Show I 1 cop copyright aright secured HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH JUNE 1843 sunday 11 ten am meeting at the stand the following report is from the journals joir nals of elders willard ichards richards fl and wilford woodruff I 1 of the saints met at the A large assembly mci mcl at tle the 1 temple stand hymn by the choir prayer by elder P P pratt and singing president joseph smith remarked cil III 1 I am a rough stone the sound of the hammer and chisel was never heard on me until the lord took me in hand I 1 desire the learning and wisdom of heaven alone I 1 have not the least idea if christ should come to the earth and preach reach such rough things as he preached to the 5 jews aws but that this generation reject him for being so rough ile he then took for his verse of chapter of matthew 10 0 jerusalem jerusalem thou that gillest the prophets and soonest them which are sent unto thee how bow often would I 1 have gathered thy children together even as a hen gat hereth bereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not this subject was presented to me since I 1 came to the stand what whit was the object of gathering ga the jews or the people of god in any age of the world I 1 can never find much to say in in expounding a text A man never has half as much fuss t unlock a door if he has a 1 key as though he had not and had to cut it open with th hl his 3 jack a c k knife the main object was to build unto unto the lord I 1 a house honse whereby he lie could reveal unto his people the ordinances of his house and the glories of his kingdom and teach the people the way 0 of salvation for there are certain ordinances and principles that when they are taught and practised practiced must t be done in a place or house built for that purpose it was the design of the he councils of herven berven before the world was that the principles and laws of the priesthood were predicated upon the gathering of the people in every age of the work world jesus jebus iid ild lid did every everything thin possible pos nos ible ibie to gather ather abber the people and the aliey y woul wouida y not hot I 1 be e gat gathered here bere J and he he therefore poured out curses upon them ordinances instituted in the heavens before defore tho foundation of the world in the priesthood r i estwood for the salvation of men are not to pa be altered cr or changed all must be saved on the same principles it is for the same samp purpose that god gathers together his people an in the last days ways to build unto the lord a house to prepare them for the ordinances and endowments washings and anoint ings ac ote oie of the ordinances of the house of the lord is baptism for the dead god decreed before the foundation of the world that that ordinance should be administered III in a font prepared for that p impose in the house honse of the lord that is only your opinion sir say the sec tariana when a man well will go to hell with bis his e eyes es open opu it ia 13 more than my meat and ens drink to help him to do as he wants to if a min gets a falness of the priesthood of or god he b his is to get it in the same way that jesus jeslis christ obtained it and that was by kep keep k ep I 1 ing all the commandments and obeying all the oi ordinances finances of the th house of the lord where there is no change of priesthood there is no change of davs paul if god has not changed the ordinances and the priesthood howl ye secta sect ariani if he has when and where has his he revealed it have ye turned theny then why deny revelation many men will say 1 11 I will never forsake you but will stand by yoi at all times but the moment yoi xoi teach them some of the mysteries of kinghorn king dorn of god that are retained in the heaven heavens 3 and are to be revealed to io the children of nin uin when hey they are prepared for them they will be the first to stone you and put you to death it was this game nine principle that crucified the lord jesus jasus christ and will cause ause he the people to kill the prophets in this generation many thin thing things 9 are insoluble to the children of men in the last last days for instance that god should raise the dead blead and forgetting that things have been hid from before the dounda tion lion of the ther world which are to be revealed to babes in the last days there are a great many wise wise men nen and women too in our midst who are too wise to be taught raught therefore they must maist die the in their agnor inces a and nd in the resurrection they will find heir their mistake many seal up the door of by saying so far god may reveal and I 1 will believe all men mer who become heirs of god and joint heirs hairs avith jesus christ will have to receive receive the falness of the ordinances of his kingdom and tho thoe those e who will not receive all the ordinances will come short of the falness of that glory if they do not lose the whole I 1 will say something about the spirits in prison there has been much said by modern divines about the sayings of jesus when on the cross to the thief saying Z this day thou be with in me a in in paradise king james jamesy translators make it out to say paradise but what hat is paradise it is a modern word it des not answer at all to the original word that jesus made use of find the original of the word