Show MEM meu remarks ares ARKS by dy president Brig hain liam yonn sat sau zau at me the of the conference april 6 REPORTED BY MY geo CEO D 1 WATT if you will now give me ins your attention strictly I 1 will lay before y you ou some soma items of or business for the consideration and action of this conference Conre rence I 1 trust that we wa hava come here for tife he purpose of acceptably presenting ourselves ou selves before the lo 10 lord r d to transact busi busl business nes aes for tile tha building up of 0 ilis ilia kingdom kincy clorn in it this our day with pure pura hearty heart and ferrent fervent fervent desires to rna magnify unify llie ilia name of our god that we in my ty be useful and arid have power to establish peace and righteousness upon thee the earth irth our oar religion is first and foremost with us it is of tile the greatest importance of all in it this generation for in it is incorporated the acts and anti doings of the saints hi in the ordinances of the house of goa to promote iii iiii i kingdom upon tile earth to sustain ourselves ours elvos elvys gither israel redeem zion build up jerusalem aud prepare for tile the coining of the son of man alan tile the ikemi of or business before this conference may be ba considered texts for the elde elje elders rs who noy speak here to lo preach upon though thong ai if they wish toz tox hort the brethren to relate a portion of or their experience or tell teli a dream or a vision they have the privilege but our conferences are more particularly for the transaction of business for the furtherance of ilia kingdom of god on the ea earth rth I 1 will first present tiie ilia subject of 0 prosecuting our labors and operations for building the temple under our present birc circumstances 1 und and future prospects we have deemed it wise and expedient to prepare for bringing the tile rock for that building from quite a in boats which will bo be 11 much mach clie cile cheaper aner ader than hauling it ill in wagons and thus lar far the erection of the temple I 1 will next cite your memories toa to a mass meeting that was held in the tila Td bernacle tabernacle upwards of a year ago to take into consideration the tho propriety and expediency of establishing all an I 1 express and carrying company to operate between liere here and the tha states to the tiie east and california to tiie the west That Company has now commenced its business operations three companies have already left this city and tile the particular object in view is to establish places where our brethren can stop and alla rest re recruit cruit and refresh themselves until they can continue centi nue their journey and arrive in this valley our main object is to make settlements and ralsa raisa grain ra at suitable points and convenient distances where we can prepare resting places for the saints the last seasons immigration ration I 1 think til ink has prompted us ma materially serially teri terl ally aily to this action if we had had settlements at deer daer creek la bonte below laramie and on the sweet water where people can raise grain our last years belated immigration might have had habitations food and other conveniences for comfortably tarrying through the winter and thus saved this community a vast expense this express company will be laid before this tilis conference BO so that you will have an understanding of it that y you au may act knowingly and give your faith influence and means to accomplish the object of it its s organization we are calling quite a number to go oil on missions and are appointing a portion of them to visit the canadas we haye have a great many elders laboring throughout europe europ but more especially in england and the tha canadas are mostly settled by the tile same classes closes of people true there has formerly fon neris been bean much pre preaching citing in that region and many churches raised up especially in upper or canada west but bub many hare have emigrated to tile the states and are now with us and I 1 do ilot not know of an eider elder in this church now laboring in either of the canadas we wish to send a company to labor there and gather out the honest in heart I 1 would also propose sending missionaries to tile the states if ir we could by accident jor or by foreknowledge or by revelation or by any other means select amt ami ebare from here the right rient kind of men mail in that case we would like to send a good many there my aly reasons are these there are honest people by thousands thoun and scores of 0 thousands in the states those who have never yet heard tile the sound of the tile gospel there are also scores of places where bra branches have been keen raised up but the ilia inhabitants have ao so changed that they now hardly know what you mean when you say eay 1111 mormon ormon or mormonism niem and when you yoa talk about lie preaching pre ching of the tile everlasting gospel it is almost forgotten by the few that are aro still remaining in those places other people occupy tile the place of those who have left of those who had been prea pren preached clied to and children have grown up and taken the tile place of their parents others have llave moved away and hit tit strangers rangers have moved in there are honest people the there re and if we could get elders to use a