Show IfROPER REDRESS OF GRIEV ANOES I gfO 0 urss Dsllvaroil at the General Conference of the Church In the Tabernacle Salt Lake City Friday April Oth 1804 by ELDER JOHN HENRY SMITH = = = = I RFrOKTKI BV AUTHOR WINTER Hire enoed lIre remarks that were t thil morning by l rreldcnt Wood jend lire other brethren who hAve I Mken to UI a 1 well B1 llle remarks tbJl hate teen mado hilt afternoon by gathers Orant And Tcadate There a fIlainly no lack oo tune tire lecher i lech-er the bilntt In a knowledge of the rwrpIel of Ihe Coipel conceineil frjo Ike days Ihit the heavens were Bed In this dispensation until the peent Iiue there h roe been one con etjoi trtant of light and Inovsledje to mb the various channel that our Cither In lieaven h4 elccted coming I o the Utterday balms There Is I no lunol our lives whether we re lord tin the light ol our temporal or ipinttul eltbelng that In lIla mercy itt fus not ssujit to Impre upon our tnd tho sacrcdness of the obligation ich rr > t upon in In this day and time I Nn true that wa have lint al ii been iKiJy lo obey the promptings the II and fulfil the obligation which I < ttponu ai wo might rave done JI t my nervation Iran meat me-at the great mass of littlerday Saints s tairoui of Ironing the companion p of the Spirit of following 1I11 lead i < l of enjoying the retells that How jnobiJIenre lo the wlhes of our j her prcsieil In the revelation that is Ii n in l the early I thys ol the anti Jl that have conic IIOo on In ics liter 1 limes We like our chll > tar I ve are but children 01 a larger rItJ lecume forgetful ol the ret > re-t > i Itlri t int red upon us but when ore oalrontcd with the truths conJ con-J in the dosnel and they are dtl tl I ooh u ounded In our hearing I rave jet b I among the branche of the t jr h ten And women so fjrunmind if tin character of the obllgitions i nlmli they entered when tire alt hlItl hl I Tt if ol the spirit I of Irutn i was given to si and 1 Ilia ordinincc of the Lords j were administered unto them lIh 1 i do nut call up In remembrance IP tea rings r and their hearts are dj 51 dar tda I OL and they are awakened to I Of < trailer of the responsibilities that il uron Intm I I tie are however evils In our mldo and warnings are necessary lo be gh en to us from time to time Sunroof ouriplrlli ore cold and do not receive the Imprest as they should do upon tome occasions whitr on other occasion the warnings that miy be sounded In our tars SerIal once n place In our liruu I and we renew re-new our covenant with our father In lIAcr signing our deteimmatlon to Clayer be more fAlthful more fruitful In good works more earnest In a desire to be proper In our own live And 10 enCOllr age those with whom we mingle in cihililtlnic more fidelity and more lalth nnd I In general drIvIng t to advance the came ol our heavenly 1ather I Among the evils In my 1 Judgment w hlch need correction among the Latter day Sable It one that urIne frequently In ward and neighborhood from not complying with the condition prescribed pre-scribed In the Gospel regard to our course of conduct The Ihahop of a waidwlth lila Counselors may possibly oil In iiuestlon I some member of the I i elIt aot ward fills member may have been perchance a sabbathbreaker or he may have filled In the payment l of lila tithe nnd offerings 10 the Church It mav be that he has forgotten hlniKlf In the inldlt of anger and been guilty of uilng profane language This Individual Indivi-dual who Is called In question ln > tc d of desiring to conform to the requirement require-ment that mny be placed upon him 1 commences an agitation In the neighborhood neigh-borhood where he resides directing hue charm this agitation agamtt lilt pro siding olhcers emil our brethren and sitters Initead of aisumlng lime position i that they should commence to sjin piihln with the Individual We have discovered In mingling among the Saints and in seeking to adjoin among them trouble that are continually Ing that It frequently happen that wards or bundle or district become divided In sentiment In regard to the character of the treatment that tin llithup and hIs astoclate or the Presidency Presi-dency ol the Make and the r High I Uoun ell miy luvuprejulbed In hIre cane of some Individual and ace result of this continued agitation and golp an effort Is made to I overturn the Church government govern-ment hi the I ward or stake and belmlr the olTicers who should be rejected and esteemed In the pollon tint they occupy Recognizing the fact that III Ihe Church of Limit limos Ihe design of Irovidence to Iud sacredly the rights and liberties 01 every manwoman and child He placed upon us the re sponslbillty ol seeking so far f as lay In our power first to mju t our own rruJIcr If we have wronged 