| Show iro ISO OTT I 1 S M OY BY joen JORN TAYLOE elder county wednesday oct oc 19 1881 imar BY my GEO I 1 F I 1 AM pleased to meet with you yon and ana I 1 should have been so the other evening ning when you held your last meeting U but I 1 thought it proper to remain mai among our brethren as they look to ua us for instruction we sent other brethren along but I 1 heard some of the saints fei fel nelt felt a little disappointed because we did not come we feel you are our brethren and sisters and that you are one with us and we are one with you and with all who love righteousness we are endeavoring to build buildup up the zion of our god that we may fill the measure of our creation upon the earth and fulfill fulfil the various duties that devolve upon us and also teach others to do the same it is for this reason that we travel around among the people and there are a great rn miny iny people to see now in a abort time hence we shall have traveled all through the territory visiting almost all the settlements we are building up zion and zion is not confined to our prominent cities but includes all the cities of the saints and we are desirous that ail all should become acquainted with the principles which god has revealed for the guidance benefit blessing and salvation of his people upon the earth these are our feelings towards you and towards all the saints and then we have not any bad feelings towards others although the world generally are opposed to us you have a beautiful valley here sud and have facilities for a large settlement and the water perhaps if properly managed would not be ma malad d or sickly zion is growing and the lord has said it should and it will continue to grow and it it is for us to grow with it to grow in intelligence virtue and purity aud in the knowledge of correct principles ourselves and then to tents 11 1 h tp tn n cuate cultivate a t these vir virtues e jn n our own homes and in our little settlements and to have all surroundings our surround ings such euch as god angels and all good men would approve that our daughters may grow up virtuous pure and happy that our young men may abstain from licentiousness fron from wrong actions and from wrong speaking that we ourselves may set pet our children a correct pattern reverence ing the lord our god and acknowledging nis hla hand in all things lings in the blessings we receive from him in the food we have to eat the raiment we have to wear and every temporal blessing that is conferred upon us for all that we receive and enjoy comes from him and we are told that with none is the lord angry except those that do not acknowledge knowledge his hand in all things seek for his blessing upon every thing you yon engage in if you have a farm dedicate it to god and pray that his blessing may be upon it if you yon build a house dedicate it to goe gorf also your garden your cattle and beep heep and ali nii that you possess and pray that his blessing may rest upon you and upon everything that pertains Irta ins to you I 1 am told you have bave had rather severe times that you have been a good deal afflicted with grasshoppers and other things and that for a number of years you cave have had short crops that in fact you have dave not been able to raise sufficient wheat to bread your settlement well weil while this ia Is so we must bear in mind that you here are not the only ones who have thus been aMIc anic afflicted ted I 1 am told that thit the tb e crops throughout our territory are far better than the general cro crop P throughout the united states the destructive insects and elements that you have had to struggle against begin to appear in other regions afflicting the people of other places as they have you god has given unto us a land but there are houses to build farms to open fences to make our wants to be provided for our animals to be taken care ewe of etc all these are necessaries ces ees saries sarles that seem to crowd them belv selves es upon us bishop hunter says children never come into the world worl d with shoes and stockings on no nor clothes either and if they did their clothes would soon be too small 31 for them we have to try to make mahe provision for the wants of our families and to make them comfortable for table tabie the difficulties that you have to contend with we have ex perlen perien ced and as far as difficulties aie ale concerned none of us carefree are free from them men of N wealth eaith among us as elsewhere who command their tens and hundreds of thousands a who have their every want bup sup supplied if d have more anxiety care and perplexity than many of you who have to struggle for a comfortable living and if you were placed in their position you would be e it great deal more uneasy than you are now we do not realize these things but they are given unto us for our experience experiences and we should lear nto understand and appreciate pre preel preci clate ate the position we occupy here upon the earth there is quite a fine opportunity now for men good men pure and virtuous men mien and woren to raise up a goodly seed A bishop has a good chance also his counselors and those that are associated with him and be should seek to gather around him the most honorable chaste and virtuous meny ment men and endeavor to elevate those over whom be presides and