Show I 1 M by EY Fres president Fr eident ident hener HEBER C KIMBALL KIM nani nALI tabernacle I 1 sunday afternoon june 3 i REPORTED BY jonn JOHN T IONG LONG brethren I 1 am obliged to keep my head covered for I 1 am fearful of taking cold I 1 expect I 1 am beginning to look strong again but I 1 am very weal wele weak you maybe may be assured that I 1 am grateful and rejoice that I 1 live in this day I 1 am thankful that I 1 live in this generation and especially that I 1 dwell in these mountains with you for it is one of the happiest places that I 1 ever saw right here upon the tops of these mountains and particularly ticul arly if you can have the right kind of microscope such an one as the lord will give you I 1 presume that you can all see what the world are at down yonder they are beginning to have times as well as us and they may well expect to have difficulties I 1 do not call those darivin dr ivings and what we used to call per difficulties curties cul cui ties I 1 never was more happy in my life than I 1 was in missouri and illinois when we were passing through those trying scene and I 1 can say that I 1 never felt better than I 1 have for the last two or three years although it has been very trying to some some of our friends think we are cowards but we only act so when it is necessary and then when it is not necessary to be such we stand forth in our proper light and it is always necessary for us to be men of god holding the priesthood in righteousness doing right and always being ready to do good and assist in rolling forward the great work the lord will help us if we are willing to be guided by his holy spirit president young was waa speaking to the elders about coming into this stand to speak prea ching in the wards and telling the people honestly what is required of them I 1 can tell them the plain simple principles of the gospel advise them to lay up their grain and do all the good they can athas troubled and worried me more perhaps than anything that has transpired in these mountains when I 1 have considered how we were situated for grain we are almost destitute and our friends have got plenty and they are capable of selling to us and then they will have enough for themselves for as I 1 told you this mor morn wrig ng they have got at least three years provisions on hand at camp floyd it is true that it does not take very much grain to sustain a man and his wife and a few children if he is prudent with it but then it requires a certain quantity for every family and when added together we need a great eat deal of wheat and corn to sustain us afe here re in these mountains I 1 would rather see my family go very poorly clad than to see them without bread and meat yeat for there is nothing in the world that will make a woman so cross as to go hungry and the men are much worse 10 I 1 have not tried this much but I 1 have a few times sat down and eaten up all the food I 1 had I 1 was not cross at that time but I 1 called upon my heavenly father to open the way whereby I 1 might be fed and be nourished and cherished I 1 know that god I 1 is s in merciful ercia til and b benevolent enevol ent to his creatures I 1 know that the earth belfri belongs s to him and that all power is his both in heaven and upon the earth and all the children 1 of men are in his big hands we are all hs lids children every soul of asp us not only the righteous but the wicked and they all have their agency and the right to do as they please but they are responsible for all their acts aa As we measure to others so it will be measured to us again and as we makeup make up our beds sowe so we shall sleep and we shall have to give an account to god for all the acts done in the body when for tor instance you sin bin n against president Pies ident young you have got to make that right with him I 1 have no power to remit that sin and when you sin against jesus christ you have got to make that restitution to him which is necessary to gain forgiveness b gi veness when you sin against against the holy ghost you have got to make t the e atonement to him and as we do to others so it will be done to wr ca and the nation and the government that we look to for our rights we are born of the fathers who won our liberties we are the children of that god who naho to our fathers and gave them the jaw law and inspired them to write the constitution of 0 our country and those who now sit bit in the judgment seat should remember that as they measure to us it will be measured to them again and they cannot avoid it and we may maya with safety apply the same to ourselves for as we measure to each other so will it be measured back to us if we transgress a law we must pay the penalty for the A almighty an fety requires this of every one of us he wih win inot not force any man to keep his law but all will find when they wish to enter into the kingdom that there is mercy on one side of the door and justice on the other and what justice stice cannot claim mercy will aith these views I 1 of the subject let u ug learn jear n I 1 to take a course to do un unto others as we would wish them to do unto us in like circumstances be honest and upright in al all ali 1 things abstain from all lying 0 and hypocrisy root it out of your hearts and work righteousness M continually this is the religion of