| Show DISCOURSE by rr president C tabernacle saturday 10 am oct 6 irr REPORTED BY J V LONG we have come together thib this morning for the purpose of holding our general conference conferences and to attend to matters of business that pertains to the whole church not only for the people in this territory but we have met to do business that concerns all nations and people both the livin living and the dead or those who have ve passed belind behind the veil and I 1 feel to rejoice inthe in the privilege we now have I 1 know that this is the kingdom of god it ra is that kin kingdom kindom dom which was shown to the pro prophet het bet D daniel iel lel as recorded in the second halter capter ha lter pter of his book this is the kingdom that was set up in the days of 0 jesus au and it is the kingdom that our father and god set up after he or organized anizel this earth and he is the king but etere there are and will be tens of thousands af kings this side of him and will be a perpetual emual increase of kings and priests in the f kingdoms cing xing in doms of our father I 1 desire to express my ray feelings in a few words upon those things that you may know how hov I 1 feel and understand that I 1 view this k kingdom as some thing that pertains to or tat teat will effect all the creatures of god in this creation yes the thousands and millions of beings who have not yet a appeared upon this tage stage of action it is that kingdom that concerns every man that ever did live or that thit ever will live I 1 wish to encourage you elders and al all ail good saints to live so as to get that spirit that is promised to the faithful and let us lay aside our selfishness and become interested in the general welfare of the kingdom of god for it is something thing that should interest every man and woman in the world this church is that church which has been spoken of by the prophets and this people constitute that kingdom that was to come forth in the latter days we are members of this kingdom and we proceeded from the king oc of this earth vve we are all his sons and when through our obedience we become heirs of god and joint heirs with jesus christ we in reality become princes princess for we emanated from that kin king and he is our father and god and he will call every son and daughter of adam to an account for their deeds it does not liot matter whether they belong to the church or are outside of the fold of christ our father will call them lo 10 0 o give an account for the deeds done in the body and the spirits of men that were in existence before they inhabited these bodies have got to be responsible for the acts that are wrought in the flesh this is upon the same principle that president young commits to me the care and supervision of a housey house for instance the sanctum sanctorum ahola a holy place where shere the ordinances of god are administered ministered he commits that to me and hold holds me responsible for its safe keeping so it will be with you and 1 I so it will be with all men inen and women in regard to their works here on the earth there will be thousands of men brought to an account for their conduct towards women for in many instances it is shameful hame ful fui we have bare come here today to day to worship god to speak of his purposes pur poses posea and designs and to bear testimony of his work it is rainy and rather wet and unpleasant and therefore we cannot do much else and we shall stay here until the spirit indicates that it is best to adjourn boarn and when that will be I 1 cannot now tell but I 1 hope chope none rione of you will be troubled upon that thai point for president young will hold it aj long iong ion lon as it is interesting and the spirit of god shall dictate him in referring to the sons and daughters slaughters of adam and to this great work which I 1 have already said concerns us all and especially the elders that have come into the church in the beginning and who hold this priesthood which god has revealed through his servant joseph I 1 wish you to understand der stand that all that is connected with you your wives and children should interest you in their welfare and in the prosperity of the work of god and you will be int interested in prop proportion orion orlon to the light knowledge power and ana spirit there is in the elders and that spirit will re rest t upon the elders their wives and children their animals and all they possess will mill be quickened by it you can read in the book of doctrine and covenants that the lord to thomas B marsh and the twelve apostles telling them that they held the keys of the kingdom with the first presidency and the fathers from the beginning of the creation i for unto you the twelve and those the first dency deney who ho are appointed with you fo to be your counsel 1 lors rs and nd your lea iea leader dery derr la li the power of this priesthood glyen given for the last days and for the last time in the which Is i the dispensation of or the of times which power toa fou jou hold lo 10 connect connection lun iun with all these those who have receive received a dispensation at any anytime lime ilme from the beginning of the thie crp cro verily I 1 fay ay unto you the keys of the dispensation which ye hive received have came down from the fat father hers herf and last of 0 all bing