Show f by liy orson orton pratt eid sid eld 7 IBM jsu jy f f br by 0 D WATT tj 1 A AV A X X V I 1 with great pleasure I 1 arise before this large arge er congregation assembled here in n the capacity of tr a general conference I 1 feel great jabin joy in having the privilege which is now granted grunted to me to stand eland before you what I 1 may say I 1 do not know but I 1 trust trusi trus trub in IA that god whom we all serve that cewill pour bur dur out upon us the spirit of truth the comforter that shall enable us to say those things which a hall shall do you ou the most good I 1 do not hot know that f I 1 shall be enabled to 0 o make the out but skirts of this large assembly hear me but I 1 will viii sp eakas as loud land as I 1 conveniently can 1 I truly feel febi to rejoice when reflect reflecting ink upon the greatness great nesi of the work in which we are erl eri engaged gaZed I 1 with that joy which I 1 lam iam am incapable of fidiaj finding laft lait language guage to ex express tiie the lord has truly accomplished great things during the twenty five years that this church has had an un existence upon the earth things that no man unless he ho were filled with a very great measure of the spirit of god bould have anticipated in the ilia early rise of this church nothing but the hand of oran an almighty being billig could have brought about a work of tile the magnitude which we behold before our ey eyes es it is t tile tiie cehand hand of or the almighty it is the power which be has ordained tind and tile the agencies egen cies cles that he has employed I 1 which have hive performed that which we wd be bo hod d before berate us 1 J I 1 have hate not fiot only read the history of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints I 1 but I 1 have up as it were in their midst it will be twenty five years next september since I 1 was baptized into info aitto this church at that time timp I 1 am not award ware that there were fl nifty fifty persons who had been baptized lutot into he hb church how many of those persons still live and are in the falth faith I 1 know not but I 1 believe from the testimony of our president ent eni which was mas given before us in the tabernacle yesterday that if we were to in search through the lengths and breadths of our territory and among all the various branches BC se tiered abroad there are but a very few individuals indeed of those these who embraced the work in n the ear ily irise illse lilse of this church that art are still civil li vir vil g and sitting in lit the faith many of them ire are done gone gone to the tomb their bodies slumber while their spirits are mingling w ith th ejust just litiff waiting ng the sound of the trump to call them forth to glory immortality arnd annd arid and eternal lives how soon foon we shall follow and ilay down these mortal tabernacles we know not fi therdo nei nel either elther do it ts an individual care if I 1 can be prepared in ail nil things athinis if ican lean be ready for that thit day ila ild stand in lit my lot and station and receive nie hie reward re ward that is 13 promised to tila ilia those who endara biffi an fn faith ti to the end it matters mattens not to me whether tie til ill the time shall shail be longer or shorter and ird I 1 aresu presume me there arb ore thousands now before me who feel on this subject in lit the ther seni sent same a manner that I 1 do 06 they y car ca rebut a very vers little about this mortal tabernacle e they are arb looking Ig fora for a building riot bat made with wita eternal hi fit the hea heavens fens they ahre are looking for mansions that are prepared in the presence cresence of god their father they are lookin glor gior for immortally ty and eternal lives but we e hare hava no promise unless we we endure jn in faith falth unto the end xvi AvI whether rether lether we lire live dewor rew few or me mar man nl years upon epou the ilia earth we must eil eti endure durel durei all the trials tribulations difficulties and perse cu rions which the lord sees fit in his infinite wis j dom Us its as individuals or as tib a people to wadee through we a must endure them and hid hold hoid tte steadfast adest to the faith if we would inherit the C crowns towns of eternal lives that are promised to the faith falth faithful ful dul i in speaking of this I 1 will qualify my language by liy laying that the saint who has been sealed unto eternal life ard falls into transgression and does not repent but dies in his sin will be afflicted 5 and ana tormented after lie he leaves this vale of ears until the day of redemption but having been sealed with the Iller spirit of promise through tile ordinances din ances of the house of god those thines things which nave li ave be been n sealed upon his head will w ill lii be realized b by him in the morning of the resurrection bilt tilt it as my desire anday constant prayer that I 1 may so live that when I 1 depart fron from tins title life when I 1 lay down this mortal body if I 1 ani am called upon upon to lay ig it down before the coming of our lord I 1 ailak ma enter r into the paradise of rest and hoi only ly r satan lind and have power over him here hrut but have power over hiim and all his hi hosts hereafter these thesa are my feell feelings feeling ng tilse tilbe the se are ate my