and gratitude for the blessings that you have endowed us with. You will direct those things into our lives so that you can withstand the need of us, so that you will help us get this spirit and keep it, maybe with you and others. Pray that you will bless the bones and finances, that they may live in accordance with your mind and will. You can bless the saints, that they will have righteous desires in their hearts, that all things, Father, might be done in accordance with your mind and your will.

We pray while we are thus assembled today, Father, that you will protect us, keep all evil and harm away, draw forth from your servants the bread of life, and those things which will be for our everlasting and eternal good. We thank you again for the blessings that you have enjoyed from day to day. We pray that you will continue in these blessings. It is our desire to set ourselves in order.

so we can live more perfect and exemplary lives and be a glory unto you. We ask you for these blessings. All that is that you know that you stand in need of at this time. We do this in accordance with your mind and will and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. to bring to us the everlasting truth of the gospel. Now, how often I think, as I see the children going to and from school, not only our own children, but the children of the world, I quite am looking for, but I don't understand, I guess, the position that was placed before. Here we are as students being taught by the priesthood, and yet we don't...

treat with the full light that is given, the gospel that is given unto us. I guess we live and learn, slowly, as days go by, little by little, but it seems to me that we who have the gospel in our midst aren't doing any better with it than we are. I'm talking mainly to myself, because I find myself walking in darkness from day to day, grieving for the light. Yet we have the light before us. Certainly so.

for the opportunity and the privilege of living this day and age. For, as I have heard it said many times, the things that are going to happen in this dispensation have never happened on the face of the earth before. In teaching the children this morning, I had placed in my position a few children, and I gathered them together, and I marveled to them the position that the Nephites were in. The short trade of time.

that they had a peace and harmony with one another and with their Lord. Took a short piece of time, and that was after the crucifixion of Christ. And I marveled at them and told them, and I asked them if they realized the great destruction and the things we were going to have to pass through to get a thousand years' harmony. I wonder if they realized it from the full meaning that it was given.

We're really going to have to get close to the priesthood and gain their confidence. We're actually going to be left outside. I'm thankful for my testimony of the gospel. I'm thankful for these brethren who stand behind me, sit behind me at this time. And I pray that I might do nothing at any time that will deprive me of their confidence or of their blessings. So I do want to go on and prosper in this world.

I dedicate my life to the work of God and to the hands of these people. For I know, as far as I'm standing here, that it could get into no other better hand and put better to use. And I pray that this day, Lord, you'll bless us all. And as we go along in our life, that we will seek out the blessings, seek out the place, the source that we want our blessings to come from. And that we will do all we can To get the Spirit of the Lord and to keep it. This is my prayer, I pray and pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. I'm going to share some little pledges. I can truly say I'm glad to be here. I can look into your faces and as many as I know, as many as I know I've got to know, I hope the Lord blesses each and every one of you. I hope he blesses you anyway. I don't know how to start out. I've heard Uncle Manny.

I don't know what I can say to do any benefit to you. One thing, But we've got to get the spirit, the spirit of this work, the spirit of the Lord. Some of these meetings every Sunday or every other Sunday, we're invited to go other places where we can be taught and see our association with the spirit of the Lord, the association of our friends and our loved ones. I really try 100% all these privileges we have. Every time I get up and talk, I...

Say how thankful I am to live in this day and age, and I'm going to say it now, because I am thankful. Every day I get up from work, I ask the Lord to help me. Some days I feel like I'm not doing as good as I should, even though I'm trying. Some days I feel like I'm just there. But I know that I've got to try more harder, put my mind to the things that it costs me, gain the confidence to appreciate, be obedient.

these many things that they've asked us to do. I plead with myself and you people, let's get the spirit of this work. Let's do the job of what I have to do. I guess I can't explain how I feel. Sometimes on Sundays, I could feel all through the week the way I feel on Sundays sometimes. I know that after I hear the brethren talk or the association I've had with them, I know that I'd be a long way farther than I am now. I'm sure that's...

to chase each and every one of you. I thank Uncle Miriam for calling on me. I had a feeling that maybe you would, but I didn't. My mind went blank. I didn't know what I could say to help you or to help me. I'll tell you something. We went to that little fireside last night. Maybe I shouldn't say this. Maybe I'm going to say it anyway. Please, don't have to pass it on. So the girl, J.C., she brought things out last night that I needed.

