| Show ISCOURSE I SeTTIATjTjTjal COllferenco In the Tabernc 10 Salt dot Iho 1ocnii I City ulatV Tuesday Morning October Btri 1097 by L Jfa I ELDER FRANKLIN D RICHARDS oddrs Ihl ot con Iog to u utelns I 1111irILichis a conlin tIo oC spirit hlh liberality Z of thAt Ib < those Yesterday hy jyed rJ 0 minister unto It was 10 prlfUg 1 that thout It we shall living Us In the tell it the illikil l II I TO 14 of ad In arising to speak gOw 1 lede 11I4 Iury oC ilia work oC God La 10 know what to speak III m ell as m1lat to 0 ay about It tI so I felt pullnr pleasure 14t6d1 In listening to the spirit od djoy or the brethren because 01 of 0imioll and force oC many or tslaIrIllity were uttered One oC that IUtb I forcibly to my mInd an Im am 10 the rot oC the heare con on II value end Importance oC the ttfIg articles to the Chinch or Uvln iI a J earth as being the prlncl Won ot Gods nedtnce In the 1 midst I t OfIrMence I that written Instructions I Over T1 the men Inmueh as rn by speak M the Holy Spirit the C their Ins true SIMM Lord I is that t hould bo scripture shall be oUl of the L9rd shall be the mind t If Ir i Lord shall be the word of the I IA hall be t the voice ot the Lord of God unto salvation or Jib poner docluron was mod con nu the roiDg the UlUe the Dook of Mor Doctrine and Covenants the 214 Mclcnt they vvould be In I ttd Lt urlns alvallon If they alone iniojed by tho people Now we jUlt hw It I1ns wotkd vlth an ndom 10 have the Wide with 1W filing authority 10 Lid in InIster I it mentioned In ItNow we ordinances either or Ihe books 01 affiliates of tieni and they can not baptize or womnn Into the man slegle I TvOrnan In rdL There I 5 not 10 or enough book to do It nor Is I there a the tfTrtalll the books to give any man I Mrily to do It Consequently then I the authority from tile Lord Mohr liHtrfKDt < to administer In all Ills i prtKnTh highest authority bT we have known the Lord Jesus j llJlIIIIOIC tinted that It was not libUoithout the birth of the water JotthosVillt f to enter the kingdom I hearts Fuld JIe 10 tile learned 11 mon be born Naive Ixtept Ie water and or the spirit lie con 4tater Into the kingdom of God it At I was a declaration of principle JIt was Inexorable lie mho rented A earlh unit riltill It to d ravel dtM fun every Ihree hundted and Bre da1 and six hours stab iid those gal eternal I principles I rule I 1be heavens olso A lie law that II t a lOon bo born oC the water Ibe r 1lrlt lie cannot enter Into kingdom of God and one Is Just mu b a law or nature as t he other Iatter 14 I the law of natu ro nd of I I to t mon Who could administer ordinances except they received authority from God to do It Y These II tan neither baptize nor confirm a Thy ronnot confirm upon us the > Ghost nor a membership In the mb of Christ neither can they ad Urter to us any other of the ordl hlch we are receiving and ivhlh me rejoice so much In the k2 if our God It requires nothing m a present living minister In trine of the Lord Jesus Christ to Milliter In all the ordinances In I met and la directing all 1 the affairs I I ii Church of Christ Va have 1 this and understand It or else 1 R la not know vvhere our safety I ntGoipcl ol Jesus Christ Is a sss 11 of > things vvhlih In order to beard l be-ard understood must be lived 1Ws cil i con cannot preach mith effect unit me to I another the forgiveness of through faith In the Lord Jesus 1q or bOIllpm for the mission Vishot unli s he has himself been 11 < bI4 for tin remission of his sins has faith In the Lord Jesus Christ ulf 110 man can administer In sodInvinces of the Gospel of Christ JlttKt and with power unless he lot been Mode partaker oC them tt and that is I how wo cannot cl Of 1 li resell the power of the < ration because none of us have nlMd from the dead When ad br I the time of the 1i resurrec A mines men will teach It to use hll us-e been raised from the dead she understand and have the u it tilt nnd the keys of It That Iqru cannot be baptized for your 1 11 In the home of the Lord until I Ive teen first baptized and reV re-V 1M ordinances sourself The Gos j tai to t ba lived In order to be a liJ Id aod Its power received The 1110 RO < I rorwar1 with real re Jue e Of hr irt for all his 1 sins and Fneal mith Poll that he will I serve f the rest ° r big lays according I to i iIn Of this I ability I I with I the Brace M brotowed upo him and goes I itoft In 1 and this rcclyis Gospel this