Show U exl exi BY delivered in the tabernacle logan city sunday morning august REPORTED nit nir JOHN irvine 1 tho tha latter day saints aspire to ce celestial eathal glory all our placed pid in our hands merely ea as stewards Is ia jt it appropriate to mako make la in view of glory and exaltation we boand to hod all things subject to the dictation ol of the berv servants ants anis ot of god obedience to 10 the results flowing iha providen co ce of god seen in the Feko selection tion lion of a I 1 his servants object and those who aro are entitled to the blessings to bo ba manifested therein Obed obedience fonce ienco to tho the priesthood a vital test I 1 have listened as no doubt all have with great interest to the remarks chica which have been imen made by brother joseph F smith and I 1 can bear testimony to their truth that they are profitable to us and ana should ba treasured up in our hearts and made practical in our lives ilves while he was speaking khlare thib this reflection forced itself upon me what other people upon the face of the earth tarth aspire to the bame same glory and the bamo bame exaltation that the latter do what other people leople have the tha same hopes respecting eternity and their condition in eternity nit yand and the glory they ar aro are etore to re ceibo if faithful jn in keeping the cam mand ments of god that the latter day saints have my acquaintance with mankind so eo far Rs as it goes goeb teaches me that odail of ail all people now living e elthor elther in carl christendom or hea hoa tha th endom dom the latter day saints excel them all in their hopes in their anticipations in the ter of the glory that they are to rou roe receive live kive and in tile tiie which aro are upon them there is ia not a man in this room who has a proper conception of the gospel and of the rewards attached to obedience to it who does not at least hope that he will attain unto celestial glory which means the Godhead to be bean an of god and a joint joing heir helf with joans jeans christ that he will enter up on a career caneer oi exaltation not terminate throughout the endless ages of eternity and chatwill th that atwill will place pince him in the company of him concerning whom it la Is said of the increase of iris hid kingdom there behall be no end and ghere there Is ia not a woman in thia this congregation who has a proper conception or knowledge of the promises associated with the gospel and with obedience obed ienco thereto who does not indulge when she thinks upon these those matters in similar hopes and would be very unhappy if she bho thought she bhe should b a e deprived of that which she anticipates 1 mean of being one with witla her husband hubband as aa a wide wife and aud as a queen and as a priestess through throughout eternity nit yand and stand with him at the heau head of their futua mutual I 1 pos poa posterity teri y this being the case Is ia it an any auy y wonder that god makes require ments of orua ofus us and anit expects a perfection on our part that is not looked for nor expected of the rest of the world we were told toil this morning and the truth cannot be too often repeated in our hearing that god our eternal father has placed all these possessions and blessings that is tho the possessions of the earth and the blessings connected with the earth that he has placed them incur in our oun hands merely as stewards and that wo we hold them subject to him in other words la in trust for him and that if ho he calls upon us to use them in any given direction he may indicate it la is our duty as aa his hla children occupying the relationship tion ship that we do to him dimand and with the hopes in oun our breasts that we have to hold them entirely subject to him there is not another people upon the face faoa of the earth that I 1 know anything about who aro bro taught such ideas md and doctrines as these I 1 do nut nug think that any other denomination of people elther religious or secular have such doot rinea as aa wo we have heard thib thia morning taught to them respecting their duties and their obligations to gol goi of course you will very fre fro hear bear in sectarian churches churchea many things connected with this subject that it Is the duty of tho the rich to help tho poor and to be benevolent and to hold hoid till things in a way that will please god but to bring this down to what we wa would call practical consecration cration to practically consecrator consE const crato wealth wenith and hold it 16 as though they would have con gon secra bodrato to it at att any time Is a doctrine that I 1 do not think Is taught in any other church or so eo called church nor la Is it believed in by any other people there are arbeit arbit it la is true people who indulge in very wild vagaries about property such AS communists and others but they have no system of religion they do not believe in god they do not believe in the principles piea plea that he teaches and which we accept they would not carry them out on any such basie basle glet eilet me ask you my brethren bret hren hien and sisters bisters Is ia it not appropriate that we should be required to make I 1 was going to rny eny sacrifice well that lb fb is 13 a word that is eo commonly used that I 1 suppose I 1 could not use any other that would convey