The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-05-22
PRESIDENT GRANT ON CLEANLINESS.

President JIM. Grant evidently felt
annoyed at something when lie taxed
to the Saints as follows: ....
This people are asleep, and I will
vouch that there are many of them who
do not pray; OR if they do, three
such prayers would freeze he'll over,"
as Methodist preacher once said. l
want you to pray with the Holy Ghost
upon you. tits your duty to keep clean.
l have given the teachers new set of
questions to ask the people. say to
them, ask the people whether they keep
clean. Do you wash your bodies once
in each week, when circumstances will
permit? Do you keep your dwellings,
outhouses and yards clean? The first
work Of the reformation with some should
be to clean away the filth about their
premises. How would some like to
have President Young yisi. them and go
through their buildings, examine their
rooms, bedding, de-? Many houses
stink SO bad that clean man could not
live in them, nor hardly breathe in them.
Some men Were raised in stink, and SO
We're their fathers before them. would
not attempt to bless anybody in such
places. You may inquire why talk
so. Can you talk in a better style about
dirt, nastiness and filth? If you can, l
cannot, and at the same time make peo-
pie feel enough upon the subject to put
away their filth and be clean. If you
want me to speak smoother, do better
and keep cleaner. Were l to talk about
God, heaven, angels, or anything good,
| could talk in a moro refined style, but
| have to talk about things as they do
exist amon@ US.
GOLD soyERE1GNs AND GIRLS WANTED.
Governor Young preached discourse
in which he alludetto the folly of the
immigrant Saintsicoming with heathen
gewyaws
Have We got good lesson this time ?
/ think we have. What is it? That
the saints. when they start from England,
may stop buying their silks and satins,
their ribbons and tinery. You cannot
bring them here. unless Providence pro
vides different for you than it did for
the immigration last season. Ii YOU
have fine silk mantila, a fine satin
dress, fine kid shoes, fine lace bonnet,
and you say that you want to carry them
to Zion, do as they did last season.
Here are the poor we had to bring over.
Now let me .ell you that ii YOU had ta-
ken the money you paid to William
Walker to bring out the baggage, and
used it for the gathering of the honest
poor, it woull have done some good
but that properly is spoiled, l under
stand. and am glad of it. Much of it
was spoiled before it was taken from
Iowa City, or. if it was not then, it pro-
badly is now. And l expect that the
goods are all spoiled at the Devils Cato,
You will pardon me for my aDrup.ness.
but | will tell you what ii ut operation
made me think of-that what You did
not leave in hell's kitchen, you had to
leave at the Devils Gate. If you only
honor your God and your religion, the
silks and the satins. and the money you
paid out for them, may all 90 to hell with
the balance. l viii say to the Saints
abroad, YOU can get some good hickory
cloth, or some buckskins, and les the
sisters make dresses and garments that
cannot be easily torn and that will last
till yoa set here, and come aud bring
yourselves, that is all we want. And
for the time to come let the p. E. Fund
money alone, and let your silks and satins.
alone. and take the means y gu have. and
bring yourselves to this place. The
Lord. in his4rovidence, has shown you
and me, and the communi' y in this Ter
ritory, and will show to the people in
the old countries, if the elders are faith
full. tina. they may bid farewell to bring
ing their millions worth of goods here.
Ii they bring anything. let them bring
their sovercigns here the gold will do
them more good here than anything els !:
d, notrcl.' aI. IN The World, CIT