Show t 38 by prest kimball at the special conference aug 1853 the preaching we have had by brother joseph young is 8 the kind I 1 love it is very unlike the mixed up preaching f the world but it is music to my ears there 0 ro o no jars nor discord when we hear bear tie the our is of the glorious gospel of the son ot of god it matters not to lo me what kind of an instrument it is ia played on it is music to me and nd to you but if you will tear in ILI pieces the best and most perfect tiling on the earth it will not look well in that condition the gospel and plan of salvation that I 1 have om embraced braced is music to me it is sweet to my body and congeni congenial it il to my spin and it is morg more lovely nil than anything any tiling else I 1 have ever seen since I 1 have been in the world I 1 love it and that is why I 1 love this people better than any other people on gods earth because there was never a better people that is I 1 am speaking of the he majority dt y of them but if you take them as a whole I 1 do 0 not ot know that you can find any worse that t is there are some that will compare with llie flie worst in the world for sin and wickedness ambr As br joseph said so say 1 I do not fear anything this side of hell or thit that is in the east west north or bouth I 1 do not fear it any more than I 1 do that the sun will fall fail from its position in fit the heavens if tit this is people ia will do just precisely as they are told yo you u know I 1 preach upon this a great deal the tha world considers it to be quite ridiculous for us to be of one heart and of one mind it is this union among those who are faithful mormons cormons Mor mons that makes the world afraid of us they fear us because we differ from the world in the united states and iu in the old countries they are divided into six or seven hundred different religious denominations all disagreeing with each other besides political and a thousand other kinds of divisions and differences such as whinery socialism j which in ia short div all be summed up under the term this is not the policy of the latter oy day saints jesus says ays if you are not one you are not mint mine let the ch christian ai stian world who profess to believe in jesus christ and iu in his father and iu in this book the bible note note that passage except ye are oue one ye are r not mise mine 99 there is more oneness in this people thin th in in any people that ever lived upon the earth there was not that oneness in fit the days of jesus that there is now and I 1 suppose there never has been since ince the days of enoch because there was such a oneness n among ag the people of enoch and they could not continue to be one and live with willi the wicked in the same world god took them and their city cita with a part of the earth to himself and they sailed away like one ship at sea separating from another jesus says except ye are one ye ve not mine and yet vet the christian world take a con course roe to j justify us themselves in divi division bion in strife iu III animos animosity ity in quarreling in envy in jealousy in war and bloodshed and yet they say they are one isail THEY LIE A man tatt says it lies to me and he lies to god I 1 say this to all the world and to those who are pissing through this city as emigrants emis if you profess to be disciples s of christ Cl irist and have hatred to us UP in your hearts hears 1 I say yon lie he in the home hame of the lord god almighty I 1 say it do you not think lie he will sustain me ire iu fit it yes and all his faithful followers will too and those who desire to be the disciples of christ and to be one will gither together I 1 referred to the days of jesus was there that union then that might have been I 1 jesus eid to the disciples when the people turned away from him bim ye also I 1 gova wo niia lie said to the twelve many of t the e disciples forsook him even peter the chief apostle turned away from him when he was iu in the greatest trouble and denied him with cursing and swearing in III this day aud and age of the world we profess to be one jesus said then how often would I 1 have gathered you together as a lien hen gi git hereth it her chickens under her wings but bul 1 ye would not he will do so now if you will set et him lie he will gather us together from the four quarters odthe of the earth 4 1 mea the saints the honest in ILI heart the elect of ef god that they may become one and lay aside their selfishness their bickering their murmuring and comp complaining buiting and everything of this nature if a man wants my ox lot him coma come and tell me so go and he shall have it he need not quarrel with me shout about it and if he robs robe me of it I 1 want walt 11 mm ta enjoy the stolen property if lie he can for I 1 will wil not quarrel about the foolish things of tits this world for they will soon decay and return to their mother earth as you and I 1 will I 1 now brethren and sisters I 1 will sty siy to the emigrants who ho are passing this city and to the world at large that eliat it ir ip our intention to become perfectly one in heart and mind hive have those who have separated themselves from this people prospered they may have prospered for a seaton season I 1 bit by and by they become like a limb that is 9 vered severed from the tree they