| Show DISCOURSE I 1 IT MR 11 I 1 at che the semiannual semi annual conference of tae the church of jesus chrid christ of latter day saints aint 8 in the new tabernacle salt lie lic oty ocy med tired wed day october ith 1874 t 7 REPORTED PY ily DAVID W nio nid not haw the of listening aft all the remarks of elder this hia forenoon yet to what I 1 did hear hean I 1 can bear testimony of 0 its truth I 1 always delight in seeing a man M an valiant tali tall at ithe iche la the testimony Y of jebus jerus j christ something corlous tor loub ious te la thel the principles of the gospel I 1 alway always din dia did from my boyhood hope and pra pray thail that I 1 might ilter liver long iong enough in the earth bolind to nind find some bome man who would have haze clent couram and independence of mind to idythe in the game oame doctrine and gospel that christ taught ibid I 1 haye have lived long loag eno ugh tn in wee pee hear alid aud partake of j at and aid I 1 glory in it because it la Is true trite tha tha religion or gospel of jesus jeans christ Is greny unpopular thing phing ahn aud suo has been beca 12 n tery teny age of ef the world show me a man who wa waalter acTer seten seven inspired of the lord god of 0 to oda do a work tor liah who was wab dolt doit jan lar yoa you can annot not find gleba e ieh ich a nian hian en in the whole history odthe of the tho world YOU yoo maty mam tak eNoah who wab was about a hundred bundred and it wenty twenty year yeam building buil bull din an sin ark and how hoir many friends did he be haye hate I 1 think about eight mall mail in ali nil lot was very unpopular be b 56 e ift left sodom and gomarrah and so BO have been all the patriarchs and prophets id avery age of the wor vor world tid ild L jeu 15 us chrict Ch dist diab when he came to jerusalem the son of god the savior of the th world itha ithe great of the jews came canle to his own fathers house bouse yet there was not a man ciori more despised in n all ju judea dea and arid jerusalem thau than was jes aes jesua a christ from the of his birth until he came to the cross why is this Beca becs because lire tiRe inen leve leye darkness rather tather than light bemuse because their deeds are evil the ine lord almighty in n the tha last days da as has set his hand band to carry out anc fu fulfill i his words for the pat ast five or thousand years given through the months of hla his servants the prophets and apostles wherever be hever heyer ha be has had them on the earth ile he hus hia commenced this ibis work aud and he lle will perform it for as brother taylor has justly j u atly said there is no power antho on simpie earth that can stay his hand for the simple reason that god controls the destinies of all men kings princes rulers presidents statesmen governors nations tongues and leople leopie eop eople lc upon the face ace of the whole earth and men are placed in d p tion where they are under the necessity of exercising falth faith in god in order to build up his bis kingdom read bead the eleT eley eleventh eath chapter of hebrews jie jle brewe and you jou will nind find that beginning with tho the creation of the world everything has bas been accomplished hy by faith the whole of the work of all the ancient patriarchs and prophets ets was wits accomplished accod by the exercise exer cisa of this principle and it is just so in the last dispensation of the ful ness ot ol tl ies vies when god sent angels to joseph smith ile he knew and understood by the teachings given unto him what whit IH hv had bad to perform in a measure the lord called him todo t 0 a work and aad raised him up fol foi this pur our purpose pose pobe was joseph smith popular among among men no never neter he was persecuted per until the day of his bis death until he sealed hi bl testimony wih with his blood but the persecution a against lust him and the unbelief of the do not nob make the truth of god without effect the lord has carried out and ana fulfilled all these ard pr phi beles from thie the commencement until now there never has hias been a jot or tittle allowed to fail fall unfulfilled there never was a revelation from the days of FA rather father ther adam until this given t ty ly y the inspiration of 6 the roly noly ghost through the tho mouth of patriarch or prophet that will wil fati fali unfulfilled though the heavens and the earth rth pass away these things win ili not fail fali of their fulfillment and as brother taylor has kas mald maid sald said the world cannot stay the work vork 0 of f god T they hey hex never hato have done and they neter never ete eve will rul eui eni this is a different dispensation from all oth others rs god goa oa has bis set to bis his ha hand nd to build up his kingdom and zion and that kingdom and zion must baul beul be plit built up or ori the reTe reye revelations lations of god will fall unfulfilled the bible la Is full suil of these teachings and they must have their fulfillment and J X bear testimony to their truth tru i h the bible is true and its prophecies were spoken by holy men of old as they we were re m myed moved ved upon by bf the holy ghost the revelations of isaiah concerning the building up of the zion of god in the last days flays will have their fulfillment the house of god will be established upon the tops of the mountains