Show remarks REMARK 9 by pre pres s heber 0 kimball bowers bowery ottly f reported nE REPORTED PORTED D WATT 4 if f the brethren and sisters would like to hear bear rne Ene taik talk a little in my rough way I 1 will try 1 luy feelings are like this that I 1 may have no will but t that which is extracted from frona the will of god that my will may be the will of G god bd just as much as there ig is three drops of water the first the second and the third drop and the second and the third drops run into the first and they are combined in one now inasmuch as they are combined and have become one with the father and the son it is a pretty hard thing thin for any person on earth to extract those three drops they cannot be extracted or divided for they are one and they are one with the father and the son p we receive the flit spirit of jesus as he receives it from the father and we receive it from the thi son or down through the cli cil channel bLimel of the holy priesthood from the father then we are like one vine or one tree the father being the root and the son of god the trebor tree or vine that sprung from the father and we are the branc branches heslor or this church is the main branch sprung out of that vine then inasmuch as we abide in joseph joaeph or in brigham Brig ham bam and then brigham abides in joseph and joseph in peter and peter in jesus and then jesus in the father dont you see we are one and then we ire will extend it to the twelve in these last days they are one with the first presidency and then the seventies with the twelve and then the high priests and other officers aint we ive one that is the way we have got to be one we have bave got to come to that and when we do the spirit of god will rest upon us and the spirit of jesus JeBus and of all the prophets and apostles and holy men of god that avei ever did live or ever will then the same spirit and power pow erwill will rest upon our sisters as it did upon mary alary and elizabeth and anna and thousands of others I 1 wonder it if the brethren understand me if you do not I 1 shall have to get zet some tome more sim simple figure for a tree in its nature is like a grape vine or a cucumber rumber cu vine or a watermelon vine you pl plant ant a cucumber seed and it brin brings s forth arth a cucumber vine you in ay take des AEs this vine and there is a main vine and then there are other vines that break out of that main vine you take fake away one of these vines from the tha main true vine and it would cease to exist because it is disconnected from the vine to td which it was connected therefore it cannot bring forth fruit dont you understand this doumen and women that are farmers br brigham Brig harn hara was speaking this forenoon sh showing owin what an influence he we has over this thil people I 1 want to know if be has any over a man or woman that is not in in this vine he being the head now when joseph jooe jose p h was here be was the head of the vine in t the he flesh but since he be stepped away br brigham is head of the vine and we are connected to it t all you men and women and then all the saints throughout the world are connected to that vine to which he ia is connected and he has power and influence over them because they partake of his nature and his element and he partakes of the element that came through joseph and joseph from peter and peter from jesus and jesus from the father and then it extends through all the quorums that pertain to the house of israel I 1 was speaking the other day how you should make your connections ver very strong a and I 1 in n of breaking these fibers fiby er pertaining per tairel n to that cable youla you hould should keep ad adding ding aing strength tr n t to strength if you do that the thera ie never win il be a separation tion between us and those that hold the priesthood before us no never what an almighty influence our father and our abd will have when he has gathered all his children will they control the remaining portion of the human family they will as I 1 said that day and as br joseph has said today we hold the keys that is I 1 br yr brigham and his brethren they hold bold the keys of the livin living and the dead what of those that do not belong to this church yes just as much as those that do and they cannot get salvation upon any other principle well lvell now you need not think that is a tight jacket for I 1 will tell you it is a jacket you have all to wear yoa yon may grunt and you may take a course to kill this people and destroy the prophet good god there will a hundred come up where you kill one bless your souls if a man roan is a prophet and that prophet has a posterity his whole posterity are prophets tell about raising up kings and priests and prophets unto the most alost III ili high gh god you may kill br brigham trig grham kill him if you can but I 1 tell you you will never do it nor his brother heber until the time comes I 1 never killed anybody and I 1 have a pretty good assurance to live a good while you may kill br brigham if you can and what will be the effect of it there will be a thousand brighams Brig hams bams that will rise through him just as much as it would if you went into your heid held field an and andy you ou found an almighty big mustard stalk and ang it was wab ripe arid and you vou had