Show REMARKS by RT prest heber C kimball nowery bowery 33 may mar 31 IfE PORTED BY geo 1 D WATT br dr biggham has expressed my ray feelings in in reea aid ald d to cur journey to salmon river riger wo 60 far as lie journea klis is spoken upon t hat at subject the trip was considerably sider ably fatiguing for our travel averaged nearly two hundl bundled ed miles a week which left but little time to rest only when our animals were batin eating 1 Yester yesterday dav and arid the he day before I 1 felt sick and I 1 tou lou br biggiam that I 1 feit felt as though I 1 was bore and afflicted f flom i om tile the crown of my head bead to tie soles of 0 my feet that e expression expression con conveys veys a an ri i lea of my f feelings celciu 3 and still I 1 h a S re c anted for I 1 am now eight ei bt pounds heavier lie lle avier than I 1 v as when I 1 avent went awat away As for the country north I 1 am sati satiated Aled with it for we to go a great way beyond where we nvere ere it would not be an easy job to ouch touch us for we go got pretty nearly to the eid end eld and there was po no way v ay to get further with wagons batby crass crossing the he rocky mountains to some of the head waters of the he missouri but with all the tile poor pool coi col country I 1 have seen during our journey much of it t is is far beyond that hat part of velmont yermont in which I 1 was raised until I 1 was eleven y years ears of age I 1 ani had I 1 always remal ped there here I 1 never should have jim e personally known but hilt what it was a beautiful fill country for people are prone probe to think bat that tile the regions legions they are arc brought up in cre ere lr tile he most trost beau ticul in the v world orld orid I 1 have llave been back there thel e twice and have nevel never found in all my traves travels through thee these thes e mountains so rough a country as where I 1 was bom born and I 1 presume it was so where br bangham and joseph smith and arid many more of the elders of the house of israel were born chev came carde from a rough hard bard countis ty after receiving tile the gospel the lord has bas so ordered orde it that we have come to where lie he has led us because at present here there was no other place we have come into the mountains to become inured to hardship privation and want and 0 to o a posterity that will become hald haid substantial men to bear off kingdom to every nation tion fion and kingdom upon te the face of the earth that is why it is so and I 1 am thankful I 1 would not change chane 11 these mountains mou stains for any portion of the earth orth I 1 ever beheld until god has accomplished complis shed hed his designs with us its here when he be has done one this and when we have overcome and ilief heg his ls commandments these mountains and t these valleys ia 1 I 1 are ours and end all the earth inthe four ees quarters Vi arters thereof and beean we can go and come at our pleasure and that tha aday is i not ot a great ways off for many generations will not pass away before that time will come I 1 do not fear the world we are here in the tile mountains arid and in the valleys and are as se secure ure here as though we were in lieven heaven because if we were there and did not keep heep the commandments we would have to suffer the tile consequences when lucifer shined sinned against god and his commandments he be was cast out with all those that sustained and upheld him in liis his rebellious course many suppose that when they get to heaven they can sit down upon floweth beds of ease case and have lave nothing to do I 1 never expect tha thai day it is just so with a great many when the tho they come ti liere here ere they sup suppose p ose that that everything th ia is is going to be prepared for r them they suppose that they will sit rit down in ease and eat cat and d ink and wear arear and that there thele will he be no person to trouble rouble them we have come corne heie bete to become inured to work to build temples and improve upon the elements that god has placed around us that we may become more skilful ou on tomorrow to morrow through the experience of today to day what I 1 do not do today today to day when the sun eun goes down I 1 lay down to sleep which is typical of death and in the morning I 1 rise and commence my ray work woric where here I 1 left it yesterday yesterdays that burse course is tv acal p cai cal of the probations we take but suppose that I 1 do not improve my time today to day I 1 waide watce wa lre up tomorrow to morrow arid and find myself in the rear and then if I 1 do not upon hat that day and again lay idy down to sleep on awaking I 1 find myself still in the rear this days work is typical pf af this probation and nd the sleep of every night is typical of death and itis iris rising g in the morning is typical of the resurrection tiey TI ey aye are days labors and it is for us to be faithful today tody to day dy tomorrow to morrow and every day da brethren this is is the course we have to take 5 it is a progressive work from one day to another and aud arom one week to another and it if we advance this year we are so far advanced in preparation to better go thiron through if the tile next year if I 1 have one thousand bushels of wheat laid up this tean wean year sear can vou not understand that I 1 at am n better qualified to lay up two thousand bushels during the next year and then in the succeeding year I 1 am batter prepared to acid add four thousand bushels to my amount on hani hand and then eight thousand and so on my aly feelings are for tor us to wake up tip as a peo people pie PIP every one of us ilg and instead of taking a course to throw away our substance let us gather together for so sui spi sule suie e as this people will do this abis they tiley will be blessed and god will hold the nations by the bit as you 5 ou hold hoid