Show REMARKS 1 by mer mpr G george eorge A smith bowery G S L I 1 cit olt olty city r sun day aay dd morn morning ingo augut reported DY J V xong IONO I it used to be in the llie days of the prophet joseph a kind of common adage that Mor mohini m flourished best out of doors and although we r struggled ged hard at the time tinie that he the breth broth brethren ren fen undertook in in missouri to bb build iid lid ild it a hewed log house housh that hat would world cost about 1200 yet et that tried the aith faith of many and was more than we becom accod plis lied before tiie llie saints were driven from jackson county and we e fa la led to erect a building big enough to hold the saints previous to tile the death of til ill the e prophet e t at tile the tune time of his hii death we ne were still trying to build a tample temple but all our exertions only resulted in in our having to lo go out of doors for room enough we on in the present occasion occasion have the pleasure of sitting boutot lut iut ot doors and of listening to the counsel and int m ruction of the servants of god without being bring crowded from the fact jact that we hive fathers big kitchen hitchen to meet in in and jn in this tins capacious bowery bery wf wo can enjoy a great deal of comfort instead of being jammed into bur our large tabernacle those of ut u who could gevin and the balance balanco being obliged to g home it I 1 is bythe by tile request of my bret brethren hren that I 1 arise on the present occasion occasion to cx ober r a few reflections for your consideration when I 1 was first called upon by the prophet towo logo 1 and preach the gospel I 1 received a little good advice which I 1 have endeavored to profit by ever since and that too to the best bist of rn my y ability in the morning as I 1 was about to start on my fi first firta mission to preach the gospel I 1 waited upon br joseph and asked if lie he had bad any advice to give me m yes said lie he george A preach short sermons make mahe short ayers prayers pr deliver your ermons with a prayerful heart and vou you will be blessed and lind the truth will prosper in your hands hand I 1 wad a boy of seventeen seven leen tem at lle ile lie file tinie linie and I 1 caled this my college education I 1 however took a second degree calling rolling upon father jseph joseph smith who was the patriarch of fit the church and as its I 1 ix was vas as about starting he said one word of advice george A whatever you do ie le careful to togo fogo go in at the he little end of the horn born hornlien then if you increase though it be bilta but a very little you are sure to come out at the lle ile lie big end but bui if you go in at the big end you are certain to come out at the small end ever since gince that time J have applied it and thought often cf of the old gent lemans counsel and I 1 have found it to be very verv C coget comet arf ct at that time elder sidney rigdon our great preacher the perfect comber of all I 1 the lie lle sects a man that chuhi bring to bear all the big jaw cracking words of oatlie the english language and find who could fill up the interstices es with quotations from front other oilier lansi langi viges and bring all to illustrate the gopel go pel of christ chrin and to contrast it with the errors of tile the different sects to which lie iad lad had formerly belonged I 1 remember seeing him get up to preach when there were present professor an festor fester seixas and several other learned gentleman PL nho aho ho were on a visit to kirtland and president fht ent pug riz don wanted to show himself to the best possible adv advantage nta C I 1 d discovered ls covered his error w hen vilen ke lie first began sling spiking 1 I 1 saw that he was in his ins high heeled boots and at the crimmen commence cerne me t he be s 0 oared a red st so far above ins his subject that lie he could no not t get down to it his whole discourse was waa as a constant serious of f to descend to a style ite to illustrate ille tile simplicity of the he gospel the natural result of his commencing on too high a key the difficulty and trouble wag was va that hat he commenced on too grand a scale to car ry it through successfully now if he had commenced to preach to those learned men the first simple impie principles of he the gospel and then as the spirit had find opened up tip things 11 to his mind have gone into the more advanced v principles he might iove hive succeeded as he desired but lut he lie got up with the intention of showing his great great bio big big self and began at the ibe big end ot of the horn there are several young elders present pree ent eni it who bo at are going oil on mission missions a and nd the he advice that I 1 received may not be uninteresting to them I 1 have know known n many young elders go out arp preach ucil ing and the first thinly thiner they would do when they bean hean to preach would be to tell what a bremen dous do js smart sermon they were going to 0 o preach and what hat wonderful results would fic follow illow and I 1 have seen those dashing kind of fellows carry on I 1 the they y withered and became depreciated and went out at the little end of the horn now when w hen we present ourselves to a congregation of people the first thing should be plainly and simply to commini ate ale to them