| Show GUI TaIBnn How to Uge Them I Discourse Delivered at the Sixtyfourth SemiAnnual Conference of the Church In the Tnuornaolo Salt Lako City Friday Afternoon Oct a 1808 by ELDER HEBER J GRANT RCfOKTED IIY ARTHUR WINTER Ism very much pleased Indeed to I Twelve Apostles t nnd of r Hie two absent pncc mote have the opportunity ol jricellrii with the Latter day Saints tars en era 1 conference n11 I have rejoiced l exceedingly In listening to the remark that were made to those who assembled here this rooming and I regretted that la few of the Latter day SAint were present I remarked nltuwnrd that It teemed to me that I had never attended I meeting where so much valuable In urucllon had been given It seemed at though all tint was said by tho speakers 1 was full of good things for the Latter dry habits We many limes listen to the tlders and they speak In n manner out I + Interesting and we ate pleased xilh what they sayaml we hear many eloquent discourses but it did seem tome to-me that from first to last all that was all In our hearing this morning was of mat character that nil of ui could re colon great benefit and profit therefrom limit I that the few who were hero will remember what they heard and that they will endeavor to communicate to usher the Inspiration that we All felt I reel that use people we nave Indeed great cause to rejoice And Rive thank unto the Lord for the manifestations of llli goodntis kindness And mercy unto us Ice council meeting that we luJ a few days ago nt which a majority J of the members ol the quorum i 14rulher cf the Apostle was present llrothcr I hatcher remarked that In he midst of the financial trial through which the people were passing It did atom to him Hut there never i had been n tune since the Latterday Saints CAme to these valleys when the Lord had magnified the leaders ol the people so much and so many courtesies had been emended unto them by the people I of the world as In the past six months Tire prejudice Ibo bitterness and the animosity that n few years ago existed In the hearts of the people I ol hit country against the Latter nay Silntj have became of the outpouring of the blessings of the Lord 1 opus the people almost entirely sits > r appeared L while hate short time ago tiiufol us who came to Conlerence were called upon to look at these stands here and KB hardly representative of the i Apostles trod none ol le the lust frnUcncy today we lid permitted to I tie all of tits Presidency and ten of the one has just j arrived In the city r1 be here tomorrow nnd the other is I laboring as the president of the Kunipean mission working for the onward on-ward advancement of Gods kingdom here lint those who were absent from us a few years ago were so because ol the r jdrcal mil bitterness that en isled againU the balms Today there Is a disposition on the pail of the people of this uatioiiat least nil whom I have come In contact hhIo do justice to tine Utter day Saints We are becoming becom-ing known sir what we lire The Latter slimy Saints 1 are an honest upright up-right nnd n devoted jieople and when the people I ol the United States learn this they will concede to us our just dues Dm which we have had to stiller has been because of prejudice nnd of falsehoods which have been circulated against us lire American people as a people are not lacking In generosity In liberality or In Justice and when they have done a wrong because be-cause of false statements they are ready and willing I to right lima wrong as so Illustrated by rer iwssage l yesterday of the bill In Congress restoring lo the Iatler day Saints OIli111 their personal properly Who could have I tl dough a loW short years ago when the prejudice that existed here was so intense that such action would be taken For usher ever vou went vou wuutdnneeh men who would say thallf f they had the nuking of the laws they J would not only confiscate rcU tale the Church property hut they would confiscate the property of alt the members of the Church 1 That t sets men has almost enamel died out As rle 1 sal on the stand erlid morning i and listened to the remarks of Iresident Cannon and 1 the other brethren referring re-ferring to the honor that was done to our aged President and his counselors In their recent trip to Chicago It was Impossible for met restrain lhe team ol gratitude that came to my eyes We may be railed