as things progress get better houses and better gardens ardene i and surroundings in keeping with them and upon everything we do we need the blessing of the almighty and we need to put our trust in him if for instance I 1 was living here and was raising a family the first thing that I 1 should do would be to dedicate myself and my family my house and garden my ruy land my cattle and everything I 1 possessed to god and ask his blessi blessing Dg upon them then every morning when I 1 kneel down to supplicate his blessing up on me and mine during the day to preserve us from evil influences accidents and dangers and to otherwise bless our labors in obtaining a livelihood and then I 1 would pray for those who presided over me ma in the priesthood joseph smith upwards of 40 years ago paid eald to me brother taylor you have received the noly holy ghost now follow the influence of that spirit and it will lead yo into all truth until by and by it will become in you a principle of revelation then he told me never to arise in the morning without bowing before the lord and dedicating myself to him during that day somme borne people treat these ihl is lightly I 1 do not because I 1 know wl that two TOO a durrive our food eur raiment and all earthly as wen welt as am spirl spiritual f ual bles blee blessings sings from the goodness of god our heavenly father I 1 know further val vai aa a deul or thib this church I 1 should not know how to dictate if the lord iid ild lid did not help me should I 1 desire people to yield to my ideas I 1 have no ideas only as god gives them to me neither should you some people are very nersis tent in having their own way and carrying out their own peculiar theories I 1 have no thoughts of that kind but I 1 have a desire when any thing comes along to learn the will of god and then to do it and to teach my brethren to do it that we may all grow up into arist christ our living head that we my may be acquainted quain ted with correct principles and govern ourselves accordingly and if we have air trials why we are all tried you see people well off such as I 1 have referred to they have just as many trials as you have they may have nice hoi houses free isee and have at their command many comforts but what of that such things alone do not make people happy it is a mistaken notion that wealth makes people happy cattle sheep houses possessions would not brine bring you happiness the scriptures tell us that he that hath bath eternal ilfe life is rich and the torf torl has bas told us to seek after the riches of eternal life we are here occupying a peculiar position theford the biord has cai cal callenus called ledus us from the nations of the earth and he has restored to us the everlasting gospel and that gospel is bacu to elevate us in time and throughout eternity jesus in speaking to hib his disciple them thern his sheep and in praying to the father in their behalf he baid said eaid thine they were and T tilou h ou gaves davest t them me I 1 pray not for the world but for them which thou hast given U ven me for they areT are thine bine holy father keep through thine own name those whom thou tilou hast given me that they may be one as we are that there may be nothing but harmony and peace and the spirit of the lord the spirit of intelligence telli gence dwelling in pil all that all may feel to promote one others an welfare and all try to enhance the happiness of the whole that Is how our heavenly father feels towards us through some remarks already made I 1 am reminded of my hood bood at that early period of my life I 1 learned to approach god goil dittly many a time I 1 have gone into the fields and concealing myself bahi behind nd pome some bush would bow before the lord and call upon him to guide and direct me and aud he heard my prayer at times get other boys boss eraser trayer ors to accompany me it would not hurt you boys and girls to call upon the lord in your secret places as I 1 did that was the spirit that I 1 bad lad when a little boy and god goil has led me from one thing to another but I 1 did not have the leges that you have there was nobody to teach me while you have access to good men at any time who can d direct you in the way of life and palpation sai eal but my cirit was dawn drawn out after god then and I 1 feel the same yet we are here as latte r day saints what would you do I 1 would try as much as circumstances would permit without laboring too hardy hard to make comfortable house houses to make good orchards I 1 would endeavor to make my family comfortable and would try to promote their welfare have you a school here answer yes F sir bir have you a good te teacher auber nuber fans ans A pretty good teacher well then I 1 would educate my children the teacher should be a man or woman who fears god who not only teaches grammar and the common branches of education but the atin caples of the gospel as well that our children may grow up in the fear of god and then if I 1 were the head of a house I 1 should consider it not only a duty but a great pleasure to call my family together and pray with them morning aud and evening and to pray for them and to teach hem bern to cherish this feeling and spirit do you think I 1 would ever want them to hear me roe swear oh biow itow low ashamed I 1 should be if it my children