I asked Uncle Ryan's permission to come up from down south. I wanted to come, and I'm glad I'm coming. It was worth everything that I did to come up here and hear about Fireside. One thing we talked about in Fireside mostly is to educate the young folks, to prepare them for marriage, and to carry on the responsibilities of the priesthood, and to do it now so they can carry on when they get a little older. And the thing that's gotten me is...

what Brother Guy said at one time that he related to us, is there's so many of us young guys, young men and men that have experience, since we got the right to have revelation, according to some of these young girls and things like that, that really didn't hit me too until last night. I knew it, but when Brother Bill says, how can you have a revelation?

Without Brother Johnson having a church. Without him knowing about church. It's just a curious, curious thing we can do. No matter what, what line it's in. Anything that comes from God comes through the people. They're doing the benefit, I hope it is. I thank you and I say this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Brother Jeff took that from me. Maybe he'd like to do the speaking now. Brother, I love all brothers and sisters.

dictated by the Spirit of God. The gift of the Holy Ghost is the most precious gift that God has received here. The blessings of life and salvation can help and live for. One of the things I'm sure besides the light and the life is bound up in this great principle of getting and keeping the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit. Think of it as far as the Scripture is concerned.

always hark back to Lecture 5 of the Lectures on Faith, and read it and reread it. Modus operandi, if you please, of the operation of this gift, and get it and keep it. If we only had this, brethren and sisters, all of our family problems would be solved, or at least they would be minimized. Each member of our family has his free agency, and make no mistake about it, these children, their agency as well as we do. As influence can be brought to bear through the Holy Spirit upon the members of our family, this would solve all of the problems. It would solve all the relationships we should have with the priesthood over us and with our Heavenly Father. I can't help but feel that it's beneficial to lead at least part of this lecture again.

And I pray that you'll give very close attention to it, as I do. I've been grateful for this little book I picked up in Liverpool, England. The volumes that the mission authorities are getting rid of. They're actually giving them away because they're the older editions. They're anxious to get things like this modern revelation, which they offered as representing...

Those things have enduring value for the saints. It was right at that time this volume came out, and I had some little part in distributing it in the mission field. I thank God it had a very short life. This is a document in Covenants with the lectures on faith in the front. Speaking of Christ, He being the only God begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, and having overcome, received the fullness of the glory of the Father, possessing the same mind with the Father, which mind is the Holy Spirit. Mind with the Father, which mind is the Holy Spirit. It bears record of the Father and the Son, and these three are one. And all those who keep his commandments and grow up from grace to grace. How do we get and keep the Spirit of God? By keeping the commandments, by obedience.

through the exercise of our free agency which God has given, and become heirs of the heavenly kingdom and joint heirs with Jesus Christ, possessing the same mind, being transformed into the same likeness or image, even the expressed image of him who fills all in all, being filled with the fullness of his glory and become one in him even as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one.

And when I think of this, I think of the glorious prayer that the Savior offered in behalf of his brethren, the twelve, when he prayed for these whom God had given him, whom he had loved, with a love that transcends description, being the pure love of Christ. Those who are partakers of it can understand the meaning of it, brethren and sisters. And he promised them.

This second comforter, which they hadn't yet received, this Holy Spirit, because he, a member of the Godhead, was with them. And without his going, it could not be given to them, this precious gift. And now he prayed that these whom God had given him would be one as he and the Father were one.

In the foregoing account of the Godhead which is given in his revelations, the saints have a sure foundation laid for the exercise of faith unto life and salvation, through the atonement and mediation of Jesus Christ, by whose blood they have a forgiveness of sins, and also a sure reward laid up for them in heaven, even that of the taking of the fullness of the Father and the Son through the Spirit.

What is meant by this fullness, brethren and sisters? It means that we will receive all that they have, all that the Father has. That we so live that this can be with us at all times and we be filled to learning from grace to grace, line upon line, precept upon precept. to our faithfulness and our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel of Jesus Christ, to receive a fullness of this Holy Spirit as they are. As the Son partakes of the fullness of the Father through the Spirit, so the saints are by the same Spirit to be partakers of the same fullness, to enjoy the same glory. For as the Father and Son are one, so in like manner the saints are to be one in them.

