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308 IMPFMVEMENT ERA . destestation, and attaches to them every evil motive calculated to make men shudder with disgust. A man who bears such false witness should hide his head for very shame. Never was there a falser, nor more unjustifiable denunciation of this people than is contained in the Senator's closing sentences. Surely it is time the people at home—business men, the press, and all who regard our state with favor—make vigorous protest against such slanders. At home here we have come to regard them as an evil joke, and many so treat them. But it is otherwise in the East. There they are believed. It is our duty to deny them, and by our protest brand them what they are—slanders. They can be easily refuted—the daily lives and actions of our people are in them- selves refutations, and our history bears record of this truth. Joseph F. Smi

th. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Doea a wife hold the priesthood in connection with her husband? and may she lay hands on the sick with Lim, with authority? A wife does not hold the priesthood in connection with her husband, but she enjoys the benefits thereof with him; and if she is requested to lay hands on the sick with him, or with any other ofiicer holding the Melchizedek priesthood, she may do so with perfect propriety. It is no uncommon thing for a man and wife unitedly to administer to their children, and the husband being mouth, he may properly say out of courtesy, "By authority of the holy priesthood in us vested." Is the mind a part of our spiritual or physical existence? Without doubt, mind is not a physical, but a spiritual existence. The spirit of a man is the life of a man, that which is spiritual being in the likeness of that which is temporal. The spirit of a man is in the likeness of his person. (Doc. & Gov., 77: 2.) What we call mind must be the effect of the spirit, since without the spirit, which is life, there is no mind. The old saying arises: What is matter? Never mind. What is mind? No mat- ter." We must agree that matter is never mind, and that mind is not matter, at least not such matter as composes our physical