We're pleased to welcome you all here tonight. All of us, by experience, that our success tonight will depend on our united efforts. Let's center our hearts and our minds upon a without pouring from the Spirit of God. These terms, which are 295, Redeemer of Israel will be our first sign. To do thy will and to keep thy saloon, according to the best of our ability.

And we pray thee, our Father, that thou wilt bless us on this occasion, and let thy Spirit come to us according to our desires. That we may unite our hearts and our minds as one in receiving the instructions which we are here to receive from our servants, the priesthood. We ask thee, our Father, to bless those who speak to us, that they shall be inspired to do so.

and that they could give unto us the words of eternal peace. We are grateful for President Johnson, for his presence here tonight, and we ask you to bless him and give unto him the revelations of thy holy name and will, that he may lead thy people according to thy desires, and for the establishment of the priesthood and righteousness in the earth. We are grateful for his life of emulation, and we pray.

The power to uphold him in his desire to serve thee, and we know that that is the case. great privilege. And we dedicate this meeting to you, in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, amen. I thought this concept in my mind, which is relating to things about the priesthood work, this thought occurred to me, and I thought I'd ask you the question tonight. Do you hear too much mention about the priesthood work? Do you hear too much mention about authority? About the need for bringing ourselves into submission to the priesthood of Almighty God?

And then as he proceeded with his talk, he got this attitude. Why not remind our people, and especially myself, that there are some things said that bother me. The priesthood is mentioned too much. Perhaps my own life isn't submissive enough. Maybe I'm not following the priesthood as closely as I do. That's why it bothers me. Is it true? I delight with you, brothers and sisters in...

Having this opportunity to hear the message that God has for us through his inspired servants and to participate with our faith and prayers in drawing forth those things that will elevate us, make us more efficient in establishing God's work among us. We have with us tonight a young man that manifested his faith in us in times past.

Uncle Sam has had him in his jurisdiction for a little while, and we'd like to hear what Uncle Sam has done for him. Whether David's black or adrift. Many years experience I've had in the past, too. I only hope that with her driving, I will be worthy of the many blessings that are required on me each day that passes by. The outside world is not a place to be. It takes a strong man to stand up to the temptations and the defamations I've passed about. I've found a new way to live every day that I live.

But this is the work of the Lord. I went into service with a feeling that nothing could remain so it made me humble again. And the last day that I was in the service, with my body being released, with the strength of the world's forces on me, stomach aching and tired, my heart almost stopped. The last half a day that I was in the service, I felt that something had happened to me.

I feel quite delighted, my darling and sisters, and I feel legit. the capacity of worship. Another trial's reference to some of my remarks brings me again to remark that the knowledge and conviction that I have of the truthfulness of genuine divinity and the work in which we are engaged is about the dearest thing on the earth to me. Without I have that, my grace is God to go along with it, to help me to live up to its requirements. What else?

And life is worth the effort. And I think of the observation that one of the ancient apostles made, if in this life we have hope only, we would be of all men most makeable. And I stop and think of the incidents that surrounded the lives of the ancient servants of God, the disciples of Christ, and the outlooks in life that they had.

And how the end of the journey of life came to each and all of them seems a pretty bad picture. And it seems that every single one met death at the hands of this old man in the most hard and terrible fashion that humanity under the ingenuity of Satan could invent. Gone to death, crucified, slayed alive, and everything they could imagine to touch the human kind was a lot.

of those faithful individuals. In pursuit of the Book of the Martyrs by Fox some years ago, I observed that there were hundreds and thousands upon thousands of individuals who were honest in heart because they had the courage of their conviction and dared to voice their sentiments against the cares that mankind perpetuated against their fellow men who had their tongues cut from their mouths.

put on stretches and their bodies pulled apart, buried alive, and treated in every horrible fashion that Satan could invent. And I compare that with the promises of the Lord to our day in this temptation. When he said, if you will obey my law, I'll fight the battle. I have to acknowledge that in the process, I don't hear that he ever said, that we would not be beaten and braved and teared and cursed. We may have a lot of things to endure, but I believe, my brethren and sisters and friends, the greatest torment that we have to endure will be the result of our own folly. I think if we bring ourselves into a Christ-like spirit and feeling and maintain that in our lives and extend that feeling in the spirit that the Christ manifested among his fellow men,

And they kicked him, and cuffed him, and shoved him about, and mowed him with the palm of their hands, and spit in his face, and everything that they could do to him, he revived not. And even bearing the pains of the crucifixion, crying out for their forgiveness, they know not what to do. I believe that our follies, our resentments, hatred born of our own weaknesses, are the things that bring to us the greatest adversity that we are to meet.

And in carrying the thought a little further that Brother Carl suggested, do we have too much Christianity advocated to us in our priesthood circles? Let me just suggest one more question. Can we attain unto too much salvation? Can we be too thoroughly exempt from the cares of wrongdoers? Can we be too ill-correct in the position that we take as weapons?

the plan of eternal life and exaltation. That man, Jesus, is not just a man of sorrow, sometimes called because of his serious demeanor, probably smiling very seldom, even though his demeanor was one of good cheer, it was not like. Constantly devoted, esteemed every moment of his life, he strictly adhered to the counsel and direction of his father.

whose will he came to be. And I'm simple-minded enough to believe that the closer we can adhere to the counsel and direction of these humble men who sit here behind me, the more serene and perfect will be our joy and satisfaction, both in life and after this journey of life to see. I believe that will be the case. I believe that it's another impossibility.

for any individual to model life to become any more merely perfect and right in the position that they assume and occupy in reference to the plan of life and salvation and in reference to keeping the commandments and the counsels of God and his servants. I believe it is a mission in life that we have been sent here to fulfill and to just see how near and exactly right and correct we can become. The Christian world has long been of the opinion that man cannot be perfect. I think they're taking just a little jump away from the truth. I think that if we're determined enough, devoted enough, sincere enough, that we, each and every one of us, can be perfect in our sphere, according to the knowledge and information and understanding that we have.

And can we not believe every one of us who are assembled here tonight? And as we attain to perfection in the understanding that we have, that our understanding will increase, and therefore our perfection can increase until we can become Christ-like in our very nature. And our hearts and minds are actuated by the same power and influence that moved his life all the way from the cradle to the cross. I think there's no other people on the earth.

to have as great opportunity and therefore as great responsibility to bring themselves into that condition as those of us who are assembled here tonight. Because of the fact that we have the closest contact with the servants of God and through them with God himself of any people living on the earth. I hope that we can concentrate more on these things and bring ourselves into the condition where our lives will be.

filled with joy and satisfaction in being right and correct, even in the face of any adversity, that the good Lord may see fit to triage us while we sojourn in this mortal existence. In these few thoughts I give way, praying God to bless us each and all in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Let's hear from Christ in Hamlet. To praise our brothers and sisters, to meet with you again. I think these are...

