The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-06-05

FROM SERMON DELIVERED IN THE NEW
TABERNAcEE, AT SALT LAKE CITY, on
APRIL s, 1868. T.. ....'. :
/ will give each of the young MEL i'm
Israel who has arrived at an age to mar
ry mission to go straightway and get
married to good sister, fence a city
lot, lay ont garden and orchard, aud
make home. and especially do not for
get to plant aproper proportion ofmul-
berry trees. This is the mission that
give to all the young men in Israeli
And say to you, sisters, if you do not
know how to milk COW, you can soon
learn.
you do not know how to feed the
chickens, get them and learn how, and
if your husband takes you to live in ev-
er so small a cottage, make it neat and
nice and clean. and set out flowers a.
round the doors, and let the husband
| plant fruit trees and shade trees, ant
let wives help their husbands, that they
may be encouraged to take hold OF more
! important business that will create al
| income sufficient to sustain their wives
| and by economy and care become veal
| thy In short time, and have your car
rage to ride IN. Whit a satisfaction II
| will be to you to know that what you
possess is the result OF your industry
and economy.
Ask your husbands to furnish you
some straw for hats and bolnlets. and
when you get it put more than three
straws over your head, and make hat
tina: will shatie you from the scorching
sun | have a great desire to live and
see the prosperity of this people, and
one thing among the rest, j would like
to- see the time when our sisters will
take more pains to btautify their chill
dren. When your children arise in the
morning, instead of sending the n out OF
doors to wash in. cold hard water, with u
little soft soap, and wipng them as
though you would tear the skin of them,
creating rollglnless and darkness ofskin,
take piece of soft flannel, ,atd wipe the
faces OF your children smooth and nice,
dry them with a soft clOth;, and inst lad
of giving them pork for breakfast, give
them good wholesome bread aud sweet
milk, baked potatoes, and also butter
milk. if they like it, and Il little fruit,
and l would have no objections to their
having little rice. Rice is an excel
lent food for children. and | wish somt
of the brethren would cultivate it in
isl in this country. Train up your
children to be beautiful and fair, instead
of neglcctiug them until they are sun
burned aud become like tile natives
themselves, and make themselves beau
tiiul. fHN
Cease to send out your children TO herd
sheep with their skins exposed to the
hot sun, until their hands aud faces
appear as though they lived in an ash
heap. f.e #5#.=E ..a.s4 r,t-c-ys-E
You ought to enter into the cultiva-
ton Of silk. Our bench lands are well
adapted to the growth of the mulberry
tree, the leaves of which produce the
natural food for the silk worm. There
is no better land nor climate in the
world than we have. for this brancn o
business. We can make ourselves in.
dcpendcntly rich at this business alone
il 1t is properly pursued. There ought
to be plot OF land in each ward devot.
ed to the cultivation of silk, and CO.
| coonery built in the centre of it, and in
| the season thereof let the children of the
wards who have nothing todo, and aged
people, gather the leaves aud teed the
worms. The work is light and inter-
esting, while the sales of wound silk
for which there is alwaysa a market to
be found, will do much towards Ieeding
and clothing poor persons that would
otherwise be entirely dependent. II
the worms are well taken care of, the
season of feeding only lasts from thir'
ty-five to forty days. If cannot sue
ceed in getting the sisters with theil
children to attend TO this business,
shall be under the necessity of sending
to China for Cinnamon to come here
and raise silk for us, which l do no
wish to do.
Go to and raise silk. You can do it
and those who cannot set themselves t.
| work we will set them to work gather
ing straw, and making straw hats anC
straw bonnets; we will set others t.
work gathering willows, and others tt
making baskets; we will set Others t,
gathering flags and ruslies, and to max
ing mats, and bOttoming chairs, ant
making carpets. pray you in Christ
stead to let gold hunting alone. ant
pray the Lord to cover it up in our re
gion of country that it cannot be found
Instead of hunting gold let every maj
go to work at raising wheat, oats, bar
ley, corn, and vegetables, and fruit il
abundance. that there may be plenty II
the land. Raise sheep and produce th
finest quality of wool in largo quaint
ties. By the migratory system of feed
ing sheep in this country they will b
healthy and produce large clips ofwool
| hope, by the blessing of the Lord, t,
demonstrate this the present season.
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