| Show DISCOURSE ila fai franklin anklin D richards fri P october 7 1892 at the general daacon AM conference held in the tabernacle suit sait lake jakewy ady utah BT hearers bearers having an op BI beloved oved occupy a few min ittes vity to I 1 desire before entering tola afternoon remarks myself to read nad a upon any ally revelation that is contained very short abort fifth fth section of the book of la in doctrine the sixty and coven auts entitled bev given through prayer on seer beer at jea hiram iram portage the county joseph ohio in the fore part of october 1881 hearken and lop lo 10 a 6 voice as of one from and powerful is mighty who on hleb high forth is unto the ends ot of the whose going voice is unto men I 1 earth yea whose of the lord make prepare ye the way his bis paths straight of god are of the kin kingdom adom the keys the earth eart carthand hand and unto man a n on committed shall the gospel Gopel r oil roll forth IT from thence the stone the earth as ends nd a of VW unto the e without the mountain out of t which is in out cut forth until it has filled sands bands shall roll lae ahe whole earth 1 yea es a va voice ice the ye the way of lord prepare ye supper of ft the for the bridegroom ride ready make the lamb lam b iw pray unto the lord call wonderful upon his hi works holy elio bl vaune name make me ke known among conff oah the people the lord th that at his kin kingdom tae dom upon the earth this that t the in aaby forth upon baay go receive it and be JiW tants thereof way may for the days to come in the V prepared ared emch which the son of man shall come down to heaven dothen in the brightness MONS of his bit glory oryl f to meet the kingdom of god W which I 1 is set up on the earth wherefore may the kingdom of god the kingdom of heaven go foch that thou 0 god be that fyd a bome m e ud in heaven so on ear earth th that thy be subdued for thine is in enemies MIes may we oe honor power and glory for ever ond and ever amen I 1 felt inclined to read this revelation as to go be the most direct one b lo 10 to the latter day saints upon ro a subject of prayer before the days rf of the savior havior john the baptist taught as lie disciples how to pray and aad when saw W savior saveur had come the brethren amed to think that he being greater an john the th add the work bag ad advanced by his coming could haeb bogn better than be and they santa to know of him how to pray L taught abom an a latter day shinto do all know and this seems to be the direction and object of the prayer that we should ask god and importune with him that hie file kingdom may come and aad his will be done as in heaven so BO upon the earth that it may be prepared for the kinu kingdom dern of heaven to bome when the boa ban of man shall hall descend from heaven clothed in the brightness of his glory from this revelation just road read it appears that the oo 00 coming ruing of the lord jesus christ Is i the great point at which all our prayers should be directed it seems moms to be the great feat leading object of our work here upon the earth to be endeavoring continually to spread abroad the kinslow of god here bore oto ou the earth it Is the point starting from whatever radius we will that all the lines of our oar operations should be centered in th the one great and glorious event it when he shall come and take to himself his ruling power and rule and reign on the earth king of natio nations no as he reigns already king of saints it would appear from the spirit of this prayer and frean the phraseology of it that its tent levey and its concentration ot of purpose would all point to that great event which is to be brought to pass the second coming of the lord jesus christ upon the earth it is in what the military man would say the point dappio dasy fui the point of all our operations and all our evolutions of life as the armies of israel and as an the strength of the house of god to be working in that direction the lord told the elders in many of the early arly revelations yo ye know not the work that you are doing ye are called upon to lay the flounda tl uon on ol of a groat great and a mighty work in ia the earth the prophet joseph and all the early elders in the days of their liberty and freedom when the light of revelation shone upon them luu ally talked of and dwelt much upon the enlargement of the kingdom of god t the h 0 e extension x t e n 80 n of the powers of his p priesthood jr t h 0 0 d and nd of his work to prepare the people upon theearta the earth that they should be ready for his coming and aad for the coming of those holy ones whom he will bring with him named in this revelation an a the kingdom of heaven I 1 bear testimony many to goumy you my brethren and sisters this afternoon that no low less than this is the work in which we are now DOW engaged all the of the latter day work however pleasant or unpleasant they may seem to us are couched in contemplated by and constitute a part of this great movement which in to bring to pan pa the great event evens norg here spoken of the work whisk which to lo upon u us la in thew them latter days day As a it appears to my mind to in the greatest grea teat dispensation that boo h been given to man or that any of the prophets Prop beto have considered unless we should except the grand the deep and potential