said that a man told of a story so big about his
cheese house that a woman did not believ it & asked
a servant if it was true He said that his master
did not let him go into the cheese house but one thing
he new that his master had a tremendous
great cheese house & a great mill of four run of
stone that was carryed by the whay that runs
from the cheese house so let the Elders tel
about the whey but not about what is in the
cheese house as long as they have not seen it
let the misteries alone & speak of things that
you understand. He spoke of his collegiate
education he received from President Joseph
Smith which was, to preach short sermans
& make short prayers which had done him
much good in life.
Elder B Young next spoke
& made some useful remarks said the scriptures
had been mistifyed to that degree that the greatest
divine of the day is as ignorant as the dumm ass
concerning the things of God they dont know their
right hand from their left & we are trying to
revere it to make it so simple that the people
can understand it. Place a man in this room
that is ignorant of science & take evry thing out
that we can see & then ask him if their is
any thing in the room, he says no nothing but
we two. I tel him that there is millions of live
animals in the room even we breath them & I
will show him by the aid of glasses that their
is live animals in one drop of water eight feet long
but he dont believe it untill he sees it through
glasses so with the unbeliever he does not
believe in God, in Angels, in spirits because he
cannot see them, but let him have spiritual
glasses or obey the commandments of God &
said that a man told of a story so big about his
Cheese house that a woman did not believ it & asked
a servant if it was true. He said that his master
did not let him go into the Cheese house but one thing
he new that his master had a tremendous
great Cheese house & a great mill of four run of
stone that was carryed by the whay that runs
from the Cheese house so let the Elders tel
about the whey but not about what is in the
Cheese house as long as they have not seen it
let the misteries alone & speak of things that
you understand. He spoke of his collegiate
education he received from President Joseph
Smith which was, to preach short sermans
& make short prayers which had done him
much good in life.
Elder B Young next spoke
& made some useful remarks said the scriptures
had been mistifyed to that degree that the greatest
divine of the day is as ignorant as the dumm ass
concerning the things of God they dont know their
right hand from their left & we are trying to
revere it to make it so simple that the people
can understand it. Place a man in this room
that is ignorant of science & take evry thing out
that we can see & then ask him if their is
any thing in the room, he says no nothing but
we two. I tel him that there is millions of live
animals in the room even we breath them & I
will show him by the aid of glasses that their
is live animals in one drop of water eight feet long
but he dont believe it untill he sees it through
glasses so with the unbeliever he does not
believe in God, in Angels, in spirits because he
cannot see them, but let him have spiritual
glasses or obey the commandments of God &
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