Show DS C COURSE 0 U R S E US f ny BY pie president aident ORSON HYDE VJ J V delivered jn in the ie fourteenth ward ad assembly 9 doon Soon ca lS s sunday ev evening C if r sr i t W 8 is ij max kwo IN e W dued rued BY david IV EVANS ery much brethren and sl the opportunity we enjoy jo inq it fillat of meeting together to orsbia ors hip bip lard burgod our pur god andio and to aalt wait valt jim that kilat we may re rc strength it is the tho deare 0 ny heart beart tp do all I 1 can to in in sou a living faith in god aud and I 1 to say that there are in our midst against whom I 1 hk have no ag particular lar charge arge to make nuke but ut who by reason of the favors which fortune or this world has bast bestowed 4 we luppp upon udon them llave ilav e become yva wa j kand nd sickly in the falth faith and who I 1 inay siy s iy ilav have almost jig no faith atall I 1 reelon feel on this thia occasion trtat wealth would destro destroy Y what hat little I 1 falth faith t have I 1 would d ratler rather would woula take to itself whigs wings arid lid ild iid fly beyond my reach I 1 have norfa nr lith kith aith alth to 46 hul hub what little I 1 faith falth I 1 may possess I 1 think more of thau than I 1 doof do of the wp wealth althof of for fot the tha wealth of this will not carry me successfully through dile the dark valley of tie tle shadow v it will not riot open mome tome the portals of bliss bu burreal treal anu and genuine fai fal faith falth thin in god will accomplish com this thia I 1 remember once lii lit na when wa felt ourselves ha fland fiand fortunate if we could gel half n i hushel bushel hus bus helof of meal to tomako tomake mako the tiie prophet fc joseph talithi to td some of us ht at the brother john taylor said sald 4 brethren we are pretty tight fight runt now but the time tinie will come when you will have so BO much money that you ou avill be weary with cotina hightland you will be ba tried with and aud isome leome times think that perhaps the preface to that time haa now nf arrived rived and that the saints sainta will soon berried be tried oried with riches but would kill our prospects aspects af pf of eternal life by allena alienating abing us from me and kingdom of god tsay I 1 it would be far better for us to reni roni alif like ilke Lazaru lazarusa sj and that all our oun nine fine things should perish like theider eidew th defoi and we ve come down to the bedrock of saith anti and trust in the truland living god the question is wll gli whether wilether ether we wa have to come dome there iti bedei to inherit eternal life I 1 a little of the words of ou our savior hs as recorded inthe in the oth chapter tf Matthew sald said he take tako no u ellit sa saying ying what shall we eat OT or W what at ishall we drink or where shall ve be clothed for after all ali these thins thin s do the gentiles sn sk V nor for 46 your i bir teave leave illk father R knorth Y ye L f have haver elf need ed of bf these thee icings I 1 butge but hut ge seek q k ye e first fil s t the king donl doni of I 1 god and his is righteousness ardd arid all ail these things shall be added unla you ad wake take therefore ho ddom flip thought ht for nor the morrow for the morrow shall iball take tho thought ugilt for the thrpo things of bf itself sufficient unto the day is i the evil thereof ITU there re are many saints at this time arilie who are laboring to ta acquire wiil vell wealth lh nad and the kingdom in the thee of a glod many has become a secondary consideration if we wd nf edg to reverse this order of proceeding cV ce aud alia seek the uhe hing king kingdom dom of gho gio arst we could then put our heavenly father to the proof whether alt all these things be added to u sand thus also test iest the truth of dh andt and 1 believe that this thise would be a le legitimate lil Iti naty way to test it ikeo lito to our satisfaction tEli chave I I 1 have five tive heard beard several very voy able discourses by good men showing that unless gur our exports equal our imports we are not makine making headway B financially nau nan cl ally aily this is nil all very g oo 00 ar as it goes but reasoning ot that kind is nob not our Sav saviors lors it othe reasoning of this world and so far as this world is concerned their reasoning if correct is just as good as any other reasoning but if it and we are swerved balits force foree and power powen from ellae theune th eliae marked out for us to walk by we shu veeo veco become 1114 the losers J 1 wish ngao naw you to certain et events tents that have transpired in days gone byard then any of you i may tell meby mebs what hat An financial ancial ca calculations tile tiie LM th things happened and whether T they were rought brought down to the very nicety of worldly reasoning or the they yer were left open to the 0 of our oun god J dape onge bid edd on a time there wa vas ansa a great famine in samaria and so sore sole was that famine thala thata head sold for four score pie pieces is of silver sliver in the markett and a cab cabor of flows dung daino oc fa 31 TE m sold bold for food in the market I 1 can not riot recollect for how bow much we should consider it pretty much of a task or of penalty to ba compelled to use an article articie like ilke lle ile tic that for food but the tile people of samaria were sorely