| Show by aa brigham young in tue the Taberna Ic great sa satt salt I 1 f lake citi january 13 fh 1867 BY EDWI EDWARD D L SLOAN it was s id td by one of of f old that faith baith faith comes by hearing l ard I 1 might say with propriety that 1 faith aith alth comes by hearl hearing i ng and conce couce conceiving iving of the words of life it was also said how shall they believe in him of whom they have not h heard ea rd and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent by proper authority hence it is necessary that we should have teachers when the elders of this church go into places where re the gospel has never been preached before the spirit bears witness to th the people of its truth A number will believe belleve for a time the seed is sown some sonio of it falls on stony ground it springs up rapidly but has not sufficient me mt root and it speedily withers some falls into the ground and to all app earan cewill have a thorough growth bub the cares of the world spring up and that seed and the hearts where it was sown forsake the truth and neglect to hearken to the voice which whispered to them teem them this I 1 Is s the tile truth rut sut there aro arl li few in the world who will hearken to the word IM lift when they hear bear them and ana will iea lea qan faithful yet bui buli few fend in com comparison arlson arison to the great numbers who have heard heald the gospel ha hava hae e received it in good and honest hearts and have brought forth fruit meet for or repentance and of those who havo embraced it many have iun lun run well for a season who have not continued to abide in the faith still it is necessary should be taught and instructed in the things of god it has just been remarked here hero by bro ilzo musser that it is hard for a man to study law without forsaking the s spirit irit of the gospel this proves that etere there is a lack of or sound knowledge in the individual who permits himself to bo thu thus led away there are many among the inhabitants of the earth who are weak eak in comprehension and of such limited capacity that they can only look U unon upon 8 1 1 one th ingata thing at a time and they for saila bak sak ivi ili q the contemplation of everything elsifor the one idea which occupies the mind there are some of our elders who will argue themselves into false doctrine by giving an undue preference to one scrip scripture and passin passing goven gover over others equally as important this same lack of or comprehensiveness pi of mind is also very noticeable at times with some men who happen to accumulate property and it leads them to forsake th espirit of the tho gospel does it not riot prote wrote tiei tha t there is a af mind min in n chose who sid geso deso so which should nom the he lord earth he we made it the them oid gold old anci aull anatlie andt tiie lie tIfe silver the thin wheat auli aull an athe the nine fine and the cattle cattie upon a thousand hills are his yet he is not going to forsake the holy gospel or to apostatize because of that when jesus comes to reign king of nations as he now reigns king of saints Saint she he will nota apostatize not although the whole world will be at his command and when the ancient of days shall come and andrit sit bit upon his throne to bring to judgment the vast family of inan man he will not apostatize how contracted in mind and shortsighted short sighted I 1 we must be to permit the perishable things of this world to swerve us in the tho least degree de ree from our fidelity to the truth it shows shows that we lack knowledge which we should possess if men cannot study and practice law arid keep the spirit of the lord they ought to quit it As I 1 have frequently told the people at our places of recreation if they cannot go there with tile the spirit of the lord they had better stay at home we do not want lawyers nor merchants nor business men to be engaged in iii those pursuits unless they have the spirit of god with them we vve do not wish them to continue in their business unless they can see and understand that all things pertaining to this earth are subject baright by right to the priesthood of df god and should be guided ond lind directed by it in every matter A ail all it that they are have or do ought to be subject to the priesthood of t the e son of god and unless they can feel thus they had hab had better go into the fields and canons cannons to work suffer themselves to be poor and keep the hol hoi holy spirit with them it seems to me at times as though the people should be ashamed that we are under the necessity of charging them not to become surfeited with the things of this world so as to neglect the duties that are obligatory upon them we are like children who require constant teaching and the teaching that we prin principally principal cipa elpa need is in temporal things how often do we hear it said that we are one in spiritual matters if any turn away in the least it is because they yield to some delusive spirit or argument which convinces them that an error is truth the saints want teaching n mith gith with regard to their every evers everyday day life a and their temporal avocations people belle belie believe belleve the gospel tobe to be true in germany in prance france r J rance nance t m scandinavia in england and