Show DISCO DISCOURSE URSE by br drig Brig liam ilam young tai tat tabernacle april ah ibm 1655 BT Q gd 60 00 D WATT 1 it is nearly time to draw our meeting ng to a close and I 1 think we had better adjourn our conference to the sixth of next october as the business u einess elness now necessary to be done is accomplish ed and I 1 find that thai we are very much crowded ih irk this tabernacle and on this account the con gie gle gation gatlon is rather uncomfortable the there ie has been much said though for one I 1 can say ay that we have not preached fo to the assem bied bled thousands one fourth pan part as much as we r could have wished but we have been privileged to meet orom from distant points and see each other othar and hear learn and receive spiritual strength i A A few of the br thren have sp spoken riken but there has his not been a lengthy discourse delivered since we have been together and if we were to con ti buein conference a whole week we could coula give opportunity to but comparatively few of the elders who would like to speak even though we allotted only fifteen twenty thirty forty or forty 1 five minute minutes to each speaker I 1 realize that tile the hearts of many are full and they would like to rise up and testify and say that thit they believe the he book dook of mormon end and that joseph smith was a Prop prophet liet ilet just as well as the few who have spoken you are tire aware that you i have this privilege in your several wards add arid any of the elders Elderic of if israel irael who wish to bear their mir testimony to the truth of the he gospel and tive h ave diot riot had the privilege in this conference can go to the ward meetings and rise rise up U and bear beir testimony of the truth and exhort rt the br brethren athren and if you have a word of counsel or a word of doctrine give it to the people and do not be backward but improve every opportunity that is presented for you to expand your minds I 1 A man who wishes to receive light end knowledge to increase in the faith of the holy gospel and to grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is in jesus christ will find that when he imparts knowledge to others he lie will also crow grow and increase be not miserly in your feelings but get knowledge and understanding yby by freely imparting it to others and be not like irke a man roan who selli lily illy hoards his nis gold cpr for that anan man will not thus increase upon the amount but w wiil will I 1 til ill become contracted in liis his views and feelings so the man who will not impart freely of the knowledge knowl edLe he has received will become so contracted in his mind that he cannot receive truth when it is presented to tor him wherever you see an opportunity to do good do it for that is the way to increase and grow in the knowledge of the truth I 1 expect expert the brethren who have been selected to go and preach the tiie gospel gopel go oel pel will meet this evening in the seventies hall and the twelve will meet with them and the missionaries will there receive some borne instructions I 1 will give them one item of instruction now I 1 wish each man who does docs not feel willing to seek unto the lord his god with all his heart for preparation to magnify his mission and calling but declines dec linea in his feelings to to his duty in spirit and is ant anxious to tig tiT cleave to righteousness and forsake iniquity to keep heep away froin froim the hall this evening or ifsich a one comes there let him ask us at once to be excused and we ve will excuse him liim we do not wish a man to enter ona on a mission unless his soul foul is in it some of the brethren will say cil oti tt do not know whether my feelings are upon my mission or not but I 1 will do the best I 1 can that is al all ave e ask of you I 1 have hare known some of the elders when they thought they would be called out to preach keep away from meet mert met ang riz rig iest lest they should be called calle dupon upon for fir they feel their littleness their nothingness their inability to in rise up and preach to the people they ther the do not feel that they are anybody any body and why should they ahey expose their weaknesses I 1 have noticed one thing in re gird to this quite as mandof these men become glants giants g lants in tile the cause of truth as there is of any an 0 other ther class for or when they getaway they begin to leanon ilie the lord Lor lorland dand and to seek unto him and feeling their weaknesses they ask him to give them wisdom to speak to the people as occasion mav quire require rp others candise up here and preach a fl filming discourse insomuch that you would think I 1 tiley be y were going to tare down the nations but when they go out into the world the they y often accomplish but little you used to hear ilear br doseph tell about this people be being ing inq croyde crowded into the little end of the horn andia they khey kept straight ahead they were sure to come out at the bim big end it is so with some elders who wilo go on s missions nis sinns while many who gornto the big end of tile tiie horn and are so full of fancied intelligence preaching ching coun knowledge sei Bel and when they go out into the world either have to turn aroun around dand and come came back or be crowded out at the little end of the horn