| Show coif j i i bredia T chev 1 n py neg rw nr 01 ins ing eiders GEO Q CANNON i aft veli 1811 H delivered in frh me the bowery dalt salt elu k J 21 67 w ut REPORTED BY dawid DAVID ab bif bil fw n hns has be envery to ram rne me rae audgo doubt it bas has as tv t v all wiio have been present to listen to the ier ler remarks harks of u this morn I 1 i ing to he of rl the gospel as taught by us and f 71 rrt J theira thein 0 experience id jid this work t was vas speak eui oui ing in relation to tb our position in nauvoo my mind reverted to 0 the c tapao ti my when we left there I 1 and 0 athe o the etli gill 9 v re ii di dip 1 IF faed uy by maby many of our people I 1 to crus cross eross ithe therile rivet and 1 iak isk tak ethele tako take othele otheir their Journey jounney it J aenied re nied 11 a great reat t of faith on K I 1 tho part dart of the people to v venture lure lute ilai 1181 I 1 V 1 in into to an unexplored and desert sert aa gitry to pt agin to build I 1 II 11 I 1 tr up hames agmes and the labors fi I 1 enjoined eu 1 9 upon u us s bogod by god our heavenly father there w ym A cry of e exultation u 0 a ac went mi t lip lio thi ohi haut all ail that that thai country when we ware were broken sl 31 11 f epand U pt iaria the ibe huna hune wah was was iad lad indulged aed in t by all ali why were inimical ihl mical ta u that 1 the solution k of the adorm tob rob iem jem had bieni beed arrived at nt au aud d that tha the subject of 0 blah biah t lu ay iy henceforth be d froin every evory mind we had gone forth I 1 into to tb the L T wilderness and it was not at all tall li i i likely that we boulo woul eyen eyer trouble troubie jt it was wag naturally 91 0 tova jova o supposed yby by bhoge w who p ku knew w but i littly of UP us that we must be duite otte lo 10 i i as bad ai a we had been bein represented if tobe to be and if wo we were of cod course rsm we 04 tiya tiia had Pd nobody to steal froni fromn n the bi wilderness but ours ourselves eltes nobody tb agathe sa and prey upon but ourselves yn and theae being oun our characteristics asti ashey believed they very oie i i ally came game fo xo the that ile i liwe would quarrel one and the result would be out ou exter t mina tiou through our oun ni i or that we should fallan fail fall an egiy easy prey to th the a indiana how it have been realized t of twenty one ono years has ff eor for fora a number of years after leaving y 11 I 1 were bot deemed parn tic worthy of notice mers l h taj ras panda were attracted in other di it ions lons and our here w ajo lo 10 i i boing being so far removed fru bromall fro mall mail W i writh with them thet were i almost t I 1 1 1 oyer ayer looked locked but time ha g wrought WK ethos grea tah tinges pot only with us and 1 11 in our py lynt but also in the po pot t ar isi ibi anu and und and feelings of bf the world by 91 i uj ul winch which we are surrounded instead of being regarded asa as a people scarce searce wih pih rh ly 0 worthy of notice we no now as 1 through the blessings of our beav tt i hf enly only father in inhabit habit babit a large terri tory toiv and ana if we ale aie alluded to at all tsi oil ri 19 by the world it in a ca wiy wid lacity pa city have these changes been i accidental and looked unlooked for did no one anticipate such results as its bif kit we wbk now non nov nos behold being wrought out i f orwee or were they anticipated years year and list years ago by those most familiar eilf il i with the genius and organization n s jf af the kingdom of goo goa those who are not familiar with our early history have but to read the utter atties ai yg ag of those who were engaged in the founding rounding of this thia work to become convinced that they were an w long ago by those who r contemplated the future growth and development of the kingdom of gol god there is no n feature con necked with our circum instances stance to da aay that has not been familiar for years to the minds of those who have contemplated the future of this work when the church was wa organized and a 1 email emall hoube would hold all its members predictions were indulged in that the circumstances of today to day but partially ful fiig flig fil and years will yet have to elapse before they are completely ful fui fulfilled fille d our heavenly eather father poured out his spirit upon his servants in the beginning which enabled them to comprehend the work be he h had ad established on the earth and through the 0 spirit of prophecy and tio tion n they could plainly see the great greak re results suits which would be wro wrought aught put through me tle faithful people of god can we nov gep eee see the limit limtt of this work Is 10 the borison of bf our vision bounded pounded byth byte holo hole oae things actually transpiring ink around us no or do we still stretch forward to fl a future sor jor this thib people too glor gior glorious tous tors an fn description atlon I 1 do oot suppose there Is one bere here who has ever thought on this great subject and to grasp the circumstances cum eum stances tane egby edby by which we ale ate surrounded that has not stretched for wardin delightful anticipation of the glorious future that awaits the people of god if they are only faithful ao to the truth that he has committed tin unto to them them would to ged that all the