was glo-Saxons, came to do obeisance to the Roman Pontiff. It the robust shoulders of the sons of the idolatrous North which finished the work of placing a pastor of the banks of the Tiber on the supreme throne of Christendom." Ruby Lamont. AN UNEXPECTED FRIEND. IT IS often remarked that this is an uncharitable and hard-hearted world, but occasionally there is an incident comes to light which shows that there is much of human kindness still in existence among mankind in all parts of the earth. Apostle Brigham Young narrates a very pleasing incident which occurred in his experience while he was upon his late mission in England. He had just arrived in London from a trip upon the continent and was standing by the ticket window of the Euston Street Railway Station purchasing tickets for himself and three companions for Liverpool. He was not in good health, and through fatigue as well as illness, was quite nervous, so that he forgot to examine his purse to see if he had sufficient means before attempting to make the purchase. The agent stamped the tickets and passed them to him, naming the amount necessary to be paid for the same, when to his great chagrin and astonishment Brother Young discovered that he lacked money with which to meet the obligation. He stood for a moment wondering what to do, when immediately behind him a gentleman quickly inquired: "How much do you need? What are you lacking?" Brother Brigham was so confused that he really did not know, and replied: "I do not know; ask the ticket agent." that seven The latter gentleman responded shillings were lacking, whereupon the gentleman, whom Brother Young had never seen before to his knowledge, and did not know whether he should ever see again, threw down the seven shillings, ld and thus enabled Brother Young to proceed on his way. Hastening along to the railway conveyance with his three companions, Brother Young got them comfortably located, when an Elder whom he had sent to exchange some French for some English money, but whose return he scarcely expected before the train left, came rushing into the station with the money, whereupon Brother Young sought out his benefactor and repaid the amount which had been provided. In talking with him concerning his kindness, the gentleman stated, in response to an inquiry why he had been so generous, that some years ago he found himself in a similar predicament, and some unknown gentleman gave him a sovereign with which to make up the amount to enable him to proceed on his journey and when he expressed his desire for the address of his unexpected friend that he might return to him as soon as possible the amount loaned, the gentleman declined to give him this information, and said, "You will doubtless see other people in similar circumstances, and when you do so, please remember this act, and repay it by extending kindness to those who are thus situated." The gentleman replied that on many occasions he had found opportunity of extending to others the kindness which had so unexpectedly and gratifyingly been shown to him. M. A. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. -Cato. A well-governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.-Seneca. THE CONTRIBUTOR PUBLISHED BY The Contributor Company. This promise, it was stated, applied not only to the Church as a whole, but to individuals, and is consequently one to which all of the Saints can cling with faith that it will NOVEMBER, 1893. be fulfilled, providing the people will merit, through their actions and their confidence, the promised results. A GRATIFYING PROMISE IT WAS a source of very great satisfaction to Latter-day Saints to have the promise made them which was given during the late October Conference, concerning their financial affairs. From various causes a very large number of the Latter-day Saints have become involved in debt, from which the recent money stringency seemed to make it impossible for them to escape. They have consequently looked into the future with great dread at the prospect of losing their credit, and thereby becoming in a measure disgraced. The people have felt to suffer almost any hardship rather than to lose their honor in financial matters. As one prominent and influential brother engaged largely in financial affairs recently expressed it: "I have prayed that the Lord will en able me to meet all my obligations, and promised if He would do so that I would willingly make any personal sacrifice which He might require of me." This has been the feeling of the majority of the Latter-day Saints, and the result has been that those who were largely involved, have endured mental anxiety for which no amount of money would compensate, during the past few months; hence, the great gratification which all such persons experienced in the prophecy which was uttered and which the Spirit of the Lord confirmed, that if the Saints would keep up their courage and faith in the Lord and use due diligence, they would be assisted out of their present financial difficulties without any loss of credit. They would also be in a better financial situation than they ever had been. When the people once escape from their present bondage, the lesson they have learned will doubtless be so deeply impressed upon them as to prevent their ever placing themselves in a similar position. They will be more ready to sacrifice personal desires for the sake of avoiding debt than they have ever done, and the result will be greater economy in households as well as in communities. Another result which we may expect will be that home industries in our midst will be instituted and sustained with more carefulness than has been the case heretofore, and we may hope that such an impetus will be given to home industries that it will be possible for them