Show DISCOURSE BY president ORSON HYDE DELIVERED an b the new tabernacle salt sall lake cita sunday morning oct ath 1873 REPORTED KY DAVID IV EVANS As THIS days services may be considered introductory to our conference ence euce which will commence tomorrow I 1 have hake been requested to make a few new remarks I 1 cannot sayche say bay ther then they will be few or many hut iet let lit this be as the good spirit of the lord will I 1 am very happy to meet with my brethren in salt lake city and from the tile adjoining settlements and I 1 presume ere our conference shall come to a clo elo seail the branches of zion throughout the territory will be duly represented here I 1 have come from a point about one hundred and forty miles southeast of here the people of my immediate field of labor I 1 am pie pleased ased to say are healthy there is some little sickness among our children and some or of them have been called away but as a general thing among the adult population there is good health we have llad a pecullar peculiar season yet very passable cro crops as and a most beautiful time to gather gather them tin this s year so far we have had peace with the indians for the first thrle tune for quite a number of years and I 1 do assure you that it is a relief to us the Indian shad ahad an ali idea that they could do with us as i teemed ceded them good prey upon our substance bUb stance and murder our men wo women and children whenever they felt like it and the military of the government would wink at it because e they thought the government wanted to get rid of us anyhow they seemed to entertain little fear with regard to the tile consequences of the crimes which they tiley committed among us but last year when general ibi INI morrow orrow anda few companies stationed here at camp douglas came and paid us a visit it rather led the I 1 indians to think that it was not altogether as they had considered it and though there was no fighting done from the fact that the indians retreated and hid themselves yet the presence of the soldiers was a protection to us while ae we gathered the most abundant harvest that ever crowned the labors of our people in that section and it was a very good thing and tile the indians begin to think perhaps that the soldiers would chastise them if they did not behave well but from tile tilo sudden and unexpected recall of the I 1 troops from our county and the apparently unwillingness of the government to grant us any com sensation pensa tion for years of military service rendered in the defence of our settlements in which time nearly one hundred of our men women and children were mercilessly slain by the red skins besides hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock driven off by them some of our people were foolish enough to think that the indians were more than half right in their views be this as it may it is all in a lifetime and will come out rig hight right ht in the end I 1 feel thankful that we have had peace with the red men and that no particular depredations have been committed by them since with the exception of a dozen or twenty horses which they have stolen we are not mining in Sail sall sanpete pete county I 1 do not know whether wilether there are any mines there or not we do not trouble ourselves a great dea labout that and consequently we are not afflicted with people who will dabble with mining some of whom when appointed disappointed dL will resort to stealing and other crimes we have not that class amongst usand I 1 am glad of it yet the more men who come amongst us with good and honest hearts the better it matters little whether they are jews or gentiles if they possess honest hearts we weare are apt to convert them and br bring jing them into the church that has been the case up to the present resent time and the consequence Is there are very few outsiders bere there the operative cooperative co stores established in incur our various settlements are agrest blessing to us they bring whatever we want right to our doors and although the dividends are not very great in favor of the took glock holders the benefits resulting from tile the establishment of these institutions aal ord us ample remuneration cerati ne on for the advance of the capital necessary to commence eom mence menco ness nesa we vve do not increase rapidly in Iii wealth but we lwe ipe increase roase rease a little all the time especially when the indians let our stock alone our operative cooperative co institutions are doing a very safe and good ba business siness ido I 1 do not think that any of them in san pete county are very much in debt to the parent institution in this city I 1 have cautioned them against it and advised them to pay fairly and squarely and not to trust their goods out but to do a clos esafe and secure business that every person may be accommodated with what he wants aud if they should not happen to have what we need in every store at the time they will kindly bring us whatever we send for especially ally when we give them the money to operate with this is all that we call can expect our books are open and have never been closed against the admission of capital stock is for sale in every institution in sanpete pete County from twenty nive live cents and upwards and our little boys and girls taking advantage