Show DISCOURSE I 1 I 1 by kids elder orson hyde sept 1854 I 1 B bahig ang berlied upon this morning to occupy a portion of the time I 1 gladly gi a adly arise a ri se todo to t aa do oso so I 1 am not in fit tile the habit of maki making lug mail many ly apologies for I 1 intend to give you yon the best I 1 have on hand and also alao such as may be given me m e during the remarks I 1 may make while I 1 attempt to edify you upon some of tile the principles of salvation and eternal fidei life I 1 de desire eirean an interest tit in your prayers that I 1 may speak not according to the wisdom that man mail devi df viseth sedi but according to tabt which corner down from above As it a foundation for some bonie remarks that I 1 w ill make I 1 will rend read a portion of the he epistle of jude ad d va varse arse IlBo loved when I 1 glive gave du all figa nce to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me 0 to write u unto nto you yoli and exhort you yon that car earnestly nestly edri contend tend for the fath once delivered unto th saints were I 1 capable tills morning of addressing you upon subjects that were not understood by y yon that you do not comprehend there would remain a doubt in your minds with revard regard to the truth troth of what I 1 s say ay but if I 1 address id dress you upon U subjects with whit which ill you yon are familiar impressing them upon your minds minas perhaps more forcibly th lhnn thoy have been for some soma time past if I 1 rem sh v your ur minds minda with familiar thin things Lys you will then I 1 know and understand the old book the bible which I 1 have rend so many lit times nes does not lose ju it interest by ance or perusing hut I 1 take it up and read it over andover and over abatu abdin and my mind is refresh which is a matter of satisfaction and comfort to me ne so it is with the principles of our religion thol tho we have often heard them yet vet we desire to lipar hear them still and they hey ar arc of that peculiar nature nata re that they do not lotte lose their interest to those who are seek seeking ilig for et fyfe I 1 fi one speaks of a com common mon salvation that it was not only necessary to write unto tham of the common salvation but while he was doing ap so vat flat he should exhort then them to contend fo forthie forthe r faith once delivered to the s now nov I 1 know it is too often loften the ease case when we speak of salvation we speak of a state of glory to W bc attained I 1 in u the eter eternal nal world that the matters ad of this world are of but bat little con consequence queue of little importance but we are are looking yonder inthe in the heavens beavens for out our reward oward for our everlasting inheritance I 1 look atit at it in this thi light slight tito the husband husbandman mail may plant seed irk in the earth but if lie he all the time looks to the golden harvest wad and pays no attention 0 11 to the cultivation of vie the young plants on oil heir progress to per perfection be will not reap the reward he anticipated then it becomes be cones for him aud and it is to tits liis interest to attend to the cultivation of the plant pi nit it its pr sag and encourage its growth I 1 just so ao it is with vs us it if is for us to attend to the things that are present the tl e things tl lings i that are past we are to io forget particularly v thode things that are of an character and the filings that ire are in future fure are not in incur our hands and to our our control but they hev are in tile the hands of af the almighty and with lain him alwy are secured it is the present then with which web we have faveto do do with the things thing that are before u 6 tant Is I 1 believe bH ye th the common aava i tic tion I 1 ido do not pretend ti 0 say what the apostle had his big eye particularly fixed cupoo but I 1 shall pursue this subject ie as it it appears appe unto auto me j another thima I 1 will suggest in tho outset it is often th the e ease case that tha we bear nien men and women n talk about temporal things na about spiritual things wha wv we temporal and what are spir linal fl thing Anup cannou can you tell me ine what spiritual bilings area says sone one it is a joyful feeling that i buoys us above the cures and anxieties of tills this wrid w rad ER amiral chiri things as are our hope of a glori mis ens in fit the kingdom of godin god in the alt fu 1 tore temporal things we arft the thi things we eat drinka wear find and use in divers ways to shelter and sustan sustain this mortal body while it i a attil tabernacle w for our spirits I 1 I 1 t i I 1 look at temporal a aad spiritual things in the same point or of light they are to me all a spiritual I 1 know no difference the lite hand tout has prapai prepared ed a place in the celestial kingdom for them that are worthy of it has bas also for formed uk the theearta earth and caus cana I 1 1 j ed it to produce food for every living ti thing eli worlds I 1 n we WB 1 behold futha in the starry tile the worlds that are revolving continually q us are enado by the same omnipotent hand hana and thi they ty are all hw his and they areole spiritual because they are ameter as br uni nal as god himself for there pup cup be no annihilation of matter consequently they are 1 eter pl and nothing we may conceive or imagine of more refined substances I 1 can do more