The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-11
GATHERED THOUGHTS OF
LIFE.
~ GAsKELL.


VI.
''Honor thy father and mother that
thy days may be long in the land that
the Lord thy God hath given thee"
Obedience in some form or other,
is one of the first and foremost require
ments of all kinds OF society. Whe,e
it exists not, confusion and anarchy
destroy the wellbeing of the people and
lack of union stultifes the efforts OF
the virtuous, and individual aims are
at variance one with the other, to the
injury of the whole. When OBJ
edienee is implicit to regularly con-
stituted authority, it simpliies all
the Iabors Of existence and agreeably
amelicrates the workings of life a.
round US. 1t is the Earring discord-
apce Of selfish rivalry that continually
stirs up strife, and the movers in war
and surmoii often cause Others to
suffer thsn 20 become victims them
selves. Thus it ever IL that selfshn ess
works autwsrdly in widening circles
u the discOmto and injury Of many,
wHu themselves innocent OF evil in
tent. become victims to mis- placed
confidence.
We view the heavens bending IN
cerulIaan blue above US and note
thickly studdlng the ETHEREAL vault g
countless multitude of resplendent.
orbs, each Of which is world as is
our own, and if world, why not the
theatre where people live and act, as
We ourselves live and act and have q
being. They look but SMALL offthers
myrisds of thousands of miles away
they seem no large: than the lamps
that light the psrlors of our dwellings,
but it is the distance that makes them
SO appear. Can We comprehend
their distance, or their magnitude,
witness the order and certainty OF
their movements, the continuity of
seasons, the ebb and flow OF tides, the
endless fight of darkness, as the
rosy morn, untiring, ohases it around
the earth with mind filled With
deepest awe, as overpoWering sub
Unity causes Us to reverentislly wor-
ship the Iminipotent Being whose
word called them into life and act
ivity. Infinite is the extent of this
vast universe OF Gods creations. The
bright sun is to US its visible center,
but system added to system, each
fnitely extended with neither be
ginning BOZ end OF space, or time,
can alone comprehend il all; nor can
the NJ nd of man in its mortal at te,
no matter what its culture, retain a
1.-THE of the stupendous truths TO be
learned in connection Herewith. 1t
is not possible that finite man can
understand such vastness as ia here
Sphere is Grained to
sphere and system to system, each
revolving in its orbit around another
or on its axis, with speed out-strip-
ping light. implicitly obedient to the
law o! attraction aud repulsion that
govern it; nor ever by remotest chance
infringing upon the orbit of another,
Or going out from its own. On, Oh,
ever on, as endless time elapses, they
move in resplendent and magnificent
harmony through space. No jar, no
hindrsa ace stays the progress of those
worlds, but obedient to the Master
hand that framed and hung them ia
the heavens they move. resistless, un-
ohangeable and unapproschable by
man.
Such, ne find, is the divine hsr-
mony existing among the works oil
God. Man alone, of all the created
hsndiwork of His power, at times,
disdsins the mercifui, controlling
hand OF his Creator. In nature we
see multiplicity OF causes and effects,
all operating for purpose and all at
the touch OF the same hand, owning
the control of one whole, indivisible,
never ending power. Man we are
told was formed for express purpose
of raising himself into the ruler and
perhaps creator Of similar systems
It is only byb descending below all
things, that he can be exalted above
all things. Only by ignorance can
be comprehend intelligence, only by
darkness, light. Only by paying un
hesitRting obedience to the laws OF
nature, to the requirements of ex-
periencs snd wisdom; in subm ission
to physical and spiritual laws ad-
apted to ali the exigenoies and de.
mands of complex and fallen hu.
mapity-humanity struggling, hop
ing, defeated, victorious, yet ever
looking ahesd-Gsn he expect to yise
on the ladder of progression Thsn
every hour properly employed Tells
him be is So much nearer the goal be
seeks.
He chat wauld.be greatest must bs
the servant OF others. seeking their
welfare and IN so doing increasing his
own happiness. His range of vision
must include more than his own i'm
mediate surroundings; his hopes
must penetrate beyond the present,
or the known. and embrace the
possibilities, as we'll as the probable
ties, Of the future. His glance must
be interpretive, to sound the depths
and explore the heights Of his nature
his wisdom must discern error and
his armness must be sufficient to
eradicate it. If discbedient to Law
and order himself, how can he claim
and enforce their observance upon
nthera eYamnle sDeaks far louder than