| Show REMARKS BY BT icard EIDER B H ROBERTS I 1 stake Confer conference enoe ogden ag the weber july 16 1893 Sd sunday ay by BF ARTHUR r IR SpORTED of brother orson orion remarks the auter eat et to the people and ate are of great character with view toe ire in la Is for that the time lime ripe mm I 1 believe of the th purposes of the during his remark a the lord and of the revels I 1 iu D one few paragraphs doctrine stripe aud alid covenants oyve Dant the lotions in which I 1 will red mat df to my ini ia I 1 came first some ot of trie me aheu s riding reach the gospel the elders out to I 1 lorl laid eaid to them out 0 to reprove the behold I 1 send you yo unrighteous deeds and world of all their which is to judgment S of a to tea teach oh them tome and an a whoso receive th you there will I 1 before your face I 1 will be ale 0 for I 1 go 9 right hand band and on your will I 1 e on your shall be in your hearts lafland tand mys piriE round about bouto bear angels and mine you ia up receive eth you vou receive recel veth th me choso whoso jsu and the same W will ill feed deed you and clothe YOU and give yoa money clothes jand be who reed 4 you or you yo shall in no wise money or r gives you lose his reward d not these things is i and he that byth by this isyou you may know M fie disciples that rece eveth you yourselves not go aws away and y by from mm him alone beet feet even with water pure cleanse aser yur your in heat beat or in cold and W ter anether unto father of it your bar testimony and return not again heaven blitch ia in and d that in mitt ever village or city ye do likewise and a arah diligently that house unto ot or aws aa taht not SS and or woi ad ait oit wo y that Jeo teth you or tead mony concern bour words or your in IV jai rv abath unto that house or talat wity fw you or of testimony me forvour or your for corti 11 tho have w laid y upon the aba nations to orCe th them yass ys so ss hand hyi t til y from 4 e 40 gaigl bo lk v Is tia my t oft efimi all nih ghail know me ijas who remain roma iii att htwa VU leg least st unto the greatest and W be filled with the kilow knowledge ledge of the lord and again g x in it is IB written and the bishop newel K whitney yo also should tra travel ei round about and searching ing after amol among g all the churches ahe he poor to administer to their wants by humbling the rich and the proud ile fie should also emp employ loyan an agent to take charge and to do his secular business as he e shall direct nevertheless let the bishop go unto the oily city of new york also to the city of albany and also to the city of boston and nd warn the people of those cities with the sound of the gospel with a loud voice of the desolation and utter otter abolishment which await them if they do reject these things for if they do reject these things the hour of their judgment is nigh and their house shall be left unto them desolate qu on another occasion the lord said aid to his bia servants behold I 1 sent you out oat to testify and warn the people and it becot beo hath every man who hath been warned to warn his hia neighbor therefore they are left without excuse and their sins are upon their own heads he fie that me early shall find and me and shall chall not be forsaken abide ye in the liberty wherewith ye are made free entangle not your selves in sin but let your bands be becklean clean until the lord come for not many days hence and the earth shall tremble and reel to and fro as a drunken man and the sun shall hide his face and shall refuse to give light and the moon shall be bathed in blood and the stars stare shall become exceeding augry and shall cast themi themselves elves down as a fig that falleth from off a fig tree and after your testimony cometh wrath and indignation upon the people for after your testimony cometh the testimony of earthquakes earthquake fg that shall cause groenings groan ings in the midst of her heir and men shall fall upon the ground an and d shall not be able to stand and also cometh the testimony of the voice of rings and the vo voice ce of and the voice of tempos tempes a band and the voice of the waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds and all things shall be in commotion and surely mens mena hearts shall fail them lor for fear shall come upon all people and angels shall fly through the midst ot of beav heaven crying with a loud voice sounding the trump of god saying prepare ye prepare ye 0 inhabitants of the earth for the judgment of our god is in come behold and lol lo the bridegroom cometh go ye out to meet him it is well to remember when reading these words that we are not reading I 1 11 black letter in som e ancient work about some ancient people but we are reading the words of god bod as they nave have been revealed through the inspired prophet joseph smith and tey appa to the generation la in we live it it Is the dearce of time the lord imbat these shall KO go westfor to gruity and please the stair N no 0 to gratify any fee dag 9 that alf exists no such would be ot or lae father of the human raw race it would not be worthy of wd when aben a wise parent chua with corporeal to it A to reve to ireful telling tell ng in the bread of atee parent that would be a verr tory of paren parentage ibe I be lieve lieTe that hodle never be inflicted by bya a for