The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-09-22

forever. In cur fast meetings, hos
I. many OF our sisters will ask their as
1 socistss to join with them in prayeri
/, How many will bear their testimony
How many girls will get up ina pub
tic meeting and speak? How many
know this is toe gospel OF God? How
] many engage 10 private prayer? It
= 10 true the head OF the family calls
the members OF it together and prays;
but how many sisters do the same
when iae husband is absent? Too
little attention Is paid to the growth
OF this feeling in our women. Con.
tinuing, the sp,aker asked how it was
the girs made their marriages the
result OF accident? They fall II love;
but how little OF God Is there in our
marriages How few of our young
men want to marry young lady who
Is good Latter day Saint, who lives
with God And again, how many
Will reIect young man who deVotes
mis- services to the sanctuary; who
goes to meeting; who loves his reli-
gion ard his GJd? This lsys at the
foundation OF their future lives, and
without it they will be but poor
creatures. Tbs voice of prayer and the
songs OF Zion are never heard in their
homes; they never ask blessing on
the food they eat This is q mistake
all around, and a good deal is owing |
TO the character OF the mother and
tie influence she has TO bear on
them.
Physicist evils, he remarked, exist
in the world. In the ol9 country, the
working people enjoy coed piece OF
roast beer, for which they are largely
dependent on foreign nations, and the
acquisition Of it excites considerable
comment and conversation. II a
disease breaks out among the cattle,
1t is discussed aud measures are taken
to prevent Its spread, and cures are
sought. This shows the interest men
take ia material matters. When he
was boy, the small poI ragged to an
alarming extent in Great Britain,
and DR.. Jenner discovered that in
incubation was eficscious il prevent
ing its ravsges; this merged it into
vaccination, and it became a law OF
England for all children to be vacci.
mated. Now it WAS rarity to see a
person pitted with small pox. 1t had
almost been bsnished from the island.
A great percentage of Britain's popu-
lation die before the age OF two years,
and fifty per cent. before seven years
are attained. Sanitary regulations
and laws were adopted and enforced
in regard 10 the action of light; the
windows we're taxed. The mortality
rendered the average age of the popu.
lation twenty-sight years, It ia now
about thirty-five. This average mas
been increased through scientific
knowledge and appliances. Right
here there is q disease-a spiritual
which requires the attention
of the spiritual physicisns-We call
them teachers, and We have large
staff OF them. How is it that so many
die in their infancy, that is, just after
the gospel? Here is room
for inquiry and the services of 81
examining committee are in demand.
There is a practice in the civilized
world to have a family physician,
who has retaining fee. The condi-
ton of the majority is not so-they
send for q physician and pay him
when he is engaged. The Chinese
are different; they pay when they re-
cover, and this encourages the ply
stefan to bring his patient out all
right. The teachers should follow
the example of the bsrbarians in
dealing with the spiritual disease.
The duties and responsibilities of
mothers are great with the rising
generation. II our sisters are ignor-
ant, and Go not have faith nor
prayer, VS. are often to blame. The
influence of the children of good
family is often noticed, but how much
credit ia given to the mother? When
they go Rstray, how ready are We to
cast the blame upon the mother.
She has enough of lead to carry,
without this. The young wife. who
scarcely comprehends the first princi
pies, marries; she becomes a mother;
how her heart throbs at the thoughts
Of the future of her offspring, when
she brings it to the elders for a bles-
singl Who can realize her feelings
and heart-desires for her child? Years
pass, and she becomes used to it, but
the love and responsibilities are the
same. Oar sisters need the power OF
Sod as much as we do, to withstand
the trials and troubles of life. Our
daughters should be brought up in
the knowledge of the gospel, which is
I psnscea for sll the lis that flesh is
heir 10.
Take these things home, he said in
do away with the idea
that boys have to go 1900 or 8, 600
miles to get testimony they can get
at home. Let our attention be d.
rected 10 our girls and young women.
May God bless our young mothers in
Israel; encourage them in secret
in the practice of the princi-
pies OF the gospel, and we will no
longer hear the cry of skepticism
which ia SO prevalent He hoped we
would no longer be moral towards in
The work of God, and that all, in this
ward and elsewhere, would know
tia. God is our leader and protector.