Thank you. And so he's said in his apologies and a gentleman's excuse for his absence, I want the people to have a prayer in their hearts and a spirit of gratitude for him and longing for the Lord to help him and bless him. I want us to literally understand and appreciate that he's the man of this hour, that he's a gift of God to this people. Jehovah Smith is a gift of God to this dispensation, and so is Brigham Young a gift of God to the people in his day, to do the work that they need to be done for us. And Leroy S. Johnson is a gift of God to this people. And we want to cherish it, appreciate it. And if we will do that, we will find that the Lord will bless us and we will bless him. And we will see better

times. And the spirit of gratitude should permeate our whole lives. And if one of the I would seek why we should extend greater appreciation for all the things our feelings and our spirit extend to priesthood farther on the other side to look after those whom we cherish. This is the principle. God will be sought after in all things. So we should do these things.

Brother Jeff says selected number 136 or how lovely you are tonight is our first song. Here's a girl for her birthday. Now the Frank O's will offer our opening prayer. O God, our Father, we present ourselves before you this evening grateful that we are thy children and that we are called together to hear the words of life and salvation as they are to be given to us as a people tonight by your servants.

We are thankful to be born in this day and time, when the things of the gospel are on the earth. And we pray especially tonight for thy spirit to be with us, that we may hear the words words you are giving to us, that they may be defined to better work, that they may inspire us to draw nearer to your servants, and especially to your prophet and our president, Brother Johnson, for we know that he is a prophet of God, and that through him and through him only, can we all qualify for the blessings we desire.

We remember him before you at this time. Wherever he is, we pray for that protection to be on him. And we pray for thy inspiration, the revelation of thy mind and will, for us little people to come to us tonight, through thy servants that are representing you here. And we pray for these things in the name of our Lord and begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Our next song will be found on page 147. Praise to the man. I don't know. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for watching. Thank you. © transcript Emily Beynon I am reminded tonight of one of the statements of the early prophets, has come let us reason together and i pray that the lord will bless us with that spirit here tonight there's a good deal of instruction that we need and if we can get the spirit out perhaps we can incorporate it into our lives and into our thinking make some progress in the work in which we're engaged we would like to hear from many of you that is these are really not entertainment exercises and while we don't feel that you brethren sisters when you're called up always entertain but we feel that the brethren accounts

They're qualified to instruct us, and we need instructions, and we need to heed it. So I believe tonight we'll call on the brother in their turn and let them speak as they're moved upon. I'm sure that's what Brother Johnson would like to have, and so our first speaker tonight will be Brother Timpson.

I rejoice with you my brethren and sisters in being here again tonight and I have told the Lord that I don't have anything to say to you folks but I'll be glad to pass on anything that he'll give me and in order to get the word of the Lord it's quite essential that we to win our minds together and unite them toward him because this is truly his work and we have every right to call on him he's called us and we have a right to call on him so I ask you folks to join me and so we pray to God that he bless us tonight and that he bless Brother Johnson whatever he's doing.

I know that Brother Johnson is doing the work of the Lord. I know that he's doing just exactly what he should be doing. I have that confidence in him I have that confidence in God that he'll take care of him and that he'll direct him I prize this knowledge very much I also prize the knowledge that this group of brethren which is behind me are men of God and that they are united in power and calling upon the Lord and that they prevail with him I know that they sustain Brother Johnson and I'm grateful for this knowledge now brethren and sisters these men want to unite closer with Brother Johnson or determined to do it do you want to if it were not for Brother Johnson and the high office that he holds where would we be tonight

Have you ever thought of that? How would you be Aunt Susie? Have you any idea? Well, I would be looking for someone with the same authority as Aunt Susie. Very good. we would be searching for the same things that we've been hearing about and singing about in that wonderful, those songs.

The power of God. Well, I'm glad, brothers and sisters, we don't have to look any further. And now it's all we've got to do is find out what the Lord and what the brethren want us to do. Are you all satisfied that you know what God and the brethren want you to do? Are you satisfied that you know that?

And if you do know that, are you satisfied with what you're doing about it? I'm not so I stand before you tonight in a spirit of repentance and I'm going to call to our attention some of the things that I think we as a people should repent of in order to get in closer contact with God and with President Johnson and in making our lives more in harmony with his life.

First of all, I'd like to refer to the great president and prophet of this dispensation. What was his great overwhelming purpose in life? it was exactly the same as the fathers and the sons exactly to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of his brethren and sisters that is the identical purpose of brother johnson he has no other wish no other desire in life than that He doesn't.

He doesn't want to aspire to any office. He doesn't want to flaunt himself before the world. He doesn't want to build members into this kingdom of God. Everything is the Lord himself brings them. He doesn't want to build any meeting houses. He doesn't want to build any temples. all he wants is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God and you say well President Joseph Smith thought that we were supposed to build temples are we?

If he built them, what was accomplished in them? If Brother Brigham built them, what was accomplished in them? I mean the people in their particular administration. Great good was accomplished in them. And a few souls were given their endowments the way they should have been. And then there have been vast periods of time in this dispensation when there was no temple where people could get their proper endowments.

And we've been a long time without one now. And if the Lord was concerned about this, he'd do something about it. But he isn't. He's trying, after this terrible falling away from his covenants, his obligations that man has made with God, this great falling away, he's trying now to raise up a people that will honestly, honestly seek for the endowments and then keep them.

what are some of the things that we've got to do to prepare ourselves for the endowments so that the Lord can then reveal to his servant to build a temple or to prepare a place where we might receive them one of the things that we've got to forsake before we can be that people and one great swath we've got to forsake the world and the conditions of the world and we've got to find out the conditions of the priesthood and then keep them what are the conditions of the priesthood The first one, and the last one, and the always, is faith in God.

We must believe in him. We must have the faith that Joseph had when he called on him. And know that our prayers will be answered. We've got to have that confidence in God that we will know that our prayers will be answered. And how can we have this knowledge? Because we know that in order to get God to answer our prayers, we must pray righteously.

our prayers must be righteous in the sight of God now what can we righteously pray for in exerting our faith toward God as a people this far alone what can we pray for why what the Savior told us to pray for thy kingdom come thy will be done Do you have a new revelation? Do you mind if I take just a few minutes to give you a few ideas of what the Lord expects us when we pray for his kingdom to come and his will be done?

Is there anyone here who doesn't know after all these many years We are ready to relinquish our part in the kingdoms of this world, O God, But you might, at your pleasure, bring about their complete destruction. And in order for us to prepare ourselves for this condition, we must bring about their literal destruction in our own hearts.

We must come to the conclusion that there absolutely is nothing there worth going after. now when I talk of the world I talk of those things which are irrelevant and immaterial to the kingdom of God the things that are not necessary in the kingdom of God there's a lot of the things in the world that are necessary to the kingdom of God for us to sustain ourselves we're mixed up with the world and you know what those things are the greatest waste of this people was practically the only capital that we have have you considered one of those What is the greatest capital we have? Time. Time. Time. What are we doing with it?

Are we following Joseph Smith the prophet in the conduct of our using time? I ask you, how many of you are? Why not? So first of all, I'm going to call Brother Timpson and all of his associates to repent of their wasting of this precious capital which God has given us. Now you say, how are we wasting our blood attention?

Even when we are setting our minds around the Kingdom of God? Are they? how many of you people have spent time before television this last week don't raise your hand i don't embarrass you i don't embarrass you how many how many of you people have purchased one of these diabolical things so that you've wasted your time and your money don't raise your hand how many of you have radios in your home how many of you allow your minds to be tied away with these hatred things that we hear over the radio in the last week I'm not talking about instruction about the things abroad and the things at home and the things under the earth and above the earth some of the things that seem to be good I haven't seen anything for a year

or heard anything for a year not one thing is good in a year I haven't How many of you people have bought a sewing machine in your lifetime, an expensive sewing machine that's cost $100 to $200 or less or more. And how many have got $200 worth of value out of it or ever expected it? And how many of you spend hours and hours and hours on a little falder all in frills or a little game dress that you could get down and buy for $1.98 in any of these. New York-owned store downtown. It's a terrible waste of time, brothers and sisters, we have got to overcome. It's a terrible waste of our energies and foolishness we've got to overcome before we can get your nut into a feather johnson and certainly with joseph smith jr

how many miles of useless travel have you traveled in the last year useless absolutely useless burning up tires gasoline and what have you automobiles galore high-priced automobiles that cost three thousand dollars average i ask you waste of time waste of energy worth waste of of the very capital stock that god has given us to work with Now do you know why I think we're some of the most sinful people in the history of man?

