Show DISCOURSE by jay C kimbail kimball bowery april 0 ild REPORTED POUTED llE BY J V LONG I 1 do da not know that I 1 can speak so all of you can call hear distinctly you lil mill ill have to bo be very still or it will be impossible for ma me to speak to your edification I 1 you have heard what br wells has said in reference to the tiie temple the tiie canal ac 1 I ilo lio temple is designed for many purposes purpose sand and there are many things that god wilt will reveal and many blessings that lie he will wilt confer upon this people building bui bul dlug ding diug if they will use due duo diligence in forwarding its completion sonie some may thinh think that the ilia erection of tile the temple more moro particularly devolves upon br brigham Brig liam ilam br jeheber JEI ihl eber br ddniel daniel the twelve and a few of the tiie seventies high priests and dishon bisbon bishops s and when it is finished they may they will receive their bles bies blessings binas sinas therein but that work is des designed ened to be general there must needs he lie a universal exertion not only by the leading official members of this church but by every member male and female for the templo temple is not for us alone it is niso for our sons and daull daughters and succeeding gane generations rations tile tiie they will re receive blessin blessings in therefore it concerns con egrus edrus them as well as us if I 1 obtain all the tha blessings of the priesthood all the endowments endowment sall sail all nil the blessings that god lias has to confer upon us in it this tirs probation and keep those things sacred while hive ulve I 1 am then as pure puro and holy as ad it is possible for a u man to be while in it the tile flesh then if my wives are one with me my children and their posterity will partake of those blessings which have been bee it placed upon u poll poil me ill lil e every bl essing earing conferred upon me tends to benefit ni my y posterity those blessings are a re for every righteous man and the blessings that are conferred upon faithful men and women in their holy anoint ings dud and dealings sea lings will rest upon their posterity erity after them forever and forever for ever eyer through their faithfulness and there thero is no end to it it is a strong additional inducement for you to live your religion in view of tile tiie benefits thaou eliat will 1 ba con continued tinned to your posterity if you can call only bear this in mind I 1 think it will serve to keep you steadfast in tile the line of your duties ies les will durpos our pos fenity partake of tiie the blessi blessings we will receive in fit the temple tempie which winch we are building they will forever for ever and for eve ever our blessings are to continue always if we live so as to attain to the ilia principles and miness falness of perfection and to secure the promises of eternal lives then those blessing will rest upon us and our par children flow long will it take this people to build the temple oil on this block supposing that every man and woman and end every child that has arrived to the years of accountability will strive e for its completion not very many years were I 1 laboring oil on that temple I 1 would constantly endeavor to work upon it with an in eye single to pushing it forward andro ilia blessings I 1 expected to receive herein therein but supposing suppo sinz that you do not all live will you not lot be benefited by it yes you will we are now attending to matters malters that will answer ey every r y purpose until that temple is completed thebe these acsa wiio wilo v 0 go through their endowments now and are sealed up unto eternal ilves lives those blessings wiil will stick to them if they will stick slick to the blessings and promises that are made over unto them and step forward with one heart and one mind to do tile the will of god as made to them from time to time from this stand Is it requisite that every member of my family s should it 0 uld feel the tiie s sime ime ini interest erest that I 1 do in fit my welfare and alid prosperity 7 Ye severy woman and child from tile the oldest to the youn youngest 9 est they should b ba just dikea like ilke a tree that tint lias hasi nany many branches to it tile the extremity of the longest limb is dependent upon tile the tree from which it grows we should become one tree arce and be like tile tiie tree of ilfe life which bar barr twelve manner of fruits all connected to one stalk I 1 presume those fruits came from grat graits else the tree probably would not have hare borne 0 to o many kinds we must bo be grafted into the tile true vine and continue to partake ef e its fatness and then we shall go b bick tek to our father and god who is connected to ofie one who is still farther back and this father is to one otie still furt fart further ller lier back and so on and just so far as we respect our superiors and try to save our children so shall we receive blessings from this time tenth and for everand shall bhail become as us numerous as the sands upon tiie the sea shore what I 1 ii there to hinder us from obtaining these blessings 7 nothing except it bo be our own want of faithfulness for by diligence integrity and nd per Pa fis verance severance we can accomplish bil all we desire aad and help belp ep to move