| Show DISCOURSE by y eider elder JOJI TA taynor YZ OR delivered in the dard ward tita tinaa d assembly glooms salt aare aate lake labe city sunday evening january 1873 ry BY D AV V EVANS evask IT WAS announced this afternoon that thai tha I 1 should speak here this evening brother george Q cannon is here however or will bo be I 1 expect and when lie comnes corner I 1 would much sooner fr listen to him t lian than speak my elf telf t and I 1 presume you would also therefore when lie shall be ceased pleased to give way ii ay that you may laie have the pleasure of listening to him blin he is only here today to day and will be going away again azain I 1 am here frequently I 1 always take plea piea pleasure suro sure in ili speak i indof of the things pertaining to the kingdom of goa god to my fellow follow men meu and wid especially to tio the saints afee I 1 feel that my lot is ider idea identified tilled with theirs and I 1 expect to bo associated with sith them not only in time butali butari but in all eternity the gospel that we ave have received lias has unfolded unto us principles pertaining g to denial aito jito that wo we were entirely ignorant of heretofore it has put us in pos of certainty in relation to tile the future and wo iro always have confidence do ho long as aa we am are keeping limping the commandments of god wo we know for ourselves of the truth of the doctrines that we believe in because having obeyed tile tilo gospel tha spirit which in scripture is called the gift girt of tile tho holy ghost most has been imparted unto usand us and aud that spirit does cima in the latter days just ab as it did in former days itu it unfolds the things of god to those who receive it and reveals to them the tilo relations they hold to each other and to god and hi church and kingdom not only in this ufa life but in that which is is to come for wo iro have entered into eternal the covenants which men enter into genera generally ily lly are arc of a transitory nature arld and pertain only to time and when time ceases ceas with them these obligations terminate our covenants however are of df another character we enter into eternal covenants avith god to forve serve him faithfully here on the earth and then we expect to be ho associated socia focia ted with him in the heavens leavens having entered into covenants of this kind wo we feel that there are certain responsibilities and obligations resting upon us which it is our bounden duty to perform and arid consider that there arc are certain duties which god has laid upon us in relation to ourselves to those wiio wilo have exi exl existed ted bcd before us and to those wilo shall come after us 14 our religion is not something in in which wo alone are personally concerned but the moment people a are aro DD put in possession of the spirit of god they begin to feel interested about the welfare of others it would bo be a very hard thing tiling for many peo people ae in tills this day to do as the ap apo apostles aties atles did id in former days dilys that is to go without purse or ot scrip trusting in god for their sustenance to preach reach the principles of life to mankind rind tind it has never been considered a hard thing by the elders ciders of this tills church to pursue that course inspired 1 1 red b by the spirit of god tco tze thoy they y feet feol feel as god feels towards the human family a desire to bies bles comfort and instruct and to tia lead them in the paths of life god places plaes this principle in tho the hearts of his sor servants vant it emanates from him and is part of his hla nature and inasmuch as the elders aro are aieta aleta dictated ted by this spirit in their acts inson insomuch luich do they resemble their heavenly father who ia full of benevolence and arid causes causes his sun aun to rise on the evil and on the tile good and makes bakes the rain to descend on the just and on the tilo unjust and hence whenever vh enever wo ive become acquainted with the principles of life ourselves we wo feel a desire besim to communicate the C shame frame unto 01 others and aud 1 I see those 01 mi all 01 around me here in this assembly who as well roll as my elfi alfi have travelled thousands af miles I 1 have travelled hundreds of thou rand band on the bame game principle as the ancient disciples did trusting in ili god for sustenance while proclaiming the principles of life ilfe to the tilo people do men do not always appreciate this but that makes no dili dill brenco brence the principle is the same god is kind benevolent and merciful cibul to the human family he feeds and clothes them as he does the lilies of the field or the birds ho IM takes care efthem of them but the tho they do not appreciate this thip thousands and liliom of the human family faintly t asai tsai ha hardly adly to 0 o coma comm comprehend hand that god ad hs anything 10 I 1 0 da do i eith th or that mat they are under any responsibilities cespon or obligations obligation i to him still as a father full of kindness rie ric benevolence and love he be feels after tho the human family and lie seeks to I 1 promote t their hel hei r happi happl new nem and weil voi boin bein n he be would favo pave and exalt them in his Is king kingdom dorn dora if they would bo bb obedient d tent unto his laws we lve understand tand