| Show obedience obedience is better than sacrifice bible there is a law irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world upon which chall chali all ail blessings are predicated and when we OBTAIN ANY BLESSING from arnom GOD it is by OBEDIENCE to that law upon chit is predicated joseph smith obedience that heavens blessing blessings s may surely follow is a principle that all have been taught from their youth if taught at all still it would seem from what nhat we observe and hear that even in utah there are some of the many who have forsaken houses and lands fathers and mothers companions and children for the gospels sake sale who are indulging t in sayings 0 and doings diametrically opposed to the promotion of their best interests true provisions have been scarce and new flour as yet comes scantily to the supply of the late and present dearth of breadstuff bread stuff but do these facts require or in the least leaca sanction the unwarrantable proceedings Z of some in our midst ignorance cannot be plead as license for entering wheat fields without the consent or knowledge of the owners and cutting pulling and carrying off grain gain not their own nor for gleaning 0 without kit vit hout the proper permission nor for taking from the shocks and standing b grain where a permit to glean has hasteen been kindly granted the actual highhanded high handed evil of such a lawless course is too obvious for argument that uch such conduct is practised practiced at all proves that some are determined at least for the present not to profit by the lessons of past privations notto not to observe the precepts of the bible nor the teachings and example of the prophet doseph joseph of prest brigham young 0 and his Coups counselors elors of oi the twelve and of every saint insects drouth severe sever e alternations of cold coid and heat hard labor and want we were re presumed to be sufficient to have driven away all who are not intending and striving 0 to walk worthy of their high ca calling aling but this does not appear to be the case and perhaps it will not be fully ac accomplished complis hed until the tares are bound in bundles we frankly admit that we are somewhat faithless in the benefit of advancing 0 correct ideas for the temporal and spiritual welfare of those who will persist in trespassing tres passing upon their n neighbors ei i ebors nights rights 0 and property who drive their animals to pasture in others hay and grain fields and instruct and encourage their children in foll following owing their pernicious examples training them up tip to lying indolence and their attendant evils at the same time we desire the few outrageously a wicked and worthless who have deemed it politic to take up an abode among us to understand that they are known and we could wish that they may at once realize that their present conduct tends to destruction st and if they are determined to continue in ill doing 0 that prudence suggests 00 their departure to more genial 0 climes ere the chast enin ening hand of the almighty visits them still more sorely among a people so industrious intelligent and ind liberal as the inhabitants of utah are known to be there is no reason why each one should not strive to do good and eschew evil in a country so newly settled there are a few hardships to encounter a few privations privation s to be endured but there are no mobs to strike A terror and curtail rights no numerous classes of corrupt men to vitiate the purity of our wives wives a and nd daughters and practise and dib dis diesem seui seul binate hosts of abominations in short there is no outside hindrance to each ones onea doing 0 good and hereby insuring the blessings flowing from obedi ce e to the commands of the alm aim almighty aty nc and t i counsels of the livin living oracles who are conse atly teaching 0 us the way of life ilfe lit and salva t tion lo 10 E the few who persist in in wicked conduct 1 will prefer to reform orto or to take themselves es to oiher other localities they have not reported jat U A for to benefit we commend to their ireful careful perusal the discourse by prest bri brigham aham kin win young published in thi this 3 number and call their Pi ular attention to the study of the follow ration wlm WIM shall vve we do we will cut orf off every avenue p as fast and as far as may lay in in our you can atop those eau comm commini link tink i cation catlon cat iona ions wlm thil corrupt good w anners in y youri gur gun i elyes elres fiust first ani anither an and Ithen then seeb keep keet you cb I 1 as dwy rola toma roia evil eTU as Ros possible j and ands not mane many any ge generations 1 e rations will pass away er ere the heavens i will ii i acknowledge that there is a reformation arnom arnow among the latter day saints 2 who will fail to hearion heark en to and practice such instruction no one who desires an exaltation al in the kingdom 0 of our god and wishes for that constant flow of blessings comin coming 9 through obedience |
