Show 1 l R P 30 31 A 4 iel IEZ K n S jy by president BRIGHAM YOUNG in the new tabernacle 8 1868 A i REPORTED BY G D WATT t president heber C kimball elm eim ball bail has exhorted the bishops to gather around them the young men and teach them the privileges which they enjoy and try to lead them in the right way bishops I 1 wish you to hearken to this piece ol 01 good advice I 1 will give each of the young men in israel who has arrived at an age to marry a mission admission to go straightway and get married to a good sister fence a city lot lay out a garden and orchard and make a home and especially do not forget to plant a a proper proportion of mulberry trees this is the mission that I 1 give to all the young men in israel and I 1 say to you sisters if you do not know how to milk a cow you can soon learn if you do not know how to feed the pigs you can learn if you do not know how to feed the chickens get them and learn how and if your husband takes you to live jive in ever so to small and humble a cottage make it neat and nice and clean cleao and set out flowers around the doors I 1 and let the husband plant fruit trees and shade trees and let wives help their husbands that they may be encouraged cou raged to take hold of more important business that will create an income sufficient to sustain their wives and by economy and care become wealthy in a short time and have hate your carriage to ride in what a satisfaction it will be to you to know that what you possess is the result of your youn industry and economy it was not given to us by grandfather fht fat er or by father or by mother or any relation but we have got these comforts by our industry saving and the blessings of the lord by this means our young men and maidens will gain for themselves credit respect and a name in israel worthy of the admiration mi ration of all good persons how much better is this course than the opposite to spend precious time to no profit always being in a state of dependence pen dence were the lord to speak of such conduct he would use terms to show that he is not well pleased with j 4 I 1 have a short sermon for my sisters i il wish you under the direction of your bishops and wise men to establish your your relief societies and organize yourselves under the direction of the brethren and establish yourselves for doing busi ness gathering up your little amounts I 1 of means that would otherwise 0 go O to waste and put them bousu to usury isy and ake more of them and thus keep leathering gake rake ath ering in let this be commenced forthwith ask your husbands to furnish you some straw for hats and bonnets and when you get it put more than three straws over your head and make a hat that will shade you from the khe scorching sun I 1 have a great desire lo 10 0 live and see the prosperity of this i people and one thing among the rest I 1 would like to see the time when our sisters will take more pains to beautify heir their children when your children arise in the hirning instead of sending them out of doors to wash in cold hard water with a little soft soap and wiping them as though you would tear the skin off them creating roughness and darkness of skin take a piece of soft flannel and wipe the faces of your children smooth and nice dry them with a soft cloth and instead of giving them pork for their breakfast give them good wholesome bread and sweet m milk ilk lik baked potatoes and also buttermilk if they like it and a little fruit and I 1 would have no objections to their eating a little erice erlee hice rice rice blice is an excellent food for children and I 1 wish some of the brethren would cultivate it in these valleys upland rice will flourish in this country train up your children to be beautiful and fair instead of neglecting them until they are sunburned and become like the natives of our mountains let the sisters take care of themselves and make themselves beautiful and if any of you are so superstitious and agnor 1 ant as to say that this is pride I 1 can say that you are not informed as to the and pride which sinful is before Ih eLord thelora you are also ignorant aa as to the excellency of the heavens and of the beauty which dwells in the society of the gods were you to see an angel you would see a beautiful and lovely creature make yourselves like angels in goodness and beauty let the mothers in israel make their bons and daughters healthy and beautiful by cleanliness and a proper diet whether you have much or little clothing for your children it can be kept clean and healthy and be made to fit their persons neatly make your children lovely and fair that you may delight in them cease to send out your children to herd sheep with their skins exposed to the hot sun until their hands bands and faces facea appear as though they lived in an ash heap 1 call upon my sisters to lead out in these things and create your own fashions and make your clothing to please yourselves independent of outside influences and make your hats and bonnets bonneta to shade shad eyou you I 1 wish you sisters to listen to thebe these counsels and place yourselves in a condition to administer to the poor get your ybur husbands to provide you with a little litile of this and a little of that of which you xan ean can ian make something by ad dolog doing your own labor I 1 