Show barres 1 p V Kin iball nowery bowery june 21 1057 REPORTED BY G D wart WATT my health is not vry very good though I 1 am in most excell excellent ept spirits I 1 have a good spirit on me and my spirit is to do good I 1 have no other desire in my heart beart and when I 1 do good to my brethren and my iny sisters it is the gr greatest eatch happiness 1 I have in this life to see them appreciate it and the next thing is or ms me to appreciate every thing I 1 receive fron from i god through my brethren Is there anything in this lifer that I 1 hold more dear to me than I 1 do da this tilis gospel and this kingdom 7 if there is I 1 know it not if there ever should an object get between me and that I 1 should most hu humbly I 1 bibly desire that object might I 1 be ta taken ken from me I 1 auf ani am a weak mani man and I 1 am ili in a fallen failen world in a world of devils and evil and corrupt spi spirits riis will they seek to afflict me in my rny body they seek to afflict br brigham in his bis body and it is is just about as much us he can zan do to live and d diell here and if it was not for the spirit of gody god that inspires him he would not want to live here lie he would want to leave and so 1 I I 1 just ajust know that there are more devils ls iu in this valley and in ili the world who aro are opposed to him and his two counselors than there are opposed t to all the elders of israel but they do not know it and aud nd then their opposition is made manifest against those who stand net next to 0 o if us in buti auti authority lorit 1 ata add aid so on down but cut we shall live anji avd prosper and ana this people every man yoman woman ud udd cili clil child 1 id that will dolow br brigham and andina his hia by brethren ethren will go into tile the celestial world also as you have heard me say eay every elery one of or br posterity and maino and every inan man woman and nid accountable account able abla child that avill will live their reil rell religion i on obey counsel honor the flie and ona ana ada our god shall live A great many ask ily liy hy fly do you put those I 1 effs irato this promise because all ail promises and bles bibs sings singa are conditional they tiley are conjunctions ans aus and where there is a conjunction there is a condition di tion if I 1 understand 1 iio lio ho english language lan lau guage and I 1 believe that I 1 understand it about as well as any body I 1 can make nuke grammar faster than you can call swallow it and my grammar grammars gram maris marls as just as good daany diany as any if theirs is not better than mine I 1 feel to sas say god bless biess you 1 I have been baen pleased to hear br lamb today to day dily ha he began his ilis ills discourse course at a period long before the tile possession of the garden of ederr eden by adam and came down to thia this time ilme and when lie got down to win re lit ho birri himself self gelf was acting lie he began to bear testimony of this work and of the servants servant s of god liing in his days and the holy ghosal fell upon him and it did not until then god bless him that he maybe may be blessed and live iong long and aud increase that there may many iamb lamb s spring from him and may the same bame blessing rest upon all of you vou you who wish to increase lucrease lucre ase and those that do not hot wish to increase muy god help them to dry up quickly that they may way pucker up alid and comei come to all an end and let lot them that will increase increase and increase and multiply and fill the earth with the kaow knowledge ledge and poker power of god why be because this work is true joseph was a true prophet of god and brigham Is liis his successor aud I 1 am his brother br other othor and daniel is my brother and we will live livo and pr prosby i osper until the tile devils are all shut filut up ju in hell where they belong they will cease troubling this earth for they will all dry up lian an old herrings her will every one oue ne that gat sympathizes sympathises for them or with etli thern them now yow sympathise with the devil if vou you garit garlt to crimp up just as quick as you begin belin that the jnice juice ettl will run ou of coux youx eyes and when the ju a cs Is drawn out of a tree it will dry lip up and d die dle ie god biess bless you amen 10 I 1 REMARKS redda 1 by elder josep joseph A youn young 11 nowery bowery waxy sunday Alo aio orning ruing june tune 21 1857 1 REPORTED BY J T V LONG brethren and sisters I 1 can assure you that in anding standing qt at bafo before re so many of you I 1 dee fee I 1 very small indeed but bu t after the ahe sermons which vve vre e have be heard ard this morning moaning I 1 think that no one should refuse to do anything which they might be called upon pon to perform for if