Show f by im nar or jors jons TAYLOR Tuber euber naclet sundar sunday mornin april IS 28 1861 rerouted byj T LONG lono there Is a saying that was aed by the old prophets 1 r 0 peets 1 in ancient times which is ia to the fa lowing following i effects report kay say they and we S ivil evil I 1 I 1 rel rei 0 rf it 1 jerimiah and there js is another saying w which bich is as follows and with death shall be disannulled dis annulled andybur and your agreement with hell heli shall not stand benthe hen the overflowing scourge shall pass lihr through ab then ye shall be e trodden down by it ficia ir om the time that it goeth forth it shall take tyous r tor for morning by morning i shall shail it pass ofir berby yerby re rby baday day abid arid by ight t arid and it shall be a fixation only to understand d th the e report jy i halah ch chap ap 28 23 A great many things h bare bave ave are been circulated about us now things begin to be reported about oars others ard from those thos e reports m we e hear ithie that they have about as much as they can gat g et alo aio along rig with com comfortably fort ably V ve have had athe faur gut out share of trouble troubie in tirs tira s past and 1 If hink say that judgment B shall begin litt itic utie tt house of god and arld if so whre will the wicked and ungodly apgear think of the trouble that thai thatis is likely to overtake this nation as weil well abol as others it Is calculated to c ceab aate it bitic feeling in ia the bosoms of all who reflect for some weel week weeks ast I 1 have ben b kif hlf en reviewing the be avents events current inthe in the nation a arnd annd d I 1 have felt agrest and especially I latter lyl ayi ly va have thought that fah licit diot to yield to td the truth nor to I 1 a dmit ar mo ethah ac them to at A least ikast there is a dis position tow to withhold w abhold tb hold hoid hat what bat would be called justice ju atice and iund equit equity to us ua as aa ii people pil if IE there 0 of o open h aga iga rist rest astus us hag his nt nit for want 9 disposition but i owing to ia the ln in which they abey a are re p paced aced relative to each eath other and th ebi emilei ebl tei ter lei animo ammo dit bi Bit yand ya fi feelings eliriO that thai lare have sp rung up among s which for the MO time thae belum being t divert I 1 inder these seeing that jus ils ilk J tic ilc hed hwd have bave fo logo go forth if in income I 1 would a great areat deal ratler rather abat bhat they iuey should war with orie one another aniber than Ihan willi MS an seb see thom them send their strengthen streng thod thode agar aral than thin to slee sae thel thiea engaged in exhausting alii ami amt wa aabling jilg their strength this Fr eople people libking upon t things inga in this of 0 visit I 1 fel tel perfectly aly batis satisfied fied with the ahe e evan events t that are t ng and abid if odid idid PJ hiot riot I 1 could ngi nat helt heit hept beat the people of mis wid ti litton nalton ar evi evl kept panl up brith ir fr oah deser destruction calou and their the ar fuli 0 o hatred carand bloodshed to 11 bohnii humston an appearance iccil uld see sec m that bay they bey i will ivill not stop short of the entire destruction of this great nation th iche lahe thi language tan fan guage of 0 cite ci 0 te ie 0 biord fro hwo uttered this singular prop prophetic haie haic de arlt arat lonI ioni I 1 wiil will say they are drunken but pw awine Mw ine lne aney stagger bult bilt not lot with ii 11 tuy vy tay have bave neglected 0 o h truth adi fo r y years e a ra that ai are past and gone they have allowed the honert the virtuous the just fust and the truehearted true hearted to be abused and aMic afflicted ted and they have winked lani iani mocked at their ani an ahl I 1 not ohly only so 0 but luv they have unblushingly t used thein their ace and strength to bring about the destruction truc tion of gods godlis people they have however failed m n all their at emits to crush out the he kingdom of G d because the almighty has las protected his people but they will not fall when they make t air attack attacks ig upon one another when the potsherds pots herds of the earth strive with the potsherds pots herds ot oe the earth and gd does not inter interfere ferea ferel they will be more likely to accomplish the destruction of 0 each other they have been leen using their energies ener gica against the saints of oc the most aih they have cast cantua us ovit olt out bought dougl t to destroy and root us out from the earth but there was a god who was watching over the interests of his hla people there vi wab was as a being that their philosophy and theol gy knew no DO hin bin bing bins abow a being being whose eyes were opened t to 0 see and whose e ears listened to the cribs cries of his people when the full time for deliverance arrivers arr arrives ivess he stretches fo folh III ill kis his hand and we are preserved and we come out from the difficulties and trials rials unscathed this we have done sup I 1 I 1 ported arted ty by the hand hard of jehovah and this will be done again should we te le placed in circumstances to require it 1 but now things 0 with us are ass assuming ming a dif ferent aspect and our out friends also in in the east are being paced placed in a dlee dis relt rea reit condition from that