HISTORY OF BRIGHAM YOUNG. How has she thus fallen ? What has brought her to her present degraded condition? She listened to the insinuating flatteries of the serpent-like charmer; something whispered to her to beware, but she meant no evil, and the syren song of flattery was so sweet and soothing to the ear that she could not bring herself to break the fatal spell; slowly, but surely, the human boa wound himself, with fiendish cunning, around his victim, until she was unable to give utterance to the "No" that faded from her lips, and she awoke from her enchanting dream to find herself a betrayed, ruined, despairing woman, and all for want of meeting the first indelicate word or action with a prompt and emphatic "No." There is a great deal, then, in knowing when and where and how to say "No." Young man or young woman, Are your friends (?) endeavoring to entice you from the path of rectitude? 583 are your companions trying to persuade you to do that which your conscience and judgment tell you you should not do? or do your own inclinations and passions lure you to the commission of acts which would bring a blush to your cheek and a cloud of sorrow over the anxious brow of her who bore you? Learn to give a timely and decisive "No." Do not stop to parley with the tempter. Do not simply say, "Oh, I'd rather not," "Please excuse me," "I think I ought not," and suchlike half-yielding expressions; but let your word come out like a new coin just struck from the mint, with every lineament and feature so distinctly marked that all can understand them— let it come with earnestness and emphasis, as though it had been struck with the sledge-hammer of the will, and with such force that they will feel you mean as well as say, "No." SIRIUS. HISTORY OF BRIGHAM (Continued from page 568.) April 22.-We passed through Keetsville, rode 30 miles and camped. 23. We rode 36 miles, and camped for the night on a creek near a grove six miles east of Tenney's Grove. Elder Maginn went out to buy corn, and as he tarried all night we felt afraid lest he might have fallen into the hands of the mob. - 24.-We remained at the grove, where Elders Elias Smith, Theodore Turley and Hyrum Clark, (of the committee who were left to attend to the removal of the poor,) who had been driven from Far West, met us; they informed us that on the 16th, the mob came into Far West and tantalized the committee on the subject of the revelation, saying that was one of Joe Smith's revelations which could not be fulfilled, as the Twelve and the Saints were scattered to the four winds; and threatened them severely if they were found in Far West next day. They turned round, and on the 25th accompanied us to father Timothy B. Clark's, 'near Far West. YOUNG. Early on the morning of the 26th of April, we held our Conference, cut off 31 persons from the Church and proceeded to the building spot of the Lord's House, where Elder Cutler, the master workman of the house, then re-commenced laying the foundation, agreeably to revelation, by rolling up a large stone near the south-east corner. The following of the Twelve were present :-Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, John E. Page and John Taylor, who proceeded to ordain Wilford Woodruff and George A. Smith to the office of the Twelve, to fill the places of those who had fallen. Darwin Chase and Norman Shearer, (who had just been liberated from Richmond prison, and arrived the evening previous,) were then ordained to the office of the Seventies. The Twelve then offered up vocal prayer in the following order :-Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, John E. Page, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff and George A. 584 HISTORY OF BRIGHAM YOUNG. Smith; after which we sung Adam- mutilated in the Haun's Mill massacre that he could not be moved. ondi-Ahman," and then we took our leave of the following Saints, agreeably to the revelation, viz. :-Alpheus Cutler, Elias Smith, Norman Shearer, William Burton, Stephen Markham, | Shadrach Roundy, William O. Clark, John W. Clark, Hezekiah Peck, Darwin Chase, Richard Howard, Mary Ann Peck, Artimesia Grainger, Martha Peck, Sarah Grainger, Theodore Turley, Hyrum Clark and Daniel Shearer. - 27.-We started early this morning from the Grove; the company consisted of seven of the Twelve, several of the committee left at Far West to close up business, and a few families of the Saints. We continued our journey to the Mississippi River, and on the 2nd of May we crossed on the steam ferry-boat to Quincy, Illinois. May 3.-In company with my brethren of the Twelve. I rode out to Mr. Cleveland's to visit brothers Joseph and Hyrum Smith, it being the first time we had seen them since their release from prison, where they had been confined about six months, and were under sentence of death. They had escaped from prison, and were en route for Quincy, while we were going up to Far West. As the Saints were passing away from the meeting, brother Turley said to Page and Woodruff, "Stop a bit, while I bid Isaac Russell good-bye;" and knocking at his door, called brother Russell. His wife answered, "Come in-it is brother Turley.' Russell replied, "It is not; he left here two weeks ago," and appeared quite alarmed; but on finding it was Turley, asked him to sit down; but he It was one of the most joyful scenes replied, "I cannot; I shall lose my of my life to once more strike hands company. “Who is your company?" | with the Prophets and behold them inquired Russell. The Twelve." free from the hands of their ene"The Twelve?" "Yes; don't you mies; Joseph conversed with us like know that this is the twenty-sixth, and a man who had just escaped from the day the Twelve were to take leave a thousand oppressions and was now of their friends on the foundation of free in the midst of his children. the Lord's House, to go to the islands of the sea? The revelation is now fulfilled, and I am going with them." Russell was speechless, and Turley bid him farewell. 