Show remarks sr ilehr 0 after alter afternoon noon ol 01 sept sa M BY GD WATT I 1 feel very thatis thankful ful fui to my father and my nay god in regard ty tu the two handcart hand cart companies that have just come in led by ars ellsworth and mcarthur me arthur I 1 ident went out with br brigham to meet those companies and when within a mile and a half of the foot of lle ile lie the little mountain we left the company that was with us and drove on until we 15 met capt Ell company I 1 did not shed any tears though I 1 could have done so but bat they would have bare been tears of joy my was so full that it was impossible for tor a tear to pabs pass it that is the way I 1 felt why did I 1 have those feelings was it because the company were on foot dusty and arid carts caits no for I 1 was aware that they had come conie into these valleys easier than most if not all ail other companies their task was light in comparison with that of the pioneers I 1 in n 1817 18 17 for they had to build bridges cross deep and wide rivers i upon j rafts and make hundreds of miles of road digging up and throwing out oat stones and cuttin cutting down trees and thick brush I 1 br mills mentioned in his song that crossing ohp plains with hand band carts was one of the greatest great esl esc events that ever transpired in this eh arch I 1 will admit that it is an important event successfully successful testing another method for pt gathering hering it israel irael but iut ut its importance is small in in comparison with the visitation of the an angel gel gei if 1 god to the prophet joseph anad an d with the iho reception ol 01 the sacred records from the hand of moroni moron at the hill cumorah how does it compare with the vision taj that joseph and others had when they went into a cave in the hill bill Cumo cumorah rah rab and saw more records than ten men could carry there were looks piled up upon tables book upon book fhoser records this eople people will yet have if they accept of the boyt boyf book of mormon and observe its receipts recep ts and keep he the commandments again how does it contrast with josephs I 1 leing eang sent forth with his brethren to search out ut a location in jackson county where the new nee jerusalem will be built bulit where our father and our god planted the first garden on this ath arb arh and arid where the new jerusalem will come to when it comes cornea down from heaven I 1 mention these few things by way of contrast with the handcart hand cart operation they are events that I 1 have heard joseph speak of i me and time again there will not one soul of you go to belld up that holy city in jackson county until you learn to keep the commandments of god and listen lo 10 the counsel of br brigham and his hia counselors couri lors cf of the th twelve apostles Ap estice ostlee cf of the bishops and of every officer in the church of god until you are willing to keep what we call the celestial law what is the celestial law A great many of you think that you have not come to it but the fundamental principles of mormonism faith in jesus christ repentance for sine and baptism for their remission which is the door into the kingdom of god are the first letters of the alphabet of the celestial law and if you turn away from those principles you turn away from everything that your salvation depends upon there is ia a reformation propose proposed it has already commenced in the north and the people there are repenting that is the they say they repent and many have gone forwark forward and been ba baptized sized for the remission of their sins iut but dut but brethren and sisters you may go fore forr ward and be baptized and say you repent and receive the ahe laying on of hands and if you yon do not repent and lay aside your wickedness you will go to hell I 1 tell you that that there is nothing that will turn away the wrath of god and the chasten ings that are to come on this people if the they T do not repent indeed now as maik my wor words there has been too much said here by br brigham 11 and his brethren to fall edthe arf the ground unnoticed and vou you must observe every word I 1 of it I 1 am very thankful that BO so many of the brethren have come in with hand carts carte my soul rejoiced my heart was filled and greo grew as big as a two bushel basket two companies ha ave ye come through safe and sound inthis Is this the end of it no there will be millions on millions that will come much in the same way only oldy they will not have hand carts for they vly will III take their bundles under their arms and their children on their backs and under their arms and flee and zions people will have to send out relief to them for they will come when the judgments come on the nation nations and you will find that judgments will be more sore upon this people if they do not repent and lay tay aside their pride and their animosities their quarreling and contentions their disputations disputatious among themselves themselves those that have come in with the hand carts may wonder how this can be for doubtless many of them thought that they were co coming to where it was all peace and arid harmony an and so remain for ever so it would I 1 W were ere it not for the wicked ones that come here you who come with the hand carts have brought nobody here but yourselves