Show REMARKS jy ly r pramot PrAM red nt duignam bri DrI GnAM YO YOUNG toung NG tabernacle p la in of march IG 16 IM 0 Y BT BY G JD WATT J ido do not now rise riss expressly for the purpose of gl instructions for we have at already eady bufard mich nich to day still I 1 have a few reflections which I 1 iu offer C can an you yon not remember hearing speakers both here and in other count countries rita rits use many mapy worda without clearly and distinctly conveying ideas wast the discourse discourse by bf br vernon iu in the forenoon quits quite delighted me I 1 was extremely well pleased to hear him film clothe ills his ids with such beautiful language and so easily hence I 1 exhort irig my brethren the elders emere when they rhe rise to teach edify or instruct the people not to hamper themselves with effi efforts orts to merely select nice sounding words but to dolour correct and useful ideas even if yoa yos do not use one word in te ten n in a way that the learned would deem proper if a speaker pret presents lents rents useful ideas to a congregation odthe of best beat scholars in exi exl existence sence though not one arll ertl went of his ilia ln guage gange is strictly proper yet what lie hs bays says will feed that congregation far more than will a it perfect volume of nice sounding words few or no important ideas I 1 will leave the tha correctness of this remark to philosophers of every grade still when any one rises to speak if his liia is stored with valuable ideas ideate let him clothe dotha his lis thoughts with wi atho the tho best language ha he can command that w which bich comes to him easily and naturally I 1 really wish to impress this idea upon the minds of the tho elder elders if you will reflect upon what lag class laa of speakers have most edified you no matter whether thy they bre ere taught or untaught in tiie the learning of the Bc school hool hooi you will readily discover dis ceyer cayer that it has been those whose minds were stored with ith good idea idess and ani an who spoke so that yon could readily and ra ta lily ally under understand stand them wheller their language langu aga was wag couched in the most approved style or not when you yoa hear individuals speak e 1 I k whose minds are arc stored rich ideas do my they not benefit you tho tile most I 1 care but little nittie about your language hand out the tho ideas and let us know what yon you have hava stored in your minds I 1 will now refer to a portion of the discombe dis couise delivered here til s afternoon and say eay to the bishops that it would wouldga ba highly gratifying to me and to all of us if you would prove yourselves wise f towards you have a good opportunity to exhibit your abilities and I 1 say to the bishop who lias has just addressed us wont you do as I 1 have lave formerly directed you yon and appoint good wise judicious men to go through your ward to find out what Is in that ward and the situation of every family whether they have money flour or costly clothine clothing or whether wileth r they are destitute and suffer ilig this is your business and calling but bat many of our bishops are sleepy and good for nothing and if I 1 wera going to cleanse the church knowing the tho character of individual individuate I 1 think I 1 should commence with will the bishops theirs thel rais nals is one of the most roost laborious and responsible offices in the whole church it la is an office which requires men of the best skill judgment imd tind talent to fill and is 13 one oue on of the greatest importance por jor tance tanco bishops will you take hold and try to make men of your yourselves feives pelves after all I 1 have ald said aid now and heretofore if you were to march search your wards yon would be very apt lo 10 come to me to enquire what you should do I 1 will tell vou you you do not let there be one place in the habitations of the saints sainta in your wards about which you are uninformed br wooley has reported the circumstance of f a b bishops finding a woman who had been living upon the charity of her neighbors and who atthe at the sometime same time had val nabla property and money hid up I 1 can refer you to scores of like circumstances and what is more morata morale to some of the elders those who bre arc supposed to be among thadest the best of our elders eiders who hare bare I 1 been preaching abroad and brought their hundreds into the church who come here with a lie in their hearts and on their tongues with regard to their means and declare emphatically that they have no means to help themselves with neither money nor goods we have brought them here and they are still owing the perpetual emigrating fund for their passage and they have gold if they have havo no silver and have the richest kind of clothing thi this brings to my mind the circumstance of a family in nauvoo who were in tile the habit of traveling from house houie to house begging their living and said that they were poor alid aud destitute when the time came for ua us to leave that city and that family was starting to st louis the woman loosed loomed her dress and showed one of the thy sisters her stays and said 1 I have my money sewed up in these stays and the church wont get it 21 this woman begged ifer living and stayed in nauvoo utmost two years and would rather