upon to pass through financial hardships but what do they amount to if we are blessed of the Lord 1 with the light And inspiration ol Ills I Holy Spirit I and If those who stand at Iho bend of the Church are honored and respected and not looked upon I by Ihs I Sdc with contempt The Latter I day Stints Inane been through birdlimes bird-limes and there are n great many of us who are pulling I lout I faces and thinking I we are in n terrible Us when we are In no fera at all This whole financial panic hams great hoax from first lo last In one sense of the word The people all over the country got scared At what At nothing In the face of good crops ol ration rom and heal and general prosp rly in the oholr country we bale hail OnlethlnKover y 70 banks fail an11 I venture the assertion lhat out ol that number there Here only A very few that failed because they were In a bad financial condition Why did they fall Simply because the people Kilt seated I drew their money out of the banks and hi mans cases hid It Ill nine cases out of ten there was no earthly reason fur their taking their money out of lime banks It nf estimated I t that ol the trade lhat Is I transacted ninety five percent of It Is I done on credit ami that there Is only I live per cent of actual money that changes hands In transacting the business busi-ness uf a country We have had such a scare that the ninethve per cent has been contracted about twenty per cent In other words about four times as much contraction n < i here was rnunev In enlstence lo do 1 the business with The result is that everybody has become I frightened of everybod else and as 1 say 790 banks have failed and c aimoit vi ftnout esceptkm they were absolutely I i sound and solvent Many and many a hAnk has been called upon to close Its diHin that had five hundred thousand dollars capital and 1 only one hundred lt 1h j and fifty or two hundred et thousand dollars of deposit left when the bank closed three or jurdollars assets tuone lr tIWIc of liability When wople put their I I money In the rank they eipect It lo lie loaned and of course the bunks loan It and II n gteat majority ol r the twn pie demand their money nt the same time they are sure to close the bunk The Hank of England I could not Hand II the people alt went there and asked fur their money The United Sate government gov-ernment could nut pay I all Us obligations at once Suit Lake City If I called upon lo pay all her bonds could not pmuibly clout Utah Territory could not do It or any other city state or territory In the nation It has simply been sense loom I panic front first to last and the whole of us have narrowed ourselves down Ucause of this panic and made matters that much worse 1 want to confess to you that I and many others have done wrong Why Uouu wo have been K very anxious to maLe A dollar that we have run In debt and now we cannot promptly I pay IIa our honest debts I cannot for the reason that fioouo collateral securities which I are good would not raise n thousand dollars lounr l the tint lime In my lire I have had people peo-ple come to me And ask me to jwy money that I awed them AIIII I have lad to ask for an extension of lime If 1 the Lord wilt only lorglve me this once I will never be 1 caught again I have been a borrower ol money since I was eighteen i but If I can only Jc paid I off what I owe now I shall be contentI believe be-lieve with i the blessings I 1 Lof the I Lord whatever they nny be lie It much or little When i icarte I thin fact r tint if or I owed a bank 1 n certain amount ol money and they asked me to pay It and Ir I could not font I stop to relied that my allure all-ure to pay that money In connection with the allure ol others might be thor tho-r h because breaking the people that hid bank become want to tell you that I would feel considerably considera-bly humiliated We hear many who owe bank complaining I I I bcrainr the bankers have oppressed rivet mil rained their rates 01 Interest ni I n on I tell > ou my friends tint if we hove taken a chance nml have irrotted I the money we have done 11IIIr what > III the how of making something rend we have no just reason to romphln when we are wiled upon to link s eri lice to meet oui obligations I am sure 1lonot 1 1 wont to lAY to the Latler dry Saints that redo not want 10 lose confidence In ourselves we do not walll inn line