My wife just went out in the field the other day with the former Bishop's wife and learned all about yarrow. It is so refreshing to be around people who take preparedness topics seriously!
This is part of the reason they do; they believe this is coming:
Brigham Young
Journal of Discourses, 26 vols., 12:, p.285
This
people have got to be self-sustaining, if they believe in the
revelations given to them. You will find by and by that this same
Babylon , which the Saints of God are required to leave, will fall. Will
there be any-body left on the face of the earth? Yes, probably
millions. Who will they be? Why the servants and handmaidens of the
Almighty, those who love and serve Him. Now, I will ask the question,
suppose this is true concerning the gathering out of the Saints, and
that Babylon, or a confused and wicked world, will cease its operations
as they are now going on, and the time spoken of shall have come, when
the merchants will mourn and weep because there is no one to buy their
merchandise, will the inhabitants of Zion go down to buy their silks and
satins and keep up his trade? No. By and by there will be a gulf
between the righteous and the wicked so that they can not trade with
each other, and national intercourse will cease. It is not so now, they
can pass from one to the other with ease. But if this is the Kingdom of
God and if we are the Saints of God-I leave you all to judge for
yourselves about this-are we not required to sustain ourselves and to
manufacture that which we consume, to cease our bartering, trading,
mingling, drinking, smoking, chewing and joining with all the filth of
Babylon? You may judge for yourselves in relation to this. But I can say
that we have been striving for twenty-one years in these valleys, and
before we came here, to bring this people to this point. When we look at
ladies and gentlemen we can see that their wants are many, but their
real necessities are very few. Now, let the Latter-day Saints see that
their necessities are supplied, and omit their wants for the present,
and until we can manufacture what we want. We want you henceforth to be a
self-sustaining people. Hear it, O Israel! hear it neighbors, friends
and enemies, this is what the Lord requires of this people.
President Heber C. Kimball
Remarks made in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, Afternoon, July 5, 1857
…We are a people, here in the valleys of the mountains, who are
hated and have been broken up and driven for our religion till we have
got used to it. Brother Brigham told you he had been driven five times,
and so have I; and I have had everything taken from me that I had; but
yet I have got enough to eat and drink, and enough of everything, and so
have you; and my prayer is, all the while, God bless you.
Lay up your stores, and take your silks and fine things, and exchange
them for grain and such things as you need, and the time will come when
we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not
far distant when the curtain will be dropped between us and the United
States. When that time comes, brethren and sisters, you will wish you
had commenced sooner to make your own clothing. I tell you, God requires
us to go into home manufacture; and, prolong it as much as you like,
you have got to do it. You will also see the day that you will wish you
had laid up your grain, if you do not do it now; for you will see the
day, if you do not take care of the blessings God has given to you, that
you will become servants, the same as the world will.
We
have told you this before. You have been exhorted, year after year, to
prepare for hard times: you have been told of this often enough. We have
told you that when hard times come again you won't have the privilege
that you had last time of having food dealt out to you gratuitously, but
you will have to pay for all you get. This will come to pass. I suppose
there are many who don't believe it. To such it is like a tune that
strikes upon the drum of the ear, passes off, and is forgotten.
I will prove to you that I will put my faith with my works and lay
up stores for my family and for my friends that are in the United
States, and I will be to them as Joseph was to the people in the land of
Egypt. Every man and woman will be a saviour if they will do as I say.
You may write this down and send it to the States; for it will be
published…
Journal of Discourses, 26 vols., 5:, p.10
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