by which this moral revolution is to be effected. The only way in which it can effectually and permanently come is through obedience to the will of heaven, as it is revealed and taught in the Gospel of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Moral philosophy appeals to our higher instincts, and tells us to subdue our abnormal and unrighteous propensities, and bring them into line with a higher and better state of ethics, as if the moral complexion could be changed by a mere, simple effort of the will, to suit the whole purpose of complete retrenchment and perfect felicity, but it has overlooked the all-important truth that the human mind and heart can only be regenerated and purified by a much higher order of things than human wisdom can conceive or establish.

To reach the happy goal that magnanimous ones propose to give us, God must come to the rescue, and tell us how it can be accomplished. With the means of revelation from heaven at our command, and an inspired priesthood to give us counsel, the intricate problems that have perplexed the moral, social, and religious world so long and so sadly are easily solved. There is no doubt or uncertainty when God speaks, for His wisdom comprehendeth all things. So, while it is just and proper to accord to all men due respect and thanks for their worthy and heroic endeavors to elevate and bless their fellows, we must not forget that God is the fountain of all life, light and happiness, and that it is to Him we are indebted for all the blessings that are bestowed upon us. Man's failure to yield this homage due the Eternal Father has been the world's great bane and misfortune, since the beginning of time, and it seems strange that such should be the case, since the history of all past time demonstrates the fact, that man, to be secure and happy, must build his hopes upon a firm religious foundation. That morality is the world's stay and safeguard is patent to all, but how can we possess it in its highest and purest form, without the restraining, modifying influence of true religion, that teaches reward for virtue and punishment for crime? To talk about a perfect system of ethics and leave God, religion and revelation out of the question, is an insult to Deity, and a reproach upon every sense and attribute of our being. But it is refreshing and encouraging to know that in the midst of doubt and uncertainty, so prevalent and bewildering, God has established His work, and is working grandly and wondrously to bring about a higher and better state of things than the world has ever before witnessed. He is using man to help bring about His holy and benign purposes, and while man will be blessed for using his agency in the service of his Maker, all honor and glory must be humbly rendered to Him who has made our existence, our hope and our happiness, here and hereafter possible.Juvenile Instructor.

UTAH NEWS.

(Summarized from Territorial papers.)

Coal has been discovered about five miles from Richfield, Sevier County.

Hon. B. H. Roberts has been appointed one of the trustees of the Utah Agricultural College.

While attempting to ford Grand River on March 2, John Schramm, of Payson, was drowned.

Mr. J. H. Bennett for many years General Passenger Agent of the Rio Grande Railway has resigned his position.

March 1, St. David's day, was enthusiastically celebrated at Spanish Fork by Welshmen from all over the Territory.

Alma Barton, Probate Judge of Beaver County, died on February 26. He was appointed to office by President Cleveland in 1893.

A session of the Second District Court was held at Parowan in the fore part of March. This is the first that has been held in that city since 1854.

An effort is being made to find out how many of the Saints who endured the Jackson County persecutions are still living. Quite a number have already reported.

Services in memory of Elder John A. Clark, who died in Turkey on February 8, were held in Farmington on March 10 under the direction of the ward authorities.

The librarian of the widely-known University of Michigan has ordered one of Dr. K. G. Maeser's educational books, thus attesting the high reputation of the respected Utah Educator.

The question of building the Salt Lake and Los Angeles Railway is again being discussed and agitated, many people in both cities feeling confident that it will be done, or at least commenced, before long.

Death seems lately to have been reaping a plenteous harvest among well known residents of Utah. Richard Bird, of Springville, Joseph Christensen, of Mayfield, and Joseph Clark, of Provo, are some who have passed away.

A gold excitement has been aroused in Draper by the discovery near that place of ore bearing the precious metal. It is not yet known whether either the quantity or the quality of the ore will justify extensive development of the several mines located.

Richard W. Young has been appointed by Governor West to the office of Brigadier General in the Utah Militia. Mr. Young is a graduate of the West Point Military Academy and has previously been commissioned Lieutenant in the United States Army. The eclipse of the moon on March 10, was a splendid sight in Salt Lake City and other places. It afforded one of the best opportunities in the history of the Territory for studying the phenomenon, as the sky was clear nearly all the time it lasted-over an hour and a half.

The Deseret Woolen Mills and the Provo Woolen Mills have consolidated into one company under the latter name. They will both henceforth be run under one board of directors, and it is thought that better and cheaper work can be done, as the mills will not have to duplicate each others patterns.

Utah art has received recognition through a picture exhibited at the Iowa Society of Fine Arts in Des Moines. Edward Evans, of Lehi, forwarded one of his paintings called The Harvest, which was classed among the best of the collection. It will be reproduced in the Midland Monthly, a magazine published in Iowa.

Archibald Hahn, aged 23, whose father is filling a mission in Germany, died at his home in West Jordan about March 1. In his father's absence he was the head of the family, and his death will therefore be felt all the more keenly. The great respect in which he was held was shown by the large attendance at the funeral.

A fine monument, of granite like that of which the Salt Lake Temple is built, has been erected at the grave of the late President John Taylor. It is said to be one of the most imposing in the Salt Lake City cemetery, the entire weight being about fifteen tons. It required about five months to complete it, during which time four to six men were almost constantly engaged in the labor. The cost has been borne by the members of President Taylor's family.

