Show REMARKS by veria neria elder eidee orson orgon icyie ily liy nowry dowry sunday sundry afternoon verla cobl jeuie 14 1857 br J Y V loxa LONG nong brethren end find sister bister 1 I arise to call brur attention to a subject that litis has been presented to you tiute tinte after time tune from this stand fiti iud I 1 may raly maly perhaps refresh your minds und and present rese nt some soine things to you that you may not hate hare fully com or understood lood food I 1 1 1 1 we have been iola loid to ato eto a tip elp up our grain and to take taue care cars of it the history of tila the pan pak forms ample ampie a aple ground for advice of this kind we have no biot only orly eben seen geen but felt tho folly of pacing too tuo low on an estimate upon the tile productions of the earth when they were plentiful they have be been en yli Ili thought ought of little value we have laye lave fou foni id d ourselves comparatively at aimeb iu in consequence coh sequence and in tile tho time of thih scarcity have kufler ed in til our feelings feeling have been pitr piti pinched ched whit itil it hunger g a r and find it does baerri that the tile subject of laying g up our ofir grain has been presented under circum 1 stances atances that can call not cot fail fall to impress every heart healt with ith its 1 1 atteo I 1 ili atvill tell you yon how thinks look to me TOO they look ds though the lord had saidi raid I 1 have tried I 1 have withheld the boblit 1 1 pe ps of the earth and hild iu in this cay ray of want wan t I 1 have haye given theril adilee to td stare store up their grala and aud if ever they the could be 16 brought i i isake ake them appreciate thes these words it is now it ikno lano fa now w a li pretty til time for r ilota i alij ii it is bard to get maur many of iho iha eam forta of life la iu tha the shape of apparel we haviv ho money many of us have na no surplus of 17 the tile products of the earth to exchange and if we had our market is ie comparatively bare of many of tho the articled ankles we need T some consider that grat great trials await us but I 1 will call your attention to one it is a very great trial to be short of cloth cioth clothing liw boots shoes ac to say nothing of the silks rileous ril riD bobs bohs laces and other to answer our desires and perhaps not our real wants and but the lord may pour out an ail abundant abu harvest of gram and while we are destitute of those things ti lings our granaries may be groaning with the wei wel weight lit of iila tue grain grala that isan ja in them but bye and q by tilo tile market la Is richly supplied with goods such as we need beed it is supplied ani every material or fabric and perhaps silver and gold and a liberal price is offered for our grain and with this grain we can buy those articles of clothing that vie we need now here comes tile the trial triai but but bat keep kepp in id mind hoine hoina manufacture 5 we know these circumstances pinch we want the clothing clot ciot liing and we have ap al abundance around us and means in ili our hands to 0 etain those articles in ili exchange for our produce and wheat this will fr try us whether we will abide tile the counsel that has been ben given or whether we ie will not I 1 presume to sa say sav V that just such circumstances will phear appear 1 before this people I 1 leaie lave not tila ilia ile tle least hesitancy upon my mind iu in saying that uch such wil be the case here you yort have grain to any amount and here is your silver your gold your goods your groceries and your warps wares of every kind and every thino thing that you can desire to make yourselves comfortable now all this is in ili the midst of this thes counsel to store up your gram and to hod hold on to it it is the counterpart or tempter templer to beguile ia how ov many will wll there be who will go and exchange atre oua for the othera other say one and another I 1 must havo have a littie little of this a little or chatard a little of tho the other and thug thus little by litile goes the grain that we were commenced to diore store up until lit it has leaked away and our granaries are aru empty it is strange that we ive should do when yo really desire bread and a n d have so keenly felt iti need we had n one none at one time lime I 1 that I 1 fat int is comper actively none Sar starvation husley and appalling threw throw its ila hideous forms alid frightful shadows in lit our face und and what was tile the bounel counsel of god then was it not i 1 ot to remain raith ruith faithful ful fui over tle tie little that we had and to divide out put tiie tile limited sup gup eliat we had and to rt alieve liere the necessities of the tile poor and needy needs and did I 1 he people in ili a gordly deg degree ee comply with ii lifts N cou counsel lisel yes they did well lias has not our heavenly liea ilea venly father by mul ron rou plying our grain ia in dur our our store storo hou houses ses liko ilko tile the dows widows I meal prid and ol 01 