paradise yon may as easily find rind a needle in a hay mow here is is a chance for battle ye learned men there is nothing ii ir the original word in greek from which this was taken that signifies paradise but it was this day thou shall be with me in the world of spirits then tien I 1 will teach you yon all al labout about it and answer your inquiries antl anil peter says gays he be went and preached to the word world of spirits spirits in prison peter 3rd ard chap 19 verse so that they who would receive it could have it answered by proxy by those who live on the earth ac the doctrine of baptism for the dead is clearly shown in the new testament and if the doctrine is not good then throw the new testament away but if it is the word of god then let the doctrine be acknowledged and it was the reason why jesus said unto the jews how oft would I 1 have gathered thy children together even as a hen gat hereth her chickens under her wings but ye would not that they might attend to the ordinances of baptism for the dead as well as other ordinances of the priesthood and receive revelations from heaven and be perfected in iti the things of the kin kingdom of god but they would not this was the case on the day of pen pentecost tec di st those blessings were poured ont out on the he disciples caples on that occasion god ordained ordain edt crt that he would save the dead and would do it by gathering his pe people ople together j it always has been when a man was sent of god with the priesthood and he began to preach the falness of the godgel gospel that he was thrust out by his big friends w who 0 are ready to butcher him if he teach things which they imagine to be wrong and jesus was crucified upon this principle I 1 will now turn linguist thare are many things in the bible which do not as they n now ov stand accord with the revelations of the holy ghost to me I 1 will criticism criticise critic ise a little further there has been much said about the word hell and anti the sectarian world have preached much about it describing it as ii a hurning burning lake of fire and brimstone but who ever reveal d it god never did bilt what is hell bell it ia Is another modern term and is taken from hades bades ill pil hunt after hades hadas as pat did for the hades the greek or the hebrew these two sll sil significations mean a of spirits hades paradise spirits in prison are all one it is a world of spirits the righteous and the wicked all go to the same world of spirits until the res I 1 do not think so says one if you will go to my house anytime I 1 will wiil take my lexicon an and I 1 prove it to you the h prove great eat misery of departed spirits in the w world rid of api spi rits where they go after death is to know that they come short of the glory that others brijo enjoy and aud I 1 that they might have enjoyed themselves ih e ms alvez and N they are their own accusers but says one I 1 believe in one universal heaven and hell where all go and are all alike and equally miserable or equally hapy happy what where all are haddle huddled together ane honorable virtuous and murderers and whore mongers bongers mon gers when it is written m that they shall be judged aged according to the deeds done in the body bat at st paul informs us of three glories and three heavens he knew a man that was caught u up to the third heavens now I 1 if the doctrine of of the sectarian world that hatt there herc is but one heaven is true paul you yon tell that lie for and say there are three jeus jesus said unto his disciples there are many mansions in my my fathers kingdom house if it were not so I 1 coull have told you I 1 go to prepare a place for yoi and I 1 will come and receive you to tny iny myself self seit that where lam ye may be also any man may believe that jesus christ is the son of god and be happy in that belief and yet et not obey his hia commandments and at last le be cut down for disobedience to his righteous requirements A man of god should be endowed with wis dom knowledge and understanding in order to teach and lead the people of god the sectarian priests are blind and they lead the blind and they will all ail fall into the ditch together they build with hay bay wood and stubble lp on the old revelations without the true priesthood or spirit of revelation if I 1 had time I 1 would dig into hell hades and tell hat exists there there is much said about god and the the scriptures say there are gods nany many and lords many b but bub ut to us its there is but one ane living and true god bod and the heaven of eavens leavens could not contain him for he tools the to go into other heavens the teachers of the day say that the father is god the son is god and the holy ghost is god and they are all in one body and one god jesus jeans prays that those that the father had given g I 1 ven him out of the world might be made one ore one in us as we are but if they were to be studded stuffed into one lerson n i it would make a great big god if I 1 vere to testify that the christian world were wrong oa on this point my testimony would be rue peter and stephen testify that they saw the son of man standing on the right hand of god any person that has seen the heavens opened chows that there are three personae perso nab nag ss in the leavens who hold the keys of power and nd one presides over