Show tabernacle AP APIL IL ath AM 1854 president heber C K kimball addressed the congregation in the taberna tabernacle cle as follows we have had laid before us many items by the president and so far as I 1 am concerned one thing suits me just as well as another I 1 am very much in favor of all the remarks of bro brigham and they are revelation to us and that from god it gives me a great deal of satisfaction when I 1 hear a man tell the mind of the lord and I 1 can have a testimony to myself in that it is the mind of the lord and when I 1 haye have a testimony that it is the m mind ind and will of god I 1 then know that I 1 have got a similar spirit to the one that revealed it it is the privilege of this people from this time henceforth and for ever to understand the things that revolve through their minds from day to day and from year to year the majority of this people imagine to themselves a great many things that are in reality the things of god things that god is putting into their hearts but they do not know how to organize organic e th them and arrange such ideas into sentences sentence S to convey them to the minds of the people it takes an apostle to do it itis it is not every mano man or r woman can do it there has been ninny many things related here th that at you yon have no doubt t thought hought of hut but did not know whether they were e right or wrong it is a great co consolation to me to have that degree of the spirit of 0 I 1 the lord to discern all things and I 1 I 1 10 C r 4 J be able to tell what is true and what is untrue Is it not worth more than all the gold of the world it is for gold cannot purchase it it cannot be purchased with jewels nor with clothing nor with the souls of men and it is just as iree free to you as it is to me I 1 thank god for the things that are going to take place to give every roan man a fair chance to prove himself to be a saint or to be a devil jesus says my sheep hear my voice and they will f follow 0 11 ow me but a stranger they will not follow this is scripture what will you do with it are those that are going to the north and to the south to the e est east st and to th west following the shepherds voice are those who are leavina leaving the saints to mingle with the world to search for riches following the good shepherd or his spirit no but they are following a stranger and they do not know the good shepherds voice n nor or the good shepherds spirit well I 1 am glad they are going I 1 went up to tn mv mill yesterday and as I 1 I 1 was coming back I 1 met several brethren on their way to california i as fast as they could drive I 1 thought thy were afraid of getting a mission if they t k ey stayed here bere to attend th the conference 1 I have learned one thing to a demonstration since I 1 have been a member of this church that if a man is determined to be damned nothing can hinder binder it I 1 have argued with men for hours for weeks for months and for years to prevail on them to serve the lord but my labors have generally been spent in vain vain i on persons pers ons who needed so much persuasion to do good the spirit s of the lord does not inspire me to trouble myself any more about men who will do wrong it is enough for me to do the will of the lord in my y god even those things I 1 am dictated to do by my president and let every other man act as I 1 do and be perfectly independent whether to serve erve god or mammon I 1 would not now step one tep step 3 out of my way to head a mans course that is determined to go to the devil but I 1 will say go 1111 into ti tire tir r firc 11 olt yon r witty y bs 60 16 burned nea oot bout he will be saved when he comes to himself but be never will comp to himself until he is burned 0 out u t like an old pipe has become impregnated n t d with filthiness the idea of having places of location is good the people will gather there as they did in kirtland and in missouri and in other places I 1 consider it to be a screen you know when you carry your grain to 0 o the mill you must take great pains to get out all the smut and dirt and run it through h a screen that the chaff and other useless is m matter atter may drop through before it goes into the smut machine and hopper it has also to tn go through a hurricane that it may blow off all the dust and make it clean many of us have been through a hurricane and through earthquakes A smut machine is a fit representation sen tation of an earthquake it proves every kernel and if it is a smut kernel it bursts it to pieces after it goes through the hopper and the g grinders r inders it is separated by the bolt boit into flour of two or three kinds and the bran passes out by itself itse I 1 f where there is not a good screen to screen off the kernels of smut and chaff and other obnoxious substances they will have an effect upon the flour but do they destroy the flour no they only blacken it a little and it will not rise so good when you make a cake of it because there is no ife in that filthy substance that is mixed with it the life is in the flour upon the same principle a great many saints are emig emigrating rating and also others that are not saints but thieves and liars and adulterers and fornicators fornica tors and murderers and they make the good flour in the eyes of the world to look a little black