Show DISCOURSE bv irv prest prist st joseph toung young tabernacle p in of march 8 isar rerouted r BY J V vt LOING I 1 am reque requested stid stad to td mahe make a few low re narks this afternoon by br kimball eim Kim baili balli it is against my principle to make any u ap aloies ol oies ogies and I 1 only have to say for my preface that I 1 feel incompetent to address so many intelligent beings as now noy sit ili in my presence nce itis a matter of extreme delicacy ill lit my feelings to have 6 to do this I 1 feel to offer my thanks to the tilo lord our god brethren and sisters for liis his favor to a poor floor individual like your servant who stands stand before yon you I 1 do indeed offer him ray thanks and feel that chati I 1 am under an obligation and that 1 owe a debt of gratitude to I 1 lim him t hat that I 1 am pin sure I 1 have no language to express neither do I 1 know liow how to dl discharge it Is that all lie he requires of me all that he ile asks is for forme forms me to do that which will secure my deaca and happiness and that will vill be to honor him to carry out his purposes and attributes which lie has reveal roveal ed d tind and doing that secures my peace and my salvation salva the presumption presumptions is in my own feelings that tins this people are desirous ra t obtain salvation and to be made free for whosoever the scriptures r ay say the son shall make free shall sheli be free indeed we talk about fre freedom edorn we talk of liberty but hut who is there that has got eliat liberty why says oue ole oe we live undera endeka government of freedom do it is said that the government of the united S states tates fates is the most fi liberal beral in its institutions and as for its charter is one of the most liberal that haseker been brought out by human administration this is all true tru we believe tins this but who adoll among those its administration is free does it prove that because we live under a fr free ce government where many of the institutions of tile the government are of a li liberal beral character schools public seminaries and colleges that the freedom of thought and of tile tiie press pres are tolerated finally where t there I 1 lere 13 every thing that can call guarantee life lire a and n d freedom the very seat of liberty perhaps berh ps none nono call can supersede it does this prove that the people are free it is said by one of the most enlightened men that ever lived that flat it is decreed in ili tho the eternal constitution of things that men of corrupt minds cannot be free their passions form their fetters Is true yes y es nothing call can be truer in ili tiie tile the world just so far as human beings have the spirit of god and have overcome their pos passions and their nature I 1 mean mear I 1 appetite passionI passion lust and every thing that is out of the way then so far I 1 9 grant rant those individuals are free and no farther that is true freedom you will perceive when m men eil eji are angry that they are chained when I 1 am u angry I 1 b have ave a chain upon me I 1 am not free when under any idol or anything that is not of god nor brought by his spirit there is tyranny I 1 am trammel edmy spirit is chained lam ram not riot and ca cal cannot i be free still brethren there is a looking out to be freo free we have llave freedom of action and freedom of words if we do right but we have no freedom or liberty to do or to speak that which is wrong if ir human giuma n laws could reach far enough to check the passions of men it would be all well enough but you will find that they restrain and curb iii ill tile appetites of men no further than they submit themselves to that law the spirit of god reveals to the mind of man mail that which will do him good but the opposite spirit always a assumes s to know better than the spirit of the lord and men meb give wa way 0 to o that spirit Is it so with the saints it t 1 is s au unless hiess the law of liberty be written upon their I 1 hearts ie arts and then so far as they tiley have that law written upon their so far as they have the hie sanctifying sanctify ing influence of the holy spirit within them so far they are brought out of captivity and so far they are free froe and there is is no power oil on the earth there is is no power in heaven because dile the powers of or heaven do not riot want to restrain them and no other power ower can call it i is s the spirit of the tha he leaVens ivens that influx influences alices men at such sueh times and you may place a mail man lii ili in a dungeon and chain him therland there and lie he will have no sorrow the dungao 1 u will rill not riot hurt him if lie he has the spirit of god lie he is free though s uch such a in man an may may dwell immured in a dungeon lie hs till 1111 be as the poet says prisons will palaces prove pr te if jesus will dwek 1 matli etli me met here there thatis that is thle this for where all an individual ha has that power po and the angels amels ac of god minister to I 1 him lim and the trip ilon light of or the heavenly worlds shine shu 0 upon him hini and round about him although you may place him in a dungeon or ili in bondage you cannot bind him human laws cannot touch him for it is 13 a freedom of tile tho spirit when tile tire spirit of god rites writes truth and I 1 liberty