Because it takes less time to get the necessities of life to go than it ever has in the history of man. And because it takes less time to do it, we have thrown away all the rest of our time. The pioneers that took 16 and 17 hours just to exist, just to live, to get their food and their clothing and their shelter, and to try and get their food gardens and trees and raise some livestock, had an excuse.

Here we are living in a day when labor is clamoring for fewer laboring hours and greater wages. And right now we've been cut down to about an average of a 40 hour week. 40-hour weeks. That's just two days for the five days, two, two and a half days. It's not going to take a week to do it.

This is one reason why the Lord is going to shorten his work in righteousness. because it isn't going to take all those ponderous hours and that menial labor to accomplish this great job of redeeming Zion, that it has to build the temple in Salt Lake forty years, and Solomon's temple and other great projects. It isn't going to take that kind of time and energy anymore, not in this world. So we've got to look more and more to this item, this great, big, basic item in our lives, and that is to find out what we're doing with our time that we shouldn't do, and what we're failing to do that Brother Messer calls so vividly to our attention last meeting.

What are the things we are omitting to do? Now there are a lot of them. But this one thing we're omitting to do is to make proper use of our time. And if we are willing to industriously employ ourselves, And we'll not cause Brother Musser to challenge us and accuse us lightly. Have you ever seen Brother Jones when he's angry?

I haven't. I've been closely associated with a mirror 20 years. I know him to be either. He was working at his hands. He was either encouraging the saints to live better lives. He was telling a story, an anecdote, to improve the faith of the saints. Or he was going somewhere, or he was doing something to improve the team of God every day of his life.

Has any of you found him any different than that? God didn't call on him accidentally. He called him because he had a man that would industriously pray with his might and mind and strength to him to bring about his kingdom and to do his will in the end. He knew many long years ago he was going to be leading this people at this time.

He saved him for the very purpose. he knew that the church would go into terrible apostasy as it had been done many, many times before and he knew that he'd need a strong man a man full of moral courage and integrity to be a leader to the people and to encourage them to devote themselves to keeping the commandments of God building up his kingdom. And he knew that he'd need other men of the same character to assist him. Well, brothers and sisters, I'm amazed. I'm amazed at the slothful condition of this kingdom, this kingdom of God, I am amazed at the slothful conditions that exist in our homes. I am amazed that we don't have more improvements in our homes and more improvements in our minds that we're not more alert and able to respond quicker to the calls of the

priesthood when they're made of this. We're doing good at times, doing pretty good at times, but we fall back again. We falter and finally relax. I could go on this subject waste, I don't go into it. It strikes me so heavily that I don't stand up here and talk about it when I think of what my family and I have wasted of this Kingdom of God in the last 20 years.

Things that could have been to usefulness, things that could have improved the housing the clothing the gardens the sidewalks of this kingdom I'm ashamed I'm ashamed and I'm so ashamed I could weep over it I don't know how you feel I'm ashamed of myself, I'm ashamed of my family, I'm ashamed of the nothingness and the absolute termination of many of our people to do absolutely nothing about it do absolutely nothing about it i could turn the page to brother brigham and quote him but you know i'm telling the truth i don't need to quote brother brigham he says that one brother timpson spends one thing one dollar more for a suit of clothes than is necessary to make it neat and clean and appear properly before the people.

He's wasting dollars that belong to the kingdom of God. He's caused by the person that when he pays $1, $2, $3, $4, $6 dollars for a meal. He's wasting money that belongs to the kingdom of God. He's telling Brother Clemson that when he eats a steak that costs all the way from a dollar or 50 cents to five or six dollars, he's wasting not only his money that belongs to the kingdom, but he's wasting away his health in trying to digest the damn thing.

now you know Brother Biggin's philosophies on this subject just as well as I do and do you know who else's philosophies they are they were Joseph Smith's before him they were John Taylor's after him and they've been the philosophies of every man of God down through the ages I know we all make allowances for ourselves this old, but it would taste so good, it would feel so good to have a new dress when the kingdom can't afford it.

It would feel so good to have this and that, that the kingdom can afford it. I see some over on the part of glasses. I read them in books, I don't know, I read the story books, cases once in a while. I agree, the price of glasses all the way from $1.98 up to $4,500 for a set of glasses. Oh, I know, but those don't look very good to date. They're not right up to date and got the little foldy rolls on the side and back here oh yes it's true without brakes easier than the others but i think they look nice Yes, this is a pretty good automobile, but across the street they sell cars that sell for $15,000 or $100,000 or $2,000 or $4,000 more.

And I get a lot more pleasure and comfort in riding in the middle. When we talk about unity, what in the world are we trying to unite with? The world to say we cannot be the judges? I've been full of it. I've been full of it for 20 years. I've been in this kingdom and full of the spirit of the world.

And I feel to repent, brothers and sisters, of my sins. I can't forget that statement of Brigham Young, he says, I'm 56 years of age and if I have any desires, I hope that I have no more desires in this life. I've got three months to go. What shall we do about it? What are you going to do about it?

Have you thought about it? If you haven't thought about it, think about it. What are you going to do about it? I know what I'm going to do about it. And if we'll all do what Brother Brigham would do about it, and if we'll all do what Brother Johnson is doing about it, You'll see this kingdom blossom like a rose. You'll see it adorned in beauty and grandeur.

You'll see the armies of the Lord start to increase. The men will stand in power. And the women will have more serene looks in their faces. The wrinkles will vanish without the vanishing cream. eyes will sparkle without the murine. I don't know if I did poetry, but I can't remember.

brothers and sisters again I invite us all invite us all to arise in our strength and put on our beautiful garments for God's sake Amen I believe we can go home now brothers and sisters and be sufficiently fed. Tell them you have plenty to do for another two weeks. I trust that one last time before you, you will continue your efforts and prayers on our behalf.

Certainly we know some time is wasted without the Spirit of God. We wasted enough of our time, ourselves, that we don't want to waste anymore. without having the Spirit of God upon us. A lot of wonderful reflections came. I'm sure you enjoyed the same thing through these final remarks.

All brothers and sisters, if we were as our small children are, and they're just able to comprehend our teaching. If we would just go and do the things that we're told to do, without a lot of complicated reasoning, justification, attempts to have a flourish of doing the things we're told to do, that could be done simply.

shouldn't we be a lot farther along the way? I love the reference made to our president I've known him quite closely now for about 14 years since I moved into the area I first considered him very, very humble man that he is, but I was amazed when he had a childlike simplicity and obedience to do what his fire leader told him to do.

and he tells a lot of faith-promoting stories about carrying out some of those things. You no doubt have heard many of them. I recall one instinct that shows even to me. A result of his rise from his action I had the privilege of taking President Sparrow into Mexico at one time, and President Johnson was there with some of our people.

Time after which he was our president, for Sparrow at the time. Because those two men have built such a confidence in each other by faith, works, by praise and judgment, having been obedient, carrying out the things that he was told to do, when they first met each other in the little home right on the mountain top down in Garcia.

referring to each other's eyes and rest with joy, having been separated for perhaps a month or two. But feeling that confidence and that love and that devotion to one another which obedience in all things gives. When Christian Johnson first learned from the Lord, who was the president of the priesthood, he said, I never doubted it from that time on.

I knew he was God's servant, holding the power to perpetuate the fullness of the gospel. And this our time. The reason God can honor him today is because he honored those whom God was honoring most of all. time after time as he came to a little money, very little, he of course had to provide a little food for his own folks but he would go pay five or ten dollars, fifteen, whatever he could in the hands of President Barlow to bless him on his way in establishing the kingdom of God.

How often we could do the same thing, if we would. How often we feel, as Christ Intentions pointed out, wouldn't it be nice to have this thing we've been dreaming about for long? For our spirit, blessing, and knowledge in presuming that where it belongs. We try it brothers and sisters.

See if it doesn't bring you more peace and joy and happiness. than any material thing you've been dreaming about i speak from a little experience but not enough i'm like person two there's some faults in this person too but if we rank the true value that God is offering let us awaken to our opportunities here I think we are all close enough to the work to know that these things are true if we have a little hard time getting ourselves together in the future We're getting our money and placing it in daddy's hands and nobody has so many places for that money to go.