on the other hand I 1 do not wish any of the brethren to tobe lobe be discouraged for if you vou you orel feet thal thai you cannot say a single word no matter reatter rn atter if you will only be faithful to your god gd and to your religion and be humble and cleave unto righteousness and forsake iniquity and sn in the lor lord will guide 3 yiu ba and give you words in due season 11 1 recollect that we are now calling upon the eders eiders to in go and gather up israel this ibis is the mission that is given in it us it was the tile first mission sion gron givon gian to the elders eiders ill lii the days of joseph the set time lime giscome nor for god to gather ogather israel and for his ills work to commence upon the fact face of of the whole earth and the th elders who have aris en in this thil church and nd are actually ol 01 israeli Is take the wlm irlin arc are now in this heuse house and you cw can scarcely eda eca reely find one out nut of a hundred but what is of the hu h house U se lof bof 1 0 f isral israel it has been remarked that it the gent gentiles i le 5 have been cuiper cutoff and I 1 doubt whether another gentile ever comes into this church will we go to the gentile nations to preach the gospel yes and gather out the israelites wherever they are mixed ilin itin among cing the nations of the earth eaith what part or portion of tiem them the same part or portion por poi tion that redeemed the house of jacob and saved them from perishing with famine in egypt when jacob blessed tile the two sons of joseph 41 guiding his hands wittingly he placed his right hand upon ephraim and lie he blessed joseph and said god before whom my fathers abraham and isaac did walk the god which fed me all rny my life long unto this day the angel which redeemed me roe from all evil bless the lads etc joseph was about to remove the old mans handstand hand sand bringing his ight right hand upon the head of the ilia oldest boy sm Y ing not nol so my father fattier for this is ie the first born put thy right hand upon his ilia head and lis his lis its father refused and said I 1 know it my son I 1 know it he also shall become a people and he also shall be great hut but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he and his seed teed shall become a I 1 multitude of nations ephraim has become I 1 mixed with all the file nations of the earth and it I 1 is ephraim that is gathering together it is ephraim that I 1 have been re arching searching for all the days of my preaching and that is the blood which ran in my veins when I 1 embraced the gospel if there are anhof any of the other tribes of israel mixed with the gentiles we are also searching for them though the gentiles are cut off do not suppose that we are not go ing to preach the gospel among the gentile nations for they are mingled with the house of israel and when we send to the nations we do not seek for forthe the gentiles because they are disobedient and rebellious we want the blood of jacob and that of his father isaac and Abra abraham hain harn which runs in the veins of the tile people there is a particle of it here and another there blessi ng pg the tiie nations as predicted I 1 take a family of ten children for instance and you may find nine of them purely of the gentile stock and one son or one daughter in that fail fanniy tily who is purely of the blood of eph raim it was in the veins of the fa ia theror mother and was reproduced in the son or ov daugh daughten dau glite te while all the th rest of the family are gentiles you may think that is singular but it is true it is the house of israel we are after and we care not nut whether wilether they the Y come from the eat east the west the north or til ill south irom from china russia england california Califor nii nh north or south A merica america or some other locality or alit allt y and it is the very lad iad ad on whom father jacob laid his liand hand that will save the house of israel the book of mormon came to ephraim for joseph smith was a pure and the book of mpr mon was revealed to him and while he lived he made it liis his business to ivetich for those aho vho believed th the gospel again if it a pure gentile ernly believes beli bell ves tile the gospel of jesus christ and yields obedience obed lenca to it in such a cae caie I 1 will give iou you you the the prophet prop liet ilet joseph when the th lord pours POUTS out the holy ghost upon that individual lie he will have spasms and you would think that lie lle helas vas ras going into fits joseph said that the Gen gentile lifeblood blood was actually cleansed out of their veins and ahe uhe alood lood bood of jacob made to circulate in thelt thein them and arid the HIP revolution and change in tile the system hysten were sd great that it caused the beholder beholden to think were going into fits if any of tile the gentiles gentile s will believe we wilt lay our hands upon them that they inay toreiv the holy ghost and the lo 10 lord rd will tile tiie ZA of the tile house of israel they will be broken off from the tile wild olive tree anabe and ana be grafted into the tile good and tame olive tree and grid will partake of 0 its sap sop and fatness if youtaka you take a b bud and in it into another tree t ceases 40 0 o receive revive nourishment original stock it must gustl however