Show REMARKS 1 y president V ent BRIGHA A yo young TOUNG UNG d ai wed i in h the new neto TaUr tuut tabernacle nacle SA salt lake my oily sunday momma august 27 1871 BY DAVID W V EVANS I 1 na nave HAVE VE a few words of counsel for the re turned missionaries and arid all the elders of israel may heed them if they feel disposed to you hear the elders when they return and get got up in the stand tell what happy days they have experienced on their ml mis i s how they have enjoyed themselves the spirit of the lord has haa rested upon them how they have spoken ea to their own astonishment ish ment words have been given them that never entered their hearts before and when they have lifted up their voices in the name of the lord to testify of the gospel of the son of god they have astonished themselves and soon so on you yon know what they thay say now I 1 I 1 wish to make this request that the elders who return from missions consider thena thera themselves selves just as much on a mission here hero aa as in england or in aay any other part of the world there ia is no people need preaching to more than those who live in this territory and in ilu these mountains the latter day saints or those who pro profess fiess fless to be need talking to just as much as a child who begins to prattle and run ruu around the house it gets into mischief continually and ita its mother has to keep talking to it to keep it from meddling with things that it should not it does how to guide itself its elfand and wants guiding and correcting all the time but not more than the latter day saints who gather gatker together now elders of israel if you have the harness on keep it on and af lilt up P your voices to the people here and t teach them the way of life and salvation and teach obedience to the priesthood that they may receive the blessings which are promised to them who believe and obey the gospel aa as it is revealed in the latter days will you hearken to this coun selmy brethren I 1 have not the least objection to the sisters considering themselves on missions to teach their children the way of life and salvation I 1 E feel like saying a few words about seeing so many empty benches here but there ia is some excuse lor this for if you were to take this congregation small as it seems and try to put it into the common hall halls where our brethren have preached you would find a portion of it out of doors and very few meeting houses in the eastern country would hold the people who are here this morning still there could be a great many more here it is true that many attend sunday school with the children in the morning but if children who do not attend school were to receive prope proper r teaching from their mothers they would be at meeting on sunday morning mothers will you yon be missionaries cewilla we will willa appoint p you yon a mission to teach your children their duty and instead of rumbles ruffles and fine dresses to adorn the body teach them that which will adorn their minds let leb what whai you have to clothe them with be neat and clean and nice vice teach them cleanliness and pani purl purity of body and the principles of salvation vata and they will delight to come to these meetings I 1 attribute the wandering of or our young people to the teachings of their mothers you see young ladies ladles here wandering after the fashions of the world I 1 attribute it to their mothers and the mothers know but little more than their daughters if you will take this counsel and begin and teach your children as you should we will have more here of a morning than we have generally there are a great many people in this city who should attend meeting on a sunday morning enough to fill this house besides those who go to sunday school when they were in the lands where they were hated and the finger of scorn was pointed at them they delighted only in the society of their breth brethren and when they had an opportunity op port pont unity to escape from their arduous labors they would travel day or night to meet with the saints but bat here everything is so free so easy and delightful that they are here there and everywhere but where they should be A few latter day saints however and I 1 think the majority of them ae are doing the best they know how but our brethren when they return from their missions complain at what they see and I 1 do not wonder will you brother dewey set the example and come to meeting every sunday or shall 1 I in a few sundays hear that you are gone on a pleasure excursion that you are riding out here or there how with brother shipp and others who have been speaking how long will it bo be before we hear thas that you have gone on the railroad to wasatch or som somewhere nowhere else on a pleasure excursion or to your farm or to visit your brethren there is one thing that wo have to meet with here in our community we have a few from the so clety of friends wo we commonly call them quakers As far as I 1 have known them wll ahi I 1 have known them as long as I 1 can remember if they do not work or visit on the sabbath they will mourn the whole week they are so free and independent that ibey they want to show the whole human family that thab they have no more regard for one day than another and especially the sabbath day we have to meet with influence