remark of the savior when he spoke to the disobedient jews end and told them that upon them should come all the righteous ou blood that had been shed abed from the days daya of abel down to the flay of who was slain lain in their day between the porch aej the altar la in that hat potential saying was wa couched a responsibility devolving upon that ione generation ration which the human mind without the revelations of the holy ghost cannot comprehend to us u in the dispensation of the ful nos new of times timea it la Is given to labor for the gathering together of all things which are to in christ jesus not only which are on the earth but which are in the heaved also alao a work which the prophet joseph while with us ua labored continually to unfold to our view by setting forth in some rome of his last sermons the great responsibility that rests upon the abe people to hunt out avid and administer for their dead tor for the gathering together of all thirsts which are in christ which are in he avenand which are upon the earth I 1 what a saying I 1 who can contemplate the ex tent the height I 1 the depth and the breadth of the of that expression yet who to la there of us ue among all the vast assemblies of givs people who is not directly interested absolutely affected personally in that work and to in its if mighty results and consequences oon sequences and how often are we by the trivial am of alle lits allowing ourselves ourse ivea to be diverted from these theae great and momentous in to many things thing whish are exceedingly unworthy of us u as aa latte rd sainte sainta yet the lord has h oared tor for us uc and to oaring caring for us continually his ahto work as an we see e from these theae unbounded expressions to Is a work which to in so BO far beyond our comprehension that it to is worthy indeed the character of a god he has hai been working with us ever since we first came to learn of the truth how singular it was wac that you and 1 I got the spirit of gathering in the way that we did when we came to hear bear the me gospel we became ae gt st rangen right in the lands landi in which we were born bora that has boon been the condition of all faithful saints saint in ID all periods of the earth of which we have any account it was so BO with father abraham the bible tells us but very little about him other histories inform us that so 0 o severe was his hie persecution while yet an infant that his mother had to take him and hide away in a cave of the earth and his parents parent were so 0 o anxious concerning him that they carried food and sustained aueta ined him and hla his mother for a long lang time the sorcerers and the astrologers were stirred up to anxiety and curiosity because there had another star appeared in the heavens at the birth of that boy abraham they thought it meant something that it was significant and it was whispered to th the eking king who tried to get the boy out of the way abrahama abraham father borab brought forth a child by the kings command from one of his bie other women that was born just juat about the same time and the king caused it to be destroyed after awhile the mother of abraham thinking the anger of the king was waa appeased ventured out with the boy another history tells us that he was placed to dwell awhile with shem the good old patria patriarch reb and lived several years with him hid up and secluded studying the things of god he loved righteousness and hungering for more righteousness got away from the idolatry of his relations and even of his hia father fathers a house and was for some time studying atu dying the things of god in the houses of those early patriarchs that had just come through the flood When he ventured to come out again an and d it was found out that he was that same abraham the wrath of the king was aroused with double fu fury and this time he was seized upon and put into a fiery furnace the bible dos does not tell us of this thin but other histories do the edans bible tells him of it it is in the koran abraham was so dealt with by this persecution that he wondered ered where he could find a place on oa the earth wherein he could dwell in safety the he lord told him to got get him up out of that country and he would show him a place a little way off eff that he should have for his own some time this is just the feeling and spirit that took hold of many of us latter day saints saint in the various nations where we heard this gospel we became all at once str strangers angera our relations and best friends became out our enemies many of us were turned out and found a gathering place with the saints as it is in writ written teD gather my saints together who have made a covenant sacrifice PP P this thin with me by faith in the gospel comes as a matter of sacrifice to the worldly when we began to gather together and became a few in number behold the wrath of the ungodly was such that it pervaded the township or the settlement or the church abroad where we were and scattered it like the terrible wind that blew the mustard stalk scattered the seed abroad thus numerous converts were gathered into the church and nd the sacrifice brought in a harvest of souls as the farmer sacrifices his bis seed to sow it upon the land that it may bring forth the bread in the sown season thereof thus the