Show REMARKS or dy president bri harri harif young bowery july judy BYG BY G D WATT I 1 am an heartily delighted with what has bas been baid cald here anis morning so far as I 1 have heard beara fori for I did not comein time to hear all of the remarks it it is my greatest joy to see this people engaged in their religion faithful to their calling true to their trust and fervent in spirit and when I 1 see the brethren and sisters striving to add faith to faldi and good works to good works and feeling to renew their obliga lions gions and covenants and labors day by da day ya it is satisfying to me it is joy and peace this is a marvelous marvelous work and a wonder do not riot the people think it is what a stir this eople make in the world the sound round thereof ras keople as gone forth almost it if not entirely to the uttermost parts of the earth our mei met shave been round the world and round the world again they have been to the most noted na eions and to a great many isolated tri trl tribes besand and islands I 1 do hot bot know but what he fhe sound ot of mormonism has gone forth into all the earth anait stir wherever it goes bro truman 0 angel said that it appeared as though this people and the work we are engaged in are of the greatest importance I 1 can say that this work is of the greatest importance in to you and me and the people of the earth for no person can call get salvation without it it and tb the e remark by br carrington that j the unbridled passions of people forge theirl heir f fetters is true there is no freedom any where outside of the gospel of salv salvation atlon the innabi inhabitants tants of the earth imagine that they are enjoying great freedom it is not so if they would stop and reflect they would find that they only place each other in bonda bondage e this is the case with all the nations of the earth do kere you ou see that equality among them that tha t you see here where is there a people or nation that does not oppress each other when our elders go forth and preach the gospel if it was in their power to cast from the people the y yoke oke of bondage instead of our gathering into the church froin from the british Isles for instance two or three thousand or ten thousand a year we would gain our our million a year that is a free nation in the tile common acceptation of the fhe term they are a free people they are very liberal but how bow many can embrace the work there with impunity but a few for people popie have not moral courage enough to break through their iron fetters the people are bound down and cannot embrace this work thousands and millions have heard this gospel preached who would have been glad giad to receive the blessings of it if they could have done so without endangering their own own existence on theearta the earth life is sweet and the majority of men will do anything to preserve it jesus sald said that a man would give all that he bad for his ife life and in our lay day there are a great many maily who will M do almost anything to preserve their natural lives to accomplish this they will bow down to io the whims and sayings of ae sign ingmen of the priests of the day and to the laws and customs of individuals were it not for tor this you would find that there would be millions embracing this work where there are now but hundreds for there is no freedom only in h the gospel of salvation there is not an individual upon the earth but what has within himself ability to save or to dearoy destroy himself and such is the case with nations la Is there liberty or f freedom rp edom in destruction truc tion no when you vou look at things datu naturally tu rally raily which is as far as the natural man sees a person vibo bo takei takes a course to destroy ams himself elf eif temporally would be considered very univ unwise lle ile jie and to the natural man we are taking an unwise unnatural course wherein our religion is obnoxious to the christian world did not your friends say to many of you before you left eft your homes that you were foolish that the world would despise you and hate you did they not ask you if you could not see that troubles were coming upon the saints and say that you were very unwise in going with them that you had be better iter lter stay where there was safety they can see nothing more than natural thin things the they y do not understand the ways of god they are unacquainted with sith his doings with his kingdom and with the principles of eternity so far as the natural man is concerned it appears that the latter day saints are very unwise to embrace in their faith those obnoxious principles that render them odious in the eyes of the political and christian world the popular world the latter day sae see bee further they understand more than what pertains to this world the gospel of life and salvation reveals to each individual who re that this world is only a place of temporary duration existence trials etc its pd present r s t fashion and uses are but for a few drys days Y while 1 hile hiie we were created to exist eterna eternally liv the wicked 4 1 icken can see nd no further f urther than this world is concerned we understand that when we are unclothed in this present state then we ye are prepared to be clothed upon with immortality tb that when we mit put off these bodies we