thi the correction and the reclaiming of the child anu and I 1 have always looked upon the judgments judgment doomed decreed of 01 god and that have been predicted both by ancient and modern prophets AS events which shall prove corrective of the evils that exist and not to gratify revengeful feelings in the breasts of the saints baina of god who way have suffered at the hands bands of the wicked much less iem to gratify any revenge revengeful fu feelings f eel ings in the heart of f our father in heaven Suffer suffering ingle is the fruit of the transgression of law and these predicted calamities which we call the judgments of god will be but the consequences of sin bin in the works ut of infidel writers the flood to ie referred to as an exhibition of cruelty on the part of deity and their descriptions of it have hav been drawn out la in sucha manner as an to cast reproach upon the justice skid a ad mercy of wj go god and at the first glance it seems cult to justify such a great as we regard the flood to be by which the whole race of men on was well nigh swept out of existence the rho of that generation however had corrupted themselves almost past our comprehension it is written that the be thoughts of their hearts were evil continually and they bey were ours cure ing their p with that inclination to evil which they had contracted by their wickedness they would have bare stamped all succeeding genera tins with their weaknesses a and nd proneness ness to wrong doing and those pure spirits that existed in the me presence of god that had not yet tabernacle 1 in the flash would have bad to come through that sin cursed lineage and would have hare been placed at a great disadvantage in their arba pr ba tion because parentage had bad a wonder ful influence upon the formation of character gid knew this and he knew that it if that generation geoe ration of won men were permitted to continue coutin ue pr propagating their species the result would be that a curse and not a blessing wt w uld be brought upon his children who lived with him in heaven in justice then to the untold millions of stil rite that were to come to the earth the lord destroyed that generation of men that lived lu iu the days of noah I 1 see moo in that act an act of 0 mercy rather than cruelty the people tu iu the days day of noah were cut off kofl from the warth that their wickedness might not toe be perpetuated in their children and anda more righteous branch of th thi human family was preserved that the that had bad to tabernacle in pie e eloph might have a better parentage than ake 6 wicked antediluvians and consequent ly a better prospect of successfully ao a comp lishing their heir mission in this probation than they would by coming through a wicked parentage tage so 80 in tb 11 generation the he lord a I 1 his pur 6 id 0 iko and W 0 i 5 at woo 1 th there re be a app ra 6 cut 4 a I 1 is I 1 in I 1 the 0 carrying 0 out f I 1 p r id 01 a pro in the licad t f goda J but hoke bere iiii wat t I 1 would A imi UP upon Y you we ai oase ire lord the t bomor Bt mor V 9 91 oi i W a tr vante to thi the ibe dalaw W W irm a ta w hw one i rth ayd and ahall ak iki abroad in op te berth othere nail b be a ithe ai tt timao M jr f cyclone ki of jm peat pt 0 aea heaving i t 4 91 alyc 1 yond 1 tiou R ono 9 art too te ala heart of men mell I 1 for fear pf af the things it ti coming 1 mankind loo 0 upon our present condition the there is a lack of confidence egisti existing ng everywhere especially in regard to fina aua olal matters and the hearts of men are alre failing them and everybody is won dering and speculating about how and when we shall get rid of our present financial troubles well for my own part I 1 think perhaps we may from time to time bridge over little difficulties such as 88 those that now DOW confront us but will they stay settled and will the millennium of peace and pro prosperity sperl come upon the inhabitants of the earth I 1 do not expect it until the judgments of god have accomplished aked their purpose one of the ancient prophets said eaid when thy judgments judgment i are in ID thearty thear the earth tb the inhabitants thereof will learn righteousness P 9 and I 1 io do not expect to see ee the world cured of its evils until they do learn righteousness nesa and learn to honor and respect the laws of god there is ie but one foundation upon which men or nations way may build permanent prosperity and that foundation is nothing less lees thau than the foundation of and judgment and truth rhe world can not got get along without observing these things any more than we can ano allu they have that lesson to learn anu and while finali financiers ciers and statesmen may patch up these difficulties that now exist heal these little sores quiet these little fears I 1 venture the suggestion that it will only be temporary relief and that the evil will make itself apparent somewhere else forthe for the evils that are abroad in the world are cou COD in their character they have become chronic oh it is a wonlu that has gone wrong and it will require a oud god to set it right the wisdom of congresses and of parliaments will not be sufficient clent the wisdom of man cannot cope with these evils evil and men will et at learn that they must turn unto the lord god ut ot israel for deliverance