True Riches

HISTORY OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH. 573

keeper, whose wife came with him, and brought us a present of some delicate eatables. Such manifestations of kindness as these were shown us from day to day, during our continuance in the place. And they were duly appreciated, for we had experienced the opposite so severely, that the least show of good feeling gave rise to the liveliest sensations of gratitude. Having settled ourselves in this place, we established the practice of spending the evenings in singing and praying. The neighbors soon became aware of this, and it caused our house to become a place of evening resort, for some dozen or twenty per- sons. One evening, soon after we commenced singing, a couple of little boys came in, and one of them, stepping softly up to Samuel,

whispered, "Mr. Smith, won't you pray pretty soon? Our mother said, we must be home by eight o'clock, and we would like to hear

you pray before we go." Samuel told them that prayer should' be attended to imme- diately. Accordingly, when we had finished the hymn, which we were then singing, we closed the evening services with prayer, in order that the little boys might be gratified. After this, they were never absent during our evening devotions while we remained in the neighborood. (To be Continued.)

TRUE RICHES.

What are true riches? The love of your family, and the con- fidence of friends and neighbors; faith in God and obedience to his commandments, —not money, not wealth. I knew a man who lived and died in constant misery because of a fear which he har- bored that his accumulations might be lost, and that he might die in poverty and have no money left for his children. The poorest Saint in the Church, who possesses loved ones following in the simple path of the Master, and who enjoys the spirit of the gospel, there- by, reading life's real meaning, is incomparably wealthier. He has the true riches. Not that money is not desirable; but there are things better than money. Joseph F. Smith.