wes terji phrase of the right 11 stripe we could gather cather multitudes from the united states for an example we sent br john taylor jonew to new yolk with a number of or elders to preach labor and assist him some somo of them tarried in new york with br taylor visited their families connections friends ac for a time and returned they did not baptize any with willi them there was no cbill call for preaching no place to sow sov the seed or distribute the good word ol 01 god they tiley could not find any who wanted to hear them preach or who wiio wished to know anything of or the gospel while at the tho bams sams tima time others who felt for the tile interest of the tiie kingdom and for tl the ie people stepped forth and labored like men and found plenty of chances for preaching br jeter clinton was one of the last named elass class br taylor sent him to philadelphia and when lie he got there those who professed mormonism were dead dead dead they were withered d and twice plucked up by tiie ilia roots br dr clinton had llad not been there six months before the church numbered a great many more than when lie he went there the old members 3 revived and they began to baptize and to have calls from the country and when wilen lie iia left lie could probably have ilava employed from tea to thirty elders in hia his field of labor the secret of the tho difference is this lie he felt for the kingdom and when he lie went into his field of labor ile he did not say eay lio 0 how lonesome I 1 am how I 1 wish I 1 had my family here liera I 1 really wish I 1 was back in the valley my spirits are cast down row how low bad I 1 do feel when such persons endeavor to preach their preaching Is as dry as all an old dead dried up three years old mullen stalk there is no more juice in it them than there is in that br alexander robbins is is a man of that description crip tion and although ail all hough lie is naturally a good and kind feelis fe feeling eliu mail man one tint 11 1 I think inucci of yet when iv lien llen lie ho apoe from this stand at nie hie last falls fallis conference lie was as perfectly void of sap or juice as one of those dry posts and I 1 reproved tile the spirit he hol seemed to manifest he ile sit quietly down in N nw nv v yolk with br aylor laylor until lie became so dried up that lie came home dh disbelieving in god heaven hell angels angek and religion ho llo has lias lost every particle parti cle clo of tile tiie knowledge b mid uld spirit that lie formerly had llad when br clinton and others return those who have hild laid aside self and labored akin ahin arking what can we do to win will the tha souls of the ilia childr children er of men they tire ara full of life lire full of the good spirit full of animation their countenances are briolat and lively and when y you on talk with them or I 1 ilear lear them preach you can call glean and gather truth life and salvation salvati rin cin from froin their lips while others are as as beached leached ashes if we could spare some one or two hundred elders eiders like ilke br clinton and others to go to canada and the united states we could gither g ither scores and hundreds of thousands of good people from those regions but bat reflect for a moment upon tiia tile difference in tila ilia conduct of our missionaries and the treatment they receive in lit texas some have been mobbed and some have had no place to preach in br dr banjamin bu L clapp who hiis lately returned from a mission there could scarcely final find a it place to preach iiii iu although others at tily same sams time traveled and preached prea clied there and many wished to hear ilear them for another instance I 1 will refer to my own quorum whence when we had llad started the ilia work in england ars lieber heber gdorge gaorge aana woodruff went to london it cost much faith care money and diligence to establish the work ork in that place and after they had baptized about thirty persons they came to manchester to attend a conference As soon as the conference was over ars woodruff and george georga A went to london and aej br kimball and I 1 took a tour through the country and held cont crencia eren cren ces cea and when we arrived in london I 1 preached in ili tiie tile first meeting we held after our arrival and how many do you think there were present to hear me thirty had been baptized but ars kimball woodruff and george georgo A the man who owned the small room that we had hired and I 1 think two other persons comprised co the congregation I 1 preached as well as I 1 could til ill though ough it was pretty hard bard work to pump when there was no water in va the well br kimball and I 1 staid there eleven days arid and when wilen I 1 left tiie ilia little meeting house was crowded to overflowing what was the reason of this I 1 hare have spoken against br clapps course in temas texas it sprang froia a want baut of knowledge 1 ow ledge I 1 have at also spoken against the course taken by ars woodruff and george georgo A in london it proceeded from a want of or tact and turn in those individuals to know how to will win the people when we found them in london br woodruff was busily engaged it in writing his history from morning until evening and if a sister called oil on him birn he would say how low do you do take a chair and keep oil