opportunity, my brothers and sisters, to meet together again to receive the word of the Lord to us in this hour. We're thankful for the presence of this grand audience tonight. We are taking the liberty of starting a little early because the house is practically filled. We need the extra time. We commence our meeting by singing number 145, Bowie Mountains High.

We would like to remind you of the changes in this song. Verse 3. In thy mountain retreat, God will strengthen thy feet on the neck of thy foes, thou shalt tread. Verse 4. The third line. Thy oppressors shall die, and the Gentiles shall bow meet thy rod. Kiss me, eternal father. We bow humbly before you this evening in the capacity of the priesthood meeting, and we feel to express unto thee the gratitude in our hearts for this privilege we are enduring. And we pray unto thee, Father in heaven, that thou open the windows of heaven and pour out thy Spirit upon thy servants here this night, that they may be able to speak unto us words of wisdom and counsel us in the ways of the plan of salvation. We are thankful, Father in heaven, for the principles of life and life and the priesthood that appear upon the earth.

And we are grateful, Father in Heaven, for the privilege you have of participating in the same. Now, Father in Heaven, we feel at this time that it's a crisis in our lives, and we need to exercise more humility before thee and spend more time on our knees in prayer, asking for thy Spirit. And we pray to thee this time, Father in Heaven, that thou pour out thy Spirit upon this meeting this night, and bless those who are going to speak, that their words may be full of light.

and wisdom and truth unto those who are going to hear. We beg of thee at this time, Father in heaven, that there are those among us who have a desire to hurt or destroy thy people because of the fullness of the gospel they are trying to live, that their mouths may be stopped and that their power to destroy may be saved. We ask thy spirit upon us this time, Father in heaven, when we invoke the revelations of heaven upon us, meeting at this time.

asking thee to protect us and cause those who do us evil to stay away. We realize, Father in heaven, that you are but few, as pertaining to members of other people in the world. We realize, unless we have the power and the courage and the determination and the faith to honor this priesthood which I have placed upon the earth and placed here in our midst, that we will never be qualified to have thy protection when thy destroying angels will go forth to leap down the list.

Now, Father in heaven, we beg of thee once again to bless us that we may have the courage and the faith and the determination and the concentration of mind this evening to draw forth the jewels of wisdom from those men who are going to speak to us. Because we know, Father in heaven, by the power of the Holy Spirit and from the testimony that we have in their hearts, that we have thy servants among us this night. Though our numbers may be few, Father in heaven, if we can become united in one, on the principles of life and salvation, we shall have thy strength and thy power with us. We dedicate this meeting unto thee at this time, asking thy forgiveness upon our weaknesses and imperfections, and we do it in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. We continue by singing number 147, Praise to the Man. The second verse, Spain, Illinois, God, your life is clean. We meet with you.

I pray that the Lord will direct my way and I say something that will do a benefit to you. Thank you, my friend. You must confess this as a prior prayer. Never in my life have I experienced the feeling it is to know that you kneel down and ask God to help you, but you know that he will answer you instantly, like I have, while I've been away. I'll ask you later. Have you experienced illustrating this that I have?

The unit that I'm in, the service participated in an amphibious landing in Mark Wargame about a month or so ago. After we landed, we made the landing and then moved inland. We had to be on land 11 days. All of us had to call maximum security and we didn't get, we got very little sleep. I had this terrible headache and...

I had it for about three days. It was really, really hurting me bad. I knew I was dying, or that he would send me relief. Instantly, I had a close-knit, and it never returned. They're my customers, and I know that this work is true. I know that these men are sitting behind me, okay? They're servants of God on the earth. It was a great privilege to be back in my new account for a short time.

In Jesus' name, amen. When we do anything, if his spirit does not attend us, it is as though we lived that time and then. I'm reminded of a few words that President Snow spoke while he was presiding and opening up the Italian mission. Sacrifice and obedience bring glory and immortality and eternal life. We hear so much about this subject of obedience that...

I'm trying to sort of put it on the shelf. And yet, invariably, when we're called into this position, the subject becomes very refreshing. We're impelled to speak upon this subject because it is so vital in our everyday lives. Am I being heard? I can't tell whether I'm being heard or not. I claim as long as I can tell. If I were a married man, I believe that I would appreciate having a wife with very few talents who was obedient and cooperative than if I was to have a wife who had all of the talents that could be possibly obtained in one person who is rebellious, stiff, and disobedient. I use this illustration to point out that anyone who has been in a position of responsibility and leadership realizes first of all that in order to enjoy leadership and to accomplish anything they must be subject of loyalty now loyalty implies more than obedience loyalty implies a zealous exultant obedience the lord puts it in very beautiful language he always does is good

To be engaged in our own resources in a good cause without having to be commanded in all things. If my language was as good as his, I would repeat it just as it is, but it isn't. But I will convey the fact by repeating it. We should be engaged in a good cause without having to be commanded in all things. Now, commandments are all right. But loyalty.

implies more than mere obedience to commandment. Loyalty is an industrious, zealous attitude toward keeping the commandment. Do you get the distinction? Wouldn't you rather have a subject who is zealous and straightforward and one step ahead in keeping commandment rather than reluctant?

And yet we have situations that the Lord illustrates in a parable. He told his two subjects to go and do a work. And the first says, I will do it, gladly. But didn't do it. And the second one says, I will not do it. But later, repented and did it. Which of them will be justified? We are also in the first category. We give lip service, honorable and obedient with our lips.

but our hearts are far from good. In other words, we are reluctant. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we fall into the second category and say, well, we weren't. But later we do it, because we fear the consequences of disobedience. Neither one of these situations is what Latter-day Saints think it represents, but rather a willingness to say, yes, of course, and then do it. And that's the consequence.

of loyal obedience that brother johnson is looking for in this people and he's finding it thank god he's finding it only willing to obey but are putting their foot forward in the way of obedience without having to be commanded in our thing and so we find ourselves engaged in a good work that lends itself to these desires which are the most righteous desires that the human A zealous determination to be obedient in all things, and therefore it implies sacrifice. We have to make the sacrifice before we can be obedient. What Moore was telling us today, how a person who builds a house has to create spiritually that house before he can build it. And he says, I know what the house is going to look like as soon as I lay the foot in it.

I know exactly what's going to be on that foundation. I know where the outlets are going to be for the electricity and the plumbing and exactly what the units are going to look like when they're finished. We also remember this as the communion of this great temple down here on Main Street long before it was even begun. Created before it was begun. That is what we must learn to do.

to create mental images as accomplishments before we can do them. And through the Spirit of God, we can get these images of what we want to create, or rather, what He wants us to create. That is one of the masterful, beautiful things about the Spirit of God, is that it lends itself to the harmonies and the general beautification of the entire person.

And so people working in different places and different projects will burn their efforts all into one grand order. And beautiful structures through that spirit. And it's told us in that how he was instantly healed. The terrific headache he had to face. Now that's the spirit of God. And enough of the spirit of God to heal him up immediately. Faith and thought, anything we want.

that it was calling to his face the Spirit of God into his body which healed him immediately. And I have witnessed this same thing time and time again in my own life. Which is a reminder to us that this great universal power right here waiting for us to tune in with, to find ourselves harmonious with the purposes of God and with others.

