Show a jav yi irais table fact that of hodem Ghr isHai civilization arc towards blo iconoclastic cani notion that per bonal independence involves free ad rapidly amiga Wm iga way all barriers that tur rounded tho most estimable order of civil and religious government in the minds of people at large A withering spirit of careless levity also the unbelief of the present afie a blighting iccino alast the splendid sublime and inspiring beliefs the grandest hopes of eternal rewards 1 contingent upon a pure and up right lih aard he llie expectation af a future regard or nun fah ment j according io the deeds dane iu the longar tend ts restrain and the of men generally geue rally as formerly the deterioration of christians ty fias reached such a stage that even professed bo longer bt ity teach i essential fara regard edwith contempt ac d ridicule by the hristian world at large the great majority of so are but so many an fn lilela and when we add id these the hundreds of jt housand who a spurious ep urious the skeptics who have cast all the mightier restraints ol 01 higher jaw number more than a majority of the nation which boast of having reached a u the onward Biar cli of christian ci variation bithia rooi eril skepticism and pro fano le united idith a boastful eeling rewards or to measure band of all things gave anly wen who have reached such state can not ba 1 patriots except for revenue or i houi rithey cannot ba j tans except sake of the name sacrifice the t basel jd estres for liri general good because they can hope for no eternal benefit from such an I 1 act such skeptical men may dei atra V jp de philanthropists or to gratify a mere hobby but they are beat on getting the most out of this lif atthe expense of ayery righteous or consideration their pas are governed only by the nat ural law of sati nuon their secret vices have no limiti except eppedi ency humility charity and brotherly love are to them only when men re abc atc all faith in diving things and refuse to live with arf eyed ingae ta a perpetuated fm beyond tho gr aye they become the tools of last th of greed ana the em bogineni neni of embryo anarchy arid is already the moral cant di tion of the great majority of men throughout the christian world to daay As a result of bl aal atudo very distant day cither all christian nations will tear themselves TH wide in god ithe B able and the promises of immortality loosing lo cohesive bondi that unit meo in fraternity and reconcile rp concile them to the ordinary the ho lytis between kith and kin of their restraining f ancha allowing power elevate and refine when men look all the relationship of life is or to be terminated and forever dissolved by death wath its annihilation and oblivion thus important individual re anre being removed by tho daily progress of christian skeptic um in is well defined march to universal anarchy and chabe in bunking contrast with this de ominous spirit occo christian civilization of the mormon people which restores t god and en bances the value odthe present life ts a clear knowledge of a immortality perpetuation of relationship inthe in the realma beyond the silent rivern the spirit of the mormon faith 13 it every particular diamen di amet ricilly to the dieso luto acirit of this christian era andion tho and of the religion of the mormont the true philosopher my readily paoa acea fyr all the ills that threaten the world through the prevalence of anarchy breeding COT tous |