Discourse 1880-11-06
Pres W. Woodward followed and bore his testimony
to the remarks of Brother Cannon, and stated that no
people, were more blessed than the saints were.
The Lord had raised up a people to whom he had given
his Kingdom, and that Kingdom would remain, when
all earthly Kingdoms would pass away, and the
earth become a sea of glass and be celestial. He
referred to Enoch and his people, and the circumstances
that was connected with their perfection, they became
so perfect that they could not remain here on the earth
and spoke of the great blessings, that God had placed
before us, no other people had been so favoured as to
live on the earth when God had established his Kingdom
never more to be turn down, he spoke of the opposition
that spray up in the earth when God revealed himself
to Joseph the Prophet, and spoke of the Law of Tithing and
remarked that the leaders of this chu[r]ch all pay their Tithing, none
were more punctual in doing so than they. He spoke of the
propreity of all paying their tithing at the proper time and
according to the requirement. He spoke of the redemption of
the dead, and showed the necessity of Temples, in consideration of
which the Lord would enable us us to build and furnish our
Temples, that we may go on and officiate for our dead, a
great work remain for us, to do, the departed dead are
awaiting anxciously to the completion of our Temple and stated
that the Temple in trust was appropriatly of 50 cents in each month
now for the Temple now in cou[r]se of erection. The Lord
was greatly blessing the saints in this Stake of Zion
and we should be thankful to him for all the blessings
we enjoy, and continued by saying that it does not pay
for men or women to apostitize, all who do so always fail
in thier efforts.
