Show DISCOURSE BY BT ELDER ABRA HAM I 1 INNON I 1 sat salt lake stake conference at tl the assembly jal saturday septem ber 2nd and 1893 REPORTED or y ARTRUR WINTER I 1 trust truel that I 1 coile i occupy this pos position I 1 may be tilled with the spirit ol 01 the Lor lorland dand i neither attempt nor desire but th that at which he to say bay anything willi will approve hat hab been that there a I 1 do not know when we time in ill our experience the ui ol the lord needed more ot of at the present it tuan to guide us the windom of mau though seems as faila under present circumstances to it of deliverance point out the way moving along in a to in true we AJ are re way an and d what we matter of omart fact might generally consider very natie which was waa given report factory but tas by broduer davis concerning conce ruing the first quorum of elders will doubtless aiple borume find and organizations to very many I 1 to tn me church I 1 suppose it can not more than one that abely safely be said bald who have a standing of those quarter in the church are r really magnifying their callings aol aal lid living up P tu to the full line of their duty this may be considered a vey very broad statement by BUO yet I 1 think investigation would far from correct nut prove it tu to be we may be performing certain duties which I 1 are to pleasurable to us anu easy of went but those which come contact with our and inclinations we ar are e peculiar desi desires zeis and thus through neglect very apt to a acure now and again to I 1 jer or orm form our cuties we are gradually into a kind of which is almost as bad Ju indifference difference I 1 jud it means apostasy me apostasy change occurs I 1 radical u unless a very nut that the church am not so sure with apostasy apos than can better igra jg aple with indifference I 1 am not so ao sure bat we can da effectually guard against the ev evila which apostates and non mormons cormons would introduce into our midst thao we can protect our elvea froni from tie the evil influences of 0 tio o rave who AM indifferent and still have a st standing in the church it t is always easier and more pleasant plea Bant though perhaps it may be more inore dangerous dang to lo fight arut an open enemy enem tamu abo a hypocritical friend it la Is alway aldaya better lor for the auth authorities rIlles in a stake or of in a ward to u understand the real condition of men and women and provide a remedy lor for the disease which afflicts them than to be led along under the impression that tain members are desirous ot of doing right and yet tty be secretly conniving ing at the injury of the I 1 believe the lord will pro vide means in some WRY way peculiar to himself to cleanse the church of the hypocrite and ungodly and it will cause such a shaking up among these WOO who have a standing the church that it will make each man and woman appear in his or her true how soon this will occur I 1 do not know but wita my present recent feelings I 1 would hall hail such a day g ay with great delight we are confronted my brethren and sister bisters with questions of the greatest importance to UP and which need the the attention and the faith ot all this Latt latter erday day saints to all human appearance it seems its as though destruction la in a business way will overwhelm the world and that in the troubles which w aich are to come upon the people of the earth the latter day faints will not remain aitt cathea we seem to have become so mixed up in we affairs ot babylon that bat when she goes down zion will be seriously affected thereby broday we can find io in our city and perhaps the same condition eutte in other parts of the to territory hu hundreds nd reds ot of men without employment bocan we can dad the people suffering in many iu iju stances from the lack ot of the necessaries ot of life men and women able and willing to work but sot for whom no employment can be found seeking tor for labor it it will only afford them the food which they doeu to sustain their bodies bodice I 1 believe that in our territory today and especially in this county there are hundreds of families without food to eat for tomorrow and able bodied people too in whom there is both the capacity and the desire lor for work it if they could only find it upon any terms this same condition ex ests only perhaps in greater magui tude lude in the states and territories ol of this country and in other nations ot of the earth the question immediately arises with every in tn inking person what is ie to be the result of this condition are we to have suffering in our midst are people to go hungry and with without out suitable clothing during the approaching it is a question which demands however much we may try to shirk the responsibility of it the serious of the abe priesthood of god and of his people throughout this territory if our brethren and sisters whom we are sending our elders out to gather to these valleys of the mour MOUL gains are to come here and starve then we had bad better call home our missionaries sion aries and instead of gathering people here bore from the nations nation of the earth we had bad better scatter them abroad to and food it is IB not only the be immigration which is coming from abroad that needs out our attention but we have growing up here over