Show 0 annu of ob confluence CONk LUENCE A special Conf conference irence of the E iders elders of the church of jesus beius christ of latter day faints assembled in the tabernacle cle great volt salt lake city august 1852 10 a wt rn pursuant to public notice arcs nt too the First bicy brigham young hebr heber C kimbull Kiu ki bull willrd richards Pres presiding Pd john smith presidio idil of the twelve welve apostles orson pratt fratt john taylor wilford woodruff go A smith sinith ezra T benson banson erastus snow and franklin D richards J of the r first arst presidents of thia josph ph young hrnry henry harriman Hir riman n jn ara albort albert P I 1 rockwood jeddi th ih M grant presidency acy of high priests ats quorum john young Riyu reynolds olds choon cahoon geo go 0 13 wallace j pr bishop edward hunter and about two thousand elders clerk clark of Conf conference ermee thomas bullock reporter G D watt called to order by prest kinball kimball ki tha th choir sung A hymn prayer by elder goo geo A smith singing president kimball presented ted the business of the conference in the following speech we have come toge together Lher to lo day daiy according accenting to previous appointment to 0 o hold a special ii ecial conference coni conre rence to transact business a month cailler than usual illas much as there are aie elders aldeis to be selected to go to the nations of the earth and they want an earter start than formerly there will probably be elder chosen to gr go to the four quarters of the globe to transact bi business siness preach t the e G gospel pel ac 1 I 1 recollect recoiled reading in one of the revelations in the book of Do doctrine ettine owl covenants where the lord says v 1 it I a man inasmuch as he i L an elder cider has a deare in in his heart to 0 o pi each the gospel he it is that is is caller to preach the gospel oi the lie other han I 1 the scriptures or some of the other R revelations vea tons or of god say hat bat many are called but nt few are chosen when vt e n a mai m in lias has that desire in I 1 his lis heart lie he is called hii hut t pet perhaps ha ps not a grea t many will be chosen to go fort forth b and preach the goo gospel el I 1 suppose pose you are aal a aware vare by the information that we have received from our brethren the apostles who have lately returned from forein 1 missions that the work of god has commenced in I 1 many any nations of europe and upon the islands of I 1 he P sea iea still nei e are in miry nat nations oto ahei e the gos pl 1 I door ha has not yet been opened in DI a direct way I 1 the he has been laid for the introduction I 1 of i the gowl gospel among amon them and indirectly the door hn ba been opened to all aft nations that is is it hai ha been opened into the main room still there are a I 1 great ganv adjacent rooms roomi leadin lead ins from that that have yet to be op opened with the smaller keys I 1 w want ant to I 1 say av one thing before we proceed to 0 o f he business of citi trig and nd seating apart have tog to g fro a th 3 place lace to the tha i this seanoa we have iia awe a six tion of a d wr of e aidem to leave home am and go 0 o abroad this bis may he be re ic pW dunant to the NO re elings of 0 some soine wey tn kiy ay iy think it is a haz but at ai the same time to a go raw is iq nothing to coin pire going out to preach tiie ne gospel fifteen auteen ye ui ago wey had to go not only oily without purse or scrip but without atty any knowledge that there was a friend to take them thein by bv iffe hand when they arrived at tiei destination now he ey cannot go to any part t of the world scarcely br they wit had heinse aliar v e S among the saints 1 frt ak ii a e to 10 1 p aaen the train I 1 w will 11 say to those t edse rho ho love kwe to do the will of the fat father her as it awaa as with jeskis Cli isi 1 ejr cur says he be father not my will val but thine he be do te e i I 1 wish to lo biow nothing nol liing tiit kiy w v it II aid abad tuat mat I 1 will do until I 1 spend my life did he not do aha 11 huid dibi you require that same spirit tand din to lo carry cany out the itie same p irp pose amut I 1 beg duct beseech ol 01 you belthren bie be taren thren yon yoi be chosen when you are eject elected eil to go it if apu dunt live until yoi yo i get to the llie L tinted states state or or aleu men are clied and set apart apan to he be minis iy ay to 9 go to the nations of the earll it they to go v 0 I 1 it is death to them that is to their characters I 1 is as faithful oders elders in hi israel they go dewri and not I 1 m u backway back waid it and not I 1 merel speak ak of Z merelyn yh we 4 chis ai 9 film tay own experienc experience e lor I 1 have h ive had one ne in this his ahm ch of upu aids its of twenty year 4 I 1 was malsed up tip as aa it were with ahe prophet I 1 lived with him to tie dy d y of his death ai to lo our present beat prophets aa a id elde bro young I 1 have ave lived with with hm han I 1 have traveled aid ad with him I 1 have suffered I 1 have fat and slept with hn him and been by his hid side almost my whole life I 1 could say 1 j with propriety prop nety and I 1 can say it with wilb truthy truth that ju jo seph smith mith waa wa a prophet of 01 god a seer t revelator an Apostle of jesus and was ordained directly I 1 udder der the i lie hands fiand