Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-24

som for all. to be testified Undue time.
And when you believe this you Will en-
ter into His rest, and when you enter
into His rest, you will know what rest
Is, and not before. And having got
the evidences that God is true. be still
adding to your evidence and enjoy your
present assurance. DO all to God as to
your father, for His love Is ten thou
sand times greater towards you than
ever any earthly fathers could be to
his Offspring
'In the next place strive for these
graces, most which concern your
places and conditions and
strive most against those
faings which most threaten you. But
above everything avoid q melancholy
disposition, that Is humor that adj
mits OF any temptation and is capable
Of any impression and DISAGREEMENT,
as death; this humor which win work
| you to all unthanSfulness against God.
unlovingness to men and unnaturalness
| to yourselves and to one another.
do not talk ard make n noise to
get the name of forward men, but do
the thing and do it in way that is
| fair and honest which you can live and
die by and rise and reign by; therefore
my children, do more than you talk Of
| in point of religion; satisfy your own
consciences in what you do; all men
|
not be satisfied though they be con-
| WINGED.
"As for your calling-Any honest
calling will honor you If you will honor
1t; it is better to be a rich cobbler
than poor merchant; Il rich farmer
than a poor preacher and never be
discouraged, though sometimes your
schemes should not succeed according
| to your wishes.
"Persevere in the way of well-doing
and you may hope for success, for my
self l (who had never your parts nor
helps) never found anything too hard
| for me in my calling, but discourage
ment and unbelief. II | was discour-
| aged and did not believe / could do tt
thing, l never could, therefore when you
think anything is too hard for you, do
not undertake it.
AS to Your Company--Abandon all
| infectious, flattering, self-serving COM
panions; when once you have found
them false trust them no more. Sort
| with such as are able to do or receive
good. Solomon gives you the best
counsel for this in many places. Read
the Proverbs and remember him in this.
| Forsake not an old friend. Be friendly
and faithful to your friends. Never
trouble nor trust friends unless there
be necessity, and lastly be long in
closing with friends and 10th to loose
them upon experience of them.
| "A
think 1t worth while to say much about
them, for / believe that God hath Gre
| ated the persons for each other and
that nature will find its own.
"But for Your Children-Make it
your chiefest work to bring them up
in the ways of virtue, that they may
be useful in their generation. Give
them IL possible q good education; If
nature hath made no differences. do
you make none in your affections,
countinances nor partious parLality
their way begets envy, ha.-aG, strife
and contention.
"And as for Yourselves Within Your
selves-My desire hath been to carry
an even hand towards you all and i
have labored to reduce you as
near as / could, all circumstances con-
sidered, to an equality and therefore
my last request and charge is, that you
will live together in an undivided bond
of love: you are many of you, and If
YOU Join together as one man, you need
not want anything; what counsel. what
comfort, what money what friends,
may You not help yourselves unto, If
you will all as one contribute your aids.
Wherefore my dear children, 1 pray
beseech and adjure you by all the re-
lations and DEAFNESS that hath ever
been betwixt us and by the heart-rend-
ing pangs of dying father whose soul
hath ever been bound in the bundle of
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other, visit as you may, each other.
Comfort, counsel, relieve. succor, help
and admonish one another and while
your mother lives, meet her. IL possible
once every year, When she is dead
pitch on some other place, If 1t may be
your elder brothers. house, or If you
cannot meet send to and hear from
each other yearly and oftener IL you
can, and WIN you have neither father
nor mother left. be as many fathers
and mothers to each other, so you
shall understand the blessings men,
toned in the 133rd Psalm.
!, "As to Your Estates-Be not troubled
that you ARE below your kindred; get
! more wisdom, humility and virtue AND
; YOU are above them, only do this
Deal with your hearts to make then
j less, begin low join together TO heir
: one another rest upon the promises
t. which are many and precious this way
!, Love mercy and have mercy on your
selves and one another and I know
| know. say, and / am confident II
it. that if you will trust God in His owl
way He will make comfortable pro
visions for you. Make no more objec
:, tons hut trust Him.
For the Public--Bless God that vol
, live in Il land of liberty and bear your
. selves dutifully and conscionabl!
{ towards the authority under which yoi
/, live. See Gods providence in the an
! puintnent of the Federal Constitution
!. and hold union and order as preciou
, Jewell And for the Church of Chris
neither set her above her husband no
9 below her children; give her that honor
:, obedience and respect that Is due her
= And If you will be my children ant
: heirs of my comfort in my dying age
: be neither another nor factions of an,
n marty or faction or novelty; It Is tru
: This Is not rising way but 1t is