| Show si r i yi t naf BE ae M A A IS it IE S mai mah rt by ELDER ender LORENZO SNOW SNO W delivered in the new tabernacle S ii city october ath REPORTED ay py jonn JOHN 1 I 1 am very much pleased in having an opportunity to make a few remar remarks ks to this conference the subjects that have been presented to our oar consideration are fraught with many very interesting reflections every privilege that is afforded us of meeting together in the capacity of conference and taking a retrospective view of the past gives us a chance to behold the great and g marvelous success that has hitherto attended our oar labors as the servants of god in this great and glorious work of oatha the redemption of israel and the tha gathering of the lat ter tat day saints from the four quarters of the world to establish the kingdom of god on the earth in the last days there are many peculiarities that distinguish the order of things pertaining to the work of dod god in which we are engaged from the different systems of rell reil religion lon ion that are to be met with in christendom and throughout the various parts of the world what we do we perform in the this name of the lord god of israel and are willing to acknowledge the hand of the tha almighty in everything we do when ghei moses forchas horth forth as the deliverer of the children of israel from their egyptian bondage he be did not act present himself in irk the manner of a common sommon went in the name of agthe tho the lord god of israel having been commanded to accomplish their redemption by tha power and authority which he received from god and aud from the moment that he appeared before them in this capa capal i gity ity until ho he had accomplished his worl work wore he acted in and th through though ough the name of the lord and not by his own wisdom or Ingen ingenuity ait alt nor because he possessed superior intelligence to the rest of mankind the lord appeared to him in the J burning bush and commanded him to go forth and work which concerned the peace happiness and salvation of a great people and its success and prosperity depended upon the carrying out of the order of things revealed to hira bir hir by the god of heaven his nis success and prosperity were made perfectly sure from the act fact that the work to which he be was assigned was not a thin thing of his own invention but it emanated from jehovah A great deai deal of speculation might have been entertained by some in reference to his mode of procedure there might have been some things in the working of the system he introduced that were very disagreeable to certain parties whom they concerned to the government of egypt and king pharoah tor for instance but that was a matter of very small consideration with him and with the people whom he had occasion to deliver from bondi bondage ige ege it la is so in reference to ourselves the great work now being accomplished accomplish edthe the gathering of the people from the nations of f the earth had bad not its origin in the in nd of any man or any set of men but it eman 4 abed from the lord almighty joseph josepa smith received a revelation and command i ment from froin the lord to ga go forth and prem preach the gospel of salvation to the nations of tbt earth with power and authority to baptise thom who would repent of their sins and and be immersed nor for the remission of them he ile was aiso also commanded to preach the gathering to them that a people amigh mi gh 1 be drawn together who would be williaj willing f hearken to the voice of the lord land jand nd kee keel his laws that a righteous seed might there by be bd preserved when the great day of hi III wrath should come this thia gospel wa preached and thousands of saints hav hayi been gathered front almost all parts of ah globe who are now scattered through E out the length and breadth of this territory to farms building houses planting 9 orchards and reclaiming the tho soil 6 ce creating at 1 D villages townsand own a c cities ew where e 0 not nothing I 1 g bub but wild lui jul beasts and savages use nse used to r roam a and ind ean can causing the desert to bloss blossom as t the r rose os yet et all this has bot not been a accomplished by human wisdom although the 0 enemies of i the saints woula would try to make the world believe so it bad haq has been done bv bythe the wisdom and power of almighty god whose chosa oats outs stretched arm has been over his saints preserving them from evil of 0 every kind Jesus while traveling hereon here on ing his mission told the people eople he did not perform the miracles eo he wrought in 14 their midst by his own power nor by his own wisdom but bui ho he was there in norderto order to accomplish the will of his father he came not to seow seel the glory of men and th the honor of men but to seek the honor and lory glory of his father that sent him lal ial sal sai sald said he 1 I am come in my Pa fathers mm name and ye receive me not noh if another shall come in ills his own name bame him vel vei will Tec receive elve eive now the peculiarity of iila ilia mission and that which distinguished it from other missions was this thim he came not to seek the glory and honor of men but to seek the honor and glory of ills his father and to ad ao com the work of his father who sent him herein lay jay the