| Show DISCOURSE by V res Nent B ri aham young delivered jwj the th I 1 A new tabernacle salt lake city april ath 1871 s REPORTED BY davir DAVID W V J I elvans i atu I 1 haye a few fiew serm sermons ofis to preach and as theotime the time jime is short I 1 do not know that I 1 shall be lie able ahle to deliver as many many as I 1 wish to I 1 want your attention and you yon will hive have to be quiet I 1 fina find thad that my voice is a little broken and it will be pretty hard for me to speak so that you can hear me I 1 shall not try to talk down the crying of children then of tho congregation or the shu shuffling fIlIng of feet as I 1 have often otten done I 1 want your attention to the various subjects I 1 wish to lay jay before you for I 1 shall have but a few minutes to speak on each one in the first placed want fo to say to io the el ders who go forth to preach the tha gospel no matter mattec who may apply to yop yog for baptism even if youhana you sou hava have good reason reasor to believe they are unworthy if they require it forbid them not but perform that duly and administer the ordinance for them it clears the garments and the responsibility is upon them A few words now with regard to gather gathers ing i i I 1 will say that if it unworthy people are atit adhered ered in irk the future its it is nothing new or nothing noth ingmore moro more than we expect if this net does not gather the good and the badde bad we should have no idea that it is the nett net hati Jesus spoke about when he said that lit should gather of all kinds fur thedmore ther more there are a great many who come nto the church because they know the irkis work is true their judgment and every reasoning faculty and power ol 01 their merids tells them it is true consequently tuey they embrace the truth but do they receive the love of df it that is the question I 1 will till t tell teli I 1 you that very few of those who rece iove love of tiie the truth but many of those who fali fall away though they gospel is prue G do not possess the love iove ove ova ot 01 t tho the a wa ae h I 1 and they wil wll wilc iio lio not apostatize while scattered we vetry ty to ge thant to do so io in the old coun country ry but they will wili not bring them over to xe new w york and anci they will not apostatize they wili will wll wil labor thero there tear year atter alter year and ana struggle and toll toil until they can get td the gathering place they must come to headquarters then they can apostatize forsake tho tha faith and turn away from the holy commandments of the lord jesus this is not our business our oun duty is to preach the gospel and to receive all that wish to have the ordinances administered to them and leave the result in the hands of god this is H his Is work not ours he has called us to be co laborers with him I 1 ivarie want fo to say for fon the consolation of or the elders of israel and ana those who go forth to preside db vow vou yow you need liwe nave no with re gaid garito to the building up of this kingdom only do your duty in the sphere to which you are assigned I 1 think there is more responsibility on myself thein than any other one bad mad man ban on this earth perta pertaining inin g to lo the salvation of the human family yet my path is a to walk lilg idi iri my labors are very ah agreeable roea mie ble for I 1 take no thought what I 1 shall say I 1 trouble hod hoc myself with re my duties all ail I 1 have to do is to live as s I 1 have often mado made the comparison anake and keep e I 1 my spirit feelings and conscience like ilke ashett a sheet of blank paper and let the spirit ania arid power of god write upon it what he pleases when he writes I 1 will read but if I 1 read before ha he writes I 1 ani an very likely to be wrong if yoa yon will take the same course you will not have the least trouble troubie ble bie brother carrington was telling us about the way in which money turned up to clear ther shIp after sending off more saints ihan than he had haa means to pay for was this a miracle any more than many other things in our ilves lives and in the work of god 2 no the provi dences of god are all alt a miracle to the numan family until they understand them there are no miracles miral cies cles only to those who are ignorant A miracle is supposed to bs be a result without a cause 0 but there thera is no rio such thing there is a cause for every result we see and if we see a result without understanding the cause we call it a miracle this is what wo we have been taught but the relis nells is no miracle to those who understand s while whilo brother carrington was speaking about retting getting twenty pounds I 1 thought of a few circumstances which have transpired here IL 1 will refer to one that came along in 1556 1856 in that year our agents in england loaded up tib tin the saints brought them over the ocean up the rivers and railroads and fitted them out with ox teams wagons and provisions and then sent on their drafts to me and within thirty days I 1 had piled plied upon me mb that thab I 1 ahad had to pay I 1 never was apprize apprized dof dot of any draft being drawn upon me pr one i word sent from the liverpool office until I 1 saw the drafts draft as they com 4 menaced to come in for five ten or fifteen thousand do dollars lars I 1 did not nol know