Show REMARKS ily lly pres president ident YOUNG In bernacio oct 23 1853 1553 REPORTED BY G V D WATT we have duties which will occupy all of our time while we live upon the earth if they are properly performed an tho they consist in 10 i duties which we owe to ourselves to our fel ellow beings bein s and to our god we acknowledge that we owe duties to god and we e feel that we are under certain obligations tobia him bim indeed we ive owe our very existence to him for we are his bis offspring and without him we can do nothing we ive cannot even make intake one hair j white or black without our father we cannot independent of god make a single blade of grass to grow nor pro luce luc lue e rie tle ne tie ker j nel del of 0 wheat or an any other grain in short we cannot perform herfor in anything to aroet profit ourselves or our fellow creature without the spirit of our father and god and without hie ilia smile and blessing when ile he eveth quietness who then can make trouble tr and when he aideth his bis face who then can behold him dim whether it be done against a nation or against a man only we possess no ability only that which is given oiven 11 us of god ile he has endowed us with glorious faculties with godlike attributes like those which are abed in his bis own nature and ile he has placed us u upon this earth to honor them and to sanctity sanctify ourselves and the earth preparatory to enjoying it in its celestial cele state we are not in anything independent of god we inhere icher t what we possess from him and ile he inherits ilia his faculties attribute attributes sand band and powers from his father yet it is eo so ordained in the fathomless lvis ivis wisdom doin of god that we should be agents to our seivi selvi ao choose the good or i be the evil and thereby save and exalt our existence or lose it il jt appears to be very hard bard for us to learn the attributes and powers which are incorporated in our own ex existence stence and the pr nci aci pies and powers which are in universal nature around us we seem slow alow of heart to believe and are sluggish blum slug in our andings andins andin 1 s the religion of god embr embe embraces acs every tact that thae exists in all the wide arena of nature while the men consist of theory devoid of fact or of any true principle of guidance hence 14 the professing christian christiari world are like ilke a iship upon a boisterous ocean without rudder compass or pilot and are tossed haher and thither by every wind of doctrine those who have embraced the gospel of salvation have the witness within themselves of its truth eye gleye hath bath not seen nor ear heard beard neither have entered unto the heart 0 of man the things which god bath prepared for ahm them that love him but god hath bath revealed them unto us by nis his spirit for the spirit sear cheth all things yea the deep things of god but mie vie often find persons among us who have borne testimony ot of the truth of their religion ligion rk by the gift and power of the th holy ghost who again fall backwards into darkness by beginning kingto to express doubts whether their religion be true or false they begin to exchange the substance for the shadow the reality for a ab antom are ye ay so foolish having begun inthe n the spirit are ye now made perfect by the flehr aleh A leb leh I 1 we understand but a very few ol 01 the simplest and most belt felt evident truths and principles which govern and sustain us in existence as human beings and all the rest which we have to learn is as great a mystery to us as the most indicate and delicate piece of mechanism is to the infant child we need constant instruction and our great heavenly teacher requires of us to be diligent pupils in ills his school at hool bool that we may in time reach his glorified presence it if we will not lay to heart the rules of education which our teacher clib us to study aid atal ard continue to advance f from rom one branch oi of learning to another we reve leve can be scholars of the first class and become cobe endowed with the science power excellency brightness and glory of the heavenly hosts and unless we weare are educated as althey they are we canno cannot associate with them brethren and sisters are we preparing tor for the highest seat of knowledge and literature known to men on earth and then to eo ro on in a ivance alvance of 0 them by the means of that thit spirit bestowed upon us in thil onlin ordinances ances of our holy religion which reveals al thi gs go and thus become ourselves teachers and expound ers era of the mysteries of the kingdom of or gol goi on earth andin and in heaven would not nat this ie e much lauch better than to remain fixed with a very limited amount of knowledge and like a asfoor foor upon its binges move to and fro from une one year to another without any visible advancement improvement or lusting after the groveling things of this life which perish with the handling let each oe o e bot of us bring these matters home to ourselves it was said this morning that it we will oo 00 fo our our duty aty go gol will make us rich how by opening gold mines NO if he makes us rich be he will make us rich in the same way ay that he became rich by faithful labor ceaseless perseverance and constant exertion and indu industry he labored