Set the poor to work--setting out orchards, splitting rails, digging
ditches, making fences, or anything useful, and so enable them to buy
meal and flour and the necessaries of life. 12:60-61.
Have the poor got greedy eyes? Are they covetous and penurious? I shall
go a little too far if I am not careful. I must guard myself, because
the Lord has chosen the poor of this world. But what kind of poor? Now
the poor may be divided into three classes. In the first place there is
the Lord's poor, of which you may pick up one here and another there,
one in a city, two in a family. Is there any other kind? Yes, you come
across a certain class that may be called the Devil's poor. Is there
any other class? Yes, there is another class, who, long before I ever
mentioned them, were denominated poor devils. Hence we have the Lord's
poor, the Devil's poor, and poor devils. 12:57.
_Establish Confidence_--Preserve your honor, and your integrity,
and ever cherish the confidence that men repose in you. 11:256.
Want of confidence is the parent of moral imbecility and intellectual
weakness. 10:20.
But if we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other,
our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken
confidence in each other, our joy will be full. 1:33. {424}
If we could obtain that faith and confidence in each other, and in our
God, that when we ask a favor, we could do so with a full assurance and
knowledge that we should receive, do you not perceive that it would
lead us directly to do as we would be done by, in every transaction and
circumstance of life? It would prompt us to do, not only as much as
requested, but more. If your brother should request you to go with him
a mile, you would go two; if he should sue you for your coat, you would
give him your cloak also. This principle prompts us to do all we can
to promote the interest of each other, the cause of God on the earth,
and whatever the Lord desires us to do; makes us ready and willing to
perform it at once. 1:115.
If you wish to establish a confidence such as the Gods enjoy, let us
cease from every evil act, and from the contemplation of every evil
design; never infringe upon another's rights, but let each one sustain
his brother in the enjoyment of his privileges and rights, holding
them as sacred as our own salvation. If confidence has been lost,
this is the surest and only successful way to restore it. Hear it, ye
preachers, ye Apostles, and Prophets; ye Elders, High Priests, and
Seventies; ye Priests, Teachers, Deacons, and Bishops; every man and
woman in the Church of God throughout the world; commence to preach
this discourse at home, beginning with your own heart; then teach your
wives and your children; then let it spread its warning and cheering
influence, like the genial sunbeam, from family to family, until the
whole Church of-Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is united as the
heart of one man. 1:315.
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