66 We had entered into a covenant to see the poor Saints all moved out of Missouri to Illinois, that they might be delivered out of the hands of such vile persecutors, and we spared no pains to accomplish this object until the Lord gave us the desires of our hearts. We had the last company of the poor with us that could be removed. Brothers P. P. Pratt and Morris Phelps were in prison, and we had to leave them for a We sent a wagon after brother Yokum, who had been so dreadfully season. 4 and 5.-I attended a Conference in Quincy, at which President Joseph Smith presided. Among other resolutions, the following was passed :— "Resolved, that this Conference are entirely satisfied with, and do give their sanction to, the proceedings of the Conference of the Twelve and their friends, held on the Temple spot at Far West, Mo., on Friday, the 26th day of April last." - 6.-I attended a council with the Authorities at Quincy. 16.-I left the committee room in Quincy, Ill., and started for Commerce, in company with brother Woodruff. We crossed Bear Creek, and while rising a steep hill my near horse balked, allowing the wagon to back and it came near running off a deep dugway. I caught the hind wheel against my shoulder, and held the wagon and load by main strength until brother Woodruff came to my assistance and blocked my wagon, after which we ascended the hill in safety. Travelled 15 miles and camped. We arrived in Commerce on the 18th, and called upon brother Joseph EDITORIAL. and his family. Brother Joseph had commenced laying out the city plot. On the 21st., I crossed the Mississippi, and took an excursion into the country, in company with brothers Joseph, Hyrum, Sidney, Wilford, George A., and several other brethren. We rode over a beautiful country of prairie and timber; brother Joseph's horse ran away with him about a quarter of a mile before he held him up. Joseph B. Nobles prepared a dinner for us. We re-crossed the river about 4 p.m. In the evening, while brother Nobles was plowing a piece of ground which he had obtained from Mr. Kilburn for a garden, a man named Campbell, accompanied by a mob, came up to brother Nobles, armed with clubs, and taking his horse by the bit, ordered him off from the ground; brother Nobles left the ground for the sake of maintaining peace. 585 23.--I crossed the Mississippi with my family, and took up my residence in a room in the old military barracks, in company with brother Woodruff and his family. 24. I walked out with five others of the Twelve to the prairie, visited many mounds and the grave of a Lamanite chief. 25.-I crossed the river with several of the Twelve to Commerce, and spent the day in council with Joseph. - 26 (Sunday).—Crossed the river and attended meeting at the house of the Prophet: Elders O. Pratt and J. Taylor preached. There was much of the spirit of mobocracy made manifest at Montrose by some outlaws who remained there; some cut down the barns belonging to the military station, lest the Saints might have the use of them. (To be continued.) THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS' MILLENNIAL STAR. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1863. THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF PARENTS. IN mingling among the Saints in the various Conferences in this Mission, we have been forcibly struck with the indifference to and unbelief in the Work of God manifested by many of the children of members of the Church. We have, not unfrequently, met with families whose children, if not born in the Church, have at least been brought up in it by their parents, and who had never been baptized. To the Elder who has any knowledge of the Work of God, there is something very singular in this. It is an incongruity which he finds it difficult to reconcile with the knowledge which all parents, who are members of the Church, should possess. The duty enjoined by the Lord upon every one who hears the Gospel, is, to warn his neighbor; and there is no Latter-day Saint, who entered into the Church in the right Spirit, who does not have the disposition to do so. If he or she loves and appreciates the truth, and rejoices in the blessings which flow from obedience thereunto, they are anxious to impart. unto others the joy which they themselves feel, by pointing out unto them the proper course for them to take to obtain the favor of the Lord. Can it be possible that parents, who love their children as they should do, can appreciate their religion and its blessings very highly when they permit those children to grow up, from childhood to youth and to man and woman-hood, without training them in the principles thereof? We think we do not say too much when we assert that every child, who has been properly trained by his or her parents, will readily go forward, when eight years of age, and be baptized. Yet how many children are there throughout this Mission, who, though much older than this and whose parents are in the Church, have not yet been baptized. There is a dreadful responsibility resting upon parents who are thus neglectful of the future happiness and eternal salvation of their offspring. The Lord has said unto parents in these days, "Inasmuch as parents have children in Zion or in any of her stakes which are organized, that teach them not to understand the doctrine of repentence, faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, when eight years old, the sin be upon the heads of the parents; for this shall be a law unto the inhabitants of Zion, or in any of her stakes which are organized; and their children shall be baptized for the remission