| Show rem REX ares ARKS by ny president brignani Br igbani young now dow nowery bowery ery err sep sap 20 1657 F 41 6 t 1 i REPORTED br BY J T Y nong LONG 1 li br heber wants to know whether he has said garong gw rong so far asi as I 1 am concerned and aad jip jio io f far r aa as ilie hie it truth uth is 13 concerned jia jle jie lia iia snot not he ile is isery careless in the ilse lise SQ of lap lar language guage butiro but bu tIdo I 1 do 1140 ulo ts much care how lie he ar or any of express theisac their id As friis fheo thir their healt gLare right lore briore tore god f when we have only the one desire to promote the kingdom of god anthe earth the people will be right br heber lieber is very full of comparisons and I 1 will lian br aebers language to the tile conduct of some of this people ha he talks just as ideas happen to come conic ino into his mind and aud some of the people act justas just as it happens at uhe ilia moment not think thinking irig lilg what they do and yet their desire is to do right and the greatest faults that most of them see in in each other arise through weakness and ignorance and not dot through anevil an evil design they ther desire to do right just as br heber desires to talk as straight as a line but he has so long been in tile tiie he habit of making his own dictionary and using his words word out of it that it would be difficult for f or him to chane rhan change I 1 e his style now row no matter what the outward appearance is if I 1 can know of a truth that the hearts heirls of the people are fully set to do the will of their father in heaven though they tiley may falter and do a great many things through the weaknesses of human nature yet they will be saved you wild wil wll hear amon amob among stich such persons observations that appear apper very inic mch out of or the he way but at the same time they will say that it does searn that when I 1 would try to do good and to do my best evil will come before me if there is an outward appearance of mistakes or evil evils we wp ought to lia lla have ibe ibo spirit of tile tiie lord to look at the deigns des deb gns agns of the actors act oriand and know krow whether bey they hey act from impure or sinister motives if their motives are pure no matter whether their outward appearance i is particularly precise their acts will be disc dise discerned i arned by the spirit of the lord and will be appreciated for what they were intended in tended if people act from pure motives though their outward movements may not cot always be so pleasant pl as our traditions world would prefer yet god will make those acts result in it the best good to the people I 1 wish the people to know that they have to cime to the position that in tiler their feelings and affections feet ons the tho kingdom of oed ged mist be all in all ail ill to lis iia if we are not in that thit poi pogi pol lon ion you will find that WP will be scourged urged and afflicted until we are with us its it must be the kingdom of god all the time it must be that or nothing the time linscome liEs iles come in which that must be the common feeling with the saints As to the worlds bein being in fellowship with us it never was arld it never 7 can be we cut off the gentiles just before we left nauvoo and they have hav a cut us oft off from tile tiie their ir I 1 zell fell fellowship the thread is is cut that has hrs hitherto connected us and now we have to act for ourselves ours elves elies and build up the he kingdom of god on the earth which we will do by the help of the lord for he has decreed that il his i s kingdom shall take the ascendancy over all other kingdoms under heaven it was jbf observed arved by br spencer that the time had come for this work to be making far more rapid strides than it is hit bit hitherto herto harto done you will find that it has not been by any act of our own that this thread lias lids been cut but we will now have bare to sustain ourselves or we will go under we have not desired il it we vve have not naturally wished for this crisis to come but inasmuch es as it ilas has come if tile the people in the strength of israels god sustain themselves they will sustained be if we are united we are independent of the powers of hell bell and of the lle ile lie world which terms are synonymous synoni mou s with me we are now free and eay easy and if we succumb to the wicked our hearts s sink within us and we sicken and die but when my feelings are aro decided that we will defend ourselves against all who come here to destroy ua us or t to 0 ap oppose the establishment of truth oil on lila the earth I 1 feel perfectly perfect ly free and light as the t tin air tir ir does br spencer feel so I 1 presume that 1 he a does and find also that every erp era ery cry saint it feels as free as s the mountain mo buntain breezes I 1 am free and end easy and I 1 am not co concerned about havird too much rest though when my feelings are at rest and ard I 1 have not fiot a hundred tons cei cel rei lit upon my shoulders a feeling comes over me he like ilke this ibis are you oot not becoming slothful As soon zoo a as s I 1 have a good