Show DISCOURSE ra phi necess C kluball rk bowery arery arne 0 IK ibb Ear poRTED byj BY J T V lone LONG on 30 or 0 the th fretze that is be menth neith thib thu s ade adm br hr briham thought I 1 had better letter ett r nut rut oj 01 my h 1 t but I 1 never neer feel feci as Rs though I 1 wanted to wear my wy hat bat when lie he is present I 1 conj ra r that tha the traster waster should wear his hat hut or hat bat hang hung tv tt t on ha the peg tt that god mad for it vt which aich id Is his tic thao fiao b of 01 course cours tN I 1 I 1 iee tee ler led tolerably well as 0 fo o li felth feith today to day but hot I 1 auff ruff r much from bad colds and have to be vere vert vcr ver i ireful for I 1 am orten often coffia confined d lu in rny house with iti dulds I 1 took a very coid cold hore bore last sib S b ulith by sitting in the tho draft and I 1 have not mt I 1 very well since still I 1 feel amb bious in tha the cause caume 1 i t I 1 havo hayo espoused used tte tto thris concerti con cerui ig ig I 1 trl ai h br hr graut has hes this day bein bern speaking are C ad ail and sad I 1 bf bt lieve in his hla doctrines b because cause limy diey chey re to tu lii l t ii u esper espee alv in 10 regard t ti oar being one I 1 i da do know mst int d that mat unless we are one we are ure not ca C ista ond ord I 1 aisi alsi as Is knois now that it we ar my i ot on ohe OHO 1 A I h b br hr Brig barn harn oer our leader we are to not nna ona with christ C hrict yes I 1 knew 0 io and my y I 1 N chhoa are and aad h ave ve been with br bangham all the ti ie e I 1 hi ivr a learned by ly experience that I 1 tb thare a re Is hut but en mr gid god that aruis to this people and ha he is the I 1 tra that pera pers a to this earth the first man T t first mau raw sent hia hij son to redeem the world w orid orld fo 0 o rt rei ret em li brethren his ilfe lifa was taken his hi moot shed that our sins eins might be remi ltd that floa caad twelve men aud and ordained them to be A and when le I 1 e departed the keys of the kr ki ani dem tem were wera with three of those twel twelve ive TS VS pair Pt ter ir james jamea and john peter held the keys to that presidency and lie ha was the head boad h ad now how did dil those keys corma coraa to us did not pet pot tr r lanios janios and john ordain ordala joseph smith our Prep betT hett they did and joseph jeph smith called and br brigham brig Drig hera heia br hr heber br hr parley enough ta to make mako twelve apostles ves les thus you soo soe s that viat thare la 19 19 fg always a governing principle princ ipie iu in the tho Cint rall rali upon the earth thee there ia always a presidency three who represent the delty deity here bete on tile the eai eat th just ti think lilak of your ILIUM you have heard the teace teachings i t gs and instructions or of prest young and his instructions are j the word of god to us and I 1 know that every man mail and woman la in this tills church who rejects his and the tile testimony of those that he sends rejects the testimony of god gud god his father I 1 know that just as well es as I 1 know that I 1 see your faces races toddy today to day I 1 where ft ill those go to that reject tills this gospel j wily why in reality they will not g go 0 atly aily anywhere where A voie vole yon you e frum from the tile stand they will not riot go anywhere else for they have no other place toto to go milre to they tiley 1 will remain where they are in hell where my spirit was for a short time when I 1 was in engi land where was my body during that brief i period it was in preston on oil the tile corner of wilford street but my spirit could see and observe those evil spirits as plainly us it ever yli yil after I 1 dm din legions of disembodied e d evil spirits came against ley let me organized in companies that they might have more power but they had not power over me to any ally great extent because of or the power j that was in and sustaining me I 1 had the priesthood and the power of it was upon me I 1 saw the invisible world of the tile condemned spiris those who were opposed to me and to this work A ork add aud to the lifting up of the standard of christ H i i that country did I 1 at the tile same sime time soe or have a vision i of the angels of god of or his legions no I 1 did not though they were there and stood in defence of me and my brethren and I 1 knew it and all not that there was any tery very great virtue in me bu but abere was virtue in the priesthood and apostleship which I 1 held field and that Grod would and did defend and the evil spirits were dispersed by th the a pow power er of god some a people suppose that when they leave this state of exist nce nee they tiley are going into the tha paradise ois dis of god but if they chev do liot not overcome evil and subject themselves to the will of god and to him that is appointed to lead us here in the flesh they will beco ne tie subject to those wicked spirits an ail ag gels Is will not come by legions tode to defend end hose hoso i whose falt fait falth faith h fills fails them when the destroyer comes comen but lie he will be permitted 1 to 0 waste the wicked I 1 never said that I 1 ever baw saw an angel from god though I 1 have dreamed about abo ulan lian t them t h ern ein neither did I 1 see fieo those evil spirits with my iia lla natural