| Show RE blares by prest H C kimball bowery sunday horning anz ang f reported REPORTED BY J V LONG LONC I 1 presume the brethren and sisters are arg not tired voices no IJ J you have heard what has been said today to day by br brigham and I 1 want you to understand most definitely thatchat that what he has said expresses my present feelings and alga also the feelings that I 1 have had for or some th time i ne I 1 am awre awai awal e that my vio nio words i have n not ot g eone gone into imo every heart you have supposed that I 1 was hard bard mid hid rough in my remarks but if I 1 had listened strictly to the spirit of god I 1 should have been a great deal rougher and so would br brigham well what he has said today to day is gods truth the time has passed for us to be abused and persecuted p er as we have been we have been driven from place to place and hunted by our enemies enemies long iong enough we have been broken up five times by our enemies enemies 7 and again verily I 1 say unto you yeu it if after thine enemy has come upon thee the first time he repent and como coma unto thee praying thy forgiveness thou shall him and shall hold it no more as a testimony against thine enemy and so on bato the second and third time and as oft as thine enemy teth ot of the trespass wherewith he has trespassed against thee thou shall shail for elve give ahlm himy until seventy times seven and if lie ho trespass against thee thea and repent not the first time nevertheless thou shall forgive him and it if he trespass against thee the second time and repent not note nevertheless thou halt hait forgive him and it if he trespass against thee the third time and repent not thou forgive him but hut it if he trespass against thee tha the fourth time thou shall not forgive him but shall bring brine these testimonies before the lord and they shall not be blotted out until he repent and r reward thee four fold in all ill things wherewith he has tre trespassed s against you yon and it if he do this thou shall forgive him with all your heart and it if be he do not this I 1 the lord will avenge thee of thine enemy an hundred fold I 1 and upon his children and upon his childrens chil chii dreWs children of all them that hate hato me unto the third and fourth generation but if the children shall repent or the childrens children and turn to the lord their god with all their hearts and with all their might mind and strength th and restore four fold for all their trespasses wherewith they have trespassed or wherewith their f fathers athers have trespassed or their fathers fathers then thino indignation shall be turned away aud and vengeance shall no more come upon them the lord your god and their trespass shall never be brought any more as a tes testimony y before the lord against them amen book of doc doe and coas sec I 1 said last winter that I 1 never would sit in another enother legislative assembly under uncle sam again again except they behaved themselves and I 1 gay n it now it has been my feelings for years and years that the time would come when we IV e would not endure the tho abuses of blood thir thirsty t enemies any longer and I 1 would ten chousa thousand Z times rather go and nd live in the mountains than to live here under oppression and unjust government euch such as united states officials have sought to mete out to us the saints of the most high god 1 I do 10 not feel vain but I 1 feel to say brethren and sisters lay aside your vanity and your feel f eel ings legs to exult there will be a time when you can j and do it in righteousness and in mercy there will also be a day when you will be brou brought t ht to the test when your very hearts and add your inmost souls will vill v ill lii melt within you because of af the scenes that many of you will witness wit yes you 10 will be brou brought bt to that test when you will reel eel as if every thi thing ng rou pou you vou would dissolve then will be the time you will he be tried whether you will stand the test or fall away I 1 have not a doubt but bul there will be hundreds who will leave us and go away to our enemies I 1 wish they would go this fall fali I 1 it might relieve us from much trouble for if men turn traitors to god and his servants their blood will surely be shed or else they will be damned and that too td 0 according to their covenants br dr brigham would rather go to battle against the whole world with three hundred men filled with the holy ghost than to have the whole of 0 you except you are united with us and I 1 am sure I 1 would the day is to come when when ehen one shall chase a thousand and two put tell ten thousand to lo flight when that day comes the lord will maletie ma ketie enemies of his people flee as if there were thousands after them when there is only one and am that is the way that god will deal with our enemies the day aay of god almighty i 13 at band hand when lie he will show forth his power and when be will deliver his people from all their enemies some who have been apostates for years past are beginning to come back to us and inasmuch as they did not stand and be valiant vacant for the truth we are now going to place thim them in the front ranks and put them to the test I 1 stand in the name and in the streng strength ih of israels god by the side of my brother brigham for there is my place and your place is 13 to stand n where you belong elong let me say to all of you learn to be e true and end faithful and instead of laying out your means for fok fine bonnets and fine shoos shoes I 1 and for coffee and tea my advice to you i 3 if oil on can get five or ten dollars go and buy a good blanket a aguilor a sword and ve we want yon you ladics to provide yourselves I 1 es with weapons and with all that is necessary and be ready to defend yourselves for fot you wont always have your husbands to defend fead fend you 0 1 I 1 have often told you that you w would look k upon this da day y and say it was the best beat day you had ever seen i I 1 have received a good many letters from the several bishops in the country wards stating that they their have haave understood that we are working by night and by day giving endowments tol to tot hose those who are going out to help itei hand carts in 1 I want to tell tel lyou vou we are boim doing 1 no such thing y we tre tie working one day in in a week w tee lee I to keep the devil from getting asleep I 1 wiil will say adfor for the tha benefit of those who are aro going out on the plains and who have not liot had their endowments endow ridente if they tiley wiil will live their religion they hall shall be protected as much so as those who have had them when wo we went want up to missouri ma 20 nien nieu men meu wo had not bad had our cur endowments but we went to redeem zion according to tha tho word of the lord arid and that hat was a preparatory work and I 1 will say to you that if you will live liv your reli rell glon while you are aro gone gonei when you come back yon xon kl 0 a shall have your youn endowments and god shall bless biess ess yau you sou while v hile bile the man or the woman who ties lias received their endowments and does not magnify their calling will not bo be benefited at all by them and they mil will only tend to their condemnation I 1 rhe the rho lord bless every righteous saint from this time henceforth and forever fore foro amen |