of the opportunity thus presented put in two bits once in a while and by and bye it gets up to five live seven eight or ten tell dollars and they can get a share and there is quite all an effectual door open for our youn youngsters to begin and show their faiia financial cial elal ability thisina this is a blessin blessing gand and an accommodation to the people well brethren and sisters I 1 will say nothing further about the part of the ilie country from which I 1 came but I 1 will make a few remarks upon the idea of our being a peculiar people you know that we are regarded as such and if welock we look upon ourselves from a proper point of view we shall readily admit that in this respect outsiders outsider 8 have given us all an appropriate name for we are a ape pecullar peculiar pecullar people whom god has chosen to serve and lionor honor him but the form of government of this people a great many have lave taken serious exceptions to they think that one man is armed with too much power and sways all an influence over so many that it becomes a dangerous power and should be suppressed I 1 was reading a few weeks ago a statement made by a reverend gen an tieman living jiving in provo and tile the most serious thing he had to complain of and lie he complained of a great miny many things was the one man mau manpower power which exists and is tolerated and sustained ill in utah I 1 wish to speak a few words in relation to the one man power and in the first place awill I 1 will say that it is what every aspirant politician and statesman labors to acquire I 1 do believe that mr grant as good a man and as brave a soldier as lie he is if he could get the hearts of all tho the people so that they would rally round his ills standard and sustain and uphold him Us it t would bo be the pride and j joy y of his heart but if any man is thwarted in the desires or of his heart in this respect that is no reason why he should oppose others who may be more successful than he in gaining influence over his fellow men all men love money you know more or less hence they are digging hero here in the mines to obtain it I 1 have no ne fault to find or censure to bestow upon them for tills this operation they are anxious to obtain money some only get a little very little while others perhaps make their millions now let me ask should the few who are fortunate and gain their millions be cast out and crushed because of their financial power because they tiley have struck a good lead and have been successful by the many who have gained alried allied only a few dollars or who p perhaps erh I 1 S havekost have lost inte adof gained if 1 then hen this principle is to be lie tolerated in financial matters why not when applied to influence and power in general I 1 read that in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth it seemed to be a kind of one man power that was engaged in the tile very act of rolling creation into existence I 1 do not know how much of democracy or of republicanism there was in the beginning I 1 was not there that I 1 know of or if I 1 was it is so long since that I 1 have forgotten it judging by the accounts we have of matters then the government was a kind of one man naan power and if we look at things as they really are we shall find that sin entered the world and death by sin and that was by one man oli oh that was grievous I 1 that drew a veil of gloom over the face of creation that was one man power by and bye we read of another one man pow r that came along and counted coun tei ked ud this and that was the lord h hom nom arii glory another kind of one man 1 ower now while I 1 compare these things with the pre present selli ord order ler ier of thil things s which exists throughout our world I 1 do not wish to be understood as de depreciating p reo rec lating our own gov ern eminent ment for it is the best earthly earthy government in existence upon the tile face of the earth it was ordained organized and suffered for a wite wie purpose in in god our heavenly father which perhaps I 1 may be able to exhibit to you ere my remarks shall come to a close but be this as the lord will I 1 d do not wish to say one word against our government it 1 is s a good government it answers the times imes and fills a vacuum that perhaps nothing else could but I 1 am looking at matternas matter sas they were from 7 rom the beginning 0 you know jesus when the jews asked liim him about divorce and marriage told them that moses permitted them for certain causes to put away their wives vives but ho lie also told them that it was because or of the hardness of their hearts that moses permitted permitted ermit ted this but that from the beginning Ee ginning beginning it was not so now whether it was because of tile the hardness of mens mend hearts or because of the softness of themi am not going to say suy but I 1 want to show the order of things digs as they were in the tile beginning 1 I and as they emanated from irom the bosom of the almighty that which was first must be last and that which was last must be first a sl similar nil nii lar order of tm rip lip redeemed rescued and brought out tut of chaos and returned to the Fat father fatherty herts hents as they came from him for lie will accept nothing unless it be lie what lie he gave for said the savior