Show heurit DISCOURSE BY 0 puts M I 1 iob ion mm 7 preached at on gun sun ray lay malli halli maych march ad 1870 1879 REPORTED BY liy GEO OEO F GIBBS I 1 ain am pleased to have tte opportunity of meeting with the saints in 16 this place I 1 have come to talk taik with you and to h ava a little visit to Q tell you how hove I 1 iveel feel and to learn liow how you feel and how things arg are moving generally I 1 desire to talk a while on some of the plain plein principles of mormonism aasve used to understand them in former times wand land andas ca we understand them today to tb day when we reflect and use our gun judgment dispassionately our feelings and ideas are not much different flom arom what they used to be us ner started in this work many yearb years ago and we entered into it because we believed it was true and that the principles taught and inculcated were from god and when it came to us u we received it as a message from god to us these were about the sentiments that we entertained bome boma twenty and thirty and as long as forty forts nive five years ago and I 1 suppose the majority of us have still the same ideas of the work that we then entertained before ive we embraced the gospel we were beset with the weaknesses of the flesh and after wo we embraced it these natural infirmities still followed us we have had bad difficulties and trials and have passed through many circumstances cum stances calculated to perplex and annoy and caused too many times from mhd akina acts of oth ers we ourselves have not always alway been ben the most considerate and kind hind one tov towards ards another and have not always done exactly right ourselves being 1 J tha ahel judges and other people wera yera pt p the bame opinion and hence we have experienced to tv inconsiderable extent little annoyances dmd fon foe which we have lave no one to biame blame but our own nolly folly and and avd weakness and this thid goo too in ln many instances because alp 4 we had done wrong we fair efto gaio go to god and our brother whom we had bad offended making aclid acknowledgements acknowledge mileda ments and asking forgiveness and in too many instances difficult difficulties ties that have arisen have been allowed to run on to our injury and annoyance and wo have been sometimes ready to ask ash Is this yeb yes kyes this what with all oi of our infirmities yea xea weaknesses k baisei and follies yeb yes I 1 elbik think 1 that at jesus when upon thie that kingdon kiv kin or dflia heaven fv it ishiko unto a net nna east ilin 1110 aud and gathe beof every kind bind that is the way A my bibio used to read how does yours read some of t those ose were good fish fit for or any market others rather small poor eating and perhaps a little bony and horny dorny and being gathered together as we are from di derent different nations with various customs habits and traditions with all kurpe our peculiarities cullari ties and odd notions we as a matter of course do not n ot agree in many particular particulars 3 and h hence buffi cultrea sometimes arise in les ies some bome of us keep these theae things to ourselves oure elves and sometimes they leak out but butlo if they were not thera theta they thoy ednid not come out could when theres nothing biad bisa biaas bad can come out amdx nd X belleve believe jesus will bear me we his this baying out of the abundance ot the heart the mouth hl ea eth A good man out of the 9 good oad treasure of the heart bri ngeth forth good things and an evil man the evill evil treasure of his heart Uri ngeth for fon forth evil exil things then akahi again there is id another curious seri berl scripture which james makes lake suse use of the tongue is a little mern mein member ber arid arld great things behold bow how hiat hint mattera mattena ter ten a little fire kind hind lethi it on i fire the course of f nature ann dmd and it is bet set on fire of hl hil as that is a peculiar espres 81 0 na khat khab what do you think it means arrhe therewith bless we godi evan eveni the bather father and therewith curse we meta merv I 1 which are made after the of god of mouth proc edeth blessing andzura ing log 1 and then teason s the apostle gli doth oth a fountain send bend fortu forth at the same fame place sweet water and bitter can a nig fig tree my brethren bear olive ber berries ries riet either a vine figh fige so oan can no fountain both yield fald laid salt balt water and fresh and says sass the baylor in speaking spearing dl df men ye bhail shall know them by their fruits do men gather grapes of thorns or dr figo feigt 64 thi atJe I 1 nind fird ard find many curious eurious hino androu and aud you must excuse nidolf me meff if JL IL do mot inot preach a very adif connected sermon ve ime will talk over some E toasters 0 f of fact as we would in afi ani reside chat ehat we lipf ug us want to be good lat ferday ter fer day saints sainte we all want to secure the favor and ali alJ approbation probation of god and when we get through with this life ilfe we all want to be numbered among those who will secure a celestial inheritance Inherit ancee this ia is the general feeling of the people I 1 am talking to today to day we sometimes pray thy will be dene done on earth as in heaven beaven and then we sometimes mahe maho little mistakes in our