but it does not affect the righteous saint the holy man nor the holy woman nor does it affect the servants of the living god who bear the priesthood of the son of god I 1 am very much in favor of having in the lords mill a good screen smut machine and bolt we have ground wheat long enough to know the value of a good screen and si nutter and it is high time these valuable appendages should be attached to the mill which will be a decided improvement every portion of the good wheat is good for something but the smut is good for nothing we feed our horses with the bran a n d feltell acx ohp J nn rt r t af kt ia I 1 would to god this people would all do right and walk humbly before their god and do unto one another as they would wish others to do unto them and when men labor for each other labor fur for your brother as you would wish him to labor tor for you but I 1 see men who come to labor for the lord who are eye servants A man who will be an eye servant to his god will be to his brother brot lier and that man who will be an eye servant to his brother will be to his god and lie he never will work only as you stand and watch him I 1 see men work on the public works one hundred or perhaps one hundred and fifty in a gang and I 1 have watched them work and not over twenty men out of the one bunar d and fifty will be at work at the same time while the rest are standing still I 1 supposed they had agreed to work by turns so that they would not become wearied before night Is this doing as you would be done by I 1 know gentlemen and ladies that it is not and those who do such things will be brought to an account for them and for all the works of your lives whether they be good or whether they be evil whether they be much or whether they be little you will not re receive a reward for anything more than you merit and whatever you have done for it you merit a reward and that belongs to you but no man or woman in the celestial world will be rewarded for that which they have not done do you suppose the lord will divide his inheritance to the children of men unless they have earned a right and title to ftp it 1 I speak with regard t to 0 this earth earthy no no more than I 1 would leave my inheritance to all my children when half of them had turn turned d away from me and never tried to build up me and my estate are such rebellious children heirs to ftp W if they are in truth then you are all heirs to the estate of the almighty whether you have been true to him or against him whether you have strove to build build up and increase his kingdom or pull it down and the blessings he be has promised to the righteous belong to the wicked as well as to the righteous I 1 tell you my family annot cannot claim s isted in gathering it and when they j have aye assisted in gathering it and in building it up they are to be rewarded from that estate according to their merits in building it up and increasing it that is the way god will deal with the families of the earth and with this people more aspeci ally and they cannot escape from it if I 1 have song sought h t to build up the kingdom of god from the time I 1 first came into this church until I 1 lay jay down my body in t the he grave still my spirit is as aa capable in another state to continue that work as it was i in n t this h is 1 1 b believe e 1 ie ve I 1 was a s ac active d e b before ef 0 I 1 came here h er e in laying la y i n g the th e foundation zo u nd t ion to come c 0 here and continue the work in this world I 1 have come here and received my body to accomplish com that I 1 could not accomplish in the spirit and now I 1 have got to leave this tabernacle to go again into the spirit world to perform a work I 1 cannot do in the flesh that I 1 may be prepared to receive my body again and enter into the celestial world with the gods and if I 1 am faithful all things are mine because I 1 have been faithful in my fathers business hut that man who will sit down in idleness and lounge away his precious moments doing no good to himself to his brethren or to his god will n not ot be an heir beir to the inheritance nor that woman who will sit in the corner and grunt grunt grunt I 1 until she is all grunt grant together and the bumps of grunt stick out in every direction and she cannot move her little finger to do one good action to build up gods kingdom or assist her husband in doing it it is just so with a great many men and a od women in this church and I 1 wish there were less of them there is no man or woman that has taken a proper has pursued a course that is according accor 4 I 1 to tn the mind and will of god but what it is or their exaltation in his kingdom suppose I 1 I 1 I 1 G C 4 abey have pursued a right course and suffered a little in doing rig 0 so o and then complain about it I 1 will they enter into their exa exaltation bation I 1 tell you no joseph said they would not no arid bro B brigham rig has said they will not and god has said mid they will not when a man or woman that hat has entered ino the holy order and is n considered quite unholy by the world and a little so BO by some of the gcoy saints site fits down and begins ti find fault and murmur about it they never will attain to that glory they otherwise would take a righteous course brethren and build up the kingdom of god and all v ill