given to you, that you'll receive some enlightenment in the perfection of your lives, which is the next step towards receiving and being accepted to the Lord at this time. Unless we accomplish this in some degree, I don't look for any acceptance by the Lord as far as him using us to accomplish his work. If we can unite our ourselves along correct and common principles of endeavor. So this is very vital to us. I ask Brother Paul Walters to open the meeting. Our Father in heaven, we are thankful to thee for all thy blessings, which thou hast blessed us, and for this privilege to be together again in this capacity, that we might hear the word of God through your servant, which thou hast appointed to lead us in these last days.

We pray that God will bless us with the Holy Spirit and we might have a time of rejoicing. And that we remember those things that you hear and put them in practice and become better people from day to day. That we improve knowledge and understanding of the gospel. And do your will and keep your commandments. We thank you for the truth which God has revealed to us and for all that goodness towards us. And we ask that you will continue to have mercy with us and guide us.

in all the truth and righteousness, that we become the people which God wants us to be. Now be with us during this time, and we dedicate ourselves in this meeting unto thee, and we do it all in the name of thy beloved Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. I'm here before you at this time to bear my testimony to the truthfulness of the gospel. I'm very thankful for the privilege and association I have with this work, and with the priesthood brethren that stand.

I had expressed my appreciation for the time that they've taken to teach me the gospel and to have the chance to apply the gospel to my life. It's a fine sight to stand up here. I've heard many speakers that said what a wonderful sight to see and standing up here and looking into all the faces of all the wonderful people. I'm very thankful for all of them.

Lord, you've blessed me with my prayer that I'll be able to give a better service in the covenant of the kingdom of God here upon this earth. I know that this is a true work of God. We have the status in our head, the best of the men that are seated before us here. I don't know as I can say anymore at this time, but we haven't had much in speaking in public and not too much in private.

I pray that the Lord's blessings will be with each and every one of us. In Jesus' name, Lord Jesus Christ, amen. You come and speak to us. Walk over here. This is a marvelous privilege and a blessing. There are many of you who I am quite well acquainted with. I can look into your faces and say that I am indeed grateful that I have your associations. Many of you I don't know, which is my loss. I know that this is the work of God, for He has blessed me in many ways. I have been well blessed with health and strength, also my family. We in our family don't know what sickness is. We've been very fortunate in this respect. I know that the Lord has his hand in this work that he leads and directs the people and the priesthood who are at our head i'm like calvin don't have much experience in speaking in the public probably less in private calvin but i can say that i'm very grateful to be here and enjoy your associations

I hope and pray that the Spirit of God will be here today, that we might learn something to take to our homes and teach our families. I know that with me it's the only thing that I can truly look forward to, coming out and associating with the people and the priesthood of God. I ask the blessings of our Heavenly Father to be with each and every one of us. I do this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

we won't cut brother johnson short this time we'll turn the stand over to him now just a wonderful privilege my brothers and sisters being here again under such favorable circumstances knowing and realizing the day in which we live and the importance of the efforts that we are putting forth to prepare this people very few in our day realize the significance of getting close to the Lord and getting his spirit and keeping it. The spirit of the day is recreation and sports. We read in history of the great sport area of Rome and the great gladiators and so forth. And today we're almost there equal. It's not this superior.

So the day is fast approaching, my brothers and sisters, when the Lord will have to take a hand and make it possible for the prophecies of the ancient prophets to be fulfilled and for the rise and establishment of Zion. We know by the revelations of God that Zion is to be redeemed in this generation in which we live.

All the redemption is to commence in this generation. But the prophet Joseph said upon one occasion that in telling the people of the great calamities and judgments that the Lord would send upon the earth, that there were those living in that day whose eyes would not be closed in death until all these things had been accomplished. So we're living in a great day.

The nation, the state, the church, and the people in general have all been put to a test in a way that they little realize what they were going through or passing through. The time will come when many men will say that they didn't realize the significance of the day in which they lived. And I doubt if all of us have stopped long enough to realize the importance of the day, the importance of the opportunities that present themselves to us. For truly this is a day of testing, a day of preparation, a day of testing to those who have accepted the ordinance of baptism and have been taught the gospel of Jesus Christ and then have been brought up to believe that the force of that gospel has been done away with, or it can't be lived in our day, because the Lord has plainly said that this is the gospel of salvation. And the principles that were revealed to the prophet Joseph were given for the exaltation and eternal life of man. And the old prophet in the Book of Mormon tells us,

whether it was Alma or one of the others, I believe it was Alma, that this is the day in which we live, to prepare to meet our God. If we don't prepare to meet him while we're here, then we have no chance. For that's the purpose of this life, is to prepare to go back into the presence of our Father in heaven. The principles of salvation that were given to us through the revelations, In the teachings of our early leaders, Prophet Joseph and those who followed him in the priesthood down to the present time, they have all taught the same doctrine regarding the salvation of man. And unless we listen to the teachings of those men who God has called to lead his work and heed their counsel, Apply them to our lives. Then our chance has slipped and we have missed the boat. For this is the day in which we live to prepare to meet our God. There's no other time. You can't lay the blame on somebody else because the way has been hedged up. The Lord has always provided an escape for his servants who have not been.

called home as witnesses. You can go down through history and find that the prophets and the servants of God have been placed in very precarious conditions. But he's always opened an escape for them. Just read what he did to Israel when he delivered them out of the hands of the Egyptians. Not very many people have stopped long enough to think what Moses went through in order to accomplish that great feat. But the Lord, knowing the condition of his people, his people having been in bondage so long, they were ready and willing to follow the direction of Moses. And when they got to the Red Sea, he opened the way for their escape from the Egyptian You can come down into our own time and see how the Lord delivered the saints out of the hands of the enemies and brought them to the Rocky Mountains. We can come on down to our own day and see how the Lord has delivered the saints out of the hands of the enemies of his work. Now the Lord is pleased to a great extent.

with the efforts that has been put forth by this people whom I am speaking to, to align themselves with the servants of God and give their support to him. I dare say that there's not one here that has assisted in the last two years in assisting the priesthood to accomplish the labors that's sorry of it, or that has missed that which they have donated for their towards the work. The spirits are higher, you feel better, and the more you do, the better you feel. That's been the condition of this work from the beginning of time till now. The old prophet Enoch lived, we are told, for 320 years to prepare people to receive the order of heaven.

After that long period of working, his people were acceptable to the Lord and he took them from the earth. He took them and a portion of the earth away that they might be preserved in their righteous living. In our day we have been promised a period of a thousand years of peace. If we would prepare ourselves to receive the same kingdom, the same principles, the same doctrines and teachings that any kindred's people receive. Now let's don't lose grip upon the wonderful privileges that we have at our fingertips. Let's seize upon them. Give that which belongs to the Lord to him and see if he won't open the windows of heaven and pour out his blessings upon you until you cannot receive.

