sisters to commence our meeting, but please to welcome you all here tonight. And we know, 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 rich outpouring from the Spirit of God. Please turn to page 195. Redeemer of Israel will be our first time. With our own attention, we'll offer the invitation.

Our eternal Father in heaven, we are grateful for this opportunity of meeting together as a band of thy saints, striving to do thy will and to keep thy commandments according to the best of our ability. And we pray thee, our Father, that thou art blessed 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 instruction which we...

are here to receive from thy servant the priesthood. We ask thee, our Father, to bless those who speak to us, that they shall be inspired of thee, that they shall give unto us the words of eternal life. We are grateful to President Johnson for his presence here tonight, and we ask thee to bless him and give unto him the revelation 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 that thou will comfort him and give those who surround him and the priesthood and his family the power to uphold him in his desire to serve thee, for we know that that is the truth. I ask thee to drop those who are absent who desire an interest in our faith and faith, And especially we pray that thou would heal up the sick among our people who have the faith to call upon thee for this great privilege. And we ask thee to render unto the poor those things which they stand in need of. And help thy people at this time to rid themselves of the indebtedness that they have fallen into, that they may receive more of thy blessings and be freed.

but from the bondage of this world. And we ask these prophets and all others that you see who stand and lead us at this time and who dedicate this meeting unto you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ our Lord. Peace reflects upon our center. 188. Peace. Peace. Two verses and verse five. Brothers and sisters, we have met tonight under the direction of Satan Johnson.

to learn more concerning the priesthood work. A few days back, when hearing President Jessup speak, a thought was prompted in my mind, he was relating some 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 we proceeded with this talk, this daughter said, why not remind our people, and especially myself, if there is something said that bothers me, the priesthood has mentioned too much, perhaps my own life isn't submissive enough.

Maybe I'm not following the priesthood as closely as I should. 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 faithfulness in times past. Uncle Tom has had him in his jurisdiction for a little while and we'd like to hear what Uncle Tom has done for him. Brother David Black will address. The Lord has blessed me a great deal while I've been away. I have fairly time and many years of experience I've had in Christ for years. I only hope that with His guidance I will be worthy of the many blessings He has laid upon me each day that passes by. The outside world is not a pleasant place to be. It takes a strong man to stand up to these temptations.

and the deaf community has passed away. I know there is time to convert and there is value, but this is the work of the Lord. I went into service with a feeling that nothing could remove me from being a Heimlichian. And the last day that I was in the service was by being released with the strength of the world's first forces on me.

tires, and my heart almost stopped the last half a day driving through it, before that something had happened to cancel our separation notices, and then keep us from coming home. I ask the state of the Lord to be with each and every one of us, that we will be worthy of the blessings and privileges that we officially enjoy, and may He save us from death and die, and may the Lord Jesus Christ be with us. Amen.

I feel quite delighted, my darling and sisters, in the privilege of associating with you once more in the capacity of worship. Another call, Jeff Winston, from 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, and the grace of God to go along with it, to help me to live up to its requirements, what else in 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 miserable. And I stop and think of these.

incidents that surrounded the lives of the ancient servants of God, the disciples of Christ, and the outlook in life that they had, and how the end of their 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 their fellow men in the most hard and terrible fashion that humanity under the ingenuity of Satan could invent.

stoned to death, crucified, flayed alive, and everything they could imagine to touch the human kind was the 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 courage that mankind perpetuated against their fellow men. They 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 situation.

And he said, if you will observe, obey my law, I'll fight the battle. I have to acknowledge that in the process, I don't hear that we ever said that we would not be beaten and bruised and healed in the process. 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 quite 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 in the back and murdered him with the palm of their hands and spitting his face and everything that they could do to him he revived not and even bearing the pains of the crucifixion crying out Father forgive them they know not what they do and I believe that our solace Our resentment, 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 farther 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 fairly exempt?

in the cause of wrongdoing. Can we be pure or correct in the position that we take as reference to the plan of eternal life and exaltation? That man, Jesus, is magic. Man is sorrow sometimes called because of his serious demeanor, probably smiling very seldom, even though his demeanor was one of good cheer, it was not light.

He's constantly devoted to seeing me every moment of his life. He's strictly adhering to the counseling direction of his father. He's here, he came to be. And I'm simple-minded enough to believe that the closer we can adhere to the counseling 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 is through. I believe that will be the case. I believe that it is another impossibility for any individual in mortal life to become any more nearly 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 children.

I believe the greatest mission in life that we have been sent here to fulfill is to just see how mere and exactly right and correct we can become. The Christian world has long been of the opinion that a mortal man cannot be perfect. I think we'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, that 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 their 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 who have as great opportunity and therefore as great a 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 and any people living on the earth. I hope that we can concentrate more on these things and bring ourselves into the condition where that 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 try us while we sojourn in this mortal existence.

In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. fulfill a responsibility upon me in a pleasing manner before him. There's so much we need, but I feel like I'd whole lot rather try to deliver the Lord's message than my own. I'm getting a little ashamed of my remarks. I used to get up and speak for 10 minutes and say more now than I can say anymore. I feel like that I impose upon you people sometimes, and I get wound up too tight.

Sitting here thinking about the good old days and how we've come along and risen and fallen and risen and fallen so many times that I begin to wonder, well, when are we going to stop falling? I don't mind arising, but I still hate these tumbles. Sitting here thinking about myself, how the Lord has to lay me lower so often to keep me humble and in contact, keep me from getting out of hand.

I don't know how I get out of hand, but I know I certainly must, because he sure has to lay me down after a while. Humble. The Lord said he gave us weaknesses, and we might be humble. I don't know of anything in the character of man who's trying to ascend to the throne of God that's more humbling than his weaknesses. I'm proud of the things that we've learned since we've been in this world. I used to ponder about the statement of Paul that by grace we're saved, but I know now that Paul meant it.

