Don't fret, for fretting, instead of relieving from trouble. will lay on you heavier burdens. Cato said, "I would much rather that posterity should inquire why no statues were erected to me, than why they were." We may as well expect that God should make us rich without the least diligence or application, as make us good without the concurrence of our own endeavors. If those who are the enemies of innocent amusement had the direction of the world, they would take away Spring and youth-the former from the year, and the latter from human life. BREWER.-At Leytonstone, Essex, May 25, Henry Brewer, aged 65 years.-Utah papers please copy. THOMAS.-At Burleigh Farm, Gloucestershire, July 8. 1872, of small-pox, Margaret Thomas, aged 63 years. She was born June 30, 1809, in the parish of Bougton, county of Worcester, and became identified with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the year 1840. that of a Saint being devoted to good works.-Utah papers please copy. Her life has been EDITED, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY ALBERT CARRINGTON, 42, ISLINGTON. LONDON: FOR SALE AT THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS' BOOK DEPOT, 20, BISHOP'S GROVE, ISLINGTON, AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS MILLENNIAL STAR, "Holiness unto the Lord." No. 30, Vol. XXXIV. Tuesday, July 23, 1872. OBSERVE THE SABBATH DAY. Price One Penny. REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE NEW (Reported by David W. Evans.) this for our own temporal good and He has lost the spirit of his religion, more or less. Six days are enough for us to work, and if we wish to play, play within the six days; if we wish to go on excursions, take one of those six days, but on the seventh day come to the place of worship, attend to the Sacrament, confess your faults one to another and to our God, and pay attention to the ordinances of the house of God. I have a request to make of the Bishops and Elders, of fathers and mothers, and of the brethren and sisters in general. There are a few points upon which I feel that I should like the people to receive a little counsel. One is, I would be very much pleased, and I do not think I would be any more satisfied than the Spirit of the Lord would, to have the Latterday Saints pay a little more attention to the Sabbath day, instead of riding about, visiting, and going on excursions. There has been a great deal said upon this subject. We are continually teaching the people how to be saved, but they seem to forget the responsibilities that are upon them. How many ears will hear this, and I am as liberal in my feelings with regard to using the Sabbath for any- how many hearts will receive it and thing and everything where duty de- treasure it up? That is the question. mands it, as any person living, and Words go into the ear and are forbelieve that the Sabbath was made for gotten; but I say to you, Latter-day man, instead of man for the Sabbath. Saints, it is your duty and my duty to The Lord has pay attention to the Sabbath day. But it is a day of rest. directed his people to rest one-seventh When my brethren, my friends, and part of the time, and we take the first my family have business on hand and day of the week and call it our Sab- manage to start it on a Sunday mornbath. This is according to the ordering, I head them off, if I possibly can, of the Christians. We should observe by throwing some obstacle or other in the way, or by persuasion get them to omit it on that day. As far as I can, I also persuade my own family to observe the hours of meeting. Not that I can say that my family is as fond of meeting as I am myself. I like to meet with the brethren, and I like to go to a place of worship; I like to hear and learn, and to pay attention to the ordinances of the house of God. I teach my family in these respects, and I do not know that I have any more fault to find with my own family than others have with theirs; perhaps there may be some credit due to them. But I say to the brethren and sisters, in the name of the Lord, it is our duty, and it is required of us by our Father in heaven, by the spirit of our religion, by our covenants with God and each other, that we observe the ordinances of the house of God, and especially on the Sabbath day, to attend to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Then attend the Ward meetings and the Quorum meetings. Another thing-I do wish that parents would urge upon their children to cease playing in the streets as much as they do. There are sufficient places of resort in various parts of the city without the boys being compelled to play in the middle of the streets. Every time I travel through the streets I see children playing in them. And will they turn out of the way for a carriage? No, they will not, and some of them will sometimes even dare you to drive over them; and sometimes people have to stop their carriages to save the lives of children. We have been more fortunate, here, I presume than in any other city in Christendom where they drive as many carriages as we drive in our city, in having so few accidents; but this I attribute to the kind hand of Providence. But we see children in the street, daring teamsters to run over them, and whether they are in a carriage, wagon, buggy, or cart it is no matter, they will not give the road for a horse team. I will say this to all Israel, to every man that carries himself discreetly as a gentleman, if one of my boys attempts to obstruct the highway, so that you cannot drive along and attend to your business, leave your carriage, take your whip and give him a good sound horse-whipping, and tell him you will do it every time you find him in the street trying to obstruct the highway. I will not complain of you, although I