| Show remarks ry pres president ident heber heben C KIMBALL pm of april 18 1852 REPORTED BY ISY G D varr WATT I 1 have beard hundreds and perhaps of people make the observation that before they would take the interest and bear what en br young and others do they would see the people go to the devil we never have felt so and I 1 should not riot wish those who have had pad such feelings to rule me f I 1 am zm satisfied of one thing we have all got to learn to be tanil mild id and forbearing add ami to do unto others as we would wish others to do unto us that is a le lesson son we all baye have to learn and the quicker we bring our minds to it the better letter it will be for us if you on look to tb the first presidency to lead you assisted by he twelve and other leading members of this Chur cli you of course consider them to lo be good men and we in turn consider that you ought fobe lobe good men I 1 think thirk you douht to be goodmen good men and good bemen good children good fathers and mothers and good brethren and sisters why because yon you know what js s rim rig right ht and end alfet is wrong there is not a little child before pe me here foj toj bolay tolay ilay that hat has arrived veil to years ears of accountability but knows veti right 6 to a certain degree then why do vou you sou not all act up upon n the knowledge that you you have and 61 your feelings and 3 our passions into subjection and be like the clay in the hands bands of the potter when vou you on do right you feel well yop you feel fee satisfied and ana as though you yeii had a conscience void of ortence nonence before god goa and man and before one another the instructions g given 1 iven you to day by prest young were good and did they not sound delicious upon your ear car yes you OU will all ail say sav we know they were aregood ere good weil well then if you khow know it is good cleave cleave lo 10 it listen to it and abide that for if you do you will prosper ard be blessed and as he ie said you never will be dear destroyed e d and I 1 know it je jesus say says p if you are not riot one you are not mine mine we must learn to be cne listen toone to one counsel and subject ourselves to the will of our god some men in their course remind me of a man s flying to reach leach the top or ofa a ladder without being S satisfied ta suat the hirst first I 1 w whereas if tb ay ioula first round ind and gosti gostee b by I 1 step I 1 soon saon arrive I 1 at the tipper rounds i I 1 e again weare I 1 like ike to tb a chan chalif br or ibid luid je one link being connected to tire the other obber then thin what is the use of any oney oner strying to leave his hn position for by EO so doii doing he would break the he connection act places and in in byoir i r callings and by 0 so o doing the lord will lead you yoa 0 a through into the celestial by the of his servant arts for far as to the nid mid bun bur gods comin cominer zihere liere in per 1 son and leading us into the celestial world h he never will do it but lie he wll will authorise his servants lo 10 do to it when lahe rl jesus lived on the earth he be a and na organized organised ted sed a quorum of twelve apostles and sa said sald id to them thein 46 1 have laid the forin folin foundation dation and yon must buill baill the house hou 7 joeph joseph smith did the same ine int fie ile rad nad choice of twelve apostles and ordained oida ined Sned them and said taid I 1 have haveland laid tion and you GU may build upon it you may re arthe houst boust lt and these very persons poisons are ate the ones who wl will 11 lead vou you through into inlo the celestial world and f they illy I 1 willbe iery bety at youn your be head bead ad all the time lime it will be t a I 1 ery good thing if I lou iou you ou take fake care of these men ard nouri sh and cherish them that when you get gel into difficulty into hard bard knots that vou on do hot know how hoglo to untie they may be on handlo tender render yolu colu oi assistance supposing you yon were tle the lead leaa leaded eis els of this people and they get into a thrale and snarl like a skein of thready threads I 1 tell you there would be which would only tend to render tender the thed d difficulty i still wolge worse reflect upon these things for a moment and listen to them upon natural principles for I 1 am on only I 1 y speaking dking bf if things as os they naturally exist we are not sufficiently patient I 1 bril alti am not so patient as I 1 wish to bei wih I 1 was so patient that when a person abas abused d ine hie I 1 could pass imay fmay sway from him and never notice him but soine sometimes times I 1 turn round and ard nghi fight a little when they snoot shoot sh not oot I 1 shoot too loo I 1 again say to ryous listen to the counsel that ahat is given alven to 5 ou from in time to time bitne and be faithful tw tv thoe thom men who preside oter oien you lo 10 he the president of thin stake adt amt ani hw EW council il to lo br hun huh ter as the presiding bishop to whom all the we bisho bisbo bishops r s ate aie emer amer stable iSable for their conduct and lo 10 all other officers in their places let us all observe obedience to our public officers be subject t ct to them and listen to them andall andali and all ail do the best they can at atef ant amt at whence when we are absent I 1 know just how bow you will do you will do exactly as I 1 used to when mv father went away he would say my son heber I 1 m mant want ant you to go to hoeing corn and to slick stick to it until I 1 comeback come back I 1 would put my best foot foremost and it if any of my play fellows came round me I 1 would say come boys boy let us make a good job of this corn that when be ni to my y father comes home he may rejoice in the good conduct of his son heber it will be the hie same with the boys at the public works they will say hoys boys let us do the best we can while winie they are ate gone I 1 now yow hrell brell iren 0 riot not be eye sel set servants do D not 0 t be merely medely clr cir christians ians lans and prid saints while you are herc here but be