and probably as br ellsworth said there are as good people among his company as ever were on the earth according to their knowledge and then he said there were some of the worst korst vorst I 1 do not doubt it for he never stopped to select them but lie he brou brought L ht all that happened to be in the net and there were several kinds I 1 suppose any man or woman that has got the spirit of the lord may know that god is with those missionaries mai mak m mho who 0 have come in with these companies and they have made a character for themselves that will live for ever and they will live for over iver ever and god bless them for ever and they shall phail be blessed for tor ever and when br brigham and heber heben and jedediah and the twelve apostles go through the straight gate into the kingdom they shall g with us your face looks good to me br mcarthur I 1 sat beside you today to day and it warmed my heart clear through I 1 have known him from his boyhood and 0 so o I 1 have the others and joseph A young and william it IL kimball they know nothing but mormonism 1 they were born in it they could not fully discern the difference until they went on a mission to the lower world where they were under the necessity of depending upon their god and now they know that god lives that is true that brigham young is a prophet of god and that jos joseph eph smith w was as a prophet no man or woman can have hafe the tile spirit of prophecy and at the same time do evil and speak against their brethren you will find that man or that woman barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of god and filled with dispute eions when you hear false statements from disaffected characters do not riot circulate them do not send them back to england france etc to prevent those from comins here that otherwise would come the saints will gather and handcart hand cart companies will become common there will be more of them than there will be of ox or mule trains if br brigham larn lain should say to me next spring t go 0 back and bring up a handcart hand cart company I 1 am ready to do so I 1 can do it with less fa fatigue figu than the labor I 1 perform everyday every eveny day of my y life ilfe will 20 or 25 miles daily travel excuse me no I 1 am never still never idle and I 1 never expect to be in heaven or on earth I 1 haye hare often told you that all my lazy hairs were acre gone and I 1 have often told tola the young elders eiders to encourage them that the first mission sionI I 1 took after I 1 was ordained one of the twelve was through new england and into nova scotia 1500 miles travel on foot with my valise on my back soon after I 1 started I 1 found that I 1 was rather unlearned though I 1 knew that before but I 1 knew it better after I 1 started I 1 began to study the scriptures as br mcarther did and I 1 had so little k knowledge r that the exercise of study began to swell my head and open my ray pores insomuch that the hairs dropped out and if you will let your minds expand as mine did you will have no hair on your heads 1 I expected to loose all my hair and my head tool too but I 1 am aia alive and in the house of israel and I 1 expect to live to see this people prosper the house of israel gathered anu and and scattered israel connected with this people and we will bring about the purposes of gei goi my body may fail fau but ut my spirit will never die nor will the spirit of any good mormon 1 let us live lire our religion I 1 presume there were as many devils after those handcart hand band cart companies as ever followed any company of saints that has left the states an and their object was to do defeat feat them in this attempt but they have not been permitted 0 to o do it IL the elders that goforth go forth and preach the gospel will have to lead handcart hand cart companies over the plains and learn to go on foot am I 1 not glad yes I 1 rejoice exceedingly I 1 have haye prayed for ir those companies night and day and I 1 never was more pleased VO to see any persons than I 1 was to see those brethren and sisters and the elders that have broun brought them here I 1 baptized several of them IS 18 years ago in chatburn and downham england and 1 I thank god that they have hare come here it proves that they were good saints to stand so long in that wicked country and sustain mormonism 18 or 19 years in Tithe barn I 1 stood upon a barrel and preached and a woman came and took hold of my coat I 1 said I 1 what is wanted lady 11 want to be baptized I 1 jumped from the barrel and baptized 25 persons persona some of whom are here that was 19 years ago when mormonism w was a s introduced into that nation I 1 went over about the time when the church was broken up in kirtland and when there were not twenty persons on the earth that would declare that joseph smith was a Prophet of god when we returned from england we could report from two tivo thousand to twenty five hundred saints added to the church after being away about eleven months when we got back the church was all driven from ohio and we went to missouri I 1 arrived there in time to be sick three weeks and then t the h e mob prevailed and we were driven out and as fast as we could get t well and get gat out of a place I 1 was taken binand sick bick and driven aga again i n that is the way I 1 have been kept going