desires in and this is my prayer whit am art I 1 willing to lo do to accomplish ibis I 1 vt w I 1 tell you what I 1 feel willing to do I 1 am will j lag rag to ao do the urd ard lord requires at my hands so far as lunder I 1 understand stand his bis will concerning me 4 what is property v what hat if gold what is sll sli are lious ilous houses esaud and inheritances or any of rif the riches of this world compared with the riches of eternal ilfe life have I 1 anything that I 1 have ob jbf by my own wisdom wido nim or by kiy my own exer lions independent of the hand handland and provi dences cf of the almighty no iha Iba I 1 have nol not the the lords and tha the falness thereof is is his larn I 1 am in lit I 1 his hla lands hands and all ali that I 1 have halve is in jil hla hia hands and ard J if the servants of god require it if god desires all ail thit 1 I have it is unhand on hand at aily any moment thesa rh sp 1 are r my feelings and eliou should d not this be the A feelings of 31 all ail the latter dy day saints voice y s we heard the testimony of owr our president from th tats s stand this thi forenoon concerning himself arld and tint h it which god lies has been pleased pleated fo to put within his lia possession eos pos possess ion lon god hab has heen with him bim and his hand has ha g wem over him for good and he heelless ea a him birri in all thins thi i nr that lie he has set his hand hanato to dp ao even ai as joseph when he hassent was sent dol doi down n egypt he has accumulated by the provi dance doure of the almighty amneh of this worlds goods god me has given it to him tim you heard him hlin express himself before you that lh t he lie lind had made ati arr brn 1 to conee tonee crata all that he has unto tiie the charch church of jeans chris christ bof tf latter day saints j zif if then our president a 3 man of great poss siong slone wilh 1 rh houses and ianda landa inheritance catt catl f ll 11 11 abd and mith Zith an i ill lil AIL 11 g secra e moco modo he who leof it for the bu 0 a adso f not hot we be to follow in mines minis M h yes verily i 1 1 fc As I 1 bavol have said in days hat that are past tb the tho ame wili will e and how know bot bulit burt will come when this people will became become of one i heart and of one mind in temporal thines things as well a as s in spiritual they will BS individuals be identified with the church and all they possess w hether whether it be gold or silver or jewelry or cattle or br flocks f or herds or laud land oy or houses liou ilou sess or wives or chil chii children cli cil ildren dien it matters hot bot what they possess it will all go as it please lease the lord according to his counsel and his erection direction for ah the building up of this kingdom i but you know that property is the gentiles gent lles ijes god it is sought after more wore eagerly than any other thing by the genie gentile nations it ilas Js worship pd by them and their hearts are set on their treasures and their treasures are of the earth and of an uren n e earthy arthy ii attire nature and audit it will take toke a long tune time for the saints to get iid lid of their old idols their molt unit trous arous notions nations and traditions ane ge gentile litile god has great influence even over the saints consequently it will take years to eradicate from our hearts as our president has told us that the law laur reia reja relating ting to a full consecration off olour our property would perhaps be one of thelast jaws jams that hat would be fulfilled before berate tho coming of cheit chilt much patience and forbear arca arco wili will need to be exercised before lefore the flie saints avill get comple compie cor cyris cyrls ely ad i lof lot at their old traditions gentile notions and whims about property BO to as to come to that perfect law inqui ed of them in the jevel revel revelations actions of jesus christ but the day wil will come when there will be no poor in zion man but the lord wilt M make Oake them equaling equal in earthly things hat they may be equal in heavenly lings things ti that li is according to his notion notions 4 of Dr equality and not according to p our narrow contracted views of tile the same having said this much with regard to property I 1 bish bluish now to bay say a few words in fit regard to ono one of the most glorious events which has taken place fon for B iong long time lima it is in regard 0 a sending the gospel to the house of israel 0 liow ilow this ought to rejoice 0 the hearte of the ihei saints the lord told us in the early rise of this church som something eLbing about the day das that is hi now BOW upon spoil ns us and we understood it iu in a measure but now lle ile lie file period the glorious period bas bes arrived arrivo ahen 1 I I 1 e n we w a can c a n sen ceo the tile thing fulfilling bedore before our oun eyes af if you yon will read the revelations given in ili 1833 you will hill find in them a promise made when the time should arrive orlive arrive for this gospel to be sent cent to the house of Js rael ruel if iou ion will read another revelation giren on the day of barcli IM you wili will there learn irani also concerning the ilia fulfillment fulfilment of the tile tid units of the gentiles I 1 ligh lish to say sty a few words upon two subjects first the times of the gentiles