be damned than to part with the sovereigns sewed sawed up tip in her stays such p eople people will be damned and the sooner they leave us the lb botter hotter etter were I 1 a bishop I 1 would know to a reasonable degree of or accuracy curacy nc the value of the clothing owned by those in my ward who were calling upon me for assistance and I 1 would be familiar with every noak and habitation and watch carefully that money was not secreted and the owners begging from those poorer than themselves I 1 would know whether the they y had bouey hoarded or hid away I 1 A core score of years ago the elders had to be very watchful and I 1 do not suppose that for many years I 1 slept so soundly but what the slightest tap would wake me up if any person should bay eay Brig brigham barril barral I 1 am ready reedy at once to ask what ia is wanted want edl edi I 1 am ready couii to jump ump at a moments warning no person could stir about without our knowing it the bishops should ba equally wide awake and set those whom they have confidence in those wham they know to be honest to be watch men on the tower and let them find out who are suf sur dering fering doubtless there are many are suffering through kii gli want of food but there ig i no necessity of any fam ilys antT butt suffering ering in this city and when this city is supplied tle the remainder of the territory may be considered pendent independent ind I 1 presume that we have one fourth less provisions in this city to the number of the inhabitants than has any other portion on of the Territory and slid yet we need not suffer bummer here hera we need not be ashamed to beg when stern stem necessity has closed around us I 1 do not expect to see the day when I 1 am perfectly independent until I 1 am crowned in tiie the celestial kingdom of my father and made as independent as my father in heaven I 1 have not yet received my inheritance as my own and I 1 expect to be dependent until I 1 do for all that I 1 have is lent to me if it a man comes to me and says lie he is out of food what of that ha IN is out of food that is all ifa if a man comes alon aion along gand zand and say saye my family is destitute of food arid and clothing whet of that simply that they aro arc destitute of food and 4 clothing Ao thing il and still they may be gentlemen and ladies for all that and ba be honoring their tabernacles and abid being on the earth the customs of the world have made it degrading to ask for food but it is not when a person cannot honestly procure it in any other way the mail man who is a hungry and destitute has as good a right to my food aa as any other person and I 1 should feel as happy in associating with him if it he had a goo good d heart as with those who have an abundance or with wilh the princes of odthe the earth they all are esteemed by me not according to the wealth and position they hold but according to the character they have bishops will you try to magnify your calling 7 I 1 will give you a few words of consolation at our next conference wa we expect to drop a good many bishops and appoint others and we intend to keep doing so 80 until we get men with good hearts and active brains to fill that responsible station I 1 will now speak upon another subject one which I 1 have touched upon many times but which to this day is but bat little understood I 1 allude to the organization of the spirit and the body the distinction between the two and their operations this subject ia Is not well understood and generally not much reflected upon but is one which the saints have got to learn if they ever learn the real organization of man then they will wiil know and understand the peculiarities of our present organization and how liable mankind are to submit to its weaknesses and ard to the influences of the powers that rule over them 11 were ere era you in possession of this knowledge you would be more compassionate As severely as I 1 sometimes talk to you my soul is full of compassion it has ever been my stady study to understand myself for by so doing I 1 can understand my neighbors if this people would a apply ply their minds to wisdom with regard to themselves they would be more compassionate than they are now from what hat is at times said here it might be inferred that every one who did not walk to the line was at once to be destroyed but who has been hurt who is about to be killed who is about to be taken out of the way when this people have lived long enough upon the earth to have bave lave the princ prine principles lles lies iTes of life and salvation disseminated among them and to have their children taught in those principles so that they fully know lle ile file lie principles of eternal salvation then let us or our children turn away from the commandments of god a ag some do now and I 1 could tell you what will be done with them br woolley has said the time lime is not far distant but it will never come until the inhabitants of the earth and especially thore those who have lave been gathered together toge ther thet llave leave yia lia ve a sufficient time to be educated in the celestial law so that each person may understand for himself then if they trans gress gre against the light and knowledge they possess some will be toned stoned to death and judgment will be laid to tilo the line