u spona 0 1 a mans heart there is is no earthly earthy power c can n tao tahe take it from froin him lim and this is a good thing I 1 ali all can air have ilav that within me and though I 1 may be a poor mani mani may be in many respects forgotten yet 5 et when I 1 know that god hears me and und that lie he arkens to my prayers and that ever every y th thing in is is right and just justas as it should be I 1 feel first rate I 1 know enow the spirit that is is in in men 1 I understand it and what is ill it there is nothing my friends in the world that will braig br ng you and ino I 1 into this principia princ ipie pie of tion lion but getting the spirit of the tha lord our oar god to dwell with us to be in us do y apu u ever ilsk the tho question individually individually shall shail I 1 be lie saved you remember t that thai 1 lat the tile jailor asked ask ed that question of paul and silas si I 1 as said lie he what shall I 1 do 0 to o be saved it is an all important question it is is one of the tile most solemn questions that call can be put to mortals there are millions of human beings upon this planet that are passing off this thia stage daily and where are they going they me ale goina to the spirit 6 t world but have they secured their salvation 7 11 have they heard bieard the proclamation of that angel who came clime with gith tile tiie sound of the gospel with the llie power ol 01 his great seal no they are without tile tilo ley gospel they bave have ho no knowledge of it and in I 1 spite of air latter litte inday day saints know and can do they tiley are arc so numerous the mighty masses th t dwell upon this is globe globo and the tile fw fow that ara dra mund found willing ta are such a small portion thatis that ir thoy were ware all ail gathered up ogeth r how hovy many bouli you have f if lri IN i 11 tile tiie vv vol voi 01 id could hear the gospel this day hovi bow manware 6 there that would hear ild lid and iid receive the p proclamation and hopia hoviA clany ciany would there be out of that number that would be vali vall valiant vallant antt receive the spirit and gather up to zion only a mere handful than how must this th is world be saved they will be e saved by proxy the mighty masses of men mf n that have gone beyond the tile vail vali al hava have to be saved in some way wah I 1 md they must have it done by those that are on oil tins thris side the tile lord has got a priesthood and that priesthood holds the tile power and lias sufficient strength to prof prot protect act itself because we have got 0 a a place where whore our enemies cannot overpower us il if we doright do right there thero is is gospel enough to save those who wha do not commit tile the sin unto death there are aie but few who will behaved be aved by their heir own works and there thero are and will be but a handful from eil ell nations nati ors 1 and I 1 will endeavor to do what chy wh I 1 will wit i sacrifice all and redeem the thousands of my h indred kindred and friends and who knows how low many thousands I 1 many be e the tile means mearis of and alid bringing into the tile company of that numerous throng who will ben bea earliest to to va brought rought forth with th ejust when all power and alid the tha hin kin kingdoms under the tiie whole heavens with all the bles bies blessings sings of immortal life lire shall be given to the sain sair saints ts of most alost nish hish god to possess for forever ever avd rind hor for nor ever I 1 wilb wil wll be there I 1 vil tilbe be there lam Iam paying my tithing and I 1 will bear the burdens of the tile kingdo kingdom nf let the lie enemies of truth bring trouble rouble upon us and alwill be found among the number that will be wile I 1 he reveals III ili his bis s glory and his blessings to the tho saints thatis that is a good presumption but when I 1 contemplate the company that shall ba bj saved I 1 seo see liat that I 1 shall not be saved with them in mass but that I 1 shall shail be saved as an individual and when r consider tha the matter mailer in i i its true light I 1 per celie clearly that I 1 havo have calculations to make for myself that I 1 may obtain cai cal salvation for myself if ail all 11 thio congregation were baptized and were happy what I 1 would that avail me mg not botany any filing for font if I 1 lost my iny salvation I 1 lose my influence I 1 lam iam ain lost and I 1 shall lose your society I 1 should not have your society long here if ir I 1 were to transgress the thelia law of god whether I 1 stay here or pass pasq behind the viii vui now I 1 want to satisfy you that I 1 can secure my salvation so that afi the enemy cannot rob me of my family and find that I 1 have a duty to perform my elf if I 1 do my duty then it is the business of my family to do their duties individually so BS as to secure all pertains to ti I 1 air happiness when wilen I 1 have done my part what 3 the next step it is to save and ard look after somebody else and tile tho lord will not save mo me unless I 1 look after somebody that needa needs assistance for we have to do good one to another we do not do good to the lord ile he does not call for roi clothing or cattle for all tho the world is is his the cattle the gold and all the riches of the heavens and of the earth are his and we are required to acknowledge