1 one ol I our neighbors or If perchance we may Imagine that our neighbor hn wronged 114 the obligation rests upon no to se < k I to adjuit those matters and preserve I our Individuality Inticl If we fait In the I nccompllihment of that reconciliation then we may call In any of our brethren who act as teiehers who will cxercie a spirit 10 modliy our feeling and In bring us Into Hut condition where we would desire to cf Justly and I fairly to our brother or our sitter Fabling I In Ihe accomplishment I of tl this under the rule thai nllllin the Clninn we go before the lodge of the Church III the form of an organised lllshopric I They pent > their rd i f T r judgment upon u < after having sought by persuasion to modify Ihe conditions frey make that judgment from the best light and knowledge they can obtain It we ate not nalWied with the decision made by our brethren then an appeal I dl J lies lo the 1residenc of the Stake and the High Council anile elders of Ihe Church we should tram thaI It is I a violation of the obligations resting upon us lo create dissension and lo try to belittle the men whom the lurl I llr Inn chosen to be our counselors and advisers ad-visers Instead ol working up an agitation agita-tion 1 against them we should seek to guard Uiiir reputation and their honor as well as the principles Iliat the Almighty Al-mighty has established I When Judgment Judg-ment has been given we olunulnlcomrfonou I to the requirement ol that judgment as near as It ill poslble for U4 to do Hut there lean I Increasing tendency In my judgment In a wrong direction In that the Iliahop High Council and Iresl cult ol Stakes are being assailed from time to time b > men and women In the Church of Christ who should know beltir their duties and responsibilities and who should fulfil their obligation in Ihe form our father lion prescribed pre-scribed Insteadof working up I agitation i and exciting their irIses and children and causing neighborhood troubles which result In confutlon dlsnrganlia lion and lIne hulling of men as Innocent 04 desire to do wrong lo ilnlr fellows as men can possibly be I trut In the spread ol Ihe good work In the understanding under-standing ol lIme principle of life and salvation that our father lias given to ui and In the love that we bear to our kind exercising judiclouily and prudently prud-ently our rights with each other that none of us will make the effort to de stiov and overturn the Influence of our brethren Ive 1 believe l that men In I title Church should be handled for their fellowilup who become agiltlors the wards and branches where they live looking lo the disunion and dettruclloii of the organisation lhat our Jlher has created Having the way pointed out before them by which l Ihrr grievance can be adjusted and falling to receive satisfaction from the organisations of Ihe Stikes ol lion ther lies a door open lo Ihe presiding I quorum of the whole Church I truti therefore that Ihe splill which has grown op In some neighborhoods to agitate to create confusion con-fusion anil dissension and lo cause strife thill be met and rebuked wherever wher-ever It presents Itself until hIre Latter day Saints comprehending the juttice of the system which our Father In established which Meks to guard sacredly I the cl libertleof every member of the Church shall I keep themiilves uilhln Ihe purview of the discharge of their dutlos and that lie day will soon lions by when any of us having mis undemanding with our brethren shall i seek to exercise what Influence and power we may have lo Ihclr hurl or Injury I I do not know my brethren and sisters 1 sis-ters but that this is enough for me 10 say upon link subject It 14 I a subject however that should be considered anti considered wisely and well In every branch of the Church of Lhrist We should frown down under every rue rumstance and In every plate this tendency which hat been awakened in neighborhoods I to an alarming extent I In l some places dividing ward In two and creiline n condition of thing that rfI Oth no man whu holds the priesthood ot lIre Son of God should encourage During the post year the nations ot Ibm world including our own nation have Meil I through an experience fraught I trust with eventual good lo the human family We have at lent learned IhllI tiial no mailer how wisely or prudently men may build It takes but a hew moment to unteltle Ihe condition Hut surround them nnd change in I a great measure Ihe whole bent of their lives lIla opel lice been preached now sixty four years among Ihe children of men We have been sent Into the world to say unto them Come out of her my twople lhat ye be not pailakers of her yI m and thai ye receive not of her plagues Our lather In heaven h4 hone ho-ne