| Show DISCOURSE ht T f lay E ider lder orson pratt tabernacle sunday after airon ailon gnoon oan jan 24 I 1 f I 1 A PORTED REPORTED BY J J V L LONG G io jt ft once inore I 1 have the opportunity of beholding the faces facts aces of the latter day saints biere in in the valie valleys Ys of tile tiie mountains I 1 I 1 I 1 be begin 4 in to be almost weary in trying to carry salvation avata ito to the wicked nations othe gentiles and because of the many years hati that I 1 have spent an on missions I 1 find myself almost a stranger in the ilia midst of the saints at home there are now nov lutt luet Very hew few that ican lean I 1 can recognize there alemany that hAve known me for upwards of 0 a quarter of I 1 have forgotten I 1 41 p have felt since J started for home this last iame that 1 I should perhaps be permitted tto tarry 14 wih ath h you long longer er than I 1 have had the privilege of dking ug af any former period of my life if anyone liy acie should ask ma me where mahome has been fortne last quarter of a cen c should answer er among the nations for that has been my lace ever eier sin gin ceth etli etil ade ede 0 year r 1830 when I 1 a letter fron from fihe the resident adent ra releasing achig me from the office at liverpool and also aiso releasing all the missionaries in that country without specifying gin fin in the letter letter ietter what time I 1 should return immediately felt a great desiro desire to 10 return this winter anday and by th this j means I 1 believe I 1 have sed vl ato to myself some six sin six or seven seven months time lart lard fenati can dwell here in the mi mist ast of the saints and aithus at this peed peculiar liar ilar period iveel that it will be great blessing lo 10 me to be with you that it if you have hive hivo sut io 0 o share toils and tribulations in in ha having amr i your enemies upon yeun your borders border I 1 may khare sharer elf eif t MA gith with you and nd that if yo you u have peen peculiar I 1 iq fes ey Qs iuis bestowed ato ad tipon your heads that I 1 also aiso gayb bifi a partaker 0 of them 11 houldy bIli brethren neu reu say lome lonie lir br orson we I 1 isyou iou tp io take a mission mission now llovet vt to china orta or t I 1 udies or to any other othea biart liart par of uis this globe klode 1 af tarry there ti twenty seven years years before j you 0 u rd return id h to your home I 1 would go yes yas I 1 would aglid M go and 1 feel that it was my duty and that I 1 1 r 1 god in obeying the bansel counsel oe of his bis rya Ets U I 1 1 T 10 lo rd sent feitli forth this me message sae s some ime ama twenty ein pin g t 1 gars bars ago aing and add min bin dwing this period the ser ant antso I 1 is the lord blaye beel ce sent out especially tg oie hie kentile jentile that their times might be to give dive them an opportunity tunit V of re ce maethe MAE 12 Ahe wui WWI th those 0 se servants 1 have ve go gone ne foht f aith 1 though in their the ir weakness and with ith very veu hey have been very faith falth faithful fili fial in fer ler ciu tiu ties they have hava fulfilled that parable that la s re recorded c or add in the boo book k of mormon where the laborers ai bore hel fei aire airo are said to have llave gone forth and labored ir might and the lord of the vineyard atti ab oyed them and it predicts that they 9 should siye wile be faithful in keeping the commandments atthe the lord of the vineyard yard in all things wemusa We must therefore draw this one conclusion ukio abbo aliat liat the testimony that lias been borne to the gen tile nations athons is sufficient so far as our weak judgment can comprehend to condemn them thern diio dil all if they never hear another sound from the voices of tile the servants of god while they exist in theale sh ghys it enough has every among th e nations of the preached adl to 1 I 1 vH vatell tell teli you what has been beef done thousands and tens of thousands of larg large congregations gregat fons ions lons have been preached to in theu the united t ed spates 1 arid acid in great britain thousands and band sand bandi sandi of the servants of god have lifted up tik tiu their air iTO ices day after day week after week mo month nth arter after month and year after year and warned the nations and the lord told us more than twenty years ago that he had sent forth his servants to i warn tile the people and it became those who had been warned to warn their neighbors the lord more than twenty years ago said to his servants your garments are clean from froni the blood of this generation genera Uon i where is there a gentile nation upon this earth if athey were to be destroyed this very day that could coing comeux up before the lord of hosts and plead plaid any excuse excuse before him bim for foi not knowing concerning the latter day message which has baa been sent kent forth foith according 0 my feefe feell up unon upon avnis this subject I 1 believe that they have been fully warned beginning with the nation hatim of fihe jibe plated states that inhabit this promised hi andev have bave bave also been thoroughly warned in G great britain tha the nations of europe haap liap been offered the ni mes I 1 age ge b but hut t they would not nb t receive 1 it it seems to a me decor according ding to my jilt judgment ament and according it to a the vast