Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-03-31

nature to assert that tho down.hill Of
travel IL easier apparently, and when
some men-soms Women-iall and
glide, Il can easily be assumed that all
"tho waysv 81 lite seem specially
creased lot tho occasion.
John Bn1yan, oil immortal mem
Dry, claimoI that tho time
would come when IL woul
be- "easer 10 20 up bill
than t. go down" But his prophetic
oye must have pierced beyond the
ml.ts ani storms Of present human
experience. lia must have discernej
afaf ofi, either a revelation in human
natUrc or the removal Of ten thousand
barriers, allurements and temptations
in inner aud outer founs-wnichi n the
main many cannot at present resist.
Tue srers Of III Tins have detected
through tho has Of ages this advanced
possibility prophets have said a mighty
change would assufedly bo brought TO
pass. "rhe word Of the Lord" hnp
been given, aud condition o. rule,
government and society has been fore.
Swallowed, which embodies all the
elements OF order, beauty, poetry and
right Nay, an inspiration has rested
upon the hearts Of multItudcs who
spiritually discovered ",ho bow Of
promisen ~ it bent over bin.sick
world. Yet they and their generations
have "dloi wlthou. the SIGHT" aud
thoir dream, with them arc "a tue dust
which is blown away.
No, n few even now who have had
the same ideal, whose souls have been
touched by "lno live coal" from the
same altar, silently acpuio.ce iu
the wondroua question, "whUto -
now the promise OF His coming, Tor
since the fathers foil asleep, have not
all thugs continued even ~ they
wor,2n Can II not he asserted that the
majority OF this community, gathered
no they are from oil tho nations Of tho
earth, arc In many respects dis.
coungci, partly with circumstances
partly with thclr associates, aud parity
with themsolves2 /, It not realized
that these circumstance and combina.
lions thereof make men selfish anI
avhrlcions, that every thing aud every
body Is secondary 20 tncmselvei9 That
they are prone TO forget tho require.
meuis AMI covenants Of their niihs
rnas opportunity ami speculation are
nearly as potent among tue
Saints Rs among those who
"kuow not Gld ani are not ia.
m.llar with His why,2" Arc We not
unotured with tho spirit o. the iathers2
IL 10 not rsalizsi that tradition, cuitlm,
training, education, have lcfl, upon tue
older members Of the Church at least,
thulr almost in.ilioeablc brand or
hnsrfmiru? That ths viii Is nliul,
that the spirit Of seli.resifaint 10 weak,
that In trade aud tfattio ani deal, "lho
Old Adam" crops out involuntarlly ~
Il were7 And that hundreds have
"male shlpwrroG OF thblr hith,n
given up thvl, grand Ideals, become
insensible 10 tho spirit Of brotherhood,
and lost reverence for tue tone ana
glory Of undylng Truth?
samson shorn Of his locks ana "weak
as other men," was q signilicint illus.
trailon when has been repeated
myriad times, all Of which shows the
grand philosophy Of the gathering, tho
erection OF n better environment, the
multiplication OF n seed with weakened
DRIFT toward tradition aud the customs
Of Rn ancient civilization. IL
ia to the youth that prophecy will
look. It's through them that the un-
seen forces Of the universe will work;
by them that"Z 1u will be o,tablished,"
and In their poslcrlty that "the uni.
versal reign Of righteousnesi and peace
shall DO ushufod lt!"
"My people shall be willing In the
day OF my power" "now VIM will
not DO put into old botlles,n the gar.
ments worn Tor centuries VIII not be-
patched with tho "now clothD woven
In our Fathers loom. This expert.
ment was tried OF early Chrlstlanity,
when worldly wisdom presided at its