Show etise erise sj by president houng YOUNG delivered in the tabernacle great areat galt salt lake city june 16 1867 reported by david W evans these words if ye are not one ye are not mine are the words of the savior through the prophet joseph and given to us this is a principle about which you have heard bro robert williams say aay a good deal in his way of talking his mind is like the minds of a great many both in this church and out of it with regard C to temporal things if they had bad the privilege of dictating the affairs of this people or of any other ather they would divide the substance stance of the rich among thedoor the poor and make all what they eail call equal but the question would arise with me at once how long would they remain equal make the rich and the he t poor of this community or of any other equal by the distribution of their earthly substance and how long would it be before a it certain portion of them would be calling upon the other portion for something with which to sustain themselves the cry would soon be 1 I have haver no bread no house ho no team no farm I 1 have nothing and in a very few years at the most large properties would thus thus pass from the hands andson of such individuals and would be distributed among those who know how to accumulate wealth and to preserve it when accumulated we should be one there is no doubt of that but the very men and women who would take the property of the rich and dispose of it to their own advantage would spurn from their presence aid and disregard every word of counsel given ayd by those who know how to accumulate and an preserve and they would say we kno know w as much as you and we ean can dictate our own affairs so they can until they make inake themselves poor and have to be helped by others she juthe capacity capacity of the inhabitants ants of the earth t ahto to d dictate ic ate their temporal afna afra affairs irs Is li a matter that has occupied a certain portion of my time and reflection now politically we as a government enjoy the extent of the franchise granted to us by our constitution and that is all we can ask for but who knows and understands der stands how to dictate and guide in wisdom for the benefit of the whole community very few and talethe take the inhabitants of the earth from first to last there is not one man in ten neither is there one in twenty and probably ro not one in forty who is capable capable of guiding himself through life so as to accumulate the necessaries and comforts of life for himself and family and go to the grave independent leaving a comfortable living lor for for his wife and family with instructions to enable them to pass through life judiciously wisely and prudently politically and financially there is probably not one man in forty capable of pursuing the course I 1 have indicated then in a moral point of view take our young men who are easily operated upon do they know how ow to guide their steps so that a good life ife may crown their last days no they do not do the young ladies know the be course to take to preserve themselves in honor they do not any more than the young yen ten men they have to be watched like an infant running around the house that knows no better than to take the carving earving knife or fork and fall upon it and put out its eyes and it is so with the middle aged as well as with the young they have to be looked after and cared for and when this people become one it will be one in the lord the they hy will not look alike we will not all have ave grey blue or black eyes our features will differ one from another and in our acts dispositions and efforts to accumulate distribute and dispose of our time talents wealth and whatever the lord gives to us in our journey through life we will differ just as much as in our features the point that the lord wishes to bring us to is to obey his counsel and observe his word then every one will be dictated so that we can act as a family then if br robert wanted a pair of boots pants a coat or a hat or a dress for his wife nife or child he could have it but only in the order of god and not until he can be dictated by tle the the priesthood I 1 am talking with regard to our temporal affairs afra irs of being 7 so dictated guided guld and directed that every mans time and talents will amount to all he could wish and desire are the latter day saints in this situation partially so can they be dictated yes in some bome s 0 m e things you take wese these very men a and nd women who want to make us all equal and they tell us that we are covetous because we llave have horses carriages houses lands land and money have the poor go got ot greedy eyes are they covetous and an penurious penurious I 1 shall go a little too far ff f I 1 am not careful I 1 must guard myself because the lord has chosen the poor of this world but what kind of poor now the poor may be divided into three classes in the first place there is the lords poor of which you may pick up one here and another there one in a city two in a family Is there any other kind yes you come across a certain class that ma may be called the devils poor Is there an any other class yes there is another class who long before I 1 ever mentioned them were denominated poor devils hence we have the lords poor the devils poor and