Show aft vw aft a w assi f sl tw wt fligg w Z thease ine tS ease beallo allow W sp ace m your news nevra pa perfo drop a few thoughts along these ew lines mes to the good people of athe the colored race of salt lake city 3 butah nj tahI afim am forced to ask the question ate are we moving with the tide this thia is a question of local a application tt tion iou how arnau many dormant ideas may maybe be awakened b by ex exertion we may always accomplish ish more than we conceive I 1 recognize ize the fact that erroneous opinions perverse dispositions and the inveterate prejudices of many people are the means of doing much harm envy jealousy and prejudice by fixing their talons on the most praiseworthy undertaking will sometimes defeat their malice but if a person is actuated by a sense bof of doing good only why delay why not speak while passion fans the flames which imagination does not stimulate but that which is a reality in conducting the every day affairs of life common sense is is certainly a more useful quality than even genius itself one does not dot need the wisdom of solomon or even the g gift ft of a great writer and thinker to call attention to these points which I 1 shall mention and about which we are either neglectful or otherwise unconcerned the church is the place where the old and the young the good bad and indifferent assemble some to receive spiritual food some to see and to be seen some will come once in a while when they possibly have no place else to go nowhere else could be assembled such a crowd 0 what a wide wide nide field to work in what a splendid opportunity to instruct the older ones who have been deprived of the instruction towards their advancement and to the younger as well whose indolence and sometimes misfortune has prevented them from keeping pace with the onward march of civilization I 1 may say right here that instead of talking so much about the negro problem we might by our actions do much more towards solving to this vexed question than what has been done for if a maus mans actions are his embodied thoughts brought into substantial existence then labor will certainly have her reward I 1 am convinced that we are our worst enemies enemies to ourselves than others are towards us 0 onla alv fo for this fact we would have a community here among ourselves in which the outside world would delight to but wherever ic ignorance el norance reig reigns r 11 s there will be a lack of true refinement and there will follow su which will subvert overturn overthrow any any race of people under the sun hence perverse dispositions and the inveterate prejudice envy jeal onsy malice and hatred has be come so completely set in in our hearts until neither the church nor any other society can prosper inthis in this great reat city I 1 where we ou ought C ht by all means to make a mark A poor colored parson who is sent here by the conference confert nee is compelled to io beg from house to house every month for money to pay his house rent at the small sum of 1 47 7 per mouth month I 1 ask the question onee once more are we moving with the tide of civilization 4 of thi the ri average official this special apeci al session deou was not n ot called for talk but bat for action and the more resolutely the speaker keeps that in view and governs himself accordingly the more thoroughly he be will continue to deserve the thanks of the american people washington D C |