D DISCOURSE PRESTO YOUNGS on sunday ofte noon roon june 1877 I 1 at a a special conference held at dl t farmington jor for the of organizing organising organ zing ising mistake ti stake of fo for th county I 1 11 BY aeo GEO P F GIBBS I 1 ESTEEM ESTEE itra it ra i privilege to meet with thet the latter day saints st I 1 have visited many times audi aud and I 1 can say that as a k gen eral oral ral rai thing in attending your meetings I 1 it nave ave felt much atthe of the peace and bla bia tings that flow froin from heaven to this people I 1 I 1 have iid nd doubt bilat of alid the people called latter day apts saints desire really to be w were relt ithoC ifft for this I 1 might feel parti partially aili alli discouraged the peppie popple who aro are honest beeking to kno rno know w andio understand the trutha they ey are the ones onos who sp jan far ar as their faith land good and their anti antl amiability atolli yare aya ara aye concerned sustain the god has haa commenced to on the earth when we consider the condition tion tian of the datter latter day saints and mid sea see he hos how V many there thero at are who seem to have their eyes amol nixed fixed upon the things of this world things not lasting but that perish in the handling and aud how anxious they are obtain them how do you think I 1 feel about itz it ito we see many of the elders of israel desirous of becoming wealthy and they adopt any course that they think thin will bring them riches which tomo tome to mo is as anything tobee men pt wisdom men that seem to have an understanding of the tho and pf af the things of god searching 0 af after min orals throughout mountains they tr traverse alverse the hills hilis and they dig here and therea and keep dig ging and ticking and rolling the rocks from morning till night this chain of mountains has his been bien followed from the north to the pie south bouth and its various spurs bay hay been heen prospected and what do they ey find just enough to allure them and to finally lead them from the 4 faith and dud ar ar last to make tul em miserable abil anh poor ask asid th thac brethren any they do this and the ready reply will be bei la Is it not my privilege to find a gold god mino mius mins ora sliver mine as well weil as aa at far As as I 1 am ani concerned I 1 would say sayi iye yes certainly Itis tour jour privilege if you caun cart find one but do dd abu kno know iv libow now to nind find kuch such a mine no apu vo fiot riot these treasures that aro are in the earth are carefully watched they c can call all ber her removed from place to thi the thu g good ad bleas bleat pleasure urel ofa him film who treads triads I 1 them 0 and arid amenn he hils has his at his Service tanu antl auti anti it is just as easy for kai a n angel aneel to tor toi 40 move the minerals from nuy any parlo amot owe one one of these mountain to another 11 as it is for you and moe toe to salk saik valk u up ardd and arid down this hall this however is 16 not understood by the Chri christian iv world orld orid nor fior by us its as ug a people there are re certain circumstances that a fi number timber bf my bt be ethren thren and aisters sisters have hemd heard me mie relate th that atwill will demor mol moi istrate this so sd positively what wham tha that none need doubt the truth ot what 1 I 1 say 1 I 1 presume there are present who have heard me nat rate a clr elf cum stance with regard to the discovery covery of a goldmine gold told mine in id little Cetto dood Ca canon flon fion and I 1 will boe here my feay thit that th the specimens from it which I 1 havo have in nay ray alonto day dax ai aie are e as aane fine specimens mens of gold h a ever were round found on chis continent ut abiu A naan whom wham gome some of well know brought to me a mot mott beautiful aug nug nugget Z abt I 1 told him to let the mine alone when general iii connet conner came bere here ho he did considerable and in hunting ii the cot ton woods ha hs had an au inkling tart there was gold there porter as we I 1 generally call himi him came tome to me one ona lay day saying 11 the they y have struck with duhin I 1 ri four I 1 inches n h 9 of my lode iode what mall shall I 1 do lie he was carried away with the idea that he must do fehmer thing I 1 therefore told him to go with the other brethren interested and make hib his claim when lie he got through talking I 1 said to llin ilin liim porter you youl ought to know better you have seen and heard things which I 1 have not and are a man of long experience in this church I 1 want to tell you one thing they may s strike k 6 within four inches of that lode lodo as ds many times lis its they 1116 have a and hud they will not dot lt it 11 I 1 they hunted and hunted hundreds of them did and I 1 had bad the pleasure of laughing at him hima a tl lItt lefor when he went there again ho could not find it i himself laughter sometimes I 1 I 1 take the liberty of tal tai kinga little further with regard kasuch thins things orin P lc kwell kweli is an eyewitness eye witness to some powers of removing the he treasures treasure 5 earth he was with certain parties that lived nearby near by where rethe the plates were found that contain the records of the book Booko of mormon were a great my many treasures hid up by he Nep Kep hites porter was