L ailts when yott yon are at home borne in in your secret coet coset sand in your family ac when you labar be saints and work while it is calit called to day vou ou cannot do any too much be faithful in ip your families and andin in your prayer clr cir circle les be faithful to your wives and to your children children and I 1 say ay to the wives be faithful to your youn husbands and children and in so p doing I 1 know god will bless us to an extent tent that we have never yet experienced let lis do right when we are bekind behind the house in front of it t or in the irks ins ade de when we are down in in be the cellar up stairs in the meadow or in in the field and whatever we ve do jet let us do it in fhe the name rame of the lord loid our god when we sow our wheat our beans peas ani and and iota kota potatoes to ep let us bow down and ask ak god to bless tb the se seed and the it may bring forth in abundance that we may reap the best cio crops s we ve eyer ever reaped reared in our lives otten ouen when ichen a tittle little child calls upon god to chanze chance the mind pf af lis ils father or mother the prayer will be herd I 1 recollect the circumstance of a little boys being let lot in the ibe house while his bis mother went on a visit the boy used to get hold of a v valuable p elece piece bece of crockery so fhe she he warned him not to touch it in her absence telling him jim lim ibbe if he did he wo would world pid mid certainly break blea it and should whip him ile he to took tool i it and ard sure enough it slipped out of his hands hand arid and broke the tittle fellow prayed to his father in heaven li eaven in the name of jesus that his mother not dot t feel feet disposed lowhin him when she came houie honie ae had bad not riot power to kupish him ila hav e you not as ai milc mile much h faith and confidence in ip god as that little bov boy it wa the same with daniel in the den ot lions the decree of tl the e king was that li he should bo be thrown into the he lions den del daniel called upon his father continually fo to take the ferocious beelin feeling r from the lions that they hey might not have hake power power to barm harm him and it t was accomplished according to his cry I 1 could belate scores of circumstances while I 1 was on mit wit missions of men swearing that if I 1 went to their ther houses they nty would blow out or do dome me some violent bodily injury I 1 would go but instead of patting putting their threats into execution nothing would be too good ferme for me and they would say cras back mr nin kimball for I 1 never hai had such a good time in in my ife ilfeld I 1 held them by my faith and add a rid that is the way in which the devil will wilt be bound but as long iong as a person will g ave 1 lve ive him a privilege of coming in into 0 his tabernacle he be will wilt remain for his object I 1 is to get a body it would not rot be proper for me to come to your house when whet you have invited a guest to sit with you and go to casting him ont and I 1 should have BO no power to do it we ore are growing rowing 1 pretty fast 11 in faith multiplying and brozi progressing essing and we must continue to improve while we live in this existence and when we leave this state what we do not gain here we have got to gain in another if you do not passions here you von have cot got ot to do it there you are not going to step right into the presence of god when yon leave this state of mortality you have got tomake to make many covenants and fulfill fulfil them to the very letter lette what kind of people ought we to be we should abe 1 42 sot yot 9 f G 0 jf anol ehli antl n 9 sinn i e rs W are about abgott lo 0 start for the tho sab sah 1 and abid sederal several are ar r going W wah h 9 uis s but no none n e but those who arg ari are of one h heart eart and add 2 on one e mind 1 I f J Thi this jv olk ts I 1 s nefer neier never to go down n it has commenced and it will never come to a an n end until it has fulfilled the will nf f its author to be tron troubled bled bied about that now brethren Lr ethren be humble be patient be industrious and when we come back we want to hear bear the he spinning whee wheel in every house we do not expect the he men to do this buzzing bete we expect beit the sisters to do it I 1 am going to set my folks to work at spinning up lup the be wool to sprine ap pp the old rags and to making i a little yanto yarn coir earving carpeting cat eat ding VIng I 1 vituld walk ion a rag m ei b my own family than upon an imported brussels Brus brusset sIT sei carpet made in one of the tha tones in the world letus lotus let us be industrious inide 1 anaf economical rr T guther GUtber A rr blessings of god and of all good persons may rest upon us and abd we q will eirls eiris vip vir eath eaith and ind our crops ang and herds will wiil I 1 14 amore than they eyer eyel have bave LL luten ten to abc counsel given to you and the devil will w ill iii have llave no blis business siness with yo the devil can hurt no man only whee ahe he gives way ky to his fis luence influence iD when he be olfred offered jesus the whole world if he would bow down to him he had no power over him says he be 1 if I ienir am the ibe son of god mind vur veur own then he took him upon the temple tempie and an sai sal dlf dit dif thou be the he son of god cast thyself dowa down but hp he told oid old him to g T t out of his way til the devil had no ho power over ham amany any moret more than ihan lie he canha can have reno veno power over louif youit von vou if you resist his power when the devil has kower bower power over a pers onit is because they have done something wrong which gives him power and influence over him you have heard tellof people peo e having the trie blues bluee it is not goo good d for mr e ran men lo 10 ab be e blu biu blue enor nor for woman either jeither but it is for them to have confidence in god by doing right I 1 god bless you vou and peace be with yop you and ap I 1 bid ibid yon you good dye for a pray eray a that ahat consolation on may be with you AMEN amena 1 ft i |