Brethren and sisters, do you realize what the prophet told us here? Be a joint heir with Jesus Christ, heir of God. We retreat these principles and give too little consideration to them and place them in our own lives. And this is the preparation, brethren and sisters, whereby we should be prepared for the things to come. In this we will obtain all the things that Brother Johnson has told us of so many times.

the preparation of a people of God to be used. And until we become one in the hands of God through his priesthood, we cannot be used. And we're not going to have a part in this great latter-day work. And this is the means by which it will be done, so that this people will move as one man when the Lord speaks to Brother Johnson or whoever may be in that position.

I'm speaking now of these ultimate events. But today is the day to prepare to meet God. Not tomorrow, or next week, or next year. Today is all that He has given us. Yesterday is gone. Let's repent of the sins of yesterday. Live to give and keep the Holy Spirit today, so that tomorrow we may see God.

Are you noticing here that the prophet tells us that we are to be transformed into the image of the Father and the Son? Do you know how literal this is? Have you seen a truly united married couple, husband and wife, where this is beginning to be true, where one has literally the same image as the other? I've seen it. And brothers and sisters, it's the Holy Spirit that does it.

There is a transformation, a conversion, a change, comes in the physical appearance of a man and a woman who gets and keeps the Spirit of God. And I know it. And you know it. That's the oneness that I want with these, my brethren, that I want with my folks, that I want with Jesus and Joseph and Father. God help us to attain it. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Not many times, but a muscle. to go through the sacrifices we must, in order to go back into the presence of the Lord. Because we know, regardless of the pains and sins of man, we will be judged according to certain things. We have abided those principles, we will get our reward, regardless of what man says or can do. Speaking of this union that I just mentioned, if we could have open to our views for a very few minutes, a vision of the assembling of evil spirits. It would be a great revelation too. And that they would be gathered from all over the world in different nations, and that they would appear in different clothes, according to their customs and traditions. That we would see things in the coming, personally, of every one of those that consume us, take us toward Jesus Christ and everything that we represent.

their towns and their persons would be exploding so much without hatred that even looking upon one of them would cause us to fear now we should know the union of the adversary is great and that's why they have so much power and trust and vindictiveness towards the truth is concerned and see the prophets have said that one will chase a thousand and two will put to flight ten thousand, for the union of the saints will be known throughout eternity. This union will be so great among the faithful people that their countenance, their expression, it will so explode from their bodies that the wicked will fear and tremble, just as they feared and trembled before the presence of Jesus Christ, who was a humble,

man, that he had this perfect union. And that's why you and I feel in trouble, now some of you may not have enough sense to, of the union of the adversary. And if you could see these spirits, you would find men whose expressions are such that it would surprise you. And it's because of this perfect union they have. And that's what we are going to have to develop.

I feel like reading a few verses today that comes to my mind. One of the Book of Mormon Prophets, in speaking to the people, said that if you need to have your questions answered, refer to the revelation of the Lord and the God of all things. I think this revelation is... passed over and very seldom considered very seriously. But it opens to our view the exact condition that we are in to mother the church we are in today. And it's very short. The 86th section. Verily thus saith the Lord unto you, my servant, concerning the parables of the wheat and the tare. Behold, verily, I say that the field was the world, and the apostles were the sowers of the seed. And after they had fallen to sleep, now this is very important, all of the people in the church refer this as to when the church was given to these mountains under the direction of big and young. But this is not true.

Because the apostles had not fallen to sleep. In fact, the original twelve had not fallen to sleep until perhaps after 1900. And those associated with them closely hadn't until 1918. But the original ones had not fallen to sleep. They had not died. So this could not refer to the church being driven into the wilderness at that time.

And after they had fallen asleep, the great persecutor of the church, the apostate, the whore, even Babylon, that maketh all nations to drink of her cup, in whose hearts the enemy, even Satan, sitteth to reign. Think of that. How beautiful that's putting. How pure it is today. behold who soweth the tares wherefore the tares choke the wheat and drive the church into the wilderness where it has been given to go not into the mountain because the apostles had not fallen asleep and when they were given to these mountains it doesn't this doesn't refer to that time at all it was It had to wait until after the apostles had fallen to sleep. He had sown the wheat. And then, this great devil would be the one that would sow the tares among the wheat. Now, what is the meaning that they're using to gather the tares today in the church? Fourth, who executes the principle of foresight?

So what is he sowing among the wheat today? The pears. By the thousands, each year, he's sowing the pears in the church and among the people of God, the wheat. By force, he's bringing in the converts for the pears. Do you see that picture? And that started with great power in about 1920. But behold, In the last days, even now, while the Lord is beginning to bring forth his word, and the blade is springing up and is yet tender. Behold, verily I say unto you, the angels are crying unto the Lord day and night, who are ready and waiting to be sent forth to reach down the field.

