Show REMARKS by president xoung YOUNG nowery bowery am august 12 1860 nE PORTED reported BY 0 D WATT I 1 fully understand gat eat that all saints constantly so to speak pray for each other and when I 1 find a person who does not pray for the welfare of the kirl kingdom idom Z of god on the earth and for the hone bone honest st in heart I 1 am skeptical in regard to believing that persons religion to be genuine and his is faith falth I 1 should consider not the faith of jesus those who have the mind of christ are anxious that it should spread extensively among the people to bring them to a correct understanding of things as they are that they may be able to prepare lepare themselves to dwell eternally in the beavens Ee heavens avens this is your desire and is what we continually pray for br J V V longs discourse this mornine morning was sweet to mv mr taste and the remarks of 0 br T B H stenhouse were very congenial to my beelin feelings I 1 9 and understanding br long has good command of I 1 language anguay ge and can readily choose such words as best suit him to convey his ideas B br stenhouse remarked that the gospel of salvation is the great foundation of this kin kingdom that we ire have not built up this kingdom nor e established shed this organization we chave have merely embraced it in our faith that god has established this kingdom and has bestowed I 1 the priesthood upon the children of men and has called upon the inhabitants of the earth to receive it to repent of their sins and return to him with all their hearts this portion of his remarks I 1 wish you particularly to treasure up if the angel gabriel were to descend and I 1 stand before you though he said not a word the influence and pov pow power er that would proceed from him were he to look upon you U in the tit tir power he possesses would melt cong congregation pre 1 his eyes would be like flaming fire I 1 and his countenance would be like the sun at midday mid day the countenance of an holy angel would tell more than all the language in the world if men who are called to speak before a congregation rise full of the holy spirit and power of god their countenances I 1 are sermons to the people but if their affections feelings and desires are like the I 1 fools eye to the ends of the earth looking for this that and the other and the kingdom kingdo of god is far from them and not in all their affections they may rise here and talk what they please and it is but like sounding m brass brasa or a tinkling gimbal cymbal mere empty y unmeaning sounds tot to the e ears of the people I 1 cannot iannot say this of what I 1 have heard today today to io day those faithful elders who have testified of this work to thousands aids of people on the continents and islands of the sea will see the fruits of their labors whether they have said five words or thousands they may not see these fruits immediately and perhaps in many j cases not until the millennium but the savor I 1 of their testimony will pass down from father I 1 to son eon children will say the words of life were spoken to my grandfather and arid grandmother they told me of them and I 1 wish to become a member of the church I 1 also wish to be baptised baptized sed for my father and mother and grandparents and they will come and keep coming the living g and the dead and you will vill be satisfied with your labors whether they have been befi much or little it if you continue faithful br long remarked that beffre h b tra gra gathered to zion he had imbibed an idea th tha the people were all pare here this is a day of triai trial for you if tb there ere is anything that should give us sorrow borrow and pain it is that any of the ibe breth brethren refi and sisters come here and neglect to live their religion some are greedy covetous ous and selfish british and give way to temptation they ai e wicked wickel and dishonest in their deal deaf one ole with another and look at and magnify the faulis faults of everybody on the right and anthe left such a bister sister is guilty of pilfering va such a brother is guilty of swearing etc and ande we have come a ion lon long iong distance to begoin be joined witt liuch a set we do not care a dime for mormonism nor for anything else 21 the enemy takes the advantage of such persons and leads bliem mem nem to do that for which they are afterward sorry borry vorry lorry this is a matter of great regret to those who wish to be faithful but no matter how many give themselves up to merchandising izing and love it better thai that their god how many go to the gold mines how arian many go 0 back on the road to trade with the aw wicked ig ea nor how bow many take their neighbors wood after it is cut and piled up in the kan yong or steal their neighbors axes or anything that is their nel nei neighbors you live your religion ligion and we shall see the day when we shall tread iniquity underfoot but if you listen to those who practice in iniquity im city you tou will be ie carried away by it as it has carried away thousands let every one get a knowledge for himself that this work is true we do not want you yon to bay say that thai it i is s true until you know that it