Show tabernacle TABES NACLE oct ath 1853 10 AM A M kimball addressed the conference 1 I feel grateful to my father in in bea heaven beaven ven that my I 1 lif fe has been preserved arid nd the lives of my brethren i to behold the thedac day we ive now lowsee see and enjoy the blessings we now dijoy As yaun has otten observed rv d we U or ar e blessed above all ali th the e inhabitants of if the earth that is is bueto tine to my certain knowledge chire been a member of thia church 22 years and have never seen the day to equal the one on I 1 now see for prosperity pros penty and toi fol the comforts of life with a very few exception I 1 enjoy all the comforts of life I 1 e ever er enjoyed at any period of my life and I 1 have lived m in a fruitful f r u iff til country genel genei ally until I 1 became a mormon and part parl of bf that time I 1 have lived where the luxuries of life have been abundant As for this country counti y being bein fruitful and qualified to produce all that hat we e need for div our comfort it is is no 40 balti behind q any in any part of the earth that ever I 1 was in in and I 1 have visited many parts of it t all that the soil requires in in these lenns in i is cultivation and nd it will ma make e afis u s as comfor comfortable lable as to tile the necessaries of life as any people peo 1 pie ever was upon the earth les I 1 have often said and say i it again a bain if we e live up to our profession be faithful to our religion and take a course to be subject to tile the government of god to those who are a pointed appointed p to leaa this people y yo i need never be tripled with fooht col cold and with the changes that hat are aie common to this court counti try y and every other country because I 1 know tile the faith the virtue the integrity and the course that this take lake viz viz to be e true to their god and true to him they have acknowledged to be their head the their ir i governor their president pi cs ident theil prophet their priest and the their irking king isyou on will take this course the elements I 1 will V till change wid and jha the nature of things not only in this valley but among the nations of the earth eai th for ilia hie ear earth th w will ill be revolution I 1 zed through we 1 the ahe faitha faithfulness uli of the he saints this I 1 know perhaps 1 haps some of you do not believe this sta statement but I 1 do for instance you mily may refer to one place in the book of moi monnon pon where ghiare the servants of god assembled together geth er and prayed for far the nation ir in which they lived and foi thoe that were at war ar against them and they pi evileen evi avd leel and their enemies became their friends and associates the faithfulness and prayed s of the st spins 1 n s cha changed ned the nature of thing not only religiously e I 1 i piously but politically and the government was afeei wards administer admi ed in m peace will it not have ilie the same effect with us its it is verily true tine to my certain knowledge it if will have and if thit this q people taking them as a people that profess to be LD saints saint would take tile the course 1 some i men tike take an and dhave have taken from the beginning there e w would 0 ula be five thousand men and women added to this I 1 C chuich where i is s but one at 1 this his day and it wol would ild bring to p pas as s tile the of god with more power and the holy ghost would wait wail upon the eld i era rp arid and upon the saints ab oad 1 with tenfold more power than it toes does now this 1 know i I 1 se see e the work of god is is prospering pios peung al and id rollin rolling forth foith from nation i to nation in in the old world it h has as gone flom fl om the sho res of E europe drope into almost every nation the deiy Ino moment ment the elder put the leaven as I 1 it i t were in in the measure measure of meal it at orice once begins to and it is is q quicker bicker and lighter and sooner elevated to the sul surface face than it atas was in in the beginning it calenes at once and begins to leaven aril and go aiom that nation to another nation until all the nations of the earth will soon hear the sound of tue tile glorious gospel it will take but a few years to accomplish this design and then ahe lord has aid said the end I 1 shall come tile the end of something will come I 1 asslie ansul yol yo j and there will be an overturn which chic h will make things 1 very diffrient from now I 1 well you that have bome ome here fro from in england f aiom rom tile the unit united ed State 5 from germany from italy 1 f rom not wiy way from sweden from china and from fc om the hs islands ot of the sea for what purpose have you come you cami came to serve your godby god by keeping his commandments arid and to listen to tile the counsel of those you have acknowledged to be your head I 1 will tell boti lou one thing brethren ethien br it is something ib mg very contrary to 0 o 3 our fallen nature to become subject Inthe in the world croaa whence you have come and where you have I 1 b been an taught met men sock seek tp become independent one of adother mother this is universally 59 accod dag to anay awn I 1 knowledge and empei e eri lence ence Y fr r nn m tile the ame that chat doi go 1 I 1 called joseph S smith mit ermence to act in in his hia po and aid