of PA pater par r jim james anil john wid and he died a prophet Pr phet phel and hyi urn um died a patriarch of jesus jestis a father in israel I 1 bt birther other brigham young is the successor of joseph j smith and a better roan man never lived upon the earth I 1 nor ever sought the interest of 0 this people more fer I 1 vently from morning until night and and vice versa than I 1 I 1 he has done ditt dit not in the days or of i oseph joseph he did from the tinia he came into the church until the Iea jqseph joseph and so did 1 I did we ever lips irate or one one moment no not tu lor a moment jesus sought to do the will of his father in hea ven so it was waa ofir duty to todo A the wilt of joseph wid and now it is the duty ol of us is alt all to do the will of B other oilier abrham for or he reveals to the will of god which Is 9 h his is wilt will we will do his big will as an elder cider sa a prophet aa a an apostle of jesus ahr christ holding the saim keys keya that peter of old ii ead same that acx joseph eph sinith h held eld as an apostle cuir all bertiere chiq deni you without w an exception avell if this Ms is byoir faith if this is your determination I 1 want you yon sho ild manifest it by bv raising your right handi hand and saying AYE A literal forest of hands was the result of this thi calt call and the spacious hall trembled when a simultaneous aye ave burst front from the mouth mouths i s of over 2 persons 3 there it is and it cannot be any other way I 1 say t to those who are elected to go on m missions go 2 if you never return i et uris an I 1 com nit what you have into the hands of god your wives your children your brethren and your property let et truth and rig righteousness be your motto and dont po go into the w world orld for else but to preach dreach the build yap tp the wisdom of god and gather into the md fold yon yoa are sent out aa shepherds forgather the sheep together and rem amter that thy th y V are aie not your shepp sheep they belong to him that sends you then dout make a choice of any 0 0 those cheep dont doit make selections before they we are brought home aind put into the fold art i understand und erst arid that amen aman elder geo A smith sd what has been said brethren ani and sisters is verily true this kingdom of god has been built up p by his distinguished blessin blessings s and the exertion and energy of those whom god his has called to bear atoff it off when men refuse to fulfil fulfill their callings and magnify them in the proclamation of the fullness of the gospel to the nations of the earth they certainly lay the foundation for their own ruin when men on the other hand become so puffed up u p in in their own estimation as to think that shekina the kingdom t doin of god could not roll forth without their mighty exertions they fall into transgression they are fools in israel and their greatness will vanish like smoke I 1 the fact is god lits his planned for cor us the belt beit sieve that could be imagined he ia determined to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity and he has placed us hereon here on the edge odthe of the in moun oun taini where a little sinking shaking of the winds windi will cause everT everything thing without weight easily to slide off to the diggings s and in this way the work of sifting I 1 is going on daily and hourly and i yearly from time to time according to the nature of the materials that happens to be thrown upon the sieve siev no doubt many of us may be called caled upon if not to davat some other time to bear the message of the gospel of salvation to the nations ot the earth for this was one of the commandments in ants of the he enjoined enio ined us that th at we preach the gospel to all nations that we should send forth the word to all people this thia responsibility has been bee laid upon tho the priesthood of the church and they are required to fulfil fulfill this thia commandment there is ia not an elder a priests priest a teacher or a member of this church but what bears a share of this responsibility the missions we will call for during this conference are generally not to be very very long ones probably f from tom a 8 to 7 yo yoa will wilf baa b long as aa any m man an will be absent from his family if any of the elders ref refuse use to go they may expect act that their wives wilt will not live with them for for there is not a mormon sister who would live with a man a day who would ref reauie uie to go on a mission ion there is no other way for a man to save his hia family and in order to save himself he must fudal fulfil his calling and magnify m a r a n if y his priesthood in proclaiming the fullness of 5 the gospel to the na nations eions of afi ahe e cirth and this I 1 certainly ought to be the greatest joy to the family ot oe any man who feels the importance of I 1 buil building qing up the kingdom that he is actually considered worthy in these last days daya to be one of the number to go forth abone of the horns of joseph to push the nations together to gather out the honest in heart to run for the p prize which we all labor for I 1 feel deeply interested in these matters rind and I 1 liu hope and pray that every man who is called upon to go forth oo 00 missions to preach the gospel po may have the faith of the eb church ur chupon upon their