The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-15

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To blossom in my manhood and bear
fruit
When I am old.
H,llhouse
The human mind cannot be on
tie stretch all the time without
weakening-lt must have rest in
some form or another. The most
seriously disposed person who con-
scientiously strives to do right,
and to fix his wandering
thoughts on the great here
after, to the exclusion of earthly
greed and selfishness. cannot do 80
at all times and in all places. Ser
mons are most undoubtedly good
reading-that ie, good sermons on
practical .subjec,s-but the best of
sermons will not satisfy the mind
and intelle ctaal desires Of all per.
sons at all times; and I'll venture
the assertion that the fictitious
books of Scott, Dickens and Thack.
cray are more extensively read and
more widely known than the SER
mons of q SpurgeOn. Talmsge, q
Beecher, or those published in the
"Journal of Discourses." Why is
this the fact, and why do 30 many
persons put off to the supposed last
moments of their lives, the act of
remuneration of earthly vanity and
sin, and the donuing of the celestial
robes Of righteousness?
1t is easy to ask o question and
the little child may embarrass and
puzzle the wisest of philosophers
in so doing. But to properly an.
swer q question, simple or profound
ss it may be, is not 30 easy. The
motives, from which spring human
actions, are not go visible as to be
exposed to the view Of every casual
observer. The chords of human
feeling, sympathies, or passions.
are deeper laid and flrmer strung
than to be Jared discordantly by
the careless hand of every passer by
the winds of pas sion may vibrate
them with wild sublimity and ire
sistible power, sometimes good and
sometimes bad; anon discoursine
sweet, matchless strains of heavenly
music from angelic choirs, or again
furious with the hoarse believing
of anger-the shrill discordant cries
of pain, or laden with the sin and
blackness Of the bottomless pit. Life
is strange mingling of good and
evil, of light and shade. Of generos-
ity and selfshneSs; nor, are any
two persons alike, or similarly acted
upon by like means. cone mans
meat is another mans poison" is a
truth in more substances and way!
than food of mere carnal support. Il
is true in all the complicated ma
cbinery and relationships of life
That which satisfies one individual
will not satisfy another-the meDta
food one par takes of and wisely di
gests, another rejects with dislike
and nausea So in mems employ
ments and mems amusements. One
is filed and satisfied, another still
seeking and dissatisfed,by similar
course. One person is able to d.
more, perhaps twice the amount G
labo that another can do, or t.
spend the time in amusement, tina
another would reject, or pass IN I
and slothfulness.
As men differ in caliber and in
tellect, so the same person may DIFF
fer IN his likes and dislikes, in hi!
powers of labor. or recreation, a
different times in his own life his
tory. Coco health is one of tn
greatest considerations and benefits
of human life, as much of suffering
and sOrIow and sin are consequen
upon its absence. Good health sup
poses health and vigor OF body AM
mind, when intellectual strength i
at Its best. The proper adjustment
of the physical and intellectus
powers of mankind is not Away
attended to, though neither Cal
really be in its normal condition
and Gne other be sick. Consequent,
strange fancies are INDUCED il
strsngedreams are had, strange fore
Dodings and depressions of mind
follow bodily ailments, to the some
times overthrow Of good, sober
judgment and sound reason. An,
Person who has made his own sen
satiens and feelings aud desires
study, has Learned to estimate sue
influences aud changes at their pro
per value; and to distrust any de
| ci.ion or command that place
principles, or persons, in a wron
light, or too wise 10 negative an
| fact or principle that accords wit
probability, reason or experience.
Recreation is necessary to all per
so 8 if they wish to maintain goo
b. slth. What the kind and natur
Of that recreation is to be, differ
with each individual. Some ma
read sermon a1d feel refreshed
others may read healthy move
and feel strengthened and influence
powerfully for 60 I'd, or do a count
less host Of other things some pei
sons might call trivial, yet be pene
flied thereby. Each person mus
be his or her own Judge, thougl
any habit OF mind or body carried &
excess, so as to become master, j
injurious MacaUley read novel;
extensively, and Pres .ot', liz c7nse
. q lence Of is blindness, mad then
read 10 him. yet their historical Nal
atives were as vigorous in descrip
| ton aud az shark limo in diction a