inhabitants f the earth could see and comprehend co pr hend bend hese fesq these things would tb td god od that they would rould divest themselves fes ies of their prejudices and preconceived pre conceived wag was and that they would calmly look truth in the face and slid reflect upon the work that god our heavenly father is 19 performing in ih the midst of the nations of the earth if they would this they might avoid a great many difficulties into which they will otherwise be inevitably involved it is no more nor no jess true to tb today day dayl than it was thirty seven seyen years ago that god has stretched forth hi his hib hand to ac co com eom a great and ml that shall stand for ever and s shall hall not be given into the hands bf an other people el but ii it will go on increasing creasi tig hig and anti spreading abroad uin tin until it ha has s accomplished that that for which it was destined ayour our almighty father I 1 bay eay 1 it is as true jowas now as it was a s abie ahbe then fid and nol noi no more true to tp today dat day day than nhen then then and they tiley who paid heed to it then have never nad bad ca cause to r regret gre t doing s go 0 and to d they who give heed to it today wiil will never bever hever have bause hause cause to regret it la in the future to us who lare faro re familiar with this work and understand stan id the op operations orations brat ions lons of I 1 the s spirit pirl piri t and can see the deign of god our keavenly father it bee see beems seems 8 str strange that mankind should be so 0 biddi er ent to BO logre great at a work aa as this this ja ii which we are engaged te yet yei t it A is so you would imagine that meu going forth with the proclamation that the elders eiders derd deri bear would receive everywhere that attention that the importance of their proclamation demands at least until men were satisfied in their own minds of the truth or falsity of the message they bear but this is not the oase case no man ever calmly bat sat down with a prayerful heart to examine the claims of this i work popularly termed mornion mormonism ism who i oid old not r isis from the investing invest investigation ig a convinced that there was a boiver power ao an influence 11 and a spirit accompanying this work that he hat hal had never met with beare are they who investigate the ones wha who night fight this work and wd persecute and slay the se servants ot of no they who do this are the I 1 ignorant ig 9 borant who have never meyer investing invest investigated ig ed or having Investigate investigated a and embraced braced it have afterwards apost apostatized atiz dand and lave thus become twofold ewo two nol rol nold fold more the children of heil hell through rejecting ri inythe the truth god our burh heavenly aveney father has commenced a great and mighty work and has given the strongest kind of evidence in in favor dait if thein the inhabitants habl of the earth would only receive i iff it judt b their condemn condemnation atio atlo n wl will I 1 it in altheir their rejection of this work and tile the evidence of its truth which is spread before them the whole history of this people from the commence trient until the present time affords abundant evidence of tha the divinity pf af the work in which we wo tire are engaged when our elders eldera ig go 1 north forth ra or th into the world men cry bik alu aloud 1 for mimmies mira CIes cles for some supernatural super natura manifee manifestation tation of power that will convince them that we are the peo pl pwe profess to be jesus jestis said A wicked and an adulterous gen aeration seek a sign but iio ho sign shall be given them save the sign g n of the prophet jonah pdt but god 0 d our heavenly father has nevertheless left his handwriting as it were to be seen feen by all ali aalthe the natio nations s of the ea earth rth on thi the 6 that he be has established divinity is marked in ili every feature 0 of f this great work in every step of its progress progresso ressY resby from r om its commencement until the present time ime ve we see divinity exhibited and the power of god manifested in its preservation growth and development what ia is it that brings thib thia people front the nations of the earth binds them toge to gethery and makes a unit of the people df the various nationalities here assembled together toge Is it the power of ef man map Is it delusion ori orl or Is it a manifestation of the restoration of that Power bower bestowed upon men in and which basteen las has been ao so long withdrawn from theeart the earth li why is it that we love one another Is it as the apostle john said that we have passed gassed from death unto life because we love jove the brethren we wd love one another because we have bowed in obedience ence enee to the truth which god aas ass revealed healed dand and through the reception of the holy hoy spirit of promise we have the love of god in our hearts if mankind loved the tru thadd truth and would exa examine mirio these things they would isee pee 9 something dem deA desirable about this wor work k and ana they would be prompted to investigate but the difficulty now is as it baa ba been in every age when god has attempted to establish his work upon the earth men in general dro are blinded by the traditions of their fathers this and