If we sit here. Peace to you, my brothers and sisters. A little tugging at my heart as we come to the closing session of our gathering. I've learned to find joy and happiness in your society. Because I know that you're trying to live the same life and keep the same commandments that I'm trying to live. I pray that while I stand before you, I may have a sincere interest in your faith and prayer.

We all know that without the influence of heaven upon us, our time is wasted, our efforts are in vain, and we haven't time for the vain and foolish faith. I rejoice in these remarks of the brethren, and I am grateful to you, brethren and sisters, for following forth the inspiration that you have. God has truly given time to it.

in her dying and being reminds me of good associations with her blessed husband, Uncle John. I know that he could speak with her and load his mind and his problems many times with her and she would observe and understand and return comfort and cheer the way a good wife does here now.

I know that he had many intense problems that she helped him with. I'm grateful to God for the companionship that I have. Things along the way that no one else can help us with. The brethren have their wonderful place. Their society is supreme. Their counsel is of the greatest importance. God intends that these first companions fill their noble place. And I'm glad to see you.

seven and sisters smiling at each other, husbands and wives acknowledging one another and enjoying the sweet felicity of your companionship. God intends that we make of these homes a heaven upon earth. President Young tells us that if we cannot have a heaven upon earth of our own making with the help of God, of course, we'll never have a heaven over there. So if we are proceeding on the wrong premise if we're just existing or if we're just tolerating each other we're going along participating in the divine privileges of ours and not making the most of our associations to become godly in very deed we're wasting rich opportunities with husbands and wives take the duty of each component to have her specific place

and her consideration, and her right. I have had many times with the companion that's been with us the longest, and after we go there for comfort, discussion, encounter, and if we're doing our duty, we'll cultivate the friendship and the ability, the comfort of the rest of us. We can die for every complete life, and there's a state of responsibility for the hours of God.

Let us move along in this way. We must consider them very seriously, very keenly. Many times we will offend with a word or a slight, an indifference or a neglect, and that makes it quite a mark. We have nothing, no brethren, to do anything but inspire from day to day. And if we do offend in any respect, we had better make amends, restitution.

God doesn't look upon these things with very much allowance. If we know what we're doing, if we're informed, if we have the ability, He certainly extends to us every grace and time sufficient to learn, to grow, that we've got to remember that these sacred companions and children, we can add, are gifts from God. And we're only here to prove ourselves, to see what we'll be worthy of.

an enjoyable situation state of god very limited visibility all the time you happen to remember hearing and read of course by the prophet's picture of his being a rolling stone the edges were trimmed off the corners were trimmed off and becomes a smooth polished stone after so long we know that he was not given much relaxation or vacation from his great responsibility and the other those who have lived the law and sacredness and righteousness, a man cannot ignore nor slip away from his responsibilities. He has to be alert at every opportunity, every waking moment to have the influences of heaven with him and to create right impressions and to build his empire, if you please, of righteousness and purity and cooperation and oneness.

as he goes along. One of the few things that I remember from Mr. John, he wasn't given to too much teaching. So what he said was, gems of truth, were gems of truth. He mainly counseled us to get the Spirit of God and keep it, made a few related remarks, and then didn't be typed in that instruction by many other ways. And I'm sure that he was very wise, he was inspired in doing that thing, Knowing we have plenty to do, we speak to the Spirit of God and keep it with us. And I'm sure that he recognizes where he is at the present time. In the presence of God, we knew him, but we still haven't attained to that. It's a very marked degree. And that's some of the wisest counsel that you can get. To get the Spirit of God and keep it with us. In our home relationship, in our school relationship.

That with our parents, surely nothing is more important than getting the Spirit of God and keeping it with us. And as wives, what is more important than that? And as husbands, to keep it there. And as a people of life, the Spirit of God and keep it with us in every relationship. To do that, by the way, we're able to discern more clearly our faults. Along with that, in justification of our faults, comes the answer if we seek for it. How to overcome.

how to be a better leader, how to be a better follower. When we receive the flashes from the heavens of our condition, what joy it brings to our hearts. It means that God has answered us. We have the answer to our longing. We know what we've done amiss. Our conscience can be cleared up if we will do it. I commend for the things we've done wrong. We'll, of course, move up the ladder of success in the work of God.

I trust that next time I see you, brothers and sisters, you have more of the Spirit of God and be able to keep it with you longer, all the time. I hope that I can attain to the same thing. We're isolated somewhat, though we go to our various places of labor. It's a wonderful thing that that influence in heaven is not diminished. Oftentimes it's increased upon us as we're in our private place, in our private circumstances.

We're worthy of more of it. We need more of it, of course, because God gives it to us. Then, of course, if we can come together with the greatest increase of the Spirit of God upon us, we can enjoy a swiftly outpouring from heaven and bring the Spirit of God with us in rich abundance when we come again. We can instill that into our children, the know-how of getting it, and what a challenge that is. Oh, God bless us, brothers and sisters, everyone. Consider this.

as our greatest responsibility to get the Spirit of God in secret with us. Only we can limit that getting in secret. I say it in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.