Show DISCOURSE HI DY A SMITH dorry BOf Rr APRIL 6 REPORTED br GEO 1 WATT 1 I 1 it certainly is enough to try the nerves of the st on o iest st man rain an ani I 1 the ibe iati lati lutis laos s of a gian giant to ire lre ise ke aud and alares aldress such an immke imm n se assemblage as is is here this monin mouin mo ning especially with the reflection that thai they are expecting to listen to and be edified with what I 1 may be able to say when I 1 reflect that yesterday I 1 saw save the saints c in m u ng in from the south and some of them on f foot oot both men inen and women bringing brin gitig their children erme erne fifty miles in their oruo ormi as m miny iny any did to get i lere 1 ere ani attend this caa Can conference ference and consider that such labor is to be requited by the instruct t anand ion lon and intelligence which they will receive and torn undertake to ad iress tress an a amenably embly under t lese iese circumstances I 1 feel the necessity for the ile lle falth filth of the saints to be exercised in my behalf to anabe me to speak for the instruction and e deification cf of so vast an assemblage when I 1 was abut about twenty one years old I 1 went on a asson rn iss on in in company with elder don C sm th h the youngest brother of the prophet jos ph through the states stalls of y and tennessee when lie he rose to preach lie he wished to see a pretty prett good bided assembly and to talk at least a coupie couple couple of hours when it was my turn to speak soai bona thirty minutes perhaps wa iva aa a much time as I 1 woud wish to occupy we occasionally lad 1 ad a small assembly alea D m would say corna george A you are good at preaching a p picayune cajune sermon sermin suppose you try this time 11 it would seem today to day clay as though a picayune fe mon would not anwer lle ile lie he purpose if the he s za ze cf ef the congregation is the scale in in which the discourse should be we abed it is said in one of the paa fa blea that the kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven which a woman teak leak and li hd d in three measures of meal u gitil itil the tle whole was leavened in 1830 on the gh 6 h day of april the chuch church ct f jesus christ of litter day sains saints was organized iz d wath w th only six members joseph in one of liis lis letters in relation to alexander campbell in D 1835 1833 said that the three measures of meal in night be compared to the three witnesses who were called upon to testify of the bok boh of mer mm uon and who rho selected s sni aril arii nl ordained twelve apostles apos lles to go forth ard b ba special witnesses to ay the world whether the application was really intended t 0 be laid down as a rule I 1 will not say but it is very vely evident that when joseph laid the f fou ou of this kingdom he commenced depositing the leaven learen of trull and that that leaven lias bas to increase up to 1856 when an assemblage asem as blage biage of lle ile lie he saints who are here as depre sena tives lives ives of this people is c crowded out of such a spacious building as tile the tabernacle and cli cik liged to assemble in this large bowery also cleasel densely filled it S shows aws that the leiven leaven is opa rating and I 1 rab tab n y say gives fair sn en I 1 conclusive ground gr brotini otinI upon IV which to expect that the whole whale lump will event lally ally be leavened the condition of our oun Teni tory the nature of gilr oar soil the peculiarities of our climate appear eg as if designed designed design ex expressly by the almi aimi almighty clity for the f Ifill Ofil ment cf of this prophecy prop ecy and the up lip building r tf cf the kingdom of heaven in the last days it matters not what corner cf the earth men come from unless they possess po bess the he spirit of the ie iven cf truth they will remain but a a short time lime in these mou moui lains before they begin to consider i a the lie wrong place for the naven haven is wor war barking working king kine tiey uey cannot quite endure the climate and the es of the country oi 01 something of the L rid efly and ad off they go cht chi account of our altitude we vre are most moat advantageously situated for the he drai drar drainage nage of the filth sum S um and corruption when w hen it accumulates to 0 o a certain extent for it flows off in differt nt direct tons ons thus ihus leaving I 1 the people of the kingdom imagining ima lma maini ining as it were alone could any one have supposed oel that when tile the r cf the gospel was commenced twenty twety six years ago the thi people who woud receive that my would be knocking for a aim aam im tance into the nasonal na tonal confederacy as an i 1 Ipp tep nent state ilai hal it then been predicted prophesied or proc I 1 to the world that such would be HIP nip th case cise the very stran eress seress of the he matter matten the tile biffi r a ty of the tiie task of idea would have been beers so great SW SaP apparent absurdity that men who would lave believed it would have been beeb considered greater fools than those were deemed d em d who received the lc testimony stimon of the pro concern concerning the ministry of angels we stand here to lav dav lay a great and mighty elgh y people the ler ser servants rants of the most high god ald aid and almost every single in