| Show f g bg arc urgent my U in in tj aa old oid tabb tobb rab tab dc G df ci rp in tai tho 5 amm I 1 0 fedec 29 d 67 14 reported Br REPORTED PORTED BY DY 0 D WA WATT Tr in jen my reflections I 1 often look over this ibis people and number them inquiring of myself what proportion of them bear of latter day sainta saints and I 1 pro dro pro fess this thib religion I 1 expect we maysky may say bay with propriety that nineteen twentieths anui antl perhaps twenty nine thirtieths of the people inhabiting these feio pes fessio fes sto be latter day saints applying the tho I 1 e ame bame proportion to the inhabitants of this city and considering that they jare alive in their du dui ti esit does doea appear ir to me mathat that our sunday meetings should bovell well veli attended from sabbath to Sabbat sabbath li this taber i nacle nacie should be bet crowded deja to its utmost capacity our oun meetings are not as well attended as I 1 would like ilke to see them I 1 kuo know w not hot chero to attach the fault 7 whet hether herto to the bishops of tho different wards Vard sor bor or to the people db do the tho people generally ilko ilke liko to go to meeting to be in strutted ted do they wish to bear hear their brethren speak of the things of the kingdom of god have they faith in the name of the lord nord jesus and do they desire to make progress in tho the knowledge 0 agod f god or are they already perfect aro they filled with knowledge and wisdom with falth faith and grace and eve ever qualification of the holy spirit that aey zey they need n not ot to be taught any ny more euch buch questions as at these suggest themselves melves to in my mind sometimes when I 1 see a on the tha part of the saints Saint aln in the faithful performance of their duties i 1 hope aud and pray pay that the people will not entirely lose a desire deabre to perfect themselves and prepare thenis themselves elves for the life and immortality which are promised in the gospel I 1 will botsay but that they feel that they arev are veny very efy religious doing the best they can still borall for sil all that there is a visible manifestation that there does not exist ehlt a desire within all ail of 0 them to together i I 1 will nill venture venturo to say that the L lat at ter tet ten day saints living in the thirteenth fourteenth and seventeenth wards if they werd were to attend our bublic public meetings on the sabbath day aa as they should would bould fill this house bouso to its utmost capacity eit elt rit yand and there would be no room found for the peo people le odthe of the other wards of this city though though they seventeen are arb in num beri I 1 if the people aro arc not at meeting on the sabbath day what are they doing are they I 1 reading tha scrip scriptures tures turea are they fasting and praying and conversing with holy beings form nent nena aa as to this from the little dittle that ahat I 1 do know some are indolent no doubt doub tand nd i pre pro jesting As it is a day oay of rest they dowiot like lice to go to meeting it ilc will fil rall rail tire tham themos much and ang they choose rather then ther 10 t home mean and d rest arest while this Is s lay biess bless the asa ase with some I 1 should not wonder r I 1 if others are working a about th their gr homes doing that tha t which should ilav lian have V e heen been done yesterday 1 or oronto orito inor lnor edtl I 1 I 1 j i I 1 should not hot think it very ii grange r I 1 e if I 1 should find sorbe of our good religious ell eil idus long bisters sisters at work taday to day dav perhaps erha s spinning SE weaving sewing wing and doing t that at waivia baye been done yesterday ter day dr or on soine other week day if nia nis uia feteth we edre yeth teth tha the beason season to perform canori canon york ware wark 1 I Ih ouId have e expected that many of the tho brethren would have been found fountin rin the canon cabon to today day having started on od saturday for a load of wood krio wing that they could nbc not get baek back home again before sunday evening if giixh persons have ha eslit a latue business on hand haud that will take them bom nom from home a euort abort time they will ili most mosi generally generall Sr try 16 to da dolt doit it on the first firt day of tho tb week yeek ahey must visit a little on the sabbath day oay to the neglect af pf their thein duties duffies imade these remarks because 11 I 1 think fink sink link the ibi veople people do nob nol manifest the desire deshle they should to meet together to break k brend bread ana and partake of the sacrament of he 4 gortva supper and learn wha what t they can if wd we can be made per perfect feet here bere inthia mortal state and freed from sin and the effects of it then I 1 might pos bibly be leato led to believe beli bell eve evo that perhaps manx many of the saints bw haye ve become pure ure and haly and goad enough without out eq eming aming to meeting any more anore allowing wie bie me the privilege to judge others by 1 myself I 1 should conclude that wa bestul sai sal nedd need nee d to meet together for mutual instruction 9 st ido I 1 do not know of a person who observes observed the sabbath in reality and I 1 any stricter than I 1 do perhaps lam iam I 1 am mistaken and you know we are re not very apt to acknowledge our own faill