Show I 1 REX REMARKS 8 and instructions to the children who formed the procession july 11 1854 1 by president biggham younan the tabernacle my remarks on t this occasion wit wil be disco diacon n necked in in order to answer my feelings and to satisfy the congregation here is a spectacle is is indeed admi admirable r ablia I 1 and a sone so ne that has called forth many re reflections fleet in my mind and no doubt in iii the minds ot of the spectators first of all allow me to remark that before it t was concluded to celebrate thi this 2 da day y th the e seventh anniversary of the entrance of f the pioneers into these valleys which we now occupy I 1 had bad determined to treat some of my family and friends to a dinner and had made preparations accordingly this has occupied a artion p artion of my time anda and attention but before all al my n y preparatory prep antory labor was performed I 1 awas was urged urn geato to attend on this interesting bocc ision this has thrown my previous plans touch torching tor ching ilig this day d ay somewhat into confusion still I 1 am filled with joy in in be bead hd this heart cheering scene seene according to the Pro gramme it seems I 1 am to be escorted escor led by the back to my dwelling I 1 however ask it as a favor of the officers of we the day to excuse me and relieve me from being present pr sent or tro i taking any further part in this days proceedings alter afie r the dismissal of this tah congregation degation ega tion that I 1 may repair immediately to my house for if f I 1 hav to wait for the company adny to escort me it will make it late before I 1 can be present to wait upon my friends before I 1 proceed 1 ed further I 1 wish to make another request in behalf of f the children who are not capable of judging for themselves they would traverse these streets until they fainted I 1 wish the bishops and marshals of the day to consider this and my advice is to them soon and while they are parading the streets be sure aure to have plenty rif of water handy for them to lo drink if these requests can be granted I 1 shall feel thankful and I 1 presume you will have no objections to granting them on such occasions as this our tabernacle dues dries not afford room for seating the people I 1 wish the bishops to hearken to a request i will make of thern them erable enable br hyde to pro prosecute the labors placed him to build a bowery on the nor north korthof f this thia tabernacle that will convene about people and let it be done before another celebration eek bration comes off or even before another conference I 1 lain am disposed to take a vote upon this matter if the brethren and sisters old and young will plit forth their ex erti ons and means to assist assisting assi stin in accomplishing this work let them signify it ly by rising their right hands fall all hands were up I 1 shill with pleasure pleam ve render all the assistance possible were there cimei would like to make a great many remarks pertaining to parents and children but my time ime will wil be too limited Jimi ted A portion of the youth of our community como unity is before me and could I 1 give these young persons a word of counsel it would meet my wishes and gratify my desi desires resto todo do them good I 1 will wil venture to give them a few items pertaining to life health vigor and salvation and I 1 hope gope they will not forar forget e t what I 1 am about to say aay to them I 1 will begin by asking the older of the assembly if you do not recollect that when you were two three or four yew years of age many ot of your mothers as soon as you were able tv drink out of a glass and they happened to have a lit tle tie wine would compel you to partake of it contrary to your feeble D i you vou not recollect when your mother made a lit tie ile sling to revive revive her when she was fatigued with labor or exertion of any kind saying to you drink my child now I 1 wish vp say to you g girls i rs never be guilty of buckl practices when you become mothers I 1 never when you sit down at the table to drink strong tea perhaps as a stimulant when you are fatigued give it to your child I 1 see this practice almost daily or occasionally at least in this as well as othe other communities kepp the tea the coffee and the spirits from the mouths of your children 1 I could say many things that would it be e of great worth to you pert pertaining to the rising generation I 1 had I 1 time but I 1 wish you to recollect and ti tice this one item I 1 have briefly laid before you I 1 wish the daughters of israel to far exceed their mothers in in wisdom and I 1 wish these young men and boya to far exceed their f fathers I 1 wish my sons to far exceed me in in goodness ind and virtue this is my earnest desire concerning my iny children and that they not only walk in in the footsteps foot stepp of their father but take a course to enjoy life health and vigor while they live and the spirit of intelligence from god that they may far outstrip their lantheir in in long life and in ah the e good they will perform in in their day what 1 I say ay of my children I 1 apply to all ail young men my young brethren will you accept a little counsel from me when you gefrom go from this tabernacle make a covenant with wilh yourselves that you will taste no more ardent spirits unless less it is is absolutely