slaty sixty thousand children it if there to la not enough work for those who have already established themselves I 1 to a this country what is to become of these theme thousands of children who are ara growing up and who will need employment we may gay any that thai the country is overstocked over stocked with people we may accept if we will the Malth malthusian doctrine that war or some other disaster Is necessary at stated staled times to kill off some of the inhabitants jf f the earth otherwise it would be overpopulated over populated I 1 heard beard a man only a few days ago speaking of the situation say that he did not know what would give relief except war were declared between this country and some other country and the people were we wt re swept off by this means he was a man who had bad been peeking seek og employment day after day and week atter after week end and to him there seemed no do other means of relief than that the bearta of the people are quailing qu ailing almost with fear at the proof set which la Is presented fur for the its coming winter why is this la Is it a fact that here in utah our crops in pr previous years have been less lees than we anticipates Is IB there too little food producer have we too little land for culli cultivation are our streams too meagre to water the soil and cause it to produce in its ita richness for our you are my witnesses my brethren and sis sisters Biet terp erf who live jive outside the city and know of the fruitfulness with which god has baa blessed the land that he has haa not withheld his blessings from us in this respect there is ia at und i nce produced in this territory and in the so joining states and territories to sustain the population and a far greater number of people than those who now live in these theme galleys of the mountains you are also witnesses that th reiman re is an abundance of wealth within the borders of utah territory to sustain this people without their having to call upon the east or the west the north or the southfork south for slay any assistance we have within our own grasp if we only had the wisdom to use it the wealth necessary to make of this territory one of the brightest and richest spots pote on the face of the earth but w we have lost sight eight in some M measure at least of the object of our leathering gathering to these valleys we have fur forgotten gotten the call which was sent to us u through the elders of the church that we should come out of babylon and gather up to zion that we might leam odthe ways of god and walk in hie paths no call was made upon the people to gather up to zion that they might alcum accum accumulate wealth that they might extend the limits of their fields that they might build up mansi mansions mansios ot w while bile under the shadows of their mau man stone the poor and the hungry bengry cried for food for shelter and for raiment instead of seeking to 10 learn the ways oi of god and walk in his paths we have sought to learn the ways of men and to walk in the paths of mon men we have looked after the golden calf our eyed have been turned toward that image which god requires us to fo forsake reake we have gathered wealth we have bay boarded it and we are using it spar angly for our own bon benefit egit forgetting at the aade we time the necessities of our brethren and sisters who are living around a us as who have just fust aa much claim though they may not possess equal ability with us for the management of financial affairs upon the blessings ble sings of almighty god as we have in this territory we have hare enough land to divide among the she people and provide snob each family with more than twenty acres for cultivation according to statistics we have something over fifty two millions ot of acres acre of land of this there are two millions that can be reached by the streams of water which god basso has so abundantly increased during these theme latter times time in fulfillment ot of prophecy of these theme two millions of acres only about seven hundred and thirty five thousand acres are really under cultivation and producing that which they are capable of yielding for or the support of the inh inhabitant abitanto of the land and the land which we do cultivate how bow is it treated IR in it producing in its ita ull nesb does it yield richly ot ol ito if ruit to the husbandman no it does doea not because IVIs iria merely efte in fall of the soil thas not been tau found ad soar oely by a shig leperson living lo in this territory lorys good falmore though we may call ourselves it was told me a 9 ort time ago that in davis county one man sustained himself and erkd wife and several children and had made a comfortable living for years jeara from un an acre sod and a quarter of land I 1 could scarcely believe it but seeing the person concerning whom this was said I 1 enquired ot him as to the facts facto to in the case and he told me that he be bad had bad an abundance for himself and family all the time he bad been living there which was for seven years I 1 believe I 1 asked him bim how he managed it he said he cultivated every foot ot of land be had bad and he be found it required all his bie time as well as aa the time of 0 his two boye to 10 keep that land to in proper propel cultivation ho H had bad a part of it