Show J REMARKS sis RIS 1 by president BRIGHAM YOUNG t anthe the tabernacle G 8 L city april Z rep eer DEPARTED R ir M BYG D WATT 4 you have heard what elder eider E ider lder charles 8 kimbail has nas h as said this a afternoon relating tin to the general belief tf of the people ilithe in the old count countries ries rles that brigham you young reads all leitess letters before th they ey leave this country and if any are nut not wrt watten ten teu en to suit cult him they are dest destroyed koyed foyed by y his ader in his ibis way they accord t for so jew few letters reaching the tho members of the church in in distant lands landsi from their friends fiends here in utah I 1 will now make a public request th that a t the saints hereafter heib helb anter after cease to bring their letters to me if there are any that have ever done sua sul buch such a thing and I 1 also request the postmasters masters throughout the terr tern territory atory to stop sending all foreign letters to me formy inspection previous to mailing malling for abroad that is s if they have ever done clone sucha thing and for this simple reason that I J have so much to do that I 1 cannot possibly pay attention to such an extensive amount of reading if any of you 11 or if if f any affy df the people in any part of of the territory have ever sent letters to me to read previous to sending bending them to their friends abroad he be so kind as to take notice and cease to do this thing time henceforth if any postmaster master has ever sent me a single letter to read belonging to any a n person jew of oi gentile saint oi or sinner I 1 yec xee request fuest hini him nayer never to dp so again forIlla for 1 have vb sueh such an extensive correspondence of ofay nay awil that it is li a very ery great labor tor for ma me tot read and answer what I 1 am ani obliged to do dd in my business and ana calling people who suppose that I 1 can see and read the foreign cor eor correspondence respond ene enc e of this wh whole ole oie community give me credit forari amount of physical and mental endurance which I 1 do not possess bro eft Oft charies charles arles aries has hns strongly requested those who have friet ads in the 01 ol old oid countries to wnnie write fo tto them and I 1 ifould make heake the same request that you yow ou write nl 6 often tay to your fathers and mothers and brothers nd sisters acquaintances and nel bel neighbors 1 adoll whom you haye laidve left behind diitto in thos se seo eold 0 coun countries n fies tell them the truth with regard to td the people p zihere Ti here biere and with regard TO i the couri t try and I 1 when you who hta are going to t arrive there chere f tell the people t the he truth in this country there is eunity for people to get nich rich to gather up property and accumulate and store up yealth ralth raith abd uha the mind the people are in that they do not take tl time rw to write to their friends eilas and many not even to fulfill fulfil their prom I 1 ses to write ite eo some m e 0 lif afim acim OS ids lavey laver ave borrowed b or owed money ol 01 1 bif the tt old coun countries t ries rles and promised to work when they got goi to Afner america ica lea and send it back again to them have forgotten t to 0 do so I 1 am sorry to be obliged to bay say this thi s if I 1 could have my way ever every y man who professes grof professes esses to be a saint would act apt like a saint however eio Elo wever vever wel we are trying to bd saints we have embraced the gospel of the son soli of god wa 6 have bi embraced a marvelous marvelo us work a work which is a great wonder to all people As the prophet ha said therefore behold I 1 will proceed to doa do a marvelous i work among this people even a marvelous work and a wonder for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the under sfa standing of their prudent men be hid the brethren have been testifying to the truth of this work and there therel is not a man or a woman on this earth who receives th the spirit espirit of the gos gospel el but what can cark testify to its truth we are the witnesses of this great work which the lord has ha commenced in the latter days were you to ask me how it was that I 1 embraced mormonism I 1 should answer for the simple reason that it embraces all truth in heaven and on earth in the eartly thunder ear under the earth and iii in beil tell if there be any ally truth there therl there is no truth outside of it there Is no good outside there thera is no virtue outside of it there is nothing holy and honorable outside of it for wherever r these prino prine principles aples are found among all ali the creations of god the gospel of jesus christ and hla hia order and Prist priesthood hood embrace them when we talk about making sacrifices for this work the word to tome me is without meaning for if a man desires to get a good name a good character if it he wishes to make fast friends if he wish ft ish es wealth comfort joy and peace in all ohis othis life here on the earth let him embrace the truth and then live it when the unbeliever has a realizing sense of his own condition he lays jayo i down on his bed in sorrow he wishes things were a little different he lays down in borrow sorrow and andl wakes up in jn doubt to live every hour and min ute lite through the day in