Show IS 33 31 iny A at miss KISS U S by bv president dalt dait YOUNG delivered in the kem kew tabernacle salt oct soh 1868 rl L L f REPORTED BY ily DAVID W E VANS EVANS VAN S IT 1 I wibb wish to say bay to th those ose who mho ares ara called to go on the outher southern li mission thail elpe expect ct sime of them can not convene conveniently go if so they can be excused just as others have been I 1 think we palled about one hundred and seventy fave five one year ear car ago to go on the Southe southern kir mission of f ac those e who responded to that call and went south twelve or fifteen stayed the rest have returned I 1 donot do not know whether to see their mothers or not lot we ve hope a few w will wili III ili go out oi of this tha company and a few of those will return who were called last year W havo hav our reasons fo for fon requesting the brethren to go into those new settlements if they do not know the reasons abw let them wait until they do we calculate calculate to spread abroad and when we have settled one valley we ire mie alc calculate to settle another wo we are settling bg north south east and west and we wd nean to keep it up there are ure some who will be excused one of the brethren has excused himself on the ground that he is building himself a barn now this is so reasonable that 1 I think we will excuse kim him at any rate until he gets it finished perhaps we will find some who have married wives vives others who have bought a yoke of oxen and because of this they cannot go go there is no necessity for the brethren hurrying away they can go down this fall eail tarry through the winter and be prepared for the spring we shall excuse those who ought to be excused and especially if they are building barns As for those who have been there and havo hava left we expect to see the time that they will irish wish they had stayed there thero and that those who hate have been called and have not gone gene will wish they had done so there is a few items I 1 wish to lay before the conference before we di dismiss amiss which I 1 think we w shall shail do when we get through our meeting this afternoon one of these items is to present to the congregation the deseret alphabet wo we h have kave ave now many thousands of small books called the first and second readers adapted to school purposes on the way to tills this city As soon as they arrive we shall distribute them throughout the territory we wish to introduce this alphabet into our schools consequently we give this public notice we have been contemplating this for years the advantages of this alpha det dot will soon be realized especially by foreigners brethren who come here knowing nothing of the tho english language will find its acquisition greatly by means of this thia alphabet by which all the sounds of the language cail can be represented and expressed with the greatest ease As this is the grand difficulty foreigners experience in leardi learning the english language they will wil find a knowledge of this thid alphabet wiil wilt greatly facilitate their efforts in acquiring at last least a partial english education it will aiso also be very advantageous to our children it will be the means of introducing uniformity in our orthography and the years that are now required to learn to read and spell can te be devoted to 0 other studies I 1 wish to call the attention of our sisters to our belief societies we are aro happy to say that many of them have done a great greatt deall deail we wish them to continue and progress during this thia conference many of the ladies have tran worn v very nice straw hats of home homo manufacture this is commendable and this course should be perse vered igi lri until our dui fillba nut nat and dresses dare gare are the workmanship ship df our own hands to my lievy vleit nil nii i r cimmin q for a hat hati looks ool s more beautiful than a nice strata rosette rosettes boar or b better than a feather artificial flower in our belief societies t we wish to Intro introduce duee dued many improvements ihei its we wish our sisters of experience I 1 to teach the young joung rouno woung girls not to ba be so anxious for ford tv the gratification of their imaginary wants but to confine them selve seive s more to their their real necessities fancy has no bounds andl and I 1 often think it is without form and and comeliness we are too apt to give way to the imagination of our hearts but i we will be guided by wis wisdom doni donl our judgment will be corrected and aud we will wiel find that we w can improve very much we barild can ean improve 0 va tile the language langua we V use I 1 want in moy toy lidren children h to use I 1 gile better r language than I 1 sometimes use still I 1 have thought fathe as the prophet joseph has sald bald bak eak 1 when aall you speak to a people ar or person you oti must use language to r represent ep resent your ideas so that they will b be a r remembered when you wish the people to feel whai what you say you have got to use language that they will remember or else the tile i ideas are lost to them consequently in many instances we use language that we would rather not use when talking to a refined people we use refined language when we become perfectly civilized we wi will leave off every harsh expression YO we should correct