Greet you, my dear brethren and sisters, in the capacity of worship once more. President Johnson has asked me to conduct the services. We will begin by singing How Firm a Foundation, number 66. The endowment commission will offer the invocation. Let us unite our faith in calling upon the Lord. O God, our eternal Father, we are grateful unto thee for this opportunity of meeting together as a few of thy children.

and to the direction of the holy priesthood which is in our midst. We call upon thee, our Father, and pray that thou would often, and to our pleas and words at this time, inspire us to seek thee for those things which we stand in need of. We are grateful, our Father, for life and health and strength, to the degree that we enjoy them, and we pray that thou would continue to bless us.

With these things, that we may continue in the earth to fulfill the measure of our creation. We're grateful for President Johnson, who presides with us at this time, and for his noble character in life, and the fine example that he has set us on the days of his life. And we pray that thou bless his noble heart, and bless his mind, and strengthen his understanding. With the revelations of thy holy mind and will, that he shall impart unto us, and thy...

children as they are needed for the furtherance and the development of thy world. We are grateful, our Father, for the development which has taken place among the laminated dead in Old Mexico, and we pray for them at this time that thy Spirit will attain them and direct them and improve upon their lives that they may come up to receive the blessings that you have in store for the children of Jacob.

Now we pray for all of our brethren, wherever they may be at this time, and their families, and pray that thou watchest and care for them, and hear that they are sick among them. And we pray that thou would open the ears of the deaf, the eyes of the blind, and that they may comprehend the principles of their salvation. We truly do testify to thee this time, that we know the gospel is true, and that it is the way of...

our life and our redemption. We're grateful for the work that has been wrought by thy beloved Son on our behalf and we pray that we shall keep thy mother in mind and in remembrance of the great sacrifices which you have made well for her and for our salvation. And we fear to dedicate ourselves unto thee and to thy work.

to thy kingdom, the upstanding of it, and pray that thou would inspire those who take part in any way that might. May thy Holy Spirit direct them, that we all indeed be fed the bread of life, all of which we ask in the name of our worthy elder brother, Jesus Christ. The work, verses 1, 3, 4, and 6, page 168. The work that we have and the work that we are engaged in should bring to us This evening, each of us, we have come with it in our spirit and in our lives to bring that result to us this evening. Can there be any doubt in the minds of those who are assembled here that there is faith enough here to accomplish that? Certainly, if we exercise what faith we have together, these things can and will be realized. We ask President Jeff to be our first speaker this evening. Indeed, enjoy, my brethren and sisters, to meet with you again.

I guess many of you know that I labor a good many miles away most of each month, and it's wonderful to get back here among my two friends, my two brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers. It's outside of the work of God. Friends who love the same principles I do, and that's as far as I can give my confidence to my fellow man.

True, the servants of God should love all the children of men, because they are sent to save and exalt as many as will, to serve the Master, and bringing many to a knowledge of the truth. Prophet Joseph Smith exemplified that in his life, as did the Savior. Joseph, in his capacity, exhibited his greater love, I suppose, greater than any other man who has lived upon the earth, the Master himself. He is a friend to those who love truth. What might be led to say, and I do desire an interest in your faith and prayer, and I say only those things that the Lord wants me to. Thoughts run through my mind. They're probably the greatest reason we do not use it. The truth is because of our traditions and the cultures that we have been raised up under.

and is also probably the reason that we may even be self-righteous. So sure that our way of thinking, the way of our fathers and mothers, in what may be a very limited acceptance of the truth of Almighty God, is just the same. All that is required, brethren and sisters, is that we yield to the Lord, that we may be led by the Holy Spirit.

to acknowledge that as we stand before Almighty God, man is nothing without his spirit, especially to us who have embraced the truth and desire to obey the gospel of Jesus Christ with you. And so it behooves all of us to look into our lives and determine, ask ourselves exactly what it is that really motivates us. Are we still directed by those old cultures?

traditions of our parents' family. Indeed, following the counsel, the direction, and the instructions that are being given us by the servants of God from month to month. The great burden that has been placed upon us in all important messages is that we assimilate our character into the character of God. And that's the only way we're going to accomplish it is by yielding to these counsels.

submitting ourselves before God through his priesthood and say, here am I, do with me as you will. Brethren and sisters, I think it was President John Taylor who summarized in a very few words the celestial law. I don't know that I have the exact words, but he says the celestial law is to do the will of him who sent me. Is it any less incumbent upon us than it was the Savior himself?

To do that, to be able to say that through all of our lives. If we're going to be joint heirs with him, we're going to have to follow the same path he taught. Have the same attitude, the same spirit that he had. I come only to do the will of him he sent. And if we don't do that, we must use. I think there's any spirit that bothers me. I shouldn't let them bother me at all.

is that of a self-righteous person. Because of that, he thinks he's just right. I don't want to mix that up, and I do want to distinguish that from the command that we have in the lectures on faith, that we must come to know that our course is pleasing to God. But in that knowledge, I see the greatest of humility and lack of self-righteousness.

Because in this we acknowledge God in all things and ascribe unto him thanks and gratitude for every attribute and gift and blessing that we have. And if we are indeed pleasing God, it is because of our sacrifice and because of our obedience. And in that sacrifice and obedience, we're acknowledging that it comes from him, not from you. It is with attitude and because of our...

traditions and old cultures, I think, and I want to repeat it, that they're not yielding and coming unto God. Another matter comes to my mind, I think, is honoring this day as Mother's Day. I don't think there's anything I resent more than to have the papers and all other media shout that I must honor my mother today. I don't think anyone had a more wonderful one than I did.

that we should honor our mothers every day. In the great law and commandment given and still in force, thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother all the days of thy life, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth. I don't want anybody giving me any presence on Father's Day either. I can find there been a little surprise at the section any day of the year, but I tokenize it's true.

But I'd like to talk to the mothers tonight for a few minutes. Say it isn't because of mothers, but I think I'd have said it if I hadn't had this brought to my attention. Dual role in the sacred order of selection and in that marvelous partnership and union, the family order of heaven. The work of the priesthood and there's the work of motherhood. What a glorious partnership this is.

and realize where you stand in this great scheme of things, and what great influence and power you can bring to bear, and bring to pass the purposes of Almighty God, which is to bring to pass the immortality and the eternal life of His children. In your hands, dear sisters, rest the future lives of your children. To a greater extent than you realize, you can mold those characters.

And if you'll do it by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost, they won't have any need when they get married to a good man, these girls, or when these young men get married after they give up any pet culture or tradition. If those children are raised up by the Spirit and power of the Holy Ghost, they can then be turned over to their fathers.

and the priesthood to be used, and the Lord God Almighty will have a people. Now that's the role you sisters have, if you think of it, as you deal with these tender little souls that are placed in your care. Some of them may be greater than you, older than you in the spirit, the thought, the brother God has expressed, son of mine.

It comes up to age and years of accountability to bear the holy priesthood after the order of the Son of God. He is no longer strictly a son to me. He is my brother and a fellow holder of the holy priesthood. You sisters should learn after you have brought your daughters up to an age where they go to a good man.

to release them and let them go, and begin thinking of them as your sisters in the gospel, and you daughters to think of your mothers in like manner, as fellow laborers and sisters in the work of the living God. Set them on their own two feet and let them go. How do you govern in your family, sisters, mothers, and fathers? I want to tell you in a very few short words what...

The prophet Joseph said about this, and that's the way he governed. He was asked how he governed these people so well. What was the reason for their faithfulness and their devotion? He said simply, I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves. There is a marvelous key, mothers and fathers, in the governing of your family. Teach them correct principles and let them govern themselves. There is no compulsion or force.

or suppress them to death. And if you show them that your love is greater than the bonds of death because of this, by setting an example, teachings by example as well as by precept, your spirits are clean and let your children go and do what they want. They are agents unto themselves, the same as you are. And the same goes in the governing of all the affairs of our family.