calling gave m gu people arid and the very fi fust st elders of this church when t they hey went forth to preach pi each the coipel and baeli the people tile the next thing was to gather together all those that were disposed to io sacrifice and covenant ath me saith 3 the lord in my since I 1 have bave been a member in this his churco re m I 1 have seen a great deal of murmuring and complaining and a great eat many wars tears and much sorrow and aad lamentation and upon thousands luin away f rain the faith even br ethien and sisters that I 1 loved as I 1 love my own family they have turned away ind and perhaps be cavise caise somebody took an advantage of them sip pose yon houd all burh away from the faith what lias has that to do with roe me suppose you u S should h ou id all act like devils what is ili that at to m me e what bat has it to I 1 do with my reli religion ion I 1 lam am to 0 o serve god and keep his commandments perfectly independent of the acts of any oth other er perz on in gods world they b have ave nothing to do with me neither one way nor the other so tar far as serving my god asan as an individual is concerned but it is is for me and you 5 ou to serve god and keep his commandments mand ments and fulfil fulfill his covenants when we I 1 I 1 went into the the waters of baptism we made a caven covenant 1 to forsake the world worl d and cleave unto the lord 8 11 11 s 1 1 I 1 I 1 god with all our hearts all the rest of on our r days this is the covenant that I 1 made and it is the cover cove byant that each of you made or if you yau did not you should havo have done now will you falsify that covenant there I 1 af great many who will fulfil fulfill it yea I 1 will not make are a 1 single exception except ian for god is determined that a man shall fulfil fulfill it for if they do not in this probation every hey will have to do it in another and if in not in that in anether when a man commences to hoe his of corn he has got to finish it il if he dont hoe but TOW five hills hilli and alid then leaves it he will have to I 1 back and go adf hoe that row out outa and if you skip a single hill will have to you go go back and hoe that hill f I 1 am speaking i ig by the pi principle of comparison and that all you farmers can cali under understand sta nd using a figu figuroa figur rot rf I 1 I 1 speak of these things by way of instruction and to remi remind nd boti of et the dirties and obligations anler un ler you are I 1 sa say to the people who compose this tod today to day Y please go to england or to denmark congregation to italy or to anywhere else in thi the world and can you find a congregation of people that look better than this eit either aWin in their looks look chigi clothing or other comforts of life 1 I have lived in the united states in 0 one 1 e of the best lands thero is in the world it is called ailed the land but I 1 have promised never seen as comfortable times alisee as 1 I see now I 1 never saw them any better any than I 1 see them today to day I 1 never the saw pe people pleas as a general thing as well off as this people are you think you have raade made a sacrifice in leaving your homes your fathers your mothers your brothers I 1 and sisters your farms and fine dwelli dwellings I 1 have left all these such as I 1 had 1 Is this any sacrifice t no I 1 have told you often that I 1 thanked god when I 1 escaped from my kindred and billave I 1 have never seen the day since I 1 left them that I 1 wanted to go back to th them em though I 1 did go back anee once to visit I 1 the them and when I 1 went into their houses I 1 felt as tho though h there was a legion of devils in every house I 1 went into they were 0 opposed to me to fo my religion ion and to my brethren I 1 was thankful ul when I 1 got f from born them hem 1 and I 1 away su suppose they are as good a people as your kindred ed are arc this is called a sacrifice by the most part of you auf it is none to me you think you have sorrow and trouble many of you because you have to live liva in ili and tents I 1 speak of those wild who have just come in off oe the plains who are still living in their not much to eat prest young my myself self and one hundred and forty others have been liere here arid and we were in our wag gons and nothing to theat eat in in our wagons aw and I 1 nothing to jat eat in the country ex i capt it waa erck crickets I 1 ets M when we got to G green reen river river i m making adlung our way to this land we had to breaf the r road oad tor for there was not a track or trace for seven hundred miles through lawill a wild country full of ind indians indans ans ija iy which ive we were perfect stran strangers ers when we were ereau on the platte river one half 0 ot our men were out of food they had no provisions atall at all and no conein tho the valley to bring out flour or teams or wagons or potatoes arid and everything this valley now produces to fo us 19 we had no person to extend the hand of benevolence and kindness to us and notwithstanding this we di dil I 1 not murmur I 1 never saw a man cry once or sheda tear in the whole camp we had haa one mant man who was appointed GENERAL 12 and no ito man was allowed to only that one person you would think you had awful trials if you could not a have a chance to murmur but we placed it all upon one man