He has demonstrated if you look around you and look at the conditions of our people and what has happened in the last few months, you find just as great miracles being performed today as ever has been performed among the people of God. Thank you, God. And I pray that the Spirit of God will rest upon us and that we will...

rally to his work and accomplish it. And I pray that the blessings of God will rest upon you and give you every blessing that you desire in righteousness, and I do it in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Well, I'm from the right country. It sure won't rain on me. It never has. I'm sure. I suffered under this heat this summer. I heard one of J. Golden Kimball's stories the other day that kind of tickled me.

I'd read it in his book, in the biography of his life many years ago, but I'd forgotten it. He was down at St. George preaching to the people, and I guess it was one of those days when he was mopping his bow. He said, if I had a home in hell, and a ranch in St. George, I'd sell my ranch and go home. And I wouldn't blame him. I have a spirit of fear and trembling, and I am called upon to address the saints when I begin to realize the solemnity and...

the importance of the day in which we live. Our weaknesses and our faults loom up before my eyes and the magnitude of the work. When I compare them both, I fear for us. Yet I have learned to appreciate and observe and understand that these things aren't all accomplished in a day and that our people are gradually improving. The steadfastness and stability of the saints has...

has gained a tremendous impetus and strength in the last 10 years. I wouldn't dare predict that this people are a faithful people and that you could withstand all the hardships that might be imposed upon you, but you've done well. And I believe that the time has come when our people are better informed than they've ever been. And certainly our knowledge and our understanding has a...

direct import and bearing upon our steadfastness. And watching the people that fall away from this work, they're usually people whose testimonies have never been sure and stable, and that there's been some fault with their understanding. And we're more able to appreciate from day to day the statement of the Lord that the people can't be saved in ignorance. An ignorant man will lose his way as sure as the world, that is, if he remains ignorant.

Now, I may not be properly understood on this point, for I don't believe that I don't want to convey the impression to the people that a man has to be smart. There's a lot of difference in being just smart and having understanding. Some of our most humble people are stable in their faith and in their knowledge. I often think of John Bateman down there, one of our faithful brethren. He's been there for a number of years and works hard.

health is such that he can't accomplish everything, but he has a correct knowledge of the priesthood. And he seems to have a character that can back it up. And he's about as stable as any of us. Pretty hard to deceive. Some boys tried to get him into Shenandoah some time ago, and he come to me. He says, what about this? Well, I said, it'll just lead to trouble. And I never got a chance to say any more. He says, I don't have anything to do with it. Well, there aren't many men that'll do that.

You couldn't, most men argue with you for a half hour saying that it won't lead to trouble. But these things are deeply important in our lives, brothers and sisters, that we come to some understanding. And I guess this thing has been brought about through some very simple conditions. The brethren got the fed up, maybe you don't realize this, maybe I'm talking out of school, but it's the truth.

They got to foot up with our priesthood classes. They resolved that if they couldn't have a priesthood class that was a priesthood class, they wouldn't have one. So when they called the brethren together, they told them that there wouldn't be any more arguing and contending over the principles of the gospel, that there were certain undebatable subjects that we wouldn't tolerate debating about. Well, by the grace of God, the brethren accepted it, and we began to grow.

It's a fearful thing in the minds of the ignorant. It's a fearful thing, the spirit of contention. Men are men and women. It's a characteristic of humanity. They feel oft times that if they don't contend, that they're losing their agency, that they lose their right to free speech or expression, or that they're being domineered by somebody. I don't know. It's just something in the business. We just have to contend. And yet I, in my observation, and I think it's worth something, At this point, my observation is that a contentious person can't learn or understand the gospel, and they can't subject themselves to leadership. So I don't, along with the other vices that they set to human nature, this is one of the worst. It's a spirit of contentment. It's a spirit of hell and the devil in a home. A man can do a lot of good things and make a few little...

failures and the minds of his people and they'll begin to contend with him and the whole structure of his family life is destroyed and we've we've held to the point that the women could do well to submit to their husbands and avoid this spirit and and they'd get out of their difficulties much quicker than they will contending over these points and i feel him of that opinion a man's the head and he has to have some leeway and liberties and working out his probation upon the face of the earth the same as a woman does. God grants him that. And if a woman would submit to him and not contend with him, you'd soon find the Spirit of God directing him and they'd overcome their troubles. Usually these contending situations stir both parties. It's hard for a person that has some authority to stand and be patient when somebody's contending with them. And so we lead ourselves from

one degradation to another through this spirit. While I don't feel to dwell upon it, I feel that its absence now in the midst of this people has laid the foundation whereby we can be educated and trained and brought up in the knowledge of the truth. I don't suppose that there was any single influence that's been brought to bear in the lives of the priesthood council that's united them any more than their determination to quit contending over their opinions.

When that happened, the Spirit of God began to educate us, and I suppose we've made more growth in the last three or four years than we've made all the rest of our lives in matters of doctrine and understanding and things that we needed to know to teach the people. And just by elimination of this ungodly characteristic in our lives, it could be well commended to this congregation. It's one of the most important things.

and the principles of unity. I see young men and some of the old men, all of us yet, will still be contentious about our blessings. The Lord tries to do something for us, and if it isn't just exactly to our liking, we'll still contend with him over it. Somebody wants a better car, or they want a bigger house, or they want more wives, or they want this, or they want that, and the first thing you know, the spirit of ingratitude has taken possession of them.

We're robbed of the graces and gifts of the Spirit of God. There's a multitude of things for this people to learn, and I agree with the opening remarks of Brother Musser, that we'll not only not learn them, but we'll never have the privilege of learning them, unless we can bring ourselves in such a condition that God can feel that we're a good investment. Men will survey the resources around them.

with a very critical and judicious eye and wonder whether things should be added upon or sold or destroyed or done over again. And I can see the eye of God surveying the people in the very same light. Is this congregation in such a condition or will they come to such a condition under the tutorship of the priesthood that's over them that will bring them to such a place that they can be added upon, that they're worthy of further investment and instruction?

We've told you people many times in days gone by that what all our labors have been remedial work, trying to get the people in such a condition that they could be taught a few things. And while we've had the privilege maybe for a year, year and a half of teaching the people, yet there remains a good deal to learn. And it's useless. The measure turns to condemnation if we heap upon the people things that they can't receive.

and won't try to practice. So we're constantly, it seems, under this fierce burden of changing our characters and our aptitudes and making ourselves more submissive to the work of God. I'm deeply apprehensive of the congregation of our people as I see us go along and become fearful that we won't change rapidly enough to meet the changing conditions that surround us. I see us getting wrapped up in the affairs of life sometimes, and we think that we have an eternity to work out these things. But there comes a time when some other things become more important than the things we're doing. And if we haven't got them done, it's a necessity that requires us to leave them and go to more important fields. This came to my attention in the past, maybe a couple of years ago. I began to look at myself. I found that I was reaching a certain age in life.