is and it you know know ledge is as good to you as though the lord came down and told you then let every person say 1 I will live my religion though every other person goes to hell I 1 will vill walk humbly before god and deal honestly with my fellow beings there are now scores of thousands in this territory who will do this and who feel as I 1 do on this subject and we will overcome the wicked ten filthy dirty sheep in a thousand cause the whole flock to appear defiled and a stranger would pronounce them all filthy but wash them and you will find nine hundred and ninety pure and clean it 11 is so with this people half a dozen horse thieves tend to cause the whole community to appear corrupt in the eyes of a casual observer br bong long said that the lord will deal out correction to the evil doer but that he would have nothing to do with it I 1 do not know whether I 1 shall or not but I 1 shall not ask the lord to do what I 1 am not willing to do and I 1 do not think that br long is any more or less ready to do so than I 1 am ask any earthly kin king hing to do a work th that a t you would not do and he would be insulted were I 1 to ask the lord to free us from ungodly not lend my influence and assistance he would look upon me differently to what he now does you have read that I 1 had bad an agent in china to mix poison with the tea to kildall kill all ail the nations that I 1 was at the head of the vigilance t committee in california that I 1 manae manac mana managed c d the troubles in kansas from the beginning to the end that there is not a liquor shop or distillery but what brigham young dictates it so state the newspapers in these and all other accusations of evil doing I 1 defy them to produce the first show of ev evidence against me it is also asserted that president buchanan and myself concocted the plan for the army to come here liere with a view to make money by y and by the poor wretches will come bending hending in and say 1 I wish I 1 was a I 1 mormon 1 abi AFI all ali the army with its teamsters hangers on and followers w with is eth ith the judges adges 0 and nearly all the rest of the civil 0 officers cers amounting to some seventeen thousand men have been searching diligently for three years to bring one act t to 0 light that would criminate me ine but they have not been able to trace out one thread or one article articie of evidence that would criminate me S 0 you know why because I 1 walk humbly with my god and do right so far as I 1 know how I 1 do no evil to any one and as long as I 1 can have faith in the name of the lord jesus christ to hinder the wolves olves sv from tearing the sheep and devouring them without puttee putting ino ing forth my hand I 1 shall do so I 1 can say honesty honestly and god and the holy angels and all men that not one act of murder or disorder has occurred in this city or territory that I 1 had any knowledge of any more than a babe a week old until after the event has transpired that is the reason they cannot trace any crime to me if I 1 have faith enough to cause the devils to eat up olp the devils like the kilkinney cats I 1 shall certainly exercise it joseph smith said that they would eat each other up as did those cats they will do so herband here and throughout el the world the nations will con consume each other and the lord will suffer them to bring it about it does not require much talent or tact to get up opposition in these days you see it rife in communities in meetings in in neighborhood neighborhoods and in cities that is the knife that will cut down this government the ax is laid at the root of the tree and every tree that bri ngeth not forth good fruit will be hewn down clown out of this church will grow the kingdom which daniel saw this is the very people that daniel saw would continue to grow and spread and prosper and if we are not faithful others will take our places for this is the church and people that will possess the kingdom forever and ever will we do this in our present condition as a people no for ive we ire must be pure and holy and be prepared for the presence of our savior and god in order to possess the kingdom Selfishness wickedness bickering tattling lying and dishonesty must depart from the people before they are prepared for the savior we must sanctify ourselves before our god I 1 wanted to ask br long a question this morning abathe had learned in regard to the original sin let the elders who like speculation find out what it is if they can an and arid inform us next sabbath or if f you have anything else that is good bring it along I 1 wish to impress upon your minds to live your reli religion ion lon and when you come to this stand to speak nob not to care whether you say five words or five thousand but to come with the power of god upon you and you will comfort the hearts of the saints all the sophistry in the world will do no good if you live your religion you will live with the spirit of zion within you and will try by every lawful means to induce your neigh neighbors bori borg to live their religion in this way we will redeem zion and cleanse it from bin sin god bless you amen 6 obedience is better than sacrifice |