and righteousness to the plummet but people will never ba be taken 1 and sacrificed for their ignorance when they have had no opportunity to know and understand the truth ruth such a proceeding would be contrary to the economy of heaven but affer after we receive and understand things as they are if iffe we then disobey we may look for the tho chastening cha hand of the almighty if wa we could I 1 arn ourselves we should see thousands and thousands of weaknesses ft in the people they turn to ahe abe he right and to the left to this and that which is wrong yet if we did know and see thin things ge eg as they are we should understand that thov thop thousands sands of those thore acts are performed in ingnor ance I 1 presume there thero are people hearing mo me talk who would give the riches of the indies ladles if they had them in their POSSeSS possession ion IOD to be able to obtain the mind and willot will of god concerning themselves they would give all they possess on tile tiie earth or expect to possess were they in possession slon sion of keys by which they could know the path to walk in what shatara are arb we to do with this class of persons 7 I 1 will tell you whit wiit I 1 am to with them so far as I 1 am concerned I 1 am to give them my faith confidence prayers and full fellowship and when they get got through with this probation if they have done all the time lime accord according I 1 rig to tha best they knew god will not hold bold then them responsible for what they did not know and they will be received through the tho merits of the son into the kingdom of our father I 1 mention this to inform the people that they may understand what they should do with regard to the law of god and the transgression thereof the law is very vary strict and in this congregation there are arc men and women who with uplifted hands to heaven before tiie tho father the son and all the holy angels tinnen made solemn covenants that they never would do thus and so for example one obligation bli gation is 1 I will never have anything to do with any of the daughters of eve unless they are ire given to me of tile the lord men will call god to witness that they kever never will transgress this law and promise to live a virtuous life so far as intercourse with fema females esis oais ia concerned but what can you yon see A year will not pass away before some few of them are guilty of creeping into widows houses and in into t 0 bed bod with the wives of their brethren debauching debau ching one woman here and another there chere do we enforce upon them tile the strict penalty of the law not yet I 1 hope their heir conduct arises from their ignorance but bullet let iet me tr transgress angress my covenant and the case would be daffier lit lat I 1 want to live fire as long as I 1 can on the earth but I 1 would not like to live to violate my covenants I 1 would rather go behind the vail before do doing g so A few of the men and women who go into the house of the lord and receive their endowment endowments st and id in tile tiie most sacred manner make covenants before the almighty go and violate those covenants do I 1 have compassion on them yes I 1 do have mercy merby on them for there is something in their org ionization which they do not understand and thare there are but few in this congregation who do understand it you say that man ought to die for transgressing the law of god let me suppose a case suppose you found your br in bed with your wife and put a javelin through both of them you would be justified and they would atone for heir sins bins sins and bo be received into the kingdom of god I 1 would at once do so in such a case and under such circumstances 1 have no wife whom I 1 love so well that I 1 would not put a javelin through her heart and I 1 would do it with clean hands but you who trifle with your covenants bo be careful lest in judging you will b judged every man and woman has got to have hava clean hands bands and a pure heart to execute judgment else they had better beller let lot the matter alone again agin suppose the parties are not caught in their iniquity and it passes along unnoticed shall I 1 have compassion on them yes I 1 will have compas compassi gi f ou on them for transgressions of the nature ture p already named or for those of any other description crip tion if the lord so order it t that they are not caught in tha the act of their iniquity it ia is pretty good proof that ha be ia is willing for them to live and I 1 say let them live arid and suffer in the flesh for their sins for they will have itlo injo do there is not a man or woman who violates the covenants made with their god that will not be required to pay the debt the blood of christ will never wipe that out your own blood mutt murt atone for it and the judgments of the tha at almighty 1 ty will come sooner or later and every man and w woman 0 will have to atone for breaking their covenants to what degree will they ha have to go to hell they are in hell enough now I 1 do not wish them in a greater hell bell ft hen their consciences consciences cen con dem them all the time let compassion reign in our bosoms try to comprehend how weak we are how we are organized how the tile spirit and the flesh are continually at war I 1 told you here some time ago that the devil |