Show pf af the general confer once of the church of jesus christ I 1 of latter iatter day saints saluta held in the tabernacle nacle great croat salt lake city commencing october ath 1853 10 a m prest brigham anit young presiding I 1 last paper I 1 october 7 6 p inthe ini quorums of seventies met in the tabernacle and were called to order by prest joseph young when a hymn was sung prayer by elder levi hancock a hymn sweet is the work my god my king was sung prest joseph hoting yoting enquired ired if there was any ally person erson present who could report the situation 0 of the brethren grethren wha ore are not yet arrived from the states the bro brethren thren reported the sugar company had lost 80 head of cattle by a storm in one night many have not any flour and great sufferings prevail and and the sugar company were living on their frozen oxen elder YOUNG remarked many persons who have been ordained ordain ed into the seventies are anxious to know when they can call be organized I 1 now say let them apply to the senior president of oe ail any y quorum and if there are vacancies vacancies to step in and fill all them hem aethen he then brought forth the subject of tile severities seventies hall of science on which nothing has been dane for the last 12 months although he it has now got in his possession a saw mill which is beai ready ay to run rim which will sur ply the lumber for the hall there is a load now on my shoulders and I 1 shall want to know if that load is to be taken off me the mill that we have has an ail excellent natural dam which was proved by tile the freshet Freil het of last spring aprin 11 and the saw being circular will run with great rapidity for we can turn tile whole of the cottonwood cotton wood creek upon the hie wheel if we wish if you have a mind the rotunda can be built and the roof can be put on oil next tall fall zeri zera ker enquired how much we sacrificed when we were driven from fro Ki or from fi om IV or from nauvoo and answered every time an ail immense m deal more than would build the hutt hall ur science levi bevi W haalock reviewed the rise of the church I 1 when there wele but 32 members they were ordered to build a temple 68 63 feet by 95 feet 2 stories higl high and if we will willal ell woj k gether we w can call build that hall of b liae si q ae M graut grant I 1 once voted that eliat no man mail should be allowed to come to meeting unless lie he would behave Wun himself self and have not yet rescinded it the severities seventies voted vot sl to build a hall and it remains with them to fulfil fulfill that covenant the tithing office knows no presidency no twelve no seventies no elders priests teachers or deacons but they have to do with individuals lq and we seethe result it rears up tabernacles council houses and other buildings when wanted there hag bak been and is a dia position disposition among tile the be seventies ven ties to fo have a seventies hall and you can call build it if but it will require both dollars and hard knocks knock 3 and a pile is wanted to carry it on and I 1 pray the lord to help you to do your duty B L 1 clapp I 1 have t been I 1 een whipped tor for not living in this city and my only excuse is I 1 am not smart enough ulan man to live in salt lake city I 1 was perfectly satisfied two years ago if I 1 mid and my counsel and the se enties antics had been lit let alon i lorie e wea we should bould have built a g good 00 old fashioned meeting house have had bad i 1 dedicated and d been b in it by this time ol 01 over ver has all already eady bi been cp expended ended on oil it and the basement is not up tip by four feet nathan tanner moved that t the alt be sold and the hall thrown up tip decoi seconded aided but not carried d ohn pada has been absent three years has 1 returned c ind and found his family in debt but willing to do all he let us buildup build up tile the hall aud and receive instruction therein herein I 1 prest rest B young I 1 requested bro tanner to make that motion A man that is not smart enough to live in this city is not fit to preside over this body of men when god calls a man to preside he gives him hibi wisdom to preside so heap the blame on oil to lo me I 1 want wan t to let you know I 1 have heard all that has tien been said this evening I 1 will appeal to every seventy who was in nauvoo whether that hill H t 11 was not a credit t ib the seventies and it was so admit ted led in newyork New Now York and in england I 1 am the desi designer gnei of that Halij and I 1 am ashamed of it it is too small to do gr credit adit to this body of men let the them build budd a hall that hlll contain persons the seventies were laying plans in winter quarters to get nails and glass tor for a hall it all in the mountains I 1 this bodia body of men have the privilege of bu building alding a hall ball and it will belong to the church I 1 have not lot I 1 the iet least fear of any division in this church for I 1 can turo turn them whithersoever I 1 will amen there is a foundation laid to build build upon and then spoke in praise of john D lee building the hall ir 1 nauvoo we will build o clr ir tem temples I 1 ies and our halls of science ourselves for the he lord lord has fias suffered us in to be driven 1000 miles from any place and we have got to build for ourselves