Show REMARKS by E elder eider ider lder john D T 11 cAllister tabernacle march 15 REPORTED BY G D WATT w I 1 esteem it a g great eat privilege to assemble with you to speak or to hear tile the things of god if I 1 know my own mind it ia 14 to serve the lord it is that for which I 1 came to this valley and for which I 1 have come como to lle ile lie the tabernacle this morning and it is what I 1 wish to do every day of the week not only in my thoughts but hut also in my actions that the people with whom I 1 reside may ruay have confidence in ia me and I 1 in them we have come out from the wicked and although we have come out from among them many man y of us still have wickedness in us IV ye e have 1 not riot yet learned to wholly rely up upon 0 n the servants of god and arid upon their teachings and counsel given us from time to time some bome say they are but men and have no more power thail tha n other men we know just as much as they this adems to he be the feeling with many or they would not take the course they do they are afraid to rel rei rely y oil on thea thel servants of god they say it will d do 0 very well for tilam them to have care over in my y spiritual welfare but I 1 think I 1 can attend to my temporal affairs without their interference I 1 do not look at it in this way I 1 realize that they have my temporal as well as my spiritual welfare in their hands arid and I 1 know they will dictate me right and likewise the saints of god although A houg hwe h we we have had the privilege of listening to the th teachings te teci cf gitig of his servants and representatives on i the tile e earth rth yet we have not lived sufficiently close to god when we come into this holy place instead of having having baving our attention centered upon tile the man of god who was dispensing his word our cur eyes were wandering about and our hearts with them and the truth did not have its due essect effect e t t upon us we have bave started to run a race let lot us run ran to the tile end of it and be faithful having our minds and affections placed upon the things of G gl od let us rally around hs servants and sustain them in all their doings arld and sayings and arid then we will ha he right gt how often iia lia have ye this people been told to take tahe 4 1 care of their heir substance and lay it up for pinching times yet they will now sell their thein g grain ra in at a price below that which the servants of god have havi said it is worth although we have heard so much teaching this thia past winter our oar feelings and aff affections egions are not setin betin all things as they should te instead of that narrow selfish spirit which is so often exhibited the langu language a g 5 of every he heart art should be ba myself my means and arid everything pero pertaining to t me are devoted d to tile the building up of th the ki kingdom adi of god and to the assistance of his servants it would thep then be easy for the servants of god to stand up and teach us the truth would pierce our hearts and take taka root within us I 1 feel to say for one 0 lord let iet at phi pil plainness inness laness be with thy servants and arid integrity with this people that they may know thy will vill and be able to do it br georgd georga is says ays he has joy and so have I 1 wo we have llave it when we do the will of the servants ol 01 tile tha lord although there may be times when our nearest friends may riot be one with us yet if we to follow tile the counsels of lle ile lie he servants of or wiil will not forsake us but will support us and arid bless us we look around us and behold others whose influence and jneane means are great and think we are pl pinched i ached up add au d feel small but if we are satisfied satisfied with what we have we shall shail have prenty and arid if we prove true truel to god and our brethren and the covenants we have made we shall have all the tile means and influence we can wisely use of all people on the earth the tha litter day saints should be satisfied with thair their religion but says one the servants ser Sar of god say things sometimes to try people to see howadr they will go and what they will do very well if we understand the mind of god we shall be nerved with power to stand every test that comes for then we will ivill be right and never wrong this is my desire and it is the desire of tha the great majority of this people they are becoming united and arid their affections and arid feelings will be one when this is so nothing can separate us and when an enemy prowls around our habitations we shall know it no power on theeart the earth li will ba be able to overcome or destroy us but bat on tile the other hand fiand let disunion exist among us we are shorn of our strength and are of but little consequence in the kingdom of god we all have much to learn arid and ve wa never should think that we have gat got too old to learn many blany of us have hardly begun to learn the small things of the tile kingdom we have not yet learned ftfe M alphabet of I 1 am anxious to learn this for I 1 believe it constitutes the fundamental principles of life and salvation when we learn the letters let us stady hofto put them together and by and bye we shall know more fully the design of or our creation and be better ablo able to honor our probation that we may be counted worthy of a higher position iu in another sphere of existence if we work dor for celestial glory we shall get ir lt and herh herb is the place to prepare for it and we receive day by day the seed saed that will bridgforth bring forth fruit unto eternal lives L 1 rejoice in mormonism as it 13 called my soul is knit to the work of the tile lord and it will truly prove a marvelous marve lous loua work and a wonder to this generation I 1 will speak of my friends my parents that if have left they have had hud the opportunity of knowing that Monnon ism is true as well admy as myself L eif no olie ona hindered them from obeying it when on m may ray y mission I 1 visited some of them L asked my mother if she was ready for baptism said to her you have been for many years ne acquainted quain ted with mormonism 1 she replied ewhen when you return from your mission I 1 shall go with you buton my raburn I 1 could not no ga go there although I 1 hada promise that L should business of greater importance import aice rendered it impossible this liis isah isab hight right rid for were my friends to conie cige osei osel iu in their harts herts this would be a hell to them I 1 would not wish any person to come here who would not come determined to labor with all ins his might to build up the kingdom of god to endure r persecution suffering aud and adversity if necessary for lile the sake of having in an inheritance in the kingdom of god I 1 told my friends that the tile relation they sustained to me was of little consequence compared with tile the ties thes that bound me to tin this s people they have lave had the tha chance and if your friends have iad lad lad the chance of embracing the truth and have not do not mourn for them or fret about them because they are not with you for uness hey they have lave in them tile the light of the tile holy ghost if the tiley y IV were here e e they would be a thorn in your side continually we have come como out from the tile wicked letus let iet ea us then tile tiie rejoice and give thanks unto our futher father for all his be blessings sings let us rejoice that we are delivered from our oppressors and that we tire are free to live our holy religion felig glon gion which ought to be dearer to us than all tit things and I 1 trust lle ile the lie time is not far distant when we shall be wholly devoted to the cause of god ana and to the progress of his kingdom hero here on the tile earth may this be e so is my prayer in the name of jesus aanen |