Show REMARKS or president loung soung I 1 tabernacle june 8 1662 SV BY GD 0 D WATT I 1 the miracles wrought in the days of moses f r the deliverance or of the children of israel tron fron tro fro n egyptian bondage as they are recorded i in ih th old testament appear to be wonderful I 1 displays of the power of god I 1 need not here rehearse the history of the children of israel with which the majority of this con gre gation ration are well but I 1 wish to say that if all instances where the power of god has been displayed the eiders eldera ot this church were written we A e should shoula find V at as great eat and wonderful asar miracles have have been been wrought among this people as nave been ansons any people iii lii ann an age of the wora and yet this church is only in ils its in fanoy fanty the children of israel it is written were brought out of egypt with an b h gh hand and an outstretched arm to inherit a land sowing with milk and honey honea we have assembled in these n stant distant valleys for he the trial triai of our falth faith They were delivered out of a dreadful bondage leaving none behind we ba ha e willingly sold and other A lse ise left our pos poa at the same time leaving friends parents companions etc behind tle the desance disa nce oce to their and land of promise was but a few miles from the country of their bondage while hile hiie bile a great many of this people eople have traversed over one half of the cloce globe to reach the valleys of utah bro goddard spoke this morang in relation to the words ot of theford pertaining to the saving of paper pa rad gad er rags his demarks lel lei narks narka were amusing and had bad be c coupled some of the anci ancl ancient elit eilt revelations and sayings recorded as the lords with his bis rein concerning raper taper rags those remarks ouid have been still more amusing such for instance as if a birds nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree or on the ground whether they be young ones or eg ege s and the dame sitting sitting up n the young or upon the tiie eggs thou shall bhail nor take the dain with the young 31 oung but thou ehalt in any wise let the d dam am g i and take the young to thee that it may be well with aith thee and that thou prolong thy day days again thou liot not plow with an ox and an as together again thou shall bhail make th thee ee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture we sture th thou co verest thyself 1 1 etc etc seeing many such fuch instances a as these in the he bible we cannot marvel at it a man mans talking a bout about paper raga in a religious meeting and saying that it ia Is the word of the L ta rd or least the word of wisdom that we hould should save oui our our rags 7 t let U us s realize on one e bactin in ad addition dialon eto ato oto to the y great reat miracles lii iki thaha aviezer avi ever beep exhibited amo imo g gods goda 0 people l froin froba the beginning of the world to this time when ihen tiie tire lord has gathered together er a people to be a chosen people to him be he has always begun to educate by instruct instructing ing them in the little things beerta pertaining 1 ning 0 life ilfe which he i ever does when I 1 la a p people e ople opie remain mixed with ith the wicked before the upon the children of israel to leave egypt he had no I 1 such instructions for them as we haye have quoted he be had nothing to say to them about governing themselves nor about driving darivin 1 I out their enemies before them nor taking a course to sustain themselves in fact they were far below thi thil l people in the scale of independence and civilized life in righteousness this people tar far excel the ancient iare lare alres alUes indeed I 1 would not wish 0 compare the righteousness of the children of israel with the righteousness of the latter day saints for multitudes of the latter da day saints will enter into the rest of he lord but only two persons persona out butof of the hosts of israel were permitted to do so go while the meek of the earth remain scattered among the wicked the elders of this church can go forth with the old and new kew testament in their bands hands and show what t the lord i going 0 do in the latter days the great reat miracles be he will perform the gathering of his bis people the be saving of hla hia saint saints the building up of zion the tb redeeming of the house bouse of israel the establishing of the new jerusalem the bringing back of the ten tribes and the consuming ot of their enemies before them ove oie throwing ki king 1 n tomes toms tomb etc ec and this is proclaim d to bot both saint arid and sinner but when the people of god are gathered out to one place ethey they are th n taught the so called little hags that pertain ertain to every day life which they cannot te be taught tau bt while they are in a scattered condition many nany come here under a mistaken impression lu th they think they the are gathered to th a place to hrit lilt be told how bow people live in heaven to receive a minute dis crip caption tion ol 01 0 the inhabitants of heaven to be told how bow they associate together whether they live in cities of what the houses are built what kind of architecture prevails cherep there how the c ties are laid out and how the heaven ol 01 0 heavens is built who bo