Show REMARKS by PRESIDENT FINT YOUNG delivered in the bowery gogan cogan city sunday morn dorn ing in granc Jine 1873 REPORTED BY DAVID IV EVANS I 1 SAY to the latter day saints that the only reason why we do n not p take tike up the subject and enter bilter into the organization of enoch or a city of enoch is simply because we havo have not yet been able to find eve every overy ry item of law bearing hearing upon this matter so as to organize in in a way eliat apostates cannot trouble us this is the only reason it is a matter that I 1 am paying particular attention to with s somo some 0 me of my brethren to see if we have skill enough 1 to get up an organization and draw up papers to bind ourselves together under the laws of the united states so that we can put our means and labor together and join as one family As soon as we can accomplish thi this sand and get an inspru instrument li nent that lawyers cannot pick to pieces and destro destroy yand and apostates cannot afflict us wo ive expect to get got up this institution and enter most firmly into it yesterday and the d day ay before I 1 had considerable to say to tile the lat ter day saints reading tile the dark side of the page I 1 will say here hore I 1 am not discouraged with regard to this latter day work I 1 am not discouraged cou raged with regard to the latter day saints if we were to pick and choose today to day wo we should find a large majority of the people called latter day saints who are ire r ready e a d and willing with open hands band s and ti i pure hearts to enter into the order of enoch and to live and die in this tilis order this is my faith falth concerning the people at large consequently I 1 am not discouraged but there are some who need chasten ing hig we cannot call names ohis this will not answer we wo cannot tell a man that he is going to apostatize but we can chasten him as a member of the church not as an individual in this capacity while in public we donot do not take the liberty of chastening cha an individual but nut we can say hay to the brethren and sisters we are encouraged mormonism is onward and upward tile the gospel that the lord jesus lias has introduced trod inthe in tile latter days is enjoyed j oyet d by many and it is our life murjoy our joy our peace our glory our happiness our all ali 11 and when we come to the trying scene as some call it of sacrificing our property and putting it together for the good good of the comin community unity I 1 do not expect the brethren will receive any more trials than they have heretofore I 1 do not know whether the sisters will brother brollier Brot lier ller george Q cannon says the sisters have borne a great deal so they have but if they could only stand in the slices shoes of their husbands who are good true and faithful they would know that they are by no means free from perplexities just faney fancy a imin man mau with two three or half a dozen of his beloved wives catching him on one side and before he can take three steps more catching him on the other and 1 I iv want ant this 1 I want thail that and this is not right and that is not right and so on their minds just pulled to pieces I 1 say if the hair is spared on their heads they tiley may consider that they have llave got blessed good wives I 1 have as many wi wives as many other men and I 1 keep my hair yet yot bugasto but nut as to trials why bless your hearts tile the man or woman who wiio enjoys the spirit i r it of our religion has no trials au but t the man or woman who tries to live according to the gospel of the son sou of god and at the same time clings to tile tiie spirit of the world has trials and sorrows acute acilto and keen and that too continually this is the tile deciding point the dividing line they who love and serve servo god with all their hearts rejoice evermore pray without ceasing and in everything give thanks but they who try to serve god and still cling to the spirit of the world have llave got on two yokes the yoke of jesus and the yoke of the devil and they will have plenty to do they will ivill have a warfare inside and outside and the labor will bo be very galling for they are directly in opposition one to tile the other cast olt off the yoke of thoo thoe the enemy nemy and put oil on the yoke of christ christo christy and you will say that his yoke is easy and his burden is light this I 1 know by experience go god bless you |