Show SERMON br imir president pres ident brigham xoung young yeun tabernacle june 5 isag 1859 REPORTED B BY Y 0 D WATT t some of the questions propounded by br chern cuts in his remark remarks produced in me rather a humor somi heili kelii g especially tile tiie it of the lady as to why she was not a man inan and I 1 perceived that it had bad the same ame effect upon the congregation gre gation in the first place permit me to answer that aliat inquiry according accord accordi ii ig g to tile the spirit that passed over tile the it brought to rny my mind a conversation concerning a certain certa lil iii zentie enlie man who has been in high cafice office in the tile united states state the tile person I 1 was conversing convening with placed much stress upon the circumstance that both those gentlemen and myself were yankees I 1 thought that I 1 wa tolerably well acquaint acquainted rd with his character I 1 deemed him tc be a good kindy kind affable and hon ho brable hrabie man after much conversation I 1 tol I 1 the person that I 1 had hail but one ove fault to fiad with that gentleman and that was not really a fault only a slight mistake ha fia ought to have come into the tue world a woman and perhaps the lady br clements has referred to should have been the officer and the officer should have been that lady pardon my bum burn orsome remark remarks for I 1 feel a little perhaps as I 1 should not after hearing so serious and good a discourse dif course es Ps we have this morning at times there is a spirit in me to treat things according according to their nature natate and then my style must of rie roe necessity cesily be somewhat in accordance cor dance with the subject I 1 will tt treat eat thesues tion in a more manner who the lady is I 1 know not and I 1 have seen a great many like her and arid I 1 think there would be much more sound judgment true sound philosophy lii ill exhibited it if persons would ii quire inquire why about three or seven eighths ol 01 the men are not women why so because of the em beci lity in the brains of men look through utah and over the world and how many who have beards are men in their capacities capaci capa cilles les ies in be the common avocations of life to say nothing about kings rulers statesmen presidents and gobern ors ore how many men are there capable of sustaining themselves a wife wite and and aud two of or three children men alen who from their 3 auth have been the strictest economy are incapable of themselves and a small family aside from ability to govern and control a people a nation or a kiu klu kingdom dom hundreds of thousands yes trillions of men do riot not exhibit the mental ability that might suppose woman should possess and exhibit in our own community thele there are plenty ladies who elve give them the entire control of own monistic doni donl suc anadis adf aff wil wll w 1 make a better letter living live in ietter letter style and rear their families bet I 1 t au an at present search among the various nations and you find men of very respectable talent men upon various subject subjects skilled in mechanism mecha Hism philosophers of val vai ious ions grades and arid historians but can you find a man that is capable of 01 dictating a nation you may ask the wisest in a nation if there are great statesmen now living among them arid and they will tell you that real statesmen have all gone to the silent tomb have we adv where can you now find statesmen in the united states possessing po Beasing the that daniel webster and masy ma magy sy others had bad who ho can foresee the results of the acts arts of individuals of legislators and of congress fifty hence where is there a nation that has able to preserve erye erve its organization from the ages ageson of the world until now As at you have often told lold the provi provide dences deuces ocea of god are with them though they know it not he sets up a I 1 here bere lere iere and casts d down own another the ther aud and over theace the ass aws afifie of the people to produce be the results he desires des der lrea irea in regard lu to there li not a man nan or woman in thi this kingdom if they possess pocsi d the tile true principle of knowledge and wisdom nu nul what would know at once that they are arc not et capic of g any any higher egdtion than they low now occupy there its iti is jis riot not a man nun or wo man roan here lut oc occupies occupied cupie cuple a position in fit which wirich they have full liberty firt fort freedom edom and to dispense their skill and knowledge to benefit themselves and the life community they are not coerced to lose one particle of time and ability ubi ity if I 1 hind and a mm mail as I 1 do olica oice in a while who thinks that ile lie ought to be sustained in a higher igler li position pet pot inon than he lie occupies that proves tome that 11 he e does not understand his true ard ord 13 not lot capable of magid ying ing it has Hs lie not already tile the privilege of exhibitor g all the talents he lie ilas lias of doing all tle tic tile tlc good be he is callable capable of in fit this kingdom Is lie he curtailed in the least last in any or place in bi forth h his hii wis acm lcm arid and powers ai tit d exhibiting them before tiie the community and leading out no not in the iest lest le st are aie any of you upon or ubi edged in the hait pait lea lma it Is thare a sister bister who wha has not the tire privilege of exhibiting all the talent and power she will or I 1 I 1 capable of for the benefit of hier her sitters and hr hor cui cUl auldren cl idren dren are the bisters sisters deprived of any liberty in displaying their anu talent to improve the community when I 1 hear persons poisons say ay that they ought to occupy a station more excil ed than they do and hide the talents they are in it pope po pe sion of they have not the true wi wisdom dom thy fhy ought to have there is a lack luck in th them m or t they IL y v w improve upon the tale ts is given I 1 can say tj 0 the sisters if you have superior yu Fu talents ailse anse ard let your light shine thine giove piove to your neighbors and the ity that yoli are capable of leaching teaching thoe tho e si ter whom you deem to be ignorant or ar neglectful I 1 have placed a low estimate estima tf upon the landing and capacity of men and now let me lake the pilvi lege to say a few wolds words to to fo the ladies ladus who wiio have i each cached the ege age of thirty beers 5 er according Accordi Accord ng tg to my view of the tile suba ct here there i not one in a hundl that knows how tu to keep a house as it should be kept I 1 should judge flom what I 1 I 1 ave seen that thal there are many who dj da not know tile the sw swill ill lil pail flom from the milk pail olbers others do not know how to make butter and cheese nor bow how to keep their children clean others aga aca alain again indo do not know how to teach their children as they should be taught I 1 will not say cay as do many that the more I 1 learn the more 1 4 am that I 1 know no hine hing for tor tile the ra re I 1 learn the more I 1 discern an eternity of knowledge to improve upon there is art of and the little I 1 have gained through the bit so sall sail n ax of the lord I 1 wish to improve upon I 1 can cat tecil lech le tech ch how 1 to become wealthy in gold goltl and filver niver in silks at d 0 sating and in all oil worldly possessions also in alli nic riches of eternal life jire all I 1 alk ask of you yoli is 13 to believe that I 1 tell anu the tho truth aid aud then carry it out nut lt L t me throw the lash at the mormon elders a little many man of you will exchange your our last bushel of wheat with th stores fot lot 01 ribbons aid arid geW taws really need it for bread and ard with shame fac edness I 1 say it some will luke take the last reck yeck of thein their grain to the distillery to buy whisky and then beg their blead bleed I 1 will now answer another question propounded by br Clements dement when lie he obid he could not answer all questions staling that baptism was instituted but brut ile be could not tell why you remember read ingin the last book of the new testament that in the beginning god cursed the earth but did be he curse all mingo pel per lamina to it no he be did not curse the water but tint he blessed it pure water is cleansing cl it seiver selver to purfy purify and you are aware that the ancient saints were very ver tenacious with regard to their by water fatovi fio fro n the thi beginning I 1 the lord water for that purpose among others I 1 do not bot mean from the bey ieng of 0 hiis tiis tt Is edrah eiria alone and al hough bough we lave lave no immediate concern oi cern in in quiring into ito the ganzi tr kanzi im of other earths that do CO gioi liot come 1 I bill reach of our investigation yet I 1 will bay say tha that water I tas las as been the means ol 01 in eiery every world thit bas las been organized out oat of the immensity of matter the lord lias has d laws and ordinances ani aal owl awl all have their pt cular design and meaning inclining and though WP we may not know kilow the origin of the necessity of being beins baptized for the renil reini sion slon of sins it answers that portion of 0 tile the law we are now under to teach leach the tile people in it their ignorance that water is is designed for purifica i in iri aid aid to instruct them to be baptized thien thlen thief hll til for lor the ibe remission of thelt their sins in ins if tiie the people could fully tinder understand taid ta tard i this matter they would woula perceive hat it is perfectly reasonable and ha has been the law to all worlds and this world so benighted at present arld and so lightly estee esteemed ined by infidels as observed by br 0 cements when it becomes celes it will be like the sun and be prepared tor for the habitation of the saints alid arid be brought back into the prese arese presence uce of llie the father und and the tile so sun soh to it will not then be an op ake body as it now 11 1 is 1 but it will be like the stars of the thefil fi fameni fu full fuli 11 of light and glory it will be a body of light john compared inq it in its stale state to a sea of glass br clements inquired why w we e used bread and wine in the ordinance of the tile lords supper I 1 will not teach a doctrine not found in the old and new testaments B ead is the lue staff ol 01 libei I 1 i answer answers to the necessary to sustain the body of mail man and preserve Ls i s organization when jesus took the bread and pleased it he be gave it to his disciples and said this is my body you eat the bread what for what good does