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ment. It is best to stay at home, and to develop the uncounted resources that lie at our own doors. God has given us a glorious land, full of material riches, laden with opportunity, and rich in healthful environment. Let us think well before we change these for new, before we give up familiar and cherished scenes and tried and trusted friends for new environment and strange associates. To say nothing of other things — the need of developing the land and fortifying our strength in the stakes of Zion, — the chances are that the energy put forth in tearing up and moving, if used in the direction of improvement and betterment of our present surroundings, would bring us more satisfaction and greater returns than we would ever receive from the contemplated change. Stay at home, and if you have means to invest buy farm-land at reasonable prices and cul- tivate it— is good counsel to young men. Joseph F. Smith.

April 6.

For the marvelous incidents clustering about this day every Latter-day Saint has reason to be sincerely thankful. On this day, the probable birthday of the Messiah, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was regularly organized and established by command of God and agreeable to the laws of our glorious land of liberty, peace and plenty. By the will and commandment of God, also, Joseph Smith the prophet had been previously called and ordained the first elder, and inspired of the Holy Ghost to lay the foundations of the Church, and to build it up unto the most holy faith. For this divine call, and the wonderful events that have resulted, let us thank our Heavenly Father. To him also be thanks for the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ contained in the Book of Mormon — this record of a fallen people, this witness of the truth of the gospel and the holy scriptures — translated by Joseph through power given him from on high. Thanks for the testimony that God calls and inspires men and women for his mar- velous work in our day and age, as in generations of old. Thanks