I've learned why the dead are made of these little white chocolates. They must be used to eat those apocryphal chocolates. And that's one thing in my childhood I never could figure out how the German had to slip their hands in their pockets like that. They only make their way to the mass or something. But I learned that they're useful too. And I've learned a few other things. I've learned that by the grace of God, the people are saved. As far as I look upon men, I realize that I have both efforts.

and that persistent graciousness and goodness that he extends himself to help us and keep us and pull us and bring us along. And so, if there's any of this congregation that feels proud and stepped up and self-persistent, we're badly in need of these changes on the mind, because we're in a hell of a state. But most of the story I was thinking here is the good old days. I remember...

There isn't anything that we seem to obtain unless we've got it. Our desires, as I've said repeatedly, they all seem to have a peculiar way of approaching this work. And with me, it seems to be our desire. You can get the people to desire something and wanting something and willing to do something, hoping for something, then you get it across. 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, it's bringing up to that individual, then we have a losing battle. I've been reminded this past week of this.

Remarks to the ancient prophets we've seen these last days and the statement of prophet Joseph and others. And I often think of that statement that's recorded in the back of the Doctrine and Covenants here in the Lord. As a reminder of this, that you'd have to cut your works out and write with me. Like a very lexicon. 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 challenge. Where are we losing? And what are we doing to keep ourselves from coming closer to the servants of God and in consequence testing them closer to the Lord and bringing to bat 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 their humility of them and so forth, and yet the same pulse seems to beat them up. 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 these things that I imagine people feel when they pass from the light into death. There's a little frightening atmosphere that seems to come over some that they're leaving the known for the unknown. Roaring from the light into the dark. Is there something about the people or something about us that we don't want to quite let go? Surrender ourselves to God that he might use us and strengthen us and fortify us?

Changes around to how we can be useful in these kingdoms. We've had this long afternoon going over some stupid matters. Incidentally, it leads to regrowing 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. Do you understand what I mean? Put people on their shins and try to guide them away like they're a drug. You know how it goes. You know how it goes. You know how it goes.

years ago, and I did my level best to get that man to get out of town. I didn't exactly insult him, but I told him a lot of hard stories, I tell you. And he just stood there and looked at me. And he's still here. He's determined, from all the evidence that I can see, to stay with the kingdom of God. With all his mind and touch. And do the best he can. See, a multitude of people are 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 characters of this people. And I'm convinced. I'm convinced that we could change if we wanted to. Looking into my own watch, my own character, I believe that I could change more rapidly if it wasn't as far as it came to be. So they allow me that I seem to be that. And I don't think it's a compliment. I think it's taking the bait.

of the setting in order of the work of 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, and the setting in order of the case of God, and the house of God, and hope that it would distributedly come to pass, and I've heard better nothing, tell the people to pray for the coming of the one mighty and strong, the setting out of 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 we did come and pray, How long we could stay in order? There isn't any trifling, puzzling matter that I'm making. It's a serious thing. How long, how long could we stay in order? I was thinking today about the church. The church is a fear democracy. And I don't believe in making sure the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will ever change. The absolution of the organization, its helps and auxiliaries and so forth have been given to the brethren by revelation. Every one of them.

Sunday School came by revelation on necessity. The Relief Society was organized by the prophet Joseph Smith by revelation. And so those things are pretty well fixed and definite in their nature. And doing so, what would we do at the church if we had it? Let's just be thrown dead in the clay and set one of the dead in here. Bill Jackson, Guy, anybody you want to. Impressions at the church. What would we do? How many of you elders to be fed out and to preside over a stake so that we could get a stake down in Cedar City. How many of you don't get your down end presided over? And keep it in order. Take your families with you. And keep them in order. And sift the hoops and the trash and add good on business and start the rushing men into plural marriage. And just start teaching them faith through tempting some bad people. And they're laying out of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost. And stay with it. Miss people even yet.

Even yet, they launch out and launch out and launch out into the discourses and desecrations and the revelations on the law of celestial marriage and priesthood and the matter should never be believed by this people. I've felt impressed of it for years and it's never been my courage to go around and talk a good deal about the law of paranormal. A lot of their hardships, people have suffered and been the consequence of their ignorance.

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 orderly before we can be organized. Of course, we've had, as Guy often says, we've been through these many generations, including, likely, this age of God. Now, this people has never, to a great majority, has never been inside of the temple. You don't know the consequences.

Have you asked? You don't know how to up again? To any marked degree. You think because the dead have been liberal in their views and teaching you here? It isn't improper to say anything. And yet the law of fair marriage, I'm sure, should never be discussed outside of the temple of God. It's fair that it can be. The doctrine's on the Godhead. The revelation's 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 it. You see what I mean? You go there and learn these things, and consequently when you come out, your lips are sealed to you in time. And they're only discussable then if the people could have had the same information as you have. And the rest of the people are called up by revelation, by the preacher.

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 to these things, we've got to have a greater desire. What a thing about it, I don't know. Whenever you find the people suffering, you find them in a more humble and a teachable mood. It's a question. The people learn where you can organize them and bring them. Believe me, they'd listen.

But now that everybody has a job, and if you don't have a job, the age is on you, so that they're not so desirable in the institutions of the world, why, if they just start sending you a text and you go on as independent as can be, that's, I think, beautiful. I think that we should take care of our age people, that they just stay as independent as they have on us. We can't touch them or anything. We're ready to all have our own time. We can't tell them anything. I thank you.

Laughing is better than a movie about the wrong little boy. I don't know if that's part of your thought, but I thought of this generation of young men. They've got this damn, this gall. If you take a girl out, make her go back. Make her pay her insurance, take her to this or that. I can't see through this stuff here. You boys can go out and earn $25 a week just doing nothing. Just doing nothing. If you get a full-time job, you can bring down $300 a month. And that's good.

This generation of kids is doing that for the money. That's the only way to pay it anyway. It stops me. Maybe it's not on the kid, but I never looked at it that way. There's not enough humility in the people. They're not in such a condition that God can tell us anything. The longer this inflation goes on and the way this government goes, we have money for everything. It seems like, like one man says, there isn't anything but money on the side. That's the way we're solving most of our problems with our money.