being acome in ili arld and secand their times limes being fulfilled and the send bend pg ortho goepel to the house bouse or israel in a revelation given in fit march twenty four years ego ago tp to the prophet prop bei bet joseph concern said to the apostles at lit Jeru jern jerusalem salemi in I 1 a regard to the he jast last duyf days and und alid arid thedac heyday 0 of their re kempl etc eck eci jesus sald said to a bis his apostles when wilen that day hali hail hall shall come onie and the light shall begin to break to fo th am ong them tha t sit git i iida tida rk ness w when llen flen the ful fui falness of my gospel oali shall begino break forth that thatis is the thi period when iho ibo the ilia titine of the ilia gentiles r shall hail come in in M ik the e expression x I 1 wilen the tho I 1 tight shall begin to break forth then at that peri perk per j iod lod the tile time of the gentiles shall haug hard come in and in lit that generation ltha itha lithen times limes of the gen gentiles tiles tilts shaji b be fulfilled here then we perceive th tuo two tv a distinctions when the light boht begins to break forth that i ischen when the book of mormon is tran stated when the church is organized these events bring in ju tho thu tirom timp of tho iho gentiles andi andl in tile the generation generi genen tion that aho the light breaks forth the times of or the gentiles gentila shall shail be fulfilled we are also told in the same revelation that the tho jews ho jio were to be sc scattered tittered from old jerusalem should remain scatter edi until tiie ilia times of the gentiles should be fulfilled con can consequently this tills is the why the tile jews have not gath gathered brea bred bine sine inco ince the rise ruo of thi this church jf if they tiley were gath red ered together if tiley they lad had bad led a assembled at od jer ua balem lem it it would have contradicted the tho prophecies and in d revelations god has given on this subject sub jeci i they are to remain scattered said the tile lord i until tile the times of the gentiles are fulfilled aird their limes times are aro aro are to be fari fill fulfilled filled iii lit n the generation that their in or when the light of tile lile til of the gospel begins to break forth another revelation upon this subject says sapt that after the times limes of the llie gentile saro sare fulfilled the servants of god should be sent forill forth to israel what mat shall then take place behold then conleth coni conr etli etil the day of my liy power then ahen the ser servants of god turn from the gentile nations lind and shall go forth by of the almighty being bein sent by liis his church the voice of hist his people and the holy spirit N unto tile the nations of israel athen then cor cometh rieth tile tiie he day of my power eaith saith the tha lord what kind of powers power 1 ile he goes ou on to tell us usi thatis that it should come coma to pass that the tribes rilie sand arid nations of joseph should hear the tile gospel iu in their own tongue and lii iii their own language through thase who are sent forth and arid ordained unto this thi power through the gift of or the holy ghost shed forth upon them for the of jesus christ now the lord does not accomplish tit fill thing in twenty four years but ile lie takes taker his lis own time to bring to pass the great work he is perform tig ing on the barth twenty give five years have passed away dway and the voice of the spirit iu lit the ser servants rants of god now is go forth to the tho hause of israel for lo 10 the gentiles count themselves unworthy oi of eternal ille life go to the house of isra israel el to the seed of jacob call upon them hunt thein them ont out from tile the holes the tha rocks and from the dens deng of the earth gather them together that the tiie covenants and promises made to their fathers may be lie realized and fulfilled israel are upon all or the ho earth some think that thase the se amerlean american indians Indi aris atis inra inre hire tire israel irrael and arid wa we think that they that ame are too ant bat they are only tine one par t 0 of portion of the twelve I 1 cribs an J they a er small portion tf of es in 0 1 sit fit 6 IA being noa alts of malinas a ut sr a el dwell jwell tu pon upon islands 4 af pf othe the fhe sea seab a and nd lii iii the cau can countries and nations oi of europe I 1 lathe inthe at lle lie various klug kingdoms doms and empires of asid asia so some are scattered through africa ani and wherever you go you xou find ibe the pron isei seed the defendants of jacob and if w we had hao tile the voice of a trumpet and could make our speech heard unto the ends enis of the earth we would say to all the nations of our globe to all peoples kindreds and andl tongues hear ye when the th lori eLord sends forth a to israel that th at ire are are in your mid t for borthen then shall be fulfilled that which is Js written that all nations alinell ariee pee the salvation mi of god for his bli arm shall be made bare in tile th besof eyes oyes of all people it hallbe shallie made bare in power iii lit n signs kigns in wonders and in fix mighty miracles to bring about jils jill purposes unta the tho house houlia of israel I 1 I 1 i who then does not feel honored 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