heads and that they may lift I 1 up ip their voices voices in faith before the people that the light of truth may I 1 be a lamp in their path and that by their exertions and the blessings of god it may be lighted up in distant nat nations ioni I 1 recollect a tittle little incident in history that thai is told of william the 1 conqueror after he had been king in england 0 twenty years he be became arne very corpulent in consequence of a little joke upon his by the french king m he declared war and th thi declaration was made in these words tell ry my fair uncle I 1 will pay him it a visit and I 1 will bring along tapers enough e to set all franco france on fire you may suppose we f tre are sending gr out but a few elders pro probably bibly not more than one hundred or one fandrei 1 l and fifty but we intend to continue the work and send sand out elders enough to set the world on fire elder J taylor remarked hr 0 G george eo r waa wa s talking about s euing the world on fire I 1 t think g I 1 ink when the elders elder have traveled th through the world as far as some ot of us have and seen the te rottenness and weakness of 0 their ins inasita titu lions eions the fully folly and corrupt i m n thiet everywhere prevails they will find that it is id pretty near time as the le prophets have aid for it to he be burned epand ap nd all its it works but I 1 suppose it is necessary before sh h world is burned up that the good wheat should be saved and gathered into the garner and prepare to take a fresh start in peopling the arah barth ant and placing affairs boon a proper foundation there is no person that reflects upon the condition of the world as aa it now exists but his heart must b pained must be filled with sympathy for the inhabitants of the earth I 1 have gazed upon their proceedings iny myself self I 1 have watched the their i r lollies loli jig abominations and corruptions corrupt ions I 1 have seen them with my own eyes until I 1 hive wept over them the they seem to me to be regardless of gort goff heaven eaven I 1 helf hplu I 1 eternity or anything else and there are thousands and ten of thou ai ds and millions of people upon the continent of europe that would like no better employment than togo to go into deadly combat and desiray one another I 1 the people talk about hw corrupt we the latter day saints are tf if all they say about us be true it is only a tithing n g f what you will find in the w world orld I 1 have told them to look at home to tn examine their own fi resides and would find plenty of corruption and abomination they are living without god in the world without hope and the they a are re dying without hope consequently they are am care ca relesa 1 prof profligate and re reckless ekless I 1 the lord has shone upon use us he has lit fit up a candle of intelligence in our souls has imparted to as the principles of eternal truth opened the heavens he vena and sent his holy angel to put us in possession of principles that will exalt us in the scale of intelligence among men and raise us up to be associates of the gods in the ot ernil worlds then shall we who have thus thas beeri been b lessed blessed wit with h the visions of eternity with light and intelligence we who are filled with the spirit of god burning in our hearts who have bare gabd upon the hidden I 1 I 1 1 I 1 thi things Is of eternity and coa RW thi of md god in lh ir majesty and glory glo y I 1 says say shall hall we shrink from the task of going johb to snatch these then 1 fallen sons of men from evela staig burning should we refuse to do so it would testify that thai we had not a single spark of in our bosoms and were not fit to rive live in the world much loom leas to associate with the gods in the eternal worlds I 1 know you hive have a desire to do these things but bat I 1 win will tell teh yov you there are many things that vie ate calculated to try the feelings of men ie those who have to go out uve to put pat their noses to the grindstone and land keep it there and let them grind at it and not murmur a word and then before it is heated healed put pat it there again and bees bear wall it ali tho the times time and without for foi you know it ip ia a sin in the religious world k to a 4 get 8 angry agry yuu bed not to to go without faith ach in ia god and you will have hare need of all the wisdom and you can command you cannot go and nd corvest eon veil tho this world all at once for it is ia too lar far iiii ker in ia tylly folly and vice this reminds reminda me bie of a dai dream ani a Ur other ua in Ir franco he said he thought u it he was trying to kindle ak a fire on dw toe ae h hare ra every time ho he attempted to R taht iu a wave 00 came caine iad rolled over it and hi he could hardly it until the tide begun began to re recede and their be he would build up a fire when the wood got dry you need not think of toina going a abroad br oad into do world and going as the methodists Methodi ats sing on lowry bowry deiy beds ot of ease for a great many set consider wider you as s impostors and as a general thing you yoa are looked upon as suspicious characters to sav aay the least of it and you will wih be closely watched if you u go to I 1 those foreign nations your footsteps footstep will r be traced no 0 matter how 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