A woman really isn't very dependent upon a man. He can walk out any day, any day, and make more money than he can. So there's no real disposition on the part of a woman who's dependent upon a husband. And a man isn't very dependent upon God anymore. It's a godless nation. They have no respect for him or anything. They'll pay a man for doing his work, and the only faith that he has in God is what he can force upon himself.

Like this preacher is trying to do. Like you brethren are trying to do. You're sick of the world and you're teaching yourself and trying to persuade yourself to have faith in God and to chase the gospel of Jesus Christ and the plan 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 choice but to bring this people into you.

a condition where they can be organized into the church that Jesus died for gladiators. I don't minimize heaven, but you're obedient. I don't minimize it. I appreciate that we've got to give to men here that we could just send almost on a minute's notice to any place in the world. Most of you would just pack up and go. You're getting that far along. But would you go if the power of God accompanied you? Would you go like the devil used to go?

the travels of Joseph Smith. If David Johnson sent me out on a trip and I got a good car, and he'd inquire of my needs, and he'd see that I had money, and if he 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 Paddy T. Peck.

Well, it's just a repetition of what Brigham and Hoover and all the brethren went through. 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 cure, was their great, 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're sheltered, we'd all have been dead. Just falling 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 their skills and theories and they'd lay hands on each other and get up and walk off well. Now how? By the gist and...

power and the grace of God. We are 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. God has got to increase our adversity. Joseph used to say the veil of sin is because the people's desire has come out of their depression and poverty and they long to be released from the kingdom of God and desire the blessings of the brother.

But it came to me today that we are not coming up and hoping and yearning and hungry and thirsty for the things of the King. We're taking that to death and keep it still. We believe that. We're trying to bring ourselves into obedience and so forth. And I know that you press us for a little information. I know they press me and want to get me to talk. I'm slow to respond. But if they go hard enough, He's a little more specific in their questions. We might get some answers. We're not, we're not trusting in our spirit, our mind. We put on time to speak. We're not putting our mind to the situation as hard as we ought to. And 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. Before you...

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 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.

It goes along with it. Joseph F. Smith, our hearts just passing over the saints and the judgments of God. And we're not going to escape, my dear friends, unless we begin to bring ourselves into better conditions before the Lord. I felt like shouting for joy. And Brother Joseph began to pass a few of the gospel stories that goes along with the character of the people. And he told them not to.

Cousin Snow being pressed continually to give a certain man some sort of mutual job. The man doing the intermediate work said, he's a good man, Cousin Snow. He said, 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 thirst after the power of God.

The faith necessary, we're only saved by our faith. And the faith is a gift from God, and he's got a desire. He's got a workout. 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. As he's 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 both.

upon his soul 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. The only way to obtain it is desire and work hard and begin to look to these things. Now I know that there's many in this congregation that are doing these things. But 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. We read in Sunday School this morning the experience that President John Taylor had back in September 1886 over that revelation on plural marriage. It's been the life and salvation of this people, the revelation that God gave him. Now how did he obtain it? Through a series of disciples. He was in hiding. Passing all the leading men throughout.

Mormondom was pressing with letters and everything else, and messages, telling them we had to boo-hunt them. We had to boo-hunt them. 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 offices that they held in the church, which applied to 6,000 people. And they were anxious. President Taylor appeased the government, and there stood a man of God.

He knew. After his allegiance for long, he knew whose servant he was. He knew that he had no right to abrogate the laws of God and the peace of people. So in his adversity, he went to the Lord. And he obtained his answers, besides the hungering and postings 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 dead end that followed in the wake of that momentous occlusion. We finally got a people. As we marked my hearing a short time ago, Brother Bono and Brother Musco, they had a people like this. They thought they was living in the millennium. They thought they really had it. They'd laid it as long as we laid it, as well as we laid it. And they'd still be at the same place that we are. Brother Bono would stand right here, right now. He was in my place. And I'd...

set dollars to donuts, that he would say, well, this is a good people, but they're not good enough. Now, how are we going to get to good enough? Unless you're hungry and thirst after the things of the kingdom of God. And that's not only a few, but all of you. We can get young men to hunger and thirst. We can get the young women to hunger 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 prayers of this people on behalf of the council has been a great change from all this in the past year. It's a tremendous thing. You know, we're going to a home now. In fact, 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 lives be. And they say to the Lord to bless Brother Johnson, they'll be inclined to blessing themselves. It's a strength in the hand of this work. But that isn't them.

We've got a hunger and thirst after these things with all our might, mind, and strength. It's the command of God. It's not going to be sufficient for those people to go on as fundamentalist Mormons do. Fundamentalist Mormons. If you get the curse up to a person's head, it's to here. You can't get them up to here. They don't want to go up to there. I don't know why they want to be excused. I don't want the Lord specifically to reveal to me not to fall to the people and to get into it.

pinpointing your weaknesses and making you the whole ceiling deck. We can talk about the conditions of the past and maybe they affect the present. I know. I saw my days with my own eyes. Things that went before my childhood. Very young child at eyes. The raging of the women. My mother was second time in the Relief Society and I was an only child and I talked with her in the same box all the time. I remember that.

disposition in the hearts of the women to condemn and to criticize the wearing of the garments of the holy priesthood. Now, that's history written right in my mind. Now, the golem said to the women to keep their death and their demeanor in keeping with their covenant. I remember this and it's very similar. I've heard for 20 years now the golem to plead with the sisters 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, I would start to poke her off again. I got her a gum and 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. I said, why not seven-eighths? And she didn't know what I was talking about. That's it. She couldn't understand. You've got three-quarter sleeves, you've got three-quarter sleeves, and that was it. You women.

How to have your sleeves down. Not 3 quarters. And not even 7 eighths. They ought to be 8 eighths. And they ought to stay there through time and all eternity. At least through your sojourn upon this earth. Because that's the nature of your touch. And they won't change. Blanching out because you have to go buy a blast. And having time to make them. You've got my sympathy. But I can't change the law. Brother Johnson can't change the law.

and all the might before these people, if they all combined, they can't change the law. That's it. 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 tree. The fear that you'd have to throw it away. Continue to go to these stores, and because they don't furnish full-length leaves, they buy what they've got. Now, this is not a particularly...