because ordinance tills Its 13tstep In it and It I man tht llt atilt till full ZI purposeLl C ieart titters t upon kl > Plnsthfl com 11 Silt tOCT OCl hB receives the TIM Tilt Promise mail g 4l Ia true I and is I fulfill ell And very U Aller the sound of my voice vviA ofhtY Over Pursued I that college fa that It Is true They 1 know W rll gl in flcI entering into the service anti r the eiverimintidirients oC Got I fO thi 1101Y Spirit I when ad C fOtl tl IOfKoI 114 10 bc the oW are all I All 1 l Una I it gives to one I levitates t II to talk In a To I III that Tin dOenot know hImselr of larrot I spirit l gives to another I the tJ1 bilerpn pllion I of What the flrrt lia ita Talking I abut to the t8IRg III R1 he hey listened It give 4ther the gift olla healing h m if Vkk ortlebil and distressed I ell the hIng his religion h 9 cancall i Eldern receive t ielr It QXR Ltd rd be h rii 6ls el As Lord ealed It he Is a minister d L X himp If and labors to re Olt 0 will It 1 V the gift to admin I noIntIn9 I to Others and Zt or It at d gort he may receive r I ij or falth of via J It cut long of dreams or to hear Q 19 mull lVagIration voice to 0 hhIlloulloly Q oman 0 live I jn the cOntl itiolt otiumilltv and obedience to rU n ololrpn nc for every folly rye z 41ranon and unity and to Ittry Illto 4 D rt theiefrom and to Ill rT lf Irigagrd the lit the winking of the Zbrtinthe TIll f Of tile truth unto I tIrY isio It htI Gospel brings tc4 at fro bleaspents anti us be 0 a It that ilia l ruin rui-n go elders ln the atralGht th nohth thI no of Cod tffij ln Y ot the good 4 th Lint i that he Is In fellowship 4vj thou I that he 1 not alone I c tiar1 004 In the world lilt that 4 < < I Q Ill t Ire ana the care o otfig pel thit Is 101ation It Ope s I I i W up principle oC Intelligence and revelation revel-ation of tin knowledge of things pasta past-a ad ilrcoont mia to come There area are-a great many other religions In the world and some very power rill on onta For Instance there Is the Mohammc don religion nllll those people have a rollh oC their own and they are very numerous about 175000 000 Ihey csU mate I believe Ihey hao their haiih irophct they I have their faith they 1 Live their Ideas ot futurity and they are a sort of cousin In the relation to father Abrah I ins family Ills son Jahmael anti lautics son Daau In heir seed constitute a urent portion of that class of people They have had apostles raised UI among Them from i the seed of Abraham as they say and they entertain it certain amount If fullh In fact HIP promise ot the Lco Lit wherein he said he knew Abra hum that he would command Ills chil Iren after him Is manifest In that lnh ol g People In that they b reels one God and they claim ono prophet Mohammed Moham-med Tit Pit again we look 10 the eastern world In China for Instance her are said to lie about four lion dred millions ot human beings and hey believe In doctrines hen them I by Confucius and by Duddhah and others Hut those four hundnd million I mil-lion are glon up to the worship ot Idol They are Idolaters TIT th the rest ant 00 is may go on ocr the world and fifid vecores of these great jndor relbrion th tth have Ind their heads and hlefs theirfaith I and beliefs What I want to call your special attention to In this connection Is I this Has any ono of thrn ever had 0 man of their number pass through death rise again from the grave and declare to them the principles of bayIng bay-Ing obtained through him or by him n resurrection been lifted up to In mortality through their faith Y We do not find It In history Ilny here In the earth that hey have ever had such 11 testimony or evidence oC a reurrec lion and Immortality beyond the grave 11 that thy have given 10 hem Is I the exercise of a ccrtolll faith that lasts them through this life Dut the Gospel of the Lattciday Saints which Is I the Gospel of the former day Bnlntsns wIII Is different from any believed In by any other poople as to all these things and people who be lete In the real Gospel of Jesus Christ the Gospel that lie Instituted have something moro and better event beyond what any other portion of tile human family have to look to The grant Captain or our salvation went Into the grave with narks In Ills hands nnd In Ills feet and In Hi side and lie came forth out of that grave In three das and Ile did not go away without being seen He made Himself knomn communicated mith them as mclated