Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-07

N'NIN Wv ~ NN"ANfAAff We hAF I'A'NANNiAt
wup lee the tear oi Goi vented
way nom the shot,sof Eut,pc an,
non other parts Of tno wutli 10 Va.
gathering place ~ the Latter.dA}
saints iu the far oil lanI OF America
crossing the ocean iu dihp.IaJei sail.
ing vessels and the plains and noun
tains wish OK teams End hand clit-
Combine all the'u conditions o.
the saints aud study the clI
cumstaucrs attending them all ser
atatcly snd collectively. nui we have o
greater variety Of thrilling events, 10.
ttresting scenes, rnd brave venture
than Is met with Ia the history Of AuN
O.het people. Nor are these thug.
conf ed 10 the pn-g tor tn
Lattot.dsy Saints continue to maxi
very interesting history, such ne iuiur,
historians will delight TO enlarge upon,
ana write up IN the Light ana inttlli.
gcuco OF other centuries. For tai.
reaspn, aud great many O,hefr,w hlru
might be given, every individual mem.
Der Vt the Church ehOull Ecep Jour.
nal " some KIND; n not untly one,
one that at least will give the mos
important events Vi tia life OF an IN.
uividual. ~ Is better to writs once a
week, once q month, or even once a
year, than 10 write nothing at all. by
making few notes AMI giving
few dates here and there, person
OF ordinary intelligence when he get
old, anu fiuds himself possessed vi %
desire to Wfite "A Biographical sketch %
his life, eau, with the as-istsnce u e
Few dates, supply the rest from
memory, aud thus be able 10 make
record OF bis doiugs while soIuufning
ON the earth-a record that may be-
read with tho greatest inteTout by tons
OF thousands yet unborn.
The following vas published In the
London R0ga,Mo about thirty years
ago.
"lt mau keeps no diary, the path
crumbles away behind him ~ his ,ert
leave II; ami days gone by arc but little
more than blank broken by low
distorted shadows. His life ~ all con.
lined within tho limits OF today. Who
does not know how imperfect n thing
memory j.? IL not merely forgeis, II
misleads. rhings In memory DO not
merely fade away presorving Hs
they fade their own linvHmenls 50
long NJ they can be eeou, they change
their aspect, they change their place;
they turn to something quite different
from the fact.
"In the picture Of the pat, which
memory unaided by any written re.
cord sets before Us, the perspective Is
entirely wrong. Flow capriciUusiy
some events seem quite recent, which
the diary shows are really far away,
and how unaccountablu some thing-
look lar away, which in truth are not
| left many weeks behind ui a man
might almost Ms We'll not nave lived
at all, as entirely to forget that no has
/ lived, ard entirely forget what hu dij
| on those departed days. But think
/ that almOst every person would feel u
| gtolt Interest In looking back day by
| day upon what he did UT thought thai
| Jay twelve months, that DAY three Or
/ Ave years ago.
The trouble Of writing the diary !.
| very small. A few lines, OF a few words
| written a. tue time suilices, when you
look nj them, to bring All what tbs
l Yankees call tho "surfJuudingsn Of
That season) before you. Many liiir
things come W again which you know
| quite well you never would have
thought Of again but for your glance at
those wOrds, and etiil which you feel
you would he sorry 10 have forgotten.
There must he a richness about the
life VI person who keeps a diary un.
known to other men. And "a million
| m.re little LINKS and ties must
bind him TO tbs members Of his
family circle and 10 all among wh0m
he lives. Life 10 him looking back, "
not q bare limo striuglug together nis
personal identity;it II surrounded, in.
tcrwOveu, entRnslsi with thousands
ami thousands Ol slight incidents,
witch give 1t beauty, kindhness,
reality.
Some folks life Il like an oak walE-
ingH,ick, straight and vanished; u-cful
but hard and bare. Other mems lives
(aud guch may yours AMI mine, kindly
reader, ever ue) II like that onk when
u was not slick, but n branch, nud
waved, lta'.envclOpou, anu with lUts
Of little twigs growing out OF 1t upon
the summer tree.
Ana yet more precious than the
power Of thu diary 20 call up again y
most OF little circumstances aud
facts, ~ iia powers tn bring back the
iudiacriblD.e but keenly felt atmOs.
phUro ~ those departed days. rhs
Old time comes over you. IL II
not merely collection, ana aggregate
Of facts that comes bach; II g. somr.
thing far more excellent thRn that
II IL the soul OF days long sg1; II Il The
dear "Auld lang syno ilsel :" rhe per.
iumc OF hawthorne hedges IL there;
tho breath OF breeze that famed our
gray hair when II ma 10 sunny uurls,
often smoothed down by hands that
are gone; the sunshine on the grnss
where these old fingers made daley
chains; anu suatches Of music, com.
pared with which anything you hear
ut tho opera Is extremely poor. There.
fore, Keep diary, my friend"
ANDREW IENsON,
SALT LAKE CRY, uIAn, March lst,
! 1853.