Biting a few women, I'm just talking about a condition. You can't seem to put ourselves up to the mark and even say it. You just keep backing away from it. I've gone home after one of these sermons that I've given, and I've seen my folks put on long-sleeved blouses under their house dresses and everything else. And how long did it last? It didn't last a week. A little thing like that. Now, I'm not asking anybody to change their character. It's the condition of your mind.

You just ask for those things and they'll tell. And you can't follow through to save yourself. 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 that. He can't do it. I don't have one family.

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 dead are coming along. I think they're coming along. It's the evidence of obedience and response. The financial response that this people has made has been a tremendous interest, in my estimation, to your faith. It's strengthened you and supported the work and took you way down the road to where you used to be.

Because you've 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. That he's incurred on behalf of his priesthood. I haven't heard it. I guess I'll come near and I'm going to talk to myself. I'm going to make a statement and I'll make it. You're dead and just well-fated. The law of celestial marriage is an essential part of your priesthood. But your wives are not going to save you. The priesthood is going to save you.

It isn't going to be your wives that invite you up in the kingdom of God. It's going to be the priesthood. The other Johnson isn't worrying. The other family is going to get him along the road very after. 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 priesthood is how we stand as a priesthood on the other side. And Brother Bonner and Brother Muffin and Brother Gidding are our immediate predecessors. They're the men that we're acquainted with and established in the work of the Lord.

Our anxieties is how they feel toward us, and whether they're satisfied with the work that we're doing, and the things that we're accomplishing. And we're confident that there's a man that's going to call us up to find ourselves acceptably more out. Very confidently, I suppose, anxious about those that decide we're with them. They're anxious about Lawrence too, and they're anxious about whether Taylor's too, to see whether Taylor's going to own and bless and sustain this.

This compulsion is the Lord letting through us to the salvation of the people, to show that they're asking. I've given labor and peace and being with families because they're essentially part of your priesthood. But it's not the part of your priesthood that's going to exalt you. Priesthood is God. After the order of Mount Cedric, which is after the order of the Son of God, it will bring a man up and exalt him. And these are the things that we should look forward to and try to bring ourselves into it.

subject them 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 and so. But let's let our hopes and desires and ambitions be upon the affairs of the kingdom. I look back on my growing up days in this work and long for 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. Be wonderful.

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 world, your hopes and aspirations should be the establishment of the kingdom of God, and your hearts and feelings and affections should be separated from the things of this world. You say, but a home in the Alpha Genoa. Well, I can make it quite specific. I don't think a man's heart and feelings should be set upon a home, nor a home. We want to change it to be specific.

Couldn't be centered upon his home. His home could be the incident to carrying out of his ambitions and establishing the work of God and house his family and so forth. And to have to waste excessive money on homes and houses unless the Lord directs it is a mistake. Here to boast about my feelings, I have some skeletons probably in my closet, but houses haven't been one of them.

A damned heart. No hurt. No automobile. No job. I think if we go and work for these people and do a good honest day's work, and I am the nature of our being and so forth, and 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 a pension fund.

It comes to my mind, and I'm going to say that too, and I'll tell you in the name of the Lord, that the man in this group that works for a pension, he'll talk to them. The leadership, the gentile students, and their hearts, and their ambitions, that's where they shouldn't be. They want something that went through me as it's often done to me. And Brother Johnson told me the other day, and that is, I don't know, is that his day or not, but he told that is, that we shouldn't try to establish ourselves, our old age, and our lives in the laps of the Gentiles.

They're in their 50s. To establish our retirement in our old age in the kingdom of God. I made those remarks 15 or 20 years ago to this people, and it scares me more today than I think about it. I don't want my life, after I've labored in the kingdom of God, I don't want it to be dependent upon suckers and the Gentiles in my old age. If God won't take care of me, why, I'd have my children dead, or somebody else, if I get to be confident.

I'd a whole lot rather do that than to be dependent upon them and their institutions. Because I want my life and my labor to be directed toward my heaven and my Father. For example, just I didn't even get through how they treated me until I gave Christ. And the Lord told Eunuch, I was just stepping in on that scene where Eunuch saw God reach and so forth. The Lord turned to Eunuch and told him that these people were the poison of his own hand. That he gave them their knowledge.

and have instructed them that they should choose him as their father. And I swear to you, my disposition has been all my life. I've tried to choose God as my father, and I have had frustrations and feelings of betrayal go over me, and 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'm going to die tomorrow and leave my wife and two little kids to die with.

I'd buy some insurance on them. And then I'd feel that I betrayed God. And I felt worse then than that if the insurance man made me see him someday, I wouldn't pay it. So they cheated me out of some money. I said, 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 could place our lives. Where we could do our work. And where our hopes, our aspirations, and our fondest desires could be. I would desire that we could have this.

Pleasant hope of looking forward to an increase in our devotion, in our supplications to God for the establishment of His kingdom. I have every confidence that there's talent and ability in matching God's people and He'll raise up additional people to manage this, as we really desire. But I've shown this thing here to you tonight, just about to be done, just about to be done.

I'll be right here. I'll just do it for you. But tomorrow, tonight, we notify you that you're all to be in the temple in the morning. And if you go, go through and receive your endowment from your covenants, you should have to kill the half of your covenants. And maybe not every one of you, but as a whole. I'll let Paul, if you women have half of it, it has to be discovered or remastered before you can wear it the next day. Now, how does that end it? If you have any covenants in the garden, they get up and...

hellfire and damnation and thunder to you. If you ought to do that and so on, you're scared of it 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 the time. The time will never come and not come in the lives of this people unless we do that. We manifest our dispositions and our hopes and our aspirations and our inward and outward conduct to be able to level into.

