D 18 0 0 TT T T amri S 0 BY PRESIDENT liin iiii TM aeb delf deif delivered dred ered in the bowery deseret monday june 1883 REPORTED BY IRVINE ilu liu lim I 1 AM pleased as aa I 1 said bald last night to meet with you I 1 am pleased to talk about the tho things pertaining to the kingdom of god and aleo about other othen matters that ome omo thin think karo kare aro are not EO directly as associated with the kingdom of god and yet they are for all things temporal and all things spiritual all things that are associated with our bodies and with our spirits everything that is id calculated to promote our happiness and on the earth and to procure for us an exaltation in tho the kingdom of heaven aro are things that thai are associated with the gospel and that belong balong to us as lutter latter day saints the god who is the father of our spirits la is he that organized our bodies the god that mg made do the heavens is ho he that made the earth and we are dependent upon him for every blessing bleesing that we enjoy we had very littie little to do with our coming in 9 here and now that we find our be delves ves here we are incapable of sustaining we must ba sustained ta nea ned of god there Is not one among you here hero today to day could leave this thia place unless god gave you power we hardly realize thebe theba things in god we live in him we move and from him we have our being an aud and d ho he has gathered us together get herfor for tor t the he purpose Beof of instructing us an and d preparing us to do a work that H he ede designs redesigns signs to accomplish in the interests of the living and of the dead in the interests of the whole human family that exist or that ever have existed upon the face cf c the earth he has gathered us here under the influence and auspices oes ces of the gospel that we might amigh under ILIS hla tuition and guidance and under the influence of the holy priesthood that exists in the heavens and on the tha eirts bring to pass all things that have been spoken by the tile holy prophets since tho the world was god is ia interested to in the whole of the human family he cannot take them all into the celestial kingdom for they are not all prep prepared red to go there and you cannot prepare them and he cannot because they havo have to be governed arned by certain laws and aua certain principles and certain feelings and if they are not governed by these and will not be ba governed by a cele celestial s law they are not prepared for a celestial glory there are borne some that may te bce governed by a ternes terres trial law and may bo be prepared for a terrestrial glory but not for a celestial glory 8 still they are god gody children and ho he is ia doing the best by them ho he can many of you hero that have sons bons and daughters daughter you do the best by them you can soma home of them you cannot do well by because they will not do right now the lord had more sons cons than one lucifer rebelled adam had more bons sons than one and lucifer came down and operated upon one of them and adam could not help him himself telf belt he had another son who feared god and was waa willing to be guided by the laws of god because of this cain killed his hla brother the same as a great many would 11 like ilke e to kill us ua under the same influence aenice and by tho the samu bame spirit now as I 1 have said adam could not help theae these the action of his son cain yielded obedience to tho the spirit of the wicked one and he became a man that fos every kind of evil he loved satan mora moro than ho he loved god he loved the works of darkness more than he bo loved the tho light nud aud that spirit has existed in iii tho world through ali ail the ages that it existed before tho the flood and it came down through the tho flood it existed among tho the ancient inhabitants of this continent it existed among the sons bons of lehi leni and it if you read tho the book of mormon you will find tho the same principles one party in favor of right the other in favor of wrong the tho one in favor of obedience to the laws of god and the other in 0 opposition to the laws of god the Scripture that it must needs be ba that there be an opposition in all things and jesus jesua said I 1 IS must naeda be that of fences come but woo woe to them therm by whom they come this principle of op manifested in the position was wag beavens Ee heavens avens satan wasa was a person personage there who had pecullar peculiar ideas very singular ideas ho he wanted to do the same as many men want to do today to day to take tate away the free agency of inan man soma some men would ufke to take tahe away our oar free agency and tell us how wo we must worship and what wo we must worship because satan wanted to deprive man of his bis free agency ho he was cast out of heaven and he came to the earth to teach that principle and it has prevailed more or less lebs ja in every age and under every government we some times hearit bear hear it sald said are arv living under the most liberal government there Is ia on the earth 1 I sometimes say god save sate the markt markl god save bave the mark marh for that liberality that will not allow men to worship god according to the dictates of their own owa cons consciences donces that will enact laws to prevent men marrying