they did bid they would certainly ce t I 1 j y bear witness directly against the holy ghost I 1 have felt myself biest blest by the few remarks made by br eim elm Rim grimball ball bail what ile he has baid said he has not mixed up with foreign matter I 1 have the principles which he heglas has bas given unto us in my mind because he has not sai sal safi d anything to confuse or take them away from it well I 1 will tell you brethren and sisters to say that I 1 have always known Mormon mormonism isral to be true would be impossible for the very reason that I 1 have seen the time when 1 I di did not think much about it one bayor the other but I 1 cansay can say bay now before god and you that since I 1 have learned to lean upon the almighty ane and to seek his 8 spirit and p power 0 that I 1 have known from that day to this that this gospel is the power of god unto salvation I 1 was pleased also with theida pt br lir lamb that hat healing the sick was wasi not all that he wanted to see and feel feeks feels that the communication com munir of df an ang 0 elonce in a life time was as not all that he want wanted ed to know but that he wanted the power and spirit of Almighty ty god to rest upon him and to ablee abide in his heart continually as a well of living eivind water springing up tip into eternal this I 1 believe is the right feeling for us to have if anything transpires that we cannot account for we become convinced that there are arc axe are powars S which we know noth nothing ing about IV it does not learn leara us us the ways of god the principles 0 S life and salvation dut but out it dimply simply learns us tic thab that there is some boms thing i which hicl we know little or nothing concerning but if we have the holy abiding ablaing in us it is a continual source of revelation unto us to lead us in the path of truth and righteousness I 1 been chinkin thinking some upon another remark which was made this morning by br lamb when wilen sp speaking of f the ifie people eople raised up by jared jarod and his brother who left eft the tower of babel and came to tb this thib continent the lor lord T promised jared that BO so long as he and his people were faithful they should multiply and increase in 6 very every tood j food thing but that when en they turned fro from m t the f e lord sought lies and wickedness that then when the e cup of their ill iniquity equity m was wan ar full they should be cut off from the face of the earth I 1 have been khinki thinking f rig of this because I 1 have bave hea heard beard rd the saints in conversation say why I 1 is 9 it that the lord does pot not cut off this generation who seek to father lies lles rather than the be tru truth th why does lie he not no send judgment and sive sweep e them off from the face of the earth welt well ity liy I 1 thought brethren brethen and sisters that it tras was because the cup up oft of their beir iniquity vas wag not full and although they are wicked and love lies rather than the truth yet th they ey have not yet learned many of tv cde cue ae principles of life and salvation they h vare ave not seen the operations operation i of the ahmuty y with his people thy they are with 0 olt alt ill ift imo knowledge they lra ira ara in darkness and have never beheld the light pf af heaven beaven therefore unil til the light has been presented to them until the he truth has been offered alid they have refused it the cup of their iniquity is not ddll feinbe be cause the lord wilf vill not condemn his child children rn until he has given them every opportunity for repentance how is it that we who are the he best beet people upon the face of the earth are often scourged urged by ay the A almighty I 1 leighty are often called upon to bear tria trials a trouble troubles s and scouring urgings 2 that have nearly weigh weighed jed us to tile the earm eari earth th tile the lord has aas given us knowledge and has oon frn dowed us bith sith his hia holy spirit and yet we soon go into sin a and nd iniquity we go into tr transgression a and nei not trample under unde our feet the commandments of lle ile lie tile Ali all almighty hence we have khoii knowledge 1 ledge and the lord judges us according to that knowledge which he has given unto ps tie and the n nations a of the thee earth shall bhail have learned what wha we know then the lord will vill judge them as he does us but until hey have beard and rejected the lord will not cut them off from the earth but he will give them every opportunity of salvation sometimes a few of us get into a dreadful state of mind for having the wicked dead lead immediately in inedia tely but I 1 have come to the conclusion that it is bette better to hold on a while it is better for us in compliance with the light and knowledge which