do not mean that thai you shall apply to them for five dollars and ten dollars to spend for that which is of no profit but manufacture Bom som something ething that will be useful as well as beautiful and comely you ought to enter into the cultivation of silk our oar bench lands are well adapted to the growth of the mulberry tree the leaves of which produce the natural food for the silk worm there is no better land nor climate in the world than we have for this branch of business we can make ourselves independently rich at this business alone if it is properly pursued there ought to be a plot of land in each ward devoted to the cultivation of silk and a built in the centre of it an and d in the season thereof let the children of the wards who have nothing to do and aged people gather the leaves and feed the worms the work is light and interesting te while the sales of wound silk for which there is always a market to be found will do much towards feeding and clothing poor persons that would otherwise be entirely dependent inthe if the worms are well taken care of the season of feeding only lasts from thirty five to for forty y days if I 1 cannot succeed in getting the sisters with their children to attend to this thia business I 1 shall be under the necessity of sending to china for to come here and raise silk for us which I 1 do not wish to do to pay people the wages they want here would prevent us from raising silk profitably we look forward to the period when the price of labor here will be brought to a reasonable and judicious standard now sisters go to forthwith and get you an acre of land and get the bishops and the brethren to fence it and prepare it for the reception of the trees and go and help them but be sure to wear a wide brimmed hat while doing it so as not to get tanned with the sun and the wind go to and raise bilk silk you can do it and those who cannot set themselves to work we will set them to work gathering straw and making straw hats and straw bonnets we will set others to work gathering willows and others to making baskets we will set others to gathering flags and rushes and to making mats and bottoming chairs and making malting car carpets pets I 1 pray you in christs stead to let iet t gold hunting alone aud and pray the lord to cover it up in our region of country that it cannot be found those among us who are anxious to find rich gold deposits are equally anxious to destroy themselves and are no wiser than our little children are in handling sharp edged tools they would not only destroy themselves but all around them if they had the power to do it instead of hunting gold let every man go to work at raising wheat oats barley corn and vegetables and fruit in abundance that there maybe may be plenty in th ehland the land jand raise eaise sheep and produce the finest quality Y otwool of wool wooi in large quantities beahe by the migratory system or of feeding sheep in this country they will be healthy and produce large clips of wool I 1 hopesy hop I 1 by the blessing odthe of the lo 10 lord rd to demonstrate this the present season in these Pur pursuits suits are the true sources of wealth and we have as much cap italin to begin with as any peo pleIn the world according to the number of our community Real neal capital con consists ilits in knowledge and physical strength if we know how to apply our labor it will produce for us everything we can ask for it will bring to us the food and the clothing we want and every facility facility Y we need for comfort for refinement for excellence for beauty and for adornment it will bring to us the wealth of the world the gold and tha the silver allver although gold and auda silver bliver w are not real wealth they are use useful fu I 1 as a medium of exchange as foundations upon which to base a currency and to use as ornaments and household vessels and so gold should be regarded until there la is enough of it ft to pave our streets 0 ye elders eldera of israel who are greedy for lold old oid instead of wasting y your 0 ur time in search of it gather around you the comforts of life with which the elements are loaded and make yourselves rich in all the elegan cles cies and conveniences by means of economy and industry I 1 wish the sisters to lead out in the fashions it is very little difference what fashion you produce I 1 would just as soon see you wear hats with wide brims as not if you have that fashion that will give comfort and convenience and pro produce duce health and longevity we wis wish h to promote the onga longevity 8 vity of the peo people pie tell your hu husbands aban s to get you a heifer calf or two and some chickens and you will feed them and take care of them instead of feeding pigs and if your husbands have springs on their land get them to clean them out and dam them up a little and introduce the spawn of the best fisk fish nish fish we have in these mountains and collect all the information that has been printed and which comes within your reach on the subject of raising nish fish and raise your potatoes and parsnips par snips and carrots to feed them with adding a little corn meal or a little oatmeal we can raise fish here and the cost will be one fourth less per pound than thun other meats you may think that fowls are injurious to the garden bubb but they