Carter was behind us because of some foolish gesture we've made. And we could have done just a little better. enticing us together drawing inspiration from heaven rather than plunging in and doing the same that seemed so good and right to us at the time you're filling yourselves of the witchy values, the witchy blessings the faith promoting experiences what we get in presenting what we have to our fire leader unity I hope brothers and sisters that the Lord doesn't have to send a great crusade against us to wake us up again in this day and hour of comparative peace are we strengthening our ties with heaven and we are following this by superhuman effort how many of us have done what we could in that respect brothers and sisters we seem to love

the spectacular thing we love that which will excite us which will scare us which will satisfy our imagination it's a rebar up, upward on the material thing certainly the day and time in which we live certainly gives us plenty of these spectacular things to dwell upon Brother Thompson didn't mention the shows, the movies, the ball games.

There is a righteous mind, of course, and that's what we need to learn. But there's a lot of weight on those things. If we have the Spirit of God with us, like we sometimes have, the most spectacular thing in the world is being fed the bread of life, Being advanced in the preacher, being invited into the circle of companionship with holy and sacred.

Which is farther advanced in the kingdom than we are. Certainly we've made a lot of sacrifices along the way. Certainly we intend to make more, but let's analyze our situations a little more carefully, and be ready and quick to curb ourselves, our appetites and desires, and to let those energies along the proper line.

I enjoy reading the sacred scriptures we have, analyzing, studying, and gathering up what God wants us to know and what he wants us to do. And I'm sure you're the same way. We rejoice in the time here. And here are the good things offered us. But as we leave, we place them on a shelf to be referred to later.

We'll do that when we get a little more time. But that time doesn't seem to come unless we make a return of effort. every day or every week to return to those blessed things the only thing you have to do is to apply these things begin now and change our whole activity so that we will lay more stress on the greater value.

We don't have to wait till the next life to enjoy the heaven. Because as John has said in numerous places, we never have a heaven over there unless we learn to have it here. So what heaven do you want? Let's create here, brothers and sisters. Let's create a heaven in our family. I don't believe we have to have warfare on earth.

Intelligent people, intelligent men and women, allowed to associate together under God's direction, under his servant's direction. We should have a heaven. God amongst us. the jealousies and the whims and the fancies and the lack of confidence all those things that come along are they our masters or can we subdue them and throw them to the far end and become united I often hear, well if my husband would do that himself it would be easy for me to do the right thing The quickest way to have a habit is to make sure we're doing the right thing.

And through faith and prayer, use our influence upon our leader, if we think he's ailing. The first thing you know, if you gather a little more intelligence and a little more inspiration, you'll find, well, I guess I was excited after all. He's not doing it for God. Look what God is doing for him.

Look at the accomplishments he's making. And if he actually is doing something wrong, two wrongs don't make one right. if we do right we have much further along the way ourselves God can use us and God can bless us and praise us in the name of our blessing surely now these things are dear to you and dear to me let's pray God brothers and sisters that we will have them filled into our hearts and into our consciences in case to waste the precious gift of eternal living of creating a heaven while we're here of building the work alone through our united efforts and our unity in our family and our unity with our family with us and with our God. How did the Savior get to be one which is God? By keeping the commandments. Round upon round, here little and there a little. Certainly we've had some

of that. But let's be encouraged and go on and on. Not blowing the salad, not putting on the shelf the things that we hear, but simply going forth and doing. Tonight after meeting, tomorrow as we awaken. We carry out our resolve, our high resolve that we're filled of the Spirit of God, because the Spirit slips away so easily that we become indifferent and careless. God bless us in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

I had a pretty good fill up on things that I need to do. I've been pondering in mind before Brother Timpson arose on the questions that he presented. If I could present before you one question, to find each one of you making a positive and firm resolve to follow correctly the answers to that question.

I would have reason to feel like the millennium of peace was near at hand. and I'll be just as the prophet when he says, I have saved my heart and I feel to repent of all my sins. And if I'm willing to do as much I believe my resolve has been growing for quite some time, and I think it's stronger tonight than it's ever been before.

To do a better job, a bigger job, a more complete job, of bringing attendance into my life, of those things that puts better things in scope, But I don't have any information whatsoever to charge any of you people with malicious wrongdoing. But certainly we are all of us together, each one individually, as well, guilty of many, many errors.

And after these things have been presented to us as they have, I feel like that I am standing before a bar of judgment. Though they have often said in my hearing that honest confession is good for the soul, I must acknowledge that I am guilty. The more of the things that have been mentioned here tonight, and I don't know how good it is for my soul to feel guilty, unless it's because of the fact that it might induce in me a stronger desire and determination to change the course.

There are so many things in our lives from day to day, from time to time, from moment to moment, from incident to incident as we go through life, but we build up our hopes We build up our hopes and aspirations, and our, shall I say, our inclinations, to do the right thing. Then in the moment of provocation or some little unusual incidental trial that comes to our sleep, Then our resolves drive a window, as it were, and we fall back into our old tracks, until, as many of us erupt with the beat, it seems like it takes extra effort each time to extricate ourselves from our own folly.

Passing out of it. Nothing more nor less than the fact that we are guilty of the things that we've been listening to, feeling about, and we haven't kept first and uppermost in our minds the responsibilities that we bear. We allow ourselves to drift along, seeking after the things that please our sanity, our personal notions, our information.

Instead of seeking first in every incident in life, to determine what's the correct thing to do. how prone we are to do the thing that just pleases our fancy. We haven't learned to discipline ourselves as we should. We haven't learned and taught ourselves to stop and balance the scale.

See which way we're falling. No way not we have what it takes to make the effort to get out on the upper side of the ditch that we're in. You know it's easy for things to fall down, but it takes effort to climb up. Why is the soul beset with perplexities, oddities, circumstances and conditions that try our inclinations, shall I say?

A lot of times when our faith probably isn't tried, but our inclinations are. And how easily we oftentimes yield to those things that appear to our nature, the danger side of our nature often. You have made me so continuously and constantly and so well-instructed in the fact that our natures must change until they correspond with the nature of perfect being.

Might we not resolve with a greater firmness than we ever had before? Haven't we been practicing enough that we're stinking ourselves a little and capable of going a little farther than ever before? And making our resolves positive and effective? That we will improve over what we have ever done before.

That we will shed ourselves of those faulty inclinations that make up our character. If I don't do more and I've gone up to date, after having listened to what I've been listening now for a good many years, I'm beginning to sense the fact that I'll be condemned before a just judge. There's been sufficient life and knowledge and understanding extended to me, that I can't justify myself in forever drifting along in this fashion.

How about you? One of the questions we could be impressed individually was the positive necessity that we're under to change about, to rectify our inclinations, Seek to it that we incline ourselves, by whatever effort is necessary, toward the things that the good Lord and his servants want us to have.

Blessings of peace would well up in our beings until we'd hardly be able to contain ourselves. We probably prepare ourselves for greater trials. I have no idea that the adversary's hands are so completely tied, but what he can apply greater trials to most of us than we've ever yet endured.

But while that may be the case, we would be developing a confidence and a faith in God by which we'd have power to withstand those things better than we've done with the trials we've had to confront up to this present. That's my conviction. Do you believe it? Are we willing today to drive our pegs, to set our stakes, to resolve that we will not fall back into those old ruts, Let the inclinations of our past lives rule us from here on.

Ground our faces in the dust as it were. We haven't had any trials so severe, but what we may have greater wounds to endure, and if we're not strengthening ourselves, what will it ever be for us? I consider, brethren and sisters, that this is the greatest day of age in which the love that this world has ever seen.

I think it's as great as any. I think I have as much opportunity to show my colors as I should have had, had I lived in the days of Herod the King, If Jesus was a man among men, I think I'd have as much opportunity to show my colors if I'm willing to be valiant for the truth as I would have had had I lived in the days of Joseph Smith, the prophet, or in the days of the ancient prophet.

I certainly don't feel like that we need to mourn for any other time or circumstance under which to live than we have today what we need to strive for in my humble opinion is the gift of God a greater measure of faith and develop that devotion that courage, that will to stand true to what we know and to what's being taught us by the service of God so continuously, so humbly, so faithfully.

I am convinced, my dear brethren and sisters, in the regard and the love and affection that I feel the world's best people, there certainly is the best people there is in the world, but as Brother Barlow told us so many times, though we may be a good people, we're not good enough. In the language of one of my neighbors on one occasion, yes, we're good, we haven't done anything very bad, but still, just what are we good for? And I feel today, as I say, if I don't advance from the position that I occupy today in my standing before the Lord, my chances are pretty slim, because of the fact that I haven't taken better advantage advantage of the opportunities that have been extended to me.

And I think you can all of it. I don't suppose there's anyone here that in my party would be mighty well to just stop and touch their own accomplishments in the light of the opportunities that have been extended. The marks have been made with regard to Mrs. Johnson, I've known him intimately for I guess 35 years.

