JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES. THE PEOPLE ASLEEP—THOSE HOLDING THE PRIESTHOOD MUST MAG- NIFY THEIR CALLINGS OR BE REMOVED—THE SAINTS TO BE TRIED EVEN UNTO DEATH. Remarks by Elder Wilford Woodruff, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, December 21, 1856. We have some few missionaries re- turned very recently, and I wish to notify them to meet with us on Tues- day evening in the Seventies' Council Hall; and we want all the Bishops in the city, and the missionaries who have ...

THE PEOPLE ASLEEP, ETC. day, this people have got to wake up to righteousness. I have lived twenty- three years in the Church, and I have been acquainted with Prophets and have heard them prophesy, and I have not yet seen their words fall to the ground unfulfilled; and when they speak Israel should hear and obey. We have been called upon, some of us, as missionaries to the people of this city, to wake them up. We shall be among you, brethen, and we do not intend to let ...

JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES. eyes of any man or woman is opened as they should be, they could see the things of God as they are in one mo- ment; they would see there is a necessity of waking up and doing something. Here is a great and mighty dispensation committed into the hands of this people for the living and the dead; the candle of the Lord God is placed in these mountains like a city that is set on a hill that cannot be hid; the work is on your shoulders, ye Priests ...

THE PEOPLE ASLEEP, ETC. There are great things awaiting us and the world—the Lord is withdraw- ing His Spirit from the nations of the earth, His sword is bathed in heaven and will fall upon Idumea or the world; the seals are about to be opened and the judgments of God poured out upon the wicked, for the cup of their wickedness and abomina- tions is filled to the brim and the indignation of the Lord will be pour- ed out without measure. Let the Saints read the revelations of God, and they ...

JOURNAL OF DISCOURSES. when the Presidency rise in this Stand they may give us what is in their hearts. They are filled with blessings for this people. All the trouble is our eyes have been closed, we have been in a deep sleep; let us wake up and attend to our duty, and make it the first business we do. Those who lay their plans in secret chambers to seek the blood of the Prophets, will have their case attend- ed to by messengers on the other side of the vail ...