intercourse Inter douise one with another and we ibi ellmes go to him we have offended offend dd asking forgive forgiveness ness nese and then we pray the father baylog saying forgive our bins aina as laa we forgive them that on ein against us Is not thib this eo so my brethren and would you like to be measured in that half bushel but rut if when you pray after this manner you do not forgive your neighbor his trespasses could you feel as our red brethren say honest injun would it be consistent with your profession to ask this favor of god when you yourselves are ard not willing to grant the same to one ano another ther I 1 believe you will readily agree with me in answering that in the negative but at the same bame time if any kny of you have any doubts concerning it you can easily reduce it to a mathematical mathematic ar basis and so decide but says one there should not be any ot of these things in zion I 1 agree with you in the first place you should not do wrong or harbor or sustain ft it when done neither should your neighbor and what then Is this ZOB yes BO so we say have I 1 got a treasure yes but we are told that it is held in clear glear earthborn eart thern born vessels which are subject to all the weaknesses infirmly ties tiji rud and follies incident to td humanity now this ia is the fact and god woud would exalt us tig and place us on high among nien men ind nd pour upon ua us intelligence telli gence and give unto ua us knowledge of and his hia lawand law and he be would ld hap to 6 prepare us as a people that would acknowledge his hia hand in all things and be submissive to llis ilis hi wili will iii ili and slid who would say both by precept and example tuy will be done denonn on earth as in heaven beaven 21 2 1 I 1 would like jike us to do this but then we have bave not done it and we feel sometimes as though we cannot do it and sometimes as though we wont do it but if we could submit ours ourE ourselves elyes elves to the law of god and to the order orden of god and to the priesthood of god and that triest erlest hood submit itself to tha the law of god andall andali be under his guidance und and direction zion would arise and and the glory of god would H rest upon her and the power jower of god would bo ba manifested in our midst andee and we would see and comprehend things we never dreamed of I 1 find in examining things that we are human in every sense of the word I 1 look at myself forIn for instance stan ce am I 1 perfect no not by along a iong long way my brethren of the priesthood of the various quorums qu and I 1 look at people male and female generally and am forced to the same conclusion respecting them we do not come up to the standard weful we fail to fulfill fulfil thie the requirements quire ments which god leakes of ua we wo have had had bad an idea which la is quite correct that god has hat gathered fsr from among the nations that thai he might place hi his name am among ong us and that his priesthood might mig ht be organized that men thus ordained might be prepared to establish his bill kingdom klog dorn and reign on the earth but we find mair genf in the priest priesthood hoad boad ye yep in all ali grades of the priesthood who are weak Is 16 there piny riny anything thin 9 astonishing in that ob no go back for Jn stance instance to the days i of jesus and you sou will read 0 of f some mentho were rather of an aspiring tarn turn and one of them got his mot mother lier iier to desist assist him said sald she 1 grand I grant that there these my pay two hona sona may sir sit thel the one on thy right hand and the other on the I 1 left ft in hy thy kingdom bhe she might just aswell have added that ehe herself would like to occupy edme important position but the savior told her baying saying ye know not what ye ask such a al Ms position 0 a ton is not mine bline to give but it shall h dil all be given ta them for whom it prepared ly oe my father eather 4 then there was another circumstances in himself bimo biro self seif conspicuous jesus was azis tolling them of approaching troubie trouble and aud ud intimating would take place th the cp ep broaching proa pro achl achi ching ing n night g t which peter boldly demurred saying bla fla ying though Tho tigh allinda all ali men meu ahall be ba offended because of thee j jet et willi will I 1 never be offended W jesus said unto hi him m Vi verily pilly I 1 1 say unto thee that ibis ibia before the cock crow thou sh afi dedy deny me thrice peter could not nol ot believe it but he didjun did just a aa the savior said he be would woul d do was he weak yeb yee after the manner of tf meyri it he had bad said clord though all men be offended odlen ded because of thee I 1 will not according W to my present feeling nor will I 1 at all ail if thou wilt give me power to carry them out but he felt sure that be could stand side by bide aide with the savior under all ali circumstances cum stances but be he could not he did not jook lockso so very valiant when the trial came it is easy enough te to talk about U in lix the distance at least much easier than to meet it and overcome it but were these two brothers whose mother made such a request of jesus jesua bad men no but ane able had a notion that bhe she would like to see eee her bons sons occupying such sueh a position and