'Tis true the Lord His Spirit does bestow, And through that medium streams of knowledge flow; But when the opportunities are given, Through the overruling providence of heaven, For cultivation, no one need expect That God, with smiles, will sanction our neglect. Would not your hearts with deep compassion yearn To think your child in stranger lands must learn, By force of cruel circumstances, what He should have been, at home, in kindness taught? And very soon your blooming daughters will Their destined spheres of wives and mothers, fill: The best, the noblest boon they can receive-- The richest fortune you have power to give-- The best of patrimonies under heaven, Is education, timely, wisely given. Not erudition's superficial gloss, Its glitt'ring tinsel and its flimsy dross. Instead of fabled, sentimental glare, Teach them what was, what will be, and what are: Teach them the principles of life and health, And store their minds with intellectual wealth; For what they treasure here, of real worth, They'll carry with them when they leave the earth. The power of method students gain in school, Forms a credential--constitutes a tool-- An operative instrument whereby Their own resources they can self-supply. Let Zion's children all be taught in youth, Upon the basis of Eternal Truth-- Self-cultivated too, as well as taught, Trained to reflection, and inured to thought; And here in time, and in eternity, The sons as pillars in the Church will be; The daughters, too, as "polished stones" will shine, And ornament their true ancestral line, And be prepared, in beauty clad, to move With grace and dignity in courts above. CHAPTER XXXIV. How Lorenzo spent the interval.--His next mission.--Difficulties to be overcome.--Lays out a city.--Description of the premises.--Builds a house.--President Young visits him.--Introduces a precedent.--Description of it.--Succeeded by railroads.--Gift of the Gospel.--The Patriarch's promise.--A sick man.--Faith in Lorenzo's administration.--A handkerchief is sent.--He blesses and dedicates it.--Is taken to the patient.--Placed upon him.--He recovers.--A letter.--In memoriam.--To Elder Porter Squires.--Expressions of gratitude.--Good wishes and blessings. The interval which succeeded Lorenzo's Italian mission was occupied in school teaching, and in domestic and legislative labors--occasionally accompanying President Young in his visits to the settlements and Stakes of Zion, preaching, administering to the sick, etc., and as a minute-man, officiating in the various duties of his calling.