his hand ill lil in all things and to do good to prove our integrity to his laws by not merely we working for ourselves but by bringing salvation to others to our fellow creatures this is is what lie he has put bushere ua here for in the first place co EO build ourselves habitations ald and make mahe them comfortable to provide something for our families fa mihe to solace thern them in winter to prepare for winter that when the snows come ome to beat upon our houses and the tho pelting hailstones fl ail stones they may be comfortable it is is our v duty duly also alpo to rear temples to the lord and to rear those buildings that are necessary for the establishing of righteousness upon the earth we should bring in our tithes so that the lords servants may rear up the temples and alid public buildings and gather the tiie poor from tile tha nations of tile tiie earth and to filing bring the ma meek ek from the ends of the earth that they may receive the tile blessings that have been given unto us that they tiley may obey tile the corn coin commandments mail mall din ants which w hichi come from the lord and that they may taste and enjoy the blessings and the glory yf of the world to come aud alid be made partakers par takers of the holy ghast ghost attend to the the dead as well as many other things our labors our responsibilities are increasing 11 upon us and I 1 perceive that qt lit this time it is a jt very interesting one ia la our history I 1 perceive that men are taking double families and I 1 may sav say say that it is almost universal and as they aber increasing in creasi ag their families they are also increasing in creasi rg their responsibilities ties and it is said that they tiley or some of thed tilen ars are doln doin doing it without due reflection but I 1 cannot judge perhaps as correctly as some others but if I 1 marju mAriu mar may jude dge ege from tiie tile the fact that many are ara assuming those responsibilities with little litile or no means jo to maintain their families it may seem that they tid have faith if they are in low circumstances it may way seem that it is a time tithe of faith and ii it is the time that the lord will build u uj zion from froin the midst of themselves that her inhabitants shall shail increase from the multitude of lier her children those that are born barn ili in zion why I 1 presume that a child that is born in zion in the midst of this people and that can cair claim clairn his ills birthright rig lit his education among this people lie will have I 1 a much more power to bear off tile llie Idu gilam as us such as myself and my brethren that have lived ived 1 the best of our d days tys ili in the sec sectarian tarlin world we have lived and heard beard our ou r priests so laug that it is a trouble to dive into knowledge af G god od 1 A l is 13 difficult to throw back the tile prejudices pes we ve have received and I 1 know of but one cine course that tint will do it and that is by constantly 61 following low cou con counsel eisei elsei ti oui our file leaders and doing as weare we are told ll 11 I 1 recollect recoiled the time that the tile prejudices eju dices of tivi INN people were much greater than hay they jiow are J I 1 may safely safety say tle tie that their bruu prejudices di es are not haf half so great ns as tiie tile th chever ever vete vere in the tile days of joseph in the tile early part of this church when joseph llad had a revelation he lie would go into tho congregation and present the matter ili in such inch a way as not t to hurt their feelings for the tile people could not bear much and therefore the prophet prop tiet liet had to prepare the tha way before lied ie re introduce any new neo doctrine aud and soine boine sometimes times be had id reb zeb them i severely if it U xio was ome some somo g great apat and bai ug point 0 I 1 it before he lie could gel get them to open th their 1 ell eil iti ini minds D ds and I 1 was so 0 scanty in my feeling feelings and my nty views th that a t I 1 sa said sald d wili will the lord take tau e such slid a it mail man as ag martin harriss for a witness then I 1 came to read the visions of tiie tite different dimm diff frent glories giries of the eternal world and of the tile sufferings of the tile wicked I 1 could not it agthe first fust why the lord was going going to save every body after fter 1 I had prayed played over it and joseph josaph ind explained it I 1 could see that it was nothing but good s sense ense ne accompanying compa compau ying nying the power of god well then I 1 gave it up and troubled no more about it and just jusso so with a thousand other good things that oc burred in our first history the tile latter dy aty saints have ii ow got so hat that they swallow every evely thing that comes up all the statute laws are given but I 1 will say that there are laws irr alle aile the book ook of doctrine and covenants that this people h have ave never s scanned ca nned to this day but they are ara looking out for new revelations and this ig is very good go ad the statute laws are arc given unto us but wit we still need the tile light of the tile spirit and the law of the spirit written upon our hearts and when vile n we do not riot have a statute law and written evidence to 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