a horse if we ar are faithful lie he will do it mark my words god will hold the world by tile tiie bit and hey cannot lyes if lawe we will win do right from this time henceforth they never er can con I 1 move nove or take a step against us but hut what t they will fail in it and 1 I know knol r it it is for us to do light tight to walk humbly and arid keep the commandments of god repent where we have hare done wrong and do wrong no more I 1 there never was a time when tile flie devil will harder with this people than now hewitt he will work with men and women and try to slin stir up contention in this church and you ila iia llave ve got to guard against a ainest it with all your hearts heart As br brigham has mentioned there never was wag a time when the devil will work harder to destroy bis this his people than now and it is for every man inan and woman and child to wake up and live their religion amt arill serve their god now is the time is it a good time lime irever I 1 never saw a better time since I 1 was oil on the earth than 1 I sae 65 today tedas tc te day I 1 never saw this people so prosper ous and I 1 never saw the earth such i carpet upon unon it as it has this year III in all tile the lands I 1 ever traveled I 1 never faw raw such stich wheat and oats ami awl bailey as are now growing from here to bear nver river and ard they say it is so in the south in the east arid and in the west and at limhi the fhe he crops look promising they have sowed bowed bushels of or aliea wh ea anti and other grbin grain at salmon river everything i is flourishing but bilt how easy god can clip it even v en now he can send end the tile gnas gras hoppers and make a perfect of this years crop as easily as I 1 can throw this book lid id over why because lie he rules in the he armies of heaven and controls the affairs of this f his eat cat eaith th according to his own pleasure and tile tiie world know i it not ile he senda angels and ministering spirits to trans transact et hig his business upon the same principle that br brigham sends jil his brethren to england denmark the tile states and this ibis way and that hat he ile sits upon his big throne and says joeph joseph go and do that peter attend to that and t they ey do it this is Is a Ila lla natural biral principle here there just jost as much as here though chouch the people cannot realize it so sensibly ile he sends his eiders eders and delegate dele dete ates ales as we sent br geo A smith and br bernhisel and br john taylor taylor br dr bril brigham ham did not go but his authority tv accompanied thosa brethren also the power of god who controls him if I 1 hould tell lell one of my wives to go to box elder anti and transact business for me ine she mie has more authority in that matter than any king upon unon iii his s throne ll irone or tile the picsi aiesi dent of 0 the united states sates why because she goes in in my my authority I 1 goin br brighams Brig hams authority which is the authority of god what pow eryou have all got so far as you aie ale faithful I 1 have heard br bria brigham sa say sav hat that a bishop now has bas more influence over his ward than joseph had over the church in his day joseph could not so thoro thoroughly control the people f fr fir r the they were wild like bulls but bill when lie could not dot make them do what lie he wanted them to lie he suf sun feied bied thel 11 to do what they pleased plea piea Fed sed I 1 speak of these things by byway way of encouragement to you brethren and sisters you are a good people I 1 respect you I 1 have pride it in you yon on whan you live your religion 11 but let us wake up wo we have rate but we can wake up more and keep walz effig up tip and attend to the things oti you sou oil lime ilme ha veleen ieleen been told to attend to and one of them hem is to lay up tip stores of corn wheat oats peas beans buck wheat and every thing else that can be preserved for you yeii will see a day when you will want it and arid it will be when we shall feel the effects of famine and when the states have not any food arid and inasmuch as we are wise arid and pi adent in i his this matter we shall have power over them and they cannot help heip themselves and the dav day will come whenn the wicked shall shail not come here to impose upon our good feelings arid and for tor us to nourish them while they are infusing lle ile lie the PO poison polson Is an of their con corli eption in incur our midst I 1 have boine and borne that wickedness until I 1 will not bear it any longer how long iong have I 1 borne their abuse for sweaty nive five anve years and the law of the 14 land tand adis is that a man is of age whence is 21 and we have served four years beyond that tibe freo fren gralis gratis we are now pretty free and we will be de more free when we are thirty it will be so if we will do light it takes us all to do right like ilke the limbs and branches of one tree partaking of the tile nourishment of tile stock to which i they belong and tile the stock draws its nourishment from the roots let us find out the nature of the mhd tha we may better understand the trunk and the branches I 1 have to ahe ake take the alphabet of salvation with which to learn the first principles of the doctrine of christ a nd then as I 1 progress I 1 can read all the tile celestial law by the tile same letters we learn the he alphabet of the tiie english language anen ve we learn earil earll the spelling book tile the i leader eader the geography history i story and everything by means of the same alphabet p libbet the first principles of the doctrine of christ are tile the alphabet of the he cele tal law therefore not nol leaving the first principles of the doctrine of christ iet itt us go on unto perfection let us be diligent in keeping the commandments of 0 our god that we may be saved in his celestial kingdom amen |