and I 1 expect to be kept going goin g in th that at way if ia this is people do to not do right and keep the commandments of god live wise your religion keep the commandments of god listen to the servants of god and arid you will stand for ever eyer and the world cashot can not trouble you last sabbath I 1 referred to the conduct of the ancient inhabitants on this continent and the dealings of the lord with them and it is the only way in which those who profess to be the people of god are kept humble when they prospered in riches they were lifted up and god sent famine and pestilence among them and sickness and death until he pretty arf tty much destroyed the nation until they humbled bumbled themselves and I 1 wish to ap apply I 1 Y that experience to this people and arid they wil wll wilF feel reel it if they do not repent re elit gour your your ears may hear my words but do my words enter your hearts lie iia arts will you repent sincerely before god if you will we never will be afflicted no never I 1 do not know of any way for this people to appreciate their blessings only by affliction and by being brought into sorrow and if you do not te pent the little we sa saw IV night before last when the handcart liand hand cart train came in will be no comparison to the straitened circumstances you will bs be brou brought 6 ht into and people will look upon us and weep to see the aa nering sering and affliction that we will be brought into many of this people have broken their covenants by speaking evil of one another by speaking against the servants of god and by finding fault with the plurality of wives wires and trying to sink it out of existence but you cannot do that for god will cut you off and raise up another another people that will carry out his purposes in in righteousness unless you walk up to the line of your duty on the one hand there are glory and exaltation and on the other no tongue can express the suffering and affliction this people will pass through if they da do not repent br brigham is placed here and he hab has chosen men to stand by him holding the keys of life and salvation to this people and we shall bear off the kingdom even though there thede e be but few that will stick to us they cannot be shaken for god says everything can ean be shaken shall be shaken and that which cannot be shaken shall remain scores will shake and the earth will vii be bp caused to shake and the thunders will roll and the lighte lighten ings flash and the lle cle of famine and pestilence awaits the world and its inhabitants clowman how many y times I 1 hasetold ha have vetold told you to take care of your grain and not waste it for before another harvest many of you will see suc sue such it times as s you did the past season some do not believe this but a great many do and they are ate lay laying in abe up ip 1 their grain much wheat bhea t has already been en sold here by those who were begging last year for a dollar a bushel an and d from that to a dollar and a quarter and a dollar and arid a half I 1 had grain enough last spring to have sustained my family and arid lasted me another year though it takes over a thousand bushels to feed my family one year but I 1 have fed it all out and now I 1 have not over two hundred bushels and I 1 shall have to buy eight hundred more to feed my family till another harvest I 1 am going to live irly illy my religion and if need be I 1 will sell seil seif self my furniture my beds and bedding and everything I 1 have for grain I 1 look for hard times and this year is not going to end them thera are from 8 to people coming here this year and scarcely av a man in all the i valleys of the mountains has any old wheat nearly all had to commence consuming the present crops just look at it and reflect I 1 have riot not stopped rationing my family to half a pound a day dagand and do not mean to this yc year ar though I 1 would have added a little more to atif it lt they had needed it but they do not many are wasting their grain and feadin feeding it to their horses and cattle and others are dav lavish with it do not lay out your means y your our wheat and your substance for that which pro feteth nothing f or ribbons gew gewgaw gaws jewelry gry dry artificia ls for gods sake cease this una course jor for or your 5 our own sake for my mv sake and for christs sake let us go to work and make our own shoes from our own leather and make and produce all wa wo need and use it wisely if I 1 would suffer fuller it I 1 should have to lay out j yearly for AI rocco shoes and at from three hirer to lire fire dollars a pair parr for the women cou could id not wah wash without putting pulling on a pair of fine shoe shoes hw many tunes have I 1 told you the these things thing and br brigham has his told you they are on my iny mind all the tune and I 1 cannot get them off but I 1 must kee felep P telling you until lily mission is i complete I 1 cannot help hell it I 1 foresee the consequences conea of an tin unwise course ai as plainly as I 1 see your faces today to day let the men who are ire on the tile public works if they get gmt a pound of breadstuff a dy day lay up one third of it I 1 tell teil til the roen roea who are la a burin for ne rne to lay up their flur for a it rai ral 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