forward the great work of god I 1 have heard a whispering that some who wilo work on tile tiie temple at dressing dres shig rock and ill in the tiie machine and blacksmith shops have nothing but bread to eat it seems as though this could rot be BO so for I 1 have seen the public hands packing home carrots parsnips par snips potatoes pot toes ac and it is is not riot so very bad while there is plenty of them mild ind every mail man gets a pound of flour a day and I 1 think there should not be ani any grunting it will wil not be a month before we shall alave lettuce rad dishes di siles ac and there now is a plenty of greens and onions are plenty in lite tiie tithing office and we a will be very glad lo 10 have llave you come and und get got them at your leisure I 1 have just touched upon these things in it connection liec tion with br wells remarks concern concerning lilg ilig the public works for I 1 am one with him and lie is one ore with me and we are one with br brigham Bri ghim ire lre we ive have not defour feet to the race for any oiher other pur purpose pore than to follow him hint and nin run through for lie lle is our leader and will be our leader temporally and spiritually from froin this time forth wilen aulien jose joseppi pit come comes again g ain aln will br Bri brigham harn be removed no never brother joseph is ahead br brigham is after him film I 1 am after br brigham and you are after me aro arc you not and we will not flinch and god will bless and prosper every man that will help hemsell liim him gell self and lie he will bless prosper and sustain this people and they will never fall as a people though we expect that many will apostatize over the tiie dani dam and anal go to 0 o wreck if we sin gin and do wili will chastise us until we do repent of and forsake all shi sit but lie he never will scourge us uis so long as we do right I 1 have said a hundred times that we never will want for bread meat and the comforts of lire life worlds without end if we will only do right that is my prophesy and always was and imd it is true I 1 agree with daniel with joseph with brigham with jesus and the apostles Apos lles and all the holy prophets and I 1 have spoken as I 1 have ilava to arouse your feelings to 0 o waken you up and comfort your hearts and cheer your our minds for I 1 have no other feeling than to do you good when the big cottonwood canal is 13 finished I 1 aside from its being of material benefit in our operations for building tile he temple it will be of great worth for irrigating lots in fit this tills city e especially al in the east part of i ft and aud you will soon 1 b be a abie able to raise elou enough gh in more ore than heretofore to pay you yoi yon for your our laboi abol upon ulon that work yes yet teli tell fold more you yon may think that extravagant but I 1 say sak it is not reckon it up yourselves and see sea how bow much more you could raise if you on had plenty of water you could raise as much corn fodder as would keep our cows through the winter and I 1 believe more than you have cows to eat it besides til ill the large extra amount of beget bles lies yon you yoa could raise v I 1 will now make a few remarks in relation to building storehouses not particularly in fit regard to building tithing storehouses here for there are enough at present to hold hoid all the grain we have though I 1 believe that by another year this tills people wil wll wall 1 I fill our tithing houses until they overflow for a great many of them are going to continue to do right and live their thein r ligion and if they do that you will see the tiie abat wheat the corn the ilia oats the barley and all ail our stock and possessions increase if we increase it will increase our wealth wili will wi grow and increase with us and there will bd be no end to it bat but in order to lay up grain you must prepare storehouses every mail man who has a farm needs a storehouse one made of reck reek and lime that will guard your grain against the mice rats arid and ail other four legged vermin also against the two legged ones I 1 have havo more fears of ilia tile two legged ones than iliavi I 1 have of tiie tile four legged ones plan to build a good storehouse every man who has a farm and never cease until you have accomplished it and do not forget to pay your tithing before you put tho lite grain into the storehouse lay up enough for seven years at a calculation for from five to ten in it each eacil family and then chic chuculate that there will bein your families from five to ten teu persons to where you now have one because you are oil on the increase it now takes about one thousand bushels of wheat to 0 o bread my family one year and I 1 want to lay up alx ix thousand for each eacil year of the seven for which I 1 calculate to store it up reflect upon the probable increase of ormy my family within seven years they alone aone will wil be almost numerous enough to people a small city where a family now ilov requires only a hundred bushels a ye arlet the lead of or that family lay up a hundred bushels the first year two hundred the next and increase the amount every year in proportion to t heir their probable requirements when we have stored away our grain we are safe independent of thy thi world in case of famine are we not yes we are