Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-22

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sometimes not live exactly in accord
| ance herewith, 1t would be unjust to
| hold him entirely blamefu Man may
| exhibit Weaknesses. and still have love
| in his heart for the Almighty and His
| commandments.
| As to the other part of the COM
mandment, Thou shalt love they
| neighbor as myself 1t may be COM
| paratively easy to love the noblest and
| best of the race, but what of the
| average man? The way TO love ones
| neighbor ia to learn TO know him bet
| ter IT will be possible to learn to
| love a person by becoming better ac-
| quainted with him. While an indi-
| yidual is of but little consequence
| among earth's teeming millions, yet
| he is precious in the eyes of the Al
| mighty. The lowest and humblest
| soul is regarded by the Father, and
| Christ died for such as much as for
| the great and the mighty; He suffered
| for the lowest as well as the highest.
| There is something in every individual
| that is of the spark divine. There Is
! divinity in the humblest. While II fs
| possible that God will not be deferred
| in His mighty purposes, If perchance
| an individual chooses the downward
| WAY, Elder Roberts said he liked to
| believe that the kind and merciful
| Father needed each and every one of
| His children. and desires their eternal
| happiness and we'll being. The work
| of salvation is not limited to the al
| lotted age of man, neither to any peri
| cd known to mortas Throughout
! ages to come. good men, angels and
| even God himself will reach out help
| Ing hands to lift the lowly and the
| transgressor to higher and a better
plane. In conclusion, Elder Roberts
said:
Fathers and especially mothers,
| You whose hearts are in anguish and
| sorrow because of waywardness of
| son and daughter of yours, because OF
| failure after failure, until every hope
| seems to have been disappointed, be
| of good cheer, the end is not yet. That
| son. that daughter, Is Gods son and
/ daughter az well as yours, and though
| they may wander beyond the pale of
Your influence, where neither hand nor
| heart can touch them. nor word infiu-
tnce them. vet You shall find that God
| has not deserted his world, but He is
| still in IL, reconciling the world unto
| Himself and He somewhere and
| some time will find son and daughter
| of yours, and the wounds shall be
| healed and the union, now broken,
| shall be mended and your sons and
| your daughters shall yet be saved in
| some of the departments of Gods great
| kingdom. Their feet shall be planted
| in the ways of righteousness, for be
| 1t known unto you, though evil be an
| eternal thing yet is II a thing held in
| subsection and shall only he manifest
| to the extent that may be necessary
| to grant the agency of man, to give
| him the value of his experience until
| he shall learn as God has learned. TO
triumph over evil and live in right
| eousness and perfect happiness, des-
| pite the eternity of evil. In the ball
| ance of things. good shall win its VIC
| tory. Why? Right is right since
God is right and right at last must
| win, To doubt 1t We're disloyafty, to
falter would be sin.
| mol Hope on, you who are now
discouraged, and be assured that God
| and the gospel of Jesus Christ will
| prevail and you parents fathers and
mothers. who have attained unto de-
| grees Of righteousness and are proud
| of your achievements. proud of the
| reputation and also of the character,
doubtless, of your homes, proud of
your families from whom none have
| strayed--I pray you forbear and never
let It become thought of your heart
that If son or daughter should wander
from you and in certain contingencies
| you would bar them out OF your af-
fections and close the door of your
home to them: | pray you never give
place to such thought as that because
such Is the distribution of parentage
| of good or Indifferent spirits, that
sooner or later n sorrow comes TO ev-
| cry household, and shadow sits by
| every hearthstone, and II seems to me
that those who have been so far bless
ed that none as yet have wandered
from the fold, need to sit and dread
the fear lest one should go, and If one,
tanfn ,Rs n 10 d..n IA,
me that the one place TO which 1t will
be possible for them TO return flrst
the arms that should be first opened
wide TO receive them, the heart that
should first melt at the sign Of their
return from error unto truth. should
be In the household. should be In the
father and the mother from whose
loins they come and part Of whom
they are
moi Keep the lamp OF hope brightly
burning in your windows, that when
the hayward shall begin 10 look about
him for some place of safety and es-
cape from his distress he remembers
the house OF his father and Will return
TO that house to receive welcome and
help I'm his battle and struggle towards
God.
Such, believe. should be the spirit
OF parents OF this world, and you. II
any such be present, who have met
with your discouragements In the
struggle for Righteousness ana favor
with God. you who have felt two ma
lures striving In you, who, when you
would do good, find evil present ana
day after day you have failed and
have not reached the high levels
whence the word OF God points Your
duty, let me say unto YOU, the struggle
Ia not hopeless, the forces that are
for you are greater than tho forces
that are against you--inherited ten
denotes, temptations that strew your
pathway, yon, with Gods help, cal
be stronger than all these. and you
can win the battle"
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