The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-28
" The Battle Of Life"


List evening Mr. jos. G. ROmney
delivered his lecture On "The Battle
OF Life" in the Twentieth Ward
Schoolhouse. under the auspices oil
the Twentieth Ward Inetit1te, TO 3
large audience. His remarks we're
listened to with much interest and
profit. az the appreciation of the
audience evineed.
To the observing mind events, how
ever simple, are instructive. In life
power mightieF than mans is mani
Tested. All natural changes are
gradual, and the continued appIica.
ton of the humsn mind begets re-
suits great and beneficial. Success is
more dependent upon determined
effort and the practice of what Carlyle
calls the "gospsl Of work" than upon
birth. No one ever can become
eminent in mechanism, art, science
or literature without perseveriug
study and determined labor. Success
is more owing to right start in life,
and q proper development of our
energies than to anything else. Do
the boys and girls realize that they
will be the men and women of the
future Do they not wish to prepare
for its duties and labors and then be
able to fill a respectable position in
life? They should be truthful, and
honest. and persevering in whatever
the do. AL great and good men have
loved their mothers, and there Is no
love 80 pure and warm and unselfsh
as that OF mother for her child.
The arsizan and farmer are
equally the beneiaotors OF man.
kind with our learned professors
and philosophers. II we seek
virtue We must fua Il -
the home circle or tLd it not a. ali.
Danger to nation is never more in-
ttaa when luxury invades the
homes OF the people and gives rise to
fictitious wants. We really want but
little, nor do We need it long. Coed
mothers are required to make a ma
lion great and prosperous. Married
life Is tle most holy and sacred of all
partnerships, and both parties should
share its burdens SIS well as It's joys.
Fashion should never be followed be-
1Ond the limits of our resources. A
,ood woman can more effectualy aid
Ter husband at home than abroad;
wives should make home comfortable
y their economy and happy by their
,heerfulness.
PerEons should try to excel others,
'ut all are not born with equal
abilities, yet each can be equally
in his station in life. II
person turns crossWays on the groves
# life they may expect nothing else
han failure. The fault is in them.
elves, more than in circumstances.
Of character is one OF
he noblest governing principles OF
but should not be carried
90 far. The philosophy we should |
Practice should be that inculcated by |
Poor Richard" to make the best of |
The speaker showed |
iferent kinds OF faith people had.
The successful ones were those who |
sd faith in themselves; the purity OF |
heir desires, and the justice OF |
heir cause. II We really know a
hing We should have confidence We
now it as we'll as anybody else, in q
espeotful manner, alike just to our
elves and others. Persecution ever
faith; with prosperity
ONES increased dangers of apostacy. |
When nations or individuals are
lCst prosperous, they sre in most
anger of deteriorating in morals and
ractice. Wealth alone is not true
lccess; it only is upbuilt by intelli-
eUce.
Throughout the lecture the argu-
lent was illustrated by appropriate
ACCIDENTS snd anecdotes, impossible to
resent in the limits of a synopsis.