Show A F REMARKS ibi B president J M grant tabernacle oct 7 iea I 1 this afternoon I 1 have e very little disposition to 1 detain you bolg my health Is such I 1 would prefer I hearing others rather than speak myself I 1 we have received much annell good instruction aud and I 1 I 1 teel leel that our vi espuite drits are arc refreshed and sheered elie ered up we have been edified during the conference I 1 1 I like the remarks of elder orson pratt this afternoon t ter noon I 1 hope they wit will be listened to and obeyed I 1 regret ver very y much that our immigration this sea treason son are so few tile I 1 rejoice on theother tho other hand that tha elders abroad and tile ahe general instructions of the church have been able to gather so many we believe wo w have br brethren ethrem here from different sott ottle lemen ments and lots of persons persona per sons in this city who are on oil hand to take into their teiei employment three or four times thries as many people as have co come ne in this season from the nations of the earth barill the first year we we were re located lo caled in the valley we ave wanted a few teams sent out to help the emigration und and wo we had to use considerable exer exertion tiou to ge get those few te teams ams but this year all the servants C of kf ill the lord had t to 0 do was t to a make a cull call upon the people their blo b and all the alie teams we wanted we were re forthcoming with avith flour floar and ill all food to scud forth to gulp in ili our e emi rul i gra I 1 hav 0 soon tile the time lime in ili kirtland Ki rlland ohio the first arst gathering place I 1 ww wyt it to when you could hive have crowded the while congregation into one room sixteen feet by eighteen and these comprised I 1 all the saints S iines that were there if ff we had senta to jackson county and brought them all down and had a house like this there would have been just a little belt of people iu ell front of tile the standard stand stan dand and reaching part way up towards alie opposite side of file he room in the mountains thol tho it ii is difficult to gather tile people hero here tho aliey come from froin tile the nations and have the atlantic to cross cros and have to come from the de different erent parts odthe united states we beve got to together fether a considerable bo i ly y of people however I 1 thre wre are is as yet but few comparatively we aro are looked upon as feeble in the world I 1 of but bat small height but it is a very easy tiling thing to bring in an emigration of lour four or five ibo thousand usand and we can bring wagons irom from different settlements and the people who have come in are swallowed right up as 49 it were so that in three or four weeks we cannot tell what has become of our I 1 binl immigration ni gration they can call come by thousands thousand sand and lie be dispersed disposed throughout the territory among the saints and find comfortable homes and it is scarcely known and felt As an to io the perpetual emigrating fund to make it perpetual you must r replenish plu ish it and not take from it that w would make it a short lived tiling if you are aided by that fund throw the i aid you hive have received back into the treasury tr easery that tha t it may be full that we may be able to solid send for others I 1 have heird heard the president speaking that lie be designed d to call upon individuals who are pretta well off here who have friends in england Engli iid scotland wales denmark germany italy and I 1 dont know where whereto roto to operate ope rito with the fund and become a stay and a staff to it and associate with it foi instance here is such a man mail as father Rusi russell ell that has given his thousands perhaps lie he knows known of some family there lie would like to bing here he can call send the llie P E fund for that family and they sli ill be brot on oil this aliis condition that they labor for him and ashl as hl him until they pay for their being brot hero in ili yan yankee ee land they make inake the toys loys pay for their bringing braingin y up so the iball ami apty pty for their bringing here if I 1 have spent the money for thern some of you who w lut a g ardener or a Parin fanner pr launch out your go gold i d your cattle your hors hoisea P I 1 your food and your raiment rai inen and deposit tile means and we will sena over and get tile family and that f milly will nid aid and assist you in your financial operations and pay up the debt I 1 reckon that six or eight thousand ind in utah could act upon 1 this principle y you ou who have been brought in here labor and throw beck nto into the great purse what you have received that we may arii baing I 1 g double the number another year our brethren in pot county four or five years ago had a notion that apy they were going to got get up a machine inae bine that would