put on immortality these bodies will return to dust but our hope and faith are that we will receive these bodies again azain from the elements that we will receive the we very organisation organization that we have here bere and that if we are faithful to the principles of freedom we shall then be prepared to endure eternally can the wicked be brou brought forth to endure no they will be destroyed which then are the wise wise and which are the foolish we all naturally know we can naturally understand that man cannot stay here always the inhabitants of the earth are continually coming and goin going this is not our abiding place all can an see naturally if they would but observe the facts before them that this world is butof short duration to them they appear here infants pass through childhood and ond li to middle middie age and if it they live to a goodbold good old age it is but a short time and anti then they must so go but where do oo they go boand what will become of them will this intelligence cease to 0 o be there are but very ery few if any who really believe this and the thought of being annihilated hi bi of being blotted out of ot existence is most horrid even to that class called infidels the intelligence that is in me to dease cease to exist is a horrid tho thought tight b it is past enduring this intelligence must exist it must dwell somewhere if I 1 take the light course and nd preserve it in its organization 11 awill iw il preserve to myself eternal life this is the greatest gift that ever was bestowed on mankind to know how to pr preserve serve their identity deforge forge our own fetters through our ignorance shall wp wf lay the foundation to build the bulwarks bulwa for our own destruction through oar our wicked i 1 less no the latter day saints know better 4 we will lay the foundation to dwell eternally and that too in afi the e be heaven avens with beings sup supe e bior to those with v etli whom we associate it present si situation tuition and circumstances z we have the principle within us and so 0 has every being on this ear earh earh earb b to increase and to continue to increase to enlarge and receive and treasure up tip ruth truth until we ave becci become 0 perfect it is wisdom for folk us tobe to be the friends of god and unless weare we are filled with integrity aind au d preserve ourselves idour in our integrity before our burgod God we actually lay the foundation for our des destruction roc rac the world think that we ave are going C to be t temporally emp orally destroyed that is nonsense all things are temporal and all things are spiritual with the lord there is no difference with hinly him neither is there with any person i who bo ha lips ilan eyes to see things I 1 as they exist to those who have their minds open to eternal things spiritual and temporal thin things s are all one this is only our place of temporary exist ence we cannot live here always with our bodies full of pain and subject to decay deprive us of food and we ave die deprive us its of or wa ter and after a short time we die deprive us 1 of air and we live but a few moments we wo ill nil know that this is not the state for us to live jive in ill and arid endure to eternity our eyes are looking beyond this sphere of action and anti I 1 trust that we are laying the foundation tor endure eternally if we do we ave must be the friends of god the friends of the principle principles of lifland life and salvation and we must adhere to those principles and shape our lives according to the them nii fri or else ase we lay the f foundation oun dation for our own destruction destruct ion lon talk about liberty anywhere else what liberty is there in aty anything thing that will be di dissolved and return to it native element what liberty call can any intelligence enjoy thatis calculated to be destroyed there is no liberty no freedom there of life and salva salvation tion are th the conly only P principles of freedom for every principle rin ciple that abat is appo opposed aed lo 10 god that is 0 opposed appose d to the priti princa ci pies ples of eternal life wb whether et h er it is n heaper heaner on the earth or in hell the time wil wll will enabell it will cease to exist cease to preserve manifest and arid exhibit its identity identify for it will be returned to its native element I 1 say let ns its ilva lire our religion serve our god trust in him bim and when we are called to contend against the enemy within ourselves contend against him just as we would against an open enemy contend against these passions that rise in the heart and overcome every ane one of them you will hear some of the brethren say as br ca carrington rr in g t on has just said sald that there are times when n ave ahe the blood courses like lightning upon seeing men who are opposed to us who are striving with all their powers to destroy this people can they destroy us no they cannot there are a great many in this congregation gre gation who are witnesses esses that the devil has been warring with all his imps arrayed against this work ever sirce since the organization of this church and trying to obliterate it from the earth have they gained any gio glo ground und udd no 1 they have lost ground all the time this peo ill tyl pie e with br joseph at their 11 head ead and wih wish