A Glance at Life's Bright Side..........J. C...... 225 Alone Among the Shadows.. ..Smith......... 257 Lady Crocus and Lord Sunshine.. "I Wonder if Ever"......................... 369 Parowan Stake...... Pope's Encyclical, The..... ........ ...... 513 577 609 641 673 705 737 769 B. F. C., Jr. 17 Browning... 70 73 79 ............ 430 ......Colcord...... 440 Returned Missionary, Elder James H. Douglas.... 90 Statehood 406 407 407 Sincerely Grateful.. ...... Charles H. Grace..... 93 Sentenced, Bishop Sandford Bingham...... H. G. Parkes.... Homer Woolf.... John Morgan................. Alonzo J. Stookey J. G. Duffin...... Suicide, Mary Sayer.... 119 Stokes Murder Case, The...... 149 Salt Lake Stake Conference..... 173 Stout, Hosea, Demise of... 205 Sustains the Report... 268 Sharp, Hon. Johu, Interview with.. 307 South, Elders and Saints from the........ .Sheridan...... 357 Sculptor, The Utah.... 178 Suicide at Ogden (J. W. Boyle).... 342 349 210 Spoliation in Ogden......... .363, 369 210 Snowflake Stake Conference Samoa, A Brush With Germans at.. 556 Sunday Legislation..... 616 Sugar industry, The.................. 630 Stage Coach Journey, A......... 681 Stake Conferences... 683 Skeleton, A Human.... 713 Suicide, Attempted (Mrs. Sarah Muir).. 714 Sunday School Union.. 760 St. Johns Stake Conference.. 782 Syria, Letter from....... 787 Sandwich Islands.... .791, 820 795 ........J. M. S....... 804 787 Should be Recognized... Richards, Elder A. P., Murdered....................796, 805 Regretable Excess.... 812 Receiver, The, and Deseret Telegraph Stock........ 819 820 Scoundrelly Cashier, A... Pratt....... 12 Same Old Growl, The...... 406 598 St. George Stake Conference... 465 473 DESERET WEEKLY NO. 1. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1888. THOUGHT'S MARTYRDOM. What is it to be gifted? Sons Ye whose brows are crowned with laurel, Of fancy's eagle, upward soaring Answer: is it not to suffer Pangs to lesser souls unknown; Censure's breath, or sorrow's dart; On life's dark and craggy coast, dom to receive or reject is allowed VOL. XXXVIII. from themselves. They have a voice in all its affairs. The presiding officers, general and local, are voted into their respective positions by the members, each having an equal vote, whether male or female. It is in the power of the people to receive or reject any nomination that may be made. That is pure democracy. In the same manner they can accept or repudiate any doctrine, or measure, or plan that may be presented to them. Can anything be more democratic than this? The unanimity with which propositions are usually received, and officers are commonly sustained by popular vote in the Church, gives Man is left free as to his actions. occasion for the objection of opponHis course is a question of under-ents that the assent of the members standing and desire. If he wishes is a mere matter of form. But this to know what is right and to do it, is an error. That assent is a reality. there remains no difficulty. Access It is the result of a union of belief to divine light is open and free, and and purpose. It may be to some exthe power to do good or evil is in- tent the result of dislike to anything herent in the creature. In the discordant. But the members who Church, union of understanding think, know that in voting upon any may be reached by the members measure or man they are exercising through possession of one spirit. a sacred right, an important prerogUnity of effort is then easy to those ative, and that their sanction is esIDEAS OF GOVERNMENT. who are rightly disposed. If they sential to make the matter valid and perfect before the heavens. Thine to nobly do and die; Martyrs elect to man's promotion, God's great name to glorify. O. F. WHITNEY. IT HAS been repeatedly shown in these columns, as well as on the public stand, that the "Mormon" Church contains the theocratic and democratic elements in its system of government. They are nicely balanced and in perfect harmony, in that form presented by divine revelation to the Saints. God speaks, the people say "Amen," and thus Deity and humanity agree, authority and liberty unite, the voice of God and the voice of the people are one, and the result is joy and peace and power. agree that a measure is from God, Whenever hands are raised for or against anything presented to the body of the Church, without reflection and the full action of the mind and understanding, the divine plan falls short of accomplishment. Everything is to be done "by comThe Eternal Father has ever re- mon consent, with much prayer and spected the freedom of His children faith." All things are to be done in on this earth. He compels no one to faith. The uplifted hand is an outobey His laws, whether they are re- ward sign of an inward and living vealed in nature or by oral or spiritu- belief in and assent to the matter proal communication. He forces no posed. It pre-supposes thought, unman to heaven. He prevents none derstanding and accord, or, if against who wish to come to Him. Good the measure, intelligent conviction and evil are ever before mankind. that it is wrong. It is not designed The choice is their own. that the body should be a mere machine moved by the will of one who presents a motion, or an imitative mass without reflection and without individuality. In this system the agency of man is freely exercised on the one hand, and the benefits obtained from seek- In the Church which He has esing the wisdom of God are fully rec-tablished He has given a form of ognized on the other. There is no government to which the members compulsion and no rebellion. Free-voluntarily assent. It largely springs There is something grand and mighty in the manifestation of the united will and faith and purpose of a vast body of people, whose souls are lit up by the same divine fire, and whose hands are raised to heaven in token of a common impulse and determination. It is thrilling and majestic. When it is the