probably they would not have objected to it themselves this we are not informed of then was waa it right in peter to say eay he would stand by his bis lord nord how often have we said il it I 1 will not condemn anybody but merely speak speak of that to bring forth for good and exhibit men as they were and as they are was peter a weak man an no but he was not without the in firmi ties of human nature and when the trial came he faltered a little after all ali I 1 do not think the mistake so the circumstances considered for he was surrounded by and hud speaking to toi tos a riotous corrupt and bloodthirsty blood thirsty people only ho he had said sald he ho would not do it but he did it all nil was peter valiant for foi the truth he was waw waa he be imprisoned for the truth yes did he proclaim against vice and advocate virtue gedid redid he did and did he go forth and feed the lambs and flock of god yes and every way becoming to a mab man man of god and finally suffered a kanyr death shall we find fault with either of these thess men no we lover love them for their good deeds and for their fidelity rna anu and integrity and the great work which they accomplished shed in their day in bringing forth the truths of the tho everlasting gospel shall we condemn our brethren here with like weakness no what did you call them some of them very weak sisters some of them very foolish and some very ignorant we wont make any hard words at all but hut I 1 would rather feel like saying to them as the old lady who was teaching school said to her children when you come to a hard bard word and you annot cannot spell or speak it right pass paes over it and call it A hard word I 1 wasa wass was a little amused this morning you know I 1 have heard of a little of your foolishness and I 1 find that we are all in the same box all tarred with the same stich stick and when listening to cheso thines things one of the b brethren remarked to me that this is a good people what and still do these foolish things yes there are none of us so very bad after all ail alaj when you come to shake us up we do not mean to be bad but notwithstanding many foolish things have existed among us the priesthood sometimes have not done ex netly right tight and then the people have not been without blame arid and consequently we make all kinds of curious errors now I 1 would like if we yva could gont goat go at if it act 91 honest injun and get right to the bottom of things and then than go 1 as nd near right as we can cap being guided by the prince ples pies of the gospel and not inich j encee by the hollieb follies of men the fact of our having bome some amongst us who h have ave weaknesses does not make untrue any of the lawsl laws of god gos which he hag has revealed unto us neither does it affect our belief in id them we still believe that the priesthood emanated from god and that be bb has instituted it for tle the the benefit lvalion salvation ea and exaltation of the human fi family nilly and ag as a pro proof of of this we are here hereto tod to d day ay j and the renson reason of oui our coming here her e Is that god raised tu up and inspired men to go forth and preach the gospel to every nation and we heard such men preach and believed their message says bays J jebus jesus sub bub sus my sheep hear my voice and a stranger they will not follow but flee flea from him for they know not the voice of strangers was it the priesthood thau that did it then yes and no it was wag they in obedience luthe of god that went forth but it was the power of god in and the power of god operating upon our hearts that led us to the truth and had bad god not operated with them they cou could have done nothing and unless god pod had revealed from the heavens the of the gather galber ing and the priesthood and power thereof and sealed that upon joseph smith and he in turn conferred the same upon his brethren they never could have got this people here al a they are to today day you all ail 11 know that this I 1 is 8 a fact when you give the matter thought and reflection we learn from the doctrine and covenants that on a certain oed occasion aglon jesus jebus and other heavenly lne lue ine lieb appeared to joseph smith an and oliver dOliver cowdery and among them thern was moses who conferred upon them the keys beys of the gathering which should extend to all israel ils rael and also bring back the ten tribes and my brethren let me say to you that if the lord had bad not sent bent ua us these keys beys in the manner he did you would not be here today to day nut but but nut that principle was unlocked and when you received the gospel you received it because it is a part of the gospel and the consequence was you wanted to gather and you hardly knew why you used to sing the tho songs bongs of zion in far off lands with much earnestness and the gathering was the theme ot of your conversation conver con eon venation tation and also your prach pre aching and in your dreams jou you have many times seen yourself among the saints of god long before you managed to get here theford the tho lord Es we well know has baa an object in thus gathering his people from among the nations ot of the earth but it would take me too lang long to talk about that this morning suffice it to say eay that the scripture is being |