I can say, as President Young has said, God bless you, and peace from
God our Father be with you always; and may peace be multiplied unto
you, and to the whole house of Israel, and to the elect in all the
world. I am not disposed to say much; I am not very well in health.
We have had a very pleasant journey. I think I can say with safety it
has been one of the most pleasant journeys that I have ever taken. On
all other journeys that I have ever traveled with the Saints, the
companies have been strictly organized; but on this journey we have
not been organized at all, and every man has been orderly in every
respect. We have been into one of the most beautiful valleys in these
mountains. Last Sabbath, at Logan, we met with, I suppose, about half
as many people as there are here today—just as good a set of people
as I ever beheld. A great many started to go there that were
disaffected—those that were inclined to turn away from Mormonism. I
supposed they were in Cache Valley; but they are not there: they went
somewhere else. We do not know of any there but good people. And it is
a good land: the people, and the mountains, and the valleys, and
fountains of water are all good.
We still feel to bless Ogden City and the regions round about, and
this people are going to be blessed mightily—I mean all the
righteous— although there are a great many, perhaps, who are wicked—who
are inclined to steal—to be dishonest. But the Lord God will bless the
righteous all the time, and he will not forsake us; and the wicked
will come to an end. This world will roll on, and the kingdom is
established here in the tops of the mountains; and it never will be
removed—no, not one hair's breadth. We never shall go from these
mountains until the Lord God calls us to go, or when we go back to the
central place, in Jackson County, where the Lord God our Father
planted his garden and commenced his work; and there he will finish
it, and that day is near at hand. Therefore let your hearts be of good
cheer, and let your souls rejoice, and cultivate the earth in hope,
and enrich it, and make the earth like a garden, as our Father did;
for when he comes, he will not make the garden for us, but he will
cause his sons and daughters to do it—that is, those that are
qualified for it; and those that are not qualified, of course, will be
taken by them as apprentices to learn. "Mormonism" is true, and all
persons that raise their hands against it will perish; and this is
their end—they will go down to hell.
God bless you, brethren! Peace be with you, and peace be multiplied
upon this people forever, and upon their children after them
forever. Amen.
- Heber C. Kimball