every plant that my heavenly father hath bath not planted shail shall be rooted footed up hence he will receive nothing only what ue le gave he gave us immortal IV spirits rits he sent then 4 down here to L be in the flesh and lie he expects that they will return to him and an d they all will in some grade return to him who gave them well the savior of the world came to counteract the acts of the first adam and what was the ira ila nature of the work he had to do why to bring life and immor immortality to light to resurrect the dead am and to implant a hope of eternal life in those who trusted in him and this be it known to you was accomplished plis pils lied by one man power ye roman sold soldiers lers who guard tile the tomb yo ye jews who had a temporary triumph by the tile death of him whom ye crucified know that the angel of god descends the stone is rolled away from the door of the sepulchre the lord of glory rises the dark curtain of death is rolled away and nd gives place to life and immor minor t bality alit allt which d dawn awn upon the world 1 in t the person of the resurrected savior this was produced by one man power said this one mail man in view of the responsibilities that were upon dimand smarting under the pangs that lie he endured father if it be possible let this cup pass from me nevertheless not my will but thine be done why did not that one man power resist the mind of his father and say do you think I 1 am going to lay down my life to bacr sacr sacrifice itice lilee my existence to please you no I 1 have all an independent mind and willand I 1 am resolved to gratify them that would have been in lq accordance with the ideas of our lay day but it did not correspond with the gramme pro of the eternal father and the oba object get of his only begotten son in coming to this world was to accomplish and carry out his part of that pro gramm gramme not my will but thine bo be done this should be the feeling dg of the latter day saints in relation to tile the requirements of heaven upon them not my will but thine thino oil oh god be done if the world reproach you for submission to the will of god refer them to the savior whose motto wag was not my will but bull thine thino be done how much honor and glory does the savior of the world enjoy at tile tiie present time it is beyond the conception of mortal man mail but how much would he have enjoyed and who among us would have had salvation had he faltered in ills his hour of trial and said III 1 I will not submit to this sacrifice despise not this one man power for before I 1 come to a close I 1 shall endeavor to show to you that every son and daughter daug liter ilter of adam will be compelled to bow to it and tile the more they fl night fight lit against it the harder it will be for them to submit to it in the end take it kand of moderately then and look it in its true light now my friends and brethren I 1 want to tell you that our country is is a fe republic public ani and not a desp despotism 0 cism although some say it is rap rapidly idly approaching pro aching to that I 1 cannot tell how that is I 1 am not much of a politician an and d do not give myself fa a great deal of concern about it but I 1 comfort myself with the idea that the lord rules any howand that lie he will in time things as he designs to have theland the mand hence hencel I 1 take little interest in politics but one thing I 1 will say that is that when the government of the united states although it is republican lias has any very task to perform in which the interests of the country are largely at stake it casts off republicanism and adopts despotism perhaps you may think that is slander but I 1 will suppose a case to illustrate ane truth of my proposition for instance the fate of tile the nation is suspended upon an important battle about tobel to be tough lough 0 t now what kind of a government prevails in that army the most vital consequences hang upon tile tilo issue of the battle and that issue depends toa to a very great the orders of the commanding general eral being carried out he issues ills liis orders and ills liis subalterns subal terns are required to carry them out rigidly tile the soldiers who wilo constitute the army must submit in every respect they have llave not the right by virtue of their own opinion to file offard off and deviate in the least degree from tile tiie orders of the commander the same is true of the subaltern officers and if any of them should adopt such a course they are subject to be tried by court martial and possibly to be executed where is all the tho republicanism or democracy in this I 1 tell you that when it comes to a vital point republicanism liea ilea 11 ism lias has to be laid aside and the tile one man power has to be strictly obeyed go if you yon please on board the ships of war of the United states and what kind or of government will you find there there again 11 the tile one oue man power is absolute I 1 recollect reading an anecdote of general jackson when defending new 0 orleans a against ainest the british ile he put ut the city under martial law and in so BO doing some ald said a he be exceeded the bounds of his authority t tho rity I 1 can not say whether de didor did nr not I 1 do not care whether he be did or not any way he lle saved the city and |