The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-26
AIMS AND OBJECTS
BY GAsKELL.

1 will have it, has been called the
ogue's motto. So it is, when that
living is to be obtained anyhow and
III any manner. regardless of honesty
of deal, the rights of others, or sym.
pathy for the snfferings and sor.
rows of misfortune. The world
owes all of us living-that is, if
we are industrious, prudent and
economical and work for what we
want. But too many people are like
the old man upon his deathbed was
said to be. When he understood he
was to die, he called his sons TO his
bedside and said: John, get money
get it honestly if you can" he
made q pause and then shortly
afterwards concluded, "but get
money anyhow" 1t would be bet
ter, however, not to get money, un-
less we eau get it honestly. TO rob
and Cypress the widow and the
fatheriess to :, enrich ourselves to
flch from others, or TO take adj
vantage of their necessities to up
build our fortune. will never las
tingly benefit us. What is got easy,
generally goes easy, lew preserving
an equilibrium of conduct in the
full glare of a suddenly acquired
prosperity. Wealth and position at
the cost of injustice and wrong,
bring TO blessing with them--peace
and happiness under such condi-
tions are not increased as was the
widows cruise of oil. and either
ourselves, Or our children, or our
children's children, will have to pay
for such wrong, and perhaps pay
dearly too. Many blessing descends
by hereditary descent md so do
punishment and curses, and all by
natural and physical laws from
which there is no escape. Nature
seldom, if ever, turns from her
course at the calls of charity, or
mercy, and if dragons teeth
are soWn, some one, early or late,
must reap the harvest. Ill gotten
wealth is a curse as clinging and as
destructive to moral worth and eX-
cellence, as was physically, the poi
soned tunic to Hercules. 1t may
surround us with creature comforts
and beauties, and supply the wants
of passion to satiation, but as the ap-
pies of Sudom they become as ashes
to our use, as the waters of Marah
they will become bitter and nau5e-
Gus.
Nature it the most kind and boun-
tiful provider, but to enable her t.
give forth of her abundance we
must assist her. Well titled fields
plentifully supply the necessities
and reward the diligence and tolls
of the husbandman; but to cause
those fields to give forth their full
strength, the weeds must be pulled
up, the ground be kept moist and
mellow. Nor can we anywhere
find anything given for nothing, for
if fruits are spontaneous in growth,
they have to be gathered and stored
till time of future scarcity; nor,
were they without price, to
be had for the asking. would
they be valued, as the cost of pro-
duction is always an important fac
tor in the valuation of a substance,
of whatever kind ernature. Action,
labor, in some form or other, is uni>
versally displayed throughout the
universe. II we seek legitimate
wealth, we must Strive and labor
and toil-if we seek wisdom, we
must study and observe, and be
ready to hold fast to every coign of
advance. knowledge is the child
of experience, born Of suffering and
failure-being the garnered results
of countless lives; of lives successful
and of lives clouded in gloom and
misfortune. Items have been gath
cred up one by one, have been COM
pared, tested and proven to be true
or false, and if found true, were
stored away for future use and ref
erence. Generations have been but
as the links in the chain of knoWl-
edge, each one adding to the whole.
So with everything else. ASK and
ye shall receive" say the scriptures,
but that asking must be accom-.
panied by deeds and acts.
Faith without works is dead" say
they again. Faith is the incentive
to action-it points ever to reward
in wisdom, in substance, or in posi-
ton; pointing to heaven eventually,
as magnet to the Polar star. ut
is the assurance of things hoped
for" AS hope it shines amid the
thunder-laden, darkening storm, the
obscuring blackness of misfortune,
giving earnest as a DOW of promise,
Of future calm and peace land the
recurrence.of seed time and harvest.
Faith is one of the most valuable
gifts a person can have in posses
sion, for aiding on the accomplish
ment of a purpose, or a certain
work, in human affairs as we'll as in
religion. In human affairs 1t begets
confidence and certainty of action,
and in religion 1t is the foundation
Of all of it. It may be faith in a
good, or faith in a bad cause, yet it
is equally necessary to the success
of that cause, be 1t what it may.
1t is the compass pointing
ever to the end, pointing
ever to the aims and purposes of
life, as developed by the desires and
won by the answering actions of
individuals. In religion it points
ever as the aim of existence to sal
vStion and life eternal-to immortal
association with the good and great.