| Show 1 REMARKS by 13 T president rr brigham YOUG Tab gade aade veli eeb ma REPORTED BV lle G D WATT I 1 llave have hava four sermons that I 1 wish to preach this fb orning morning and I 1 wish about abou thirty five minutes in which to preach them the first subject I 1 hhall bhail notice this morning is robbing the dead many nany have des red me to express myself in public relative to what has transpired in our grave yard during durin four or five years past robbing the d dead ead I 1 is s not a new thing robbing dead people of their jewelry w elry eiry and clothing is customary in the cities 0 of r eur pe lle and it has hab been and is cis customary tomary in n many places placey to steal the body for the pur pose yose lose or 01 dissection I 1 have in the course of my lay life been under the necessity of botching Wot ching graves to keep thema them from b bing ing robbed it appears chat a man named john baptiste has practised practiced robbing the dead of their clothing in lit our grave yard during some five years pash pap if you mish wish to know what I 1 think about it I 1 answer I 1 am unable to think so low as to fully get at such a mean contemptible damnable trick to han ban hanc hang a man for such a deed would not begin to satisfy my feeling feelings pg what shall we do with him snoot him ciul no that would do no goo I 1 to anybody but himself woud you imar imprison i son soh him during lift that would do nobody any good what I 1 would do with him came to me quickly after I 1 heard of the circumstance th s I 1 will wili mention before I 1 make other re remarks maras marls it if it I 1 was left to me I 1 make him a fugitive I 1 and a vagabond upon the earth this aou would d I 1 be 30 my sentence but probably the people peoli e wl will I 1 not want this done many are anxious to know what e effect in ct it will have upon ther dead who have been robbed I 1 have three sisters in the grave yard in this city and two wives and arld several chilgren besides other connections and near relatives I 1 have not been to open any of their graves to see whether they were robbed and do not mean to do so I 1 gave them as good a burial as I 1 could ane ann in burying our dedd dead we all have made everything as agreeable and as comfortable as we could to me eye and taste ot of the people in their various capacities according to the best of out judgments we have done our duty in this particular and I 1 for one am satisfied I 1 will defy any thief there is on the earth or in bell to rob a saint of one blessing A thief rn y dig up dead bodies and sell them for the dissecting knife or may take their raiment from them j but when the resurrection takes place the saints will come forth with all ali alithe the nl lory glory beauty and excellency of resurrected saints ints clothed as they were when they were laid away some may inquire whether it is necessary to put fresh linen into the coffina ot of thila thiva who have been robbed of their clochin clothing As to this you can pursue eursue pursue the course that will wiil give you the most contentment and satisfaction but if the dead are laid away aswell aa accy they khey can be I 1 will mil promise you that they wll will be well clothed in m the resurrection for the earth and the tche elements around aro nd it are ar full fuit of these things all that is nee needed d ed is power to bring forth those things bings cesary necessary ne as jesus did when he fed the multitude with a few ioanes and fishes perhaps no more than would on ordinary occasions feed six men he organized the elements ments werts around aro und and fed five thousand thousands in the resurrection everything that is necessary will be e brought from the elements to clothe and to beautify the resurrected saints sainta who will f re e ceide their reward I 1 do not trouble myself about my dead if they are stripped of their clot ciot clothing hing I 1 do not want to knew know it some I 1 have been informed can now remember bereaving having had haq ad singular dreamland dream sand others have heard beard lappinga rap pings pinga on the door on the bedstead rn en th the floor on the table tabie etc and have imagined that they might h have ave proceeded from the spirits of the dead callin calling on their f fiends to give them clothing for they 1 were naked my lily dead friends have not be been en to me to tell me that they were naked cold coid e c and jf if any such should come to me I 1 should tell them to go to their own place I 1 have little fa faith falth ith in those rappin mappings rap pings b s if I 1 felt that I 1 ought to pay attention to such thins things 0 I 1 would not so to speak let my right hand an d know what my left did and it would require a a greater poWer than john Baptist baptists 4 to make me believe either a truth ruth or a lie he I 1 thought the remark made by alad to t a group birou of weeping weep ing women was very appropriate though I 1 do not blame hea them hem for weeping when they saw the clothing they had their ke parted departed darlin darill darlings gs said he supposing the linen was all burnt epand the ashes scattered to the four wlas could not the angel gabriel call those particles together as easily as he could call together the particle particles of the bod body PI P I the e lemin a are all