with them one night where there wen trea tred treasures and they could find them easy eno enough tigh but yut they could not obtain them I 1 wall tell you a story which will wll most of you it was told me by porter whom I 1 N krould uld bl bickly abany man that lives lived when lie he tells a thing be he understands he lie will tell it justas just as he knows knois li ii he isa is a man that does not lle ile lie jie he said that ou on this night when they i were re eb engaged hunting for foi this old tre treasure asure they dug around the end of a chat chet lot lor some pome twenty ln inches ehe che the chest chesl was about three teet leet square oue out tan nan man tah who was determined tb have tha contents of th that chest took tooh his pick anil struck luo ino the lid ladof of it mad split through into mio the eheal cheat the blo bio blow biow w took look off h a piece of the lid which a certain tain lady laly ialy hept kept in her pbs pis possession deslou until she died difed that thai chest of money went into the he bank bunk luto porter describes it so ep making a rumbling sound ile he says this if is justas just as true as the heavens are I 1 nave heard others tell fell the pame bame barm earn story r relate this because it i 1 marvelous to you but to thos w who 0 understand these things ic it if fe not marvelous you hear bear a great deal said about finding money there is bo difficulty at all iu in finding money but there area are a gi eat cat people that thal dp do not know what to do with ir it when they do nud find it this is the great defect with the human family I 1 could relate many very brugli tan tar ar circumstances I 1 lived jived right iu in the country where the plates platea werk wort found which the book ofal odmor lor mon man was trans trani translated and I 1 know a great mady many things pertaining tu to that cru eru country I 1 believe I 1 will take lake the liberty to tell you of another circumstance that will be as malicious louchs as anything can cau be thial an incident in tho the 11 life ilfe fe of or oliver cowdery but he did not dot take the liberty of telling such things in in meeting as I 1 take I 1 tell ibl ihl these ese things to you and anti I 1 have lave a motive for doing to ow I 1 want to carry them to the ears of my brethren and aud sis sin anid arid to the children also that they may grow fo to an understanding of suma sumo things that geem seem to be entire entirely lf hidden from the huma human q family oliver cowdery we went wens with the prophet joseph soseph when li AH de dei posited alieh plates jo joeph joseph eph did not translate all of the plate there was a portion 0 of f them sealed which you can learn from the book of 0 doctrine and covenants when joseph juseph got tho pi pl tes th the anel nuel augel auel 0 instructed ted him to carry catry th theli 6 m back to the hill cumorah which he did didi oliver says that when joseph M and aud oliver went there the hill opened and they walked a cave ju which there was waa vh a large and i i otis ous room he bayr he did not think at the time whether they had the light of the sun bun pr artificial light but that it was waa just a ais als light as day they laid the plates plaes a table it wasa was a laigo table tabie that stood in the room under this table there was a pile of plates as much as two feet high and there were altogether iu in this room more inore plates a tes thau than ably many dagou wagon road foad they were piled up lip in the cor ners and along the walla the first time they u went vent ent eat there the he sword of laban hung upon the wa 1 but when they went again agala it had bad been taken down and laid upon the table across the gold plates it WAS ull up sheathed and on it was written cheze th ee words this sword will ne ver be eh e ath ed again until the we kingdoms darns doing of world beekma the kingdom aad lad om of our god and his christ t I 1 tel te I 1 lyou llou this as coming not only from oliver cowd ery cry bu but t oth others who were wera familiar with it and tood food lood well as wo understand coming to this meeting enjoying the day and aud by and by we wd se separate and go away forgetting most of what is baidy baid eaid but remembering some bome things Sol boi so is sIt it with other in life 1 this to you and I 1 want vant you to understand it I 1 take this i liberty of referring tot hose hoso things t so 0 that they will riot not be forga forgotten aten and lost smith was aygun a joung young mafi man of df as huch duch m uch veracity as any J young man mau we had bao and he bb wash wags was wag a witness to these things samuel smith sansome saw some things hyrum saw a goed good many things but joseph wa the leader jow chow you may think I 1 am unwise in publicly telling these things thing sr th thinking laking perhaps I 1 should preserve them in my own breast but sug SUO is not my mind I 1 would like me trie people caled latter day dainef to understand some little thing with regard to the workings and dealings of the lord with his people here hera upon the earth I 1 could relate to you a great many more all of which are familiar to many of our brethren and ind bl hinlers hinters aters alers I 1 now should you go prospecting for gold or silver you will tind joha joba enough all ail u rey ou and abd to Up