There's certain things that I hadn't done yet, and I wondered what I ought to do. Whether I should go ahead and meet the challenges and responsibility of my years, or whether I should go back and try to remedy and take care of the things of the past, and so on. And by force of circumstances, I was led to conclude that I had to live according to my station and my years in life. And the things that have gone by that were undone would have to remain undone.

and that I couldn't correct them or do anything about them now. Children that I wanted taught would have to go untaught. Changes that I wanted made here and there would have to take care of themselves because new responsibilities were coming upon me that I had to meet. Well, it only bears out that we haven't, to me, that I haven't done as well as I should have done. I was resting on my oars and supposed that I had time to do things, and when I woke up that day, I didn't have time.

Today an opportunity and the whole situation was passed. And a new day was here. Maybe there's blessings in it to keep us from wandering around in circles and meaningless affairs. Maybe that might be a cue to this people. Let the past be the past. Begin to look at ourselves the way we are today. I see yet in the portions of this congregation that are still tampering, so to speak, with the fullness of the gospel.

I don't know of anything on the face of the earth that's more dangerous to tamper with than the doctrines of eternal life. A man come out here to these meetings, and he'll go to Brother Guy's office and meet Brother Johnson, the priesthood, from time to time, and the first thing you know, he's got a testimony and a knowledge and understanding in this work, and he has no intention of doing anything about it. And I don't know, I don't believe Brother Kimball could get to his home in hell.

By selling his ranch half as quick as this as a man can by tampering with the fullness of the gospel. I think you'll get to home and hell a lot quicker. Because these things are sacred things in the eyes of God. And the 132nd section of the Doctrine and Covenants teaches us as the very first premise. The very first premise that was impressed upon the mind of the prophet Joseph Smith in that revelation. Was that all those who have these things revealed unto them.

must abide in the same. And so our judgment is placed. My eyes and ears and feelings serve me right. There are changes that are being affected in the midst of the people that I believe are going to bear fruit. I don't see any disposition on the part of the Lord to ignore the people or their problems or their needs and to refuse to provide for them.

And it seems to me as long as he'll provide, then there's the opportunity for us to work, the consequence of which there's ways and means for us to work out our salvation. I'm anxious to see our young people embrace this work. I'm anxious to see them labor with their feelings and be humble and contract and give themselves a chance to mature in the fullness of the gospel that they might carry on. We've lost some very fine young men.

in the last few months. It's not pleasing to the Lord. I think that our people, our parents, judging myself and what I see around, I think that our parents still have failed materially in teaching our children as we should have taught them. Teaching the fullness of the gospel, for me, needs a background and an atmosphere. I've traveled with Brother Barlow and Brother Johnson and Brother Zitting.

Musser and many others in this work and the years that I've been here, and I find out that the way I get information for those men is ask for it and create an atmosphere whereby I can get it. And I would urge upon you mothers that have charge of these homes that you create an atmosphere wherein your children can be taught. I know one place where a father walks into the house, why, the mother, well, has he got anything to teach us?

We'd like to have you teach it. Yet I can see the children looking askance at the TV. They turn it off reluctantly. Mother sits down like she wants you to teach some of the Bible stories to the children. I don't think that's any atmosphere. If I was placed in a condition where I had to teach what a woman wanted me to teach, I'd have a pretty hard time. And I might, on occasion, interfere with the TV programs of the children, persistent attitude that they'd rather watch the TV than listen to me, I'd be inclined to join them. Brother Johnson was around me and he saw me interested in one thing. When he wanted to tell me something else, I think he'd seal his lips and let me go his way. And so we've got to desire these things and we've got to create an atmosphere to receive them. Women folks can play a tremendous part in drawing these things.

into the lives of themselves and their children. Priests that are busy, lots of work for them to perform. They should help create these atmospheres, these conditions whereby they can learn. I don't know of any better way to introduce the gospel in the family than to ask questions about it. For a woman to bring the thing together and just say, Father, we want you to teach us why.

If she's been laboring with her mind and the children have been tutored under her direction, they say, well, now we've got some questions we'd like to ask. When you finish telling us what you want us to know, we'd like to ask you some questions that come up. It immediately creates a foundation wherein a gospel seed can be sown. But if you start to impose opinions upon people, they're very often forgotten and drift off into nothing.

But if a group of children and a woman had been together and they said, now here, we came across this principle about baptism. And it said this here, and then when we read on a little farther, it said something else, and we didn't quite understand it. Now there is a foundation laid in the minds of the children previously for the answer to their questions. And then the Spirit of God can move in and help us to perform these works. Now I don't know all the signs of the times.

I can't get satisfaction quite for myself just exactly what's going to take place when and how. But I can see conditions arising whereby the Latter-day Saints are going to have such responsibilities placed upon them that they'll stagger under the load. And we've got to not only inform ourselves about the things that we need to do, but we've got to practice. Now, there's a many-sided picture to this.

question that surrounds me i've got i've got several things that i need to do several things my years are just like yours they're moving on every once in a while i have a birthday and it won't be too long till i'll have my last one and during that period of time i should have changed my character to meet my god shouldn't i i should have made of myself a saint so that when i'm called into the spirit world that i won't have to be put into a category where I won't have the full access and associations with the Holy Priesthood and our Heavenly Father and our Elder Brother Jesus Christ and so on. In other words, so that my progress can continue, I must prepare for it. And you might say, well, isn't that about the only work we have to do? Well, I don't think so. There's a train of people coming along behind me, just like there is behind all of you. And I've got to join with you, brethren.

And you women folks in preparing the way whereby they might inherit some of the blessings of our labors. If when we leave this work we leave it in a better condition for our young families and our young friends to carry on, then we found it. If we had to go back and perform the work and labors of Brother Barlow and Brother Musser, we'd find ourselves in trouble clear up to our necks. The Herculean labors that those men performed.

in order to bring about a condition where the servants of God could gather together the believers in peace. On a day like this was Herculean. You little know the tremendous energies and exertions and sacrifices and heartaches that those men performed. And there's mighty few here left to testify. Mighty few here left that can tell even tell the story of their performance. But they performed a work that rested this This priesthood and these principles of everlasting life from obscurity, it was Herculean. And the state and the nation and the church and individuals were dedicated to the proposition that it would be sunk out of existence. They, under the direction of Lawrence's tutoring and training, and together with Brother Zitting, actually arrested, you might say, three men. Arrested those things from obscurity. It's no small task.

