Show i minutes of the general conference of take chrusch of jews christ of f latter day saints held in the tab ernabelle cru erna icle elle great irea bait bialt laae city com october ath isaa 10 A 1 M president brigham young presiding B young H C kimball Kiin boll W richards Patria patriarch mh isaac csc morley of I 1 iho hi apostles apostle 0 0 hyde P P pratt prat W woodruff J taylor G A smith E T benson L snow E snow F D richards seventies jos joe young H herriman Z lier A P rockwood J M grant B L clapp high priests quorum john young R cahoon caho on P azid dlug bishop edward hunter presidency n y of the stake D fullmer thomas thoman rhoades P H clerk of conference thomas thomaa bullock reporter george D watt choir sung a hymn prayer frayer by elder george A smith singing ELDER HYDE opened the conference by reviewing the arrival of the saints this season tile the indian dis tur bance and echo the saints to look to the beacon I 1 light il lit who guides us to be the heirs of all things I 1 both in heaven and on oil earth and we should he be thankful we have the privilege to follow such stich a leader when a person is appointed to be a leader it proves proved that he has pawed passed through tribulation and trials und and has been proven to be worthy to be a leader lead r and that he lias has earned it by his upright conduct und and is sustained bained by the frood good will of the Sai saints if god himself was to descend from his throne and declare the truths of tile gospel to fallen man many would want some angel to come and bear testimony that he be was of a truth the god our heavenly eni k ather has ascended to lo his throne through trials and similar to many of the saints arid and therefore lie he can sympathize with our weaknesses and can send forth assistance to our aid therefore he sent liis his beloved sort son that who would hear and obey I 1 him heard and obeyed the father a d when that son was distressed in the garden of gethsemane gethseman Geth sema 1 1 he sent an angel to comfort him in his trial tho those a e echo who will not obey the son will not obey the father that sent him A person who goes out into the world goes to bear t the he or of inan mankind kind and with a fueling feeling to lo earn a crown of reward the angels are like us they are unwilling to come here unless they are sent they like us are too willing to stay at home when brother kimball and I 1 were in england brother K felt to take off his hut arid and bless the and bless the land for there was a peaceful spirit and miny souls willing to receive tho the truth but the time lime will come when peace p euce win be taken from the earth it jw is the saints who are going to judge the earth under tile the supervision of tile the almighty it is the duty of saints to increase arid and multiply and will be their duty to ass a sentence on the fallen spirits s for they will be I 1 the witnesses of their own persecution and th that a t w will ill I 1 ca cause u be the sinners to cry for the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from froin the wrath of god when the cure is taken from the earthie ear thit wilp will be given to the stints saints and there will be no nigh but all will be light and the glory gi ory of god witt win surround it there will be a place for everybody and those who love darkness better than libbi highl will have a world rolling eternally in darkness singing benediction by J M grant HALF PAST ONE r P M conference opened with singing prayer by elder E T benson singing ELDER F D RICHARDS congratulated many of the saints on their arrival this season having abc acc accod m P 11 shed their gathering ga the n 11 exhorted them thein to lo live live right that they may have 11 he favor of god continually and not feel sad because those who have come iu in previously have got the best locations in the city but aliat rather rejoice that you have a name in this place be careful and retain the spirit of god lest you yo u got go t I 1 the spirit of murmuring and complaining and drop I 1 away from the church As the sisters exercise a great influence upon the rising generation geue ration I 1 exhort you yon not to keep the society of any person who speaks evil of the an authorities ties but rather associate with those who tend to perfection you never lived in a country where persons spoke what they me meant ant before you I 1 came to this brethren you abo sheild sid be always ready 0 and then 11 nothing 0 thi ng w will ill ro r come O me ami amiss 8 s even when you are called to bear glad tidings to nations who know not god for I 1 the he lord god will wiil pour out his spirit upon till all israel that they may be saved and you car can bear witness that the spirit of god has been poured out in richer abundance within the past few years or since the brethren received their blessings in the te temple tempie in at nauvoo and in this place PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG said I 1 wish to call the attention of this conference to an invitation I 1 shall give dive them and wish to extend it to the saints in this valley and elsewhere I 1 allude to the gathering of the poor saints many of 0 us are acquainted with the circum circumstances stan ces of the saints when itley came to this valley six years ago also five and four years ago were we