Johnson's Desires Container. What is it profit a man if he gained the whole world and leaves his own soul? A small fraction of 1% of the whole world is quite a mighty man, isn't it? But what if he gained the whole world and leaves his own soul? What will he give in exchange for his soul? Isn't it better to be a small person, obedient, and save our soul than it is to be a mighty man and leave it?

Now, women are not very often afflicted with ambition. And so the Savior must have addressed himself to the men. Ambition is a characteristic of men more than women. It's occasionally refined in an ambitious woman. And to a man, she's the most obnoxious. We need this quality, my dear brothers and sisters, of rendering ourselves usable in the work of the Lord.

In this part of the Lord's vineyard. Right down to a very fine point, doesn't it? To the Savior, he was concerned about this point. He says, what must I do to be saved? You should do so and so and so and so and so. All those things I've kept for my youth. What must I do to be saved? If you would be perfect, tell all you have and give it to the poor. And come follow me. Simple, isn't it?

about trading the whole world for his soul, he wouldn't even trade a few paltry shepherds for his soul. And so he went away far. How many of us are going to be, are going to turn ourselves away far? Because we can't make the finer side. And if we don't make the finer side, what's the good of all the rest of us? Tell me. Can you tell me what good a gospel is that isn't complete?

It doesn't require the last mile, last sacrifice. What good does it do to enter a race if you're going to drop out halfway, if you're going to stumble and fall before the gate? What's the use of the race? A lot of us are running pretty fast in this race, and we're making pretty good progress. But we haven't finished up yet. There are a lot of storms along the way. There's a lot of stumbling blocks. The work of the Lord and the yoke of the Lord is easy.

And as dead as light, the earth is obedient. So like the dead are dead, and as dead as light, so the inner hand full of Christ is the last to lie there. Isn't that the most perfect illustration I've ever seen? The hand full of Christ is the last to lie there. What happens to people that are dropped by the wayside? Who is this conceiver of and this conceiver of disobedience to their leaders? What happens?

The spirit of the Lord is withdrawn, or starts to withdraw, and he ceases to strive with those people. And when it is entirely withdrawn, he's left to himself, he's dark, he's midnight, he doesn't even comprehend the fact that he's left to himself, and there's no alternative but disillusion. The life or death is either zealous obedience or the spirit.

Little by little, and finally, it's done. The Spirit of God is life, and contrary to the Spirit of God is death and disillusion. This Spirit is like all positive. It has to be thoughtful, and it has to be zealously held on to. He's life and power, just as we did in our church. We are a few of the few, and though our numbers may be few compared to the opposite host in you.

And we sometimes take this attitude. It's true. But we also rejoice in another truth. It's super secret. And that is speaking of those who come to an innumerable company. The church of the firstborn are those who come to God. And they are not few. And if you doubt my words, why just look up into these star heavens when you get down just this way? I can't see very many of them here.

How many the church becomes at 5,000 times. Only churches are concerned with numbers, ambition, or power. But God is not concerned about numbers. To save as many as we can, as one person will be righteous. For brothers and sisters to stand up here and look into your faces, and all of you with such attention, it is delightful to hear you sing. Comfort to invite your faith and prayers, that we may have a time of edification and enjoyment of the spiritual values together.

As the preceding speakers were singing at their sign messages, I had many reflections over the content little I heard this morning, and I suppose many of you heard. Things that they say are mighty fine in the main few, but the spirit is not there, as the singing indicated also. We often wonder what it is in our own lives that we lack.

that we would like to improve upon to make us more useful, more full of enthusiasm, more able to do the things that we want to do. And I'm prompted to mention a thing or two along that line, timing in our lives, punctuality in our lives, being where we ought to be at the right time. Of course, doing, as Dr. Simpson has said, the right thing at the right time. Obedience.

But as he pointed out, if we don't obey at the right time, there's a lack of blessing. If we wait, if we procrastinate, we've lost our golden opportunity. I think it behaves the same as one of the great values of proper living, to develop proper timing, punctuality to what God asks us to do. We've all had experiences in our own families, in our own lives, our own conduct.

There's nothing that chases the Spirit of God away quite like being late, tardy for something. When we come to these meetings here, there's a chance that we come before the Spirit of God is here, unless we bring it with us. But by your punctuality at least, the Spirit of God knows when to come, comes with us, and it's a delightful thing. I don't think it's just competition for the seats, I think it's an enjoyment of being here, longing to get the Word of God, even that we may apply it at the right time. If we continue on being punctual with our deeds, with our responsibilities, with being who we ought to be at the right time, the Lord will bless us with finer places, more commodious places, in His own time at least, to gather in, to enjoy these occasions.

It's no harm in not being able to see the speaker. We can't see God, but we certainly want to hear his message. It's good practice for us. The important thing is to hear and obey at the right time. I don't know how many of you have regrets in your lives. You could have done a little better in this way or that way or the other. Do we all have regrets of not being punctual?

I regret, among other things, that I didn't start studying the Book of Mormon when I was younger. So I've tried to arouse my young folks, my children, to begin to appreciate it in the early years of life and then to go back to it often and gather the rich stories and treasures that are there and the words of God and how he wants us to live. And I've had quite a degree of success.

and encouraging that thing. But life is like that. We must begin today to do the things that are most important, or we're going to be sorry tomorrow and make excuses, apologize for our negligence and our tardiness. So I think each day, along with other things that we have to do, let's re-evaluate our situation. What do we want most out of life today?

What do we want to do today that will profit us most, and make us feel happiest tonight, and tomorrow morning, when we take up the battle again? We must, of course, learn to be punctual with the Spirit of God. All the brethren and all of you, I suppose, have had the same experience, and we haven't heeded the chanting of the Spirit of God. When they came to us, we were sorry, seen after.

We've had to learn that lesson the hard way, I guess every one of us. The question is, how can we tell when it's the spirit of God, when it's an urge or a drive or something else? But I'm sure, if you know Uncle Roy, as I do, and have heard some of his self-promoting experiences, he learned young in life how to tell, how to know, and by being prompt and heeding, he's been able to...

accomplished a lot of wonderful things and that's how we progress in the work of god by discerning of course and then heeding the countenance of the spirit as fathers and mothers i believe i'm in a position to encourage you and myself to set a better example along this line let's get down to the basic values let's spend some time learning how god expects of us Let's be prompt and punctual in our prayers, in our reading, our studying, our keeping, our appointments, first of all with God, His servant, and with one another, fathers, mothers, and children. Do we have some lessons to learn along that line? Is there anything for us to improve upon in that respect? I believe that God would like us to move up. We are. Be punctual with Him.