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, in order that we may follow the foolish, vain, and permit me to say, imbecile practices of the world. In order that such people may imitate the sciences, they will not hesitate to mutilate that which is beheld by them, the most sacred 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 for fashion to tell us to break the covenant and commit a dubious sin. That's right, dear. That's right. That's right. Good for you. Well, that was how long ago.

This is 1960, as probably said. That's probably about 1918. That's when the public started, 1950. That's 45 years ago. Well, he lost the fight, Devin. Willis R. 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 of that in our lives and the physical things and the things that we can do?

Friendship and support is one of 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. The way she breaks and does these things is contrary to the covenant. A woman that's living in a relationship of celestial marriage should assume that she's done through the covenant. A woman that's been forward to a man through time and all eternity should assume that she's done through the covenant and conducted without the covenant.

They're deaf and have a power to be in keeping with the cognizance that he would have made, or will make, as quick as the opportunity is afforded to them. I pray that these men should do the same thing. You young men, I've told you before, they're sitting out here, they're doing it. Don't worry, they're in this underwear, shorts and shirt top of it. Not in keeping, but to keep it. So reach the age where you're eligible for a mission 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 for your young kids, enter the law of marriage. That's to tear your minds to death according to your covenant. These things that they throw around for underwear, except they're reputable, you will practically make it. And 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. They're a source of strength to you and a comfort and a protection to 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 deprived us of this blessing and we stand in hardship all the time before the Lord because we've been cut off from the ordinances of the house of God.

because of disobedience. I was out there by the hand of the Lord. And even those that have the temper have been cut out from the audience of the house of God. They're 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 had been stripped of everything but the associations of people and the teachings of the dead. That's all we've got left. A few orders. People that they had laid low on their graves tomorrow, the great majority would have to have their work done by car. Because we haven't qualified ourselves in the eyes of God to have these things said or not. That's the state that we're in.

And yet we seem to go along as happily and as carefully as though we had our right mind. And I tell you, we need to be concerned about our condition. And I pray the Spirit of God to be upon us, to be upon us all, to be upon the council. I've said some time ago that the people ought to pray. They may pray that the Lord would sustain and uphold the decisions of the council that He should hold in accordance with His mind and will. It's the great majority of us.

Sometimes our lack of physical 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. But if things are for us or against us, letting us into a carnal security and state of sleepiness that we are not alert and awake. But if we have pressure on us, if we have pressure on us and you're sending your children and your messengers and your various runs to the council to preach or to do something for you, Then we'd find a different disposition on the part of this people. And so I think if you ought to pray, while we have a right to pray, and the ability to get around and take care of ourselves, and ask the Lord to sustain the decisions of the future, evidently we should continue to pray against our enemies. But most faithfully, deny them the privilege of uniting against this people. And then let's try to pray, live according to our prayers, and justify God in answering them.

If we'll do this, we'll see good days. And I say in the spirit of God again, if we'll find this peace, if we'll not have to participate and be subject to the judgment of God that's going to go through these inter-mountain countries. Joseph F. Smith said that he saw, quote, on the door of every letter they sent 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 fire. Now these things don't have to be our life if we will keep the commandments of God and live above them. But the Johnson has repeatedly told his people that they'll 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.

Please turn to page 37. We will sing one verse of Upper Week, you defenders of Zion. We made a mistake. Wake up, you defenders of Zion. We have the following to say. Verily I say unto you, unto the prophet Joseph Smith, The Jews of this kingdom shall never be taken from you, for thou thou art in the world, neither in the world to come. There's a voice in the Lord.

according to the keys of the kingdom of God. The prophet Joseph Smith holds them and will hold them according to this dispensation. Now, the prophet Joseph Smith said, If any man seeks any other gospel than that which I have preached, he shall be cursed. And some of you who now hear me shall see it and know that I testify with truth to things. Then he went on to say, the prophet, it is thought by some that our enemies would be satisfied with my destruction. 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.

of the spirit of the fullness of the God. 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 now there is a picture.

your governing system. Joseph Smith holds the key to this system facing this generation. And if we preach any other gospel or doctrine than that which he has preached, we will be cursed. And if we do preach it, Satan will seek to kill us. Or if we even believe it. So there is a picture that presents itself to every saint.

of God. 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 faithless pastors through this lone and dear world to our final degree of exaltation. With these two pictures before us, that we will be cursed that 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 is tough. It looks like that we need the direction of heaven to walk through this life.

to have any degree of success. In other words, it appears to me that if there is any degree of salvation or fear in hereafter, it will be because we have yielded to the direction of the priesthood of Christ. And the greater our ability to yield to its direction, the greater will be its direction.

the more it will feel disposed to lead in leprosy and bliss. 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, perhaps offered the first and most simplest principle relating 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 Why? I know not. Save my father, I smile. Corrections. The pastor and the abbot have taken direction. And then the prophet, he holds the keys to this distance. Shortly before he died, said, I have made this my year, that when the Lord commands,

I obey, even though I may not understand why, until long after the event transpired. So he learned obedience, thou hearest here. Jesus Christ learned obedience, thou hearest here. And so the capacity, the desire, and the habit that we develop in wielding obedience, to the powers of heaven, is the key to our success in this life and in eternity. And the man or the 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 they will refuse him who will not yield. And so to us, this should be our first lesson in life. To find out the will of the Lord concerning us and then do it. Without argument, contention, or debate. Find out the will of the Lord concerning us and then do it. or make this our habit, our rule, brethren and sisters. You know as well as I do that we move by habit, and we can't help it. There will come a time in the near future when Brother Willie and the other brethren under the direction of 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 give it. They'll bow their head in tears, and the brethren sitting before them will bow their head in tears. But nothing can be done, because the desire, without the development of character and habit, is not sufficient to stop a change. And this is the time that we should get our change.

Find out how we can yield to the powers of heaven. For the more closely we yield to the powers of heaven, the more the powers of heaven will come closer to us and direct us and give us power. Because I want to tell you, the power of the priesthood is concentrated in God and his son Jesus.