the idea to your minds clear eno ono gh I 1 will use it therefore la Is it not appropriate to make sacrifices of this character considering who wo we aro are and what wo we are if 11 wo we are expecting forbach a glory and an exaltation buch sueh as we think about and talk about and pray for it 16 seems seema tz ta me that there should to be something to be done on our part commensurate with the hopes and desires that ve vre entertain and I 1 do not know myself any better test fest that can bo be brought to bear upon human beings than this test to toi which allusion has been made this morning the test of holding ourselves that Is our individual persons with our time and the ability that god hab bab given unto us our oun wives our children and the possessions that gol had placed in our hands to control to hold all these subject to his dictation and end to his approval now ginow biays bays one gil III 1 I am quite quito willing for that I 1 would be quite willing to resolve all thai tani doctrine and to to fco lieve it if god himself were to come and make tho the requirement of me I 1 am quito willing that god should dictate to me about my wives and children and if he wants me to use my talents and give up my life or to yield up my property I 1 am quite willing to do all theto these things J if he will come and tell me himself or it if he will send gend an angel to tell me but nut I 1 look upon my brethren who preside over this church and I 1 see eee that they are aro mortal men and I 1 see seo that they do many things that mortal men do and I 1 have nov nos quite confidence enough in them to dle die dispose spose of my property as aa they may dictate they are mortal they are like I 1 am and I 1 do not know whether they will do the right thing or not I 1 have some doubts about that I 1 have nou not got confidence in their manage management aa businessmen buskness business men lda ido I 1 do not know but I 1 have better business qualities myself than they havo have and 1 I can manage my own affairs to better advantage than they can iam lam I 1 am not willing therefore to do as aa my fellow men dictate now let me ask la is not that the secret thought of many minds I 1 am sure it is and yet the same men who entertain these thoughts and the same women will go into thib this temple when it is completed angwill and will aak at the hands of the servants of god blessings that are far beyond all price when measured by substance sub Bub stance by gold or bliver silver or that which men valuable it is 19 a strange thing it Is a feature in the human character it ls is is 19 exhibited everywhere it Is ia not confined to latter day saints alone that mankind are very willing to trust men watt spiritual things and to have confidence in them cincer concerning ning spiritual things and have little or no confidence in them when it affects their temporal interests thero there oro aro men and there may be some in this congregation who have been quite willing to submit to tho ordinance of baptism and rely upon it BB tib a means of salvation as a means of remitting their biners eine end and have also been willing to submit to havo have hands handa isid upon them by tile the same individual for the tha reception of tho the holy ghost who would not listen to his hia co counsel aneel concerning denap their ei property r perty this want of conni denee denes a arises r hes bes in bome some instances from selfishness or n lack of faith and in others from mm witnessing the unwise conduct of eiders riders in the management of means there have baen been eiders riders who have havo gone out in tho the world for the purpose e of bringing souls to the truth who have abuse j thein their privileges among the people and have bori borl borrowed owed loucy and neven neve repaid it such cc Curr chosa inspire and sueh buch men have transcended esc fic the limits of their authority ia taking this course coarse they were not sent bant out to meddle in thib this way in Pe peopled Oplas af naira naina to horrow borrow money and do of that character bu ba were sent to preach tho the gospel and so eo long us as they confined themselves to their legitimate ditlea and did those things they were wore authorized to do they were bleh bieh blessed sed the bord lord was with them and their labors resulted in salvation to the man who attends strictly to the duties assi ashi assigned gried to him and pertaining to his bis priesthood and confines himself to them thema is sustained and upheld of the lord the eldera eiders who have destroyed confidence by the math I 1 have alluded to transcended their authority that constituted the difference between their action and the action of the man whom god places to preside over his church can you not see seo the dla dia unction ioan ican I 1 can see thata that a man that goes boutas a aa elders navo hava done in the past often acquires great influence with the power of bod god resting lipon him and through the confidence that power bas hat ini inspired in the midst of the saints I 1 can understand that men have taken advantage of that influence and nave have abused the trust of the people 0 piave a and nd have done wrong and nave have leese lesse lessened ned their influenza with god and with man and have cause caused J the spirit of goj gel by that