work of the lord has been the gathering of his sainte who covenanted with him by asora sacrifice flee it was waa so whew when we were driven out from missouri and from illinois it will not do for me to stop to detail it to you you know when we were driven from missouri the kind sympathies of the people in illinois received us among them and we went through the counties there brethren took up farms went to work and labored in every way and the truth was spread everywhere A good many strong men in the church embraced the gospel in that period and have grown up with us and established their seed in righteousness upon the earth this has been the way of the lord with us when we were scattered from illinois we came out here and our enemies thought they had bad got rid of the plague of mormonism the lord led us see bee how bow kind he was about it behind a frowning providence he hid bid that blessed smiling face whom when he saw the horrors of war were coming and that the revelation given to the prophet joseph at christmas 1882 1832 must be fulfilled he in his mercy would not have us stay there and be mixed up in that fratricidal war in his great love for us he allowed u m mob to come upon us and demand of us that we should leave the country just in time to save us from going into the ranks of bloody strife laying down our lives and perhaps many placing ourselves in the geltion pel p tion that we could not make inake an acceptable offering unto the lord in his holy temple david the man of god because he was a man of much blood was not allowed to buld bu id the temple but god in his mercy spared us this terrible stain by bringing us out here here for many years what a great peace we have bad when the lord made president young to be our governor then were we happy we only wanted to know the will of the lord we did it and were prospered the earth under our feet was blessed blamed to us continually our hearts and our homes were the earth having rested for ages brought forth its strength to us as an we in the states knew noth nothing tug about aboul after awhile we had to put up with a good deal of unpleasantness from our ur red brethren the Lama when emigrants traveled across the continent they considered they were doing god service ervice in killing the rod red men then in turn th the rou rea mans revenue reven fee was spent upon our brethren by and by a governor was appointed to come among us who determined that we should no longer have the public arms even to celebrate the ath of july with the boys boy must not have swords with which to study sword exercise and some that had bad wooden swords were placed under arrest for this childish employment what was the result of it let me call your attention carefully to a consideration alde ration of this particular feature that while in their wrath and in their determination to break down every means that we had for defense and leave the indians indiana to prey upon us the heavens understood thin and turned the wrate of the indians away till we have never had occasion to get up an indian campaign since Is not the goodness of god manifest in this providence when it was determined that we should have nothing to defend ourselves with certainly it is and the tb latter day saints who oon con template it must consider it as a mini marl fe station fea tation of gods great kindness to ton he had bad not forsaken for Baken us but with us th taking of these the away arras armi has hag bee taken away apparently every vestige beela Jf ill feeling on the part of tho the saval sava of around us and instead of their show hostility hoB to us they come to the arft pr af who counsel them to lee ka peace among themselves vea and with ohp th whites whiter and stop the shedding of bi bloore 00 this thib excellent advice has ha preserved preserve the lives of many people aswell as well a a maintained a bettex better and stronger rel tion between them and ourselves behold brethren aad sisters th goodness goodne good neBs spi of god in these neil I 1 T akke lord is continually with us and though it was not in his hie sl provided provi dei that we should be scattered from and driven forth on the face of her earth again still the trials and the ces which pertain to our holy can be applied to us here he allowed allows religion our enemies to thicken t the hove arv r y a t sphere phere with lies and aad falsehoods falsehood ors r corning us and we had not the to prevail against them pow now and in ill tha turn to oppress us in the exercise their of oan our religious views to a considerable tent until the prison walls walla eno KaSS of of jed many our brethren now concerning the time the that t a have here at present the we lord said aid that he would soften tile the hear hearth t how h rs bof our enemies from time to time his hi work might go on a aad I 1 d that pro from the time of hard front per and kind of winter that we h have a ve hed had in t matters the lord has caused h am a plea nl eRain change like spring time to co cocoe ra e avs sing us I 1 want to 0 ill your attention over il t to 0 st particular feature in this matter it appears to me lg Is desirable fo for 3 r us ua ta consider with care there is 1 a feeling fehn with us to a great extent eXtel kt and it late today more 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