Show D J sis S C au H S E t 9 ny 4 mm YOUNG J i IN che tar old oid d Ta bernade sall vaid sa lao nao lako lae city august 31 45 REPORTED DY DAVID W evans MINS BRETHREN and sisters wo we have met here to talk over the principles of our faith and if we say that we are going to be saints and that we are going to live our religion we do not expect to give ourselves the lie to eat our own words and to falsify our characters and our testimonies before god but we expect to live our religion as well as we know how we vve want you who wish to be saints to know that we will do everything la lit our power to help heip you to live so that you will be entitled to and enjoy the revelations of the lord jesus that every man and every woman may know and understand their duty before god pertaining to themselves and what Is required of them elern just as much as your humble servant who is talking to you it is a great privilege to know the mind and will of god and this privilege we enjoy and I 1 wish that all good people of every nation sect and party would so live that they might understand the will of the lord for themselves but in bestowing this upon us the lord requires us to livo live accordingly and ho be has placed us and all people under this obligation it is my duty to know the mind of the lord concerning myself and also aiso also aiso conc cone concerning eming ebing this people and I 1 think I 1 know it just as well as I 1 hu know ow the road home I 1 do not know the path from that door to my own home any botter hotter than I 1 know how to dictate this people if they will only hearken tome to me this is a great blessing and a great eriv privilege elege and if it I 1 were to reject it and take a course to deprive myself of the spirit of revelation according to what the lord has given to me and to magnify the priesthood that I 1 received through his servant joseph I 1 would bo be taken forthwith from this world I 1 would not remain here at all to darken the minds of or to lead astray any of the members of the kingdom of god according to the revelations that I 1 and others of my brethren and sia sla teril teris have received through the prophet joseph and 0 others who have lived upon the earth if I 1 observe my duty I 1 shall have the privilege of living and enjoying the society of my brethren and sisters and of instructing them but let me neglect this and I 1 shall be removed out of my place forthwith how now it is no more my duty to live so as to know the mind and will of the lord than it is the duty of my brethren the rest of the twelve I 1 F say bay y the rest relt re st it of the twelve because I 1 am the president of the quorum of the twelve apostles on th the e earth and the only one that the lord has hag ever acknowledged knowledg ed it is true truo that thomas B marsh mansh was once president but the lord never acknowledged ea any man by revelation as pr president eident of that quorum but myself at the death of joseph I 1 stepped out from that position in the advance according to the organization of the church dortho for tho the sake of preserving the flock of god but not according to my wishes nor the desire of my heart but it was my ray duty when I 1 heard of the prophets death I 1 sail what will become of the people what will the saints do now nour that the prophet has gone etwas it was my whole desire to preserve the sheep of the flock of god and it is so to today day brother kimball also stepped into the first presidency and wo we called others and ordained them to take our place for the time being that the church might be fully organized and we expect to ordain oriale more when we feel like it but because a man is ordained an apostle it does not prove that he belongs to the quorum of the apostles I 1 just mention this that you may understand it as now ow in lu regard to the tho twelve apostles it is their Impe imperative nativo duty to live co tso that they will ic know now the mind and anil will of the lord lora concerning them in the discharge of their duties as a quorum and also as individual and they are under j mt the barme earno obligations to live so as to leil 1011 enjoy 07 the spirit of reve revelation that I 1 am and so it is with with the seventies am tb high priests the elders eiders and bifid the bishops it lial the imperative duty of a bishop called to preside over a ward to live BO so that he will know the mind and will of god concerning his ins just a as much as a I 1 do concerning this people butchen but nut when bishops say they are willing to do as brother brigham BrIg llam liam says bays and that 1 is othro the tho end of their researches to know khaw the mind and addil will of the lord they will always be making mistakes al ways doing something that they will regret they will neglect their duty here and there and when they make a move it will not bo be right unless mother brigham is there to tell teli them the tho words they should shy siy say bay and the acts they should perform and hence the necessity of them jiving living day by day so that they will khoh know khoi the mind and will of the lord lurd for fon themselves and so you may follow on through every quorum there is in the church not riot on only y seventies high priests elders and B bishops ih opsy but also the priests teachers and deacons beacons who