That not only represents the angels that are waiting for that, but some of us who are over-enthusiastic. Now, here's what the Lord says about it. But the Lord saith unto them, Pluck not up the tears, while the blade is yet tender, for verily your faith is weak. Lest ye destroy this eat also. Their faith is weak in the purposes of the Lord.

That's quite a thing to have heard, to tell your brother, your danger. Your faith is weak. My purposes will become triumphant. And so don't touch the field while the blade is weak, for fear you will destroy the seed. Therefore, let the wheat and the tares grow together until the harvest is fully ripe.

Then ye shall first gather out the wheat from among the tares, which is going on today. The wheat is being gathered. And after the gathering of the wheat, behold, and lo, the tares are bound in bundles, and the field remaineth to be burst. How more things could the Lord speak. There it is, right? He has been giving his word to gather the wheat from among the cows. And after the wheat is gathered and prepared, there is nothing left but for the fields to be burned. For the cows will be bound in bundles to be destroyed. Very simple and beautiful picture of our very moment that we stand here today. Therefore thus...

saith the Lord unto you, with whom the priesthood hath continued through the lineage of the Father. Who is he speaking to? Among whom has the priesthood continued through the lineage of the Father? There is a revelation that has been discarded now, but he's speaking to us, and nobody else.

For you are lawful heirs according to the flesh and have been hid from the world with Christ in God. Well, these boys and girls and faithful men and women hid from the world. But there is still a legal right for the priesthood. Therefore your life and the priesthood has remained.

and must need remain through you and your lineage until the restoration of all things spoken by the mouths of all the holy prophets since the world began. Therefore, blessed are you if you continue in my goodness. A light unto the Gentiles and to this priesthood. They say they're up unto the people of Israel. The Lord hath said it. Now, brothers and sisters, I don't know how the Lord could speak more plainly and express to us our condition and the condition of the field and the condition of the care than he has.

in this beautiful revelation. And his word has now gone out, and the seed is being gathered. Harvest is being harvested, and perfected will be found. I'd like to read another word of consolation. Sometimes he sings through the Spirit of God, give us additional revelation. He lifted up his eyes, reading to me with his step.

When he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, he said, Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be saved. Blessed are you that root now, for you shall last. Blessed are you when men shall hate you. And when they shall separate you from their company. Who could he refer to? When they separate you from their company. And shall reproach you. And cast out your name as evil. For the son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day. And look for joy. For behold your reward is great.

in heaven. For in the like manner did they unto the fathers before you. But woe unto you that are rich, for you have received your consolation. Isn't that strange? In other words, you have received your reward here, your consolation. So woe unto you. Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now, for ye shall mourn. And woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you. For so did their fathers to the father.

He is also executing judgment. Let us rise up in majesty as the people of God and begin to more fully prepare ourselves to take hold of this great work. Nicely founded works to be called up and work with the better side of majesty. Bless my dear brethren and sisters that I might have the support of your faith and prayers at what time I occupy this position.

I've been greatly edified by the things that have been given to us by our brethren. It seems such a marvelous thing to me. So much of the things that are given to us by the prompting Spirit of God, we find these our fellow servants giving voice to, stating many of the things that are given to us by the prompting of the Spirit in plainer words than we can speak ourselves. At least I find that so very, very often. I think that we possess...

as individuals, most of us who are assembled here, a thing that is of greater value than all the substance and material in the world. I believe there are not very many here today that don't have within themselves, born of the Spirit of God, a knowledge, a conviction, of the genuine truthfulness of the doctrines that have been advocated here today by these our brethren. Maybe we should stop for a moment and contemplate the value What is it that we could think of that we would take in exchange for that conviction that we have? Is there anything you can think of that you prefer to possess above that prize? I think it's very likely that many of the younger ones here, children maybe, that haven't awakened as yet to the fact that they possess that knowledge. But I believe most of them have it. I don't believe there's a matured individual in this.

congregation today but what knows by the intelligence that the lord god has given to them and the things that have been advocated by this priesthood are true and correct and that it is indeed the plan of eternal life salvation and exaltation and that there is no other way any of the sacred truths that are bequeathed to us By the grace of God through his servants and through their writings and their testimonies that have been handed down to us, it is very much like this reference that Brother Moses has read to us. I have found and I presume that most of you have. You can go over and over and over these things and as you do, flashes of light will strike upon your understanding. Points will be made clear to you that never have been before.

