Show I 1 SPEECHES delivered at the assembly of the council of health on ensign peak mr W W phelps beng being called upon arose and amo among ng the remarks he made the following is is a synopsis that the remarks that had been made by those who had bad preceded him were ap appropriate ate but yet there bert lined much to be said at the distance of more than a hundred miles north appears to our view chesnow the snow capt mountains of oregon at a little less than a hundred south shines the white peak of mount nebo and still beyond these i bams loams the indian in his degradation r and beneath our feet like an embroidered pavilion lion lays the habitations of the saints greening to tein seiw g ahe the luxuries of life 0 0 but the most important point I 1 wish to touch is the great objects of the council of health whose members members although not a member myself I 1 am now addressing not as a oard board of health in the christian cities of to t old woo ld do we appear to inquire into contagious diseases and give the faculty of M ds D s a chance to display their learning upon suffering su nering humanity nol no the most important object of this council is to learn females how to take care of them themelis delves vs to fulfil fulfill the first great command of jehovah to amid multiply and fill up tip the ibe earth and that too with healthy holy beings that will be befit fit temples for the holy ghost to dwell n and when they have filled their number of days on the earth arise and spend a resurrected existence among 11 the godi 0 0 let me 11 say y a word on the subject of fit temples for the holy SP spirit rit or the spirit take one of the bodies of the wandering loathsome lousy degraded savages of those mountains yonder and introduce to it a spirit from the family of god would that spirit take such a body for an earthly tabernacle to prepare it to become like his fathers not no nor would a spirit brought up in the light and knowledge of heaven take a bwy body that corrupts its way upon the earth as was the case before the flood no it would not accept of such persons all that defile themselves harbor spirits of another place this is is a memorable day just 46 years a ago go this forenoon the great eclipse of the sun was visible in arth north america amelca so the mind of the learned world is totally eclipsed the real object of oar coming into this world to the great mass of mankind is a mystery and so they with it corrupt th their air i way with one another and are in total darkness at noonday ike the great eclipse ladies take care of yourselves now has the hour of light come improve it pour out the true knowledge of heaven to your children teach your daughters when they have arrived to the age of womanhood the object of their existence according to the great command teach your sons that it if they have carnal connection with females becore before they are legally married their heads beads must pay the forfeiture cannot the saints fur for I 1 am s peaking to them than do as a well 8 the beasts of the tee field fiek and the fowls of the me ai air r di th they a y corrupt comet their ways upon the part earth h by carnal eject mn with one another out oat of 1 nol na all AH christendom let alone ahe the heathen must stand nd rebuked rebal lot for their lecherous folly by the to I 1 birds and am ama creeping wags mar of the 60 ewer earth to 19 well as the so precepts of god mt when vashti lb 4 que queen en dishonored ho her lord the king a decree moat go forth to gather the best fw musti males rat not only oat gentiles but bat also ot of israe that an honorable ay joeen ought might lie be selected for the king ani and among thi the emary preparations for the virgins of honor boom teach mch one hid had to be purified houtla wo ritt 9 be i forshe am aishe wv was fit for the ra royal favor if such was the OW edtom of the heathen heathe nm to former times how much misae efte almighty is u the ottay of at I 1 purification binding upon males and females in iii ans 5 last ast dispensation adam and ad eve by sating eating toe ow fruit forbidden opened the abinet of corruption dis ease disobedience and death deaf ma and the broat state seste of society on the globe show shove the successful horror honor or of all society I 1 the these boes woes oes but we as smuts know the eure well the revelations of joseph through the holy Y P priesthood IW i abood have revealed the powers and pm i of the everlasting gospel HC health health obe obedience fud and lives eternal mothers toch your yew chi iam these principles and live long apoe the earth Be remarks narks of Z sw snow d delivered to the a cousa council of health of the cy of great salt lake june at ai a meeting hid on peak of the rocky mountains BRETHREN SISTERS I 1 having been since my arrival here requested to make a few rew remarks arks I 1 cheerfully c comply va with that at request though I 1 do wot mot expect to bi be able say any thing which will enlighten your minds on the subject siba of health you are aware the sciences of ate medicine dicing aw and SAW arg e ery constituted no part of my early aduca 1 11 ZA haib hitherto arto erto have constituted no part of iny my genera genei I 1 busi boa ness As a necessary result of this I 1 must be pr presumed to be comparatively ignorant of what my mak be b