confidence In our brethren we lo I not want to W confidence In the itMliu lions In Zion and we do nut want to lockup lock-up our money hero It will out t di > any good II God has given usi 11 1 ml we should put It to usury and make two talents out of it Tills applies l jmt t an much lo money as It doe to miutil ulents It is I our duty If we have my ninns lo lit It go into clrcula lion and benefit somebody Another thing that we want lo learn as Latter diy Saints and I hive gone to work to learn ItIs to follow the counsel lint sets gl > en lo us here today and Hut is I to confine ourselves in the I iieceislllcs of life and not lo indulge In extravagant habits If we have v surplus at i fl rrt use It as God iletlrM that w > ihuuld use Itlor the onward advancement ol i His Kingdom and time spread ol the Gospel We are ready and willing I to spend len twenty and In many cases thirty I thousand thous-and dollars for n fine home minim has no more rooms In It I no 01 letter ceilings no I more comforts no more happin s Iii n a house that did not cast n ore than one tenth of that but II we Hire cnml upon to live In a 1 house citing one tenth and expend the Iwlaiu to carry Jle the Gospel to the ends uf the earth 7r would l break many of our hearts I believe be-lieve that the very stilngciuy through which we have been passing IMS not only Inspired u + with the Idea of being more careful but also with a desire house ho-use our means more liberally for the on want advancement of Gods Kingdom Why llecaUM we have seen how little our means amounted 1 to We have found out how nlxolulely worlhlrss so to spe kli nil our propirt I went lti here on the street t I rsc Ihirt thousand thous-and dollars worth of secuillles and tried lo borrow ten thousand dollars and I would hAve paged twenty per cent Interest If I I could have gul I It but I could not get anything tc blf So far as our property I I Is concirncd It I Is of no actual value to us only as we are ready and willing to us U for the advancement ad-vancement of Gods Kingdom It Is I our duly lo provide forour families but It Is not our duty In live In extravagance extrava-gance It is not our duty to labor to gain wealth for the adornment of our persons Uf course J like to see people I JI hive good things I and I hope I to live to sec the day when the Uitierdiy Saints I will be wealthy hut I want to say to you tint unless we become mon I i humble more Godlike amore rlthlul In keeping time commandments of God I I do minim expert we until become wealthy Whenever we learn lube willing louse the means that God gives us for the onward on-ward advancement of Ills Klngdon 101 I terdiry Saints wlU not luve i any particular par-ticular financial trouble Ibe Iord will I bless them with all abundance What we need to do I It to seek for the light and j I 1 Inspiration ol Ills Sirll 10 guide us at all times and He will add nil other things tots that are necessary I happened lo read a revelation on the train the older dayas I was coming home from New York one that was given to I our matured Patriarch I had read It I before but It never seemed to strike me with such force as It did then thought I It was a revelation that every alter da Saint ought to read over a great many times because I believe pleasure will come to All of us who read II I When 1 lead It I I thought that the next lime 1 was called Upon to speak If l I tl lied a few moments noilce Iwforehand I would glance Over this revelation and read II a mew passages from 1 its but Inasmuch Inas-much as i I was pled on today without I notkv I have not hail 1 1 lime to look for the passage lhat I wanted to read I eltl will therefore take the lime to read the entire revelation A great and marvelous t work Is about lo come bath among Ibe children of men = I an chAL and gin heed to my word which ls I qukk and pownftll shotcM mists a Ivof4ired swa il 1 la the dividing winder of both slams and marrow Ihenfon gin had unto un-to my waL B hold the field Is while lMdy to bream tterrfon obese dnlreth to nap M bin thraii In hi slckl wink his mlftil and trap while the day tatli that be may treasure up for his soul 1 emlMIIng MIn to the Kingdom of fad 1 Oodea inns hoKKVrwm thrall In his dumb r and rep time Mme U ullnl of Gram l TIMratora If you will uk cl me you shall mUn II you will teeth it 1 shall lie Opened s omit > you Now as you ban asked lh