faithfully f r all ile he possesses and he Is 19 willing that we should inherit all things with him it i we will pursue the same courve course to obtain them that he pursued air lexicographers define riches to be opulence the possession of landed estates osgold and siver silver etc and the man that possesses the most of this kind of af wealth is rich in com coci arlson arison with his neighbor the richea of a ringham ring dom dam or nation does not cassiat so much in the rull ruil nees of its ita treasury y as in the fertility of its soil and an d the industry of its people the definition may maybe mayle termed the i riches of thia this world b but ut are they th etrue riches I 1 say they are not and you will probably agree with me hi in this I 1 need not i advance reasons to show you the worthies nes ness neb of such buch kind of riches in the absence of the common necessaries and comforts comfor tp of life oe or those substance subs auba tance which satisfy tb the e clavings cravings cravi of nature aid and ard p along our existence her here unless earthly riche are held for f or god and used to advance righteousness they are held boniv by a slender tenure br john taylor in his red rei remarks darks narks referred to it is said of hirn biro flavid and the king kina and bald said is not this great baby ion that I 1 have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the tha e honor of my majesty while the word was in the kings kinga ti ere fell a voice from hea thea bea en saying 0 king to thee it lashok is athe n the kindom kingdom kin dom is departed from thee the same hour wa was a the thing fulfill fulfil ed upon az r and be w a driven from men and did eat graba grape as oxen and his bis body was wet et with the dew of heaven heavens till his ha ra rs were crown like eagles feathers and his nails like birds claws and there the great king of babylon remained until be learned that ahat all the inhabitant inhabitants 4 of the earth are reputed as nothing noth irig and he boeth according to his will in the army of beaven heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his bis band or say unto him what doest thou this great king became satisfied that he could not possess power majesty na a jesty and earthly glory only as the kung king of kings in gave ave it to td him when G god d estoes upon ua us power to tv command the elements to speak and the soil is formed an i filled ith iab mith with fertility t to speak and the r rin in descends upon it to ai moisten daten ald aid and germinate the seed beed that we have plant dand d and to nourish it until it ripens its golden goldon n frait fruit their shall we possess true riches and not until then when we possess this power by the irrevocable decrees of heaven beaven we possess wealth that cannot take the wings of bf the morning and leave ua us poor indeed can we live to learn some cf these things I 1 I 1 we have in our mortal state the tri trl trial triai a I 1 of our faith and we are gathered r from the nations ex expressly to learn the character of our religion and its worth we have come here to to learn god and ard ourselves man alan is made in the image linage of god but what do we I 1 I 1 know of him or of ourselves when we suffer ours ourselves ries Oies to love and worship the god of this world riches suppose all the people in these mountains in possession ot of all the riches they want walt woud would it not becloud their minds and unfit them for usefull usefulness ebs ess in the great i work of in the last jays lays I 1 beard a man say not ion lon long iong since while preaching that if bek be knew nev hev where he be could get a hat full of gold he thu th u aught tit ait he would try a bat full and did not expect it would hurt him in the least let him get one hat full and he would want another and another and another until be he would become so atac bed to it and it would occupy so irge a portion of his hia adf aff affections ec that he be would prefer it to all be he has ever larned I 1 arned of the kingdom of god I 1 would keep it from him and from any other man and I 1 do not want it myself though I 1 thinh think I 1 know where I 1 could go and ket get et a bat full and have known this ever since I 1 have been in these valleys I 1 want neither gold goli nor cor silver but I 1 want to build the temple and finish the new tabernacle berd baid seid the gospel to the nations and gather home the poor do we not need gold for borths fort tort th hs a yes yea then would it not benefit us to dig some out of the ground for this purpose the wor word d Is full of gold and we would do better to get some of that in a lawful way which thich is already made into coin f r it is easier handled hanf jed than the gold dust and better cleansed from particles of sand and other foreign substances IE it we possessed true knowledge and power with god we should know how bow to get gold in great aban the tha world ia is full of it and they do not neej but a little of it we want riches but we do not riot want them in the shape of gold many ot of us know exactly what we do want and a great many do not know awant I 1 want to build that temple I 1 want to supply the wants of the poor and I 1 trumy best according to what judgment a d influence en c I 1 apses to put every poor person in