for in fit that case casa wo vo will have the ho means for subsistence in in pur par own hands when the famines begin upon we tile earth we shall be very apt lo 10 feel them first if judgments must needs begin at the house of god arid and if the tile righteous scarcely are saved how bow will it be with the wicked am I 1 looking for families famines yes the most terrible and severe that have ever come tip lip upon it the nations of the tile earth these things are right before us and some of bis this his people are not thinking anything about them they tiley do not enter their hearts still there is 13 not an elder here who lias has read the tile revelation which says go forth and warn the inhabitants of this land of the sickness sic fic kness the death and disasters disa that are coming upon this rAa nation tion but what must be satisfied of or the truth of what I 1 am saying you have done according to the instruction given in it that revelation and now reflect upon udon upon the things that I 1 am declaring in it your hearing and lilt hit up your voices as a people t to the god of heaven fleaven that lie he will be merci merciful fui rui unto us and favor zion be wise listen to counsel and obey the voice orl of the head and you will prosper and never want for bread but as the lord livet hydu will feel it if you do not continue in the tile line of duty f fares pres B young that is true truel yes it is as true as it is that god ever to this generation I 1 consider that carefully storing floring our surplus grain against a time lime of need is of the greatest importance to this people in connection with building the ilia temple tempie Ter tem mple ople you may build that temple and at the ilia same time neglect those things that I 1 am ant speaking of and you will perish temporally now go to arid and raise grain for I 1 feel satisfied that the lord will give us two three or four years of good time and will hold li uld old the tile enemies of the tile upright by the tiie bit if we will do right I 1 will have habif tha if in fit every time for in it bucit such case I 1 tell you that god wl hold our ener enemies nies and they cannot have ally any power until he lip has a mind to permit them and then tilen lie will only permit them for a time in order to manifest his almighty power and to qualify and prepare them for a time lime to come I 1 mean just what I 1 say I 1 have talked liere here year after year and told you that I 1 was going to work to build a good storehouse and I 1 now have a good one though it is not yet quite finished I 1 have five or six hun d bushels of wheat in it and I 1 am going to make a tight light floor of rock by grouting it with lime arid and sand and plaster the walls oil on both sides so that it will be proof against mice and all other kinds of vermin As ar I 1 have said I 1 know that we will see those things of which I 1 have spoken such famines as this world never beheld beli bell eld yes we have got to see those scenes but if we will keep our vows and covenants the ilia loi lor lois loid will vill lold loid told them off until we can call prepare ourselves and if you will wake lip tip end do as you are told you will escape I 1 will advise every mail man in every sitt settlement lement to build a storell stor eliouse ouse and if one can call not rot do so alone let two or three build one between them store up and preserve your grain and then you will be safe but if tile the famine should come upon 1 us its in fit our present condition what could we do j if wo we do not do as we are told in this thing tile tilo displeasure of the lord will be upon us and lie will not continue to bless us as lie he ia is now doing I 1 know that lie is able to suffer families famines to come upon us and then to rain rala matina manna down from heaven to sustain us I 1 also know that lie he could increase our gral gran i in it the granaries and our flour in it the bins bills and make one small loaf of bread suffice for many persons by exerting his creative power I 1 do not know liow how lie does that but I 1 know that lie can do it just as easily as lie he could bri bring 11 me into existence upon this his earth there are a great many things that we ive can call save and it ke care ol 01 as well as we ean can wheat barley and oats we call can dry pumpkins squashes currants apples apple peaches earlies ea clies elies ac and save them we cail call also save beans beaus peas and like articles and keep them for seven years and if you will take tile the right cire of your wheat you call can s sive sive lve ive it just ns as long as you may wish to but in fit the usual mode of storing it yon have got to stir it move it remove it arid and turn it over or it will spoil Itis it is just so with willi this fins people they havo hava had llad to be moved and removed from place to place to prevent them from getting into dotage I 1 would not be afraid to promise a man who is sixty years of age if he be will tak taki the counsel of br brigham and his brethren that he lie will renew liis his age I 1 have llave noticed that a man mail who wiio has but one wire wife f and is inclined to that doctrine soon begins t to 0 wither and dry tip up wll wit lo 10 a man mail who goes into plurality looks fresh young and sprightly ht why is this because god loves |