Show D 1 I S sic C 0 URSE URS U R sie E i j PRESIDENT tiby thuy atin atil DELIVER dellver X I 1 1 in ghe the lake i city sunday ade nde jaco jacw ay rd 1874 ur P Y davry W IV EVANS IT is rief lief nearly irly ta time me to close this effit meeting but hut I 1 desire to speak a few fi ew w words t s I 1 have very much thal that I 1 v ih h to t coave convey v to the latter day aln ain tf but I 1 lean ican ean can only say bay in A as few words as ia possible a littlest litt uit lert leat ie at a t t timey y upon P a tew subjects which I 1 wish r I 1 L t to 0 1 lay a y b bedore before i i fo ra the t t w 8 a 1 1 t s V firsty i r i t lp I 1 upon daysun dayrun saints ta the inquiry wry iry within myself jb ib do you sou du know whether I 1 am leading auf que yut xui right richt or lor not do you know whether bethe r I 1 dictate you right or not biot do you know whether tile the wisdom mind of the tile lord are dis penned p nel nei to 3 you ou correctly or or not thesa rile e are questions question which ivsich I 1 will answer by quoting a little scripture sculpture and ad tny saying eli 1 g to the latter day saints w 0 a vai t aid nid tu to t lie lle gal gai u ts I 1 if for fur fo mer anek times timen no man mail the thin of boef god but by the tho spirit of 0 god illat billat was said in lii the day of the savior and the apdale and etwas it was no more true truo then than it I 1 ia now or tn it was in the d days daya YR of the prophets moses abraham noah noab enoch adam or in any and and every age odthe world it requires the tiie same manifestations in one age as in another to enable men to tin lin un der stand tile the thing things q or of god I 1 have a request to mal mai make mawe of each and ind ever every y L latter atter day saint or those who pro feass to be to lo so live that the spirit of the lord will wh whisper isper to te them arid and teach them the truth and de find to their understanding the difference between truth anti and error arror light and dark darkness new the things of god and bho bhe things that amnot of god in this there is safety with w ith out this there is danger imminent danger dauger and my exhortation to the latten latter day saints is live your religion rell 0 lon ion among all intelligent intelli gt ht beings bel bei upon the earth theio js Is a great mistake in regard to dispels dispensing lil lii 9 to others the knowledge they possess in the political world night right there herm and through our government and rind other governments there is a great denire delire delre daire in iti each and arld every one who is prominent and influential ab to manage m guage 11 eln ein political M and with their frien friends dg and to 1 deop eap their enemies from knowing anything about them which creates creasea a party feeling and parties promote d distrust istra A and jealousy which lead to discord and such is also the case IH itt tile the financial world in our trading ig and trafficking we wish to confine connine the knowledge of our business in as small a limit as possible po sible I 1 that others may not know what we are doing lest we should lose iose our good bargains and fall fail in our schemes it is more or less the same in the religious world we wish to know a great deal and do not want our neighbors to know as much as we do but wish them to believe that we know it all this tr trait altof of character is very common hoth both here and through the whole world worlds we all ali wish to know som gom something ething that taht our neighbors i do not know with selen scientific men you will often nind find the same trait of character my bly studies euid my cesear researches clie elle k are arb bo be yond those of my neighbors know more than they know I 1 treasure tie asure this up to myshir abid and 1 am looked upon u of n as a a superior being and that d delightsome g h tg m e I 1 say tv to the latter day saints and to all the world this is all ali gromi wrong we are here heie upon ibis this earth oarth as the children of our heavenly father who is 14 filled with light and intelligent ef sand land he dispenses that to his bis children as they can receive nik and profit by it without rilon money mones eyad esad aad without price Is not noc fin fid this ild s a tactic it is go got tp every evers department of life im to tile the mechanics to tho the manufacturers to thoe those learned in all the argand arts and sciences throughout the world and not one of them possesses an item of knowl knowledge edgo br wisdom but what hat bat has come frold from god the fountain of all and knowledge thie the idea that the religion or of christ is one thing and science is another is a mistaken idea for there is no true religion without true science ea 1 I ence and consequently 3 there is no ho true science without trpe religion the fountain or of knowledge dwelis dwells with god and ile he dispenses it to his ris hi children as he please pleasey pie issey 4 and a as they are ed cd to receive ity it consequently it swai swallows fow ti up and circumscribes all hi this is lis the klat great plan pian of df salvation 1 this is the bugaboo that the christian world hoot at atso so much and which they call 12 Monnon ism le it is ill the gospel of life ilfe aad and salvation Conn dence is lost iose in ifie the hearts of the tile nations of the