here and they will wiil ae be called in their proper time and place lt the mil mii minds ads of the people be upon this matter what has been beten done they cannot hop bap bep bap if IC any wish to open the graves of 0 their dead and put clothing in the coffins to datisy their fee ings all right I 1 am satisfied I 1 am also satisfied that had bad we been brought uil ull and tra to burn a wife up n a funeral pile we should not bp be satisfied unless this practice was fol foi followed lomed out we would have the same bame grief f and sorrow that we me now have when we find that our dead have been robbed of their clothing or if we had been brought up as our natives are when a chief died if we did not kill a wife or two a few horses or a few prisoners prisoners etc as soan as the darkness of 11 set in we very verv likely should fancy ourselves haunted with the spirits of the dead dissatisfied at our riot not giving them proper burial rites and company to pass with the them in through the dark shadows of the grave to the good land where there are better hunting grout grounds ds the power and influence ot of tradition has a great deal to do with the wa way wax we w feel about this matter of our dead keing being robbed we are here in circumstance i ito eto 10 bury our dead according to the orden of the pries hood but some of our brethren die upon the ocean they cannot be buried ina lna in a burying ground lut but but 1111 they e are sewed up in canvas and cast into the he bea sea and perhaps in two minutes after they are in the bowels of a shark y yet yat et those hose persons per on will v ili come cirth firth in toe the resurrection anti and receive all ali the gloar of which hey tt ey are worthy and be clothed upon with all tle beauty of resurrected saints as much so BO as it if they had bad been laid away in a gold or silver coffin and in a place prepared expressly for burying the if you think opposite to this your thoughts are vain and I 1 baw salv the dead small ari arl and d great stand before god and the books were opened and another book was opened is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were wr written aten in the books according to their works and the bea sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged indeed every man wan according to their works y if the particles of which he the body is composed are distributed to the four quarters of the earth at the sound of the trumpet when the dead are to come forth the dust thit thelt composed their bodies that portion that is ia suffered to endure will come from the ends of the earth mote by mote particle by particle atom to atom bone to bone sinew to sinew and flesh will cover them and the same body will come forth in the resurrection as much so as the boy body of jesus came forth from the tomb do as you please with regard to taking up your friends it if I 1 should undertake to do doi dol anything of the kind I 1 should clothe them completely and then lay them away again and it if you are afraid of their being leing r ribbed abbed aga n put them into your gardens where i TO oi i can watch them by day and night until you are pretty sure that the clothing is rotted and then lay thra th ra away la in the burying ground 1 would let my friends lay and sleep in p peace e a c e I 1 am aware of the excited state of the fe eliga elifis of oe the community I 1 have litle to say about the cause of it the meanness of the act is is so s far beneath my comprehension that I 1 have no noe nob ventured ventur bd to think much about it i I 1 will now nom proceed to my next text I 1 hav have c lately preached a short sermon to trie Bisbo bishops ps in a bishops mei metting ting and I 1 now to present the subject of those remarks to this con can gre gation they were in id relation to the beishl bishope op building dancing rooms for their school and ward meetings in my heart sou bou soul boul affect eions feelings fee linga and judgment I 1 am opposed to a coudon coil coli ion lon hall a place of worship all men have their agency and should be permitted to act as consistent that they may manifest by their acts whether th they ay iy are controlled oled by the pure principle of righteousness eo many of or you rem aber that at first we assembled in a bowery on the southeast corner of orthis this block where we met for some gome time under its shade and held preaching meetings meet sacrament meetings political meetings and ever d of public gathering because it was the only ilace liace lace that would then accommodate the people soon after that iv we built this tabernacle we probably bad not the first stick ot timber on ont the ground beff before ri I 1 was besought to build it for dancing ing in and for fir theatrical purposes pui pul poses I 1 said sald no to every ens eni ene cne that roq requested me tp do that I 1 told them then that dancing and theatrical per peT performances forman es were no part of our rel gion we are me ely permitted to ta occupy a portion of the timela those amusements being very capful not to grieve the spirit of the lord tord more or less lesi kind kin d suits stilts our organization or aniza U ion lon but when we ve come to the things of G d I 1 ii a rather no not have them mixed up with aads amusements like a dish of I 1 like to dance but do I 