They've left to us a heritage that's invaluable. For you brethren here, whose names that I could name, and you sisters, to bring your children here and have the priesthood teach them and we can meet as peaceably as we do and have the atmosphere around us as we do is one of the greatest gifts of God that could be bestowed upon us. Now it's my labors. Just make a say to myself. Well, the only way I can make a say to myself is to perform my work.

If you stop and just start the business of making a goody out of yourself, you might be good, but what will you be good for? In making ourselves good, we've got to be good for something. And so it involves experience and labors and performances. And all those things have their hazards and their hardships and their heartaches, as well as their successes and pleasures. But now they're before us. And here are all these.

Innocent young men and women now have got to have an atmosphere and a foundation laid for them whereby they can carry on this work. And it's got to be done economically. Just take them. I can see faces here before me that I can predict as surely and faithfully as the stars that if they have to go out into the world, into the Gentile population to rest out of living, they'll be lost to this work before they're 40 years old.

And you people can join me in just naming your own children, if you know that happens to be the case. Your sons or your daughters. If we just say, well, now here, you've got to start getting a little money in here to help father, and you've got to do this and that, and your daughter goes up here to get a job, why, pretty quick, handsome Bill comes along. And from then on, why, it's not the fullness of the gospel or anything else. It's her boy Bill. And she's gone. And how many of you brethren?

I won't have to go any further than just ask you. How many of you bet, and if the girl that you had your eye upon would have accepted you, that you wouldn't be gone today? So, talk about hazard. These people have got to be kept together if it's possible. And ways and means have got to be provided for them, or they can live the fullness of the gospel. Brigham Young said the fullness of the gospel is united order and plural marriage. And they've got to be perfected. And if people can't...

entirely wait for the church to be set in order and all those health and conditions surrounding them that's going to make it easy to do these things. We're a vanguard group and we've got to pioneer the United Order as well as we've got to pioneer the law of plural marriage. And in pioneering those two principles, we've got to establish the priesthood. And with that labor upon our backs and successfully performed, we'll make saints of ourselves. I can't, I can't...

A year ago, Brother Fred come to Brother Johnson and I and said, what about having a high school here in Short Creek? Do you remember Brother Williams? He was very anxious about it. Johnson sat there a minute like he does, and he turned to me and looked at me a minute. I spoke up like I always do, a little bit sooner than I should. I said, do you want my opinion? I said, I think we should forget it and let the city of Hurricane have them. Brother Johnson says, that's my opinion, and we forgot it.

And all of a sudden, we got up one morning. I don't know where it came from. I couldn't put my finger on it to save me. But all of a sudden, it settled on me that we had to have a school. A year ago, you young students wouldn't have given it a thought. And today, it seems that we're going to have a hundred of them. But we thought we might have to provide for about 35. Now, what's brought about that change? Simply because I'm confident that the priesthood on the other side could see.

That if we didn't take and gather these students together and teach them in the first place the truth about their lives, that they're going to get frustrated and confused, and we're going to have a great mortality. In other words, they're going to drift away. For today, if we can be successful in this matter, we've stepped down the road a long, long way. A long, long way. I was contemplating the other day about education in this nation. This nation is a Christian nation. They boast about it.

You go back to the lives and labors of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, and they hardly corresponded with each other, that they didn't take God into their notice and ascribe unto him the honor and glory for the things that they had accomplished and that they were going to establish this nation under God. That was written into the Constitution. And yet the hand that rocks the cradle today, our educational system, so to speak, never mentions God except in a derogatory sense. If I ever get a voice like that, you ought to watch out. The Book of Mormon says that the inhabitants of the land shall serve the God of the land. And yet I don't know of a nation of people that are rendering such a disservice to God as this one is today. Morality is the virtue. Immorality is the virtue. And God and...

and priesthood, and all these things are a hiss and a byword. And then you said that there's nothing for us to do, there's no responsibility, that these young people don't need to be taught and trained and tutored and brought up and stabilized and strengthened. Why, I see the children that we had down the outskirts of this state in hiding. They were longing to come home, but now they're home. They're changed individuals. They're changed individuals.

And their whole hope and aspiration is the establishment of the kingdom of God. And the only thing that's brought it about is environment. The only thing. How long does a man have to work in this rain, guys? I used to say a man that didn't know enough to get in out of the rain wasn't very bright. But I'd stand here and get soaking wet if this was down in Short Creek and be thankful for it.

But I'm going to do like Brother Johnson did when he saw it clouding up. I'm going to bear my testimony that the gospel is true and bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Better try to take cover for a few minutes and then we'll go on. Brother Hammond has some additional information for us. A few amusing things, but I better be careful, I guess. This is church. Where were we now? I guess that our anxieties should be dampened down once in a while.

cool us off a little bit. The fact remains that we've got a lot of work to do. We've got a schoolroom down there, a schoolhouse that we've got, oh, I'd say it's about half done, that is, half along to where we can put a roof on it. And we sure do need your help. Now on Labor Day, we're going to have the lumber and material ready to put a roof on it. And we need work even before then to get the adobes up.

and get it ready. I suppose Edson has by now about half the floor poured. He put two truckloads of cement in it. It takes about cement every time he starts pouring. It takes a truckload. But he needs probably three more loads of cement hauled and down and then we'll be ready to have the Dobies up to the roof. We need all the help we can get. We thought if we could gather you people like we did a year ago on as late, as quick as you can get away Friday night to have you come down. We'll try and bed you down, and we'll get a good start on Saturday morning and work through Monday night on this building. And you men should bring your hammers, and we'll try to furnish the rest of the tools. I'm really pleased with this little building. I don't suppose many of you have seen it, but we're going to have about seven classrooms, which will be very, they'll all be very commodious.

a kitchen adjacent to our assembly hall and use it for a dining room and so forth, which will make it very versatile and commodious for our needs. We'll have all the other facilities. We'll have fine plumbing and everything. We're making arrangements. We've got the well dug below the building now, and as quick as we can get some cement curbing, we'll lower it down into the water level and set electric pumps and be pumping our water for our building by the time we need it.

I went over to our old sawmill site the day we had our last meeting, that is the Saturday before our last meeting two weeks ago, and we've got 325 good-sized logs over there. I guess that I'm sure that there must be between 60,000 and 75,000 feet of lumber there, which will take care of all our present needs and give us a little start for the winter.

