Show REMARKS BY PREST PROST JO JOHN HN jn jag jae tabernacle bajie city gity on sunday august 24 1879 i 1 REPORTED BY JOHN IRVINE I 1 rave HAVE listened with great plea suro aura to iha remarks that nave have been rn made 4 de by the brethren who havo bavo praised us and I 1 thought that I 1 would arise and add 9 few remarks to those already given it elves gives me pleasure always to meet with the latter day saints to talk with them and hear bear them talk of those great groat and eternal principles which our father in heaven has haa revealed rey rev cAled for the blonti ing and exaltation of the human family men comprehend very little of these things and further they know very tery little about usand usand oda our r faith our out practice and our doings I 1 was pleased to bobear hear brother johnh arnith make the remarks ha he did aid concerning himself ae as re regards regarda gardis hta hla purity his virtue bin sin gle gie nasar of heart and MR bin desire to dowood do good I 1 wish all the latter day saints could bay hay and aud do dothe the same I 1 wish they we were reail all ail actuated by the bame same principle of honor of truth of integrity and of virtue and I 1 would say that thal if there are those who whoa are flot they are hypo crit esthey elthey pre are are not the represents of the principles of aruth truth of these thebe great and arid glor ious loua principles which god has haa revealed to us but they kie are r a disgrace to their theli profession gods expects ali jus at least to be moral he expected the jews under the mosaic dispensation to be moral they were aiso also to have havo faith iri Iti ingoe God ai asi we propose to have faith falth fal fai thin in him when living under und erthe erthO the law told to td commit no murder they were told not to covets coveta mans house or his hia wife or his lafty or his hia ox or his ass or any thing liking that belonged to him the a latter a or day sainta would incorporate ne this always in their creed it is hopeless hop eless elees to suppose the christiana will but bat 1 I 1 do hope to ben beo littek day saints ko governed verned b ay y those high and noble principles which they propose to have faith in but as regards the world they know very veny little about these things they about the iiii impurity of the tho mormons cormons Mor mons what men wallowing in filth corruption rotte notte liness ind and infamy I 1 uen men and women who tho are the murderers of their thein own infanta by tha tho thousands before or after birth who violate Inc ine incessantly Mantly their marital covenants who do not know the difference be tween wrong men meri who k would seek beek to despoil d other men ba an of fc their goods the their thein lr p property and powes and und 7 women pulon cf f troll virtue and then come and preach morality to uel NOW we can talk to one another I 1 can talk plainly to the saints because we profess more b but ut it does not do for such characters to come and preach morality to us they had better go home and attend to their own affairs faire af but bub we are expected to do right and to take a right virtuous and honorable course and then we need not fear any evil talk about persecution why yes will they perse persecute cute cuto you yes will they hate you yeb yea will they rob you yes and thank god for having the privilege and what will we do try and prevent them god being our helper will they traduce you yon ye yee that is if their words are of any account but they are not much these low degraded moua characters do not believe one la nother another and we do not believe I 1 thern ithem we have ary bry very little odds to ask of this class of people nor in fact of the world or anything that is in the world we tear fear godana Go god dand and know no other fear for god is our father our it t and our protector and be he is the only friend that we know anything about in this world he will take care of us we will commit our cause to him and ask no odds of this world in any shape they can fix it they may ful irr Itt sinate their decrees and mr evarts evarta if he please may call upon a number of european to assist the united states to re regulate the morals of a small people numbering about two hundred thousand here among upwards of forty million he may call upon these european nations to assist the united states to regulate the morals of this people up in these mountains if it pleases him but what a magnificent spectacle coming from such auch a source as it does why there is more corruption in washington in one oue day than there is iu in halt bait lake city io to twelve months mouths gentiles thrown io in but we c certainly e r all of us need our morals more or less correcting in relation to these matters I 1 however we care very little about them we wf have a work to perform that god has commanded us to attend to anu aou WB wu shall do it hear ft it allye alj all ye onos euda of ot the earth we will ido idu do it in thia the name dame of god nor can abia nation nor any otherl nation atop