earth confidence is lost one towards another among the tilo religious sects keets y of fht iho lay idy confidence is 10 lost st in the scientific and mechanical world ip p pie lle ile financial and in the political world and aillia it must be restored restated I 1 make moe tul this statement and there is not a K scientist or lor divine on llie the emrih borth wb who 0 can ean truthfully it there thre li ii i i a siek sieh gr cat eat deit deat wing said and rumored aboa abou t what 0 we o are teaching the people a athe the present time with regard 0 o bellg being one in our temporal affairs as we are aro one in the doctrine r ine lne abat we ye have llave em em braced for our oun alvahn alv aon I 1 will sar say hat erroneous traditions at once begins to why we have rede received ived ivea these traditions dit ions th thise tse ise who reflect r fleca lead ead and understand can pass their their own decision you can call not finda sect anywhere that strictly believes in lil tile the New Testa ment lead lend over the savings or of the savior to his lils besci ples pies those of the disciples stio trio ne to another and of the people with regard to being one and then bring up the fact oatt that they believed in this doe dot doctrine trine and that they taught and practiced ed it so farahat far thal that the believers sold their possessions sess sessions lons ions and laid the proceeds at bojc tyle apostles feet wow kow what is the thew on this point to sell your our houses house 0 your farms oaring younst ores oreg your cattle and bring the means and lay it down at alb the feet of the apostles and then live eat drank and wear until it is all gone and then what do without yes or be beggars our bils blis lead us to this point and that throws us into a dilemma out of which we k know ow not how to extricate ourselves be to the saints I 1 sa say bay all this is a mistake these are false conclusions I 1 albere am here hero to td tell you how things are ire and arid as far wj as necessary to tell you how they were and then to tell tel lyou you how they thoy should d be and und ho how t they 11 ey wi will 11 be to beg begin with wo we will labor to sustain dr god upon the te i earth shall khall we sei sel bellour sell seil lour our possessions n s have all things in common live upon the means until it is gonrand gone and then be beg 9 tili through ough th the e count country ryNo jo no sell nothing of our gur posses lu h monr rona true the earth Is ii at present lri iri n possession of the great enemy of he the savior but lie he does not own a fostof oot of it beneve he never did but he has possession of it and they say eny that possession is nine ning points 0 the law and it scenic to be 1 so 0 1 well weil if I 1 have lave a foot soot or of land laud ablat that thab I 1 have dedicated arid arld devoted to my hea heavenly heavenly venly fenly ieather eather for his lils kingdom on the earth I 1 never dispose of that I 1 have owned a great deal of land and nind I 1 now own a great deal of land in the united states and I 1 have ne heryet solda foot of A it I 1 say to the latter day saints keep your land dedicate it to it in tru thin bin hin purity in hol bol pray that the spirit of the drood brood i over it that wha whoever ever walks over that landvay land may may mav feel the thib influence 0 that spirit pray that the spirit orf the thel lord inay may cover our possessions then gather around u us the necessaries qt ilde life di dispose dispo e of nothing that we keep but continue to labor praying the lord to bless the soil the atmosphere and the water then we i have our crops our fruit bui bul our flocks flecks and herds berds to live upon to improve upon arid then go oil dlf and make our clothing build houses improve our streets street our cities and all our surroundings and make them beautiful beau beautify every place with the workmanship or of our own hands keep what is 18 necessary dispose of what we may hive have to dispose of to whom to those who are operating in our mines to develop the tiie in our mountain sand to io all who ho have need by such sueh a course tho iho wasting of oui our substance as achas has been too touch the theu case dase will be stopped and when we labor iet let our labor count something sorn sord ething for our benefit W wp ask concerning goncer ning the nhe rich do we want your gold dold and your our A silver sliver liv er ab nb N 0 o we jo do not do we mant want 7 your yo u r houses and it land lids we do not what do we want we want obedience to the requirements of wisdom to td direct the labors of every mar man i and every eveny evry evory waman woman in this kingdom to best possible advantage that we may feed and clot ciot clothe he our ourselves elves build libold our houses ind and gather rather around lis us the tha eom comforts forti of life ilme without wasting so much muth ti lime ilme e mean and energy and AndIn instead of saying that I 1 shall shail keive MY carriage i for foi the ride ilde in we will dire dite direct ct the ko poor lor so that every man may have his hib ls c carnage it if lidwill he ile will be obedient to the of the almighty every family will have all that they uley can reasonably reasonably defre delie when we keatir and practise ise lae fair dealing ainali 1111 ofir our intercourse and transactions