which winch they had anticipated th y lave bave the same god to apply to in the north ax as in the south the same kind of religion but their religion does not teach them to have any confidence in the all protecting arm of J jehovah for their god has no eyes no ea s no arms no power he is without body or parts if we were to goto go to that country we should fin nind find I 1 that they are all very religious good baptists good methodists good lood quake s sl I 1 good catholics good grood Episcopal episcopalians tans ians in fae fach I 1 they think that they are al ai good pious souls i attending meeting bouses ald aid appointing fasts i all through the land both the north and the abe south are praying fervently to the sanle same cod dod G odi that they may have power to dest cy their enemies who wilo are their enemies allgood all ail good christian christians a therefore if their god should hear and answer item they would all be sterly utterly annihilated oan oar goi got heard our prayers and deli dell delivered vered verea us from the power of our enemies and he be brought the most signal confusion upon those who had plotted the destruction of his peoer in relation to the events that may take place the atmos atmosphere piere certainly looks heavy beavy arid I 1 libick and the loens 0 o ens of wai wal war and ani Hood woodshed shed are formidable eno enough tigh and I 1 think by ap in in the lower world they have got a large hell heli and devils enough to carry it t n t hy they have at the present plenty of business to 0 o I 1 ai n d to at home yf 1 reel feel el thankful to the god cod of israel that thai we occupy the position we do in in these moun mountain taini do we now reel feel vere vert ver sorry tb that at illinois dr ve us from our horn boma bome what nhat say you yon the lord has preserved ua thus far he has alag also cont contaoe roe ioe oed our destinies and managed our affairs so tat we are this day by monuments of his bis mett merd mercy and eare carb yeb yee ye we ve are living monuments of the be re ard and f vor oi of that great god who has set his hand to redeem israel and to roll on his bis own own work woth but do we feel ilke ilka like ilke boasting ot 0 this no only in in god won d our enemies have gloried over us ug i chyhai succeeded it in scat ecat scattering terin us cs according lo ac th L i intentions so that we nevor navi r 1 could li have ve gathered together again yes I 1 tand and if they had bad heard that the army seif belf beli against ag ainest 6 us had swept us bir from this action ther bould have been loud hosan nabb nabs by priests and people how liow was it when joseph smith was kille lb tha te ire t e was wa a general ens rejoicing through the length aal of the wh yih ye ie land and if they conla conid bave have 11 C I 1 accomplished out DU destruction the same feel ing in would bave have been in this and in I 0 oher U colin countries tries and ai ther the kinz king orn om of G abd bd advances this spirit will increase ahe 1 I tle tie spirit of light and truth will be ba opposed by I 1 th espirit of da knes and error tny thy are two antagonistic powers which will strive for the mastery until error is e hed led I 1 abild overcome overcame jon gon dotin dolln speaks of kwof prophets that will A ill lii prophesy Y in jerusalem and that will hap power to cause that it rain no not in the days of their prop prophecy prophesy hedy to turn torn we waters in id to alood anol and to smite the earth with ith plagues as ort oft otten often en as they will the nations of the m eaith th will be gathered against thein theland tie tib mand and they will be ba ove comby cumby thel r enemies and hence it ia h said their dead bodies bodio shall lie lib in the dreels of jerusalem for fon three days and abd three highs fiig flig lihs lifs the tho wicked will so rejoice ill in their aa and gloat lver over the destruction or those prophets that they will i bulge in feast feasting ilig abild antl sending gifts onet onee to another bc because ause of tha destruction af pf those men of goi god but by and ana bj bye e we read the spirit of life sent from frob the great god t hali hail again enter euter their taber laber nac nao fes and ayd they thai thad berec be received elved alved up laito to anja anaa ahe sight s cf their shall th en ix experience the we fury of the almighty the prophet gives an aa ing account of what shall take place in jerusalem about the time of the appearance of these two preat great prophets j such stich is the feeling that has been manifested by this thib generation ever since the commence 1 m ant nt of this great work with which we are associated the saints of god the work of god the revelations of jesus christ and the holy priesthood have been misrepresented lied about and slandered gods people have been persecuted robbed plundered mobbed and driven the prophets and apostles have been imprisoned ardd agid put to death under false pretences pretenses by bv irresponsible ruthless gangs ol of ruffians we have never been in any pt pi ice as as y t from the commencement of this work to the present time but that feeling and spirit have prevailed against us ua it commenced adain awain against st Josep hSmith vi when hen he first received jhb the e P plates fates and ana continued in ohio in mis alls