a way to make their own living we all wish to possess true riches how shall we possess thin chiy thir god hab has given housour tou to sour present eki eit existence stence and endowed us with wi h a vast variety of tastes sen sensations lations and pass passions ions lons for pleasure and for pain according to the manner in which we use and apply them he also gives us houses bouses and lands gold and silver and an abundance of the comforts and necessaries of life are we ive see bee seel beet king cing to honor god with all these precious gifts or are we trying tu to establish interests interest separate and apart from god and his kingdo kingdom mp and anti thus waste the ability and sub substance stane e the lord bag baa giten gh n us with riotous livin living and wanton 7 prodigality but few rich m men en have come into biats church who have not fought diligently to rot rat their means into the hands bands of the devil there are persons persona with us now who mi cht have given their scores of thousands of pounds to this church to spread the gospe build bild the tempe and gather the poor saints but no biot they thoy have sought and do and will beek seek di i antly to place their means into the handa danda of the wicked or situate it so that they may get ft it I 1 wish you to understand bo however wever that a man giving his bis means to build up the kingdom of god is no proof to me that he is true in heart I 1 have long since learned that a person may give a gift with an impure de sign tho the lord gives us and he ht re ra quires of us t tenth en th of the increase which we make ma ke by the to the means be he has bag placed in our hands I 1 am borry sorry to see a dispo disposition silon manifested in some to go to distant part to trade and build up themselves and make money while the ability inch bich go I 1 has baa given them then is not concentrated in building up hib his kinz kingdom dom dow in gat gathering bering hering the house bouse ot of israel in red eming and building up zio in renovating renova tinn ting the earth to make it like the karden garden of eden in overcoming sin in hemi bemi selves and in spreading righteous nes nea throughout the land we fid find what we have always found I 1 and shall continue conti rrue to find until alwais t the e I 1 I 1 lord almighty separates the shep shepp from the goats and when that will be I 1 do not know I 1 As far as I 1 am arn concerned I 1 would woid like to isee lose see the people possess great wealth in this I 1 present state what whal is now called riches itches gold and silver houses and lands etc I 1 would like to see men women and childr n live do good shall we now seek to maky ourselves wealthy in eold gold and silver and the possessions which the wicked love and i f worship or shi or shall we with all oe of our might min mind d a and pd n s strength th seek diligently first to build up the kingdom of god let irs lis decide on this and do one ene thing or the tb theother eother other 1 i 1 I have talked much on previous occasions I 1 ion lon on the law of tithing I 1 do 0 not wish to say ray much about it now and I 1 would rather not sar sa anything but I 1 will give you a few facts it is true we are continually continua ly gathering in new materials men and women with no expert ence these are mixed with those who abo have been with u for years and many cany of them have apparently little or now nol no capacity for imi provement pro ro or advancement they seem incata dle die of unde standing things as they are they I 1 are as the were and I 1 f fear ear will remain BO so they are first rate methodists and you yon know they are always the biggest when they are first firstborn born in all their after experience they refer to the time of their religious ioui loui birth as the hap bap happiest moment they ever saw and are constantly afterwards as long aa as they live praying for and seeking with groans and i i tears ther lher first love instead of this thia if they were truly born of god their path would shine brighter and brigher brighter unto the perfect day we do not expect our newly arrived brethren and sisters to 0 o i t the ways of god and of his bis faithful people in zion equally with those who have ba e been here for years until v have had a sufficient opportunity to practically learn what there is to to be learned religiously fou bously iou sly siy morally politically and every other way I 1 think it was waa yesterday I 1 saw a man from weber who said a merchant came into that region and wanted to buy up all the grain at h his bis own p price rice when tie he found be could not buy bu st frat at bis his own price be became disgusted a and ri is said bald the people were a set of damned Brig I 1 toon took particular pains to give him to understand that it was one of the greatest wishes of mj my heart that the p ople throughout the territory would be brigham ites enough to know how to keep a little bread to feed them themselves selve and their children we have been in these theae valleys fifteen years some thirteen years ago we built a tithing store and the adjoining buildings from that that day until this with a few exceptions the erain crain bins in that tithing office have been full of I 1 wheat and we couil coull could feed tile the poor when hen the |