The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-20
4 MISSIONARY lis SION. ZEAL.
By dAskE1L.

There are many one-sided persons IN
, this life and most likely will be in the
next; and the worst of it is the side
they show is through side. bristling al
over with points that prick and pierce
and sting, with acute angles, which II
you unfortunately come near, you are
sure to strike against and hurt your
self. In vain may your purpose be an
honest. or virtuousI one; in vain your
protestations of no evil thought or in
tent, you have done the deed and con-
tact with the sensitive point, like con-
tact with the arms of an octopus, has
magneticaIly telegraphed the indignity
put upon it to every part of their body,
whatever it may have done for you.
One sided persons are generally mis-
sionaries of some kind or other, mostly
self-elected, many of them humbugs
and others again sincere-some with
sincerity developed like hair on bald
mans head-conspicuous by its al
sence. But even if it is hobby and SO
being he is in earnest; or, if he is only
playing it as if he was in earnest, often
times makes little difference to the
minds of the many who look on, for
they are too often captiVated by loud,
blatant air and fannel-mouthed ex-
preston, or as boy would express it,
talking as though be had mOuthful
of hot mush."
Ponderosity of manner, an though
person carried on his shoulders the
dome of the capitol of liberty, helps a
man amazingly, in politics or religion.
The fable tells US the ass is terrible
animal to the imagination, if we only
hear his strident voice. and so is the
loud talk OF a political aspirant, or a
religious bigot, if his harangue is only
spiced strongly with terms of 1.-THE great
est good of the people, "libertv of the
people, national honor, 10. eligious
purity and 'aeWdness must be put
down." interspersed with spiteful allu-
sionS to his opponentS-and all are op-
ponents who see not as he sees and does
not as. he does-and if such talk is long
keptup it is sure to have a certain |
measure of effect, just as in dirt sling |
ing some of it is bound TO stick.
But people generally like humbug-
that is they laugh and smile about il |
if some one else is the victim. Few,
however, are magnanimouS enough to
enjoy laugh at their own expense.
Some enjoy the complications and per-
plexities of business misfortunes-if an
otherihasi5o suffer them-ald others, talk
boldly Of suffering every extreme Of
persecution and evil for conscience
1ol hon fFoxy n |
they, perchance, would be
the first ones to weaken and finch from
danger. No Ole knows exactly what
be would do in 8 position he has never
filed and facing danger and disgrace
he has never known. All forecasting ;
the future of ones self is often but idle
speculation and the first shock of ap-
preaching trial may overturn the theo- {
ries Of years; and the more a man
busters and boasts of what he will do. .
the greater doubts arise in the minds of
the calm observer, unless he has had {
previous proof, of what could and would
be done.
Some persons. if they get an idea |
through their wool, hang to il like grim
leath to a dead colored gentleman. i
There Is no let up. to it in any way, or t
my DOW. 1t is presented in season, or '
'ut o. season, right side up, or wrong '
lde up, to any perSon'and to every per
on, who has patience to listen. If is t
panacea for heshly ills you are bored s
Until you begin to wish you had the dis 2
ase, so you could have the cure ap-7
lied and thus get rid of the borer. If t
panacea for spiritual ailment, sfffef- t,
ng and darkness, the terrors of the I'M T.
nown and incomprehensible are thun- q
cred In your ears until every nerve v
lngleS, every pulse feYerishly throbs d
nth unenlightened awe and you al il
eady have hideous fOretaste of the O
llSerles In store for the unredeemed.
md then the disinteres tedness of the v
dvice you get. 1t is given for your a
enetit, and gratis, too-it is given for il
our welfare, your safety, your saliva b
on-these are the great considerations "
1nsldered by the generous, giYer-and d
on In your unregenerated darkness =
egin' to- have "a dim perception that is
1ere are other and less remote places CT
suffering than Hades, and that sheol q
nd quick punishment would be less ell
we're, less trying 70 the mortal consti- oil
Lion than. the grind, grind. grind, of 81
he one-ldea man, If that idea chances 70
be your unenlightened sinfulness. al
But there are depths below depths OF hi
resided character to which humanity gr
'scends in pursuit of hobby, or of al
llnO AID popularity. The reins of m
:enSe once loOsened so far that self-in- We
rest sch, gratifeaEen, or the, way- st
ard meanderings of fancy is the lead th
g and governing force, and injustice SO
at feeds those feelings becomes hal al
wed into virtues. Through such A if
edium virtue becomes distorted out of SD
sage self b9ege tienV adherence to 20
inciple, listening to the voice of an W.
NEST conscience, becomes myths of fo,
st ages; and such callous Judgment mt
ned toEa nature eHnsymPathizing and th
Id, remorselessly brushes Opposition. ed
en- though human hearts are trodden mi
der foot at every step. nj
Notions are sometimes subject To an
bies as individuals are. The unrea. ms
ming madness of crowds is proyerbiaI rnf
people or religion, on becoming i'm Wi
pular is bounded to the death. and is mC
ished cut. annihilated,- unless there rel
; superior truth and virtue attached col
them 70 act as saving forces. -R1E He
lth, be- II inherent in peoples. oYih liz
igionss is never dead = thou eh lis foy
hts may be ohScured for time and bu
force for good be diminished. until ha,
re propl1ous circumstances approach co,
ire iberality of spirit in the govern. lar