The Reward of Service

LIVING FAITH. 265 dom and power, defies the ravages of time, and will stand through time and eternity, mighty, powerful and potent to save men from their sins, and from poverty and sickness, and deliver them from death, hell and the grave. It makes plain the principles of eternal marriage between a man and the woman he loves, puts him in possession of the science of endless lives, and renders it possible for him to possess all things worth having in time and in eternity. Such, my dear friends and brethren of Spokane, are in part the great principles of the go-pel of the Son of God, as revealed to the ancient prophets and Saints, and as restored to the earth by the ministration of holy angels, in this day, through Joseph, Smith, the mighty prophet of this dispensation, and I testify to it, in the name of J esus Christ. Amen. THE REWARD OF SERVICE. The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small, Are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread, Where love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells; The Book of Life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life working. A child's kiss Set on thy singing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.—Elizabeth Barrett Browning.