wives while men having many distresses mistresses mi stresses are bust sustained a ined the in men e n who comply with the law of god aro are prohibited from voting while the licentious the adulterer the whoremonger the brothel keeper the pimp the procuress and the prostitute have this privilege and are protected by our law and sustained by our lawgivers while they profess to be shocked at our supposed zed immorality they foster and encourage ag 0 by their enactments every kind hind ot of licentiousness and crime such principles as these are from beneath and nou not from god no matter under what government they exist we do not want to proscribe any man in hia his religious faith it is none of our business god did not interfere with cain cain he put a mark upon him he deprived him of blessings and exaltations he could not have nim him associate with the godf gode for he had cast satan out of heaven who was cains instructor cain was thebon of adam ho he listened to the teachings of hat bat anand hebe hobe ho be came what la is called the great mab mas irmas ter mahon full fuli of wickedness and fall of evil he killed ha his brother for two tivo reasons one was that he did not like his religion and an other was that ho he wanted hib hla property the lame same reasons taftt influence people against us usand and then there the rela reia is not much love lost between w for we do not admire their religion but nat ws wa do not want their property their houses and their land lande nor anything that they hares hales only as we obtain such blessings properly consistently honorably and justly and that is the hind kind of feeling we ought to have bat why is it that these things exist there is a place that bome some of us hope to inherit which IB ies called the celestral kingdom of god there thuie is a certain class of people who will obtain a soad boat in that king klug dom and there thera are millions and millions who will not jesus in s speaking enkin eakin g on this suta act bald baid it wide la at he the gate and broad Js Is the way that to destruction and many there bo be which go in thereat because strait is the gate and narrow la Is tho the way which unto life and few there are that ond tind it now then in reference to celestial glory it is necessary that men should be tried here the earth for men upon otner earths have been tried as we wa are being tried and it was necessary too strange as it may appear that jesus should bo be tried tiled yes for it Is written it became him for whom are all things and by whom nrc aro all things in bringing many sons unto glory to make maae the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering buffering mke make nini nim perfect ahr through 9 11 erin eoln yeb yes es what had bad he wl e to be t tempted in ted 0 of f the ovil evil leq W waa he P n not ot tm tempted atud of the devil in the wil demosh demesh yes did not hot the devil come and offer him all kinda kinds of inducements as he does to ut uhe yes and did jesus maintain his 42 ty ho he did there Is ia a scene that john the tho revelator Eav elator saw upon a certain occasion he was caught away in the spirit and he saw an innumerable throng they were clad in white raiment and they eang bang a new song and he was led to inquire what are ara these those which are arrayed in white robes robee and whence came theland the yAnd jand ho he was are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their ro nobee nobes besand and nule nuie them white in the blood of the lamb therefore are they before the throne of god and servo him day and night 11 II I well how did the world treat such peo pie it generally treated them very scornfully paul tells us that by faith moses endured as an seeing him who Is invisible by faith women received their dc dead ad raised to li life ilfe feagain again by faith men wandered about in sheepskins sheep sops cops skins shins is and goatskins goat roat akins skins being destitute t tute lute afflicted tormented of whom wh 0 in the fhe world was not worthy they wandered in desert deserts sp and jn in mountain mountains and in dens and caves of the earth now blow why was it that men that were aiming at an exaltation among the gods should be beso eo persecuted and cast out by men for instance I 1 might mention a few of if them refer toJo to job band and the be kind of trials he passed through I 1 might talk about abraham and the trials he wab was called upon to pabs pass through I 1 might ml ht mention motes and the trials ne e had to endure I 1 might I 1 t bring to your minds many jothi other e r prominent t men of god but I 1 will come to elijah who was weis a man that feared god and wrought righteousness ous ness the people had bad departed from the lord and trampled under foot toot bis his precepts etc bo munh so BO that eld eid ah h was obliged to flee flea and hide himself in a cave saave away from the face of man while in the cave the word of the lord ita tta a still s mall mali voice came to him paving what doest thou thon here eil Ell eijah eljah jah jab and be said cil 1 I have been very jealous for the lord god of hosts hort for the children of israel have forsaken thy covenants thrown down thine bel bei altars tars aud and slain binin thy prophets i with the sword deword and I 1 even I 1 only am iett left and