Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-08

thU people should place themselves IN
a rosItl0u 90 create labor for their sons
and daughters. Are we doing this? l
am afraid that Wa have almost forgot
ten that there was such a principle adj
yance1. Who taught home manuiac-
ura more than President Brigham
Young? Who preached oftener and
stronger and put his money into those
Institutions more than did President
Brigham Young? We are raising young
men by the thousands I'm this fair State
of ours. and do we ever stop TO think
what they are going TO do for a livingI
hone my brethren and sisters, that we
will think Of this. and that we Will, 50
far AS possible establish such Industries
here as will give employment TO our
young men and young women. j also
feeI that the fathers and mothers OF
this Church should begin to realize the
Importance OF instTucting their boys 10
prepare themselves for future lie by
learning some kind OF trade. our boys,
as a rule-and / think that the parents
are at fault In many misunderstood TO
drift along without caring anything
about the responsibilities NJ life, or
thinking Of how they are going 20 fui-
ON the requirements that will be made
OF them as husbands and fathers. They
do not stop % consider these things. !
want 20 say that this is not an UNI
developed country now as II used To be,
nor has IL unlimited homesteads for all
new corners. ana we ought 20 begin
10 think what our sons and daughters,
especially our sons are going 70 do FOR
living In the future. Take almost
every institution that Is started now by
the people here. where skilled labor "a
required, and do we find Utah boys al
the head Of the different departments?
Take. for example the Provo Wooden
Mills. Can / get "a Utah boy TO start
In the dye room and learn the trade,
aud stick 10 10 until he knows every
requirement Of this department? No,
! cannot, The result Is, we are COM
PEELED 90 send east % get a man who
has lived IN a community where IL was
absolutely necessary for him to learn
every detail OF the business, in order
to take charge Of that department
and Il is so with other departments. l
hope we will begin, as fathers and
mothers, TO see our responsibility In re-
gard 10 our children, and take care that
they learn q trade. So far as / am
personally concerned. II l were pos
sessed Of millions Of money | would de-
sire every son Of mine 10 have trade
at his fingers ends so that II every
thing were swept away from him he
could fan back on his trade and make
an honest living. ! wish that every son
In this fair State. and especially In this
Church, was in this position.
TITHING A BENEFICENT LAW
l had a young man come to me a
short time ago and ask for an eXplana-
ton of some remarks he had heard
Brother Grant make concerning tlthing.
He said that at a meeting the other
day he had heard Brother Grant eX-
press the belief that a man who paid
his tithing honestly tenth Of all
God gave him-w0uld be better pre-
pared 10 meet his obligations with tie
nine. tenths and Il would 90 further
than the whole. and he did not believe
H. He said he came 20 me as one who
had studied financial matters, and
would Ike to have me explain how
ninety cents could go farther than one
dollar ] thought a minute or two and
then decided 10 take his own case for
an example, / asked him II he would
object to my taking his own case 10
prove 60 him the truth OF what Brother
Grant had said. Certainly not, he said.
All right. said !, / viii prove to you by
your own acts that what Brother Grant
said was an absolute fact, and / be-
ieve IL Is so In nine hundred and ninety
nine cases out of a thousand. II not In
every case. / then remarked 10 him.
VI was going 20 a conference not long
ago. and / saw you out driving on the
sabbath with q tWo-seated rig, at a
time when you ought to have been at
meeting Yes he said. II remem-
1er" What did YOU pay for that rig2"
asked 1T only cost me four dollars"
be replied. What are YOU getting a
"Forty-hye dollars
month" "Then," said |, this would
almost have paid your tithing
Do your wages for that month and you
'0uld have claimed the blessings Of the
Lord instead OF breaking the law Of
God pertaining TO the Sabbath" I
want 10 say to you my brethren and
sisters that the law OF tithlng Is not a
question % dollars and cents alone.
believe that the man who pays his hon
ast tlthIng to God win not only be
blessed by God himself, hut that the
will reach farther than
would the ten-tenths II he ala not obey
hat law. for the man who believes In
he law Of tithes and offerings. be-
ieves also In the other requirements
made by God Of him, and he does not
spend money IN breaking the sabbath
lay nor In going TO places whore his
very soul IS In danger OF partaking Of
,hines that are not good FOR a Latter
lay Saint 20 receive. I testify as