and all nations must flow unto it zion must arise arse and put on her 11 1 gaT gaz garments ments she khe must be clothed with the eloryon her hen god the temple tempie of god has got to be built ilsa alib upon the tops of the mountains the gospel must be pred preached ched to every pation nation under heaver heaten before the end shall come the world say they do not believe elleve li these things that is true truc we do not expect them we neye never r have expected them to be lieve them hut hat the unbelief of the world does not change the work of god we have hara to live by bi faith when moroni moron hid bid in the ibe earth the ibe record which the book of f mormon was translated from four hundred dred yeara after christ came in the flesh be did it by faith nith as fuch inch so ag ds as roh toh built the ark he looked forward fonward and saw that record come forth in lit the last days in fulfillment of the sayings of eze klel and of the saying ot of isaiah when the stick of joseph should be put with the stick of judah and they should become one stick in the hands of the servants servant of the lord before the eyes of the world and when the truth troth should spring out of the earth and righteousness busness look down arderi heaten heaven these were to be a beginning of the great work of god preparatory to the gathering ot of the twelve tribes ot of israel in the latter days rays that work bas has come forth jast just a everything bas has been fulfilled which has lifts been done by faith arld alid arid and by bk the cOmmand commandment men t of god when joseph smith began to receive receive revelations from god he tle was a boy an an 11 II literate auth and had he not had and the I 1 inspiration splitlog split spilt lon ion of the almighty u upon pon him lim him he never could coul dhave hate have had bad power and con non rage to go forth and introduce the gos jesus jestis christ in the midst of agen generation era ena tion of false doctrine ignorance gnor ance and darkness bat but god preserved inspired and sustained him and caused him to td live upon the earth until babad he b d planted this kingdom in fulfillment of the revelations he lle organized the church he received the holy priesthood from ethe elac hands of angels sent sept from god meu ine tue who 1 I ho had held the tb e Aaron lc and priesthood in otherl other gene kene generations rations upon the earth they conferred upon joseph all ail the powers and keys of the priesthood necessary to build uette up tue fue kingdom of god upon the earth and be lived ion lon long iong enoah enough to organise org ong aniie anise that kingdo kingdom rh and it ft will never nevet be thrown down any more fon for even cven 1 0 the revelations of gud god toma tona hate have been and und we have ela eia cia them fulfilled and wo we shall continue tado IQ do so until tho rho end I 1 will say to the latter latten dy dlly saints that weare bearo we are ane in the same position that other generations hote hate been we have hare idt to aik air alk by falth faith el yit yli wast have tona eona den aen densela dewe eela rein la the of the revelations ot of god no mauf mauu in or woman on the face 0 the thel earth will elerbe even ever be disappointed wah regard to tho the fulfill fulfillment ent of the word ward of the lord for he lie has uttered de decrees degrees grees prees made qt add and through h jita jils serva servants the prophets phopho ts it has 0 word and will concern in the world mid and its inhabitant and not one te of r his bis sayings will fall all ali a 11 must be mimed aimed ir if tt 4 0 31 im 41 9 h otherwise the zion of god would inar c bull huli u up p but god has decreed that his kingdom kingdo do will bo hlo established that zion will arise and shine and that every weapon formed against her will iye lye broken the prayers of hundis and thousands of saint dwellen dw dwelling ellin I 1 in these valleys of the mountains daily ascend into the cars ears of the lord of beseeching him to fulfill his word upon the earth and to sus sua tain fain his servants ser Eer rants D do 0 n not ot the S saints a I 1 ats pray for anybody any body else ye they pray for eter ever body for president grant judge mckean the governor of utah and every man li folding official positions here as well as ab tor ton for briham rodna young and the tho apostles these prayers ascend before the tha lord and they will be heard and an answered sered talk about brigham young and joseph smith how idairy many nany have eald eaid tp 0 joseph joshep smith now how on the earth do yon you govern and ancl control this people how easy you yon do dolg doig doly ly 1 our enk eni riale today to day look at brigham youns afia and they sav bay if he be would only die nisin would stop ll 11 but in thib thit they are mistaken thi this work does not depend depena upon president young it did not depend upon joseph smi smith all the world thought if they co could u id only slay joseph smith there would b be an end cud of 10 mo lo monism and so there would have bave been had bad it not nut been the work or of god almighty if it had bad heien beien tha tho wr work k of man it would woul iong ione since bince have ceased to exist on the earth the power that has sustained this thid work from the beginning sustains it now As brother taylor