Show 1 m 1 1 1 Z 1 1 i 1 DISCOURSE i by jbf kale geo A shuh tn the tile tabe great greot esau thau lake 11 ll I 1 I 1 p i mdavid m DAVIDW DAVID W EV evans bvans SJ the crowded condition of the tabe m morning orni 1 dg and the reflection thattie th that atthe there rp is a alpin lipin number ber of persons out side eide who are io so unlucky as to be too late to obtain admittance remind us of the necessity there exists for a avigo roHs 4 prosecution r elution of the work upon thel the new tabernacle a b oe raele that we wp may be 1 pre prepared arad to accommodate the brethren and bisters sisters with seats especially during conference I 1 expect that by the time our great tabernacle is finished we shall it is too small jox fox forwe we have haye neven never yet had a building sufficiently large and convenient to ac our congregations aboon at oon con derence ference times in fact mormonism baa haq ag seemed to flourish best out of doors ii where here there was more room this circumstance i cum stance has worn heavily upon the lungs of our elders and especially of the presidency who have been under the necessity of speaking to very large jarge audien audiences es in ju the tho open open air and it is 14 very Import important atit that wo we should concentrate rate rafe 1 our efforts to render the new tabernacle habitable as soon as possible should lahat portion af the inhabitants of this iday fity alty that naturally kugit to th attend meeting be punctual on the sabbath Iday oday we should find it 00 loo oo small and should wish that he be had half a aezen dozen galleries capable pf af holding three or four thousand each that the fhe people get somewhere within compass l andrear the tho word of the lord i ja it y wrItt written by one ore of or jho prophets that tho tha t ame gome come when when there would be n famine in in the land lahd not mot roh foi abroad read nor for water vb bu for the hearing lof the word of the lord hence it s necessary ees ces sary that hat wp we should shoula prepare a sulta ibia tabernacle that we may be supplied ewhen i that day of famine shall arrive I 1 think has existed in the tho wor world ld tapp fp i a iong xing long ling period bilt but that deiy very few of or L the ithe human fam family I 1 ily have realized cail call f zd it there ere are many subjects which I 1 would like to present before my brethren and sisters which bear with more or ir less weight upon my mini and sd which are directly calculated to concentrate een cen tha minds of the people on the mark given gery ils lis ausy by the president to preach leaah to uhe the presidency in their thel ine ill yesterday brought brough our minds tery ivery very clearly to the points which it is proper forus forup for up to re reflect upon and to exert gur ourselves selves to carry ap oui out t unity in our ac tio tion education cation catlon business bustnes relations and jn in everything pertaining to this world oi or aily ally any other with which ever will have hive anything to do it has often ofton been reiterated that we are agreed in doctrine oc trine in belief bellef beli bell efin in the lord jesus christ repentance baptism aang laying on of hands bands resurrection of the dead eternal judgments and the sacrament vvo are agreed almost to a unit oi on these subjects the christian world or many generations has been split spilt nto atoms on the question of the sacra sacrament the blood of millions has been abed A because some k base baye beri beni R believed lev bev 1 ed hau I 1 in the elements t hai haj th 6 sacrament t ua lil lii es and alid blood of Jesus Jesua christ while others othet believed they were but symbols and that it was simply done in remembrance of him on these points we are agreed we vp are the most remarkable people that ever existed on the earth I 1 might say that at devout men add wame tit 0 fei adi nation natio n under alider heaven are gathered g a nt here d bal here re what did they come comb here for the word of thel lord to walk in his paths patha and anil to prepare to inherit his ills glory having done so much for our religion is 13 an earnest earliest that we are ruady ready to labor all the rest of our days daya to obe obey 1 y theford the word of the lord which goes forth from fram zion xion we come here with a great eat variety A clety of y prejudices ire judice s and with ith a abundance it I 1 tin lin of tradition buu but witha with a great deal 0 of f con eon confidence confided fiden ce in the he principles of the gospel we are as is it were in a new now world a desert a country that is only made fertile e atlle by absolute labor and its fertility is only retained by the main maln strength of its inhabitants cease to irrigate our fields repair our dams clean out our ditches and our country becomes a desert again in a quarter 0 of the time that athas it has taken us to make it in some respects it is peculiarly fitted to ps us for while many of us are interested in one dam one water ditch of oe one stream of water we are compelled to cultivate a spirit of union and goneos oneness or the result is ii we go hungry and aad phat that same spirit of oneness is actually necessary to enable u us to fulfill fulfil our mission liere and for our exaltation hereafter the god of heaven heavert has a miss ion for every mal