Show f REMARKS by r BRIGHAM bria Enin lial ilAl YOUNG noi Deo boyrer iver ivel t july 6 ibsh reported reporter REpORT Eu BY ily G 27 lr aratt the religion of jesu jesus christ chrit gives light for dark lese ese ne the gospel we have received is sent 10 lo bad up the brokenhearted broken hearted to pro claim clai elai mib erty to the captives and the opening ofa afa prison to them that are bound to pro claim the acceptable year of the lord and the vengeance of our god to comfort all ill that moure to appoint unto them that mourn in zion to g ve unto them beauty for ashes the oil of joy for mourning the gar praise for the spirit of heaviness that thac they may maybe fe called trees of ii righteous ateo u nes nese the p a mine mihe of the lord that he might be glorified the life of a christian is said sald said to be fall fali of pain tribulation orrow and nd excruciating cruc eruc crucia lating ting torment torments of sightings figh tings without and fears within of anxieties despair bloomi ne mourning hib his path issup is supposed ased aged to be spread with gins pitfalls pit falls an and I 1 uncertainties but this is a mistake for the path of the justis just is as the shining light that Sh illeth bineth nio cioe e and more unto the perfect day while the wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips but the just shall come cut lut of trouble the faith I 1 have embraced has given me light for darkness ease case f r pain j y and gladness for sorrow and mourning certai ty lor uncertainty hope lope f fr or despair we talk i bout hii ili having baving ing grace to ehi efi endure dure and pray 0 lord give me grace to endure the th paini receive it in t ta is thorny path that leads to heaven the and sn sneeze eels of tins this unfriendly wor war d that I 1 may bear the name of jesus honorably while hiie hile I 1 lite ide 12 it is right to pray for grace but let me shape this prayer a little differently and ask god ny my heavenly catherin Fa father therin in the idame oe of jesus jesua christ to open the eyes of my understanding and ana teach leach me the truth as it is is then shall I 1 see that I 1 am walking in the light and not in darkness aben snake jesus again unto them sayings saying I 1 am the light i f the world burld he that foi fot loweth me shall not walk valk in darkness but shall have the iia ila lit of life 2 the true people of god are far removed from that pain which the sinner and the ungodly constantly endler endure they are rei rel removed noved coved from it as a people politically and as families and as individuals compare compares for instance the colonial history of the united states with the history of the settling of the wild a arld arid nd desolate regions of utah 1 uby buy y the latter day saints and you will learn that the sufferings of the first settlers bere bete from indian outrage s and other causes will scarcely supply elou h for orl ori a comparison and whole companies of emi eini grats to california and or gon have b ben tn massacred their flesh g yea vea to wild animals ani mair and thir bones left to bleach upon the th plains almost fifteen years ago one hundl ett eif and arid forty six souls 9 arted from vinter winter Qu quarters arters artera now florence to settle in this valley wo we I 1 arrived here in safety staid thirty days returned the same season and not a single ingle peron was lost bythe by the wy w y if it any of our company was A as taken sick there were a hundred prayers ascending to god for the recovery of that sick bick person how is it with w ith gold hunters do they pray for their kheir s bick sick lck and ana administer in to them by the layh layl g on of bands hands ko no mey mes do not believe beheye in in any uch thin thing 0 but the sick stiffer suffer and die when any among LS ils were taken sick we w laid hands hand 3 udom them thein and they were healed I 1 was told on oil one occasion by one of the camp that br taft had the mountain fever and could not live till moi mol rooming nit nii we d him seven times in the liver and me the next day he was comparatively well 0 what nhat a great sorow it is to be a sain how the thought when we ae con template ave ate the contrast bie between twett the saint and add ani the we have ease lor for pain comfortable hea bea Mitor sickness joy for mourning and light for dankness dai dat kness this tois ia is all very good gowd says one tat hut your religion is fo unpopular in the voria world 11 there is not another re igdon io BO popular as tums lna in tie courts of heaven without the be garb ot ota a saint you cannot te be admitted to lije prince gince tInce of the father facher md ind to je us up the ai ed eil ell godana man no religion is 11 co s but hut the reli rell religion gion glon of the bible L 1 Is c 0 O 1 a 1 I 1 ism methodism quakerism i presbyterianism and a I 1 their collateral branches are ate ai unpopular in the celestial kingdom ef of god while hile bile he the re ligon ligou of adam enoch neah noah abraham isaac jacob the patriarchs and prophets jesus and ids apos tib als is the only acknowledged and popular system of religion with the sanctifier ifie ones olles in the greence pre ence of th abr father and the son but says saya a presbyterian abraham was a polygamist J HP ile was and you aay pay that his religion is popular in