Show REMEMBER THE SABBATH the season of the year is on when excursions and outdoor amusements of every kind hind are the order of the day it is natural for man to long for the beauties of nature and to admire the handiwork of the eternal father as aa seen in the surrounding creation from the heavens above with its mil lions of twittering glittering worlds from lake aud and brook from the fields the verdant bills and the majestic mountains there cornea comes a testimony of the glory ot of the Ft eternal ernal and as far as aa nature to la being admired with the soul open to this testimony the enjoyment of its beauty is eilif edifying ying and oti ennobling very often however outdoor amuse ments meats assume a character entirely irk in consia consist eilt with a spirit of devotion t to i her dulie rhey are made occasions or levity perhaps revelry or con duct leading to transgression in various ways it becomes a duty to warn particularly the young against that claps of amusements because they are obstacles to their progress on the road to eternal exaltation sabbath day excursions are generally objectionable according to divine law one day out of seven is set apart for spiritual exercises the reason for this is stated in sacred writ and that thou m more ore lully jolly keep thyself unspotted from the world thou shall go to fo the house of prayer and offer up thy sacra moot upon my holy day Y thus without the observance of the sabbath day it is s presumed to be impossible for any man or woman too keen himself or herself OUD unspotted Spotted 11 wo worldly ances are contaminating stud and it requires constant and regular applice app lea lloa a bioti lion of the purifying element to be kept pure bud and spiritually vigorous in every age therefore eq whenever the almighty has 1299 had bad a chosen people on earth he has given special precepts re latin larink 9 to the oli observance servance of days of rest from worldly labor and add the way in which toe tine children of men keep such commandments has always been a sure loii catSon of their spiritual condition but the observance of the day of the lord has promises prom leeB of temporal prosper ity as well as of spiritual epin advancement ent la in the revelation given to the church of jesus christ of latter day saints on this subject doctrine and Coven Covena aws tiie see sac 59 too toe IJ ii rd M sayf and inasmuch as ye do these thi things with thanksgiving with cheerful hearts and countenances not with much laughter for this is sin but with a glad heart and a cheerful countenance verily I 1 say that inasmuch as aa ye do this the fullness ot of the earth is ia yours the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air and nd that which clim beth upon the trees and walseth upon the earth yea and the herb omd and the good things that cometh of whether for food or raiment or the th so earth jtb tot fat houses or lor for barns or for orchards OT tor for gar gardens denst or for vineyards he who boeth the works of righteousness shall receive his hia reward tue true religion Is ia always practical band this Is if one illustration 0 of that fact ikee rth lord here bere tells hla his people that it if Abey will keep his commands relative will them sabbath he give othe I 1 of ane earth as well as the ike q fallness ritual blessings blessin blea sinK gf it Is a matter for experiment to ascertain the the doctrine laid down no w jtb of p or mysterious ia ayster louS psychological ques ime are re I 1 involved ved but it will proba observer so as a noticeable the ait ift y strike fact that the latter day saints are a larl ret anding proof of the reality of these their material mate ial growth in SP yn is A W wonder onder to all and the kalia region secret of it was their obedience to nl wd wor 1 when important issues are at stinoe a time throughout we the notion nation rela uve tave to its material materi al prosperity it should al abot Z be forgotten by believers in a s it pro providence 0 that the question qu ol of steeping A aping the tb day holy is IB one that 1 llian a hearing one way or the other on temporal tem success au boess of individuals ana na 0 of j nations |