So all our labors have not been in vain. We had a kind of a hard time last year getting lumber out. We just got enough to take care of a few minor things, a shop and so forth. But now we've got a good start for this year. The Lord's blessed us. I was just thinking the other day, I was kind of discouraged that things wasn't better for us. But in the past year, through the labors of the saints, we've established a water system there that there's never been a day that that except the times we've cleaned the tank that that water hasn't run over that storage tank down there in other words we've never used the water supply yet that we've we created through that pipeline and outside of just two or three minor occasions we've never had a bit of trouble those of you that remember the work that upper sluice box that we built buzzed a little bit one day and we had to go up and re-weld it and that's the only trouble we've had with that whole system so we feel very fortunate we brought in the

the power line through the labors of our boys and now there's not a home in Shore Creek that doesn't have electricity. I'll tell you it's just brightened the lives of those homes tremendously to have a refrigerator and electricity for lights and sewing machines and the various conveniences it's just changed our whole mode of living. We've spread our water system from not only the tank to the regular homes that were using it before but if emergency arose and we needed to establish homes in that community. Now we've got a water line there that would at least furnish house water for 10 or 15 houses. Easy. Maybe more than that. Maybe 20. We've got at least, I'd say, about a mile of fireplace where you could put houses on both sides of it. So things haven't been so bad. We've built two new homes and remodeled some of the others.

As I say, he added plumbing to all these places, so we ought to be encouraged. We've had a good crop of wheat. We've got in about 35 or 40 acres of potatoes down in that country, but they're looking real good. Our hatch place is as dry as could be, and Sam was up against it. Sam Bonner was up against it for water, and about three weeks ago, he got a drencher right over there that just took in just that little area where our farm was and a few other places.

When I was there two weeks ago, they couldn't cultivate the potatoes because they were so wet. And the water had actually run down those potato rows. There was that much water coming. Brother Johnson was there just last week, and he was telling us that if we didn't get another drop of water, that we'd have a good potato crop there. We've got some wheat raised. We've got about over a thousand bushels of good turkey red wheat that grew on that Alvin place that we've talked to you so much about without a bit of rain.

all summer long. I'll tell you, that's something. I went there, when I was there two weeks ago, there was cracks in the ground at least that wide, an inch and a half wide, and you could poke a stick down in that far because of the drought. It just dried out, and the earth had just split right open, and the grain was growing right up through there. I never saw such strength in the soil in my life. So things are looking good for us, and if we'll unite our efforts.

and continue to pull for the future. I'm sure in spite of three years that the priesthood can have 5,000 bushels of wheat stored away for hard times and a lot of other things will be working in our favor. And I'm thankful, brothers and sisters, for these opportunities to do something with our hands and our minds besides just feel like that we've got to stuff it with book learning. As Brother Johnson said a while ago that Those of you who have contributed your means and your efforts surely must feel better. I haven't met a man that doesn't look better because of the labors that we were able to put forth. In consequence of that, we're strengthened through the whole system. We're in a more pleasing condition to learn and understand. I made a remark in Short Creek here a week ago, and I'll make it to you people right now. It is one of the most sure foundations.

that a man can lay in this work. Take Irwin here or Lauren Zitting or any of you young brethren. They're coming up in this work and you're sitting at home there reading the Doctrine and Covenants and bringing your hands whether to do or not to and finally you decide to do. I'm going to go up with this work. I know it's true. Now how are you going to secure yourself the most effectual way to remain? There isn't anything that you can do in my experience that will keep you in the work of God.

any more than to put your hands and your money into it. Anything that will hold you in the work of God, like putting your, as well as your time and your talents and your little tithes and offerings, but to go and put your hands and dedicate your means to it. I've seen men weather some fierce storms because they had their all into the kingdom of God. How did Brigham and Heber C. Kimball do it? They were our foremost pioneers. And when it come time to...

To declare their inheritance, you couldn't tell which was theirs and which was the church's. Brigham Young supposed when he passed away that his whole estate would go to the church and would have done if his children hadn't arrested it through lawsuits and so forth from Brother Taylor and those who were presiding over the church subsequent to Brother Young's passing away. They'd have never known the difference.

When Brother Barlow died, could you tell which was his and which belonged to the group? There wasn't any difference. He wouldn't even claim his own children. He expected every son and daughter he had would lend their time and their talents to building up the kingdom of God. What about Brother Musser? Why, he dedicated his whole life to it. And consequently, we buried him with the...

tenderest feelings and finest honors that this people can muster. Now, if that's good for them and the gospel's true, why isn't it good for this man and this woman and me and all the rest? Why should Brother Bono, President Joseph Smith, and Brother Taylor and all the brethren put their all into the work of God and we hold back a part of ours? And yet we want to go up and sit down to the banquet table and feast with them. Just consider yourselves, my friends. Consider yourselves.

You may wonder about this and wonder about that, but the most sure place that you can put your means and your energies is in the kingdom of God. I made a remark here some, oh, maybe six months ago. I made a quick, snappy remark that those who look forward to pensions and so forth would apostatize. Well, I want to qualify that. If a man's working for an institution, And as part of their program to pension him when he gets so old, I'd say by all means get it. Let them pension you at 50 if they will, and then devote all your pension and your strength to the building up of the kingdom of God. That's what to do. But to work and labor for a pension that you might retire, you'll lose the faith. And I think well of this congregation because of their determination to come and labor and put their hearts and their hands in the same place.

Now, we want you brethren down there on Labor Day. If you can band together in automobiles and save the expense and let our folks down there lend all their attention and labors to that job and not have to do too much entertaining, we'll be grateful. Some of you women that can come and help out your friends, why, we'd be glad to have you, but let's try to make this a Labor Day. We've had some wonderful times in the past, but we'd like to have you brethren and your big sons.

Come and give us a hand. There's going to be an awful lot of nails to drive because there's, I don't know how big that building is, Richard. What is it? 88 feet by 132 feet long. Now, I'll tell you, that's a lot of roof to put on. We're going to need all the help we can get and all the means. I suggested here two weeks ago that you men have got a little money that you can contribute. Now, I haven't tried to remain modest about pressing you for money to help build this building.

One man come forth with some means and laid the foundation financially, and I haven't pressed you people. Well, we need your financial help as well as the labor of your hands. And Cal and Irwin are being asked to furnish the plumbing and the wiring. Well, let's not leave them holding the sack. You'd rather step right up there and ask them how they're getting along. Well, here's $20. Here's $20. And give it to them. You don't have to pass it through my hands. Go and talk to them. It's going to cost...

A couple of thousand dollars, isn't it, Irwin? And I don't know why we shouldn't contribute it. I don't know of anything on the face of the earth that's going to be better for us. The enthusiasm that our young people are going to receive that thing. And we're not through yet. I think that we're going to need it more in the future than we've needed it in the past. Brother Guy, when we were talking about education, passed to me a very stinging sermon by a president who asked us no.