airn than cotti continue nue forever everything god hia bast created and made even the habis of our heads that fall to the ground grou nd do not escano his deaice the 1 I tie almighty has not organized matter as a more mere plaything of it a temporary exis existence teace and then plunge plu it into the regi ns as of titter litter but everyl bing ng ile he ll 11 has s done is like himself eternal and everything eteri 1 nally daily witnesses the go odite ol of the su preme rul ru I 1 1 ar r for 41 his hia worlie cli il irbite ift him if hit his rrose I 1 are to peah r 1 1 h where is the monument of fate 16 Is 0 f fh bort there 0 will bo nope none what he does doe to in stu A kitt nal and remains an eterna witness of what tr ko I 1 1 has ha done and so his hie works eter eternally nolly praisy praise hito him I 1 but we w want vant to come to tills common calvao alva t tion it is 19 road somewhere whether in the th bibi or some other I 1 do not pretend to say but bat if it ignot is not in the bible it ja is none the less true self preservation is the ow first arat law of nature 11 I 1 anve reflected this morning a hort abort time taue upon our condition I 1 contemplate the under on der which the Plo noera come came t to 0 till thi valley the circumstances that attended the early settlements I 1 I 1 and exertions rado here to procure to ua I 1 necessaries or of life I 1 I 1 was waa not botone one amoul the boti honored ored company that I 1 first led the way to this distant region orl that first fint plowed I 1 up tip the sterile soil of t this do rt valley y b but t I 1 was e engaged 1 8 ard tit in some other country indeed while p pioneers il aers were on thir way to 16 this land while they were engaged i in that arduous enterprise I 1 wis was W is perhaps upon the banks of the danube or might possibly be in en england 9 laila or in af abia apia ia I 1 do not n now ow recollect where I 1 was but I 1 was in tho thiea I 1 eastern tern regions bearing my testimony I 1 among the austrians Aust rians russians or turks among I 1 their heir consuls an and d agents 1 I 1 ts bedri bearing tr m my y testimony I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 to them hem of the the thing t to 0 come perhaps hapa some in ia those nations may now remember that an humble servant of godat god at a certain time bore his testimony among the people in that country which is ie the th most beautiful of goblo god creation spreading out in I 1 valley or plain and which perhaps is now laid desolate and drenched in fit human blood 1 was elsewhere when this valley was settled I 1 I low ilow was it if behold when they arrived here all they had to subsist upon until they th raised it from the soil in their wagons wagon s there were no props crops t to I 1 come com e to there was nothing provided to t libeer c thom them at t the end of their long and tolla omo journey and the skeletons of cattle liht might b bo I 1 i I 1 f see seen wa walking to and fro fo without anat anything dug provid V ed to t feed f them upon a longwinter long winter and then when they had plowed up the soil coll ond and sow ed seed in the earth and the fields began to seq ahova au an evi evidence ance of a a future futo re supply the crickets cam baor I 1 in ill from the mountains and 06 linearly early li devoured all that grew everything bilat germinated I 1 in in the shape of food for man ma 4 was eaten by aba th insects I 1 I 1 but before they had com completed I 1 ted their work of destruction the hai hand 34 of providence Provi denae prepared ta i 1 agents and sent them to destroy the destroyer A aiu circumstance latance that was rare one that was waa never knoch know sito to exist before and uever never since to any axi tent tuii behold the gulls galls came I 1 in ll 11 swarms sharma sw arma and as an clouds clolie abc aud hla d a PP the crickets and checked ebeo ked them I 1 in fit alv e career and there was just e enough 12 oetigh saved t 6 feed ed the hungry with it a scanty I 1 morsel mora 1 i f I 1 1 1 there are many before me this morning wh who can no doubt reene taber well when their weal meal bags ivre were perfectly empty with only a distant f pros prospect I 1 act of choir being and when ft a I 1 cow was vas slaughtered mie as it was they eat at every I 1 thing even the hide bide was boiled dressed ana aja eaten and everything elso else external and fardal internal I 1 that possibly poe sibly could be eaten was eaten q ai there er 0 w WK nothing lost ono one man said to me 1 IT I labored hard bard under the th pa pangs of f hunger bunger to put up 6 little adebie bobin oa binand I 1 prepare to live and at the same time soy my w ftfe I 1 and children pate pale with want aut were ranging abo th hills and benches to 10 find thistles whistles es and roots to oat which we boiled in in the milk of the reina tows the wolves had not sale eaten those who have come here since the hie valleys valley 1 have become a little think it hard if they 1 cannot get what they want and immedi immediately enjoy I 1 a falness with those who have borne fae burden buy and heat beat of the day they think it hard bard tf if they have to pass a close place and have to struggle a little to obtain the die go comforts of life but I 1 I 1 back to the early settlements of this alao I 1 I 1 whon when nothing but stared ia ite incubi