Show i REMARKS ny by prest reben REBER C nimba kruba Lr tabernacle auday sanday manday morning february 17 nErOn TED sy by j r LONG lono you have all heard what has hab been said by i lr br joseph IV young and you know it to be true just as well as I 1 do you also know t that it is necessary for us lis to observe and practise aclise in order that we may become sae sai saints it ge he has told us a great many things and the they ace axe e all very good it if all we the people would woula magnify their call togs ings ad and honor the positions for which they were created they would do a great deal bet ter than they do this is considered by some A to be but a small matter but still there is a great deal contained in the expression man is an independent creature as you were told this forenoon but every man is is aci r countable for his bis own acts every debt you contract you have got cot to pay I 1 shall never pay any of your debts except I 1 order you to contract them if you will take counsel and d do 0 as you are told you never will contract any debts that will effect you much every sin bin that I 1 commit while in this tabernacle of flesh I 1 have got to settle and if any debt is not settled while I 1 am in the flesh I 1 shall have to pay it hereafter this will apply to you as well asne asme and therefore you need not try to avoid it for you will have to meet all your accounts i 1 we are considered to be the saviors of otmen men ave ve are appointed to save and not to destroy we are gathered here III in the mountains soma some have gathered themselves by the help of god others have been gathered by the church funds fanas it is not every man that has got the ability to marage manage his bis own emigration though he may have the means foursome for some bome men are lot capacitated for that kind of business perhaps you will now refer to the bible to prove oye ove that the time is to come when the kings of f the earth with gather the sainta saints together and when they will bring the bons tons and daughters of god from afar and Then when they will protect and sustain them when the queens of the earth will have them by their bides sides and become mothers unto them we shall rot not a end send queena beens from here to the nations of the earth i to 0 teach the people but I 1 the people have got to be brought here up to the heights of zion then tb the e kings and queens will rill instruct them and nurse them when we have them gathered together now a great many suppose that this a applies pl to the kings and queens of the various nations but I 1 can tell you tou that the kings and queens beens of the gentiles lii will ill never 1 gather lather the saints I 1 want to know how many of the latter day saints were gathered to these mountains by king james Buchana buchanan ii prest B young 1 there were a fw few team teamsters liters came with the army how many did tom benton f cachet the most of us ug that is to say he was the means of driving us from our homes into this place which was then a wilderness but he never helped us james buchanan idever dever put forth his hands bands to aid this people will he ever strive to restore this people and to make right that which he be has made wrong I 1 dont suppose he eyer eier will but as the lord jv J v god li livett eth he will have to pay the debt that hs he has contracted with this people A voice in the stand it will take him a great while to do it if you wait for him or for any of the wicked wick gil til to take takee you back to jackson county missouri you will have to wait some millions of years and if i we should walt wait for the rotten hearted kings arid and queens queena of the wicked nations to gather us ua home we shall have to wait a long time possibly some of them may come and look at the place but they will never come to stay and assist in building up zion many of them will yet drive the saints am frem trem their lands arid and hernes hermes ju just at as the wicked have driven us from the united states into these mountains of des e ret et then who is to gather ather the pe people aple of god you all say that we are to become a kingdom of kings and priests of queens and priestesses and the bible supports this doctrine now the truth ip iss you are the very k kings ings an ani and d pries priests i ts that have got to gather the saints and your wives have got to school them and nurse them I 1 might put this in different language but this will answer the purpose and convey to you the true meaning of the text we are informed in the bible that in the lost days the sons of god shall shail allbe shallie sh ailbe e brought from doar afar and his daughters from the end of the earth and also that the elect will be gathered from the four quarters of the we globe now this will most assuredly be fulfilled and this is ii tho work which you and I 1 have got to perform how shall we bring them tog together ethert the scriptures say they sll sil bhail shall ll 11 come upon pon swift beasts and dromedaries dro and I 1 will add mules and oxen I 1 tell you honestly that I 1 do not believe that the corrupt kings and queens of the earth will ever gather the saints of god but still I 1 acknowledge that they cannot do anything but what will tend to promote the interests of t the h e kingdom of add any more than james buchanan could every step he be took tended i to promote this cause and arld to give influence to this people that very expedition has opened your eyes so that you can see a great deal farther than you could before and your perception will increase with your experience now oret or ethren hreno if you could see the thin thing just as it is there is not