Show remarks of elder john jobu taylor tabernacle G 8 L cliv city aug 22 1852 reported Report cd by G D watt eler john taylor ta lor gave the following report of his mission mission to europe BRETHREN AND SISTERS I 1 feel happy in having the privilege of meeting you once more in the valley I 1 ot of the mountains it is is now about three years since since I 1 left tins this place S nee then I 1 have traveled a great distance enough if in in a straight lit line to have gone round tile the woi id had I 1 only had that to have ha e done done I 1 should have been back some lome time lime ago befort before I 1 eliter upon anything elie ee I 1 will tell you some soine of my feelings and speak of other things afterwards I 1 feet feel glad to ice ce you yo brei hren hien s a md rid friends friend and me to say sav that I 1 feel just at home for zon Z on is is my homp r the people of god are I 1 feel perfectly at nome dome and can rejoice with them it ltee seems ms as though I 1 want to 10 look at you I 1 have been gazing wound at this that and tile the other one while brother wallace was pi preaching caching I 1 have been trying to think where I 1 had seen them and the various scenes we have passed through together in in different places in journey ing in r perils in mobbing in in difficulties curties and dangers of various various kind 5 but bul out of all we have been delivered thi the e hand of god has been ma infested towards us in in a rema kable hable manner and ihn I 1 see people here heie f aiom i oln different nations with whom I 1 have associated from E eagland bigland ireland scotland dand wales and from other nations of the earth from the eistein eastern western nothern no them and southern slates sidle from canada and f aiom oni almost all parts of tile the I 1 think of afie the vanous changes annoyances and tribulations ons that we ve hive have passed through throng thi ough 11 tile the anos we have obtained and the hand of god which has been manifested mm festad to us in in all these things thing a id I 1 re rejoice joce and aid praise god my savior I 1 feel per at honn hom in in fact I 1 feet feel at homa whee avei vei I 1 in et with the saints of go in in this country eau or in in j ath r cou countries atries but this is is the grand giand home this i is is tile the home h aae for foi the gathering of 0 the saints of oe the most M st high god tile the place aiace anere the oracles of gad dwell and tile spirit of god is is eminently preeminently pre poured ou when ahei P we ire have come to learn of the great heljo vati vali h sacred things pertain mg to ind and associated wita wit i lis it a kingdom I 1 am not go it ry to preach I 1 wish to tell my mv feelings and look at you douai avd a think about what vi hat we have done and whai wha we are going to do for it is is not all ali done yet yel we vi e have only commenced the great of the lord ad a id laying lapiri C the foundation of that kingdom which is is destined desi nied to stand forever to fo what we I 1 sh lidl ill do di is is yet in in the future we have commenced at the I 1 tile end of the horn and by and by we will come oat at the big end I 1 was talking about troubles trouble but I 1 dont know that hat we need talk or cue care about them we have had some som little amusements and frolics awong the gentiles some sojie few difficulties dime but we have aled through tim ti t lern m all and we are aie all leie here safe and sound true sm s ms of acour our frendo fi enda have dropped by the way the they y have fallen asleep but what ot of that and who cares it i i as well to live as aa to d c or 01 to die as to live to sleep as to 0 o be awake or to be awake as to sleep it is is all one oae they have only gone a little before us fui example we have lett felt aher u her parts ir a and n d come here heie and I 1 we taink t link we have got to zun Z on they have gone to the wold of seii ta and they taink t ihry h ey have got to heaven heave n it is all a right we e have I 1 lett ef E some of our friends behind in various vanous places place when alien they arrive here they will shake hands ath us arid and ba glad they hv h v got to zion and when we go to where alere 0 air ir delem fiem and aid be glad we have got to liken heaven J so A it is is all al one although our oui friends were sorry when we left them yet they rejoiced as well as us that we were go ay iy 1 0 Z on all and so we will re rejoice with those who nave have died 11 i i tile lord for foi they re st f I oln their labors we have the principles ples ot of eternal lie in in us we have begun began to live uj ava we shall continue to live as th Mett waists very properly express it while life and a id thought and beug be ng last or immortality an endure dure aud this is tile beg lining of it il consequently oilier little ci ci in this world or 01 even ife or 01 death have very little to do with it syme some people have aid to me lie sometimes are you not afi aid to croas over the seas and de aeils where there are aie wolves and bears and other ferocious fei far ocious anim itz as well as the savage I 1 are you not afraid that you will vill drop by the way and leave your body on the destri des n t acke ack or 01 tile oce orsaia atil wave AT nu 1 wiio wao caeg ca ej auy Lhing about it what of it if we vie I 1 should happen to