with them In fact and gave Ihem a certain knoledSe oC ilia truth if the savings he uttered Illmielt to Moses a good many years before on the mountain He said to Moses this Is I My work and Ir glory to bring to pas the Immortialitynild eternal eter-nal life ofinari Tills Is Ills great work The human family had through transgression come under the law or sill and death and Ile tell come to restore that which was lost and to bring to pass tho resurrection to open the prison doors to the spirits In prison them that were bound and declared the acceptable day oC the Lord and bestowed gifts to men This Is I the kind of a Captain of our soho lion that we have one who has re eil 101 this knowledge Slid He As the other hath power In Himself to lay flown Ills life and take It again 00 hath He given unto the Son power to lay down Ills lICe and to toke It again and He Old so Now where Is I there Another among those etratime religions that do not believe In the Lend Jesus Christ as their Ilcdecmer that entertain Tiny such knowledge anti < l understanding ot eternal lICe and of the resurrection ot the dead Y Thai Ho has obtained these we have ablln dint testimony Stephen said he saw Tim sllllng ot the right hand oC God while lie Stephen Was being prs cuId and stoned to death and Paul old he had seen anti heard thing not lawful for A mon to utter And the Savior after He hid done those wonderful won-derful work In Ills own land < l came over her to America and there asher as-her no chance for deception because He showed them the wounds In Ills hands ant in Ills feet Ho was the settle Person that went down Into the IITn anti crime out trlumphont or oftheVe nef tile strave Now IC any oC theme other religions have had any man that has gone rough I I the grave and risen again they certainly have been very lorkln In kindness not to como end show their fellow worshippers of that knowledge and that power and thai great attainment Dut the Lord Jesus ling shown unto the Saints comprising His ChuTcli In the different Parts of the world the gifts and hlesilngs of Immortality Im-mortality and eternal life which He came and brought to light The Apostles Apos-tles understood the Prime thing I Inul I In writing to Timothy says that life and Immortality Is brought to light through the Gospel So then l olll have the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as somcthlnR that endures he yond the Krave while the knowledge that the rest ol the human to m Ily possesses only leads them to the grave and be Yet till that Is to Them darkness dark-ness nnd Inornn and they know nothing about tile future comparatively comparative-ly spooking Jesus com rind taught the 11011 upon this land < l To came hro and ministered repeatedly The Hook of llormon tells us that He came oft md broke bread with the Paints here mil Instructed them and testified to them on on occasion Ile com and 1011 thom to gather togtther their sick aft cted and dlstrd and bring them before Him end lie heated them lie me a huolns oC It as Jooeph Smith went through the land of Non voo or Commerce And Montrose heatIng heat-Ing every one who was sick of the people of God evil an tile Savior wished to do la the land or Inlctln There Ho oomlllIlnt that 110 cOlild Mt do many mighty works because or their unbeUC but hr oil the land of America lie found 0 greater mcaSure or faith lie called together the people and 1 healed their Pick and d1stresed on another occasion ire blessed their little I ones and those little one spoke and uttered things Incomprehensible to mortal find Angel com domn and surrounded them and mlnlster Unto them AI Title the Savior IIImatr began with a Iproo oC teartulas conrrrltln their unbUr before lie got through He saldi Now My Joy Is full Yes this great Keditmer tit author of life and Immortality came over to this land and labored among the Kephltes and paid here what we have no account of Ills Basing In that other land At any lime Now My Jov Is I fu1lpn the contrary on the other land lie sorrowd and He wept because of their unhell And their ImVdness of heart anI 110 eouldnl do many mighty miracles none them because 9t their unbelief Thus wo bn a a Slor that ling gone through the grav e n Itedeemci that has triumphed victoriously over hell I and the grave and It Is I said the last enemy that shall be destroyed will bs death We see then that the Latterday 4altite have not only the