Show I 1 I 1 IT 1 1 TO NEW COMERS N y i P 1 0 0 1 hl GRANT anacle A vaCLE sept 84 1854 REPORTED BY G D WATT 1 while the sacrament is passing irmay be well to speak a few words to the people I 1 am aware asch instruction has been given to the people allease at least to the f th those tose who are here boore me and we do t to 0 preach you to doth but we wish to preach so that you may ay life A thousand ideas ideal s float in ii i the minds odthe people in in relation to preaching each have ha e air band their notions of what they call tte t sacred desk all mormon desks are sacred lya no more religious ioui today to day than yesterday I 1 am equally as religious s i in ty the e kan kenyons hauling I 1 as in the pulpit and it if I 1 were ag to agear in either place ae 11 I 1 should ifould prefer the pulpit ia K swear e ar in consequently I 1 consider that a man should uld live his religion in all places and under tinder all and situations in in life we understand how to serve seive the L lord ord I 1 speak J f all the latter day saints that iii is we we W e under tinder ond how to serve him insolo in some aings I 1 we have band tarried arned some duties which are practicable at the present besent time I 1 am ware aware that some elders who lo 10 0 forth and preach long and pious sermons f tsei gienty yi enty represent zion as one of the most de ig ti 1 some ome places in the woi adas if the people in salt lake city were so pure and holy that thelia the lia flan aea of sanctity would almost singe the ha hair i r or of a ami m mon mans head others suppose whey he they 1 come here that they are to be fed closed I 1 ed and I 1 loused doused independent of their own exer exe 9 rons ns some E f the elders have told the saints angland that he first two weeks e Ks alter after th therian n ded here all I 1 they would have to do O W wound oil P e to contemplate I 1 tle tie beauties of atzio Zion 0 n 0 aai a a airn li asbed two w weeks beks revisions the imag mag i idiens ions I 1 ns 0 of s some saints have ben so exalted b byne by ne e e elders i r who preached to 0 o tern tem that they appose that all our pigs come rady ady cooked kewith coo t knives and folks in them and re run jiing round squealing to be eaten that ery arar is ailed with bread every manger anger in wi with etes Pt pta toes es arid and every biery mans with the choice fuits of the earth on the contrary when the joints fr from gm abroad come to zion biej they will wilf find the people so busy that they can scarcely I 1 find time to speak to them arid and it if they have lost some of their friends on the way the people in zion have not time even to help them mourn some come here and are astonished for they had bad supposed that they should find the stereotyped editions of zion sitting gori on the seats singing hallelujah lujah and shouting glory to god continually but when they find us all active some rushing to the P iran canyons some gathering in the crops crops and others re rearing houses when they find tari in people all i 1 UES with ith business the they think that the mormons cormons a are all telegraphs te tle graphs anar and so we are stereotyped editions of luz iho je ceapa 1 graph every man and woman in zion at their duty is 4 aph moving ind and ex exerting erling an influence build building ilig up ip fe fei feiling lyng f ving arid and f fulfilling ul filling the words of the prophets prophet s by babi 1 I 1 city after city it makes no difference whether we have gold and silver or not we build just as I 1 fast without money as the people of the east build with it and a little faster A man who has faith says he has capital in himself he be is telegraph enough to build him a house another man has to sit down own and count ac three and two are five five and two are seven seven and tour four are eleven and eleven and six are seventeen and so he will calculate and unless he be has so many dimes he has not faith enough to draw the first rock or the first adebie or get the first foot foo of lumber or do the first thing I 1 but you take a man wo who has got in him the true mormon spirit and he considers that he can sh just what he thinks ought ough tto to be accomplished complis hed bed it if he cor considers siders that he wants eints a house he deems himself competent to go at it and to build such a one as he wants want sif if he wants a small ore oie he can buil builder dit and if a large one lie he can build it that is the mormon spirit jf if you Saints who have just arrived here expect I 1 a heaven I 1 will tell you h how ow t et t RY R b bmw brought a small one with you keepin keepit e lil t aad id keep adding to it thatis that if you want a heaven so go to annabe it it you have not means enough to I 1 f farm m go lo 10 work and make one e it if you Ta war eit means e a n enough to buy a house bouse build one and tas gather around you the comforts of life and tk th means to subsist upon but I 1 will tell I 1 you 0 OR thing if you neglect to pray neglect f to 0 watch neglect to do your duy duty and to serve seive ie you rod for yourselves you will be apt to become acome dissatisfied dis heartened disheartened and disputed and wish aivish to go back from whence you came tut fut tile the opposite will be the he result with those aho keep the commandments ot goo go who watch an and pray who are active