Very delightful time. I feel that I need your patience for us tonight, and supplication to the Lord for his spirit and guidance, that I might fulfill a responsibility upon me in the season now before him. There's so much we need, and I feel like I'd whole lot rather deliver the Lord's message than my own. I'm very ashamed of my minutes to get up.

Speak for 10 minutes and say more now than I can say anymore. I feel like an iron hose upon these people sometimes, and I get wound up too much. I've been here thinking about the good old days, raising and falling, and raising and falling for many times. I tend to wonder when we're going to stop falling. I don't mind arising, but I still hate these tumbles. I'm sitting here thinking about myself. How the Lord has to lay me lower so often to keep me humble.

I don't know how I get out of hand, but I know I certainly must, because he sure has to lay me down last night. It's humbling. The Lord said he gave us weaknesses, but we might be humble. And I don't know of anything in the character of man that's trying to ascend to the throne of God that's more humbling than his weaknesses. I've thought of the things that we've learned since we've been in this work.

I used to ponder about the statement of Paul that by grace they're saved, but I know now that Paul meant it. He learned why the dead are moved each with a white chocolate. That's what he used to say as a prophet's chocolate. And that's why I'm telling you my side of it. I know you can figure out why the dead don't have to flip their hands and their pockets into their hands. And they make their way to the mass or something. And it's very useful too. And I've learned a few other things. I can describe the grace of God that the people are saved.

look upon men and realize that our best efforts are not sufficient to serve God and that graciousness and goodness that he extends himself to help us and to train us and to treat us and to bring us along. And so if there's any of this congregation that feels proud and stuffed up and self-sufficient, we're badly in need of these changes in the mind and in the state. I've taken care of the good old days and I remember There's many things that we seem to attain unless we want it. Our desires, as I've said repeatedly, all seem to have a peculiar way of approaching this work. With me, it has seemed to be our desire.

You can get the people to desire something, wanting something, willing to do something, hoping for something, then you get it accomplished. But when you start to get people, try to get people to do something in which they have no interest, there's no motivating power, singing up to that individual, then you have a losing battle. I've been reminded this past week of the remarks of the ancient prophets we've heard these last days, and the statement of Prophet Joseph and Elisha.

I often think of that statement that's recorded in the back of the document that I'm going to read. It reminded us that you'd have to cut your throat and write with me. That is where you're left to be deceived. Now where's the deception? What is there that's going to come into the lives of this people and bring about a deception that will cause us to lose our desires and our hopes and our aspirations in the kingdom of God? There is a very good challenge to this people. Where are we losing?

And what are we doing to keep ourselves from coming closer to the servants of God and, in consequence, touching them closer to the Lord and bringing to pass this strange thing that we're speaking of? Where's the deception? Where in are we fooled? I live in one environment for a couple of weeks, and then I come and get in another, and I don't see why the people are one different. I see people in poor.

Humble circumstances that are frightening to some because of the humility of them and so forth, and yet the same pulse seems to be denied. Is our feelings and our affections fastened upon the things of this world? Is there something here that we don't quite want to let go of? The fear that we may never recover it? Somewhat like the experience that I imagine people feel when they pass from this life into death?

There's a little frightening atmosphere that seems to come over some that are leaving the known for the unknown, going from the light into the dark. There's something about the people, there's something about us that we don't want to quite let go and surrender ourselves to God that we might use us and strengthen us and fortify us and change us around before we can be useful in his kingdom.

We've had a long afternoon going over some priesthood matters. Incidentally, it leads to reviewing the character of the people once in a while. We've got a people here that we can't get rid of, but we can't do a hell of a lot with them. I understand what I mean. Pick people on the skin and try to drive them away like they're a drug. You know, you know, you're 13. Came to South Creek one day, years ago, and I did my level best to get that man to get out of town.

I couldn't exactly insult him, but I told him a lot of hard stories, I'll tell you. And he just stood there and looked at me. And he's still here. And he's determined, from all the evidence that I can see, to stay with the kingdom of God. With all his might, mind, and strength. And do the best he can. And I see a multitude of people that's trying to do the same thing. Here we are. Trying to do the best we can, but it doesn't just seem to be good enough. To bring about a reformation in the character of this people.

And I'm convinced. I'm convinced that we could change if we wanted to. Looking into my own life, my own character, I believe that I could change more rapidly if it wasn't for the things that are around me that I seem to desire. I don't think it's a compliment. I think, I'm thinking today, I'm just setting an order to work with God and how the people talk about it and pray about it.

And especially the people that are gone. They long and hope and look for a vindication in the setting in order of the church of God and the house of God. And hope that it would be stupidly come to pass. And I've heard better than nothing. Tell the people to pray for the coming of the one mighty and strong to set in order the house of God. And I sit and ride down the road with nothing to press me or force me. I wonder what we would do if he did come and say it. How long we could stay in order. There isn't any...

And I don't believe in making the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will ever change. The absenteeism of the organization, its helps and auxiliaries and so forth have been given to the brethren by revelation. Every one of them. The Sunday spirit came by revelation and necessity.

The Relief Society was organized by the prophet Joseph Smith by a revelation. And so those things are pretty well fixed and definite in their nature. And being so, what would we do with the church if we had it? Let's just be thrown dead in the tray and sent one of the dead in here. Bill Johnson, guy, anybody you want to. Impressions, that's it. What would we do? How many of you elders?

to be set up and to be right over the stake so that we could get our stake down in secret. How many of you guys would be down in secret? And keep it in order. Take your families with you. And keep them in order. And sift the wheat from the chest. And I'd get ambitious and start the rushing men of the plural marriage. Start teaching them faithfully, sending them back to them. And laying out of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost. And stay with it. I wish people even yet, even yet, launch out and launch out and launch out into the discourses and desertations and the revelations on the law of celestial marriage and priesthood and the matter should never be believed by this people. I saw them test of it for years, but it's never been my turn to go around and talk a big deal about the law of paranormal. A lot of the hardship this people have suffered has been the consequence of their ignorance, flaunting and revealing these things to the people.

I've said before, and I want you to remember, that if we want to get an order, to set an order, we've got to get ourselves in such a condition that we're ordered before we can be ordered. Of course, we've had, like God often says, we've been through these many generations, including, rightly, the things of God. Now, this people has never, to a great majority, has never been inside of the temple. And you don't know the consequences of your acts. You don't know what they're up against.

to any marked degree. You think because the Brethren have been liberal in their views and teaching you here, that it isn't improper to say anything? And yet the law of plural marriage, I am sure, should never be discussed outside of the temple of God. It surely can be. The doctrines on the Godhead, the revelations on the priesthood, that has been given to this people should never be given outside of the temple of God. If you don't know it, The things that are discussed in the temple are never discussed out of your temple. You see what I mean? You go there and learn these things, and consequently, when you come out, your lips are sealed to you too. And they're only discussable then if the people could have had the same information as you. And the rest of the people are called up by revelation, by the people. We want you and your family in the temple on such and such a day. And these revelations are good.

