Helpful Visions: The Fourteenth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Intended for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
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Helpful Visions: The Fourteenth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Intended for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
He said, then, "Do you know if these children are trained aright that
you have growing up in your mountain community a power which the world
has not seen since Adam stepped out of the Garden of Eden? I assure you
that it is so. These children have not the tradition of ages to combat,
but their minds are unhampered and pure, and you can mould them to the
fulfillment of a great purpose. I repeat it, you have growing up with
these children a power which the world has not seen since father Adam
stepped out of the Garden of Eden."
Mr. Campbell stopped a brief time in San Francisco; and had intended to
make a lengthy stay in order to be in Salt Lake on the occasion of the
grand celebration to be given there on Pioneer's Day. He succeeded in
reaching our beloved city in time, and he was an admiring witness of
the exercises in which thousands of the young Saints participated. Mr.
Campbell watched with sparkling eyes, and he drew a long breath as he
said to a companion: "My friend, the half of this people's greatness
has not been told."
* * * * *
I reached my home in July, of the year 1880. Only returning Elders can
understand my joy. By the favor of God I had been enabled to perform
my duty; and every blessing pronounced upon my head had been literally
fulfilled.
I would not to-day exchange the experience and the Helpful Visions of
my mission for the wealth of the world.
TRAITORS.
Solemn Warnings--A Traitor can Never be Anything but
Despicable--Examples of the Past.
By Ben E. Rich.
The traitor is the moral cannibal. He feasts on the mental worth, the
social reputation, the political welfare and the earthly life of his
trusting and betrayed friend. He is the human serpent, which nurses and
revives at the fire of charity, and then darts his strengthened venom
at the bosom of his benefactor. What the grub is to the heart of oak,
the gnawing rat to the ship's timbers, the flaw to the diamond, the
poisonous asp to the sheltering flower--all that, aye, and more, is
the traitor to mankind. No cause is so sacred, no being is so exalted
as to be free from the pollution of his betraying touch. Even the
celestial legions had their archtraitor. Earth, from the day of Eden,
has never been free from his treacherous kiss. Since the hour when man
first learned to owe allegiance to his fellow-man, profane, rebellious
betrayers have worked their insidious way, like devastating worms,
through all the pillars upholding holy men and noble causes.
The traitor is the worst of all thieves; for he steals sacred freedom
from his trusting associates. The traitor is the worst of all
murderers; for he plunges the assassin's knife into the back of his
believing friend.
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