peco necessary and you know it is also make a covenant with yourselves that no more of that filthy nasty and obnoxious weed called tobacco shall enter your mouths it is is a disgrace to this and every other community I 1 am well aware of the reflections of in many mamy anity upon this subject you may say to yourselves bif if I 1 lean can do an well as my parents I 1 think I 1 shall do well and be as good as a s I 1 want to be and nd I 1 should not ot strive to excel them but 1 J f you do your duty you will far excel them in 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 everything 0 at is u good in holiness b liness and intellectual binal zinal strength for we this is y I 1 lege and it becomes your duty to take this advice from tile me and practice lee S future life and it will be more valuate va luaVe than the rushes riches of this world wh 11 1 I see the older 01 der brethren n chew to tob should I 1 not do it likewise thus have taken license frona from the itt of others until they have formed an 4 ac a false appi app tite and they love a little i and a little tobacco and many other tt th are injurious to their constitutions and ly hurtful to their moral character course that you can know more than rents we nave have had all the tradition oo age in which we were horn born to conten but these men and women or ti the I 1 J part of nt them have been born in the ch brought up latter lay day Saint sand have the teachings that are necessary to them in the kingdom of god on earth I 1 a aie e III in any way suspicious that the aca r parents are not right it there is a eon in your minds that they hev feed appetites t I 1 injurious to them then it is for you to rents renta from that which you see is not good in HI y SI I 1 will now offer a lew jew words of d ment and I 1 wish you to listen to them the lively if you wish to be great in the ki kia of god you must ile be good it has bon bej you often atlen and I 1 reiterate it to day that or woman in this kingdom that the lof I 1 mighty has again established upon the can become great without being good out being true to their integrity faithful to trust rust full of charity and good works alf do i not ot order their lives to do all the go gol can they will be stripped of their an antic al of greatness you may write that thai dot write it as aa rew revelation lation if you please tor for i id I 1 again you must make sacrifice cf if 10 el I 1 may call it of every feeling you I 1 earth arth as a man as a woman soman as a tat catl t I 1 mother as a husband as a wife as a mi vin a family or community for the sabe lofv if I 1 dom d m of god on earth that you assured assur edl I 1 do now remember I 1 that no earthly eaitH va ly may stand between you and your jour cal callia I 1 dut duty while while gazing gating upon the scene before n I 1 thinking of what we w have passed ahr I 1 scenes of affie affliction tion floeting ih ibria my nipa reflected on the generation row growing on the past dealings of thy the lord tow peppe people in his wise provi dences deuces I 1 in 1839 the twelve and others were ek calt on to to afler afier the had much persecution and tribulation bro smith had to leave ohio and d escape for J I 1 had jillso also to leave the count country ry t ti 1 I save I 1 i I 1 was going to the west where joseph ph i logo to goi had not apen in missouri uri i five months before the mob coronel coro neu burn cousee I 1 had 4 ap wh w means I 1 had left to purchase an baeri my family abut lead to leave Mis missourian at the trouble and expense of conveys I 1 goods there and preparing for living I 1 1 behind and went to illinois Iljin oia well the j lion was that several of the br brethren ethran to my on missions mission to foreign lands and we ful fiul in the midst of poverty this is a a pr r the hand of god is is able ablerto to sustain his s and he will continue to provide for UH we will do his hii will he will take care of 0 I 1 I 1 people andas and as individuals one proof is in in my own life if e and experience when I 1 if pit it my family to start for iwas 1 was not able to walk one mile 1 I able to lift a trunk which I 1 took into the wagon I 1 left my wife fe andl an children chil dien without a second suit to the for pt we had left all our property in pose a the mob every oue one of my family wi ind and my my then youngest child who hait hay day was but ten days ol 01 time I 1 lett left for england joseph mid an id bif is api promise you that your family sh I 1 you shall livland live and you shall know thit thatty I 1 1 gad is in calling you to go 50 and alad preach pre alich v life and salvation 0 to o a perching pen peri hing wod wo said all he could say to comfort and eai e i the brethren this was our situation a with regard 0 to o the remainder of the they had bad all been driven like myself i I 1 were a band of brethren about lq l equal q ual t family lived when I 1 left the them m t they h ey fi provisions to last them ten days and no it soul efthem of them was able to go to well I 1 of water I 1 had bad lain for weeks myself house watching from day today to day for som acomb son ron to pass the door whom I 1 bonald get geto us in a pail of water in this conditto conditions condit condi tio ioni I 1 my family and ad went to preach the gospel go I 1 for being cast down or at all disco I 1 even fuch