secret of his nisi prosperity abol ad herein lies the secret of bf tb the prosperity of every overy individual whet works the sahle Bahie principle av I 1 1 are many things that lleo aye are admirable in what is called by our neighbors mor i monism great men admire the effects that are produced by its ita operations or the work of preaching the gospel gathering the people from the nations of the eang earan and settling them in this territory in establishing tab lishing towns villages and settlements in gathering the poor from their indigent circumstances from their conditions of poverty and distress and placing them in a ek p position where they can sustain themselves and haye have an opportunity of educating their children and gathering around them then the necessaries comforts and aja conveniences of life people admire the prosperity of the lat berday maints faints sal mal hits fits they admire the wisdom thal than is manifest in the perfect organization liou tiou observable la lil their cities towns and settlements and the tha unity existing amongst them they are struck with the peace ail all aney aucy good ox older olden den der that reign reiga in our midst t wllie wille are not found to the same extent in any of the tho cities of the tha united states or europe one hundred and fifty thou thousand saal people who have been gathered from the poorest classes of persons and brought from the various nations and establish est established ablis eed ged in prosperous and happy circumstances ara arel ad ada adf mired by every one but all this is being done in the name of the lord and professedly through the commandments of the tha almighty and herein lies the difficult difficulty Yo our ac of the hand of god in what we do ia is something they they do not approve ampro veol ot if we gathered the people from the various nations built cities towns and villages in our own name and in int our own strength and wisdom and gave ourselves the honor and glory we we should be a very admirable people indeed and every body 0 would admire the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 and would won d be pleased with our operations operatic ope ratio s and as lor for as the e influences of politicians clans ciana and members of congress is concerned it would be employed in obtaining our admi admission into tho the union as a state it may ba be considered by some as unfortunate that we have a principle in the operations of Mormon isra so disagreeable and annoying but xv we e cannot help it this work is not one of our own getting up and we haven have not ot the responsibility of its success resting upon us JesUs says himself that he be would have been beery received by the people if he had sought rought the honor of ihen inen men meu if he had not come in the name of his eather father but simply in nia hia own the peonie people would have received him honored him nim and made him kin rin xing king of the jews and all would have been agrie agreeable able abie pleased and satisfied it was said by the prophet that israel should be scattered that apy should be sifted among the nations and in the latter days they should be gathered outto out two from la city and oneff one of a famil family yand yana and there thero should I 1 be a time when the people would be gath ered from the nations when it should be said paid to them come out of her my people that ye be not partakers par takers of her sins and that ye yo receive not of her plagues joseph smith received a commandment of the almighty similar to that which moses received to deliver the children of israel from esy Egy pan pau pau pan bondage the com conn mand to the prophet iro ino phet joseph ws waa to go forth and declare the gospel t to the children of men to gather them freni of the tha earth and place them theta in a land of S peace ilni wl plenty where they could plant and reap ibe e nui fruit thereof in iri many instances tue the people who 9 received this gospel were in A far than the lie children of arfe israel found by ms in thair their boada bond there chere are 10 of ot elders he herel berei i who 0 have ave travelled through englana england scotland cot coglad iad las lad aies germany switzer swit gwit zeri land way ana and nd elsewhere who kno know ve ver well weil that th atthe uhe the people were found I 1 iq wa of lands in 6 clavery p bondage gat far worse thard tham the I 1 blacks lP iril iri the tha south previous top to theil thel liber attonis there was t nothing before tb th people but bat mie ithe prospect of starvation and an AM they wera were subject to the will wiil and caarl carnet oft of their air masters and dependant upon the them for thele their labor labbi und nd dai dal dally daliy y bre bread and ind ahei work was dull before them noth ing but the prospect of being turned fro from dource thein their elc employment ana and ancito have havo their ont out source 0 01 C obtaining food ngn for the themselves selves ima fa entirely entirely ca cutt cult op D ff T they thes e did dia didiot no own a took foot of f land and a plough along h iun tin 0 ox a 6 wagon a cow a mule male a be horse r s e in faeh fact nothing they s saw w around tae them III lri co ul they call their own iney they wore were in sh shorb short ort len ien entirely dependent upon the will and dispo of their thelt