the first principles that we receive in the best possible manner but ehat what that is the best way to communicate them to the inhabitants of the earth shall we select the greatest jaw cracking words in the english language and from other languages or shall shail we use reasoning the most ob and mysterious the best method is to elect the best and simplest way in our posses gionane sio gio nand you will find that to be the most EUC suc tessa es 1 saul fu u f proc eroc goepel you it cherr apu ah bijl lri iri men ti that in t go ur to id kocl im the ruthard ruth truth aid ard sid na au you jou discover t the man who has hail katr hy fewest word his ideas idras ta t the li people as a general thin in the ilie plainest manner when en a man uses ten fen en or fifteen superfluous words to convey one simple idea his real mean ing is lost and arid he lie reaches beyond all tile the rules of grammer and rhetoric rhe and his idea which had it been clothed with simple simpie and language have been good but it is lost for want of more suitable words it is like massa graliano Grat Gra lians ions lons lans wit two grains of wheat hid bid in ill three barrels of 0 cha caffa T itis it is my advice that our hiir elder elders should study brevity in all their discourses aid raid communications to the people and that ihal they should speak in lle ile lie he plainest and sin I 1 blest manner for or inthey if lothey they were to do rio this speak so th atthe unlearned can comprehend then the learned will be gure pure to understand under sta nd unless they have havn goldheir got gol their ears so twi that it is ii vulgar for them to listen lo 10 common C convers 0 rive r sat alinn I 1 ra n they are like the young gentleman who had just come from college a and nd wis wig tle tie sirous of making a considerable allow show so when lie he st stopped at a country hotel horel he lie gave ave the tile following 1 orders to lle ile lie the you will extricate the quadruped from the vi vehicle hicle him c conate him an supply of nutritious aliment ailment and when the aurora Auroia of ol man ian lan shail rhall illumine the celestial horizon I 1 will award thee a pecuniary conlie compensation n the lad went into wo the house to the old man crying gland lLand landlord lord there is a dutchman out here I 1 cant understand a word lie ile say do come and talk to him yourself laughter now if he lad had said sald tile the horse valer vater and feed him ati and d I 1 will pay you for it in the tile morning he would have been understood by the he otter otier but the fact is the world through their wisdom know not god and have lost sight of and forgot the simplicity of our I 1 athers lather and the plainness of tile the gospel of jesus christ and the reason is that from the beginning the plan of salvation was too plain and simple to ba b interesting to the learned and it has hns ever since gince ben the design deslon of men of kearnin le learning arnin 1 to couch the tile wisdom k knowledge now ledge of the world orld orid ip iri such high flown language that tile poorer classes of nian mankind kind could wai not get aily any where near them and thereby hide it in the superabundance of nonsense they made mode use ol 01 they use thousands of words to blind the ignorant and illiterate that they might be b kept in the dark ad arid reil reli remain lain iain if in ignorance ci all through through the learning learn learning and cu cunning of men I 1 these are my senti sentiments avents upon that in in brief and however much I 1 may break or violate tile the instruction s I 1 received from president joseph smith to preach short sermons ermons and make mahe short prayer prayers sl have ilav a always ays endeavored to observe those instructions though I 1 may have failed on in some occasions occasions sometimes Sore sureties ties perhaps over anxiety has led me be beyond yond the mark but aa as a general thin thing y I 1 have llave endea endeavored volca voicA to to observe them strictly c liy lly and haye found it to be re good gd to do so and I 1 have and do yet frequently think 0 01 my first degree but I 1 kueht to make wake some same acknowledgments and ard confessions probably I 1 well yell rell remember if aber the first time I 1 those instructions I 1 was preaching in virbinia virginia Vi rainia in the county of tv ler ter there was a methodist preacher by tile the nameon west that would follow me wherever I 1 went and when I 1 cot lot through preaching h he would get up tip tp bur burlesque lestIne me and he wt woula in II 11 talk for an hour or two and then he would get his hi congregation to sing but with all he could do he ile could not get more than thirty or r forty foky to come and hear him preach whereas I 1 had from three to four tour i r hundred hundert d attentive hearers heaters so on one certain occasion lie lle came with his liis method friends to the meeting ir and I 1 invited him to preach girst first but no lh lle lie e sald said saidee he was goina to preach just as soon sonn as I 1 9 got ot I 1 eadd gaid to myself you will have to wait walt wa it a pretty considerable spell old gentleman cenit genit ieman leman and I 1 then selected and read one of ofle th longest chapters I 1 could find in tile the bible and read it t slowly then lead read a long hemn and lined it t