Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-02
ELDER FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS.
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our sakes, after striving to keep Ills
commandments and to do Ills will.
We had hardly got located here, how.
ever, just so that we could spend the
24ih Of July aud have good dinner
under a bowcry, when at the following
conference the Twelve were started OIL
President Lorenzo Snow 10 Italy
Efastus Snow to Denmark. John Taylor
TO France and Germany, and Franklin
ID. Richards to England. The Elders
went abroad every where preaching the
Gospel, and found people willing to
hear What was the matter with this
people, driven out from the nation and
having TO become a people to them.
sclvcs' And vet The Gospel spread
abroad. In England and other EurOp-
can countries. people were added to the
Church by the thousands and tens OF
thousands In wonderful fapIuty. The
work OF the Lord ptospurcd, and we
had another summer time 10 certain
extent, locating settlements all over this
country and building Tour temples
Then behold, another winter set In.
You know, winters are not always Of
the same temperature We sometimes
have winter that freezes SO hard that
bark on. the trees becomes loose, and
then we have other winters that are
mild. Well, we had winter set in
| here that was 50 severe that nearly all
| manner Of business was closed up=tK.
ccpt the mifshals, the attorneys, the
/ courts and the pcnllcniary; they we're
about The only line Of prosperous bust.
ness that was done here during that
/ winter Of some six to tWelycs yeats ago.
| Now. the Lord has seemed to cause
these things to work IN this way. Il
seems to be natural periodic state
that We pass through from time to time
| Il happened that during this winter
I when We could not be abroad preaching
| the Gospel Tor you must know our
Elders went sometimes clear TO the
/ sea and back again aud reported that
/ they could not get house TO speak In
anywhere, not even congregation cut
Of dOor,) the supreme court in Wash.
| ington, had our leading mems characters
| brought up there aud ,canyasscd, and
! the decisions OF those courts were pub
| lishcd and have gone abroad In the
/ court reports into all the spheres oi
| legal lore throughout this country and
the world; and so we became adyet.
/ tised while we were staying around al
/ OF ourselves as best we could, We were
making acquaintance through the at.
tomeys and the courts Ia the higher
circles Of lite.
When this had been going on for some
months and years, there was q council
held down East, and our leading ladies
were invited to join the National Council
| OF women, In Washington and they
| salt
those reports were published IN the
papers and books, which have gone to
| ALL the States and Territories OF the
Union, and in higher circle than merely
| those that are blowing and sowing, the
mechanics, sc. These means the Lord
/ employed during the hard period OF our
winter. Il was not very much the
/ "Wintcr Of discomfort" alter all. lie
made US to become known among the
people. They could take these books
| and hunt over the decisions OF the law
| courts, and they could read the reports
OF this grand Council OF Women from
all parts OF the world, and quietly learn
something about Us.
Directly there was greatcall for all
| the inhabitants OF the earth to come to
| Chicago and celebrate the Worlds
Columbian Exposition. Al this EXPOSE
ton there came commissioners from all
/ civilized countries, many OF them got q
| chance 10 talk with our brethren and
sisters In Chicago, and a number OF them
came to Salt Lake City. We gave them
| copies OF our Church works and OF the
History Of Utah. which they carried of
with them to their homes, aud they have
/ no doubt been reading over these things
So the work has been going on. Our
| dear sisters and brethren OF the choir
went down and really put the country
/ ON It's mettle IN music. Thus we got
/ some Of the hne arts before the people
of the earth. The Presidency went
along also, and as has been shown you
this morning, the Mayor Of lndepend.
| rnce welcomed them and accompanied
| them to the hall where they could eN.
change congratulations publicly.
These things have been going on I'M
| III, | want 10 say to you brethren aud
sisters. and especially the Elders OF
Israel, springtime seems to be on US
| again; and as the earth, after the irosts
and SHOWS OF winter, is being broken up
and pulyerzed and prepared Tor the
seed. SO calls are coming from all parts
Of the earth Tor Elders, "Whete can
we find an Elder" ''lf you have an
| E'der coming this way, please direct
him 10 our place" Calls are being made
md the people Of the earth are now
| Te,dy TO hear the Gospel. want to tell
| tbis legion OF Seventies that are before
us-the bone and sinew OF Israel, II you
nlease-and the multitudes OF the Elders
| nuoruuas. that the time has come when
the inhabitants OF the earth want the
| Gospe. want to know what II Is that
| we have been making such q fuss about
in The earth, keeping the courts busy
and line penitenuary full. They want US
no send some Elders along, that they
can ask questions OF them, and that the
Gospel may be explained unto them.
| Ne have calls for Elders from sea TO sea
| and from the rivers TO the ends OF the
| earth, The time has come when we
must rise up and sow-go forth aud scat.
| Ter the Gospel seeds throughout the
| lands. The inhabitants Of the earth are
ready to hear it,and It Is our duty and It
| Is made the duty Of the Twelve Apostles,
and especially you have made 1t the duty
| OF the missionary committee, to hunt up
| Elders and send them abroad to preach
the Gospel. We have had good deal
of difficulty to hnd them as last as they
| have been wanted. One mission In the
| south called ior one hundred extra
| Elders. We have a thousand or more
IN the field; but there is wanted great
multitude yet to 20 everywhere, and we
are seeking through lsraeli almost with