bring fifteen thousand at a load the idea of becoming a soto slate in two or three years when we have only g t four or five thousand and of an all erni emigration gration I 1 do not wonder that the latter day saints believe in the plara plurality lity ol of wives launch out your means to help us bring the poor if you do not we will raise up tile the mountain boys ourselves this piecemeal business of gi ilits wo we want avant it upon the wholesale esdle principle thais the do cliine cuine I 1 tell you a few more boys breaking the crust of nations like bro cams Carns after awhile by di driving ahring their little wedges will bring them over by nations A great many people who r ome come lien here w when lien the they y do not find aei athing right haudy handy plenty of food houses and all other oilier conveniences they ate afe discouraged nud lose their energy ener girs s if boil you want to know something about the mornion mormon grit remember what bro carti cam said this morning if I 1 lie is whipped he dont stay whipped you cannot discourage a redl mormon it is necessary to I 1 raise up a certain stripe in tile valley of the real mormon grit that those who come over here and who have the whines and the grunts may have tile the mormon leaven among theato them to leaven tile the whole lump I 1 do not know but the president will be calling for volunteers to operate with the fund fand to bring nr mi re families here there are one or two more little it tie items I 1 wanted to speak about I 1 have had one or two cases reported to me for instance some of our brethren who cross the plains when they gt here are a little peevish snappish vexed and quarrelsome when tile the wind the llie other d daiy diy ty a man mail got the ser servant v ant girl to hold tile tent pole to keep it from filling but bat she not being strong enough down went the tent the man then made a out of a rope and began to bet tile llie girl and beat her most inest nn mercifully I 1 do not know whether that man mail is converted or not but it makes me think of an all old baptist preacher in virginia he came and preached in a certain place tile the next time lie he came round a drunken man cams came staggering u up to win him and said bro jones when you was wa last in our settlement you converted my soul I 1 well said bro br jones oJones 1 I should think I 1 did for I 1 do not believe tile lord had anything to do with it I 1 am in r rather ther inclined to think it ia u possible that the girl irl will whipper p per is is yet unconverted we like me men gere here to learn how to treat their families their eat cat tl alo and their horses etc i 1 I am entirely of a lively disposition I 1 know not how to be low spirited I 1 never knew what it was to be lonesome in my life some talk about being lonesome when they aie alou I 1 know nothing not liing about it I 1 never misuse a beast and I 1 lam am not inclined to misuse people but 03 0 alio 3 are rv right mean I 1 like to work them up with my tongue once in awhile but the he idea of people going to work to beat and kick and pound their c cattle attle hodacs hora children and everything around thorn is nonsense good natured red fe feelings eings and good natured conduct are worth a thousand of tile opposite character do right be kiml and gentle you have come in tile the mast of the people of godi god you have come to unite with us in in serving the mi mighty lity god of jacob and endeavor to do right ren when brethren bretl iren start to come coine here they are anxious V ti be in this place but many of them when they get here see no charms in zion you ean learn their spirits directly for they are known know n by their associates we have some high priests etc who have been among us for y years ears and others who have come in lately who like to associate with our enemies those who have a sneering and malicious spirit tak about such persons having the mormon spirit in them and via the light of the holy ghost and yet aret love the world and the things of the world and the spirit of the world and the glory of the world and the wickedness of the world some people can call associate with choso who laugh at the institutions of heaven at tile the principles of eternity and laugh to scorn tile tho ministry of the people of god they like to converse with them and they love loire to be in their society they love to have them around them I 1 would rather dig thistle roots and sego roots to live upon and eat boiled hides hid esAud drink the broth I 1 from them than to take such enemies into my house and board them and rather than rent my house to such persons to live in I 1 would burn it up it if they had lived in ili it and have a now new one that it my grit the tl filthy old building should I 1 I 1 r I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 never hold my family I 1 wish all the cormons