ile circumstance which has lias mccu red from chilt that time to this haq lias had a ten deacy det dot cy to conden condense e us together to unite us its more alad more tind and to place us u in and stations Suat si ions lons to spread f farih rth the he curtains of zon to e large her lo 10 lengthen 1 her cords and a lengthen her stakes and to make the ilie place of cie cre f fet et of the he s lints tints glorious glo gio riou rlou sich then is lle ile lie the present aspect of affairs much lias has been done and much now remains for us to do the gr at work woric has only fust fast com nen ced when we entered into this church we L igan gan our cur education and it frequently ft happens tat fat t bat two or three years and perhaps more have t be spent in unlearning what we ive had learned ams am as the human liu ilu tian tinn mind is wonderfully susceptible a id A tenacious of traditions and whatever may lave uve been our traditions it i is an extremely difficult fask f task ask for u us as human beings to dispense despen e with our t a at once they will hall hali hanz hang about abolt us we will rea n them more or less hence it often I 1 append that when ullen you baptize a sectarian preacher treaber into this church and a great many of til m liars have been PO so baptized in a little time his flah fl f iia Lh traditions will become so apparent alpar nt as to in ke triin despise himself him sef I 1 for por thi tah c ause cause score scores s of them have llave turned away and joined th mob to destroy the saints rather than be stripped of their traditions which they hal had so long hugged to their bosoms and ard considered of so much value alue A portion of the persecutions which f followed this people in their early history have been influenced to a considerable extent by the borrup alons of hse ahse who professed to be in the midst of the saints who had been baptized and lived with the saints but finally when their corrupt practices and arid traditions were about to be exposed would turn away anav and join lle ile lie the crie mies 0 ot this people and seek their destruction with greater malice seemingly than those who had bad never join joined Z us we ou ought bt to make profitable lessons for ourselves from W observations of the past I 1 know breth brethren reli rell that we ire have our traditions on a great many subjects take a man for instance who has been a lawyer or a magish magistrate ate in the states or in england one who has read blackstone kent and a iid ill a few other law books and undertake to explain to him a simple mode of administering justice one that can be plainly understood by all the people popie ani aili I 1 do not no care how much education ko n or r li Monnon Mormonism ism I 1 lie he has the very moment th he e simplicity of administering t i minia t ering justice j ustice uslice is laid heroic him it comes in it contact with his traditions an lie he will quibble about the meaning and placing of words the tile mole of spelling or iii ili till lit tail of a comma omma and con continue tintie so to do perhaps during his whole life without ever learning that thit matters brought before us ought to be dealt with according in to the nature of the case and thee fife circumstances without going back i a thousand years for precedents to govern us its take a man who has been educated a sectarian mi ro mister nister lie haq has certain grave grave ideas imprinted upon his mind he must pray in ascertain form forni and perhaps use ue a certain tone of 0 voice o ice when he ile offers up his prayer and however much he may beli bell believe belleve ve the gospel of the last days he wll vill constantly be at a loss to know whether he is governed in some things by the principle piea plea of truth or whether bether w 11 I 1 he 1 e is is pot ot following some of 0 f the whims or traditions of ilg eig his early education you may apply the same rule in farming take a man from the tha western sates pla pia place e him on some of our farming lands and tell him hill here are twenty aces ices ic es of land and it is all you ou can properly farm unless you have more hel hei help heip dhan Jhan yourself now fence and ard and cultivate II it and you can make an abundant livin living 11 ile he would be apt to say you m anist mist be mad 1 bless bles you vou I 1 need acres I 1 can ran cultivate that much at least I 1 have always done so and I 1 will not have anything to do with such a little pitch patch chave I 1 have seen many engage in farming here and have known them to work four fou or five years without haling the first acre secured by a good fence fenre and without cultivating the ground in a manner suited to the soil and climate why thy traditions interfere they have been to run over a great quantity of ground and to not half cultivate it until farms are almost entirely entirely y exham exhausted ted Incorrect traditions though long followed have to be sun entered and we have to build up tip zion the plan of zion contemplates that tile the earth the gardens and anti fields of zion be beautiful and cultivated in the he best possible manner our traditions hape hare got to yield to that plan circumstances circum will bring us ui to that point and eventually we shall shill be under the necessity necess recess ity of learning learn ing inZ and adopting the plan of beautifying and cultivating every foot of the soil cf ef zion in the best possible manner when the saints becom instructed when this people become united as they shoil I 1 be when they learn things as they should learn them they will not be subject to tile the constant and ond unpleasant annoyances to which they have llave been subject many thine thins there is no necessity of doing anything anore more than to throw a lilt e seed ill lit in the ground and plow it under that then they are tire sure of a crop wei nei they often farm without fences sow their seed without wit louf properly preparing the land and attending to it and arid then trust in god for the ba balance lance lince oher ober 0 hers thlik think it irreligious jo speak upon temporal sub subjects ai acts on the sabbath lay day that hat it is a violation violat on of r the day to talk A our business I 1 transactions on the Sab bab bah if I 1 understand the order cf of building tip up nip HIP kingdom it is a spiritual work on every occasion to elve give proper instructions necessary for the file good of the kingdom very small matters lead so sometimes neti mes to great results there are miny here as religious as this congregation looks who have not got a good fence around their farm yet they will kneel knee down in the maming miming mn ining per hap t to offer a prayer by ily the time they have gt got one knee fairly to tho floor peradventure somebody thunders away at the aboor door and cries out neighbor there are twenty head of cattle cattie in your wheat thy thy have been there all night and und aie ate there rov nov 11 the tie man of no fence is roused up and instead of praying he be is apt to think damn it and to tart start off to gt the cattle out and put them into the stray pen I 1 peril perli ps aps another neighbor has not been alite as wide awake in tile the morning morning and had prepared nn aft place in which to secure feciw his cattle he is about ic iedy bedy redy dy to say his pra prayers ers when his ears are altif ed with witti neighbor all your cattle are in tile the stray pen and damage is to pay thus see that some temporal arranga emens are arc rec sarv sary to enable men to enjoy that quiet which would be disable di rable rabie in attempting to worship our heavenly father you kiy ank think thinh that tha t these smal matters amount to but little but sometimes it happens that out of a small matter grows something exceedingly gi gleat graat pat eat for i istance while white the saints wre livin living in m far par west there were two wo sisters wishing to make chaee and neither of them posses possessing sinZ the requisite number of cows they agreed to exchange milk the wife of or thomas B R birsh who na wa then hien pr president evident of the Twelve Apostles and sister harris concluded they would exchange milk in in order to make a little larger thau than they ther could to be sure to have justice done it was ag agreed r eed that they should not save tile the trip strip pin pings gs b but u t that the milk and strip pings should all go toge together thir small matters to talk about here to be sure two exchanging milk to make cheese mrs harris it appeared was faithful to the hie agreement and carried to 0 o mrs mrs marsh the milk and strip stripping pings but mis marsh wishing to make some extra good cheese saved a pint of ings ingi fr from in each cow and sent mrs harris hams the milk without the strip pines pings finally it leaked old out that mrs marsh had saved stripping strip 18 and it became a matter to be settled ettle ettje il by the teachers they began 0 to o examine tile the matter and it was proved that mrs marsh j had bad saved the krip strip pings and consequently had I 1 wronged wron ed mrs harris out of that amount an an appeal was taken from tile the teacher to the bish p and a regular church trial was had president i den deh t marsh did not consider that the bishop had done him and liis his lady justice for they decided flat that the stripping strip pings were wron wrongfully f ully save dand that t the be woman had bad violated her covenant marsh immediately took an appeal to the high Cotin council cil cli who investigated the question with much patience an ani I 1 assure you hey they bey were a grave body marsh being extremely anxious to maintain the character of his wife as lie was the nt of the twelve apostles and aid a id a great I 1 man in israel made mode a desperate defence but tile the nigh high council finally confirmed the bishop bishops decision marsh not being sati satisfied hied fied appeal to j the first presidency of the church and joseph and his counselors had to sit upon the cae caie arid and they approved the decision of the high council this little affair aee aff lir lin you will ivill observe kicked up a considerable breeze and thomas D B marsh then declared that lie he would sustain the character of i his wife even if lie had llad to go to hell for it j the th then eth president of tile the twelve apostles the man who should have been the first to do justice and cause reparation to be made for wrong committed committed by any member ct ef lik ilk hi family toog took that position and what next ile he went lefore before before a magistrate and swore that he the mormons cormons Mor mons were hostile |