one of you yon but what put pst forth your means your bands and your minds like men ani and like saviors upon mount zion it is as brother joseph sald taid it if you have the right spirit you will be ready to I 1 tend your ability towards the gathering of I 1 israel ale the 8 scriptures crip tures say with what measure neasure ye m mete e i it shall be measured to you a again then let us all sow good seeds let us its strive to do good learn to be one and to be firmly connected to the church and kingdom of god every member partaking of his ilia attributes and of the spirit of those men who lead us by pursuing this course we shall be prospered and blest in all things you need not wait for any of the kings to gather israel you need not wait for anybody else tise to perform the duties that devolve upon you we have got to gather the people and our wives and biste sisters r s will become the nursing 1 i mothers for they are the queens spoken of in scripture crip ture if we will all take this course we I 1 hali hail shail shall be blest of the almighty his lils spirit wil wll be with asp us to impart joy and consolation continually there is one thin thing that br joseph josph omitted to tell yoi yon it was presented to his mind but he did not like to say it but I 1 will say it have your rifles and muskets ready keep your powder dry have your balls and burk buck shota ready for you know not what a day may bring forth it is our duty to be ready for every change and for every attack of the enemy nem y f for 0 the lords people were always subject ubbie t t to 0 opposition and persecution from their enemies and they will coutin continue ue to be so I 1 until the kingdom of god triumphs I 1 br joseph W is going to the missouri river to fetch the people who are gathering from europe and various parts of the united states to do everything I 1 can for the accomplishment of cf this laudable enterprise eater enter prise if I 1 could i alse aise oxen sufficient I 1 would send ten teams and wagons and if I 1 cannot do this I 1 will at least send three or four it is far better to do da mi than to let iet the indians steal your cattle and then you waste your time and property in hunting for them when I 1 say bay anything of myself there are some people who think it is egotism but I 1 have always been accustomed since I 1 came into this church to do all I 1 could for its advancement van cement I 1 iam jam am always willin willing to give anything that is required of me for t this h is kingdom I 1 have lived in in this church almost thirty years and I 1 have never been in any situation however difficult but the way has been opened for me I 1 never failed to accomplish anything I 1 set about and I 1 never shall it if I 1 continue to pursue this course I 1 am speaking epe epp aking this baray by way of encourage ment and b brigham knows that thal iam farn ram telling he tha truth uth for when we have been po orthe almighty has placed means in our hands and oftentimes so mysteriously that we did not know where it came from for instance I 1 in nauvoo we were commanded to build the temple and in order to accomplish mat we wa had bad to build a great many big houses lir brigham told me to go and build a good house I 1 had haa scarcely anything to begin with but when I 1 got through building I 1 had a span of hor horses es a wagon ad a yoke or of oxen I 1 could pro prove e this il if it were necessary for many others ild iid lid did simlar similar things and the more we build the more means we had to bu buflo fid ald the temple with in the following february we left my houe e was sold for seventeen hundred dollars intended to be used to help heip to gather the saints but almon W babbitt put it in his pocket I 1 suppose I 1 have still got some buil bull buildings din 7 in kirtland and in some other places and j if f I 1 dont have them again those who drove me from them will have to pay a high price for them hem br brethren I 1 shall go to jackson county with thousand tk of this people who will be faithful to their integrity dut out we carin calin cannot 0 ago go back until we have built some good houses letus lebus leb let w honor the plan of 0 salvation that we may become one my ay constant prayer is 13 that the spirit of oneness may descend upon this people first I 1 upon the presidency of this church and then upon every quorum and authority thereof how is it with a tree does it not all pa take of the same bane nourishment nent gent and that sap 1 go to every limb branch fabre fibre and leif leaf it does and it should be so with e every v e ry man and woman in the church and king kingdom dom of god let us tib gather up the saints thene then iet Jet t us also build some good houses we wants tv antto to build buildt I 1 I 1 the seventies hall hail and several othe othin r large I 1 buildings the present season we also want to I 1 devote a portion of our means to the building I 1 lof of the temple that thereby we inay may have a an n increase irttie in the bl alsina blessings sina gs of the heavens an and of f the earth a b I 1 feel very cheerful and happy today to day I 1 do not feel fee any of that of mind that makes men selfish penurious cold hearted and of a sad countenance I 1 find I 1 that hat t the h e more I 1 haye have of the spirit of god the more cheerful I 1 am and it is is so men of god clod I 1 know thit th at those prophets who have lived in my day loved lovid to tell 5 stories fories and be cheerful they delighted in a gl glad giad ad heart biart and a I 1 cheerful countenance father smith aas was vas one of the most cheerful men 1 I ever sawa sawo saw and he was li harmless armless as a child amen |