heaven it is the only religion acknowledged thre abre tb re I 1 bave lave ave not lot tune nov to dwell upon all the r 0 to of abrahames Abra Abrah lians hians amys liaos faith falth but he did believe 1 in 4 a plurality ralley of wives and was a practical banuat oa nhat nuat and laul fay tay 1 and if 3 eue e ebe be christa christs chr Chi risti ista then are ye abrahams seed and arid i heus hens according to the promise dd abra I 1 harn barn believe in t not much did be believe in quakerism not much P F eh rif nir F the dif dit forent sects of religion has some truth and so ar am i they have bave the truth so far tar did abraham believe but ithe Q lip tip re te ligion of any one of the sects as a whole the reli rell religion re lizio eion zion of heaven it is not we all al desire to join the popular party light truth and intel irence are the mide bide that is popular with wilh the heavens and the side that v will ill lii rule govern and control the nat ons if it we ve join tsat that society we then all become popular 1 with itu ith the popular party people will wid render themselves ridiculously c on purpose to become popular their desire fr ur popularity popularity o or notoriety is so great that they will not hesitate to do a mean act to gain pain it the great majority want to be on fe ve san str agest wealthiest and most popular side and t to a le lie connected wit that family which is possessed ased of immense wealth it influenza and power many f my hr liv thren of the eders of israel rise up here to speak to the people and they cannot give utterance to their ideas what is the mattei mattel they are fearful of making a slight mistake in their language which they think would make them unpopular I 1 wish they were as I 1 am in this respect and did not dot care what people may think or say but pour out what the holy ghost shall give them to eav ear regardless of consequences we all want to be on the side that will produce the most safety the mos joy arid and the most sterling ha paint as I 1 leah lean can bay say without fear of successful contradict lor that the man or w man who believes that the rel g gi n of jesus leads clearts into a thorny path does not understand nor enjoy the true religion of heaven we can say to all the world that the persecution which bich the latter day have received and the misery they may have suffered ered in consequence thereof will riat not begin to coin pare varee mleh with the m a ry and leau ical i wui sui xin yin hda una they uley ae now receiving in the united states stales in con cou sequence of war in missouri our bleeding feet stained the prairies esp but now they are shedding each 0 there others blood to curdle and bake in the min win bin bih or to be licked up by dogs doa and wild ani anim ahlm il while their fl fi sh all is gi gien glen en to the vultures and wolves we were inai ed ell to sign away our property to pay the expenses of our persecutors and we se were permitted as a body to take aw ay as much of our move able propel ty as we could but now the feces zionists are robbed and pillaged pil aged without mercy their houses are burned over their head heads their bai bat bams ns are demtro destroyed deb des troed ed their food and clothing are taken and the women and children are litt lift without anything to eat drink or wear while their husbands fathers and brothers are either killed or taken prisoners in the same manner the S cession party fall upon the federals or union men ard and whip them rob them and han hant them up at thair own doors enors and in the presence of their camillie fa millie miliea 1 then hen comes a third party who are called may wa kera or Jay Jayhawk jayhawkers hawkers em but more inore properly they are bucca buccaneers or land pirates pir atea and they rob everybody that is left after the union and secession Sec esson saon parties have done their v norsh arst have we ever cufr luff ted xea alkue ie that thai I 1 then nol not ot nien vlen when vien uhe uie come across a small settlement of secessionists they plunder and destroy it a ard hen when ben they come across a bamlet hamlet of union sta they serve it in the same manner did the latter day saints ever see such times they never did tibey never buffered suffered anything in comparion compari on to what hat bat the people in ill many of the states are now suffering it is right the bret brethren ren and hi iii ers shoud have grace race to sustain them in do doing ng right a and nd iuis ivis they should pray for it but I 1 would rather mey they possessed good sound common benee benea to begin with and to do with wib wih the grace of god when they received it I 1 never try any other way to please peo beope e only b bv plea pleasing sing myself and my god if if I 1 can please god I 1 ican lean can please myse myself then I 1 care very little whether aneti anybody dy else is pleased or not nt because if they are pleased with god and godliness they will be pleased with ne ite wl when jen eiders eders pi each or lecture among the saints world arld orld arid if it they do a so to satisfy they have done well when yon you have lave pleased yourselves tt it is very vety probable that you have pleased human beings ake ike yourselves co elives t when V 1 ie J journeying 0 urney lat iki the saints organ organise org anise iye lye as