I have found it so, some things that I may have gone over dozens of times in my life, yet as I pursue these things, striving for the understanding of the Spirit of God, new flashes of light and understanding come, and it brings a sense of joy and satisfaction that cannot be told. In my language, though I say that as individuals, though we may be classed as a poor people, so far as the material things of the earth are concerned, in this day and time when the world is so full of the boundaries of every material thing there is, yet we have in our possession the most priceless gift of all things, the means by which we can keep in communication with God our Father. If we can have that communication with heaven, it will teach us the truth upon which eternal life

predicated so that we don't have to be mistaken we don't have to continuously and be forever in wonderment wondering and wandering in pursuit of those things that bring the most sublime happiness that a human being can experience we get put to the test word of god apply to our lives those things have been directed to us to follow i've demonstrated too many times in my own life to doubt Not the same that most of you have. So we said in spite of all the adversity that comes our way, we should be rejoicing every day of our lives. And I believe most of us do. But probably not to the extent that we should. I'm sure that I don't appreciate the full value, precious privilege and blessings that the Lord has bequeathed to me. Such a grand and glorious thing. You're right. Quite a different thing to only think that we are.

Those things that we're not quite sure about. When it comes to the matter that's the most important to us, the saving of our souls, the groining of our own spirits into the fold of our Father and our Savior, it seems like there's nothing under heaven. If we take a proceeding over that, we ought to concern ourselves in the time we awaken in the morning until we close our eyes and slumber at night, and in our dreams during the night in the garden. Instead of dwelling on those things that...

are calculated to bring us that serene satisfaction that tongue cannot express. I'm grateful for my association with these, my brethren. I'm grateful for the integrity that they've manifested in their lives. I read the writing to correct principle. I'm grateful for the wisdom expressed by Brother John W. Willis. I heard him say many times, Brother, the gospel is true, whether I believe it or not. Simplicity in its perfection.

as we are capable of receiving it, we have a perfect truth. We have that knowledge by which we can avail ourselves of the glories of the Celestial Kingdom. We may not be able to experience all of those Celestial glories while we still sojourn in this life, but we can place ourselves in such a position by the way we apply to our lives the things that are given to us, that we may have a knowledge.

Those things are in store for us. We refer again to the lesson shown today. We can get to a position where we know that the course that we follow is in accordance with the will of God by making the necessary sacrifices. And each before, if we're willing to do that, that knowledge comes. It comes by the witness of that certain member of the Godhead, that witness of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost.

The eternity of our sins are still in the process. We continue on and we're earnest and zealous, continuously seek for those grand and glorious things until that spirit, by goodness, for our spirit, is being sure to bring satisfaction that no tongue can express. No word can tell that this timing we may be borne down by the precipice of life is still capable of rejoicing. How often I think of it.

That lowly man, Jesus of Nazareth, as a man among men, he went about among his associates, oftentimes spoken of as a man of sorrows, because he bore the burdens of a whole human family, when I say, bound with his mind full of likeness and folly and frivolity, curiousness and sobriety. He that the course that he was following was in the cards with him by whom he had been sent. The reason of that fact is...

God has exceeded those probably of any other men that live. So we can. We accept the pages. He's shown the way. He's marked the path. He's set an example of devotion, of adherence, of confidence, of faith, of determination. Of every grace the gospel possesses, he's demonstrated in his life as an example for us to follow. We might in the end, if we will, Follow the same course and you'll see the same reward. And with Brother Jeff, I feel remonstrated on the greatness of the opportunity that he's extended to us as individuals and to all of us as a body of people that we might be heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. Adopting the plan of life and placing it in our course of activity from day to day.

they become possessed of the same spirit and influence that they were. It's a simple thing to me, after these years of contemplation, that as a man or a woman, devote themselves earnestly and so fully to living in accord with the Word of God, and keeping themselves within the influence of that, of the spirit of the Gospel, that they gradually develop the ability to exert an influence, A keen imitation of the Spirit of God, actually the same kind of influence emanates from the man, because he's possessed of the same spirit. The feeling goes out from him to everyone whom his life touches. So it don't need to be too much of a conundrum to us, meaning that a man can be godlike in his nature and his disposition, he will apply himself.