Now I think, I think my dear people, that before we move along, that these things have got to have a greater design. What will bring about it, I don't know. Whenever you find the people suffering, you find them in more humble and a teachable mood. It's a good question. The people then, whether you can organize them or not, are leading you. Now that everybody has a job, and if you don't have a job, the rage is on you so that you're not...

so desirable in the institutions of the world, why the state just stops sending us up and we go on as independent as we can be. But I think it's beautiful. I think that we should take care of our AIDS people, that they just stay as independent as they have now. We can't touch them or anything. We're ready to all have our own time. We can't tell them anything. I think that laughing is better than them. I think that's part of the thought.

I found this generation of young men, that they're damned to go. You'll take a girl out and make her go back. Make her pay her own share, because it's enough. I can't see through the question. You boys can go out and earn $25 a week, that's doing nothing. It's 10 months. If you get a full-time job, you can bring down $300 a month. And yet, this generation of kids is doing enough to come here these days. Ask a woman to pay her own rent. Maybe some of them should, but...

I never looked at it that way. Not enough humility in the people. Not in such a condition that God can tell us anything. The longer this inflation goes on, the way this government goes, we have money for everything. It seems like, as one man says, there isn't anything that money won't solve. That's the way we're solving most of our problems with our money. It is to me. A woman really isn't very dependent upon a man. I walk out any day, any day. I make more money than he does.

No real disposition on the part of a woman to be dependent upon her husband. A man isn't very dependent upon God anymore. Godless nation. They have no respect for him or anything. They'll pay a man for doing his work. The only faith that he has in God is what he can force upon himself. Like this preacher is trying to do. Like your brother is trying to do. You sit to the world and you're teaching yourself and trying to persuade yourself.

to have faith in God and to cherish the gospel of Jesus Christ and the sign of salvation. But there's no necessity for it. The world is holding out its arms, yearning for your apostasy, and hoping that you'll give up. And so there's very little purpose in charging these people into a condition where they can be organized into the church that Jesus Christ has given them. Now, I don't minimize heaven, but you're obedient.

I don't know. I appreciate that we've got a good command here that we could just send almost on a minute's notice to any place in the world. And most of you would just pack up and go. You're getting that far along. But would you go with the power of God at times? Would you go like the brethren used to go? Would you travel with the Joseph Smith? Would you send me out on a trip and I'd get a good car?

And you'd inquire of my needs, and you'd see that I had money, and if you asked me to go to Los Angeles, I'd stay in a fairly decent hotel. I wouldn't have to bother anybody. I wouldn't have to ask the Lord to bless me for anything. I'd just go. I've been thinking, I've been forced into reading a little bit lately when I was dressing up, and I've been reading about part of people. Well, it's just a reputation of obliging people and all the brethren want it.

They traveled across these United States and slept out on the ground, waded rivers, went into unfriendly houses, and were fed, and clothed, and taken care of without ever a dollar in their pocket. And therein, it seems to me, was their cue, was their gate, their adversity, was their greatest blessing. There wasn't anything the better type could depend upon but God. If it had been the majority of this group of men here, the way we thought it, we'd all have been dead.

Just following for two years. Waiting in those streams and getting wet, soaked through with the rains and the snows and having to stay out all night and freezing and cold. I would have had pneumonia and died. Two men traveling along and they'd take down his skills and feel it and they'd lay hands on each other and get up and walk off. Well, now how? By the gift and power and the grace of God. We're not, we're not brought into close enough circumstances.

It looks to me like if we're going to go through this thing, we've got to increase our desire, or God has got to increase our adversity. Joseph used to say, the veil of sin is because the people's desires are strong and come out of their depression and hardship and poverty, and they long to be released from the kingdom of God and desire the blessings of the devil. It seems to me that they're not coming up and hoping and yearning.

I'm hungry and thirsty for the things of the king. We're taking her together in people's care. We believe that. We're trying to bring ourselves into obedience and so forth. And I know that you trust us for a little information. I know they trust me and want to get me to talk. I'm slow to respond. But if they go hard enough, and a little more specific in their questions, and I get some answers, we're not, we're not.

Trusting in our spirit, what I'm trying to speak of. Not putting our mind to the situation. Hard as we ought to. I'm sure that the Lord's going to have to humble his people like he's going to have to humble the church before we'll desire these things as we ought to. You win it. Before some of you will render obedience to your husband as you ought to, you're going to have to be laid low if you don't change your ways.

You know that what we've taught you is that God is true about the principle of obedience and subordination to proper authority. You know it as well as you know anything. And you know that you can't be saved and exalted in the kingdom of God on any other principle. So, if you don't begin to use, you're going to have to suffer the hardship that goes along with it. It goes without saying that hardship is passing over the faith and the judgment of God.

And we're not going to escape, my dear friend, unless we begin to bring ourselves into better conditions before the Lord. I felt like shouting for joy. I better go to begin to try to hear the gospel story that goes along with the character of the people. I'm told about Sergeant Snow being pressed continually to give a certain amount to set him up for a job. And then during the...

Intermediate work, so there's a good man present. Now, he says, yes, what the hell is he good for? Now, we've got to be careful, extremely careful. We're going to fall into that very category. We're going to be a good people, but what are we going to be good for? Unless we can be motivated, stimulated, to hunger and faith after the power of God. Faith necessary, we're only saved by our faith, and the faith is a gift from God, and we've got to desire it.

He's got to work on it. I've listened to Brother Johnson tell experiences of his life. In fact, every lesson that he's had on faith has come out of his adversity. Out of his adversity. He travels up and down the road, the flat tires he's had, the quitting of broken down automobiles, and him getting along on his way has been based upon his faith to overcome his adversity. And he's learned his lessons well, so now they're habitual with him.

He seems to trust in God wherever he goes. But I know, brethren, that we've got to obtain more faith. We've got to obtain these desires and work them and begin to look to these things. And I know that there's many in this congregation that are doing these things. And I know there's some who are not. Because the strength of this people is not sufficient yet to obtain the blessings from the other side that we must have.

I'm glad you found us here this morning. The experience that President John Taylor had back in September 1886 over that revelation on Floral Mary has been the life and salvation of this people, the revelation that God gave him. Now how did he obtain it? He received it this way, in hiding. All the leading men throughout Mormondom were touching him with letters and everything else, and messages, telling him he had to do something. He had to do something.

They were going to take their property, not only the property in Salt Lake City, but all the leading men in Arizona and all around the country were going to have their property confiscated. In consequence of their officers, they held them to court. They supplied the six cousins to be beaten. And they were anxious. President Taylor appeased the government and asked for the man of God. He knew where his allegiance belonged. He knew whose servant he was. He knew that he had no rights.

Proud to give the laws of God and the peace of people. And so in his adversity, he went to the Lord. And he obtained his answers. Because of the hunger and impatience that he had after the righteousness of the kingdom of God. And he obtained information that kept his people going now for about 80 years. 75 years he has lived on the revelation that President Taylor got. And the brethren that followed in the wake of that momentous occasion. And he finally got a people. He must.

