Show j vy v DISCOURSE bamel DAMEL II 11 WEIL WEI L nacle nacie sunday nov 61 6 isag 1859 i REPORTED BY J S V LONG LOKO doubtless during the remarks of br clim many of the brethren and sisters have asked themselves the question how can dan we do more towards promoting the interests which be dilated upon so strongly and in what iva way y we ourselves more useful in bringing brn 7 ind ing about the purposes of the almighty in establishing his kingdom I 1 do not doubt but thought of many things that they might have done probably they might have had more faith and have been more united in that thit falth faith and perhaps some might have contributed tri irl buted more in a temporal point of view for the gathering gath gring tring of israel what have we done towards bringing the na natives tivIes of these those mountains back to the knowledge of their god and the god of their fathers It occurred to me that we can henceforth do much more than we have done these low degraded indiana are of israel and the bour hour of their redemption draws nigh the time when they will rise in the scale of human existence and become a people whom the lord will delight to bless those that have to be gathered are becoming a mighty host and they must become participants in the work we are eap engaged waged maged in now this is a work that we can aid in all the time we can put our minds together and we can do much for the benefit of them and also for our dead we can do much more and be more faithful than we have been I 1 hear many say that they A io the very best they can and sometimes I 1 think I 1 do but shall we not go forward and do better and not remain in the same ola oia channel thannel stereotyped the more we do the more we will have howerto power to accomplish this is the way it works I 1 have had very peculiar feeling feelings a myself in regard to the natives of these mountains realizing as I 1 do that they are the seed beed of israel ihra I 1 hag had a dream adream about them in 1850 about the time we were called to go and chastise them irwill it will be remembered that we did it effectually it seemed to trouble some of the he brethren con we who were seemingly sent here into their very midst to save them item should have bave to go to work and chastise them and I 1 suppose thatis that it somewhat effected mygind my mind also the result was that I 1 had bad a dream about it which at the time fully satisfied me I 1 thought that I 1 was in my fathers house in the state of new york where I 1 was born I 1 appeared to be standing at the head of the stairs and it seemed that indians were in the bouse house and some said let us burn the house to get them then out I 1 told my companions no let us put tubs and casks of water around so that if they set fire to it we can save the building and overcome the indians they came up the stairs where we had a sharp but short conflict and they then ran off and as they went in the distance the they y became to appearance as wolves and dogs well I 1 went forth with the brethren and chastised them thinking that they were but little removed rt moved from wolves and dogs but in two dr three years after we had more or less difficult difficulties leg led with them again and arid after that I 1 had another dream arid and in that it appeared that I 1 was trying to shoot a wolf but by and bye I 1 saw it was an indian they then began ta pass before me like a panorama and they looked more and more beautiful and an I 1 much better clad than any indians as they passed along and although they still retained their dusky skin they were comfortably 0 in tably bably and finally i became richly clothed with decorations and ornaments of exceeding great reat value I 1 also saw females in the train wt who 0 were well formed tall and richly and somewhat gorgeously dressed aa as they passed along still improving in the vision of my mind as they came a company of men came in beautifully adorned chariots drawn by splendid horses richly cap caparisoned caparison ri ed and were dressed in rich velvet andy and a voice said unto me this this ibis is the priesthood r lest iest odthe almighty I 1 became we well weil s satisfied a that this was the counterpart to tb the e other dream for it corrected my mind in re regard ard to the natives they will become a wh white iteana and delightsome people As has been told this morning they once had the oracles of iou TOU life ilfe ife and salvation as we have but they were taken from them because they did not cherish them in their midst and although the promise was made unto their fathers yet because of their wickedness the oracles of bif divine truth were taken from them and it was decreed that they should in this life receive the penalties ot of their crime but they are the elect of god angwill and ani will be saved in his lils kim kingdom dom the apostle paul said while treating upon this sui sul sullies subject tiec liec 1 I say then have they attim stumbled bled that thy they should fall god forbid but rather through gif phi their fall salvation is come unto the gentiles for to provoke them to jealousy of them be the riches rf tf the worl world dand cand the diminishing of them the riches of th egen tiles how bow much more their fullness 71 for I 1 speak unto you gentiles inasmuch as