Show X n IS JL eza kix EIA ae 31 K KS by president S H made madd in the tabernacle Taber naci bountiful sund sunday I 1 zvy apr aar april 12 1868 REPORTED BY ELDER WM I 1 have not the least disposition to talk to you if you do not wish me to and if you say you do not want me I 1 will say eay good morning and go home it is no pleasure to talk to a people who will not receive what you yo say aay you know me F and then again you do not know me you do not who heber Q Kim ballis or you won would id do better you do not know yourselves do you then how h ow can you expect to know me A man came to me this morning desiring to have some talk with me I 1 asked him if he was an honest upright truthful man he replied that he thought he had no right to answer that question but finally he said he was waa an honest man af after ter he said that it was revealed to me wha what sort of ota ofa a man he was but not benore before I 1 wish the people here today to day to behave themselves as this is the sabbath kibbat do po you know what is the gospel tle tie 9 e gospel is of god ul unto ito ato all that thit obey tobey not yinto unto all that I 1 believe for the devils bellove bell beil beve feve I 1 suppose S up ose I 1 now for instance I 1 had pere three iree tree rules one a twelve inch inch one adix a six inch androne and one a three inch would the three inch rule measure as jar tal tai as the twelve inch no nor can the three thred inch or the six inch man measure as far as the twelve inch man yet both may be good men and just as good as the maix that can cam circumscribe thirteen inches therefore if a 4 man maii in this respect should be a little behind we should not whip him up as we would a horse but we should be lenient towards him ahat what brother stevenson has said this morning Is all good and you would know it if you read the bible and aud the book af pf mormon there is not one quarter of of ayou you that read those books as much as I 1 do if you did you would know they coincide the one quo with the other this book the book of mormon is a pure record and I 1 know it although it treats of wars and contentions I 1 have jived nearly all my life where it came forth and I 1 understand all about it P I 1 have been to the altar where adam offered sacrifices and blessed his sons and then left them and went to heaVe heaven if now I 1 want you to read the bible and the book of mormon for we have to build a city we who are righteous and keep the celestial law we have to build a city that will compare with the one that has gone to heaven consider these things and then see how you are progressing pr 11 0 1 you sit in judgment on your neighbors when you are guilty ot of more tricks than thau they are and when there is more evil in you than in them jesus said I 1 thou ithon not speak evil of thy neighbor 11 and the commandments say thou not bear false falie witness against thy neighbor and therom the corn mand ments are binding upon us je jesus jerus s us said also I 1 thou ahalt not commit adultery 11 now some persons look upon adultery as an awful thing which it is but they pay no attention to the other command which chith is equally binding forbidding them to speak e yil yli of chelc neighbor it is said thou liu lim speak against the anointed yet yau boido do speak against them and yourselves in doing evil it is difficult cult for ni many here even jeven to hold my nime name sacred cr e d and when I 1 have heard hearl some men here would do I 1 have asked hiked t myself what manner of men they were in doing the things that I 1 have been speaking of you commit sin and violate your covena covenants lits tits do jou you doubt thail chati ani one of theloris the lords anointed do lio you yon not know chati eliat I 1 am this then will afi feet you unless you make restitution shall bhail I 1 tell you how I 1 wish 1 I 1 refer you to the revelation I 1 have had men lie he to tome me and I 1 have havo knolan this by the spirit of revelation yet I 1 could not prove it now these are not men of god some of you would like liko me to th present the truth cloth cioth clothed goi gol in a fine dress ss mid wid with hoops rather than thou thata that 1 I should present it IV stark naked but I 1 speak this for your good and do you wish to run away from or injure nur your friends the twelve apostles when arop anointed went into almost every part of the states from ohio to nova scott add and nd organized organised organ red sed conferences and caldell called on the thel whole church to make donations of their means meana to purchase that dind hind that god said had to be purchased either with money or with blood and the whole church save the leaders came under condemnation because they did not flot comply with the revelation the revelation that gave us the autho rity and which says bay cave let le t my servants t go kle kyc fec 11 is in this book of Cove covenants nanta at another time zions ziona camp was called before I 1 became an apostle and jose joseph h gathered up the lords ors his young men the male members of ie the church and it took nearly every mrle male member from froni nova scotia to missouri to reinstate the them lords people in the those young men did their duty and the lord accepted their offering they were the actors then and are the leading men of the school of the prophets today to day will this school of the prophets stop atop no it was commenced in the days of joseph and it will not stop unless however there is a reformation right here there is not one in twenty that will go and possess that land are you practical spinners spinner g can you adorn yourselves with the work of your own hands bands can I 1 you beautify and adorn tho the earth I 1 I 1 tell you that in general you are not goin going there unless a reformation takes placed place some of you will not be honest some bome of you will not nohh pray unless you are where some one can see you an and if some of olf you were going to my pay mill here and should find a chain you would look around to see if any person saw you and if not you your would hide the chain at once and such men call themselves saints i I 1 am telling you the hand I 1 tell you that if yoa y on will put on christ and live in him you will see a great deal better than I 1 can with my glasses you cannot lead a person astray unless that person is willing ta be led astray a man could not be persuaded to ile lie unless he was inclined to ile lie and if we tell a lie ile to deceive we have arto to pay that debt before that sin aln Is 16 atoned for it is said thine own words will condemn thee and it will be so when we go to judg judgment igent and we cannot help it I 1 