Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-12
REMARKS
ELDER F. M. LYMAN.
[REPoRrED by ARTHUR wINrER.l

that very much attention has been given
by the Lord IN counse'ing His servants
In regard to providing Tor tn poor, that
they snail not suffer. 1t is very 81 rious
thing with the Lord to have the cry o
His suffering children come up INTO His
earsi and it is ordered, as part OF the
Gospel, that the poor shall be cared for.
Our brethren who have spoken to us
this morning are men who have these
mat ers upon their minds. Thee thi gs
engage their attention, and they peak
OF them in reporting the condition OF the
wards over which they preside. And it
is the business Of the Presidency and
Apostles to give attention TO the welfare
oil the people generally, just as Moses
had to do IN his day with the children OF
Israel He had TO feed them when they
were hungry; he had to provide them
with wa er wnen they were thirsty; and
some mirdc, es were wrought in order to
bring about the temporal salvation Of
Israel. Now, we need some miracles
wrought also, that our wants may be
suppnec, and that we may have houses
IN which to worship as well as houses in
which 10 dwell, and also that we may be
able TO meet our Obligations; Tor il we
are not honorable in meeting our obliga-
tons to men, how can we he honorable
with the Lordl Is II oss be that We
can deiraud our peighbors and be honest
with the Lordf No We must be hon
est with one another. We must especi-
ally be honest with curse yes. We must
be upright, just and exacting with our
selves, and require OF ourselves to 90
the will of the Lord. and 10 deal justly
and properly with the things of God,
financially and sprtually-ior tl.ese
things are all sacred and all spiritual
unto the Lord. Anything that p rtains
to our bodily comfort and happiness is
sacred to the Lord II it were not so,
why need the Lord trouble about the
poor going hungry Let them starve.
1t is only the body that suffers. the
spirit is not starving. Let the body go;
it is only a temporal affair. That might
be His feeling # He did not care about
them. But the body is the temple OF
God, and He regards it sacredly. The
body is an essential part of us. We
cannot be like the Father unless we have
tabernacle. 1t is most precious to us,
and is to become eternal. This
mortality, that now suffers with sickness
and disease, and finally with dissolution,
is to become immortal. These bodies
of ours are TO be resurrected, and we
are to receive them again when they
have put on interruption and immortal
ity. We are to enjoy them throughout
the future, and never TO part with them
again. "A man is not man without a
body. 1t is not possible Tor us to attain
to the exallation aud glory that God de-
signs to bestow upon us as His sons and
daughters, without these tabernacles.
Man cannot be made perfect without a
tabernacle, no more than he can be
made perfect without the woman Man
alone Is not perfect. Man is not without
the woman in the Lord, nor the woman
without the man. And the man and The
woman are not perfect without their
posterity. They must be fathers and
mothers; they must have posterity, aud
stand at their head, in order to be per-
feet. So that these bodies OF ours form
very important factor in our progress
sion and advancement to become rs our
Father and His Son have become, and
the righteous who have gone before.
We must be wor by of these iabernacles
we must be worthy OF eternal life.
The Lord has so favored us, for some
reason which may no, be able to solve,
that we have been allowed to come uu-
on the earth when the Gospel is here;
and that, coming at this time, we have
come in the path where the Gospel has
found us. We have heard the Gospel;
we have believed 1t, and have entered
into covenant with tue Lord, and it wi !
be woe to us II we do not prove faithful
and keep the commandments of Cod
II would be very much better If we did
not hear the truth Than that we should
hear and receive it aud then turn our
backs upon it. We cannot afford to do
this. We have entered So far into cove
nant with the Lord aud undertaken TO
accomplish His purposes, that we must
not go back; We must go forward and
labor dilige ntly and faithfully to bring 10
pass the purposes OF the Lord in our
own salvation. We are laboring for our
selves. Though we may go out into the
world to preach the Gospel; though we
| may labor hard among the p .ople as
public servants, we are laboring for our
own salvation. II is personal matter
with ourselves a, well as matter Of
general advantage for the people when
we labor But first we are laborns for
our own salvation. And when we are
called to responsible positions among
the people, It is necessary. 10 save our
selves, that We should labor for the sal
walton of others. Our salvation comes
in the TACT that we serve God ana lab nr
for the salvation OF our brethren. 1t l.;
the same with these Bishops here and
with all those who are charged with the
care OF the churches; their salvation lies
in doing their duty, whatever it may be.
If man be called to go TO the nations
of the earth 10 preach the Gospel, his
salvation lies in answering to mat call
aud performing that duty faithfully,
keeping himself unspo,ted from the
world, and Tree from corruption, from
immortality, and from every evil. We
are in the world to be tried. 1t is a
world OF trial and of proving. 1t was
ceiigned to be so. The Lord design
also that we shall serve Him and keep
His commandments, And we can d 1t
if we will. II we will we may have
faith, and we may repent If we do
not want to repent, we need not. We
have never been compelled to repent.
Not man or woman in this house has
ever been compelled 10 repent. The
thumbscrews have never been put upon
us; we have never been threatened or
frightened into repentance. We have
simply been taught the plan OF If. and
salvation; we have been persuaded; we
have been reasoned with. and the Spirit
of the Lord has endorsed and sanctioned
the reasoning aud arguments oil those to
whom we have listened, and it has ac-
companed our reading. and we have
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