poor devils we have plenty ef of men in this community whom we have gathered from england scotland france germany and the islands of the sea they have believed the truth and alid received it and we have sent for them here herer that they may live their religion but if jesus tells the truth there is a certain class of people who receive the truth without the the love of it when such characters gather and there are plenty of them here they would i just as soon fellowship deal and associate with and bold hold in close communion the poor miserable sharks that follow us as they would with the best saint here and they do not know the difference why is this because alf hough although they have embraced the gospel gopel and know it is true they have not received the spirit of christ when we come to the doctrines that we preach as contained in the bible and lay them before the people the whole christian world cannot gainsay I 1 a word of them I 1 have chave read many and many a time out of the prophecies and the sayings of the savior and his apos ties that the bible contains until ant I 1 I 1 they who listened have got kotu up pana and declared they would wohld hear no m more or d from that wicked book believing it lt to be the book of mormon priests and deacons have declared they would hear no more from that vile record I 1 have said does not mot this agree with your faith and feelings no it does not and if we had it in our houses we would take the tongs and put it in the fire 11 well I 1 have replied replie di the book I 1 have been reading from is the holy bible the old and New Testaments translated by order of king kini Hini james Jamesl but they did not know what t those ose records contained when we come to the doctrines contained in this book the christians cannot gainsay them they are struck dumb and silent as night or rage in anger truth overcomes error and when it is set before the people eople the honest receive it I 1 bonse wonder r if there are any elders here who ever had a minister deacon or so called christian say to them I 1 if you will perform such and such miracles I 1 will believe I 1 have had that said to me a great many times it always shocked me I 1 would say to them you have notreab not read the bible I 1 think 0 I 1 yes we have they would say we are bible scholars well then I 1 will ask you a question q did you ever read in your bible anything like this A wicked and adulterous generation seek eth after a sign and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of the prod prophet jonas 11 we do not know that we ever did 11 I 1 would turn to the passage and show it to them still men have believed because they have seen a miracle wrought they cannot withstand that by argument because they see the truth mathematically demonstrated st do such characters endure no they come here and then turn away from their god from the angels from the hoik holk holy prophecies ecles eeles of the lord jesus jesus from t their air brethren and benefactors who brought them here from the land of oppression where they could notown not own as much as a chicken and where almost all they could get was a morsel of bread yet they come here and turn away from their brethren and the covenants they have made and are traitors to god and heaven and to the good in the heavens and on the earth are there men who came here in this way who have got rich yes there are men now in this city who came dame here poor naked and barefoot and willing to take a spade and go a ditching for me or for anybody else who would furnish them a little bread and now they are rich they have made their wealth out of this people who constitute the kingdom of god and they are using it to build up the kingdom L of the devil what are we to say to them I 1 would say let them alone severely the man who will apostatize from the truth forsake his god and his religion is a traitor to everything there is in heaven earth and hell there is no soundness goodness truth or virtue in him nothing but aaroness aar darkness kness and corruption and down to hell he will go this may grate on the delicate ears of some and they mav may may think it is a pretty hard sentence still it is true when apostates in this city or territory tor crave your gold silver fine nour flour and your su substance S ce re refuse se them em teil tell e them they have t the e sa same e privilege to earn bread that you ou have ave and if they will work for and an earn it like honest men and women t they e are e free to do so but not to pluck it from the pockets ol 01 the honest and poor let the latter day saints give their substance to men who will pay their tithing help to sup sort ort the elders in their preaching to us onate ate to the families here whose husbands and fathers have gone to preach the gospel to the nations and let iet the apostates alone if I 1 were to ask you honestly and sincerely and in the character of a christian and then a little stronger in the name odthe lord god of israel will you let apostates alone and trade with them no more what would the saints say how man many of the latter day saints would say 1 I would as soon trade with this man as that man or spend my money in this store as I 1 in that store even though they pay tithing and do good with their means those men and women in whom this