Show MINUTES or OF THE CONTE BENCE CONTINUED FROM LAST PAPER tabernacle april 6 I 1 t 53 3 p in conference called to order by prest young singing prayer by elder anissa lyman sin bill I 1 ing 1 prest young delivered tile following fop owing SERMON we have assembled together this to cm cc lion e the business of tile the conference ti portion I 1 i which I 1 feel should be devoed to In lead ings traversing the experience of the church Chur ck or arii an any way the spit spirit it of the lord shall manifest j the he special bu business busi nees that lias has to be transacted in 1 conference like this can be done very quickly pd haps we might do nil all that is necessary iu in half a d du 4 I 1 or in ill a at the farthest we came together for the purpose of worship 11 the lord and many have come from a distance wa wished to come up here aud arid join with their in contemplating the work of the last days andt andi speaking to eacia other comforting words for it i 1 a very agreeable exercise on occasions like thisie aliis well as ait in other meetings to rehearse over to each oil 06 er the scenes of life the feelings ocue heart 6 tragedies that have passed among us the we A e have surmounted anted arid and the days mouths months and yet ye we have been brought through I 1 will say for one so fur as it come concerns erlis my OW 0 feelings my my brethren are at liberty to talk about till that is in their hea heats ts this is kiy my privilege and wish it to be that it is the elege of thu who shall address this Con conference conferee feren ce if they wanti preach reach us a discourse or on doctrine on the gathe ing I 1 cael israel for instance istance ir they are at liberty so to do I 1 1 any one wishes to preach the first principles of 6 U gospel repentance pen tance and baptism M ith tile the gifts tin are at eibrt liberty Y I 1 wore were it not that our bodies have to be fed ani m clothed I 1 would propose that wo we tarry here a few fei I 1 months to gia gab dl a chance to speak to exhort k h pray to prophesy to sing to speak in to tongues ork orb do dio whatsoever v the spirit should manifest unto ther then rit but our work is a work of the present the SITO ion wo we ure are seeking is for the present und arid sought ew coi erectly it can be obtained oba ined and be continually el enjoys jOyei if it continues today to day duy it is upon tile same prin princ cirii lok that it will continue tomorrow to morrow the next baythe ne ri et week or the next year and we might bay the net neg eterno y if we are aved ave we are happy we are filled will light glory intelligence and pursue a course to et eft joy the blessings tha the lord has in store for us I 1 we continue to pursue that course it produces ju in the tiling we want that is to he be saved at this preset moment and this avii lay itty the foundation to t 0 be sav sava for ever and for ever which will A ill auto amount ant to an air eteau salvation brethren we have accomplished the design of ot 01 leeor I 1 I 1 ear a that we listed to accomplish and really th U t thought hought inadvertently rushes upon my mind ahw in have we bot accomplished accompli f bed au all we have lis lise e I 1 yo to ill do not only in excavating the earth I 1 and laying down li corner carrier stones in the center of tire the atia mi body of 11 building we shall rear for the temple fiu bu chern have we contemplated doing one thit tiling we have lave ill done to abuid up tire the kingdom of gud gvda if there hi 6 been a failure it does not occur to my mind bt at p pit sent seat I 1 cannot now recall to my my mind one circuit cincu stance of that kind with all the mobbing nob bing di iving 0 afflictions afRic lions that this people have passed through gh though h the enemy had power to kill our that askill his body did he not accomplish all that w in his heart to accomplish in his day dav he did to 0 o wj certain knowledge land and 1 I have ma many ny witness s be i that heard hirn him dealure that lie he had done eve ry rythia thi he fie could d df lie had h d revealed everything that cod c 1 bo be revealed at an ans seul that he had bad prepared the ws wit for the people to walk in ill arid and no man or woman shot show be deprived of going into alig presence pres nee of the fad faan arid and the son arid and enjoying an eternal thoy they would walk tu the path he had pointed out from the day that lie he fell until thit thib any aay if thai tho I 1 is is one item itei not ot business if there is orie one tiling thing to sl should I 1 have been done by this people crople that lias las been done I 1 cannot call it to mind though it I 1 1001 ed gloomy fora month or six weeks past 10 weather being so BO unfavorable wi anh th re regard ard to bai ready to 0 o lay those corner stones to today day I 1 I 1 am ain happy to say a ay thai 1141 there has been a gel deal of faith manifested by the saints and that laith faith the fprd L ird his has granted unto us the dearo of our hearts or else tile the devil has been sent seal oni on v errand another way and forgotten himself I 1 do it think however lie be need trouble alibi tile the world tor lor lie he has bliem them s egure enough he ili may inny have slept a little too long as s lie he lias has X been here ou on notable day I 1 attribute aUri buie it to ok father in heaven fur giving