Show HOPE STILL REMAINS i the mormon believer who ia not birin and steadfast in the faith is almost sure to hold upon the rock of eternal truth in the pre sent hour of darkness and tribulation lie sees his brethren cruelly harassed and tortured by general aspersion and abuse lie lias learned with feelings of sorrow and humane sympathy thet some of his fellow are almost daily falling victims to the merciless ma lice of enemies he knows that deputy prowling around incessantly beek they may devour he baa beheld men innocent ot all intentional violation of the law entrapped by hauled into court on the complaint of a fee seek ing tramp official subjected to the mockery of a trial convicted by the subterfuge and wrathful vengeance of a court and incarcerated in prison to be herded with thieves and and by these convicted criminals subjected to every indignity that diabolical humanity can devise Is not this spectacle enough to daunt even a brave man if he is not firmly rooted and grounded in the glorious hope of eternal rewards promised through faith great religion which is upheld by an almighty power to see fathers borne from the bosotina of their families denied the privileges of liberty dissevered dis severed from all that malt eg life worth living and thrown into the pandemonium of a penitentiary tent iary when they have trespassed on no human rights interfered with no roans business and wronged no one in person or property who can accuse them and are only guilty of obeying what they most solemnly believe to be the behesta of the eternal god according to their most holy faith as cormons mormons Mor mons this is enough to make tears of pity and sympathy well into the eyes of even stern stolid men if they have any of the better of human nature in their bosoms but while a few of alie brethren are thus subjected to some old men bowed down with the weight of years and obrn out with the honest toil of many summers are probed to the quick by brutal marshal and judges and by these vicious minions and of the law pushed 7 towards a premature grave still the great majority of the heroic mormon people are yet blessed with individual nily from personal afflictions and graciously provided all the i bounties of nature bya kind providence who realizes as nono of his children can all the advantages of adversity and all the dangers of unrestricted prosperity we know that the ties of sympathy and fraternity bind all the mormon people together we admire the gracious spirit that makes all true latter day saints one in mind and thought and soul and we feel that this wonderful unity causes the sufferings of one true brother lo 10 bo communicated to the whole church and that therefore this is an hour of gloom among all sincere cormons mormons Mor mons choso whoso hearts go out in tender love and sympathy to those who swelter within the walls of prisons in detroit in yuma and in utah and yet notwithstanding this the moat glowing hope the most steadfast feitli the most entire trust in the ability of god to bring the utah question to a successful issue for his chosen people according to ilia own good pleasure still remains to coi all genuine cormons mormons Mor mons it is a good thing to feel that there is no such word as fail in all the vocabulary of heaven while the inhabitants of the whole world arc big with bitter hostility against the comparatively insignificant numbers of the mordou Mor mou church and all the paltry of human hatred aro drawn up in martial array to crush and destroy alie people of utah every individual mors mon inan or maiden is determined not to retreat one step aud armed with alie grace and omnipotence ni of liis or her religion stands io placid defiance with titanic heroism confidently and triumphantly antly pointing towards the ekies and declaring that happily the malice of men can only destroy the body the single soul firm in faith and ever loyal to principles of righteousness truth and honor is alone superior to the combined satanic might and boasted brutal power ot earth and hell there is then in reality not the sli ghost cause for despair tho majesty of tellef born of god is not perishable like tho baubles of ter and fame therefore mormonism ahall live on for everita 3 past history is illustrious with the grand deeds of martyrs who have it with their blood its present record as it continues to make new history from day to day is resplendent and im perishable for it startles all mankind and agitates the nation with a solicitude already not without the germ of fear what its future shall purely be in grandeur and tyis alone foreshadower foreshadowed fore shadowed by the prophetic light of revelation |