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Source: Church History Vol. 3 Chapter 28 Page: 528 (~1869)

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528 had arrived there on their way to Utah. The editor, in Herald of June 15, had the following to say regarding "Zion's Hope:-

"For Zion's Hope we also ask a strong effort. Every friend of progress in the church, every lover of the truth, every father, every mother, every brother, every sister, is materially affected by the teaching and training of the children of the household to which each separately belongs. A corner or column of the Herald is insufficient to meet the great want felt in this direction, and to give success to any new enterprise engaged in by us as a people, it is requisite that the object for which we especially strive in that enterprise be worthy and the effort persistent.

"We do not desire to quote scripture voluminously to prove that the saints should educate their children, for this is conceded.

"The tendency of the age is toward light reading. To counteract the evil growing out of this taste, it is essential that a united public opinion should pronounce against it, and should declare in favor of that which combines the elements for instruction and entertainment.

"The young mind must be fed. If fed with that which is conducive to a healthy growth, vigorous minds may be expected.

"If fed with that which does not enrich, there is no growth. Neither can we expect our faith to be correctly understood by the rising generation, unless we take some pains to inculcate its principles by precept and example."-The Saint' Herald, vol. 15, pp. 367, 368

Of the general situation President Smith wrote as follows:-

"In attending the meetings of the saints in various parts of the country, we have been pleased to see such strong affection to the word with such fervent desire to do good. It only remains for them to put these desires in motion and practical righteousness will as naturally result as fertility follows the rain and the sunshine.

"The sterility of winter is but the barrenness of the state

(page 528)

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