0 1 thwarted off impending cala lie ile certainly has i 11 now v there is a prospect of a bountiful harvest we nye cannot tali tail what may kiy be but are ore nuo duo and aud and faithful like ilke the needle needie to it the pole we wes wee shall hall have an abundance to supply not nov noto only illy our pre pra sent seat wants bit hit some bome to uy lak by forthe forche for the future this f itne result of abiding in the counsel of df god and tiie the Lords lord bays says js I 1 will give thern liberally liberi llly illy for they have bave sald said that they will not n ot iet let la t it I 1 t go y 0 lu it waste for they des deign agn now to keep it tor tai the children phildren of or the kingdom and for the tune tuna of great yani tani want when strat strangers gers hali hail come to them also for bread b an enow now therefore I 1 will pour out outa a bountiful harvest to prove their integrity I 1 have hava told them thein to prove ine me and now I 1 will prove them you bring along your 3 our tides and offerings into my store store house and see I 1 if I 1 will not dot pour out a blessing see if I 1 will not open tiie the windows of heaven aud and pour out a blessing that yoh yol you will not have room to receive I 1 will prove you now low and see if you will be aa aw faithful tome towe to rrue ruie as I 1 have be n to you von if this etain be stored tord up and properly mien wien gare care of we may my go destitute of many comforte com forts forta that we vol dedire bu but lufter after iii til the e lord has lias proven va av lii ili this respect to see if we will nill resist the ilia temptations of tle the adversary to see if we vio will nil resist ilie ilia shining gold and auld und the sil ill fine apparel bp parel purel a und hd to eee see if we vill viii abide the tiie law and lock up and alid preserve oar war tair grain is it not as easy for him linn to provide us la i i thins that we really need wed for clotian clothing as etwas it was to increase inc rease our oar limited stores or to idva ilva ausnow us now a plentiful harvest Is it not sard said surely b ely tire tiie thou 0 u 11 halt hait cloth thyself with them all and in thein their i F glory shall ye a boast yourselves aldia aidla jt it bot not I 1 diat the he eings kings of the tiie earth giudi shall brink their glo gio gloryann glory and fees rees to zion what hinder them from bangi g ibe ilia treasures by which w hk hlll ll waban we can ean en on ba be clothed Wh what atwill will induce thein theli i to come here ai all with their riches ri clies ciles their thein gold and rd llie file their ir silver and fine apparel lc let she almighty shut down the gate of prosperity as ho lie will do and a general ensue they know that in ili zion A i is ia fruitful fruit lai lul and aud that tile tilo oad things of the earth are produced there let iet them know that thee thele is 19 bread and ard abdou vou you will seo sea them coming herb here to pour out their treasures irea treasures for a bit pt of bread breed but aut if yon you shall liall not have bave it stored up for fr them thiem yo ou n hii vill vili not do your duty the tile jorj can do this ile he can bring these things abot about and brethren bremm breff iren aliv ihs test teat i is right tight before u us it is not an ail im binary thing fhlug but it is actually actu illy coining to te teat t ils lis us to see whether we wb wiil will under these circumstances abide tiia tho counsel caunsel that hait haa been divell to us s there is hardly ever a c commandment given to any person or ifer iyer persons sons bons berarti whom fi a temptation ia is not nol placed to decoy thern them if ir j p possible osibin from UA an obedi obedience ence euce to that commandment our pare parents iii ili in tila ilia girden g irden of eden had hid bid had hod but little littie 1 in au tile lin s world and it see almed that lint th they ey must have a trial corresponding aith the experience x allt alii and alli knowledge they had of thil this egsa s they were the tiie instruction to father father adam was ras v s ofa of ora Uthe ili in the garden thou mayes raye st ace excepting ting one and in the he day thou eanest of that thou shail shall surely ft die tie the lord s said i ad adam adain and nye eye die dve sie ou may enjoy youre selves bult but there 9 one tree treal trell I 1 ooin coin mard mand you that ye shall abt et eit of r it IL for ia the tha daythan day that ye e doye do ye shall surely die I 1 i it bem sem seems that they isiora we re well provided 4 ind for there wad was au aa ce of 61 other kindol i ind of fruits fr rits but thuie thure was a kind of an aa itching desir desiro for that which they were forbidden to eat of and they were led ou on by temptation until they did partake of that fruit and thus the devil got power over them well if counsel has been given unto us to store storo up our grain I 1 should not wonder if there were temptations us to induce us to noncompliance non compliance high ligh