thep confidence now no so far lost but so eo much bo be restored rind and we will be enable enabled d to effectually carry carrr out our opera friendly and profitable pro Stable operation cooperation co of money and labor llor now 0 o generally and so injuriously antagonistic Antagonist it it has been said sald that a new few evenings ag ago in tha theoph ward 1 1 I made thade tise ylse of the expression that the cooperative ope rammie raffie stores would be used edu up p or spoiled polled if I 1 did use such tuch an expression P it t must have been in connection with ith others to qualify it the question was asked what I 1 are you going tollo to do with theeo the cooperative stores why why use them up 21 and some of the brethren got dot the idea that the destruction of these those stores was intended because to many the idea of using a thing up Is to destroy it but this was not the meaning I 1 wished to tor convey but buti I 1 sAy bay swallow them up or circumscribe them or incorporate them from time to time tlde in in more exten extensive sive alve operative cooperative co plans Byway by way ore of comparison 0 sup eup pose a rope with wi seven strands and some one is suspicious of its and we add a thousand strands to it who then can ru speet respect its strength sow yow d comp imp annig anrig our present mercantile 10 and iid lid stock rals rais ing institutions our gur fae fac factories tories aud everything else eise wo we have in cooperation instead of weakening th this Is cord or of seven sevan strands we throw around it a thousand other strai strands ids and weave them in to strengthen it 14 not the first gord cord d swallowed up yos yoi it itis Is in one sense used up we cannot see tee anything of it iff I 1 and so wo we shall make mauo our addition of adida addda of strand straud to avdi ry co opel operative dative institution established lisl ltd led and 1 instead of ha having inga ing a few of the people sustain this parent r operative cooperative co store 0 or r the ward store we will haver have the support t of the whole people that is the difference can you understand it ilow elow careful we nwe should belh be in the uye use use ot t language to Tf prevent event bojar so oar far as possible the drawing of e conclusions and the going abroad of erroneous impressions impress lon ion ions jon this is 1 im to ourt burr operative cooperative co stores storey and every operative cooperative co institution we have we expect that the whole people will support them and give them their influence that the whole people will work for the whole and that all will he be for the kingdom of god on the earth all that I 1 have is in that kingdom I 1 have nothing only what the lord has put in my possession it is his I 1 am his and all I 1 ask is for him to tell me what to do with mr my time may talents and the means mens that chat lie he doted puts ats in my possession it is to fo be devoted to his kingdom let every other man and woman do the same and all the surplus we make is wone intone mone great amount mr nor purposes of the lord he says bays 1 I will make boti the richest people on the earth eurth now go go to work latter day saint and make yourselves one and all nee needed blessings will follow I 1 will now nov briefly notice A trait in tho the christian world in regard to their thein continually rui rul depre enting us which they most emphatically do f wherever we go they misrepresent Us u they do not stop to reason or for the introduction of good sound loo log logic le they do not stop stog ta know their own minds and to ask mk themselves questions with regard to facts mg as they exist but are wholly uninfluenced hy I 1 y their erroneous erroneous traditions we christians are divided and subdivided divided but we all believe that there are good people among all the sects of the day As a bor Mor mormon mon mou or lat berday r believe this just as much as any sectarian believe belleve 4 it but I 1 do not believe it a as the secta rians believe it wo we nil nii believe that good people do live and have lived t among the Christ christgau lau lan sects seem says sayi eMy on enemy anly father was a good mau man or my mother or my sister was waa a good woman my brother was a good man my neighbor was a good person they lived and died believing in their several faiths some of them holy catholics who died shouting and rejoicing dug jug that the time had come for them to be released from this tenement of clay others were good protestants and they rejoiced and were exceeding 1 giad glad when the time came for them to lie down and rest their weary bodies and they were happy now I 1 speaking ai a one ond ot of the tha christian world when a man says to me unless you are born of the water and of the spirit you can not enter the kingdom of heaven 22 reply my dear friendly friend my father and my as good christians fians s as ever lived on the faeo fado or of the earth and tily til thy y died as happy hap py as they could could be and their souls were full of glory tell me that they have not gone to he heavenly averil it is all nonsense nonsense it is dolfy I 1 do not nob believe a word of it you must bo be one of those dec deceivers elvers eivers that the aa tsa vior taught should come in the latter 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