wither and vanish ariy and all such will continue to do so from this time henceforth and forever it is just as much impossible possible in for a people to exist that with daws d aws from this church of jesus christ of latter dy sai saints it ts ns as it is for a lim limb b of a tree to live 1 we when it is severed from the body of the tree of this I 1 am positive because I 1 know it it so I 1 will say concerning the world aud and all the sects and denom rna ions and kingdoms of the world that oppose this work and people of god they will wither in due time likewise and they cannot help them wt when hr br joseph smith lived he was our prophet our seer and revelator lie was our dictator in the things of god and it was for us to listen to hin him and do just as he told us now that appears very absurd in the eyes of the world but they alt all a 8 ly if they hid had lived in the days of fetu moses or 0 J sus they would not have done as the people in those days did to thern them but at the samo time they would take our lives if they could and do just like them we are the servants of god we have been called of god the ministry of that holy prophet joseph smith who received his auth authority or it ty the ministry of holy aug augelie elit now he was just as true a prophet prop liet as moses was or as any prophet that has evor ever been upon the earth and we are just as much the authorized servants of god as the apostles and disciples in the days of jesus christ were ware and I 1 know it and I 1 bear testimony of it to the united states and to the nations of the world they say gay they do not believe it whit do I 1 care whether they do or not I 1 know it and god requires me to bear testimony of it to be vallant in testimony to the truth of this work and to preach the gospel and to lay before my brethren their duty br joseph is goue gone gonrand and now hr br brigham young the governor of alie territory of utah is our prophet our loader leader our revelator and it is for me and you to listen to him with all diligence the same ami as we would listen to joseph were he alive br brigham is his bis successor his word is jacim and if you do not observe it it will not be well and there is where I 1 fear for you brethren I 1 do not fear so much for myself as I 1 do for you yon because it will go hard with you if you disobey his advice there will many of you turn from the fil fici h you will turn your backs to us and some will be ba guilty of shedding innocent blood if you are no not t aware this will be the result of when that spirit attacks you yon you will be led lea to i do as other apostates have who have turned from the church of christ judas when he lost the faith received the power of f the devil and betrayed the son of god G od into the he hands of murderers joseph smith in like manner was betrayed into the hands of wicked aan m n who took his life he was betrayed by apostates apo sates by men whom we onee once loved lovea when they were in our midst and had the spirit of the lord we also would have been slain if they could have got bold of us but they were afraid to touch us on they knew it would be certain death to the ibe man who lifted his heel against us as just so now I 1 have hare got my old gospel preparation laid up bryint drying preparing himself for action do I 1 fear fair N no I 1 do not fear an anything that lives in ia the earth or that is in hell indians or anything isif 1 nover never will disturb us the saints from this time to oll all eternity if we wu will do precisely as we are told I 1 dw di not speak of ef these things to establish my as a 4 prophet but I 1 know what I 1 say any I 1 know you yon will prosper aud and live in pea peace in the tie i mountains I 1 tal of the great salt lake and be perfectly t I 1 I 1 in Annnie nt you will have food and ri reent I 1 L houses and lands flocks and herds and everything your hearts can desire that there is in fit heaven and on earth if you will do as you are told if you will wil w il do this you will think my words are very profitable to you whether I 1 am a prophet or not I 1 am not saying anything but what my president has said time and time again louwill you will live tit in peace and god will be your defence and you will increase in knowl knowledge edgr in fit power in fit grace and in ev every v good tiling thing that you can think of or mention I 1 have ave said often you may go 1 and write blessings for yourselves and insert every good thing you can think of that is in fit heaven or on the earth and it will all come to pass on your heads if you do right I 1 what do I 1 care for what the world says I 1 care no more about it than I 1 do for the quacking squal king 1 of a goose it is none of their business if I 1 have a mind to be a saint and keep the commandments of god and as you have heard it said so say 1 I the time will come in which you will dwell in peace and safety and when the time lime comes that I 1 you will go back to jackson county you will be independent and live wili wilmont ont auy opposition at all can the lord do it yes all the people 1 are in his hands and he can turn the nati nations otia as I 1 can an obedient horse they are governed and controlled by the almighty as much as we are arc what can they do against us why nothing whatever but if we do not do right