aman in apostle and brigham youn youngie gis cis is an apostle 10 ostle ostie and the voice of or ti the to spirit called brigham young and myself I 1 in n kirtland f and joseph smith was told to place the priesthood upon us and have we ever flinched no now when you are pre brought to judgment and you know that jesus j P there hene here that joseph Tose wh 1 Is s there that brigham is there that willard i 1 and myself are there and you are asked what have you been guilty of you will have to give own tes les and you can not get around it the axe is laid at the root of the tree and the acts of men and women will condemn them there are hundreds and thousands of in men en in this thia churgo today who have a plurality of wives which will be taken from them and thy they cannot help themselves because they t h y do not keep the celestial law the office of an apostle is to tell the truth to tell what he knows has the lord I 1 spoken to me he has I 1 have heard beard hla hia voice and BO so have you and when you hear my ray voice and it is dictated by the holy ghost you hear bear the voice of god through me but you do not believe it great is the tion that will come because of lying now let me say to you your be hon honest estand and you sisters stop your sl andera and if you wish your characters exalted exalt that of your neighbor it is time for us to arise and wake up I 1 lam iam am telling yeu you ou these things for your good but you E do not know it there are many here today to day who unless they repent will never see my face again after my eyes are close closed d in death I 1 tell you that the inan man who j justifies another in the shedding of blood is a murderer and the man who justifies another in tantalizing his fellow creature or in speaking a against gagnat another mother is as bad as the man w who h 0 does es these things I 1 have not one word of reflection to make against YO you u yet you are living at a poor dying rate do you doubt it I 1 I 1 want you to be faithful and I 1 du not want a man or a woman of you to be lost I 1 wish now to ta talk taik lk to the little boys my yoUng brethren and I 1 want them kil all to hear bear me md what T have been saying uday today to 6 day my little boys will apply to you as much as it will to your fathers I 1 wish you to be to your fathers and to your mothers but if your mothers tell jell 1 ell eli you not to do that which your YOU fathers tell you to do you go right away and do as your father has told you I 1 for he is the head and brethren come to inesti meeting 1 g instead of running about Mj mye ajo path sath d ay and nd cease to tell lies iles let us breth brethren refi try and bind u up everything and take hold together 1 feel as the savior cavior did I 1 dp nol not wish to leave you alone I 1 wish you to improve I 1 I 1 think as much of the people in this wadd as I 1 do of the people in n any other ward in the territory I 1 prayed last night and this morning that your minds might tre tie prepared to receive my words what would you give fona fora fon foe a plow that had no point if it or for a pair pain of glasses that you could noi nol not see through and again what account would you beio belo be if nod no de Q pen dance could be placed in you I 1 will now refer you to a little of my history I 1 was born horn porn in vermont and ana brought up very poor and w when hen nine years old I 1 laid in my bed ed and in a vla via vision saw those things that I 1 have since pa passed se through i h boon soon after I 1 was baptized ed brother r 0 ther then orson fratt prat cama came to my hous house e iwas I 1 was standing in the doer door yard when he came and at the time I 1 felt felb much of the holy spirit upon me I 1 wast was then a potter at my wheel while brother pratt was waa talking with me a voice to him and said orson borson myson my son bon that man will one day dey becomer become one of my apostles I 1 did not know this till afterwards ards A A voice also spoke k e to me and told me my lineage and I 1 foid fold m my wife pilate thit that she was of the same lin lineage aage and she believed it I 1 told her also that wei we would never be separated I 1 could euld euid tell you a thou thousand sanI sant saut things that happened in that early day I 1 have ben as I 1 have already told you to where adam offered sacrifices and blessed glossed his sons bons and I 1 deltas felt feit as though the thee e were hundreds of angels there and tere tero were angels there like ilke unto the three Nep hites I 1 have also been over the lill lui Cumo cumorah rah rab and I 1 under stand all about it if I 1 remember the tho time when I 1 was baptized into the tho church and aud how after I 1 was zd 3 alpheus gifford said he felt imbres impressed S d to ordain me an elder I 1 was wag on my knees and jumped up and told fold him to I 1 hold on that I 1 was waa not a learned man and I 1 thought that my ordination would injure the work but ut presently the holy ghost came upon me t till I 1 thought that I 1 should be bp burnt up I 1 could speak in tongues and prophecy and I 1 understood the scriptures and now let me tell you that I 1 was never made to die that is spiritually but that I 1 am an inhabitant of this earth and will never destroy my right to it it is my fathers Father ls 0 and J know it and his hig angels administer to men this you ean can read in the book of mormon cleave now to the truth and remember that a limb separated from a tree is not much and ab weare not much when separated from the truth therefore honor lionor god and honor those you know for if you do not honor those you know you will not honor god if my children will not subject themselves to me they will subject tile tiie melves themselves to god and HO so with our wives they cannot honor god unless they honor us jesus said buffer suffer little children to come unto me for of such is the kinge king dom of heaven they are heirs to the kingdom of heaven and when they die they g go 0 o to heaven they are with jesus our children are heirs to our rights and privileges and when an earth is organized for us we will take our children there as god our father brought his children here when he came let us be faithful and humble and keep the commandments and lawe if we wil wll eat meat let us eat that which 19 irmild mild I 1 am inclined tp think that pig meat is not good and that fine flue flour ignot ia not good and the finertie fin niner finer erthe the flour we eat ther the shorter will be our lives it would be better for us to eat coarse bread such as the graham bread I 1 now feel cosay to say peace be with you peace rest upon and I 1 say my peace shall rest upon you amen |