It is a matter of whom I have seen your guile, in my association with him in that long time. And I bear my witness to you, my brother and sister, that you are a servant of God, And that his associates are in accord with him, the first and greatest desire of their lives. But I think he stated it to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

Of you, my brothers and sisters, the children of our Father. Every move that we make, everything that we undertake to accomplish should be centered first and foremost on how it can be used to bring about that purpose. And so many, many, many of the things that we do have no relationship, no concern, no consideration whatsoever as to whether or not it would advance the chances of our father's children to become like him.

But they might draw you totally in this presence or anything connected with it. We just go along so much of the time without a thought. It's a very purposeful object of our being place here in mortal life. These are some of the things that we need to repent of. You and I. If you'd like to turn this around and say, you are you, I suppose that I'd better fly it at home first, and then extend this off to you.

Because by and large, this day and hour is ours. Today we can do what we will. Tomorrow never comes. Nobody ever accomplished anything tomorrow. The past is dead. It's beyond our reach. We thank the Lord the present moment is ours and we can deal with it as we will. We can renovate our lives. We can bring ourselves to a consciousness of the responsibilities that we bear.

We can take on ourselves. Say, sit up here and take notice. You're in peril. But the opportunities that are going by today may never come again. If they're disregarded, sloughed out, unappreciated, what obligation is my father under to extend to me another opportunity when I so carefully disregard what he's extending to me today?

There's something for us to do. There's something for you to do individually that no one else can do for you. That applies to all of us. Those things we can do, we must do. How about the will? Certainly, there are many here who are so lacking in understanding, that they don't know, that if they don't exert that will in the proper way, I am grateful to you, John O'Brien, and everything was used in the day, and I have this opportunity to add my testimony to that of the others, the goodness of God and his blessings unto us all.

This morning in my ears, a few words of the Savior. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. and our neighbor as ourself. I have loved the Lord. You have loved the Lord, I'm sure. But we have not loved him with all our hearts, with all our minds and with all our strength if we had we'd have had the temples our endowments Zion would have been redeemed and God would have had his people This weighs very heavily upon me, my brothers and sisters, and I, what the others feel, to repent and to do better and to remember this first and greatest of all the commandments.

Jesus added later, and if you love me, keep my commandments. And this means walking in obedience to the direction and counsel of his servant, his legal representative upon the earth. So it's simple, brothers and sisters, and we can go into all of the little details we want, but if we would only make this one thing, the burning desire, the overwhelming desire of our hearts, we would be able to be used by the Lord.

Thank you. I just want to have these remarks given to me so this will be short tonight. And then behold, I say to you, that ye cannot have faith and hope, save ye shall be meek and lowly of heart. If though his faith and hope is vain, for none is acceptable before God, save the meek and lowly in heart.

And if a man be meek and lowly in heart, and confesses by the power of the Holy Ghost, the Jesus of the Christ, he must needs have charity. For if he have not charity, he is nothing. Charity suffereth long, green, and is kind, and envious not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, seeketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, and beareth all things. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity ye are nothing, for charity never saveth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity which is the greatest of all, for all things must The charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endures forever, and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that you may be filled with this love, you've got to pray for it and live for it, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ, that you may become the sons of God, that when he shall appear, you shall be like unto him, for we shall see him as he is, that we may have this hope that we may be purified even as he is pure. Amen.

I feel to add this, brethren and sisters, we need to go before the Lord and offer an offering of a broken heart and a contrite spirit. If we will do this, you will make our weaknesses known unto us so that we may overcome them. And I promise you in the name of the Lord, if you will do this, you will know your weaknesses and then you can set about to do it, to overcome them. May the Lord bless us to this end, I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

I feel very grateful and that it's a great blessing to be with you tonight and I pray that the Lord will inspire my mind that I might add something worthwhile to this council. In keeping with what has been said, I am reminded of the words of William Young. And I think the whole restored plan of life and salvation is summed up in what he says here.

the greatest attainment that we can reach is to preserve our identity to an eternal elation in the midst of the heavenly host the greatest blessing that can be bestowed on the children of men is power to civilize themselves after the order of the civilization of the heavens, to prepare themselves to drive as heavenly beings who are capable of enduring the presence of the God.

the fullness of the gospel of the son of God can be summed up in these words son daughter so live so that I can come and dwell with you or send my angels or other heavenly messengers to dwell with you Have your hearts, pardon me, have your characters, persons, and homes in such a condition that I would not be assumed to visit you.

If I only had a minute to command you, this is what I would say. All the commandments can be summed up in these few words. Son, daughter, so live so that I can come and dwell with you without being ashamed or insulted. Have your homes and clothing in such a condition that all the heavy hosts could meet with you and feel perfectly at home, more so that you do not reveal sacred things so that you will keep my character, life, and my ways a secret from the wicked.

Now that sent me a very simple summation of 6,000 years and volumes and volumes and volumes of philosophy as to what our duty is. But you might say, well, Brother Matthew, how can this be done? That sounds good, but we're living here in hell. How can we so live that our Heavenly Father can come and visit us and see us perfectly at home?

Well, in the first place, let us consider our mental attitude in regard to the visitation of these people from the other side of the visitation of the prophets from this side. Are we supporting them one hundred percent? Do we have a guiltless concept in regard to how we have spoken about them?

Have we felt after them? Have we done everything that they have commanded us to do? Do we feel that we would like them to visit us? That we would love to have them in our home? that we would be willing to subject all things under our feet in order to have this privilege? And what's our mental attitude?

Do we know this? And do we know the damn world that we know? So this is our attitude. Now that's the very first. That's the very first thing that we must come to is the development of this attitude. And have a guiltless conscience. now let's take clothing for instance that's something that we have to have and we have a little bit of rest clothing now it appears to be a very simple thing and what I suppose in this audience tonight is Malcolm's reason and trouble over this little simple thing that we must do anything else.

Our Lord has instructed us to cover our nakedness. So what should we do? Every time I buy a handkerchief, I should say to myself, I've only got 10 minutes to buy this handkerchief because I'm on the way to the Hotel Utah where I'm going to visit slowly and generally in my father and brother Bardo.

I'm going to hold a meeting with him. I need this handkerchief. I forgot mine and perhaps I'll have to loan it to my father. That would simplify the purchase of the handkerchief, would it not? If I actually believe that. It would simplify the purchase of it. I'd buy a nice white handkerchief that Lord Henry could use if he asked me for it.

It's unfortunate, but that's simple. I was sitting with Father Barry and Father Wendell, and they received one of the members of the group and talked to him, and the man left, and Brother Bartle happened to make the remark, he says, and he didn't very often make this remark, but he says, it's certainly odd that that brother had lost his live clothing, isn't it?

So whenever I buy a suit of clothes, all I have to do is say to myself, you've only got In just a few minutes, it will be on your way to your father's house where brother Larry and your brother are waiting to hold a meeting with you. And what kind of fate would cause you to appear in the best light before them? Simple, isn't it?

That's just as simple as can be. And so if you're shoes, your stockings, your hat, how much safer can you get it? If you think anything of moving with those people. Now if you just make a joke out of it, then that's different. But if you think anything of moving with those people, so i got just exactly what you'd say and so you'd walk into the store and get what those brothers would wear and walk out that's what you'd do i've had my father get after me about clothing before so i know one good man in this group took his wife to see President John Leroy once she didn't have any sleeves in her dress and her good knees stuck out I've always said that if you don't feel anything so this is the most interesting part of your body

it's alive in the light of the soul Now some big knots and other things to check out. That's the better. The line you couldn't have left was you said to me, Mr. Brother, you turned to your sister brother, you turned to your sister and said, girl, don't ever come to visit me again until you've covered your nakedness. Well, that's all that the woman has to do. Whatever she's All she has to tell herself is I'm going to be in a continual meeting night and day with the brother.

Now how will I look? Will I stare at him? Will I condemn him? Will I feel like getting after him? Will I give a bad report to my husband? That's all I have to say. Will they condemn me? Will they feel like getting after me? Will they give a bad report to my husband? That's all I have to say.

So, we are going astray. And by the grace, we are met the grace that suits the occasion as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. because that's what they are if they are a saint they are a minister of the gospel now how can you dress as a minister of the gospel I want to tell you it's quite confining there's not much choice as a minister of the gospel Now are you a minister of the gospel, or are you a gentile?

There just seems to be two elements there, either a saint or a gentile. So that certainly places a simple aspect upon crawling on nakedness, does it not? It's done deeply, respectfully, and the brethren can endure our presence. So that's a very important thing to do. How about the home?

