Show DISCOURSE by jay president heber 6 kimball Taber tabernacle naci baci dec bee 13 1837 by GEO 3 D WATT 7 br dr spencer has given you yon mos most t excel excelled leef doo trine if the father in heaven should co hebere come hera and speak to us he probably would not speak anything better to tb this s people than what has been said sald this morning for he would speak according to your capacities the gospel of salvation is very reny simple but everything is is constituted therein everything is comprehended in the first principles of tho the doctrine of christ we have preached a great m many ny times and used the words of paul where he tells us to leave the first principles of the doctrine of christ and go on unto perfection but it if we do that we shall slide off the foundation and would have to re return turri and do our first works works there is the father and the son who was given up that his blood might ba be shed upon calvary that our sins mip mig might tit lit be forgiven on condition that we repent and ard forsake them well you yon say 41 1 I believe what shall I 1 do to be saved repent every one of you and then go and be buried in water like unto jesus christs 1 4 jtb 1 sepulchre clr cir and you shall receive the remission remiss on of your sins sing sine what next receive the laying conof hands bands for the gift of the holy ghost these are some of the first principles of the gospel fow now now can we live our religion unless we are in possession of the holy gho ghost t all the time vye we aye cannot first there is the father then th the e son siu and then the holp holy ghost and then come faith falth re repentance tance and baptism for tile the remis remission 6 ion of sins ian Dan and laying on of hands for the gift of the holy ghost do you not see then that it is just as sary to lay aside the tha holy ghost as is to lay aside any auy ang other ather principle of the gospel g 0 no man can please the lord god only as he dictated by the holy ghost and tle tie w will not stay wih with you unless you keep in view the father and the son we partake of the sacrament sacr accent every sabbath to bear in remembrance the son of god then hall shall I 1 say leaving all these principles go on oil unto perfection fec tion tiou no they are the fundamental principles of our religion the same as the twenty six betteis of the english alphabet are pre the roots of the ilia writ ten and printed form of our language langu age ege e are those principles the celestial law la I 1 know no other and how can call vou you keep the celestial law without the hol hoi holy ghost you cannot when you partake of the t sacrament you do it in ill remembrance of jesus christ and of the father and of the holy ghost and in remembrance that you have forsaken your sins aud been baptized for the remission of them some may say liow how flow ion lon long iong will it be before the celestial lai lal law r will be put into force never until you put it into force and execute it on yourselves I 1 will use a campat comparison asoh here hera is tho iho english alphabet that you learned when in childhood so that you were perfectly acquainted with the twenty six letters but do you leave that alphabet when you go on unto wito perfection in your education no but when you have learned those letters you then learn how to join them to make syllables words and sentences and go on till you conread can read the first reader ald and ard then the second and the third etc ec and all by meang means of he tile same i letters you also learn geography and history and rise from one ons class to another and from one grade of exaltation to another to gain grill all your 1 knowledge e in english literature you must use the first principles odthe of the language all the time do I 1 exhort you xou to leave the first principles of the doctrine of christ no but I 1 want you to learn thelmore the thoroughly that you may keep them in view continually there are some who do not understand ti the alphabet of mormonism nim and never did some that t profess to be the he smartest men and women in our midst know the least about I 1 it brethren we have all got to learn one ona thin thing and that is 13 to be one with our leader and this on oneness e should extend from the least member up to the prophet and seer every man standing in his or order derand and place just as tho the branches of a tree are one with the tile stock and root we ive will say there are a thousand limbs forming in the top of aa tree and all have sprung out of one or out of oi the body of the tree frum florn the main maln stock we will say that twelve limbs shoot out and from them a thousand which are dependent on the twelve limbs for their nourishment as the twelve limbs are dependent upon the stock and roots for theirs should any of the twelve limbs be rotten in the pith or marrow all the limbs receiving their sap sop and nourishment must be affected more or less with the same disorder and they also affect afflect the root if the limbs are thrifty they give to tile the roots a healthy action to gather more abundant nourish nourishment for the hole hoie i hole bole tree sometimes you may see a gar gardener ner der cut off a whole top that is and uhe ube unhealthy althy and insert invert thrifty grafts you read in the book ol 01 mormon about the