Show remarks RE mares MARKS uy ur president ident now Bow nowery bowery irTi p m I 1 september 2 1560 BV nv 0 0 D n WATT I 1 will ivill say a few words to those who hare bare hav e lately arrived the spirit of the gospel which they received in in their native countries caused tiati liati sed aed them to re joice lighted the lamp of bf devotion within themy them 1 and created in in their hearts a love of t truth thru r when people receive the holy ghost or the gospel dospel evidenced by the spirit of truth they in a degree feel and realize the glory of zion the commandment has gone forth for tor the saints to gather and build up zion they very readily receive receive e the impression that the gathering I 1 13 1 7 place ac el is the gathered are actually I 1 living 1 I ig in in Zion that the evil influences abroad in in t the he world and which afflicted them there I 1 will cease to afflict them here that they will I 1 enjoy f fhe he sweet communion ot of the holy ones upon the earth and that their sorrows and all that afflicts them will have passed away I 1 wish to inform you brethren and sisters who have just arrived armed in these valleys val vai levs that all your trials hit hitherto berto betto are but trifling in in comparison pari parl sorito to the trials you ou will now be called to meet e t and d pass tb rough through how many of you will continue faithful preserve yourselves in your 5 our integrity and in in the faith of t the e lord jesus christ you have come here expressly to be assembled with the saints your object in gathering was to forsake the wickedness that is is in the world and to mingle with those who serve god with an undivided divided wi heart and 3 ou expect to be f faithful ait alt heui hEul but let me inform you that you will vill not all prove faithful some of you will apostatise apostatize can you tell who sho you reply cano no but the first you are aware some of you will be off to california perhaps with the words to cache or carson careon we dont care a d n which on your wagon covers aa as they were on the wagon covers of some who started for cai cal carson son last spring some of 5 QU will be tempted above what you will bear will tamely submit to darkness ad avd its powers to the evil influences of bricked i spirits vei vel 1 rits will forsake the faith and the devil will 11 get the advantage 6 of you yon your troubles have just commence commenced li you are on the thres vola voia of the de department P t wherein you will have fiery trials 1 buch such as you yda have never had some who have been here for years will come around you and say well vell brother or sister how do you do do dodou you like the country and people 1 I dont knovs kno knoby Vv I 1 guess I 1 shall I 1 should like to have some things a little different but this is a good people well says an old brother who has been laboring a in the church for years to save the people 1 I dont know about it I 1 understand that A says thus thug and so I 1 doht dont know about it a few days a ago 0 I 1 saw a brother who seems to be a good brother talking with the president lie he seems to be in close communion with the heads of the church and alid Is all the time stealing horses I 1 really do not know about this y very likely the lord has suffered this old mormon to stay in the church thus long to get some of you to apostatize apostatise and when he succeeds you will go to hell together thus tius you will be led ste step by step to deny the faithy and to reduce the tight fight fight that was in you to total darkness one will reflect 1 I 1 do not know about brother john there are some things in his cliar cilar character acter that look dark to me and according 1 to the religion I 1 have embraced I 1 do 0 not understand ersland them and there is james if his conduct corresponds with the gospel as I 1 havo haye heard it preached in mr my native country I 1 donot know about it I 1 will look more narrowly into this and the first you know you will retire to rest rest without praying in your family and when you rise in the morning you are meditating upon what john and james are doing that you ou just t saw one of them taking a aielt pole mole from his is beig neighbors bors bor s fence and you say dont k know ow a about out this this is rather a dark enair affair among the latter day saints who have heave a assembled here from among all nations to serve god well wife have you got your breakfast ready come on family breakfast is ready gather around the table J the cifes heart Bink sinks stor for she had been accustomed to bear this m man an but there is no prayer thi this is mornings mor ninga ta gaar short h ort blessing e y in is asked the e breakfast reak fast is eaten eater and the man i looks off to john james dick hairy harry the devil and helland by and he goes goeb another apostate god gathers his people to school hem them while you were in E england france an dother foreign countries were you prepared to receive the oracles from heaven no are you pre prepared ared area now ko