we have received as you have heard this morning to go to our friends and relatives and tell them the good things which we know tell them that god lives and that he has set up hla hia kingdom upon the earth I 1 know that it is better for us to employ thiis 1 knowledge inori leage as the lord wants us to than to seek to cut the wicked off before the cup of or their iniquity ini quit is fuli full if we do right night the spirit of the lord cord and the power thereof is with ua and upon u on us and we are individually and as a people people a living testimony of the truth of this work and a testimony too thab that when the nations of the earth shall have learned it they will be judged thereby but if weare we are iniquitous and tee twe the lord sends his scourges urges upon u us we are not better than they are arc hence zoti then I 1 say we have no right to call cali upon n the lord to destroy and scourge those that ar are e less wicked than ourselves so far as I 1 can see it this is our course let each man and each woman wannan live the religion which they have embraced let them be guided b by y it let them be bo moved by it continually and lind I 1 iet let t it bhide shine in all their actions always and then the lord is 19 prepared to clit cut short shorb his hig work in righteous righteousness nes but just u a t so longas ny we 9 trifle with and trample under our fe feet e the e li light hit fit that we have received and choose darkness in preference to that light just so 80 long iong we have no right to complain of any onease on one ease eOse eise else the saints I 1 liv lib n th these e s e v valleys a 1 le y s 0 of f t the h e m mountains 0 u nt a i n s we rethey any w worse or s e I 1 last a s f y year e a r t than h a n th they e y N ware i e r e ten years ago not if I 1 remember aright only they had received reee repe ived twice as much three tims a as much perhaps perhaps twenty times as much 11 light lit and know knowledge edi edl e a as they had ten years ago and the lord ballf called ed upon them to live up to the increased light they had received not ten years ago but that which they had received up to the present time the lord will continue con to call upon us to reform and he will reveal unto us the way of life and salvation and that knowledge with wilh which he lie is filled and cewill be called caled upon to live by it he has called upon us to tb make ourselves ur selves perfect not in the sense that the world use the word perfection but he has called upon us to make ourselves perfectas perfect aa as we understand the he term which is to put into practice all the know knowledge lidge that we p possess oases but ut if we trample upon that light which he has given us instead of contending for and obtain ing more light he be will scourge us and bring ua us unto ito the dust I 1 do not live five a saint because I 1 am afraid of scourging but I 1 am a saint because I 1 love to be one because I 1 love the principles of truth because they bring me the most joy antl and ha happiness of anything upon the face of this earth riches splendor and all that is esteemed by this world would not give me a tithe of the real pure happiness which this gospel affords mei me consequently I 1 loye to be a saint 14 and nd this 19 is why I 1 am one not because I 1 am afraid of the devil but because I 1 iove love the lord gord I 1 will tell you another thing I 1 think they are a poor quality of saints that are so because they are afraid or 0 satan I 1 have never heard beard of sieh sich saints doing much for the building building up of this kingdom and I 1 expect from this ti time to hear of their doing levs less but I 1 do know by the spirit cf of the most high ailigh god that it if we servie serrie ser e the lord because we love him live to be se saints because we love to be saints that no thing can bind us but we can bring into sub subi i ejection everything that is opposed to this work in v aich which e are engaged I 1 never saw anything that bound me mc and you know that I 1 am little tut b ut it did mot not matter whether there was one ond or ten thousand opposed tome to me I 1 felt as a if I 1 could walk through them and I 1 could confound them not by the we power that I 1 naturally possess but by the power and spirit of god and if I 1 could do this I 1 1 know know now that the thousand that are congregated together this day can do anything which is r right i p for them to do I 1 it they will aliye in the sp spirit i rit and anti power of god continually well brethren and sisters I 1 am very glad clad that short sermons beamons are the order of the day oay dayi may we so sa live that we may be able to obtain and secure all the blessings which br kimball has pronounced upon us this dayis day is my desire eyen even so amen |