Show DISCOURSE by eljer Elder vILSON jeso PRATT tabernacle feb 10 1836 REPORTED br by J V LO longi ional G being bein requested nested to peak to the he people tho this mo mornin rnino I 1 cheerfully chee r e p fon tor that purpose ever esteems E it a gi eat pat privilege vilese to address the saints upon the irn irb amot stant tant principles connected with wib wih our salv atio I 1 esteem t he ibe privilege of proclaim proclaiming ng salvation ralva talva finn tinn equal to ai at y privilege that tsat may be named the tile subject of salvation is iq 0 IP of far greatt greater great preat t imbor ance anee than any other 0 which cn cin or does docs interest inte reit tie the fakih famil although alt all housh ai i we might s appose that the accumulation of the comforts of thi ihla life was the one that most interests luil luzi kud L nd judging from f lorn torn the actions of men toen why tl fl is it iq co so I 1 cann cannot 0 t tell unless they think that chev can ran thus leap hen out their eves I 1 ves vis and by his this ui a a have the tile advantage vantage lid iid of olivir neigh bors 1 I 13 3 vavy vevy vay eldom chom that we ever beir heir of he people of this iani lani land pe inns luns for ton want went of the comfort comforts rf of ti fl 1 a 9 life 1 fe and 1 doubt ve verv v much whether woud would if they were not io so much interested as they app r to be in re hect to riches not tl art I 1 would discord discard disc rd the command com mari mani mart given soon after the flip f fill til ill for rodn to till lii ill the he earth earh and eai eat enin n his bread bred by the sweat of his brow not I 1 hat that I 1 discard flip tile he ilea i itea liea lea iea of beitle bein of laboi ing inc to e food f wd ad raiment of in lin our s and inheritances but these a ate aie I 1 e only temporary considerations items of a secondary seco dary idary moment nir Dir nent to re e ine ino io it ourselves ursel ives eternal life and future q ik ovation artion is is a of so moch more importance than ail r ill lit comb nied that it certainly at oi 0 lit to i A roi rot kalost in our minds and conicia a tion lion I 1 if our bart were weve wc wee c supremely placed filis fills si arld 1 I act lct ct WP wo should converse most abon abou lo OP ip tl 0 tia i V at t pi rain alin to sir siv allon alion instead cf of hew bew PI pl t f I 1 e I 1 f 11 A fill that hint we were going 0 0 pel pei isi so fir far an 09 ih till s mortal life T is concerned insen ins en I 1 if nf beim belm being afraid that we were goin poin to Q t sefer frer a wf ia P we ou hit olt 0 to o consider the he life nf fth the e body in the I 1 jit i flat ilat our savior speaks cf of it in one of the new r l care not for ile lle he body nor f ir r the tile I 1 fe of tile the both but care fr f T he soul and for tle fe ife afe t f he e samil or in in othir oth ob ir word ads care most for the future salvation and aad akl aki everl asang asung life that is in i store for man k kd d suppo k c we lid ul iii be brought to arh extremities tha we abul 1 I all with starvation what of fi ta a 19 9 if we have done our werk may mav I 1 we not as well perish in that way as in any other 1 Is 13 3 there any great dille rence in the kind of death that we dit does it much matter whether we I 1 perish for want walt of food or whether we ire are mari byred or whether the great change which w must all undergo comes in a more common way in irr my opinion it does not mk mala ewh marh ence enee which way hii hit change ehan e comes h b it w n night ht 0 to o be in anch ich a fierre fi arne arre irne of mind that we c r rijo rijn cc in in all cilcus fance falices if we all krew kiew krew that we must mast perish under our otti pre present scarcity of food what of that tha ought ough we w e not to rejoice in the privilege lege of exchanging nil mii pre ent lf ife for on 4 we hop to rrie apie rr IP lle tip il rv v for 0 ont ir wele aele wl elp ele wf wo hal hall hail rece vi v ter er areat patr r vi we enil emil s lali lall have hap mole mola moi mol e go solid I 1 A nio merit and an where mir j intellectual fa faculties C ulti alti eq s will he be far more expanded instead of exercising 9 arelt ere it an anxiety as t where we shall gat get a little flour a little cor corn anoil a few fee potitsa pot rima itna nr a effle effie beef wih tf to enri 1 citso bodis our ena should bf be aie HP our heil lipitt t ri ht before the be lord our god ai at we kenite hi his nf ants are we liing living I 0 lo 10 o our privileges privilege do no we esteem all ibe file words of the lord as we ought or are we a little and indifferent eat eav r ron ann tron r on optie to have hive alliese id das firo fire mot most moi ii i i air mind mine for the fhe lord has told us thai that it ih to provide for his saints the fhe he me rno time it is ne ceary that we should be dill dili lil ill ai at d 1 I endeavor to d i our best 0 to o do io his will in nl WI 11 gs and anti to find out what his will is concer in 1112 ne ris that we may be able to do it 1 I have hae from my observation last fall and this winn ai aind d from observation previously made been f dimly it div convinced that we have all au been leen a unfaithful as i a people this is is my opinion ac accordine according ca r I 1 g 0 o tile the 11 light ight slid mid know knowledge ledee I 