eherd I 1 was waa going lp 10 bet get the first dollar but bat I 1 dl dia did used always dog dol do m my duty and trusted 1 I had a not a draft and I 1 thab thai any man went apak but let me have dane the busi busl neis ne asi abi should shoula have dono done it different differently when I 1 have the privilege of acting I 1 act little kare eare more by works than altogether faith I 1 dare not trust my faith quite far but others dare and they have swamped me yet they havo have not 1 i 1 nie nia ni a 0 7 fai bic ikc 1 1 my ta chati cannot wa walk nar nor edve tiel tiei my ad th t c canup baudie handle normy tongue so hat hah I 1 biot speak anatoe and the lord has hag delivered oiiver oliver me a overy every I 1 time with the help belp ut of my eie ele brethren hren we 1 d do not apt care anything about abut these thang athey they are bat but trifles we could stand here and talk until to tomorrow morrow mom ing telling cemarka remarkable le instances of the providence provi dences sor of god towards ills his servants anta aota and people and then only have just jusk commenced who put flour into the barrels here when we were dest destitute ikuto and had nothing to eat oat the women would go and scrape the precious barrel and take out the last half ounce of meal and make up a little caieto cake to divide among the children and perhaps the next time they would ga go to the barrel they would find it half bullof full fuli of flour who put it in their neighbors ho no they had none to put in was it 4 from toia the states if it it was they who brough lit tit must mus have flown through theair the air nor tiey toey could not rot h have a ve brought brough if 14 with os 02 teams quite so quickly bt but without shuping liag to inquire further about labour how this replenishing of the flour barrels was effected I 1 know now now and knew then that these elements that we wp live in 14 are full of all that we produce from the earth eath air and water I 1 told the people when we settled here that we had all the facilities here that we we could ask for all we had todo to do was to go to work and organize the elements how far jesus went to get thomine the wine that was put into the pots which we read about in the account af the marriage at cana of galilee galileo I 1 do not know but I 1 know that he had power to call tha the element elements that enter into the grape into those pots of water unperceived by anybody b d 7 in m th the a room H he a had power to pass t through hr ug 1 ia a congregation unseen b by y them ele he had power to step through a wall and no person be able to see him in he had power to walk on the water and none of those with whom he associated could tell how he had power to call the elements together and they were made into bread broad but it was done by invisible hands well I 1 wili will change the subject a little and I 1 say to the brethren do not be discouraged cou raged bring on all who wish to obey the tho he gospel that they may apostatize we want them to apostatize as quickly as possible how long iong will the people continuo continue to apostatize until the master comes when he comes the tho word will go forth gather my wheat into my garner and bind the tares in bundles bundies that they may be burned the wheat and the tares will grow to together oether aether until harvest and we cannot help it ii and we need not worry about it neither we want the brethren and sisters to feel around and see if they can find a sixpence a dollar or five dollars to help out the poor talk about the people over yonder being hungry why I 1 nave have known them eat not more than a third of a meal for a whole week in order to save enough to feed two or three of us elders I 1 was always ashamed to take it and I 1 will tell you what else eise I 1 am ashamed of I 1 am ashamed that any man calling himself an elder of israel should go to any country to preach the gospel and then commence begging such a course is disgraceful I 1 have no fellowship for those who do it and those who will borrow and not repay ought to be cut off the church I 1 will give adu you sou a little of my experience when on my english mission when I 1 landed in liverpool I 1 had six bits and with that I 1 bought me a hat I 1 had worn on my journey to england a little cap thab that my wife had made me out of a pair of ol pantaloons that I 1 could not wear any longer we stayed in liverpool one year and sixteen days and during that time we baptized between eight and nine nind thousand pe persons rons printed five thousand books oca ofA of lormon mormon three thousand hymn books thousand thousand tracts that we gave pave to the people and anci the millennial star estable established aed hed a mission it in london edinburgh and I 1 do not know but in a hundred other places and we sustained ourselves who ho was there on that mission I 1 mean among uie hie missionaries a coat or cloak cloa kinat mat I 1 pay for I 1 transacted the business myself and we paid every dime ve we got money from the tho brethren and sisters and paid anem up besides doing this we fed family after family and I 1 never allowed myself to go down to the printing office without putting my hand band in the drawer and taking lut out iut as many coppers as I 1 could hold so that I 1 might turow throw them thelia to beggars