Show MEETING AT at four we met the people in their now meeting house prayer by elder geo Q cannon elder ezra T benson this is the i fourth trip south which the president has made this season in company with his brethren not because we have not business to attend to at home but our object in visiting tile the saints 13 is 3 to encourage them tote tole to be faithful to magnify their pru thoo hood bood and build tip up the kingdom f od c en it tl tit v earth I 1 wm can 1 lar war my testimony that a great deal of or good results to the saints hom bom from these visits not only in encouraging the saints to work righteousness and exercise increased diligence dill ence in spiritual matters but the roads ro fis are made better tle the bridges are mended and new ones made nevid new and better bow eries erles and places of ot worship are built and there is a general spirit of improvement made manifest the people are also made to realize that there Is a prophet prop liet ilet in the land gh gli whom god speaks to his people eople and the saints are cheered acx and comforted and built up in their most holy hois faith we have peace around us today to day and we have the privilege of worshipping shipping wor god without molestation since the saints have been led to these valleys vaile vallo 3 have we not prospered we have ano anu the man who has been the most strict in obeying the voice of the servants 0 god has been prospered tile the most wv are apt to be lifted up in the pride of oui hearts I 1 in n the days of our prosperity and andi we are not so humble before the lord we may love money mones mone y and prosperity but there is no enjoyment like thatchat that thal thai is enjoyed through obedience to the gospel of the son soli of god there is no situation in life in which so much satisfaction can be enjoyed as in doing our duty towards god and one another and this is the channel through which god will bless and exalt mankind why should not our feet be fast in these mountains we have the wisdom the light the priesthood and the tile power oi ol god with us and if this fall fail us it is because we are arc not fai fal faithful thail we are not led by the lma ima imaginations ions lons of mens hearts nor by dreams and visions given to this person or that but we are arc led bythe by the prophet of goh god god and his liis word inspired by the almighty is ig our guiding star it is very easy for us to defile ourselves before the lord and cause him to hide his face from us this is not done all at once oneo but abut it comes conics about aboudy by our first refusing to perform some duty required of us and then continuing 0 in the downward path elder charles 0 rich said it is our privilege to so learn and comprehend the principles that pertain to the kingdom 9 of god that we can adopt the them m in our lives it would be better for us it we did this more than we do we have been taught by the traditions of our fathers lathers that we must go away from this earth to find heaven heavel 6 I 1 want to stay on this earth and get wisdom and knowledge to make ninke myself and everybody b dy more happy when our president dent speaks to the thi people lie toils them liow how to make their heaven here he teaches them to live righteously to build good houses and plant lant trees for fruit and shade and we see tile the result of this kind of teaching we see heaven springing up in our homes hames by carrying out his instructions if we are not willing t to 0 be governed by the principles of truth in lit this world I 1 do not think we shall be willing to do it in another world bome some people think that we shall shail learn tile the principles that govern goy gov in lit the heavens all at once when xen we pass through the vall vail of death I 1 cannot see thai that we can attain to this knowledge there in any dif dlf different way from we do liere here by learning one truth at one time and progressing from front ono one truth to another our whole object and aim should be to do right and to do this thia we must be subject to the dictation pf af those who know what is right the lord has udd said cevall he will prote prove us in all things and to be prepared to be thus proved we must ba be found ready anti anil wide awake and faithful in eveia every duty little or great that wo we may be sayed saved in im this thia world and in the world to come colu elder wilford Wo woodruff drumm druff I 1 have ha been acquainted with president young for over 0 er thirty years as an nil eiden eider in israel and I 1 have never heard him give counsel that was waa not followed with witt blen bien lugs ings to those that obeyed it tbt tle lord has haa hla made nd as n free agents and if we ire wish to travel the path to heaven we must obey the laws that will wilt guide us s there in my visits with the president hent dent among the saints I 1 discover an increasing spirit irit of obedience and union v among the thip people the saints Sainte should be united in elections as in building a temple or in doing i anything else eise th that thai 1 t I i is required of thein them unless we carry out this principle in all our aate usta and labors we do not feel right and we cannot prosper I 1 want to see all the latter day saints united upon tn the principles sciples of life and salvation the ui lord rd has given us the holy priesthood to save ourselves our wives our children and our dead d ead whenever tho saints are disunited upon anything f their progress in holiness stops right there we W are free agents a and can a go g t to heaven or to hell as we please b bui but t upon the matter of the kingdom of god 1 wf we lik lit must mufit be willing to be united as OD ow i natt man if it we desire to twelve salvation i for it is upon this principle that the heavens heavens are governed we are called to buildt up this kingdom and no greater honor was ever conferred upon any beings in heaven or on the earth elder V F D richards A few years ag ago go this place was a wilderness in the woos toos session of indians now here are of saints in good and happy circumstances reum stances with an excellent house in which to to worship god and they are I 1 by the servants of the most blost gives them words of life or words of death is as they are arc obeyed or A 14 ged by the thi 6 people A great deal 9 some times upon little little things lmh lie lle at the foundation of our faith if we neglect will be ruinous progress no man has a righetto right 0 to 0 expose 0 o do wrong but all have a right e fi hoose hoos to do right and if wo we choose tatlo wrong ing ong the consequences will fall 4 lapon on our 0 own W n heads lieada this is the state of erf f feeling caling and society which the enemies of truth desire to brin bring about among this people no people can bo be sensed when they become divided cherb there are inspired men ipen of god gud to alde jaide aide and counsel them wilder geo A smith made a feli few rc re upon the late election after aih bishop bryant offered some ome ox ex and pres prea brigham young followed for a it chort short time on the tho sani samei Q subject when tho tue the meeting wa ata dismissed I 1 we attended a party at eight it IL 1 d dancing ameling wa wai continued with an un ilat 1011 ling LI ring spirit until a lati late jio ur the r dent it re i i 1 early f ia your etc J GEO D V wah wab n 1 |