I 1 am the apostle a to s tie tle of the gentiles I 1 magnify mine office if by y any in eans means I 1 may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh and might save some of them for if the cast casting ing away of them be the reconciling of the world what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead for if the first fruit be holy the lump jump is also holy aud and if the root be holy so are the branches and if some of the branches be broken off and thou bein being a wild olive tree wert grafted in among them and with them parta kest of the root and fatness of the olive tree boast not against the branches but if thou boast thou bearese not the root but the root thee 11 romans lith chap jesus and his apostles first came to israel with the gospel then when they rejected it the apostles turned unto the gentl gentiles rles iles and inasmuch as the jews stumbled over the stone which was the head of the corner so in the last days it will fall upon the gentiles and it will grind them to powder even all those that have not respect unto him and his word whose right light it is to rule how then should we having baying received the light exert ourselves to do good and spread the gospel to israel and all those thosa who sit in darkness the plagues and famines that have been spoken of will come upon this generation but the lord will gather his people from the nations before the vials of his wrath will be poured out in all their fullness and severity upon the wicked this is what I 1 would bring brin before this congregation and all saints an and a to tell them that our great object to be accomplished ly lithe the latter day work is to bring the blood lood of israel rael from the nations you my brethren and sisters have the blood of israel in your veins the lord has held his hand over his chosen israel for good and though they are continually fil all corrupting themselves yet for all this they will wiil v I 1 be punished in this life they are now passing 0 through the fiery ordeal let us take care brethren not to be seduced by the wicked spirits that are abroad in the world word we have great need to look well to our ways and to guard against temptation and the inroads of the adversary let us live the lives of the righteous and manifest that we are the children of the light having been born again israel is scattered abroad in the world among all nations the kingdom is established and it has got to rub against and come in in contact with iniquity with every species of evil and wickedness the lord has permitted or caused this gospel to come unto us but we have got to wrap ourselves as in a mantle for we shall be chastised we must keep ourselves from evil and learn to live to obtain our provisions and our own clothing from the elements and become as free and independent as we can become the head and not the tail tall among the nations of the earth this is a lesson we have got to learn we have got to do it sooner or later we must also put sin and iniquity from us althou although 0 h the cup may be presented to our lips we are not obliged to partake of it no it is our duty to keep from sin this is according to the understanding I 1 have of these matters look at the feelings and traditions we have in our breasts things that have been taught us by our fathers and mothers beorn generation to generation the principles of 1 truth come in contact with our traditions in many i instances and we have to grad aily ally al grow into the practice and arid knowledge of the holy ho 1 I Y principles of our reli rell religion gion glon and his this is not riot the work of 0 a day bus it requires 0 our ur undivided un d i attention we cannot see the end from the beginning but we can walk by faith falth and this is what is required of us there is a mighty work lies before us but our slothfulness and arad want of energy mak makes ts the work slower than it otherwise would be the lord loves those who love righteousness c for righteousness sake and he will vill not interfere nor force against their will those who profess and prefer to serve the devil those who will cleave unto him lie he will bless and prosper in all their undertakings the man whose heart is right will cling to truth and arid to the lord let things go as they will rough or smooth the almighty has chosen us to aid in the accomplishment of his purposes and if we are faithful he will greatly honor us and bless us for gerie generations rations past the people have gathered tradition after tradition and handed them down ta their children well in this dispensation the vast refuge of lies that have accumulated for so many generations will be swept away and the lovers and workers of iniquity be left to stand in their own naked deformity and darkness how have we to live upon the earth we have to strip ourselves of our traditions and evil associations of everything it needs be for the kingdom of heavens sake for it is the kingdom of god or nothing with the latter day saints where will those who have made lies their refuge stand when the land judgments edg of the almighty pass through the land they will wi 11 ie be swept from the earth as with the besom 0 of destruction we have e everything to encourage us we have th the leave promise amise of thrones principal prin