---
title: Journal of Discourses
description: Sermons and addresses by Mormon church leaders, mostly delivered in Utah Territory from the 1850s to the 1880s, as reported by contemporary stenographers and printed in 26 volumes at Liverpool between 1854 and 1886.
authors:
  - Kimball, Heber Chase
collections:
  - theology
  - history
tags:
  - sermons
  - nineteenth-century
  - utah-territory
volume: 8
published: 1860-06-13
publisher: George Q. Cannon
publisher_place: Liverpool
edition: Liverpool printing, 26 volumes (1854 to 1886)
language: en
type: book
reference: 'Heber Chase Kimball, "Blessings," in *Journal of Discourses*, vol. 8 (Liverpool: George Q. Cannon, 1861), 220.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/JoDV08
  transcription: Page-structured transcription from the MRM library; printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: JoDV08
  scan: Internet Archive item JoDV08
start_page: 220
end_page: 220
reporter: G. D. Watt
place: Kay's Ward
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: Published 1930 or earlier (Liverpool, 1854 to 1886); public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/JournalOfDiscourses18541898
  publication_year: 1861
---

# Blessings

*Remarks by President Heber C. Kimball, made in Kay's Ward, June 13, 1860.*

**G. D. Watt**

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I have not much to say; but I feel as though I had a right in my
calling, and by virtue of the holy Priesthood upon me, to bless you,
and to pray the blessing of our Father and God to be with you, in
connection with the blessing you have received from President Young.
I feel to bless the earth, and to bless the seed you may place on the
earth—you and your wives and your children, and your children's
children. I am aware that you are not fully aware of the great work
that will yet spring from this people, and the great work of our
Father that has to be accomplished in the latter day.

Brethren and sisters, let us go to work now and cultivate the earth. I
see a great deal of land here that is vacated. I am glad of it, for
some have tried to farm more than they could attend to well, and have
made nothing. Let us cultivate well what we do cultivate—make gardens
and adorn them, and build good houses and adorn them. What a blessing
it is for this people to have the privilege of beautifying the earth
and making it like it was in the beginning in the garden of Eden! It
is not necessary to build such tremendous great houses, but houses
that we can complete and plaster over head, and on the sides and all
over, and make them beautiful.

We shall be blessed and stay in these mountains. You need not be
disheartened, for we shall stay here, and all hell cannot help it. We
have done as they told us, until we got into the mountains, and here
we will do the will of our Father in heaven, he helping us. Let us
prepare ourselves, that, when we go to Jackson County, we shall know
how to do right, and make beautiful gardens, &c.

May God bless you! Amen.