master of the vineyard taking thrifty grafts and putting pulling them into the wild oliv olive tree iree in the th nethermost part fart part of the vineyard that thai it might bring forth good fruit br joseph was wa that man moroni peter james and john anc tb the angels of god came and placed their power powei upon him himy and we grew out of the graft and i fe we continue in the graft we shall produce tin the same fruit in na nancoo uvon about a year before we started t come here do you not know the gentiles were wen cut off entirely from the tree that the new graft grafts might grow more thriftily in the tree none can car be saved unless they are grafted in as we were by repentance baptism baptis mand and the laying on of hands for the gift of the holy ghost these are th grafting principles and you are required to liv up to them faithfully going on to perfection my desire and prayer is to teach leach you in sim in city anything that cannot be understood is no worth a dime like the gumbs of a i thrifty tree tret moving in in unison with the stock so we when br brigham Brig liam llam says move this way or that I 1 am talking to the men that hold the priest hood and I 1 cannot but think that the little boys before me will have that priesthood we hold and many of them will see seethe the da when they will have power to raise the dead the will sill have power to do many things t we do no have power to do As the leaves and branches of a tree to the roots and we are depending upon them fo support orVand ani and strength so the members of thi church are ar e amenable amena blip or subject to tila the president 0 of the church and being subject should admin adain lster to him the tree cannot administer to lh branches unless they administer to the he roots according to the tho philosophy of the day mj my blood passes through the heart where it is or purified and from thence it is sent back the body by means of the veins and arteries s that every portion of it partakes odthe ot the nourish man ment t which the blood affords and is impregnated impregnate with the principles ples pies sent forth from the head an alla ails aud and stomach after the refined blood has pene grated every part it returns again to head to receive a fresh supply of nutritious prin caples ci ples pies so 0 it is with ilith the t h a sap that circulate circulates lk i t through the limbs and bran hes bbs c bes of a tree every b branch i anch auch and leaf becomes impregnated fisted with the principle that is in the root and so it ought to be e with the kingdom of god every member of it should partake of the principles of virtue and truth that are in the iea fea iealer leader d er of that kingdom and beas be as perfectly one with him why do we see dead limbs on a tree because they refuse to receive the couii nourishment diment which tile the i loot oot affords wily why do people become dead to their own interests and the interests of the kingdom of god because they refuse to obey the will of god through their leaders tile the gate of communication is is shut down between them and I 1 the source of their life and strength in the way of life and salvation can a child enjoy the spirit of df god who refuses to obey hla hia father who is a man marl mari of god no he partakes of the spirit of apo uro apostasy tacy staey which ils lis is the spirit of death I 1 will ask aask you women woman of good understanding did you ever disobey your youe husband and llva live in irs rebellion re to him but what you felt like the de devil V I 1 have heard you say you never did my aly wives acknowledge they cannot enjoy the toe enlivening spirit of god when they rebel against my ray counsel but their minds are as dark as egypt why Beca because fise I 1 design to lo rule I 1 in righteousness the spirit of disobedience is tile the spirit oe of apos aros tacy and if you do not nut look out it will upset you and you wil go overboard before you are aware of it every branch should be interested for the root from wh whence cherice erice elice they spring for they should know if the root perishes the branch must perish also I 1 hope you understand my meaning in the 1 I 1 figures I 1 have used but there are many people 1 here more ignorant than our little boys of five I 1 and six six years of age if they were not ignorant they would not take the course they do do da I 1 tallow allow my little boys to touch a thing that is not their own no if have ave chev a 4 right to touch a thing that belongs to me roe not got without my sanc tion have you a right to interfere with the things of god no not ol 01 the man an that presides pres iles ijes over you I 1 s my wife a right to meddle with anything elial belores to me not without my consent and over that thai which I 1 have committed unto her she ebe is a stewardess ess have I 1 a liht light to call her to an account for foi what I 1 have comm committed bitted to her to see whether she slit has taken good care of it I 1 have there is not nol I 1 I 1 a thing on oil this earth that is given to us of that is to be ours independently ct of him and will be until wo we prove ourselves worthy there is a comparison in the bible where il op speaks eaks of committing talents to men and ard of call ing them to account 1 I visited said the lord on one this year and another next year until