has said all the holy prophets and apostles who have been slain on the earth for the testimony bf jesus and the word of god and who now sit rot wo en the richt right rand tand of god in the heavens ace are jurt just as much engaged in carrying on the work of god here as when they lived in the flesh and more so because they have hate more mora light and power and jesus christ himself who died on the he cross and after his resurrection visited the tho other sheep of his hie fold on this thib continent and offered the gospel to jew nd gentile that same jesus jecus jc sus cus is plead ing inz with the Tather to today day and has been from the day hia body lay jay in the tomb to carry out and ful fill his purposes and to accomplish lis its ht I 1 his bis w ork in i our day and generation weare vere not ione alo aio lone ne IH lil our efforts to carry agn on the ithe work of god if the eyes esea of the world were open they wona seo see bee that there are more for us ui tila than vik iii us we are arc only in one semi af theford the 06 word woid worms of the dust in the hinds hind dof bof of god does not depend oa any ant man or set of inen men theford thelora Th eLord almighty has hais set bet his hani bani hanato accomplish his purposes and he be Is feeling after tho iho honest bonesi and meek throughout the th e world vor ad to dind find those choate who are willing lii ili n to take hold hoid and help to build U up 1 his kin kingdom dom in the tha latte iatter latter i days he has bis found 0 iud ind a few and lie ild ne will find many more how has it dt been with ith joweph joseph smithe Bilg brigham harn hArm xoung yonna the apostle apost lis sand band ana sands of hp ho elders eiders of israel who have hag gone forth foith to the gospel to tha th world without para or scrip offering the word wood of life and ang salvation without money and without pric price they tiley have harb boar koar carried ried their nap acke sacka on their backi or with valise in hand band have travelled thousands of mues for ills ilis lils toey they have aleve been inspired rod nod to do ab ta this ly i the be power of the abst stitt high ig god d and that h has s sustained 11 them h e in way thi through ough it t hab haa u upheld held heid this church from the time it came forth until this hour and will unto its consummation we wa calain herd on anthe sith 1317 7 having been driven erqin from our homes the he grayes graves of our fathers aft nd t groin from laii lands d 4 w we e purchased from the be general goida government mant 1191 genee geree because of the ard of god d and the testimony or of jesus jebus christ or in other words because or of our oun religion reli rell elon eion we came here and found i a barren varria desert debert containing nothing but huta buta few rew ew roving indians coyote wolves crickets er crets and grasshoppers there was no mark of the anglo saxon dieb race or of the white machere man here then but th the e whole ruslon region of country was a desert of the most forbidding and desolate ellar character acter row when strangers come up to zion on this ficat great highway cast up in fulfillment of the refet refel revelations lations or of god what do dd they teet teel see gee they see colonger no longer ioner a desert debert hut but a beltt beitt belt beit for 6 six bix ix h hundred un d r dd mues 0 of o cities towns villages orchards neld geld s and ind crops who hee heb baldone done hone chist the tha lord god of israel has inspired bis his saints jodo fodo it president young hasteen has been been led led guided counselled counseller coun selled and moved upon b by the holy hoir ghost cheat and hy by the revelations of aesuk chrit christ and that which strangers now nw behold in this tabernacle and throughout this territory fa 14 14 liln iain in fulfillment or of that to volume fume of cevela can rez rea tead read d in the cies cles of isaiah avd ayd others ot of tha and patriarchs these thines are liao tjarand and your eyes can sec see them whether 1 you aba believe them or not ha poldine z to do da with it I 1 iwah will tell you that if his work nad not been beert of god godi abid god had imbt borne the tha preaching of the elders ciders we might haye hata preached guell antil we had heen ad ail old as mt methuselah and we could not have gaelic gathered rea rca the people froin almost every u ader heaten heaven alan asa aas we haye have done nv according to tha th c predictions of the voicie volcient nt prophets contained luf luu the bible bibie bub but the thi lord has never disappointed nt anybody atiya yso sa fan far fa cashis as his work 1 la 13 3 concerned conce med it d did I 1 d not stop after the death of joseph and abid ht lit never neven will on account of the death of an any y man mail prophet apostle or ink iny a lyoth othier er man for I 1 it E a in lil tb the hands hand of god anc and he has haa decreed that it t shall stand for ever and that it b shall billi extend until Us its dominion tic colleg I 1 wo do not sep today to day what we ve paly pale baw twenty four years yours ago and we ic do not see sec today to day what will win be bd kegu seen twenty roue rone yearb years hence there will he no to the building u up p of the zion of god or jo to the carrying ik out 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