hat action to 0 withdrawn drawn from them hem there ro many such cases to which i point you if it were necessary nece this thia morning no ho man luan however bai done that in this church without losing that power which god gate gato unto him andi andl and there are aie men who have from this church who brought on that apostasy apo stacy because of such buch conduct aa I 1 allude to they thet were not warran warranted in doing whai what they did thoy they exceeded the bounds or of choir priesthood and in doing so they committed on sia but there is an authority in the church to whom god has haa civen ulven the right to cu cineel nEel in the affairs of the children cb lidren ildren of men in re gard to tem temporal pral affairs when joseph smith lived upon the earth it itwara wall wael his hia prerogative pre to do that he stood as gode ambassador not clothed with the attributes ot of god for he was a mortal man but bat he be stood as aa tho the representative of god upon the gearth holding the keys of the kingdom of god U od upon the earth with the power to bind on earth and it should bo be bound in heaven he occupied that position when he lived and on his ce departure another took his hia place upon the carthand eart earth hand and alood in precisely the earno capacity to us ua as a people that joseph joheph timoth did that was brigham young when he passed away another stepped forward and took toor the same position and holds the same bame keys and exercises the same bame authority and stands precisely prec leely in the bame same position po to us that the prophet joseph did or that the prophet brigham did when ho he lived livel upon the earth now was not joeeph joseph smith a mortal man yes A fallible man yes had he be not weaknesses yoa yea he acknowledged them himself and did not fall to put the revelations 0 on n record in this book the book of do doctrine and covenant covenants wherein god reproved him nia nis weaknesses were not concealed from the laople he was willing that leopla should know that he was mortal and had failings fallings and so with brigham young was not he a mortal man a man who had weaknesses he was not a god he was not an immortal baing he was not I 1 infallible atai atal lible nc he was fallible lai ial lible and yet when he depore spoke by the power of god it was the word of god to thia this people when he sealed scaled a man mali up to eternal life he upon him the blessings pertaining to eternity and to the God godhead head bead or when he delegated others othera to todo do it in hisa tead god godin in the eternal world the bot not the blessings that were sealed upon that man or that woman they were healed to bo be binding ir jap x in life and in that life which is to come they became part of the records ot of eternity and would be b e fulfilled to the very letter upon the heads of those upon wh whom orn oln they were pronounced provided thoy they were faithful before god aud alid fulfilled their part of the covenant there is no i doubt about it and so eo it I 1 is a today to day there Is but one mn meil ai a you have often heard beard at a time on the earth who holds this authority there may be ba others who have this author tty fly also and I 1 thank god theno thene are many who hold this ruth nuth authority arity that is the authority of the apostleship A but they hold it subordinate to trio trie 1 man who holds the keys keye they cannot exercise this authority only us ha he 1 hall consent con eon ento onto or delegate or them to lo do eo 0 there is but one mancho man who has tho the power to ex exercise erette thib this authority to st stand as it were in gods goda sted stead to be ba hib hie voice nut unto 0 the people and that Is isi the manah man who 0 stands at the tto head bead ma and who is prebi preal dent and who holis holls the keys by virtue of the appointment of god god places him there it la Is not mans manaca man s net act it la Is gods providence god goti knows the hearts of the children dren n rf men by his overruling providence he brings bringa this man to the front or he keepe him in the rear just sa as it pleases him I 1 believe behave that Hs his providence is over nver all of us as and he can hill or remove as iks he pleases or ho he can preserve in life as good to him and he has done so BO when the prophet joseph waa slain godby his overruling providence brought the man to the front who was hib his choice to buc bac aeed his eer servant vant david patten was wag slain at crooked river who was the benlor benior of brigham young thomas 11 marsh lost the faith alo atlo aio the senior of brigham young but brigham young waa preserved in the providenc provide nm fr of god and when his hia prophet was slain he stepped forward clothed with the eternal priesthood of god full of the fire of the holy ghost and the power of god and the tho whole people teil reit that they stood in the pres pree enca of the man whom god had chosen and whom god had endowed for the position god qualified him and made him equal to eveia emergency from ff cm that nour hour until the hour hoar of hib hia death god was his unfailing friend he ules bleb blessed geed every one who listened to ot his servant he blessed thit tuis entire people aud and u he blessed messed this land under ideen youngs administration and we |