Dr. James E. Talmage, president of the University of Utah, has been on a trip to some of the eastern states, and while there he had the privilege of lecturing at the University of Michigan and at Cornell University, both leading educational institutions of the United States. The subject was "Outlines of Utah History" and the papers speak in high praise of the manner in which the lecture was delivered both as to manner and material. While away Dr. Talmage attendend the meeting of the National Educational Association at Cleveland, Ohio, which held a three days' session. Dr. Millspaugh superintendent of the Salt Lake City schools was also at the latter meeting.

The constitutional convention met in Salt Lake City on March 4, at noon. A tempor. ary organization was effected, and an adjournment taken until the 5th. On the 6th the following permanent officers were elected: John Henry Smith, of Salt Lake City, presi dent; Parley P. Christensen, of Tooele County, secretary; Charles S. Rapp, of Weber County, assistant secretary; R. Clawson, of San Pete County, sergeant-at-arms; Bruce Johnson, of Salt Lake County, watchman; T. S. Watson, of Wasatch County, messenger; Joseph A. Smith, of Cache County, enrolling clerk; J. H. Thorne and L. C. Camp, of Salt Lake City, pages. Twenty-six committees have been appointed, and all these are busy gathering materials for commencing active work in constructing the state charter.

MARKS.- Hannah Stevens Marks who died in Salt Lake City, Utah, on February 23, 1895, was born in Landvair, Monmouthshire, England, February 29, 1812. She was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1851, and emigrated in 1866. Many of the Elders found a home with her and her husband while they were in England. She leaves six children, forty-four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren behind her. She lived and died in full faith of the Gospel, and in the hope of a glorious resurrection.

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DR. NELSON, in his work on infidelity, makes use of the following:
"Infidels are made from two causes; the first or primary cause is the
depravity of our natures; the second is our lack of knowledge." Now,
at first glance it seems astounding to say that such men as Voltaire, David
Hume, Thomas Paine, Colonel Ingersoll, and others were infidels from
want of knowledge. Bear in mind, however, those two causes. In the
first place, the primary cause-original depravity-gives us a tendency to
lean towards the side of falsehood and wickedness, and to discriminate
against the revelations of God in favor of things of a carnal nature. And
this first cause leads to the second, because if we are inclined to falsehood,
if we desire that which is unrighteous, unholy, or impure, we are not
likely to seek after the things of God with a view to find them true, but
rather to find flaws in them. In this connection I remember what Thomas
Carlyle said about Voltaire. He said Voltaire was disqualified from being
a testator on this subject because he was in no sense religious although he
criticised religion so strenuously and earnestly without, he says, possessing
any knowledge of Christianity beyond the most superficial. Take the case
of the great infidel, David Hume, the leader of the infidels in his day in
England, and well known as an essayist and historian. Dr. Johnson once
said in a company of literary gentlemen: "No honest man can be an
unbeliever in the Bible after giving it a proper investigation." "Excuse
me, sir," said one, "I think you will make an exception in the case of
David Hume." "No, sir," said the Doctor, "Mr. Hume once admitted to
a clergyman in the Bishopric of Durham that he had never read even the
New Testament with attention." What does Thomas Paine, the great

anti-christian, say? "I keep no Bible." Yet how bitterly he railed against it! He was one of a class that took a certain ground. He became a specialist on that ground, and in that order of reasoning, and he rehashed the doctrines of negatists that had gone before him, and with that stockin-trade he went before the world. Halley, the astronomer, happened to say in the presence of the great Sir Isaac Newton that he was an unbeliever in Christianity. Sir Isaac turned to him in his calm, dignified manner, and said: "Sir, I have studied those subjects, and you never have. Do not disgrace yourself as a philosopher by pretending to pass an opinion upon a subject with which you are not acquainted." What is the secret of all this? Was not Halley a learned man? Yes, and a man of great ability. Was not David Hume a learned man? Yes. Was not Thomas Paine a man of great ability? Yes. What was the trouble then? The trouble was defined by the Earl of Rochester. He had been an infidel, but was converted to a belief in the Bible. He says, "The bad heart, the bad heart, is the father of infidel thought." The fool hath said in his heart (not in his head) "there is no God!" It is like the case of a woman who looked into a mirror, and seeing wrinkles upon her face, she was so disgusted that she smashed the mirror, because it showed the truth. So with many men; they do not like that system which shows up the wrinkles and defects of their character, and they try to break it and disqualify it from having any influence against them.

I maintain, then, that one of the principal reasons why the children of men are so careless about this message that has been delivered to them by the Latter-day Saints is simply that they do not incline towards righteousness. Peradventure too, some have heard of or read the history of the Latter-day Saints, of their persecutions, of their sufferings in Missouri and Illinois, of the martyrdom of their leaders, of the disinterested and self-sacrificing labors performed by those who have been at the head of our affairs, and of our people generally; and they realize that it has been a history of hardships and struggles, trials and privations. And they do not want any of that, or as little as possible, in their lives; forgetting that with all these trials and sufferings, even though called to pass through the fiery furnace, that there is an abiding power of salvation in and around those individals who are called to endure them, that such are buoyed up and sustained by that Great Being who has called upon us to do His will and keep His commandments under all circumstances. I say they lose sight of that part of it, and this is no wonder. The Apostle explains it: "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." There is a scientific formula "That no force can act except where there are pre-established relations existing between that force and the things on which its energies are to work." It is precisely so with the religion of Jesus Christ. If a divine message comes from heaven to the children of men, it is foolishness to the children of men, unlessWhat? Unless there are pre-existing relations within the individual breast and the divine message. What are those pre-existing relations? Now, if any one here denies that man's first duty is to God, his Father and