wherever on the face of the earth it is preached to them and they receive it brother musser has been telling us of being in Cal cai caicuts cuta cuts and of b baptizing ti I 1 n g some who believed the gospel autere altere there t they wished to be gathered but was it to learn of baptism for the tile remission of 1 sins of or to learn the first principles of the gospel no they could have learned them diera in calcutta do people come from scandinavia to learn that the laying laving on of hands is a correct principle or from england to find out that we should break bread in commemoration of the death of the lord jesus christ yo N 0 they could things in the several parts of the earth where they first heard the gospel they could obtain the spirit of prophecy there and speak in tongues and hav haye e the discerning of itI spirits rits what do you gather ather here for to be guided and dictated in the things of the kingdom of godso god so as to become of one heard heart and of one mind in all things political religious and social ao to learn how to live to overcome the evils that are in you that you maybe kind and gentle and truth loving full fall of the spirit of df the lord from sunday morning to sunday morning not coming together on the first day of the week for our meetings and sada sacraments ments an and t then n going away and turning to the beggarly be a I 1 elements of the world aitho without f thinking inkin of religion again until the next sabbat sabbath morning the latter day saints are gathered together to learn hoy how how to overcome every sin and au devery audevert every passion within them to sanctify themselves before the tho heavens and sanctify the lord god in their hearts it has been remarked this afternoon that we are intro introducing ducin ga new order of things by some of the teachings recently given to the saints it is no new doctrine to let our enemies alone this book doctrine and covenants contains revelations given to the church thirty seven thirty six thirty five and thirty years ago this is what we call the i doctrine and covenants of the church yet it is but a part of them here are he bible bibie Bib leand and the chebook book of oth both of them thim containing the ahe doctrine ind coVen covenants ints of the churm but this ook contains the revelations given in his our dur day andone af the first bev cevela eld eli ihns that was given to joseph thi pro concerning the gathering of the louse house of israel points out the manner in which the brethren should live to be justified before the lord I 1 have taken the he liberty of saying in the past and I 1 think I 1 might repeat it with safety that these heso first revelations given to the them church will probably be among the last to be strictly obeyed the revelation I 1 refer to dictated the brethren what to do with regard to their temporal tem rorai business and it will be comparatively easy to obey all the revelations until we come to that which touches the purse one of the first that was given to the church you can read it inthe in the doctrine and covenants and you jou will find that it directs concerning the tho purchasing of lands land the giving of all ail property ove the hands of the bishop the receiving of inheritances and being satisfied therewith and that all that the bishop did not feel disposed to return back to those from whom he received it was to remain in his hi charge or in the charge of the trustee in trust to build up the kingdom preach the gospel administer to the wants of the poor and sustain the how would this be received by our merchants here who are members of the church commence atthe at the head of east temple street which I 1 eil call whiskey street and go down it on either side and ask our brethren who are merchants to hand band over their property to bishop hunter who might say to them 1 I will let lot you have ten acres of land lana to commence farming and here are a thousand dollars to start you and how would they act I 1 feel like saying as I 1 have said benore before unless many octher of them take a different course they will go to hell these were the first revelations given to tle the th e church yet there are men today to day w who 0 are bishops and presidents of sett settlements e who express their willingness to labor for the welfare of the people and the building up of the kingdom but feel that no person holding the priesthood has a right to dictate them with regard to their property they are very willing that bro brigham should dictate in spiritual matters and trust their eternal salvation to the principles he teaches beaches but the property they may have acquired or the manner in which their heir labor should bo be directed or who they shall trade with whether an avowed enemy or a man who pays tithing irig an and ol 01 tax taxes es and helps to build up the community are things with which gib gih they think he has no business I 1 I 1 think it would be well to cleanse the inside of the platter I 1 had a little note noto put into my hands bands not long since which stated that some of our merchants were taking advantage of the instructions given to the saints on the matter of trading there are some merchants who have never made a calculation of what the value of their goods is in first oost cost freight insurance ac