inhabit ants in the face what surety had they from the th m I 1 savage that w was 1 9 in their doors and in their I 1 1 I 1 here lie re was the hostile ands and blood thirsty savage I 1 1 prowling viii t g argand ami the early settlers knew not what i hour our lie he might pounce upon them thy thoy I 1 were out or of doors they had not a house to uvo I 1 in or to form a delonce rit much aeb less leas a fort to pro I 1 alt them until they were able to throw up ip I 1 thing of a t temporary cah character acter to shield then them I 1 it I 1 from the attao attacks s of the wild man mail of the mount k ak alas I 1 this ills is ia adlitte a little of the early history abt 0 of f t this I 1 isa rt tl ement W we t h have a vo prospered we 07 have had bad accessions ces cess tons to a our ur nil numbers arp to be sure we have had trouble and difficulty with the savages iu in various ways but in the midst of it all we have arisen 1 from froin the 2 germ rm and tho tree has grown up a and 0 I 1 be begina n g t to 0 shoot oot forth its branches I 1 ti it I 1 1 is is no not the inhabitants of the little batt u lt I 1 in salt aalf le lake valley alone that are now emby embra oad within the walls of this tabernacle but flu V I 1 I 1 hundred miles to the son south and two hundred mao I 1 to tha th north late large settlements have sprung up y in the midst of thea circumstances the hand of it j god dud lias hah been with us as a people and prospered pard our labors aban abundantly dantly fund and f feel proud to dhoot I 1 you this morning in such circumstances I 1 I 1 y you on all appear comfortably clad and the I 1 bloom of health and the smile of contentment sile cite triumphantly upon your countenances tae hand of the almighty io ig with you to cheor and aad I 1 gladden yot in the midst of all difficulties rod and the praise r I 1 e is ia due unto bilm him for he be has oar labors and enabled us to acquire these comforti comfort we ive enjoy and let me say they tra ire tile the staff aud I 1 I 1 bulwark of our common sel salvation for it is 14 fpx llam we wish to prolong oy the earth ali iphy why do we wish to do a so 0 lb ia this e and I 1 I 1 1 troublesome woi world ld why not close our mortal I 1 earker and i our spirits go hen ahma f to add who yaw I 1 I 1 them 7 because bause we have not iloie our work it I 1 I 1 lq li said t the he wicked shall idof livo live half their days dai if i they did they only mili multiply lipic dio their I 1 r race until I 1 the e principles a of wickedness would become u universally I 1 I 1 I 1 ver sally diffused tile the lo 10 td rd will div civo to the ri 41 the long end odthe of the beoo for foi pay ey out their days then I 1 ea S tote ta itts 1 I 1 4 and true to each other othe r juirl 0 o yolar nal nfl land and you yat I 1 I 1 1 4 I 1 i will live ive out your days and ud orani eore piet t the work I 1 I 1 assigned you on I 1 I 1 NT f I 1 will represent tt it tit in an pl of iglai gl I 1 S suppose UPP OSH a ran manis a is sent WE to A wor oi ia to file goit coa I 1 I 1 tl lien t to asia egypt to foite 1 f t of f ahlen africa is I 1 the cie western islands or t to d he V 9 of f L 4 13 to fulfil fulfill a mis mission and ba I 1 bozo he 4 ha hao I 1 I 1 completed it if who is r li I 1 b hi 0 L 1 abo vho I 1 toady ready to in wol coie liim fins tha chafins I 1 liy I 1 tru position n he Hehn snot done doa donegi egi hegyi 11 nal i filled WB hia mission and ace j I 1 ao 40 work ork he h I 1 was wao sent to do aud and lie he betm n h abst failed wah I 1 I 1 the spirit of god no betm I 1 W 0 6 fat of darkness dark nesB and blo rno il Y I 1 io fike fe 41 0 1 he has not done don e his duty like a r T d V I 1 1 then how it is i thaw I ia I 1 t 10 I 1 vr that bears a 8 portion of the holy I 1 I 1 this gospel to gilb thc i lands la D d a p af pf f to the a I 1 fy it iu iti the eyes of the people I 1 6 god cod and return c clean I 1 eart fa m sp spall 14 ill ao i I 1 cand with a spirit to bear witness ess with i tits I 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 I 1 god is 18 with him aud has hae be al I 1 t 11 AV I 1 long 1 he is ia th n hailed with a joyful I 1 wel welcomed P comey III iha f servants of god inzian ill zion I 1 i la 11 I 1 we are ill all on oil a ml to vda ti ova oi we I 1 1 carne came bodd bright Fr sp phere liere add ech olf 01 Us u 1 have our lots aisig assigned qed us find and now nov if AIA bechn wi aei our mis neaston nn aston gion when we to ka fe basom bai I 1 I 1 of on our fatherland Fat father herand and god wald wo uld you fla noi BU aup p I 1 doaa we shall aall he haud with one u bome ah ahl I 1 one 1 I ww w w aai an liun nun gerod ani ve gave me I 1 WA abild anav ire gave me drink dank I 1 was ads a and ye took ta afee in naked and yo ye clothed me I 1 was sick aa y si vat d rn me I 1 ws w w s in prison and yo ye cano anto me ina f veroy 1 say unto you that inasmuch as ye ive have half done it unto one odthe least of thesa ny breth 1 ran ye have done it u unto nto me this lis is the welcome weli I 1 I 1 I 1 then it asfor us to ta act well weil our conr part it I 1 and perform I 1 our fai faithfully with Otlo Sity to gaz god all andi d to P on a 0 another it I 1 I 1 0 tile r weare we are permitted dormitt to dwell upon the parth if we should not act well weh our part and 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