BLESSINGS—TRIALS—OBEDIENCE TO COUNSEL, ETC. Remarks by Elder Wilford Woodruff, delivered in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, Sunday Morning, September 27, 1857. We are glad to see the brethren return home from their long missions or short ones. We are glad to greet them, to hear them talk, to see their faces, and to hear their testimony that the Lord has been with them. These things are a pleasure to us who re- main here in Zion. There are a multiplicity of evidences that God ...

steady? It is because God is with him; and though armies are ap- proaching and ready, apparently, to swallow up this people, yet he and his brethren feel calm, and the Lord reveals unto them, by the Holy Spirit, how to govern and control this people. They have had a long experience in proving the Almighty God, who holds the destiny of the Saints and the sinner. And has he ever failed us? No, never. Some of our brethren have told their trials here to-day, and they have ...

or that case; but there is no man so well qualified to lead, govern, and direct for the salvation of the people as that man whom God has appointed. We have as good leaders as we need. There never was a better leader given to Israel, nor one more capable of leading this people to salvation, than Brigham Young: he is filled with the Spirit of God day by day. If the United States make war upon this people, the Lord will hold them re- sponsible for ...

forsake their sins; and I hope we shall continue faithful to the end. I am glad, and my soul rejoices in these things, and I believe that the people are ready to shoulder their guns and walk into these kanyons and line them from here to Fort Bridger in defence of the Constitution of the United States and the rights which both the laws of God and man guar- antee to us. We have had to stoop to our ene- mies heretofore and bear ...