| Show REMEMBER THE POOR the depression which has prevailed for several months in business and industrial du circles brings the people of utah lace face to face with the fact there are many persons who having been unable to procure employment with which to earn sufficient to purchase a supply of the necessaries of life need assistance from their more fortunate neighbors witter winter is close at hand and these people are lacking that which provides nourishment and protection for the body besides those who have been re induced deuced in circumstances by the un satis factory financial situation there is the usual 1 portion ro in uke community of those who are indigent through age and infirmity and the two classes form a considerable number of persons who are now in a condition to require pecuniary aid added to this is the fact that in consequence of the depres blon in money matters there has been a marked curtailment tail ment in he amounts contributed this fall for the support of thedoor the poor as matry many who have been liberal heretofore in this thin charitable work flud bud their own means limited to a great extent thus the number of contributors to charitable purposes has been greatly reduced the be sum of the donations has bae been materially lessened and at the same time the number of those requiring assistance has been largely increased tb this is state of affairs calls for thought ful fill consideration and prompt action on the part of the latter jay salute saints their organization anti anil order of government are such euch that under ordinary circumstances it requires require a no great effort to provide for the poor and to see that none done go hungry improperly clothed or imperfectly sheltered the saints are trained to make liberal sacrifices of their means tor for the support of the more unfortunate among them and thus it is atiat there have been few i isi stances ancen where there has existed a cause ot of complaint among this class it to Is not improbable however that unless there is a reminder of the sacred duty of contributing toward the support of the poor and of the necessity which exists at the present time of giving much more freely than when times were better some people may be inclined to forget others in the financial stringency which they feel themselves it is this feature which people who have means need specially to guard against at the present ju victure their minds should broaden to abe fact that whey when they are affected in a general financial depression there are others wh arti ara lens lems prepared for the burden which has ban fallen dpn up n all and tho thee lefure fure they chuld open their hearts and hasten to the assistance of the weaker ones the latter day saints generally refal real aze ze the urgent necessity of supporting the worthy poor among them they com compres 1 1111 41 that it la Is a solemn religious duty to go farther than this and to turn away none who ur in need of succor that they should not dot drive out to perish even the beggar that makes petition to them and that it to la a sacred obligation to impart ot of their substance to the poor every man according to that which he be batti ouch an aa feeding th hungry clothing the naked visiting vini ting the sick and administering to their relief both spiritually and temporally according to their wants possessing this understanding der standing it would seem to be sufficient merely to point out the emergency which exists in order that it might be fully met tomorrow the second ol of november I 1 lathe la the farat thursday in the moate a day set apart an aa fast day among the bainte so far as their circumstances permit on these occasions they are to assemble in various places ot of worship to engage in prayer and add praise in thanksgiving and testimony but over all this and inseparably associated therewith is the exalted duty of ma manifesting I 1 the love of christ which Is ie in their hearts the charal table work of contributing for the support of those who are in need the present time finds the fast offering fund very low law through the heavy drain that has been made upon it from many wards comes come the report that thai the bins are almost if not noi quite empty there is ned ne net d fur for prompt action that the shall not be foresi to suffer judging from the past we believe the saints will not ignore the existing situation or pas it carelessly by but that they y will arise with a whole response to the call that is made that the cry of the pour poor shall never ascend to 10 the heavens against them |