no are those who have been inze inge in twe the church twenty twenty five or thirty years prepared to have the visions of eternity opened to them no to hear the voice of the angel gabriel no how now can you be prepare prepared dif dlf if you let little frivolous trifling af and and temptations overcome you and turn you away the lord has brought you here bere to try ever every fiber of your hearts baarts even ag as abraham was tried in all things to prove whether you are friends of god and when whelk you see any acy one do wrong you should sav say say that is nothing to melle meile melie moe roe is ill in ahe the hands of god and will lave have hare to answer to him and I 1 for myself and when you see persons about to 0 give way to temptation you should say to your our families let us pray the lord to give t them hm strength and arid power to overcome the temptations of the ile evil ones that they may remain here instead of apostatising 15 some if bf you will do as I 1 have stated but if you will be faithful to your coven covenants ints you will not only be saviors to yourselves and to your wives and children but also to your neighbors when you see a neigh Beigh neighbor bor begin to slip pray for him that he may have the spirit of the gospel as he once had and aud if yov you reet feet this spirit within your youl selves pray for an ir nit hit crease of oe that light you received when you birst first received the gospel and you will gave save bave yourself and arid house yet after all the labor that willbe performed by the elders of israel in trav traveling eing to the utmost parts of the earth in gathering out the thi people from all nations and people and gathering them home to zion and jerusalem and perhaps other places the lord will vill appoint for the gathering of the people in the latter days and after all the preaching faith and toil that will be wrought by the servants of god when christ comes there will vill be five foolish virgins and five wise imy luy exhortation to every man woman an and child that has named the name of christ my p positive 0 command to you which I 1 urge upon you and which it is your tour imperative duty to hearken to and obey is t to 0 so live every moment that there viii will vill not be a dark spot upon tipon your lives that you can say every night the last is the best day I 1 have ever lived god be praised that I 1 have been enabled to so live hs s day that I 1 can go to slee sleep with a clear conscience in short so live tat that when you yolk wake f in n the spirit world you can truthfully say 1 I could not better my mortal life were I 1 to live ilie it over again I 1 exhort you for the sake of the house of israel for the sake of Zion wion which we aie ale are to build up tip to so live from this time henceforth and fore forever ver I 1 thai thal that your characters may with pleasure be scrutinized nihed by holy beings live godly lives which you cannot do without livid living moral live A man can commit sin sin and return to the lord and add receive for forgiveness ivaness but who has the assurance that lie he will vill have power to repent who has the right and privilege legli granted gran teil teji unto him to swear or to take that which is not his own and make use of it for himself 11 I 1 know inow now of no such buch right who has a night right to commit adultery if any one has such Z a permit from the almighty bring it forth and let us read i to the that we may know it who i has lias a right to bear false witness who hai has a right to defile himself by getting drunk ij if you have this right let us see it if yoli have a at rl night right bt to disgrace your wives and chil children dien dlen it ift tae the e eyes es of the people eule and god sa says itta itla it fa just a ami true bring out your authority and let us sid it I 1 know of no person pelson who has a right to sin brother other brigham dont you sometimes sin if I 1 do it is none of your business and the whole of you are not smart enough to catch me in a wrong look back at my life since chave been preaching the gospel and point out if yon yoa carf calf cabbe he iniquity I 1 have committed have you not taken the name bame of god in vain vaina 1 not the first time have I 1 ever used the name of my savior or the name of a holy angel or the name of the mother of jesus or the name of our father in heaven with trifling beelin feelings S have you not taken that which was not your own no and I 1 have not been able to get half of what is my own I 1 am going to have much more than I 1 now have not twice or thrice but a hundred fold more I 1 never yet felt that I 1 had license to commit a sin and if I 1 have not who has some may imagine that I 1 am boasting you may call it whai what you please god has preserved my feet and tongue and I 1 am here today 0 though not so good as I 1 ought to be and you are not so good as you ought to be there isa isa chance for us all to be much better where is there a boy in this community who has the right to disgrace his father by sin