The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young: Volume 5, 1868 to 1877 by editor Richard S. Van Wagoner

Author:editor Richard S. Van Wagoner [Richard S. Van Wagoner, editor]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: The Smith-Pettit Foundation
Published: 2016-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

1872

28 April 1872

SLC Tabernacle

Morning.

Conference.

JD 15:16-21; DN 21:168; MS 34: 337-341.

(President Brigham Young, having been released from the custody of the U.S. Marshal, by whom he had been illegally held, was present on the stand, to the great joy of the Saints, many of whom had come from various distant parts of the Territory that they might have the pleasure of seeing him and hearing his voice)…

A word to the Latter-day Saints. Good morning. (Congregation responded, “Good morning.”) How do you do? (Congregation replied, “Very well.”) How is your faith this morning? (“Strong in the Lord,” was the response.) How do you think I look after my long confinement? (Congregation replied, “First rate.”) I do not rise expecting to preach a discourse or sermon, or to lengthen out remarks. I spoke a few minutes yesterday in the school, but I found that it exhausted me very soon. I will say a few words to you. The Gospel of the Son of God is most precious. My faith is not weakened in the Gospel in the least. I will answer a few of the questions that probably many would like to ask of me. Many would like to know how I have felt the past winter, and so much of the spring as is now past. I have enjoyed myself exceedingly well. I have been blessed with an opportunity to rest; and you who are acquainted with me and my public speaking can discern at once, if you listen closely to my voice, it is weak to what it used to be, and I required rest. I feel well in body and better in mind. I have no complaint to make, no fault to find, no reflections to cast, for all that has been done has been directed and overruled by the wisdom of Him who knows all things.

As to my treatment through the winter, it has been very agreeable, very kind. My associate, my companion in tribulation, I will say, has acted the gentleman as much as any man could. I have not one word, one lisp or beat of the heart to complain of him. He has been full of kindness, thoughtful, never intruding, always ready to hearken and, I think, in the future, will be perfectly willing to take the counsel of his prisoner. So much for Captain Isaac Evans. I will say this to you, ladies and gentlemen, you who profess to understand true etiquette, I have not seen a gentleman in my acquaintance that possesses more of the real spirit of gentility, caution and of true etiquette than Captain Evans. He has passed the window where I have lodged through the winter every morning to his breakfast and every afternoon; he has walked in the street in front of my office and on the opposite side, and he has never yet been seen gazing and looking at my buildings, or to see who was at the window, or even look at my window. He has never looked into the second room in my office unless invited there—never.

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