to go through this comm community uniti arid and search out the men women arid and chialdi en A ho have come here hereon on their own resources and those who have been helped hee by the bial em fund arid and by private individuals it would bi be seen that a large proportion of the community have been brought here through the assis assistance taice of other I 1 will not say a majority have come here under those circum circumstances but there are thousands who have thousands of men women and chialdi children chil dien en have been helped here by tile the emigrating fund alone this is the subject to which aich I 1 wish to call the at bentio tension Z of the conference and the he community at large I 1 wish all to hearken to it to reflect upon it and contemplate it seriously I 1 call upon those who have not yet put forth their hands bands to assist in gathering the poor pool to give us their names and their means during durm this conference that we may raise raise a few thousand n dollas ais s to be applied to this pui purpose pose suppose we should try to laise as in much uch as we did four beirs years ago when we wei e in the midst of our greatest poverty arid and dipti ess we had just arrived heie and bid scarcely sufficient to sustain life notwithstanding these straitened circumstances I 1 at the first conference we held in the old tabernacle Taber this subject was agitated arid and ill hi gold was raised arid and sent to gather in i n the pool pooi 1 D dire ire I 1 venture vent r re to flatter myself that we can raise 1 5 or this conference to be applied to the s same T e td good purpose the people are better able to aaisje so y J now than they wet e to 0 o raise then suppose we raise 15 or to send foi our poor brethren and sisters wao ion long 1 to be here as much as any of you did before your ay was opened this amount cabb can be e raised cowand not cell forth an unusual effort we might ask you to reflect upon the days that you have spent in yonder distant land where you could seldom walk the streets or enter a shop like fike another citizen without the finger of scorn being pointed at you you without suffering the malignant taunts and the ungodly for the be sake of your religion let me refer your ia zo ads to the lime line that the gospel was first introduced to you and the light ana aim glory of it opened up to your understandings when eternity elern ity and eternal things reflected upon your benighted minds mind and your conceptions were aroused to see things as they were as they are and as as they they will be what were your feelings and meditations tt when zion and its glory burst upon your vision when the people of god appeared to you assembled tog together eaber preparatory to the coming of the son of man again what were your feelings when la in every that you turned your eyes they were met with scenes of wickedness sad and your ears saluted with deep dyed blasphemies of every des caption was there any that feared the lord no the most pious could do nothing more tha thai i some did in the days of the apostles they could erect an image to the he unknown god and worship somebody or lp something ethling but they knew not what what were your feelings and reflections under such circumstances s t am m wh when n yon yen first heard of the he latter day wo 0 of the aspel in ils its fullness f when you yon fi st it learned that the lard had a pio pichet pi ophee het and aid apostles ip sties who I 1 eld the woi ds is of ft life ife for foi tile the people what ws was there you would not ha he e aar sacr faced in it a moment for the arn privilege liege of embling assembling as witti the he emils of mingling your 0 aces ces and sat ion with ihei theis lay day by da day of visiting journe jou mein ing dong business laboring boring Ij and spending your div live e Q auh oh those ww wiio know and love tile the lum lord aral and will seive erve him la is there anything you ou would not have baie ced verily no A lf you can remember y your alir own fee feelings lingi then you call an know how ito W ottiss othe 6 fel feel f el you can call balze how I 1 thousand housand a and hd score ot of tb houang houa nl feel at ar this pres pie ent E nt moment inot tient there is no haia ship they would ie ic ruse to undergo no danger they would not endeavor ende ivor 0 surmount if they could assemble with w th us here this day no trial would be too keen for them there is i no that they would not readily and willingly take make for the privilege you enjoy this day i j brethren arid and sisters sister scan car you real ze ibis j let us is now bow i lead ead a chapter on tile the other side bide of the I 1 page arid and we find tile the hearts of men arid and women by crushing crossing the lie ocean by ti aveling a fey few week or no iro kihs by water ind sand land appear to become partial i I 1 iv v closed tip p aud and they foe loae sight of uie the object of beir pursuit it seems as though the bard hardships hips they I 1 I 1 pa pass sa through in coming coming to this land banish nearly minas ands eve every particle of the light of chiist out of i I 1 if you started on your journey with the influence I 1 f tile eHly chiy sanit it waitt laig your hearts bearis wio prevented id you ou f aiom i om j retaining leta ining it e deiy ea y day of your life you oil n may la