jesus christ christas as taught in these books looks the bible and ard the book of mormon and it is in accordance with that which is in my breast and which is a better book for it is life in christ and that living being that receives light and intelligence from the heavens through the revelations of the holy ghost is a living oracle it is the living oracle oracie that is within us that will guide us in the way of ot life now w you on require br brigham to live in that manner that he can hold the oracles of god and be to you a living oracle the mouthpiece of the almighty to communicate line upon line and precept upon precept and have the word of truth constantly on hand hard now why should you require more of the head than of the other members the lord has said that those members that you consider the least honorable he has conferred the most honor and be he will confer upon every man and woman that honors the pries priesthood thomi the presidency the bishops and all the members of the body we cannot honor god axce except t we honor his authority there is no possible w way ay of bolorin honoring 0 the kingdom of god only by honoring its authorities if we take this course we shall dowel do well weli and be prospered in all things I 1 am satisfied that the maj majority rity of this people are improving v a and nd it is is f for or their sake that we are sustained god takes hold of our enemies and controls them and he has kept them at a distance and led them by his power as a groom leads a horse by the bit we have been praying and beseeching the lord by night and by day to hold bold them and he has done it this is the way it is dinep done and this is the reason that we can go to work unmolested and build up the kingdom of heaven and do all that is required or 0 us let us do that which is right act towards this church in every respect just as you would like others to do by you brethren you au need no be troubled in your minds b but ut J be of good cheer and rejoice evermore bow down at night plead with your heavenly father ask him to bless this people to bless blesa the earth the mountains the waters to bless your wives wives and children ask him to bless the seed you put in the earth and to turn away the storms that we may have good crops these things are required of you you are commanded in this book doc and cov to do these things there is not a day passes over my head but I 1 bow before my heavenly heaven HeaveD ly father in secret and plead with him to bless you to bless the saints and the elders abroad among the nations to give his angels charge concer concerning ping them that they may have power over every evil and over all the enemies of christ this is is my prayer I 1 am pleading continually for the work of our father rather to be carried on and for his bis will to be done upon the earth as it is done in heaven do you think that a saint will steal poles or go to a mans wood pile and steal his fire wood or do you believe that a saint will lle lie and do that vech will prejudice a man against his friends this is the way lucifer acts and probably the last thing he did before he left heaven was to take the census and we calculate that he will leave here soon seeing that he has commenced to take the census now brethren let us remember to pray our father who art in heaven thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven just think how bow they are in heaven and then you ou can form an opinion of what we ou ought ettolle to be lucifer is not there now for the bible tells us that he was cast out and then things were set in order do you suppose they allow lying c and stealing there do you 8 suppose U I 1 0 se there are any hypocrites there I 1 W want pt you to think of these things for you will find when you get into heaven that all kinds of deceitfulness and every abomination will be done away for the they are honest there and they watch over us ly they are interested in our welfare and they desire us to do good they have just as strong strom a desire for our welfare as I 1 have to see lysons my sons do right there is nothing in this world that makes me feel worse nor more sorrowful ua than to see M my C children h ren reh taking 0 an unwise course if I 1 feel eel tits these 11 things ds very sensitively s and I 1 shall continue to feel so sefor for my soul and body and all that I 1 possess delight in god and in his work and to see you doin doid boins right it is all the pride I 1 have bave when I 1 can eee see the latter day saints doing their duty I 1 have no pride in clothing in dress nor in in any mal man except he does the will of god but I 1 delight in walking humby bumb bumby and faithfully before god dod and setting a go good 0 example when my wife pursues this course I 1 have pride in her I 1 adore her as I 1 would you if you were all to do right gentlemen and no more why should I 1 love a woman more than a mahi mafi mab man they rhey are arl pa n more inore 0 ta o mg than I 1 good mep bep men I 1 am aware that this world is filled with hypocrisy and I 1 expect it will continue so until the end but I 1 shall soon leave this tenement and go into a better place I 1 do not know how long yong it will be neither do I 1 care it does not trouble me one particle about two weeks previous to the death of br jedediah M grant I 1 dreamed that