Show REMARKS made jojade fy president george Q cannon a the tabernacle salt lake uty utah sunday adov by BT ARTHUR WINTER brother H 8 13 Go gowans wanel remarks remark have suggested some borne reflection and I 1 would like if I 1 can have the spirit to express them I 1 will read a little of law of moses to be found in the slat st chapter of ehod u us and if any mischief follow then thou thon isbart give iffe for life icye by for or elre ye tooth for tooth hand for band bannoot ban doot foot for foot burning barning for burning wound for wound stripe for stripe KOW I 1 will read to yu the law of the gospel on points ag so revealed aad taught by jesus jems again ye bayis bare heard that it hath bath been sold fid b by them of old time thou shall not forswear ora wear thyself but perform unto the lord thine oaths laut bat I 1 say unto you swear not at all neither either by heaven lor for it is gods throne Ri laor y or by the earth for it in his footstool neither either by jerusalem Jer alem for it to the tae city of the great king if deither either shall thou swear by thy head because thou canet not make one hair white hite or black but let your communication be yea for whatsoever is more nay nay yea e ab than th these ese cometh of evil yo ye have heard that it hath bath been said an eye eve for ot an eye aye and an a tooth for a tooth but bat I 1 fayuno say uno you that ye resist not evil vilf but whose over shall smite thee on thy right cheek turn to him the other aleso A and if any y manwill man will su sue e thee at al the law and take away thy coati coat let him have thy doak also alao and whosoever shall compel thee to go mile go with him twain 4 a give to him that asketh thee and from him bim that would borrow of thee turn not thou away ye have heard that it hath bath been said thou love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy bat I 1 say unto you love your exie erie vales rules bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and parse cute te you that ye may be the th e children of your father which is in heaven for he mabeth abie sun gun to rise on the evil and on the jurood and bendeth rain on the just and V n the unjust for if yo 70 love them which love you what reward have ye do not even the publicans public pub hoan ans the same and if ye salute your brethren only what do yo ye more than others do not even the no 0 o be yo ye therefore perfect even an a your father which is in heaven to is perfect in these theme verses that I 1 have read la in your bearing are found the two laws one is it a law that was given to a people just emerging from slavery and bondage a degraded people incapable of receiving any higher law than of retaliation it way may be called a law of carnal tl they were not able to te receive the higher law of ef the gospel and this law of ef aan an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth was wai given unto them by their lawgiver mows mow the reasons for it are very evident those who have traced the history of ef the children of israel after they emerged f from rona egypt can romilly readily u understand Ador stand how apparently incapable they were of comprehending the higher law which jesus taught in the words that I 1 have road read to in your hearing they were a people who could not rise rice to te he slon ion of doing good for evil of ef return lag ing kindness for unkindness As A seen as ai they emer emerged ad from egypt notwithstanding the many manifestations of god goda a kindness and of his miraculous power ower which they witnessed they were ready to turn round and 0 tone tome moses they asked hirn him if thorer there were 0 not grave enough in the land of egypt that he should bring them and their chil dren into the wilderness to perish after they had been led through the red sea bes and delivered by the power of god after they had had water brought borth from the rock after they hey had bad bad I 1 quails sent to them after man manoa us itself the food of heaven had been sent to them for their daily sustenance nance even then they were ready to stone the man through whom go i 1 did these mighty works and bey had no confidence apparently in moses beyond his hie up sup ply plying aug their daily wants wante to euca people this law of retaliation was given he vaughta higher law he law that pertains per taine to the celestial kingdom of god a law which if obeyed would lift men nearly dearly to the level of angels angeli that law was waa that they should return good for evil kindness for unkindness that they should pray for bior those who despitefully used them that they should be generous even to te those who injured them that they should salute their one enemies niles and show favor unto onto them for if they did pot do this they were no BO better than the cans As aa latter day we are under this law god ulrea us to pra practice those principles that jesus taug it wi nd unless we do so BO we are not the be children of god we are not latter day Fla saints ints we may call ourselves by t ie hollest holiest of titles we may vaunt our religion to the skies we way may decla a that we hive hare had communion with god and have been ministered to by holy angels and have hare had revelations from him but I 1 say aay to you today in this congregation unless we live up to these principle plim whish jesus jems taught we are not the true disciples of the ison bon of god and we will be found wanting in the day of the lord jesus we oan can not net return retura hate for hate and aad be fusti iu stifled fied in ia doing so we cannot can net return evil fr for evil and expect god to sustain as s in ia doing it I 1 do not care who the men are that indulge la in that spirit I 1 say ay to you my brethren and sisters aters st this day i in the presence of god that if they fey do ae this they will lose loee the spirit of god that spirit will with draw itself front from them and they will be left in darkness thereto there is no justi just fleetion flea tion for say ay such thing on the contrary all the words of G Gd A pro bounce against aoh such a spirit and feeling eiling I 1 cannot speak peak evil of my brother and be justified Jua tined in doing it I 1 cannot do wrong to my brother so no matter what his wrong may be tome to me and be justi fled ded god will not sustain me in 14 it neither either will he you those who do this rupy may think they have justification tor for it but they cannot in ia the spirit of wit tb auy any uch such justification I 1 wanted to bear my testimony to this thia in line with the teachings that brother gowans and brother james H anderson anderaon have given to us this thia afternoon I 1 know kaow that their teach lags ings are correct anu and I 1 believe j net fast as brother gowans has stated that men who have endured many trials and passed through many ordeals will it if they are not careful lose the spirit of god and got get atto darkness and be led astray and imagine t that a at they are justified before the lord in takang the course that they do take it is for each one of us to liva so BO humbly and so 80 meekly before the ard that we shall not grieve his holy spirit and not offend our beuthen bruthen and our slater sl stere and maintain their fellowship their god without grieving the spirit of god and he will have to answer for it can I 1 in my position lon do this good 0 ad feeling and their faith for ul u f if t we felt as we should do rather than offend one of the thaw little one swe we would get down on our knees knee before them and confess confer our wrongs to them jesus warned the people in his day on this thin point says bay he take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones for I 1 say may unto you that in heaven their angels do always alway behold the face of my father which is if in heaven no man can offman the humblest member of the family of my humble brethren no I 1 cannot it to ie as obligatory upon me or upon president woodruff or upon president smith or upon any of the twel ve re apostles as it Is upon um the humblest member in the church not to offend not to grieve not to wound our brethren and our sisters either in thought word or aa act t god requires this of us ue and we must comply with that requirement or we shah grieve his holy spirit and it will depart from us you know what paul hs has said about charity though I 1 speak with the tongues of men azid arid of angels and have not charity I 1 am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal and though I 1 have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though I 1 have all faith so 0 o that I 1 could remove mountains and have not charity I 1 am nothing and though I 1 bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I 1 give my body to be burned and have not charity it profi teth me nothing I 1 desire to bear my tea in accord with the testimony of my brethren who have spoken and to draw a distinction in ybur minds between the law of moses given to an ignorant and a 14 degraded peo people ale and the law ot of jesus given to his disciples and alven given to us I 1 in a these theme days day that we may know now the difference and be led by the spirit to take the rl right course be before fore him I 1 pray god that this thie may be the cow caw with all of us in the name of jesus amen |