all the powers of satan earth eart carthand hand and hell bell for him bim to contend against have built kingdom of god and spread tile the principles of the chegos abs pe pel pei I 1 to the tile uttermost parts of tile the earth in regard to the battle in heaven that br truman 0 angel referred to how much of a battle it was I 1 ll 11 have ve forgotten I 1 cannot 9 the principal circumstances it is so long since it happened but I 1 do not think it lasted very long for tor when Lii lil lucifer cifer the dpn of the mornin morning claimed the pd privilege ri v allege of having the control of this earth an and r redeeming e dermint dee mine mInt I 1 it a contention rose but I 1 do not think it took long to cast down one third of or the hosts or 0 heaven as it is written in the bible but let me that it was one third part of the spirits dlo who ojo were prepared to take tabernacles upon thi this earth and who rebelled against the other two thirds of tile the heavenly host and they were ca cast st down to this world it is written that they thoy were cast down to the earth they were cast down to this globe to this terra firma that you and I 1 ta lic ilc upon and whose atmosphere we br breathe eithe one ne third thira part of the spirits that were prepared for this earth rebelled against jesus christ and were cast down to the earth and they have hake been opposed to him from that day dav to this with both lucifer at their head he is is their great general lucifer the son of the morning he was once a brilliant and influential character in heaven and we will know more about him hereafter do you not think that those spirits knew krew 1 w when joseph smith got the plates yes just as well as well as you know khow that I 1 a am m talking to you now they were there at the timp and millions and millions of them oppose opposed joseph in get getting tip tib g the plates piat and not only the fhe they y opposed ap pp 0 81 ed him men in the flesh 1 I never I 1 heard such oaths fall from the lips of any aay man as I 1 hecard beard uttered tittered by bya a man roan who was called lafortune teller and who knew where those plates era pra were ere bid ile he went bent three firpes as in one summer to het let et aillem the same summer slimmer in which joeeph joseph clid did get them baptist baptise presbyterian by terian and arid Meth methodist odust priests and deacons de icons sent for him to tell where those plates were and to get them out wit of ot the hill where they were deposited arid and he had lot not returned to his home from the last iob trip he madeford made for them more than a weel week ar ar ten days before joseph got goi them Joseph yas what we call anig bior ant boy but this fortune teller whose name I 1 do not remember was a man of profound learn ing y he ile had put hir himself self seli in possession boil of all the lp learning arning in the states had been to france germany gee Gei manx many italy and through the world had been adu educated bated for a priest and nd tunner turner 00 out to be a devilli debili de vili I 1 do not know but that he be would have been a devil vil vii if lie he had followed the profession of a pre among what hat are termed the chrls christian denominations he ilg could preach as well as the best rf them and I 1 never heard beard a man mail swear as he be did ile he could tell that those plates were t there ere cre and that they were a treasure whose value to the people could not be toil toll for that I 1 myself heard him say those spirits driven from heaven were with him and arid with others olbers who tried to prevent josephs get til tina tte the plates but he lid did ild iid get and secrete t therm thern 4 p though h on gil gli he be hallo hasto hajto hadd knock joica down two or three men as he be wp ii going home who were waylaying way laying bim bini him to ki kill I 1 him hirn from erom that day to this a aice pArta bf fh tha hosts of heaven made mention 0 of in tb the Bible eDible with wit lithe the pursed corrupt r P t pr priests i e sis and ther them cursed V gentiles w with h them i em have been t trying tying to put down this work but what have they gained I 1 should bould suppose that they would have stopped their operations orations erat ions lons longere long ere this thi sater after uniformly meeting with such bad llad success men when I 1 commenced preaching I 1 told the people that if they would let lot us alone and not nat raise any persecution we would go peaceably along among the people and preach to them but that just as sure as they fought us lis and opposed this work we would actually revolutionize ize lie file the world a great deal quicker than if they le lg us alone I 1 ll 11 have ve stuck to that faith ever since kinc for every time that there lias has been an opposition raised against this work god has caused it to sivela sw eli eil ell re like ilke seed in the ground he has caused t the s seed leed to sprout and bring forth t lie the little liu jiu mustard trees as br kimball has said I 1 tb the e gospel is certai certainly brinzing bringing forth a mul 0 of J saints ilas has it not noi been so all the dime yes ves Vesi jt thas has A great dal doal could be said sail oil on this subject but I 1 have not tile timeto to say it now lor tor tor 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