Now to carry this matter of motherhood a little further. Many of you desire to be mothers of the world. Ease, if you please. Keep this in mind in our daily living, in raising our children, supporting and sustaining our husbands, obeying them. Is this the aim and object of your life? How often do you think it? Glorious motherhood. To become an Eve and a mother of the world.

Now you're not going to become that until you learn to become mothers in very deep, according to the decimation of God. A few rambling thoughts that I wanted to convey here tonight. Learn to be true mothers in Israel. And you don't have to have great numbers. One of the grandest mothers that I have ever known is Aunt C. She had none of her own. She has mothered a people. She has mothered the children of Sister Wife.

And she has been a true wife and mother. And great are going to be her blessings. And she can become an Eve, a mother of the world. She strives to become Eve and Adam. God's in very deep. And may we ask the part in our mortal life. What a marvelous opportunity has given us in this celestial law to show the Lord that we can live the family order of heaven.

We're called to live this glorious principle, these celestial laws, in the midst of a Gentile world. In order to do so, we've got to be quiet about it, cover up, so that we can have our freedom. And as Mary once expressed a thought, and I think it's a beautiful one, it takes courage, brethren and sisters, to cover up, besides a little strength of other strengths of character. ...and exercising what we think are our...

freedoms and personal rights and flaunting these things to the world, we're only abridging our freedom or our free agency, if we prize the highest. Let's remember these things because in being careful and covering up and keeping sacred these holy relationships and these principles, we are honoring God. We are sustaining the law. We are abiding.

in it and obeying it by far greater measure than if we felt like that we were great examples to show ourselves to all the world. The Lord is going to love us and sustain us as we live these things quietly, so enlarge, extend our kingdom. The great object of this principle is the continuation of the seeds forever. Section 132 once in a while, brethren and sisters, and I see if we can abide in it.

The great blessings promised therein are only to those who abide the law, and the whole law too. May we do so, I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen. has decreed blessings and final education for the first time. There is no doubt in my mind, everyone here tonight would like to leave the office and finish the race. I have tried to say anything or teach anything to my dear brother and sister. It has been an effort to awaken all of us out of the stupor that has fallen upon we and our fathers and fathers before them.

and awaken us to the realization of our true standing and position before our Father, and the conscience on the other side. We will begin to work diligently in heart, and feel good in the work, for the bickering, animosity, and jealousy, and the division in family, and the disobedience of children to parents, and of wives to husbands, begging to the Lord, and that all leaders receive.

the people of God, that we will begin to find out the way to keep the commandments of God, or to overcome our failure. But sometimes the answer is so simple, we don't believe it. Other times it's so shocking, that before we get around to practicing it, we have forgotten what we were told. And other times it runs so contrary to what we have been taught.

but we don't believe it. And those are just two reasons out of many that we find ourselves in the same condition, that we're not progressing, that we're not drawing closer to the fountain of life. I received an anonymous letter from a female. I'm glad that she didn't sign her name, but it's a letter that most all of these women could write at one time or another.

She pointed out what we were teaching at our public meetings and how wonderful the teachings were and how practical they appeared in the promotion of peace and the perfecting of the people. Again, she pointed out what are we for people to do. Real members of a group don't believe the things that are being taught because it's passion.

or circumstance, or because of notion, we are not caught in harmony with the will of the Lord. We are forced to do one thing and never retire another thing. While no doubt to the dismay of the Lord, this situation exists in the gift to a very large extent. We hope that it doesn't exist to a great extent as it did last month.

But we know that it exists. My father came out of the room one day, sweating and wiping his sweaty brow after he'd talked to some fine children and some fine fathers and mothers. And he says, I wish these damn parents would tell a few good wholesome jokes at the dinner table instead of trying to preach to me about things they don't understand. I heard the other prophet.

say about the same thing. They're willing to accept the gospel of free agency, but never apply it. They're willing to accept every principle of the gospel, hidden beauty, but they never apply it. The serious thing that they're up against. Their children, women, and sometimes men, are thrown into a condition of confusion. Not mine.

What to do because we as veterans don't have sense enough and we don't know the proper thing to say to tell a good joke or to keep still and go to a baseball game. I feel like the distribution of our creditors who willingly and openly confesses that that perhaps is the way we thought at that time that we didn't have much like.

But now we have received revelation on the subject, and this is the way we feel. What a wonderful attitude that is. But how few of us will accept that type of reason. Because of our hidden high-mindedness and vanity and unbelief, we feel that if we can say that we have not always known the truth, that we will be humiliated in ourselves. But that's not true.

faith. He lived line upon line and precept upon precept in three or three of God's doctrine. We believe that God has revealed many things according to his book, but that he'll yet reveal many important things. Father, a few principles that he has revealed relating to the modus operandi of the principle of total marriage.

is a starvation principle, the little that he has actually revealed on how to practice this principle. So why should it embarrass men to tell their wives that they have now found out the truth, and that in the past they have perhaps taken a course that has not altogether promoted their peace and happiness and progress in the eyes of the Lord?

But the Lord has instructed them further now, as has Jesus. What a wonderful attitude. What do you think? That we should take it? It's human for men, when they begin to develop these kingdoms, to go back into biblical days in their minds, and to legislate a deal that will never come to pass, and begin to...

initiate this dream in their family unit. Past times bring hardship and other things to the family union. It causes confusion to come into the minds of those that have suffered. So that they develop the spirit and disposition of proving rightly the things of the Lord. And there's more than one child who's sitting in the audience in one of these rooms tonight, and more than one woman. And he said in the last month, well, I wonder what that is going to come up with now. There's plenty of you sitting here. He said that. And I hope that it's not just a father. But I'm afraid that most of it is. Now this criticism falls upon us all. And I'm merely bringing it to our attention.

to show us our standing before the Lord, and that through years of learning how, by professional teachers, to treat lightly the things of God, we have formed a habit of treating everything lightly. And we have been changed. And I acknowledge that change, by professional teachers, in my life, that I was changed.

to teach rightly the things of God. And so now I have to train myself and develop my character to teach seriously the things of God, to barely live by every word that they're speaking forth in the mouth of God. And you're all the same. It makes no difference which family you might belong to or what name might be tagged on your back.

We're more or less in the same position and have the same problems. Because our father has said that he placed us all under that condemnation because of our vanity and because of our unbelief. And so in his treaty we have developed that habit. We have found a habit of doing that. So it's just as likely that one of these girls And she knows the boy in this case, no matter what the moral virtue might be, no matter what the moral virtue might be, it's just very natural, unless she has caught this picture and has begun to reform herself and regenerate herself, it's very natural for her to teach lightly the things that have been said.

Because his master asked for her to get a better mask. And it's just his master, for the man, to treat lightly what the person says as it is for him to be honest enough. And thus he has taught this person, found out what his condition is, recognized his disease, and has begun to regenerate his character. And as you can see, What's wrong with him? He said it is. For instance, the president here said that a certain law, the law of the priesthood, would only be administered through revelation by him. Under those conditions, upon what basis would the Lord give you a revelation contract? On what basis would the Lord give you a revelation contract? It would be surprising to men and women who receive dreams and revelations.

into certain things after the present. It becomes natural. Raise your hand to your mouth with a fork full of food. If your mouth isn't paralyzed, it slots open. When that food gets into your mouth, your mouth begins to wake. It drives us to see that food. And you've got to hold yourself to stop that simple process of habit.