Now here, a short time ago, Brother Bono and Brother Musco, they had a people like this. They thought they were living in the millennium. They thought they really had it. They said, maybe as long as we've lived, maybe as well as we've lived, they'd still be at the same place that we are. Brother Bono would stand right here, right now, if he was in my place, and I'd bet dollars to donuts that he'd say, well, this is a good people, but they're not good enough. Now how are we going to...

Jets are good enough. Unless you're hungry and thirst after the things of the kingdom of God. And that's not only a few, it's all of you. You can get young men to hunger and thirst. You can get the young women to hunger and thirst. Up to a certain place. But after that, they don't hunger and thirst anymore. I think that we've got to move as a people. I appreciate the faith and faith of this people on behalf of the council. It's been a great change from what it was in the past year. A tremendous change.

I know we're going to hell now, but don't you hear the people pray for Brother Johnson? He's the head of the priesthood, and that's the way it ought to be. And as their prayers are, so shall their minds be. They pray for the Lord to bless Brother Johnson, but they'll be inclined to bless him themselves. It's a strength in the hand of this work. But that isn't enough. We've got to hunger and thirst after these things with all our might, mind, and strength. It's a command of God.

And it's not going to be sufficient for this people to go on fundamentalist Mormons. Fundamentalist Mormons. If you get the church up to a person, up to here. You can't get them up to here. They don't want to go up to there. I don't know why. I don't want to be excusing. I don't want the Lord specifically to reveal to me and not to fall to the people and to get into the pinpointing of weaknesses and making me the whole feeling bad.

We can talk about the conditions of the past, and maybe we'll touch the present. But I know, and I saw in my days, with my own eyes, the things that went before my childhood. A very young child at eyes. The raging of the women. My mother was secretary in the Relief Society, and I was an only child, and I sat with her in the same box all the time. This was it. I'm a part of the women to condemn.

to criticize the wearing of the garment to the holy priesthood. That's history. It's written right in my mind. How the Governing fled with the women to keep their death and their demeanor in keeping with their covenant. I remember this. I've heard for 20 years now the Governing to plead with the priesthood to wear their clothes in keeping with the covenant that they are going to have to make.

And you can get them to do it for two weeks, three weeks, or two months. And after that, why, it starts to taper off again. And I got her coming, and I laid some beautiful material on my lap. The dress she was going to make, and she said, you're going to have three-quarter length sleeves. And I said, why not seven-eighths? And she didn't know what I was talking about. She talked to me, and she said, three-quarter sleeves is three-quarter sleeves, and that was it. If you're a woman, you ought to have your sleeves down.

Not three-quarters, and not even seven-eighths. They ought to be eight-eighths. And they ought to stay there through time and all eternity. At least see your soul drain upon this earth, because that's the nature of your technique. And they won't change. Launching out till you have to go buy a blast and having time to make one. Well, you've got my sympathy. But I can't change the law. Brother Johnson can't change the law. It's tasted in all there.

might before those people as they all combined. They can't change the law. That's it. Now how hard do you hunger and thirst? It seems to me, if you let me swear a little, that you know damn well that the one mighty and strong isn't going to come for a while or you wouldn't buy a three-quarter of it. You fear that you'd have to throw it away. You continue to go to these stores and because they're going to furnish full-length sleeves, you buy what they've got. Now this is not a particularly...

Now I'm not asking anybody to change their character. The condition of your mind is just after a little change in your past, and you can't follow it through to save yourself from hell. Now, where are our desires? Where is our hope? Where is our love? Where is our aspiration? We can't anymore take you people and do with you like we'd want to. Without changing these things, you cannot be done. Johnson can't go to the Lord and say, well, now here, I've got a people that I can do this and so on.

You can't do it. I don't know one thing in this whole society where you could pick them one right after the other and line them up and say, well, we're ready to do this. Now, that's one thing. That's one thing. I think the government is coming along. I think they're coming along. The evidence is obedient in response. The financial response that this people has made has been a tremendous impact, in my estimation, to your faith.

He strengthened you and supported the work and put you way down the road to where you used to be. He says he's proven where your affections are. And you're backing it up. I haven't heard one man murmur. Not one. There's a hardship that he's had overcoming his debt. He even said on behalf of his feet that I haven't heard it. I guess I'll come here and I'll go and talk to myself. Make a statement, man. You're dead and just a little sacred. The law of celestial marriage.

an essential part of your priesthood. If your wives are not going to serve you, the priesthood is going to serve you. If it isn't going to be your wives that invite you up in the kingdom of God, it's going to be the priesthood. Never doubt me, never worry, never tell me it's going to get him along the road very often. He's wondering, I've heard him talk, I've heard Guy talk, and I've heard the others talk. The wonderment of the cost of the priesthood is how we stand as the priesthood on the other side. Better bottle and better muffin, better sitting, Are our immediate predecessors the men that we're acquainted with and established in the work of the Lord? Our anxieties is how they feel toward us. They're satisfied with the work that we're doing and the things that we're accomplishing. And they're confident that they're the men that's going to call us up to do this. We have to find ourselves acceptable in their eyes. And they're, consequently, I suppose, anxious about those that preside over them. They're anxious about law and freedom.

And I'm anxious about Brother Taylor too. To see whether Brother Taylor is going to own and bless and sustain this dispensation that the Lord let him create for the salvation of the people. I'm sure that they're anxious. I bet them labor and teach and bring their families because they're an essential part of your priesthood. But it's not the part of your priesthood that's going to exalt you. The priesthood is God.

after the order of Melchizedek, which is after the order of the Son of God, that we bring a man up and exalt him. And these are the things that we should look forward to and try to bring ourselves into subjection to and place our desires to. And in placing our desires, why, we may have to go out and work for the Gentiles. We may have to go do that from soul. But let's let our hopes and desires and ambitions be upon the affairs of the kingdom.

I look back on my going up days in this work and long to some counsel as to how I ought to do. And now I believe that I could give you a little. I could give myself a little. We wonder what we ought to do. Well, I can tell you what we ought to do. In the days of your accountability in this work, your hopes and aspirations should be the establishment of the kingdom of God and your hearts and feelings and affections.

could be separated from the things of this world. And you say, but a hand in the affidavit. Well, I can make it quite specific. I don't think a man's heart and feelings could be set upon a heart, nor a home. You want to change it to be specific? Couldn't he spend it upon his home? His home could be the incident to tearing out of his ambitions and establishing the work of God and house his family and social and philosophy. Waste excessive money?

