Show ENDURANCE it i s weir known that the chief aar characteristic 4 of ot Wag wellington ington t the he 1 english hero of waterloo was a stubborn patient endurance in re slating the enemy great opponent was the brilliant meteoric napoleon the first for o many pany years the english command commander er ca cautiously and unsuccessfully con tended with napoleons armies in in various rious parta parts of the continent cont ineat the brilliant brill fant frenchman carried everything before him for a long time t I 1 he met his fate we at I 1 P ui asi in in the stolid firmness and patient ten endurance of a moderately jr tale talented nied man all the history of the tte world is is replete with examples which chow show that the splendid genius pr or the p success of brilliant i men can be torn down and swept 14 eway away by a comman place but per patient enduring appon opponent i ent surprisingly bright exhibitions of talent rapid advancement in any 1 path of conquest and flae fl asing displays of power are usually 4 and jbf themselves fes short live lived dand and iran tran lent in their glory while those that develop more eflowly L deeper foundations and endi endure r longer men who are precocious and premature as its a rule ath n ith dewor few cpr no exceptions fall fal into linto decay and decline early such is very apt to be the case alo in the eife u life of a nation too much sudden and chance good fortune too ud sud den an ascent to power and wealth a 4 people into lumur luxurious i indifference and foster innumerable i I 1 abuses of a degenerating kind we 1 h haye a to often been told that the growth of the united states statis in r 0 of wealth and power has been marvelously marvelo swift and so it shag hae but tui it remains to be seen whether h x or amot that growth be he sound bound and g auspicious 1 ipiotis and aude sudden udden indeed la has the of algosi every outward aiga sign of VA po power and im importance P connected with the american nation but time J is i beginning to show that the national maturity maturi tj is not as sound a and harmonious it might be according to the gen 1 eral nature of oi thing things cuch such an un precedent edly rapid national de buet needs be e and unsound because jt ba ha passed assed 41 tb through comparatively few trial trials calculated to draw out ts powers of endurance to abe utmost or teat test its s aj ali how ow baa been the X path h of pr 0 g reee which has marked f the growth of tho mormon commini corn muni arow the day when jobeth bauh announced himself to the world with the resurrected gospel ju as agthe the cervant tervant of the most ailigh have bad lad to contend 1 I perpetually for the privilege leZe of ix eluting n ting and remain remaining ing r free ee there hai has been a time when j koloam haa hai not been the sub euba c t 0 bitter prejudice ince since the kuae was born and ana NO a tb this is perpetual life and stud death a litween prejudice pre iudice aad and mormon ismus what ii is largely accountable tor the extreme vitality and ana stern hardihood of the mormon people 1 1 tha Atten attending dingi the battle bin of a small min oriff against the common of mom kindi i taught the mormon the taldo of pat patie leit ct bui unostentatious calm which ie is simply invincible complete organization bind ad absolute union enforced enforce b by y perpetual opposition are natural the community i for tor the righta rights and privilege priTi legee 4 usually accorded freely to other citizen citizens of the great mi lity courage that a lop 1 aa only be ue borg ot ursol d mn vic aai on aud and to toan au absorb absorbing arg causa awili the cormons mormons Mor al anions mons ar are e even ever ahi making us adbel an lar progress against overwhelming odds and powerful opposition E evary acl T fresh stroke at their freedom edrop arap ly causes them to remember the bondage of ahe clil ilFe n karael 1 iq 1 E egypt gyps and they calmly await the deliver deliverance anne of the almighty no thoughtful statesman can deny the practical il of a people opposition of a one sided kind can only ensure their dev developement into a nationality according to tho the policy of ot the government government at washington Ya hington they may be either coerced into an element of weakness to the union or helped anto nto the position posit ion of a vigorous tower of strength under the agis segi of the republic the world baa has seen how bow coercion ana and injustice have made ire ireland land the greatest menace of Bri britnell prestige gari grinding anding and oppressive measure are naturally resented by the humblest and weak est of mankind let the american congress count the cistand cost and consi consider derwell well the inevitable consequence of treating utah and the mormons with useless and inordinate seventy before the oppressive example of Eli glauda f fatal atal treatment of irelan d be repeated on american sail |