Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-23

teams not thus engaged are employed
in blowing and other farm work.
There are no Idle people In the colony.
And while work is plentiful, 1t is diff
cult to find available laborers. and
Mexicans have had to be employed
quite frequently. 1t must be under
stood. however, that money does not
grow on picket fences, and while II Is
by no means as scarce as in some
parts OF Utah. 1t Is not as plentiful MS
in n mint. Tho people are thrifty and
prosperous. they take care of the
dimes and what dollars do not take
care of themselves, obliging creditors
look after. But those who are willing
to work, and do so, Will find Mexican
currency as free, probably. as was
once the old-time scrip. This Is not
the place. however, for the moneyless
man. New colonists need teams and
wagons and money with which to
purchnse lands and build homes. With
these to begin upon, and provender to
last q while, they viii find more OPP
portunities to gain competency here
in Ave years than would present them
selves in the inter-mountain West In
twenty.
But TO the devoted Latter-day Saint
all these temporal advantages sink
into inslgnificance compared with the
spiritual blessings enjoyed. The pio-
neers sought FIRST the kingdom ana
lis Righteousness" and "all other
things" are being added accordingly.
And. hence, there is no community
within the writer's knowledge which
enjoys more perfect peace. or
BROADER RELIGIOUS LIBERTY,
than the Mormon colonlsts of Chihua-
hua. According to authentic reports
they stand first in all the world in
payment of tithes and offerings, in
proportion to their population. They
live their religion to the best of hu-
man ability, and yet some, in their
zeal. have hedged themselves about
with an -puritanism that while
It savors of tyranny, inures to the
community's advantage Thus the peo-
pie are engrossed In working out their
own temporal and spiritual salvation
among themselves. They are in the
world, but not of 1t. Come out of
| her my people," has been n command
| for them to obey gladly. They desire
| nothing better than to keep out of her,
| and to keep her out. too. This. there
! fore. to them is Zion. So far. it is an
| ideal one. 1t Is a refuge for the honest
| in heart, and for those who desire to
| live in the full light OF the Gospels
effulgence.
THE BLESSINGS OF PEACE.
The sweet union in the Latter-day
Saint household is dearer than life to
those who know the agony and loss
their denial has entalled. stu old
| conditions have left their sting. Ana
while the wilderness has been passed
and Canaan found the experience
suffered by some has been too hard
to entirely cfface, and may not be
wiped out from the page of memory
| until the books are opened and ac-
counts squared by the Justice of ON
impotence. But the establishment OF
these colonies, with the degree of free
dom and prosperity they enjoy, to-
gether with the destiny before them,
is only the beginning of "a marvel
| lous work and wonder" to be accom-
| plished in this sunny land and Is an
| earnest of the time soon coming when
| II is promised that the Kingdom and
it's righteousness shall cover the whole
earth as the waters do the sea.
N. w. MACLEOD.