People who are actuated by the same spirit begin to wear the same expression, demonstrate the same feeling, until they gradually look more and more alike. Even people of very diversified physical features to begin with. By wearing the same expression, they can be possessed of the same spirit and influence all the time. They become more and more alike.

in their actions, in their feelings, in their contemplations, in everything that affects their lives. That oneness that seems like it reaches into every avenue of human activity. What a glorious thing it will be. We can find a body of people, a few hundreds or thousands of people who are so unified that there's no diversity among them. We've been given to understand it.

The bands would be driven so tight upon the people of God that they would eventually burst. Pressure from the outside drives people together. When commotion and corruption and contention and strife and opposition boils up from within, then the pressure is out. And when the bands burst because of internal pressure and combustion, look at what a scatter in the world. Why can't we bring ourselves to a condition that...

What opposition there is must be from the outside and citizen within, among our own ranks. I hope, my dear brethren and sisters, that we can grow more and more united. We'll learn to see alike. We can control our own feelings. Circumstances and conditions come among us that we don't exactly see alike on, that we'll consider thoroughly and well, carefully and humbly, and make sure that the expressions that we make are in accordance with the prompting of the Spirit of God.

and the counsel of the servants of God, that we don't disseminate a confusion and a commotion and a combustion from within. The Lord has never promised his closest blessings upon any other principle. People become one as he and his Father were one, as his servants and disciples, as the man among men, he's forcing them to be one. Love one another, he says, as I have loved you.

And when that love comes out to give us things of unspeakable joy, there's nothing else in the world to eat. I don't feel like I ought to occupy more of the time, my dear brothers and sisters. I rejoice in the testimony of the gospel. The good Lord has been good enough to give to me. I only hope and pray that this people will not again be broken to pieces and scattered abroad. And they'll be geographically scattered by anything that is.

They don't need to be scattered and still. We can have the same objectives. We can have the same ambitions. The same intentions. The same resolve to keep applied to our lives. The principles of eternal truth. Continuously look after the well-being of one another. I hope that each and every one of us will be so possessed of that information that the spirit of God will not leave us. And that by the time that we are ever submitted to such test, God's servant Job was subjected to when he would do his fear for him to allow Satan to catch him and test him. We will have, that we shall have, like Job did, developed in our character, that same characteristic and personality, until he was capable of declaring, even under those kinds of circumstances, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and though this body and all is dead.

yet in my sleep shall I see God, and have no doubt left in his mind, that he was so imbued with the spirit that he had lived in the slides of his life for so long until his character was in tune and in harmony with the character of his God, and that no test, no trial, could be so severe as to deter him from that course.

Brothers and sisters, may we describe them. For this is a fact in their lives, I humbly pray. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. I'll turn the time to President Johnson. It's been a blessing to meet with you again this afternoon, my brothers and sisters. Such favorable circumstances for this body of people. Just that few moments that I occupy, that God will rest upon me and that I may be inspired by him. Stop this way a little further and get out of the sun.

Opening the minds of servants at this time to give you the true interpretation of the scriptures. Every time one of the elders of Israel can buy their testimony to the people. Since I've been acquainted with this work, I've been inspired of the Lord to interpret the scriptures in the way that they should be. The Lord has truly said, given.

you my great my word and great friend friend that you might know and understand if you think through the salvation i think we need to refresh our minds more often upon what the lord What the Savior said to his people, both in Jerusalem and upon this continent, and confide in, take the instructions that he gave the apostles in Jerusalem, and then come to the book of Mormon, and read the instructions that were given to them upon this continent, and see if you can detect any difference in the teachings that he gave to the people within their salvation.

When he was at last instructed to his disciples in Jerusalem, he told them that he had other chiefs to visit who were not of that fold. And he would go now to them, give them the will of the Father to them. And when he appeared to the Nephites, let's read a little of what he said there. He told the disciples that...

He had been commanded by the Father to visit the tribes of Israel that were lost, those that the Father had led away into the north country. He says they are not lost unto the Father because he knoweth where they are. In another place he told them that he had other sheep which were not of the fold of Jerusalem nor of this fold.

that he had been commanded of the Father to visit. There's no doubt in my mind that what he visited all of the people that we have any record of that belongs to this world. We are told in the scriptures that he visited the spirits in prison that lived in the days of Noah. If that was his mission, then...

he must have been commanded of the Father to visit the people of Enoch, the people of Pele, as well as the lost tribes of Israel. So when all of the people of God are gathered together in the last days, during the days of millennium, there'll be a great concourse of people. When we look around us at the present time, we only see a few who have any faith in the...