i employ ers era for what they wanted and had to look to them for their only means of gaining a living thousand theil thell upon thousands of these peoris are arenart in ott olt located in various parts pf af this territory jila jlia to a far more prosperous and Inde independent pende at condition than that an n which they e 11 elivd vad while abroad among the nati nations S many I 1 auy ary of them are egui equi equilar comparatively par pan stivel rich i it in thi this 3 worlds goods the tho 6 co command mand of the almighty to this people fito is to come out ion toa to a land where his ills swie sale saints ts may gather around them suebb such things as ard are necessary dessarT ne to the well veil being of lils ilia children this thin Is a greater worK than that thit performed by Moses of redeeming the children of israel from egyptian bondage yet it Is done on the bame same principle the voice of god to moses was to deliver his people from their bondage a and he would be with him and assist him the command ia Is now for the people to be delivered from their bondage poverty and distress and come to thesesa these valleys eys ays of thai thel mounta mountains irlis where they can van ustain ustain themselves t there are many philanthropists who ad mire tho the works that have been accomplished mp dished in this respect they say arth the mor idlor mons have done a great ideal more than thin any religious society elbr ever did or even expected to do they have increased the tho population of orthena the na ion lon on and have hive extended their cities to the east kast to the west tor to the north and ane to the south 11 but bat it has been done by the command command of the albig almighty ty and that is where the trouble lies nes aa a for polygamy our ene enemies nales would not be 0 o wrath about our practicing it so long as we did not do so in the name of theford th the lord eLord but aa as these things are done in his name they are obnoxious in the eyes of the world the same state ag 0 feeling existed in the days of mos moses the same in a the days when jesus appeared pearn among the jews had mose moses R presented preheated himself in the sam bame same a way as s W washington ash or william tell teil the tha deliverer elv r of tho he people of Swit switzerland zerl zeri from ro the yoke of bondage under which th they labored labore or as wailace wallace allace ailace the hero of be scotland lan ian had a he I 1 say appeared in his own as name namo e a and aud pre re edited hibst himself if before the peo people a aa a person of super superior ler ter powers an and ability lilt an and claimed brwer power greater than that at he possessed os as a man all would have been well bat when he went before them irethe it the name of the lord almighty he experienced some difficulty in performing the work which had bad been assigned him we know well we differ very much in our religious concerns from the various denominations existing in the world an elder goes in the gine mine of the nord lord hp he crosses the tap ocean calls ictor an individuals house and says 41 4 1 I 1 am a missionary misso naty nary I 1 have come from america to preach the gospel it is 18 not a very unusual thing for persons to croas the ocean as missionaries and go to europe this is all very natural but when an elder goes and says he comes in the name of the li lt rd to deliver them from their circumstance circumstances of poverty and distress and to call upon them to for repent of their sins hins and bo be imm immersed erad ered in water for nor the remiss remission n of them promising them the gift of the tho holy oly ghost he creat croat creates es a distinction between bla hla his bia mission and that of the var various vanh vari lokis oua ous systems introduced by the different sects of the day says he 1 I come to tell you that the tha time for the fulfillment of the predictions of the prophets has arrived ther thea theford lord wants his people gathered from babylon unav the place where thee there shall be deliverance there is deliverance there is something that can be realized and experienced that can be seen and felt and khonh there lg is the promise chati that I 1 lany any anan will dothe will of god he sh shall know ow for himself thai that the doctrine we teach is true there is no chance of imposition there where is an opportunity to know whether the message of this elder is true of or false if it a sectarian minister had gone to the children of israel and discovered them in the same condition in which moses found them his message would have bave been entirely different from that of moses MOM as a would also his conversation and addre address sst moses said to them chemin th emIn in the name of the almighty having received authority from gud god I 1 come oom com e to I 1 deliver you from bondage and to give e you 1 a national existence to take you to a land that the lord god has commanded jou vou to go to and which he has promised you shall receive had minister min lster ister gone under similar circumstances his ideas and manner would have been entirely different says hays keb ket I 1 haye have come to beseech you who are now subject to your masters will wilt and have to recline upon straw tobe patient and long suffering servants be obedient seyour masters and wait |