all if any man roan att attempts emits to refute what I 1 am about to say after I 1 have made it plain let lim him be accursed As the father hath power in himself so lath hath the son power in himself to lay down his life ife and anti take it again so he has a body of his own the son boeth what lie he hath seen the I 1 father do then the father hath some day aid laid down his life and taken it again SQ so ile he las a body of his own each one will be in his own body and yet the sectarian world believe the body of the son is ii stuffed into his fathers gods have an ver over vcr the angels who wha are ministering servants in in the re resurrect tion some are raised to be angels others are raised to become gods these things are arc revealed in the most holy place in a temple prepared for that p impose many of the sects cry out 0 1 I have hilve the testimony of jesus I 1 have the spirit of god but away with joe smith he says he is a prophet but there are to be no phopho prophets ts or revelators revelatory in the last days stop sirl the revelator says that the testimony of or jesus is the spirit of prophecy so by your own mouth you are condemned but to the text gather the people together to ether in this place for the same purpose that t jesus wanted to gat rather gather herthe the jews to receive the ordinances the blessings and glories that god has in store for his saints I 1 will now ask asu as this assembly and all the saints if you will now build this house and receive the ordinances and blessings which god has in store for you or will you not build unto the lord this house and let him pass by and bestow these blessings upon another people pl I 1 pause for a reply 11 at t 2 21 pm I 1 introduced to the con congregation re gatton gation mr de wolf a clergyman of the episcopal church and requested the attention of the congregation gre gation gatlon in his behalf lie ile read the ath chap of hebrews and then kneeled and prayed dressed in his black clerical gown which excited some curiosity among some of the saints after the choir sung sting a hymn lie he preached from hebrews ath chap and 2nd and verses touching on such principles only that are acknowledged and received by the church in his closing remarks he observed 1 t I may never meet you all again this side sida a 1 de of the eternal world but I 1 will appoint a meeting ie when the lord jesus shall descend with his angels to call the dead from their graves and sit in judgment on all the world A conference was held at lima and the branch reorganized under tinder the direction of elder 11 II C kimbail kimbal isaac morley preside jil pl walter cox and edwin whiting co counselors 11 8 Gardin gardiner pr snow bishop clark dark hilet allet and henry dean counselor counselors william woodland solomon hancock jmes C snow james israel edmond durree durfee daniel stanton moses clawson joseph S allen alien phillip garner henry ettleman reuben daniels and horace rawson high council counci james G C snow clerk ef GE the branch daring diring the appointing of the high councill coin coln cily cill cil cli elder kimball made some general remarks upon the word of wisdom ile he commenced by saying that he always despised a penurious principle in any man and that god despised it also for lie he was liberal and did not look at every little thin thing as we do uth he be looked at the integrity int erity of the eart heart of man he slid and a iid ild some houi would ld strain nip and tuck at the word of wisdom and at the same time they would tura turn n away a poor brother from their door when he would ask for a little meal for his breakfast break fist ile he compared it to the man that was stretched 1 upon the iron bedstead if he was too long 11 they would cut him orf off if it he was vas too short they would stretch him out and agair again the hc said baid a bild ild iid it made him think of the old indians in tree which stood so strai straight ht that it leaned a little the other way and the best way was to stand erect in the after part of the day renewed the subject by saying that he did not wish to have any one take any advantage of what he had hid said for he spoke on general terms but that he had always obeyed the word of wisdom and wanted every saint to observe the same he ile said when he was in england he be only taught it once or twice in public and the sai sal saints ns saw his example and followed it so likewise when the elders 10 L co lo o to preach if they will observe the word of wisdom all ef of thoa will whom they bring into the kingdom but if they do not they cannot expect their children will but they will be just like themselves for every spirit begets besets its own owe neither will such elders ellera be able to do much good for the holy ghost will not dwell in them neither will the father nor the son for they will not dwell where the holy ghost will not and neither of them will dwell awe 11 in unholy temples ile he said that he wanted wise and honorable men to fill responsible offices who are worthy ile he then closed this subject by recommending the saints to observe the counsel of president morley ile he made some very appropriate remarks with regard to the temple and nauvoo house elder william curtis was appointed to go with elder aaron 31 york 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