dwells there e the inhabitants came from their stature and complexion whether god is a personage conage of tabernacle or not w what hat means for locomotion locomotion he uses when lie he visits his bis friends what t te tie e eats for breake breakfast st how often he be he chanes chanani cha nei nes his c othes what style of cio clo clothia ig he wears of what kind of material it is mad made whether they have winter aid add summer in heaven seed tim and harvest etc etc but no my brethren this ia Is not whal what what you I 1 av come coine here for the lord haa baa called the people together toge toe thet expressly to teach them the things which per ai to this world and tol toi to this i fetha they may know how to honor the lile me lie he has them here the inhabitants of the earth are arc ignorant with regard to the design 0 their being the are as ignorant ignot arit arlt in his this bis respect as the wild an mals maid tta thit roam over the plains they my be very wry religious but the religion that n i popular in the word now is entirely an another ther thing from the ways of the lord mall mail man of ot their aradi lons ions are good nd many ot the people much good rood moril morril religion reli rell gioi giol I 1 nay may may way a eo so ir nr aa as morality morat ity goes that they are just juat as good aa as eople can be but they are not taught how to govern aid aid control themselves they are not taught the worth of their present life the whole nole hole drift labor and exertions of the priests of the day among ebe ehe deop e areto are to prepare them to dl anever I 1 never uever aad such a mission cission give to me nor received such a from the heavens I 1 have been to preach life and not loot death jt it is my busin bubin nisin ss as to teach mankind how to I 1 ves ve how bow to honor their pr sant existence bow how to treat bodies so as to live to a good old age ae on th the earth ant ana have po er to do good and not levil devil eol eul all their days aad aid be ready to enter into the rest prepared for the saints sainta alm almost oat any elder eider in his his bis church an preach the goepel if it lie he is humble before god he tie can ell all t tat at the i wo id ld need to hear florn the old and new testament many of oe the elders are scholars and when they preach AC we expect to bear almost a bible and a half preached before they ge through they car carry you through the bistor cal portions repeat the sayings of the old prophets diate laige laidely lytt n batti on tto doctrinal portions of the ne new testament gage the moralie mor roo ailt aliL of the present aoe age age by b repeating verbatim the moral leton feton leson lessons 4 ot of the savior are die at home among the beasts of the apocalypse and the prophetical heads beads and horns of D niel are thoroughly posted in be ilie time times and half a time know the contents of all the vials when they wili will be poured outs out can del dilate to a nicety the different parts ot of daneils danells metal meta limage in n a d they are paragons in bible lor butia but if you ask them whether they know bow po potatoes poa toes to feed their wives and answer is no do you know how bow to braise raise grain for your brad br ad no D do you know how to raise water melons no do you how bow to raise pigs forvour for your meat 4 bof noy no I 1 do you know to raise chickens no do you love to eat cat them yes yea 7 do you know how to raise calves calve no 3 you may in y give g live them a cow and calf and I 1 two vear year yearb years wiil will i not ot pass before they have neither fow kow cow nor calf do you know how bow to improve your fruit truit no and thus thua they live without trying to produce for themselves these necessaries and comforts of life finally what do you know why we know that we must prepare lepare to die there are people who iden geen bave bare beed been in this city twebe twelve years and have noty no planted in g ens a w single 1 1 ing lee iee ler fruit tree the lord wishes 0 eslieb ua us t to 11 k now 0 w bowab how bow to pray arbide de for ou selves belies all things necessary fon ton for our oar comfort in bread fruit fruits add and clothing go 1 Si d you yoa yo a know how bow to make woolen woi en loth lin jin n cloth or cotton bloh probably a few of you do almost any female can kni nit t a stocking for this seems to be their em plo ment merit when they sit down to rest children are ta got to knit but the majority never progress any f urther further than this in he the art ae of manufacturing in addition to this needle work is generally understood by the female portion of community but as a general thing what hat bat do they know about making cloth cioth very little they need to be taught y t they the know as aa much about abort these matters as t ther thep by cb children ildren of israel did they also need to ba be taught when their husbands bring into the house bouse it tun ti undred dred weight of flour not to throw it out of the door and when they make bread or of it to make it light palpable and beltry belt healthy by instead of making cakes as indigestible indig estAble aa as ston stone that thaul when our husbands come from work and arid your children from school they t may way have bread to pat cat that will sit easy on their s o oma clis clia many blany