The Rift. A Poem

LAZINESS 527 and wisdom, and with the increase of knowledge and wisdom comes power, and with the increase of power comes greater capacity for accomplishment. You cannot save your soul and lose your body. The body and the spirit make the man. Matter is eternal — indestructible. "Man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge," says our prophet again. It is the knowledge of the Christ and of his gospel of salvation, and our application to everyday life of its saving principles, that will regenerate and redeem our souls. By a study of the holy scriptures and wholesome literature, and by a more industrious application to our duties, and a more religious attendance at our Mutual Improvement meetings, and our Church services, let us seek to cultivate and improve the finer qualities of our natures, and thereby build up, not only healthy physical selves, but strong moral selves, and fine spiritual selves. Let us eat our own bread, and wear our own garments, and live in the light of eternal truth and progress, for therein lies the only true happiness. "With hand on the spade, and heart in the sky, Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won: I hold that a man had better be dead Than live when his work is done." BOISE, IDAHO The Rift I chose a star to guide my erring feet; It seemed to be above my journey's end, Away beyond the mists, out in the deep And dark uncharted sky where pilgrims wend. It sent its soft light down along the way That paled into a silvery, shimmering band; So I could keep my bearings night and day And go unpiloted to that fair land. But after I had traveled many days, A dark cloud heaved itself athwart the sky, And I was in a labyrinth of ways, Nor knew my own from others nearer by. But, through a rift, I saw my gleaming star, And hastened then my whereabouts to learn — Ah, it was plain that I had wandered far, But not so far that I could not return. Louis W. Larsen.