You're to take a forkful of food and I have to say stop. Don't you dare chew that. You'd have to work hard to stop that from happening. I need to get over to him. He's not too venomous. He's not trying to criticize us to death. He's not trying to say he doesn't love us. He's trying to show us that we are diseased in his eyes and that there's a way to cure us.

ourselves and to make ourselves like he is. That's all he's trying to do. But we've got to have faith in him. We've got to have faith that what he says is genuine. And that's our condition. If he says, my boy, you have a certain disease. If I contend with the great tradition, or character, that I don't have it, Or he'll do just exactly like you do. He'll keep step and let the disease go on and on. And so he points these defects of our character out and tells us that we must be placed under condemnation until we are able to obtain a portion of his confidence. Life begets life.

That's all there is to it, brethren and sisters, and relatives can mourn and weep and partake and dream for all the days of their lives and throughout all the reaches of eternity. But those who are like God in spirit and power and character will reign with him and see that he's here and receive his full confidence.

And those who are not like him will find their way to people who they can enjoy living with. So it will be with me. Those in my family who are like me, who possess the same spirit and power and desires and character will find grace and beauty and find that all that I have is love.

and will have a desire to be in my company, and I will seek their company. But those who don't will find no relief in my presence. They'll find nothing to talk about. They'll find themselves to be in an awkward position, and I'll be in an awkward position, because I'll have secrets that I can't reveal to them. I'll have blessings that I can't tell them about.

So finally they're going to have to seek and find their level of character among the saints and among the Gentiles. And there they'll be at peace. They'll have something to talk about. They can review their lives and be served where they can't in my presence. That's a simple law that you have all experienced, more or less.

throughout your life experience. That's just the way it's going to continue to be. So, I want to become like those that I want to dwell among. If I want to dwell among the Gentiles, I want to become in character like the Gentiles. If I want to dwell with my father, Joseph Musher, and his associates, I've got to become in character like Joseph Michael and his associates. The same spirit must be with me, must guide me and motivate my actions. I must believe in the same principle and see eye to eye and have the same purposes, feel the same about these things, or there won't be any unity or affection or love or confidence. So all we have to do We find out who we want to live with and work with, and under whose government we want to draw and then go ahead and work to that end. In answer to this woman's inquiry, and by way of caution to you good, noble, wonderful, deserving husbands, in the first place, don't try to put your women under such strict bondage and covenant.

That you make sure of that. So that they can approach you and tell you the truth. About how you look. That you've got a hole in the seat of your pants. It's very hard for a man to see the hole in the seat of his ticket. Remember that. And most of you have got your females under such strict covenant. That they doesn't even say daddy. Your hind end is hanging off.

Now, brethren, that's your part. And sisters, if you can get your husbands to be the kind of government they should be, then it is your duty to honor them by telling them the truth about how you feel and your sickness. There is no Lord on the inside. You go to the Lord first and ask him for your spirit.

So your attitude will not be an attitude of criticism towards your husband, but that it will be an attitude of seeking for light and enlightenment and understanding and guidance. So that when you approach him, it will be in such a way that you are asking for death. Then you will not be given the stone. You make the mistake of not seeking the Lord.

is an approach of criticism rather than the approach of seeking for help. But I guess I have voiced it so often that we are dishonest, so dishonest that we will not teach each other the truth. And I know boys and girls who have gone through four and five years until finally they have broken down to tell the truth to the situation.

But it all comes from this character of feeling lightly the things of God, developing this habit of not living by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. Now, Jesus put it so simply. He says, if you love me, you will keep my command. If you say that you love me and don't keep my command, it's a sign.

with your lyre, and the truth is indeed. Now there is a summons that was sent down as God himself, and it's all reaching and revealing like a fountain of truth. Well, it is like that. Now can we understand why we are actually lyres? Love me, your will will be swallowed up in mine. So keep my commandment. That's the way it goes in Timber.

David, I want my will to be swallowed up in the will of my thoughts. That's love. Are there millions of beautiful women coming down to relationships between men and women? Are there millions of beautiful women in the world who would kill anyone to face God or help him? And they consider that love. But it isn't love.

because of this reason. They have a divided affection. The woman has affection for her husband and wants him until death do they part. But she has an equal affection for the things of this world. As I said, you cannot serve two masters, love one and hate the other. So, the woman or the man who is touching this light, The woman will say, instead of saying when she's lying down and the man has his arm around her, how she loves him, I love you daddy with all my heart. And he'll do anything for you. Instead of saying that, he should say, I love you daddy, but I love you too. The things of this world. I was raised poor. I've never had anything. Now I have a prompt.

And I'm saying, I have a fear of doing without you. So I must say that I love equally the things in this world. The fine hands, and the clothes, and the security. Now that's the truth. Tracy's that kind of a girl. That's the truth. That's recognizing the conscious disease in the character. Because she says, I love you, and doesn't seek your commandment.

Then the Lord says, you're a liar. What? I'm a liar? I've never told a lie in my life. My own father and my own mother can tell you that I've never told a lie. That's what the boy with the yellow shirt, exactly what they say. And perhaps not in the way Satan and the world considers a lie. But we're talking.

about this other thing that the Lord reveals to us. If a woman loves her husband, her will is swallowed up in him. She loves to keep this to myself. Every breath, every fiber, every pulse, her physical, spirit body. She lives and breathes to be in the presence. of her Lord and her will is flowered up in you. Now, if those who are disaffected, who are cold, and who don't find there is only one indication, you don't love your husband. The love is divided between if you have no affection and no desire to live with a good man and you wouldn't want to live with anybody else but your husband.

Affection and love is equally centered upon certain things, objects of the world. And so, you're trying to serve two masters. Which one are you hating? I'm sure you'll have to hate one of them. Which one are you hating and not nice about? The problem faces the male population. You're stupid.

Same problem faces you children, but there are two. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. Now how can your will, how can you commit your will to be swallowed up in the will of God? It's necessary for you to disrobe yourself, disrobe your character of everything that is against the will of your Heavenly Father.

Just like it's necessary for the wife to disrobe herself of everything in her character that is against the will of her husband. Just like it's necessary for the children to disrobe themselves of all affections contrary to their parents. How wonderful for a boy or girl to say, my will is swallowed up in your thoughts.

do your will. I came not to do anything else. Your will is the only will to do. I love you. It's perfect. Unity and perfection. That's it. Jesus said, this is how my father went. I came to do his will. And that's what I'm going to do. Not my own will. This little speech is pretty hard to fulfill.

Well, then, perception is good, and it's the illness and the destiny. But if we don't realize our problems, one generation is piled upon another, and they keep embedding themselves in this unbelieving character of treating lightly the things of God, until it becomes a part of their religious actions, and they feel...

that they're justified before the Lord in doing it. A man, we are told, by all the prophets, should be such a man that a good woman's will and safety and perfect security be swallowed up. The type of a man is going to have a problem. I realize that. But she must be alert and she must realize.

The revelation is being given constantly, and the man may be progressing and learning, and he cannot hold against him the former foolishness that he might have taught him, just like he can't hold against her former foolishness that he taught her, that they live according to the direction of an inspired priesthood. And thus, revelation is added to them, and they learn.

may learn how to overcome. But that's what a man should seek to be, is a type of a man that a good woman can let her will be swallowed up into his, so that every side of her being is lighted by his light, and that she only lives for the sake of his will. He is governed and approached the same principle in relation to our leaders and to our Father in Heaven.

We have made the game. If we only live for the purpose of letting our will be swallowed up. If we only live that every side of our being is given light and life by the mind and will of the one that we have come to be his will. Without his mind and his will and his spirit, we would be of all men most miserable.