in fruit a part in vegetables and a small patch of grain all on the acre and a quarter and he be was considered one of the most thrifty men in the th settlement the laud land to which god has brought us ue forbidding for biddi ag and full of alkali as some OMO of it way may bag be is the strongest I 1 believe that can be found anywhere when you have once subdued the mineral that is in the soil there is ia no land in any place that I 1 have that yields so richly nobly of vegetable ot of grain of fruit and everything that is ia necessary to sustain man we have hundreds of thousands I 1 might a almost say millious of acres of hand in this territory that are yet unoccupied and to which the attention of these men man who are without employment should now be turned this is only one of the sources from which profit can be derived just turn out upon bese base barren lands to which the she water can be brought by a little labor and the me expenditure of very tittle little means and think of the results that would accrue to this territory through the employment of these hundreds ot of men uvon upon these landt landi I 1 they would not only provide for themselves and their families a i comfortable living but they would enrich the territory and they would bleus bless not only the land which they cultivates but they would bless all their i because as lanu is cultivated and brought under control rol so the elements seem to work in harmony with mens mena men a exertions aija rain becomes more abundant and the blessings of the lord descend upon the whole country through ith the industry and labors of the people who cultivate the soll soil if the people could feel the spirit ot of dividing up their forms farms into three thre e or four parts or more if i ecea ece sary seary I 1 and men could be sent out of the thoo cities where we are becoming so crowded that we can scarcely get pure air and they be given a ceatice to make something from the soil god would bless us for our gent generosity rosity inthis in this respect but I 1 do not lee eee how it can be done until that hat holy boly order of god is established whereby men and women will be equal in temporal as they now pretend to bb aquil lu in things spiritual but cannot something be done in this direction lor the employment of our people we find young men crowding from farms into the cities fhe mania seems to have seized the young people throughout the country that they must go to the ettles cities the result remit iii if our oar cities are re hemming becoming with the number humber of people and this the county places laces are being robbed of the help which oh they used need to harvest barvest andio and to attend to the crops if young mop men and bromen would only go gain in wisdom by the experience of their parents and men man who understand these matters they would take their advice and remain upon their farou farms they would build homes in the country where land can be obtained and I 1 testify to you that they will tons relieve themselves of mountains of careane care and anxiety which weigh so go heavily upon men luen in wittiness business today in the cities of the Teril territory tory I 1 do not believe there la in a man today whatever hla his business may be who has branched out extensively in any direction in this city but would stand up and testify that if he had the opportunity now to lay jay off the burdens which rest upon his bis shoulders he would do it gladly and go out in the country and furnish himself employment in the cultivation of the soil soi it would be almost like heaven to him you my breth brethren ret and st sisters aters who live outside of the city who have not the temptations to extravagance which ate aie found in our midst and who have yet to know what it is to feel the burden of debt resting upon you thank the lord that he has spared you this trouble rouble if you could see men wandering it around our streets with any quantity of securities unquestioned in ordinary times seeking to obtain money and see them refused rt the loan which they desire and which seems necessary to their future prosperity it if you could but see this and teel feel for one moment the weight of the anxiety and the care which rest refit upon them I 1 believe beleve it would woula be sufficient warning to you to avoid debt if you are free from these chres cares you can cad ital well at night you are not afraid to meet a min man because yuu YOU owe nim something but if you uwe a man and as conditions now exist is are unable to pay him you are measurably his bondman and must wear his yoke especially if be is a hardhearted hardne arted man we need relief from some god will give to hla his servants if they will seek it the wisdom necessary to escape jbv coubles troubles roubles rou bles under which we ate now resting he has not forsaken zion even though there be poly one quarter of the people serving him ida abat quarter has the faith and the power with god to call down his hie choicest chorost blessings upon us he oan so open the windows a of heaven if lie he desires it ile he can open the bowels ol of the earth and make them produce of the riches which they cottain cout aln for the relief of his people he can make the earth fruit ul lor for their welfare aud their sustenance he can bl as us up as he |