Show fv DISCOURSE aw it 11 1 aw 1 IT I BY W a I 1 v S SNOW ity 0 IV ain xin at provo on lunday sunday after hit bit fri n i noon june 3 1877 ito t aft eti epili B BY cleo GEO P GIBES erd art it i aih the hause 13 so clode cinde crowded ld that in lode tode iode r ellid hear ii il willbe advisable b that each one beepat quiet i as aws t ble in my jerri remarks arks yesterday fore nofri I 1 alluded allaud ed briefly to the bub aub 01 tr t of the tho unil Uril ted order as 1 del dei e stood 1 y 1 zi the and fedl fedi g r s methe metha united order is a ie e 13 topic topie ac 1 but tills thiais Is yar ta the want ota ofa of a nilder stand revelations of god aid arid ald nid the obliga obligation tiong bf the gospel which VR behave embraced for the want of gindera what the lord has his purposed ti to accomplish through this order in one of the cevela in the book of cove nanta is to be found these word words except ye are one in in your tempo kirs tirs how banye be one in obtaining heavenly things this one on e b ii 6 ess referred tolg to ili isi variously no under der and ana construed ac at to the pe peculiar bullar views aud and notions pc of men and women who do not take tike the broad b road comprehensive view as the lord does and aud intended we should do and who do not comprehend the revelations and ard the mahner in which the lord purposes to deal with his people under the operations of the uni unit no ed order the ancient were d skid paid to 0 o be the be best and most inot pros perou porous 8 peppie PA the earth it was said baid of them as of no other people oyei we ead read of or that there were neither bur nur nor poor among them that they dwelt in peace and righteous bess 7 1 and aud every man honest bonest honestly lv with his neighbor the fact thit tha t every man mau dealt honestly his neighbor necessarily implies individual responsibility and steward ship the book of monnon tells us further that after a period of one 6 hundred and sixty five year years s living in inthis inthia this state there began again to elbe abe disunion and they began to W i cease to have everything in com corn mon a certain class began to wear jewelry and costly raiment cla cia class as distinctions began to spring up edme me exalting themselves over their fellows and they commenced to build up societies and assoria tiona tlona and classes which were graded by their wealth and thus they grew from bad to worse until the nr of god fell upon them to 1 nel nei meir melr hel utter destruction those who 1 arel are inspired bythe by the holy spirit to comprehend the dealings of god with his big people both ancient and modern may be able to iok lok look forward to the future and behold a prosperous anci and happy people that shall be one in temporal things and rich in the enjoyment of heavenly things and among whom there will be beno no poor or rich having a all nil 11 things common po far as pro property erty wiil wirl Is oon cop concerned berned ned when na no one will say sav rithia thi sils Is awe minean andi andl dJ have a right to todo do just as I 1 please with it andyes and ve to mv my mind this a state of things pot pov nob not necessarily be lp compatible comp aible albie with individual responsibility bibi lity a and nd stewardship it anvill wil merely imply that thai advanced don cohel I 1 afon of the people that will enable them to seek vack vach aeh ach others wel wei welfare fare faTe and bild build each other up instead of pulling each other down in order orber order that they tiffey may rise upon the rul rui of their fellows and that walh they possess or or are stewards will be held in trust from the lord 3 accounted for to td him and to his servants who shall be over them in the lord this state of things will be such ch as brother cannon referred to tilis tills this thib morning when there wll wil be no temptation placed benor I 1 i the people tp take advantage of their neighbor beca Teca usei there will be bothin nothing k to be gained by it jt there will be no temptation to steal or r plunder for if the they y need anat anything h hig for their personal comfort it C aoud be supplied led them with all good feeling and he lie that would take stealthily I 1 that which would he be given to him freely and abunda abundantly nty would be a consummate fool or grossly wicked this state of things also pre supposes A a disposition on the part of all to do their duty to be saints in very deed to be industrious to be frugal hugal using their gifts and talents for the common welfare to be ready to serve where they are best fitted to serve gerve in a word to be the servants and handmaidens hand maidens bf of the lord instead of serving themselves arid having a will of their own contrary to therill the will of heaven and determined to follow that if they have to go to hell heli for dor doing it we are some bome of us u at times time sapt apt to think thad thac this state of feeling is necessary to constitute us goad god gad democrats in other words unless we have this kind of feeling of doing as we damn please pleased louwill you will wiil please pleasy pardon we expression we are not men that this is the only way we can give expression expresion to our manhood to me this is wor worse than folly it ia is ignorance of the true spirit of manhood A saint