ld I asy unto you kcan mv eoaifflsadmeiitoAnd t rk to bring = t forth 1 rsuMhh I the mess of 2mm i n Seek not for noise but for wisdom end Iw hold the mplerim of Oust lull ha I unfolded utvo you and then shall you IM n nud rich behold be-hold In that bank Mnnal r lib l i rich Vnly wetly I MV unto you era w you des elm of KM 10 It twit r be doe uniu you nl i m If you desire von shall be mime mans uf doing = tb much goal In this guiwntlon Say amhieg bum rspensanee sons thin genera rlo Keep my wmmssdmesb nsd Mlot mu bring torah my workiiocordli > c lorry command mmsand roa khalibe I tlssud Htbold Mon hill a gift or Ihotl deli have I a gifm If thouwtlldofrt of nwln tallh wllli an basal boars bshnlng In Ito power of Jesus Christ or la I my pone winks tooth unto shoe shoeFix Fur b maid 111 101 l 1 that spstk ihold l I am to hfhl which slilaetb In dtilnrti and Io l y my power I gin thew wads unto Ihw And now verity mesh I ssjr unto ttiee put your trail In thai Spirit which Icadelh I lo do good pas lo do lutlly lo walk humbly to Tudn rlabuoatly and ihi i limy Spirit Verily softy I I MY onto you I will Im por1 onto you of my Spoil which small en him your mind which shall fill your soul 1b toy 1nd ben shot > s know or by thU shall you know oil lhlnf whtttoner you dealer of me which art penatntng unto thlngi of rlihieouMMS In isms briwtiiur In I mi lhai you hall nc ln Hebold I eonnMd you that you need not Suppose that you an culled to pTMch until you arc called Wail Illllf loafer until you skull 1 have my word my rock my church and my gospel that you mat know t a tunty my dixtri OXd thin Wowed uncording to your uetin yea iven according to your faith hill it I be dun d-un you Keep my eanmmdmrnn hold pout pwre I appeal unto ei y IIplrt Vn clear unto me with all your tint that you mi > ronr In bringing lo light I Ihoie skein f wh ch have been > po cn yea mime trmni i ilion i-lion r of my work bi parent until you Uwll ir comptKh II DVhoM ihis Is I your work to keep my com nundmmla yea with all your nniht mini and Mrmilh Seek not to bolero my word but teat inch lo orals my word and the snail your user be loosed then If you d slra you thai lux my Mplnl sod my wont yea the power of Clod unto the convrocmg of mean Rut now hold y > ur pMc study mv word whUihaihgnw I forth areas the children if f men and afan Mutly my word wbkh Nili coma forth among the ihildnn ef men or that which Is l now tnuulilliuj VBI lr you Inn obla n it ill whKh I hall grant unto UK children nf men m ihli genenlion and then shall all slings be d M thereunto Ikhold bow art Hnum my son reek rim Klnicdom or God and all things Shall bt smiled l accorilmg I lo that which It lull liulld iiKin my rock which Is my Oatptl Denr not the Splrii of ranlation nor the Spirit or prophecy for woe unto him that d > o cth Ihese rings Thmefora ttraiuR up I In I mama heart until rime tuna whkh II l in my wisdom that you shall go forth rVhold I speak unto all who hav good da sires oil I have thnut in their alckln lo reap rh1li I am JONS Chrll the Son j Gel I am the lib and the Ufhl of Iht world I am the same who came unto my own and my own r cenred me nom Dui vctllr verily I My unto you mimes n < many a ntun me to them will IO I give pow i lo become the Ions 01 God a > en to them thai believe on m > name Amen Ketnembtr all you Utterday Saints this so Ing Wlt I nlesk unto I all 1 who have good desires and have thrust In their tickle I to reap Kemembcr that thli revelation calls upon us to seek not for riches but for wisdom and ih h IJOhI mysteries i of God shall be unfolded unto you I do not think I ever read In my line n revelation lint made a more profound Impression upon me than did this on I read it upon the train 1111I11 I believe that all Latterday Saints who will read It with a pro erfnl heart seeking I to Ol for lire light of i His I Holy Spiritwlll have their minds lit up and the same Inspiration that must have come lo our beloved Patriarch the lime the revelation was given to him will come to them that we may I all labor w Ith ill the teal l the 1 energy the 1 rI1 lrt lh f i talent > ower and the ability mat we possess for the onward advancement of Gods I kingdom I and that wo maybe b ready and willing If need be toiloaa our billow servant Hyrum Smith did lay down our lives I for the cause of God rl Ya Is my prayer and desire In the matt of Jesus J Amen |