being sent down from heaven unto you yon doc doc and cov sec bec par 1 13 the lord told us there that the fathers are interested for us just in proportion to the interest we feel for this work and for the church and kin kingdom kindom dom of god here upon the earth I 1 want you ou to think of that and reflect upon it you need not doubt in relation to the truth of what the world call mormonism for the church of jesus christ of latter day saints established and organized through the instrumentality of the pr prophet ga 0 het bet joseph smith is the true church of god with it is the priesthood and power of god and you mi might bt as well try to doubt that the sun shines lor for it is the truth and although all hell may deny it and all the men upon the earth that will make no difference for it is from god the lord called that man and sent his angels to ordain him and to confer upon him that authority necessary for the building up of the kingdom of god and it was through him that we received all the authority we hold and through us every soul of you who have received the truth received it through that priesthood which came cams e from god to joseph smith and you grew out of that priesthood and none of you have a particle of power except that which comes through that medium it carne came from jesus to peter from peter to joseph and from joseph to president young and his brethren and from us to you you hold that priesthood and authority in connection with them and except you are connected with them you cannot have any priesthood or authority you must honor that tree with which you are connected forit for if you di dishonor honor that tree you dishonor yourselves and I 1 would n not t give live ive lve a farthing for your authority these are some of my views upon the subject and I 1 feel to say that this work will roll forthwith forth with greater power hereafter than it has done in times past and my prayer to my father in heaven is let thy work roll on thy kin kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it asin is in heaven that is the way it has got to be for thin things must eventually be done here as they are in heaven beaven we have got to do right and we cannot do this except we ire honor our callings and priesthood for we are like a great tree having roots body great and small limbs and I 1 vant want cant to know what Ahat the difference ils lis is between one limb ana and another so far as honor is concerned all should be honored in their place and calling let every man honor the head the body and every member that pertains to that body if you wish to honor god now can I 1 rise up and chastise the limb that I 1 am connected with no I 1 cannot and the limb will die quicker without my interference ter if 1 there Is anything wrong wrong t about it could a man rise up and chastise chaltis e president joseph smith when he be was alive no no man had the right well then can any man chastise president young no sir but it is the duty of all to honor the head and the body to which they are arc connected upon the same principle the smallest member of the b body d should honor the part to which it is attached tac M you know two feet are required to carry two legs and two legs to carry a body and so it is in the church of christ the apostles and prophets used to talk in this way presenting figures and comparisons for the purpose of conveying things to the minds of the people more forcibly now let every man take a course to honor one another and the priesthood they have received well says one I 1 will honor the F first rbt rat presidency of the church but I 1 dont want to have anything to do with the twelve they are not of much account that is the way some of you yon feel now if you treat these men in this way how long will it be before you will treat Ireal dent You bounin drin ngin ilko liko manner I 1 the course for us to take is to honor the priesthood which the almighty has given to man how can you honor god except you honor that priesthood this is well welt worth your con consideration 31 derat ion fon you all sprung out of that priesthood r le st hood as one limb of a tree comes cornea out of ot the he t main body this is honorable in all men and I 1 feel to say let every man honor his calling and his fruit will appear will a good apple tree produce a thorn or a thistle no it never will but notwithstanding this I 1 believe there area great many thistles whistles es that themselves call apples yes many that are briers thistles whistles es and other useless things they ought not to be I 1 frequently frequent Y think of these things I 1 consider our priesthood and the vows that we have made with god but says one we have made those vows with our brethren and not with the lord let me tell you that it was the brethren in authority in the priesthood who called you into the house of the lord but you made your covenants with god the brethren were merely the witnesses of those things which you did of the covenants you made with the father with the son with the holy ghost and with all the heavenly hosts and your brethren stood as witnesses for god and an lour you will have to give an account of the way and manner you keep and observe those covenants there are many who think these things are 0 of f no rio account but I 1 will tell you brethren that you will