has on her most attractive garb how easy it is for us to say oh well a little buggy ride will not be bad i need the fresh air and away we go our consciences can be easily satisfied this way and in the act itself there is no harm — but let us see we meet a friend coming down the street and think there's tom i'll take him along just for company tom is usually pretty good company and before very long we are telling jokes and laughing merrily next sunday the same thing is done again perhaps this time we stop for a drink it won't matter just this once and tom want's it thus it goes on the acts perfectly harmless within themselves but see to what they lead soon we are regarding this hallowed day merely as a time for pleasure evil tendencies and bad habits are formed of which we may never be able to rid ourselves all our time is spent in building up the physical part of our beings in gratifying its desires for wealth happiness and power this is not the only part that needs food and development we have a soul which must be nourished or it will die how many of us are allowing our souls to die how ashamed and remorseful some of us will feel when we come forth in the next world with souls small and withered because they have been deprived of proper nutrition god has appointed the sabbath to be spent in obtaining spiritual food can we not devote just one seventh of our time to the development of this eternal part of us as members of this church we pretend to live up to its teachings — to keep the sabbath day be temperate etc when we violate these principles people who do not pretend to live exemplary lives look down upon us with contempt because we are not living up to our pretentions then let us not pretend but be true latter day saints al ways remembering the many ways in which we are dependent upon our heavenly father and spend this one day in devotion and thanksgiving thus strengthening our souls by getting^in closer touch with our maker