And homes and houses, unless the Lord directs it, is a mistake. I hear both about my things. I have some skeletons probably in my closet, but houses haven't been one of them. And I don't think that we ought to be leveling and gloating over a damned house. No horse. No automobile. No job. I think if you go and you work for these people and do a good, honest day's work, And the nature of our being and so forth, they'll meet with their wants and needs. We'll let them go and get another one. I don't feel like it. We've got to be so diligent and so affectionate in our work that we're going to get attention from them. I bear you. It comes to my mind, and I'm going to say that to you. And I'll tell you in the name of the Lord, to the man in this group that works for attention, respond to them. Believe in their feelings and their hearts and their ambitions. That's where they shouldn't be.

one something went through me as it's often johnson when brother johnson told me the other day and others i don't know whether they're not but he told others we shouldn't try to establish ourselves our old age and our lives in the laps of the gentiles or in their system we should establish our retirement in our old age in the kingdom of god i may go through much 15 or 20 years ago to this teaching which tells me more today when i think about it i don't want my My life. After I've labored in the kingdom of God, I don't want to be dependent upon suckers from the Gentiles in my old age. If God won't take care of me, well, I'll have my children there, or somebody else, if I get some confidence. I'd a whole lot rather do that than to be dependent upon them and their institutions. I'd like my labor to be directed toward my heavenly Father. I would like to just buy them a few tickets or something.

I thought I gave Christ, and the Lord told Enoch that there was just nothing on earth between her and me. Enoch saw God weep, and so forth, and the Lord turned to Enoch and told him that these people were the creation of his own hand, and that he gave them their knowledge, and had instructed them that they should choose him as their father. As far as my disposition has been all my life, I thought to choose God as my father, and I have had...

and feelings of betrayal go over me when I relied on insurance back in Idaho long before I had anything good here. Men come and scare the hell out of me and make me think that I was going to die tomorrow and leave my wife with two little kids to survive on and I'd bite my parents on it. Men I'd kill and I'd betray God. And I felt worse then than I was when insurance men made me do it. And the next thing I'd come do, I wouldn't pay it.

So they cheated me out of some money. So let them go their way, brother. Let them go their way. Fear that God testifies to me that this is our house. This is the place where we should place our lives. Where we should do our work and where our hopes, our aspirations, and our fondest desires could be. I would desire that we could have the pleasant hope of looking forward to an increase in our devotion.

supplications to God for the establishment of his kingdom. I have every confidence that there's talent and ability in massing God's people and he'll raise up additional people to manage this thing that we really desire. Showing this thing here to you tonight. Just about these guys. Just about these guys. The wardrobe and the rager of this group of women.

But if tomorrow or tonight we notify you that you're all to be in the temple in the morning, and if you dare go through and receive your endowment from your covenants, you should have to throw the half of your character. And maybe not every one of you, but as a whole. I would tell if you women have half of it, it has to be this part of you, not this. Before you could wear it the next day. Now, how does that indicate? If you haven't confidence in the dead, and they get up and beat hellfire and damnation and thunder to you, If you ought to do that some soul, and you stay here for one day, and you go out and do something, and then the next day, the fever dies, and you say, well, I'll do it from time to time. Time will never come. That time in the lives of this people must be designed. Manifest by our dispositions, and our hopes, and our aspirations, and our inward and outward conduct, to be able to love and care for what we've got, but inside of all my heart, I care.

The Lord has given unto us garments of the holy priesthood, and you know what that means, and yet there are those of us who mutilate them. Another that we may follow is truly vain and permit me to say, and decent practices of the world. And although such people may imitate the fashions, they will not hesitate to mutilate that which should be held by them, and will take it of all things in the world, next to their own virtue, next to their own purity of life. They should hold these things that God has given them to them sacred, unchanged, and unaltered, from the very pattern in which God gave them.

Let us have the moral courage to stand against the opinions of fashion, and especially where fashion can tell us to break the covenant and commit a dubious sin. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That was how long ago. This is 1960. This is my father in about 1918. That's when my father started, 1950.

It's 45 years ago. Well, he lost the fight, doesn't he? Where does that Smith lost the fight? The people turned away and did as they pleased. Are we going to lose it? Are we going to get a change about in our lives and the physical things and the things that we can do to strengthen us and support us and the things that we have difficulty doing? I don't think that a woman is going to be entirely submissive to her husband. I haven't observed it that way.

and breaks and does these things is contrary to the covenant. The woman that's living in a relationship is celestial marriage to the thing that she's been through the temple. The woman that's been filled with man through time and all eternity should assume that she's been through the temple and conducts herself accordingly. And the death and her apparel should be in keeping with the covenant that she would have made, or will make, as quick as the opportunity is afforded to her. That's the way she should be.

And men should do the same thing. You young men, I told you before, in the certain area that I've been, I don't wear this underwear, shorts and shirt pockets. I don't keep it. It's a piece of it. If you can reach the age where you're eligible for admission and the Lord's laid a hand on you, do away with it. And find something to wear that's more acceptable. It covers your body. If you young women are approaching the age where you're going to, Remember the law of marriage? That's to tear your mind to death according to your covenant. These things that they throw around for underwear, except they're reputed to be, they're technically naked. It's not conducive to good moral strength. The garments of the holy priesthood are a strength to you. And if a woman will keep them proper and unmutilated upon her body, she'll be strong. The same thing is true with a man.

May our source of strength be in the contentment, the contentment of your body, both morally and physically. I presume that that's why there's so much weakness among us. The Lord is the devil. He's defiled us with this blessing, and we stand in hardship all the time before the Lord because we've been cut off from the audience of the house of God because of disobedience. Or that's over the hand of his soul. And even those that have the temper, have been cut out from the audience of your heart with God. The third and fourth generation and forever for some of them. We've got to change these things in order to get back into the grace of God. This condemnation that's been pronounced upon the Lord back in 1832 has continued. And one thing after another until finally the people have been stripped.

of everything but the appropriations of people and the teachings of the devil. That's all we've got left. Thank you, Lord. The people that they have laid low in their graves tomorrow, the great majority of them have to have their work done by prayer, because we haven't qualified ourselves in the eyes of God to have these things set in order. It's faith that we're in. And yet we seem to go along as happily and as carefully as though we had a right mind. And I tell you, we need to do that.

concerned about our condition. I pray that the Spirit of God will be upon us all, be upon the people, be upon us all, be upon the people. I pray sometimes, Lord, that the people ought to pray. You know, it says, it's the Lord who adopts, sustains, and upholds the decisions of the council, which he should hold in accordance with his mind and will. It's a great anxiety of mine. Sometimes I lack a basic attitude, the fact that we don't care, neither here nor there. We eat just the same, and wear just the same, and have meetings just the same.

Other things are far too against us, blowing us into a carnal security and state of sleepiness that we're not alert and awake. If we had pressure on us, if we had pressure on us, and you're sending your children and your messengers and your various ones to the council that they should do something for you, then we'd find a different disposition on the part of the people. And I think that you ought to pray. We have a right to pray.

and the ability to get around and take care of ourselves. I ask the Lord to sustain the decisions of the people. Incidentally, we should continue to pray against our enemies. And that makes faith so hard to deny them the privilege of uniting against this people. And then let's try to pray and live according to our prayers and justify God in answering them. We will do this. We will see good days. And I pray that we will be filled with God again to be upon this people.