faults ts but I 1 will venture to cosay say thai 1 try to live jive myrel my religion g as near as s lask laak lask any of my rhy brethren and ana to do I 1 task aik ask no inor lnor more moro of them than I 1 am willing Will tg to perform myself 1 I 1 need to attend meeting aud and to pray I 1 need to ok observe erve the Sab banday liday hiday I 1 need to par r otake ae of thes the sacrament t ie t pt V peri e i remembering g nimi Alev irig aubr ana anu realizing as much as apas possible 1 10 1 tha th atti atTl and by ile he will coma con and ti partaKe of oj bread and wine wila e with wit his in his kingdom upon earth feasting with his brethren and instructing them in all things pertaining to salvation be lieving that he will descend from even as lie he ascended into the hea heavens elis ells 1 IF r our brethren and sisters who do not attend Felig religious ious lous se service bervice consider they thoy do afif need to bo be taught eburt exhort edh eda plead wit IF ily liy further furt furi lier iler 1 why then wo we must bo be lontai they and out their mis mistake take tahe I 1 wish ish to remind sou you of a plan which we have adopted cpr the sustaining of our poor next sabbath vill precede our next fast meeting at our next fast rne Ine meeting eting I 1 want the tho bishops of the several warda in this city the bishop on the ua other side of the river ulver and the bishop of the sugar sugarhouse abuse ward making twenty y jwo two wards in all tt to see dlo flo to it that every family in their wards bring a portion of their substance su with them for thedoor the poor to be deposited where the bishop shall appoint the bishops of the thirteenth and fourteenth wards which are the wards containing nearly all the merchandise ise lse ia in the city bishop woolley and bishop hoagland are the stewards over them 1 I wish them natto abt to pass by tho the merchant baut bant but let him also bring in proportion io his family filthily for the support tf odthe orthe the poor also the doctors and lawyers in your wards if they refuse to assist in maintaining tho the t ho poor let them theta bo be cut off froni from the hureh church hurch and mhd ma henery hevery make very little ado abolia it oth er jer wards are not alidal a weal thy aa these WOO two wards yet set it is alib true th that at these thase latter have more poor to td sustain ril rii I 1 Tn merely direly wanted to put the brethren and sisters in mind of this today to day asto As to how touch people should administer on a fast day for the sustenance of the poor I 1 will say if you feel pretty close and as though have not much to spare reckon up how much you consume in your families of flaur albur meat vegetables es groceries etc and carry two thirds of that days rations to the th bishop of your ward vard if you feel reel a as s though you could give a little more bivs give all the three meals if you ahe aye in the habit of eating three meals a day if yd you addre are abt in the menil habit of ca eating ng three tymna a day it is no matter ia atter two thirds as much as you consume in til the aday day devote poor and carry to your bishop I 1 would also aiso urge upon the elders of israel the necessity of to fast hebting regu barly if rl I 1 am unable to attend fast meeting myself I 1 try to be attentive in giving my substance it feed the poor and I 1 wish to remind every bishop that it Is expected of him not to leta single family escape the performance 0 of f this import important amt aft duty that the poor may be fed and properly ca arad nor for this thia p people e ap pp I 1 a present res ent to tb the world a most re remarkable spectacle they have been variously educated and variously impressed religiously morally and na ha together from many nations naf lons ions yet tet et they have become of one heart and an mind iii in the great grent leading principles of morality and religion I 1 t ay taisto their credit the latter day saints in their assembled capacity enjoy the liberty and freedom of the sons song and daughters of the almighty The they yare Vare are left fred free to choose good or evil according to io their pleasure that the hon hen hearts arts af pf of all mav M may ai be made manifest may gee e ee and understand each other the lord brings us into circumstances in III which th chevery every evers inmost recesses of our hearts with regard to our moral impressions and character are exhibited I 1 expect the lord looks looh upon unon this people with a great deal of patience for he is filled fifille dd wi with theon compassion and he desires very much to see the people sanctified when the gospel of the son of god is preached to the world in its purity and p power 0 nver an and d men receive it they are expected at dt once to tb cease from all evil for it inculcates all the highest principles of morality and strikes at sin in all its phases and degrees every son and daughter of adam who has received the gospel in honesty kud and truth has received it in the spirit of truth whose office it is to teach and influence the love righteousness and hate iniquity Ini wity olty it teaches not to lie not to take the name of god in vain not to murder not to covet that which is not your own and to walk in alithe ail all the commandments and ordinances of god blameless in receiving the gospel in