Be punctual with the commandments that he gives us. I think a punctual word that expresses occasionally. Let's get started. Let's do our job today. It takes 10 years to raise a 10-year-old still. The sooner we get started, the better off we are. Three steps toward Godhead. Necessary. We can't postpone a long period of time and then hope to catch up. Day by day and step by step we must.

forget the other situation in their lives if you try to go too long without sleeping without eating as well as postponing the spiritual values what am i what do we amount to our efficiency is put down the spirit of god is not able to come to us we just we manage to struggle through one day and if we don't do a little better that evening We struggle through another day. We lose our code. We begin to doubt whether God's in his heaven or not. It's all our own fault. Too constantly with ourselves. Let's learn our limitations. I haven't learned yet, but I hope you people have. It may not be too appropriate, but the principle pertains to us in a way. Selling is like saving. If you don't do a little every day, you're a bum. It's certainly necessary for us to keep our...

lives up our abilities up we of all people on the face of the earth want to have a rich outpouring of the spirit of god and we're not ignorant as to how to get that spirit and to keep it with us we must play our part we must do our portion of the bargain punctually and then god can do his part we're not fooling ourselves we postpone our repentance we're not fooling ourselves if we Delay getting better living habits. We're not fooling ourselves if we postpone good study habits, obedience, and obedience is required. We're just a little bit too prone to try to repent or make up for something that we've neglected. It doesn't feel any better to me to say this than it does to either hear it, because I certainly know what it implies at home. A simple thing of this kind, I believe that we can improve on.

brothers and sisters. Let's learn our capability. Let's learn what we have to do and how we have to act in order to get the Spirit of God and keep it. And be punctual in doing those things. Certainly we have the perfect example of before what happens when things are not timed perfectly in the scheme of the world. You know what happens when timing is bad on the street corner?

In the home, so many examples to draw from. And we certainly know something about when our timing is bad and it pertains to keeping the commandments of God. We have a collision with the devil. I pray, brothers and sisters, in all sincerity, that we may understand ourselves better than we've done, take ourselves into account, learn our weaknesses, learn our limitations, and get God's help.

To improve our timing in all these respects. God is pleading for us to step forth. And keep the commandments of God. At the right time and in the right way. Not carelessly and not delayed. Our time is now. Our opportunities are now. Step up to the line. Join with those whom God has called to lead us. And step by step secure the boundaries.

of Zion. Develop the kingdom. Develop the nuclear for the setting and order of the house of God. You who have watched the conference. You who read the newspapers and all means of communication. You know what a sad fate the church and the world are in. And comparing to ourselves what a sad fate we're in. Let's look at ourselves squarely. Let's plead for the spirit of God to be upon us.

that we may improve in these things that we're negative in and step up to the line and live up to those promises that we made with God. We firmly believe, most of us, that we have been reserved to come forth in this day and time to help establish the kingdom of God. We've had answers to our prayers. We've had many faith-promoting experiences. We know something of who we are. So let's keep going and do the best we can from day to day.

I say it in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. I have learned this one thing, that when God speaks, I move, says the prophet Joseph Smith. And I have to tell you, this is justice. The inspiration is looking at the faces of you whose faces I can see, and the fuel is the dressing of the face of those whose faces I cannot see. I am delighted, my dear brother and sister, to be with you.

meeting in service of the Lord with you this Saturday evening. I'm grateful for a lot of things these days. Oftentimes I'm approached when I meet some of my close intimate associates and they ask, what do you know? I have to confess that some things that I wish were not so. I don't seem to be in the category quite, but rather rolled and tumbled. And it was asked on one occasion, somehow, how it was that He didn't get into more trouble. He said, because I repent too damn fast. He wasn't at all capable of that speedy repentance. I was grateful for the remarkable attention on subjects that had been pressing themselves upon my mind for quite a long time. In connection with what he said, he observed the prophet Joseph stating, shortly before he left Nauvoo, when he intended to head out,

This is the country. A similar statement to one stated by Brigham Young some years later after we were out here in the West. The effect to me, I would rather have 100 faithful saints in the mountains than to have 5 million people who are not saints. If I had to fight the whole world, the point involved that I want to reach for is that one of unity and complete obedience. Harmony.

Concerted actions, concerted feelings. Brother Timpson's statement, if I were a married man, how much better it would be to have a companion who would harmonize with you to the best of your immediate ability and to have every so many of the greatest of ability and out of harmony with you. Brother Kimball touched upon it in saying, if necessary, he would be ready to select a kingdom without a wife or child.

It is necessary to be in complete charge with the requirements of the gospel plan. I oftentimes wonder and remonstrate as to what might be accomplished by our group, or what we might term the priesthood group of people, if every man and woman who presumes to be following after the priesthood of God were fully and completely in harmony and united with them in the things that they undertake to do.

And at the same time, just what good would I be to President Johnson if he knew something of me and feels that I'm dubious and hesitant about meeting the requirements that he might make of me? See, the way he says, he'd think that I just wasn't worth a tinker's dime. Because he'd wonder whether I'd pass for sure the requirements that he'd make of me, or whether I'd go flop along and do a little.

If I just happen to feel like it, I might step out in pretty good shape. Yes, I suppose, if the blessings of heaven were available to us, and the temple doors would be open to us tomorrow morning, if we would be there, where the clock receives the blessings that are predicated upon complete obedience and prompt, harmonious action.

You'd show up enthusiasm enough to get down about to face off in State Street and stall. Just the effort that you've made, however, in this we might have been so far, wouldn't have availed us very much, would it? The Lord's promise has always been made to those who endure to the end. And it says, Lord, Lord, prepare us to keep my commandments and be my will for peace. For the ones who are made the recipients of his blessings and meet his affirmations.

So it seems like while there's a splendid lot of people, I don't know anybody in the world that I'd like to associate with as well as I do you, my dear brother in the city. You who are interested in the same things that I am. How much I'd like if I could see any and every one of you, setting to me an example of enthusiasm, earnest, constant, positive devotion.

to the things that I know are necessary in order for me to get that reward. I retain the light, that celestial glory, the felicity of the Father and the Son and the faithful saints of every day in this nation that have gone by, those whom we read about and whom we honor and respect with our mouths and our lips. I oftentimes wonder how long this blessed opportunity will be sold.

constantly before us and has been for more than many months and years and some of it will still be extended to us if we don't do more about it than we have done. We've had the same day and hour in which we live. We're just about three by ten before dilly-dallying along and sailing to step right up to the line and fill the measure of requirements that's made of it. I just don't have any faith.

In the idea that I can mingle along and travel with these things for another 10 or 20 years and think that I'm doing all right. I'm convinced that now, today, is the time that I've got to sharpen my devotion and intensify my determination to fill full and fulfill the requirements that are made of me by those who provide over me.

any difference what capacity that is so long as it's one who presides over me and makes the requirement of me. What more could I do than fill it to the limit of my ability? The Savior in his parables and examples told us how to do. Fill up the measure. Take them together. Keep up. Running over. Unstinted service. Unstinted measure of devotion.

If we follow the pattern that's been introduced by the adversary of the soul of the man and has been carried on through the commercial and business world from the beginning of time to now, since Satan and Cain entered into that combination, there will be a standard for this. He says, for me, just all that I can and get by with giving you as little as I can possibly get by with. And he's actually every kind of a device that I can think of to work out just a little advantage.

materially, to favor myself as against you. The whole system between life is based on the idea that your necessity is my opportunity. Satan introduced the feeling of that thing to Cain. Cain seemed to gladly accept it. Surely my brother's property was falling into my hands, and my brother's people, as a kind of an excuse that could be invented, has been resorted to through the ages of time to justify a charge in Following this time, disappointment, sorrow, sadness, and failure. History of man upon this earth, in the days of Father Adam and his sons, offered sacrifices that were acceptable to the Lord, they did it without stinting, full and free, offering to the Lord all that he asked for, to be in some cases even a little more, and feeling like a little bit of pleasure and joy.

a source of satisfaction and obedience and ready in his country's service. How much better a man feels when his companion would immediately respond to his request. So yes, certainly I do as you require. I consider it a privilege and a blessing to be able to do the best I can. The same with a mother and her children. The greatness of the satisfaction would fill a mother's heart.