naturel tural eyes nor or was I 1 at ut tile the time asleep but I 1 saw them after 11 I 1 was wab bald did pros irdle upon the floor when I 1 recovered I 1 slut sit upon the bed thinking and real refa cynig upon what had past and all at one once my vision siaion opened alid and the walls of tho tilo build hulid ins itic wee were no obstruction to wy rpy seeing s e 0 ing lug for I 1 saw nothing but hut the visions that presen present presented t od td themselves why did not the wall wail obstruct rny m view B be cusce causo my iny sahit could look through through tile tiie walls of atrat j that house for I 1 looked wita that spirit clement element and power with hilli which look took aud as god sees all so were invisible things tv broucht brought I 1 before me as the lord would bring things before i jose jost joseph in the arnn and Thum mim it was upon I 1 i that ipie that the llie lord showed allowed things to the prophet tro iro phet joseph I 1 I 1 speak of af these things because lie cause I 1 do know that if you QU do noi not yield olit dianco to and bring your wll wil wih 3 into subjection thereto you will fill be overcome of or evil jesus says I 1 hey bay not come collie to do my will but tile the will of or my father 1 1 who sent rile inc spoil the same principle I 1 say that I 1 hilve have not come to do my will but to do the will of him that sent bent at tit me even evon that of br hr brigham thin tina is my rity place and my callin cailin calling gand and thin is 1 my wish and tim lre ire lie wish of or br hr jedediah of br hr amass of br hr V P ly ley l y and of evry every other epostle Hi fostle postle that god has appointed d md and called upon this earth or eter ever will wil wili wn VA remain here it ia is for br hr Brig llam liam to do tile the will of jossph Jis Js epli eph and for joseph to do the 1 will of P petr pet t T r for tor peter to do the will of jesus and for or jesus to do the will of his father that lat iet let is the ch nn til t rah raa ciles elies arrom from heaven hemen to earth and do you rot not und estand that it is so if vou von you will keep hold of hat hit chain and und keep seep your your hands strongly in in the links you yon can rea reach cil ell into the tile vail vall but veu ru must hold on firm and fast to the cable cabie w v it h I 1 because there Is an all anchor at the end 01 01 the ci c il ie and that cable cabi e is fastened to the ship so til it it is made sure at both ends that thatis i file tiie way it la is in a ship andia is so with the kingdom of god gos leay my fe feelings tings bings are for you lo 10 0 o learn to follow follon our leader der t our cur ur prophet our Preal prebi president deat ile lie will vill be our president prebi Jent dent in eternity and joseph Is his dent deot and will lil ill counsel him and you need not trouble yourselves but do as you are told and you will wili salvation ral sal and go into the celestial glory you will then dwell in the glory with joseph ith lather smith with ith the apostos ls and Si ints and bv by aking I 1 king such suph a course ut net one of you will oil lil I 1 und mid I 1 know it Y on have hive got tobe lobe to be organized and disciplined bythe by the priesthood and end vau van you hove hae hse got to stick to that or organization tion lion for you cannot be ba saved with a glory unless you are sved a aved ved hy by this priesthood pi brother drother Brot lier iier Brighi bangham tm rays says diab srab stick to I 1 iliadi and then wa we will all be sayed bared in tiie tile kingdom ki of our god of orthe the world worl with iorge aldr ye herds orcal te ve and much substance are flecking to california or oregon to escape lie troubles lea but they wiil will be cau caught hl fu in the snare prest prest 13 young they wih alid and they will ml fall luto the pit tile the road on the is full fuli in I 1 of emigrant emig ranU mut of that class cims and there are reverb several ailbe way ay here the hand carbs carla are rolling end and those with them ean can an sleep at night and be up in the mornings and the carts will jingle through the dar and rud as foon as wo we can get teams after our wheat is harros harres tad tod tf d vre wo shall call on you to go back and meet them with ith flour and other comforts of liate what dp you yon tva yes from inacy lu tho con pre gullon there Il lere Is equally times in the tile east they thoy have got pot A that taba hey they ley cannot really stand eland it out drubbing each other with nith canes tile the world is in commotion I 1 hye huye been talking about it here hore and shant the elate elata of efura senra in ill this church and what we have got to do aud and I 1 cannot iet ket this ihm sull suli ivet joet oui out t of my roy ming no to not for ell ori one int r nt brethren and a take care of your grain do not waste any of your grain for you will need it all and aud do not make an unwise or disposition of it I 1 beg of you to attend to this counsel for jor I 1 have told it three or four times because I 1 profess to be a prophet mt but because naturally see tile the necessity for no so doing the tin people are out of grain and out of bread and I 1 have ha re but little myself and from what I 1 see gee I 1 should think that very many had imd none for if ir you were to go to my house and stay one day da y 