You have to live in a home. Some people try to get away from this problem, but they can't. they still have to go back to home and live in home now what should be in your home you should have a proper home and sufficient to stay up so that these brethren can use it day and night to work in and to live in without being embarrassed or without inviting me to remove certain objects from it.

That makes the purchase of a home and its refinement very simple to us, but it might. If we pay too much for the harm, then we're going to embarrass the brethren. If we have filled it with objects that relate to idolatry, worship, and to other foolish things, it's going to embarrass them.

My father might say, Guy, we'd like to meet in this room, but before we do, we'd like you to remove several of these objects that you have in here, because we don't feel that they are related to what we're going to do, so you just remove them out of here. They're indelicent. In the first place, they wouldn't come at all.

And how many of you have these objects of refinement in your home that are part of your people's customs and traditions and your own customs and traditions that are idolatry, I doubt it in your nature, maybe you did, but how would you actually in your homes tonight could present a drawing room where a lone willy could meet with the brethren in a respectable way and feel perfectly at home?

You see, there is extreme simplicity in the selection of your home and the selection of its refinements, and of how you have to live in it in order to keep it a fit place. Keep it sweet and peaceful and clean and prepared for such meetings. These meetings happen in an instant, in a moment's time.

And so the place has to be kept. That's one thing about the old-timey houses. They had big kitchens, and the people lived in the kitchens, and they went to the bedroom. And they had large barns, and a living room, and a parlor. And we didn't go in that parlor only upon certain occasions.

Sometimes it was locked up in these big old pioneer homes where they really took care of him. And most of the time, they didn't get in the living room. And on Sunday, you got in the dining room. But they always had beautiful, respectable, peaceful rooms where Josephus Smith, their present so-and-so, could come and meet, which they did, very often.

So how many of us are willing to keep a portion of our home fully prepared and open and dedicated to such a thing? where if nothing more a saint could stop and take the burden off of his or her back and sit and contemplate and feel ease and feel better for having just rested quite a thing so that certainly adds simplicity to the selection of a home and its refinements. So now you have your attitude, your clothing, your home, now your food.

Poor people like ourselves certainly shouldn't have much of a concern and worry about food. Because we don't have any money in the first place, and those who do have money, they're so darn weak, they can't eat any good food. So we don't have any problem like that. But our food should be plain food for the stomach, clean and lovingly and respectfully prepared, that the brethren might feel at home.

I can imagine the concern of these brethren who are laboring on the other side if we rushed about and lost the support of the Lord to put on a show and to get all the costly foods before them. Why, they wouldn't even feel like blessing. They would appreciate plain, simple, kind, clean, respectful food prepared by loving and careful hands and hearts and served.

If Brother Borrow was here, he would say, by a beautiful girl. So, this old problem has been taken care of. It's been simplified down to the last inch. Now you might have an automobile, and that's the same thing. Is your attitude towards it respectful? Is it what you need? Did it serve the service that it's been purchased for?

And could it be used to bless the brethren and to bless the work of the Lord? My brethren insisted I don't see why I should be in a position to make any God to listen. But if I were to be needed, maybe half of the strength is consecrated from myself to the weapon. And if we were ready to so live that these brothers could make me pure and be welcomed and to feel it peaceful and to feel it home around and around and with our food and our clothing.

I want to tell you a little bit about before you bug and insist that you do see certain people in your home. The day time is coming because very few of the dead ones can get in. They don't feel the bedding feel like, though. One horn has so much confusion in it that you can't hear yourself.

Another horn is filled up with these sounds that relate to our diatric voices so much that if you breathe too heavy or loudly, you'd fall off and break. There's a home in this group that I take tip to, but it doesn't relate to me, somebody else, that they think so darn much of the rug that they made me take my finger on.

I don't know how people ought to do that. I see a good thing because I don't need a good life. My daughter and I are two. We're hanging out at home. I'm in a condition tonight to be free. I'll be dancing, dialing, getting in the other's bedroom, You had it prepared so that they could hold several days even in your home without being assaulted and seen, possibly at home.

If your home is in that condition, what have you been doing all this time? If you told them you were in that position, what would you be doing all this time? I told you before, if you had a brother or a sister run down the street with their heads heads ducked, crammed about me. They gave me their eyes, they gave me their car, they gave me their house, they tied me with a bloody string that they got out.

That's all I've seen. I'm sweet, but they embarrass me when I happen to see them. They embarrass me when I don't see what I'm getting at them. This is the fall of the husband, the fall of the woman, the fall of conditions. That's what makes it this deep. But we've got to learn how to get control of ourselves and to control everything that we see, touch, that relates to us.

and stop letting things control us. We've got to have the power of God so that we can begin to control things. And being on top, even though we might be in a huddle, and in a scary way, and if you've got food resting in your bosom, or you're afraid of public peace, They're afraid of what this will do to you.

They're afraid of what these people will say. They're afraid of anything else. You're not free. You're bound. You're chained. Just as much as a gentile is. Even though you have had some ordnance performed for you. You're just as chained as a gentile. The truth will make us free. The truth of how to live, how to eat, how to clothe our bodies, how to live in our homes, how to run our affairs makes us free.

And we are freed from this tension and pressure that exists when it doesn't bother us to see the Gentiles going their way to doom. or anything else we treat them as what they are the brute creation for God has said that's what they are the brute creation if they don't have his mind and will now brothers and sisters I don't know what else the Lord can tell us to help us out in regard to our personal their own private lives.

They're on his footstool. But this is the simple truth, that we must live in such a way so that the Lord and the brethren can receive us, and they can receive them, and that we have power That we live with them and that we have power to keep their secrets and what they tell us and not reveal them unless they're told to.

I'll tell you that's something to keep because it's hardly a morning run through the night. religious argument prone, like some people are accident prone. You are religious argument prone. You find it. You search it out. You leave it on the street. I don't know how you do it. I have been missing out for 45 years and I can't do it. It's the hardest thing in the world for me to express religion.

or any principles of truth outside of the company of a saint. I don't know how you do it. You have something that I don't have. But you're argument-prone when it comes to doing things. And in the heat of the argument, I'm sorry to say, you reveal things about your Father in Heaven that he doesn't like to reveal things about one another that they don't like.

And sometimes the revelations he gives are very serious in their nature. So, I'm going to tell you that I can come and dwell with you and talk with you and reveal to you my secrets and feel that they are safe in your character and that I feel perfectly at home in your presence. God bless you and you.

I feel it's a task that we've had for a long time. What we need. We've got God. And at the moment it's touched the hearts of a lot of people. It's very saddening if you don't accomplish more. We've crossed up a fine opportunity in our lives when we failed to ride around Butterbottle and Buttermaster when they were in their good days.

And that's when we look into the presence of the Lord. And if we're not careful, we're going to miss another opportunity. to have Brother Johnson take us into the presence of the Lord. I will often look at the congregation and remind you how few there are here that were here in the old age, yet I can look into your faces and see that practically every one of you were here when Brother Martin and Brother Mr. were here in their last days.

And they haven't done too well. We can't do what we've been poorly taught. I say when they're thinking that maybe we're out of school, I'm a mixed up in a lot of businesses here, and I'm in the school business once in a while. At least sometimes the students get their lessons piled on top and I have to take them off their arms.

They don't know what to do first. Maybe we've had so much destruction we don't know where to begin. Maybe we are discontinuing our needs. I wonder why we haven't done better with what we've had. You see what I mean? I really do. We hold school here every two weeks and we have to go over the same damn lesson.

I find lessons in it all the time. If a fellow crowd guy taught me the same lesson hours ago every day, I might have done something and I'd lose my mind. He gave us a lesson and he affirmed that things are landed and on he goes. And they scratch their poor little heads and they take their books home and they pour over it.

And now his dad says to his mother, Hey there everybody, come and help me with my housework. I've got to learn this lesson tonight. Because tomorrow comes another one. And we had the audacity to expect him to do it. I was counting on tips to pay off some problems and money. Day after day I needed to go to the same old work over and over and over again.

I don't understand how I'm going to have to pay for things like this. Well, let's see about that. Pretty much what you might notice is the faces of you lovely people and I thought we ought to have a good laugh. I remember how my mother must have felt when I thought of the times that I drank more than 20 pounds a day.

And I grew up in New York, where I lived a lot, in a big country. And I thought if you and me could go up on the well and look at the way you're eating, per a million, what a hundred and ninety you'd eat. So, for us to go buy the recipe, we did get some food. If I'm sure we could just pin on the wire like I desire her, I bet she'd get this great job and keep a yearling to go by it.