alixi anxiety ety eby there may be hours and minutes in which people forget themselves buti when their minds dwell upon their situation and being in life they are aroln in doubt th they ey are in and ignorance the they y donot do not know who they are what they are ard on the tile earth for they th ey know k nothing of their pre existence or comparatively little of their present existence only that they are here in the world and by and b by y they will die and leave the world where they will go when they lehv leave leavo e the world they know not and there are many who do not care cake some strive to be infidels to a great deal of that which i true to that which it would be to their best interest to believe elleve and know f if you have truth you have got what is called MOrmonism or more properly the gospel of life aud and salvation it is here and it is nowhere else to the same saing extent that it is in the doctrine that this people say they have embraced do they know it all in comparison to what we have yet to learn of the thin things s of god we are but babes and sue suc klings in the knowledge of god goti our father in ih the knowledge 60 of his work and of the labor and tu the mission of our lord jesus christ mut that we profess to tb be so familiar with if it can be said of us that wearer we are children in ld the knowledge of god we have ave progressed toie tole tolerably tolerably rabi ly well it has been remarked this afternoon how difficult it is for fop our elders eiders td go abl forth and contend with the learning of theace the age you heard the few remarks regarding inu ing the religions of the day da and the idea that generally prevails in Christi christian countries cotin tries that it requires men to ba quail qualified fled fleo and learned and eloquent to stand before the people to act as religious deorle teachers ieli I 1 will give kive you the reason why this is so 0 when hf a alse false theory has to be maintained it bequir requires es to tobe be set forth with much barei care it requires study and learning and eutin cutin cunning inz sophistry to gild over a falsehood anu ana gire it the semb semblance latice of truth and make it plausible and congenial to the feelings of the people but butt the most simp leand abild unlearn unlearned elj person cau can catt t tell ell you the truth A child ean can tell you oil t the he truth in childlike child like ilke language haigue 6 1 w while h ile lle falsehood requires the law lawyer r and t he the priest to tell it to make it at all glausi ble bler it requires re cirps stio e education to mako make make falsehood falsehood pass pasq for truth anciently clent ly all the people and the bubli cans who heard jesus justified god being baptized with the baptism of john but the tho pharisees Pharis ees and lawyers reject edthe counsel el of bf god against tb themselves not being baptized baptize dof of him when wilen a simple honest hearted man sent of god with the truth to the world shall shail qu letri led azz rh halile rs ot false uil bli falls off and falsehood in jail its deformity for mity stands naked and exposed 1 I have hav scon seon scores s of times read from the bible biblo and the tho people would declare that it lt was wag kasnot not the christian bible bibie buethe but the I 1 morn Morr mormon apil 11 bible I 1 was reading in and to tp convince them to the contrary would have to read the title page men are educated to promulgate and sustain false theories to make ii money ioney loney and to create and uphold powerful power till fill sects and they teach with their learning and deny the holy ghost which utterance because of of pride ride and because of false teachers a and nd faise false false faise doctrine their churches have become corrupted and their churches are up p because of pride they thes are puffed up theyron they rob the tho poor because of their fine sanctuaries they rob the poor because of their fine clothing and they persecute the meek and the poor peor in hearty because in their pride they are puffed up and all this because tho fa fathers tIters transgressed the laws changed tho ordinances and broke the ever last ing covenant delivered unto anto them the truth is easily understood and as easily told dold the agriculturist and ihor ther mechanic can tell the truth and become efficient ministers of it by living faithfully in accordance with what they know of the gospel for in this way they obtain the holy ghost which utterance education is a good thing and blessed is the man who has it and and camuse can ean use it for the dissemination of the gospel without being puffed up with pride but god hath chosen the foolish thi things of the world to confound the wise and god hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and base j things of the world and things which are despised hath god chosen yea and things which which are not to naught things which are that no flesh should glory in his presence however good and useful a d classical education may bean be in of a good and wise man yet it is not essen essentially necessary for him blim to have aitto it to tell th the tho e simple truth which is is give given m to mankind by the revelations of god be cause it can be told fold by the simple simpie and the unlearned if the profession oad of a lawyer is chos