be well with you continually and all al things will work together for your good I 1 have not nat language to explain things any plainer than I 1 do they are plain enough to me and if you understand them as I 1 do they will do you good and build you up and nourish you and strengthen you and give you grace and patience and humility As bro brigham says this people is 18 my pride and my eyes are continually awake to their welfare this people are a good people and they are the pride of my heart and god knows I 1 love to see you do right and be faithful and work and exert yourselves and do good and work righteousness all th ill day lonz and not impose upon the church and upon your brethren and want them to carry you on n their shoulders and expect them to pity you and coax yon and flatter batter you do you expect that uch such a person will ever enter into the celesti celestial celes d kingdom of god and be crowned no for if that hat is in him or her in the flesh alt ah xh it will be tile the same in the spiritual world if any of my family W will ill do wrong in the boure they will do it out of the house that is if their spirit t will do it in tile the body they will do it out of the body if yuu you do not curb your spirits and bring them into subjection abjection while they are here in their house you will have to curb them after they have left the house or they will continue to be refractory refractor now gentlemen and ladies that is as plain as I 1 can make it to you and if you do not come to ft it ha as your own fault and it not t in mine i ne my bly prayer Is 0 lord help we me to be faithful and to continue faithful and be submissive like tile the clay in the hands of the potter that rr my ky president can do with ma as it him good when I 1 hear of his going any whre wh re on business I 1 run over to him and sav you expected tile me did dd you not wily why should I 1 w it to be called upon when I 1 am chosen to no nourish and cheri cher fh h and strengthen him and to go and come run walk sit stand talk or keep silent when lie he tells tell me what is a wife ditl e good for to me that will not do the name and then much more if it is in required what is the priest priesthood boid good fur for to those who hold the keys of life and salvation to the world if they are not in tile the same manner and mores more so this is true brethren re a and sisters and you have sot got to come to it th the e whole or of you or else be burned out ad then become servants to the faith faithful ful who have been perfectly passive in he file hands of theal the A I 1 I 1 mighty and are crowned in hi hia kingdom he says the sheep hear my voice and will follow me and a stranger they will not follow you enst learn submission every soul ot of you and then teach it to your children if diode adient children had been under the training of some good man and woman that would in their own example teach them and discipline them by good precept they would have become good saints I 1 wish parents to take that course and train their children in the way they should go g N and when they become old eh they ey will not depart from it are you waiting for the first presidency and the twelve to train them for you it is a hard case for us to manage our own but we shall not come under condemnation if we 40 our best towards them you will come under condemnation if you eo 0 o not train your children to flee from all iniquity and then there wih mih be none for ours to cling to you justify 1 I 1 j yourselves in man many y thi things b bt 1 C cause IL use you see others take that 0 coarse our a e ints because our rh children ildren run into iniquity you are not justified if you do not not train yours I 1 am speaking speak ing upon the principle of discipline the night the plates were given to joseph from their bed in the summit of the hill cumorah OU 0 I 1 saw in the firmament above my head hosts of men in platoons of twelve and I 1 I 1 WAW fd see them after look ing upon them lor hours with my natural eyes I 1 never observed a variation of a hairs breadth in their tep step or the least disorder or confusion con fusion in their ranks I 1 think of this flight eight and then look at t this his people they do not compare in in this respect with things in heaven we are praying continually that things may be on an the earth as they are in heaven when there was a rebellion in beavon they cast out the rebellious I 1 may not remain in this earthly house to see cee the da day y when the rebellious will wili all be cast out on the earth as the they y were in heaven but I 1 shall obtain an organised organized sed glorious body and see the day if th there ere is an evil in isra israel in which it will be east cast out the same as it was cast out of heaven of 1 shall see that day by the help of god and my prayer is by day and by night father help me to keep thy commandments magn magnify 11 f my calling and my priesthood which will wille e K te me md aad bring me into thy presence 0 lord that Is is what the priesthood pries thod is committed to us as for if we magnify our calling and fill our office god I 1 will magnify us and bring us into his bis presence if you believe this brethren why do you not live for it I 1 suppose a great many do and a great many do not and those who do not are the persons |