Show remarks of prest 15 C tabernacle G S L guy city july 11 1852 after er der dan danial V 1 tyler had addressed the congregation gre gation on t tie lie fust dij st principles of the ohp gospel pies president kimball bore the f allowing test testimony I 1 have been much interested with I 1 the principles that have been laid before us by bi bio 0 o daniel tyler he is a man loan with whom I 1 have been aca acq acquainted fainted for foi many year and I 1 know him to be a good man I 1 can say truly that I 1 hive have heard hean the gospel presented before us as this morning as it is in the new testament I 1 you know that it is generally understood and perhaps by bi many of the strangers stran strail geis who are arc P besent besent today that we do not believe e the B ble that is is a great mistake we do believe behe e it I 1 can say as one of the apostles of old said sa d and it is is my alv a lv ce and instruction to you prove all and ti kiy y all things and hold fast to lo that which is good As he exhorted you to prove these things to investigate them and reflect upon them and prove the truth i of that which is called moi mormonism monism let me tell you gentlemen theda the day y will come if y you dont do it you will allbe be sorry anny because there is is a future da day that will de determine dete these things it it will be but a few years perhaps not to exceed 50 that not a person heie hei e this day will then be upon the earth you will go into the world of spirits to try the realities re of knottier state ot of existence what we have to do we must do in in this state ot of existence while in our tabernacles tabei niches of fles and if we make good use of our lives ard and of our blaes and of our talents talen ls it will be well weil with u but it if w we do not we have to give an account of the deeds done in in the body these bodies ai aie e given to you by the same being that gave to me my bod boda 3 and they are ape committed mil taid to you as a stewardship by that god abo placed I 1 us here and y YOU ou have got to give an account of your stewardship and the course chui coui se you take if you permit that tabernacle to become polluted and if your spirit suffers your body to fie be contaminated with sin and corruption you will have to make an atonement for it belore you can get your redemption I 1 worked out gentlemen maik it for it is is even an a this is the gospel winch which has been taught to us today to day in a plain and simple manner and in that simplicity that it was taught by jesus christ and his hii apos apostles es arid and by many oi hers who were ordained by them the people profess is to believe the bible the whole christian world profess to beleve that book to believe that it is ii the elble hut but do the they y beleve what is in that bible if they do they do dont lt practise it how many of you my bi ethren and fellow travelers to eternity how many times have you said in your kour day arid and in i in your an and in your f family am circles it if I 1 could see one man practise re that religion that was taught by Je jesua susand and his apostles I 1 would be a saint I 1 have sa d it many times before I 1 ever heard of mormonism im and have sought for these things and wished for I 1 them hem and prayed tor for them according accor according Xing to the knowledge I 1 then had but what did I 1 know about god or 01 about the gospel by what I 1 heard from the pulpits pils of the day I 1 I 1 have been at the meeting many a time thae and toll followed owed up their protracted meetings and sought ought 1 anti when they are converted to the faith of methodism Methodi sin I 1 have seen the priest go to the water waier because some wished to be baptized in the water but not because it was at all necessary one 91 wold say I 1 want to be spi inkler another I 1 want to have the water upon in mi and another 1 1 want lut to be plunged plu ngel all right ri tit says the minster min ster ei ner of these is is just as ne as the other for abne none of them are aie essential to salvation we only attend to them to satish satisfy y the candidate suppose the lassof laws of the united slates sates made upon this principle just to suit fancy and notion making laws for every one to do just as they pleased what kind of laws would they be what would you think of such a lawmaking law making department would you sustain it would you fated nd to it a roan manas as a delegate to represent present ie your your case to make wholesome laws that would give e cpr epry y man lis his rights and p privileges I 1 would not have tich stich a law got but I 1 wo would ld cast it out those who made it I 1 god has one mode of saving men and women and you cannot be saved upon apon any other principle than amt which jesus chiist chi lit taught aid I 1 know it I 1 banaay can say to this congregate con L gregat on oa and to every other which thing I 1 have said in iii tile the united states abdin and in great bri britain tain except you receive the hie words of jesus chast and those that are ordained mid and sent forth by him you are jiust as sure of damnation as yau are sure of dying and I 1 know kitow it these e things ard plain ilam and the gospel that bro daniel his spoken eteen has been revealed in these last times that light that was once extinguished by wickedness has been lit u up again the ancient gospel is is aga n revealed 3 and ge the priesthood of the son ot of got god and the latter pay day 4 saints bave this and you yoa cannot help yourselves that is why we are here toda today to day that ianthe reason why I 1 am here today to day in a fand and of peace boce and plenty and a healthy location with my brethren who have come here to find a good home I 1 dont you find the people here peaceable and kind at and d affectionate attending to their own business did louever you yo uever ever find aj a more peaceable place in your life IW ii IQ the united states or in england or in any 11 part ot of the world than this no I 1 defy you to find any more peaceable place than this the reason we are here in these silent valleys is because we could not have the privilege of worshiping god according to his requirements in our native country some of you may say 1 I can scarcely believe that but as I 1 sure as you live I 1 have been robbed and broken up I 1 six times before I 1 came here and was forced to leave M my habitation and my substance it is there now wilthey and they are welcome