us this beaulah beau lift weather today to day I 1 the th co congregation was not accommodated 1 ni ail F r desired we should have been pleased t tf if to T could have boen ben so situated that nil all heard the orations and prayers that were nao UP on those four stories stones but they will be in p krijn 00 4 B V yoi i can read them hem at your leisure ka 1 I do not like to prophesy much I 1 never r d 10 I 1 wi will it I 1 venture to guess guer a that I 1 this day da y and 1 ap 4 1 I have performed 0 on a it wll vil I 1 long be einab h this people and be sounded as with a voice e throughout the world as jar far as lud lead a and ads long as stearn steam wind vind am and d the electric current carry it it IL is a day in which all the faithful jig rejoice in till all timp time to to corns cone ta t some soine vii will inquire do you suppose we sw finish this temple bro brigham Br ighani I 1 have til lil such questions put to me already my answer IB do not know and I 1 do not care any more hiitt il i than I 1 should if iffy my body was dead and ail inthe be erk and my spirit jn in paradise I 1 never have caceil care for one bile tiling thing and that is ir simply to know knew thatis ll 11 now right ri before my father in kosven if aidar coment Rno ment this day doing jhb things goi T raplh I 1 I 1 4 my hands and precisely where my father S alti wants of ie I 1 care no more about tein te in 9 r than thou though anever it adver would come I 1 do not ki V where I 1 shall y w tomorrow to morrow not or when ibis P X will be done i know no more about it than jit anjo i do if god anything for you I 1 will tell you it as asto aa toay apty pty go to 6 creek ana until you ors ar sat satisfied fied I 1 I 1 A I 1 tins this I 1 so kow kno akers should he be a ii fu I 1 here ere I 1 ddn do know it if is the du duty of thi abw dwle to ta CB M cewe cuce to kiuda build a emph now some conw aul wul I 1 know ahm kind of ofa a baxindine it will wic pe 4 A patie oly brethren until it is is doige aud aid ant I 1 in your bands 1103 willingly I 1 to in finish anu fa it i 1 know wh w jl i t be I 1 ana an A nort a ina neither w given much to pro P 1116 IN when hen I 1 vaut baat apy that done I 1 call 0 on a B bro ro 71 heber eber he is 14 my proal 0 he be loves and I 1 love lore to hear bear bun scarcely ever say much inath about revelations X 0 o or v tol but cuffiee it t to bay five years ago aasc 6 jaaj U I 1 y I 1 here and saw in the spirit the temple not ten aehl atom whery w her wo w have laid aid the ahe chief cotner cornet 9 si I 1 have not whit what kind of a temple should build lecause it was depre repress before me I 1 never looked upon that g ground ro I 1 the vision of it was there I 1 see it as pi plainly ini it was in reality before me until it is is 1 will say however howeller ho welver that th attwill it will have six si to begin with i instead 1 of one now donot do not any a ny 0 apostatize because it will havo have six six towers and 1 only built one it is easier easier for us to build wi si k than it was for him to build one the tim 0 come O e when thew there will be one in the centre 0 of r 1 P pies les we shall build and on the top groves al ponds but we shall ahal I 1 not see them here at pre the first papy proceeded to the corner to lay the first stone though it is is C 0 to lo commence at the north east corner that J beginning point PO int rn moat oat generally I 1 believe in I 1 1 world at this side of the equator we nt at the south east corner we sometimes loy 14 0 I 1 I 1 1 11 4 1 v y I 1 1 90 I 1 i N 1 I lant a brelton YU old men that have been through the null mill pretty well have ben inquiring after light which way do you go you will tell roe me you vo go to the east for light fight so we commence by laying the t he stone on the south east Corner because there is th 14 most light t jiust justas as quick as tho minutes of this days proceedings ce e are out th thre there re will be elders high priests ding it and se seventies e aties whether the same order has been carried out today to day as was observed in ili laying the borner stones of the other temples I 1 want to give you a little history of it that you may know i when tho th corner stones were laid in kirtland they had to P up boys of fifteen and sixteen years of age ar aad wasta I 1 them elders to get officers enough to lay the corner stones the quorum of the twelve and the high council and nd many other authorities that now exist were not then in in exiA existence enee joseph presided over the church by the voice odthe of the church perhaps it may make some of you yon stumble were I 1 to ask you a question does a mans being a prophet i a prove pro vet that hat he shall be the president edt os il I 1 answer no A man may be a prophet Fro phet ser eer and revelator and it have nothing to do with his being the president of the church suffice it to say that joseph was the president of tile the church as long as he lived the people chose to have it so he always filled that responsible station by br the voice of the people can you fidd any revea tian appointing hirn him the president of the church the keys odthe of the priesthood were committed to joseph to build up the kingdom of god on the earth and were not to lie be taken from him in time or in eternity but when he was called to preside