1 bave have upon the and it hs blag bm been pore full fuli fully upon my mv mind since last conference than ihan during any other ober period of here for I 1 have trailed trav led in most of the settlements to hold conferences feren ceo ces in connect inn irn with mv my of othi me homp home missions mic mia and from the little observation I 1 have mule made I 1 am convinced that we wa have awall fully lived up tip to our privileges as saints of the mo mt bieh god i for instance at a place north of this cilvy city and conan cohan intz iniz lna ina almost inhabitants enough to fill hoil hoti ze e a conference was waa lately appointed several went ft amm om here according to the he missions ints inis given given uit nit and when we got there instead of linding a place stilita illi iiii table ble bie for the he people to assemble igwe in we found a very small log building which ch perhaps by crowding might contain a hundred person perio wt and it wag wis al ano ako quite dilapidated baring scarcely a pane of masa hass ela gla we stopped near this log building and waited until ha half f an hour after the he time as we e did d kl not riot ee many parsin pacing to the meeting and ana the thep then we went in and anti fouli found abit twenty persons sitting in it the cold boim whish which which bad had ohly only gine fine window and thit th it almost entirely destitute of laps taps glas lass afen a while we opened our meeting and those twenty individuals sat shivering while ve vp addressed thi them em the portion of the citizens were busily engaged eng amed aged with tiie ilie the care or 0 their cattle cattie and in other occupations andily them he the conference was only a secondary derat op tile tiie twenty who attended our first meeting went and persuaded a few of af their neighbors toj toi come and after holding a few meetings we suc in gatting this very emall email bouse house pretty well fillad whereas if the people had bad come out as they ought the he place would not have held a quarter of them 0 v flen city ity is the f place I 1 alfrd to I 1 we found that instead of the peOple peoples 3 alsom assembling at ill ili he proper time they came caille about an hour after and instead of keeping sacred the lords day they worked at almost every kind of labor I 1 have bare aiso also aio alo observed in other places that the lords loos day is is scarcely regale rewalt re eatie gaile at all perhaps P the he people would attend meruil ineer tg at A deft wll wil a often after it is over hurrah fer IF mules and carriage and arnd directly six cr young men inen and wom women en are anc in each car cal carnage carriage ilage viage riding out for pl nin n ire tre this does took look as hough iby they did not rosiy rely value nie hie lord corps day i it t looks i houi though they hoy did rot not care ore whether they wehl emt str nine bine over over fields and prairie prairies or how they spent the r time tune I 1 mention menti on those bilings in order to show the reekie reckie recklessness sties siles anti and carelessness manifested by some of the he young people who are growing up in these valleys rf the he mounta irdi irLi I 1 will mention annn anft ther lher practice that in my opinion i i often carried carriea to excess though of no harm in isele it is a pleasant exercise excrete but may mar be so in as to brim bring condemnation I 1 have ref refo ence price to dancing and dancing schools school I 1 I 1 do ih th ik that these thin tiling and occasionally our or pati pa tie fie eq arp are carried to excess I 1 wll will include myself in these matters and consider trint frint my remarks also amply 0 omy myself eif elf some gome may ask ast why I 1 deem thee these matters carried to I 1 axce orten often the minds of the young voting are not 0 div iv ihus ihns placed nicel upon the follies and of ON tins it thet a fenden tendency cv to draw alir rn iii away from things thim I 1 s of a hundred amundred times imell moie more tance lance suppose that a person sheild okho ild go to a dancing for two wo or three year s and become tit the most expert dancer in the world become so proficient fici ent that the toes and feet would at every 8 tep step paced in file the proper potion po ilion the bands hands be i and every moon gp fure lure and be properly propel prop eliy eily iv made in short become as per as any one that ever exhibited on he the fantastic toe 5 what of all that thai how much is the improved by he the operation put says vs one doe it not rot hive tencie tendency nev to make one ono nimble a d era ura reful in in aap aan abnar arnup arnee I 1 and rind so 0 o do d other exercises that thit would e moie mote for they tend tenil to make persons lardy harda and athle athie athletic fic tic think cf of 1 the he time consumed in learning how to take ake every step sep properly zhen when ah ahen it might be used 0 o a bunin bun ird ind 1 imes limes more profit for after all it s the and D nd hat flint makes the tile maui maul man these bodies are secondary when compared to he mind for the body is only the shell sheil or the atward case if our minds are neglected I 1 do lot not care how graceful the body mav may may be the use iness is not there what particular advantage would it be to tin I 1 generation if you should spend twenty years i ile lle arnine all nil