it hear sear it publish it to the nos nob enos of the earlb earth write it doat and bee eee if it docs nul nut come to paoa I 1 prophecy it iu in the of israeli god let all larata hay tay amun amen ibe ino abo whole congregation as with me voice responded ameni amen ameny we bow kaow whit what we are doing whether hother lother people do or not this kingdom that hw had j been spoken of will wil 1 roil roll on ou the word of the lord bata has spoken it thousands of years ago lt will continue to roll on ano ana woe woo unto that man or that people who set their h nuts to fight against zion for god will be after them that people or nation will be wasted away he ho will maintain the rights of this people if it they will fear nim him and keep his command mente i amen MINUTES of a two days meeting held in haywood vailey valley chaco Chato oga county Geor geon georgia did pid saturday and sunday se sept pi 27 an and d 28 10 a present on the stand elder J morgan president dent of the southern states mission S C stephens N ii shurtliff T V ile lle heward howard ward and J J barbor TrAi traveling elders of the georgia conference and elder joseph H parry of tile the north carolina carlina 0 conference elder morgan stated his bis joy and satisfaction in meeting with the brethren and sisters ersin in as good health and circumstances as at present related belated the circumstances of his leaving salt lake city his arrival at manassa Colo coio rado isdo do the tho meetings held there and the circumstances and feelings of the saints all were feeling well in the cause the efforts of tha the adversary so bo strenuously put edorth in the past few weeks would only help to spread the gospel by creating inquiry and a greater interest in the work we represent it is calculated to do much good and not eo so much harm as mau man many y suppose singing benediction p m banging binging ning find and prayer elder shurtliff stated that be he and elder stephens had visited the branches and found the saints living up to the gospel as well as they could under the circumstances they visited some who were not of out our faith held meetings both among the saints and strangers all had treated them well he closed by bearing his testimony to the latter day work ilder k der heward howard remarked that the gospel was spreading rapidly some of those who came out to hear bear us were seeking for the truth these are the ones that we are after we teach the same doctrine that christ and his disciples taught the salvation of the world depends upon their acceptance of this gospel and their living up to its principles elder parry felt glad to be with the saints hera hero again and gave some of his experience in north carolina the prospects of the work in that conference were very encouraging notwithstanding the mobbing and persecution a oar our brethren and sisters who had bad been driven from their thein homes and despoiled of their property were feeling well in the gospel and were at the present time in barton county of this state at work in the cotton fields and were getting along pretty well hoping for some he belp help la before the winter cameon came on to be gathered out to a land of freedom since the outbreak of hob hoe tili ties up the thi there re many who had bad heretofore been indifferent had taken a firm hold on the gospel his expressions prove that the noble the honest and the up right were the bulk of our converts and aud adherents men and women who were looked up to in the communities mu muni gitles ties they came from the time would soon come when all the world would look up to and respect the priesthood and the saints of at god he spoke on the first principles and encouraged the saints to patiently endure all things for the sake babe for in a little while our rew reward ard is sure meeting adjourned until sunday 10 loam am singing benediction sunday 10 am singing and prayer elder parry delivered an in interesting terest dib dis discount coune on the first principles plea of the Gosp eland spoke very point edly on the necessity of new revelation iu in order to be made ers of the joys of the gospel in its falness ful ness he closed by bearing his tres testimony to the divine mission of the prophet joseph smith rhe rho sacrament was then administered lit ered singing benediction 7 ap p m singing and prayer elder morgan delivered an excellent discourse on the subject of our pre existence our relationship to god and our obligations to him while we live in this probation and which we bhail shail continue to have towards himin him in the future he touched on the first principles and also on the subject of the gathering its object and importance singing benediction an excellent spirit i was enjoyed throughout the m betings and the instructions given were much appreciated precia ted by the goodly number of saints and st angers present many of whom had come from the surrounding branches three bi baptisms p occurred the prospects fon for or emig emigration tation gation are good 8 C STEPHENS clerk |