Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-06

some day. and some few Of our people
have generously contributed specially
FOG the omplishmept of this purpose,
bul the most of the m"aus thlt have
been employed tol the accomplishment
40 iuH lNluUs' nave necessarily httn
taken from The general tuning funds ~
thc Church. By Hills means Wc have
| been able TO secure 81 CANT hoadquor-
ters Tor our mission or for our people
I'm the Northern states mission. we
have been able to assist the Southern
states mission To- obtain headquarters,
and We have also been enabled TO assist
the British mission 10 obtain comfor-
table home ana headquarters, where
the star that has been published Tor
50 many years, can continue TO be pub
llshod for the advancement OF the work
ot The Latter-day Saints and of the
Elders I'm the British mission. We
have been able also 10 assist
largely ON The erection OF "a commodious
house of worship In Copeuhugen, Den
mark, also In Christiauia, Norway and
also In Stockholm in sweden, and we
have assisted also la obtaining head
quarters for our people who live upon
many Of the islands OF the sea- and
We have secured a tract Of land upon
the island OF Samoa for the purpose OF
gathering our Saints whore they can
receive the benefits Of Church organiza-
uon, the benefits of Sunday school,
Mutual Improvement association and
sabbath worship and where they can
be taught the arts of industry and self
support. We have assisted our people
In Australia and New Zealand I'm a
similar way; and withal we have met
more than one-half of the bonded in
debtodncss of the Church and we are
H. "A condition. when the time shall be
ripe for L., provided the Saints con-
tinue to meet their obligations In their
tithes and offerings, to pay of the
remaining portion Of the Church in
dcbtedness; when ! trust by the bless
ings Of the Almighty that the Church
Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
VIII see a. day IN which II will be abb
soluteiy free from debt aud under OBJ
llgatlon TO no man, and IL VIII not be
long before this contamination Is real
tied IL we continue our work in the
future as we have done 1t In the past.
THE ONE IDEA LOBBYIST
Now MY brethren and sisters, it Is
not my purpose TO continue my re-
marks very long, desire cursorily
to refer to these matters Of which |
have spoken, and II just occurs TO my
mind that IN addition 20 the few things
] have named-and | have not named
them all-that it would be very pro-
per for me TO state that the Church
with u very small assistance from the
estate Of Dr. William II. Groves, has
teen able To erect a flrst-class, Well
appointed hospital IN this city, fire
proof in every way, and equal to the
best that can probably be found I'm
any part OF the world. We have been
found fault with for this, that IL to
say, we have been charged with (hesi-
totlns)-paGdOn me II / DO not mention
that IL Is too small matter How
ever we have Cranks, you know,
anong the Latter-day Saints as well
as among the people Of the world. and
every once In q While YOU come across
an individual who is all one-sded, who
can only sec out Of one eye and out Of a
very small corner OF the one yeNtoo,
who is not capable Of comprehcnding
more than one thing at a time. who
selects "a certain little hobby--a certain
llttle idea, single thought and strad-
dles that idea and that single thought
ana commences Ia ride, and IL ia in-
possible to unhOrse him from his hobby,
because his mind Is not capable OF
grasping more than that single one
little thought, We have such individ-
uals as that and 1t was from one OF
these individuals, one OF these cranks,
that we obtained or received not long
ago solemn objections to the Church Of
Jesus christ Of Latter-day Saints
putting I'm these means or tithing into a
hospital II was wicked and wrong
TO build hospitals according to his ideas.
Well we viii let such people go for
what they are worth, and they are
scarcely worth noticing and | feel that
l should not have noticed It at all.
but we have such individuals among
us more or less. We have variety
IA variety-every once in a while, of
creatures rising up amongst US, who
are filed with the spirit Of evil and
hatred towards the truth and the peo-
pie Of God, 1t is only natural that
this should be so,
UNHEALTHY EsCREssENCEs,
t has occurred TO me somewhat IN
this way; that the body OF the Church
Is likened 10 the body OF man, and
you know men do sometimes get their
systems a little deranged-- that IL to
say that sometimes they are nea-
bitten. Fleas bite them and mosquitoes
bite them and cause little swcllings to
raise on their faces and hands Some
carbuncles and other excressences, that
only need the application Of the lance
to let out the humor from them or to
excise them from the body or cut
them off and let them go, so that the
body may be Cleansed from their pois-
onous effects 1t Is so with the Church
from time TO time, There are these
characters who become a law unto
themselves and they follow the trend Of
their own sweet will until they get
themselves into q condition mentally
and spiritually so that they become a
menace 10 the body eccleslastlc, In
other words, they become like a boil or
carbuncle on the body, and you have to
call In the surgeon 70 apply the knife to
cut them out, that the body may be
cleansed from them, and this has been
the case from the beginning,
ZION FIRMLY ESTABLISHED.
From time to time these conditions
arise and we have them to meet, and
they will continue to arise from time 20
time In the future, ana We shall have
them to meet, but they viii never
amount to more than a phnple or a
little sore on the body outside, and no
one need to be alarmed al all FOR the
consequences, Zion Is established in
the midst OF the earth to remain, II
is God Almighty's work, which lie
Himself, by His own wisdom, and not
by the wisdom Of man, has restored to
the earth IN the latter days and lie
has established Il here upon principles
Of truth and righteousness and purity
and Of revelation nom God and that Il
can no more be- thrown down or LETT to
another people, SO long as the
majority OF the people of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Lat
tcr.day saints viii abide In their
covenants with the Lord and win keep
themselves pure and unspotted from
the world as an members OF the Churcn
should keep themselves, then 1t will be
as God has deyreed perpetual and eter-
nal until His win is accomplishment and
His purposes fulfilled In the earth
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