that the creations of man nhull all In pieces when Ihe touch of Deliv rests down upon them and lhat nothing shall be able to withstand the lirrcenes ol His wrath only lhat which is bullded 1 upon the rock ol elernil l truth I We have seen the world 114 IIr finincial concern shaken to Its center and very nl la i distress su < plcion and fear engendered In the breasts of the strong one who had regarded themselves as poseslng the Influence arid power to wield and control Ihe destinies alma of Ihe human race We have anticipated In the growth and development of the system tint our lather I tint revealed I and which we preach l to Ihe world ao the Gospel of Chritt that there would come n time I after the vainness had been borne to nil lands and climes when Ihe world would be In confuilon when run plclon doubt and fear would find plicu In the hearts of men and they would look abroad to see where they could go or how they could act to avert the calamities cal-amities that were pressing 1 upon them which lor boded the destruction of lime system they hAIl etablllied and 1 an overturning of that which mm had built The day may not havo yet arrived lr l rived when this I will occur in Us limbos but the experience of Ihe pail year has borne Its witness In stronger language and I with more force and power than the I voices r of the ciders of the Church 1 have been able to do among hire children chil-dren of men that when tIne flle shall i arrive lo accomplish Ills de > lgns In lIne regeneration and the humbling of HI children U lie within Hit I power to I accomplish lhat purpose and brlrg them to Ills feet their pride broken and Ihev willing til acknowledge Ills hand and bow to Ills wish In the lime that has gone by II wa the view entertained hy the Loner diy Saints In fact II WIn WI-n and parcel of llielr AllhIha it 1 wa their duly to make entry elf 011 within their power lo put them elve < in a condition of Independence that when these storm should come nnd line w hits should break with fiercencs upon our brethren and sitters who refused Ihe fallh we had espoused and they should long I lo know whence 10 lice there would be a people so established and I so fixed In Ihe principle ol right and nl proper government lo whom liny could go and in whose companlonshtii l and aMoclalion they could be need from their unsettled surrounding I rust that the Gospel which we have enl braced hn written Itielf so thoroughly upon our mind and has become so established In our hearts tint we can see and notIce full tire gravity ol Ihe i responsibility thai attaches to us and 10 fur at he in our power seek by every means we have to enhance ever I temporal Tj Interest of the people provld log lor their want and necessities and giving lo them the employment by anil through which they can obtain that I which will suttaln them and the linue huld that our Iuher Ien placed under their watclicare To my mind we are unworthy Ihe contidence and eilecni of our rather in heaven If we fait 1 In seeking to the best of our ability lo d attnl Ir advance every temporal Interest aim lo CAt Ibllh everything wherein III In i possible possi-ble lo bring Independence to ourselves I as well as to those not of our lalth who may reside within our borders nnd be Interested III Ihe upbuilding and development devel-opment of that which Ic I around uo My brethren and sisters I look over this congregation and 1 I wonder how many hats worn by the men have been made within lIne conhnos of our own territory I look around uml seethe head of rny sitters I bedecked with hat and bonnet and the question alIce In my mind how many of them are Ihe workmanship of their own hinds or go to create employment f > > r or brethren and sisters t I might go on and name a hundred things that are necessary lor the comfort and well being of nun whIch Ills I potsible for u to provide for ourselves and lieforc we can reach that condition of Independence that lire Lord expects us to reach we will not only bo making our hats and bonnets but every thing 1 that l Iv I necessary to the clothing I and adornment ol ir men and women and mIne bUUtlILIltJ 01 Zion will be brought Into being by the Industrious I and earnest earn-est I hand of thoe reared within this commonwealth That we may learn the truth lhat we may appreclite the principles which hive been taught unto us bearing upon hire obtervance of those requirements which rest upon us In seeking to preserve pre-serve peace and hinnony and In making mak-ing Ihe proper provlibn l bar those who lack the aulllly to care for tlamsclves tint the tone and daughters of our heavenly other I may Inca united lamil > blessing each other and all with whom they come In contact U I my prayer l In the name of Jesus Amen |