My dear brothers and sisters, again I rejoice in hearing of you, that this time, in our humble faith, and in this new faith in Christ, we have our new faith, a new victory, of the Spirit and the power of the Lord. I get a hold on myself. I have wondered just how much more I must do besides that little bit I'm trying to do to have the Lord please with me. I'm hanging on nothing to act with me because we've got two seconds of my time in heaven. I have two simple steps in my life. The first is to And remember, if I'm doing anything at that particular time, it's doing anybody any good besides myself. And what it is that I can do, it would be of use to anyone. Because I, all my life, I've just liked either moment. So that I could be doing something with my time for...

or with my head, either learning something or accomplishing something in some way. In sitting and contemplating conditions and people and different things that one is subject to, I love to think that the greatest thing that I lack is charity and love. God says that peace is love. Christ told us that though we give all we have, and even our bodies could be burned, and half not charity, it availeth us nothing. And Nehemiah, in speaking of faith, hope, and charity, tells us that charity is the gift of all. That charity is the...

pure love of Christ. And I've often wondered to myself, what a wonderful haven of peace it would be amongst us if we could develop that pure love of Christ within our hearts, that love for each other, in which we look only for each other's virtues and that's their fault. I find myself even criticizing in my own feelings different people and different things. And I realize and try to bring myself quickly to the point that that is not the spirit of God. The spirit of criticism is not the spirit of God.

Spirit of God. And so I must rid myself of anything and everything that is contrary to the Spirit of God. If I develop within my soul that pure love of Christ, I am able within myself to trust my fellow man because I love him. And because I'm willing to overlook his imperfections. I think that is where the statement comes in. In this picture here it says his charity covers a multitude of sins. And so to develop that charity, if he can acquire it, it does cover a multitude.

We need to particularly say sin, but a multitude of imperfections in our fellow men. And by doing that, we also create a confidence from them in us, in my estimation, that we can learn to trust each other and in trusting each other, we learn to live in that love and peace and union.

And we should go through that more fast-forwarded as we go along in our everyday life and in our everyday contact with each other. And I have more or less expressed that particular aptitude of God, pride to me, as much as I could in my weakness. And I have often thought of the little song, and I memorized it as soon as it was published, and as soon as I see it anyway, that may speak no ill. There's up to a group of young people sometimes, I suppose, can you use that for a theme song?

And some of them were telling me not too long ago, on TV you've memorized all the words that may speak no ill. Well, I said, now you can just apply that to your life and remember every day, every morning, when you arrive, not to speak evil or ill of anyone. And then forget your tongue and your temper.

And that way you will be able to acquire more of the Spirit of the Lord as you go on from day to day. And if you stop yourself from seeking the book of one another, you forget. You forget the same if you really ask for it. If you just put it out of your mind and out of your heart.

You'll forget it. And the vision, the way that you start to sit aside will begin to grow in your sight. And it will develop that peace and contentment after life that you could have and you should have and the condition that you've got to have before the Lord can use it. in a way and manner that she has in store for us. There isn't anything but love comes into our home, into our hearts, when a newborn babe is put into our arms. It's just a bundle of love from heaven that will grow in years. We acquire habits sometimes. It becomes...

obnoxious to our fellow men, or at least they let them become obnoxious to them. And one of the greatest errors I feel like that we commit or injure that we do to ourselves is to stumble over the faults that other people make and worry about them and talk about them. It doesn't do them any good and it doesn't do us any good to stumble over the faults that other people make.

If you just pass them by and ask the Lord to help us to forgive those that may curse us against us, and likewise to give them the spirit of forgiveness so that they can be cursed against anyone else. The prophet Joseph said, He that forgives his brother before he even intends, I ask forgiveness.

The Lord will be equally merciful unto him. So you can see what category we would place ourselves in could be to give our fellow man. And even though then we shouldn't, please repent. The Lord will be equally merciful to us if we can exercise that love and that mercy and that charity toward our fellow man.

And I pray that the Lord will bless us in his Holy Spirit and take our hearts to his understanding that we may go from day to day and try to cultivate those attributes that will bring us to unity of the faith. I humbly pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.