Show MA IRO M S BY TA ME M E DELIVERED ane vau sau kake zag assembly hail hall ha sunday afternoon november 1 1883 i reported BY jomn JOHN IRVINE A fi 1 llave HAVE listened with much interest tw iw to the remarks which ai haxo haxe 1 e been t made this afternoon by 0 11 breth 1 l ren who have been on missions the work that we are engaged in fj a differs diners materially from anything bs that is in existence in the world to 14 day and la Is allt bil torether ozether of another yen yea character from all else with which we are acquainted god has spoken t the heavens have been opened the a n mord kord has revealed hib ris will to the OW human family he has sent bent forth r r a message of life light intelligence and truth and as has been described etc ore by our brethren who have spoken at this message is not received very hj graciously by at least the people of ao 30 this ubia nation I 1 do not think the that brother haa hns iff i tf heathen been among would treat the eldera eldora in the way that has been described by brother palmer I 1 do not think they would tar and feather the elj ders and throw tobacco and rotten T eggs at them I 1 and otherwise J maltreat them it Is left for christians and for the enlightened hy if people of this generation to perform lucli acts a generation that boasts of its jtb civilization its intelligence its f advancement in the arts and in the dinv ev science sciences sj and in everything that is calculated to exalt and to ennoble t 4 man but it Is very humiliating to T hear such statements as those which have been presented to us this after 7 noon I 1 can readily believe Bro palmer merya merla remarks that in the last seven or eight years the people where he has been laboring have been fast do teri orating and are very much more i corrupt and wicked lower and more degraded than they were at the 4 commencement of that time but then it has not been beeh an uncommon r thing even for enlightened peo poo pie rie to manifest such a spirit as he has represented I 1 think we have an account of something very veny similar tw to it in the days when jesus jebus jk K was upon the earth the religious people even of that day the scribes if ana anu pharisees phanis rhanis eeb ees the pious people who gab tab w V T professed to fear god and keep his commandments that made broad their and prayed on the cornera comers of the streets were the ts ones and the first ones to cry JS crucify him crucify him it is j jr r not lit nit that ho he should live 11 and alt rrt klien kilen then there werd were other manifesta w iv rations e tlona tiona which were very biml simi similar larto lanto to v some of those we have heard rela cs ted it is true he cast out do devils vils burthen but then they said that he did so by the power of beelzebub the prince 0 of t devils they called him a gluttons glutton ame wine bibber and a wen men d a cf pu publicans public blicaus ans and sinners and finalli finall ly aythey wey preferred his death to the death of a robber and cried hib his blood be upon us and upon our oun child ten re u 2 and terribly have they reaped 1 the P results of that cry and the reus t ward vard of their sots nets even up to theares the pres 3 ent day there is a retributive justice associated with many ot of these things the scriptures positively that what a man howeth he aray asay pay gay shall also reap and what nations BOW sow nations will reap and there fore people who are so debased and degraded ai to act in theman the man mau ner represented demand our commis aeration and our pity rather than our censure and reproach brother palmer has remarked that while they are seeking to in jare lare 0 djune jure june us we are seeking to benefit C c them that Is ia pro proper er it is the ra duty of all good goods aily ally all nil right feeling men inen and this has haa been so recognized everywhere and among all 1 cultured ar and A intelligent nations and i peoples to treat their fellow men with kindness and humanity jt AT with i y with courtesy tobe to be guilty of acts such as have been described are signs of degradation of folly of wickedness and of corruption if 3 god has spoken if the heavens have w been ocene opened as it if he has been pleased ewi e to restore to us the everlasting gos aos t q pel we have canse cause as a people to rei V joice and we do rejoice in the bles r at tf sings lings ot of the new and everi eveni everlasting astin 9 ve covenant which have been revealed tous to us having had bad these commini boo made known to us we feel w it a duty and rind a responsibility de I 1 i evolving upon us to carry out the and law of god but w word rd the will cre gre there la is a bound to all of these things jesus jebus esus bald kald in his day days if thoy they ha go ther they wu will persecute you if they have received my sayings they will receive your if they have rejected me they will reject you yon also therefore there la Is nothing new in this persecution we expect it it arises from the same spirit a writ of antagonism to god to his laws and to the principles ot of truth no matter whether it is done by the drunkard by the debauchee or by the pious so BO called or the religious religion it makes mates no difference the acts the spirit and principle are the same the they y originate from the same source he that hat t boeth