words of the prophet Joseph Smith. If all those who have been baptized and joined the church had full faith in all that Joseph gave to us, we'd have quite a concourse of people today. But Brother Guy very ably and beautifully portrayed before us today the condition of the people in this time. And then let me draw this to your attention that the gospel in the days of Christ went to the house of Israel. In all of our studies, we'll find that it was Israel that Christ was most interested in. In the latter days, we've been told that the gospel would go to the Gentiles.

and then to Israel. So what can we expect, my brothers and sisters, of this generation in which we live? We are living among people who are not of the house of Israel. We are trying to gather out from among the Gentile nations a little of the blood of Israel that is scattered among them. No wonder the Lord showed to the old prophet lehi the broad road that led to destruction and that narrow road and the few that were in it that continued their journey to eternal life we should refresh ourselves upon these glorious visions and find out for ourselves the reasons Why we are having such a time at the present time to gather around us a few who will have faith in us, that they will be counted among those who will be partakers of the blessings of the glorious millennial reign. The prophet Joseph Smith gave his life trying to gather around him a few who would believe and have faith in us in his testimonies.

that they could save their own souls. The Lord has plainly told us that if we labored a lifetime and were capable of saving, save it be one soul, how great would be our reward or our joy with that soul in the kingdom of heaven. If you labor all your days and you say you're able to save your own soul, how great will be your joy in the hereafter.

Think these things over and then refer to the scriptures, to these glorious things that the Lord has given to this people. And see how near we come to measuring up, to saving our own souls and those of our loved ones who God has entrusted into our task. The responsibility of you people, of teaching your children correct principles.

that they might follow in your footsteps with a great strength in your life. Remembering that those who have taken upon them the responsibility of living the celestial law are paving the way for the most joyous spirits of heaven to come forth in this day and age to be protectors of the blessings of the glorious millennium.

and the helpings to establish it. This is a great blessing to be placed upon a people. I don't wish to speak further, but I pray that the Spirit of God will rest upon you, each and every one, that you might know and understand the true way of life and salvation, that your souls may be saved in that glorious thing.

I humbly pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. I rejoice in being here, doing the good things that we've had this afternoon, the friendship that I have with you people. I've been sitting here while I've been listening to these words through all the events. You can hardly see them. I've been watching the coordination and the cooperation, the unity, and it's been quite amazing. Led me to think of the work that's been...

tried on down south by a number of youth folks. I used to work down there and I've watched these ants and there's a big deal of similarity. I noticed these ants, instead of moving around each other and ignoring each other, they came up and said how to do it. Each cow, as they go by, they stop and jump on and move on to the next one and they say how to do and they encourage each other and they don't waste much time. They just keep on keeping on.

through the work that the leader has laid out for them. I see you people sitting here in the sun and others in the shade, some of you wide awake, some of you half awake, and some asleep. But I see the same determination to keep on keeping on. And I believe that was the message and the burden of the message of the Savior and his prophets from the beginning of time until now is just...

keep on enduring in the work of the lord now we've heard a lot about the fullness of the gospel and we often contemplate on that subject of fullness and it seems a relative term something that's incomprehensible when we talk about god and his power and his authority majesty and his dominion and talk about them fullness of the gospel and becoming an heir to him and a joint heir to Jesus Christ, it's just overwhelming. And as I've been thinking about this, I've been wondering why we are not heirs and joint heirs right now. I've been told that to be saved is to be placed beyond the power of our enemies, death, hell, and the devil. Brother Johnson has just told us that the Lord has filled a hedge around us.

And this head is the spirit of God that is following the idea of that spirit. The head is the spirit of God. The fullness of the gospel is the spirit of God. And when we take of the ordinances and the principles and the blessings of the gospel, we are enjoying the fullness according to our capacity and our position at the time. So this is our day of salvation.