over the chucci etwas by V af v voice 1 ice of the people though 9 h bhela ue the keys key a W t the h e priesthood ind independent end ent of their voice I 1 etna want t the lie elders of israel to reflect upon this suba subject ct I 1 would bf b 1 glad to teach you something thit you may may hat gret get into such snarls as heretofore you make me think ot a child that is trying to make rope of a parcel of old thrums until lie L sifts ts the whole into snarls gnarls it is so with I 1 the lie F I 1 berv of israel as tuchi touching hg their ideas of the 11 arif hood 1904 I 1 I 1 I 1 N iv hear me and I 1 will try to talk so that you can understand I 1 will presume to alro a little further thaia than f did dd with jard to the president of the ahn church reli bifid andray to io this people a man mily may have visions the angos angels ol 01 god may administer to him he may inay have revelations revelation and see ns aa attly m my visions as you could count he might have the heavens opened to him aad hefinger of the lord lora ind and all this would not make him the president of the church oran or an elder a high priest an apostle neither would it prove that lie he jasven ya 11 a saint something t else is wanted to pro prove it why I 1 mention this is because of the frailty weakness and shott short ness of the people if it a man inan should corne come and tell you he his had a vi and ran can appear to substantiate ills his testimony that he has had the heavens opened to him yop bokar ape roady ready to bow down and I 1 worship him and he may inay be at the smine same time perfectly calculated to destroy the people one of the biggest devila on earth he would tobe to he one one ot of th thinnest of men to be honest and unassuming 1 and come with all the grace an aarl I 1 I 1 g generalship e hip of tile the devil which is so sf well calculated to deceive t the he p people ople admit this to be raw caso if you vou aak ive we what will prove a tarn or woman to be a saint I 1 will answer tile the question it if you yot I 1 love rile me say says 1 jesus es us you you will keep my sayings I 1 that is ia the touchstone if aru love the lord jegu jesus s 1 1 christ p anthe dihe father you will keep the commandments I 1 m mand and ments of the son pon you on will do his will isyou if you neglect to do th isyou mily may hive have all the visions and revelations that could he be bestowed beg bek towed upon a mortal being bein gand yet be nothing but a devil why I 1 use thi expression espre stil on A beci tuse when a man s mind is enlightened andee h turns turns from that light to darkness i it p prepares rp e a r e s him m to joae e a devil A man inan never 1 knew tie how ho to be e wick ik until light aud and truth was ins I 1 first ma made d ato mani awe fils fl bhai d lih then is the time for imen men n to to ra mike make ti their I 1 r deai decision an I 1 if they turn away from the thel I 1 it prepares rep ed I 1 api hem to become devils N w want a t to go back bu for I 1 have wandered off a little with regard garito to laying the corner stories stones and take up the e apostleship in connection with this thia let me asahe hp I 1 high pr ariesta its iesta I 1 quorum rum a question in n ardef to bring alt out I 1 wish to lay before you t r 1 ask p k I 1 lie he high priests from whence does the he apostleship grow doets does it grow out of tile the high priest priesthood hoped alwill I 1 will venture to say if I 1 was aas gothere 10 d ty anck this qa stion was proposed for debate you would find the elders in in this congregation perhaps 1 a nearly qually divided rn on the point there would ile be as thany many high fligh Pr ariett iett to wy say the apostleship grows out of the high gh priesthood as there would to say it does not let me answer the q ution ration now recollect that the I 1 high agh priesthood a id the lesser priesthood and all the priesthood there is is in composed of and is circumscribed by the apostleship brethren did you ever know that before batore isyou if you had biad read that book attentively point pointing irig to the book of covenants it would have told you tile the story as I 1 ant am now telling I 1 it to you yet the high priests did not know it I 1 speak thus to show yu the order of ef the priesthood we will now commencie com commence mentie with the A apostleship where joseph commenced joseph was or dain edian apostle can read and understand after lie he was orin ordained ined t ti this office then he had the j right to organize and build up the kingdom of god for he had commuted committed anlo him the keys of the priesthood hibit which ii afta the order of I 1 the 1 high priesthood which is after the order odthe of the I 1 son agid d this remember by b being ordained an n Jl co could aid he have ve built up the kingdom of god without first being an A postle apostle no he never could the keyo key of the eternal priesthood Prie which is after the order of the dpn god id 6 comprehended by bangan andade all the priesthood all the keys all tile gifts gifta all 11 th the endowment and everything preparatory alo io entering back into the presence oath of the e father fate and of f th the son sn is in iii composed of circumscribed by or I 1 might stay say I 1 in incorporated corpora ted 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