good la Is good and he that boeth Is unrighteous the crucifying of jesus christ did not obliterate the great and eternal principles which he promulgated mul mui rated gated to the world and the attacking of a man manno no matter who he may be in possession of truth with rotten eggs will not change that truth and makert make it a falsehood it simply makes a fool of the man who engages in these irregularities and shows that he is low degraded and debased that la Is the result of such an exhibition but I 1 will say to brother palmer hat that he be is not bound to continue among such peo pia pie jesus jebus said in his dy day ill git gif if they persecute you in one city flee floe to another and rud where there is iff not manhood honor integrity and patriotism enough among a people to correct those kind hind of abuses it is the privilege of the elders to leave them and go to people who will listen to the principles of truth we are not sent to the profligate or to the debauchee or to the lawless or corrupt or the depraved alone our mission is to the nations of f the earth to proclaim the gospel to all men I 1 that they may understand that the heavens have been opened that god has spoken that the principles of eternal truth have been revealed ve aled that the everlasting gospel has been restored our mission is to proclaim this testimony to the nations of the earth and if they re belve 14 it well if not the onus rests with them and not with us we then have performed our duty and if a nation a people a city or a village reject the truth we then have performed our duty towards them and leave the responsibility upon the them ot t them abide the result the h people of this nation need not be so BO determined to cast the truth troth from them tt it will be withdrawn quicker than they think of the servants of god will be withdrawn from them sooner than they imagine and after the testimony of the ser eer servants of god comes the testimony of his judgments ot of his wrath and of his indignation and ana as it la Is written the testimony of plagues pestilence war and famine famines and those other re suits that are spoken of in the scriptures of eternal truth we feel to sympathize I 1 do with this thia nation and with other nations oon for I 1 do know of certain events that will transpire associated therewith and therefore I 1 sympathize with them and god does and that thatis is why he sends forth his hia servants servants and has commanded us ns to go to the ends of the earth and proclaim reclaim the goepel of the son of god od and to deliver the message that he has entrusted us ua with and I 1 would say bay to those who have b been e en treated as outcasts among many of thoe those toli toll 3 p leand whom they permitted to sleep s e p on the open ground grounds etc 1 I would say to them that many of them will have more of that thing to do than has ever entered into their hearts to conceive ivo of for whatever measure they mete as aa the lord god liveth it shall be me ted fed unto them again pressed down and running over but I 1 would say boy to those who have had to suffer be ba patient all is well and all will yet be well for as aa jesus said in hla his day so BO we say bay in this day lifear fear not little nock flocks forit for it is your fathers gom good pleasure to give you the kingdom 11 1 1 hear it 0 israeli braell fear not little flock for it is your fathers good pleasure to give you the kingdom he that is if wise can understand we must remember one thing that although in former times as has already been referred to it was waa said bald that the church should go into the wilderness that a certain powers power to use the words of daniel shall speak great words against the most high and shall wear out the saints of the most high and think to change times and laws and they shall be given into hla his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time s yet though this power should accomplish com its purpose and the thu kingdom should be given into its hanis hands for a certain period the time would come in the latter days when the saints would possess tho the kingdom sin fin the ibe he kingdom and 0 dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the most high highs whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom King domand and all dominions shall serve and obey him athe the latter time will come as purely as the former there was a little stone that wab was to be hewn out of the mountains without hands and it was to roll and roll and roll and smite the image on its feet and the gold and the silver and the he t brass and the hon and the clay were or to become as the thet cb chaff ann aff of the summer threshing floor and there should be found no place for it thus in the last dispensation we are told in contradistinction to the former one that the kingdom should not be given into the hands bands of another people but that it should stand forever and the lord lords who has instituted and revealed his law and made manifest nis his will to the human family is able to accomplish his own purposes Pur poses posea and in his own way men operate against us because they do not know what they do let them pursue this course that is their business let us pursue our course for god requires us to fulfill fulfil his law and obey his commandments