Show REMARKS vy my president 19 brigham young youns bowery nowery ow iny iry tuesday DI orning october isato REPORTED BY J V LONG quinea goodly number have assembled to our conference to transact business ina church capacity we shall first present and attend to the business and then to such instructions teachings exhortations ac as may come before tile the conference I 1 I 1 think there are quite a number of brethren present who have lately turned returned ic from their fields of labor we would like to have them come jo lo the glaud eland d and we will give them the privilege of occupying a portion of the time lime I 1 think br jacob hoft HolT hoffheins heins has not riot been on the stand since his return and I 1 see several others who have not we shall first present the authorities of tle lle tle church to the conference tills this morning though such has not been our general practice I 1 believe the brethren are pretty much in read inessa rid b ave all got heir their guns ready for shooting we will first attend to the business so that if it Is necessary to 0 o repair to the kenyons we can do so I 1 do not know ho how w long we shall shail I 1 hold this con ier ler ferere erwe eroe and therefore no one need to ask me there is a time lime for all things and I 1 never saw a better time than now to secure potatoes and oiher other crops and thus do our preach preaching i in the season thereof hereof and dig digging gine potatoes in t the Z e season thereof andi could almost wish that our conference would be dismissed this morning and all hands go and secure the potatoes squashes corn ac I 1 we have heretofore spent a great deal of time in conferences unmolested and we wes shall liall again have a great deal of time to spend in this capacity ty undisturbed we must hava have what is go good for us that which puts us in mind and brings to ua us principles that are free should we live in peace year after year how long would it be beform before we would be glued to the world our affections would be so fastened to the things of the world that it would be hard for us to spend a liitle time in conference it would he hard to go on missions it would be contrary cont iary lary to our feelings to attend to anything but our own individual con concerns concerius cerns cerus to make ourselves rich alt olt aIt it seems seema to be necessary for the lord to bring it this is people into circumstances to show them that t the e things of this world are mere nothingness in thein their present state are but a shadow they are today to day and ard tomorrow they are not this shows stows to us that all things pertaining to this tills world are subject to change chang ca and such changes as we cannot control we find that kings are raised up and emperors placed in in power and then they are hurled burled down we see men who are popular wealthy and lich ilch become poor history and our own experience proves all this and that riches take the wings of the morning and flyaway today we are rich tomorrow to morrow we are poor next week we may be rich and the week after poor again it is the lord that gives and the lord that takes away and it is a blessing that we have the privilege of this experience in our present con at ourselves run own experience and we will discover that ourselves cur our neighbor neighbors our friends our acquaintances and all people do not always know when they are happy in other words tv it if you could crowd an individual or a acom into heaven dahout experience it would be no enjoyment to them they must khow know the opposite hey they must know enow how to contrast is im order to prize and arid appreciate the ha coref comfort ort and happiness the joy and the bliss they are actually in possession of can you realize this how flow many there are who will exclaim if I 1 had but have known it I 1 was happy in such a situation how happy I 1 might have beenie be I 1 had only known that I 1 was happy you will see eee individuals who are aas easy j and com fordable for table that I 1 would like to change their situa eions and when they change they find that they have changed for the worse they then turn furn round and say how flow happy I 1 could have lave been if I 1 had known how to appreciate my own happiness I 1 had nothing to annoy me I 1 was in com fordable for table circumstances I 1 enjoyed good health I 1 had bad all that I 1 could ask for to make life desirable but I 1 did not know at the time that I 1 odthe of the comforts of life t Is that the he experience of any of you I 1 know chavit that it is of a great many of you then learn to be happy when you have the tha privilege for many years we have had the privilege of living lit rit in peace arid and making ourselves comfortable I 1 in these valleys of the mountains and do you recollect that but a short time ago ago it seemed as is thou though I 1 h almost every one had wa wandered his own way T the people had almost forgotten and lost sight of the principles of truth and righteousness of the religion that we have embraced and the whole plan of salvation they had almost lost sight of the re redemption emption of the nations of the earth and each one had turned to his own way can you recollect that situation of the people