And if I would respond so, certainly I'll do the best I can and be glad to do it, as compared to the one that wants to sneak away with a job half done. I'll wait till I just get good and ready and feel like it, and postpone and put off and retire. Maybe in many cases I'll attempt to alter fate over what might be required of me. I guess there aren't very many men in this congregation that are common, that are raw.

Maybe you'd better block me and a few others. I wish we could have a lot of experience handling horses in our lives. What a trial it is. You have those hicks up in your team who you know are capable. You know to cut into their ability to handle. And then just when you get to where you need them to work, half of them are busted. I've lived through my life from the time of my early youth. The disappointment that I saw in the experiences of men.

Trying to get others to help to carry on the work of the auxiliaries in the church. And it's considerable of ability. Ability to spare, you might say. A lot of capabilities. Call on them to do a thing and they hesitate and retire and try to talk you out of it and want you to get along some other way. And trying to feel like that they're capable and you want to lean on them and help them and bring them along and have them working with you. And yet they fail.

Just because of their indifference and their disinformation. And by comparison, how much greater is the satisfaction of the constant diligent service of one with much less ability, though willing to do the best they could, so that you could always depend on them to do what they could out of you. These things I have observed in my early years. I am sure that the Lord is going to accrue the opportunities that have been extended to a lot of us through these many years.

Lest we hate him to make a greater and more complete and full application of ourselves and our ability to grasp the opportunities that we extended to us, make use of them to his honor and glory, that our own salvation and exaltation might be effective. I don't need to announce to you, but as a public speaker, I feel like the poorest of the poor.

But I do feel like that I would to God that I could render such services would be an inspiration to somebody and that I could associate with people who are an inspiration to me. How often I feel like I need a beast myself. May the Lord help us, brethren and sisters, each and all, to sense the position that we occupy, to see to it that we don't travel away our time until our day of grace is passed.

And we have to lie down and pray until the summer has ended and our soul is not saved. God bless you. Amen. not unto the Lord, then the one shall say unto the other, Behold, I am the Lord, and others shall say, I, I am the Lord. And thus shall every one say that hath filled up churches, and not unto the Lord. And they shall contend with one another, and the two shall contend one with another.

And they shall keep with their learning, and deny the Holy Ghost, which giveth evidence. And they deny the power of God, the Holy One of Israel. And they say unto the people, Hearken unto us, and hear ye our preacher. For behold, there is no God today, for the Lord and the Redeemer.

hath done the work, and he hath given his power unto men. Behold, hearken ye unto my precepts. If they shall say there is a miracle wrought by the hand of the Lord, believe it not. For this day is not a God of miracles. He hath done his work. Yea, and there shall many be. Which will say, eat, drink, and be merry. For tomorrow we die, and it shall be well with us. And there also shall be many which shall say, eat, drink, and be merry. Nevertheless, fear God. He will justify in committing a little sin.

Yea, lie a little, take advantage of one because of his words, dig a pit for thy neighbor, there is no harm in this, and do all these things, for tomorrow we die. And if it be so that we are guilty, God will beat us with a few shots, and at last we shall be saved in the kingdom of God.

And there shall be many which shall teach after this manner false and vain and foolish doctrine, and shall be puffed up in their hearts, and shall seek deep to hide their counsels from the Lord. And their works shall be in the dark, and the blood of the saints shall cry from the ground again. Yea, they have all gone out of the way.

They have become corrupted because of pride and because of false teachers and false doctrines. Their churches have become corrupted and their churches are lifted up because of pride. They are tough. They rob the poor because of their fine sanctuary. They rob the poor because of their fine clothing.

and they persecute the meek, pure, the poor in heart, because in their pride they are puffed up. They wear stiff necks and high heads. Yea, and because of pride and wickedness and abominations and whoredoms, they have all gone astray, save it be a few, who are the humble, Nevertheless, they are led, though in many instances they be led, because they are taught by the precepts of men. Oh, the wise, and all those who teach false doctrines, and all those who commit fardoms, and pervert the right to live. Oh, be unto them, not me, for they shall be shut down to hell.

The point is on the genocide, the justice, the sin of man. And we vow against that which is good, and say that it is of no worth. For the day shall come that the Lord God will see them and visit the inhabitants of the earth. And on that day that they are totally right from iniquity, they shall pray. But behold!

If the inhabitants of the earth shall repent of their wickedness and abomination, they shall not be described there for love of hope. But behold, for the kingdom of the devil must shake, and they which belong to it must need to be stood up unto repentance, for the devil will grasp them with his everlasting strength.

and they be stirred up to anger and pain. For behold, at that day shall he rage in the heights of the kingdom of man, and stir them up to anger against that which is good. And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will go after him, and all is well.

And thus the devil keepeth their souls, and leadeth them away, carefully down to hell. And behold, are they too sloppish, and telleth them, there is no hell. And he saith to them, I am no devil, for there is none. And thus he hisseth in their ears, until he drifts. them with his affliction, and hence there is no deliverance. Yea, they are gas, dust, and dust, and hell, and the devil, and all that had them seize their risk must stand before this one of God, and be judged according to their works, and hence they must go into the place prepared for them, even a lake of fire.

... ... ... ... ... ... It shall come to pass that my people, which are the house of Israel, shall be gathered home unto the lands of their possessions, and my word also shall be gathered in one. And I will show unto them that fight against my word and against my people, who are the house of Israel, that I am God. I covenanted with Abraham.

that I will remember his seed forever. I would like to review a few prophecies from the Book of Mormon. He shall do that wrath and strife against the work of the Lord and against the covenant people of the Lord. For I am the house of Israel, and to say, we will destroy the work of the Lord.

And the Lord will not remember his covenant which he has made unto the house of Israel. The same is in danger to be hewn down and cast into the fire. For the eternal purposes of the Lord shall roll on until all his promises shall be fulfilled. Search the prophecies of our race. Behold, I cannot write them.

Yea, behold, I say unto you, that those saints who have gone before me, who have possessed this land, shall cry, yea, even from the dust, will they cry unto the Lord. And as the Lord liveth, he will remember the covenant which he made with them. And he may also pray that they are on behalf of their brethren.

Nor for faith, for in his name could they remove mountains, and in his name could they cause the earth to tremble. And by the power of his word did they cause prison to tumble to the earth. Yea, even the fiery furnace could not harm them, neither wild beasts nor poisonous insects, because of the power of his word. And behold us.

prayers were also in behalf of him that the Lord should suffer to bring these things forth. And it shall come in a day when the blood of saints shall cry unto the Lord because of secret combinations in the works of God. Yea, it shall come in a day when the power of God shall be denied and churches become defiled.

and be lifted up in the pride of their hearts, yea, even in a day when leaders of churches and teachers shall rise up in the pride of their hearts, even to the envy of them who belong to their churches, yea, it shall come in a day when they shall be heard as fire and temper. and vapors of smoke in foreign lands. And there shall also be heard of war, rumors of war, and earthquakes in diverse places. Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be great pollution upon the face of the earth. There shall be murders, and robbing, and lying, and deceiving, and hoarding, and all manner of abominations.