on writing and laboring to bring up the history of the church and his liis own that wag was all right and well in its place but if a bister sister ayk d a question the answer answer would be iryes ilyes and if she asked another lio llo no iao and that was tile tiie surn gum of the conversation if a brother brot lier iler came in it would be the same but br kimball would say raj fay cay come my friend sit down do not be ina hurry and lie he would begin and preach tile tilo gospel it in a plain familiar fj manner and make liis his hearers believe everything lie he said and make them testify to its truth whether they tiley believed or not suiting hem them now aint that so and they won would id say yes and lie he would make scripture as lie needed it out of his own bible tin and ask now aint that so an and the reply would be yes ile he would say now you believe this you see how hov plain the gospel is come along now and lie he would lead them into the waders wafers of baptism the people would want to come comelo to see him early in the morning and stay with kim him until noon and hud from that until night and ho hi would put his arm around their necks and aid bay eay come let us go down to the water 5 2 thousands of elders go upon missions missions and conduct thease V e q like ilke a mw m I 1 n by the he name of glover he was preaching in herefordshire Hereford shire and we sent liim him to bristol about thirty miles distant telling him to 0 o go there and start the work he would get up and preach a spen splendid did discourse he ile went to bristol arid and cried mormonism mormon i sm or the he gospel and no person wo lid ild listen to him on the next morning he lie was back hack at ledbury and said 1 I came out of bristol washed my feet against them and sealed s hem them all up to damnation that is the way in n which some of our elders operate I 1 know that when I 1 have traveled with so some me of the twelve and one of them has asked for breakfast di dinner supper or we have been refused doens of times now you may think that I 1 am ara going to boast a little I 1 will brag a little of my own tact and talent when others would ak ask a k we would often be refused a morsel of something to eat and so we would go from house to house but when I 1 had the privilege ge of asking I 1 never was turned away avav no not a single time would igo info the till house and say to them ci 1 am al a mormon El derwill you fed me roe it was none node of their business who I 1 was but when I 1 asked will you give me something to eat eal the reply was vas invariably yes ye 11 and we would sit and talk and sing anti and make ourselves familiar and amree agree agreeable and beffie our departure after they llad had learned who we were they would frequently ilsk sk 9 wll wil wll you not stay and preach for us arid and proffer to gather in ill the members mi abers of 61 their thel family and their beig neighbor and the feeling would be well if it this tilis is mormonism I 1 will wili feed all the mormon formon A elders that come whereas if I 1 had said I 1 am a A mormon lormon elder will you feed me tile the answer would often have llave been no out of my honse house now if ir we could find the right stripe that could be spared from important duties here w boiu send a good many eldens elders to the hie states I 1 will w i 11 relate another circumstance one concern in ing ins 11 an elder wiio wilo went on oil a mission from nauvoo and it if I 1 remember rightly he went through indiana lie he lives in this plate and his name is james carroll ile he went into a neighbor neighborhood hood houd where there was a baptist society which lied had recently built a meeting house they had heard of the I 1 mccumons but kne knew w bothin nothing of the doctrine they wished him to tarry and leach and the invited him birr into lis his pulpit lie lle amose arose and began to preach mormonism as lie he called it and about the tiie first item that he presented to the people was nearly til ill tiie tile c last event that will take tako P place I 1 a c c 0 on the he eart cart earth a concerning the church instead d y f p preaching rea chi 11 the ff e restoration and first principles of the gospel almost the file first remark that lie he made was you have a pretty meeting house all arl and good buildings and farms but do you 1 know amy aie coming here to possess the whole of them he ile naver never heard joseph smith the he twelve or any odthe of the elders that understood the gospel teach any doctrine but had probably gathered the idea from fram reading the bible by the time lime he had got with so short a sermon the congregation was ready to hick him out of the ilia and ife ought to have been kicked butof the pulpit at the he first da dash daa A this does not particularly militate a against ainest the character of that man but many of the ilia elders do not nol seem to understand how ilov to gain the tile attention and feelings feeling s of the people and lead them in the pathway of ruth truth we have received letters from the east stating that is no place for preaching there 5 whereas I 1 really think that there might be hundreds of or elders selected here if we could spare them who could go to the file states and fini find as scort openings 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