Show I 1 to the saints ewry evry thing which tends to the pros prosperity kity and advancement van cement of the kingdom of god on the eath tends same objects in the heavens for the saints faints while here are laying a foundation for their exaltation hereafter and although they may cease from their labors such as produce weariness fatigue and sorrow yet their works will follow them and continue to increase and multiply upon their hands forever and ever even so long as they shall continue to increase and spread abroad and acquire dominions in the efe eternal nal worlds yet fatigue combined with their work will not be their companion as it is while dwelling here in mortality hence the avs of the savior to those who should go forth to preach his go gospel and pune liis vineyard fort for the h e I 1 last as t time if they continued fail ill in all things th ey should become renewed in their bodies and not go 0 o hungry or thirsty they should run and not be weary they should walk and not faint this is a blessed promise and has been the means of sustaining many of the elders of israel in their travels at home and in m foreign countries for many have realized the fulfilment fulfillment of these promises and rejoiced therein and the principle is equally good and may with equal propriety be ap lilied to the saints i who are laboring laboi ing at home bome to sustain the families of the elders who are abroad proclaiming be e gospel or are laboring to prepare for foi the reception 0 of f the saints who are coming home provided they labor with the same singleness of heart and ng devotion to the interests of zon zion as the elders feel who are abroad in foreign lands among strangers and b have eive no friend but god to depend upon for food astren th support and direction in all thin things i the grealer pw purity y of body the saints can attain into before death the less change will necessarily have hav e to take place before the resurrection for in in the recur resurrection ur the body must be perfect and consequently he nearer towards defection pe faction we arrive arrive at here the nearer and more rapidly we approach a glorious reu res and the less time we may havenor have for our spirits to be separated from our bodies while our bodies a are r e tin undergoing a purification and change in m their graves wd md the more intelligence we ai acquire quire in in this state of existence the more we will have to carry with us into hie be next or higher state consequently the more exalted d will be our introduction to the eternal worlds knowledge is power and the more a man knows I 1 he be greater good he is capable of doing and his reward will vi ill be according to his works and although through the vanity of man it is true that knowledge up 5 1 yet it is is not so with the saints while in m the ex arcise of a ri liht gh t spirit but it tends rather to make them more humble while they become more power ful and godlike but it is the foolish that are puffed up with Inow knowledge ledge and such are not edified with charily 0 oi godlike love self love is their god and that true love that out fear has no place with them q purity andl and knowledge 11 being requisite qualifications I 1 I 1 of all saints to prepare them to enter into the presence pre selica of the leather father we have no time to idle away nop no spare me moments to loiter about the stores the ilie post office or any of the he public offices 0 haus halls of assembly inthe if the saints have lave special business at such places let them transact that business as speedily as possible and depart riving room to others to do their business and when the business hours of each successive day are closed the merc merchant hanf the clerks the business men d want and need the succeeding hours and evenings i to count their cash to b balance alance their books to put up 1 their mails and to arrange their business tor for the f future i 1 day and any unnecessary delay of the peo plein re I 1 I 1 tiring from the public pi plates lf es when their business is completed is a hindrance hin drame to public affairs which ought not to be countenanced by the saints who need every moment they can get to wash and purify their bodies feast their minds and prepare for the coming of the lord jesus christ wise men receive hints thankfully and profit by them while fools wait for kicks and then receive them most ungratefully let the saints be wise to be continued |