enby enjoy any person he needs to be educated in all the kearnin learning g of ther the age to be bo successful for it is a hard thing for foj him to make a man appear innocent before a jury abury of his countrymen whom he knows known to be guilty it is a haril hard matter matten to make A jury of men endowed not with great learning perhaps 9 but with hard bard sense believe belleve t that at white is blaek black laek and that black is white as the case may be to present the truth in such sueh a way that they will believe it is a lie and a lie in buch puch a way that they will believe it ibis itis is a truth it re requires quites a lawyer ra a man who is well weil ell eil schooled in all that men know to make things appear what they really are not nol i that which will apply to law in this case will apply to a false religion we take our young men who have been brought up in this community and I 1 care not whether they can read a chapter in the bible or not if they will repent p ent and seek diligently for the spirit of the lord and send them out into the world to preach the gospel and if they are faithful they will be able ere long iong by the blessing of god to confound f t tue ae a great and the wise of the age in matters e of theology 1 I thank thee 0 father lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid bid these things from ther wise and prudent and hast bast revealed them unto mes babes lt was observed here fibre this afternoon arter after noon poon thatis that it requires our hoys boys sto to cointo go into the tha world fo preach the truth to know that the older portion of this his community embraced the truth through the conviction of it and prayed unto the lord for the light ight of it and they received the test testimony mony of the spirit of god but our ch children do nob not know the greatness of their blessings and privileges rl i leges they are entitled to the spirit of the gospel from their mothers wombs they have it 11 with 1 th them all nil the time they ark are born 1 ini iri 1 1 it we WL say that they are arg rude that they are rough and unmanageable ac they do not know that they possess the light of f the them holy spirit uniti unia they go out oui into the world and learn lear nt the great gon eon con tras tsee see seo the blackness bt bf nighta nights the anick darkness of bf error thac that has settled I 1 i down like a great pall upon the moral and abid religious world they hear their thein fathers pray arid alid they hear the and prophets preach but they cannot know that mormonism is true for themselves until they being placed in circumstances to exercise faith themselves for nor andio alq ato pray to god I 1 for themselves for foe testa mony and knowledge then they obtain the power of the tile holy spirit JM rumus jiji jim alf eup how tow will which ell cli aa awakens theny senses an and df they enow know for t themselves MY for and answers their prayers I 1 could say something en encouraging courvi to parents if they would heed let iet et nghe t the father and mother who are are ire members of his ahls church and kingdom take a rig righteous hf course and strive with ali ail all tall their might never to do a wrong 1 but todo todo goodall good all ail their lives if they have one child or one hundred children if they conduct themselves towards them as they should binding them to the lord by their faith falth faith falth and prayers I 1 care not i where those children go they are bound up to their parents by iby an everlasting tie and no pow power e r of earth or hell heli can separate them from their parents in eternity they will return again to the fountain from whence they sprang I 1 am sorry that this people are worldly minded that they are in their feelings and affections glued to the world so much as they are I 1 am sorry to hear elders of israel use words and manifest anger and impatience that are unbecoming men who are vess vessels els eis of the holy priesthood who are charged with words of eternal life to the world should strive continually in their words and actions and daily deportment to do honor to the great dignity of their calling and office as ministers and representatives senta tives of 0 the most high we are trying to be saints and many of the brethren bin sin and repent and ask forgiveness gi veness and and intend to do better in the future future and perhaps tomorrow to morrow they lose loae their temper and swear at their oxen etc they love the world imd and covet their fine horses their afree affections ions lons are upon them and upon their farms upon their property their how low houses ses and possessions and in the asame ratio that this is the case the holy spirit of god the spirit of their calling forsake forsaken them and they are overcome with the spirit odthe of the evil one so that they have not strength to ta resist the weaknesses of their nature and they swear swear and take tahe the name 5 of god in 14 vain are impatient with their families and orten often abuse them such things as ius these should not be among hmong the servants of or the most high if we have pbs possessions it is the loid llord has given them tor ta us and it luls itis is our duty to be see that everything we hay hav P laile is devoted voted to the 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