feeling exists must get et rid of it or they will not be num numbered berei berel with those who are of one heart and of one mind now remember that I 1 will promise those who feel in their hearts that they would sooner trade with an apostate or with a corrupt outsider than with a brother if the former formen would duld sell thein them u 4 thyi vol mol a arollar cheapen cheaper and persist in j uehl luchi i course course of things that they will vill nevet beter never enter in at the strait gate nor be num bared with those who are sanctified ahi ani prepared to enjoy the celestial presence of god our father and of jesus the he 4 deemer I 1 promise romise you this in the name of the lord lorr god of israel you may say it is hard that I 1 khouli dictate you in your temporal affair sj it t not my privilege to dictate you h it t not my privilege to give to pie le counsel to direct them so that tue the e I 1 labors will build up the kingdom kingdoms Kingdo md d god instead of the kingdom of the de 4 i 1 vil I 1 will quote you a little Scrip tria tuut i if you wish the words of an apostles apost ler leif the lord jesus christ to me you in nm think that I 1 saw him in vision ay f etwas a vision given right in broll broic daylight said he never spend ai 24 other day to build up a gentile city tj 1 te 5 spend end your days dollars and dimes h the e building up of the zion of god UM the earth to promote peace and right elgh ausness and to prepare for the comit of the son of man and he who d oes ni abide this law will suffer loss that is a saying of one of th the e apostoli of the lord jesus christ he said itt me do you want to know his nam nanu it is not recorded in the new ment among the apostles but it was apostle whom the lord called and 01 bained in this my day and in the d da of a good portion of this congre congregation atiqi and his name was joseph smith juni JUDI these words were delivered to me a sul jul july y 1833 in the town of KIrt kint kirtlan kirtian lani lari gea goa geauga geaugh u ga county state of ohio ghio TN th word to the elders eldera who were there wai wat vu never from this time henceforth dj you spend one day or one hour to sq BD tain the kingdoms of this world or th kingdoms of the devil but sustain thi til kingdom of god to your uttermost fitter mose mosO now if I 1 were to ask the elders ciders of IS el 61 to abide this what would be the reply t ily lly of some amongst us in in the hearts of some gome would be lin lih it itu is none of your business where I 1 trade t I 1 will promise those who feel thus that till I 1 4 1 they will never enter the celestial k kingi idzi I 1 dom of our father and god goil that is my business it is my business to toi preach the truth to the people anu ana aua ana it will be my business by an and by to testify for the just and to bear witness the ungodly it Js is your privilege to do as you please just please yourselves but when you do so will you P pleasa beasi t bear the results and not whine ovel them t it is the way with thousands aai aad thousands when they burn their fingen they will III ili turnaround turn around and complain d somebody ay else when they them selva yd are the only ones to blame how ni B tural it is for some to endi endeavor avor avon to blai bial blar biar others for the troubles their own follie have induced it is a trick of the deva you never see saints take this count when they do wrong they do not tk to lay liy the responsibility on their bor or on some brother or sister ti saint ig is ready to acknowledge his faul to bear the responsibility and to ki the rod and reverence the hand th thi corrects him but you yon hear those vb wit are not complain iq it is so to a great extent with our na nei comers when they come co me here th look for perfection they say gis lis thief zion and so it is but if we go to tk tb scriptures we shall find that the zid of god is com composed ased of the burein pure in hesi head ant brethren and sisters have you zid within you if jesus christ is not natii you the apostle says then are ye re rt proba probates tes tex 11 if the zion of god is w lid within the bosom of you who profess ti be latter day saints take care that yot yol are not reprobates be careful that n nt man takes advantage of you leads yol astray and causes you to leave th church church and kingdom of god apost aize and go down to hell if you hat hal h jesus and the kingdom of god wi witha you then the zion of god is here ti our brethren and sisters when as t gather here are apt to find fault and ani say this is not right and that is is 10 r right and this brother or that sister 1 I 1 done wrong and theado they do not bell beli behoff 69 that he or she can be a latter day sah sas in reality and do such things lio tho I 1 people come here from the east cast and tie the west from the north and the south with mth all their traditions which impede th thelt their eit elt pro progress g ress in the truth and are durl duri difficult calt to lay ay aside yet they will pass jui jad menton ment on the acts of their brethren and sisters I 1 want to ask who made them the judges of the servants and band hand maidens of the almighty who der to shoulder have borne catoia at this kinga 6 tl than a third of a la upon whom the yol yoi yoke e dt ot christ has rested so long and arid who have |