principalities cipa cities and powers pow ers and every other thing that is good and needful for our happiness and welfare and on the other hand death and not eveith even the e eack privilege lege of preserving our identity but go tack back not into nonentity but into the great reservoir of unorganized matter of native clement element as though we had not been in this mortal existence at all but if we ire do right and go into our graves and be like job of old when sra sea sneaking speaking to his friends he said for I 1 know t that t my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I 1 see god whom I 1 shall see for myself a d mine eves eyes shall behold and not another though my reins lemmis be consumed within me job chap 25 7 verses it we are faithful we shall be able to do a great and good work for our posterity and pro genitors geni tors that there may not be a broken link from the time that our fathers last embraced the gospel to the present and from now to th the gran grand consummation of all things that a are r mortal seeing then that we have this great work to perform it is our individual duty to preserve ourselves and families from the evils that are amongst us this ibis work that the lord has commenced ia is calculated to bind satan and give us power over every evil influence and power that is in the world the way to bind satan is to drive him from your bosoms and let this influence and spirit spread abroad among the saints until it shall encompass the whole earth if we were to commence and continue to do this he would soon have no place in our bosoms he would have no place in the hearts of the peo i pie called latter day saints and as this work would increase and prevail be he would finally have no place upon the earth and our righteous souls would not be vexed from day to day with the sin arid and wickedness that are upon the earth this ibis we can accomplish in time by the help of the lord almighty ile he is willing to bestow the greater blessings of his kingdom upon his people as soon as he can get them ready to receive them by receiving obeying accomplishing and living those already given if I 1 the people will not be willing and obedient the I 1 lord is able as ever to raise up children unto abraham even another people through whom to bring forth his purposes in these last days it behoves behaves us therefore tle tie to look well to our ways i we have mends friends that have long been praying in for deliverance from the gentile world and I 1 feel that we might do more than we do for them hem if the people felt asi as I 1 think they should feel they lay by their means for the purpose of helping their friends to emigrate they do this in the old countries they ther lay by their pennies their sixpences and shi shillings I 1 nga as fast as they can many of you know this better than I 1 d do 0 because you have experienced it when you were ivere there they have a perin penny fund there and an emigration fund to whick which I 1 th the poorest of the poor subscribe a little now ivow let me ask how much you lay by I 1 mean you that have been gathered and a d that have got plenty to eat and hive five li lve ive upon an and d that are well clothed think upon uton t this is for it is for you a as well as myself and see if you can aid and assist in bringing r out others from the nations and countries you come from we cannot send wheat cattle flour or wagons for their aid but it is money all the time that hat is called for neither can we send your rl labor ab rt to be of benefit to the poor butia but it yan xou you would be thoughtful a and ana na careful you could do a great deal dea even by a little at a time to benefit be your poor brethren I 1 remember when I 1 was in the word of the lord came to me that it was the duty of the sa ants to aid in the emigration of the foor poor ee who are desiring with all their hearts to be gathered to these valleys I 1 may not be correct in calling it a revelation but I 1 thought it was and arid I 1 believe it yet and I 1 consider it binding upon me and upon the people to carry it out the day of prosperity is the time for us to do something and do 0 no let us wait till the hour of adversity when we are afflicted by losing some of the members of our family if we have done our duty in all these matters we ive can call upon the lord with fervency and assurance and if we wish to increase our faith we should call cal upon the lord in earnest and show that we ive have come with a determination to do his will how many are there who come into this church having great wealth that ever bring that wealth here very few indeed the devil plays with them until it inlall gone they subject themselves to his control and influence and by that means remain in babylon until all their riches bave have slipped away like dry sand from a mans mana hand and then they ahry send up here for help to come to zion in this way the devil has troubled and deceived many in almost every case lie he either gets th them em out of the church or gets their money from them before they gather with wini the saints and if the rich do heppen happen bs apen to get here with their i i I 1 wealth it is ten chances to one if they dont go overboard ird their means appears to be a canker der that consumes their souls |