that they might know at what price they could afford to sell them so as asoo asto to havo have a reasonable sc living profit but they have asked themselves how much can I 1 gett get for these goods how much can the latter hattei dwy day saints bear to be gul gui gulled gullemin ledin in purchasing them do merchants here take taue cent per cent of profit yos yes per cent when they can get it an am article which costs thom thorn a dollar they will rill charge from five to twenty dollars or as they I 1 can lean obtain it and they bauld would take fi gifty fifty ft dollars for it only they tb think ink the people will not bear to be gulled to that ext extent olit elit one man came to me lately who wanted to buy buyl some goods he asked he should bulof 80 andio and bo I 1 said I 1 would go gp among those who pay heir their tithing and their taxes and among those those who do not swear nor blaspheme the name of god antl and men who kave have consciences who would not steal your wagon nor take your stock off the range these are good traits and I 1 will here say say gay that thousands and millions who are not in the church are just as morally as we are arel I told this hieb hiek frient to go among those men and see what ho lie could purchase goods at he ile did so and returned and showed me his figures the first place I 1 directed him to 10 he found he would have to pay twenty per cent more for his goods t than an in the r second place the second was a latter day saint the first was not mot in the church he concluded to purchase of one of the brethren because he could do twenty per cent better with him the other day a man wanted to buy goods of an guts outs der because he could adso so muc better bett er th bills wei ere 1 I examined e X am aued and jt was waa found that thi chisper perk son eon was as selling sellin fifteen filer riler cent iii lil higher 19 her 1 a al hul hil wholesale ho asale than mhd n oui our brethren breth ren were selling the same bame goods at retail T there is something the matter with people pe 0 pie who think they can buy cheaper from outsiders merely because they are out siders how many of those before me are really judges of or goods not on one e in afi five hundred why brother brigham 1 11 it may be asked am 1 I not a judge of a piece apiece of ribbon you know whether the colors please you but can you tell whether it has been on the shelf of the store for one year or twenty years brethren will buy cloth without being judges of the quality and because they can buy an article apparently the same a little cheaper in one place than they can in another they will do so although the quality is much inferior and think they have got a bargain bro kimball sometimes bring up the figure of the potter putting freh clay into the mill and grindling grinding it to use in in his business to illustrate the influx of the brethren and sisters cd ed from the nations and who h ave to be instructed in those principles which have been taught here for years but carrying out the ligure figure I 1 may say that some of the clay here has been ground over and over for thirty years anait and it comes out as a rough as the first time it passed through the mill some men seem as if they could learn so much and no more they appear to their capacity for tor acquiring acquire know knowledge ledde as brother orson pratt has hab in theory bounded the capacity of god according to his theory god can progress no further in knowledge and power but the god that I 1 serve is progressing eternally and so are his children they will increase to all eternity if they are faithful but there are some of our bK ethren brethren who know just so much and they seem to be able to learn no more Y you U may plead with them scold them turm flatter them coax them and try in various ways to increase their knowledge but it seems as if they would not learn they know the gospel is true and that it has brought blessings to them but ask them if they know knon who they are where they are from why they are here if they have commenced to learn to control the elements around them and if they understand the nature of their own organizations and they will answer why I 1 never thought of them they have thought of the labor they have been engaged in how to chop down a tree or plow the ground or work at the bench or do whatever kind of work they have been accustomed to do but do they know anything about the character of him whom they profess to worship no only odly t that thab hat bat the gospel has been revealed the hol hoi holy y spirit has touched their hearts they believe the gospel and they do not know that they can learn any more we do not intend to let you bounin wp we have tried to do something with you we wish to talk to the people until they learn to understand principle when the saints get understanding they will never ask ai a guestion question when they are told to build up a settlement mako make farms jarms or do anything else that may be bb requisite in righteousness to build up the kingdom of god some of our elders have learned a good deal by experience on many points in one thing thoy they adeall cavilling to be obedient andt hat bat is to go and preach the gospel to fco the nations mat what elder who is called upon a lais lyls mission would refuse to go yet |