amount of res testimony I 1 mony hat has been souil souli s cu tided ded in their ears that they are ar delivered belive ed over not as individuals brut as nations n i to he baroness ness of their orvii own hearts lie lle arts to fight jens kens the th work of god the lord says in the preface of the abdo boole k of covenants search hese these commandments fa for r every jot and every little s shall shail be fulfilled J add and and add not one word avord shall shail fail fall 1 the tile in inhabitant habitan s of th the e earth were e i commanded eh j to search those commandments arid and youk you wil vill find in that preface that the lord lora told til the inhabitants of the thili earth that his his serl seri servants ints the weak wear things of vf the earth dirth hat that he was then fo forth rth had power to se seal beal al both on oil earth a and n d I 1 in a ae heaven f aylen avlen lle ile lie the g yea verily to seal ahem them up unto the tile the fiath of god shall be gotfred pot p aifred fred out t upon 6 the 6 wicked without measure 1 now the Lord moves upon the heart of pir first presidency to say to the eidels elders of israel liri abroad it is enough come home your our testimony m liy lly ily I 1 is s sufficient the wicked reject athey fight 4 against 1 ainest it therefore you mayno lv return murn to these in mountains a and valleys return from the tiie nall nati latious olus plus of europe return from the natio nations ns I 1 of f africa re rei rea turn jurn from great gleat britain from til the uni ed states and from tha iha Ci canadas nadas and come lilii home h alto to these mountains ai ns 1 t id 19 sending forth a message of this kindt hindt the thie elders what does it show why for the present the testimony of the servants of god and aud shows that the warning is is summia ift anath and aud that at both earth and heaven bear witness that th the gen tiles are left without excuse apparently all tile the devils that br kim kimbail ball bail ani and the other othel brethren saw in vision bisio I 1 i on a I 1 i their theli t I 1 lei lel j finst first fir fin 9 J mission to england seem gebin now to have entered tabernacles odthe of the people and you call can ige se ethem gnash their teeth a at t th ho 0 saints just as they were seen by br kimball for the tha devil influences fl fluen ces them and makes them instruments to fight against the people of god Read the vision of nephi eliere rethie the lord lori showed him the andl sending in y forth of this message to the nations I 1 I 1 and it came to past that diat I 1 looked and beheld til the whore of all the earth and anci she sat upon many waters and she had bad dominion over all ail al hile ilia he earth among all nations kind kindreds reds ang tongues ties lies and people 1 and it came to pass olat viat hat 1 I beheld the clig cliv church reit relt of the lamb of god and its numbers were nere few because of the ilia wickedness duess and the abomination abominations abom nations a of the tile whore who sa upon many waters nevertheless th eless I 1 beheld that the tile church thure ll 11 of the lamb who va were the saints of god were also aiso upon all the th face faa of 9 f the arth krtil and their peir dominions d orn inions upon tj the le f face of the earth airth were small because afi the tha wick edness of the great gleat whore whom I 1 saw and fand it came to pass that I 1 beheld that the great mother of abominations did gather togeal together 1 er iri in multitudes upon all the face of theeart tiie the ear b among all the nations nation of the gentiles to to fight against tile the lamb of god and it cameto pass thata hat I 1 Neli nely nephi hij beheld tile the power of the lamb 4 of r god that it descended upon upon I 1 the h saint of the church of th the eLamb lamb and upon apol 1 t the I 1 1 covenant the lord who were scattered s attard upon all the file face earth and they we were ro armed with wite righteousness s and with the power of god in great glory 1 book of mormon dior Alor nion ulon beok 0 of nepon chap in 47 50 wha t is it that is going io to increase irl iti crease righteous iness bass and the p power ower of at god u bh lle the lie sain gain saints Is that are ate scattered abroad upon the face of ahe earth it is the increase at 01 righteousness here hefe at headquarters lead and as ab branches of the great vine vin of 0 r t the id same cli cil church they ivill will feel 1 eel eal tife life of the same sl spirit irit eyen oyen belbie the intelligence cifa carn cira reach thern them by letter when you reform and turn away from your your sins when you practice righteousness here the saints of god abroad feel stirred up to do the same things and the spirit of the lord rests upon them the kameas same as it does doe upon the people here only not same extent because you live at head quarters tirs tars bat at the fountain head and you have a greater experience th therefore eer your experience righteousness and fait falt faithfulness ahful entitle you to more choice gifts than those that have not the same experience the power of god will vill rest upon the saints sain ts of these valleys first and bild then upon alfon the tha saints in in all the world just in proportion to their righteousness tile the lord is going to increase power here heie among the people 