Just like for the man to withdraw his spirit and his mind from his companion would make him miserable in just two times. In other words, in the powers of heaven, I was gone. You are left to yourself. You have no life, no authority, no light, inspiration. It's a perfect, simple, beautiful world that has got to be rented to people.

It's good that you're gathering, falling prey to the old doctrines. I think many things might be a good thing. I might be throwing up. Polygamy must be a crime. And when you're not dealing on polygamy, you're complimenting your children. You're giving them faithfulness and telling them that they're a thing to the world to accomplish this or to accomplish that and so forth until you lose what you love about you.

But when true revelation comes by, you don't know what to do. Start telling a few wholesome jokes and live naturally. I teach you children these principles that you are trying to embed in your soul. But they're too true. Teach them like our Father in Heaven teaches you. Teach them that you appreciate them and that you love them. But they are under condemnation.

way with you and see that likely the things have dropped and they have done this because of unbelief and that maybe the parents have contributed to some degree to this attitude in their character and begin to show them that the disease isn't bad if it's caught in its first stages and cured and get them in a position where they stop saying yay lord No, Lord, I'm living alive on the inside. And so sooner or later, the crisis is going to approach the mom and the priesthood, the wife to the mom, to the children in relation to the parents. The crisis is going to come where the teenagers will have to be exposed. And make it possible, dear brethren, for your women and children to approach you.

And teach them how to approach you for help and then be prepared to give it to you. Let them tell you their thoughts and feelings and of their true feelings. But not put some of you in bed for a week. It might shock others of you into your true, into working truthfully. But whatever it does, prepare yourself and develop the character.

but to receive the content of these people in your family so that you can actually realize what's behind that smiling face and those delightful lips, the attitude of physical obedience. See what's behind it all so that you can truthfully say and know that you're not kidding yourself, that you know your wife like you know the palm of your hand.

And you know your daughter like you know the palm of your hand. And you know your son like you know the palm of your hand. Like the fathers and mothers before. Two sons and daughters sitting here tonight. And why? Because they have the peace to know more about their character than their own parents or husbands know. Because the parents are throwing up a wall. And the girl says, I can't approach my father.

If I were to reveal this to him, he'd blow his top. So if Daddy knew that I actually felt like that, why, he'd never sleep with me again. Back to the Lord. He heard every day. And I know that it's true. True. Conditions. Of many of our people. And so we have just kitted ourselves for so long that that's the condition we're in. But I want to tell you, dear children, that there's nothing...

pleasantly. Nothing more cleanses than to get to know ourselves and find out what diseases we have and begin to cure under the direction of the Lord. I want to tell you when he said, come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden, take my yoke upon you and my yoke is easy and my bed is light. Can we consider the love we have for one another?

In our imperfect and fallen state, our greatness be the love of our Father, and the first desire to become like him. By the greatest moment that comes into the life of a husband, a woman approaches him and says, Daddy, after all my flying and kicking, and after all my experience, my only desire now is to become like you.

What man would not be filled with such great joy and satisfaction that he would go the limit to cure the disease, build up and bless in preparation to give everything that belonged to him to that woman? So it is with the child. No matter what the child could do, turn over a million dollars to him, run his own, or mow his lawn, who appeared to be the most obedient person in the world. The greatest thrill of his coming to the Father was for him to come and say, Father, my only desire is to come. What is there that the Father couldn't forgive and forget? And what strength wouldn't he give to bring the boy up to where he could stand strong in his faith?

And it appears that the priest did enough in the last couple of weeks. By habit. And the shock wears off. We have forgotten the process. We've just been so disobedient. We get home. We don't know what's been said. And we keep doing things like this. Now, brethren and sisters, this is a good word to me. These things are a good principle to me.

If you want to dwell in mysticism and talk about the holy realms of mystery and life eternal and joy and peace and living, you ought to go to the Holy Orchard. Beautiful scenes of eternal bliss are painted on the listener's head. That's a sad slumberland. People asleep in their sleep.

I want to tell you the joy that comes into my soul is the true indication that my father and the brethren on the other side are interested enough in this people and in this work to reveal to us the truth line upon line and precept after precept is to reveal to us the way back into their presence.

It's hard to become congenial with the church. It's hard to assimilate ourselves into their likeness. And this is the joy of the gospel at this time, at this particular time. That in giving us these revelations, the revelations themselves reveal to us. And giving these things to us reveals to us the beauty of the church.

Then you decide you're going to send down the gift. The least brethren, the most brethren that I can do for you is the least that I can do. After I have spent so many years serving this world, that's the attitude of every great man and woman who has been enlightened, has recognized their ailment, and they can listen to the brethren and sisters.

Let us go from this meeting. Heads of hands, let us go into our secret places and find out what things we are doing foolishly to keep disrupting and confusing those we govern. Let's find out and determine to the inspiration of the Lord our will that we are trying to put over to them rather than the will of the Lord. And sisters, Let us seek it, that we awaken and arise to the opportunity of seeing a new life in our companions, and the new revelations that they bear, and yield, begin to yield to them. And children, trust in the Spirit of the world in honoring your parents. Honor them the way the Lord has told you to, and that's to do.

Girl, you will. God gave us the honor that you can give anyone. The spirit of the world is indignation. Like if my child came to me and gave me a thousand dollars as a gift, the gift would be lost. Because of indignation, I would feel, as I said to myself, my boy. I want you to be like me. Do you see?

I feel very humble and kind to identify with people, realizing that we all have so many troubles sometimes that we get snowed under. So many others pointed out to us. I believe the gospel is true. I believe that peace is in our midst. I believe that the meeting in 1886 was actually held, and that President John Taylor set those brothers apart. I don't believe it happened, but I believe it was necessary. In order to preserve the work of the Lord and the earth, to bless and prosper the man that they sent, and to fulfill the covenant that God Almighty made. If that's in the spirit world, then...

If he came into the earth, he would have the job for salvation of many people. And I think the Lord has done a masterful job trying to preserve the truth in the lives of the rebellious and stiff-necked people. We pay homage to him and recognize his almighty hand in overrearing the dictates and commands and combinations of men to thwart his purposes and the adversary combined.

Because if it hadn't been by an almighty hand, it would never have been accomplished. For back as early as 1870 and 1880 and 1890, some of the most powerful men that have ever lived in these valleys of the mountains, in this situation, they reared against this work and determined it would be fantastic and that this would become one of the first states of the Union and that it would become popular with the world.

It's a miracle, absolutely a miracle, that God could find men with sufficient integrity to withstand an assaultery. These were the men that Brother Taylor set apart, and acknowledged their integrity. They stood in the gap these many years, and brought down to their feet the truth pertaining to our salvation. I've had the slip of times in my life, and the withering voice of those who have accused Our predecessors, but I can't find it in my heart to accuse them, after knowing the labors that they performed. I told the congregation that George W. Muffet was the first man of God that I ever laid my eyes upon. I'll never live long enough to pay the debt of gratitude that I owe him for his integrity. In the standing, the onslaughts of the church, the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, his friends and relatives, and I suppose if the truth is known, he's killed them.

keeping the truth alive and preserving it for those who are interested. The same as Brother Bono, who labored on behalf of those whom he touched in this life. Their labor was not an easy one. Their wonder was filled with hate. I remember George was standing in my home with tears streaming down his face, and he turned to me and said, Brother Hammond, do I want to tell you before I start to talk to these people?

He said to you, what I know, he says, is sorrow. He'll follow you all the days of your life. He said, do what I tell you. He said, no place that I travel or where I go, I bring anything to the people to suffer. His labor wasn't filled with delight, except for the knowledge he had that his course was pleasing in the eyes of God. And I see our people going around this council filled with sorrow, and I often think of the remarks he made. He said, what can we do but tell you the truth?

think of these things, of how desired the people are to be said in their egos and built up and made to feel great and grand, and that they are somebody and so forth, that I've never found it in my heart to be able to do it. Big city, strong. An enemy to tradition to the people. I've never been one to conform to tradition. I have my own tradition.