advantages t f the Holy Ghost here nnd tile power ot faith but O the love that fills our hearts when wo hear the pure principles princi-ples ot the Gospel taught to usl How I happy lie have roll as e sat to I get her while the Apostles ministered unto us the bread of life How Joyful the poo Pie feel when they tire full of love to each other The principle of charity and the blessedness of the Everlasting Gospel belong to fill people peo-ple as It belongs to no other people I rejoice greatly In this Gospel because be-cause It olcna UI unto us Transcend l ant Joss blessings I nnd glories In the future whirls vvo have knowledge < or which our Savior taught and whleh lire taught to us hr In our times Alid which lie has condescended to reveol nSaln In these last days Think of what this Savior has done for UI here anti < l has gone to the rather to Intercede for us to forgive us oC our sins 10 heal us eC our back Uldlngs and has cgndcscended after Vie lapse or eighteen hundred Years to com With Ills Father the glorl con Father Th Creator oC oU I come and Introduced that Savior Ills Son to the boy Joseph Smith When four tcon Years of nee and taught him to commence a great and mighty wotk oC which wo am today some few ot lie fruits The Father Bald This H I ly beloved Son hear him And the Ion taught Joseph And sent Ills angels 10 administer to him to teach 10 bless to bring forth the hook ot Mormon and to build up the Church again bringing It forth out of the mIldernesa through great suffering and we ought not to foigct that the truth Is I a cost article and always has been It has cost the best men that have ever lived In the flesh their mortal lives and may yet again It Is a work that is I mad altogether of what has ben cons lit 0 red as sacrifice Indeed the old Prophet said lather together my Saints unto me they that have made a cllvennnt with me hy acrIOee That Is I tho principle upon which we mo brought together We sacrifice our sins our pleasant enjoyments anti worldly lusts and turn unto God and serve HIM This Sabbath day may become n ery grave question If me are to build url the Now Jerusalem It wn one oC the flint things that the Lord complained DC > through the prophets anciently that they hid polluted His Sabbath and they hid profaned It mail they had not observed It and when they got GO they could da these thIngs with Impunity they left oft Pay tin their tithing and the Lord told them they had robbed God the whole nation of them they had robbed Him because they had withheld the tithing which they owed Him And when they could do a few of these things they went on In their transgressions Into fornleallons ndullles and murder from one SI11 to another to the most heinous crime until finally they could crucify the lord Jesus Christ We must look out that me do not roll any manner oC sin os a sweet morsel tinder our tongue but strive with penitence I pen-itence diy by diy to put away from til everything that is I contrary to god Hums that would hinder the working ot the Spirit within us that we maybe may-be able to get race for grace and go from faith to faith until wo can be com pUle In heart for ve are assa red In the word of the Lord that nothing that Is unholy or Impure can enter Into His inesence What a saving No wonder the brethren said to Him Lord are there tiny that shall be I saved Y when wo look at the touchstone touch-stone look nt tho criterion look nt the rule by which these things have to be brought about And wo should < labor la-bor continually striving to subdue ourselves and to put any the vices the sins and the besetments that ela so dally nnd so easily beset us until we bring this living body of clay Into the subjection of the Spirit that our souls may live The Sabbath Is I the day that the Lord has appointed for a time ol rest He says that He finished fin-ished His work and that He rested on the Sabbath day the seventh day When the Lord came In Ills day He Instituted the first day ot the week and ever since then It hai been His day and He says that we may keep ourselves unspotted tom tho world me are equlrd to meet together on Ills dOl and offer our sacraments and lOok our nclmowledgemont ont our confessions paying our devotions to the Most High It Is I n common thing for the people to violate tint sacred law contornhlS the Sabbath day Many of the cople I If they go on a Journey take pains In their calculation calcula-tion