in illinois and in the various cities I 1 towns counties and states that we hare have oc f aupied it is a feeling that is opposed to othe the word of gody god to the spirit of truth and to the 1 kingdom of 0 god upon the earth A great maz man many y men inen have not known by what spirit or feeling they have been beeh actuated ni nol n i her do they now know when they array themselves a against ainest the saints of god ahry i are actuated by a toul foul fouly bouly wicked spirit by and bye they will be arrayed against each other and not knowing the revel revelations a tlona tiona of god the destruction will be te terrible one of the old prophets said when speaking of the wicked that they know nothing but what they know naturally as brute beasts which are made to be taken and destroyed do da you think that this state of things 11 would have been beeri in existence at the present time in the united states it if they bad been bee n under the direction of 0 the saint saints sand and servants of the most al 0 st high if they had been under the rule and dictator dictation dicta tion tinn n of a prophet governed by the principle of light and intelligence as he receives it from heaven does it appear to you they would have been ia inthe the present predent lamentable condition no with the light of heaven this his could not possibly have been but a as things at the present stand they have ho fio inspiration no revelation from god no prophets voice to point out the path of safety at least there is ia none they will listen to and consequently they ate are led captive by tue tuce devil and are in a great measure controlled oled 1 ty by him this is 13 truly a lamentable position I 1 I 1 but the picture is not overdrawn do we i i t rejoice over them no we do not ws wa have dave I 1 frequently offered to td them the principles of life we had bad much rather they wadid have drunk of the waters of life and been in a different condition but at the sarn baun i time thrle we would a great deal prefer to lave them use their armies armica jphn than upon us they are all very loyal they to be very patri patriotic otie otic and they all believe belleve elle elie e they ire are fi ahting fighting for their own and tiley pray to the god 0 battles to give them theta success sand and it Is quite common to hear them boast we will re r guati ati matters in a short time lime 11 bu but t who s this god or of bittles why 1 the deul tile the I 1 prince and power ot of the air ho rules ill in attic hearts of tue the children of disobedience be ble is the me dod oti oil they r risk isk their cluid cuse with virth and it is I 1 tor for birn bim to handle then them aw as he sees ft mat mav shallie shall shail lwe wedo do in the midst of 0 these things that 1 are now no iho ing why lean upon the lord our godo God purify y ourselves s look back to the pit from whence we were dug arid and t to a the rock from whence we were hewn A short shori time ago wi we and the gall of bl bitterness let tir ili u also look at our position as elde elds v W lil lii israel e ci phed wita the toe power aft artlie holy d a as s men mentho who i hom hold the ministry it i rc conI ammi ti and who have been bein sele selected steeled eted geed and chasin chosen by bk trl tri G great eat tat to warn the word wo dafid ad pray I 1 that alje he may gle gie atte e usa i og of the be p an dp of salvation thab that we anay become saviors mooar tbt ur fellow bel bei beings this is the F position lon ion anat wj we ought to 0 o occupy in iii mothese to these thebe matters tatters standing dil Inh bibly oly bly pla pia places escull full tull of or the jig light ht and ge e nae nce that frota from the thone of god seeking ta t cultivate every eabry noble and exalted principle mit wit has hali li een trade trace known tinto us and arld atily ing A to wark owa that high 0 vacation t I 1 I 1 WE we ive are called I 1 will wih tell teli you iw I 1 feet fiet I 1 reel feel ree fee chahl ful to ia the god of israel that he has arted me m i the privilege of bein associated I 1 t lb t 11 f q people antl ani alth this tho bd I 1 do n not 1 b t f fet et myself much abbat or south bouthi af pf pr any arly allx ower omer 0 EL er anatro nation h they ari arf are all in hi the th e rands lands of bf cod dod I 1 care noting for I 1 he glory ap andi andr pomp romp jofs af he vf rid it is alli ri so miny meny ani and it is destined to cestr destruction but I 1 ido doican care cara odou a bout principles thiu thib fh ream back 1 and thit abit reach ach for wardlo eural ty that ave gye mi me th the 1 I tege of draw leht bt tru iru b h and intelligence from that acin bein wb who q gives au other worlds all the ibe ii light baid and intelligence they enjoy aird who is prepared to g give glye ali aji and i d gnipa impart 1 it at it to his bis hip people a fast ast as aa they are capable caf car alle alie of re filding ana and ampro ing up onit I 1 feel a strong desire alyo alio ho ta to arh bring ni my body luto into to the law of godana to live in ovea obea ob fenie to all its require requirements metts for I 1 feel reel that I 1 am called to lo a high and Loly calling and that I 1 would not exchange my position for any position lon ion or of power or emoluments that man can bestow upon the face of oe the earth these are my feel |