"I do not know," says one, "how to do
better than I do." The Lord has given you and me the privilege of
gathering up from among the wicked. "Come out of her my people," are
some of the last words revealed through his servant John in the last of the
revelations given in the New Testament. And one of the last writers we have
here in this book—John the Revelator—looking at the Church in the latter days,
says: "Come out of her, my people"—out of Babylon, out of this confusion
and wickedness, which they call "civilization." Civilization! it is
corruption and wickedness of the deepest dye. It is no society for you, my
people, come out of her. Gather out where you can pray, where you can have
meetings and sacraments; where you can meet, associate, and mingle together;
where you can beautify the earth and gather around you the necessaries of life,
and make everything as beautiful as Zion, and begin to establish Zion on the
earth; sanctify yourselves, sanctify your houses, the lands that you live upon;
your farms, the streams of water that flow through your cities, country places
and farms; sanctify your hills and mountains and valleys, and the land around
about, and begin to build up Zion. Now, "come out of her, my people,"
for this purpose, "and partake not of her sins, lest ye receive of her
plagues." After all these revelations and commandments the people who
profess to be Saints will mingle with the wicked, and foster those who would
cut their throats, and feed and clothe, and give them everything they can
gather together. (Brigham Young, “How Saints Should Order Their Vocation of
Life—How Employ Their Wealth. To Build Up Zion, and not Babylon. Counsel of the
Prophet Joseph. Prophet Brigham Young's Experience Therein, Importance of Union
in Things Temporal and Spiritual, Religious and Political,” February 3, 1867, Journal
of Discourses, 26 vols. [Liverpool: B. Young, Jun., 1867], 11:300)
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