The Trinity journal., 1856-04-19

BRIGHAM You've on MoRAMrY-Brother
Brigham having recently returned to Salt
Lake from mission of love in the interior
of Utah territory, appeared shortly after
wards in the tabernacle, and preached a
couple of discourses in which he enjons mo-
rality upon the Saints. We give few of
his ideas on that subject together with some
chapters of advice to his disciples
Our religion is practical and progressive
one 1t will not prepare q thief, liar
sorcerer, an aduterer, murderer, or a false
swearer, in one day SO that he can enter into
the celestial kingdom of God. We ought
to understand that when our lives have been
filled with all manner of wickedness, to turn
and repent of our sins, to be baptised for the
remission of them, and have our names writ
ten upon the church records does not pre-
pare us for the presence of our Father and
Elder Brother. What will? A continua-
tion of faithfulness to the doctrines of Christ;
nothing short Of this will do it. The Lat
ter Day Saints should understand this Do
they? Yes. Do they live to it? A great
many of them do not. All ought to live
their religion every day, and there are
great many who do. But there are great
many who do not, are overcome with evil,
get out of the true path Of righteousness,
and do those things which are wrong. They
contend with each other quarrel, have broils
and difficulties in families and in neighbor-
hoods law with each other touching proper
ty, one saying that is mine, and another say
ing it is not yours, but it is mine One says
You have wronged me- the other says i
have not Thus there are thousands of
plans which the enemy Of all righteousness
employs to decoy the hearts Of the people
away from righteousness
Our Mormon discourses as follows on the
famine and hard times:
/ might say something with regard to the
hard times You know that ! have told
you that if any one was afraid of starving
to death, let him leave, and go where there
is plenty. | do not apprehend the least
danger Of starving, for until we eat up the
last mule, from the tip Of the ear to the end
of the hy-whipper, / am not afraid of starv-
ing to death There are many people who
cannot now get employment but the spring
is agoing to open upon us soon, and we are
not agoing to suffer any more than what is
for our good. | am thankful for the hand
of the Lord, which is visible; am as thank /
full for this providence of his as for any that
| ever received. Ihave told you years ago,
my feelings with regard to their sympathies, |
their faith, gratitude and thankfulness, ana
their acknowledgment of the hand Of
the Lord and Of the dispensations of his
providence. My soul has been grieyed to
bleeding to see the waste, and the prodigal
feeling OF this people in the use Of their
bountful blessings Many have walked
them under foot, and have been ready to
curse God, who bestowed them. They wan
ted gold and silver, instead Of wheat and
corn and fine -four, and the best vegetables
that ever grew upon the earth. They walked
them under foot, and set at nought the
choice blessings Of the Lord their God. If
| were to see those individuals obliged to
gnaw the ground in order to get the thistle
roots, and have no fingers to dig them with,
1t would not be disagreeable sight to me,
until they learn to know who it is that feeds
them.
We never ought to be without three or
five years provisions on hand. But when
you see men run to hell to sell a bushel OF
wheat for sixty cents, instead of laying it up
in their granaries for day Of scarcity, you
are forced to conclude that they would trade
with the very devil to get his coat and shoes
in exchange for their wheat ! hope they
will learn wisdom IN the future and lay up
wheat to feed the brethren when they come
here from distant countries. II they VIII
learn wisdom now, promise thcm III the
n nf n1 hot no
Weld its abundance as it has heretofore -
Men in these yallies have reaped crop after
crop which grew spontaneous, without put
ting drag or plow i'll the land and yet
they are ready to curse God for his blessings.
How do you suppose the Lord feels? If he
were no better than | am, he would chaStlse
us far more severely than we have been
President Brigham talks right in meet
ing" about the Saints grumbling at the
weather in the Valley. He says:
l can pick up scores of Yankees here who
have lived in countries where they could
have fine orchards and live like nabobs, and
yet in the winter season often ride in their
sIeighs over fences five feet high. | have
rode over snow in the Eastern States when
it was fifteen feet deep. To return to the
subject: / said upon natural principles that
this people had to go to country that the
Gentiles do not desire. | can tell you an
other thing, when you see any member OF
this community wishing to withdraw and go
to where there is beautiful country, where
it is easy to live, let me tell you that that
man will apostatize, or be driven away from
his favorte locality Write that down Bro
George as the word Of the Almighty.
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