tho thought uffit the best methods of preserving the health of ma mankind ilund this is truly the case with myse myself as I 1 have not given any attention to this am necessary essary part of 1 human reflection other than to on huoh uch things as S have bm come under my personal pm bonal ss ia getaw fa th health of myself and fana family ily at an em emly early ly period of my life I 1 thought it ft my duty ditty to observe the ills or maladies to which my an system ind and the systems of those connected wit with h me might ight be exposed and at the same time notice some 7 or the roost most prominent remedies for these ills hojaij hoping ift ho 0 doing to become able in the usual cases dadds of indisposition 4 to apply the remedy without consul consulting tim the family physician this I 1 have to some though limited extent accomplished persons of common observation may by the time they arrive at my ape age so understand their own system as to be able to do much towards preserving se their heir health by giving attention to this they wall also do much tow towards ar d s promoting ai their own b happiness iness and the happiness of those Z within in the circle of their influence n I 1 common observation teaches ua no that health and happiness in this life go hand in hand when persons are in ill health their minds may in some d degree be said aid to be affected or impaired and as ai a legitimate consequence they are fretful uneasy uneal and unhappy healthy persons coming in contact with wih ones are affected thereby as there is a kind ot of sympathy existing between the members of the huhm family thus while tin unhealthy healthy persons disturb thie the quietude of society healthy ones promote the happ happiness iniss of ao an around them next in importance to a knowledge of the aws of ou our r father in heaven and to knowing how bow to regulate our conduct in this stage of existence so to as to secure for ourselves and our little ones eternal life the greatest ciet of god may be said to be thi the knowledge of the laws by which X our health may be promoted and with it our lives fives prolonged to tk a good old age the first duty of man is to yield implicit obedience to the will and laws of his creator next to this romes the various affairs of this life both of which according to our faith are blend blended J wid and contained in the word religion celip on in regard to health our father in heaven has fm said aw to us is as he said to the ancient saints ills Is there aw sick among you yon let him send for the elders w who shaft pray for an and anoint him in the name of the lord and the prayer of faith shall save heat heal the sick and if he is not appointed unto death god shall raise him up this though not believed by mankind faan kind generally and therefore not practiced is believed among us and as we bel believe i eve i it t why should not it be our universal practice surely he who created ard and preserves this earth with its myriads of inhabitants and all the starry hosts host with their inhabitants can instantaneously repair the human system when it needs repairs and he busaid has said the prayer ordith of faith shall heal the sick WA he not verify his word but heAn he knowing owing all things and consee consequently dently knowing there would be times when the prayer of faith would not or could not be made also commanded that when persons were sick and the anointing and prayers had not produced the desired result they should be nursed with herbs and mild food 1 the duty of nursing the sick with herba wa and mild food and giving advice to the healthy so as to remove mo v e and prevent disease is the lecul aar province of this council of health but I 1 may be allowed to suggest that herbs and mild food are the remedies to bw be applied when the prayer of faith has not or cannot be made the ile manner of us ns ng the herbs an 1 mild food is submitted to the wisdom of those who administer and to are administered adain admin unto showing at t a glance that skill and judgment in the die use of these remedies is to be expected and relied upon the council of health ought therefore to be adepts in the use of hemf remedial dai il I 1 age agents its to be adepts requires constant application app li cation and observation the highest ambition of th 9 council consists con sisti in being able to preserve health as the preservation of health is of far greater importance to society than ae removal of aisea disease ae in regard to health may depend on mans earthly ori origin an mich I 1 have heard in this place and in in the att states of the high transcendent origin and destiny 0 of f man if what I 1 have heard be true irue and there is good reason tor for believing much of it it is at 4 the highest importance to attend well to the health of our wives and and daughters let man boast as S he may of his origin and his hii high anticipated condition still he knows full well w an Bs 16 first earthly habitation is woman from her he be receives his earliest and often his most lasting i m pros from her he in may r receive ece 11 ve the seeds of disque disease or he may receive a ale healthy alth vigorous constitution and a sound well balanced mind taking it tor for granted what was strongly buted by the ancient sacred writers that we are xo to become