Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-25

selves before me, the veil shall be rent
and YOU shall see me, and know that
am. Doctrine and Covenants OF the
| Church.
Cheerfulness and encouragement u
| those who FOR any reason are despond-
| eut Us another cardinal principle I'm
| Mormonlsm. Church members without
/ work TO earn living are furnished
a situation in accordance with their
! abilities. When starting out from
! Council Bluns upon their long Journey
20 Salt Lake. they composed the fol-
/ lowing hymn and sang II at their Gang
! fires at night;
Come. come ye Saints, no toll nor
labor fear.
But with Joy wend your way.
Tho hard to you this journey may
appear.
Grace shall be az your day.
It's better far for us To strive our
useless cares from us TO drive.
Do this and Joy your hearts shall
swell--All Is well-all is we'll"
It was this spirit which enabled them
10 conquer the wilderness and to make
the desert to blossom as Il rose"
UTAH's ADVANTAGE.
In the Church are people from near
~ every part OF the world from every
kindred. every tongue on this terres-
trial ball" Everywhere the poor. the
very poor. have had the gospel preach
ed to them and thousands OF the poor
est people OF Great Britain and the
continent OF Europe have been brought
TO this land OF opportunity at the ex-
pense OF their brethren and sisters
where they soon owned homes OF their
own, where they raised intelligent and
educated families. In Utah the schools
are OF the best. In all grades up 10
the high school. books are furnished
free, also In Salt Lake and other cities
OF the state. a matron II employed
and a kltchen furnished where for
pittance, a nickel or a dime, good meat
soups, meat pies, and other nourishins,
warm food Is served 20 the scholars.
Utah IL the second state in the Union
for literacy. Wisconsin 10 the seven
teenth and yet they cry out the "ignor-
ant Mormons" Among them are found
some OF the best musicians. the sweet
est singers, the ablest orators and de-
baters. for there are graduates among
them from every college In our land
and from a number OF the universities
OF Great Britain and Europe. Many OF
them are children OF the early pioneers
who labored and toiled and shaved and
denied themselves all things. that their
children might advance in knowledge
OF all the arts and sciences learned In
the best schools and from the most
learned masters.
Temperance Is another cardinal viz
tue OF the Mormons. William Il. Cur
It's, the Justly celebrated and learned
correspondent writing In the Chicago
Record Herald, last fall said that
while Utah was inhabited and con-
trolled by Mormons that not one
saloon. gambling house or house of
il fame existed there and at this day
that not one single Mormon Is engag-
ed In those nefarious occupations. The
Mormons are temperate in other things
but few OF them drinking tea or coffee
and they are sparing in the use of
meat They are good neighhors, hos
pitable 10 strangers, though they
have been often slandered, lied about,
yilihed, and abused 10y those TO whom
they were kind. They are human as
we are, but they show a better spirit
toward their defamers than some
others do.
The Mormon belief about deity Ii
that our heavenly Father IL person
having a body in form like human
form. That the Father and his eldest
Son Christ are tabernacled in bodies
of flesh and bone. immortal bodies.
THAT the Holy Ghost is person OF
spirit not dwelling I'm body OF flesh
and bone but in a spiritual body that
Is omnipresent. that God has messen-
gers. angels We call them, who do his
bidding, and his work. That our
spirits are born in heaven before they
heavenly Mother as we'll as a heavenly
Father. otherwise that the male and
female principle exists throughout the
whole universe. In the heavens are
parents single? No! the thought makes
reason stare. Truth Is reason, Truth
eternal tells me I've a mother there"
are the words NJ a Mormon hymn.
WOMEN IN UTAH.
The rights Of women-their poliu-
cal as well as social. moral and legal
rights. have always received fun re-
cognition from Mormon men. In the
constitution OF the state of Deseret
submitted 10 Congress and rejected
by the Congress. women had every
political right given TO males. In the
territorial government, women had
the same right OF suffrage that men
had until Congress abrogated by law
their rights, claiming that women
more than men upheld polygamy.
when the state Of Utah came into tho
Union. Il gave to women every polit-
ical right given to man. She can be
governor or United states senator
there, ~ Congress will admit woman.
Womans work in Mormonism is
largely in teaching and training the
children. Teachers in Sunday schools
and in higher Church schools are
largely of the female sex From
woman's mind the little tots imbibe
their earliest conception OF right and
wrong They are taught on the kim
dergarten system or object lesson way
Of teaching, by trained women teach
ers as thoroughly as the little one OF
the same age are taught in the pub
lie schools OF Wisconsin. taught sweet
little ways Of manners and politeness
taught to speak kindly to one another.
20 keep hands and faces clean from
babyhood. They are taught loyalty to
their country and love for its flag. No
Mormon meeting II too holy TO admit
the flag within It's walls. You will see
the flag on all their walls. Every
Mormon Westinghouse has attached
to Il a social hall for the amuse-
ment and learning OF the people,
young and old. Here dances are held,
never In excess, Diminishing at an early
hour, and even dancing meetings are
opened and closed with prayer
Dramas are enacted and theatricals.
debates and orations. Societies called
Young Mems and Young Wom-
ems Mutual Improvement associa-
tions instruct those OF both
sexes. They believe in improv-
ing the mind. 4 Mormon saying
is The glory Of God Is intelligence"
and the more Intelligent we become
the nearer we are 10 God mo man
can be saved IN ignorance" "a another
Mormon axiom. Mormons believe that
pure religion and undehled before
God and tho Father Is this, 20 visit
the fatherlcss and widows in their af-
Fiction, and 90 keep himself unspot-
ted from the world" Mormonism II 10
do good to all mon even enemies 10