our children in thee matters and teach them good language I 1 would like to urge upon my brethren and sisters the necessity of doing this we should in stil into the minds mind of our eb children ildren lidren goad ideas and principles if we teach them that there are prop prophets heta heto and apostles now on the tho earth teach them the truth if we teach them ahem that the bible is trpe it will very wholesome for them to believe bellove but instead of teaching them that thap it res ft a spiritual explanation by oy men benj not endowed with the Spi spirit of god teach them that such a motion js Is incorrect and that if it the word of god does not mean what it says no man or woman can explain it without a direct revelation from heaven we ii ewh lh to introduce into lato this community manufactures and manufacturing so thoroughly that the people will consider themselves under obligation to feed and clothe themselves many of us are in the habit of doing only guly just what we like to do or of sitting with our arms folded trusting to others to feed and clothe us it is the duty of the bus band to provide for the wife or vr wives and children and it ia is the duty of the i wife or wives and children to assist the husband and father all they can if it is required of the father or husband to furnish their wives and children with flour it is equally require dof the wiy wives s I 1 sisters and daughters to be careful in the use of that flour and see eee that it ia is not wasted if it is the duty of the husband or father to furnish his family with cloth to dress themselves it is their duty to see that that cloth is cut and made prudently and not wasted it is a disgrace to a community to drag their cloth in the dirt how many women are there here today to day who walked to this tabernacle without throwing dirt every s step lep they took not only on themselves b but ut upon those who walked near them I 1 shun them when I 1 see them comin I 1 try to mavie makle my way vay in ia some oth other r direction in order to avoid their dust I 1 can get enough of it without rec ree receiving elving it from them if there is a nuisance in the path they are sure to wipe up a portion of it with their dress and then trail it on to their carpet or into the bedrooms and distribute it through the house this is a disgrace to them it is not the duty of my brethren to buy cloth to be he dragged through these streets pt adl ani adi and the wife or daughter daugn ter who will not notecase cease dragging her dress through th them in ought to have it cut shorter I 1 have borne it and so have my brethren until duty demands that we put a stop to tolt it I 1 have politely ex postulated with my wives and daughters on this subject I 1 have asked them if they think it looks nice and have been told that it did their reason for thinking so being that somebody else wore it so that is all the argument that can be brought in its favor there is no reason in the tho world why a dress dross looks well trallis trailing 0 through the streets an the other hand I 1 will say ladies if we ask you to make your dresses a little shorter I 1 do not be extravagant and cut them theta tso so short that we can see the tops of your stog stop stockings kings bring them down to the top of your shoes and haye them so that you can ciau walk and clear the dust and do not nod expose your persons sons have your dresses neat and comely and conduct yourselves in ill ohp the strictest strip otest test sense seii sell sept af pf the word in chastity if you do this you set a good example before the rising rising Z generation tise iise ITS e good language wear comely clothing and act I 1 in all pa things sp so that glat you ep epan eman ean can in respect I 1 yourselves e ilyas and oti esch each i other ocher we lye wish you tou to remember r and avd carry out these counsels i 1 0 cannou Can ta you ladies manufacture bonnets 1 fo foi pun pur seiei selve and daughters and an d hats jor for sour your husbands sons sous and brothers ys yes yon can and ahil sayer lis ils edores enores of thousands of da dollars filard I 1 wonder if there ia any person in our community who understands the manufacture I 1 of silk wo we hayo have some raw silk on hand that could be bianu manufactured fact ared if we qan can nind lind find persons wl who 0 understand tho the burines bu sines aines I 1 am now building a ahouse that ihli wl will if bp bip sufficient ert ent tp contain a mikil million gil another yar yan it ia a hundred feet long in ill the plear clear and twenty broad I 1 calculate cal cai culata to fill it with worms next mason and aud make mako silk I 1 am going to invite some of the brethren to make up this silk into thread and to ii lt ity mtr 1 AM tsi olor 1 it it li and nd 1 wea vea velt vel veit W becan e C all ma make el ur own thread and Tand twist as easily vasily as ive we can buy bay it I 1 have never seen better sewing silk than I 1 once bought of a llster dater nere here of her own manufacture I 1 would like to find somebody who knows how to niana ninna manago manage 6 the worms and to double twist reel neel and weave thesila the silk slik by ceasing the foolish practice of which we have so long been guilty namely trading off our produce at the stores for every little thing we have hale thought we needed we wd shall drive