Show rem REN REMARKS AR KS by elder uder george A smith bowery sunday sundar afternoon I 1 may 31 lih ith 17 1 REPORTED BY 1 V LONG I 1 it ta appears prears on the present occasion hat hat bat we ve enjoy the tile privilege vile of partaking pat aking taking of the sacrament in commemoration of the death and suffering of om our lord and savior to witness to each other that we are willing to keep his commandments and to observe the requirements of s of the hie gospel until lie he shall come under these circumstances we assemble and call together our wandering thoughts and minds we review our conduct our feelings to our heavenly father our actions and doings in relation to his ins laws and arid also gur cur f faith aith towards our bi ethren and make a kind of settlement with wilh ourselves a balance of accounts id in our mir minds cis repenting of our sins and follies and we la lay y the tile foundation in our own minds to renew our diligence and exertions in future that herein wherein v w we e have hive f failed ailed to walk lip tip to tile the line fine line of our duty duly we may improve and that we may partake of thoe those under an express influence and ana wit with a defect pel pei feet understanding of a covenant that ine we wil wll wil rem reu remember ember him in all things until he come mareci no the savior if the world hat eyou tor remember that it hated me before it hated oil oli y oil oll one of the girst first pr principles sciples that we are blought t lo 10 0 f feel eel cel perhaps on receiving the he gospel is that t the fhe tie lie woi wol wald ia hates us you may ascend or descend into every department of its society and you find bat tuat hatred more or less manifests itself and arid his cau camesa campsa ipsa great many people who receive the truth to have salvin misgivings I 1 s and they will ask why is it that we are arc under the necessity of receiving I 1 a F lion llon lon ion that is hated of all men the tile savior said t bg disciples ye shall be hated of all men tor for iny my ii names ames sake 4 and blessed are ye when all ull men mel shall perse cine te you arid and speak all manner of evil of you vou falsely for my names sake but this is a kind of blessing that we hardly appreciate but at the present time I 1 am a witness that a no ho people co P I 1 e tipon lipon othe athe face of the earth have so mu ciuch i acason on to be thankful thanks ill lii neither have latter lay thy tay saints ailts seen any tir time ne when they have had greater reason to consider themselves blest biest under tins this promise of our savior than at the present time much aluch is said of the powei powel powerful ful fui engine of the enss press the medium by which truth or filse falsehood hood bood are so quietly circulated and for the last yer or the last six or eight months those engines haye baye been universally turned moth voth vengence uon lle ile lie the devoted heads of this titis people there is nothing that excites more interest in the of the reading pu blit bilt nothing that ci creates creales eates greater anxiety nothing hat that is so readily j it as statements oi or information a it is termed concerning the mormons cormons Mor Morn mons ions and arid gothing thing i hat is true call can be panted but to a very limited extent whereas anything that is false it matters lot hot liow bow false or exaggerated it is circulated and represented to the uttermost extreme gentleman told me in vieginia Vi ginia iginia said he there is no hohing hing that is so extravagant concern ng i ig your people but we believe it readily tile the spirit of lies has taken people it lias has got possession of hearts they love lies they like to read them they like to print them and arid they really relish them but truth is another truth says the prophet has fallen in the streets yea truth falleth fai fay leth letb he that depar teth from iniquity mabeth himself a prey 11 such is the case in in the present g generation 8 aeration ne ration there arelies arelius are lies lles flom from res responsible pon sible sources lies over fictitious names lies certified by responsible editor editors and lies certified and clothed with judicial authority ai 0 current and are the most important information that is or ims been current in the united staffs for the what does it all amount to lenwill Men will have what they like for the spirit that is in ill men loves lovei I 1 es ea they will read them and believe them at the same time there is no mlp rap nor borr bonan llan ilan upon the face of the earth but moie mole or orless less reppo teppo risible for what they read aiu and reg rec te for there therb is an innate spirit in the man who desire desires 3 to know the truth that will generally dictate to him which is truth and which is falsehood A terrible people these Mor mor mors 1 a dreadful se of fellows ail an awful state stale of society 0 tremendous bad people I 1 was conversing with a gentleman from vermont on tile the subject of odmor mor orts oris and lie he elpi essed himself tremendously at the immorality of the mormons cormons Mor mons and was particularly anxious lo 10 regulate their morals lie be was strongly in favor of having them con connected acted by the po power er of the tire federal lie he said it must be done for he considered them a disgrace to the nation I 1 told him that we regarded ilie the vermont people as a very immoral com corn nun ity said 1 I we consider their laws of a very immoral character and we believe that the people would be better but that their laws arid and institutions iii ill are of a character that tends to prevent it that their laws aie are calculated to encourage licentiousness and to cause them in open violation of the first commandment to multiply and replenish the earth why how so vermont is the most moral state in in the union I 1 replied it may be so sir but your laws provide that no man shall have but one wife and alid there is a great proportion pro p oralo n of females over that ofin of males maies ales aies and the there e is a great proportion of males maies that are too wicked and cor i bupt apt to marry and raise up families and the consequence is that a great proportion of your females are compelled to live single orid and hence many of them become prostitutes we deprecate such suc sue a corrupt order of things but as it is in your state it is your business and ad not ours therefore we shall not int with it I 1 never neven saw faw a man moie mole astonished to think that I 1 should question the moral tendency of the institutions of vermont but I 1 in our oun count country isaid we are determined that every man sha shaft shall I 1 acknowledge lede and sanction his own blood we vie shill shall not int interfere elfere with vermont or Al aryland about their immorality it is lle ile heir heli