can say this, I think, of a truth, that a boy of mine never did this, never. I have no knowledge of it at least. Look upon a community like ours, see the conduct of the youth in this respect, it is a disgrace to civilization; it is a disgrace to any people that profess good morals. Well, I wish to say this to the Saints, keep your boys from the streets, and from playing ball there. There are plenty of grounds for them to play upon and use at their pleasure, without going into the streets; and when we are so numerous that we have no place of resort for our boys to pitch quoits and play ball, there is plenty of ground on the earth, and we will thin out a little here and go where we can have a little more room. But we have plenty here at present. Now, remember, my brethren, those who go skating, buggy riding, or on excursions on the Sabbath day-and there is a great deal of this practiced -are weak in the faith. Gradually, little by little, little by little, the spirit of their religion leaks out of their hearts and their affections, and by and by they begin to see faults in their brethren, faults in the doctrines of the Church, faults in the organization, and at last they leave the kingdom of God and go to destruction. I really wish you would remember this, and tell it to your neighbors. And furthermore, how many Latterday Saints, who live in this city, and are perfectly able to go to meeting, are away to-day? We have people enough in this city to fill this small building to overflowing every Sabbath, if they liked to hear the words of life. In the morning, it is true, there are many in the Sunday school, and that we recommend; but in the afterpart of the day, where are these school children? Are they playing in the streets, or are they visiting? In going to Sunday school they have done their duty so far; but they ought to be here. In their youth they ought to learn the principles and doctrines of their faith, the arguments for truth, and the advantages of truth, for we can say with one of old, "Bring up a child in the way it should go, and when it is old it will not depart from it." If we are capable of bringing up a child in the way it should go, I will assure you that it will never depart from that way. Many persons think they do bring up their children in the way they should go, but in my lifetime I have seen very few, if any, parents, perfectly capable of bringing up a child in the way it should go; still most of us know better than we do, and if we will bring up our children according to the best of our knowledge, very few of them will ever forsake the truth. Now, I beseech you, my brethren and sisters, old and young, parents and children, all of you, try and observe good, wholesome rules! Be moral, be upright, be honest in your deal. I do not wish to find fault with the Latter-day Saints, but I assure you, my brethren and sisters, we take too much liberty with each other; we do not observe the strict order of right and honesty in many instances, as much as we should, and we have got to improve in these things. We have been hearing, to-day, how the king- A RETURN TO FIRST PRINCIPLES. The late decision of the Supreme | gious or political. Peace, commerce Court of the United States in the Utah and honest friendship with all nations case, which was promulgated so near-entangling alliances with none. The the anniversary of the birthday of the father of free government, was one of the most significant events of these times. When that court, raising its potential voice above the clangor of political faction and embittered partizan strife, influenced by religious hatreds, declared that self-government is the corner stone of freedom in the Territories, as well as in the States, of the American Union, it was but the echo of that of the immortal founder of democratic government on this continent, whose Inaugural Message in 1802 contained the creed by which alone true liberty can be maintained and perpetrated under it. Thomas Jefferson then proclaimed it in these words "Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, reli | support of the State governments in all their rights as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad ;—a jealous care of the rights of electors by the people-a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority- the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force-the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well disciplined militia-our best reliance in peace, and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority economy in the public expence, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts an i sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture and of commerce as its handmaid; the difusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of ruble reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protectia of the kaleas coqu and trial by jaries impartially selected" Central to the safety of the superstructure in this political anch is the principle of self-government, which rests in "the support of the State gemmes in all their rights as the screst bolwarks against anti-repotovan tendencies" It is this principle that is the sole and sure defence of all the rest, and it is this principle-the great principle of P pilar Sovereigntywhich the Supreme Court of the United States has proclaimed in the Utah case, which is the fundamental law of freedom to all men who live under the American charters-to Mormon, Jew, and Gearle alike. That decision means a return to frst principles, and cannot fail to impart a powerful inperas to the natical uprising which demands resistance to atrary encroachment upon the rights of the States, and ise resiccati a of the acany to the peactie, sway of consumatra Mazu and guarantees. |