Show REMARKS uy by president Prel pres ident dent YOUNG bowery p nt august 26 20 1560 REPORTED BY 0 D we enjoy great blessings and privilege sand and ou ought h t to appreciate them no people on the earth enjoy that peace and tranquility that we do in these mountains and no people have so much reason to be truly thankful and grateful and to ac acknowledge knowledg 0 e the hand of god in all thing sas gas we have we have havethe the words of life the law of life is committed unto us the priesthood of the son of god which is after tile the power of an endless life we are in the happy and peaceable possession of it we have great reason to be thankful that weare we are in these mountains I 1 have chave said so from the time we first came here when our enemies learned that we were going to locate in these mountains they said that we never could be driven from them and they told the truth if we ever go from them we ve shall go voluntarily they said that they would drive us from missouri and from illinois and they did so but they cannot drive us from these mountains we now inhabit all we have to do is to do right walk chumbl humbly y before god deal justly one with another and with the whole human family and let our worst wish toward our worst enemies be that we may see the time when they will be obliged to do r right lim ht I 1 never did wish anything worse up on t them h tharl than that they should do ri right pay their debts deal justly and walk hum humbly ly one with another this ibis is the worst wish I 1 have toward those who are now here and have tried to shed our blood for mone yand that when they leave the territory they do not steal all ail anything thing E I 1 despair of inducing them n not nol ot to lie ile about about us all the nations are fast approaching the brink of ruin search the most enlightened nations now dwell dwelling irig on the earth and you will learn that they live upon fiction delight del dei fht in shadow run after error greedily drink down falsehood and hate truth this is is particularly ticul arly ariy the case with the nation in which v aich we live as every one knows who is ac acquainted quainter quain ted with its religious political and moral classes there are individual exceptions but taking the nations of the world as nations they do to not believe the truth they are after falsehood and lies and say to themselves the world goes on the morning comes as usual and is followed by the evening we ire live day after day and all things are about as they were yesterday how long will they continue so they think that all things thing sare are going ing to remain as they were since the fathers fell asleep that christ Is not comin gand that the prophecies will not be fulfilled except it may be spiritually search history from the days of enoch when lie he built a city which was taken from the earth pass on to noah who built an ark ad and floated on the water over a drowning world rid and to abraham isaac and jacob read the writings of moses and of ezekiel and the lesser jesser prophets down to the time of john the baptist the forerunner of the messiah or until mary and elizabeth rejoiced together that the messiah was to he be born lorn then read real the writings of 0 the disciples of the lord jesus and search history from that day to thi this sand and you will learn that when the nations have for years turned much of their attention to manufacturing instruments of death they llave have sooner or later used those instruments our nation england france germany austria italy arid and other nations have for years exercised their inventive skill and expended much means in inventing and fabricating instruments of death upon his return br hooper presented to me a rifle for which it ia is almost claimed that it will kill people while it is hansing up and without powder and ball and br george Q cannon brought a brace of pistol of which can be fired twelve times instead of six from the authority of all history the deadly weapons we apons now stored up and being beilic manufactured will be used until the people are wasted away and there Is no help for it the spirit of revolution goes on through the nations it never goes back we are in these mountains and in the enjoyment jo ment of peace and alenty plenty are there an any y wio who have not enough bread read some complain of living poorly but what hinders such persons from living well have yon not plenty 0 of f breadstuff yes you have the best flour and can have plenty of good corn meal you also have rye bar barley ey and oats who prevents your keeping a cow and having t butter and milk can you iou you not raise potatoes squashes turnips Ps onions ca cabbages brages and every other kind of produce that you can use what hinde hinders ra your keeping a pig and having a little V pork ork nobody hinders you you can have all ali these things if you are so disposed and live well who can disturb you nobody bodi bode but yourselves you can quarrel bac each other rail against each other and life disagreeable if you are so disposed otherwise you may have an agreeable here and the peace of god will rest upon you we are the best beat people in the world have the greatest to be thankful fa because of 9 our location and situation let ug us love one another and love god supremely it Is it written iove love your enemies 12 br erastus snow was waa going to correct paul for trying to excuse himself I 1 do not think the term was any more misapplied than when the apostles wrote love your enemies for I 1 do not believe a word of of that love your your enemies what love hell when people do that they get where devils are if it had been written love the spirits god has placed in tabernacles and try to reclaim them and do them then good and pray for those who di spitefully use you I 1 would feed and clothe them take peculiar care of 0 them and place them where they would not hurt anybody you may think that I 1 am disputing the bible if you understood what the lord means when he talks about loving his bis children you would under stand that he does not love iove them as they are now for he hates and is angry with the wicked he dislikes their d acts but he loves his children because he has organized them and he wishes to see them obedient many of you are acquainted with br john smith the patriarch went to the states ast last year after his friends he has just come into the bowery the ile companies are all well they want some flour and we vve can send it to them br kimball will send beld his team this time and there is no necessity for calling upon the bishops we have heard from the last com company any on the fourth of august ta they 1 e w were on wood river their cattle looked w e IT and the company was making good progress they had been eleven days out from florence and had traveled miles A few cattle have died in some of the companies and if any of the brethren who have relatives or friends in the companies still out wish to assist them they can do so by sending out their teams and helping them in god bless you amen |