they will he be a scourge in the hands agod of god to scourge us as just as the indians are at this tin lime P there never would have been a disturbance if this people had done as I 1 they were told I 1 am not speaking of the people in this city any more than of the people of other settlements to my certain knowledge there is not a settlement in these mountains but were instructed by hr br brigham to build good forts and live in them bliem and on these conditions alone were volunteers permitted to go out and make now new settlements have any of them built forts tell of one settlement if you please excepting they commenced conein iron county which remains unfinished yet the indians are now upon us its and arid our brethren are scattered off three four and five families in a place away off in this and in that direction ex posed to the Lama Larrin they have been called into the city that they might be safe and they are now teasing tearing nn na adof and wanting to go amok oguin and live in those exposed locations without a fort the lord ban ha made the Lama Lam aultes the indians a scourge but if this people will turn to io and do just as they have been told their wrath will be turned away in a short time but not until the lord god sees that this people are determined to do right upon tits same principle that my wrath would be turned away from a child that repented under the rod of correction so will the lords wrath he turned away from his children when they repent and go and do what they are arc told A spirit of compassion seizes me the moment I 1 see a repenting child so it ii it is with our heavenly father B but u t the most of parents when they tell their children to do a thing and happen to give them a little slap on the ear for disobedience the next moment they are sayi saying ng 90 0 my dear child I 1 am sorra let me give you a piece of bread and butter Our Father in atean heaven d does c not do so until he sees seen contrition of hear hearan I 1 ilia his c hildren children for their wrong wrongs we live in the days of prophets apostles high priests and servants of god who have the priesthood bood upon them nd I 1 know it gentlemen I 1 have been a member of this church near 23 years year and p cosed through throng the whole of the difficulties in kirtland ohio end and missouri when hr br brigham and myself and others with our kirtland to go to misson missori Mis soai I 1 with joseph smith sinith we had to lay ay with our fire locks by our r elde when we arrived in missouri sotiri the devil contrived to raise raisa the armi armis of the wicked against us there and all the elders and male members that could be counted from tho the western boundaries of missouri to nova scotia was not more than men we went up to missouri to reinstate our oar brethren who had been driven out of jackson county we went up near 1000 miles with our fire locks in our hands was there any fear in ia us no it never entered into our hearts from the day we started to the time we returned again I 1 never saw the time but I 1 could whip out twenty of the best beat men ota on earth I 1 had a spirit ou u me as much superior to this earth as the earth to is sti superior to the degraded spirits of the wicked that dwell on its face it was the spirit of the lord that stood by me and diff diffused ased strength into my boy body and into my limbo until the very hair of my head felt all alive did they fear us in that upper country yes yea they ran as the th thoy they were never going to mop atop in jhc abe world we felt perfectly able to clear out that country to nova scotia scoba and we could have done it with men if the lord god had commanded ns ila as the Gideo aites did in ILI days of old yes men with the spirit and power of god upon i them and their faces shining like the sun it can cannot not be told what they could accomplish neither can we form any conception of it let us be as one person from this time henceforth and do not let us uR suffer ourselves to become cold and stupid but be saints all the he day long and we shall build up tip the kingdom of god and be prospered in all things we set our hands to do these are a few things I 1 wanted to say any still there are many more things of great importance to us if we will only listen to them one is take care of your grain for it is i of more worth to you than gold an and irain silver I 1 know you will see harder times before another harvest than you vou have seen this season do vou you believe it did they believe it last year when there were bushels of wheat in the tithing office no nd when br brigham said the same thing last spring to stir up the people to he be careful of their grain they said 0 no hr br brigham we cannot shiely come to such scarcity as you foretell look at the store house it is full how much was there in the store house this harvest there is not one bushel I 1 i of f grain of any kind and I 1 do not know that th there D re will be there has been a great quantity thrashed out this harvest but little of it has come into the public store and the hands on the public works are obliged to live if you go into the joiners shop it is almost left desolate if you go into the machine shops and into the masons shop they are the same and yet there are thousands of bushels being thrashed out and ground into flour |