my good sense taught me tile the seventies Sevin ties would want a hall and I 1 say stretch forth on the right andon and on the left in inythe the front and in the rear and shew what you can do I 1 wish to ask this people it if you know the doctrine doctrie ne you have been teaching what is to be done to prepare parel chis his earth tor for a millennium these L litter latter atter day St shave got to do it or else they will be removed and others will be placed in their stead can you and I 1 do anything any thing but what god requires at our hands or what he ap probates in ih the heavens heaven joseph received he fhe patt pattern ern of the temple in kirtland and said he to me if this people would do as they were told it would be superfluous to lo have a ie and it if you are covetous cove fous and indolent you may get a revelation in regard to this his hall the nave nerve bone and sinews are the only capital to build with and no other capital exists in reality I 1 ard 3rd of 7 the capital of 0 f the saints should go to enhance the beauty of the tt ie city but let them hoard board it up and hey are a poor poverty stricken people if this plain simple building the tabernacle were now laying in its native diate you would not be as rich as you at are e to day can you build that tha t hall yes I 1 can build it myself gentleman your hall is commenced and if there is any thing to regret on oil my part it isoo i t 00 insignia i i if c it and yet it cant be beat in america americ t would be an ornament to any street in london I 1 can go 0 and pick up tip the very property now that will lie be f ost in one year to come of horses oxen ac and d gat that very propel prop property eity ty will be sufficient to t 0 build it now make Tour yourselves selves poor and then show shew you know how to make inake yourselves selves rich again that P out jon rational principles it if you want a hall go and build it you IL ou cant find a man who has been here two years but can get his bread and garden sauce mormonism has done all for me and I 1 always thank god that he gent joseph tile the prophet to reveal his will now turn out your teams and send men to work on it until it is built way may the lord bless you brethren 3 amen dismissed Pis missed with bened benediction by A P rockwood bd october 82 p in opened in the usual manner by singing prayer and singing elder Eide JOHN rJoHN youna remained rema ked aked while the prest was ws preaching preachy ing this forenoon I 1 meditated and enquired if we appreciated the blessings bles 11 T conferred upon us no people under the whole C 0 e heavens are I 1 blessed as we are for we have apostles pi opheus and all ail the g gifts gifts of the holy priesthood and are taught the way of eternal lite life and we are just as sure am of salva salvation tiba as though we were saved already if we con continue in well doing I 1 the whole world atre ift e lulled asleep in wickedness and sin sifi and we are the hap happiest t es t people on the ibe earth and apar approximating mors more in the knowledge of the truth daily he alluded to those murmuring spirits spirita who came in said he they know nothing of suffering in ill i comparison with th the first settlers of this valley many of whom w aved lived 1 on ox hides and hoofs and ana the lie bodied bodie of 0 wolves and felt glad to get them and when they clambered the mountains to got get leeks with the 1 indians they were too I 1 feeble to pull them out of tile the ground you who in 11 mer and complain you know nothing then cease y your tir murmuring murmur inga 9 for y you need never go hungry one day but can live on the best of I 1 ae prest X B ail the truths advanced seem so plain tad and son simple ibe that I 1 feel assured the people will do right fight ditl when en you go home from this place cherish A ayou hear bear and you will not be left in darkness 06 instructed mothers in their duty of t ti I 1 aiding i up air children chil drenthe the same as recorded in the book of mormon and teed of bf joseph smith having placed ah thi the keys in and id powers of the apostleship upon the apostles Al postles and every man and woman who fight fiill agostin ago tit will bedan be damned med and every nation who 4 op fibbe be it will wither as a branch severed from a tree A few ew years ajo ago the world would not believe in avela ie ti on and joseph was called old joe smith I 1 tile te mon money jigger but u t now a all I 1 the world either baiev believe 1 iu rev revelations at tn t through hwi the e spiritual mappings Rap pings or r ise else are going a gold old digging I 1 prest young spoke on oil tile the sin of shedding the blood of joseph the prophet singing Bene dicton by elder hyde october 8 6 p in quorum of high priests met president john young presiding R cahoon and G B wallace councillors councilors Counci lors lori S M blair clerk meeting opened by singing prayer by councilor wallace president john young observed the quorum of high priests had bad met to transact business and not to have sermons pre president i B young moved that all who had been ordained high priests priest and came to the valley and was re baptized should be received as members of the quorum aarum by their giving in their names to the clerk bishop E hunter felt and heywood made some remal 0 remarks followed by