And the language that he used in accusation of the people, a group of Latter-day Saints, turning their children over to the Gentiles to educate was something. And it is something. I've got children here in this congregation that have suffered in their feelings. And they come home distressed and agonized because of the conditions they had to live in school and then what they tried to get home with. And some might find it easy, and some might find it hard. It's just about...

way with the individuals, but I've got troubles around me because of this school situation. And I can't help but feel it's the same with others. There's going to be a wonderful blessing come out of it for all of us. Some of you young people are wondering about credentials. I pressed Louis Barlow about this matter. He says, what are you talking about? Well, I says, what is an accredited high school? And you know, it's a loosey thing.

It's just that it's out there in the ether and you can hardly put your hand on it. And I find that there's a couple of associations in which you can buy membership and become an accredited school by meeting certain scholastic standing. Just like this hospital up here. The LDS hospital was not an accredited hospital at one time because they were out of favor with the accrediting institution. Does that mean to say that that hospital had slipped? Their politics weren't in order.

That's about all it amounts to. I've sought out several of the young people, and they say the entrance to college is an examination. I understand that any man can enter, or woman either, can enter a college or university today up here on the hill, that they can pass their entrance examination. And I'm confident, too, that if our dreams are even partially realized, that we'll turn out better students.

than any school in the country. I'm quite sure of it. That little town of Harrican down there, we were looking over their program, and I'll tell you, it was pretty small compared to what we expect to do for our own. But we anticipate these things because we anticipate that our young people are interested in learning and not playing. I think that we're going to move down the road a long, long way.

Pray for the Spirit of God to be with us and enlighten us. Open the way for us whereby we might realize our dreams and ambitions. The kingdom of God might truly grow. That we might learn to hold our peace and not flaunt it before our enemies and antagonize them. For if we can do that, we can take this work a long, long ways without interruption. I'm thankful to be in the works. I have lots of time to meditate and think.

I was talking to a man the other day. He said that he had gone back over his experience, the time that he had been excommunicated from the church, and that the knowledge of this work had come to him. And he says, if I had the power within my hands to go back and change it, he says, I don't know where I would change one thing. And I can truthfully say the same thing. My knowledge and understanding of the gospel gives me much more.

gratitude and satisfaction than I ever had before in my life. The association of the people that I mingle with is far beyond what I ever dreamed of having. The knowledge of the priesthood is way over and above what I ever dreamed about. These things don't come to us in a day. But I'm truly grateful, my dear brethren and sisters, for my knowledge of priesthood. I didn't understand priesthood when I was called into this council.

I understood a little bit, but it's been by the grace of God and our studies and our mutual edification that my knowledge has increased on this most important subject. And it's far beyond anything the Church has to offer. And it's in harmony and in keeping with the teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, the lessons that Brother Taylor has left us on priesthood, are harmonious with our feelings and our knowledge and understanding is predicated.

upon the things that we've learned from the former prophets in this last dispensation. So our foundation is true. So there's nothing but rejoicing. I just pray to God that I can fulfill my life in honor before him and accomplish the work that I want to accomplish. For I truly desire to bring my character into subjection to the Spirit of God. And I know that that's the only way that our characters will ever be changed.

We will never become God-like in all this world until we're actuated by His Spirit. And if we're actuated by the Spirit of God, our character will just change and unfold day after day and day after day until it'll become a reality. And it'll not be a labor. It'll not be a labor. But it'll be the result of a condition. Changing of our characters will be the result of the influence of the Spirit of God upon us.

Along with that will come our light and knowledge and understanding and the increasing of our testimonies and the elements of eternal life. You go back home tonight if you want to read something that's right interesting on this subject and read on page about 89 or 90 in volume 2 of the Journal of Discourses on what President Young said was the sum and substance of our existence in relation to man and God and so forth.

He said it was to incorporate into our lives the principles of eternal increase. If you brethren are sowing your seeds and planting your labors in the midst of the Gentiles, you're not going to reap very big harvests because their nation is ripe for destruction. And your assets and your labors are going to go down with them.

laid your labors on the foundation of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the midst of the saints and the direction of the priesthood, you have built yourselves along the lines of eternal increase. While your labors might look rather precarious at times because of the hardships that they're subjected to, as the years roll by, they'll always resound to your good. I can't help but look at Sister Barlow. She's weathered a major depression that we had in the 30s.

And all these years that she's been in the midst of the saints, she's had very little to comfort her life. She's been in need and in want most of the times that I've seen her. But she's habitually cast her lot with the priesthood. And as I look at her day after day, it seems to me like her circumstances continue to get better. She reaches, rapidly reaching that place where I desire to reach, and I'm sure that you do.

body and my labors by, that I'll have an assurance in my heart that when I meet my brethren on the other side, that I'll be welcome in their society. Now, I can't conceive of a greater blessing, and on the opposite score, I couldn't conceive of a greater curse. I can't conceive of a more agonizing, heartbreaking condition than to feel after all the years of labor that I've gone through that I've sown my seeds in the wrong field.

to brethren don't have any need for me. Now you brethren, think it over. You watch your step and you study your circumstances and see if you can't bring yourself to that condition where everything you do will tend to build up the kingdom of God. I'm thankful to be here and I'm grateful for this opportunity to speak to you and enjoy getting wet with you and so forth. It'll be a day we won't forget. God bless you. Amen. When Father signed into the college, Up there east of Sugar House, all the credits he needed was two wives. I don't know what the credits will be necessary for the one down south. This is a wonderful labor, brothers and sisters, but it's a labor that we take too lightly, I'm afraid. Brother Taylor said, I counted the cost when I considered

Entering upon this work, I counted the cost and was prepared to pay the price. Now when we begin to take dominion over one another, we assume a great and a tremendous responsibility. In fact, the prophet Joseph Smith said, where there is no revelation, there is no salvation. And it's in vain for you to try to administer salvation without revelation in the spirit of the Lord, as Brother Hammond has said. Now, the first thing a man wants is to get himself a wife. And yet, in assuming the responsibility of a wife, he is perhaps assuming one of the greatest responsibilities that he can assume at that particular time.

because he takes upon himself the responsibility of directing into a condition of exaltation another person. And this cannot be done without the revelations of the Lord, either direct or through the gift of God. And he's taking the name of the Lord in vain and is working in vain to try to do it without that power.

So this thing is fraught with tremendous responsibility. And when you begin to tell a woman to do this or a woman to do that or a woman to change here or a woman to change there, do you know whether you're asking her to pursue a course that will prepare her to go through the veil into the presence of the Lord? Are you asking her?

to follow the dictates of your desires or circumstances or means. I realize that none of us are perfect. That's why we need the Spirit of the Lord. When we say, well, we're just human, Brother Nusser, and none of us are perfect, that's one of the most foolish statements that a saint can make. This is an acceptable truth that we know it.