I've never been inclined to conform to other people's conditions. I'm anti-social. I feel very good about my association. I feel good about these people. I hope that we can cultivate a greater desire for truth. We've got a good deal yet to accomplish and perform before we can obtain the blessings that we need. And I can't help but feel honestly and truthfully.

I can't help but feel that this congregation had been gathered together largely by the instrumentality of the Spirit of God moving upon the streets. I believe in you. I'm confident of having to give everybody hell all the time, trying to get them to lay aside the stupid tradition, their past, and the inharmonies of their married life. Guys developed a very philosophical I'm sure that he sweeps with you, but he's like big and young. The portions that he can't carry, he kicks off at his heels and goes on it.

The spirit that the Lord has given to us in times past is an inducement to strive and labor for the things that are in store for us. There's hardly a man here that hasn't someday or sometime in his life whispered to me that he loathes the atmosphere in which he has to work, that he wished that the brethren could organize him, that there could be something where that they could work in the society of their own brethren in the group.

Proves to me that we certainly are not of this world. I love him too. That is, I can stand some of the social functions, but to get back and get personal with him and go backstage with him, I haven't any desire. It's sickening to me. It makes me just as sick to do that as it does Daisy Steve to ride in the car. Excuse me, Daisy, for revealing the feelings that you're here to have. And where is it all going to lead us?

This people, yet, is in a low, miserable state. It's hardly a woman or a family. We won't separate the unions. It's hardly a family. But some women isn't doing the opposite of what the other guys have been talking about. The very opposite. Their ego, their birthright, their something. Damn lying. Establish a breach in the lives of them and their husband. It's going to take Herculean effort to overcome.

And it takes Herculean effort. You can say what you want to. I know some of the faults and failings and bad habits that beset Brother Hammond. And it's going to take a Herculean effort to overcome them. And that only by the grace of God. And you've taken breaks of confidence between a man and a woman. And have a woman conduct herself in such a manner that a man...

If confidence is broken, it's going to take a Herculean effort to restore it. There's nothing short of that. It's going to do it. And yet these people have been warned and warned and warned. This isn't the first time that the priesthood has been warned that they should govern their families in a more generous and God-like manner instead of being so dictatorial. Of course, I remember what got us started. We used to be told that the women should live with all their husbands. And I don't know what else they could be told.

Please tell me. That's the only way they could stay together. It's like guys re-iterated. They've let them develop a law of their own. It's still the law of the gospel. And they've been tired. There's many things aloft. And we're getting squared away and things are working out. But here they're working out here. A brand new people. Sons and daughters of some of the old stalwarts. They're the ones that are carrying on. To find some of the women.

and taking miserable care, miserable care, of their husbands, and their wants, and their needs, and the dignities of their husbands. And of course, I got to what's said about it, but I thought I'd find out what the Lord said about it. And I noticed that he admonishes the families to conduct themselves in such a manner, but he implies that they don't, that you try to be patient in the line of suffering. And I thought that that was good enough for me.

He can be patient outside of it. One man is talking to me about the safety of the poor policies and conduct of some of the people and so forth. And I have to admit, out of all honesty, that some of my outward faults and bad habits and so forth aren't half as dirty and filthy as some of the things that can touch under a clean shirt. We need a renovation and start to send it.

I believe that it's in process. I have confidence in the Brethren for the most part. I feel like that we ought to try to do some of the things we can do, however, and have our will, as much as possible, swallowed up in the will of the Brethren. That's the only thing that on the face of this earth that is going to save us. I'm trying to persuade the sisters to uphold their husbands in the priesthood.

And try to lend them every support and encouragement to get to be one with the devil. Because that's the only way that you'll finally have the law taught to you. The last analysis of this law, if I understand it correctly, is going to be taught to the women through their husbands. Or through their ability to unite with their husbands and to be taken into sacred and holy places. And this is a imperative change. If you women quit fighting your husbands.

If I fight with Brother Johnson, he's even friendly like me. He carries the disruption of the unity and peace that ought to exist between us as men of God. And the Lord can't own us as he wants to. And now what can we do as a man? Even though he has a wife that he thinks the world of and would like to be something for. If he's belligerent and quarrelsome and rebellious in his nature, there comes a time when we can't take where we'd like to. And so I think that...

Brother Jeff indicated to you a little while ago that this is a matter of submission. Of course, it's our vanity and our pride and our egos that keep us from submitting. The devil has caught some in his awful chain, and the only deliverance that will ever come will be by the grace of God. I feel that. Many of the saints are hiding behind the weaknesses of the bedding, the teaching.

I suppose that they shouldn't ever say anything except that which they're able to practice, which I think is another thought. If you hold my tongue to the strict virtues of my own life, I wouldn't have very much to say. You ought to, to your own sake, be generous enough with yourselves to have the Spirit of God enough in you to weigh and consider what you're told and practice with you regardless of where it comes from. And that ought to be the first quality, the first quality of it.

If we have confidence that the peace that is in our midst is try to obey it, for then it's possible for us to do so. And it's possible to do it all, if I make some allowance for these humanity. Dear women, put forth some effort to attain this unity and this one thing. You lend strength and support to your husband that will just set him down the road just as fast as he can go. It is hardly a weakness, as I see this real picture.

that exists in the bosom of a man that the woman can't help overcome. If she wants to, if she's willing to, then we'll fight about it. If she'll take it to the Lord, then later. The guy has talked about how the woman had been oppressed, and I got it. I've helped. There hasn't been hardly a thing that couldn't have been overcome through the submission and proper attitude of the woman. That's a quarrel that I was invited to settle when I was a really young man. A little.

A boy came running to our house and said, Hey, Herman, my mother wants you. She wants you to come right now. And I jumped over my car and took the boy with me and went back to our house, and I found a woman calling a man every name that I'd ever imagined that I'd call a horse. Some of them were mules at that. They were awful. She was sobbing and crying, and so-and-so was beating me. Well, I said, if you're going to talk a man's language, you're going to have to take a man's tongue.

And so I think it's this situation. You women, you talk the language of a man, and then you expect to be treated like a lady. That's a pretty hard test to get a man to do. I've seen a dozen biffle up when I quote this history, but I still think it's true. I'm still stiff next to myself. Paul says that the woman will sanctify the man, and the man will sanctify the woman in the Lord. And I believe that that's it. I believe a good, virtuous woman is bent on doing right.

can help temper a man to do the unholy attributes that might exist in his time. I can name women that have good influence around me. And I don't see how but what a man can do the same to a woman. A good, fine, virtuous man can do a lot for his difference from a dangerous woman. By his own virtue, he has persuaded her to be virtuous too. And a virtuous woman will persuade a man to be virtuous too. And she'll learn how to labor.