And any power influence that man might bear is delegated to them from that source. So 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 only failure And any of your parts will not be because you have weakness, because Father can overlook your weakness. It will not be because of your stature, or your physical fineness, or deformity. It will be your power, your capacity, and your habit of yielding to Heaven. Many of us through tradition have developed the capacity of further

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 as yielded to the customs of man. And sometimes we have yielded before we discover the custom indecent. They're wrong because of habit.

As 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 is to feed and give it back. I don't care who you are. And it wasn't until the habit was founded that they found the food is bad. Too hard to eat 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. This is a part of my feeling. And so now, Whenever God speaks, I yield. The pastor, he didn't understand. He doesn't under into the picture. But Father Adam said it. I know now that 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?

What kind of habit has got the best of it? I hope to God. that is the habit of yielding to the powers of destiny, that the priesthood might direct us through this life and finally place our hands into the hands of the Lord. For we want, for we're here, and there'll be many good men and women who say, brethren, I have the greatest desire in the world to serve you. I have the greatest desire to do this for you.

But the brother knows and will have to conclude that you have developed the wrong habit. He cannot trust you. He has not taught himself to you. So we don't know what you do. We know that you have a desire. But you have wasted your time. And I want to tell you what's a bad father. What's a bad father and what you should do every day.

And it was bad. Now why would heaven want us to be anything but to become heaven and to increase the power and dominion of our Father in heaven? So anything that we are asked to do is right. And that's where perfect happiness comes. And if you see anyone in this group who says, I'm so happy.

I can hardly contain myself. If that person is sane, you're looking at a person who's doing the best they can to yield to the counsel 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. I'm afraid, because we teach ourselves how to yield to the powers and influences of heaven. We're not patient.

slavery because he keeps himself to do that. This is a road to exaltation, not to damnation, but to exaltation. And every time if man follows the direction of heaven, he succeeds. But whenever he takes the thing upon himself against the powers of heaven, he fails. I remember St. Bartholomew many years ago.

Turn down to Los Angeles. He says, Governor and sisters, the Japanese nation is going to declare war on the United States this year. And when it does, you won't be able to get away from the Japs. They'll come down here and great hardship and other calamities will come upon us. So we want you to return to the valley of America tonight.

So that's just about as far-fetched Satan as could be made at that particular time. It was just about as far-fetched as could ever have been made. He was peace with the nations. He didn't think it had strength enough to step upon a being killer. And yet, the powers of heaven said this is what's going to happen. And it did.

It surprised you how many people in the group died from it. Back on the 7th of December, the Japanese nation declared war on the United States. Five stories of every man and woman that was left there that came to their death and suffered some hardship. There was probably no man in the group around that time, and he was without a family, and he went to silence.

I asked father what to do after introducing a few things. And father said, go down to San Francisco and stay there and get a job. And the Lord had blessed me. But you know, the people in this street park, they thought that man was very unsocial. Because people were being called from California, not being sent down. But that man later testified to me. He said, the greatest blessings that have come to my life came to me.

I was born in that country and I would be able to do more over more than I would have been able to do before. During the rage of 1944 and so forth, he sent his many hundreds of dollars. He went down there and became a crowd of members helping the blind associations. And he came back here and took off his shoe and handed me a $500 bill he sent. So that's the future during the 1944 coup. I was sent down.

And I've got a plan. For Reverend Fisher, he, to our success, is our capacitor. He's built him habits to follow directions. He's got contradictions of faith and arguments. And through that, he'll be happy and he will succeed. If we don't do it, we will be tried and tested and we will finally meet a crisis that will cause us to become the least one.

your best into the spirit of universalism. We will begin to sing the praises of the goodness of man and of all people. under normal conditions, how often do you think that it would be possible to have an interview with the prophet of God in this busy life? Not very often. So what difference does it make whether we see him every day, or every month, or every five years, or where he resides? He is our prophet, and our lawgiver, and we recognize that he holds the keys to this kingdom.

and has the administrative authority to take us back into the presence of our father, to our person. That's how we look at him. I'm looking at him with that kind of sight. I dare you think of the doctors who have mocked him, who bring him into shame, so doctors could not defend him. I hold you, because you are an affidavit. I dare you.

This is the faith bringeth happiness and peace. It's this knowledge of wrongdoing that brings fear into the breast of the child. Not faith. It's the 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 promise. You have all been chosen, and you know that. It is pure penalty that brings promise to the man who does wrong. For he knows he must face the power of heaven. Invested in the truth of the Lord, for he knows he must do it. This hour is the hour of the muster. It is pure tormenting to the heart of the wife, the wrong doing, the disobedience, because she knows it is an inevitable tool that will help them to find out what she has done, and will ask her to pray to come up, not by any system, intelligence, right way, spirit, which has come from the presence of our Father in Heaven.

And if we would just develop a habit of doing right, we would. No matter what it is, how great would be our happiness. Do you want to find happiness? There is a truth. Brethren, if you want happiness, there is a truth. Sisters, if you want happiness, there is a truth. And children, if you want to be happy, there is a truth. Do it fast to develop this habit.

of wielding the power of heaven, recording, responding to them, and wielding them. When those powers are posted to their bosom, they move and rescue and protect you. Draw near unto me, and I will draw near unto you. And to his wife, slowly, mother, draw near unto me. and I draw near unto you. The parents plead with the kids, please children, draw near unto us, and we will draw near unto you. The closer and the more we assimilate ourselves, the greater power is given us from the heart. The more the woman assimilates herself into the character of her husband, the more power he gives her, the more influence he gives her.

The further she drives away, the greater she drives his power. He wants power and influence. He's got to stimulate us into the head. There's no other way. And this is a happy ending. This is peaceful. I could never be happier satisfied than living upon the earth, knowing that my father might come to visit me and welcome me and make me pay a penalty.