willing voice of the people in accord with the voice of inspiration, the heavens are 'moved at the spectacle, and it joins the human with the divine, making the angels rejoice and causing the Spirit of God to move upon the mass, as it did upon the face of the waters "in the beginning." and then go ahead" is as good a it will be done on earth as it is done C. W. P. A MORMON TRAMP. I. It is this democratic feature of the that government of the Church makes the Latter-day Saint demoWe do not use THE trite saying, "truth is stranger cratic in politics. The than fiction" finds many illustrathis term in a party sense. party that bears that name has been tions in the personal experience of of late years in many respects any- the Latter-day Saints. Individual thing but democratic in practice. instances of patient endurance and to be found But the rights of the people as heroic devotion are them sufficiently strikthe true body politic are inalien- among able in both Church and State, in ing to adorn a tale and stir the their several and separate capacities, heart of the sensitive reader with under the principles we have ac-admiration and sympathy. The writer was moved to thus recepted as divine. flect recently in becoming familiar with some facts connected with the source of power and authority. Cer-career of a young German now a tain grants of power have been made, | resident of this city. I will attempt to be reposed in the National Gov- to tell the story, as I have learned it ernment for the good of all. But authenticated in a way that places the right to govern themselves in its reliability beyond question. their several localities, and in their separate local concerns, belongs of right to the people. It is not bestowed upon them by any organized Administration or legislative body, but is theirs of right as citizens, as intelligent human beings, and came to them from God, the Source of all light and power. It is their birth. right. The Great Creator endowed them with it, and the denial of its exercise is oppression, robbery, and diabolism. One of the reasons why assent is so readily given by the body of the Church to measures presented by the authorities, is that it is well known Under the Constitution of our that those measures have been discussed and passed upon by the pre-common country, the people are the siding quorum or council, and union therein arrived at in advance. And this is the reliance of many who have not perhaps been able to devote much time for reflection upon the matter at hand. It is provided in the revelations upon Church government that the decisions of these quorums, or either of them, must not only be in righteousness but by unanimous consent, in order to be entitled to the full sanction of the Almighty. It is presumed that this unity has been reached by the authorities before the voice of the people is called for, and the confidence reposed in them makes a ready assent of the body to what the leaders propose. Charles A. Haacke was born at Riga, Russia, of German parents, November 2nd, 1865, and is therefore just turned twenty-three years of age. He is of medium height and build, and has a clear cut,intelligent face, with a marked Teutonic cast. At the age of five years his mother died, and he and his father removed to Germany, where his parent married again. At fourteen Charles was apprenticed with a machinist in Berlin, and made good progress in In 1882 his father and step-mother invited him to accompany them to a "Mormon” meeting. He complied, and on hearing Elder Abram H. Cannon preach was at once convinced that Joseph Smith was prophet. A short time afterwards all three were baptized by Elder John Q. Cannon. It is the duty of every Latter-day | learning his trade. This throws a great responsibility Saint to learn his rights, privileges, upon those who stand at the head of and responsibilities as a member of affairs in Wards and Stakes and the the Church to which he has volunChurch as a whole. Personal ends, tarily attached himself, and as a citprivate purposes, individual prefer-izen of the civil government under ences must all be made subordinate | which he lives and of which he forms to the common good, the glory of a part. This is enjoined upon him In each he is an God, and the advancement of His by his religion. cause. Jealousy, envy, greed, de-independent, living factor. In each sire to excel must be banished and he has rights. In each he has duthe pure love of right and truth must ties. In neither should he be a serf hold sway in evey heart, or the or a rebel. Obedience to rightful auword and will of the Lord will not be obtained, but human wisdom, or folly, will prevail in its stead. thority, compliance with wholesome regulations or laws, subordination to proper requirements are perfectly When the Church receives the compatible with human liberty, in divine mind and sustains it by the Church or State. Independence does popular voice, the true theory and not mean resistance to rule; freedom intent of Church government are does not imply dissension or revolt. made practical. Without either it Humility and dignity, meekness and does not reach the true ideal. When strength, union and individuality these unite, a Charles became at once imbued with the spirit of the Gospel, and ready to sacrifice his dearest earthly prospects for its sake. Not so with his parents, who were not long connected with the Church until they apostatized and became exceedingly bitter in their denunciations of it. From that time Haacke the elder bent all his energies toward embittering his son in the same way, but to no purpose. Every attempt in more devoted force on осса although opposition are homogeneous, and the liberty of that direction only made Charles from without will rage and obstacles may arise that at first seem insurmountable, persistence, in faith, is sure to overcome every form of hindrance and success will be achieved. "Be sure you are right |