17 Sunday Prayer By G D Watt L Snow spok 45 Minuts E T Ben-son 40 J R Winder 17 & W Woodruff 17 Minuts W Woodruff said Those who have attended this meeting yesterday & to day herd a great variety of subjects spoken upon it is this Eternal variety that makes the hevens & the Earth so interesting to immortal beings, it would be a great calamity if the Lord created all the Human family alike if they all looked just alike we could not find our wives unless they had there names written upon there bonnets, parents could not find their children nor children there parents. Now here is the Presidency & Twelve there is no two of them that look alike or preach alike, their minds run in different Channels yet they preach by the same spirit There is not a Better or handsomer set of men to be found upon the Earth than they are I am the most homely man among them, so they let me say about what I am a mind to but if I get much out of the way, President Young is here to correct me as it is his place to correct all the Errors of the Church.

It is a hard Matter for the Lord to Esstablish his Church & kingdom upon an Earth whare the devil has power & dom-inion & reigns over the hearts of the children of men & it would be an impossibility for the Lord to build up his kingdom upon this Earth if he could not get some Element, Even some of the children of men to work with him, and this has been the difficulty since the creation of the world, that the Devil has ruled over the hearts of the children of men to that degree that the Lord could not find men Enough upon the Earth who would submit for the Lord to rule over them, & lead them sufficient to build up his kingdom to remain upon the Earth. Even in the days of Enoch the Lord had to take him & his company off from the Earth because they could not live upon it. The Lord has now set his hand one more for the Last time to Esstablish his kingdom upon the Earth to remain, to overcome the Devil & his works & subdue the Earth, & the Lord has decreed that this should be accomplished and the Lord has taken all the pains in his power to Accomplish it He has brought forth the best spirits that Ever dwelt in His presence, to come forth upon the Earth to work with him in the accomplishment of this work. Even Joseph Smith was retained in the Heavens for seven thousands years to come forth in this day to lay the foundation of this Church & kingdom to be trown down no more forever, nor to be given in to the hands of another people. The same is the case with the Presidency, Twelve & many others in this Church & kingdom & the Lord has sent his Angels to watch over them from the day they were born untill now, to presevrve them from the power of the devil who has sought there destruction from the beginning And we have visited the Nations of the Earth for the last thirty years to gather together the seed of Ephraim, the best spirits that dwell upon the Earth into these vallies of the Mountains to assist in Esstablishing this great & last kingdom of our God upon the Earth to remain forever, & the Lord Almighty is inspiring his servants with the spirit of his work, & the Holy Priesthood, & is arming them with power to accom-plish his purposes upon the Earth. Joseph Smith was the promised seed to come forth to lay the foundation of the kingdom, see what he has Accomplished. He labored but 14 years, 2 Months, & 18 days from the time He first organized the Church of Christ upon the Earth, then He sealed his Testimony with his blood and all his Fathers family died as Marters & will be crowned in the presence of God (Except William, if he had been a good man he would have been in the spirit world with his family Fathers family long ago but he has not been fit to live or die) Joseph the Prophet during his short labor laid the foundation of this great kingdom that Daniel Saw. He organized the Church & Kingdom with a full & complete organization, sent the gospel in its fullness & glory to the nations of the Earth, gathered tens of thousands of Saints built Temples & founded cities, gave Endowments to the Twelve Apostles Elders & Saints & sealed all the Keys of the kingdom of God upon The Twelve Apostles & Brigham Young as there President. President Young is before you, look at him, he has the Appearance of a Man about 40 years of Age, He is 64. He has travelled more Miles, Attended More Meetings, Preached More sermons, delivered unto the people more of the word of the Lord, revelation prophesy, principle, sealed more blessings upon the heads of the children of Men, United more in the Marriage Covenant, Administered more of the ordinances of the House of God, Attended to more branches of business, had more wives, Raised up more children, created more recreation for the youth to keep them out of the clutches of the devil, danced more cotilions, Built more Temples, Tabernacles, Meeting Houses, School Houses, dwell-ings & made more improvements & done more for the salv-ation of Man, & the redemption of the Earth than any man that Ever dwelt in flesh during the space of 30 years He has brought more to pass & Accomplished more in 30 years than the Early patriarchs did in 500 years Why is all this, it is because the Lord is agoing to make a short work on the Earth, in the last days, & cut his work short in righteous-ness. He is inspiring his servants with the power of God & the spirit of his work, & a desire to build up his kingdom & Mount Zion as Men have Never before been inspired. This great & mighty work is put into your hands to perform ye saints of latter days. No greater work can be given into the hands of Men in the flesh. Then rise up ye saints of God & do the work required of you & the Lord will work with you, sustain you & redeem you & give you power to Accomplish all that has been promised through the Mouth of all the Holy Apostles & Prophets since the world began which may God [grant] for Christ sake Amen G A Smith Dismissed the Meeting