It is not the priority of a woman to dictate to a man. And that's the wrong approach entirely to take, where the guy is already intimate. You should take an inquiring and suffocating attitude into his mind and not start to talk in men's language and hoping to get her work done, because it can't be done. God can't use you to destroy the very thing you're trying to accomplish when you try to dictate a man, because the minute that he subjects himself to you, and you gain the ascendancy over him, you've lost the virtue that you're trying to accomplish. Because the man's gone, and you've just got a thing in your head. So you women have got to help build a man. And the only way that you can build something to do is to get him to direct you in the way that you ought to be directed. And I think that that power lies within the woman. She wants it done. And those things, if they were practiced in this society, would have a tremendous...

incident upon our lives. I often think because of some studies that's being made, there's a life of a savior. Now I've often wondered in my years, like a lot of other things I've wondered about, how he was able to perform such a marvelous work. And that too in these very useful and tender years. Think now, if some understanding has come to my life, that he's able to do it because of the things that he needs. First place, he was taught by his mother.

is that a justice indicated taught by his mother from the day he was born until she exercised her last influence over him that he was a son of god father came and had confidence to be believed he was able to obtain the presence of his father in his boyhood and obtained obtaining such confidence and the source of such information Of course, the father was glad to be still and was looking forward to the day and blessing and prosperity. Finally, God himself came and taught him the things that he should do. And the only reason that he was able to live a perfect life, he had perfect understanding. A man can't do it any other way, often thinking. The father can't read and unkeep, but it still sticks. He can't make a silk purse out of a five-year. You take an unkeep and an illiterate man or a woman and you can't...

bring them up into the graces of the kingdom of God. It only comes by education and culture and refinement and the influence of the Spirit of God upon the individual. And so these things are in parties in our lives. And they've got to be taught and taught and taught. And we've got to continue to gather ourselves together and be edified month after month and week after week and seek for the Spirit of God and drive with all our might.

increase our understanding. When we begin to have increased understanding, we'll have increased respect for the sacred things of God. I made a remark many years ago here, people, and I think that I'll make it again so that we'll have some good position to hold our tongues unless we're authorized to do otherwise. And that is this criticizing of the church of God. It's lowly a condition that it's got into in such a way.

deceptive conditions exist among its people it's pretty hard not to let loose a lamb bath once in a while and kind of put them in their place but we haven't had much influence on them up to date it has been my observation that the people who are justifiably excommunicated from the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints have never succeeded in this work and further than that those who drifted away I've seized upon blessings unlawfully from the church, and one thing and another have never come to this work and succeeded. And I don't know of a man who's taken it upon himself either to write or to habitually criticize the church's progress in the work of the preacher. And I don't know of a woman that has taken the course and has become a fixed habit in her life to criticize her husband or her five leaders. It's succeeded.

has eventually drifted off. And I don't know of a man that's criticized the priesthood. And so this criticism that we so freely offer is a very dangerous and explosive thing in our hands and will backfire on our lives unless we use it with great care and trust. So it's not given to the same people who stand in those critical positions. None of these people have been ordained judges except these.

priesthood of God, and they generally walked pretty humbly. Brother Joseph Musser was authorized by the priesthood to write, and the Lord sustained him, and his criticisms were just. And until we're invited to do these things, we ought to be careful what we say. I don't know of anything that will rob a man or a woman of the state of God's privilege in criticizing those who reside over them in a legitimate capacity.

You just let a child grow up in the spirit of criticism of their father and mother, and it'll be a miracle, an absolute miracle, if they embrace the work of God. Because they become rebellious in their youth to legitimate authority, and they'll never be subject to it. And let these other things just grow up in our lives, and we'll have nothing but trouble. Now we have a responsibility. God is beginning to reveal to the people.

Some matters pertaining to the purity of our lives, the condition that we've got to come to before that we can have the kingdom of God and the house of God set in order. Now they're beginning to be unfolded to our minds. How these people respond to these things is still some question in my mind. I believe you all desire it, but until we can accomplish these other things, there'll be not much use of teaching.

Very little use of teaching these other things pertaining to the laws of the priesthood until we can establish these remedial things. Because they'll not be practiced outside of the temple of God. And we can't take all this disunion and disunity and criticism and rebelliousness into the house of the Lord. It just won't work. I take it as a good sign that we're beginning to...

got some understanding on these matters and the lord is beginning to prepare the way in our minds to understand them and with the hope i presume that they can be passed on to the people but it'll be done just destroys the world to a people who can keep themselves in order i see i see much better conditions than i ever dreamed would see 10 or 15 years ago getting very wholesome but they still stating things that come to our ears, the brethren are getting ambitious. We want you, brethren, to qualify yourselves in the fullness of the gospel as fast as possible. If these young women will do what's right, if the young women will do what's right without being urged, make themselves available to the president, and go and lay themselves before the priesthood and say that they want to live the laws of the gospel.

And have the Lord reveal to them where they could go and what they could do. And that could relieve you brethren of the responsibility of going around and converting. And I believe that we ought to as far as we possibly can relax in these matters. And be called up as we ought to be called up instead of being called down. Becoming contentious and ambitious over progress and establish ourselves and be full of the gospel.

can go by is what I've been taught and what the spirit dictates to me. I understand that a man has no right, as I have absolutely no right, as I understand and make it to, to try to impose himself upon the dragon in the law of thoroughness. I understand that's strictly a law of the priesthood, and it has to do with qualifying a man in his calling as an elder, as a 70, as a high priest, and a qualified as he's prepared, as qualified, as he's prepared, just like he's called him to be. He wouldn't anymore and come to Brother Johnson and say, well, I'm tired of being an elder. I'd like to be ordained a 70. He even moves with a good deal of caution to the priesthood when he's a priest and says, well, I'd like to receive a military priesthood. He's pretty slow about it. I think that that's far more legitimate, far more legitimate than it is to go to the bed and be in the police.

ourselves upon them in the solicitation of additional families. Of course, we've come up through hard times. This church has imposed a pretty hard condition upon us. And the bedding has not been able. John and Joseph and Lauren and Leslie and the bedding that has directed this work has not had it at its disposal, young women, who are ready to do the bidding of the Lord. And they'd have to send different men, W. Bonner, this man.

This is one that comes to our mind. They were sent out. By the priesthood. Converted there. They were getting sent out. And he told us some other funny stories. Things that he encountered. And I think I could tell a funny one or two myself. I get a funny mood. I look back and it takes all the funniness out of it. He was sent. He was sent to do these things. And I think a man ought to tread slowly till he's sent. I've got a bottle. I've got a mussel. And I presume Brother Johnson.

They're directed and sent now. I felt impressed to send them out to do a certain work. Some of them have succeeded, and some of them have been flawful in life's confidence and haven't moved. They're not neither here nor there. I think if a young woman wants to have the protection of the priesthood, that they can have it. If you see a young girl getting up into maturity, and the first thing you know, she can't wait because the man out there is paying attention to her and minding her business.

I act like they've never seen me, and she says, well, I'm not going to stay around this time. I'm going to go where I'm noticed. I'm going to take these guys to the ward or the seat at Salt Lake or the seat at some other time to gain her attention. I said to her, you better go see if you can't gather that girl up. I said, well, I'd like to get her before she's gone. The young woman, she took it to this matter. It'll help materially in the prosperity of this work. But even then, brother, I still...

have confidence that brother johnson is subject to the spirit of god and he's got a lot of help around mingling and shift around among these people that they pretty well know what's going on and i'd be very happy to see you better contribute to this matter instead of getting overly ambitious and start to computing on this another over these family matters i don't know whether i put any courage into your business or not but i hope i have i'd like to If I could have my wish in my heavenly Father, I'd like to be able to develop a spirit that I could cause the saints to desire the things of the kingdom of God. The desire has been created in me from some source or another. That a muscle has created, that a doctor has created, that a boss has created, that desire in me, that a Johnson in his time in time, a guy in his time in time, all these dead in your life.

It's clearly the desire in me that keeps driving me on, that I want to obtain the blessings that are in store for the saints of God, which the Lord has promised. He's put it in writing. The certain conditions will prevail for us if we can obtain those things. And I want them. I desire them. And I'd like to have the power and the ability to persuade you people to desire them. I feel, and I believe that I'm right. I believe the Spirit dictates me right.

