Excessive Hilarity

THE TEST OF GENUINENESS. 443 sitions, while actually leading them as to some. He would not recant and his life paid the forfeit. Now, had he been a day- dreamer, a mere visionary, a speculator upon the credulity of his fellows, a scheming impostor, or anything of that kind, it is not to be supposed that he would cling to his false pretenses at such a cost, when even by making the appearance of abandonment he could have lived, as did Galileo; nor, is it for a moment to be admitted that even the attestation of his blood would alone have imparted such sanctity and virility to the cause as would have made it grow and prosper—exactly the reverse. Felling the tree would have killed it and all the vines, tendrils and branches grow- ing with it. Does error ever propagate a condition of things by the operations of which the remotest wilds are penetrated,subdued, and brought within the pale of civilization, laying first the founda- tion and then consummating the creation of empire? Do those who wilfully and systematically uphold and practice pernicious doc- trines continue to thrive, increase in numbers, and advance in all moral and material respects, until they themselves constitute an empire, their numbers increasing ten fold and their possessions a thousand fold within a generation's span—more particularly when the one whose name they revere and whose precepts they uphold was cut down at a time when the blow was more severe, more trying than it could have been at any subsequent time? Impos- sible! Wrong flourishes for a season, then fades, withers and passes away; but Right struggles on to endless life through ad- versity and antagonism, "unhurt amid the war of elements, the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds." Salt Lake City, Utah

. EXCESSIVE HILARITY. Loud laughter shows unrefined character in a marked degree, and its frequency robs one of that delicate demeanor which always characterizes a true lady or gentleman. —Geo. W. Crocheron.