distressed with famine way to turn tosane themselves they knew not about this time the king of syria with a lange large earm army came tu to besiege the city and there wasa was a mighty host of them and they brou brought glit everything in the shape of food that was necessary forthe for the comfort and happiness of if man and although the famine jamine was sq boro among the samaritans samaritana Samar itans the old prophet elisha I 1 think it was them j that oil on the next day meni meal should be sold in the ole gate of their thein city at vory very low figures lower than it had bao ever heen been lingwic known tobe lobe to be sold before A certain nobleman who heard the prop prophecy becy of El elisho islia expressed his doubt of its truth and arld he said sald that if of heaven were opened and meal poured down from above it could not fall to such low figures now see what lie he got by doubting the words of the prophet said ellsha elisha to him you Yon ryes gye s shall see it but you shall not tas 1 that night the loril lord sent forth the angels of his sence and they made a rustling presence err Ere in i the trees and sounds hounds like horses hoofs and chariots as if the whole country had comb combined ineil to go out to battle against the syrians and they did not know what to make of it and they were frightened and fled fleo leaving almost every thing they had brought with them in the borders ot of the town and as they went the rustling of the trees and the noise of the ho horses and chariots seemed to pursue them and in order to make their burdens as light as possible they threw away everything they had with them and their track was strewed with everything good and desirable the next hext morning the people of samaria went out and brought the spoils into the market rind tind it was wag overstocked over stocked with provisions and the word of the lord through the prophet was fulfilled now you see the tile lord knew they had eaten mules heads beads long enough and that they had need of something more palatable he had had the matter under advisement no ng doubt when the crusade was inaugurated against the people of samaria and he in all probability inspired them to take abtin abundant dant supplies that they might feel all the more confident on account of their great numbers being go so well provided for they no doubt calculated that they had the sure thing little thinking that god was making them pack animals s to take to his people what they needed their fathali in heaven knew that they had lied need of them and he sent them and the people of samaria brought them into market and behold and lo 10 the multitude rushed tog together gether just as hungry peo i pie willand this nobleman came out also and lie he was trodden down under foot and stamped to death he saw it but he never tasted it that is the reward of those who disbelieve the prop prophets bets of god it was so then land if the same thing does not occur in every instance something of a sli sir similar nilar character is sure to take place lace there was no living t faith in ha traun he could not be believe belleve aleve the testimony of the prophets and in this he was like some of our what shalli shall I say great men whose faith falth is weak and sickly and they think they know cfall it all ali and ald can chalk out outright right and left loft th thab that a it which would bo be best beast for bulldis building C up the kingdom of god well vell after atter the fligh flight tor of anahis hosts the starving multitudes of samaria had an ail abundant supply of food by what hat financial calculation was this brought ab about out was it by worldly ninan finan ciering or ivas ovas was it b by y the bounteous dispensation of kind heaven who disregarding worldly technicalities sent a full supply to administer to and stipp bupp lythe wants who put their trust in ill him lim I for at that time the people of samaria stood fairly before him and he plead their cause said sald the savior take tahe no thought what ye shall eat cat or what ye shall shail drink or wherewithal ye shall be clothed for after all these things do the gentiles seek have the gentiles come coma here to make money and to become wealthy 2 they say they have i wn rn told that that is their sole t 1 I 1 have n not nob pt the least object objection lun iun to it but I 1 have an ani objection to ill ni v y brethren and sisters adopting their spirit by which their faith withers and becomes dikea like ilke A dried reed teed the lord said to joseph smith onee once camj As 1 live saith the lord I 1 give not unto you that ye shall live after the manner of the world are we seeking to live livo after the manner of the world by our trading and thail aking I 1 do not riot know however that there thero is tiny riny anything thing objectionable about legitimate honorable trading and lain iain I 1 am not going to speak against it but in these days it is a pretty rare thing to find an honorable dealer there may be and un there are ae men who do nothing but honorable business transactions but most business men are ara eager to lay up a fortune and to get rich in a short time some of our merchants think they ought to get rich in from five to ten tell years and then retire but in honorable business transactions it takes almost a lifetime to amass