lie n own business and arid they must attend at tend to it themselves but we do not wish visit to submit to such immoral regulations in utah I 1 was talking with a member of congress who was very piou pious lle ile lie he was a minister by the by and he lie intimate I 1 that the doctrine of plurality of CT ives ives was so at variance so grossly at variance with all the civilized d that it was intolerable to all christian christiam chris tiam I 1 leid him that I 1 was surprised at that for said I 1 ah allour our christian friends expect to sit down in inthe the kingdom of got god with wilh father abra abraham ham and ans lie he practiced polygamy father abraham said he be wis was was guilty of a gge great lat many axce cx centric atric trick tricks I 1 replied axce ciric as s he e mi might ht be it is in his bosom th atall christians christ ians iaus expect to rest Str strange ange arge as it may Inay appear yet it is true that ilat these bhines are not understood wr nor appreciated but the corrupt the he licentious of the wold woid are the tire people who are aie respected while the tiie sayings of the honest arid and truthful are a re not allowed 10 lo spread pread such is the corruption of the he world they lay down in the first place the tire position that mormonism is not true if you ask why it is not true they begin to fd brin briD bring heir their reasons reason and they at aie ale e a good deal like this the tiie mormons cormons are deceived and the reason why thy tily til y are deceived dec dee elved dived is because they are deceived sir 11 the people actually take such logic as 0 this mis wis 1 f for fon of argument they take gilfor granted and ad fo for 1 re certain 3 and arid they lay it down as a matter of fact t that h a t mormonism is false and follows othey 0 they say it will all cometo comelo come lo to an end and fall to pieces in a few lays days and they have hake been saying this for the last 20 vear year they have kept crying mormonism will go down it is bound to fall to pieces still the bubble rolls ahead and does not burst up it does not fly to 0 o pieces as they have predicted I 1 consider that it is necessary that every man should mind his own business and ii suffer lugger his neigh neighbors bots to do likewise I 1 do not know how careful they may be irr int relation to us so far as our being 11 admitted irto into the union is concerned we are on just as good and fair a footing in g as oregon kansas new mexico nebraska and ard ld to be sure they have bave ces cesi against us because we are mormons cormons Mor mons 1 but they also hate bate each other and arid they cai cat calculate culbie to use each other up and then to use up the mormons cormons Mor mons 2 I 1 came up the missouri river with some free state stale men who o said if ever a fuss breaks out again we are ready for it if wa we have got the volcanic rifles rifle and we calculate to wipe the border ruffians mans ians out of existence and they showed that they had the tools mols which doup do up the business whenever I 1 conversed with any of the pro slavery men on this subject they generally told me that other party should begin again hey they were prepared lo wipe them out all at once and leave them the same position that dr kanes ship advance was wils when it came between two immense in mense immense masses of ice and arid they found fondd themselves liable to be crushed up in what the arctic men call a ani p after they use en each ch other up we will stand a little better chance tile they y need noi nol be alarmed if they see some of the mormons cormons Mor mons in the congress of the nations no they need not be surprised if they yet see s e some of our elders in tile the halls of congress men who understand national affairs equal to any ciny in the nation stan standing dim forth to save that constitution which we are now accused of opposing 1 thank the lord that I 1 am once more in in your midst and for the tile privilege of striking hands bands with my brethren and sisters but when I 1 think that the lie lle enemies of all righteousness are raging raging I 1 feel to thank the lord for the fulfillment onh oah of the words of his servants I 1 realize and know that the keys of exaltation rest in the midst of israel and when the heathen rage and arid the people imagine avain thing and the rulers take the lord 1 I counsel together against and against his anointed then their he lie that in the heavens shall laugh at their calamity the lord shall have them in derison derision amen I 1 I 1 congressional tile old congress adjourned on the ath of march after having consumed the tha he entire night ill in its iti labors among its last acts ads was the passage of a new tariff till which will reduce the revie revenue nue some fourteen millions and arid also of it a bill providing for a line of mail coaches fro from ia the tile mississippi hil Ali ippi to calif california orn a the bill graut grant i ing to gen scott the ilia arrearages arrea irrea rages of pay denied him by b secretary dvis D ins was also passed the tile of tho house corruption committee resulted in the expulsion of 0 B matten matteson aud cind the tile resignation nution nation before the action of the ilia house oe of Aless diess rs gilbert and edwards all representatives from new york mr welch of connecticut conner lacut was acquitted before the tile committee hies NIes rs simonton si monton mouton and arid triplet triplett I 1 newspaper r porters were eypel expelled led from the floor of the tiie house housel ogi suspicion of complicity uh lobby members among the other bips billa passed which received president pierces Pi ammes arees signature we note tile tiie following she the deficiency appropriation bill tile llie submarine telegraph tile the equal equalizing i a of ia the e value of spanish coin redeemed at tiie llie Min lint tin in 1 exchange for the new cent piece A bill has passed parsed assed alsed both bothI louses houses making athing an ail appropriation of per annum for or the establishment 0 of an overland line ol 01 mail coaches from the mississippi river to san sau franc francisco franeisco Is co A among mong bills passed by tiie the Is senate enate was vias one to contract for lor a telegraph teli graph line to the pacific coast tue THE NEW was maeo mao mae up oil ori on friday fridas maich and alid sent to the senate where it wis was was immediately conf confirmed irined it is compo composed seel as follows secretary of state LEWIS CASS of mich midi secy seely treasury HOWELL COBB cf ga secretary seart tury tary of 0 war JOHN jonn B FLOYD va secy seely of navy isaac isac of conn sec see secy y 1 interior I r aloyi JACOB jacon mss ass M ss att attorney aney G general gereral judge BLACK of penn postmaster mister master gen alito aalto aaros AARON V brown BROHN tenn |