destroy stroy you bucit built but bul it might be said at AM ilot jhb earth and its treasures the properly of the lord who created liebi piew and will be he not according to the be pro promise misel civo chein tu his fai fal th fui ful disciple 4 0 ys yes this ia I 1 strict ly y co cot reci ireci but yuu yua marir this 1 he the linan who is s to his calling hild brid to this holy priesthood never never nuver kues jues flir for gold ur or mil ail verun tess ness ho he is sent ent such men are aie huud following their legitimate pursuit R in their neld in their workshops anil and gardens mak mah ing lug tg beauli beautiful lul jul their habitat lobs lols in uther other word engaged build hiu luu up and und assisting to estu esta estable establish bli bif ah the tibt u gud on the earth with minds on the thu true riches and not upon ube ine things of this world people do not kaow know klow ll 11 but I 1 know therm there is a st seal al set sel upon the arta trea urs or ot earth men are allowed to go si so far and alid nu no fir ther I 1 have known places where there were treasures iu ju bul but could men uin nin get got them no you yuu yu u ulu rad r ad tu the thu 13 ook of mormon of 01 the an aji elbet mephitis Neph itis itts hid hidilio their treas ures antl and of slip per pery seo feo hat after they alid sivate ly lid hid their money m going to the place iu lo and behold it vas was vay not there then but was else bul but they knew dot not where phe rhe pt people do not understand thi I 1 wish they did for they would thuu do asi do pa atten idu iol iou to maie mate bu but iu iness ineas thal thai god hadgi has bas gl ven veu them to perform dp I 1 1 run iun u L a abier t e r mines or r dig gilig holes in t ibe p ground no I 1 I 1 is uke like ilke che ihu the will o the tho anacko iau laut jau ern you ask our business meen or goto and el Aquire thero there whether it anys to huni bune for gold 1 I will to say there never was a dollar taken from the mountains of california neither flom from these mountains jyh eist cist nor from out of this hue hut what ast cyst horm horn teti leti ten to onui outi mildred undred li dol doi lais do you believe belleve thal ihal it is baid said said t a great deal of money has been made liere here and who hasma ba qu ii considerable lead has been taken from frona here and a little silver butt buti when you count the time that hasi asi yeen leen spent and after putting tig A a valuation upon itsou it you jou will dinu I 1 what I 1 say to be st a luct tact I 1 to say sar ry othi oth i ing of the lives sund sand and property properly that a are aro to lost loit A little town directly i west weft of here some somo fifteen m monab u ago contained conta eonta ined a certain number of mem men who followed iri milling bilili wt calculated the their r time at t the tho ey rapt t p f wha paid for eow cow common on a abai oil and then we ascertained the amount oun realized from the treasure tak taken out of the earth which was well weil known and it was shown that they spent III in the neighborhood ot seven hundred dollars a day and got in lu return about thirty what they did got get was just to allure them the lord lias bas hiir enemies to come among us who woul would destroy xi u if ther they could 1 they are only allowed to allure the minu the foolish ad thoda who lach laeh lack judgment and aud wim know things I 1 0 of f god bh butr when we ab brand braud la and BS as a people iea lea learn ru things as they avo ewo are we will ivill find this fact all hll truth is worthy and worth possess possessing ings logs while all un untruth truth ts 54 is 14 not dot worthy nor g after mor mon borki ng fr for ivr olur olar or abe pe gospel g af fotre and aud d bal bai salvation eal which god has reve revealed ale e to UP Us incorporates all the systems ss lemal there are every true principle and aud au devery every true truo helen belen science ceaud and every y truth there is are incorporated within the faith of the latter day saints this is something worth possessing this la Is worth spending dur our time for but the reil religions gions of the day independent of their moral iare fare are nothing but a myth a shadow there is no reality in the them m but when you come to the ih philosophy of the religion of beav beay 0 yu have llave facts in your poses iolj that thad are worth having they are worthy the admiration of the wite wise the pru prudent degi dept the noble the great and those that seek after the wisdom that cumes from god and the latter day faints are in possession s of this treas uiel what W bah bat are we doing if jve we were the people of iod god aa as we profess to be there would not be ie a dissenting voice in it all ali israel lff iff IT obeying the priesthood itwara observed this by brother cannon with regard to yielding obedience that we wu were called upon to yield obedience be cau causse 0 o it was a command of god and ofir our faith demands obedience fo to what whai vba wherefore Where fore fort obeal obedience to every principle of truth lani MANI foi for so that tut we may become post possessors 1 espers of all truth why should we ve do il it became because it gives us health it gives us wealth it gives us knowledge dowle 0 it gives us power it gives us line tine beauty auty it gives us excell encyl