of their sins when eight years old, and receive the laying on of the hands, and they shall also teach their children to pray, and to walk uprightly before the Lord." Though this commandment was given unto parents who have children in Zion or in any of her stakes which are organized, it must be binding also upon parents who have children wherever there are members of the Church. Our strongest hopes should be in our children; and every parent should take all possible pains to train them up in the knowledge of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus. Every faithful parent must look forward with anxious desires and bright anticipations to the time when his or her children will grow up to maturity in the midst of the people of God, and become active co-workers in the establishment of truth and righteousness upon earth. Their faith and prayers will be constantly exercised and offered up to the Lord for this blessing to rest down upon their offspring; and they will not only exercise faith, and pray unto the Lord, but they will do all in their own power to instruct their children and to develop within them the knowledge of the truth. One of the greatest causes which we find recorded of God's favor being shown to Abraham, on a certain occasion, was, that he would command his children and his household after him, and they should keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment; and there cannot be a doubt that Abraham's faithfulness in this respect brought down upon him and his posterity the choicest blessings of the Lord. He prevailed with God, through his faithfulness and diligence, on behalf of his posterity, and secured blessings and promises for them, of which we, who are living now, are reaping the fruit. The great faith exercised by Lehi and his descendants secured blessings for their posterity, which have preserved them from destruction, and will yet bring them to the knowledge of the God of their fathers, and cause them to become a white and delightsome people. The first thought of a man of God who is a parent, when he receives the blessings of God, is, that his children may be made partakers with himself; his heart yearns over his offspring, and he pleads incessantly with God that they may find favor in his sight. Neither does he spare any pains in so training them that they may be brought to a condition to receive the blessings which he implores the Lord to bestow upon them. We, as a people, are anticipating an increase of truth and righteousness in the earth through the esta blishment of Zion; but our hopes in this respect would be vain and senseless, unless we should take a course to bring up our children in such a manner as to NEWS FROM CONFERENCES. make them better able to carry on the Work of our God than we are ourselves. What can men or women expect will be their future blessings, in time or in eternity, if their children grow up aliens to the Work of God and utterly ignorant of its principles? The names of such parents will perish, and their We have no hesitation in saying that memories will be held in light esteem. parents, who are thus indifferent about the welfare of their offspring, will be deprived of every privilege and blessing connected with parentage, and experience the displeasure of the Almighty. The Lord will not be trifled with: and, when he gives commandments unto his people they must be obedient thereunto What excuse can be consistently given by parents or receive the consequences. whose children are not connected with the Church, and who have had the privilege of training them from childhood in the principles of the Gospel? We trust that the apathy of parents on this point will disappear, and that all who have children living will seek with all their energy to train them in the knowledge and practice of the principles of righteousness; teaching them to pray, and setting before them the blessings and advantages which attend obedience Care should also to the ordinances of the Gospel and a virtuous, upright life. be taken to throw such an influence around them, that they may be kept free from the prevailing practices and traditions of Babylon. CHANGE AND APPOINTMENTS. Elder W. S. S. Willes is appointed to preside over the District comprising the Norwich and Bedfordshire Conferences. Elder Henry Luff is released from laboring in the Southampton District, and appointed to labor in the Bristol Conference, under the direction of Elder George Halliday. GEORGE Q. CANNON, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles and adjacent countries. NEWS FROM CONFERENCES. EDINBURGH.-A Conference was held in the Saints' Hall in Edinburgh, on Sunday, the 16th ult., at which were present,-Elder John M. Kay, and Elders Bul'ock, Brown, Gordon and Warnock. Many of the Saints from the different The reports made by the various Branch PresiBranches were also present. dents were very favorable and encouraging, showing that the Saints, in general, evinced a disposition to do what was taught them by the Priesthood. The Elders had been busily engaged in out-door preaching, and had met with more success this season than formerly, for which they felt thankful and encouraged and assured that good results would follow. Elder Brown, President of the Conference, said he was happy to be able to fully endorse the reports which they had heard, and encouraged the Priesthood, and the brethren and sisters generally, to continue to strive to live their religion and to do everything in their power to promote the welfare and establishment of the kingdom of God, by spreading the knowledge of the truth, by practising it themselves, and by not forgetting that important part of it which consisted in their gathering home to Zion. The Authorities of the Church, both in Zion and in the British |