Show REMARKS if V i by ny bishop D young tabernacle dec pec 13 A 4 V 0 D by V G D WATT vav I 1 have tried to treasure up what I 1 haio halo have havo heard beard today loday lo to today day and pray god to give glye me power to practise upon the tiie earth I 1 am aware that the people that are denominated later latter day saints occupy a very conspicuous position before the nation lation in lit wl ieh ich we dwell and also in in the eyes of the intelli intelligent ent nations of tho the earth there is something connected with our holy e iou lou ion that has call cail called ed forth the attention of the who fhe and learned of this generation geneia genera tion and they li ave axe used ased their thein talents and their wisdom in trying to destroy the vine vine hat that has been planted in fhe the earth gaith or the priesthood that has been revealed in these latter days for the benega benefit A of the chi dren of me ri eliat might inight be restored again into the presence prec pres ence enee of god their father I 1 it would be superfluous forine for moe roe ti to sa say that ahat the reye revealed aled truth of god from lie lle heaven avera has not no been received by the majority of the world in any I 1 generation g e nera I 1 lou lon so it is no new tiling thing under the tle sun joseph smiths mission is rejected b by y th them I 1 eni the lords wisdom is not like the wisdom of mau man ce ither ar are liis ills ways like the ways of man th the priest of the he day who professed to tech toch the tile way of ilfe life and ind salvation to the people looked with contempt upon josephi smith the prophet and sought bought by every means in their power powen to destroy him and the fruth ruth which lie that the kingdom and abd power of babylon might as it has done in lit days gone by continue to prevail I 1 tl checked unchecked by the influence of the kingdom r 0 oi god beloved saints we are aro now here in the valleys of the mountains far separated from those who have llave sought and still seek our overthrow and here r we have the tile pr ivelee leze of coming to meeting to hear alear from the servants of god and there are none q 1 iwho dare molest or endeavor to deprive us of this is eairly bought privilege this is and one which we all should strive more fully to appreciate I 1 the false learner lear learning nin nir and wisdom of tile the world concentrated cannot t compare with one of 4 eternal 1 truth revealed to tins is people through tn 1 I th I 1 1 ose lose w whom h 0 in god has lies set to lead them are 7 T worthy of the high and holy calling where 1 we e have been called do we order our lives so 1 before the lord of hosts that weare wears worthy his confidence worthy to walk in the light or ot countenance from day to day I 1 if we live liv e in such a manner as to receive nourish nourishment from the true vine into w which we have grafted then we shall have power to those sins sins that so easily casily beset us there are great many more things connected with our religion bes besides ides praying morning and arid evening fasting and paying tithing as did the jew jews religion comprises the tho hol hoi bioly yorden order of beav heaven en revealed to man in the last days for the final establishment ment on earth of the kingdom of god will never be overthrown but it will roll oil on and increase increase until the hing king kingdoms doms of this world become subject to the law government aitt authority hority which rules in zion it will not be iong long ion lon before thia congregation adults will pass from this tilis stage of action and the fiade flage places plade s will be filled by the rians ris ng generation gener allon alion was charmed by a remark which fell from br by kimball this thiis morning he said there are little here that will live until they have power to the dead to life lire it brought to my mind the I 1 dobli obligation alfon which should prompt parents to up their thein children in tile the way they tiley should go solomon said train up a child in the ba ha should go and when whet lie he is old he will not depar depart from it the words of the ain air affectionate lection ate parent take f root in the hearts of the tender offspring the impressions received in childhood i with them during their ilves lives I 1 well remember t hearing the tile confession of two men that executed in eastern country a number of ago they gave a history of f their early tuition s one of them regretted that he be had not riot adhered 4 the teachings of his lis mother for if lie he had h s said ai id be he would not have come to the gal gai gallows bilows the children of the latter day saints are dif ferent from the children of odthe I 1 the fhe world we have heard today to day that those that were begotten under tinder the order of th til priesthood were endowed with greater greaten power ability and knowledge than those children bom born among the gen gep gentiles tiles the spirit ill in our boys is uncontrollable able abie but by the tha holy priesthood why because the master spirit is s in them and it grows up with them and when our children childred and women they will voluntarily adhere lo 10 the principles of eternal truth they thy have not been under the influence of a sectarian education and have not this to contend with as have their fathers they ara brought up as us the children odthe of the most high and they tiley will walk in of their fathers and arid in lit the precepts of their motherland mothe mothers and will magnify their 1 hiigli gli calling to a greater extent and ba be far more exal exalted ted led than them in the eyes of heaven will the tile sisters of zion follow in the footsteps of their mothers in some thing I 1 hope they hey may in other filings things I 1 hope they will not when we attend to 1 and ani fully live tip up to what the lord lias has revealed unto us through the prophet joseph as also those instructions which we continually receive from the servants of god westall we shall shail be more like angels or heavenly beings our houses will be governed according cc to the order of god revealed toman to man just walk into youngs house honse and tell him you desire to walk through his house honse to see the order of it therk then walk through president kimbaris Kim balis I 