thoughts entering i i my heart I 1 will provide for my family and let the perish these feelings and thoughts ne occurred ired to to me if I 1 had known that ev eve of them have been in tiie the grave returned it would not have diverted f my mission one hour when I 1 was waa start I 1 went and left my family in t a f the lord and with the brethren ethren I 1 returned again in two years and nd fifty I 1 had spent hundreds ot of dollars abi on my missi onto nto help the to emigrate t Nauvoo ad had but ot reign elt eft I 1 0 9 id I 1 would buy a barrow barr with wih that and sit down and eat it with a and nol children and I 1 determined I 1 w woul ou anybody for work until I 1 had eat it br joseph asked me how I 1 intended I 1 ty an anid id 41 will go to work and get a liking ried in from tue the year to year w wo left in that time I 1 had acea ace a much property for the lord m multiplier thing in in in my h hands and a and blessed 41 1 my majja kings nver n ver ceased to every efery season both in the e winter and J son summer soney ey 1 I was lit at home borne occasionally I 1 lord fed and clothed me it never ell ei I 1 to my heart from the first d day y I 1 was preach the gospel to lo this jay day a when I 1 t said anid go and leave your family to effet 1 objection it has never entered into s my to violate my covenants to be an en enfroy I 1 I 1 neighbors neighbor to deceive to lie or to tak a self that which was not nay my own I 1 around me in thir their addresses this elds day aa artl gired the life and ability of br brigi brig want ant you ou nt only todo as I 1 have dolif done great deal eal botter better I 1 am tr trying diug to encourage you yon to do got not evil that the lord almighty may t td of you sustain yc you suend land give you pow I 1 luence fluence I 1 which he will do if you I 1 j with with an undivided heart but if yow do will chastise you remember it N I 1 s I 1 when I 1 left Nauvoo Nap 1 again leh left ati all 11 I 1 was under the necessity of bonow agi horses from this matt man a yoke of cattle catoe and a wagon from the other an and q after ing up what little moveably moveable move able p property I 1 this way I 1 left the country I 1 had ad ac I 1 ted fed th thousands 0 us anas of dollars worth of prop pro I 1 had to leave it in the hands of the n I 1 said leat eat it up destroy it or r burn bura at as quick as you please for the ea lords lord 18 an and d the falness thereof how did I 1 obtain ah all this lord gave it to rae me he has done w what done and if the youth will turn tt and affections to the lord their god be prepared to enter into the glory w I 1 I 1 I 1 tending lor for they will be prepared zion these young brethren and su I 1 prep prepared ired to return to zion bear off I 1 hood hond triumphantly and build up th of god among the nations of thee the e I 1 ter lei than we their fathers an and m 0 1 1 though we have done the best we I 1 1 full of integrity and love for all pe abound in you be filled with truth I 1 and anc never allow yourselves to do 40 a a would be ashamed to do in the I 1 lord almighty j or that iha t you I 1 would in I 1 of were he to stand in your P path t a an to an account that is the way sy to in the wy only way f for a mormon elder or to I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 19 W ys a mormon mother or daughter or sister in or der to obtain what they bey wish to obtain it is the w only path you can poss possibly i ably walk in to secure that which you desire there tire are men who will tell you many things in your houses and ij will vill try to dervent the truth and the simple 11 priti principles ciple plea a of the holy gospel but you must ret rn member ember that it is a holy life before god which S gives you influence with him i i loa link and see aee the past course of hr br brigham 0 ii 1 he is not adv different today to day from what he R ever ver was knowing that the lord wishes him to 0 do a certain warl he is willing to do it this i li lits his ts always been his hargear chara hara u ear you have seen rae me rise no up here in my authority when nece I 1 i I 1 bary acary and I 1 have had to be like a tion lion among the people but who can point out a single act aati i that has not been full of kindness to this people I 1 collectively and individually tho sometimes I 1 have to tn roar to them and wh why T because I 1 so they are foolish this thia gas exhibited 1 r here today to day and also on the fourth of july I 1 t saw scores of men wito alo hid bad no more sense than to crowd upon the women tind and children at the risk of cr shing them to death when I 1 see such conduct I 1 feel like a lion in the cause of i the oppressed and when the dogs and the wolves undertake to make this people a prey ii t hey may expect that somebody is ready to roar and contend tor for them I 1 do you to know how a man of god f feels eels under such ei F r will tell fell you if i un an enemy is crawling round this people trying to mike in j ke inroads to destroy them they can pick up nien men as fast as they come to them and throw them out of their way they qun can conquer and destroy army after army and in their lee bugs a thousand or ten thousand are no mo more re to them theal 4 thin s miny it is the strength 3 i of the A god that is in them keep his hia 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