President Carl Hall will be our next speaker. I'm delighted again, brothers and sisters, to stand before you and to see the beautiful sight that you present. I pray while I stand before you, I may have the Spirit of God to direct my mind and your minds that we may arrive at the things the Lord wants us to have. I was impressed as we sat here, as we stood, see, and sing.

Some of us sang, we thank you, O God, for a prophet, as though we knew we had a prophet. And others acted according to their faith, according to their feelings. So it presented quite an interesting situation. And as we sang the other song, it seemed a few more were lulled away in their feelings, and there wasn't quite as much response. We were invited at first. This meeting belongs to us.

And part of me. So if we continue on here, it is ours, brothers and sisters. It is up to us. We get what we want. Thank God for that. We all get our just merit. It is frightening sometimes, though, isn't it? When you know how badly we do. And outside of this grace already spoken of, grace of God, I don't know how many of us would be here.

I'm particularly number one here. Now, it is indeed a privilege to participate in this work, but I don't think that we all appreciate enough that God unfolds the various truths to our understanding our needs, not our wants always, but our needs. We don't appreciate what he offers. It's quite a bit like I read the other day. We all recognize that the world needs to repent. Everybody needs to repent.

And we would repent too if we thought we had something to remember. Aren't we too much that way though? The Spirit of God manifests itself to us as we meet in these congregations. It comes upon us quite easily. And we hear many things that we know we must apply if we are to suggest that we should. And yet we don't take hold of them.

I think the greatest students that have ever lived are those that have a temple close by to jot down a few things to remind themselves of what they need to do and refer to those notes occasionally. I know when I've done that myself, I've been benefited greatly. The Spirit of God can only do so much with us, but it's certainly our responsibility to do for ourselves all we can.

For the Spirit of God will put the time and effort upon us. And yet we must pray constantly and labor for that influence and that power to be with us. As we do these things, brothers and sisters, I wonder just what we ought to do. And I'm sure you wonder what to do to kindle your desires and increase your capacity for wanting to learn. And I believe that there is a help for us.

that we can take upon ourselves what God expects us to do. We're all very anxious and very interested in what the Lord is going to open up for us in the way of school activities. And the thoughts of school, the thoughts of children, the thoughts of learning come to our minds. And I believe in connection therewith lies the key for our success in this work. We must act as teachers.

not only in word but in example to those that we preside over. In other words, the responsibility of carrying on this work daily in our lives to the best of our ability is the key of our growth in it. As we attempt to give it to others to the best of our ability, we get it ourselves. There's not a one of us that what's done responsibility more than we should.

and we put off, procrastinate, delay the good things we know we should be doing. I've always said, and I've heard teachers say it, particularly was this my experience in the mission field when I was trying to learn correctly the Swedish language. I tried to teach it to others of the young missionaries that came. They asked me for certain help, and I'm sure that in trying to teach them, I learned it better.

even though I had taken a class to see myself when I arrived there. The teacher learns more than the student. And as priesthood bears, brethren, let's present the truths of the gospel to our wives and our children. Let's outline a course of study, a course of procedure, that will present the doctrines of the priesthood unto them. I'm sure that if we do this, Through the best of our ability, the Lord can increase us. You've all had the experience, brethren, of standing before your families, trying to effect some teaching and some instruction and having the Spirit of God come upon you so that you are able to give much more than you realize. And God is that way where we attempt to help ourselves be filled with an increased capacity. So in teaching these young folks,

These blessed companions we have, the two under responsibilities, settle upon our lives. How else can the priesthood be magnified and done through such procedures? It remains a dormant thing within us, able to effect some good, yes, when an emergency arises, but to expand and enlarge that power within us, we must constantly work with it in righteousness.

How many of you have felt as I have felt in trying to teach these young folks, not only by word, but having them recite or present some thought in return or some display of truth relayed to them and back again? Doesn't it cause you to rejoice to see them perform, to see them participate, unable to act?

in the capacity of receivers. The greatest joy that comes into the life of a teacher is to have their students learn all that they try to give them. I'm sure that these many fine teachers would bear that out. The joy is in giving and enlarging those minds, those intellects, so that they themselves, the students, can carry on. And surely, brethren, As we see our children respond, able to pray, able to do the various things, and as they come farther, participate in the ordinances of the gospel of their own volition and own ability, the greatest joy comes in doing that. That's how our work is magnified. The spirit of father and motherhood, the priesthood of Almighty God, the divine mission of teacher, it's in what the children are able to come away with.

how they receive and act of their own free will and choice. Now God bless us, brothers and sisters. Pleasant to come here and sit, to be in the society of the saints and to hear the brethren. But I'll say that we will sing with more fervor and we'll act with more fervor, more intelligence and more power if we'll stand up and do these things that we know we should. Attempt to convey these truths to our...

those who follow after us. For in attempting to enlarge others and do for others and to help others does the good come upon us. The Savior himself was the prototype, the perfect example. He did the most for us and he in turn merited the greatest blessing, at least one of the greatest blessings that this earth has to offer. Sacrificing for us that we in turn may receive so in our sacrificing if you can call it sacrifice in our faith in giving to others will the most good in turn come back to us god bless us in the name of jesus christ amen