in their spirits and in their belig eli OD anand and woi k out their salvation with fear aej 1 I trembling hembling it if you pleas or they may woi ai as hard bard as they please without fearing and trembling if they have a mind to consequently when 3 ou come here it is essential that you keep the same religion that you embraced embrace ed before you started to core come here am aware a mu many nave so piety in them that they are like the baptist briest priest who came to see joseph smith sinith joseph had ad the discernment of spirits to read a man arid and I 1 a peculiar faculty of using up the old sectarian tone to my deer d de e er bret brethren bren sv when hen he heard that good old tone bemused be used to 0 o imitate it and I 1 whenever one of the class claas who ho are so filled with piety and the good old tone came to nauvoo ely ini joserh rh used forthwith to lo talce a course to evaporate their sanctimoniousness a great deal cleal of which consists in the lie jong jan ass bilk like a tone before the baptist priest 1 I have referred to came to nauvoo naboo lie he had heard beard brother william 0 0 clark 1 who could preach a bible and a half halfac at a sermon A arid and could use the fashionable old tone tie the blessed old tone this baptist imbibed a notion that we were as much ahead of his bis ideas of piety and that our tone was ai as much longer than ins his as the strength of the arguments produced by clark I 1 were stronger sti than his and supposed that our I 1 t sanctimoniousness was coequal with what he considered side the merits of our doctrine tinder lunder these impressions he came Nauvoo to and was introduced to the prophet in the mean tine some person came up that brother joseph would have a talk with but while doing this he tie inept his hia eye upon the stranger on this priest alter after before him hia and folding his bis arms said Is it possible stat t I 1 now flash dash my optics upon a prophet U upon on a man wait has conci canves 9 d with my ay savior tes yes 1 says the pra Prop pat hid 11 I 1 dont know but you do would not you like 1 ter wrestle with me that you so see brought the to the he 11 thrashing floor and he turned a summerset cht straight after afterpe he had whirled round a few times like a duck shot in the head he concluded I 1 that ht hn i P liaty aty ha baa been awfully shocked even to the centre and feht to the prophet ta learn why he had go so a piety toe prophet geneed and showed lim follies of the th world and the absurdity of 0 the long to toie e and that he had a superabundant super abundant sto stock e k of iness you saints who have come here if you have around you the garb ot of sectarianism must calculate that the mormon plow will turn that under I 1 sip must calculate that hire here we are a practical aple a people who believe in their religion 0 wl and I 1 I 1 7 are r good saints who do their work and attend to to their prayers in the season thereof arid and are not I 1 so 40 0 much in a hurry burry in the marnina marih mor ninA baat that they can canT c a neil kneel down and consecrate their families famili cs I 1 th their effects effect sg themselves vT staily abid atchey they haven have to the 1 most high god I 1 but in ih the midst ofte is people bod wilt vu find various stripes of 4 character has been cast into the sea and if the te fa true it has drawn to the shore all kinds of fish avayou arih you J must not be alarmed it if vou igind in zion some 1 curiosities if I 1 wished to find and the best binm men m the world work 1 I 1 should jo go to zion to find omen been if I 1 r wished te t find the biggest I 1 I 1 zest avill devil 3 would look in zion for aipa among the ij I 1 4 0 f god there I 1 can find the greatest so sc anya t I 1 Ii eliee I 1 61 e ze the words of liast are aae aue e 4 that t aie tietia tas 8 gathered 0 of every Ii indof of fish that bat athas it lias gathered men ot of every class I 1 dp do not ot marv mamel if i you find here bere goats ai as well as shee sheep p and the g ats 1 and the he long haired pats goats and thi the smooth goats I 1 and the rough goats and goats ot of every grade graae I 1 siz size an aad I 1 4 c alor Mixed among the sheep to biot therile thil you will ie be without byoir trials here that I 1 youaw youa reJO lo be a stereotyped stereotypic edition t to stools sus glory tp to god arid and that that is all you I 1 have bave t to 0 R p I 1 have d to the english b brethren and I 1 sisters that were ealm V En E glandy for there is where the elders preach wety fat 1 ya I 1 would ten tel them the I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 first thin bilings they might expect to meet mee in zion I 1 I 1 viz to m leap P irk into to the mire aid help h elp t to fill up a mud hole to make adebie 06 their sleeves 1 rolled up and be spattered ath ith clay from froin head I 1 to 0 o foot and that some w woid 11 id be set to ditching III in zion to making ditch fe feece ift ce ankle deep in mice al and 1 nd that they might elpe to eat their bread by the sweat of theia brow aan in their native country I 1 told them when I 1 was i 1 st louis where there were many B english and in cotch that if we suc I 1 cl ceedee eded in gettin A f 0 Z zio I 1 10 i it i M was as a knack apte it if we did not nofri iri tyas as a nick k and d cons lf aly there were 1 knick