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Show - 39 - God called to lead his chosen people through the wilderness up to the tops of the "everl asting hills, n to establ i sh the "House of the God of il'ac ob , " to "Raise an ensign to the nations of the Earth, and to gather outcasts and scattered Israel . " The impress of his work will be f elt not a lone by this age , but f or ete rn i t ies to come will the ransomed of the Lord hold in remembrance the name of Brigham Young . " "Many papers t hat have heretof or e spoken only disrespectf ully oi' him have a good wor~ to say for him nov, and doubtless we will soon have r epeated the old old history : "You build tombs and garnish the sepul chres of the dead Prophets and kil l the living ones . n Soon we will doubtless hea r it said : " J oseph and Brigham were called of God, but the authorities of t e Church as t hey are now constituted are w_rong . rr but a short time ago the s ame spirits s a id: "Joseph was ri gh t , but Brigham is vrong . 1 • 1 How'. ·easy t o pre tend to believe a Prophet dead and gone , and disbelieve the living one s . Unbelie f se ems to be the curse of the day and s o f irml y has it taken hold upon the hearts of the children of men , that it is next to impossi bl e to c onvi nce t his generation of t he pla inest problems of this Pl an of Sal vation . Running wild after the t he ories of men , they seem to be going a t break- neck s peed the downward road to ruin . If the people oi the United St a tes would but hear and heed the words of Pr es i dent Young , what untold woe , want and misery would be avoide d , but unbelief , d istrust and inf i delity have done t he ir work, the day of ~od ' s judgement has indeed come and he will do his work completely. " "The duty of warning the people of these t hings , devolving upon t he El ders :as i~oes, is a duty of |