this thlu principle rund and therefore are governed and actuated by it and no matter what the thou thoughts 4 and feeling fee linga i of other othen in relation to us we know farou for ourselves aives that god hai s spoken I 1 know for myself if 11 nobody nobody else ow does docs that god lives and I 1 obtained this knowledge through obedience to the gospel that he lie has reveal revealed cel col unto u us s in these last days I 1 know that it is the privilege of all men to have this knowledge if they will obey the gospel and be gov governed orned by IN ita principle principles and hence when I 1 and my brethren have gone gono out to preach the gospel we leave told the people picc proc isely hely tile tiie the same things as wore wom taught in former lingef timer by tho the lord and savior havior jc jesua jesus aws christ he told his diwi dial disciples ples to preach fhe the goabel til eli t to every cm creature acute the promise fosie foste se being that thal lie that believed and wm baptized should be s saved aved but hut ho lie that believed not should be damuel L and ind gai sai dho dhe 11 thee signs feigns shail follow them thein that believe in my name they shall ahall cruit cat out devid devils they shall speak pek with now tongues tongue if they inthey drin drink kany any deadly I 1 thing them thes they s shail laii lay lava hands on oil the lck ick lick and they filial recover 11 they thoy U oui ohi or words receive the holy hols gho ghost ami that spirit would take of the tile things of god and buoie how them unto them I 1 have gone forth and I 1 havo have told the tile people as the did formerly when they have asked tusked me what to do to be saved I 1 have said repent and bo be baptized in the name of josul leus le teus us for the remis jerol remol siou iou ion lon of sins and you vou on shall ret receive olve the holy ghost I 1 what ia h that thac it t is the hamo hame that it was in former times arlt or it is nothing at 11 ill ll it produces the same name results re its as it did in the days when jesus and his apostles were are aro upon the tilo earth or if it is not the holy ghosal it js is not a 6 Iian lian tasy or I 1 am a false teacher that hat is the tile position position that I 1 have assumed al always s wherever cherev i er E have gone the tho there thore i no mincing this matter afelt like moses did ik when ithen hen lie was leading the chil chii children dron droh of israel to the land of canaan as we heard beard brother pratt lai ial talking Lal king about g n afternoon f ter noon the lord said he would not go with closes mosses and tile people because the tiie people wore loui ioui and stiff liec ky but amo moses mosos 0 plead with him saying ah god if thou roes goes boest t no not with us A carry us not up hence and aud ud if I 1 can not have a religion that god iti will 1 sustain with the tip holy ghost I 1 want nothing nothing to do db with it and I 1 will have nothing to do with it feeling these sentiments and principles I 1 have always had co confidence in god I 1 know in choln I 1 have hako believed and understand that god is ls is 14 at the helm leading ci guiding ding controlling and governing the s of ills lils peo pie what is it t that ilat ilas has brought you latter day saints saint her here 0 it I 1 is the principles rincie les ies le s of the gospel Youl you leard heard them hm h m Engla ild iid scotland ireland erlau ld wales wale Fra era erano franco denmark sweden norway germany or dr somo other parts odthe of the earth no ii matter chero you heard them theiu when you did hear you believed beil bull eved them tou you had the bame game teachings that I 1 have poon po cen ien of toda today to dav day A and d I 1 ha have hava ll 11 heard beard ard men inen I 1 in these thebe d different YN erent jangda languages lang dages ea for sendling ending the gospel unto ilem ilem alem liem anid arid for communicate ling in unto them the principles ples pies of eternal truth they know by by the hie same sanio principle that we knew kujik it that the tile erpel winch they y had hai heard was true and arid they could bear testimony to it and it was ill in consequence of this that you saints came here you heard brother pratt talking today to day about the gathering about out the lord tak taking int ing one ofa ora of a eity city and two i 0 of or a family and brin hrin bringing t ing thern them to zion did you come conic herm hero because you considered that this in was inas as a better land no so was it debause because you had friends and associations here 0 o you toft left your youn your fi ft lends and w associations io clatious aap was it because there was 4 something very de desirable for you sou iero hero 0 o etwas it was because god had id dictated it if and because the flip holy gho ghost st ni ilich litch ka 3 you had bad rec received elved planted a a in lit your bosoms to cumo and gongle with your brethren aa az tho beai dip rip turm luro pays says 1 if I will w ill lii ta fake take klo kho kte them teem ono one or olt g a city my and tivo two of a fi nilly family and I 1 will bring them to zion and ana I 1 will rive give them apra pasts aa after my ray own heart peart that dha cha ahall 11 ll f fad ard hern hein ak ath diah ah arh annl adu anu understanding you hardly knew in many instances how pr or why on