The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-28

The result is, that with such a SEN
sitive nature, and an organic quality
considerably above the average, he
will delight in prayer, will be sincere
in worship, earnest in his belief, re-
spectful to authority. thoughtful for
others, and his faith and hope would
be worth a gold-mine to many people.
It would appear that these venerative
ennobiing, purifying faculties, so con-
spicuous in our present subject, are the
last to die
When the pain that often accompan-
les the death summons begins to sub
side. and the pulse gradually becomes
weaker and slower, when the extremi
ties lose their natural warmth and the
last glimmer of life becomes fainter
and DINNER, at that time all those
organs and faculties located in and
around the base of the brain gradually
lose their power and their function.
After death has laid its icy grip on
all those selfish propensities that per-
tain to the earth and mortality, when
the miser forgets his gold, and even
reason and love are hushed to sleep,
the moral part of man, the most God
like part of his nature, still lives. 1t
survives when all that is earthly has
collapsed, and as the spirit struggles
for its release, we hear family whis-
pered in the latest gasp, visions,
heavenly music, flowers and angels
Sublimity and ideality are also well
marked in this head, and always exert
a refining tendency on the character.
These organs will make him neat, inn
aginative, athletic and somewhat prone
to exaggeration.
Intellectually the perceptives predom-
mate over the refiectives, hence he will
be more practical than philosophic.
He is not. strictly speaking, a deep,
consecutive, profound reasoner. He is
more like a fountain than a reser-
voir. The knowledge he does possess,
however, he is master of; it is ready
and available, but there is not that
depth, that width and profundity that
enabled Sir Isaac Newton to discover
the law of gravitation. President
Woodruff can commence to speak the
instant he begins to think. While
many people cannot express an intel
liSent or valuable idea until they have
first had time TO reflect and turn it
over in their minds.
The latter class may be likened to
man who has immense wealth in the
bank. but it is not available until the
combination has been manipulated,
while those like President Woodruff
may not have near so much stored in
their vaults, but are never without
little ready cash in their pockets.
He is man for an emergency, un-
derstands the value of time, will look
before he leaps, prepare for a rainy
day." and thinks it is all right for
charity to begin at home" if it is
not allowed to end at the same place.
He will not be remarkable for phil
anthropy in money matters, but is not
lacking in sympathy and feeling for
others. If the germ of conceit was
ever planted in his nature, it was
killed in embryo. There is not trace
or even a suspicion of mock modesty."
He is not a man to be trified with.
however: will be nobody's tool: would
enter a vigorous protest against any
fraud or imposition. and those who i'm
agine his child-like simplicity arises
from a child-like mind, would be as
tonished at the vigo1 with which he
would dispel their delusion.
He has possessed in his time good
mechanical ability; could turn his hand
ingeniously in the construction, in the
repairing and improving of machinery,
of indictments of wood or stone. He
is well endowed with the inventive tall
ent, and had he given his attention to
this line early in life would doubtless
have something to show for it by this
time. His greatest trouble in these
matters would be his disposition to
skip from one thing to another without
waiting to complete them. He has
great patience with other people, but
not nearly so much for himself. He
is restless, irritable and somewhat in
clined to excitement; his energy runs
ahead of his ability, and this DISPOSE
ton will not only keep him in perpet-
ual motion during the day. but will
also keep him awake half the night,
and he will spend many wakeful hours
in bed His affection for children is
good. The same development in most
people would be called very good, but
strong as it is. it is not on a par with
his sense of duty and obligation to
God.
He is not much of ''joker;" will
care little for the frivolities of life;
ton, and facts rather than fancy.
To sum UP, he is genial, sociable,
modest. spiritually minded, industrious,
shrewd, firm and honest, and has a re-
nlarxable memory for facts. He will
understand matters in the concrete
better than in the abstract. His COM
bativeness will not take the form of
aggression, but in maintaining the
right. in contending for the faith. in
building I'D rather than tearing down.
If a man like this. who by nature is
so disposed to do good, so anxious to
bless. and so averse to condemn, if such
a man could ever incur the enmity and
spite of any one, it must be of that
particular class of individuals whose
appreciation any decent person would
blush to receive.
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