the love of ease eabe and popularity and other worldly ob ejects that surround them prevent men from fron seeing the work of df goel god in its true light and blinds them to their highest interests they cannot see how tb they PY are going going to receive any benefit from this work that which is materi il is right be fore them and they ean can understand der det stand the material advantages aco aeo accruing ruing to them through not obeying this w work or but the advantages and bless ing ings hat that would result from obedience are hidden from being discernible only li hy the light ot of the spirit of god yet there is this thia pecullar peculiar feature about the tho work of god today to day more especially than at any other time since the baya 01 enoch that they who embrace it not only receive the spirit of god with its gifts but they also receive blessings of a temporal nature natures which they would never receive receive outside of it those who have joined the church as a mask mash mass mabs have been bene fitted temporally th though b at the time of rendering obedience they probably could not seib how advantages of this nature could result they could see I 1 that thai that their names would be cast but a as evil that they would be hated tor lor of lj ij alj all 11 men persecuted and aud probably driven from place to place but how they would be blessed temporally they could not see but god our 11 heavenly ly father has held in re serve until these days great and glorious blessings for his people eople tt who are faithful to the tru truth he has reserved for his saints the king dom dem and the greatness of th the king dom under the whole heavens not something beyond she bounds of time and space not something that we will inherit in eternity alone but he has also temporal adeau advantages to bealow upon his deop people Is here A great many mady people imagine that we hold bold these boutas out as inducements inis du to get people Is to join the church but they w who ho join the church for the love of these things and with a desire to obtain them are invariably di disappointed it people join the church of god udd with any other motive than to to embrace the truth and to be associated with the people of god and to receive the spirit of the gospel they are invariably disappointed but bu when they come in for the love iove ol 01 the truth willing to take them the cross of christ and ensure all the persecutions incident to the life of a saint submit to the contumely and privation that in the providence of god they may be called to ea en dure god thus tests thel their faith and if they continue faithful he will bestow upon them every bless blessi i lne ine promised to the most moat faithful the work in which we kro are engaged in some respects from the work in which the apostles were engaged in the days of jebus jesus christ lauy things operated again against t them that we have not to conten jd I 1 with they had bad to scatter out and andl andi preach the gospel in various place they could not gather together with the same facility that we can but god our heavenly father reserved this the land of promise for the especial purpose ot building up his kingdom in the latter days As the book of mormon informs us it has been hid from irom the eyes 0 me generations of men for this purpose if it had not been thus thuy hidden the nations of the earth would have overrun the land until there would have been ro foothold found for the establishment of the kingdom of god upon it but the lord concealed it from the days ot 04 the flood fj from om the byis eyes of me men 13 excepting those whom he led h hither 1 th er as we wd lire are chifo informed kaied by the mook book A 1 ot of mormon that mt no nation natron aft after e the flood knew about this land althou although h I 1 Jel jei believe leve jt it 14 said in ili the norwegian antiquarian re e se arche that this land was v visited sited ed by the Ic elanders I 1 in the ele eie eleventh tent rent th h century but there Is 8 ua this but be that g ar it may this land was pas kept seerey secre I 1 until columbus Columb iw was moved up n b by y the spirit of god to td go forti fortt ad aid ald penetrate the western ocean inen ihen hen nen me land was wash settled and a gc verdi verri t men t was formed under the pito piro teching aegis of liberty and a place was wab found for the establishment of the kingdom of god to which the saints from every nation lin linder deli deti heaven could gather tog together ther then hence we are surrounded by blany any more favorable circumstances than who vrho preceded us luthe lathe W work rk of god in the days of jesus jebus an anu ana the apostles they did not pos possess sess sesa the adv lages that we enjoy but we have hake them and our heavenly father intends that we shall possess them and that we shall build up his kingdom on the earth righteousness and bang about that thai improvement alluded to la by bro jesse N smith in his rew remarks arks our circumstances then the seeing different we can indulge in anticipations no other people have ever been beeri able to indulge in unless q it be the people of earch and th the ke ne to whom jesus jebus appealed on this continent those who investigate the gospel with a desire to keep 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