the latter times through joseph the prophet we ne have reb ret elved the regla regia eions eonta gonta contained ined in the old OIA and new testaments book of mormon and especially peel aly ally als ais to tous tons n s given in I 1 n tb the e book 0 f doc trine a anid arid M d cov covenants enacts I 1 in n all bf ther there 6 books the observance of the sabbath day Is particularly urged I 1 know it is regarded in the scriptures as a da day of rest reet re and th that atthe the publio public services serviced of our religion birj are considered onside r waty by man many anything but resting the tUe boUy ysl hadean have fl remarked if the lat latter er dam day vall cRne conclude lude to 3 babii Babli ath as aly a amy day a of rest and the first day of the week or the christian sabbath to attend to our re legious duties we will do so when the saints assemble themselves together it should be to purify themselves and to sanctify the lord god in their hearts that they mayba may be f fully u I 1 ly afe prepared rii pir red idd botn herit hip hi celestial pei pel estial kingdom ki when a duty is required of t his this peaple by the of or t his this church it is them to obey if they do not the cb certain reain result will ba bea boa a dec dee deelen leiA iera slon sion in th their pir faith and tho light of bf the spirit in iasin them will by degree degrees become dirl airl darkness ii li 11 dm if wo we expect to enjoy the fullest ali all and greatest jestings We stings that thai tha can ba be bestowed upon tho the ithe c children t 7 of me men meu i wp must bye byo iv for t ithem t h ex if we wish y to know inov dinote more perfectly the mind and abd will of god we muan uvo live closer to him and be more and more faithful in the observance of df every duty not neglecting to meet often together keeping our fasts before him bringing our offerings before the lord that the poor may be lle fed remembering that he that by usury and unjust gain in his substance he shall gather it for him himL thau that will pity the poor and he that hath bath a bountiful eye hall be blessed for abr for be othis ohis bread to the poor 06 and lle lie ile he that to the poor ioor bhail shall not lack laek put wit he that aideth hia hig eyes shall bhail hayd have many a eurse curse 11 when the lord gives a h lawty law to his church af pf i people in ah anay ahny age he exita nil all to obey it and hud those who live near to tb nim him know krow kno that his yoke is 14 eagy easy arld arid ana and A hig burden is our ernen erien neb nea bay say thai thal this are oppressed ariu arlu a and arid rid riu it had has been beep supposed that letters wre wro re permitted to bp bent sent out af pf the dast without their first being examined by bi the authorities af pf orthe the tho church bow how singular in u ar it is a that there thero ezo eze s should u b 9 peo pie pio le who 0 believe this there h e re is no peaple people peonie od 04 t the e face of f this ear car earth th who 0 enjoy thata e amount of civil bivil and und nd religious i IOUs lous liberty albery that this people enjoy benjoya en joya JU a ivi lazed community as a timit is governed byci by yil yli marld larid jaw law aw we gather thousands ifton of peo people from many nations of the old world and aud some of them come up here herd with willi ElIr thir eyes full of iniquity they th byl iare are at elvery everybody body but bin at themselves managing to see wrong in everybody but in t themselves selves and they very likely are ge guilty il bf otten often ten wrongs where those whom they judge are guilty of one they will lil ill lie ile a little swear a little and seal a little while I 1 can ay eay before saint and sinner without t fear tear of contradiction that this is the best people as a community upon the face of the earth 9 yet there we among them those who have joined alib church solely for the loaves and the wishes fishes they gather eathin with thet the saints for personal advantage they ia received the truth because ta they knew it toad to be true but they do not live it supposing that gain elgain is godliness 11 they forget that those who will be rich fall in into many temptation and a anarea snare an and dinto d into many mans foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men rn n in in destruction and perdition this Is sure abre tobe to beahe bethe the case unless with the attainment of honest gain we also aiso increase in id the grace graca and knowledge of bf god fighting the good fight of faith and laying kayin g hold on etar nalI nal nai ilfe life these are arc they who violate tha sabbath lay day these are they who pilfer their neighbors elgh boris borIg goods these iare are they who are greedy for foe dis dishonest gain to consume it upon their lusts these are they who rob their employer of his substance or of his time drawing wages wage which the they have n not ot honestly earned these are ate they who pick up lost property concealing and appropriating tho the same to their own use ue these theme are they who appropriate money and means entrusted to their care without legal process or contract these are aier they who give their means and strength to build up an and d strengthen athen unrighteousness and unrighteous per preference 0 athe the tho truth and its upholders will one hulf half |
