| Show WE A ABE ARE RE thankful it is gratifying after running through a batch if of exchanges and noting the ebullitions of seething passion that are working in both hemispheres to contemplate the peaceful calmness and quiet industry that prevail throughout maligned and des despised utah we are waging a conflict here but it is different from those that excite interest in other places we are seeking to subdue tho valleys around us and subject meet them to our control that their productive powers may be developed for the good of mankind our oui energies are not being exhausted in devising means to destroy and bring misery upon others of our race but they are being trained to bless ourselves and all who seek to share with us the blessings of peace and honest honorable prosperity in a straightforward and upright way true there are a few within the confines of the territory who not finding herg hera sufficient of element to satisfy their depraved corrupt desires would diketo like ilke fosee see us torn by dissensions and festering with the corr conr corruptions corrupt lons ions to which Y aich they have been accustomed they work and plot and plot and work to consummate their designs buethe buu but the miserable contemptible things will pass into oblivion and be forgotten with their impotent efm eff efforts oits to des destroy troy the work oi of god what a sad picture the world would present at present to one who nho c could oula I 1 look oot upon it with a clear eye ligh lighted teil tell up with the tho intelligence of eternity A arace I 1 race of bel bei beings endowed with attributes and pow powers C r s which if properly developed would exalt them to a condition of excellence cel lence of which ordinary thought cali calk oan can form n no 0 conception grovelling gro velling in wilful debasement and with no higher ambition than to tb destroy each other i the dramatist who made one of his charae characters say it is a mad world my misters mastero masters mastors misters perpetrated a biting sarcasm I 1 and the insanity is not confined to toone ne section or country nor to one people or nation but is so widespread wide spread that a it governs e in the counci councils lg of nations and finds the earth peopled with its victim victims s an old adage says that nothing is so well distributed as wisdom for ev everyone er one thinks he has enough of it aua ana aud and they I 1 who have ae least ast imagine they have most I 1 this is true I 1 1 in ix the ma main i n and the world is 11 in that unenviable condition which an dance danee of wisdom when there isa iso is a yap woeful e laek lack of it when one man kills another with malice aforethought he is adjudged guilty of murder and punished by law for the deed but when ten telf thousand or a hundred thousand men meet and seek to kill each other it is glorious some side wins a great victory and a few thousands more manure the soil where their bones bonea are 15 buried burled and the game of war goes on As one party gets tired out another is preparing to ente enter upon the exciting contest As a fresh game commences a anew new sensation sensations ionis lonis is brodu produced ced eed the bloodier bloodser blo odier more teril ble bie and more arttist aro are art blue lilu satisfied is the craving morbid appetite which demands such food perhaps at this moment there are not less than seven millions of men in christendom who are hired fed clothed and trained expressly to kill human bei bel beings politicians squabble and contend statesmen strive to outrace and outwit each other in a species of dishonesty called diplomacy and work it up once in a while into a respectable sized war while the great multitude send a part of their ameir number to kill hill or be killed and pay them for doing the work after a sufficient number are put under the earth having poured out their blood as a libation to the deity of insanity the quarrel is ended a peace patched up and the great multitude breed some more to be killed and gather more means to pay a new anew is being worked up by those who generally are too careful of their precious lives to risk them within the smell ot 0 41 villainous saltpetre salt petre 11 and such is bs war a kind of bloody and terrible game that the nations play a at which keeps the population within reasonable bounds without enforcing the doctrine of malthus or any similar arrangement from prom the petty broil of a to the death struggle of mighty powers the principle is the same a desire to waste and destroy to waste human life and trample under foot the works of peace the spirit is growing and spreading the people of the nation are moved by it the of cannon and bayonet is resorted to for the settlement of trivial difficulties difficult lea iea and the tho human heart is growing to thirst for blood as the tige tiger does that slays for the pastime of destroying it is sorrowful to contemplate but the lamentable facts exist the farther the inhabitants of the earth travel from god from truth from the principles of the gospel the wider are they separated 1 ings of peace bacq edie happiness and permanent pros prosperity perit y haye we not reason to be grateful for the blessings of p peace bace and steadily ad I 1 avancing prosperity yet for all the blessings which we possess possess that the world is rapidly traveling 0 away from we are indebted to the gospel the adoption of its principles have secured them to us and we will increase in their possession as we continue cinti nue to adopt adoff and aud practice the laws of life je xe healed from the heavens west of us 1 political I contention contentions s have llave a jubilee east cast they are holding a carnival europe L is reeling to and fro like a drunken man austria and prussia after robbing denmark are about quarreling for the spoils IPA which may involve other nations jn in tile contest and the british papers are highly exercised about its IN expected doings and results everything indicates that war has been poul poured red out upon all nation sand and aud that the i day is not far distant when I 1 he that will not take up his sword to fight against ag dinst his nel nei neighbor abor must flee to zion I 1 for 0 safety |