sound reflection upon the he matter I 1 feel to thank god that he will let me rest at times and not always require me to bear a burden like carrying a hundred tons ba be faithful and audit if you are attentive to your duties dutie god will take care of the fhe he rest we talk of enjoying multiplying multiply ing and increasing in in the things of god all that we we cain can als ais to prepare to receive anything that god may see se e fit to give I 1 do not know but iut that I 1 am just as well prepared to receive revelations this morning as I 1 shall be millions of years hence I 1 do not know but that I 1 shall be prepared to do the will of god according to my capacity as well today to day or tomorrow to morrow or as I 1 shall be when ibave I 1 have spent millions 0 of f years in his presence you hear people in the sectarian world talk about preparing to die but the tho religion that we have embraced embr aged aped teachey teaches us to prepare to live if we were now boing to exchange this world for another I 1 do not know but that we are ai well prepared pr ped as we shall be in years to come I 1 have felt that I 1 never should be better prepared to receive the glory of the spirit world than I 1 am ara u now 1 ow according accordi rg to my present capacity while br heber lieber was talking about our travels in 1834 1 I remember that br joseph said the camp should be cursed we had some ome wicked men mail in the company and joseph discerned the spirits s cr its of those men and said that the camp should be cursed and that they should feel the heavy liand hand of tile the lord lordt br heber came to me and said 11 do not know that I 1 could have done any better belter even though it had bad been to save my natural life and he did do well and continued to do so and I 1 will say that hat I 1 da do not know that I 1 can do any better than I 1 am doing you and I 1 mav may be ready to fight we may be ready to plant sed seed and if called upon to cache grain ili in the mountains mountain and to do whatever the lord may require at our hands let letus us do whatever may be required if we are cal cai called ledu upon ponto to take our lour women and children in mou mountains retains rit alos ains let us do ahall jf if to buru baru let us be on hand haud to toi toj burn if to build more let us do that aud lind and whatever we are required to do let us do we called up a bishop the ither oilier n night ngo to go oil on an express and came toiny to iny office I 1 said tobia br abr thoma thomas are you ready I 1 lie he replied yes though he did not know what was wanted of him yet be he was ready he ile ask asked ed when do vou you want me meal I 1 replied early to morrow morning now yesterday morning and 1 nd he lie was war there at the tile time the way that men should feel aud and act et y rile the file main object of my 11 present resent remarks has beert toh ave thel the people ientile know whether they are taught right to have them know whether they aref aret are receiving the woid word of the lord hom bom this stand to have hare thein them know whether they are I 1 led ed right As to being afflicted never fear that eliat only fear that you are not living jiving as weli well as you might and then tilen there is no danger you know how ilow boil oil hav been led and I 1 can say that you try to walk in lle lie ile the path that leads to improvement and purity and to never do a known evil when you know i that an evil is before you pass it b baand Y and ard do that which winch tends to goo gool and all will b be a right r g t if youlace you are not led right or if you are afraid that you are not going to be led right just fi nind find lid iid out a better way for that is your privilege if you agrenot are not already aire alre aay ady jed led right audia you will live so 0 as to know god better than any other mail man or find someone some one that knows god better and 0 of f whom you can learn more of god a man that knows i better how to dictate the of the church all will be right I 1 wish that every man would live so that lie could have communion with angels so zd that jesus would come to visit hini him I 1 aishi wish I 1 could see this people in such a bosil position on but bu there is yet too much sin iu in our midst our tradition traditions s cling to us so strongly strop gly that we cannot yet break that liberty but we will see the ahe day it faithful in lif which we can converse with anges there are persons in this congregation that will converse wit with angels just as fre freely elyas as we converse with each other be faithful and gadwill God will not only fight for us but he will also lead us to victory what has been said to day is true you know that hr br heber alm aim almost st always testifies to the truth of what ile he says but hut I 1 do not care whether you think that what I 1 abis trudor true or not for that does not concern me youg Youl noumay imay inay judge of the truth you hear today and of that which you w will I 1 I 1 hear in times timea to come for we shall be judges cf of ourselves as well as of our enemies and we shall also judge angels god bless you amen |