She'd surely be down the road. There's a lot of things a free woman has that are wonderful. She ought to have a good day. So yes, she's just once more. I don't recommend it too often, because you get to talking about things you shouldn't. I don't know. to the present. I am not an eyewitness to this news.

The government is scratching the line upon me, crawling at my feet, wishing me the best of luck, telling me to stay on them, but I am not the one on the fly. I am an eyewitness to this punishment. If you are having trouble dealing with accounts that you have not previously seen in the past years, I'm going to turn it up.

I don't know if you can hear me, but I'm not sure if you can hear me, but I'm not sure if you can hear me. Thank you. I was struck. I got a good hard jab. I got a concussion here about six months ago. I thought it was a good one. I was so thankful for it that I didn't know what to do.

I was pleased that it hit me when it didn't involve me. But I went to him and asked him to get the word of the Lord for a family in a situation we were involved in. He said, Brother Harmon, I don't mind getting the Word of the Lord for people, but they'll be united with me. He said, I can't get the Word of the Lord for a disunited people.

Isn't it so, brethren? You cannot do it. You say, here, Brother Johnson, you'd like to have the Word of the Lord. Well, the Word of the Lord I'm having. Is there one item in this doctrine, this gospel of Jesus Christ that people can unite on? That they'll have to have the word of the Lord?

Oh yes, what would we like to have us do? Well alright, we'd like to get the word of the Lord on that. What if the Lord will not give us His word until we're ready to obey? And so you please tell me, if Brother Johnson stands up here and says the Lord wants the people to do this. If it wouldn't fall on just as dumb a ear as it did the rematch that I'm making tonight and all the rest of the government may do.

It would be all just as unheeded as any other thing. Because we do not desire to do things of having the word of the Lord or anything else in the people. You can only do it if you want the word of the Lord, but I don't know how to achieve that word if I knew how. but I don't know what you do with it after you get it.

I know the word of the Lord has come to me and to this people. I know David Johnson came to deliver the word of the Lord to the people. I know I can deliver it to Christians. I've heard God deliver the word of the Lord to people. I've heard you and Jeff when I had to get up here, and as ever revelations of God Almighty flowed from the man's lips, they flowed from here.

that I don't see any evidence of improvement from it I'm dead serious about this I'm dead serious I think that there there needs to be some revival in my feelings what do you really desire? I often and makes my girlfriend a pair of boxers in public meetings, and I'm grateful for his integrity.

He lets me whip around him. My father used to have a son of horses, and he'd have always had to have a horse with his whip over. Sometimes he had to let the horse up a little bit to get him to do his work and stay in his place, and he had to have one that could stay close and not get too excited while he was doing the work.

Well, I asked for the file not long ago, Well, it was not long ago that I went to Teddy's house and I was in a certain respect. And I did the same. And it wasn't until the two or three weeks that I came on the scene that I found that he had done what I asked him. I saw the evidence, that he joked, that he went right down the line and cut the old pig's chest off so that the knife could cut it.

I saw the evidence for the dog's death. And I did the same thing. I don't know if you've seen the evidence or not, but he's a friend of mine, but there are some good friendship upon that I could feel, and have a policy, and favors, and all that kind of stuff. I can walk into his presence and raise him up just as freely as he can to me.

He's come to me as a little better man if he'd just do this and both of those things would be better and so on. And I respect him. And I can do the same with him and our friendship's not based upon a damn lot of nonsense. I can go into the other guy's office and complain and, uh, Scream up a little bit for the way we talk with the people and one thing and the other.

Do we have to part enemies? No. We're friends. Friends upon principles. Upon what relationship are you men and women together? Upon what principles are you men trying to operate? I don't know. I think if we had found it enough yet, that we are still trying to bring the world along with us.

I can tell you by the very crux of our hearts here, that the man who denies the world, to have it fall on the ground is instinctively clinging to it. They're just trying to bring the spirit of the world into their homes and everything. I go around with brother, punching him with these remarks about TV and radio.

I'm like, that isn't true. That isn't a couple. I can go home and get the axe and break the TV out of the hole and throw the radio out the window. And that isn't going to help my wife one eye odor. She would be a long way to go. She might be afraid that I'll be against her very often, so she backs off in a corner and lets it so be.

But I don't make a Christian of her. And I was about to tell you something, and I think I will. God, help me. By the grace of God, I can take any woman in this society. She's my wife. I don't want to get married, but this is the only one who isn't. And she'll just try to be a Christian.

We'll give her naughty boys, and I'll have her a companion. You're not a companion. But I can do it. And if you can't, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Because I'm a hard man. I don't know what, I don't know what permeates her bosom. I don't know what, upon her principle if she tried to live with a woman. I don't know. I've had some of the damnedest renegades stood by me that God has had any dispensation and they're still with me. And I can call And I can call them together in a moment's notice.

I'm ashamed of you. I'm ashamed of you, brother. I don't know what in the world you're doing. I know that you're not a memorial people. I know that you're not overly indulgent. You're not a dirty people. You're not saying the world is your fault. Is it stupidity? Please answer me, just please answer me.

What in the world is the matter with you? A man gets a wife from deciding a first one, a second one, or a third one, and it seems to make no difference in his capacity to grow or increase or do anything. I don't know how, I don't know how a man can quarrel with the same woman for long over the same issues.

I don't know how you do it. Now consider this, now consider this. If you don't think better, if you think better, hand this lie to your behind and ask the Lord. Put a basket in those. I'm not lying. If you don't take my word, get it on your side and tell your better hand and tell me the truth or you'll be lying to it.

Just send it to the Lord. I don't know if I've ever done so, but I can certainly do it now. And you've had the same instruction that I've had, because many of you have had better opportunities. And I'd like to see you do better. I don't know why women can't change the dress code 90 a little yet.

It's not enough to buy a mindset, and I think you should decide it. And I think that the dispositions of the government have to do with the women's dress code. I'm sure. I'm sure. I tell you, I think a woman would be mighty slow to appear in my presence, the life of mine, and the death that I couldn't stop. I'd say, why don't I take you out tonight?

Now, believe me, she won't go get one of those things with you. It comes out in the best you've got. In the best, it's the thing that she's not afraid to. It covers up her nakedness. I don't want any woman going out with me to dinner or to a show or to anybody's house where she sits and squirms, trying to get back in her skirt.

I'd go leave a woman to come home alone. I'd say, well, here's the keys. I'll see you. I'll see you in the morning, if you'd like to see me. In the morning. And what are you bedding and putting up with? What are you putting up with? You must be glad to have a fellow with you on and on and on and on.

You must not have much disposition to one of your nights at the bedding or the one you're bedding your night with you. You can't tell me these women are going on I just work putting up with the experiences I've had to go through just for the fun of it. They've got a hope within them. And where is yours?

You say, oh, Donnie, we want to do the Lord's will. We've heard so much about it that we're frightened. And now he comes up to me and says, Pastor Tom, you're a better hammer than I am. I want to do the Lord's will. the death, that he's going to corner me and do a long sermon about what the Lord is.

You've got to know what the Lord is. Dedicate yourself to the priesthood, that's what you should do. We should live in spirit of dedication, and not in the science of living by the lies of the holy priesthood. And I would hate to cast off everything that interfered with it. Making a living doesn't interfere with it.

It doesn't interfere with a man living by the laws of God making a living. They think that we have to go down and work with the Gentiles all day. We can hang their hand again. Now we're not handicapped. I've worked with them just as much as any other man has. a man has need ten times, and that's not a handicap, making a living, because God Almighty knows you have to make one when they come here and expect you to do it.

But I think if we, if we're given to abide in the spirit of the world, I'd love to have it so, and we bring it home to our families just as much as the women folks do. I think, of this work so often and the things we've had to go through. You've essentially, you've done it hard by it.

Seemingly, there are times that go and come and say, well, if I just didn't have to work for this, if I didn't have to work for that. Well, I often admire what Guy's gone through. He had to work for the railroad, one of the worst officers in the rest of the world. Filthy skulls and shabby work and chipping on the ball for everything you're in.

You cannot find progress in the life of this angel out here at all. So don't tell me it's difficult. He wasn't a real old man. Brother Johnson, the brother Jeff here, is not an accountant by profession. He's an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ by profession. And what he has to do is tell you until the Lord gives you the easy moment.

I went through some hot feelings in my mind the day of the wire, I was about ready to tear one of them off and I gave some vicious thoughts and I thought he might ask me why I thought he might ask me where I got such a disposition I was going to tell him. Where I developed my vocabulary.