to prosper in our midst as they never have done before. Indeed we can hope for permanent prosperity, and a very great increase in wealth in our community. We should soon have factories in which nearly every article we need for home consumption are produced. It is an axiom patent to all, that so long as a community imports from abroad more than it produces, it will be continually inviting poverty, and must sooner or later become bankrupt. This is just as evident as the truth that a man who continually expends more than he earns will become poorer every day of his life. We have in Utah Territory all the elements necessary to make of us a very wealthy people. The land is fertile and abundant at the present time for the needs of a far more numerous people than those who now occupy this Territory, as well as the adjoining States and Territories where the Latter-day Saints are lo cated. We have minerals in abundance and of almost endless variety. We have skilled workmen in our midst acquainted with almost every branch of industry, and the materials are here for their employment. We have streams flowing from our mountains, the enormous power of which might be utilized for the turning of the wheels of industry, but these forces are as yet unemployed. It only needs the determination of the people to succeed in manufactures to make of the Saints the thriftiest people in the United States, if not in the world, for God has so abundantly supplied them with the facilities for acquiring wealth, that they have no one but themselves to blame if they fail in this respect. in We urge every reader of the CONTRIBUTOR to use home manufactured products, wherever and whenever any article is needed which is produced at home, and then each individual should use his influence to extend this desire among his acquaintances and friends, so that we may be indeed a people sustaining each other every respect. By pursuing such a course it will not be long before the prediction made in our late conference will be verified with regard to the people, and in the prosperity which our beautiful country will see each member of the Church will The Lord will thus bring His people out of their bondage, and make of them, as He has promised they should some day be, lenders and not borrowers. share. DECEIVING SPIRITS. ONE of the dangers against which the scriptures warn the people of God, is that of being deceived by the evil spirits which are are to be permitted to visit the earth. We are told that Satan sometimes appears even as an angel of light, and thus practices deception upon those who know not how to detect his true character. The adversary has various devices by which to mislead the in habitants of the earth, and in order to escape his wiles it is necessary for every person to be on his guard, otherwise, when least expected, each person is likely to fall into error and lose the Spirit of the Lord. In fact there are none but what are subject to evil, but to those who are truly desirous of working righteousness, the spirit of discernment will be given, by which they may discover their weaknesses, as also the spirits which exist around them, and be better prepared to resist them in the future. One of the evils against which we are warned of late is that of yielding to the sometimes fascinating false doctrines which are now so largely advocated in the world. These ideas are sometimes presented under the guise of religion, and are alleged to be revelations from the Lord. By this means some unwary persons, even members of this Church, are misled and go into darkness. Every person has the privilege of knowing for himself or herself concerning every matter of doctrine that may be advanced. The Spirit of the Lord, which each Latter-day Saint should possess, is fully capable of imparting information upon every matter of this character. which has been adopted by President Joseph F. Smith, as expressed frequently by him, is one which all can profitably adopt. He says: "Whenever any new doctrine or idea is presented to me, I carefully examine it and measure it by the revelations of God, which He has given for the guidance of His Church, and if these doctrines or ideas do not agree with the word of the Lord, I immediately reject them, knowing that they come The rule from beneath and not from above.” This is a safe guide for every Latterday Saint. Isaiah also says: To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." As the end approaches we may expect increased exertion on the part of the evil one to lead into darkness the children of men, and he will send into the world such marvelous deceptions, that only those who stand in close communion with God will be able to discern the destructive plans and devices which he will present. Consequently how necessary it is that we remain in the knowledge of God and in the favor of His Holy Spirit, that whenever doubts arise in our minds we may be able to appeal for decision to that great Source of wisdom which never fails, and from which Source no wrong counsel never issues. MAN AS HE IS. MANY attempts have been made and many more will be, to give a satisfactory answer to this problem of all problems relating to the life of man, the development of his natural, moral and spiritual capacities, and the laws by which they may be developed. I may not offer anything new in this feeble attempt to express cherished views, but I may be led to express them in a manner and in such relation to each other as shall have a tendency to awaken investigation in other minds; which, if expressed, will have a tendency to aid and properly direct the rising generation in their researches after man's true relation to both God and nature. Some writers claim there is vital importance attached to the distinction between the