ourselves to the necessity of sustaining sustaining ourselves if we take tako this course an and live livi our religion do you think we will be respected ves yes we are frequently told that the world is creasing increasing Ju in wickedness we want the saint saints B to increase in im goodness fit fil until itil our W ne e chani chanice cs for instance are so llo lio honest nest and reliable that this railroad ball Eail road cobl Cobi company pany will say eay give us usi a mormon elder for an ail engineer then havethe least fear sear to ride foe for if he Itil knows bivs there is danger he will take every measure necessary to preserve the lives of those thoin entrusted to his care I 1 want to bee ibee see our elders eiders so full of integrity that they will be preferred by this teis Company for their engine builders watchmen en on ginders gl gi clerks hild and business managers it jit we w live our religion and are worthy the name of latter day saints we are just the men that all such business ca can n bb entrusted to with perfect safety i if f it cannot can not it will prove that we do not live our religion A few words with regard to our out emigration fund we are going to continue our donations to this fund we started our new subscriptions here on tues bues tuesday day night and what do you think they amounted to to two thousand dollars that was a pretty good beginning how many names do you think it took for that tha taum sum aum just two a thousand dollars each now sisters do as you did last year save the money you usually spend in tea and coffee and ribbon sand let us have it to send for the poor we did remarkably well last year though our prospects were not very flattering at the start on the of february the time timo we thought of sending our agents east we had nine nino thousand dollars do llara but on the of the same month when brothers clawson and staines started we had a little over twenty nine thousand when the brethren said how date daie you think of sending for the poor we arg are gettine ao no means 1 I E diled replied xo J wa we will send for them theta and trust ini ibi god for tor the means and the means came cams ill in fast the brethren and sisters brought in irl their five dollars dollare their tells tens fifties hundreds and their thousands and tho the poor were gathered the walker brothers gave a thousand dollars and they will be blest for it if we do not wish to trade with them oth others ers ors of our merchants also contributed J i morally the poor are deserving 0 ot it 11 why because from them they thy got their means the merch merchants lints ot this tills city have got hundreds of thousands of dollars from the poor and if they give ivo lve ive a little back to them it is no more moke than their due how our friends the outside i in merchants e r will complain because we are going to stop trading with them we can not help heip it it is not our duty to do it our policy in this respect hitherto has been one of the most foolish in the world henceforth it must be to let this trade alone and save our means for other purposes than to enrich outsiders we must use it to spread the gospel to gather the poor build temples sustain our poor build louses bouses for ourselves and convert couvert t this his means to a better use than to give it to those who will ivill use it against us weh web ta talked to the brethren and sisters a great deal geal with regard to sustaining our belva selva and ceasing this outside trade now what sayi bayl you are you yon for it at aa as well welt as eka ena we are we of one he hearland artand one mind on ion this subject iee dee ta 4 we W can v get geh what w we e wish by sen sea sending ding to new yb york for it ourselves as well as letting others bend for us we and ability to trade for ail all we and if iffe we have to send send senj abroad we can cau bend seno orr our agents lo 10 bayaud bring i ng home borne what we need are that every i man I 1 and woman who will not obey jobey this counsel ro shall be severed from the church j and ift let all who feel fegl as I 1 do lift up the right hand the vote was unanimous that is A a pretty good vote yon yog wb who 0 feek feel otherwise have bave the privilege of lifting up your hand haild to signify the same I 1 guess it was pretty josepe used to say when vou yon a get the jatter latier day oay saints to agree gree on n any point you soil may know it is the yolo vole of god I 1 J knew pew this before but now if it is ig crovea to the whole peppie people WU will the in nation atlon find fina fau tau lt with us for thil this no will the world worlo isi and find fault fauld no no they tho will say this is the first trait in the mormon normon charac ter C r we ever eief ia 4 or of notice e it ls is is 19 praiseworthy tallew rubyl ami aul an the they swill ill lii be b blessed I 1 essed thai that is what at th they will sa baya haya aj why the there re is se scarcely a ace iv a decent man comes here but what bays say 44 why by dont you mormons cormons Mor mons do your own trading why dodou sustain outsiders it is the most impolitic thing you can do I 1 wish to say to the Confere conference neg that teat for one I 1 feel well satisfied with our labors we have labored diligently to sanctify ourselves and 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