And there shall be many who will say, Do this, or do that, and it mattereth not, or do that, and it mattereth not. For the Lord will uphold such at the last day, that the woe unto such shall go in the gall of bitterness, and in the bonds of iniquity. Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be churches built up, Let your faith come unto me, and for your money you shall be forgiven of your sins. Oh, you wicked, so bad, and stiff-nosed people. Why have you built up churches unto yourselves to get saved? Why have you transfigured the holy word of God?

that ye might bring damnation upon yourselves. Behold, look ye unto the revelations of God, for behold, the time cometh at that day when all these things must be fulfilled. Behold, the Lord hath shown unto me great and marvelous things. concerning that which may shortly come, at that day when these things shall come forth among you. And I know that ye do walk in the pride of your heart, and there are none saith of you only, who do not lift themselves up in the pride of their heart, unto the wearing of fine apparel, and to envy and strife, and malice and persecution. Your churches, yea, even every one, have become polluted because of the pride of your heart. For behold, you do love money and your substance and your fine apparel and the adorning of your churches more than you love the poor and the needy and the sick and the afflicted.

Why do you not think that bravery is the value of an end of misery that you never die because of the praise of the earth? Why do you adorn yourself if that has no life? And yet suffer the hungry and the needy, and the naked and the sick, the afflicted to pass you by ever so much. Yea, why do you build up the secret abominations to get things, and cause it either to mourn before the Lord, and also orphans to die of their fathers, and to cry unto the Lord from the ground?

of vengeance. Behold the sword of vengeance is over you, and the time soon cometh that he avenges the blood of the son of Canaan, for he will not suffer any longer. Keep yourselves with all uncleanness. Ask not that you may consume it, but ask with a firmness and patience. that ye will yield to no temptation, for that ye will sow the seed of the living God. Seed of the living God. Seed of the taken mark of the document of Christ. Ye do all things in the living, and do it in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. And if ye do this, and endure to the end, It's a pleasure brothers and sisters to meet with you and be here.

Participate in these exercises. This has been a good day. I'm thankful to be remembered with you and participate in this work with you. There's been some things that I've been building up for this time, and I guess I'd better clear the air. I've been wondering about that pole we've been going to build down here. I'd better jump from the bed and today about it, and I'm going to tidily and clearly say your insight. Great commemoration.

Others have gone up Water Canyon, up on top, and sought out a place that we can do it. This is going to be the old trail. The people who owned the land adjacent to that old trail that we thought we could clear so easily, they said no. They don't want to test us. I think the Lord is going to bless us with the fact that we will own land on our own rights. We will build a new trail. It will take a little longer, but it will make a wonderful recreational area.

It'll only be about as half as long as the other one and very near the head. We'll have to raise a little money to buy plushies and so forth to shoot out some of those teeth out and so forth, but it'll be a good experience. So if you've got them, we're anxious to participate and we hope all of you are. We'll be down there next Saturday morning as early as you want to. We'll begin work. One good thing is a little story that...

But a witch told him to get on top of that mountain. Because I've heard that when a fat man gets crimes or not, when he reaches the top, he always takes off his coat and turns. And I know it's true. The dragon had been reading to you and giving you a little fatherly advice, and I argue with him. I think it'd be a wonderful thing if you'd dig out those...

four hidden revelations to introduce them to our families and tell how they came to be. I stumbled into one today and it brought back some wonderful reflections and sweet memories in relation to the work of God. I suppose 75 or 80 percent of this congregation are here because their parents brought them here or because they were introduced by a friend. And I am anxious for your sake.

If you have a sure foundation laid for your conviction and testimony in relation to this particular dispensation that has been committed to our church, this church is meeting with our vast members in great pomp and show and glory today, and will be for probably several more days. And as the years roll by, they're going to become more impressive, and our work is going to become more impressive. And we've got to know it.

Something about our circumstances and the conditions under which we live. This morning I had the privilege of reviewing to our group the circumstances surrounding the movement of the priesthood into exile and the society of this people. And I went on to a little gem that I thought might be well to repeat in the hearing of this congregation.

considerable diligence to impress upon our young people what the priesthood is and where it came from and how it came in this particular distance. And I think it might be well to lay some foundation for this little gem that I have tonight. In the days of the Savior and the mind of transfiguration, his priesthood and blessings were confirmed. Father Noah and Elijah.

Father in heaven, possibly some others, possibly mortals as I recall, were present when this took place on behalf of the Savior. I think John would be loved with her and some others. In the history of all the better labors in the medium of time, we gave to Peter, James, and John the keys of the kingdom of God. I commit these keys unto your care. And so it was.

The just city and prophet that they should come in the days of the prophet Joseph Smith and bring the keys of the Melchizedek priesthood to him as it was of John the Baptist should come and bring the keys of the Aaronic priesthood. He being the last person to sanction and labor and remission of any lie and the forerunner and preparatory work in the medium of time. Because Peter, James, and John committed to Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cadley on the banks of Susquehanna River, probably late in June of 1829. And they were all named apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ. Subsequent to that time, other men were called, including David Whitmer and Martin Hare, and others that are prominent in the early history of the church. They held the apostleship in the history of the church and the...

Early lore surrounding the establishment of the priesthood in the Book of Mormon in these last days is commonly understood and recognized because early men held the apostasy. There is a controversy, as you all know, between this priesthood and this people and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I'm probably telling the people that told their people today and will tell them tomorrow and others that they have all they is. Preach to the congregation the great leadership of President David O. McKay. Which I don't care to say. He is a great leader. Because other things besides being a great leader that's necessary in the lives of our day's saints to bring them up to perfection and prepare them in the work of God for their exaltation.

We've had lots of great leaders in this case. Peter J. Grant was a great leader. But there was something else necessary. And it was so important in the eyes of our Heavenly Father, I pointed out, that he sent Peter, James, and John. His resurrected beings, the Prophet Joseph Smith, and in that exacted moment that Joseph and Oliver conferred upon their heads all the keys, powers, and authorities that they themselves had.

and was given to them by Jesus Christ and made him his count. Other priests had moved on down through the church, and to various men, Tom Smith and his father and others, finally sharing in it, and found the days to martyrdom of the prophet Joseph Smith in June the 27th, 1844, that Tom Smith, his older brother, could next to Joseph.

In point of seniority, in the case of Justice, Joseph's mother stood next to Brother Barlow, and he, Bessie Kimball, stood next to Brigham Young, and John Taylor next to Wilfred Wibbers, or rather, Wilfred Wibbers next to John Taylor, and as Ron stood next to his father, and as you see the case of Counselors, it's the way before you today. That thing existed in the days of Joseph, and Joseph had all gained all of it.

By the laying on of hands, to be his successor is present of the case, and as his successor in the case. If you know those resentful days as well as I do in the remarks of Ham when Joseph tried to send him back, he says, no, because I've been with you in life and will not be parted in death. Joseph and Ham took the martyr's crown along with his debtors.