as they can for safe and comfortable arx trave we appoint one man mail to this duty othio an anotnio othro ap that appoint and rid every man attends to hla hia dutt itta 1 wagon is broken the captain at once arr ar arrants aega to have llave it put into traveling order if tr kis kib a sick person erson in the camp he either goes url mra f or nails nalls details somebody to administer to abe sickly t k b anointing with oil laying on of hand handia handal sl prayer a sister i f fainting airi tinn ting by the thi way she s R worn out the journey is too much for fot ber her the calta n I 1 procures procures for bar such dourie hinant as a can be I 1 fonn farind din in camp to give nive her and ability to endure he me cf the I 1 journey our rny rhy doing everything he can to restore the tle sick to sound health and giving them all possible le comfort a d aid Js Is there the same care and fellow feeling manifested in the j trains of emigrants who are passing over the country in search of gold each person Is is I 1 seeking to better his conditi condill liy its n and they have no inte trite pt est that extends further than self it Is with them aa as with be he man that prayed 0 lord bles bless ame me my wire wife my sun soon john and his wife we four no more amen they are for themselves and not for the kindom kingdom of or god they know that the world ia is going to destruction they see the hoie whole hole world in confusion one party seeking to destroy another in the vain hope of building themselves up i p the present government ft f the united sates ia is self destroying as they are arc now pro proving vinZ if there is one clas oats a of p parsons persons esons on eart earth h who need comfort more tha than ar arother another it is I 1 both the poor and rich who will not serve I 1 god I 1 those who serve him are comforted all the day long they walk in the light oc or his salvation salv aun aan weli weil well dwell under the smiles of ilis ills countenance te nance and the works of their hands bands are abundantly prospered still some apostatize I 1 from all this ibis light from this thia great salvation to get go d the reason of this is not because I 1 they have to a frer so much fer for their religion li ligion giol tut lut beca because use they have not enough erod good common sense what is the grace of god who can define it you say it is the f favor avor of god it if you had bad god common sense sens eyou you yoa never would be out of his favor ile he is the father rather of our spirits the great ruler of the universe if we had lind enough common sense to understand things as wi they are we certainly would choose to serve hains him and be on an the strongest side bo do we intend to make our fial fi al abode in I 1 hell bell or in heaven if we mean meau it to be in I 1 heaven we must become faithful latter D y saints it if in he be 1 I we may be any anything thine we ilease dlease please no matter what I 1 profess to be a latter atter dav saint I 1 believe belleve that the old and I 1 new testaments mere were A ere given gives by the tion dionot of god ami and since much adulterated by uninspired translators which makes it feces bart bary 10 lo for r one to have the spirit ot of revelation I 1 from god to read and understand them I 1 believe the doctrie e that the lord taught to adam in the g aden and that adam taught ito I 1 to his hia children chU dien Aien that enoth enot h taught to his city I 1 I 1 three I 1 undred hundred and sixty five years prepa preparing ring a people to go into t e presence of god the father I 1 believe the doc rine taught by coati who was instructed ot of god to build an at aik alk k to save himself and family from destruction in the great flood I 1 believe the doctrine abraham taught that isaac jacob and the patri patriarchs aught I 1 believe all the doctrine moa s taught to be the rord word vord of the lord 1 I believe iu in the law of carnal commandments c am tiia ilia nd ments as be he did it was f r them thim and anti not for us its it I 1 was a yoke d upon their necks because of their disobedience to the higher law of the gospel jesus christ r hovd that yoke and told them to follow the law of the gospel some christians throw away all the old testament except soine some portions of the prophets but diases biases h had bad ali all the go gopel gospel pei pel jethro sethlo had the gopel and arid the h use oe at jacob were urged to receive it t I 1 a mey bey vhey would not so the lord tod told lod vod moses to give them a edw of carnal commandments comma camma ma mand comma ments that would be g S ie leous os for them to fear tear I 1 ear the people generally would not have the revelations which the lord delivered to joseph sinith smith unless he would give them a law 0 of f carnal commandments like that which he gave to the children of israel and how 10 lons ions 1 was it before they were in cok col conversation with the spi it world being lead to destruction by I 1 delu ion lon which god sent them theiry cecase beca se i they would not receive the truth arld arid and when they say unto you seek unto I 1 bem hem that have familiar spirits spi rits tits and unto wizards 8 that peep arid and til ill thit it mutter should not a people seek unto their G d they would not 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