where is the dau daughter who has a right to disgrace her mother aby by defiling herself hersi lf have you such a license young women have you such a license young men if you cannot show your license to commit shall consider coni i you im impostors posters and that you havenor ight right and do not belong in our society we wll wil will I 1 all such men and women whether old or young they are already dis ds f fellow ellow shipped in my feelings you new comers are here expressly to mingle your faith with the faithful and your youn acts with those who perform the acts of righteousness to bring together to zion from every nation kingdom tongue and people the good and the strength power and wisdom of god that has been dispensed to the tho nations to take hold with us who have been trying to purify ourselves and the people it is your duty to take hold bold with us with your might to exalt righteousness look to god for grace to purify yourselves instead of 0 looking at I 1 your brethren you who wish to be numbered with the wise virgins virgins keep your vessels full of oil do not nob let iet it burn urn out and lay down and sleep thinking that you can get a supply of oil when you wake be careful that you are not caught with your vessels empty keep them full and your hearts full ot the holy spirit cease notto not nob to do good by so doing you willbe num numbered berea with the wise virgins this is the best country in the world for raisin raising saints faints though many things will cause caps e it to ta appear strange to you for a time people here procure livelihoods liveli hoods differently in many respects from what you have been accustomed to in your native lands lauds many of you have been used to receiving your wages at the end of the week then only baerle sufficient to i p week provide ra v de for your wants during the coming week ilow how did you manage in cases of sickness When you could not work I 1 presume some pt you nearly starved here there as yet yet has been no starving some dobilot do not know what they will do here you cannot starve to death as many do in countries you have come from find shelters for your camill families es and do not be bil in a panic nor llor fret and when a person meets you and says brother I 1 want to hire a little help heip perhaps you are a collier and never worked above ground or a silk weaver and never worked at anything else ilse and ad you ask what he wants done when he tells you you ou may not know how to do it but you can T learn arn if a person wants a silk weaver to take the spade and dig a ditch let the weaver say 1 I dont I 1 can learn fetch ton fort your spade take the first job of work offered and earn a bushel of wheat or a bushel of potatoes and when that job is done another alother will be ready do not be anxious to get gel great wages go to work and say nothing about wages but feel that this is zion and what can I 1 do to build it up without askin asking m any nian man to pay me one doll doli dollar doliar arP let that be e your I 1 ur chief joy and delight and you will never no lack ck for work food nor raiment the lord has all these things for those willing 0 characters i 1 but 21 says one some are very poor that is because they are not liberal enough in t h ell eli fe e I 1 i n g 9 1 I remember a question being 0 asked of aaron lake in canada he w went ent 1 into n ato uto a arouse and by way of introduction was asked can a man rise by fallin fal fai lingor or gain by losing ile he thought a moment and replied lyes ayes yes 11 you say there are some here who are poor and destitute that is because they refuse to fall that they nay rise to become poor that they ma may y become rich or to humble themi themselves elves that they may rec receive eive elve the right god goa in their hearts to dictate them da dabby y day do you think that the lord will au buffer suffer er his lils people to be hungry and starve to death too toto naked and freeze to death or to go houseless if they serve him with an undivided heart he never will never no never this people have been driven from place to place to give them expanded hearts to receive the blessings of the lord and that the wicked nal ral might night bt fill the cup of their iniquity and receive tho thir tir lir reward and the right was theirs so soon boon as we are prepared to receive ills his biess blesa warfare var fare faue is over but tb that atwill will not be I 1 just yet we yet have to contend for every inch ot of ground for the devil has power and possession on the earth and he does not riot mean to give it up but god angels and good men being my helpers I 1 will never cease to contend inch by inch until we gain the ground and possess the kingdom that is my f feeling eeling and we accomplish it I 1 will prophecy in the name ilaine of the lord jesus jesua christ that we will possess the king kingdom doni donl of god upon the whole earth and possess the earth do you believe it many voices yes that is as true as it is that the sun now shines god bless you amen |