And that's why the Lord wants to give us his mind and will through his spirit, because of our imperfect condition. And because we know that because of our humanity, he knows that because of our humanity, we're incapable without his help to direct one another. And so it's not right, as Ted and Jung so often said, for a man to seek this blessing.

before he finds out how to reach the Lord and how to use the Spirit of the Lord and get it in the direction of his own life. And so we find lots of trouble among the people, lots of domestic trouble, a static condition existing in many families because of this situation. that we don't always direct one another under the direction of the Spirit of the Lord. And because of that, we don't have full confidence in each other. And not having full confidence, we're not united as we should be. And thus we hold reservations and opinions which tend to disunite us.

rather than to unite us. And it all stems from this problem of not being able to get and be directed by the Spirit of the Lord in our daily actions towards one another. Now, for instance, the Lord has said to his prophet Nephi that I will never ask any of my children to do more than that child is capable of doing, or to walk further than he has strength to travel. Now, how many men have the Spirit of the Lord in asking their women to do things? If they have the Spirit of the Lord, they will never ask the woman to do a thing that she's not capable of doing or that she doesn't have strength to do, and that the way hasn't been open for her to do it.

That's the spirit of the Lord, isn't it? And by acting thusly, week after week, month after month, she gains confidence in her head until she finally says, I know that what Daddy is asking me to do is right and that I can do it. For he will not ask me to do a thing that I am not capable of doing. Confidence.

It's just that simple, isn't it? So all we have to do is when we raise up onto the throne and begin to give out jobs is to get the Spirit of the Lord and to determine how much the woman can do and how much she can't do. So there's a key. That's the difference between having her do what we desire her to do to help us and have her do what the Spirit of the Lord would dictate. That's the difference. It's simple, isn't it? Now there's another problem that faces all of us as human beings, and that's this element of jealousy. There's some foolish people in the world that say they're not jealous. Now this is a very foolish statement for anyone to make. I realize that some people may feel that they're not jealous,

And if they feel that way, it's because they've never had anything or been placed in a position to get jealous and be jealous over. But every person will have his or her day in regard to this. So jealousy seems to be a natural human element. Even our Father in Heaven is jealous, the prophet said. For he guards that which he has in love, for he is a jealous God.

So, men and women are jealous. We have men who are just as jealous as women, maybe over different things. Some of the few families that exist in our group is family. The brothers are as jealous of one another as can be, as to who has certain rights and prerogatives in the home, and as to who is advancing further in the home, in the priesthood work.

than the other brother. And if one of them should happen to get another wife and don't tell the other brothers about it, why, there's a great hallabaloo. Jealousy exists in the heart of the man like in the heart of the woman. Now, what can be done about it? Is the man to say to the woman, oh, you're just jealous, that's all. Stop being jealous and you'll be all right. Well, that's certainly some statement to make, isn't it?

You've not only got to reveal the fact that she might have this element of jealousy in her, but if you've got that much revelation, you should have revelation to tell her why she's jealous and how to overcome it. Then you're helping her. If you can't do that, you'd better not reveal anything in the first place because you don't know what you're talking about. The Lord won't give a partial revelation like that.

If you know that she's jealous, you know why she's jealous. If you know why she's jealous and you fear the Lord has dictated this to you, why you'll know how to teach her to overcome it and to contain it and restrain it and control it until she makes a thing out of herself. For she'll always have that element within her character because it's a characteristic of our Father in Heaven properly controlled.

and contained for a purpose. Brother Hammond has spent considerable time today telling us how jealous he is of our children. Why would he want to do what he's trying to do in the priesthood, all of us, if we weren't jealous of the seed of Abraham? And so we want to guard them and exalt them.

and so their jealousy properly contained and controlled. What good would a woman be if she wasn't jealous for her husband, if she didn't care anything about him or what happened to him, or the kind of clothes he wore, the food he ate, or the house he lived in, or how he felt? What kind of woman would she be? And if a man wasn't jealous of her condition, So this is an element that has to be contended with, and according to the Spirit of God brought under subjection, so that the Spirit of God governs it. And then it'll be a righteous jealousy, as our Father in heaven has righteous jealousy towards the things he owns and what he wants to do with them. As a priesthood has righteous jealousy concerning this,

great seed that God has given them to direct. And so they'll go to the cross in an effort to save it and redeem it. So, brethren, it isn't enough to just taunt this thing about. We have to know how to handle it. And you've got to know how to teach your women how to handle it and why they're jealous and why it comes up in them.

and flares up at certain periods and at certain times and because of certain actions and then be a kind enough revelator to reveal to them what to do to help them overcome it and to control it and govern it in righteousness. I want to tell you this directing of the human mind is very, very sacred ground.

Very sacred ground. We can buy a man a suit of clothes. We can buy him a car. We can cut his hair. We can doctor him. We can do many things. But when it comes to directing his mind, it's very serious. And it's very serious to direct a child. Very serious to direct a woman. And we want to know what we're doing so that they can gain confidence in us.

Now, I don't want to bring the wrath of the heavens upon us and have any more rain tonight. My body does know how to react under the present condition. I'm generally only used to a bath every Saturday. But these are some of the things, together with all the other things, that we must begin to cope with, brethren and sisters. And I might mention just another principle before I sit down, and that is this. As Brother Johnson has often told us, the spirit of God is a spirit of peace. The spirit of the devil is a spirit of confusion. Heber C. Kimball said that where there's confusion in the home, the spirit of God will not come there. Where a man is confused in his mind in relation to a principle,

He cannot get the Spirit of God on that principle. This is a simple principle revealed from the heavens. So if you are confused in your mind regarding any elements of these celestial laws, you're not going to be able to get the Spirit of the Lord on them until you remove this confused condition from your mind.

That's why Heber C. Kimball says, I'll depart from a home where there's confusion, because the Spirit of the Lord cannot dwell there. So we've got to erase this confusion from our homes and from our own minds. It's lots better to say, I don't know. Brother Kimball said, it's more virtuous for me to say, I don't know, to a brother or to a wife or to a child.

than to say that I do know and direct them in the wrong way or cause confusion to come to their mind. The spirit of the world is for us to know everything. Our vanity dictates that we don't want to let anybody know that we don't know everything. That's the spirit of the world, our vanity. But that's not the spirit of the Lord.