receive nourishment or it will die diey where must it receive its nourishment orni arni fr ciu clu from the tree into which it has beell beep intro int ced red it is supported by it andi audi becomes incorporated with it I 1 j itis ilia so with the honse house of israel and the gen tile nations if tile the gentiles are grafted in good tree they will partake of its rostand fatness You understand who we are we ay of the house of israel of the tile joyal loyal heed geed of the royal blood r there are rr many any su subjects bae s upon which I 1 wish to speak but there is not time nw though in regard to teachings pertaining t temporal Jem organization I 1 will take the f saying say ing a few words do not same some of you have ave to send for doctors to draw your teeth beeh and ana lay after night with a bag of hot ashe ashes sor or hot salt on tin your faces and say 10 0 eart earv hat na t a t tooth oo 00 ili ill ache I 1 have got when your ehi ebi children 1 dren wake waka up in the night crying on account of a pin pain in thair their heads do not sare some of you go to th tiie tile doctors to see what they can do for the little sufferers puffer ers some of your children are afflicted with humors in the head with blotches blotcher blot biot ches upon the file body and other ailments and some of you have pains in various parts of your bodies the fathers and mother mothers shave have laid the f aunda tion lion for many of these dise diseases aws from generation to generation until the people are reduced to their present condition true so some me live to from fifty to ninety years of it isan is an unusual circumstance cum stance to see a man manan n hundred years old or a woman ninety the people have hare laid mid the foundation of short life through their diet their rest their labor and their doing this hat that and til ill the e other in in a wrong manner with improper I 1 motives motive sand and at improper times I 1 would be hel hei glad to instruct the ilia people on these point lff iff if they would hearken to me I 1 would be tie glad to tell mothers hofto lay jay the tile the foundation of health in their children that they I liay be delivered from the diseases with which I 1 am at ar dieted dieter and have been froni from my youth up suppose I 1 happen to say come wife let us have a good dinner today to day what does she get gel pork and beef boiled stewed slewed roasted and fried po tatos onions cab tab cabbage bage and turnips cut colard cu tard tard lard egg eggs pies of all ah kinds cheesed chee seand and sweet meats meata now grant that I 1 and my tny wife set down ami ano overload our stomachs until we feel the deleterious affects of it from the crowns of our heads to the soles of our teet feet tile the whole system is disturbed in its operations an and d is I 1 s ready to receive and impart disease A child begotten under such a condition of the systems of its parents ja is liable to be born with a tabernacle subject to a life ilife of pain and distress will nii nil the women hearken to this pa ain I 1 statement no you might as well talk to the I 1 wild geese that fly over us again a little hot tea lea coffee or sling 1 is i generally given to a babe as soon as it comes come into the world to quiet the nerves and make it sleep better and I 1 have seen my own wives wives almost whip their little ones to make them drink drizik liquor when I 1 happen to see them I 1 say stop that that is something 1 you may very iery very well dispense with do not put a dron drop of oi liquor into that childs mouth some mothers when bearing children lone lonz lon ion for tea and coffee or for lor brandy and other strong drinks and if they give way to that influence ence enee the next time they tiley will want inoria anore nd thel the next still more and thus lay tile the foundation for drunk eness in their offspring an appetite is engendered bred and born in tile the child and it is a a miracle if it does not grow up ii a confirmed drunkard I 1 now will you my sisters who are be before r or e me hearken to good sound bound common sense and tea reason will you commence now and lay the foundation for a healthy posterity will you say 61 1 I ani ahi determined not to desire this thing tiling or that which will be injurious but I 1 will willifay pray and ask my father in heaven for grace according to my day that I 1 my may not desire that which will lay the foundation ot of ruin to my offspring pring and to my posterity for crene grene generations rations or will you say cannot I 1 have a little tea or a little whiskey the satisfying of these desires lays the foundation of sick sickness disease sease and shor short life lire but if any one really desires a particular kind of food or drink and feels as though she could not di do without it let it be obtain edir edif dir possible though it asfar is far better belter to have faith to overcome such desires it is for us to stop the tide of physical degeneracy to lay the foundation for a return to the position from the human family has fallen we have that privilege by keeping ou relves pure it we weta take kethe the right course our children will ill live longer than we shall and their children till will will surpass their fathers and have llave longer life and so on till 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