Friday 9th Snow storm in the morning
Filled & meeting commened at 9 oclok After Prayer the people
were Addresed By who exhorted the people & spoke
many good things
President said this people
are Blessed with all that Heart can wish and yet many
are not satisfyed this is the case with smome some spirits & they
want things illegally but is it not necessary that we should
have a Temple it is Absolutely necessary that we should have a
Temple to worship the Most High God in. A Tabernacle is to
assemble the Multitude for meetings but a Temple is to gather the
priesthood in that they may do the work of the Lord. are
we prepared to go & redeem our dead is their a place prepared
to go & redeem our dead No their is not we give
Here but it is like trying to step on the top round first. if we
had the privilege of steping on Building a Temple our works
would not be legal but we do these things untill we have time
to build a temple. if we had gone onto the top of the mountains
if we had no room it would be legal & right Brothe
says we have to mak our own heaven. The Lord cannot
save us if we do not save ourselves. if we expect to get ourselves
endowmets we have got to follow the footsteps that God has set for
us to walk in & if we walk in that channel God own our labours
& acknowledges all that is done. Now all the ordinances will
have to be attended to again when we get a temple yet if any
one dies in the faith those ordinances will be legal but all
that live will have to do it again And I want to say as a
Revelation that if you will not help build a Temple & have
faith in the work you will be lost a word to those who
have got their endowments we shall work as fast as
we can and what we have done is legal if we had been
in own land & had a right to a Temple we should not do as we now
do many have died in the faith have been worn out ther
ordainaces are legal. Those who came in the Church first &
are faithful have a right to the ordinances first. I wish
the people to understand that when the People Lord has
any thing for them they will have it But when the
Lord has Nothing for the people I dont wish them
to teaze me for what they cannot have. when their
is to be a work done I will tell you. Now we shall begin
to build a in 1853. This Tabernacle will have to
accomodate the people untill the Temple is built. if this wont
Answer for the People untill we build a Temple we will make
a Bowery on the North & South sides of the as soon
as the Temple is built we will give you your endowments
if their is any who was in & other places
& have Helped to build up the kingdom of God in the
early days we want to bless them first & if their is any
man or child who went in the or in
the Pioneers come forward & get your Blessings Before
others & we will bless you if you are faithful their
is no Blessing in the celestial Law or kingdom of God but
what you will get want to be sealed to my before
I shall be a legal heir. If I was to die & their was not a
child of mine to live to do it for me some Friend would be
raised up to do it for me if not my Body will soon be raised
up and I would be in some temple with my Brethren to
tell them what to do I can see the Hearts of men & the spirits of
of men if they do triy to be hid I can see them I see many
who asspire to be the first & to be above their fellows
But I can tell you all you will be rewarded according
to what you do whether you do little or much or nothing
at all some wish to be above Brother Brigham why was I not
called before Brother Brigham why does not some
one ask the Lord to appoint them to be above Brother Brigham
but the Lord will laugh at you such forget the kingdom of God
they are corrupt let evry man say what can I do to build up
the kingdom of God Ask the Mother who is triying to do the what Her reward will Be they will say I dont know I
will say if you are faithful & satisfied with yor condition in
this life and you will be blessed & satisfyed with your conditon
in the world to come let evry one strive to be satisfyed
with their condition in life & that will be a Blessing to them