knacks i in 1 I going an ing n and ana knick knacks after W agot a got t to zi 7 zigi to with ith lh the cowe I 1 these things are all conn conned mon salvation that you h E I 1 der ad treal I 1 upon this forenoon the saly at diat a that h is i is s common I 1 with the people of coill gm you yo u understand ity you yo I 1 havle have practised practiced it and tast bastl 1 4 the sweets thereof I 1 you come here bayo ana yo dmn think that we are busy i and active bu r wv live v your religion nd you I 1 will feel the powe tha arid and falness ful ness thereof as I 1 I 1 you hav enever elt celt it previous to this what I 1 i j mean by the cirit Pw is the spirit oie of go te 0 I 1 aghos 1 1 l ich you vou can feel from the crown O af eads ads to td afie soles of your feet it is here YO af ft you 1 it if you do right and every thing you in the holy ghost and in the power of an 1 in the love of godt god and every ri I 1 you b have ve thought of in in your owa in minds ands is heie ei e and god is here bere and it if you have thought of bad it is here also if you approach a large abarge furnace the first thing you see are the black co columns 1 of smoke rising up and towering aloft and if you approach appi nearer you discover piles of coal and ore and the ashes dust and cinders which have been heaved out oui but all this will never convince you that there is no iron there you would say that alere there is so much iron winders inders there must be iron that the iron has been taken out and dressed that there must have been lots of iron here bere and you begin to look for the iron drori if you oce occasionally asio nally see a dirty sheep do not let it ia try you y ou if you do not get a bushel of wheat lestr as quick as you want it do not let that try your fait faith if you ay aae e ag komg to die of hunger that is the time to be s strong t r ng in the god of israel I 1 wish to see the new comers active in their religion I 1 wish to see them live their religion and lot only seek to be endowed dowed with the spirit of zion but to bring the spirit of zion with them I wish to see them come here with their coun tenancies ten teri ances lit up with the love of god and their hearts burning with the holy ghost and their voices voices soun sounding ding like the music music of sweet in instruments tru to join in the songs of zion and in the work of our god in cultivating the earth and in building houses bouses bless your souls if you desire ari an experience of this kind in order to build up Z zion n you must learn unless you have pi practice in in it unless you yon begin with one house hoube and then 90 0 o from one house to another you cannot learn how low to build you cannot learn liow bow to make a farm arm b by reading alone but you have got to have the he practical knowledge so aa it is in belati relation n to 6 building alding an architect may draw a fine desi design 9 n of a huze hoe yet there is not one man in a thou thousand sana who can carry it out without the architect is continually byham to direct and to say place that there and this yonder we may talk of making our own heaven and of building tip lip the city of zion and making it beautiful lul and having it polished after the similitude tude of a palace but we must have an experience in doing such a before we can accomplish it the world do not comprehend all thins things as they should they do not compre comprehend liend the gre greatest a test things the light and power of god pertaining to man in his probation towering among the clouds an ah I 1 smoke but its force is down here in the brae duties of life in the work under the sun oat fiat we have to do now when you come to zion you will flud find men standing upon their feet feel but go into the wo world ald and there if a man wants to show himself to be a smart man lie must mount a cabbage leaf hiccup and jump up to spit over his hirt collar it there was s a man heri here I 1 list winter who thought himself nr a smart man because his father was d a sni smart art man and he was nl all the while on the strain I 1 lik like e a man aho who mounts a cabbage leaf to bt I 1 or j jumps Ps up to E spit pit everds over liis shirt cottar collar iff fr ying Y to be what do dowhey they make inake nf nothing but a a 11 d a I 1 stoe stock k for men of sense the ore coal arid and flux are put in the tunnel head of the furnace and iron aud and cinder run to the boshes below and are sepe separated rated You Y ou seethe see the smoke first but you find here the true metal the Mon a little handful of mormons cormons cannot accomplish much used to be said but bat we i are gathering out the tough wire it has got to come here I 1 wish the saints who come here to bo be sal saints lItS I 1 said last spring curse a man who will the poor by keeping up the price of grain and who will not help his brethren I 1 know some men will say that we have fine men among us I 1 know that we have first rate good mercantile le houses heie I 1 like them first rate betit but it would beaetter be better for us as to do our own trading arid and by that means keep our oar money iu in our midst I 1 these are my views aud and have been all the time I 1 like to see a mormon bo be cormon a arid and act like a A good mormon will have an elastic raith faith 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