He started out driving a bunch of donkey horses for my father. That's where I learned to talk. And I tell you, I could really, really get right at you. I've had my old dad get up on his feet and say, Mary, can't you calm down a little? Yes, I said I could, I guess. But if he had to drive you dirty so-and-so's, I wonder if you'd recall, and I was about to use that language on your flyer, but I just can't hold it myself, but I wonder, I do actually wonder, I do actually wonder what's holding this up, what's holding this up.

They sure as hell didn't get on the boat. And I take it we just can't seem to get the people pulling apart. But I'm not speaking of the people it is. I was gathering around this work to stick people right on the bottom, right on the inside of this thing. Standing right by Brother Johnson could be just as close as I stand to him, or Guy, or Brother Rich here, or any man.

He's got just as much right to stand behind me as I have. He needs it just as badly or maybe worse. There's a lack, there's a fear in these people that they do not want to come out. I'm going to take another moment to tell you what I mean. Moses read that the Israelites had their bondage in the Egyptians.

And he prayed them into the wilderness and kept them there for years and years and years. And I'd like to call a friend of mine that he hung up into the mountains to receive the word of the Lord. He had those people where he wanted them to receive the Lord. And he said, no, Moses, you go.

They did not see a little miracle. And so Moses went. And while he was gone, the people prophesied. And it's got to go in the past. Remember this story very well. What now is it possible? Is it possible in the lives of these people that we do not realize, Is it possible to live on as far as we want to go?

Is it possible to live on as far as we want to go? I don't know why we've got to go on and take another generation of people off the sons and daughters of those people and call another priest in order to get this work up to the place where it could be received because to me the sacrifice has been sufficient.

We've proven our worth and we've lifted our enemies, but I don't see how we can't prove our worth in the face of God. And now I know the truth. I've been together a long time. And I have high expectations in what we do now. Things are the best way to get a hang of yourself. I told you before, I'm not ashamed that I always see such good things.

I never dreamed that I'd ever see such a face. I'd like to see it show up and take out their teeth and add to them. I'm so exhausted. I can't believe it. It's murdering me. I don't even know how to speak. And when I was 10, I started getting a little hungry and a little hungry how do you know about the second or third Sunday in a month where then you'd say, well, it's probably on the next Monday and I haven't already heard.

Well, maybe you can begin to practice how many you've said. Well, I'm convinced of the proposition until the Lord shows me otherwise. If you take a woman and there are many of them here and they're being born in our lives daily And they come out of the world with this attitude that they wanted to do the will of God, that they wanted to be engaged in the work of the Lord. Like I told you the last time I was here when we had the young Mexican girl and I took back there what her desires were and what her parents' desires were and they made me perform the gospel and they said, we want to do the will of the Lord. And that's all we could get out of them.

And that was all there was to it. Now, we have had women come out of the church and out of the world and into our families who want to do the will of the Lord. And we have had men who have come out and have dedicated themselves to do the will of the Lord. They want to be engaged in the gospel of Jesus Christ and its fulfillment.

Now can you tell me why a young couple or a woman beside a man or a family needs more than about 90 days to 6 months to get that little ax on the road? Do we have to go through a long period of quarreling and disagreement and finding out for all the many nasty things about each other that could exist if we let them express themselves?

How could we dedicate ourselves to the proposition to go with their great? Their great. All we've got to do is just step up here and do what's right. I'll be kind to them, you be kind to me. Before we get married, you'll be hurt for us to talk over the proposition, The community that I am in is predicated upon this wrong proposition that the women try to become like their husbands.

In the midst of so, I have tried to be the kind of a man who should be proud of who I am. And I don't see why it takes any more than 90 days to work out that kind of a proposition. If you have a budget, it takes six months to have a party, and that's why you have to relax on the road, and you don't need to go through all this warfare and trouble that you've seen in the past.

It's absolutely non-essential to the kingdom of God. The spirit of contentment is not the spirit of God. And we can get to our summit the day one, and we can get to our summit on the day two. Because every time we drive this way, we're way down the road. And we get in trouble because we can't do any better.

We just don't know how to do that. Because the God of God becomes one with Bill Johnson, Brother Johnson can become one with the people. In Christ, we're going to watch how the God of God takes and becomes with us. We've got a John in him and his good principles. And I've never seen a man, and I've never heard a John in my entire history.

The God of Jesus, suffered to be written from the days of Adam until now. before you find a manager than Roy Johnson to join with. He does it 20 times and better anybody he knows when you get a close one. He's as patient and kind as a man can be. And I assure you that I urge you to try to utilize him for a good purpose because you may not always have such a character around it.

I've discovered in my observation of this work that many are called to do a job. Father Johnson is here for this purpose. He did not own his people and he has a past and ability to do it. He will suffer every tragedy he has in this world and God is with him. He is dispossessed and so forth to come in and join up.

And when he finds a God he calls him home, that will be the end of that dispensation. I'm going to work with you. I'm glad you'll have expected me to remind you that I'm going to have to join up. I'm going to move on. I'm glad you'll have dropped behind. And I would be proud of the function and do things and go places and preach and persuade and back out to people in my house to leave their crying lives at home.

I'm coming for more projects. I'm part of a great project in the lives of 9 million people in America. It's a day of mercy and the grace to appreciate. The day that there are reunions. I don't know, I have to talk in person. I don't know if you can see, but I met a few people that I can't see.

They were married and I had been born together here 20 years ago. And I already had a wife. I didn't play on it. My wife was one of my wives. She was a young, lovely, beautiful woman. I mean, for the greater of those good years, when I think that I spent a good time at home, and saw all the attention you promised me as well, and appreciated your lovingness, and had a sense for the good ones, and spent some nights with you around the wedding day, and I spent those years scrapping with each other.

See? It's a pain in the... ...to have my love still a bottle. And I just want to thank you, Hammond, for all the love you've given me. Hammond, I'm going to cry for ten or fifteen days, but I know that's the best thing you've ever done. And thank you, Hammond. And I love you too, big ol' man, and I love you so.

And I miss you too. I'm on a vacation. Mary, I can't, can't do it. Can't stay with you tonight. Can't even go out to the show. Won't you take me for a ride? When I'm done here, now the day is gone. The day is gone. I came for a bite, and made a point that I would eat them, if you liked them.

And I thought you wouldn't want to eat them, so I gave you both. Now that you're on my side, I bet you're afraid to hell with each other. It's a bit sad, isn't it? But I've told you many times that I can sit here and fight the fire, and you can just hold my hand. I'm going to take the honor of going to heaven for a boost of joy because I have nothing but joy in this place.

And if I have 15 minutes of goodness for the last 10 minutes, but if I have no money to hold my hand to crucify me and kill me and desecrate my priesthood and hell with my brethren, I just want to get back to those good old days I can't imagine how much I've got to live in a mile and a half There was a day when I was 45 There was a day when I was 20 There was a day when I was 40 And I had to live according to my age And I've been in this life for more than 30 years And I have to live according to my age I can't go back to someone for days when I was thirty-five.

I hadn't got the time, nor the talent, nor the desire. The women of the dining-room style is the style of no one. There's nothing like the date. Sometimes it's time to get to work, but I guess it's time to get out of the house with the woman in the book. I think that's enough to put me down.

I don't know how to stop that. I already left my M.O. I'm just saying. I'm going to try and keep quiet. I just want to say that I should have gone down the first floor. I know the consequences by which we get there. Hey guys, I'm going to make my own life progress before I start, not after I start.

So guys, if you want to join hands with me after you know what you're going to join for, if you want to join and bless my life, then do it. I can encourage you if you want to join us to give me a bedtime. If you want to join us to give me a bedtime, then do it. I don't want you. If you want to go out with me, bless my life, let me bless you and bring some sweet blessings to my life, God bless you.

I'll take you into my arms and I'll devote my time to becoming a man of God so I might honor you. I'm going out of my heart to you. That's all I need. the the the the the the the When your time is extended and you're out of your feet for a shoot, you're not going to be able to go out and play in a field where there's nothing, where there's nothing.

You say, well, that day's bad. You did the best you can. I've had to go out and do other things since I have other hands. There are many places you might have failed. Well, I don't know what you want. I just grabbed it on you. We start to look outside our eyes and preach to the people that I've had this whole year spoken to.

And I did it two before. I've seen it down the street. I've seen it on the ground since the horse. I've seen all kinds of sacrifices. I've seen it at a bar. Tariffs make sure I'm forcing stuff down the street so you get up to task with people. So that you get away with persisting in disobedience.

I see the massive grief that I have to be preaching along with you and I would be so glad to stand up in this place and teach what you might have taught. And yet still I hear you say it. Substantially, the same old way. I tell you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that he is the kingdom.

