| Show REMARKS by bishop lorenzo D young bowery towery thursday morning orning Bl apati 91 9 IS 1557 57 I 1 reported nE PORTED BY J tz V long I 1 have been called upon vly deiy y unexpectedly to make a few remark by Pes president ident hyde but I 1 call can s sy say truly my feelings and sentiments are much tb same as bit biz hiowt jovn which lie he ex presed expressed when he farst first arose to address vou you at this conference Alth aith although augh he fie occupies a bashy different position m 11 lle ile lie the kingdom kinetic im flom myself rny iny self seif yet I 1 feel that we ive are hil all ril good in our places and can cani if aided hy by lle ile lie he holy spirit accomplish so something me hing forthe salvation of men I 1 must acknowledge e tunit in telling the sentiments of my irly mil mind tid rid I 1 havea to sa say y this meeting and conference caps tile tiie climax with me mp they are a little ahead of anything t ng I 1 ever over witnessed in my life and the tire sentiments hi in my my mind were while bl being eing a hearer on yesterday As the dw dei even upon mount shalon the sweeties swe etnes of lione ilone honey y and andoff of the honeycomb to the tire just so are arc the tile words word of god thi this s lay day to lae lee saints liv 1 wan asmore admore more particularly interested in hearing flom fiona those two wo soung young men bis his joseph A young and william Willi arli atri H kinball Ki robaH true rue they aie ate youn younger er both in in years and in exper ie ilce than myself but their feelings particularly benvil brN br Vil yli I 1 wap s yere vere precisely I 1 ike like my own he said that ire tre f felt e it like ilke a achild child and lins this is the way I 1 feel this morning rooming and arid I 1 feel that it is good to have an humble and a child chil childlike d dilke like ilke spirit within us its at all times time to possess a meela quiet humble willing and obedient spirit there is something good and heavenly about such auch a spirit that I 1 do admile admire admi ie eliere here is in fact a peculiar swee luea lues connected with the power of the ggs gos pel which surp asseth the understanding of man and it is be beyond yond the ability nigg alff gity lity man to ex pres pi essit sl R it can con only aly be to vs uli iii flir through ough tile tiie goodne s sot f god and anti by the tiie gift gitt at and power of the Holy ghost this has been very plainly awn iq to tome me beloved saints during our conference it has been so vividly manifested to rn my understanding that tiit I 1 can say truly that J have never witnessed anything like it before in my life I 1 have haie sat and witnessed it with willi deli dell delight glit d duding during this conference and arid I 1 only liae have to regret ae onetha mg and that th at is i that ilia the capacity of my mk mind 5 i i so fim limited lim i cited that it t was beyond belond my 03 ability to treasure up in my heart all the he good things that have been said the thecia frailty alty of human biman nature is is such that 1 J I know it is impossible for me to reduce all ail those thos things filings to practise as I 1 know I 1 should do brt but I 1 trust that you yon yon you and I 1 will wiil be able at least leatto id profit ve y much mach by the lich rich dainties been serve served dup up to us I 1 feel that it will be savory food for tor us its all ail arid and I 1 rao go in for being with the rest rat of the stints S tints tinis wherever they thep afe aie are and I 1 believe that we will have iol lol power dower lorr bior r to pursue the proper course course the he rest test of our lives yes WP we will 11 avd have mone more power and ability than thin we have had heretofore and we will have fortitude to atan id in the commy coming day of trial I 1 thought oil on tuesday while some of my brethren were receiving a 1 ill lil little t tle tie chastisement that I 1 could thank god that I 1 was worthy to be liot noticed iced among them m I 1 have many times thought choul that I 1 was born in in obscurity and could scarcely be noticed at all I 1 am the youngest in the famil family and although I 1 have arrived at the years of good manhood yet yeti I 1 feel my arenar are far ahead of me and in more 6 pa particularly that man whom d god ad has placed lac ed 1 atthe tr the head of this filis 1 I 1 feel ilta ilia thankful that ilia t I 1 am worthy to be associated with tile the saints of goj and that I 1 am aia per to administer life and salvation to the peo piel this I 1 consider an inestimable privilege and ee lessing blessing arid and I 1 truly to my god when I 1 fau lourd lou iou rd d that I 1 was worthy to be noticed willi my brethren for I 1 jeal leaie leale ze that ieli whom the lord loveth lie chast eneth I 1 will mention one thing that occurred in my younger 11 day davs I 1 I 1 vas was a kind of an an orphan boy in one sense being separated bom bom my fathers family in the tiie early part of my life lite and my master facht taught mp trip this lorenzo look af atter after ter your pica aimes and your dollars will iii take care of themselves hence shave some of hose ideas implanted pante rante d inay nature but I 1 feel hat that the reproof ina ini counsel brigham amare alb aib goud and I 1 intend tp profit bethera by bi thema them thera 1 I 1 had a good blessing from hr br heywood yesterday and aud blivas a little different fro from in any ans alj aly I 1 e ever vir received before lie he said sald ild lid iid 1 I will bless you and my blessing I 1 and ami deslie desire