mormons felt as I 1 do there were would be a flame alaine in zion and a fire in in jerusalem I 1 say if all the mormons cormons felt as I 1 do about those who laugh at our distresses and when calamities come upon us wag their heads and a say a y ilia ha ha so would we ne have it I 1 they would think there was a furnace in zion slid and a flame ili in jerusalem I 1 want mormon to feel like mormons cormons Mor mons to feel like saints I 1 want a man ol of god to feel fired up with tile the holy ghost and not place his aff affections upon the world and the things of the he world but love your god wid and your conr brethren that ure are poor and in in distress and who love god those high minded tes who w lio love and scrape to get your dimes let them go to where here they belong they and I 1 their dunes dinies that is is the way i I 1 feel about them I 1 like to see the saints of G god od fired up to help the poor and bring them thein in ili here to strengthen e a the reins of israel I 1 like to see them exert themselves to send forth the gospel and bring fron fro n tile the nations nati ins those who are humble contrite pure pur e and holy and who are uncoil ami autel by b tile the vices of the world go into tile circles of high life if you please I 1 know about tile the high lind and tile low ili in the united stats states talk about s high life ab ut chiv averting many of that class and bringing them here what hut will you bring those who believe the trudi with difficulty but the poor ano and needy who are looked upon as tile I 1 j arvas dr ss and ring of all ajl things ti lings are trellis tho best beat of a and we baut the best the purest and in d those that are tile the most holy brought to zion but the breath of that person who rejects my i god is is like the u pas free to me it is poison poisonous ou a I 1 eo 00 not like it I 1 admit that I 1 occasionally faud some who have not boon been baptized in whom there is artripe of lionor honor and good will which I 1 like but I 1 speak generally genei ally of those persecute the people of god jio reject tile the truth ia I 1 do not loved love them I 1 inn am like the old indian though I 1 will forgive and forget I 1 always remember lt 4 is is bred in lu my bones I 1 was raised u up p in the mornion mormon church from my childhood it is is sweet to me sweeton thau than the alie ho honey honetor or the ilia honeycomb it is is life and breath to me it is is eternal na I 1 life and I 1 love it I 1 do not like the person who sneers at mornion ism and I 1 do not like those who associate avith ich such they are no brothers no sisters nor friends to me f I 1 fellowship those who love tile the institutions of god who lo love alie ser servants vanta of god and the truth of god and the principles of righteousness but that alaks clots that aneer at atlee the principles of the gospel and the institutions of the kingdom of god who like to associate with tile the wicked and ungodly are not my brothers brot liers they are net my iny sisters si nor friends nor the friends of god but the person who seeks to co the sinner minnei and bring him to the truth I 1 like that hat disposition what I 1 al am a at is is this not that I 1 feel all any different towards those out of the church than the rest or of you ou there are a groat many of tile the brethren and sisters who w ho are poor devils de ils all gentiles in til ir eyes are so good so kind so loving so gentle and so full of sym sympathy puthy U that lat they cannot tell that there is is iny any difference between them thein and the lat ter day saints give me ine the man mail aud and tile the wo man that can call tell tile dIf difference farence between the devil and a saint says s one most all or of us can call I 1 tell you 5 ou on cabaot can lot I 1 see people on my right and on oil my iny left who cm call dwell and asin cute with the ungo lly ily drink into their spit it and fall into the same condemnation as they do take a man who is is pure he sees tile co corruption of the ungodly I 1 do not like it it lias has no spirit of zion in ill it new comers coiner you will find men called smuts saints who alio are land sharks of U utah tali we have all kinds of men here ind and we ie expect to have thein and if some soine of you who have haie been brought here by the fund this year are no better than anany of those who alio were brought last season you will whine cliine but for gods s ke when you feel like will iii i bite houi i oui and if you do not like to do that th t anso bro U 1 I ki lib lis remedy chew a piece of india rubber and keep chowing it until you augu get the grunt out of you ou i I 1 do not wish to letain detain you may the god of I 1 hoasea bless you and bloss bless the saints in in every land md and nation tint that israel may inay be gathered and the saints saved saed ich may mav god grant amen |