sons of god and joint heirs with jesus christ it must he admitted that our wives and dan daughters oters who are am the bearers of such celestial fruit ought to be welli well informed moally mo ally drift and physically in relation to 0 so o important P rt ant a station every man is wanting in his bis duty to himself wife and little ones as well as to society and his god gna who fw faus to use all reasonable means tor to preserve the health of her who is and is ade me file mother of his babes our father in heaven has also instructed us that it is unwise to use too freely hot and strong drinks and certain kinds of narco narcotic fic herbs among which is if the indian weed this every well informed medical man knows to be correct in principle true when our gervet are affected we way may often I 1 sooth and quiet them by the aid of some of these narcotics nari but would it not be far better to teach our 1 children to abstain from all these thes e poisonous substances su batan than fo see them growing up and constand constantly I 1 U I 1 wasting their rhy physical strength by y the use of such noxious and fi filthy thy substances do not who waste wast their physical physic ala strength vw it do injustice to their mental and moral faculties facilities cab so signally distinguish man from the res residue idao lf at the animal creation 0 the kind of herbs to be used to remove disease sod nd to be used to preserve pre erve health either in the shape of drinks or mild food as I 1 before have said nw is id the life peculiar province of this council to seek out and I 1 recommend i clothing has an influence on health bolh a also we customs and habits we often bear condemned to lu strong terms what we we are pleased to fo aza the q barbai rods practice c e of the chinese in relation to lb 0 the compression of the intent bof W so 0 as to avd produce ue W probably bly th they call calf a delicate little ma also the like arous beof of toe dw fut flat deans in relation to pressing the tee hw het of the is 4 and am requiring re auw mg it to td be shaped seas so as to be flat aak IW top gio also the slitting of tw the nose mae end eja the t ears aft to so 0 to enable them to hang their aits nits its abren tb ren how few these things M may I 1 look very beautiful to them bat to us they ti IS in the extreme we b have a practice among Us as that is ini to te im I 1 1 ft hough U gh not epim sal which to me equally erroneous with pressing of the ad and more so than compressing the infant foot the pressing of the infant head biad will vill most certainly impair r ir the e mind 0 of the child childson so that a after such a shape ye tafv ia given t to athe the seat of irk kte hig L it never can with the b best e t possible training possess 5 a well bu balanced ced mind it is is also more ila than probable P that a child born of parents who for a lot long alini fine of ancestry have been addicted to such bai bo os practices will from them inherit many of the evtus of such a course of life and thus the iniquities of the he fathers be visited upon the sons unto the jad and fourth generation may we not conclude that destroying k any member of the body or impairing its natural use in a greater or less legree degree impairs the mind igind of the individual if so it seriously injures him pd and perhaps his children after MM him I 1 the practice to whip ai I 1 allude though among the females is as much chargeable to the males as to them arid and this even though the men are constantly speaking peaking against it we are to remember that god said to the woman thy desire dedire shall he be unto thy husband and he shall rule rule over thee 0 o long as this rests upon her and it will wili remain until god in his bis wisdom sees fit to remove mave it she ww will seek to please him it if therefore he lias bas a perverted taste she will be very likely to conform in her dress and habits to that taste bopa place ce before a man two female paintings one disclosing the female form in her usual cos costume tUnie with a well formed chest such as nature designed and the other disclosing the he female form in like usual costume with a small and what we call delicate waist made so by compression or tight lacing and which will lie he as ine most moat beautiful and attracting my M y judgment judgment is it if he is a man of correct taste he be w will if I 1 be select act the well formed chest but bat a large portion perhaps I 1 should say the majority of men will select if not in direct words at least by actions tile the small delicate wai waist t the the women see aee as this taste of the men and so clothe P themselves em selves as to produce that form making martyrs of bf themselves for mans sake to obtain some idea of the effect of this ision aion let aej any gentleman first inhale an unusually large arge quantity 0 of 1 air or draw a long breath then let him button up tip his coat so tight as to compress com the chest taking laking care to girt himself and again draw a long brajt breath in so doing some idea may be obtained of the eff effect p produced reduced by such a method of dress the thorax or chest contains the vital kigans iii gans of the human system the heart that beats or pulsates and alu throws ws the blood into all parts of the body the large veins veins and arteries that |