The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-02

Towards our evening, how grea; and
monstrous.
Sucking.
The strength Of q persons faith is
often in proportion to its purity and
nobIeness. Men move without fear
when conscious of no guile towards
heaven and no luminosity towards
man. Faith is active in degree with
itu sin9leness of aim and PteAdiastness
of purpose. No one can go whole
souled into anything he knows to be
wrong, II he ID conscientious and true
to his own, yeason-cOnsequently all
the faculties, both of mind and body
must be enlisted to ensure q noble,
enduring and perfect success in any
Important department OF life. The
knowledge OF personal guilt and
WroDg-doing acts as a deterrant
power to hinder and retaId progress,
and is strong in proportion to the sus
ceptibility to such scruples. The man
without conscience may go remorse.
lessly onward, crushing AMI wound
ing human hearts az every step; anu
a. far &s material success Roes, gain
ell of temporal riches and ststion he
seeks; yet will victory be accompan-
led by pleasing memories or endur
ing Joys. A TameTlsne, or . Gsng-
mia Khan, may riot in human butch
cry and blood, treading beneath the
ruthless charge of his serried squad.
roma OF unnamed horssmen, whole
nations OF better men than himself;
or, az an Attils, may boast, that
wherever his. horse tets his loot,
thenceioTsh shall nothing ever grow.
But they we're monsters, without hu-
man sympa!hies or feelings, caring
scarcely 90 much for a man or o wo-
man As they did for 3 favcrile horte
or dog. The great Napoleon, whose
whole career was but 8 blaze of FIRE
and bleod-Whose grand eur and Su-
peThumAn talents have been extolled
70 the skies on the one hand, and
0onDigned to infamy and everlasting
peTdiIion on the other. Worshipped
no greater God than himself; and
when he went down; On the dark and
terrible day OF Waterloo, his fall WAS
sealed in the blood OF iisy thousand,
lees selfish and better men than him.
sell. 80 r.;
When Xerxes,. king Of Persia, had
gathered together his forces for the
INVASION Of Greeks be lay sncsmped
By the NARROW straits that separated
Asia from Europe, near where Con
stantinople now stands. That be
might ascertain the number Of his
followers, he had ten thousand men
drawn up in q eQuare, in military
order, and then had a low wall built
all around them. when they were
marched out, others were marched
in until the place was sgsin flied.
This process was repeated until his
entire host was enumerated and be
found that OF soldiers and sailors snd
campfolloW ere, he had more than
five millions OF persons in his train.
While seated upon his golden throne,
on a prominent hill, before him
spread the undulatiug, sunny slopes
and Wales of beth Asia and Europe,
viewing this display sof magnifcence
and power-While all around him
were Joyous and elated at the propri-
city and grandeur of the Great King,
to the infinite surprise of his court
iers, be burst into tears. Questioned
by his uncle Artabazns, 30 to the
cause OF this emotion, he said the
sorrowful thought had occurred to
him, that OF all the magni6cence OF
pomp ard display, then beiore him
all would pass away and that not one.
of the almost innumerable host before
MIN, teen glowing in life and
strength and Warlike hope and pride
would b upon the earth a hundred
years ip the future, How Notifying