two; the one producing what St. Paul termed the carnal mind, according to the flesh; the other the spiritual mind, according to the spirit. Man evidently has a three-fold nature-three distinct classes of capacities, susceptibilities or powers. The first in point of time in their development are those which come in contact with the outward, material world, and may be termed his sensational nature, and includes all those powers which are brought into exercise, and are developed by sensation. This sensational nature man has in common with all animals. A nature adapted to the action of matter upon it, and by means of which he is enabled to become conscious of an Much of external world of matter. intellectual philosophy is founded upon this fact. Man also possesses a moral or spiritual nature, with moral or spiritual susceptibilities, capacities or powers, which must also be developed before his moral or spiritual life can begin. He is not conscious of the existence of these powers as early as he is of the possession of his sensational nature or powers. This shows that the spiritual life is not begun or developed as early as the animal life; hence must follow that the spiritual or moral nature is not developed through sensation, by coming in contact with the material world, but must be by other means. is This part of man's nature is adapted for the reception of law, of truth, of ideas of duty. Man's moral powers are affected only by the presentation of moral truth-by the conception in the mind of a law by which man ought to act. Moral consciousness is not developed until an age reached when a child can form or receive moral laws which he regards as obligatory, as rules of action. He must have the idea that some things ought to be done by him, and that other things ought not to be done, before moral consciousness is developed, or the power of duty felt-the pangs of a wounded or the joys an approving conscience, emotions of moral approbation and of disapprobation, and these must be communicated from some other source than sensation. of Two things are here involved; of perception and sensations, but a first, the reception in the mind of science of morality must be conthe ideas of rectitude, of the law of structed out of ideas. To construct right and wrong, of duty and obli- a science of morality the intellect gation; and secondly, the effect which must have the facts on which our these ideas exert upon these moral moral ideas rest, and these are very powers of humanity. These ideas different from those obtained by the may be formed by one's own mind, understanding, that faculty which or be received from other minds judges according to sense. which have formed them. If the mind receiving these ideas adopt them as true, as obligatory, they become true to that mind, and will exert all the influence on the moral powers that absolute verity is designed to exert. Man's moral or spiritual nature can be developed only in this way by the communication of moral truths or ideas to the mind. As innate ideas are no longer recognized, all ideas in the mind must originate outside of the mind, either by means of sensation, or in some other way. As the doctrine of transformed sensations is not now recognized, they must be received by the infant mind from another mind which has already formed them. And if so, then man's moral powers are developed in a mode entirely different from that by which his sensational nature is developed; and the law which prevails in the one cannot possibly govern the other. All animals have the power to study their sensations so as to attain to a perception; they recognize an external world. Man is endowed with this faculty in a much higher degree; he can construct sciences of matter from the facts of the understanding, far beyond the mere animal in its study for that only which is necessary for the preservation of its animal life. The third class of powers is that of knowledge. Man is not only capable of having his natural and spiritual powers developed, brought into action, but he is also capable of studying and comprehending these powers, and the mode of their development. When the mind studies a sensation, there arises an act of perception. The man not only feels -he knows. Knowledge thus acquired enables us to study and verify ideas; these moral judgments, these laws of right and wrong, and their influence in developing our moral or spiritual powers, and out of this knowledge the mind constructs a science of mind A science of matter and motion may be constructed out and morals. Man studies these facts of the understanding, in the light of the facts. of reason, and by it attains to a more exalted idea of the power, and wisdom, and goodness of that GREAT FACT-without which a morality is impossible the existence and character of God. Some inferences may be suggested as following these views. They show the vital importance of the distinction stated by St. Paul between the carnal mind, or the mind according to the flesh; and the spiritual mind, or the mind according to the spirit. There is a wide, impassable difference between the two, and they are governed by very different laws. There seems to be a carnal and a spiritual perception requiring the exercise of a distinct set of capacities. Paul explained spiritual things to spiritual men, because the natural man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit. "For they who live after the flesh mind fleshly things; but they who live after the spirit mind spiritual things. The fleshly mind is death, but the spiritual mind is life and peace." These and numerous other passages indicate a wide difference between the sensational and spiritual nature of man. There is a natural and a spiritual perception. The understanding and the reason |