we were traveling and we came to a beautiful stream of water I 1 thought I 1 was going to cross it with him and with the expectation and understanding that he would guard me across ile he crossed the stream unobserved by me and then I 1 saw him running up the hill as fast as he could and he got away from me and passed out of my sight the stream kept rising and becoming more boisterous and apparently patently ly more dangerous and so it continued til tu I 1 awoke As for you saints looking to the government government of the united states S ates for quarters quarter I 1 can tell you that you never will get any satan never will allow you any quarters except he does it for the purpose of or leading you into a worse esnare snare and therefore you need not look for anything of the kind what the devil give the saints any quarter sl no never but if he has got the back pull upon us he will hold us we may whip and flog all we choose if he has got a claim upon us he wont give us any quarters would you if you had got the advantage you all say no well then if you have got the advantage keep it and if you will let the devil alone he cannot do much but I 1 can tell you that yoa need not look for much from this generation they may yield to get a better hold of us but I 1 dont ask any odds of them and I 1 pray to my father and god saying 0 lord preserve thy servant preserve me in thy truth that I 1 may never sin against thee nor against thy faithful servants nor against angels that I 1 i ma may y bea hea be a coworker co worker and be subject t to them and an d to t the th e power of god I 1 never saw the time that I 1 was wag afraid of sickness pain or anguish still we are all liable to these things I 1 I 1 do not feel to boast if I 1 do it is through mistake and a slip of the tongue but I 1 feel to bless the presidency of this church and the priesthood generally and all that believe on their words throughout the world this work will roll on in spite of 0 all opposition go to work and take care of your grain store up your jour wheat so that the worms cannot betit get it I 1 have kept some wheat five years and it ig Is still good let us all take a course to preserve ourselves temporally and spiritually and listen to is said by the priesthood I 1 have heard that some of the brethren have found a great deal of fault with me for talking in so much about wheat but I 1 can tell them that this wont put wheat in their bins nor flour in their sacks god bless us all root out the wicked from amon among 0 us that we may be one amen REMARKS by pret preat BRIG nam HAM YOUNG nowery bowery a m mj october 21 1560 1 REPORTED revon revor TED BY 0 D WATT we wish the saints to distinctly understand that the remarks just made by br hyde do not pertain to doctrine are not commandments and have nothing to do with the ordinances of the house of god he has given us some of his views and reflections suppose them to be true and what of them suppose they are not true and what of il it they have nothing to do with the doctrines and faith of this people whether they are true or not is about as immaterial as to know whether it is going to rain tomorrow to morrow or next week if it rains all we can do is to say let it rain if it does not rain all we have to do is to prepare to do the best we can with the dust that is all there is of it it is no matter whether those views and reflections are true or false according to the scriptures as they have come cocie to us we most assuredly believe that the masure m asure that we receive at the th hands bands of our enemies will be measured to them again but whether the wicked seek to corrupt the church churchon of god or not the saints will inherit every good thing this is not saying that we are saints I 1 have not yet come to that though I 1 firmly believe that we are trying to be saints those that overcome ana and sit down with jesus in his bis Father fathers s 8 kingdom will reid geld possess assess all things no good thing will be withheld from them man is the lord of this earth oarth not woman it is frequently told you that all the creatures of god except man will abide and honor the law under which they are placed the vegetable mineral and animal kingdoms except man will vill abide the law by which they we were e made and will be prepared to dwell on the le new earth in the midst of the new heavens that will be organized reorganized re the earth that we ive now inhabit man alan is the transgressor eve was the first to partake of the forbidden fruit and the man was disposed to follow her ber and did follow her hor consequently sin la in tho the world and when redemption comes cornea it must come by man when we speak of law and the transgression of law we refer to the law of god to man I 1 doubt whether it can be found from the revelations that are given and the facts as they exist that there is a female in all the regions of hell we are complained of for having more wives than one I 1 dont begin to have as many as I 1 shall have by and by nor you either if you are faithful I 1 am not the one that wat will dispose of them but the almighty to whom they belong and it is his right to dispose of us and of all his bia creatures and creations I 1 assuredly believe that all br hyde has said in regard to 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