The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-17

We need more toilers in the fields
OF thought and development.
The battle for intellectual advance
ment is still on and Will only end with
time
The demon seifishness sits upon the
high places of earth and rules the
word.
Every man VINO is honest and loves
his God and fellowman has a mission
To perform.
Men have not yet learned that
1T is ignorance THAI makes and nur-
lures sim; pure wisdom does not allow
1t.
Men have not yet learned that one
day under the clear sky of intellectual
liberty, or perfect manhood, is worth
more than a year under the gclouds
OF sin and iniquity.
Why should there be such suffering
in land Of plenty?
why is bread so dear and flesh and
blood 50 cheap"
IT is because men live and act upon
the basis of animal life Civilization
is in it's infancy, or it is a failure. Our
duty is TO do what lies in our power to-
wards developing the nobier qualities
of mind and heart. Extirpate low
selfishness from the hearts of men and
"
but in the full realization of heaven
on earth
Two forces are continually at war,
One may be termed the giant builders,
the others the giants of destruction
Through untold suffering man has
reached the plane he now stands upon.
Progress is made step by step. Take
for illustration the art of speech or of
conveying our ideas one to another.
IL,
gutteral SOUNDS to letters. from letters
TO words words tc sentences; sem
fences to chapters; chapters to books.
So it is with all intellectual growth.
1t is our duty to cultivate earnest,
honest manhood and womanhood. To
live and to help others to live.
The happiness of this world de-
ponds upon mans true regard of his
fellow man. We have been careless
and negligent of our duties in life I'M
til things are out of joint, deformed
and it is time for us. as men, to COM
mence to reform them. The people are
or. ing in dispairing tones, what shall
we do to be Saved?' We need more
individuality, more thinkers, fewer
sycophants The higher faculties must
be brought into action. Men should do
their own thinking and not be led by
the nose by their fellows.
Every child should understand that
he or she has as. much right in this
world as the baby who came a few
years before; no more, no less. True
men stand erect; they bow with re-
spect to their fellow men, but not as
slaves. People must be taught to tlIfnB
and to understand the responsibilities
of life. Men should learn that each
one is simply part of the stupendous
whole and like a perfect piece of ma
chinery he should fill his place and dc
his best towards making human life
successful
Think of the toiling millions Shaving
from daylight till dark, over-workedl
without hope, sinking day by day infc
Sums of sin and ignorance. Boys
girls, men and women should be laughs
that all honest toll is honorable bui
slavery should not and must not be
tolerated. The hope of this world is
in the uplifting of the toiling masses
We must do our part towards bringing
mankind out of darkness into the sun.
light of fraternity. Let us work a.
home. There is no need of sending
missionaries to foreign lands to cor
vert the heather. This is the r1lacs
and now is the time. Let not oul
words be as the sounding of brass OF
the tinkling of symbols. Let us per
form deeds THAT have no hidden OF
uncertain meaning.
1 trust the day will come when this
society will not only be ritualistit
organization. but an educator to tins
people at large in the sciences of life
which can only be worked out by fra,
ternity. 4 desire for the good of all
passion for the honest and a yearninl
after the true is what we must Guilt