Show written totchie pap paper THE COMING CHANGE how easily and imperceptibly men become accustomed to a change of surroundings roun dings nay it is ia even possible possible for a person to chafe if unable to become as others in a similar situation this thought was renewed rene after re fleeting ting on prison life as experienced by quite a few of this community they accepted the inevitable witti wita its control sod and restraint its discipline and deprivation as if nothing more had ever been known there was an unresisting adaptation to association labor and demand which surprised each man for himself even in the watter matter of clothing to be without the prison garb was au an annoyance I 1 because its absence rendered a man conspicuous mayhap as much so as conein one ia stripes would gouid be in we everyday haunts of men one raised under depressing cir ot of poverty ignorance or crime when lifted up from his surroundings may become refined intelligent honest or reliable but somehow human nature seems to go down more easily than it goes upward men fall easily almost insensibly into bau baa habits babits depravity memo to be more potent and alow a low level iel of morals and manners is acquired without that effort which seems requisite in the better direction of devji communication corrupts good manners said an old authority and theologians have always asserted RD an innate drift toward evil in the very constitution of man without accepting this in its full professional presentation enough is known of numan man nature to assort assert that the downhill down hill bill of travel is easier apparently and when some men some women fall and ilide glide it can easily be assumed that all the gibe ways of life seem SPOcia specially llY greased for the occasion john bunyan of immortal memory claimed that the time e would come when it would be easier to go up hill bill than to go down but his prophetic eye must have pierced beyond the mists mista and storms of present human experience he must have discerned afar off either a revolution in human nature or the removal of ton ten thousand barriers allurements allure ments and temptations in inner and outer forms which I 1 io a the main many cannot at present resist the seers of all time have detected through the haze of ages this advanced possibility prophets have said a mighty change would assuredly be brought to pam 4 the word of the loid 9 1 has been given and a condition of rule government e mont and society has been fore lv shadowed a 0 rard which embodies all the elements of order beauty poetry and right nay an inspiration has rested rented upon the hearts of multitudes who spiritually pi ritually discovered llie bow of promise as it boot bent over a sin sick world yet ret they and their generations have died without the sight night and their dreams with them are as the dust which is blown away not hot a few even now who have had bad the same ideal whose souls have been touched by the live coal from the altar silently acquiesce to in the wondrous question where is ia now the promise of his coming for since anoe the fathers fell asleep have not all things continued even ax an they wert can it not be asserted that the majority of this community gathered as they are from all the nations of the earth are in many macy respects discouraged cou raged partly with circumstances with their associates and with themselves la Is it not realized that these cirou circumstances meta n ces and combinations thereof make men selfish and avaricious that every thing and every body is secondary to themselves that they are prone to torget forget the requirements and covenants of their faith anat opportunity and speculation are nearly as potent among the saints as among those who know not dot gid ani and are not familiar with HIS hie gayb are we not tinctured with the spirit of the fathera fat a therb hert Is it not realized that tradition custom training education have left upon boon the older members of the church atlease at least their almost ineffaceable brand or finger marks that the will is fitful that the spirit of self hen restraint is in weak that in trade and traffic and deal tho the old adam crops out involuntarily as it were and that hundreds nave have imarie made shipwreck ot of their faita given up their grand ideals become insensible to the spirit of brotherhood and lost reverence for the tone and glory of undying truth samson shorn of his bis looks locks and weak as an other men was wall a significant illustration which has been repeated a myriad times all of which snows shows th the grand philosophy of the gathering the erection of a better environment the multiplication of a seed with weakened drift toward tradition and the customs of an ancient civilization it is to the youth that prophecy will look it is ie through them that the unseen forces of the universe will work by them will be established reestablished 12 and in their poat posterity erity that the universal versal reign of righteousness and peace shall be ushered in my people shall be willing in the day of my power new wine will not be put into old bottles bottle 1 I the gar ments worn for een centuries will nut be I 1 patched with the now new cloth woven in our fathers father Is loom this experiment was tried of early christianity when worldly wisdom presided at its nuptials with paganism for that mar tinge although consecrated by diplomacy was but an alliance odthe of the virgin with the roue sod and their posterity were tainted in the blood until all the features of the bride have become near obliterated and the mark of the beast prevails prevail in christendom at vast come out of her oh my people that ye receive not of her sins mine nor partake of her plagues how far the world inqui inquirer reni and the query is ie repeated among those hose who nave have been obedient to the call quite a few though yet want the customs of babylon its if style and fashion its a and entertainments its goodwill and association its methods of life and ways of trade they love its dash its gaiety its gold they prefer its rule its assistance and its appropriation its education its art sod and literature its schools and culture its spirit and its inspiration it is not seen that these are all to be supplanted that they cannot accomplish the design that bat every plant which my fattier father hath bath not planted shall be rooted dpn up and that ichabod 11 is yet to be written on the civilizations of 0 this day as it has been written on the historic hia torio tablets of nations whose proud prominence was in their estimation ee as much beyond the purview of otence an afi impregnable to the corrod loft force of time reconstruction from the old material is not the intent of the architect or the builders mortar will not bind together the superstructure of our god nor will the works of man endure if they essay to build therea there n any element unsuitable or of mans device supervision will be more keen and critical aven than was the vision of president young yet he be deeming the foundation loun dation of the present temple tample unworthy of its character had that torn up anu and replaced beyond the possibility oi of query or suspicion nevertheless that edifice and its authoritative supervision is but a symbol ol of that grander edifice of human society which is to be erected through the latter day saints saina yet the temple required a variety of labor every grade of faculty acuity and each workman certainly contributed to it according to his hio own special gift or appointed duty irom from the man who by sheer firce of muscle toiled in the excavation to the one who blasted the rock and drove the half balf mired team on the state road in 1855 6 7 from the carving of the tab lots jets ot of tue toe earth to 10 the gilding of the anvel angel from the one who labored on the brazen font to the decoration of the grandest room everyone in his sphere was a botker un on that temple of our god goa and none could say to tar another 1 I have no need of thee J so lu in the grander work of which this is but a symbol while dome men labored and others entered therein all were in the main animated in that labor bythe by the divine spirit and whatsoever of cultured intellect of mental grasp of spiritual powers of breadth of knowledge and fullest application to the demands of complete and perfect salvation may be needed in the exact ing future that education training qualification will come from use of faculty in plastic soul impervious to tradition and human schools for or it shall come to pass that every man shall be taught of god P then it will be known that art science literature trade social life religious worship and all human in interest teresi effort anti and success will depend upon the transfusion of that spirit and power which cometh only from shovel above |