president B young on oil tithing and the furm e plan of tle tie bishops keeping their books and requiring the members of the wards to settle with their respective bishops ae meeting closed be benediction ne diction by elder erastus snow october 9 10 a in conference callej ballel to io order by prest kimball choir sung sung 0 a hymn ahyme by patriarch motley and singing elder D YOUNG remar remarked kedl have thought while sitting silting in this conr ii ence that I 1 had attained alla ined to happiness and he heaven aen when I 1 see thousands of intelligent bei beings gathered from the four quarters of the earth in ill t this IV is spacious hall it speaks louder that than thu thunder I 1 ider that this ii the kingdom of 0 god I 1 feel as I 1 though 0 O I 1 ws ftc in ill zion this morning and sitting in beaw heavenly y pl pi ces and ami it hear e ar ansti instruction uc it breathes forth a spirit of peace union union and power and it makes avei eveia y person happy I 1 it t required a man mail of strong mind power anti and energy to testify that god had spoken unto him b by an all angel ang el unto a generation of men wh 0 were s sunk ill in wickedness and sin sin yet such a man mail was joseph Jos epli the hie prophet and I 1 testify before you that he brought forth the woi k of the litt L litter itt er lays days and we are tile the fruit of his labors I 1 ask you who were brother brof fier methodists and nd baptists tit wily why lul you not with them in S simply imply bae beranse auie you nw wuie standing on a foundation and belfeld greater light walen when this work was presented unto you if ram a not in the kingdom of god now I 1 say farewell to all happiness and future lipe hope of glory but I 1 am in ill it 5 and experience the bles s the lord has bi ought brought us hy by his power and guidance from a land ol of oppression sickness disease and death to a healthy land and ovalley a valley of peace and libei liberty lib eity ty I 1 say to you heads of kanulie fainie fan ulie tes it if you are arc do noi now laying a foundation toi fur happiness and resty rest where do you expect to do it ita I 1 shill shall b bj rewarded lew aided according to my but those who expect ease case in in zion when they wake up in ill the resurrection will find they have no ihu lance therein if j you ou can call aliew mo iw a mart man who is is not selfish you yo a sll shew ew me no man at all if you you aliew me a woman alio is is not sel selfish fish you shew aliew me an ail idiot and one who knowl nut not th 1 way ly to inpyn happiness ess or 01 a crown of glora aloi v I 1 when y on see an opportunity opp ty of doin doing good and neglect that opportunity unity you will find th that a t you have b been een led by the adversary on onto to the wrong path and are aie traveling the wrong way know ye that the Xing kingdom doin of god is is set up on the die E carthand EArt hand an I 1 you are aie living in in the days of pi and apostles apostle and the kingdom will continue to roll until it ii fills ill the ha whole world then lotus lot us do every thing willingly that is is required of us PREST patst pat ST presented the names of elam L leddington addington idd ington and levi savage ji to go on oil issis to siani siam with chauncey west tl they y were present pie m hent rose lose and andraid said they were ready to start although thui thu notified for foi the fit fust st time lime voted unanimously that they should go ft ile he then asked if i we should build the temple of stone from fi om red bute Ado bics or 01 froin san sail pete we can call build it ot of the very best material ma tenal for foi we have union union bone marrow manow and muscle I 1 would like to see something nice nice and our president Pies ident is is pei factly able to to give us a design of what we want for foi the saints to get all their blesa blessings ings in he lien related the i bitof il of the ancient prophet to tile the potter in in his factory with the parable thereon applied to the die saints S lints he said he was proud an and 1 had occasion to be proud of his liNte religion ligion anti and the elders the brethren ethien bi and saints and especially when they do 10 well belthren Be B ethien thren shall we have the temple built of stone from red bute rock or 01 the best stone the mountains motioned that we build it of the best that c can ill bp be got in in the mountains G A SMITH if there is tile the best stone or the best stick of timber in in the mountains it should be offered to the lord if we build of the best the L ird will open the way for it to be got but i if r we build for the salce sake of tile ordinances it will be a drag and audit if we build a splendid temple property and every thin ihm I 1 else will increase inci ease in in proportion propof tion the he lord wilt will accept it nations will revere it and tile the people froin jh oin the four quarters quai of the earth eaith will come to receive their endowments endows ants and aad motioned that we lay ajic foundation ofine best stone an awl I 1 build upon it of the best materials that deseret will afford JOHN joh N TAYLOR it would cot cost more money to build a house bouse of stone than and chewed that in in england enal ami and france they fetch their stone for public 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