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Show FoodFRTihMgM M e had a visitor the other day. It was not the president nor the governor nor any of the socially elite. It was the visit of a widow, well along in years, who for a few minutes poured forth the feelings of her innermost soul, and they were such as touched us deeply. She is like thousands of others, hunger-, 'ng and thirsting for iieighborliness, for kindness and sympathy sympa-thy and love. Deep in her heart was an abidiDg laith which was all that kept h-?r goiDg. The world of business and society so-ciety rushes swiftly by the widow and the orphan and there are few who give them aDy attention forgetting that true religion and undefiled is to visit and encourage and help them in their affliction. Neighbor J. A. Hess has thought out a name for the present pres-ent war and forwarded it to the president. He calls it The War Against Wickedness. This is a very good and appropriate name and covers a multitude of meanings. Utah people should help him get the name adopted as it will help to ad-sentise ad-sentise the state. Orators and writers can find plenty of material for eloquent talks in the deep meanings of that name. Some years ago the Japenese officials sent a commission to the Christian nations of the West to find out and report whether Christianity was a religion which they could adopt as a state religion. The commission returned dissapointed and reported that they found such discrepancy between the practise and the profession of Christianity that they were unable to recommend it. Suppose they had accepted it would they have done differently than what they have? To accept the Christinity of the world as lived today and to accept the pure and undefiled religion of Jesus are two very different things The big bankers of today are quite different from the moneychangers confronted bv Jesus in the temple at Jerusalem In those days they were uncouth, ill-bred, coarse, and unskilled unskil-led in the art of concealing their greed and lust for gain, while today the most prominent ones in the piofession look much like saints, educated, well-groomed, smiling and affable, and highly skilled in all the arts of money-getting and money-lending, money-lending, to whom, as the people are told, it is a special privilege pri-vilege to pay interest and profit. When I quit this mortal shore, and mosey round the earth no mpre, don't weep, don't sigh, don't sob; I may have struck a better job. Don't go and buy a large bouquet, for which you'll find it hard to pay; don't mope around and feel all blue I may be better off than you Don't tell the folks I was a saint, or any old thing that I ain't; if you have jam like that to spread, please hand it out betoie I'm dead. If you have roses, bless your soul, just pin one in my buttonhole but-tonhole while I'm alive and well today Don't wait until I ve gone away. From The Hanson Weigh Suppose that Jesus should confront the leading money-lend ers of today. Would He do or say anything different from what He did and said to them of old time? Hardly. He would say: "Come out of the temples of my people and cease your oppression and exploitation of the poor. For all too long you have robbed the widow and the orphan and the toiler. You must not longer make my father's house (this land) a den of thieves. Away with you. The getting and hoarding of money is not the proper mission for men. Give of what you have to help save the poor, and come and follow me. My people are crying for' , for sympathy, for love and comradeship. They want the abundance and good tidings I promised them. Repent and come unto me before my judgements destroy you and your system. If you do not repent then what I have spoken in Mathew 24 shall be fulfilled upon your heads and you may later find yourselves lifting up your eyes in places of torment." |