time capacity Is not considered facilities are not provided the importance of advancement is not so 0 thoroughly sensed as to make sacrifice a delight men who provide well for their families who clothe them and create a hume bume with more than comfort do not cater to nor study nor supply for the love thereof that mental food which is adapted to the condition or craving of their families familier yet some periodical or paper may inay be taken at the call of duty as authority if this to is looked tit at and cast aside the purchaser decides that a taste for reading I 1 is not there whereas there may be absolute hunger but it is for some other variety of food that which is 19 provided may be good just as fruit meat or vegetables pudding and imick milk may be good and yet disliked or at least as variety is in the spice of life there is a repellant spirit created which can only be pacified by change there to is a good deal said and more thought of the indifference of many of our youth in regard to re lilious things collateral or direct but it never seems to dawn upon any mind that more or less of a surfeit has been created on this subject it has ham been the beginning and end and center of much anxiety and effort now we yield to none in our appreciation of the divine order of the gospel and its as yet value to our rue race but in the course of a somewhat lengthy and diversified have seen that there are connecting links licks between it and science I 1 literature Itera ture politics social life the study of man as a person and history as an a whole I 1 which have hardly been glanced at by elucidation or in the educational methods whether of church or state it was this thought which glo glorified rifled many years ago a series of lectures on phrenology and associated human characteristics for the speaker demonstrated that nothing but the gospel as an a system of philosophy and life could develop and round the entire man that all other things or systems could but sectionalize his bis vast endowments rather thao than unify harmonize and make the perfect whole what religion has bas done for or the arts art in ancient or in modern times in half barbaric or among the civilized world is a key or should be to the blending possibilities of proper or true culture when intelligently allied with architecture tec ture sculpture painting or music but commerce colonization labor wealth and all other social interests abnormal or otherwise are susceptible to the illumination correction and control of the moral mental and spiritual pl ritual forces of the universe as are the lines of thought already indicated the people need to be encouraged in this direct direction iou it to is not all of life to be mechanical either in religion educe or industry what is needed is in soul intelligent inspired soul so sa that the son sons of zion may eventually cease to be 99 hewers of wood and drawers of water for any thing organization or system save that which possesses the bread breadth th of eternity and the purposes of the father of all all our institution institutions are as an yet partly in the ruts of gentile precedent we are not wholly original i we do not create devise or move as I 1 if we had an abiding a full faith in our asserted mission or the inspiration which we claim but do not always have for this reason we are somewhat behind lagging perchance when we ought to leal lead whatsoever the power of individualized truths as held beld by organizations or men it is the mission of mormonism Mormon lem to units unite and blend these theme with others which are or may be revealed into a homogeneous whole by understanding the relative status statue or relationship one truth holds to another in the economy of the future or as it already exists in the divine mind in this the most sublime of sciences eole noes the most absorbing of subjects every man in israel should be a reader 1 a student appropriating classifying gs adapting using all that has been given then or now only by this way oan can we become the peers of other men but as israel has been appointed to lead to ts be the bead and not the tall tali mi a greater intelligence is in demanded than that which simply aims to keep abreast of times and thought and men elsewhere shall we bestir ourselves shall we seek for knowledge as men seek for hidden treasure or shall we demonstrate our breadth of culture our power of faith our susceptibility to inspiration and our devotion to right and truth by that increase of intelligence which hect shall command attention and demonstrate our assumptions to a world in need |