we are in debt & we can pay those debts in oxen now
we want to have the Brethren turn out some oxen to pay
those debts &c
Elder followed in some interesting
remarks & said the spirit of God was burning like a fire
in his bones I dont ask Brother Young to say that the
Lord has sent him & that He must say this or that in the nam[e]
of the Lord I dont belive that any man has made a
for this kingdom for all that a man does He gets his
reward for not ownly in this world but in the word to come
eternal life. it is distressing to hear men say they want
the president to get a Revelation in order to do this or that
His council to me is sufficient. I Also hear men say that
we are the off scourings of the Earth it is a great Burlesk on
the Church & kingdom of God yfour you are the greatest people
& the most Blessed of any on Earth you have power to teach
kings & princes & potentates of the Earth tremble. I have seen
a man that had learned But 3 letters & forgotten 2 of wasthem
was ignorant yet He made A learned Doctor fear & tremble &
leave the House this people are a wonderful people there are none
like them I Have herd the president say that instead of our
being called to pay one tenth we should be healed as Tithing & end
all we possess be ready to help build up the kingdom of God the spirt
of God is w with this people
Brother next
Addressed the assemble & bore Testimony tha Joseph Smith
was a prophet of God tha Brigham Yong &
were prophets of God & that we had many prophets of God
remember the time when we were to work Hard to build the
in I remebered what Broth said that if
we were faithful in finishing this Temple we should have
our if we had to get them in a Tabernacle in
the wilderness we wear now in a tabernacle in the wilderness
& getting our Blesings He said He would lead us to a place wher
we should have & dirnk the pure stream from the mountns
we now see it & I bear testimony that we have a prophet of God
with us even a & it stregnghts my heart continaly
I enjoy all I have for if you do not listen to the voice & cou-
ncil of the of this Church it will be more toler-
able in the day of for than for
this people this has been one thing that has been an injury
to me when Brother Brigham went to He asked
me to go with him when He got into the waggon to start
I told him I could not go He said I could go & He kept
beckening for me as long as I was in sight I then mised
it & it was an injury to me. I have enlisted for a great
salvation we make our own Heaven or Hell & have Angels
or Devils enough to fill it. I dreamed the Had a look
ing glass by looking into it you could see all the faults of
your Neighbors but could not see any of your own
I also Dreamed A woman went into Bishop &
stole Sister dress & came out into the street I
followed her to get the dress when I looked into her face
I saw she was a wench I asked her
name she said it was Messmerism wyo who hav the
priesthood should be careful to do the will of God
President requested the Seventies & the prests
to meet him in the Meeting Adjoned tlill 2 oclk
Meeting Assembled at 2 ock was Addresed By Father
who bore testimony of the work & spok of the
Brothe next spoke bore testimony of
the work spoke of the endowments in the desire
Had to come to the wilderness but the Brethren wold
not come untill the Devel drove them out. would do
any thing for salvation Advised the Elders when thy go
out to preach not to teach anything they do not know
& stop when they get through
Brother next spoke & made many good remarks & said
18 year ago I was Baptized By Br confirmed By
. Brother said I will give you a key wherby
you may never fall alway keep within your bosom a Teachable
spirits. Brother Joseph said Be & Teachable &
the Lord will bless you speak a good word occasionally for
Brothr Joseph I believe the next time we are opposed the door will
be opened wider & wider then ever & we shall be Freeer then ever I
want to live in such a manner that at last we myay meet
Brother Joseph with a glad Heart & cheerful countenance & a smile
upon the face.
Brother next spoke & said our design is to teach this
people & perfect them for what is to come I have herd many
say what they had made for this cause but I have
left all for the cause I do not call it a sacrafice you are
to be rewarded with me. The Saints will have trials to
pass through the day will come when the women will have
to Feed the Beef & pork while the men go to war. take the
counsel of Brother & the Leaders of this Church you have
got to follow your leaders & they will lead you to the of God keep the things that have been committed to
you & the Lord will preserve you come to meeting to night male
& female at 6 oclk & we will tell you sumthing I never saw
this people when they were doing better or felt better than they
do to day I know that Brother is tender & kind to this
people their is no woman more kind to a child than He is
to this people He is a Father to us continually I am going
to put in evry ox I have got into the public works &
I want evry man to do the same untill the debts are paid
we must trust in God & cleave unto him as Jesus does unto the Fater
Meeting Adjored till evening when the was filled agan &
was Addressed By Bishop who told hHis experience since
He came into the Church & was followed By president Young
President Young Ar[o]se & said I will bear Testimony
to awhat Brother Hunter said that the Elders go work & pull
in ther wards & get the people to gather at my house if nowher
els & preach if it is but few moments I would pray & labor
till I could Preach you say that you would go & preach to the
Stranger & teach them the gospel I know it is esier to te[a]ch
them than it is to get the Saints togethr & teach them to
be saved & exalted I now it is the desire of this people
to get sumthing new But you should improve upon what you have
Here is the place to expose your ignorance & fals views, to let
them out & be corrected if you have faults dont go into
private Houses & preach them whare thare is No one to correct
you nor while abroad am[on]g others countrys but Here is the
place to let your errors out not keep them back. Teach
people to controll themselves teach good & practice it
Here is the place to become a polished shaft I like to reman
Here to see you to be with you. I want to say to the ofwere you ordained to preach the gospel if so it is not
wisdom or prudent to mingle with the excesses of the
wicked or in any of their exercises for then the devil will
have no Advantage over you I mingle with the Saints Here
in thei recreations & exercises but let me go abroad & subject
myself to mingle with the wicked I am on the Devils ground
& subject myself to him. If I mingle with any company Here
for recreation I controll that company but if I step onto
the Devils ground He controlls it. remember then at all times
that what you do do it in the name of the Lord & let all your
acts be to do the will of God it is so that A man could not
exercise his privileges because of the tradition of the world all
Christians would think it a great sin to have a Fiddle
they would say it is wicked to have music they have made it
a sin have not put a desire in my heart for music, but
the Lord Has. Music will calm the ferocious beastts who
caused this the Lord. I want to say a few words about
tithing you now what was said at the last confernce the
Saints have done more during the last 7 months than
in 7 years before I feel to bless you call upon this people
to put their all upon the & they will do it I feel like a
Father to this people No mother can love thHer babe more than
I do this people. when you do wrong I feel oppressed in spi[ri]t
& the Lord is grieved I feel to urge it upon you all to sceace
to do & learn to do righ all that we have is the Lords He
does as He pleases the Thrones & kingdoms of the world are
all governed by him & in the end all will be found right
& they will find they have an agency unto themselves &
all will do as they please if they do right they will be
saved get Glory & Exaltation & the wicked will go to Hell
there is no place whare God is not find empty space & there the
Lord will not be.
I will now preach you another Sermon
theis is one great Master inand Head in all kindgdoms & govermts
so with our Father in Heaven is a Tabernacle He created us
in the likeness of his own image. The Son has also a Taberna
cle like the Father & the Holy Ghost is a minister to the people but
not a tabernacle who begot the Son of God Infidels say that
Jesus was a Bastard but let me tell you the truth concerning
that matter. Our Father begat all the spirits that were bef[or]e
any tabernacles we[r]e made when our Father came into the
Garden He came inwidth his celestial body & brought one of his
wifes with him & eat of the fruit of the garden untill
He could beget a tabernacle And is or God
And all the God that we have any thing to do with they eat
of this fruit & formed the first Tabernacle that was
formed And when the VIRGIN was begotton
with child it was By the Father and in no other way in
no other way ownly as we were begotton I will tell you
the Truth as it is in God. The world dont know that Jesus
Christ our Elder Brother was begotton by our Father in Heavn
Handle it as you please it will either seal the damnation or
salvation of man He was begotton by the Father & not
by the Holy Ghost. When you go to Preach & believe that
Jesus Christ was begotton by the Holy Ghost dont lay Hands
upon the Heads of Females for the reception of the Holy
Ghost lest it Beget her with child And you be accused
I have told you nothing in this thing but what you have
in the Bible I do not frame it.
The President then refered to the tithing & said if one quarter of
the Tithing money that was due had been paid we should
have had more means the merchanets have carried away
$200000 to the States did the people pay tithing on that No
now Bishops se to this matter & then see what your
feelings would be if you was in my place & see the
Hundreds that call upon me & my Brethren if the Tithing
was paid that is due we would have enough to pay all
debts I now say to the Bishops go to my yard & take all my stok
& lick all up clean then do the same by my Brethren untill
all the debt are paid All voted to follow the president example
