Show abstract of Rei narks of ora orsea som alyde tit at the tabernacle sunday morang lor stig june 1859 1839 brethren and gentlemen arid ard La diesI desire your earnest attention my words are of f momentous interest rot riot orly only to tle saints saints and people in the mountains mounta lusy but of equal u al interest to the people 0 of the states e a and d of the world herein in the writings of the ancient prophets of 0 god may be found the following follow ing scripture cp te jn in the last days saviors shall be rats raised ed up to save tile the people and they shall be judges in zion in order to fulfill tills this prophecy thare must be ba last days da esda dja s sot of trouble the people Gods people must be in great tribulation and danger dager without capacity or power pow er to ward off that danger or save saie themselves and saviors must be raised up with power and will to save having knowledge and grace to be rulers and judges in zion what is a savior I 1 cannot better gna give you an understanding of its true me ailing and force than by i relating elating the history of one who was eminently the savior sanor of a nation and its people lie here related ellb wi h minute particularity the history of josephs joseph alter after he liall had interpreted the lungs kings dream and been elevated to power in egypt t sho showed ed tb that at joseph had purchased pir chased all the iba surplus grain of loef with th the public money during durn g the seven se en years of plenty garr gan ering it away for the seven bee years or of famine making himself emphatically a savior of 0 the people from starvation ali thigh agh he did bring all their money into the kings storehouse hou seand and purchased all their herds and lands and ff itally ally themselves with bread and be you vi earned arned these all remain from that day the property of the king I 1 the he desolation here spoken of is about t to come to pass paes and be fulfilled in in your our midst great tribulation is drawing close upon you I 1 lamine famine v will ill soon i cry very soon stare you in the face misery and want will cling to volt ou who will save sae this people from impending ruin rilin who I 1 ask of 0 these elders and bishops will prepare themselves thein to be b saviors of this people from temporal death from starvation how do we know that this desolation will shortly come to pass I 1 answer god has revealed and I 1 declare 1 unto you is now revealing rel ealing these thugs to his elect to the end that zion shall shah rot stane sta e iiii his ancient anci erit prophets foretell the time and declare the people shall deceive and be ba deceived I 1 hov is that you know everything is deception jhc linen ou buy 13 part cotton your cur fur hat is your money may be bogus ogus Vh whiskey hiske iskey is no longer pure but la is doged with arsenic and other poisons it hardly becomes me to say that governments ceide yet you know that corruption corrupt ionis is in high alices here you have haie tl the proof of tile signs a the times abid ai d I 1 tell you I 1 barn ofa youa you a lamine is coming upon ou on in which you will raise for t tiree ree years who will prepare for this exigency will you dear faints being fully v waned ar tied save you yourselves rs elves or will you be like the fool ish h i virgins vii h gins I 1 fear when v hen the emergency shall come many of your our lamps will reed oi oil 3 our granaries be empty of wheat you do not think that when t tie saints are purified by the sloughing off of I 1 the allo apost stacy ici now nov going on so great a proportion wll ivill be found foolish among us a as iwas was of the ten Ys I 1 you will 1 I ll 11 lot cot learn lean wisdom I 1 an past east wind now prevails pre vaili every night al I 1 reidy ready blighting vegetation you yon will avill bottor not torget I 1 tow how much trouble we had to germinate 1 seeds this spring where is that plentiful harvest har est of fruit promised in in the earl early spring most of it now wilts on the ground let me entreat you husband sour 3 our surplus that perchance you may have enough to last you as did the wise ir gins though you may not be able to give to the foolish ones sell it not tile the time has been nhen an hundred pounds of flour brought an hundred bundred dollars in uth utah the time is near at hand when a barrel of or pure gold dust will vill not lot buy a barrel of flour ve ue not astonished nor try to flee from this valley to esi cal cape the famine if you do you will only ny be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire because the will be much worse in the states than here you know judgment must begin at the house of god ana and if the righteous shall scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly appear if you leave here you will only be lumping jumping out ot of the frying pan into the fire I 1 have been a traveler have crossed the ocean six times and been in many liard hard storms and have never yet thought it safest for me to leave the ship and leap I 1 nto into the mad waters the people of the states will suon soon begin to flock here to us in our mountain honie home tor for bread abo will save this people I 1 call upon yon it elders and bishops and all a those in nigh high places to prepare tor for this dreaded time if this people are not falth faithful bil in the riches ibbe of mammon then N ill not god gi give e us the true riches |