Adversary and wicked men to de-
stroy him from off the earth. His
works are before you; they are be-
fore the heavens and the earth, and
all men. The entire bears
marks of his genius and enterprise;
and the Lord certainly crowned
his labors with success, as he has
blessed the labors of his brethren
who have not spared their hands
or their hearts in assisting him.
And instead of the work of the
latter-day stopping, or its progress
being retarded in consequence of
the death of our beloved President,
it will move forward with accelerated
speed, until Zion arises in beauty,
and power, and dominion, in fulfil-
ment of the inspired words of Pro-
phets and Seers who have spoken,
and who, while wrapt in heavenly
vision, saw our day.
It cannot be a very great while
before many of us will follow him.
I have traveled with him for some
forty-four years of my life, and
during those years I have never
known him to waver or flinch in
the performance of his duties. He
has performed an honorable mission
to earth, and while his body sleeps
his spirit lives, and he continues
his labors, strengthening the hands
of , and , and , and , and ,
and all those who have been true
and faithful to God and to man
while upon the earth, who are now
engaged in the same great cause of
redemption and salvation. Although
President has finished his
earthly career and mission to this
earth, the work has only commenced.
The Gospel must be thoroughly and
faithfully preached to every nation
under heaven, and the Lord holds
us responsible, for verily the trust
has been imposed upon us, and it
behooves us to see to it. I have
traveled more or less for the last
forty years, without purse or scrip,
and I have been sustained by the
hand of the Lord, and so have my
brethren. Our Elders who are called
constantly from the plow and the
workshops to go forth into the world
and preach the Gospel, traveling
from place to place on foot, without
purse or scrip, and although they are
not trained in colleges or seminaries
of learning, yet they are sustained
and enabled to cope with the learned
and wise, and the honest in heart
receive their testimony, which is
accompanied by the Spirit of God,
and the Holy Ghost.
Before I close, I want to say one
thing to the Latter-day Saints, which
is resting upon my mind. President
Young having now passed away, his
labors with us have ceased for the
present. He, with his brethren,
built and completed one ,
also laid the foundation for at
and at , and besides
a great deal of work has been done
on the in this . He left this
unfinished work for us to carry on to
completion; and it is our duty to
rise up and build these Temples. I
look upon this portion of our min-
istry as a mission of as much import-
ance as preaching to the living; the
dead will hear the voice of the ser-
vants of God in the ,
and they cannot come forth in the
morning of the resurrection, unless
certain ordinances are performed,
for and in their behalf, in Temples
built to the name of God. It takes
just as much to save a dead man as
a living man. For the last eighteen
hundred years, the people that have
lived and passed away never heard
the voice of an inspired man, never
heard a Gospel sermon, until they
entered the spirit-world. Somebody
has got to redeem them, by per-
forming such ordinances for them
in the flesh as they cannot attend
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Adversary and wicked men to destroy him from off the earth. His
works are before you; they are before the heavens and the earth, and
all men. The entire bears
marks of his genius and enterprise;
and the Lord certainly crowned
his labors with success, as he has
blessed the labors of his brethren
who have not spared their hands
or their hearts in assisting him.
And instead of the work of the
latter-day stopping, or its progress
being retarded in consequence of
the death of our beloved President,
it will move forward with accelerated
speed, until Zion arises in beauty,
and power, and dominion, in fulfilment of the inspired words of Prophets and Seers who have spoken,
and who, while wrapt in heavenly
vision, saw our day.
It cannot be a very great while
before many of us will follow him.
I have traveled with him for some
forty-four years of my life, and
during those years I have never
known him to waver or flinch in
the performance of his duties. He
has performed an honorable mission
to earth, and while his body sleeps
his spirit lives, and he continues
his labors, strengthening the hands
of , and , and , and , and ,
and all those who have been true
and faithful to God and to man
while upon the earth, who are now
engaged in the same great cause of
redemption and salvation. Although
President has finished his
earthly career and mission to this
earth, the work has only commenced.
The Gospel must be thoroughly and
faithfully preached to every nation
under heaven, and the Lord holds
us responsible, for verily the trust
has been imposed upon us, and it
behooves us to see to it. I have
traveled more or less for the last
forty years, without purse or scrip,
and I have been sustained by the
hand of the Lord, and so have my
brethren. Our Elders who are called
constantly from the plow and the
workshops to go forth into the world
and preach the Gospel, traveling
from place to place on foot, without
purse or scrip, and although they are
not trained in colleges or seminaries
of learning, yet they are sustained
and enabled to cope with the learned
and wise, and the honest in heart
receive their testimony, which is
accompanied by the Spirit of God,
and the Holy Ghost.
Before I close, I want to say one
thing to the Latter-day Saints, which
is resting upon my mind. President
Young having now passed away, his
labors with us have ceased for the
present. He, with his brethren,
built and completed one Temple,
also laid the foundation for one at
Manti and one at Logan, and besides
a great deal of work has been done
on the one in this city. He left this
unfinished work for us to carry on to
completion; and it is our duty to
rise up and build these Temples. I
look upon this portion of our ministry as a mission of as much importance as preaching to the living; the
dead will hear the voice of the servants of God in the spirit-world,
and they cannot come forth in the
morning of the resurrection, unless
certain ordinances are performed,
for and in their behalf, in Temples
built to the name of God. It takes
just as much to save a dead man as
a living man. For the last eighteen
hundred years, the people that have
lived and passed away never heard
the voice of an inspired man, never
heard a Gospel sermon, until they
entered the spirit-world. Somebody
has got to redeem them, by performing such ordinances for them
in the flesh as they cannot attend