it do dot doi what is it noth in fit but bread you hiess bless it arld and partake of it as tio tin stiff of life that jesus christ has given you and emblematical offis of his broken body he is the of your bodies bodie he is the author of this earth the heir of it from his father and has pum purchased based it with his bis blood which the juice he I 1 grape was wa 9 instituted loy by him im to represent ie poured out hi ill blood freely to redeem a fallen tile the wine to the bloch which jesus fesus spilled if you matahe ra take of it in falih for 1 s the faith that irth ga the ble sli g of life to 10 3 ou t is through obedience to tile ordinance ord ivance that god renewed life upon you by ills means he cl ildren lidren of god have life will ia la them to live not die the u wine ine answers to tha the blood of christ and the bread to his body ills lils blood was as we pour out wine and his body was brosen as we to beik elk wik breal to kedem a fallen world and all thil gs pertaining to it so dor far as the cur cura or fallen the blood he spilled upon mount calvary ile he oid did not riot receive abam asam into his ions veins that was poured out and anti when lie was arioth alloth air pir element took the place of the blood hwi ill lil il be so lo with every who receives receive a resurrection the blood blead will not be resurrected milli rhe the body beine bong besig ed olly only to Fust sustain ailt aill tile the I 1 life ife of the present when this ibis im i dissolved brid arid we again obtain our bodies by the power of the resin lection that which we now call tile the life lile of the body bod Y and which is formed from the food we eat and the w waler water ater aler we drink will be cupi canted by alto atio anellier ther lher elem element for flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom ot of god in lik his tiia remark remarks br by clements clement reasoned touch forsaking the faith ard urged the th necessity of mans studying t himself if we vie could comprehend ourselves could fully comprehend what our organization is arid and understand tand tile the po power powen ilven liser wisdom and magnitude magni tude tida of intelligence it is capable of attaining att airing we should entertain many meas heas very d from what we low now do to make a nice distinction theire there is but a it hairs breadth between the augar and ald sublime there is but a halls breadth between the depth of infidelity and the heights of the falth faith of the gods man alan is here like a feather reather trem renia big fiig between the two liable continually to to be operated upon by the power of tle lie lle enemy and it is through that power that the children cil ildren lidren of men are made to doubt the evidences el dences of their own sense semes when at the same time if they would reflect tor for fora tora a moment and listen to the be intelligence telli gence which god hrs has placed within them they retold know when the they saw what is to termed a trill acle the power by which it is wrought they would kow when they have seen tern with their eye eyed and felt with their hands cr when they have had bad a heavenly vision some of the tiie witnesses of the book of mormon who handled the he plates and conversed with the angels of godmere God were afterwards left to doubt and aud to disbelieve that they had ever seen an on angel adgel oie of the quorum of the twelve a young man full lull of faith falth and good works prayed and tile the vision of his hia mind was opened and the angel of god came and baij the plates before him arld and be saw and handled bandied 2 and ed them and faw paw the angel ancel and conversed with him as he would with one of his bis friends but after all this he was left to douht doutt arid and plunged into apostasy apo staey stacy and has continued to contard cont erd against this work there are hundreds eds in a a nillar condition in combar comparison son there ig 3 but a hairs breadth between the depths of and the tile hights heights of the falth faith of the saints and arid ille the organic stion of man is ig perfectly independent ent in its sphere life and death truth aud falsehood light anti and dark ties brood rood good and arid eui eul the power of the devil arid and the if fluence of god the things of god and arid the hie illenz of the devil bill all these inducement and powers aie are interspersed among the children chil chii dien of if men and they of necessity must this llna ordeal to prove themselves ar at d in the absence of the bahit of revelation let their judgments arise and declare though 0 he slay me I 1 will riot forsake him film some of the brethren come to me and say pay bro brigham Brig drig hami ia it my duty duly to pray when I 1 have not riot one particle of tile spirit of prayer in me tnie to tie tip at times men are perplexed d and full of care and trouble their plows aid other implements are tire out of order their animals have strayed and a thousand things to perplex them yet our jud iud judgment teaches leaches us that it is our duty to y to pray whether we are particularly in the spirit of play ing or riot no my bly doctrine is it is duty to pray porm and when the time for prayer comes john should say this is the place and ibis this is the time to p pray ray knees bend down upon that floor |