a abor fon for tune I 1 will not howe however vei speak of things that occurred in old ta times but will come down to our own experience peri perl enee ence I 1 recollect when we were forced away from nauvoo at the tile point of the bayonet and eiten when we crossed the river to the tile iowa side there were hundreds of our people camped along the shore and what had they to eat or to make themselves co comfortable in for table with in the scorching sun and burning with fevers tothill nothing ag we wanted meat and other comforts but wl wa had not the means to procure them and the lord in mercy merey sent clouds of quails right into camp they came into the tents flew into the wagons rested on the wagon wheels ox yokes and wagon tongues and our little chil drent could catch them and there was an abundant supply of meat forthe for the time being who financier ed that and by what calculation of two and two make four did it happen it was the mercy and generosity of kind providence after the people arrived here in salt lake they had pretty hard times I 1 was not riot one of the honored ones first here but I 1 arrived soon after and I 1 can recollect very well hearing of the hard times when the brethren and sisters were forced to dig roots and boil up thistle tops and anything that could be converted in the seething pot into food for the stomach in those days the rations of our people were very short indeed the lord loid was aware or of the rosi position of the saints in those times he knew that they craved and had need of the necessaries and comforts of life and he provided away a way for them to obtain them he opened the mines of california and lie he caused the news to fly eastward and this inspired the people of the east almost en masse togo to go to the eldorado of the west to secure the precious us metals I 1 happened to be on the borders atthe at the tho time flin ethe the excitement cit ement was in progress and hav in ing crossed the plains once or twice people came to me to know what they should load with I 1 told them thim to take plenty of flour for that would be good anyhow and if they tiley took more than they could carry they could trade it with the indians to good advantage that they needed I 1 also told them to take plenty of bacon the very best that they could bring plenty penty of sugar and also plenty of coerce co and tea we were not quite so conscientious ious in those days about using tea and coffee as we profess to be now I 1 also told them to take plenty of clothing such as shirts over coats coata blankets bankets and everything that won would koep keep keep the body warm and I 1 told them that tools of every kind would bevery bevers be very vers convenient andal andai and almost indispensable such as spades shovels planes saws aug augurs tirs chisels and everything that a carpenter needs for sald said I 1 when you getto get to the end of your journey you may a not nind find everything to y your our imm hand i that you want and these things will ivill ue be very convenient for you to build with and I 1 gave eve them i this counsel in good faith for i thought if they did not feel despos edlo carry all these things through they could very readily exchange them in our valley vailey for cometh something n that our folks could spare e a and I 1 i 5 p which ch the emigrants NJ would 0 ar id find useful well they fitted up train after train with NAM these staple articles and to use a steamboat phrase they load I 1 ed to the very guards and when i many of them reached here having been ret retarded aided by their thal ir heavy loads it was so late that they said if we attempt to go through to california with this outfit we shall be swa swamped M p in the snows of the sierra ne nevada vada mountains and so we must leave it here they I 1 had idd brought it just where god wanted it for said lie he 1 I 1 knew you had need of these things rl I 1 11 and while many of those who brought them thein along were good honorable me men it I 1 lipp Iipp happened ened in 4 the providence of god that his people clewert pl were ewert abundantly supplied did not brother kimball prophecy here once in a time of the greatest strait it that goods and merchandise of every kind would be so cheap and plentiful within a certain time that they tiley would have havo to be piled up on the way side yes and his prediction ca came metrue true and the merchandise had to be placed by the wayside because there were not houses enough to put it in well when the tile emigrants got here with their jaded teams they were glad to trade them off said they hero gentlemen are ilia dry goods merchandise mei mel chandise tools and other things we vo have brought along they are at your sour our service give us a pack mule and au d a packsaddle saddle saddie a lariat la riat and a pair of spurs that we may go on our way this was the way matters were arran arranged geI get in Iti nany many ansta instances und there was no fault to find we did the best beat wo ave could under the circumstances and they did the best they were obliged to for us who financier ed that was that on the principle of two and two make four dour I 1 do not object at all ail to that principle but one is the result of human skill and wisdom the other is based upon 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