are not they will pick ick iek up grubs and cut worms and other destructive insects and the good they do in this respect will far overbalance over balance any trifling injury they may do to young plants they will keep your gardens clean of these pesta pests and fatten giving you plenty of eggs to eat take care of them and get a little patch of lucerne planted to give to your young yeung heifer and rear her until she gives you her increase this is for you young women who want to get husbands tell the young men that you will sustain yourselves and teach them how to sustain themselves if they do not know how bow if they will only come and marry you now girls court up the boys bays itis it is leap year give thom them to understand der stand in some way that it is all right you are ready and you want to help them to make a good home to form a nucleus around which to gather the blessings and comforts of life a place to rally to while you are on the move and unsettled you can get nothing that is permanent tell tho boys what to do and you sisters bisters of experience ye mothers in israel go to and get up your societies and teach these girls what to tod toj 40 do and how to get the boys to come and marry them the neglect and lazy habits babits which our boys are falling into are a disgrace to us to say nothing about the sin of suet such conduct they produce nothing and consider themselves unable to take care of a family and they will not marry this conduct of theirs leaves our young women without partners they want somebody to look to and something that they can do to advantage and bless themselves and have a home to go to young men fit you up a little log cabin if it is not more than ten feet square and then get you a bird to put in your little cage you yoa can then work all day with satisfaction to yourself co considering dg that you have a home to go to and a loving heart to Welco welcome you xou you will then have something to encourage you to labor and gather around you the comforts of life and a place to gather gathen them to strive vetO to make your little home attractive use lime freely and let your houses nestle beneath the cool shades of trees and be made grantwith fra perfumes of flowers bbowers these are practical teachings they are things which this people must be taught 0 for if we do not learn to take care of ourselves and save ourselves who will do it forus for us will the gen tiles he help heip P us and look tous to us will they do asgood us good no and I 1 tell you further elders of israel that you do not kno know W the day of your visitation neither do you understand the signs of the times youl for if f you did you would bo be awake to top these things every organization of our government the best government in the world is crumbling to pieces those who have it in their hands handa are the ones who are destroying it how long will it be before the words of the prophet joseph will be fulfilled he saidie said if the constitution of the united states were saved at all it must be done dono by this people it will not be many years vears before these words come to pass how long will it be before they will be coming here for bread for the bread of life and aila for tile the breal bread bread which sustains the body do you know this you do not this community live as it were from hand to mouth they must learn to lay up food notwithstanding I 1 ng all au that has bas bee been sald said to the people on this thid subject not one man mau man to thirty has bread sufficient to last him on one 0 year abour As our mechanics are paid they might have laid up p their hundreds if not their thousands a year brethren learn you have learned a good deal it is true but learn more learn to sustain yourselves lay up grain and flour and save it against a day of scarcity sisters do not ask your husbands to sell the last bushel of grain you have to buy something for you out of the stores but aid your husbands in storing it up against a day of want and always have a year or twos provision on hand A great abundance of fruit can be dried there are but few families in id this city who d do 0 not have the privilege of drying dry ing and laying up fruit yet the majority of families in this community enste instead a U of using fruit that was dried last last fall but one are using fruit dried last year when the grasshoppers were here A years supply should be kept ahead so that families would not be compelled to eat fruit that had been injured by grasshoppers and other insects we should accumulate all kinds of nutritive substances and preserve them from fram worms which can easily be done if we do not nod take care of ourselves we shall have a very poor chance to be taken care of if we will hearken to the counsel that is given to us we shall know how to sustain ourselves our oure helves elvea in every particular mothers in israel sisters ask your husbands to take care of the sheep they b have a v e got and not wilfully waste them b u t multi ply tb ernand bring your wool wooi t factories the to be manufacture dor trade it for yarn and cloth the woolen mills which we now have in the country will work up a great deal of wool if they can betit get it who is therein there in our community that raises flax Is there any attention paid to this culture I 1 think not dot |