to mike the Sabbath count one day In the trip and many things are lint ort for Sunday especially I mould like to have It token up wllh the people and hOc the women melon calculations cal-culations on Saturday and have the food cooked on that daj for tho Sunday Sun-day unit then go to Hireling instead In-stead oC roasting over the stove cookIng cook-Ing and see to having a llttld more lelhure and good 1 Instruction and feed the soul Instead ot being so much at mork and having 00 much to 10 on that day The lord said to Israel Six days Shalt thou labor and do all thy work for on the seventh day the Lord thy Coil rested from Ills labors und thou slmll not do any worlenellher thy son nor thy douhternor thy manservant man-servant nor thy moldsoront I nor thy cattle nor the stronger that is I wllhlll thy gates Now It was a strict rule and law unit commondmnt to Israel anciently and you will find If loU will look Into the Hook of Mormon that Its It-s so thdro and Is I going to become just as blndlllg UpOIl Gods people In All Unto its It eer mas mith them and we ought to be looking to II and proclle Ing on It so that wo can do right so as to bo able to do tile right thing hn to get to II I testify to you my brethren and shters Met this Gospel is the Gospel of all others on tho earth the only one that is worthy the attention of mortal as fast ns It can be brought to their consideration Anol os we hove been blessed to learn theme principles and to know them and to know of the things of the future and to know of some things ot the past we have reason reas-on to rejoice above all other people and we have reason to deny ourselves of all unrlghteousns jut no ruot AI VVO LOU and to lenrn the way cor life and to hcollcen to the comel oC those that nue called or God and to malk In Ills mRys and to receive continually the word of the lord and IIl1 iirec7lon in all our straits I rejoice greatly In lie work oC the Lord and I pray that 1IIs I blessings may abound unto the people that Ho may Incline our hearts to keep Ills livvs 1 to wnlk In Ills ways for the law of the Lord is perfect converting con-verting the soul The testimonies iii the lord are sure and they even make wise the simple Now 11 word about the Priesthood end Its restoration Think of it Tills gain Lend und Savior Jesus ChrIst t ord a tried Joseph Smith and Oliver Cmdery Apostles by Peter Jams and John Ills servAnts Joseph and Oliver having received this apostleship confirmed It upon twelve ethren ot the Chnrch and those tire I been ho conferred II upon uo < rhgsUc In the stand today tin some I r It of us received oIr 1101r aportli ship 1 but the fourth In uceclon from i Jesus I Christ urlnLl The tact Is I that the I Priesthood has come down to us as the lord promised when Ho saId Ho would I be with His Apostles nlvvais even into the end ot the world I t And He says to us concerning Pelr James and John Whom I Have sent unto you by whom I have ordained IOU and conflimed IOU to be Apostles and cspe hil witnesses of my a ndeI bear the keys ot sour ministry nnd of ho sario things which I reveal unto hem l unto whom I have committed the lies ot My kingdom and a dls icnsatlon of the Gospel tor the last lass and for the last times and for I dispensation of the fullness of times In the which I will gather togi ther In one all things both which 5re1 In haven still which are on earth fl Iwc are the men that have received this Priest lood theso that sit nround me this nornlng It wan received from those resurretd = thllt hove com 10 labor Is the Irli sthood bor with us This i by hleh wo 111 elate md It Is not ethliie that has come down through the nets and been lost This Is the Priesthood that was taken away Into the wilderness nnclcntls and has been restored In these latterdas In Us purity In Us simplicity and Its power And those who give themselves to It tully and faithfully In all humility re I cc I Thin the instructions and ounsl 3t those holding < that Irlesthoodshould be worthy or all acceptation and we ought to realize It and avail ourselves of the benefit of It rind be found In no case spealng ogolnst each other or the Lords nnnlnUd May tile Lord give us Ills Spirit Intensify In-tensify it In us In our hearts and train us In the principles of righteousness And truth and help and Inspire us in every good word and work and then IlewJlf do better for us than we know how to ask or even to think Amen |
