and character, unknown to the heirs of ease, and wealth, and pleasure. With the English bard, therefore, I believe Sweet are the uses of adversity! And with the Scotch poet I would say that those events, usually regarded as misfortunes, Give the wit of age to youth; They let us ken oursel'; They make us see the naked truth, The real guid and ill. Thou losses and crosses Be lessons right severe, There's wit there, ye'll get there, Ye'll find nae other where What the mountain gorge, the beatling crags, and steep declivities are to the stream--enabling it to dash on in its course and by its very motion purify itself--so are what we usually denominate adverse circumstances to the life of man--they are the means of development and of purification only--the pathway of fiery trials is the one ordained of God for his favored sons. In proof of this I direct you to the lives of the saints and the prophets; but above all to the life of the Son of God himself! The life of the Prophet Joseph Smith is an illustration second only to that of Messiah. He was wont to say: "I have waded in tribulation lip-deep; but every wave of adversity which has struck me, has only wafted me that much nearer to Deity." "Envy and the wrath of man have been my common lot all the days of my life; and for what cause it seems mysterious, unless I was ordained from before the foundation of the world for some good end, or bad, as you may choose to call it. * * * It all has become as second nature to me, and I feel like Paul, to glory in tribulation, for to this day has the God of my fathers delivered me out of them all." The Lord, while the prophet was a prisoner in Liberty Jail, said to him: