wealth, I do not want them if they
will damn me. I would like to have
enough to clothe, shoe and feed my
wives and children, and to make them
comfortable, if I can get it honestly
before the Lord; but I would rather
myself and them all be in poverty
than to have wealth and be destroyed.
Riches are dangerous unless we can
use them so as not to destroy us; if
we cannot use them to the glory of
God and for the building up of his
Kingdom, we are better without
them. I do not expect to live a great
many years longer. The young, the
middle-aged and the old are dying off.
For many years of my life the gospel
of Jesus Christ has been a consola-
tion to me. I have spent a good deal
more than half of my life in laboring
in this Church. I labored to find this
Church, I may say, from my child-
hood up, and many a midnight hour
have I plead with the Lord, in the
wilderness, in the woods, and in my
mill, and under various circumstances,
that the Lord would let me find a
people who contended for the faith
once delivered to the Saints. I de-
sired this from reading the Bible, and
from the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, for in the pages of that sacred
book I learned that a people once
lived upon the earth who had com-
munion with God, and they had
power to command the elements, and
they obeyed them; they conversed
with angels, and had the gifts and
graces of a religion which had power
and salvation in it. I could not find
this on the face of the earth. I
prayed to the Lord to let me live to
find such a people, and he promised
that I should, and I have lived to
find them. I have seen the faces of
Prophets and inspired men, and it
has been a great consolation to me.
I have my failings and imperfections,
and I expect that we are all subject
to them, more or less. I want to
overcome them, because I desire to
partake of eternal life. I also desire
this for the Saints of God and for the
honest and meek of the earth every-
where.

I have labored many years, and tra-
veled without purse and scrip, preach-
ed without money and without price,
for the purpose of saving my fellow-
men. I labor on Mount Zion to try
and save the dead; I spend a good
deal of time in this. It is a conso-
lation to me, I pray God my heaven-
ly Father to bless you and all the
Latter-day Saints, and that he will
give us enough of his Holy Spirit to
keep us in the path of duty and rec-
titude, virtue and righteousness, that
we may be justified before him. I
pray my heavenly Father that he will
bless Brother and Sister Wheeler in
their bereavement, and give them his
Holy Spirit, that, when they lie down
at night and rise in the morning and
miss their children they may feel to
commit themselves into the hands of
the Lord, and realize that their sepa-
ration from their little ones is not for
ever, but that in a little while they
will be restored to them. This ap-
plies to us all in the loss of our chil-
dren. We lay them away in the
grave, but they will come forth in the
morning of the resurrection, and if
we are faithful to the truth, we shall
receive them and rejoice with them;
and when we have passed through the
sorrows of mortality and have the joy
and glory of the celestial kingdom
conferred upon us we shall then know
that the afflictions of mortality have
prepared us for and enabled us to ap-
preciate the blessings which God has
in store for the faithful.

May God bless us, and give us his
Spirit, for Jesus’ sake, Amen.

JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES.

wealth, I do not want them if they will damn me. I would like to have enough to clothe, shoe and feed my wives and children, and to make them comfortable, if I can get it honestly before the Lord; but I would rather myself and them be in poverty than to have wealth and be destroyed. Riches are dangerous unless we can use them so as not to destroy us; if we cannot use them to the glory of God and for the building up of his Kingdom, we are better without them. I do not expect to live a great many years longer. The young, the middle-aged and the old are dying off. For many years of my life the gospel of Jesus Christ has been a consolation to me. I have spent a good deal more than half of my life in laboring in this Church. I labored to find this Church, I may say, from my childhood up, and many a midnight hour have I plead with the Lord, in the wilderness, in the woods, and in my mill, and under various circumstances, that the Lord would let me find a people who contended for the faith once delivered to the Saints. I desired this from reading the Bible, and from the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, for in the pages of that sacred book I learned that a people once lived upon the earth who had communion with God, and they had power to command the elements, and they obeyed them; they conversed with angels, and had the gifts and graces of a religion which had power and salvation in it. I could not find this on the face of the earth. I prayed to the Lord to let me live to find such a people, and he promised that I should, and I have lived to find them. I have seen the faces of Prophets and inspired men, and it has been a great consolation to me. I have my failings and imperfections, and I expect that we are all subject to them, more or less. I want to overcome them, because I desire to partake of eternal life. I also desire this for the Saints of God and for the honest and meek of the earth everywhere.

I have labored many years, and traveled without purse or scrip, preached without money and without price, for the purpose of saving my fellowmen. I labor on Mount Zion to try and save the dead; I spend a good deal of time in this. It is a consolation to me, I pray God my heavenly Father to bless you and all the Latter-day Saints, and that he will give us enough of his Holy Spirit to keep us in the path of duty and rectitude, virtue and righteousness, that we may be justified before him. I pray my heavenly Father that he will bless Brother and Sister Wheeler in their bereavement, and give them his Holy Spirit, that, when they lie down at night and rise in the morning and miss their children they may feel to commit themselves into the hands of the Lord, and realize that their separation from their little ones is not for ever, but that in a little while they will be restored to them. This applies to us all in the loss of our children. We lay them away in the grave, but they will come forth in the morning of the resurrection, and if we are faithful to the truth, we shall receive them and rejoice with them; and when we have passed through the sorrows of mortality and have the joy and glory of the celestial kingdom conferred upon us we shall then know that the afflictions of mortality have prepared us for and enabled us to appreciate the blessings which God has in store for the faithful.

May God bless us, and give us his Spirit, for Jesus’ sake, Amen.