they seek beek my life to take it away well it was a crit loal losi position to be in inbur but it was J net as critical for many others who lived jived in ancient times and thia this spirit of murder and persecution still exists it was exhibited in the be mobbing and dr ivings of our people from ohio missouri illnois iii lil nois and other places in themar the martyrdom of joseph smith and hla hib brother hyrum la in carthage jail more recently in the tion uon of elder joseph standing and again only a few days ago jn in an attempt to murder brother john T alexander one of our elders in georgia the particulars of which you have doubtless read in the newspapers in the face of such diabolical outrage outrages ll ag tig these there Is not much room to boast about our liberties but bat I 1 merely refer to these things to show that the that actuated men in former times is at work to day irrespective of tir times rieb rles forms of government places or circumstances nevertheless as I 1 have bald baid it is necessary that we pass through tain ordeal ordeals and that we be ba tried but wh why Is it that we should be tried there here is just jost the same necessity for it now that there tb ora ore was la in former times I 1 heard the prophet joseph say in speaking epe abina to the twelve on one occasion you yon will have all kinds of trials to pa pabs paea a through and it la is quite us a necessary for you to be ba tried as it was for abraham and other men man of god and said he be god will feel after you end and he will take tahe hold of you yon and wrench your vory very hear heart t gp and if you cannot stand it you will wui not be ba fit nt for an inheritance in the celestial kingdom of god some somme people have wondered why so miny of the twelve fell away god tries people according to the position they occupy joseph smith never had bad many months of neace deace after he received the truth troth and fin nily he was murdered in carthage jail I 1 was with him on that occasion and therefore a know a little about it and ai told this thia young man whose life had been attempted in lri georgia baid said Is I 1 brother alexan der they shot at you and hit you but when they shot at me they bit me so that YOU yon got onn off omma s little easier than I 1 did but all these personal things amount to but very little it i 13 the crowns principalities the powers the termes ahr ynes ines the dominion dominions and fand the associations with the gods that we are after and we are hereto prepare ourselves ours elvea for these th em things we vo are nrc after eternal exaltation in the celestial kingdom of god and we want to feel that this la Is the main object of existence that this la why we were b brn rn and that god has revealed from the he heavener avenEl restored the holy priesthood and gatherer us na together in order that N ne a might forma form a nucleus through whom he be could communicate his will through whom he could accad work upon the theeart earth hand and introduce the gospel of the son of god to the nations of the earth and gather together his hla elect from the four quarters of the tha globe through whom he could introduce upon the earth the principles that exist in the heavens that we might be ba taught to do the will of god on the earth as it Is done dona in the heaven beaven that we might be a pure people a virtuous people a holy people free from the vices vicas and corruptions corrupt ions of the world and that we might leam the laws of light truth and intelligence from the fountain of all intelligence for we are told the glory of god Is intel li gence this la Is why we have been gathered together it Is ia rather a singular thing to eee see a host of people 10 gathering hona hene from all the nations eions of tho earth parth arth you cannot prevent people from gathering here they are brought under the tae influence of the gospel and they cannot help themselves them elves they have to come now I 1 will here relate a circumstance associated with the gathering that took place in liverpool I 1 suppose about 43 years ago we had jart just been driven out of state of ail nil mour and were in the midst of very hard times timea you sometime think you have hard times now why you do not know anything about it they tell us they coteus cute us for polygamy now what did they persecute ua u for when we had no poly polygamy garny yet we were driven from our home homes and many of our people some of them old revolutionary soldiers were shot down like dogs doga in many instances we were driven from pillar to post from one place to another robbed pillaged and despoiled of everything we had there are many of the brethren and rasters here I 1 pre bume sume who gho are acquainted with with these tamee things well the twelve were told to go to the far wear some miles distant from quincy illinois where many of the saints were then staying we did not have railroads then whereby we could travel as we do now we had to go with our teams and we had to togi g 1 among a people that would kill everyone ot of us va ai quick as aa they would rattle snakes ecnatees ena teeb kees we ve were told to go and lay jay the foundation stone of the temple and thug thua ruit ruif the revelation that had been given on the subject arrived at the spot suot we prayed and sang hymns we