Stand by the Right, Always

HEBREW IDIOMS IN THE BOOK OF MORMON 475 the statutes * * * of the Lord."— II Nep. 1 :16. "And we did observe to keep the judgments." — II Nep. 5:10, * * * "Ye are eternally indebted to your heavenly Father, to render to him all that you have and are;" (Mos. 2:34,) "and should render" harmonizes better with our idiom. "Have ye taught this people that they should observe to do?" Mos. 13:25. "He doth remember all my commandments to execute them." — Alma 18:10. "But ve do always remember your riches, not to thank God for them"— Hela. 13:22. See also Alma 49:14; 57:21; 58:40; Hela. 3: 20; Moro, 7:30. (to be continued) Stand by the Right, Always BY J. C. HOGENSON, OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE There are many people in the world who are afraid to stand up for the right, and to state and act their convictions, because those convictions, though known to be right, are not popular with the general crowd ; and the person stating or acting them might lose his social standing and prestige. Leaders among men, men who have achieved prominence in the world, have always been fearless in standing up for the right, and in stating their convictions, no matter what the consequences that follow might be. Take such men as Christopher Columbus, Martin Luther, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Joseph Smith. All were fearless and true to their ideas of truth and right. That is the only brave, true, manly, and God-fearing way. Let us, if we are ever tempted to do otherwise, remember the poem on "Freedom," by James Russell Lowell, which says : "They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, _ Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three." "Stand close to all, but lean on none, And if the crowd desert you, Stand just as fearlessly alone As if a throng begirt you." Remember our own beautiful hymn : "Do what is right, let the consequence follow ;" and, "God will protect you, do what is right." LOGAN, UTAH