or my wives or any of my good brethren were to hear bear me swear that would be setting a very bad example while we as parents are required to set good exum pies to our children and to all men and then we ought to be honest with one another we should be truthful and never prevaricate patents be truthful let your children have confidence in your word so that if it father or n other says any thing they might says pay if father falber fa ther or mother bays pays such and such a thing t knowin is right debau ocher other or mother paid it and they new never r prevaricate vari cate or fell a falsehood that thal la 1110 buc it we want to cultivate among ourselves auli aull with our families and again we want to be cleanly in 0 our pr por our houses and in everything and mothers you ought to cult katein your hearts the spirit of peace you ought to be like angels of god full of every virtue and the father ought to treat thu mother acht ight has she her infirmities yes and so has he be what would you do un der such circumstances would you bear with her yes of course and love her and do everything I 1 could to promote her happiness and instead of trying to perplex and annoy her I 1 would bear with her in the spirit of love and kind hind kindliness liness linese and cultivate that everywhere and andun on the other hand I 1 would say pay to the sisters slaters treat your husbands right and make their homes home pleasant Is there anything they would like to eat try to prepare it for them nd make your homes joyous and let your children see that you love one another that they may grow up with the same feeling aud and be led from principle to honor their father fattier and mother these are the kind of fe feelings eliDgA that will elevate us and we will try to educate and elevate tle the indians around us and when they become educated we will send them out to preach the gospel among their own people as we wid have done among our race oh if we could comprehend the glory the intelligence telli gence the power the majesty and dominion ot our heavenly fa therl if we could contemplate the exaltation the glory the happiness that awaits the righteous the pure and the virtuous aik of those that fear feat god even the saints of the most hiebl highl if we could comprehend the great blessings that god has in store for those people that fear him and observe his laws and keep his hia eom corn mand menti we shoula should feel very different from what re we do but then we do not the lod has brought us from among the different nations that wo may be educated in be the things of the kingdom of god hellas he lias ilas conferred ilic tle holy priesthood for that purpose Andt and the hever heyer ver yer organizations that we stakes and wards with their presidency and bishops high councils high priests seventies elders priests teachers and deacons etc ar am placed in the church by the almighty to educate uld nid elevate us and we arg are going around today to danylec day lecturing on the principles piea plea of education education in what in everything in our morais morale in our social position in our religion in everything pertaining to time and to eternity eo so that we may be happy in m our families that wo we may prosper in our enterprises and operate together and have the confidence of one another and do away with everything that is wrong and dwell together in lov iov eland cLand peace according to the gospel of tile son of god this is the kind bind of feeling we want to be educated in and we want to start with it first in ourselves As fathers nd ind as mothers we want to do right and as children we must do right if they will not as parents we will set let them good exam example les ies and be kind to them and lead alem them as well as we can in the paths of life that is the spirit that dwells in our heavenly father we want to follow after him and cultivate these principles in our bosoms and in our hearts for this reason we have various organizations in our midst we have our bishope Q and it is their duty to look after their wards and see eee that everything is moving along right that exi evi everybody ia is doing right and if there be any poor or sick tofeek after them and relieve them and then to enlist the sympathies of the brethren and sis sia terp tore that they may also feel after them then we haye have haymour our mutual improvement associations have you got one answer yes sir bir what are they for to instruct the rising youth this is another branch of our education our sisters too in their relief societies are doing a good work continue in it our sisters know a great de 1 I 1 better how to sympathize with their sex than the brethren they can better enter into their feelings carry on this work this is another part of our education and referring again to our young peoples improvement associations how much I 1 should have enjoyed such privileges when wilen I 1 was a boy but I 1 had bad no such opportunity port unity I 1 had bad no Pries tuo d to teach me you have privileges young men and young women that we older faiks had not and this spirit and feeling of improvement Is is not confined to one or two places it ia lor a u v vi auk mul a kumi gum the young is being done throughout the dwellings of tile saints ani the 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