the technicalities of I 1 ol 01 tai tat nt be csome of some nse lisp bli bit of very little in comparison tn to a well j i fot foi ined and inti anti n illel mind I 1 do hink think that rn eu minds are too much mech taken u by these th ng bilt blit I 1 would not have vou you to on an t der stand by my ay iy remarks that we should entire depte depre denute depute ovir selves es of these pleasures i it t lle tie well to fet emon f rion rf alv peivi iii the dince for it was not pr tri trl i laed i ancient 1 I tn i ani and ind it is vi p eded ed cd ced ed that tiie tile the eld ai at v oni ont g st othild ejov P jov joy tho in aves in in the danchi dance i I 1 moi mot modern ern times limes but I 1 am lot not aware blat tl at this ha reference ef prence to using all our time in dancing there is is one thing I 1 would wourl like to i i anaa of nf that carelee tic tip which s now mani man f eed oed td by bv many a vid id hit that is is ta to store 0 ir r mud raids wilh A ith the at alts aits ta arid r science clence not with will f ol oi h rn con not with vain philosophy not noi with mmae sonne thing thit that will fly away with the beams bearns f th un uti but with useful facts those thosa which ilav albeen sought out ot by men influenced by the in pi ration of the ahe almighty and recorded in in books suppose that tint you ad waid wald I 1 wre avre deprived of al books and that we vre bad had to get pet revelation and no disposition to under find tind that winch which ha been sought out and recorded ii book books what would be he our condition that hat we had not sufficient faith and to acquire information concerning mathematics astronomy geography mechanism and their kin branches or a kno knowledge wied e of the element elemen 1 and ariti materials bf our globe with with their banou for useful purposes and their appi appl I 1 cation to oh mery and alo also of the laws b wf ich machinery acts and the laws governing motions moo roo liong lions then suppose that the present know ledge was all shut out it would under conditions and anti independent of lle ile lie he aid of lh almighty require an indefinite period in to make any great progress in the knowledg knowledge 0 that is even now bow extant I 1 am speaking sneaking upon the principle naturally upon that which is i revealed without I 1 the th e holy ghost to inspire us now suppose that we hav hare books to enlighten us upon useful knowledge anuel i more aas easy it is is for us as to get know leap that has bag been systematized so that we wf can obtain in a afew few minutes m that which would otherwise take lake us its years ears cars to acquire this is me the benefit to be derived from the use of books herce when we say that ba books book are useful we have reference to books that hat contain useful sciences and arid knowledge thoe those facts that are demonstrated by experiment and no nol to books boaks filled with the wild theories of speculative aen itlen for those books are laden with hum buz bus in liew lica of knowledge who wao does not know that fifteen minutes study would acquaint acq aca faint persons with discovered disc overee and recorded law laws which might otherwise take tahe a series of years to become familiar with by reasoning 1 and arni trying to generalize our ideas we if may bain zain gain vain mu much c lil ill useful information but shall shail sha I 1 we wf therefore consider bookson book no use Is here there no po in availing ourselves of the labors of bf those who ho have developed truths it is still knowledge notwithstanding it has been discovered by others truth is truth trum and take it wherever you mav may find it or from whatever source it comes it was truth from all eter and it will be truth to all eternity there is it a great fund of useful laid down in book books Is riat not all truth ruth good yes and when we opeo speak k of true rue and useful kli kii ledge we have reference to that which pertains to god or to the workmanship bf hh hii hand and when there are books hat IMI hal pertain certain to god or to the things of his or the workmanship of his ills hadd hand must be of use ose of some service to the b hunan u akin agin family therefore therdore we e need not despair and think that we shall baand by and by come to the he end to a time when there will be no knowledge in book when you have thoro thoroughly learned botany and searched out all its laws and perhaps all botanical creation so as to perfectly understand the hie nature and uses of the great variety of roots trees tree sparks barks and herbs you have become familiar lar with only one ope branch of the hie works or laws of our god when you are master of all the tile knowledge there is is in in books about chemistry and ba have ve arran arranged 11 ed the chemical affinity of the various eases cases and their use what have you found out you kyou have only found out another branch of the great works of god we have mentioned only two branches of the great greit works of our god pertaining to which we ire can a ai quire knowledge and under understanding stan ding we might refer 0 to o many others viz astronomy 2 ceolo geology my mineralogy and metallurgy all of which would be useful in our works and discoveries discover di scOvel es indeed had it not 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