And that left Brigham Young standing as the head of the priesthood upon this earth. Now there were many men in those days here, and Dukes, as we have them today, and they thought that they should be had the privilege of leading the church, and among them was Sidney Wigdon, a very well-educated and learned man, and he came forth from someplace in the east, either New York or Pennsylvania or someplace, where was it? Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

and wanted to stand as guardian of the church so something could be done to establish its leadership. Brigham Young stepped up and says, I don't care who leads the church, whether it's Ann Lee, I suppose I was one of those, but he says, I know one thing, he says, I have the key and the knowledge to obtain the mind and will of God on this earth, and that's what I'm going to do. Brigham and Heber, Orson Pratt and Polly P. Pratt and Orson Hyde and Willard Richards, Rassus Snowe, and Anna C. M. Lyman, and some others whose names don't come to me, John Taylor, the rest I don't recall right now, George A. Smith, were members of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, and the history states that Gilbert felt anxious, and the Lord told him and impressed him that he should take the prize and bring him to the place where they should obtain the same keys and authority that he himself had.

And so in the winter of 1844, he took these men into the upper room of his store and prepared them, giving them their first and second endowments and the garments of the holy priesthood and all the rites and privileges pertaining to that holy office and calling, and ordained them to the same priesthood that he had claimed from Peter, James, and John. And here lies the great and difficult contradiction. These men...

had been previously ordained to the office of the 12 apostles, many of them as early as 1838, who recall that they met at Independence, Missouri, by appointment. And I think on that occasion, some who were called had been ordained. Is that right, Alfred? Anyway, it was near that time, and they went on their missions to England. I only bring this to your attention to establish in your minds that the 12 apostles existed.

and had existed from the time of 1834. 35. March what? March of 1835. Thomas B. Marsh was our president to the first year. They were the ones that Oliver Cadley delivered his famous charge to, directing him in their office in college. And they all apostatized except Brigham Young and Hubert C. Kimball.

And subsequent to their apostasy, the Lord, by revelation, filled up that poem again until the time that I mentioned, in 18, the winter of 1834 and 44, or 43 and 44. Their labors began in December, and I think, as I recall it, it was around in February, when the prophet Joseph Smith got this group of men prepared and conferred upon them, accused of the priesthood.

I want to read you this little gem. It doesn't require today that they've got all those keys and privileges that the man called the office of the twelve apostles have all the peace that there is. Now let's see if Brother Joseph Fielding Smith always taught that. If there are any of you who have in your families or in the circle of your friends a book entitled Scrapbook of Mormon Literature, you try to find Volume 2. And on page 461, you'll find this statement by Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, the present president of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles and Church of St. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Now he tries to use some emphasis, and he says this, Now mark, now mark, the Lord who knew that Hans could receive a mother's crown of passage,

in the winter of 1843, in the winter of 1843 and 44, commanded the prophet to confer upon the heads of the twelve apostles a body that was already existent, every key, power, and principle that the Lord had sealed upon his head. The prophet declared that he knew not why. But the Lord commanded him to endow the twelve with these keys and priesthood, and after it was done, he rejoiced very much, saying in substance, Now say, Kill me. You have all the keys and all the ordinances, and you can confer them upon others, and the power of Satan will not be able to tear the kingdom down as fast as you'll be able to build it up.

And upon your shoulders will the responsibility of leading this people rest. And there he established a great deception, I presume, that has led this multitude of Latter-day Saints astray and into attack. For that group of men that became instrumental in leading the Latter-day Saints in that great exodus across those plains had all the keys tied in the feathers of Joseph's head.

They held the keys to building up the kingdom of God in all the world. As a person, a rite and prerogative of their calling as 12 apostles. That was the immediate calling that they were causing. St. George brought them in and conferred upon them all the keys and every principle that he himself held. Then he brought them to him to take the eyes of priesthood. The right to steal and plural marriage.

and build up the temple to the capstone. He brought them the great high priest apostleship to preside over all the earth, both the church and the kingdom, and to direct themselves as the first presidency and establishment of the church of God upon the earth and all other things. And by tradition, by tradition because of the labors of those illustrious men, the church is always supposed.

that a man called to the calling of the twelve apostles held all their wives to hold. But here Joseph Fielding Smith establishes in his own language the fact that it was not always so and that those brethren who were called and directed in this labor in 1843 prior to that time had only the calling of the twelve apostles which directed them to build up the Church of God in all the world. In other words, they were traveling ministers, and they could not perform a prayer made or feel a man to a woman without a director from a great high priest. But the Church led them to this conception because of the traditions and labors of those great men her supporters. But this thing is always so. Now the reason that I suggested to you that you do me a favor, Arthur, is that you'd find me the way.

The revelation of 1882 in that book. There is, I think, a responsibility resting upon members of this congregation who are not informed to check out some of this history. That particular group of men came here and were established in the Valley of the Mines. Brigham Young took on place Brother John Taylor next to...

President Hubert C. Kimball, and the Council of the Priesthood, because Orson Pratt, Paddy P. Pratt, and Orson Hyde had become disaffected in the early days in their calling, and they had to step down and let President John Taylor stand next to Wilford Widdows, or next to President Hubert C. Kimball and the Priesthood. Now, those men passed away, and were replaced by others.

before the great transition has taken place. We have this revelation of 1882, calling George Peasdale and Hubert J. Gant to the apostleship of the tribe. And in that revelation, the Lord reiterates that it's not meet in his eyes that men who will not obey his law reside over his people. And it makes a specific complaint that those two men They're called to the calling of the twelve apostles and not to the great high priesthood. And there isn't anything in the life of Heber J. Grant to indicate that he ever received that calling. In fact, there's everything to indicate that he didn't, for because of his bitterness that there were men in the kingdom of God and in the latter-day saints, churchmen here in the valleys of the mountain who held greater power and authority than he did, he became very enraged.

And that's one of the foundation situations that led to the excommunication of John W. Willey, who was president of the Salt Lake Temple, and his son, Lon, because they had more authority than he did their job. And I just want to read here just a little bit from this revelation that was given to President John Taylor October the 13th, 1882. Now there's four of these that have not been committed to the saints generally.

This revelation of 1880 and this one of 1882 were published in the German, Danish, Scandinavian Doctrine and Covenants, and I have seen them in print. Of course, being unable to read them, but I saw the name of George T. Dale and Hubert J. Jahn appearing in Seymour B. Young, appearing as revelations, and I presume that their language is the same as this. They are. But their home says they're authentic, that he...

compared to print. Now this is the language that the Lord used in calling Heber J. Grant. He says, Thus saith the Lord to the twelve, and the priesthood, and the people of my church, Let my servant George T. Dale and Heber J. Grant be appointed to fill the vacancies in the twelve. Now you go to the Doctrine and Covenants, and what does that mean? By the traveling council, those apostles who held the key.

to establishing the kingdom and opening the kingdom of God to all the world. Let them be called to fill the vacancies in the trial, that you may be fully organized and prepared for the labors evolving upon you, for you have a great work to perform. And then proceed to fill up the presiding quorum of seventy, and assist in organizing that body of priesthood, who are your co-labors in the ministry.

Now, does he only talk about presidency of priesthood and so forth? He doesn't. You've never heard a man call to the high priesthood and the revelation given to the people. That's God speaking. But here he calls these men to the labors of the twelve and tells them to fill up the toms of the seventy who are their co-labors in the ministry. And that's what he was doing, was filling up the toms of the twelve for the labor of the ministry.