here as well as other things unless our quaker friends who come the church are continually led they never come to meeting they are sure to bishin fishing going after hay or hunting their cattle cattie and these practices have their influence on others I 1 wish to say to the elders and mothers in israel teach your children as they should be taught and you will find they will never stray from the path of rectitude there is more depending upon mothers than is generally supposed you my MAY take any nation in the world and just let the mothers say there should not be a soldier in the army and kings might call for soldiers but taut they would be disappointed if they expected to obtain any mothers bear more influence in the nations nations of the earth than they are aware of take my counsel and teach your children how to live teach them to pray to come to meet ing teach them to love the lord and to believe and read the bible and when they grow up they will delight in doing right As for the so called christian world all I 1 wish to say about it I 1 can say in a few words yesterday when talking about the priests I 1 discovered there was considerable humor idour in our beloved brother who has been speaking to us this morning and I 1 joked him and I 1 will joke him again a little more severely by telling a little anecdote of sir franeis francis franeis francis train you have havo all heard of george francis train I 1 call cail him blin sir francis he says in speaking of a certain dignitary just sit down and tell me all you know in five minutes minute sll I 1 make imade that application to all the so called christian divines sit down and tell all you know about god heaven and hell in nive five minutes you can do it it does not require any more moro time for you yom know nothing they 8 say bay they believe the bible but if when my they open and read road it any one of them ther lican rican can discriminate and tell what part to belleme and what to reject let that man come forth speak by the power of god and I 1 draw the line that we may know the truth but if they have no rey ney revelation elation on the subject eject i let lel et them lay their hands on their mou mouths th n and them in the rhodust dust and cry unclean so much for the so called christian world As I 1 said to our brother yesterday I 1 have been routed from a good home and plenty of means five times but I 1 never was routed from home and possessions without priests led the mob never and yet among the priests of the day there ara are a great many good honest men but inmost in most of the communities in the world those who are unruly boisterous ou and wicked can commit acts of wickedness and those who aro are just will stand and look on until the evil is performed and wonder what is going on there are thousands and thousands of people in the united states who deprecated the injuries that we received from the hands of mobs but what did they do stood and looked on until all was over and then said 1 I pit pity them how much did they us we we had to pity and take care of ourselves and an d we have learned to do it but we do not say that all people are robbers mob bers or that all will persecute for they will not and I 1 meet with a great many ministers who are gentlemen who have hearts within them and I 1 bid them god speed do what good you can xa system of christendom i c t is true that wo ivo do not believe in it exactly as they do for wo believe in sending ut men without purse or scrip that iley lloy may prove the people and see who will or will wili not feed a servant of god and in this manner our elders have traversed almost every nation on the face of the globe but these christian missionary societies have done an immense amount of good and they will have the credit for it god has got their credit marks and he will justify them as far as they go but when light comes into the world that they have not conceived of and they reject it what will be their condemnation let the bord lord judge now you elders of israel I 1 turn to you again you missionaries I 1 see a few of you here who have just re returned home but a good many are wanting there are places here for all but they are not here they have been home a few weeks and what are they doing visiting with their families or perhaps gone to the kanyon after wood and those who have just come home complain of the coldness of the people and that many are turning away irom the commandments of the lord I 1 say to those who complain of these things see that you do not do like wise I 1 come to and be ready to talk here our religion our gospel gostel is not to train a few men in all the sop bop sophistry astry that learning can impart and en able them to address a congregation and nothing else but our ministers or preachers work all the week in the store at the mechanics bench son ion on the farm in the kanyon or at whatever is wanted to be done and when sunday morning comes they get up here and preach a sermon and if they cannot do that we conclude they do not the spirit of their mission it is not so with the world our elders must support themselves with their hands as paul did I 1 do not care whether they are tent makers or boat makers let them earn their own living I 1 have for my part para I 1 consider con sidor that the honor god bestowed upon