is that you may live upon th the e earth many vears years and become so lazy that you yon will live to a good old aap and not wear yours yourself elf dlf out by bv hard labor in early life while traveling through the settlements of the southern pad paw part of tle the territory Tein tory last fall and during the winter here was ane one feeling that I 1 witnessed more than I 1 ever did before anton anion among my brohl en and that was in reli reid relation tion to masters it ws was saidea said sald bya ba servant of god at a certain time althere there are many masters misters but few father fathers 11 alid aia I 1 arn am diore more than ever satisfied of the truth ct cf this stat slat statement ement from what I 1 saw last winter and fi from om what I 1 heard and when I 1 see the willingness of th lle lid e servants of god to bring heir their minds to sub mitao ins his will lii alj in cha chastisement stiern ent lind and see sea the readi ness of tho the son ena and of the daughter to imas kiss the rod and to reverence the hand liand that gae gave gac it I 1 be I 1 hold s 1 irig that is unknown in the tile world let the tile brother arid and the father fattier rise up and chastise ohe oie one another in the sectarian i and 1 is 3 tile the son on and ond daught daughter ef that will bear il it I 1 know that i it i s not natural to gur our frail D attire nature at all events I 1 will say it is not natural t to 0 mine but let a chastisement come from our heavenly e venly venis father and I 1 can bear it i with all good feelings ee ings and so can my brethren there has been a spirit of reformation among antong the people the past winter and anti they feel read roady ready y and nv willing lin to receive receive reproof correction and band instruction st I 1 will here say as I 1 said to the people in grants vil vii ville le last winter that hat I 1 I 1 do not believe the lond lord would have given us its snow enon enough li to water vater the earth if we had not repented and I 1 iam lam am so simple as to believe that the fine weather we enjoy at tin sCon ference i ia th through the faithfulness and humility of the saints an and d I 1 rejoice in ibi this faith also in being a m member ember of the family whom the lord thinks enough of to chastise and to know that be will not lee let them go down to perdition if we had not been thought worthy of 0 chastisement but had been left to go down to destruction w we e should 0 o U ld not bave have enjoyed the tile bie ble blessings that we this day e enjoy 1 loy koy in these peaceful alleys valleys I 1 will likewise say that my faith i ia implicit in an another otlie thin thing that we ve heard beard yesterday afternoon and arid thit that eliat is t hat that this people will never be removed out of these valleys if they continue fai fal faithful I 1 I 1 believe this as firmly as I 1 do that tha tiny my body will viii rise florn fi oin the eaith in the mormie of the resurrection why should we fear or dread the work of god is is before us which is the building of temples to the honor lionor of the name of our gor god preaching ehe the goslee el to the tire nations of the earth and gathering and saving israel we are the people that tut god has chosen to go and arid gather the wheat into irto the garner for ho he has said that he would sweep wickedness from the ther face of the earth and that the people peone and nations that will not serve him shall shail be broken i in n pieces it was wa said by daniel that the KinIg kingdom dorn of god was like a stone cut out of the mountains without hai hal harfus haefili fili and I 1 would here say to those thoad whose fae faith falth is trembling and who are ful I 1 of doubt that if they cannot believe in in the falness odthe of the gospel let lal them leave arid and go into the world and see whether the kingdom will continue contin lie yie to 0 o process anti antl roll forth notwithstanding this inay may he opposed and many may way turn aside and refuse tile hp blessings that are offered that sto stone newill will roll on and whoever sail jail fall upon it shall be broken 1 but u upon p 0 n whomsoever 5 it falls shall be ground t to powder tiie the great hive of deseret is gathering gat pat liering the sweetness and andall all ail hat hit is worth collecting from among amo n the nations of the earth while I 1 was by those brethren who have been to the old count country ry prea preaching chi ng the gospel of christ the plain cimpl truth that has got the power in it I 1 thought of the tiie great work of separating the abe wheat from the tares which lias has to blac baar ba accomplished com plis pils lied by that truth ruth and arid priesthood that hat emanate from the fountain of all power and intelligence j oven even that which circumscribes all things thing and ind L knows all things I 1 thank god today to day that we have the he privilege of ben beng in the great hive and if the bee hee should swarm and occupy other hives they will all be subject to the ibe same hindom kingdom kindom I 1 ak wk th eLord to rye pye preserve serve us jn in the way of lift that we may secure eternal lives 1 m 17 n his kingdom if faithful we shall be blest in an fn all things we put oun our hands unto and be preserved 1 while famines famine pestilence and the tile sword shall shail go lle ile lie tile nations of the wicked and ard we shall live i to pai par participate in all the glories and blessings of this latter day kingdom which may inay god grant in the name hame of jesus christ I 1 ask it amen a |