And then this is what he says. You may appoint Seymour B. Young to fill up the vacancy in the presiding quorum of 70 if he will conform to my law. For it is not me that men who will not abide my law shall preside over my priesthood. Now how many priesthood of the church professing to preside over today will refuse to comply with the law of God?

And if you wanted to take the time, and I'd recommend a few people do it, go home and read this. And the others. And you'll find this particular revelation giving instructions to President Taylor and the organization of the states and ward bishops and high councils throughout the length and depth of Zion. And better much have told us than others that President Taylor proceeded to fulfill his duties and responsibilities.

And he went out among the states of Zion and released men and instructed those who were retained to obey the law of plural marriage. And the bishops were advised to do it in a high confidence. And he released those who refused to do so. For he understood that it was not meet in the eyes of God that men should preside over the priesthood who would not obey his law. I thought that might be a little refreshing to you.

Because we've got so much glory and prestige facing us here today, and we'll have this week that it almost relegates us to little tiny miles. I'd like to have the brother-in-law and have brother-in-law's cousin, George Fielding Smith, come and repeat what he's written. It would be interesting to see the expression on his face. For we do know that Peter James and John Dunn, Joseph Cole, It was not only delivered to him by Peter, James, and John, but the Lord took such precautions and exercised such diligence that in the temple of Kirkland, Ohio, in late March of 1836, he had Elijah the prophet, and undoubtedly Father Noah, and others of the great dignitaries, including Moses, come and deliver the keys that they had held in their particular dispensation.

to the prophet Joseph Smith that his calling might be full and complete. And for the brethren to assume today that they have all there is because of their calling and the 12 apostles, it borders upon a rebuttal. We have been educated and we are confirmed in our views and feelings about the propriety of men holding the proper authority to set men apart and so forth in their office. It reminds me of Heber J. Gant's arrangement when he was...

put into the presidency. They didn't have the providing paperwork and they destroyed every vestige of this piece of that existed in the church. President Joseph S. Smith, who was successor to Lorenzo Snow, was the last man in the presidency of the church to hold this piece of and he obtained it from President John Taylor in the consequence of that 1886 meeting. But Hubert J. Grant was President of the 12th Catholic.

As one of our members, called by revelation, Hitchy often reminded the people. When President Joseph F. Smith died, he ascended to the presidency by the vote of the twelve. And he ordained Anthony B. Land to be the president of the twelve. Anthony H. Land, to be the president of the twelve apostles. He ordained Peter J. Grant to the presidency of the church. A man holding a lesser office.

Set a man apart to a higher. And that's something I'd like to see. The physical impossibility for a man to give somebody else something that he doesn't have. The thing that you have to press upon your mind many times as you advance in the kingdom of God. If you first must obtain for yourself before you can give to another. Now that's what the church is being run with today. It's the calling of the 12 apostles.

which has the right and authority and privilege of building up the kingdom of God in all the world, preparing it for the first presidency to come along and organize it in states and wards, and building up the people and the church and kingdom of our Father. And it's long since been called by revelation, because I do not have a man who can say as big and young as this. And when I found the thing to act as guardian of the church, He says, I have the key and knowledge to obtain the mind and will of God. And that's what Brother Roy S. Johnson has to do. It's the key to obtain the mind and will of God. The creature that has been conferred upon him is that creature that Moses had, which can look upon the face of God and live in mortality. And that's something that no other creature can do. And so, my dear brothers and sisters,

Talking about impositives and the blasphemy, I suppose it would be hurled against this people before the brethren get out of their purpose. At least they'll have something in the newspaper before they reach out about it. But let them tell their thoughts. Let them decry the lineage of God's creatures if they can. Let them authority to function in the kingdom of God. And then let them with our thoughts. For I can't conceive of them being very patient with a man for such a reason.

told all these things when he doesn't support them. Now these are imperatives I feel in my life because I can't conceive how they can go along and remain enigmatic. And those books were just as available to Brother Bob Shaw and some of these young brethren and all others around here as they were to me. You can take the books that have got this quietly well printed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

reiterating every one of these things. President Joseph Mussel gathered up the information that I read to you tonight and compiled it in pasted items, but he gathered every bit of it in the honors of the Church Literature. President Johnson hands me a little item in continuation of this subject, in the charge to the Pallad, and I presume it is that charge that was delivered by Oliver Cowdery.

Because every heart wishes you peace and prosperity. This is the charge to the trial that was presided over by Thomas B. Mack. Every heart wishes you peace and prosperity, but the scene with you will inevitably change. Let no man take your bishopric and beware that you lose not your crown. It will require your whole soul. It will require courage like Enoch.

The time is near when you will be in the midst of congregations who will now set peace upon you. This gospel must roll, and it will roll until it fills the whole universe. Did I say congregations will rise upon you? Yea, I say nations will rise upon you. You will be considered the worst of men. Do not be scared at this. When God pours out his spirit, the enemy rages. But God...

Remember is on your right hand and on your left. A man, though he be considered the worst, has joy and confidence that he pleases God. The lies of those who proclaim the true gospel will be in danger. This has been the case ever since the days of righteous Abel. The same opposition has manifested whenever men came forward to publish the gospel.

The time is coming when you will be considered the worst by many and by some the best of men. The time is coming when you will be perfectly familiar with the things of God. This testimony will make those who do not believe your testimony speak their lies. But there are whole nations who will receive your testimony. They will call you good men. Do not lift it up when you are called good men.

Remember, you are young men, and you shall be spared. Include the other three, being the sixth peasant. Bear them in mind in your prayers. Carry their case to the throne of grace. Although they are not peasants, yet you and they are equal. This appointment is calculated to create an affection in you, Salikata, stronger than death. You will travel to other nations.

Bear each other in mind. If one or more is cast into prison, let the others pray for him and deliver him by their prayers. Their lives shall be in great jeopardy, but the promise of God is that you shall be delivered. Remember, you are not to go to other nations until you receive your endowment. Pray a person until you are endowed with power from on high. You need a fountain of knowledge, wisdom, and intelligence.

such as you never have. Relate to this. Relative to the endowment, I make a remark or two that there be no mistake. The world cannot receive the things of God. He can endow you. He can endow you with outwardly pomp or great parade. He can give you that wisdom, that intelligence, and that power which characterized the ancient saints and now characterized the inhabitants of the upper world.

The greatness of your commission consists in this. You are to hold the keys of this ministry. This is speaking to the poor apostles. You are to go to the nations afar, nations that sit in darkness. The day is coming and the work of God must be done. Israel shall be gathered. The seed of Jacob shall be gathered from the longest season. There will be a feast of Israel, the elect of God.

It is a sorrowful tale that the gospel must be preached and God's ministry be rejected. But where can Israel be found and receive your testimony and not be judged? And certainly that is the truth. Where is there a saint of God, a man with the true blood of Israel in him, that doesn't rejoice at the sound of the gospel? Nowhere. The prophecies are full of great things that are to take place in the last days.

After the elect are gathered out, destruction shall come on the inhabitants of the earth. And that's only today, isn't it? All nations shall feel the wrath of God after they have been warned by the saints of the Most High. If you will not warn them, others will, and you shall lose your time. You must prepare your minds to bid a long farewell to heaven, even till a great day comes. You shall see what...

You never expected to see. You would need the mind of Enoch, or Elijah, and the faith of the brother of Jared. You must be prepared to walk by faith, however appalling to the human view. And each of you shall feel the force of the imperious mandate, Son, go later in my vineyard, and cheerfully receive what comes. But in the end you will stand while others fall.

