Show RM E awa aws A R K S by beighau BRIGHAM BRIG hau HAM in ii the bowery frigham brig ham coty city olt cit sunday muneo jungs 9 1872 t REPORTED BY dawid danid W EVANS A SHORT discourse to the latter day saints concerning the poor they have done a great deal to emigrate the saints sainta i from foreign lands I 1 suppose that from irom six to eight hundred thousand dollars have been spent annually for a num number ber of years this was when we sent our teams to the missouri river after the saints now that we bring them by rail it does not require re so BO much but it requires cash for oun payment and this season we want to bring a good many of our brethren and sisters and their little ones laok look at our friends in foreign lands and what do you see many of our brethren and sisters lugging coal in pits lugging iron ore for smelting smelling sm elting many in factories some on farms tugging and tolling toiling continually and hardly able to get enough of the most common necessaries of lite life we want to see our young sisters who are spending their lives in this manner here amongst us that they can nix fix themselves up something as you are here to day 1 I 1 am talking now to some that have bad experience in these things some who know that with all their hard bard labor it is pretty hard to keep spirit and body together look at those who have been gathered here you see them dotted here and there through the country with a garden a little house a few chickens a pig or two or a cow they have the butter milk and bread to te eat for the raising they have a house to live ln in for they have built it they soon get a little money and to enter their land and have them a good home we want to bring others here that they may make themselves homes and be comfortable and I 1 live ive with the saints I 1 can not learn that our officers are doing doina much to gather means for the poor they are going to do it they are J just going to do it but I 1 want them to do it and to commence tomorrow to morrow morning we are not going to exact a dollar from each for himself and one for each wife and child but I 1 lam iam am going to exact or of the brethren to put pul into the emigration fund a little of their abundance according to their means to help to bring home the poor saints I 1 have headed the list every limb time that we have asked for means I 1 gave my rny trifle this season as usual I 1 gave two thousand dollars to begin with now come up and give what you can some can give five dollars ethers others ten fifty or a hundred just as well as I 1 can give what I 1 have 1 have not asked that ot my breth ren which I 1 do not do myself I 1 help to bear the burden and I 1 help to eat the johnnycake and the pudding and milk when I 1 can get got it I 1 want you to follow the example of those who teach you I 1 exact of brother snow your presiding officer here to be most liberal of any man in this county and the bishop next and then go through abrou gb and gather up this means and let iet us ua have it within ten days that we can send for the poor and if the englishman says bays 1 I will send for a brother tr through the be Perne tuat emiera tion tonI fund and when he arrives here I 1 will see that he pays or do without it let bim blin have the privilege if ten englishmen englishman have a mind to make up a purse to send for some of their friends from Ety england gland giand let them have the privilege it the welsh or br the scandinavians are disposed to take the bame same course and make up a purse of one two or three thousand and wish to send for their friends frienda from wales or scandinavia di navia and say we will see to the collecting of this means that thit we furnish for gathering the poor let them have the privilege of doing ia it c that is my sermon bermon on behalf of the pour receive it into your hearts and act upon it remember we want your means we do not want your prayers I 1 recollect a little circumstance which transpired in canada A certain methodist class elass leader would make thel them the longest prayers for the widow aud and father i less that were known of in they would many times reach from toronto tol quebec there was a poor widow belonged to lu the society who used to weave for a livi living nir and this blessed class elass leader said to tol toi her 1 I am giving you too much I 1 find byoir bod have potatoes to eat every day she sha stepped up to him one evening after prayers nook book look here says she deacon drayers I 1 want you on should let me have a peck of pota oes 11 says he with witti a long lace tace I 1 I 1 cant do it I 1 dont owe them to yon yoli well bays she you pray for th the poor and the widow you yon make long prayers but I 1 want 0 o say this I 1 would rather havea have a peck of potatoes than all the prayers you ever offered in behalf of the widow and the fatherless in your whole life we would rather have your money than your prayers on this ocea occasion sion slon but we want you to offer for the success of this means which you give for gathering the poor |