I 1 visit ed the last one and I 1 reckoned with them anc called them to an account of that which I 1 ceded up to them 7 it is just so with i if I 1 cede up any power to one of my boys for instance saying here is a horse heber foi for you to use I 1 require you to take good care oi him and not abuse him why because I 1 an am i going to call him back hack supposing the horse ii not as good when I 1 gave it to him then heber i in debt to his father and lias has to pay it I 1 we receive the priesthood and power and antho thorit thornty rity y if we make a bad use of that priesthood do you not see that the he day will come when GO will reckon with us and be he will take fake it from u and give it to those who will make better use 0 it my aly advice to my brethren is to rise up upp from fron this time forth and iet let let iet you light shine ehat khat hat others oilier may see your good lood works and aad be led to god how holy men ought to be who hold the au dhority of the tha phim PriM bood and blain again how pure pun and angelic female females ought to be who are arc sent to bear the souls of or in men if you pollute those thos souls and bodies god will call you to an acc abc accorn for it and these little boys I 1 want them to honor hono their calling here are lots of them have the tile the priesthood on them yes have they al been ordained not diorec directly but their rather father are and that ordination tells oil on their seed alte after them they are legal heirs to the tile priesthood 0 god without an ordination they receive i from their fathers and when they were blessed their heir seed was blessed in their loins loin like abra liams hams anti and when that seed aeed sw is committed to ai angelic woman she is accountable whether sh degenerates that seed or not it is for ber tier to trail train up that child and nourish it and cheikh cherish it and re store it to the father as pure as it was when eh received it if you have the priesthood you are in the sam same condition that I 1 am these things are gerlous serious t me illey tiley they are essential to me and to this people after receiving the priesthood when a receives his endowment he is an heir to th priesthood an heir of god and a joint heir wit with jesus christ that is lie he lias ims comi commenced encee his heir ship the tha father waited until tire the meridian of time that hat is till the time was half haf up before lie he came cam on the earth and begat in the tile flesh the son c god that was to be our savior was every wo man qualified to raise that child no Y yo will find that mary was of tb the eroyal royal Pries thoo which bieh bich is after the order of god and he was pai par raised that child that it might b trained according to his dictation should not bs be cautious I 1 tell you sou ou we ought and not foo foe and play with the things of god as a cat woul with a mouse many of you ore are trifling with your own exist ence dice with your own salv salvation ationo not with mine mint br er brigham 6 1 I am myself br daniel and arid tile the A apostles f s tj s cannot grow nor iu increase lucrease crease only in as the limbs and branches of the thi this s and the whole tree increase if it is thrifty top then the roots partake of that and they all kil grow I 1 together og ether that is makes us take a course to cut off the dead limbs jesus said to his disc disciples lies lles ye are the salt c the earth and if the salt loses its saving t princ pe pelt beit it is then good for bothin nothing but to be c cast as t out ont reading ing it just as it is almost all ali of you iou you read it if just as s it is is not jesus meant to say if you ha have c lost the saving principles you twelve apostles and you that believe in my servants the twelve you shall be like unto the salt that has lost its ls savin saving principles it is is henceforth good for nochim nothing but bat to be cast out and trodden underfoot cof of men judas I 1 lost ost that saving principle and they took him and killed him it is is said in in the bible that thit his ins bowels gushed out but they actually kicked him until his bowels came out 11 1 I will buffer suffer my bowels to be taken out before I 1 will forfeit the he covenant I 1 bave have made with him hirr and my brethren do you ou understand me judas was was like salt that lost its saving principles good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden underfoot of laen raen men it is is justson just so with you men mer and women isyou if you do not honor your calling and cultivate the principles you have received it is is so with you youl ye e elders of israel when you forfeit your v our covenants brethren Bretl iren and sisters sitters as the lord liveth arid as a we live and exist in in these mountains let iet me metel tell teil you yoli the world is ls rne ripe and there is no saving prin caples within them with a very few exceptions and they wili will gather out and the rest of mankina are ready for destruction for they will mil hae have n nc salt to sive save save them I 1 know the day is is right al hand when men will forfeit their priesthood an anc turn azain against us and arrain against st the covenant covenants they the have made and they will be destroyed as juda was wag ye elders apostles 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