earth you struggled and toiled tolled and obtained the means mean s to come to taa this tills land your brethren here operated upon by the same fame forth their means to ambit assist zou you vou you and before railroads rall were built here m asman aaman many yra yaa na five hundred teams were sent year after year to the frontiers to bring from there those who were desirous of coming those who scattered ald old eviat they could and those who wio were here hero iia iid did aia what they coulland coul dand the tile result of 0 these those united op operations ls is Is 19 that thousands grids of for you ou are here who kho bouli would not C have hate eive live b been boen 00 n had if it n not 1 A been for this the question then olen arises what are we here lie lle re for 11 oll oh say say some we have a pretty good country here yes but what about the country we we did not come conic herc here after gold or liver silver most of us came lefore that was discovered I 1 came to this city before it was known that there was ivas any gold in california we did not come como nio here it was a beautiful pla pia place eitz nor for when w wo 0 arrived it was ivas inhabited b by digger indians wolves wolven bears imars and aud ad coyotes coy ofes a desolate annd arid plain a howling wilderness wilberne s that was fhe position in which we found the country and aud to gu get here hero wo we iia lip hod d to W make the roads and build the bridges and when we ire got here bore we iid ild lid did not have orchards and vineyards and beautiful pleasant places read ready forus for us we had to to make them we WO had A to roll you up our oun sleeves and take tako our teams aud apil go into the can ean yong you and aud drag down the logs and saw our boards by hand haud 71 I 1 have ave mad man a one out by band hand and george A cannon ims has ass assisted me what NV Ilat fy MY some elome do you ministers saw paw mav m A V yes we ministers saw andi andl would basham ed to ber joral dependent upon anybody but myself for a jiving living I 1 hope that gadwill god will ever pres tryo mp mr tram that and I 1 shall snail feel to my heavenly father if lie will always enable me to obtain I 1 my own 1 remember being over in iri teelie a number of years yearn ago and a party said laid to me mo Bro brothel thel taylor 1 vou ou would come conic here and id preach well mahl rahl ald aldi aidi X 1 am here am I 1 note noty yes yer yes yea but wp ave I 1 would liko like you von to come again said sald I 1 for por perhaps haps 31 jwill when whon 1 jac ge treads tready reads ready 1411 1111 weil weli well eli hut but if jou you will come cortle here we will make j you jou pu ill up something we will get get got you soito chicke chickens nii nil a little flour and somo pork and I 1 id do 0 n nou not A now ill iii 0 nibe r in what hat bat eise eke said 1 1 I am rm very verv much obliged I 1 to you very vers much indeed for your jour proffered pron ered kind kindness lims but bur I 1 always prefer to dig my own potatoes and I 1 would mst mat as soon plant theiu thein as not arid ild tid then tilon dig tirey them these aliese are ire iro my arld arid 1111 0 those of in my b brethren here is brother NN ruff rufi he lie has traveled bu hundreds and annd t thousands b of miles mile t as I 1 hav have c and arid lie he generally digs hi iii 4 pian pw I 1 n lp po tato and lie he knows hom hofto how to plant them and on these points foj for diligent labor J will set him bim against 0 any man in ili this territory Terri lory lors we iid ild did lid not coine come here herp then for anything of that kind hind there were no houses here bere when brothel woodruff and I 1 hirist came carne here and before we had any wo h had iii lii to make them before wo we had bad any ally bardens we ivo lla lia llad d to mal malo mako o them melia ba before there were any flowers wye wyo wo had ad to plant them and we had bad to plant the deeds before any trees grew I 1 have haro got trees in ili my orchard now that grew from EA seeds eds planted by bv my first wife vanch sno sho sho gho brought from t t e east fut F ut when oien olen nien I 1 came carrie carrle hero here people come hero coif now and many oft of them bm say eay 3 you leave a vory very beautiful elt eit city eity herp here ves yes our city is well vell enough androu And you have a very pleasant place and nice streams of water yem but brt we ave had to make the ditches nor for them to tu run in they did not run as they thes now do when wo we first came we ire havo limo bad had to td do everything a th athas been done well what do you gullier together for what is your object 1 just precisely r cl e aliat wl lat the prophet told of or thousands hou of years ago you know that brother rother pratt was talking about bout fleeing aa doves to the tile ain aln windows and whilo I 1 was listening to him I 1 was very much interested and thought we had boen been ful fui tillin the word words of tho the prophets prop hota hote I 1 think thin IN that some fomo f of bf stir our oun folks both young youns voun and old oid homet lilies forget the pt pit whence itcy ites they licy dug and t the 0 whence they ivero ivere and I 1 think they sy spend prid a groat loat foat deal of their i timo in ia noth nath ea e 0 thle 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