administer administer to the people in going from house to house it is their duty deity to live so that they know and understand the mind and will of the lord con corning the people to whom they ly administer as much as hs it is mine to know the mind i and will of the lord concerning the entire people and it is the dufy duty of every father and mother to 11 live ve so fco that they may have bave the mind and aud will vill of the lord concerning concern trig their thein duties to their families if they are hot laut called to exercise the pries priesthood which they hold md moro more than to administer to their thein children f yit it is their duty to live so as to know how to teach lea iea lead d and advise their children an and d if they are disposed they may have it aap the privilege for it is gods iii mind nd and will that they should know just what to do for them when they alesick are sick instead of calling for a doctor you should administer to them by the laying or on of hands handa and anointing with oil and give them thein mild food and herbs and medicines that you understand and if you want the mind and will of god at su ch a time get it it is ji Listas as much your privilege as of any ay other member of the church and kingdom of god it is your privilege and duty to live so that you know when the word of the lord Lordis is spoken to you and when the mind of the lord is revealed to you I 1 say it is your live BO so as to know and undergrad under understand siad giAd all these things suppose 1 I are gre were to teach you a false doctrine doctrin liow ilow how freyou are vou you it if you do not possess the spirit splint of god As 99 it Is id written I 1 vr itten I 1 the things of god know e eth th no man blaby but by the spirit of god godo ll 11 now I 1 want to say cay a few words to the tha sisters cra though I 1 will eay say that I 1 do hot not seel feel the least like chastising elther eithe rany riny my brethren or iny toy sista bisters rs this morning I 1 feel kind and arid I 1 do not want to eay any lords words to them that they would think harsh or unkind bat but I 1 will say to both brethren renand and sisters that whenever any of us spend means needlessly evy bay eay to td the amount of cent dime or dollar we consume it upon tho lusts wits of our oar flesh llesh flesh here ib Is a man for instance who has an appetite for tobacco and darini during a yea year he spends teli ten or twenty dc dollars in n cigars a and nd tobacco which do him lid iid no good but bat do you think tha tsuch i a man will be brought to an account hereafter for that waste such means deeb dees not go to build temples or to help to sustain elders who hayte have gone abroad to proclaim the gospel it la Is not applied to assist in feed feeding f ng or clothing their wires wives wi res or children to find them a little fuel in the winter when it is cold or to get them thelm a cow r so 0 o that they can have milk and a little butter to make them more comfortable but it is spent in the purchase of tobacco and Is utterly wasted and they who get nid rid of their means BO so foolishly will most surely be brought to account the ahe same game may bo be said of money spent in the purchase of beer been it is a mild drink and is tery very pleasant and at agreeable to a great many but when a man apa pays vs hib his fifty cents his dollar or his ten dollars for beer it goes into tha tho hands bands of th the C grocery keepers and they tend it of off and 14 it does docs n no 0 good to the comm community unity uniti the beer itself does docs no good it injures the system of those who habitually indulge In dule duie in the use u se of it and whether they t think ink of and realize it or not mhd thoy they y will bo be brought to account for the means they thoy hate have thus ahus wasted here in tho the midst of the latter day saints where we can know and understand the tho mind and will odthe of tho lord concerning ce us many of us ha hate have not taen taken the pains to ask what tho the lord wants ua to door do or what not to do and it if wc we aro arc agantha la tho uee use of tea or coffee which do us so mo good but tut which injure our systems system swe we behall certainly po brought to account for it parties maybay haysay may B ay we did this thoughtlessly and mad ignorantly we vre did not think the therm there revis was ardy ariy harm in driffle lu tea coffee beer or a little liquor or in smoking or chewon tobacco and I 1 bating worked for our wage we con I 1 shered sd ered that we nire had a hight right rl lit ailt to td spend a I 1 portion of them fu in thebe these ian a were disposed to do BO so but bat justice will say eay it if yon you bid had enquired you yon might have hive learned that the 1 nse nee of these things was not only no good to you yon but bat was absolutely injurious unous and that the means used in purchasing them hiis wag utterly wasted and hence bence you who wh have been guilty of this thia fall folly 7 must mast be brought to an account for it we might follow this liili subject through all the varied ramifications of our practice in life but it la Is not necessary on this occasion it to say that we want ritto to understand and do better than we have done and to be governed ty the dictates of good solid sound bound cense sense in the