1 want to sin no than sin 1 n I 1 would wish never to dance or hear bear a f fiddle fiddie adl again while I 1 live jive let that thab which I 1 would sin in be taken from biorn me aed ard let me be kept from it from this time hence helwe forth aid alid forea dorevi r no matter what it is I 1 like my pastimes and ana enjoy myself as you do in amusements where wherein we e do not sin br E IX dr woolley and myself had gore bore conversation capon tapon this subject and he thou thought glit that he m would ou id bi build ull uli d a house to lo accommodate social gatherings but could cou d not at that time ve iery lery ry welt do it so I 1 built the hall hali which is call cali called eil cil the social hall hali in it are combined a dar dancing cing room and a small stage for theatrical performances for mances that is our fun ball and not a place in which to administer the sacrament we dedicated it to the purpose for which it was built and from the dawe first met there thirel until now I 1 would rather ree see it laid in ashes in a moment than to see it possessed by the wicked we prayed that the lord would pre serve it to the saints and if it could not thui thus be preserved let iet it be destro destroyed and not bi be occupied by thi wicked you kou know inov what spirit attends that room there we have had governors judges adges doctors lawyre merchants merchant passersby passers by etc who did not belong to our church and what has been the universal de cl of each and every one 1 I r ever felt so well before in all my life at any party as I 1 do here and the saints do not feel as aa well weli eli eil ell in any other place of amusement we have a beautiful assembly room in the ward but you cannot feel as well in a party there as you can in the hall hali that was built and dedicated I 1 to that purpose every thin thing in its ita it time and every thing in its place in the year 1849 1 think it was I 1 wa called upon to give a draft for a school hose atiat would be commodious and suitable for each ward I 1 gave that draft and I 1 do not think that I 1 could now alter auer it for the better has there been a schoolhouse school house bouse built according to that draft there have been a few wings built and the main body of the building im I 1 drafted was not intended for a dancing ha halt hait it by referring to the plan I 1 gave youcan you can see my idea of a ward schoolhouse school house but it has not leen been carried out it is now whispered around that we are opposed to dancing in tle tie ward school schoolroom room this is not so I 1 have been there several times and enjoyed myse masef it well aa a also in the ward house which is called the assembly rooms though I 1 would call it a cotillion hall I 1 am opposed to making the youth of our land believe that dancing and frolicking are a part of our ri religion when in truth they are not any part of it ilbo though tigh I 1 hear from every quarter that the gentiles say ill 1 I like this part of your religion for I 1 understand that this i is s one branch of your religion and I 1 like this dancing very much it is no do part of our religion and I 1 am opposed to devoting to a cotillion room a house set apart for the worship at 0 god I 1 lam iam am opposed to bavin havin having baving 9 colilli ona ong or 1 theatrical performances in this Taberna tabernacle cli cla I 1 am opposed to makin making this a fun ha ba 1 I 1 I do not mean for wick wickedness ednes s I 1 mean for the re cupe ration of our spirits and lodies I 1 shall not be opposed to the breth rens building a meet ng rg house somewhere else and thein their cotillions cot illions halls halis for parties but I 1 am ara n t willan willing that they should contort ike th latula that has haa been set sei apa religious meetings into a dancing hill I 1 will now pass to my uly third text I 1 can say bay with confidence that there Is ia no people on the face of this earth that pay more respect to females than do this thia people I 1 know of no community where females enjoy the privileges they do here it if any one of them is old and withered and so BO dried up that you have to put ut weights on her skirts to keep her from blowing blowing away she is so privileged that she is in dish or platter her nose is everywhere present and still she bhe will go home and tell her husband that she is slighted here we see the marked effect of the eurse kurse that was in the beginning placed upon woman their desire is to their husbands all the time it is also alsa written and he be shall rule over you 21 now put the two together nobody else eise else eise must be spoken to no other body must mastbe be danced with no other lady must sit at the head of the table with her husband A few years ago one of my wives when talking about wives leaving their husbands said sald III 1 I wish my husban husbands dys ays wives would leave him every soul of them except myself that is themay iha tha way they all fe feel elmore more mone or fesq lesat at times both old and young the ladies of oe seventy seventy hige bige eighty and eighty five years 0 or age are greeted here with the same cheerfulness c heera ul as are the rest all are greeted with kindness respect and genile gentie gentleness ness nebs no matter 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