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Show go THE MORMON LION I know that in his wisdom only is safety, and I am no more afraid to risk my salvatiOn in his hands than I am to trust myself in the hands of the Almighty. He will lead me right if I do as he says in every particular and circumstance. Therefore I say unto you, let those among you who are pure in heart listen unto him and be filled with the Spirit, and let the sinners among you prepare your hearts for repentance, lest sudden destruction fall upon you." With that harsh threat Chilcott came to an abrupt close. The outburst of fanatical applause that followed him to his seat changed to an enthusiastic ovation as Brigham took the rostrum. For a moment the Prophet stood motionless, staring gloomily out at the thousands of excited faces before him. He made a slight gesture for silence. In the hush that instantly fell upon the congregation his voice rolled out clear and sonorous : "Woe unto you, ye unrepentant generation of Israel- thieves, robbers, hypocrites! Where are the tithes withheld by you and the gifts unto the Lord which should replenish His storehouses? You whine and complain to the Lord about poor crops and bad debts and slack business. Are your bins and your purses as empty as the Lord your God's? Have you half as much trouble gitting your payments in cash and in kind as the Lord has to collect His tithes from your stingy clutches ? I warn you, you miserable cusses, it's high time you set to thinking a shade more about the Lord's busmess ! " How shall the Kingdom wax mighty? By the destruction of the Gentiles and the increase of the Saints. Note that 'and,' you lipservers. And how increase ? Consider the thousands of your brethren what have been gathered unto Zion, safe from the coming destruction of the iniquitous nations. Did they come here at their own expense? No, not one in ten of all their number! The Church helped- the Church! not you. The assistance given them has THE MORMON LION brought the Church in debt seventy thousand dollars. That debt is the Lord's debt. You must pay 1t. Otherwise I 'll sell up your property. If that's not enough, I'll sell your w1ves and your children. . "And don't you softsawder yourselves w1th figuring that's all. It's not alone money. That poor drivelling cuss, Richards, lost us two hundred and a quarter lives with his muddleheadness m not g1ttmg his charges through before wmter. The martyrs of those two last handcart parties figure up all of thattwo hundred and twenty-f1ve people, men and women and children, what ought to've swelled the population of the Kingdom. "What does that mean? You know what it means. It means you've got to make up for that loss-and more! Make haste and git marned, you young folks. Let me see no more boys above sixteen and girls above fourteen unmarried. And you older men, what ought to be most zealous in the Lord's work, increase and multiply! I!'s a poor business for a man to have only one wife. fhe Lord wlil mcrease your prospenty according as you increase your fam1hes. . " As for you, sisters, what fret and fume agamst your husbands taking other wives, I don't ca~e lf you do git the horribles. You'll git worse for talkmg agm the new covenant revealed unto Joseph. It's the duty of a woman to be obedient ,to her husband in all things. Unless she 1s, I wouldn t g1ve a damn for all her queenly rights or authority, nor for her ne1ther, if she will quarrel and he about the pnnc1ples of plurality. " How are you going to be saved, how are you going to git into Heaven if you ain:t sealed up to one of God's priests? How are th~ spmts, what are the children of the gods, to come mto the world, lf you fail to give 'em birth-provide 'em w1th tabernacles of clay ( How can all their n;mltitude be provided unless all women be sealed up unto men of God's Kingdom? An unmarried man shall have no kingdom |