use of the wealth privileges and tale talc talents that are arc given to us in an fn our present life let me ask what is real wealth do you know 3 I 1 bay eay that time is all the wealth wo we have and to illustrate let us suppose that all the InhabItAnt inhabitants sot of the earth were toddy today to day in the same position that ourA our ourn faist parents were in when they were placed in the garden here Is the naked flaked earth without ou any improvements whatever 0 and the people being without experience have not the ability to raise anything to cat eat to build dwellings to reside in a orto or to gather ulf uli or utilize the stock that is running at i large would a people in that condition have any wealth no but you put them in posse billen of ability to work ath their handland hands handa and to raise laise their fod food tod and clothing from the earth also materi ais als al to build their houses home lay out their streets ts make mako ake their garden gardens farm farms etc and they would soon soan accumulate by their labor and hence yon can easily sec see that all the wealth there Is on the earth consists of the bone sinew and time of the people that Is the capital stock of every individual and of every natlan and all the capital stock they hoyc if they have money moncy seeming wealth lamay it may go from them they do not know how quickly cities may burn barn up thie thIC thieves TRIS teil may steal their thelt gold and aud id silver and their theil greenbacks green backs may be burned A up with theli their banks and then their wealth eaith Is gone or rather that which Is the representative of wealth aut bu rut t they still have the ability and und the bone bond i and nde sinew ile ria necessary eiss ciss ry to go to work to rebuild their cities and to make new farms to mine out gold and slur gliver silver r from the mountain mountains to make vessels for convenience for table use or for ornaments car rings nose jewels bands for their wrists ankles etc I 1 but it must all be done by labor the enquiry rises who kl gives tes yes tilo ilia the ability to labori labors labor who gives us the physical power to cut down trebs trees to saw them into lumber and to shape the lumber for use nee so that we we can make improvements in building fencing and everything that lumber can ho be need for I 1 Is this a ability b I 1 t our own individual property Inde independent pende of god and every othen other being not at all wo we are dependent UTO for astren strength I 1 health ilic life and eier eyer every 5 pow power ei and faculty we hence ahe we may say eay that ionly time Is r really eally all ali the capital ap stock that Is poes possessed essec by any p peppie or nation ration by saint or sinner good ar or bad time and the ability to labor ale aie aro ule nie uie the capital stock of the whole world of mankind and we are all indebted to god for the ability to use time to advantage and he lie will frill require of ns us a strict account of the disposition we make of this ability and he will t only require an account of our act acts p but ot our words and thought though ti ivill will ais als also aiso 0 be brought into judgment now ie turnIng returning lowthe loathe subject of wasting means suppose that in the dences of god I 1 have been able abie to gather means around me and 1 I fancy tind and am able to pay for a bre breakfast alft that would cost costa a hundred dollars ana I 1 say to my wife prepare me such and such a breakfast and il I 1 actually eat a breakfast that has cost a hundred dollars the question arises am ami I 1 justified have I 1 to give an account of this I 1 am not justified and I 1 certainly shall shill have to give an accounts Afif A fifteen teenor or twenty cent breakfast fast would satisfy the demands of my nature and would bd just as a good fu for fur r my system as the hundred dollar breakfast so that by indulging in such a luxury I 1 waste wiste ninety nine dollars and eighty cen theus cents it has gone gono to the winds ganeto gone to the enemy einy erny now what Is my duty uty I 1 say that after eating catine my fifteen or twenty c ent cent breakfast if I 1 have a hundred dol lars jars that I 1 cali calr can afford toti toli pend therein therin my dut duty V I 1 is a to git give 6 the residue towards sustaining the poor building temples schoolhouses babool school houses sustaining the teachers maintaining the orphan child so that it may have ali an education sending an elder cider to preach the gospel and busta austa sustaining inin his family wh while 11 a he is a way away or something or other that will wili advance d ancor the kingdom of god upon apon the earth hor bor or 1 again suppose sup pose posa I 1 say eay to a tailor tallor 1 I have hare a ve a some bome 0 me gray cloth iund and I 1 want you yon to tb make mike me a coat just according to myown my own notions nations very well what will you yon have 1 I want you to make the tho coat of this gray cloth and I 1 want you yuu to tal tai tahe take e this piece of blue cloth and cut it into nar nan raw strips about a third of an inch widean d strip my coat nit nil around and ring it around and put a puff hero here and another er there and I 1 IJ want homemade home made c epaulets 1 I ets on and I 1 want you yon to put fifteen or twenty dollars worth |