vill be straightened out when the lord appears taking vengeance upon those that will not obe obey his gospel in that day the wicked will be e as chass chaff chaefer chaffer or stubble and they will be destroyed from the earth and their tabernacles dissolved but the righteous will receive new bodies and they will inhabit a new earth and eternally enjoy the favor of that God who sent his son that you and I 1 might be r redeemed and brought back into his hib presence there is a great deal for us ils to do and I 1 wish you would all think so and have these things before your minds continually how can this evil be remedied I 1 say in the name of the lord god of israel wake up from your slumber and get within your souls the spirit of the most high god and the more you have of it the more you will feel the necessity of bein being 0 wide awake and attentive to your duties you your eyes have become dim because of your dalness and inattention to your duties the ile scriptures say let thine eye be single that thy whole body may be full fall of light the reason we do not see thines things as they are ls is ia 19 because we have become dull and stupid and do not understand the things of god it is said in the scriptures that the eyes of certain characters are like the fools eyes reaching to the ends of the thie earth and like the door upon its hin hinges e doing no good but just hillst swinging L ba backwards c k ards and forwards br benson wont you shut that vestry door and open it again which he did now dont you see brethren that has neither lost nor ga gaited rued anything but it will soon wear out this figure I 1 wish to apply to you indolent persons and thereby show you that you ought to go to work and improve brin bring about something for the honor and glory of god and the adorning ad orning and build builds in ing up of his bis kingdom I 1 do not want you to dike mike beilke beilka thelow the sow that has been taken and wash wash vash ed clean and then as soon as the door is open she goes into the dirtiest mud bole there is in in the neld neighborhood but as you have been washed in the waters of baptism and entered into the fold I 1 want you to remain clean and pure and to labor for the welfare of zion and an rire tire the up building of the kingdom of our god isyou if you act like the sow then your last end will be worse than your first you have entered into the kingdom and should be like a litt e e child humble meek and passive in the hands of your superiors you will remember that when those commissioners ners came to make peace with us we came up from the south to see them to find out what they wanted the night we arrived in the city I 1 dreamed that there was an awful flood and that the flood wood had stopped up the stream I 1 watched it and after a while the flood wood gave way and it came down emigration kanyon and went in a south westerly direction I 1 then looked round to see what the effects were and all at once this whole city and adjacent country became full of hogs bogs I 1 spoke to the president and fhe the brethren who wherewith were with him and said the country countr y is full of hogs li and they were frothing at the mouth just like mad hogs bogs do and I 1 saw them running after the brethren who got i on the walls and fences in different directions i and they were jumping up at them but their mouths were full of froth and I 1 was pleased to see that there was not one of those hogs bogs could bite any of the brethren by and by hye bye e our attention was called to other business and when I 1 had bad a little leisure I 1 looked round and said to the brethren where are thoe those liza hogg hogs gone we looked around ug and lo 10 an and behold there was not a hog to be found in iii the coun country tryl rd but thy were her did not thel the froth roth atthe at the mouth they did and they jumped and ind made a terrible stew but I 1 do not know that they have ever hurt anybody they have bare not had the power to meddle with or hurt anybody excepting those who wanted to be meddled with with now I 1 consider that those men and women who have suffered ered themselves to be overcome by those hogs bogs are no better than the hogs themselves this may be considered a very good introduction in my way to this general conference I 1 do not know that I 1 ever felt better in my life than I 1 do today to day I 1 feel that I 1 can touch a little thing thins here and another there and I 1 see before me ten thousand times more than I 1 I 1 speak of and among the many things that I 1 can see one is that all the hogs are going to leave as fast as they can if the elders and saints will only do right all will be right for them and with them and they ought to know that the responsibility is upon their shoulders if you brethren go and sell your wheat that will not be laid to the sisters excepting in those cases where the men raen are under petticoat government those who do this tilts are taking 11 a course that will wilt bring brint sorrow upon themselves yes those who trade away the staff I 1 of life will suffer pairl sorrow and nakedness and many things that have not entered into their hearts to think of since the latter litter day saints have been bebenin be enin in these mountains there has never been such 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