without bug brg belp stopped by them on tue the theroan road did we borrow that which we did not pay no did we beg no the brethren and sisters sister sand sana and ana especially the sisters would urge us to come and eat with them I 1 would try to beg off but that would not do it would hurt their feelings we mus must go and eat their food while they would starve to procure it I 1 was always ashamed of this but I 1 invariably had a sixpence to give them how much had I 1 given to me one sister who now lives in payson gave ine me a sovereign and a pair of stockings and when I 1 came away a hatter by the name of miller sent two hats by me to my little boys the sisters when I 1 first wept went to liverpool made a little got me a pair ot of paita palta pantaloons loons I 1 was not pot in the habit of begging but jut I 1 sald said to tol them when my rak trousers trow bers sers arb a little ridiculous I 1 gness guess you i will know it wont you and they gaye gave me a pair of pantaloons otherwise ido I 1 do not alot think I 1 received one farthing far tar thing I 1 might haye reee rete received ived a shilling or two from others but I 1 do not recollect when we ver left we sent over a shipload of the bi brethren ethren and sisters a good many of whose fares depala we paid when I 1 went into liverpool I 1 do not think I 1 could have got trusted i a ste sti sixpence pence I 1 if f I 1 had gone into every store sto re and shop in the place when we came away a certain captain wanted to bring us over and said he are you yon ready no how long must I 1 wait for you yowl eight days and they tied up one of tha the finest vessels in the harbor bor ot of liverpool in order to bring us over I 1 thought thas tha wa wasa a miracle d dont on t you I 1 am sure sur a ther there 0 are ar 0 some ome S sisters now n L w here who came with us in that vessel vessel I 1 re calved that th at as a miracle it was the hand of god was it gur pur ability no Is it our ability that has accomplished what we seel sea here in building up a colony in the wilder ness Is it the doings of man no to be br sure we assist in it and we do as we are directed but god is bur captain he 11 is burmaster our master he is thy branly MAN that we berye serve in him hint is our light in him is our life in him is our hope and arid we serve him with an undivided heart or gie we vie should do so what do jou you suppose I 1 think when I 1 hear people sayo saya say 10 see seo what the mormons cormons have ione lone one in 14 the tha mountains it is brigham young what a headge head ho has gott got what power he has got how well he controls the he people the tho people are ignorant of our true character it is the lord that has done this it is not any one man or set of men only as we are led and guided by the spirit ot of truth it is the oneness wisdom power knowledge and provi dences of god sod and all that we can say is we are his servants and handmaids hand maids and let us serve him with an undivided heart let us gather the poor look up your sixpences dimes and dollars just think what your feelings would be if your children had to go to bed tonight to night crying for bread and you had bad none to give them think of it milies families la you who profess to be saints fathers think of getting up in the morning and not a mouthful to feed your families with I 1 have seen them lotter totter along although it was good times when I 1 was there to what it Is now so they say but I 1 have seen them totter along the streets when they could hardly stand up for want but I 1 never failed to give such persons sixpence a shilling or a penny when I 1 realized that such was their lon ion tion before they passed me the lord rave gave wo it to me and I 1 dealt it treely out treely freely and fg I 1 am s m doing so salil and I 1 calculate to do so now let us help the poor bring them here place them in good comfortable circumstances cum purn stances so that they can strut up and say 1 I guess I 1 am somebody and I 1 ask no odds of the lord 0 fools when I 1 hear such expressions or see such a disposition manifested I 1 thinks think 0 foolish galatians who bath bewitched you who has turned your brain and made you believe that you are independent of that being who brought you and all the human family on the earth who has instructed you yon to believe that god has nothing to do with us that everything that is is by the providence of chance or DO no providence at all and that aban man is au ata there is who has taught the people this not the wise not the true philosopher F eind find ind a true philosopher and you find one who has the true principles of christianity he delights in them and sees and understands the hand of providence guiding and directing in all the affairs of this life though men are severed far from god and though they have hewn outi to themselves cist cisterns erns broken cisterns that will hold no ijo water the true philosopher recognizes tue hand of the supreme guldin gand gaud gaud controlling the affairs of the children of men I 1 have jadye a ashert hort discourse to preach now to my friends frique aho vho hd may maybe be here toda to today da day who ae are engaged in H or who may contemplate commencing operations in the minin mining business bu it ft is the 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