If I knew that I had done anything contrary to his counsel, as in great misery and unhappiness, and fear brought torment to me, and in that torment I should imagine anything, as a power of imagination should unravel before me. But I, to be happy, I had to make it a habit to yield. Then, whenever he knocked on the door, I didn't have to wonder, but what have I done now? And that's the way I wanted to be. I was now, listening, despite my listening and speaking, to the feast that was laid on me. I'm kidding you. The canopies laid at my door, because I professed. To do things and teach things, I'm sure, is what the Catholic Church laid down. But now is there any other teaching, way of life?

The gentiles, the heathens, and the latter-day saints who have found this secret are happy and proud. The people who have not found this secret, to some degree or other, have nodded, cheered, and cried for and saved, so that you don't know when you meet a person just exactly how they're going to feel or what they're going to say.

or that time is still the disposition they're trying to do. And it's just because of this very thing. Their fear has got torment, it's unbearable, and they don't know what they're doing half the time. We were hoping that when we got to London that they're going to make any progress. And you can't waste your time because our Father has told us.

You perhaps aren't doing anything anyway. But why don't you give it a try? Why don't you make an effort? He has said, Prove me herewith, my son. Prove me herewith. This is what I said. Now I challenge you, children. Prove me. But now keep it quiet. Now come to me. And the husband says to his wife, Prove me to see that I don't compare time with Jailor's power and influence and dispassion. Prove me here with, and the parents say to the children, prove us here with. We have made the promise. Now we challenge you to prove it. But we don't. What if I should race now? What if I should do this and find that it doesn't work out? Race. Stop.

Children, you're wasting your time anyway. What difference does it make if you waste a few more minutes? Try it out for the next 12 months. It's the right attitude. After all, being under condemnation, we can't expect Father to shower his full blessings upon us because we offer a token repentance. We try.

You have to be cursed under condemnation, let us say. Then he comes to you and says, Father, Mother, I have decided that I'm tired of this condemnation. So I'm going to yield to you, and I'm going to repent, and you'll find out that you'll never have to chastise me again. If I don't know what to do next time, I'll find out, and we'll just go to and start working.

So he puts in a day's work. Nothing changes except that he's 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. He just puts in a day's work. He's satisfied. The father is satisfied. But no great demonstration is made. So what did the boy do?

Well, there was nothing to do. So I went to them and told them that I'd repented and I'd put in a good day's work. And they haven't said a thing about it. So he returns to his tragedy. After all, we don't rise from the yoke of condemnation. That is, we have to be tied to a whip. After that, we will do all things that we never did know about.

God's command. In order for that boy, God requested his father must see him later under every condition of life. But he failed in the plan. He took on confidence. But that's a process. So why not give yourself 10, 12 months and years? And everything you do, you do in connection with the power of heaven. Don't.

Think. Don't care. Don't eat. Don't drive a car. Don't do anything except you do it in connection with those cars. And as they would have you do it. And this will surprise you. But there's nothing about it. I'm closing. Maybe I'd better do it. I'm closing. I'd better do nothing. I'm never going to in relation to this. In regard to the principle of life. The principle.

And verily I say unto you, that the conditions of this law are these, the conditions of Kattelah, the law of the priesthood that pertains to our actions, socially, financially, economically, and spiritually, politically, the law of the priesthood that pertains to these conditions, that promises.

are predicated upon these conditions. All covenants, contracts, bonds, obligations, oaths, vows, performances, connections, associations, or expectations, could the Lord name any more, that would cover every phase of life, that are not made and entered into and sealed by the Holy Spirit.

spirit of time, by he who is an end to this world. I have no efficacy in virtue or force in and after the resurrection from the dead. They are all concepts that are not made into this end, have an end, and none are dead. If that's the case, they're not valid now. For the liberty of God is heaven outside of the priesthood and the power of it.

The Lord seems to have respect for an honorable son and an honorable daughter with their performances are honorable for many things pertaining to life. But we're talking about life after death and power to go into the presence of our Father. And anything that we do that's disassociated with the powers of...

heaven and not gollum in the eyes of our father that's why he said in one place anything more or less than this no you just run with it ... ... ... ... and find out what Father wants us to do. Quit saying, I want this, I want that, I want to do this, I want to do that. For heaven's sake, let's not have to be given, plundered, and have the wind knocked out until we are so tired and forlorn and so feeble in our strength that we...

Say, Father, I guess you've won. You've got more strength than me. Say, what do you want me to do? Say, well, it's like I can't win my way. I tried it, and I've had lots of trouble. Say, now, what do you want me to do? Say, well, you've won this fight. I don't know how, but you've won it. Now I'm too tired. I don't want to fight anymore. Say, what do you want me to do now? I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you.

his will is to then have a desire to oh how beautiful to have a desire to represent him carry on his will not his honor a beautiful expression of that personality a right to have a desire to show the capacity to help to carry on his body no wonder Because he LOVED Brigham Young, and Celestine Tinker, and John Taylor, and the others. Because he had proven them, and he saw within them the habit, and the capacity, and the desire to represent them peacefully, and to carry on his way.

And after Big and Young's day, when he stood up as a party to church, he said, Who is our prophet, Joseph Smith, our leader? He is Big and Young. He is but a humble elder. He is striving with all his might to bring up the people for Joseph Smith. There is my and my Joseph Smith message.

He loves those men. How willingly he must go before his counselors, teachers, on their behalf, and to give them blessings. How many men he's talked to who have dedicated their lives, and who have faithfully lived out their lives, representing the two doctrines. This is our way. We won't make any more progress towards the Lord.

That's the heart and the desire to represent him, to carry on his will. I want to tell you, there's so much love and devotion and affection, there's so much intelligence and so many secrets that he needs to shower upon us the moment that he knows we are ready and capable, as you see. And he said himself, I have not seen.

Neither ear heard, neither has it entered into your mind, the things of God that await to stay for you. God bless you. One of our so-called friends, Timber Webber Johnson, not long ago, told him about the same thing that someone told the Prophet Moses in his day. You're not curious enough. You smile too often. But I thank God that he's reconciled his life to you.

Submit to the will of heaven. And it's taken upon him the yoke of Christ. His yoke is easy and his burden is light. Then I hear from Pastor John. My dear brothers and sisters, I pray that the Spirit of God will rest upon me. And then I'll be back when the Spirit of this news. Pastor Matthew is speaking a reminder day.

