The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-16


labor2 Many are, perhaps, for false
and meritricious pride is sometimes
cultivated, to the certain and sure
death OF all virtuous feelings and trus
manhood. But to labor in any hon.
est manner is no disgrace, nor should,
nor will, any we'll meaning young
man feel it to be so. The young lady
who treats one coldly, or looks upon
him disdainfully. because his dress is
soiled with sweat and dust and CRIME
of labor; or because his hands are
hard, is not worthy OF q sigh from a
true mans heart and should be
parted With without regret. Such q
one is not the kind to strengthen end
raise q man to the nobility of true
manhood-not the kind that men are
apt to love and cherish, for whom
they dare misfortune, and if need be.
die for. They may be priced for a
little while by sensous meanwhile
their beauty and vigor lasE-prized az
beautiful eta'ue, or picture, or
horse, OF anything that is valued for
its appearance, or that gives pleasure
by possession, without reference 10
intrinsic worth, but they DO not wear
well. They rouse not into being and
active life, the purer and deeper feel
inRs OF heart and soul; they enter not
into the inner life, that superior
sphere, or state of feeling and
association, which if untitled, makes
to the soul all things else seem hol-
low apd orthless and full OF vanity,
with constant absence ofsYmpathy
and lack Of enjoyment.
1t is the same with our young men.
A lady's lover may be handsome and
polite, and well appearing; may COM
pliment her delicstely ,or foridly, upon
her beauty, pay seeming Difference to
her wishes while the glsmor and
warmth OF courtship surrounds them,
but il it is seen he despises man, an
honest man, who has on ragged
coat, or soiled jacket and affects to
be superior to honorable Labor she
should be careful how she encourages
his attentions. A man cannot always
be clesnly while at work, but he can
be clearly and respectable in his
habits. I do not believe, as l once
heard prominent preacher hImor-
ously argue, that as man was made
out OF dust of The ground, the more
dirt he had upon his person, the
more of the Spirit of God he would
enjoy. "Cleanlines is akin to God"
liness," We are told, though some
persons through idleness, or constitu-
tional slovenliness, mics being clean
at any time. Were l religious man
l should say thsy were too lazy to
serve the Lord-too lazy to seek His
Spirit, for that is an active Spirit,
ever squirting, or melting, onward
and upward, not retarding advance
ment towards any good thing, or ac-
ton. II men are ashamed OF any
honest employment, be it ever so
humble, they have not the manhood
upon which woman can rely implic-
lily in trouble. While sailing is
pleasant and no tempestous waves
assail, and gales are favorable all
may be we'll. fine progress may be
made; but trial and trouble come,
sickness and toll rob her of strength
and beauty; or poverty, with its pers
picking cares, its humiliating neces-
sites surround her, they are but as
reeds before the wind and fail to sup
port her dropping form and bear her
to haven OF safety. Many, very
many, alas! go down beneath the ed.
dying whirpooiS OF gaietY and pleas
ure and intemperance, drawn thither
by cords, at fret frail az a spid er's
web, but ever strengthening until
they become as OF iron, by habit,
escape from which is well nigh i'm
possible.
The gIssshopper passes the sum-
mer hours in sipping nourishment
and sweets from grass and shrub and
flower, in careless indifference to
passing time. or future wants, whilst
the busy bee, gathers and stores
away in security, its gsrnered stock.
When the chilling winds Of winter
come-When shrub and flower and
tree are brown and sere, when falling
leaves carpet and cucumber the
ground, and the mournful sough 81
approaching storm is here, the grass.
hopper. shiVers and starves and dies,
but the bee retires TO its hive, where,
its wants generously supplied 1T waits
the change OF seasons, the chang e
from winters frost and snow to the
genial breezes of spring and warmth
OF summer. So in human liie-tbe
young may think their youth will
never pass awey-their beauty never
fade-their enjoyment of passing
pleasures never pail, and eing and
i dance their hours away, unIhlnking
Of the age so sure to come upon us
ali; thus neglecting to gather and
store away facts and principles,
knowledge and wisdom, so necessary
to q perfectly rounded and successful
life. We need botn earthly substance
and mental strength, and virtuous
culture, to round our lives in har.
mony with wisdom, but should make
God of neither.
l have stood upon the sloping,
flower bespsngled shore of the lake
and idly cast pebbles into its peliucid
depths, and watch the circles, small
at fret, extending outward I'll they
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