to it I 1 am not the only per j son who has suffered so ao by a great many and all I 1 because of my religion we are looked upon as the I 1 worst kind of beings on the earth did you ever think of a wicked thing but what it was placed upon us J joseph h smith and his brother were killed in carthage jail ja il joseph smith wasa prophet of god arid and I 1 know it I amnot testifying to this ibis because I 1 have believed it so long but I 1 knew it 20 years ago just as well as I 1 do now and have testified of it to the nations of the earth arid and what will be the consequences of this testimony he that beli believe believeth eveth tb and is baptized shall be saved aved and they shall receive the holy ghost under the hands of enose who have due authority to coofer that blessing and it if they go forward and are baptized with full purpose of heart believing with ali ah their soul obeying the gospel being buried with christ by bap baptism barthin thin they shall obtain the holy ghost on the day of pentecost when peter proclaimed the gospel about souls were added to the chul cauich that day how long iong did it take them tore pent no longer than they were willing to believe and put away weir sins witta witha determination to forsake them and again I 1 rejoice that I 1 live in this day and age 11 of the world I 1 rejoice that I 1 have passed through what I 1 have for the gospels sake but will it compare to what men passed th through rough in the days of jesus who was hung upon a cross for his rel gion Us lie expired upon calvary for his religion they killed him as a false prophet aud and even those of his own household did not lot believe in him they also slew his apostles and those who believed in them dont you suppose it was as degrading degradi tig to them to believe in jesus christ as for us to believe that joseph smith is a prophet he was a prophet and jesus was the son of god and hyrum smith was aca a patriarch anti anil a son of god at ai d I 1 bear witness of it unto all men many fact to damn the mormons cormons Mor mons and call them ever evert f ing that is evil does it harin hana us does it affa affi et our salvation in the least no the more patiently we bear it the greater will be our glory and exaltation it is because bli bei I 1 of our religion that we people are in ia trouble in the united states they are troubled about it in great britain france and denmark they e croul led about it the priests of the day are stoutly crying false prophet and delt deli a on and the invisible wo id are rapping muttering and pe peeping epin r and th they ey are fi finding tiding fault friey 1 tiey are at a los to know w what hat can be the matter toe invisible world is in they are knocking band and rape rapp I 1 ng ing and mut muttering terin r anu and the people are i inquiring requiring of t them I 1 em to know r in the things of god and there is not a soul of them ran can tell them hem about the end of the world they are in a dreadful situation and in the city of rochester I 1 near where I 1 used to live the last information I 1 received from ethene cy there were spiritual pi ritual in alit city I 1 luve hive a bretl e ii law jmj c who is a P esby eby terian priest he co alic ll ic inquire about future facture things of gid 0 so o lie he inquired ff 4 the 8 spirits tte r its buz bu they co could tild not tell him aay h ng about the dead nor the living they are just about as intelligent tell igent in then their revelations I 1 as th s world is in they are all in commotion what is going to b done I 1 will tell you vou god is gong to mike mae m ike a short c upon u 0 n the eirls earl h aad the invisible invertible corll is d about about iti you do not doubt that gentlemen i you boll who come f aiom i om the united S ates can se es I 1 hat it is so and the people a ae e troubled lid d in new york and in many of the other states so ho t lat t icy cannot destt rest no not a day aney are aie in contusion contus conr on and so dispirited they know nut not what to do to tl e iea i sea strikes me that the day of the lod lo 10 d is approaching and neater than you it is 13 you are here in in quest of gold but litiere there is something here woith woi th more than the glitter ter ing in jepth of the earth I 1 say let me serve god and keep ins his com commands comman mandin dm ns and you may have the gold arid and all the hie riche and wealth of the eath ea th in welcome I 1 cate caie nothing 1 about it for all you can take with you when you leave this earth is not muc much A dream that my own daughter had lately comes fore boic by b y to my mind I 1 will relate it she dreamed that slip was driven and those that were with her I 1 but they lai lad a great many fine things in in the earth in the shape of furniture gold and silver silverano silv erand and every thing else and she su ff ered in her feelings beca because be caise j se sh she e was unde the necessity of leaving a al and could not take anything cut of the world with her finally she was permit permuted ed to take a white dress dresa I 1 said to her that is all we can take in n our shroud we shall be laid in in the silent tomb naked we came into the yoi orld id and naked we shall go out of it for foi dust we are and unto dust we shall return can you help yourselves isyou if you can you have more power thi than n I 1 lave have I 1 expect to be bald la d low with all the human family as was the son of god and I 1 cannot be help myself I 1 know your beelin feeling I 1 have seen the day when I 1 loved gold and silver a and id fine carriage y and fine horses and tie good thinas of alii world but I 1 have lost those feelings feeling 3 and may gua god ever co ii i i tue me to separate it from me as far as the eak cat is id born the west w st and let my mv affections be upon pot hun him and his kingdom until I 1 breathe my mv las as breath I 1 know if I 1 near go to the united statis states again or to gi gibat eat britain my skirts are clear from tho th blo blood od of this generation genei gener alion I 1 have received nothing but ill wages desfor for my labor from them and if ever a saw min did hs ha duty I 1 have done it to tn this generation I 1 have told you yon 6 the e truth and whether you are in in hell or 01 in heaven you shall know knew that mormonism is tru and what I 1 and my brethren have told you th 8 day is the boyl gospel of salvation so may god have mercy upon you an and S ave you in in his kingdom amen |