I thought that you expressed, and I think I should just read to you, the rest of the second message of the book. The passage is found in the 38th section of the Western Covenant. The second message quoted the first part of it that I'm going to read. Draw near unto me, and I will draw near unto you. Teach me diligence.

diligently, and ye shall find me. Ask, and ye shall receive. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, it shall be given unto you. That is experience for you. No doubt every person in the room has, in this building, has asked the Lord for this Holy Spirit.

to give unto them the revelation of the Holy Spirit that they might know what to do for their salvation. The servants of God have continually invited the people to repent and to get near the Lord, that in the day of trouble they might find him, that he might have compassion upon them and deliver them out of the hands of our enemies.

Some time ago I had the privilege of visiting the great city of Mexico, Mexico City. I had the privilege of going through that noted museum where they have hundreds and I guess thousands of idols. The Book of Mormon tells us about the great idol-worshipping people that once inhabited this country.

We also had the privilege of visiting some of the ruins in this great land of Mexico. And in the museums that surround these ruins, we find thousands upon thousands of idle, devoid statues. Rift-sized to mountain-sized and giant-sized statues. We all know what happened to those nations that worship such idols. We are told that Abraham's father, Sarah, was an idol-worshipping man. And I don't know of a better story to tell you than what Joshua says about Abraham and his father. He says that Abraham went to visit his father and he found idols of all sizes in his home.

idol that Sarah held as the king of idols. So Abraham takes the hat and goes through and breaks the little idols all up. And Sarah comes home. Sarah is mad because of the destruction that had taken place in his house. So he asks 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 hatchet and 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 Sarah was so mad at Abraham that she reported him to the king, and abandoned, and ended up taking his life. I walked down the streets of our beloved nation, and I see in the windows of our stores hundreds and thousands of little idols, little innocent little idols, and that goes so high and so high and so on.

People are clamoring after them. I see them in the homes of the latter-day saints. I don't have to do any further than my own home to see them. Now they're little innocent saints. But if I were to go through my own home and pick them up and carry them away, I'd be the worst man in the world. Why? Because our hearts are being set upon the idea the Lord says I shall serve no other God.

beside me. Are we repenting of our sins? Are we seeking for the knowledge that God gave us when he created us? The Lord said unto Amos, Behold these thy brethren. They are the workmanship of mine own hand. And I gave unto them thy knowledge in the day I created them. Now listen to this.

And in the garden of Eden gave I unto man his agency. And in the thy brethren have I said, and also given 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 us people to do is to live according to the teachings that they have received, that they might know and understand 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 while 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 during their lifetime. Now why do they come? Because they have been taught that they made covenants before they came here and they want to know who they covenanted with.

Now God has blessed them with the knowledge that they did receive something before they came here, that they wouldn't be seeking after. And what I have just read to you is what the Lord said unto Enoch, 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 Mecker 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. Since we placed in the homes of our people the women of Mormon, that great book. No distinction.

I have it every once in a while. Someone comes and makes this statement to me. The greatest desire of my life was to become like or be able to have the same knowledge that Lazarus may have. Well, how did she get there? By applying to her life the principles of righteous living and seeking for her knowledge of what she knew before she came here, and submitting herself to the counsel of the three children of God. I'm going to read from the second, from second Nephi, in the ninth chapter.

and they hearken not unto the counsel of God. For they set it aside, supposing that they know of themselves by 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. the latter-day saints, or a lover of highliness, but what does it profit them unless they apply it in the right way? It's one of the cunning ways, my brothers and sisters, that the evil one has of diverting the minds of the people from the learning that God has demanded of his children.

for our salvation. I wish that I could express myself in a way that would be convincing to this body of people who are listening to me tonight. I wish that we could face before this people the true picture that would bring them into a position or into a condition where God would be bound to shower down his blessings upon us like he would like to.

For I know that through reading the history of the saints of God throughout the generations of time, that 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 kept 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 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 life.

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're for the salvation of this people. And no one has any assurance of salvation in any other way. You can sit and listen to the radio, to the watch the television, and see men and women act, and what did he do?

It's enticing, yes. It's enticing. But what does it profit us in the end out of it? Every man and woman that has 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 in what 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 how in we are following the fashions of the world and see how in we are deviating, from the requirements of God, and we do nothing to correct the evils. We're not repenting or complying with the requirements of the priesthood. All of the great prophets that St. Matthew spoke of, Joseph Smith, and trying to compile our lives, or compile our lives with this, and the requirements that we're made of.

Him through our Father in Heaven, through our Elder Brother Jesus Christ. And unless we are doing that, we are not doing very much to repent of that which was not right before us. And I pray that the Spirit of God will settle down upon this people, and that we will 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 what 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. He said that He would make by His arm.

in protection of his saints, if it need be that he send 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 would come to pass. They were not very far off. And if we go into the history of the Lord's people and the destruction of people from this continent, we find that just prior to the great destruction, that the servant of God was moved upon to speak the same way to the people in that day. And they become so united in their efforts to condemn the prophets, in their teachings, when the Lord declares, and the destruction is complete. Well, that's what we find in that class of Christians. That's what's done.

Let's destroy every evidence of worldly ideas in our homes and begin to apply to our lives the principles of righteous living. May God bless you always. I understand the name of Jesus Christ in you. I'm kicking with a question asked at the beginning. Do we get tired hearing these things? The doctrines of the priesthood will be still upon the soul.

as a beast from 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. And may we go on and on and live up to these full opportunities. It is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Please turn to page 161.

And before we, at the closing of this gathering, with gratitude in our hearts, for your Spirit which has been with us, for the words of life and salvation which we have heard and impart, and we pray that your Spirit will continue to be with us through the coming weeks and until we may meet again, that we may truly apply and practice the things that we have heard, and make the progress that is needful in our lives and in our characters, that 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.

All in the name of your beloved son, Jesus Christ. Amen.