You have led in the revelations concerning all the nations. Be careful how you ordain. For all nations are not like this nation. They will willingly receive the audiences at your hand to put you out of the way. They will willingly receive the audiences at your hand to put you out of the way. There will be times when nothing but the angels of God can deliver you out of their hands. We appeal to your intelligence.

We appeal to your understanding that we have so far disguised our duty to you. We consider it one of the greatest condescensions of our Heavenly Father in turning you out to us. You will be stirred over this ministry. You have a work to do that no other man can do. You must proclaim the gospel in its simplicity and purity, and we commend you to God and the world as his gate.

You have our best wishes, you have our most fervent prayers, that you may be able to bear this testimony, that you have seen the face of God, that I call upon him in faith and mighty power, till you prevail, and that the judges must really give that same commission to others. It is your duty and your privilege to bear such testimonies for yourself, and I exhort you to be faithful, and I tell you, there must be no lack here. You must be faithful in all things.

And permit us to repeat, our nations have a claim on you. You are bound together as the three witnesses were. You, not with them, can part and meet and meet and part again, till your heads are silvered over with age. He then took them separately by the hand and said, Do you with full purpose of heart take part in this ministry to proclaim the gospel with our diligence?

With these, your brethren, according to the tenor and intent of the charge you have received. Each of them answered in the same way. I was the charge of Oliver County to the charge. When he spoke of the other three, he meant the other three men who had been called to the same calling and had not yet been outdone. Now, my brothers and sisters, I fear to give way, but I rejoice with you in the circumstances we find ourselves in. I fear to rejoice with Brigham Young.

that we have the key and the power and the knowledge to obtain the mind and will of God. And I'm sure that by the grace of God, if we're willing and diligent in performing our duties and doing the best we can, that we'll be able to obtain His mind and will, for we do it from time to time. I testify to you that revelation has not ceased, but we do receive it. I want the people to take care of you.

To let it on to you, I will hear you about overcoming our faults and failings, taking us on our journey, better choices and so forth. Some hits you are not released, but it may take you a good many years. It's taken our heavenly father a long time to acquire all the graces and attributes of his church. And I think that we can rest assured that God will be glad to own and bless us as he signs us time and laboring in this.

I take it in holy responsibility of perfecting our faith. And I would not for one moment want to see this congregation of people become sad-faced and discouraged because of the ageless labor that they're called to perform. For I know the Lord will give us strength and will fortify us and bless us and will not come anything. Upon this, people, I promise you that faith will be forewarned by the presence of God that you might be prepared against it.

That you can rest assured. You have no need to fear. If we can just justify our heavenly battle in performing the covenants and promises that he has promised on behalf of his people. He says he will fight the battles of the saints. And I know he will. Those four revelations that I referred to are replete with promises that he will fight the battles of his people. And I hope that it is only one thing.

I. You. And young men and boys who have a testimony of this work will add to it by his diligence and his faith, and his perseverance will be built up day after day, until he'll have a knowledge of the truth, to see and see the cause of the truth of the dispensation in which we live. I know, I know that there's corruption in high places, and I don't care who you hope there is.

... ... ... ... and not become worthy of our doing. But I tell you, there's more time to slumber on our oars. There's more time to slumber. But if you brothers and sisters have got a testimony of this, let's add to it. And don't wait and ask the Lord to give you a new one, hoping it'll be a little shinier and a little better than the one you've got. Because it's impossible to accomplish such a thing. Take what you have and labor with it. And add to it by knowledge. I don't know why some of us should study the scriptures.

Fortify ourselves with a conscience that will justify us and sustain the course of what we're saying. And some of you go spot free and feel that you're exempt from this responsibility. I had a few years, possibly, on me that some of you had, but I certainly didn't have any more capacity, intelligence, or education. A book. I didn't have as many. As I'm buried, Paul's father here brought us again a few dinners of this course as we thought we had the most priceless thing.

At this day and age, when I hang, and I used to carry those things about with me and my person, before they might fall into the hands of the children or one way or another and become damaged, I took them to work with me and brought them home with me, and I kept them under lock and key. That's the way I treated those few dinners, but I could get a hold of them. And what did they do for better, Herman? They substantiated the things that I've been told by Joseph W. Martin.

I found the things that you referred to printed in the church book. Now they're still there. It would be a good thing for some of you to prove it. Go dig up those things. Get some of these weapons. It may be to save you a little bit of time. Go read those things and learn something about this people that they're trying to sustain and uphold. That their knowledge and understanding might be more complete. That they might be filled with better diligence and zeal in the performance of the abuse. Now the blessings of God are going to attend this people. I'm confident in my time under the confidence of God. He's going to take and expand.

and the largest people to the extent that they'll have the opportunity of assimilating their life and knowledge and confidence in the taste of God. And so, in consequence of it, we'll be able to grow and expand and be enlightened and build up in this world and these last days. And as all the time, I think that we ought to begin to practice what we've been told us now. Let's try to get harmony in our homes. Let's try to have a woman.

It's time to not hold our husbands, besides this society of people, concerned. I'm sure all the rascals are gone. And you women are not going to be justified any longer. I'm stopping you from going. Try to have faith in us. Women should learn to follow her leaders. I know this congregation of women expects our husbands to obey Brother Johnson's and this council's directions. And they're very, very children. They expect us to try to be just a wonderful thing.

If they would follow the dictates of their husbands just as diligently as they expect their husbands to follow the dictates, it would be a good day. When we get family, when we get family unity, it can emanate the spirit of God, the spirit of unity, the spirit of obedience and understanding when we have our people. It only takes Brother Johnson a half a day to send forth the car that he wanted to drive him to gather together and make him count the confidence of our families behind him.

We're going to see good times. I know the grace of God continues with us. I know we can find our inner. And so the seeds of despair in our hearts, the seeds of disunity and contentment are the most deadly things that are found in us. I know there is. Thank you so much and go to bed. It's my humble wish that in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Amen.

Brothers and sisters, with you and wonderful revelations that have been given to us tonight. The word of God has been given to this people in great simplicity and is great for us this evening. I'm not going to hold you for a few minutes longer, but tonight I've had an admonition to water the baptism and had Hans lay the payment for the gift of the Holy Ghost. And that's all I want to hear tonight.

2. Third, by testimony proven that what they have heard is untrue has not been so harmonious with it. 3. One by one, one gets close to it. 4. Third, if not, let the Holy Ghost be by record proven that they are true. 5. Because the Holy Ghost is not a pocket-wrenching, it's given out by testimony to one person that what they have heard the other night is true.

and to another that is not. And if we have anyone occupying the room whose spirit does not bear testimony to them, the things that have been given to us today, all the revelations of God to us, we'd like to have them this way. We give room for someone who's anxious to listen and to harmonize this spirit with the revelations that have been given.

I pray that the spirit of revelation will reveal to every person in this building that the gospel is true, that Jesus is the Christ, that Jesus is the prophet of God, and that those who are speaking here and trying to lead you into the story of truth are servants of God. I humbly pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. I pray this song will be used.

Number 213. The Spirit of God like a fire is burning. After this we are left with a whole black mass of insanity in this next community. Thank you for watching.