We will not have to participate and be subject to the judgment of God that's going to go through these intermountain countries. Joseph F. Smith said that he saw a cape on the door of every Latter-day Saint home. Now what? The judgment of death had spread from house to house because of the rebellion and disobedience of the people. And they were all brought into trial.

Now these things don't have to be our lot if we will keep the commandments of God and live above them. For the Johnson has repeatedly told his people that they would be protected and that the judgments of God would pass over us if we would live so that God could bless us and honor us and claim us as his own. Which I hope we will do in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

You made a mistake. Wake up, you defenders of Zion. Take the opportunity of being here. This is goodbye. ...given to the Prophet Joseph Smith and to the Prophet Joseph Smith. The keys of this kingdom shall never be taken from you. Thou thou art in the world, neither in the world to come. There's a voice in the Lord.

keys of the kingdom of God. The prophet Joseph Smith holds them and will hold them according to this wisdom statement. Now, the prophet Joseph Smith said, if any man seeks any other gospel than that which I have preached, he shall be saved. And some of you who now hear me shall see it.

and know that I testify with truth and truth. Then he went on to say, the prophet, It is thought by some that our enemies would be satisfied with my discussion. But I tell you that as soon as they have shed my blood, they will thirst for the blood of every man in whose heart dwells a single spark.

as the spirit of the fullness of the gospel. The opposition of these men is moved by the spirit of the adversary of all righteousness that is not only to destroy me, but every man and woman who dares believe a doctrine that God has inspired me to teach to this generation. And I dare to teach them.

And if we preach any other gospel or doctrine that he has preached, we will be cursed. And if we do preach it, Satan will seek to kill us and even believe it. So there is a picture that presents itself to every saint with this in mind. Would it be not better, far better, if we could develop the habit of the Prophet Joseph Smith leading us as safely as possible through this lone and gray world to our final degree of exaltation. With this too pictured before us, that we will be cursed if we teach any doctrine.

that Joseph Smith cannot uphold because he holds a key to our redemption in connection with Jesus Christ and that Satan has signified that he will destroy everyone who dares believe that Joseph Smith himself has looked like and removed the direction of heaven to walk through this life to have any degree In other words, it appears to me that if there is any degree of salvation for us here in Heracles, it will be because we have yielded to the direction of the priesthood of God. And the greater our ability to yield to its direction, the greater will be its direction to us.

to lead in justice and justice. It's necessary for us to increase our faith in the Lord. It is because of unbelief that we have been placed under condemnation. So we must begin to believe Joseph Smith, Father Adam, who had offered the first and most simplest principle. He laid him to taking direction. As he played the drama out for the sake of his children, he offered sacrifices to the Lord. And as the great drama went on, an angel appeared to him and said, Why are you doing this? Why are you offering these sacrifices? And the wonderful key that he first gave his children.

Why, I know not. Praise my Father as my direction is due, and the habit of taking direction. And then the prophet, he holds accused to this wisdom, shortly before he died, said, I have made this my rule, that from the Lord to man I obey. even though I may not understand why, until long after the event transpired. So he learned obedience while he was here. Jesus Christ learned obedience while he was here. And so the capacity, the desire, and the habit that we develop in yielding obedience to the powers of heaven keys to our success in this life and in eternity. As a woman who gains the whole world in knowledge and character, who doesn't develop this capacity and habit, will sooner or later find a crisis that will take them away from the Lord for a very, very few years.

And so to us, this should be our first lesson. The real Lord concerning us and then do it. Argument, tension, and debate. Find out the real Lord concerning us and then do it. To make this happen. You know as well as I do that we move by habit. We can't have it. So come a time. In the near future, when Brother Willie and the other brethren enter the direction, the Lord will sit in certain places, and people will go before them and say, Brethren, I would give my life if I could just do this. They'll bow their head in tears, and the brethren sitting before them will bow their head in tears. But nothing...

Because the desire is that the development of character and habit is not the secret. And this is the time that we can get our change. We can yield. The closer we yield to the powers of heaven, the more the powers of heaven will come closer to us and direct and give us power. Because I want to tell you, peace be with you.

concentrated in God and his son Jesus. Any power or influence that man might bear is delegated to them from that source. The closer they can assimilate themselves into the character of that priesthood and those brethren who control it, the more power they will be given so the more we can yield ourselves.

to the direction of the power of heaven, the more heaven can direct us. And if the powers of darkness have signified that they have singled us out for destruction, how much more then do we need the direction of heaven to lead and direct us through this life and into the powers and privileges?

of the other side. And any failure on any of your parts will not be because you have weakness. It is rather familiar that your weakness will not be because of your stature or your physical form or deformity. It will be your power, your capacity, and your habit of yielding to heaven. Your true tradition has developed.

In the past years, Father Hammond has said to yield to man and his customs. And we have made it such a habit that it becomes natural for us. We don't think the second time of yielding to the customs of man. And sometimes we have yielded before we discover the custom indecent. Or wrong, because of habit.

I told you the last meeting. I have seen many a child and adult take a spoonful of food and spit it out. The habit was to eat the food, to give it back, how it could, to do without. And it wasn't until the habit responded that they found the food was bad, or too hot, or too cold, or whatever it might be.

So we become teachers of habit. So the prophet said simply, I have made this my habit. Or in other words, through my experiences, through my trials and sufferings and temptations, I have made it a habit to do whatever the powers of heaven tell me to do. And so this is the path toward my freedom. And so now, Whenever God speaks, I yield. If you didn't understand, it doesn't enter into the picture. As Father Adam taught it. I have made it a habit to yield. Because I know that when I finally come before the Lord, He will say, My son, have you done all things? Wherever I have commanded you to.

Now what kind of habits have got the best of it? I hope to God the habits are yielding. The priesthood might be up to see this life placed in the hands of the Lord. That's what we want. We're here. Give your brethren the greatest Desire in the world. The greatest desire to do this alone. The brother knows. I have to conclude. That you have developed the wrong habit. We cannot trust you. We have not taught yourself to use. So we don't know what you do. We know that you have a desire. But you have wasted your time. To tell you. It's a sad. Sad to follow. A priesthood.

Every day. And it's a sad heaven wonder. From heaven. To peace between heaven. To do the right. Perfect. And if you see anyone in this group. Who says I'm so happy. I can hardly contain myself. But that person is saying. You're looking at a person. Who's doing the best they can. To yield. To the cost of heaven.

Their conscience is clear, their faith is increased to a clear conscience and to obedience. The unhappy person is a person with a guilty conscience, with a desire to shoulder, to yoke, to war against one another. That person is constantly unhappy, dissatisfied, Wearing a long face and wondering what the work of the Lord is all about. We do not become slaves because we teach ourselves how to yield the powers and influences of heaven. We're not placed in slavery because we teach ourselves to be that. This is a road to exaltation. Not to damnation, but to exaltation.