will say 1 I have no will of my own except todo to do the will of nf mv ro av enly only father who has created me mr true he lists has given me an agency and this will wiil buthe but he has given it to me to see what I 1 will do with it how I 1 will use it and I 1 have been instructed from heaven sufficiently V ta know and understand that it is lor my best interest to allow this will to be subservient to the will of bi my father it is best fot for me so to live and so to seek peek his bis face and favor that I 1 may know and learn what his will is concerning me and that I 1 may be ready to do it holding my will in subjection to his well then how can you be an independent man surely you cannot be e an independent man unless you resist everybody a will but your own if good and evil is placed before us dots the person who chooses the good and refuses the evil exhibit his agency and manhood as much as the man who chooses the evil and refuses the or is the ia independence of manhood all on the side of the evildoer evil doer I 1 leave you to answer this question in your own mind to me I 1 think the angels and saints and all good people have exercised their angeney by choosing the good and refusing tile tilo the evil and in irr doing so they not only exhibit their independence and manhood as much but show a much higher and greater nobility of char acter acier and disposition and I 1 leave the future to determine who are wise in the choice of their freedom and independence joshua said to ancient israel cC choose hoose ye this day whom ye will serve if the lord be ibe god serve berve him if josal baal serve him but as for me and my house houfe we will serve the lord I 1 think what we need to learn are the true principles that shall lead us to peace to wealth and happiness in this world and glory and exaltation in ili the world to come and that if we can learn these principles and receive them in good and honest hearts and teach them as our faith and practice them in our lives we shall show our manhood our independence and our agency as creditably before the angels and the gods as any wicked man can in refusing the good and cleaving to the evil exhibit his before the devil and his angels now the latter day saints are gathering from all nations and tongues with divers customs and habits and traditions find and we wo have brought them with us unfortunately we could not dot leave ourselves behind while we gathered to zion having brought ourselves along we have the labor of separating the follies of babylon the traditions of the fathers and every foolish way learning something better as fast as we can and this is the duty that is upon us many blany sermons would be necessary to each us this lesson we shall need the lesson often repeated before we can learn leara these principles and practice them thoroughly we shall need a great deal of self control and a great deal of effort on the part of the brethren to help us and by mutually assembling together by doing business together by learning correct principles and then living them one thing is certain that if god accomplishes with the latter day saints saluta what the prophets have foretold and establishes his zion and he makes them a holy nation a kingdom of or priests a peculiar people to him himself s elf olf as be he hs his promised it will not be by our clinging to babylon and to her foolish ways and imitating the evil and foolish things of the world but what we hse have proved and know to be good hod fast to it but lay aside that which tends to evil we must become a people within and of ours ourselves elves elvOs sooner or later and learn to be bel sel ee reliant and self sustaining this we cannot do as individuals nor as an individual community but by combining our energies as a whole we may eventually arrive at this to accomplish it requires a united effort concerted action and perseverance a long pull and a strong pull and a pull altogether and pulling against each other will only retard it we need never think we can truly enrich ourselves by plundering each i other by carryl carrying ng on merchandising g and importing the products of the labor of other men while our own brethren at home are idle hungry naked and destitute merchants and mid middlemen dle are necessary evils their legitimate sphere is interchanging commodities modi ties between the producing classes the lord has taught us that by and by he will waste awa aws away y the wicked and ungodly or they y will devour and destroy each coffier when the righteous shall be gath A sat sae int arol alx ahn tc C the gospel and he designs his people to prepare while there is time and while he be gives them bread to sustain themselves but if that time should come suddenly apon us in our present condition who would be prepared for it if the news was to reach us that babylon was really going down that a general war had overtaken her causing distress of nations and the closing up of hen hec manufactories manu factories and the struggle between capital and labor were again renewed causing domestic and national trouble and as a consequence we found our foreign supplies cut off how many mady would begin to pray that babylon might be spared a little longe the sisters bisters would begin to cast their eyes around to see where they wele were to get their