so that instead of expecting to see the troubles tr of the world grow legs lebs I 1 believe they will increase we have gut got in that condition whore where we will get much worse be ore we bt come permanently well we may expect to see calamities in the world multiply the judgments ot of gd are following the lean mouy ut the elders of israel the elders of toe the church of jesus christ chnat have tieu going to and iro fro in the world for the last jut sixty years the inhabit ants anthof of the earth of those things that thai were coming epou them ani and have iu in season and out of season cried repentance to this generation last week we read of a tearful fearful cyclone that passed up the bioux river valley in the state of iowa I 1 was especially interested interest eu iu in that matter because that was my old field of labor to in fact my first field of labor as u missionary I 1 reau freaa how that terrible tornado whipped out of the ground grou nd au an iron pipe there was wag only six leet feet of 0 it above ground yet so BO terrible was the storm tuat it took that pipe and twisted it out of the grouns stid and carried it away the same storm wrenched out of a k threshing maccine its ite steel cylinder and carried that off and audit it wept swept out of existence an entire village tillage when I 1 read of these terrible that overtook the be people of 01 that locality I 1 could lot L ot help but remember the labors of myself and other elders who traveled and warned them of these terrible storms and cyclones that were coming ilog in misstatements that were printed lo in one of the sioux city papers we took occasion to warn these people of the threatened judgments of goo god and called upon them to repent the editor published our communication and in in an editorial note said that he be did not publish the letter because he be had taken alarm at the mormons cormons Mor mons warning but bat he bad published it that the people might know now that there was a good deal oi 01 oily folly and ignorance to in this world an anu ani i that a great amount of it was cou con necked with mormonism my letter afforded a theme of merriment to them well I 1 wondered when read ing of that cyclone if they had forgotten the warning warn ing we had given I 1 suppose they had but bat the desai disaster ter came nevertheless we are told that after the testimonies of the servants of god cometh the let testimony of wrath and I 1 indignation ot of tempests and these shall testify of e power until men are brought to repentance pen tance I 1 believe the lord meant woal what he said in this I 1 believe that thai he is not to be mocked by this generation I 1 believe tue things decreed will have their fulfillment fulfilment however painful they may be latter day bainte are you aware of what a splendid testimony we have been bearing to the nations of late deark the hand band of the lord is visible in it it see mosto me he has taken it in hanu himself to mke make the entire people bear witness to the great things that thai he has predicted through his ser bauts mormonism has been having a pretty good hearing among men ol of late and the last few years year have bren been more fruitful of testimony hearing bearing than any other period of time in the history of the church some people have looked upon the last few years ot of our experience tie as unfruitful in accomplishing the purposes of god some have gone so far as aa to think that thai we have been actually lually ac in retreat and that we have been losing ground I 1 T think we are shortsighted indeed ind Q Z li we take lake such a view vew us as that mat to illustrate what I 1 bean let me call cail y yur ur attention to tiie nie ti ie experience ot of paul you know his history hist Try you biow how at one time he was a persecutor of the saints and nought bought to destroy the charon of christ you know jw that on his way to he overtaken was ty a vision ot of the lort lora and the lord put this very pointed question to ciui saul bau saul why pende cutest thou me and he saiu who art thou lord and the loru said I 1 am jesus whom thuu thou perse cutest 11 when he be lear learned ried that lie he very humbly enquired ot of the lord what he would have him do and he was waa told to go 90 into and it should there be told him what whal hv h should do you know how bow ne lie was via i led by one of the serva n to of the and the i ordinance of baptism oua admiria devid berid unto auto him and how afterwards it was waa rumored aut about that this great persecutor sec who had been casting the me saints into prison was waa now an advocate of those things he once bought to destroy you know how he labored at antioch Antio cb now how he went up to jerusalem to confer with the brethren thole how he be traveled throughout mace donla donia and greece establishing churches at athens athene in corinth Cori nib to in Thes salonica a d in other great cities and by and by you know how the horizon about him became suddenly dark and he was wai persecuted on every hand until be himself exclaimed that bonas and imprisonment seemed to threaten him in every city finally in order to escape from the wrath of the rabble he surrendered rendered aur himself a prie prisoner Oner to the roman biffl fal cial aiala suo he be had bad to languish lang |