And every time this man follows a direction of heaven, he succeeds. But whenever he takes the thing upon himself against the powers of heaven, he fails. And the President Barlow, many years ago, turned down to Los Angeles. He said, brethren and sisters, the Japanese nation is beginning to declare war on the United States this year. And when it does, You won't be able to get away from your job. You'll keep breaking down here and great hardship and other calamities will come upon you. So we want you to return to the body of the mountain. That's just about as far-spent statement as could be made. It was just about as far-spent as could ever have been made. Peace with the nation. We didn't think it had strength enough to step upon us.

Do and kill it. Let the powers of heaven predict what's going to happen. And it would have surprised you how many people in the group laughed at it. But on the 7th of December, the Japanese nation declared war on the United States. I suppose every man and woman that was left there was couldn't go back and suffered some hardship. In the group, you aren't a father. You know what to do, huh?

After introducing a few things, my father said, go down to San Francisco and stay there and get a job. And I never did. All the people in this group thought that I got money there and so forth. Because people were being called from California, not being sent down. The greatest blessings have come to my life. They could do more before. Pages 19, 24, and so forth. And we finished many hundreds of dollars.

I'm trying to find the right number and help in the brand association. We've come back here and take off the shoe and hand the $500 bill. We're going to ask the people during the 1944 coup. We've got the ability and habit to follow directions. That kind of addiction is fake. And now you're happy. And you succeed. If you don't do it, decide and test it, and you will finally meet a fight you need to end.

into the spirit universally. The goodness of God is the key to it. God is going to hold the key to God's life across the street. Not very often. But what difference does it make whether you see him every day? He resides. God will recognize that he holds the key to this kingdom. He has the administrative authority to take us back. Looking at him, we think of an inevitable death.

This is the unhappiness that most of the people fear. It's this knowledge of wrongdoing that brings fear into the breast of the child. Not faith, knowledge of wrongdoing that he must... face his mother and father, and that in doing so, he must pay the penalty, and for fear bringeth torment. You have all been children, and you know that. It is pure punishment that brings torment to the man who does wrong, for he knows he must face the destiny.

priesthood or elsewhere, he knows he must do it, this hour or tomorrow or the next, for fear of being tormented. For the fear of being tormented into the heart of the wife, for wrongdoing, for disobedience, because she knows it's an inevitable truth that her husband will find out what he has done and will ask her to pay the penalty.

Sister, if you want happiness, there is a key. And children, if you want to be happy, there is a key. You will have to develop this habit of yielding, hoarding, handing to them, giving to their husbands, to give to them. Before she dies away. And this is a happy ending. This is a peaceful ending. Never be happy or satisfied. I'm living on the earth. Knowing that my father might come to visit me. And reprimand me. And make me pay a penalty. If I knew that I'd done anything contrary to his counsel. I'd be in great misery. And unhappiness.

And fear brought torment to me. And in that torment I could imagine anything. The power of imagination should unravel before me. And make it a habit. These good works, these laid at my door. To do things and teach things, come here. To teach those things who have found this secret. People who have not found this secret, some degree or other, has not it. You don't know.

Just exactly how they're going to feel. What they're going to say. Or what kind of spirit or disposition they're trying to give. How they're going to feel. How they're going to feel. How they're going to feel. This is what I said. Now I challenge you children. Prove me. But now he says. And the husband says to his wife. Prove me. Now she.

I don't consider time your greatest power and influence and devotion. Excuse me, here we are. Say to the children, prove us here we are. We have made the Thomas and Duke children. I should waste my time. What if I should do this and find that it doesn't work out? Wait, stop, children. You're wasting your time anyway. What difference does it make if you waste a few more minutes?

the next 12 months with the right attitude condemnation that's father full blessings upon because we offer a token dependent your child will have to be placed under condemnation of the church and he comes to you and says father and mother i have decided i'm tired of this condemnation i'm going to yield I will just go to God's work. In a day's work, nothing changes. I'm just going to put in a day's work. The Father doesn't come to him and grasp him into his bosom and say, Now, son, inasmuch as you have put in a day's work, all that I have is yours. Just put in a day's work. Are you satisfied? Are you satisfied?

But no great demonstration did the boy do. I went to them and told them that I had repented, and I had put in a good day's work, and they haven't said a thing about it. So he returned and said to me, Oh, we don't rise. What could we ever do more about tonight? So this is our boy. Father must see him later. Every condition of life that he failed in the past, but he has succeeded.

And as they would have you do it. And it will surprise you what the results will be. It will surprise you. Nothing valid in relation to this is tied to the principle of medicine. Potentially, situationally. Conditions of this law are these. The conditions of that law. The law that prescribes that pertain to our actions. Socially, financially, economically, and spiritually, politically.

By the priesthood that pertains to these conditions, the promises are predicated upon these conditions. All covenants, contracts, bonds, obligations, oaths, vows, performances, connections, associations, or expectations to the Lord's name anymore, they would cover every phase of life.

that are not made and entered into, and sealed by the Holy Spirit of Christ, are he who is an end to this world. There is no efficacy of virtue or force in and after the resurrection from the dead, for all concepts are not made and to this end have an end, and none are dead. If that's the case, then that's all it matters.

Know the liberty in heaven outside of the peace of the Lord and the power of the Lord. In blessing, you can hear the promise of peace. God seems to have respect for an honorable son and an honorable daughter. Formance is honorable. Anything pertaining to life. But we're talking about life after death. To go into the presence of our Father. And anything that we do that...

Disassociated with the powers of heaven and not valid in the eyes of our Father. That's why he said in one place, anything more or less than this cannot be done. There is just one little feature of this great celestial life. This is, turns to be, the world of M.T. Sandler. the people do not people and i think father i guess you want but what do you want me to do it's like i can't win my way i tried it i've had lots of trouble so now what do you want me to do i don't want fire anymore so what do you want me to do He had proven them, and he saw within them the habit and the capacity and the desire to represent truthfully.

And at the big and long day, when he stood up at the table of the church, he said, Who is our prophet of Joseph's? And the big and long, but a humble elder, he called Joseph's name. So before his counsel, he said on their behalf, to give them death, to give them life. And truthfully, I represent him as he does.

This is our world. You see, we're beginning to see the habit and the capacity to represent it. So much love and devotion and affection and so much intelligence and so many features in your own moment and self. It has not changed. Neither ear heard, nor heard into your mouth. It's gone. It's all so much better now than not long ago.

I told him about the same thing that someone told the prophet August in his day. You're not serious enough. You smile too often. But I thank God that he's reconciled his life to submit to the will of heaven. And has taken upon him the yoke of Christ. He's Christ to thee. And he's the yoke of evil. And he's burden of life. You're not here from person to person. My dear brothers and sisters. I pray that you.