suy say it was the devil devi I 1 that robbed you of 0 f it I 1 but ali what a ku business siness had you wi it the devil was there any necessity that you should euter into fellow ship with hun him or with wilh tile the works of dai kness no ko you reply I 1 had for fo isaken aken him arid I 1 a al 1 my old associates arid and fet fe lings and had given my i self to ahe lord had embi embraced aced his gospel ard set I 1 j out to build up ud 1 his kingdom and wished to gather with the caiti saints ts at the gathering place suppose the devil does tempt you must you of ne cassity enter into ship again with him open your doors and bid him welcome to your house arid and tell him to reign there why do you not reflect arid and tell fell master devil with wilh all ail Is his associates arid and imps to feeling ft ahng you havi have sei ved him ban long enough ion says bays one me I 1 I 1 did not know that I 1 could possibly c ome come her heie e with unruly cattle catle without getting wrong in my feelings 11 or ibis brother did wrong and mared in at my feelings beefing fe efing I 1 was irritated and the he cares ot the journey ed my mind and hurt me so that I 1 do not really anuw whether I 1 have got to where I 1 started for or not noi things are different differ ert here than I 1 eap exp apt to lo find lb m etc this is a le presentation tuition of the feelings of some I 1 N abo ho have crossed cros ed the plains plain thi season my mv advice to you is go and be the remission remis remi siou ai of sins and start afresh that thai way may lot evele me ime you oil agabi a ta it pause and reflect that be biot overcome come by y lite evil one mie unawares un wares in the filst place if you are aie re baptised baptized for the remission of ans per pei ad adventure denture you may i receive again the spirit of tile the gospel in its glory light aud beauty but if your hearts are so engrossed in the thin things of I 1 this world that you do not know whether hether you want to be j ie e baptist baptised or nut not you had better shut yourselves up tip in some kanyon or closet to lo repent of yo your U r s sins i ns I 1 and d call upon the name of the lord ar 1 until uld you get HP his spirit and the light thereof L to reflect ff act upon you Yon that you may know the nature of your of fences and you you true condi condition conditi tiou oi that you may mav realize arid and 1 appreciate the blessing you enjoy in being here wih I 1 the saints of the most high hiah let me lead your minds a little further I 1 wish to tell lell you vou something which you may indy perhaps 1 s know ow as well as I 1 do but pu ou may not have bave realized it when the lie lord almighty opens the vision of a persons in nd lid he haws urn lim the things of the spirit things that will be if any of you hae had a vision I 1 of f zion it was shown to you in its beauty ard glory after satan is bound it if you have reflected upon the gathering of the saints it was the spirit of gathering tabt enlightened you and when your winds minds were opened in vision to behold ulf hf glory arid and excellency 0 of f the gospel y you ou did not see a vision of di ing eattle cattle across tile the plains arid and w where her y you ou would be mired in ill this I 1 or that mud hole you eid did not see the stampedes among the cattle and those of a boise woi se character amon among the the people but ut you saw the b beauty auty arid and globy of Z on that you might be encouraged and pie to meet the afflictions sorrows arid and disappointments point ments of this mot tal life and overcome them arid and be made ready to enjoy the glory or of the lord as a it was revealed to COLLECT you ou it was given to you for your encouragement THAT you will recollect my to those who have mean we want them to give the perpetual emigrating fund a lift bring in your tithes and ings arid and we will help a great many more to this ill place iff the future than we have this year we wish to double our diligence and treble the crowd of immigrants i grants by that fund I 1 wilh to show you a little bitle of the philosophy of human nature in its fallen and degraded state you may consider it in the gopel go pel or out of i if in tile the light of tile the holy spirit or without it as you please the philosophy philosophy of mary mankind kind in their daily daili avocations you may all al know for yourselves by your out own observation ari and d experience I 1 wish to mention a portion I 1 of it that has come und r my notice I 1 could rat n ion names but I 1 will content myself with wi ith nam we ack up tip sa say tle persons in england arid and convey them across the water ara and across i he plain and set them down lit in this hi i alley they commence to labor arid and in ill a chrt short time they ill make ake lies es com they can soon obtain plenty of the best kaid of pay foi their labor such as bread the staff of life butler cheese arid and vegetables when a man gets these things witti without out the fancy nic knacks he fie does well I 1 suppose we pick up a company of these pooi poor saints in in england whose faces are pale and who can scarcely tread then their way tie streets for want of the staff of lite you may see them bowed down lom very weakness with their aims across their stomachs going to rid od lom their work the ahe |