1 think neither of them will deny you the privilege vile ge and see if there is not net an order of things prevailing there here that extends beyond your narrow comprehension I 1 well recollect hearing the prophet joseph instruct c t the pe 0 pie abo ut tv en ty years 1 ears a ago ozo go to m make ake their own clothing and to let the dec dee decoration oracion of their bodies be the workmanship of their own owl hands that revelation lias lies not been much many I 1 referred tolt to it in the old bowery 7 and thure thore was such a rebutting rebut rebul ting feeling I 1 in I 1 the spirit of the people that hat it was with the greatest difficulty I 1 could say it has lies been said why does not president young on go 0 to 17 work ork arid and clothe his family with larne homespun p and d set the he example why does not peide president t kimball why did not presidents richards 1 and grant and others do it people with common sense can see lle ile lie tile leason reason why there is not a mail man in the territory of utah can conlo conio ete with them in this thing they have bave done if it all alf the day long as far as their thein calling would admit are they still yes doing it q iv I 1 see eee men and women before me roe ciot clot dollied lied pied in fide fine apparel I 1 am giad glad lof lot it but I 1 should feel far better to see sea them clad in cloah ol 01 h df domestic odom estic manufacture that Is iu in homespun i 1 l the gold and silver that found Us its way hero here has gone this community were not sufficiently wise lo 10 buy those articles only which were wera necessary to make them ind their posterity comfortable and lay lax aya a foundation to make themselves independent but they their means in purchasing 1 fine goods to gratify the fancy of women ir money passed swiftly through their hand hands to the merchants who lia lla have e taken it along with hem them to the tile states and I 1 am glad of it be because caise calse this people are destined to learn a lesson by liy it that they could not otherwise learn the gold is is gone the he sheep and the nax hax in sufficient I numbers and quantity a ate ala a not here arld and our enemies are between us and the ilie states slates the prospect now is fair for our obeying the commandments meals of god that lie he gave through br by joseph with teo Tes respect speet to manufacturing our own clothing and antt the adorning of our oln oin own bodies the people will wiil profit by the lesson if we as a people will follow out the teachings teaching s the lord has revealed to us through I 1 his servants ts lie he will preserve us and be our great benefactor in days to come as in day days s gon by ald and aid wa we shall shuit not be allowed to suffer more aban we can bear let me a say to allot you just jast take carlof what you have got and preserve it I 1 see the slaters sisters passing along the streets even in muddy weather with their dresses of satin dragging in the mud they could cut off from four to six ll il 11 laches inches ches from the skirt sk and make their children a dress of what the they y wear out and waste on the tha ground and I 1 if f tho the they y have no earthly use for it themselves perhaps some of their neighbors would be glad of it it does not become me however to correct the errors of the people here liere br dr kimball says it is the bishops office I 1 thank him for this information for I 1 did not know it before if you have goo good d clothes do not drag them in in the mud but savo save every thing you have against a stormy day let this people make moke their own clothes and tak tali care of mhd wh ut the lord has put into into our possession instead of only e eight 1 1 i thousand shepp sheep there ought to have been eight million if ball 11 men had used the exertion that some few have there would have been sheep enough to have clothed this whole people from year to year asking no odds of uncle sam or any body bodwel eise else e flax can be grown here I 1 I 1 have not raised any flax but I 1 expect to have I 1 some spun epan and wove were it not for home manufactures I 1 L should expect to go without clothing president icim iam i ball bali says there are now about three hundred bushi els of flax seed in the tithing store prepare yourselves also to raise sugar cane and from that your sweetening or make up your minds to go without and if you have got a I 1 leaky roof try fry to get it f fixed if our enemies I 1 do ao not mean those few out yonder a swarm of long billed mosquitoes toes could eat them tip up at a supper spell I 1 mean the whole united slates states and arid the whole world it if theys they bould hould come upon us they can riot not prevail for they are fighting against the kingdom of god arid and warring j against the saints of the most high therom the combined nations of the arih arth earth will try to destroy the i 1 manchild man child and obliterate the truth from the tiie earth but butas is the lord of hosts lives thegean they cannot not do it jt ard the reason ie is because the almighty stands at the helm belm and ae lewill will guide the old shig Zion in a safe course and all the powers of earth and hell bell can riot top stop her progress may god bless you all amen arrival of missionaries in Liverpool i om rny iq tit i i the following missionaries s fro from M great salt sait salt lake valley arrived liere here on the ath I 1 ast from new nev york per ship dreadnought 0 lit after a passage of twenty six days henry henra hernman herriman ebenezer C Richa richardson riison tilson jospph W young youn briham II 11 young seymou seymour r B young samuel 11 11 B smith enoch Jl eee phiilip philip ildr etts jarries janies kroohs brooks brook eli H pierce david wilkin william I 1 J stewart robert logan loman william P thoma thomas Willi arri J harris martin marlin L ensign john Y green reuben mcbride Mc Bid james Andr andrus usand and peter Ilari hancocks Ha nocks also on ii s arrived at this port by t he tiie columbia from new york elders lyer iver mehard richard G evans evana and john IV berry by tile the Nonpar nonpareil eil pil 1 from philadelphia d e p i a elders jabez woodard F i cederick roulet jean jez D lalan clobert E miller samuel longbottom long Lorg bottom george deorge and amos taylor taylar I 1 I 1 |