Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

attend to these matters in the infancy
and childhood of our offspring, when
they get to be older they will not de-
part from the right way, or If they do
the sin viii be theirs. 1t has been said
by the best wisdom that has developed
through ages of experience In the
world--that the proper care and
training of a child until it is from 10
to 15 years of age Is the most imports
ant training of all its life. If the
children are properly taught and
brought up under proper environment
and influences, until they are 10 or 10
years of age, and then they are safe
guarded by parents until they are of
age against the vices and evils TO
which human nature is prone, when
they became men and women they will
be established in the truth and in the
knowledge of God, in the love that
they should feel toward their Creator.
& the faith that they should exerciscsin{
the promises that have been made to
them of everlasting life. through obedi-
fences to His commandments: and they
will not depart from the right way.
But, as has been said. If you are
drunken. how can YOU tell your chill
dren not to be drunken? If you curse
and swear, how can you teach your
children not to do so? If you violate
the Sabbath day. how are you going to
train Your children to keep 1t holy? IL
YOU speak evil of your neighbor and
bear false witness against your broth
er, and your children know 1t, how are
you going to teach them not to do such
things as these? II you lack faith and
confidence in the work of the Lord,
how can You inspire faith in the hearts
of the children? You can't do 1t. AS
is the parent. so will be the child
only the child may grow faster than
the parent did and may go beyond him
in the wrongs that the parent may
have committed, the evil example that
he may have set before his children
while with him under the parental
roof-althongh these mistakes may /,
not have been very many or very seri-
Gus in his mind. vet they may be mag
nIfied in the heart and life of the. child.
and he will ''go you a good deal
worse. AS sure as you live you will
find that this principle Will work out
this way as a rule.
Now, may peace be with YOU, ana
may the blessings of the Lord attend
you, J. believe in the divine mission
of Christ, with all my soul, my hopes
are built upon it: my faith is fixed In
it. know that my Redcomer live. :
know that Joseph Smith revealed the
same doctrine that was taught by
Christ and that he organized the
Church as God dictated to him and
thuSiit 4ipiI iioW " VI organize IL, stIlatI
every soul within the pale of the
Church of Christ on earth might have
a shepherd and a guardian over him
or her, to guard their innocence, to
shield them against temptation and
evil that they could not resist, to adj
wise them in righteous ways to
them when they are weak,
to encourage them when they are faint,
that they may be strong in the Lord,
and become established truly in His
work. There Is no other organization
more perfect than the Organization
that the Lord has established In His
Church. May we understand 1t. May
we receive 1t in our hearts and live
up to it. is my prayer, In the name.of
Jesus. Amen 4,