... ... ... ... ... ... know what to do for their salvation. God has continually led the people to repent. They might find compassion upon them and deliver them out of their hands. A long time ago, I had the privilege of visiting the great city of Mexico, Port City. I had the privilege of going through a noted museum. I guess thousands and thousands of idols worshipping people.

at once inhabited this. He also had the privilege of visiting some of the ruins in this great land. He sends up 1,000 of idols of all those nations. He told that his father, Pharaoh, and what Joshua says, and his father. The son of Abraham went to visit his father, and he found that all the idols of all had to go through and break the little tomb, the corruption.

that had taken place in his heart. They asked Abraham what was the matter, what had happened. Abraham says he brought a new idol in the house and it greatly displeased the king of idols and he took the house, it went through and broke them down. Terah says he couldn't do it because he can't move. Abraham says then why do you worship him? If he can't move, why do you worship him?

So he took the hatchet and began to beat upon the king of idols. And Pharaoh was so mad at Abraham that he reported him to the king and abandoned him in the church to take his life. I walked down the streets of our beloved nation. I saw stories of people like idols. And people are clamoring now for me to go out of their sense. I'm deceived. I'm going to go through my own.

home and pick them up and tie them away and set upon the idols. He says, I shall be seeking for the knowledge that God gave us when he created us. The Lord said unto Enoch, And I gave unto them thy knowledge in the day I created them. In the garden of Eden gave I unto man his agency. Thy brethren have I said all forgiven commandments.

that they should love one another, and that they should choose me, their father. But behold, they are without affection, and they hate their own blood. My brothers and sisters, the thing that the servants of God have been trying to get this people to do is to live according to the teachings that they have received, that they might know and understand.

That we gain knowledge. That we are saved no faster than we gain knowledge. Knowledge of what? Knowledge of our Father in Heaven. Who He is. Why He created us. And why we are here. I have young men and young women come to me. And want to place themselves in the hands of the priesthood. That they might be placed correctly. Now why do they come?

Because they have been caught up, they made covenants before they came here. And they want to know who they covenanted with. Now God has blessed them with knowledge that they did receive something before they came here. Or they wouldn't be seeking after it. And what I have just read to you is what the Lord said unto you. That he gave man knowledge in the day that he created him.

And there is a way to find out the knowledge that God gave us, and that's through keeping the commandments of God and applying to our lives the principles of righteous living. The things that President Ammon and President Marshall have told us tonight are the ways that we can find out the knowledge that was given to us in the day that God created. I've had young women come.

The homes of our people, the women of Mormon, that great book. I made this statement. I have it every once in a while. Someone comes and makes this statement to me. The greatest desire of my life is to become like or be able to have the same knowledge that Elijah or Snow had. Well, how did she get there? She came to her life.

the principles of righteous living, and seeking for the knowledge of what she knew before she came here, and submitting herself to the counsel of the priesthood of the Lord. From 2 Nephi, For they set it aside, supposing that they know of themselves far, far. Thy wisdom is foolishness, and it profiteth them not, and they shall pay. But to be learned is good, if they hearken unto the counsel of God. This people, the Latter-day Saints, are the lover of the butler's prophecy, unless they...

One of the ten ways, my brothers and sisters, that the evil one has of diverting the mind of the people from the learning that God has, is our salvation. I wish that I could say that with the convention to this body of people, the relationship with the man. I wish that we could pray before this people, the two pictures, that would bring them into a position into a condition where God would be bound to shower down his blessings upon us like he would like to. For I know that in reading the history of the saints of God throughout the generations of time, when the saints have been faithful in keeping the commandments of God and have had the uppermost in their minds to keep the commandments of God and to work out their salvation, that he has deep blessings upon them. They've become rich, not only in spiritual things, but in the things of this world. They have become rich. And if we want the rich blessings of heaven to settle upon us, we're going to have to conform our lives to the requirements that God has given us.

As these brethren have told you tonight, they have given you the pure lamb that will take you back into the presence of our Father in heaven. And the things that we have tried to say before you are true, and they are for the salvation of this people. And no one has any assurance of salvation in any other way.

You can cut and listen to the radio, to watch the television, and see men and women act. What good is it? Is it enticing? Yes, it's enticing. But what does it profit us in the end out of it? Every man and woman gathered in this house tonight has come here to hear something that might help them to gain an exaltation in the presence of our Father in Heaven.

And what good is it going to do them unless they apply some of these things to their lives? I want to tell you, my brothers and sisters, that this is a serious matter. It's something that pertains to our eternal salvation. And unless we pay attention to what is said and begin to look around us and see why we are following the fashions of the world, And to a high end, we are deviating from the requirements of God, and we do nothing to correct the evil. We are not repenting or complying with the requirements of the priesthood or of the great prophet that President Nusser spoke of, Joseph Smith, in trying to comply our lives with him.

how our lives it is the requirements that was made of him to our father in heaven to our elder brother jesus christ unless we are doing that not doing very much expense of that is not right before i pray that the spirit of god will settle down upon this people and that we would commence to pay attention to the things that are before us at this time because Destruction is at our door, and little do you know or I know how soon we're going to be called upon to ask the protection of our Father in Heaven upon us. And unless we're found striving to get His Spirit and keep it with us, we're going to be found in a bad way, because we're going to need the protection of His arm, His chest.

that he would make by his own, in protection of his saints, if it may be that he sent fire down from heaven to do so. Now if we're worthy of it, the Lord will protect us. But if we're not worthy, we're going to find ourselves in a bad way. We hate to speak this way, but we know it's true. For the prophets of God have said it. That great prophet Joseph, said that there was no standing in this generation in the day that he lived. His eyes would not close in death until these great things had come to pass. They were not very far off. And if we go into the history of the Lord's people and the destructions of people from this continent, we find that just prior to the great destructions, that the presence of God was moved upon to teach the same way to the people in that day. They became so united in their efforts to condemn the prophets and their teachings, and the Lord destroyed them. The deception was complete. We find in such a time. Let's destroy every evidence and apply it to our lives.

through this righteous living. May God bless you all. I understand the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. In keeping with the question asked at the beginning, do we get tired hearing these things? The doctrines of the priesthood will be still upon the stage as it is in heaven. Our confidence will rise strong in the presence of God and the Holy Ghost will be our scepter, our constant scepter of power.

Thank God for what we've been worthy of receiving tonight. May we go on and on and live up to these full opportunities. With my prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. Please turn to page 161. Turn we now a pattern. And before we, at the beginning of this studying, with gratitude in our hearts, which has been with us, the words of life and salvation which we've heard and been taught.

And we pray that your spirit will continue to be with us through the coming weeks and until we may meet again. We may truly apply and practice the things that we've heard and make the progress that is meaningful in our lives and in our characters. We may accomplish the mission for which we have come upon this earth and be able to come back into your presence again by having fulfilled your wish and your mind and will.

Take us to our homes in peace and safety and be with us until we meet again. We pray and dedicate our lives unto you. And ask it all in the name of your beloved son, Jesus Christ. Amen.