we have reason to be thankful that we have fori forsaken for aken arid and turned returned le to the lord in a great measure but we are still far from being as we should be e taking every individual though the great majority of the people are doling ing the best or about as well as they know how this I 1 believe with all my heart and they feel very anxious to live so that aney can enjoy more arld and more of the knowledge of god they ard are very anxious to know how to obtain more of the revelations of 3 jesus esus christ and some ard are fearful that the r nople people ople opie are not doing right and that they do not live UD tid to their privileges some of or the brethren were conversing in my office cace the cher oher day and I 1 discovered that a part of them bad had a great anxiety for us ns to know more of godliness aud and bai bad a feeling that this people must do better must more str atly refrain from evil and walk more humbly before their god 1 said to 0 o them brethren I 1 will take you for an ecamp example 18 with myself and I 1 tell you for ons ona that I 1 do d not know now how to do any better than I 1 do and if the lord wants me to do any bette he be must roust let me roe know it for I 1 cannot do any better of myself can you say the same they said they could so it is with the people the most of them are doing the best they know how there are a few who sill sin and ana a few will do wron wrong do things that they ought to be ashamed of they are scarce but there is once in a while one of that class in this tills community and we expect that there will be just so long as the wheat and the tares grow together there is once in a while one ona that we would like to be rid of would love to have leave us and this community it is astonishing that any should prefer to act wickedly and yet there here is a reason for all this we expect it at least ido I 1 do I 1 look for it I 1 do not look for anything else but that hat there will be tares in the tile field until the time of burning I 1 will just say for your con cor consolation and mine that I 1 think the field is now pretty well wed out though the roots are here and they will spring up occasionally and once in a while things are done that are di gracel gracei graceful ul some will do things that the devil would be ashamed of and would not riot think of doing but I 1 am thankful that there are but few of that class here and I 1 pray ray that the tho evils may be lessened and that the tile pe people P pl may be purified before the tiie lord it is truth it is gods truth it is eternal truth if people did but know it that it is much better tobe to be honest hones tto to live liere here uprightly 11 and forsa forsake k e and shun evil than it is to be dishonest it is the easiest path in the world to be honest to be upright before god and when people learn this they will practise it it if they could only believe tills this it does appear to me that they will forsake every evil practice pia pla olice clice every evil thought and banish hem them from their minds and try to practise virtue and truth and arid 0 to o live in that way that they will overcome every evil disposition and live so that they can control their reflections and that their reflections will tend to virtue truth and boll holiness for this is our privilege viege until we become pure in our cur hearts and ard find that the principles of righteousness dwell dive divi ll within us then as it was said by savior to his disciple disciples he will be in us a fountain of living ii water later spring springing ipg up into everlasting life i that is the principle ilie use fountain that jesus our elder brother dwells in and we can have the same privilege of overcoming bin sin in ourselves until we have havo lave no desire to do anything but right no desire only to build up his kingdom upon the earth and have tile the spirit of tiie file lord jesus to be in inus inns us a fountain of living water let us u do so and arid thereby be prepared for every emergency that shall como come upon us let ug us secure our crops I 1 feel to exhort the brethren bretl brell iren tos tot to secure their crops so as to be ready if our enemies come upon us to defend ourselves let us obey our officers not loving the world nor tile the things of the world above our duties the the lord will prepare the way and provide all things necessary for us and if we suffer a little it is good for us if we uffer suffer for food for raiment it gives us an experience that we will know how bow to appreciate the comforte com forta of life when we have them in our pur possession we will attend to the business of the conference first and dd then dismiss until afternoon after putting the motion for himself to be sustained as prophet seer and revelator the president lemarl remarked eed I 1 will say that I 1 never nevar dictated the latter part of that sentence I 1 make this remark because those words in that connection always made me feel as though I 1 am called more than I 1 am deserving of I 1 am brigham young an apostle of joseph smith and alo also al o of jess jesus christ if I 1 have been profitable to this people I 1 lam iam am glad of it the brethren call me so and if it be so I 1 am glad |