niazi mai and women that I lit hf it calls into this thi work we may hear boide some flames read to the Confer conference enee epee 0 of brethren who are called on a mission but it is only to another part of the vineyard we are all on a mission and every man inan and women in this church is under just as much obligation to perform that mission as either the twelve apostles pr or the presidency salvation and eternal glory are at sue stake in each case if the presidency or the twelve fail fall to perform their mission the result is the same as it Js is with the least member in the church it may be in a greater degree from the fact faett that there is greater responsibility in one cue case than in the other othen my mind rolls back to the spring of the year 1857 1847 you recollect that about ten years ago sometimes in july we got information that the mails were vere all stopped we had not had them very often up to that period not above four or five times a year but at that time we had got a monthly mail established alid and it was waa running punctually the news came that th the administration then in power at washington had stopped the malls and had get determined to send a formidable army boutah to utah it looked boord a rather serious aclair for almost ayery avery e very time of persecution against the saints had bad been inaugurated by y the stoppage of the mail aik alk messengers brought in the paper papers 9 we wb found that preparations were makini making to send immense armies to utah what for why by some rene gade of a judge had llad spread the anfor nial maon on that the utah library was min bum i ed tb atthe court coura records were ver all ali dost dest royed and that the people here fiere bad declared themselves independent of the tile united states in confirmation confirma tiou of or this thin tion lion lie the legislature i of 1 utah tah tab had sen ben sent t a petition to the federal government asking them fo to send good men here for officers that w was con considered si dered to be very near treason or rebellion and on that ground our out country was i to be invaded or occupied by an army tho plains wei wel were e darkened by wagon wagons 9 dix aix thousand having been 1 for utah by one ehni company 1 besides several severi il thousands by th the e govern Covern government ment th there were also swarms of anti antl immense ir umbers numbers of those carrion ards birds gamblers and blacklegs that always alwawi follow an army wa we we wen remember this and we also ulso remember that in the providence of or god it was all overruled without the shedding of blood and honl hoal ho al when they got here or into the vicinity they sent on their messenger fo to ask permission to came come in and to isk ask for tot quarters in the ebu country and how they found on examination that the library and records and everything was safe and the whole thing had bad been based on falsehood we remember too that when the bottom fell out the administration scattered themselves to the tho four winds of heaven as quick as possible and got out of the scrape as best they could I 1 thi this s is well vell kolinas known kolT nas as a matter of or history but what I 1 wish to dwell upon is that previous to that time thue we had exerted 0 rals raise woo wooi wool E every y mail maii ma fa d to ra raise s e sheep g aid nid ad every evers 1 enst I 1 t could I 1 was ready to use a spindle spid dl distaff or ai loom if she could get one no matter how rude it might be to manufacture the wool into efforts were also macoto tan jeather lather and to raise flax hundreds of acres aeres of ot for 6 ought I 1 kaow h had a d been cultivated and aiwas as found to b ben bea eln eld sude aude success ess since then I 1 have heard men 1 blessing etwas its iti was to the people of utah wehen that army came it made madd them sa BO rich abw lid did dia it make rich you got their i aidy old ola iron iron and that puta put a stop to the manufacture of iron here you got gotthile the rags they brought here to sell seil and that put in atop to our home bome manufactures hence X do r not lot think that financially our codr condition lyas avas much improved the government is said to have expended forty millions in bringing that army to utah and in establishing camp floyd eloyd yet most of it betit went into the hands of speculators and very little into the hands of the actual settlers of this country I 1 do believe however t that if the little litt means meana then accumulated by ahe the people had bad been used wed with wisdom it would ave resulted in permanent benefit to community the alty but as it turned out it educated us into thet ther idea that we must buy what we needed from abroad in 1857 1 I could get the flax I 1 raised i worked up folks would take care of it in the spring of 1858 1 I put inu into the hands of a man four and a half bushels of flax seed gave him a good piece of land and told oid old him min there was as a chance foi for him to raise a nine fine crop of flax the first thing I 1 knew about it was waa that the flax wa waa gathered but th the d man toldie told he had not time to attend to tolt it he had been to Camp Floyd tra dinga gh little he cadlet had let iet it all rot but nobody would swingle break or work it out because it vas was so much easier and