deop by the way we expect the lord and its hs angels can do as aa much as bro bio benson I 1 haq ha done in in gathering up the people he ie lias has brought bi ought I 1 I 1 a great host froin pottawatomie and the lord can call SUL shiely L ly as easily end his angels and gather together ii elect from the four quai Ws of tile the eartly and as i 0 od d daniel says say s we shall all come up and stand in in our sot in in the end ead of the days these things dont trouble int but I 1 have felt to rejoice all 11 the day loew long that atiat god has revealed the of eternal I 1 f fe that I 1 am put in pas possession session of fiat truth rath aal that I 1 am counted worthy to inage 11 in in the wijk of the lid and bi ba a messenger to the nations of the eath ea th I 1 rejoice in proclaiming this glorious gospel because it tikes root hi in the hearts ot of the children of uen men and they rejoice with me to be connected with and participate in in the blessings of the k nedum kingdom I 1 ot of gid I 1 re rejoice itce in am cleois cli ois foi they are necessary to hi humble aid a id prove us ua that we may comprehend I 1 oui selves become acquainted with our weakness 1 n ess and ad ihei milie and I 1 dejoice when I 1 triumph I 1 over them because gd ai my prayer therefore I 1 feel to rejoice all tile the day long I 1 teel feel as though I 1 am amon among 11 the honorable of the I 1 earth when I 1 am aiu liere here and when I 1 get mixed up with the people abroad and mingle with the great I 1 I 1 people in in the woi ld id I 1 teel feel otherwise wise chave I 1 have seen I 1 and deplored the weakness of men inen then their folly 1 Y I 1 selfishness fish ness and corruption coi i upion I 1 do not know how 1 V they i fel betl but I 1 have witnessed itne saed a great deal of ignorance j and tolly folly I 1 think there is a great deal of great I 1 litt littlenest lenes about them enere is is very liula little them lions belons are shattered shall ered cracked and laii lad ope lowe ane foundation it is is no matter what principle you refer to if to lo their re religion luion it is is a pick pack ot of io if to their philosophy and politics 1 I 1 it ia i a lizs af daik couta ion their govern ments menta churches philosophy and religion ia 12 all daik I 1 dess misery in ise ry co 0 i upturn ana an l foil folly i see nothing but I 1 babylo babylon i w hai ever I 1 ig gro but dankness dai kness and coa fusio aa I 1 with not a ray of light to cheer the fhe sn s nimg kill spirits ol of I 1 the nations of t the e eai th nor any hope that they will wil be delivered in in this world or in in the world to com I 1 have been witti with my brethren ethren bi here who went with I 1 me some years ago to lo foreign nations bro E astus snow who is is here and bro bio lorenzo snow who has not got gol back yet b bo 0 F D R cli ards wl who ho has beba over in in E bigland igland and bro bio pratt has been a great r eat work doue done in all of these places but F I 1 w 11 lea leave re these brethren ethren bi to relate their own affairs I 1 rejoice to associate with them I 1 re 1 j loce 10 ce to hearod their prosperity and to see the wisdom i prudence that hasteen lias been manifested in in all thir deportment and ti transactions ans actions I 1 could not have I 1 belfred bet ered it and I 1 do not know that anybody else could everything has been go going in on well and pros rosing 1 pet pei tile the hand ot gt GJ 1 has been with usand us and ins insets have been on our path aid we ire are led to re 1 joice exceedingly before him as the god of our salvation it II gave me p on my way home to find the saints leaving Kines vule it seemed as though they were swept out vanh a becom I 1 almos when I 1 was there I 1 rode lode out in in my carriage carnage one day to a place called council point I 1 thought though I 1 would go and visit some of the folks there but when I 1 got there behold there were no folks to see I 1 bunted shunted round and finally found a place with something like gro cery 11 written upon it I 1 alighted ani and went into i the house and asked a pe son who presented himself at the door dourif if he be was a stranger here yes says he I 1 have only just come and the people have all I 1 left have they yes yea was the answer I 1 next saw I 1 1 a tew few goods standing at the side of a house but the I 1 1 house bouse was empty these were waiting to be taken away I 1 went into another house and there were two or three people waiting for a boat to take them down the river and these were all the he inhabitants I 1 11 saw there I 1 j when I 1 first reflected upon this removal ray my heart I 1 felt pained f I 1 well knew I 1 the be disposition of many of 0 the men on oil those frontier countries countr es and I 1 thought that hat some miserable wi wretches etches might come upon them af aber er the main body of the saints had bad removed and abuse lob job and plunder the widow the fornhan lame halt blind and destitute who might be e leh left is as J they did in nauvoo i and thus ahe old decrepit decre pid and I 1 inai m would be abused insulted and preyed upon by wretches in human shape who never have courage to meet men but are cruel and relentless with the old infirm the widow orphan and destitute but I 1 thank god they are coming nearly all old and young young I 1 rich and