arid and if there I 1 were were two that murmured the greatest was appointed ted boss that thai is recorded and will come out in its place in the church history by and by supposing we should come to the same conclusion here and appoint a general Murmur emi in every ward to do all the murin murmuring wing and let that person be be the one that complains the and then follow out the same order among the females arid and that female who telas the most lies and murmurs marr aurs the most we would have appointed as queen murmur byj or queen 1 g ambler which you please I 1 it atia is you have come out of nati nations lang of different habits babits and customs and many of you live in Wa magolis golis andi and 1 I am alli glad of ii i t I 1 livid in a wagon for more than three 5 years ears af after ter I 1 came into this vall valley ey I 1 had bad not a house big enough to got get into to sleep until the brath brethren started on their mission to denmark president aident Pr young was in the same situation As ap to your trials your t tribulations bill 1 a ti ions y your C perplexities your fatigue and all this t gi s I 1 say I 1 am glad of it I 1 thank god for it because it is salvation for you it is as for you to have an experience as it ft is for president young and myself and other jtb er men we didiot did not murmur when we found this country nor become cai e discouraged in the least but we were thankful that our lives were preserved presen ed and if on ch 0 wagons and teams had bad been taken from us ill andoor lives bad been preserved we would have been thankful yes more than this people are now tor every blessing they enjoy wh why because a man will give all he has for hi his life when he is brought to that extremity frlich proves he ought to be more thankful for that messing blessing than for all things in th tle world to hear people wo who are in glod houses and have hate the comforts of lif lifry in abundance around them and have so much clothing cl othin g that they scarcely have a place to put it I 1 s say adf to hear them murmur and complain is nothing in n this world that makes me feel mote mole indignant I 1 feel as god feels when he looks upon the human f family amily and sees their anthi anaf ulness for all the blessings hinr S tie he bestows bestons upon them e tn you know it is 13 so io 11 you are no not t thankful thankful you do not ampre appreciate clitte the blessings dingi committed to you and I 1 klow it it is 13 not in your f family majy only nor in mine alone but it is is ouid fouad in every pami family 1 more or less chenie when I 1 reflect et and see bow kind the lord has been to us in in preserving our lives and bringing us safely to this land through the instrument dalily or of his servant Brig liam where we can call have the privilege of possessing a piece of land without money arid and without price and our wood in in the same manner manner and chousa thousands Ms of other things that cost us nothing but the trouble of p eting it my iny heart is la filled with praised everything liere heie is is free the air and the land is fredi free our food is is f free ree and everything we have is is free I 1 know you think you have hard times time arid and small wages but let me refer you to one man here which you yot hyill awill all know he is is our oui mast master e r singer ainger I 1 have ave stait staid in in his house houie hou ie man many y days and nights in old england when I 1 first went t bere and fi he would weave twenty in a the same kind that we wd buy herp here and on only y get eighteen pence for his days labor basi besides having to go a seven even miles foi llie webb aud and then carry cany the cloth seven miles back again Is not that tha t true br james smithies yes and his wife had to dojk woi k in in the same way iney had to run their shuttles from morning morning until nigh night tand and from monday morning until saturday k and ndji ju st it have time to take the cloth home and get a little oat meal to live blvd upon I 1 have sat down with them many times arid and perhaps all I 1 had a at t a meal was one or two spoonfuls or of oat meal arid and thought I 1 was doing first rate I 1 speak of br fa james a m es as one person td i represent ep resent many and he will take k e no exceptions because I 1 refer to him ho he knows I 1 am telling 11 the truth there are thousands in in the S same I 1 me situation arid and yet tile the brethren who have been delivered from that state of toil and comparative starvation and placed in a condition wherein they may soon make themselves wealthy as to this worlds goods will marmur mu mur ant an I 1 complain of their s offerings aria arid against those who have paid oaid their pa passage sage to this pl place ace ant and delivered them from bondage br james was not brought here he came with his own meark through the blessing of the lord for the lord opened tl the ie way for him to como come here dd DA I 1 ever biear tear him murmur in in my life no ni N i never nor any other man etian ever heard him and I 1 I 1 w wish i avi to god egeit other person would follow his example I 1 have seen the time that I 1 have lived weeks upon milk weed wid aid a id nathel else ebenow not even salt to put P t in in it and 1 I 1 have boie ow 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