I'd like to have the spirit and the power to convince you women that you ought to try to make peace with your husband. Quit being a damn believer. I've had enough experience in this work myself that I know how these things work. I've seen these things work out. The woman that submissives and helpful and contributes with a gentle spirit and a helpful mood is the one that moves a man up in the work of God. The one that's always trying to tell him off.

carrying him down and trying to revamp him to sweet hell. He's the one that's giving experience and making sense of it, by the way, for the ones who didn't get it. It just works that way, and you can't help it. You can't stop it. Maybe people around me, I can't help but increase my confidence and my devotion and my longing for their society and my appreciation and all the other lovely adjectives that can come to a man's mind. They just naturally go there.

And they multiply those as the opposite makes it a particular assassin, a bad mood. It could teach it. It works in the family. It works with children. The principle is extended from the top to the bottom. It can go into the organization of the church. And as President Young said, it's so perfect. It's organized so completely that it makes it impossible. They're impossible to abuse the saints unless they ought to be abused. It's an impossibility. And that's church.

but stay in order is impossible for people to get hurt. And so it is in a family unit. It's impossible for us to get hurt if we submit to these things. I'd like to see some of the older women grow up in this world and help with love and admire. Find a world where we all flock to and cheer, for a bit of counsel, a bit of encouragement, a sip of tea, and a piece of bread and butter. Why? It's simply because we like to imbibe with the Spirit.

And how did she get it? Giving bread a bottle of hell morning, noon, and night? It was the very opposite. She had confidence in him, not only as a wife and companion, but she obtained the confidence of the priesthood as it was ministered, as the laws of the gospel, so far as we have the right to receive them and give them. And if we had more perfect people in behalf of God, if that in order should be, the busy few wouldn't know what to do at her age today.

And she's the conveyance picking up and taking it to the house of God. And she'd be there at seven o'clock in the morning. And she'd stay there and they'd bring her lunch to her late at night. She obtained that by obtaining the confidence of the priesthood. She held her tongue and held her teeth. Instead of criticizing, she always built up. Well, I never can think of that. But what I think of the eye, all eyes of the night, that woman's get out of her bed and come and unlock the door to that bed of her in a minute. I come at her house.

Every hour of the night. From 9 o'clock in the evening till 5 o'clock in the morning. And I just had to go just like that and see who that was at that door. Why did I go to her house until somebody else's house? Because every time that I kept her struggling to that old door, I felt a good old warrant still coming with it. That's why I went there.

You women, you men that live this law, why does some man, when he's damned, dead, sick, and tired, head for a certain house instead of for another one? And it might break your hearts if you find out the truth. That's how I feel. And if you say that my men act, then I'll tell it anyway. Many of you people might have known a few years ago that I had a pretty serious stomach upset. Those violent parents, I don't know who caused them, but they hurt. They just go right up those walls with my ass.

My hands, and I was sleeping in a certain place, and that pain hit me in the middle of the night. And you know what I did? I got out of that bed, and I dressed, and I went to Gladys' house. Just as Dan took us out to get there. He wasn't taking me. And I travel all night. You think I head for a house where someone's going to keep me awake talking all night? I'm going to head for a house that lays me down in peace. See that there's no friction, no quarreling, no need for me to lay awake.

Apologize for where I've been, or how late I've come home, or why I didn't write, or why I didn't phone, or why I didn't send some roses for an anniversary, or any band, sing, if you can think of it. And just head to Ohio State and find some people. If you really like to have your doors open, that's where you can get them. Here I've supported you, because I don't give a damn who the man is. I bet God Almighty has lived the same way. He takes certain houses by duty.

I have a good pleasant trip. Do you suppose that I see the man that quarrels with me all the time? I have often told you how foul I am at times. Sometimes he's with me all day and never speaks a word. Isn't it true? Yes. He's got my suitcase and throw it in the back of the car and he takes off in just a second. I don't speak to him all day. He don't worry him one bit. Now those things are important.

And I think it's important that we carry on these social graces in our lives. I don't think I could have used him and never speak to him again because I'd have read it. But there comes a time when the people have to have a little relief. They have to have some relief. And I think that we ought to learn to feel for one another. We ought to. We ought to be able to jump and to feel after his welfare. I'm getting along in years far enough myself that I have some respect for what he's living under. And I have to feel for his welfare. It's my duty.

Because God can trust me to. And I think that a woman ought to feel after a man's self. And in turn, a man should certainly feel after a woman's self. And if we'll develop these attitudes, a lot of these other habits that we set up in these troublesome things will fade away. They'll just naturally fade away. The houses where I have peace are the places where I'm accomplishing things. And I don't think it's any different than any place else.

I don't know how many of you people have confidence in my ability. A lot of my whole-time friends often give me the consideration of a thing that I was at least sincere in my belief. I don't know how short of a visitor from the other side that I would be more sure of my position in relation to the gospel of Jesus Christ. If I could put it this way, I'm sure it wouldn't sound too heavy.

Know it all, I'd say it like this. Just as sure, just as sure as the angel Moroni said to the prophet Joseph Smith, being as a priesthood he was committed to. If that happened, we've got it. That or without, crosses my mind. The fruits of it are here. The power is here. The knowledge and understanding is attended to. I know as I live and breathe that I am never to attain the knowledge of the priesthood that I have.

lowly and humble as it is, without the priesthood itself. The accusations that the church has held against every man or woman in this place. Their own testimony could be borne down because of the fact that in spite of their bitterness and animosity toward us, we've increased in knowledge and understanding pertaining to our salvation. And that in a spirit and atmosphere that we knew that we were given it.

This person has that knowledge for themselves, and that's why we're staying in this work day after day and year after year. That's why the children are coming up and carrying on in our country, because of the security that it's bringing to them. And I think these things are worth diving for. I think that it's worth establishing peace in this society of people for in order to obtain the knowledge of God.

Because just as sure as we bring peace and unity to this group of people, just as surely will come the revelations of the mind and will of God and the setting in order of the house of God and the visitations of the people from the other side. Just as sure as we obtain happiness. There isn't any doubt about it. I'm not talking about overcoming all our weaknesses. This people has weaknesses for years in and years out.

After the priesthood come and the prophet Joseph come, we'll have to labor with the inconsistencies and the inabilities of our character to perform wholly the law of God. But just as quickly as we obtain unity upon the principles of the gospel, desiring these things in the proper atmosphere, under the direction of the Spirit of God, and obtaining peace and harmony with the priesthood that resides over us, we'll obtain just further life and knowledge.

They follow just like the sun follows the darkness, or the darkness follows the sun. It's inevitable. It's quickly resounding. And this priesthood has changed this place. And the priesthood has got it now. And the only thing that is referred to for the most part, and the only thing that I'd be left to do is to be sure that we've got it. There's got to come a trial, the trial of our faith here, to be sure that we're behind Brother Johnson.

and that we can follow his dictates. And just as sure as God is sure of that, we will begin to honor together. You, brethren, and just as sure as you sisters can prove to yourself, as your husbands and the priesthood, that you can unite with him and help establish this work, this work will go on, and you will never be driven from your homes again. You never can, if we obtain this thing. If we don't, what are we subject to?

Why we're subject to the adversary and we can't escape it. Because we've got to be subject to one or the other. And the only way that we can become subject to God is to be one with him. It's the only way it can be done. And we don't have to be perfect in our character in order to attain that oneness. Perfection is going to come with the years. I know they're not going to be so foolish to believe that we can wake up tomorrow morning with all these idiosyncrasies of our various personalities and characters.

