Show 1 PATIENCE AND the batt battled leif of life arc are m more bore fre 4 fuenty qu enty fon by patience pat fence aud and endurance ea than by y brilliant aggree alve endeavor what whitt no DO amount of bright able action will accomplish promptly can often be accomplished with no exertion a at t 1 all I U t simply I 1 b y wai waiting it edg and enduring everything with patience until a given amount of time has elal elapsed ela eed As a rule boweter ho weter exertion must accompany patience and slid endurance adf to accomplish the greatest work or make the most progress in this p peculiar peculiar world odours those who disregard di pr attempt to to c change hangel or modify the conventional op opinions inloes of the man maesch those who zeek to tea tear r ado anth eo delusions of mankind any and all whether r as individuals divi duale duals or communities who endeavor to carve out for themselves an original or a better pathway will ei encounter from first finst to last a u eries of A obstacle starlei which will prove insurmountable unless they are met with sublime endurance and endless patience this is a truth drawn from the history of ae As one reads of the borrowe sor rowe privations vat ions outrages robberies and murders which the early saints were subjected to in illinois and missouri a conviction of the truth oath of the gospel comes anew to him in a striking light in those daya days plural marriage was not known as a teet of the mormon faith and the only thing that they are now persecuted for could not then be urged by their enemies against them thein led by the superior wisdom and nd divine light of the prophet jol 1 seab the tho sainta saints did not in any way F intrude upon injure or annoy any by any ille illegal galor or other it i ce ayr ignant to either the civil c 1 ivil lawa jaws or the he conventional conventionalities i ties of ft ij i j r il christianity then as now the mass masses es 0 k the ibe abbu hf only desired io to do glodi froda yil will faithfully and con ild piously in fn the service of their master they placed their lives and all that they had with perfect faith and implicit confidence they in upon no one wronged frouge d noane and we to live humble industrious frugal and useful lives still stil they were hated bated just as they I 1 are now and evil souls inspired with the which actuates the robber and the murderer V harassed and persecuted them even unto death in many insi instances ances froia from place to place they were driven and pillaged by pods mobs composed of the most desperate frontier erica crim inala in part but often led aided or abetted ba b roen men in authority under the federal or territorial governments gove romenta 3 or by individual individuals who professed to be christiana christians it is impossible for any pen to adequate ly describe the miseries dangers and hardships which the heroic saints of that earlier day under went solely for conscience sake we think that we are having 4 pretty serious times here in utah now a daye days but if the history of the past could be laid before us in one great panoramic scene we would emilo smile to observe aw trivial al our present trials are in in comparison with the eions which the saints endur endured ed in illinois and missouri Alissi ouri A people or a community could not eauer ao so patiently merely for the sake of their religion if they were cot not profoundly convicted that they were right 1 mere ambition 1 alone could tand such I 1 ore trials for pr the sake 0 of f any pi possible ble world worldly ay advantage adyn tage only ny even mere human power could not unaided hold bold out through some of the excruciating cruci crucia atine ting trials to which the Saints of a few decades ago were subject ed exalted faith and the consciousness nc ness sa of the almighty ap up provat could abono afono enable anbu men to bear auch such terrible adversities s |