Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-08-25

! u malns some time the Iue cause
viii DO unteulood and the pfopei
treatment found.
When contemplating the wrong.
and lie to WI Oh mankind are subject,
the supposit.on BE- near ut hand thsi
they ore all due 10 existing laws ami
customs. II wouli follow that with
sOcloiy fecous .ructsd and governed BY
different legal codes the sarih would
be made a paradise. Thus reason not
only anarchists and commuuhu, but
the various schools OF socialists, ani
many other modern ref1fmers. That
the view taken IL most superficial
should neei no htgumen'. The fact
is that tue laws themselves are
but al indication NJ the moral planes
which mankind, IN IT, various groups
and familio,. have reached. Their de-
fects have their cause in the very moral
nature Of man. Here, thea, all tllsc-
tive reforms must commence. II man
Kind can be- educated 10 ~ 10 make a
Uiopian slate possible, the laws neces.
cary 10 regulate such a state will follow
naturally. But 10 commence the ft-
/ form by changing the laws, aud lesv.
Ing all the Instincts Of the lower nature
~ they sfe, lisa vain labor Il l. tsai.
Ing the top, u the weed. Oh AMI lsav-
/ log the roofs In the ground, and the
fe,uit will be very much the Same.
The garden may look we'll for sborg
time, hui soon tne same weeds will be
seen more iloudshing than ever
AZ In tho construction Of n building
the quality o the material Il A. essen.
tial as the Correctness Of the architec-
tufal plan, 40 the excellence VI the
moral qualities u the oiizsns In
Utopia u factor more important even
than the laws thereof. Any reioymef
who negleoA to c1usidcr thi. fact IL
doomed TO disappointment beforehand.
The greatest Rsfjfmcr who ever
lived on earth recognized tbis impor.
tant principle. Tho teachings u the
great NazNrone, when carried out 10
their oonssquencs,--as they are des
tined TO bc-neccssafily lead 10 a
universal brotherhood, governed by
love. that mighty force, u which the
Almighty Creator Is sail 10 be the
source. Yet lilo formed no political
state, gave no social laws. Takiug
mankind ~ II wai, He tau lht ami ek.
emplided 10 His lite those Joctfin,a by
which Individual "rsgeueration'' b, 10
be effected, well knowing that with.
out that, social reconstruction Is la.
possible. Hie followers did tho same,
and In 80 far as they succeeded IN
"dying from tho world," as the
phrase was, living "new life,D con.
sectaiod 10 tho cause OF mAu aud Of
dod, they proved that the possibilities
Of \ Millennium are wlthin the human
nature.
They never dreamed ofa condition,
however, In which everybody should
be In every respect equal to everybody
else. Differences thefp ara AMI must
always be, What they aimed Mt was
that while each one had to "bear
his own bufdrn," yet tho
"sirong" should assist the
"weaE," thus ,quallaing tho work
under which now 40 many suffer and
perish. In otAer words, Christianity
as taught by Christ anu MS understood
by HIS immediate followers ~ well
by HE Church In lhis nge, aims Mt a
condition among mon In which every
Individual lives no longer iot his own
sel1sh Interests and purposes, but Tor
the beucnt OF his fcillwmeu, 90 thai
whatever may ba his Intellectual
powers, requirements, gifts aud grac,s,
they will be exercised Tor the good OF
Nil, and Il socks 70 galu this great end
by that regenera,lng prosess-to use
the theological term-by which man y
made, a. It we're, new creature.
In the meantime, the many attempts
by philanlhroplsts 10 reach the same
goal prove the need Of Just this. Even
the failures are necessary TO give true
understanding OF tho vasinvss OF the
undertaking, aud thoro Il reason Tor the
hope that mankind viii at last realize
that only In the Gospel is to be found
the sflectual remedy for all Its sutlsr'