Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-31

'That is true" said President Smith,
"and, moreover, there is nothing in
the holding of the highest Office in the
Church which would prevent man
from holding any civil office, nor from
engaging any legitimate business. 1t
is one of the beauties and eXcellen-
cies of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints that there is not
within it man, high or low, who has
not some interest or pursuit from
which to produce his own living and
that of those dependent upon him.
He does not have to take it out of
the Church tithing, nor live by the
passing of the hat 1t is to that,
however, that some would reduce us
merely praying, preaching, singing
crowd, getting our living out of the
people, and by passing the contribu-
ton box We are charged with
'commercialism' because we follow the
principle taught by the Church that
every man ought to make his own liv-
ing if he be able, and that there is
nothing in his doing so to prevent his
holding the highest offices, provided
that his business pursuits do not in
terfere with his Church duties
"Our plan is for every man to earn
his own living" he continued. why,
look at President Winder, there. He
is my first counselor, and my col
league. He is farmer and has been
for years, and has raised as much
wheat and other articles of farm pro-
duce as any man in Utah. He is a
stockraiser, and today, if you want
to buy the best Jersey COW in Utah.
go to John r. Winder, and he will sell
it to you"
81 won't sell him the best Jersey
COW in Utah." said President Winder
because want to keep her myself
but will sell him a good one"
"Our church differs from other
churches President Smith went on
Gin that it looks after the temporal
as well as the spiritual welfare of its
people. 1t not only aims to fit and
prepare them for home in better
world after DEATH but to aid them to
happy homes while here on earth.
Man was made from the dust of
the earth, and into his body God
breathed the breath of life, and he be-
came living soul. He is compound
of earth and heaven. While on the
EARTH he must get his living from it,
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the best use of his opportunities and
his abilities of body and mind. The
church does everything possible in
that direction. We are charged with
commercialsm because we are en-
gagged in various industrial enter
prises. From the very nature of the
conditions under which. the church
was established in Utah, that was i'm
peratively necessary. When the
'Mormons' came here to make new
homes for themselves, 1000 miles in
any direction from civilization, they
were in poverty and distress. They
had been driven from their former
habitations, and were practically des-
titute. 1t was absolutely necessary
that the church and the church auth
critics should take hold and help the
people to make homes and minister as
far as possible to their own wants
All the temporal power the Church
has ever eXerted in Utah was in the
direction of helping the poor make
homes for themselves, to develop in
dustries, and thereby tend to the es-
tablishment of independence and com
fort.
president Brigham Young led the
way in this. He established many in
dustries, among them wooden mills,
tanneries, nail factories, even iron
works, and many others. We make
our own clothing here I wear n home