pans pads and kettles the their ir stoves and articles of domestic use the farmers would think it very hard that mowers and and harrows could no more be found on the market and the mechanic would find too that his business was affected for the want of tools and how the ladies would feel when they found that their hats and bonnets and fine apparel were no longer to be purchased the zeu value of provo factory donld then ahen be appreciated and it would not be considered to sav that it was waa worth more to the county than all the merchants io in utah it is true it does not nett nelt as large dividends to the stockholders as these merchants get who enrich themselves by encouraging the vanity and foolishness of the people the provo factory takes tabes the I 1 raw material produced at home and converts it into the useful articles of clothing for the people and that mainly by the labor of your own citizens the same bame might be said correspondingly of every other branch of home industry they ought to be encouraged by the of the people they ought to be multiplied and creased increased among us by our united efforts for they produce our wealth what is wealth does it consist of gold and ellvey no let this thia territory ha be 1 filled fille d with gold and a n d war w a r prevail p r ev a li outside and all jn intercourse t e aco u r e b be e c cut u off what wohld we do with it it would be a medium of exchange and as such would facilitate ho home m e trade but nothing further there is no real wealth in metallic or paper currency in drafts letters of credit credity or any other representative of value at best they are only the representatives of wealth though convenient in carrying on our trade buethe buu but the real wealth may be i L hummed bummed up in a few words 0 to o be the comforts of ilfe life that is to bay eay what is me needed eded for us and our families and those depending upon us how are these obtained we mig might lit say eay money when we hava have the money to exchange for them and when these commodities are to be bought but where do they com come efrom from they are not in the market unless somebody has prod produced them i 1 in the shape of food some farmer has raised it if clothing some SOMO manufactory has produced it if boots and shoes somebody did the work it is the labor of mens hands with the aid of machinery that produced these art artiles articles lles lies if not by the labor of our community by that of some other oth er and if we are dependent upon other people then are we their servants and they oun our masters the southern Sta the aate civil war were whipped by thet te northern states why there may mayb be q some general reasons but you may bay eay speaking on natural principles they were not sufficiently self sustaining they relied mainly upon their cotton and a few other products of the earth mainly fruits of their close labor they had few manufacturing establishments they sent the raw material to other states and countries and these worked il 11 up sending back to them the manufactured articles no nailon nation under heaven can long loog thrive and continue this state ef of things just as soon as their trade was interfered with their domestic institutions broken into and the country blockaded preventing the export of their raw material and the import of manufactured goods they were brought to th the verge everge of ruin this subject of home ture has become somewhat hackneyed when will we cease to tu talk taik ak about it when the necessity ceases to exist when we will have learned to apply these principles in our dally daily lives and conduct the greate greatest ct lack among ua us is the means to employ our idle hands we should be able ro to afford every man woman and chil ehll din our community employment were we able abie to do thi t 10 diey oa y wisely and aud prudently directing that labor become a wealthier and happier people of bf wb whom om it jt might be anid there were among P comparatively speaking we can say now there is no abject poverty among us yet we are far from enjoying that which is our td to enjoy und and that which we have comes f om b broad abroad and we ard striving for money to pay for it crops are mortgaged Mortgage dor or sold to our creditors in advance for articles of 1 foreign manufacture 1 I was tod told that z s owed for sew ing machines nione alone from forty 0 to o fifty thousand dollars and I 1 was told by bro ma atcher of cache valley that forty thousand dollars would not clear thoi the indebtedness for sewing machines machine i 1 be irrepressible sewing machine agents haye have ravaged our country imposing themselves upon every simpleton in the land forcing then their goods upon them tens of thousands of dollars are lying idle in the houses pi the latter day saints today to day in this article alone almost every house enter you can nind find ninda finda a sewing machine noiseless and 1 idle dle but very seldom beldom you hear it running and all of which were purchased at enormous figures and now the patent rights having expired they can be bought for jess jesa than half prices paid for them and ia id this way many pf af our agricultural machines are obtained wes we hould should be properly classified in our labor so that our investments in agriculture aland other machinery |