Show TO THE SAINTS take care of your wheat your grain not that only which you now have in your store houses and grane gran esies ies but that which is sown and is growing 5 I 1 and that which is to be sown and to gi fidow ow to save yours yourselves yourself elv I 1 es and the multitudes now a and nd which soon will willbe be on kneir way hither the present year inow now is the time to be gathering fathering poles and fencing materials matri s and repairing fences and building new I 1 ones and by every possible exertion be rea ready y to I 1 I 1 secure your crops as they grow and by doing these things now you will be prepared for plowing and add sowing and planting as soon as the absence of fiest a and I 1 id snow and the p presence cresence of the warm sun and dry I 1 earth will permit are your plows and hoes rakes i scythes forks hay racks and stack yards all ready for duty it not now is the time no ti time a ae fur for making I 1 racks when the sun shines the time to make hay bay and you you then want your ready ried rigged 19 to remove your bay it is written that man shall not live by bv bread alone but by every word that edeth out of the mou mouth th of the lord and what are arc some of these wold wheat for man coin for the ox oats for I 1 horses bailey bai ley for mild drinks and rye for the fowls I 1 I 1 and while saints raise bothin nothing but wheat and f feed fed ed that to their oxen horses fowls and every thing else w which aich needs do they live by every word of the lord verily y no they neglect 11 four fifths of the few words worda of the loid lid here quoted it if the lord should give ive no moie revelation elation till the saints kept all that are given how long a time would bie lord have to wait before he be commenced speaking b again let every saint before he asks for more re revelation and before lie he finds fault that the lord dont give R rac as he once did ask hims cf seriously whether I 1 I 1 lie he keeps all the revelation he has received and if so how by locking them up in his book ease case or I 1 practicing them continually but some may enquire why these different kiad of grain are for these different animals and why is it not just as well to give Z them all wheat seeing 11 we can raise wheat easier than most other kind it commands a higher pi ice and is more profi profitable it is reason sufficient for us to know that god who fol boim in ed all the grains and animals too and knows know the peculiar and minute properties ol of the whole and their bearing and influence 0 on a each other has said what this that that and the other is ford tor which he would not have do done ne had I 1 they hey not been peculiarly adapted to that particular object and end lor for ile he boeth all alla I 1 things in wisdom and it would vi be lolly folly to make any other appropriation than where they would do the most good although the he lord has not dot stopped to give his reasons tor for saying sayin what he has s said did neither is 13 it re quiren quai ed of him yet we easily aas ly discover that reason sufficient may be gathered from a very casabal observation of 0 the nature of things when taken in with the general movements ai d character of the great gr eat ar architect bitett bite ct who mabeth avei eveia y part pait of the building the great whole to fit to its most apposite hi he corri coin to 0 o the ox because it fits the nature of that animal better than any other kind of grain rain and conse consequently que does him the greatest possible bible good and the same with rye for the fowls oats tor for tile the horse ac and ben hence ce the reason why such a multitude of or horses have laid down and died after batin eating 0 a mess of wheat hi in the valley valle which is no not t customary for horses to do in in any country 2 where where oats are used freely and if your yield an abundant increase what wha treason reason have you to complain so as you do not raise rye tor for their table use I 1 we have bave no disposition to help out the lords sayings by argument for in in our view they need no argument and god is able to do his own wa k yet we will add one reason more why the saints should raise i aise a variety y of grain and not raise all wheat heat as they are mostly in the habit of doing the earth is is alfving substance call it fowl fish or animal as you please we call it earth eaith a living ai Z substance it colleth upon its wings whigs and loveth I 1 in the midst mida tot of the waters and drin drinkuth keth in the rain rain that falleth upon it and bri ngeth forth her fruits in their season all or any of which it could not do it it were wei e dead all the creations of god ai are e alive the earth and all things within it and upon it and round about it are endowed with vitality witti with life and motion I 1 and sensibility adapted to the sphere s p here in in I 1 I 1 w which aich they were designed t to 0 exist and v when hen any part of the earth is is wearied with excess excessive ne labor 1 it I 1 manifests it as clearly as does man the horse or any I 1 other animal when suffering under similar kimnai excess in proof of this we need not go out of tvs this valley where large fields of wheat have been I 1 sown four successive years on the and with the same results nol no the first two years the crops were generally abundant 2 on the third year there was considerable sid erable falling failing off from the previous crops 0 on n the fourth yearl year many ct chops aps ops were not worth harvesting if our informants informant state correctly and this is the experience 11 peri ermence ence of all older countries and why this falling off because that those peculiar yr properties e s which are contained in wheat and not in other grain had been absorbed or taken out of the earth by the previous crops and the earth had not time to recruit and gather to itself from the surrounding elements those properties it had lost in bringing forth the wheat and how shall this evil ev il be remedied chan change chane b e the crop the grain the seed for the same land that has lost its power to produce wheat is is properties necessary to bring forth or create create oats rye corn or other grains grain arid and while the field is is raising oats at the same tune it is is recruiting its strength for a nother another crop of or wheal I 1 and by frequent changes of seed by raising all the varieties of 0 useful grains proper irrigation mi gation abundant a thorough plowing and cultivating cultivation of all land pretended to be cultivated small farms farm s well tilled and the land resting every eve ry seventh year the rich soil of the valley may I 1 he be retained from generation to generation but if the saints continue to as to the exclusion of other irain grain they may soon have I 1 todo to do as new england has done it they will have wheat to eat they must send sead to some foreign counti country y I 1 to purchase it I 1 |