prices in silver and arid gold may be offered as an inducement men afen may come and say 1 I will give you a high price for your wheat liere here are goods of every kind we will give for your grain there you pe perceive ceide is the temptation 1 and the counsel before us we biourd should like the comforts of life arid end would no doubt like to purchase them but the counsel of the servants lord would lead us to do differently such scenes as these brethren ard sisters we may see and they nay not be far ahead nf of ns us they may be very near for things thin change very suddenly gud denly deuly sometimes it is for u us to abide in the counsel couii sel of god and arid never neter turn aside nor cast a longing look upon til e riches aril and comfort comforts this lie life ile when we have leave to violate a holy precept 16 d gain them remember it bretl iren tell arld and sisters for I 1 want I 1 to 0 impress it upon vou you r s keep your grain for yourselves arld and for strangers who in times of famine abroad I 1 seek at your hands bread from heaven beaven arid and earth when the servants of or god set good counsel before you and arid these temptations ollow follow they will not command comra and perhaps when the temptation is present and thebo theao things will be trying to you 3 ou they will be BO mo to see gee if you will stand by your integrity or dull full by your ins y 1 I want to tell a little anecdote which came to my ears I 1 do not know that I 1 shall he be right but if I 1 am wrong there are those present who can correct me it essaid that there is a mail man in this city a natural miner that lias has a peculiar gift to discover metals of value though hidden in the earth at any depth ile he can point out the very place where they are ile he happened in at a gen flemens tl fl emans house in lit this town one day and arid they tiley were discussing liis his powers to discern any metal in the tha earth the lady doubting his ability took a piece of lead and slyly stepped out and buried it being careful to leave no visible marks by which any tiny other than lier iier herself self seif could find it she returned and told him that in the garden was a piece of lead buried and arid wished him to find it if ie could he ile made the tire attempt and add ater eter a little rambling pointed very spot where it was lyn but the I 1 d dy y thinking inking to bluff him off offard and discourage him made m ad perfect perfect ridicule of him and asked what had led linn lihn to think thinh it wag wai was there she pretended Preta ded to regard d him as insane arid and the poor man came camo to the conclusion that lie he m be mistaken as the tho lady appeared so sanguine in her ridicule ile he gave it up as a mistake doubting doubling his als own gift since the time that lie was bluffed off from froin the faith in the natural gift that god had t given him pres 11 C kimbal kimball A and lid iid that by a woman yes vu and since thatis has been taken away altogether before this lie he was never mistaken in such matters but since has no more powers bowers powers of discovering than any other now we have tile the gift of god and that is the gift of wise wisa counsel counselor coun belof of good counsel given unto us for the purpose let set f preservation will WM we ie by any reason by any craft by any device by any machinations by any swerving from our purpose lose that gift remember thatis that if wo we are upon the ener enemies nies ground the gift that hat is given to us may be destroyed or taken from us for ever and probably the time may ilay be that you and I 1 may not hafe have the counsel of the tire servants of god cod od from day to day if it is necessary however llo Iio wever we may inay have llave it and if it is not remember it ye latter letter day saints and every body that fears god and serves him with full purpose of heart remember the counsel that is is given E UP ALL YOUR yourt maim CHAIN and arid take care of it prize it above gold and silver above rich xich clothing and fine apparel and above every thing else except the bread of life and I 1 tell tel lyou you it A is almost as necessary to have bread to sustain the body as it is to have havo food for jor the spirit for the one is as necessary as the other to enable us to carry on the work of god U upon on the earth brethren az and sisters may god bless you and arid bless your fields and arid flocks and arid all that y you ou possess take care of your fields your flocks and abid your berds herds take lake care of and preserve every thing that god lias bas given us to take tako care of upon the earth may god bless you and bless us its all and arid give us til the gift of eternal life and may the he q angel liei alel if ir ilfe life preserve us and may we feel to lay sio shoulder ul to shoulder and prove to god and our breth bieth 1 ren ran that we are ready and determined to roll forth this great work while life or thought or being heing lasts or immortality endures amen |