cheaper to do some kind of bradin trading and get a little of something out of the store stord now ha haave had dve we when means came into our lauds lands at att that period or any other taken the advice given and invested it in machinery we should not only have been able to supply our future wants wanta at home but buts should have kept plenty of money in our own country to show you the zeal with which the tha authorities of the church bemo haw ha hal w bondea bored to promote home manufactures I 1 have only to refer you to the establishment of ilie the mission in southern utah it was a barren desolate country and possessed of but a small amount of soil soll soi sol adapted to raising cotton when pre young sent brethren on that tha mission he lie said you will et t see cotton cioth cloth sold in thib this city for a dollar a yard who on the face of the earth believed bm him said the people anu are a prophet we guess but you ar aro mistaken this time but how bow long was it before his words were Terl teri verified fled fied only a short time he immediately ea started a cotton factory herband here and anath another parowan carowan at Pa rowan and alad brother houtz started one at springville Spring ville these mills milla baye haye been in operation almost from that day to fulls this and have turned out a great many thousand th busand bun chesi of cotton yarn besides llesi Ilesi dei that a great deal has been beed worked up by handland han dand daud a good many machines called plantation Spin spinner spinners ners nerg have bava been brou brought glit in for that purpose pur AH ail this cotton besides a considerable quantity which has been sent to san franciseo francisco and to the states and sold at paying bates has been raised in ill this thib territory and yet men ni n will coma along and tell you that the cotton mission was a failure what could we have done if it had bad not been esta established I 1 tell lell tel tei you brethren and anti sisters bisters that thousands would have gone naked if god had had bad not dot showered down clothing to us as is he did dia manna to the children af israel some say it cost a gret great deal to sarp ari arf the mission and aud the brethren do ahot abol nol not get rich but many of them ar estill very poor did we come into this taits church to inake make money and get gk fine clothe or to work out our salvation by establishing lishing and building tip up tile the of god As elders of israel and as saints the latter is our mission and bur tour effort from the beginning to the present time has been to render the kingdom of god self seif su sustaining tain ing the way to do 0 so o has bas been portrayed before usand us and the tile question with each one of us ought to be what can I 1 dy do for foe the greatest advancement off of israel srael sonie two year years or a year yeaTa abid hd pt a half ago the president ent eDt gave instructions to C every oi one ie of if the bi blahous allois to td eow low geow 1 ti 1 ak piece be of rye in order to the th eMers with ith rye re straw to make mlee mike 1 r tile taie inen antl and bonnets for had nad that hat been ca carried rr ed od b ath h e bishop I 1 sho and the si steif steil 1 1 in ngooy t herg hert would hav ee in this tin hinshall hall shall today to day two thousand lda ida ladles ladies ia waring homemade e made straw hats the work of their own hands and the ladies without them would most certainly have been out of the fashion for fashion has much influence in this thib matter 10 r ue a figure but had this counsel b been een pen carried d out the result would have beena a saving probably often otten thousand dollar that could have been used for the coh construction st of machinery andhor an and for the jur chase thase of actual necessaries ardd arid the ladies would have learned a trade they could have worked at hereafter in case of necessity talk to the people about raising sheep and manufacturing the wool and they will vill tell yow you that jabat it iv js is cheaper to buy huy clothing yet down street the cry is is 11 no nothing thi doing no trade and a g good deil deal deal deai of the time the business portions of the city am are almost as quiet as the tombs of ancient what is the cause of this why the people have no money r those who had no more brains than to do elo so have paid pals i all they could afford to the merchants and they can not find money to make further purchases wh at isto is bedone under these theses circumstances must go to work and 1 give it to them for their goods at six bits or a dollar a bushel and give them double measure live because ause it is too took dear to keep sheep and encourage home manufactures fac tures brethren let us lis be one henceforth and go jowik aha anc aul make good pastures 1 stables and sin siw hep cotest and feed and I 1 take care sheep alleea instead of starving them to death on the hills or ot leaving them to be destroyed by the wolves then we will have twelve or pounds of wool from each one instead of the bare backed animals so common n now 0 w tb that at we wo in might feh leh t suppose th they ey n never ever hai had any wool within a mile of them instead of having bund hundreds reds and ana allds of heads of stock dying dyllis anthe on the ranges ranged let us try and pe realize alize that |