poor when I 1 see my brethren and sisters here I 1 cannot help but rejoice with them and especially with those who have been engaged in these anous arious labors fabors the reports that have reached me from time to time of your oui prosperity have caused me ranch much joy accounts of the great work of the lord that was going 1 on here I 1 bave have heard of your progress in the city an I 1 out of il rf your varo Is settlements and explorations exploit aliens and of ahe many made by the ahe presidency tois has been joyful to roe me while I 1 abroad in foreign nations some people think that preaching is the greatest i part of the business in building up tip the kingdom of po got k this ibis is a ms mistake take you may pick nick out our most moat inferior ellers in point of t dent and add ability and send them to E gland to preach and preside and they think they we ae great men there their religion teaches them so much more than tile gentiles know that they lle are received as the great vien men of the earth A anybody body can call preach lie he is a poor simpleton that canno not it is the easiest thing in the world but as prest young says it akes a man tc ta practise A great many preach first rate when they get et abroad you there meet with most eloquent ment men 3 they will almost make the stones under your feet tremble and vie fie walls of the building to biake but the momir nt they get into a little diffie difficulty tilty they immediately dwindle down into nothing and they ha have v e not got as lucli force as would draw a mus quito off its nest but the things that are going on here require talent force energy a knowledge of human na ture lure and of the laws of god tue the sacrifices that are being made in leaving home and traveling from place to combating and overcoming the many difficulties that we have had to cope with and standing in a distinguished position in the eyes of tile the nations of the earth is ia no small affair they gaze with astonishment at tile the stand that this people at the present time in their territorial arial capacity ta that all al the nations and courts of europe are ar looking talk about preaching this is a matter of another importance entirely I 1 do not care how eloquent men are jhc thc three se are all good in their place but it is the organization in this place the wise ise policy of the governor who presides here in the extension of this infant state by building up new colonies ac making such extensive improvements that preach louder among the coulta of europe at the present time j it is one of the most remarkable things that has hasl ever taken place in any age and kings and philosophers lo are obliged to acknowledge it I 1 reni lenient ent her ber noticing an article in the I 1 london hondon times not long ago and it its s one of thia the leading papers of the day in speaking 1 about the cormons bornio Mor mons ns giving an account ot of souie some a affairs ira irs associated with the church and with the establishment of a territorial government in ift here the editor remarks nearly as foi follows lows we have let this people alone for some soine time and said nothing about them we have been led to believe that they were a society of fanatics lanati cd and fools ac but let this be as it may their position in the world in a national capacity detri demands ands at our hands bands as public journalists to report their progress improvements and position I 1 sent the epistle emille of the First presidency pr to the journal des debats which is s one of we the principle papers in paris paria they published the kristle Kp istle and the chief editor made some excellent re upon it and signed his name to them it was taken from froin that paler paper and trans abed and published in switzerland altay itay Den denmark ruark arid and gr 1 many and thus in their various languages it was spread before the nations of europe our place and people are becoming well known abroad while in the city of parts pana I 1 had to do with some of the lead leading ing lovern tut mt wen men i 11 in s se k 0 was to send my C card 7 d az john taylor dv du from deseret we are becoming notorious in the eyes of the nations and the time is nut nt far distant vhf ahm n the kina kinga 8 of the earth will be glad to come to our elders to ask aak counsel to help them out of their difficulties tor for their troubles are cohig upon theria them like a flyod fl and wey they du do not know how to ti extricate themselves I 1 will here give a chrt history of some of my proceedings I 1 was appointed to go to 10 france some years ago in in company with some of the twelve who were appointed LO 10 go to other places the first presidency asked us if we would go Y yes es was the reply we can go any anywhere where f for or if we cannot do little things like these I 1 dont know what else we call do aone ome people talk about doing great greal things but it is 19 nut not a great thing to travel a little or to preach a little I 1 hear some of our elders baying sometimes that they are going to do great things to be dulai auldis a in the kingdom of god angs and priests to t the most high and are arc again i to exalt thousands of others to thrones principalities and powers in the file eternal but we cannot get them 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