Show bemarkt ra B president tm t 11 SM I 1 i 0 Kini bil io ili eer mcle mcie s i isag r 1866 BY GLO CIU ceu ceo nii nei D watta you have fi iii lii ard wll wit what a t bi b I 1 11 Brig drig r I 1 liani lis ils li is sold to on todi to di cli ulio ullo his words uie ui ure re e I 1 matrue us oby aby that were ere ever i aku by mom moe mo e by the tile Pro prophet ellet vilet joseph joeph smith or by any othel utile i man mat that veri verified verl vel vei or ia is tow now I 1 alg ilg u aun n the tile face fale of this earth were tins people living their llie tiie asefa th fully as aney ough ti to when a lison ilson phron piron pi non ron rose up no to tracil N au tile tiie principal pl a of life md ais mind would ouid be fr free e ws his lovigne be loosed and would bu bo tie tio tle ite to draw frem from him those in bett adapted adopted to y your on r f ee I 1 i i digs 0 alid fluid cir clr e dai bill ut lt as allilu impossible iora lora lor a mall mail lo 10 aloah to tims tilis people it to bi L grant graut and aud me ili in the social secial hall theether theather the ether ather flight s every persac in ili that tiu tin had thir their igiel our and ilour thoas here herd lt re 1 ini itice notice mome more or 1 li es ss I 1 the abe same feeling this inay be measurably measurable ue toa ta murm spirit siy sly irit velch I 1 ain din rather to believe soine some dl of you hare have and aud I 1 will t 11 you where wherein lil iii sonie flud hattit battit with atul wid blame blam hr br brigham und and his council because of the tile digs they luve heard that lint our brethren are enduring ou on the lyalus A few of or them have d died led a and iid lid you hear bear some same exclaim I 1 what an awful tiling thiis it is why is it that the first presidency are aree so unwise iu ili their calculations fiu flu but hut t it falls fails on their shoulders well the late arrival of those hose on oil the tile plains cannot be now but let ma nia tell vou you most emphatically that thai if it ali till who rho were entrusted em rusted with tila llie care aud and ament of this years immigration had doue done as they wern coun counsel sI d dud aud dictated by the firt presidency of this church the tilo and hardson hardships ps flow liow endured by the s on oil their way hwe hwa vron would id have bestif film obied why because they woold have left the ilia missouri river hirer in ili und arid net not have been hinl hini hindered ered un mini lil into tuto september there is at a spirit of a the people and the fault is ild lid laid upon 6 tn for this reason lle ile lie the heavens are cl clowd sed against you for lie he holds holdy the lloys keys of ilfe life and salvation upon the earth and you ewy arlve drive as muchas much is you lacase but not one of you wil ever go through the straight gume gute into he the kingdom of god gad except those that go through by thai thal milr mill mid nid his fils bretti rens reus ren for they will be tiie tile hose inspection you must pas pass 1 tell teul y you nou 1 iiii I i ion lon truth and yau may muy do what you best v t I 1 three haud lund eart cart hai hal in safety and in good a ansu as tu und wi 11 much less richness sich sick ness nesa and death than coill commonly mouly h wagon does it make a mm min blek sick to labor and slid be d igent 1 lugent ls gent let me sit down and be e in mind und and body 1 li t me cease building tind aid making i pro veni nis llis ills or doing something useful and I 1 should not live six mont lis nor would br hr brigham because bebau we have become so inured to occupation pati if the immigration could have been carried on oil as dictated by br hr brigham there would have been no trouble the delvil has bas lis ais tried to hedge bedge up the tiie wiy way so that we should not bring about the wise plans d ased by our president tand and has his tried to make those plans look ionic as and us as miserable us as possible ble bie our breth brethren rei rel and sisters on oil the tile plains are in iii lit my mind all the time lime and br brie brig liam harn lims fins given to those who wish it th ill privilege of going bick to help bring them in lit if I 1 do not go myself I 1 will send a team though I 1 have al at ready sent bent back nearly al ail my teams arid and so has br hr br eliam those who have gone lack hack never will b koerv for or regret having done so if it hr hrs 8 joseph A young my sot son william if george D grant and my son sou david P had not have gone to tile the assistance of those tl iose lose now oil on the pl pir ins I 1 should always have regretted it if ir they die during the trip trill they will nill die while endeavoring to save their brethren and nho who has g genter greater enter eater love than lie that tint lays own his life for his liis fri aids manifest your love by your works jesus sald said stid if you love me keep my iny coin coln commandments 1 ly y this you shall know th thu tint tha A you love him if you love bri brigham lin tin heber lieber tjede flede diali and arid the lle ile lie twelve please to keep our commandments that are given to you from day to day arid and you wi I 1 bellest and ex billed I 1 do not want a woman to tell me bildt she loves lovea me trip when slie she does not keep my commandments for her statement would be vague arld and foolish were I 1 in lit the situation of some of you I 1 would not sleep steep another night before starting starling to tile llie issi assistance si of the people that are now struggling ibro llie tile snow I 1 would not wait until to morrow I 1 would start today to day and I 1 would toil oil until I 1 reached thoe those brethren and they were in fit this valley when the brethren who hive gone back first met them thein they felt as though they were truly s ivious to them and when they came into their thein midst they would not permit them to go ten tell rods f orn om them for while on one of them was with them they tiley deltas felt feit as though they were safe as th othey would be preserved from misery from starvation and death And lyet perhaps some of these very persons we are striving to save may furn turn urn aganet ag dinst tile the church and become our most bitter ener enet enemies nies those that have died I 1 pr presume sume were some of the best men nien ana women in lit the comp compi nv tily arld and ti the why did not the lord take the fhe u ti godly it may be that he thought he would let the devil handle them a little and kill hill a few 0 of r them and arid the devil is so much of a financier that lie will not kill his own subjects well if lie he has slain the s ints with gods permission per ner mission cission ard ard tile tiie aliey y were a good people coming to zion to serve god and seek for eternal glory they have goue gone home hap py and we will see them again and arid tit chy thy y will thank god that they stepped out of or che the world when they did for if they had llad come here they would have seen the wickedness of some of this people a and nd perhaps they would have become unrighteous too As br brigham lias liag sai sal sl i 1 I 1 I would rather be felpi helping tg in those on the plains than to be here if circumstances and duty would permit we offered our ing and started to go but tile lle ile lie lord orde otherwise and we came cattle home but we llave haie done a better work than if we had gone for the lite brethren would mould have sald said hr brigham is there with his council and we will sit down here and roast our shins say our prayers and arid lull ourt ours ourselves to sleep there would have llave been no general stir in behalf behia of or oil our r br brethren ethrel 0 on i the plains but scores and hundreds have now gone to meet them and tiley have had hud gdud weather so far have they not noti noli I 1 cannot account for the barrier thatis between yoland the lord in lit any oilier other way only that there is quite a sympathy at tit work i galust br hr brigham arld and his council but there is not a thing which he lie has lias dictated but what has come out right and arid will i ill lii now and wid will mill work ork together for good to those that love god and keep his commandment cornman mad man dment we have to acknowledge the tile hand liand of god ili lit all things and that mail man or woman eels to rind ald nid aid comp lahr is in it the eli ell arall of or hitt bitt bitterness eriless and arid the bonds of iniquity arid and does not knowlt may god have hava mercy ou on you am amely 6 |