Remarks

Elder Brigham Young, next addressed the assemblage. He was specially glad to be once more among the Saints in General Conference, as he had been absent from Salt Lake City for several months, visiting members of the more southern stakes of the Church, including Mexico. He had been much interested in witnessing the improvements that had been made in those remote settlements, especially in Juarez, which was already a beautiful little city. He had never witnessed so much of the power of God manifested in the Church as recently. The Saints had been forgiven their sins at the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple, and it was evident they had not returned the special exercise of the clemency of the Almighty. Experience had taught the speaker that although the Saints did not fully obey the commandments embodied in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, if they strove to reach as high a degree of perfection as practicable the Lord would forgive them their trespasses. They knew that the revelations contained in that book were true. All these things were for the perfecting of the people of the Lord, and for the building up of the Kingdom of God. The day would come when the law of God must be kept upon this and every other land, when the flat would go forth, “Thus saith the Lord God,” and it would affect not only this people, but every other nation under the whole heavens; it would be obeyed and Christ would come whose right it is to reign. The times were near at hand when the commandments of God would be given to us in things which never had been before. In conclusion the speaker prayed that His heavenly blessing would rest down abundantly upon this people. ¶