Gone. It won't happen that way. It never has and it never will. But we can wake up tomorrow morning at peace. We can make a firm resolution and carry it out. That this insubordination will cease. And once that ceases, the revelations of the mind and will of God will begin to flow to this people. And blessings will be added day after day and year after year.

until the Lord will prepare the way to bestow all the choice blessings that he has to bestow upon this people. And when we can get where we can keep things in order, he has set in order the house of God. We've been told that we should pray for setting in order the house of God. Well, I believe, I desire it myself, that I'd feel fearful and ashamed that the prophet Joseph would come into the midst of this people and try to set in order the house of God.

and no one to help keep them after. Try to get a ward or a bishop or anybody, but we could put in charge of this people and the people wouldn't uphold him. It would be a sickening experience. And of course, God wouldn't be so foolish as to fall into class because he knows our causes and can read the signs of the times. But these things are here for us, and let's do it. We've often been told, and I'll quit when I make this one remark, we women folks and you men are so anxious to get together.

I want this girl or I want this man. Well, now we've got each other, and it'd be a happy day if we took the belly of each other. I was having my wife impose upon me, and I just didn't put any harm at all to her. We're here, and I can turn right to her and talk right now. Gladys, we're here. Let's make the best of it. Couldn't the same be said of every other person? We're here. Let's make the best of it. Let's work at this now. We're converted to it, and let's begin to excel.

The establishment of confidence in this work. And once we get confidence to say this, our enemies will help us. God bless you. Amen. Give to President Johnson what time he wishes. I'm thankful to my Father in Heaven that I'm permitted to meet with you again this evening. Rejoice in me.

knowledge that i have of the truthfulness of the gospel of jesus christ and i trust that the few words i speak tonight may be directed by the spirit of god i might not be trapped from the words that have been already said things of god are understood by the spirit of god if we want to possess ourselves in knowledge of The truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ came with it. Get ourselves in a condition so that the Spirit of God can continue with us. As has been said many times in your hearing, the great message to this people is get the Spirit of God and keep it. Very good to us, to the people that live upon the earth today. We thank you that the honest in heart, hear the truth and...

Have a chance to accept or reject. Associated with this particular work now for close to 20 years, I've never regretted a moment. Rejoiced in the fact that I thought that I'm worthy of the taking of these wonderful blessings of being tutored under the leadership that we have placed among this people. Peace and rest.

That has come to me even in my dire persecution. I have enjoyed the Spirit of God in all indications. I'm not saying that I haven't been anxious because of the condition of our people and the great distress that has been put upon us. I have rejoiced in the fact that I knew that they were doing the will of God as far as our knowledge was permitted to do so. What do I have to do? Is this work?

The greater the testimony I have that it's the Lord's work. There's been our people from Canada to Mexico. Wherever I go and I see the condition that people are in, the different modes of life upon the earth, I study the scriptures and find the reason for the condition that people are in. I rejoice in the knowledge that I have.

God is merciful to his children and he is trying to save a few out of all the people that are upon the earth today. But he tells me that this is not the only generation of time that God has poured out his spirit upon his children. For he has told us time and again through his prophets that his children must repent.

receive the gospel of jesus christ and apply it to their lives or they would be destroyed under the same promise today unless the inhabitants of the earth listen to the prophets of god and repent of their sins and accept his teachings and apply them to their lives that destruction is at their door this great lamanite nation an example to us of what the wages of sin are. Once a delightful people like you and I came to a height of intelligence equal to that which we enjoy today. Scriptures tell us that they had all the modern equipment for both planting and pricing, feeding and harvesting of their crops. The Lord blessed them with knowledge and understanding.

that they began to become wicked and reject the teachings of the prophets and apostles that were among them. God told them they didn't set them to destroy. When they became wicked and would not listen to his words, then he took his prophets and apostles from among them. We can see the results of it in the generations of the Lamanite people.

With the generations of the day, the taking of the same elements of destruction, it's not people's particular. I want to tell you, my brothers and sisters, we are living in a day and we need to listen to what the prophets of God have said. One that's living among us today that goes unto whom the Lord revealed this was, namely the prophet Joseph Smith.

Brigham Young, John Taylor, Heber C. Kimball, and others who were personally acquainted with the prophet Joseph and the statistics of the spirits and the blessings of the revelations of God in that day. We have the testimonies. This people has went to great lengths and a great deal of expense to get before the people the testimonies of those men.

And we're left without excuse. As has been said here before tonight, the Lord is not pleased with us when we speak lightly the things we have received. So the message that the Lord has for this people is get the Spirit of God and keep it. Find you in holy places and watch the arm of the Lord made manifest. Whether you know it or not, great destruction is going forth upon the land.

The Lord is not causing the blood of the saints to be shed. He's allowing the knowledge of God to slip out of the minds of the people to that extent that they'll never be able to regain it again. Worlds without end. The knowledge of God will be extinct. They wake up in the morning of the resurrection and they find that they've fallen short of the privileges of the resurrection.

which God has promised to the faithful. My brothers and sisters, I plead with you to search the revelations of God and measure your life by them and see how near you come to measuring up to a people that God could use if he was to send me the one mighty and strong here to set his house in order. How many men would it take?

He directs a people of a million strong. Has God got men enough trained that he could depend upon to direct that many people? Well, he won't find that many people in the earth that he'd be pleased with. Hasn't God enough men trained today to stand in the apostleship or in the quorum to the priesthood that he could use?

that great work of setting in order the house of God. It was a great missionary work to be done. To do that missionary work is through example. If we can set an example before the world that the Lord would be pleased with, then we could stand in holy places and watch the arms of the Lord made manifest. I'm reminded of one little band of Lamanite people who were converted.

through the gospel of Christ. And through their conversion, they came to realize the great sin they were under, the great condemnation they were under. So they made a covenant with their Father in Heaven that they would bury the implements of war and never take them up again. The Lord took them with their words. He tested them out. He allowed the Lamanites to come in upon them.

and test their strength, their faith, and what they do. They knelt before them and prayed to the Lord to forgive them of their sins and let their enemies slay them. So they stood in holy places and watched the arm of the Lord made manifest. The record tells us that they killed about 2,000 of them. But through that, there was 4,000 converted, and they quit killing.

All you need to do, my brothers and sisters, to be prepared to meet the opposition is to get the Spirit of God and keep it. To get the Spirit of God and keep it is through applying the principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to our lives. When we find ourselves doing things that would displease the Spirit of God, repent of it.

do it no more. We would all practice that. We'd soon find that one mighty and strong would be making his appearance, because he'd have a people that he could trust and could worship. I don't wish to detain you any longer than that. We've been together a long time. We've heard many wonderful things tonight. Blessings from God upon you, each and every one.

And pray that he bless you with the spirit of his Holy Spirit. Bring you up to the point where he pleased with your action. I humbly pray in the name of Jesus Christ. I invite you to bring your tools with them and give us another day of help in some of the projects in hand. I'll start in a minute. We close by singing, Lord, dismiss us with thy blessings. Number 105. After which, relax.

Thank you, Lord Johnson, and all the benefits of your services. We thank you for the blessings that we have here in God, for the words of life that we have heard. We pray, Father, that thou wilt make our minds receptive to these things, that we may be able to retain the truth of the gospel in our minds, that we may put them into practice in our lives, and that we may all like to improve our...

condition standing before thee that thou be pleased to own and bless us as a people. Help us to keep the covenant that we have made before thee, that we might live worthy of more, that we may see thy power made manifest in behalf of thy people, that the blessings that have been promised may be given. And we pray thee, Father in heaven, to us.

of our offering before thee this night, even that of a broken heart and a contrite spirit, that we may indeed be thy saints. Dismiss us now, as I bless thee, and be with us continually. We pray especially for those, as I bless thee, to attend those who preside over this work, those who have been called to these high and holy callings, that thou give them everything needful.

We qualify them for thy work, that we may see thy work go forward, thy kingdom established in the earth, thy house set in order, and thy priesthood take its perfect place in the eyes of men. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.