no more sense but hit it a crack and break it down there will viii be a thousand and perhaps a million of mustards come from the old stalk it will be just so if you kill br brigham or steber and it was so when they killed br joseph there is a thousand now living where there was but one when he was killed prophets there is not a man wan or woman in this congregation if they live their religion and have the holy ghost upon them but what are prophet prophets every one of them I 1 feel as moses said to a certain class that had the sweeny they were superstitious and could not bear to hear any men and women but lied tied to moses of a certain person parson prophesying and said he be 1 I wish to god they were all pro cheto 1 I 1 wish to god you brethren and sisters were all prophets and prophetesses prophet esses you may be if you live your your religion you cannot help yourselves we shall be like so many drops of water all run into the tiie first drop then ihen the he first drop and all the drops become amalgamated together and fand they ar are ars like one ona drop bless your souls our little children chir dren will prophecy that come cone out of us because we are one it is living iv ing in 11 the vine of tile the last dispensation that make makee us one and we should ba be one for jesus says except ye are one ye are not mine 1 As br brigham or by smoot and others have said laid can the world do anything against this work no jesus says that they can do nothing against the truth but for ft it and it will increase it just the same as it would to destroy the tile old mustard stalk that has got ten thousand little seeds you only increase it ten thousand times I 1 can the he world obliterate mormonism 1 this church and kingdom of god gentlemen you just as we well go into the heavens leavens and under take to obliterate the worlds and lle ile lie the stars that you see on some of these beautiful nights when it is eo so clear you can see the stars bey they hey are as thick as the hairs on my head what are they they are worlds like this thih and redeemed worlds as this will be some time and we are the boys that will help heip redeem it we look a good deal like other folks I 1 speak of these things brethren by way of encouragement they may just as ds well try to tru obliterate those worlds that are redeemed an at 6 perhaps ten jimes limes larger than this world as to ua ula dermake to obliterate mormonism you call us fools but the day will be genaie gentlemen and ladies whether you belong to this church or not when you will prize br joseph jo seph smith as tile the prophet of the living livins god ani anel look upon him asa god and also upon brigham young our governor in the territory of deseret well I 1 will say there is no other man it is his successor in the priesthood that ahat ivill vill ever rule ruie rue over me as a governor voice voices al all ali over the congregation amen A man not holding the tho priesthood may come here hero in the tha capacity of a governor if it lie he pleases and will act properly in the line of his office but if ho be does not sot magnify wholesome laws wo we will teach tenell bim him bis duty sending a man here with 2500 troops they have no design in god world only to raise a rookery with this leoy people le and bring us into collision with ith the united ste tes tesi and when they come here the first dab will be to take br by brigham young and heber C kimball and others and they will slay us that is their design and if we will not no yield to bleir their meanness they will say we have against the president of the united states and then they will put us ur under martial law and massacre this people that has been the design besign of the men that have been here voice hi the stand they cant come it no they c a alt come it DrI AMMOnd and those miserable scoundrel sand some soine aliat are now in a our midst bovi bow do I 1 feel towards them pray for them ye yes I 1 pray that god almighty would send them to hell some say across lots but I 1 would like to have them take a round about road and be as long as they can be in going golu 9 there how do you suppose I 1 feel 7 I 1 lave have been driven five times bee been broken up and my goods robbed from me and I 1 Y have been afflicted almost to death I 1 am here with wives and children and as good d women as can ie be found la in the united Sta states feo teo you may search the states through 0 and you cannot find as good ones have ir eig eug others h here hero got as good I 1 do not know that I 1 w will ill iii talk about other others but I 1 will say what I 1 have a mind to about my own I 1 have got women that siere viere were brought up dicent decently ly aud aad respectably and they are virtuous virtu otis women and irid you yon apay send bend all the meri men from I 1 hell heil and they cannot come around my toy women and br by brighams Brig hams hama notwithstanding some have told in carson valley that out women are arg all prostitutes and that they could conid use any one of them they pleased as I 1 have been informed that is the story they have told about you sisters as I 1 have heard how do you like that statement still there are some liere here who sustain such characters in hi their wickedness as they did drummond and others I 1 think just as much of the persons who