me in calling me to tn the holy ministry was enough for me to think it was my duty to support myself in this ministry and do honor to the causo causa without asking any people eople for help I 1 have done so I 1 did I 1 believe belleve believe belleve have a few shillings s given to me when in england when I 1 I 1 landed there I 1 had five shillings left I 1 stayed there a year and sixteen days and when we left one of the i ships in liverpool docks lied tied up eight days for the sake of bringing n us home dome and merchants aud and banking houses auses were at our service I 1 did business there in printing and dealing and so on but it did not tarnish my hands bands nor stain my spirit not in tie the tle least and it would not today to day we must live and we must sustain ourselves and an acome come to meeting and be ready alsoto also aiso to attend ward meetings bo do not come and ask me if you may go to preach pray or lay hands on the sick ask god to give you faith to perform your duties to walk humbly before him and to build up his kingdom on the earlb earth that is your duty duly yes preach every night we need a reformation here attend meetings in the various wards take your turns around from one ward to another preach to the people until they get the spirit of their mission and calling we all have a mission as much at home as in a foreign land and may god help us to improve upon and magnify it I 1 R REMARKS by resident president YOUNG YO UNG delivered in the new bew tabernacle salt lake city sunday afternoon august 1871 REPORTED BY DAVID W EVANS FIRST oti oft of all ail 11 1 I will inform this congregation and the world of mankind at large with regard to the life and nd character of joseph smith As a prophet it only requires are ase age to make his character as sacred as that of any man that ever lived on the face of the earth I 1 want to say a few words with regard to temperance we are a temperate people this la is what we have setout set out tobe to be we have lived in this city a good many years and until recently when a stranger arrived here and wanta wanted wasted to purchase liquor he had to inquire where can I 1 find a place where they sell liquor it was not to be found and 1 will lwin say that such places would not be found lound today to day among this people or in these mountains were it not for the urgent request of outsiders we have to bow down to the wishes and customs of our fellow men there are a great many men here now in the mining interests and they want to put up where they can purchase liquor for many of them drink As for the temperance societies which we have been hearing about can say that with all the stringency in getting laws passed to prevent th the e sale or use of liquor in the eastern states when those who were determined to obtain it could do so in no other way they would get what appeared to be a beautifully bound book with pilgrims progress on the outside but in the inside it would be full fuli of whiskey As for our saying that the innab inhabitants stants of the earth shall stop using ardent spirits we may say it but they will not mind us As far as the latter day dav saints are concerned we have rights others other haye naye aau to god that what our enemies say 1 with belh regard to theford the word of brigham you young n being bein in i law to the latter day saints was tr true uie tte b but ut it is not genera general riley eiley has been talking to us about ten perance societies the principles be advona es are excellent first rate more afore than thin fifty five years ago in the same county where he lived I 1 was asked to sign a pledge this was when I 1 was a boy he is about five years my senior we are ac quainter quain ted with the same keople people towns counties neighborhoods an and ana districts and we have traveled the roads and built up the towns landwere and ana were acquainted in the country and we know and understand its character at the present time some people here take the liberty to sell and dispose of their liquor without license from the city we have a city here an organized city we have our municipal laws we have officers for this thia city appointed by the legislative power and enactments of this territory and we have somebody or other here who say you yon you yon have no law here only what we give you and you shall know that we are the law to this people and are not our city officers ceis under bonds 0 of f some sixty thousand dollars larsin in the aggregate for spoiling a nasty place carried on contrary to law yoa yea they are and held to bail ball by government officers well what do we care about it nothing that goes to a higher court with a great many other matters they will go to a court I 1 hope of justice but we keep liquor here we are obliged to do it to accommodate our neighbors who come here and some latter day saints take the liberty ot drinking As far as these are concerned they have a right to get got drunk butco but we have rights and have a right aright to them or cut them off from the church and we alc calculate to do it whenever it ought to be done we have been found fault with because we cut out people off from the church I 1 what do you suppose thebo the so called christian world care about our church nothing on the face of the earth only to annihilate it |