6 have we any dangerous circumstances to pass through that render it necessary that moro more power should be made manifest have we gotto got goe to bear testimony to kings and lo 10 the rulers of he the earth at the present time 7 no I 1 we are not called to do this but those who eiho are iri in the nations abroad may have this to do da I 1 f what then is needful to be done we have agot got a different work to do dothan dolhan than what behave we have had for he the last quarter of a century you the lord has said he would try and prove us in y one scale and then he be would try us in another and see if we would he be faithful in carrying out the principles of salvation when we were thus tried we and whipped out the he religious world spiritually their priests their lawyers their doctors their great men their and ard their wise men have all been whipped and backed out so much so that they have confessed that they could not stand before the powerful reasoning of tile the servants of god and the power which accompanied the great latter day message but now we have to be tried in another point we have whipped them out so far as their doctrines are concerned and they have now come up to try physical force force upon us I 1 do that tb thelora elora the eLord lord would have sent us down there to drive them if they had not first ri asb tome iome against I 1 q ast us but they eave have came w with ward with 1 ui 11 e best bes gri engines genei anaila pie mats me ants of war alir with the tha their li 6 best ept est 1 disca 1 d arinia armies taft scientific officers officer 91 jr id in ei that at prof f ess ss to li ave avd skill I 1 iii HI fhi fil all ail I 1 the a arts abili ability ty to whip out the few saints here I 1 n the mountains do tuat that god who has enabled I 1 to nig fig fight choal and ud spiritual battles to array airy argument I 1 against argument and pr principle princ incila iDle against principle in in I 1 all ajl alt the contests ests have bave been called 10 lo have haye and who has bro brought them thern off victorious do you think H he will ivill pot defend them at this time also if he us in all these things do you suppose that lie he is going to allow us to be overcome by those who iho have ave persecuted his ins servants and to let iet our oar necks be trampled down under their feets 0 if leqve I 1 have any linder understanding of ancient and cy and of the spirit that is in me the lord intends t to perform ferfort his part at 0 tile the work for the tike deliverance piece of his saints I 1 must say to the L latter litter luter after day saints sains throughout out this territory Terri territory tor y that thai the ole same saine god who has strengthened them to overcome their enemies spiritually u ally wily will be he their defence deneill e anahis and his power and strength strenge anahis and liis his arm will ha stretched clied elied out for their deliverance elive ellve when you go to meet your enemies they shobe shabe shall be prostrated before you and you shall overcome thern them and aud as YOU have overcome their priests priest by the strong force of argument gu ment so shall you literally ite raily rally and physically put your benemie enemies s to fl flight gh i and one shall chase a i thousand and nd two 16 shall put pl ut ten thousand a adio to flight and andalis andt talis lis you will do by the power po and strength of that god who au foht for fok israel in anci auci ancient eilt days have wrany ancient prophecy upon this subject yes we ie have and let us brit bridgit git up for we ve about the time that the mother of abominations was vas gas to gather together and fight against the saints ili lii in the last chapter of the book of nephi P paragraph Y 3 tile tiie prophet says and all th that at fi fight 11 ht against zion shall be destroyed and that great whore who hath perverted the ri right ht w ways ya of the lord yea that great and abominable coin ate ale a church shall tumble to the dust and I 1 areat ireat atit shall be the fall of it for behold saith the prophet Pio bio phet the ahne cometh speedily that satan shall shail have no more morg power over the bearil hearts of ahe aib ali children of men t for the day soon cometh corie fill hat h atao atad am the proud and they who wickedly do anally he as stubble and tile the dwy day kiy cometh that they must auit be burned for the time that the f ful ulness of the wrath of god shall be poured out up on all ille the eh children ildren lidren of p men man for he will fer ter that the wicked shall destroy the righteous righted ua where be he will wili preserve pre serve seive tile the righteous b by his 1 it so be that thab tha tithe the ilg ess of iiii hit wrath til t and tile the ri right poua be pie preserved served everi even linto the destruction of their th enemies by hire fire wherefore the righteous need not hot rbt feal fear for thus thu s i alth saith the prophet the they shall shail be I 1 I 1 saved I 1 even ifft I 1 t fo 0 be as by jire fire nire fire 1 I 1 nephi neobi booked udon upon these thebe things and saw the condition that the people woud would be inand there ther a farahe said you need bof no fear do you hear it latter day saints you need the lord will preserve his people eve even u if itin needs he be that he sends fire down from |