There's lots of things we don't know about, and it certainly isn't belittling a man for him to say, I don't know, but I can certainly find out for you, or I can send you to someone who does know. That's a simple thing to say. But if confusion exists in your mind as to any of these elements, say the The financial part of the celestial law. If you don't know what the spirit of the United Order is and what your responsibility is, if your mind is always in complete confusion along these lines, you can't get the spirit of the Lord on that particular subject until you...

get away from this condition of confusion. When a man or woman comes to me and says, I'm confused, it means that they don't have the Spirit of the Lord on that particular subject, or they wouldn't be confused. The Spirit of the Lord isn't confusing. It's a matter of peace and tranquility. If you're confused about the political hogwash, that exists in the world today, then you don't have the Spirit of God as to what the kingdom of God is for and its true principles. You're confused. And you can't get the Spirit until you lose that confusion. I've told you so many times that it wasn't the President's fault, President Smith's fault, that he and his wife had an argument. But the fact is, The Spirit of God would not dwell in a home where there is confusion. And so for the sake of the work, the Lord told the head to go make peace with the feet. Sometimes you have to stoop to conquer so that there would be peace reigning in the home so that the Spirit of the Lord could be there, so that the work of the Lord could go on there. He possibly knew that Joseph was capable of making peace.

for Emma wasn't capable of making it for him. But it had to be made. And so you can think back at any instance in your home where there has been confusion, the Spirit of the Lord has fled and left. And although you hold a priesthood in that confusion, you're shaking and trembling, and you don't have the peace and the tranquility that you should have.

And the minute that you find yourself in such a condition in your home, you should straight forward, go and straighten out the affairs, even though you may have to be the one to stoop, to conquer, to regain the mind and will of God for your home and your personal life. Sometimes in our anxiety, as Brother Hammond has said, we might contend.

unrighteously, and we lose the spirit of the Lord. And we have to immediately regain it through repentance and other things. So this is an important key for us in our homes, is to keep confusion out of our homes and out of our lives. Learn how to be simple and to live simple lives, lives of simplicity. Keep these terrible webs.

of circumstances from being woven around us that cause us to get into such emotional and political and financial difficulty that allows us to be thrown into a confused condition. We're generally masters of our own fate in regard to these things. Sometimes an act of God might come upon us, but we're generally masters of our own fate in regard to these things. And we get ourselves into trouble. We get ourselves into debt. And we have this web woven about us. We can justify anything. It took an old colored man, not the priesthood, nobody high. It took an old colored man to tell me that there's no man living who can provide for his want.

But every man living can provide for his needs, and that's the truth. It came from a hell of a source, but it's still a truth, and I found it out. It was what I needed when I was a young boy. Joseph Smith oftentimes had to pray that the Lord would send food so that he could bless and eat it. So we get ourselves into debt thinking that we need certain things. We weave.

this web of circumstances around us. We'll try to do so too much in 24 hours. You can only do so much in one hour's time. But we'll try to do five hours' work in one hour. And what happens? We get hopped. We become confused. We become irritated. We become agitated. We lose the spirit of the Lord. We have allowed this web to be woven about us, because we have foolishly tried to do too much. There's a secret of being on time. Most people who are late try to do too much in a given time, and they're late. Leave for the office late in the morning, and what happens? Because we're late, we're irritated. We don't know what the boss will say.

We know we're going to be 15 or 20 minutes late for our appointment. So we begin to work up a tremendous condition within our mind. We begin to swear at the traffic that goes every morning throughout the millennial of the gods. We'll begin to swear at the road. Every driver that morning is drunk.

They won't get in our way or out of our way. They're trying to run over. And in that confused condition, a million other things happen. Until by the time we reach the office downtown, we are in a terrible state of mind. Terrible frame of mind. The first people we meet, we bark at the first person. And we do something else.

And people go around behind our backs and say, well, I wonder what's happened to him this morning. Or to her. Must have gone up on the wrong side of the bed. It was lack of wisdom to control our time and leave for the proper time. Just a simple little thing. Well, now, brothers and sisters, if the Spirit of God is what we must have in order to succeed, we've got to learn how to get and keep it.

That's what we've got to learn to do. And these are the places where we lose it. These are the places where we lose it. It's not when we're in church like this that we lose it. It's not when we're working on these wonderful projects that the Lord has inspired that we lose it. It's not when we're traveling together that we lose it. It's these other times that we lose it in the home.

during our relationship with one another as a husband and a wife, during our relationship with our children and in our homes and so forth. This is when we lose the Spirit of the Lord and become discouraged. So, brethren and sisters, let us put forth an effort to see to it that we get and keep the Spirit of the Lord by applying correct principles to our actions.

in everything that we do. As I've told you before, there's a correct principle to everything. And if we're not confused, why we can use that principle. Here's a simple illustration and then I'll see. Most all of you wonder what in the world or how in the world you should advise your children. For instance, in keeping the Sabbath day holy.

Now, how is this principle going to be applied? My boy comes to me and says, Daddy, is it all right if I go over in the school grounds and play ball? Now, there's a crisis. There's a crisis. Counsel has to be given. What is to be given? I can't very well say, well, I don't know. Wait until tomorrow and I'll find out. I can't very well say that.

Now, the disposition that most of us would be, well, Sunday's my hardest day at work. I work harder on Sunday than any day, and he's certainly a good boy. And I know that he has the Spirit of the Lord, and it certainly won't hurt him to go over there and play a little ball. It certainly won't hurt him, so I'll just let him go. I have faith in him. That's the position we generally take, isn't it? But is that the right position?

Is that us directing or the Spirit of the Lord? What is the right position to take? The right position to take is this. My boy, I did not set apart the Sabbath or Halloween. This is a decree of our Father in Heaven. And I have no prerogative, I have no authority to overstep him or to change his law.

or to change the hallowedness of his day, or what he has commanded us to do. He has commanded us to rest our bodies, rest our minds, and rest everything about us, drawing closer to him in spirit. Now that's his decree, and I have no authority to overrule it whatsoever, and I would not dare to overrule it.

So I must place the responsibility on you. You know what the Lord has decreed, what his law is. So now you do just whatever you'd like to under these conditions. Simple, isn't it? Simple problem solved. If he goes over there, he does it at his own risk. He'll have to pay the penalty or get the blessing. Now this is the difference, sisters.

in using the mind and will of God and trying to dictate from our own experience and feelings and circumstances in regard to these things. The Lord bless you. Amen. We'll ask Brother Jessup to dismiss us. Our wise and gracious Father in heaven, at the close of these services, we render unto thee our thanks and gratitude for the measure of your Holy Spirit that has been manifest in our midst. For the words of...

life that have come to our ears are the inspiration contained therein. Now we pray that these things may be indelibly impressed upon our minds, that they shall become a part of our very lives and our characters, and we might improve in the way of eternal life and ascribe the praise and honor and the glory unto thee. We pray that you will dismiss us with your blessings and that we may return to our homes and to our various places in peace and safety, that your Spirit will be a portion of each and every one of us until our privilege is to meet again. Let your blessings be upon those whom you have called to lead your work, that every needful thing may be at hand for their use in the establishment of thy kingdom in the earth. We pray for these blessings and all other things needful. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.