husbands are made nade sick find and man v i children are sent to an un time timely i y grave through eating badly prepared food the result of ignorance or carelessness this is the place to become acquainted with this k kin cledge it is for the husband to learn bow to gather around his family the comforts f life how to control his passions and temp r and how low to command the respect not hot no only oy of his 1 I family but of all his bis brethren sisters bisters and friends it is the calli calling tig oc of the wife an i 1 mother to know what to do with everything ever thing that is brought into the house labeling laboring to make her home des rable to her ber husband and her children making herself an eve in the midst of a little paradise of her own creating securing her hu hubanks bands love and confidence P arid and tying lying her ber offal ring to herself with a love that is stronger than death for an everlasting inheritance there is a a saying baying abing aying tuat a wife so disposed can throw out of the window with ith a teaspoon more lnore than her bub bus husband can throw into the door with a shovel I 1 am sorry to say that this is too much tl ti e case A good housewife disposes of her cool ing utensils dusters austera du stera t wels floor cloths clotea barrels buckets e c v in a t neat leat cleanly and ibor I 1 ibor satrig manner A good mechanic ba has i a place for every tool and hen then he has don done using a tool it is returned to its place as by magic without an any apparent effort I 1 have watched our mechanics bre and take them first and last their ways w sya iya if not strewed to strangers are strewed to nonsense A good farmer takes care of his implements of husbandry instead 0 of leaving them scattered scatter id all over the farm bey are carefully gathered together prop aly cleaned add and grea ed to defend t e from rust aad and put in a safe place placer until they are wanted there are very tew lew of our farmers that know how to paepae atre alre t e ground arid and plant the seed in a way to secure a ready germina tion and luick gi growth I 1 told tod my arme i this spring cpr I 1 ng how bow to p ebare the ground for sugar cane and to plant the seed enree fourt s of an inch deep I 1 acted ten days for the plants to show themselves when I 1 found he the seed was put away six inclines be low the surface and I 1 tough twel laid awa away from the frost of the winterhof winte winter of 1863 itla etia now beginning to show itself five weeks since it was planted I 1 would that people knew more than they do about these important matters but we are where we can be taught will the people be taught will hey they ci cheerfully jeer fully receive instruct tion and profit ty y il I 1 hire the he best garden ers era I 1 can find and they are ignorant of their business they scarcely know one apple from another or one fruit tree from another if ifa I 1 spend five hundred dollars to have a strawberry bed made I 1 may perhaps get a quart or two of the f fruit ruit I 1 may eaf eat safey ey say that I 1 shall shail not re eive enough truit fruit to half cover the outlay I 1 can instruct any man how to improve seedling fruit sad and have it aa as good as the im ported kinds the best fruit hat bat ever grew will detonate dete det enate unde bad management and neglect I 1 advise farmers and andt gardeners to understand stand their bus liu iness ainess and make it profit able also to mechanics would I 1 give the same advice and I 1 w uld advise the sisters not i only to save their p per rags but to learn how bow to properly iro perly and profitably dispose of 0 nevra new 1 c clot ciot I 1 0 t when they get it jlii peti 4 cleanliness cle cie an finess liness and neatness of person are desirable and good to see but this may be carried to an ex reme that is both tiresome and arid expensive there is a class th t is more nice than wise nothing less han than ban linen pocket h hd kerchiefs by the dozen will answer for some somme of our ladies husband dont get me oft less than three dozen handkerchiefs for I 1 roust have from three to half a dozen aday a day it is so nic to be clean when used a handkerchief twice or three times it is thrown into the iha washtub wash tub to be rubbed to pieces and wasted away in this way you get no good of your money the article i IB 8 not then ihen worn orn out in service but it is washed out then when you hang and pin your clothes on the do besl bes I 1 tries ne they are left 0 to o be whipped chippe d I 1 to pieces pieces in in a high winds wind and are more used up jn in one operation of this kind than if they J bad had been worn three months it is useless J for h husbands to suggest to them the expediency of taking the c othes in for they will let them remain notwithstanding and be worn out go into the kitchens of these very nice neat wives who can nurse durse a chandker chief to a charm and apply it to their nasal with such refined grace raice and you bear sally asking sue for the dishcloth dish fi h cloth cioth where ii in the dhea cloth cioth it is found stuffed into a i mouse ouse hole holc or jim ba hab has s just co conae me gri fri in from the kanyon and is washing bis big feet m with it b it then there is an outcry for the knife the they Y cut mea roea with 11 where is the butcher knife billy has |