wiio sustain those miserable characters as I 1 do of them and arid no more and I 1 think just as much of those who sympathise with them whether they are men or women I 1 do not care one whit I 1 know the virtue of my women and tire virtue of br brighams Brig hams women and of those of our brethren who are ate connected with 11 us Is tile the world say that we have thirds in common stock there is no such thing we throw our I 1 interest together but my wives are wives that are given to me by the almighty god through tle tie tha proper roper source and it is so with every other maii mail there here is no man in to this valley that is a swint saint that meddles with my wives nor I 1 with his those hind aings bind 8 are wi not carried on here every maa man has his lis house se by hims himself elfand and his concerns but if we have lavea a mind midd to throw in oar our property into the general reservoir and hold it in common then every mail man has u steward stewardship hip I 1 w ant nt to to know what business it is to any anybody hody body I 1 have a right to 0 throw in my property in conner connection tiou tion with br by brighams Brig hams and lie he with me and then occupy A ft for ever over and let the avails thereof I 1 increase in nerease creasa our oar riches and aud if every other map mav would take the same course it would be far jetter better for us if we cannot be one in temporal filings ti lings how can webe va 38 one in spiritual things we do not believe in whole whore doms here we do not admit of any such thing as women to whore it or of melt meik men to come here to do any such thing we have none of this voice thul that is civilization 1 l yes such as they thay drive in new york at the five points there some of you have perhaps been there and in hi philadelphia and hs m every ee y other city in the unit aniu d states there is 13 the siy fly cley city of rochester about the smartest city therb thera is in n tile the united states I 1 have been there when there was but two little log cabins when there was not such a thing knova as a prostitute and now at i this day there are thousands of persons of ill III fame fume and the authorities license such things christians til ose ose poor miserable priests br by Brig brigham liam llam was specking about some ef of them are aref tile the biggest there are on oil the earth and at the same time lime preaching righteousness to the children of 0 men raen the poor devils they could not ge get t up bereano hene here and ond preach an oral discourse to save them themselves selwa from hell they are preaching their fathers sermons preaching sermons that have been written a hundred years before they were born we are esry vf ry tenacious as br by george A said pertaining 10 0 the law of god and the institutions of f heaven we know there is 13 no other way for men to bo bat saved there h Is no person on the hie earth can be sved upon any other principle than the one tha t saves me says one what is that tiie the gir fir girst first st step is to believe in the tile lord jesus christ the son of the living god anid and when wilen yo yon haven have and laid your sins aside and think you will quit sinning then be baptized in water that your sins may be washed away or blotted out that you yon m axy ay iy receive the remission of them then and aud haye have a noan roan co an that has has bas got authority to do it lay hands you that you may receive the holy ghost can you change these ordinances no they th ey are eternal they tiley always were and always will be and no man or woman upon earth can be saved without them you may get a methodist priest to td pour water oil on you or on you and baptize you vou face foremost or lay you down the other way wai way and what whai whatever ever mode you please and you will wyli ba be damned with your priest there is but one way and that is to be buried in in water buried with christ by baptizing in water that your sins sins may be blotted out by one having having authority or else it will do you no good every man that is alive can act for himself under the hands of a mail man having authority how will you manage for the dead you yo u will have to do it by proxy for instance I 1 have got a father alfather who died before mormonism dior Alor monism came I 1 go to br by brigham when we have a place for it says 1 I br brigham I 1 want to be baptized for my father he takes me and baptizes me for my father I 1 acting as proxy or for and ill in behalf of my father and it is done upon the same principle that we do it for tor or ourselves and that is recorded can 1 go and be baptized for my mother yes I 1 can be though that is not the strict order of the law lav of the kingdom but let a mail man act for a mai man and a woman for a woman that each may bear their share I 1 will let my wife go and attend to that she acting as proxy for my mother and I 1 for mcfather my father futher well noayl now have got to attend to all the ordinances faithfully that I 1 attend to for myself and then when the time comes I 1 can father and mother and act for my father and my wife act for my mother and hen then they can bs be connected in marriage marre ige igeland and then their heir father and their mother and ana so keep going on until we get 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