Just recently we had the good fortune of having the power There's a lot of hard work of our brethren and others brought into scripture. And one by one, that power is being connected to the home ground, to the industry, to the store, to the garage, and to the field. And it's a permanent connection, I believe, until the Lord gets ready to change it. And the power is unlimited. And by proper transformation, I'm not an electrician, but...

proper transformation after that same source, then great power plants be operating. Great engines. On the other hand, we can plug in a little night bulb. I don't know how many, what that is. Keeps the weary traveller from stubbing his toe at night. Off of the same source it is with the dust. It provides us with water of life. It provides us with...

power of life that provides us with the shelter from the sun and the strength to do our work in the daytime and the peace to lay down in the rest of the night and the food we eat and the oxygen we take in and all the other necessities the gospel is the gospel of life and this great purchase is made by one who is willing to buy it and provide for us on condition that we were willing to accept the gift, to purchase that fill of great Christ that he did. Now we've been told that the reason we don't have happiness is because we haven't made the sacrifice. We've been told the reason we're confused in our minds is we haven't made the sacrifice necessary to draw out from our minds confusion. We're holding something back from the Lord that we know

that we should do whether we're not studying enough whether we're not praying enough whether we're not cooperating enough and working together with one another but there's darkness where there should be light and there's confusion whether it should be ordered because truly this is the plan of order and the plan of our salvation and i am grateful that god has provided for us and given us the priesthood, and made us heirs to the priesthood, and heirs to him, and joined heirs with Jesus Christ. Heirs entitled to salvation as the people of Eden, as the people of Canaan. Heirs entitled to these blessings if we'll lay hold on them as any people that God has ever created. Oh my brethren and sisters, let us rally ourselves, let us give up.

the loins of our minds and our bodies and lay hold on these principles that are good and let us love one another because we're going to live together a long while so we may as well start loving one another because it's easier to love than it is to hate. More pleasant, more progressive, more things, more happiness. I pray that Brother Johnson will have our continued support and that all these brethren who sustain him in the country help us, will continue to sustain us, and that you folks will continue to sustain them in what they're trying to do because they are striving with all their heart, mind, might, and strength to keep the commandments of God and to build up this kingdom in the earth. And if you will do likewise, you will have salvation continually, not only today, but continually, for which I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

a little difficulty in the south and getting completely organized for 4th of July Labor Day. I want to encourage you to come down and I say I'm a little scared in my mind. I'm not able to tell you just how things are going to work out this time, but we'll be prepared to test out this coming week and I'm sure it's going to work.

A lot of things there for you to do. If you feel like coming, why, bring a towel within your hand. Sitting here thinking a few minutes, as I was listening to these remarks and thinking about the people, been together now so long, thanks the Lord. It would be a wonderful thing if we could develop now the integrity to see our labor through. I believe that we're becoming more converted each day.

i think our conversion is based largely on our knowledge and understanding and the revelations of the mind and will of god and the life that we have certainly we can't be as completely converted and as comfortable today as we would be if we were sitting in the presence of the savior and the brethren on the other side and being taught more liberally than we're able to be taught today so it is a relative thing and so this continuing in each other's society, and hungry, and thirsting after righteousness, and the faith, and being edified from time to time, suddenly adds to our conversion. And there is certainly a definite relation between our conversion and our obedience. And there will lie the success of our lives. And we've just converted briefly enough to overcome our faults and failings, and learn our obedience to the principles of the gospel, then we'll come to the good boy of our salvation.

that we are steeped and traditionated in the ways of the Gentiles. Let's remember this. And we have a constant labor to perform to overcome conditions of our birthright, having been born in this Gentile nation. But a Gentile church will remain so until the Lord sends forth the gospel to the house of Jesus. So it's going to be part of our nation. That's been our hard trip.

That's one of the reasons why God hasn't cursed these people long ago for their disobedience, because they've come out of a Gentile nation and have been traditionated in their folklore and in their natures and so forth. Consequently, we've had some day of decrees with the Lord that he's had patience and long-suffering, but that was the only excuse that he had.

and disobedience to the Lord, that he hasn't destroyed them off to the face of the earth. It's simply because he's come out of a Gentile nature. Let's face him as possible as a day of our conversion. If we can get more of the Spirit of God, greater will be our conversion. It's not going to give us greater life and knowledge and understanding and a greater desire to draw nearer to the Lord. That's what a real forgiver of this needs to be. We bow before you for the cause of this meeting.

gratitude in our hearts. We pray that you will help us to express our gratitude in sustaining and upholding your service and your work and seriously applying it to our everyday lives so that we will become fathers, not just thinkers and readers of thy word, but actual doers. And so word can be received that you are pleased with us, pleased with the progress we're making and our determination to do what's right.

and help us to sustain each other in righteousness, Father, and live according to the teachings that we've been given for which we are gates. And we dedicate ourselves unto you as we go forth to another state of time. Help us to overcome our weaknesses and live according to the truth. And we pray for these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.