He is the kingdom of God. I'm going to take you to the official administration. Okay. I'm going to take you to the official administration, and I will ask you all of your questions to answer. However, I'm going to ask you all to come and ask you, if you want to do any more than that, and I'll ask you to come and ask you in person, but first, you have to do it right.

And now if you come back to Goodfield, you have to come back. I tell you these are my best years, and I know these truthfully say that I've brought them up to price. I've paid for them. And I hope to guide you to see how you can bring them my good days. Because I intend to pay the other price if I can't develop the wisdom and the integrity to see good days.

I want to spend the days with my brothers, not with my enemies. I want to go down out of my house to do it. I want to go down out of my home to go down in the kingdom of God. I want to come up to my resurrection, I want to come up and I want to come up with my friends. That's the cross I'm going to take.

I'm going to avoid detention. I'm going to adopt a conservative kingdom. I'm going to recognize this mechanism. For those who live out of my heart. Now I probably see people who are quite around about to take a decision. I don't feel bad about it. I don't feel bad that you might be criticized for the things you're doing.

I don't know what you're trying to say. It's not what you're saying is hurting the spirit of God. It's what you're not doing. We're refusing to riot and hate the spirit of God and enjoy the change that charity and sweet felicity do around us. We're refusing to do it. Miners were fine and comely, delightful women around a good lot of descent, but they're not enjoying their association in building a celestial family, and are just missing an opportunity, and very few of them, to embrace the felicities of the kingdom of God.

When I refuse to enjoy the society of my values and my association with priesthood, I am refusing to enjoy the felicity of the tenderness of God. And I am heaping this sufficient incest upon my Heavenly Father that if you will say that he should have but a hand, I will actually come to a banquet of tenderness with tonight and I am sure I don't care to go.

That's nothing more than a courtesy of the kingdom for having the banquet tonight, brethren, exploring the glory of our Father. I have been placed in the society of the finest men that grace God has put to us. And if I haven't a character in him to tell you to appreciate my blessings and honor and I have had the finest companions put around as a job to my day, and I have participated in their choosing before I ever came here.

And if I choose now, I will dishonor them and insult them, and bring them to naught, and bring them to make their life a life of misery, and I am not worthy of their justice. I hope that all of us have joy in rejoicing in the kingdom of God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

And I haven't any right to rock, and it doesn't have the right structure to do it. But I believe that God is just as good as I am. I can't, I have not the forgiveness I wanted, but I feel the strength. I'd like to praise the brethren for their work, but there's a lack in their work.

You still won't come up and do what you're up to do. Some of the hardest knots to do in this world require the greatest groups. at the end of the parade. They've got to get a hold of this work. For everybody as long as they will. I'm caught up on the leading side in this work. The girls they've been invited to do to set their families in order.

They've been brought up and trained. We expect the girls to be brought up and brought up and brought up and brought up and brought up I'm a little bitty. I'm a little mother in there, and a father in there is part of the bitty. I'm all about the sons. And all the rest. Brother Doc said he was part of it.

Brother Hammond was part of it. Brother Donald was part of it. They were bitty sons. I'm a little bitty to step up here and do what you've been trying to do. I'm just going to have to work for a while. I'm going to take all your friends to come out here and do anything to them. I was a sophomore. I was a definite sophomore at the bottom.

I didn't sign up for the class. It was commendable. I was very proud of it in the final analysis. But God will have charity on it. I know the hearts of people. The people very well. I'm going to give you a clue. I'm going to try to pretend that I like to talk about things. I'm going to try to tell you I understand everything you wanted to do.

until there is a definite improvement in the attitudes of people. And the most pleasing thing, the most pleasing thing is to go up from the tents of Israel to the mosques of our heavenly Father and be the response of a joy and happiness in the homes of his people. A genuine thing. A gentleman who passed the path of Berkeley and the principles of the gospel.

Where women were literally willing to join in the paths of their husbands in unity and try to build up their tenderness to the other of the personality that they had joined with. That is to be the sweetest music that could go on for all these years. and the pseudo-reformation in the characters and the lives of the men that go on to do it.

There isn't one other thing that you can ever hear or see than that. All the sweet songs that we hear on the R&B music that we play on Sunday nights on the internet they falter all, compared to that harmonious, Help me to proceed in the hearts of these people. I can be a client. Can't be a client.

I'm not trying to be done with these people. I'm trying to figure out how to proceed as God. He just needs to really support the people who participate in this thing. And enjoy it. I'm sure all of you have begun to see in your eyes the blessings of this time of year, but I think I'll be harder in favor, I'll be harder in favor of giving this people a good taste, a good, good taste, from this priest, if we don't intend to do any better.

I think it's a good insult to the dignity of the service of God. I think it's a good insult to people if they're not traditional difference. I think it's a good insult to people if they're not traditional difference. They have to keep in touch with them time and time again and build on themselves.

And their energies and their strengths, their love and their devotion and their secrets to treatment. And there's hard-fought sympathies and everything else that goes out from a man's time to do something for his people and not get any results. If my life required me to preach to her that long, I'd go where I am safe.

But I can't believe she said to the strangers that there are lots of times here for the sake of the strangers. And so I will go. but advanced in each of us and I am sure you have much greater circumstance of connecting the presence of the people that don't heed these counsels. I pray for those things for us to be left to enjoy.

I often think about the image, the life of the image. And if you draw from either people, if you need to talk to them, Go hide in them, so you can enjoy the spirit of God, and the people of God search you out, and search you out. And you speak to them, speak to them, and educate them, and become insensitive, and destitute them, and go away, isolate yourself from them again.

And I want to see that I'm having such capacity. But I wonder what good it does. I wonder what good it does for me. and deliver all of God's every ounce of energy, every emotion, every sacred feeling to be missed in the hearts of the people that treat them like this. Tell me that God holds people under condemnation that treat them like this for thousands of years.

Why are you heading to it? I have as much to ask you as you ought to ask me. But if I feel that I've got my heart set free from conflict with people that don't want to take me, I don't want to take you back for more. I've lost a lot of these same great things. But heaven takes me on and takes this not serious.

How in the world can you expect a woman to follow your path with a need and follow your leads and let you lead on in such a manner that you can do it. I don't have your thinking on it. You think you've got such powerful law-dealers. You've got a Johnson attempting to lead the people like some other man, attempting to lead the family.

He wouldn't get the first date. He'd be a stranger. And yet you expect to lord it over everybody around you. I'll tell you, it isn't predicated upon that principle. Sure, a woman with two or three children can be frightened into service, into submission to a non-will. But she can't. She'll never be united with you.

But you and she've got to be bound to something else. desire for companionship and these eternally loving emotions and attributes matter to them. That's what it's gotta be for an author. I don't know how you expect to get it on any other console. And I don't see any women particularly holding me up or even holding their eyes to get me down to the very start of the game.

I don't know what's the matter. that people would just go on and on and on and on and not feel like they're getting anything. Boy, I'm glad to hear it. It feels like it's three months ago, but at the same time, we didn't get between us. Why, I don't know. I'm going to tease Mary. I'm going to tease her.

I don't think it matters. There is something in Mary. Please tell me. And she doesn't let up until something has to give. Wonderful. Maybe we talk with him if we find out that maybe we're in something. It would be just as it ought to be. So, by the grace of her good spirit, things keep on moving to you.

I think so. I think it's beautiful. You can get blind, but I haven't talked about it. These are my best days. But I got rid of my second wife at the first one, so how is she? I could live with her in the rest of my life, but my woman would just be nice to me. And she won't be nice to me unless she has a reason to.

God bless you in that. Amen. Number 134A, our godly race to win at the music of America. I don't know. Oh, my God. Thank you for watching! Thank you for watching. Thank you for watching! Thank you for watching. Father, kind Heavenly Father, I come before you at the end of this meeting, and just ask So let's pray we begin here, and hear the words of God's salvation.

It's up to us to go from the season, to the day we turn out to see you. So we truly have to pray a great price, and it's up to us to hold on to this kind of heart, or a night-time experience. That is, putting the practice mind on the line and trying to understand all the factors that are present.

That is, being able to consider the adjustments and the associations that we have with the specific council I will pray with this hand, that I may appreciate this man, not take him for granted, for me to be a prophet, that I can go forward, and put these things into practice, We must, for the house's murder, overcome the condemnation that has been placed upon us, to take our sins lightly and be just in the past.

I would like to thank you for all of these blessings, and I really hope that all of you can be with us tomorrow. To our hands, we're going to pray for you. Thank you for watching!