and walk in obedience to his precepts and proclaim his word his will and his message to the nations of the earth eind and we will wiil go forth in the name of israelis Isra eiss eisa god and fulfill fulfil the mission that he has given give us to fulfill fulfil then in regard to the people receiving or rejecting it that is none of our business our oun business is to do his will proclaim his word I 1 and make known his laws law and d deliver our testimonies monies go ye into all the world sawas was the command of jesus and it has been the command in these latter days I 1 go yo ye into all the world and P preach reach the gospel unto every creature ho he that believeth bell beli eveth and Is baptized shall be saved but he be that be not shall be damned when we shall have done this we will leave the result in the hands of god it Is ia for us to perform our duty and having done this it I 1 is a all that the lord requires at our hands i so ibo far as our missions are concerned here we have other work besides that to do we have gathered together from the nations of the earth what to do to learn reann of the la in w ot at god goa and aud kowalk to wame wate in obedience to his commands I 1 awill wili will take them one of a city says the lord and two of a family and bring them them to zion and give them pastors after mine own heart that shall feed them with knowledge and understanding this thia is what he has been doing and the people gathered in the valleys of the mountains are the results of these labors add the effects of that testimony which god has given to the elders of israel we are doing quite a labor here n notwithstanding there Is a great amount of feeling g exhibited against us as a people op ae and they threaten us with further f t er persecution and probe prose rip eions with confiscation banishment and the sword and these things are openly advocated by the press in the pulpit and by political trick and dema demagogues demagogy gogu es who are really the el emles of this nation of good rule and government and of af the institutions of our pur country there is a lawless reckless dangerous spirit that is plaguing the nations of europe and threatening their overthrow and that spirit and those influences are sought to be en grafted upon this nation and from th the spirit espirit that Js is being manifested it seems beems that they are but too successful cess fui ful and nad that the religious animus Is being made use of as 83 a pretext to foster their thein nefarious designs they seem to forget that if the principles of liberty and the rights of man can be attacked under the guise of what they are pleased to term mormonism niem sms or polygamy that other systems I 1 creeds and faiths that may be considered objectionable tio to the majority the barriers being once broken down will be equally open to their attack until order justice equity and good government will be supplanted by nihilism hili hill bin brn communism ku molly Maguire ism and every oth other er incendiary and revolutionary ovet evet principle until anarchy shall generally prevails prevail and those great principles for which the founders ot of this government contended shall be overthrown the goddess of liberty be dethroned dethroner and our proud nag clarf be in the dust and the irea krea greatest test and proudest republican nation that ever existed become the laughing stock stoa and dewon derision r of the monarchies of the world it is lamentable to think of these things 0 bu ut tah h would noes barlly be the result of the vast amount of tergiversation and infamous falsehood which is so BO rampant at the present time for it is ig safe to say bay that nineteen twentieths of the statements that are made against us and assiduously propagated and believed are unmitigated ed and unblushing falsehoods without any dounda tion in truth and are bet on foot by the their r inventors and propagators to accomplish their nefarious and diabolical purposes these characters are aptly represented in the scriptures tur in the following terms athey hey hatch cockatrice eggs egg and weave the op spiders iders web he that eat eth oth of their eggs dieth and that which is crushed brea keth out into a viper thein their webs shall not become garments neither shall they cover theme themselves elves with their works their works are works of iniquity and the act of violence la Is in their hands their feet fest run to evil and they make haste habte to shed innocent blood their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity 1 y wasting and destruction are la in t their heir paths inthe the way of peace they know not and there Js is no judgment in their goings goinga they have made them cro crooked olied paths whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace having had the truth presented to them they have rejected it as people in former days have refe rele rejected cled similar truths one would be surprised at the amount ot of falsehood that exists abroad pertaining to us as a people and the almost utter impossibility of obtaining any correct statements about our affairs but the apostle paul explains this matter and has prophesied clearly of the events that should transpire that great enunciator of christian principles says 99 because 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