offhand fiand ff and got the trie preacher to sinz sin it f fir ir in me e after which I 1 preached about two hiura and a half I 1 saw the preacher was in in a terrible great reat hurry to get ret a chance to speak the reason wa there were man many at the meeting who had come from 20 23 to 30 miles on purpose e to hear me ine tile country being very thinly settled alsime of them w would have turned their ping pigs out put of the pen if they had bad known west to preach in it and end the very moment I 1 had done speaking aking he tie jumped up arid ard and said lie he wanted to preach li before I 1 dismissed the congre congregation galion when he commenced about of the left ile he had bad made a practice of following every mormon elder that came carne into the country and keeping tip up his harangue hir angne angue against the tile truth then his methodist brethren would join him film and sinz at the top tap of their voices until tile tha congregation and it was his intention to serve me the same but bat liedig he did not succeed guite quite so well as lie lle that was ile lie tile first time that I 1 recollect violating the I 1 iad had lad received end I 1 must moist say that I 1 did not repent of it for a good many years year and I 1 have not fully done so yet for 1 I thought that a mm rhin must be pardoned for lor strain inc ing his instruction instructions on sm an occasion like that aril atil and the tile fact is we do rint not often find such men this man followed and hir harassed assed our elders every time they went into the country and kept on their track until lie he iad lad llad run them clear out of the country when lip perc pere perceived ived I 1 would preach about there lie he gave public notice that il if I 1 came come into tile the neighborhood where li lived I 1 should get a coat of tar and feathers so on hearing this I 1 resolved to go and try it there was a man nan by the nemie mine of a f mr willey a near neighbor of the rev rv R v j mr west lie ile was a am allwill an of about ISO Us its weight with a red head and ile he had 13 bay with red heads each 0 of f theart weighing orom from fr m to lbs ibs lie he had his bos boys perfectly drilled and when he lie could pot eai eal the opposite party 1 lal at the rhe ballot box by voting be lie could always beat them by for lie tie and his hia red headed healed boys boje for they had hair as red as in mv v wig that I 1 wear sometimes were more than a matth match for nayf py they come collie it in contact with in in the he county ot ol when he could not beat them in the tse election lie he aiwas could llie file lie ile other anther way when he heard tat tal wes the methodist preacher was going to have havet me tarred and feathered he sent this ill lil s best beat looking daughter on horseback over lle ile he lie mountains dresek in the finest silk and invited mito go over and preach it and ald assured we rae that I 1 ats seed 1 jot near fear ahe liast hast dancer danzer dom lom tie ife tle lie ista threatening r katenin ea to tar eaf and feather me I 1 sent an ap appointment po ointment that I 1 would preach ai at his house iti id two weeks accordingly I 1 proceeded on my way ay to visit theale man filli rig vig brae blae sr me appointments previously given on bi ili tilo creek mn men ona hela bela county and find about 15 miles from mr wilt will wiley ey s I 1 met three young men inen all with red brads hrad well mounted arid and c standing about 6 feet 2 inches dressed in in kentucky jeans but very neat and clean elean they looked big enough r to have been employed in erebus as strikers tinker for vulcan forging thunder bolts for jupiter they informed me ine that they were the tons of or mr nira willey and that he lie had sent them thein to show me the way through the mountains they remarked that it was wits rather rath e r a wild country to ravel travel in alone and they likewise informed me that the rumor was hat that west the methodist priest was intending to with a party parly of his pious breth brethren ren ten and give me a coat of tar and feathers but assured me in in the name of their father that I 1 need not apprehend the least possible danger I 1 before I 1 got into the n neighborhood I 1 was met by two or three other red headed gentlemen and we shortly after annei arrived at tit the old mans residence den e where I 1 was treated with everi every kindness and the first sainta ion was war an assurance that I 1 need not riot he be the theM then least east afraid or anticipate that any harm barm would come to me from my methodist frenda f r I 1 e rd a and id the tile beauty ofil it was as 1 1 learned afterward h he had ian ion desired an opportunity to whip the whale methot Meth nieth dist dt church and if ir they had turned out to mob me he lie would then leqve have had a brid prid rd chance to pounce upon them TJ thida I 1 ll 11 is an illustration of what abat lenwill men wll wil do to accomplish acco co com 0 their ends en ds or the objects they have in in view I 1 and as iong lone as I 1 remained in that part of the county of tyler tier tile the old man would have two or alire three of these boys ga go rne me to ti how shoy me tile the way th rull ruil tile the country wherever I 1 wished to L affo ana anh ana ang two t w 0 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