Show WHAT THE MORMONS MEAN AN TO DO some of olour our friend friends gt and not a few who do not number themselves in the list hat to have been exercised considerably of late about what the cormons mormons Mor mons are doing and mean to do wo we wi wish 1 sh to calmly and briefly tell them and thereby set their minds at rest on the subject if they will accept our open and candid statement A great many people are troubled not so 60 much about what we haye done or I 1 what we are doing as about something which from time to time they imagine or fancy we are going to do every once in a while some inventive mind hunts around and finds a mares nest and proclaims that the mormons cormons Mor mons have an ulterior and sinister object in view which they do not openly avow for over thirty six years we have patiently assiduously and at an immense cost in time and labor sought to preach the gospel to the inhabitants of the earth and to practice its principles bur ourselves selves and develop in our lives and actions a higher and purer condition of existence we have known by years of experience that the fruits of the gospel are peace and happiness with blessings innumerable to all who VAO will embody its pr principles 1 inci ples pies in their lives we know that the great creator has given mankind an existence on this earth that they might be blessed and an I 1 attain to still greater blessings and a ar glorified exaltation in the future As a people we have borne a faithful testimony hy by voice and pen anday and by the exhibition of philanthropy and endurance unparalleled in the world to the inhabitants of the earth that the gospel which has been revealed fro from th he heaven a ve n a and nd t the e revelations ve which the lord has jeen pleased to give in this age are given to do good to all men everywhere and bring salvation to them if they will obey his commandments we have been scattered and peeled and driven we have been mobbed and plundered and persecuted for the gospels sake yet we have ever been found raising a warning voice and willing to lead the honest from froni the path of evil to that of righteousness and truth now the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons intend to preach the gospel to toil toll and labor to gather the honest poor from the nations of the earth and plant them in a land consecrated to god and liberty to cultivate and encourage everything thAtis that is good and ennobling to learn truth and reduce it to practice as fast as they are able and to do good to all men who will accept good at their hands they mean to continue increasing in unity for true union is of heavenly origin and is based on a knowledge of truth they mean to increase in the possession of every excellence cel lence as fast as they can to cultivate the earth and make it a habitation that god and angels will delight in to turn the barren desert into a fruitful field and the wilderness into a place of beauty for man to inhabit to sum it up in brief they mean to try with the help of god and live the gospel of life and salvation which comprises everything that is good by this means they expect to prosper and grow better and better daily become rich in the elements of life and the comforts of existence and extend the principles of truth from the river to the tho ends odthe of the earth that gospel will urill make those who humbly and falth faith faithfull faithfully full fuli y obey its laws upright honest peace loving virtuous and jit ili noble nobie aa e honorable in all their actions worthy of imitation living exemplars of the truth and its effects upon mankind f this is what we mean to do as a people and tho the though u gh some ma may not keep up with the rest in the marcil march of vf progress the majority of those who are called mormons cormons Mor mons have this in view and are i laboring for it Is the object an A la un 1111 worthy or reprehensible one |