3 on would ee see enough to craze you fer for they co come m e in a crowds and are hungry and I 1 feel to pity them but I 1 cannot feed all creation suppose all this thi 3 people had been wi and taken counsel would 1 hey they have suffered the present destitution no they would not much of our grain has been consumed by our ene enemies niles bv those who care not for what they have to pay par for uncle sam paya pays their bills shall they tiley haye have a our grain this year doubtless many of this people isell bell their grain to them thern at a low price and thus they will be fed while many worthy persons will win see sea straitened circumstances circumstance s through lack of food and I 1 see this naturally this is a numerous peo pie and tey they have no surplus of bred breed not a par tic tie tlde tide le and our crop ia Is very light in many places there are hundreds and thousands of men that have lot lost their crops entirely entirety I 1 understand that br grant has lost a grat portion of his crop and thousands of acres have leen been parched up for I 1 lle ile tile lie want of water and there will te le but little wheat not near enough to supply tile the wants of this tills people and slid bring them easely through to another arother harvest in addition to our present number according to accounts that I 1 see there are saints ready for the plains at one piece ph ce and more at ani anther another other ther 0 besides those that are ca canally casually nally falling ailing into the ranks and they have to eat as well weli v ell eli as we until another harvest I 1 speak of these things to warn and ir n you to take care of your grain any and an d save it and it will wiil be better for you to todo do this even though iu lu so doing doing vou you datre to go bare barp footed and it will be bater for the sisters to let fine shoes fine drefs es fine hounds rif rit bons bous veis vels laces and all other imported finery stay in the stores until they rot than to let the their legrain grain armin go for rot such article articles you ta kethe course that you have been ellior exhorted ted to take if it you do not a few men may dot not suffer but the majority will I 1 do firmly believe thit our bread iles has bee been n b blest biest lest iest and multiplied this si peason pe ason aso n for I 1 know there was not enough in the territory to sustain the people however the present scarcity is one of the he best things that ever happened tn to this people for it will deoch eccli them wisdom tills ia Is one od of tire tiie poorest countries fon for occupancy for gentiles that I 1 have flare ever seen though for the same reasons it is at present the very best for the tiie saints for we can call get gut along lil ill 11 it better than any tiny other people there are thoe those lere lerm who wilo will censure br bri brigham 9 ham and me notwithstanding all that we have bare done for them prest 13 young we do not eare care what tia say about u if ir they will not tal ital i there is but little left h ft in this territory PO so ofir as bread is bongert conc ponc erred ed br dr brighom and I 1 have hare had to put our families on half ration ration in order that we might have wherewith to feed ferd the destitute and they now say that they feel reel better than they did belore before and I 1 judge from the testimony that they have given that it is best to keep them khem ilem liem on short rations for rot they are fat and bir hir fair and aud enjoy a portion of the spirit of god now as anciently the more some are biest west the more they complain the more the lord pours out his blessings upon some borne the more inore covet covetous they are arc and a great inthy many of fllch filch euch ench characters will go to the devil br brigham and I 1 would rather see our families bp beg for a living go poor penniless and afflicted and become sanctified become celestial beings and enter into glory than to see them transgress the law of gol god the ile body boda we do not care so mach about though thion gli we intend int end ena to support them in ti toe and in eternity I 1 that joseph bas has got the church organized in the spirit world and that he calls and senda the elders to preach the gospel to the spirits in prison inasmuch Inas nanch ranch as hs we ire do right we shall bare have good times and pro rooper siper arper and the majority of this rapid mople mopie are honest bonest and anti righteous and anath they ey will trill e saved in the 1 kingdom of god for they will cleave to br brigham forever and will be te one amily family and if I 1 am not very much mistaken I 1 shall be along with br brigham Brig ham bam and if there IF a anything ne cesara nece sarv for me to do awill I 1 will do it congh khonh it takes my iny head off from my shoulders for foy or I 1 am to be one oie ani and will be one with those who will he be one with br brigham I 1 will go into nto the celestial kingdom with him and with joseph also with peter paul pahl adam noah job daniel and all the ancient worthies prophets and apost apostles iea lea that ever lived in this world and we will dwell divell there forever I 1 am on the right track I 1 mormonism ia is the pride of my heart icart and I 1 take no pride bride in any thing else if f I 1 was 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