My dear brothers and sisters, I trust that the few words I speak may be dictated by the Spirit of God. For I want to say nothing after the Spirit of God, the Spirit of our Father in Heaven. On one occasion, the Savior said, You can work all the days long and all our lives with this number one person.

commandments would apply to us. The great charge that the Savior made to himself when he left him was, Thou shalt love me as I have loved you. The commandments that the Lord has left with his children. And if we labor all the days of our lives, we still have to make improvements because we are mortal.

I have not yet come to the same station that Jesus was when he made that station, to the point of overturning all evil. I speak to this book because the writing is a little larger, and I see better, and I look at it. I like to give the word of God as it is written because it says that. It is the better faith than I might.

Hearken, O ye people of my church, saith the voice of him who dwells on high, and whose eyes are upon all men. Yea, verily I say, Hearken, ye people from afar, and ye that are upon the isles of the sea, listen together. For verily the voice of the Lord is unto all men, and there is none to escape.

And there is no eye that shall not see, neither ear that shall not hear, neither heart that shall not be penetrated. And the rebellious shall be saved with much sorrow, for their iniquity shall be spoken from the outside. And a secret act shall be revealed, and the voice of warning shall be unto all people. By the mouth of my...

mouth of my disciples whom I have chosen in these last days. And they shall go forth, and none shall say them, for I the Lord have commanded them. Behold, this is mine authority, and the authority of my servant, and my seat, and to the book of my commandments, which I have given them to publish unto you.

O inhabitants of the earth. Far, far, fair and humble, O ye people, for what I, the Lord, have decreed, in them shall be fulfilled. And verily I say unto you, that they who go forth by indeed sighting unto the inhabitants of the earth, to them is power given, to see both on earth and in heaven.

and rebellious. Yea, verily, to seal them up unto the day when the wrath of God shall be poured out upon the wicked without measure, unto the day when the Lord shall come to let content unto every man according to his work, and measure to every man according to the measure. which he hath made to his fellow men. Wherefore the voice of the Lord is unto the ends of the earth, that all that will hear may hear, to tell you to tell you for that which is to come. For the Lord is nigh, and the anger of the Lord is tender, and his sword is bathed in heaven, and it shall fall upon the inhabitants of the earth.

And the arm of the Lord shall be revealed, and the day cometh that they who will not hear the voice of the Lord may they hear the voice of his servant, may they give heed to the word that the prophets and apostles shall be cut off from among the people. For they have strayed from my ordinance and have broken my everlasting covenant.

And I seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own God, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which quasheth old, and shall stay in Babylon even. Babylon, the great which shall fall. Wherefore, I, the Lord, knowing the calamity which should come upon the inhabitants of the earth, called upon my servant Joseph Smith, Jr., and taken him from heaven, and gave him commandments, and also gave commandments to others, that they should proclaim these things unto the world.

And all this that is my people filled, it was written by the prophet. The rich things of the world shall come forth and break down the mighty and strong ones. That man should not counsel his fellow men, neither trust in the arm of flesh. But that every man who might preach in the name of God, the Lord, even the Savior of the world, that faith also might increase in the earth, that mine everlasting covenant might be established, that the fullness of my gospel might be proclaimed by the weak and the simple unto the ends of the world and the foreseen in the world. Behold, I am God and have spoken it. These commandments are of me.

and were given unto my servants in their weakness, after the manner of their language, that they might come to understanding. And inasmuch as they erred, it might be made known. And inasmuch as they thought wisdom, they might be instructed. And inasmuch as they sinned, they might be chastened.

that they might repent, and inasmuch as they were humble, they might be made strong, and blessed, and blessed from on high, and receive knowledge from time to time. And after having received the record of the Nephites, yea, even my servant Joseph Smith Jr. might have power to translate through the mercy of God, by the power of God, the Book of Mormon, and also those to whom the commandment is given, might have power to lay the foundation of this Church and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living Church upon the face of the whole earth, which with which I, the Lord, am well pleased, speaking unto the church selectively and not individually. For I, the Lord, cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance. Nevertheless, he that resents and does the commandments of the Lord shall be forgiven, and he that resents not from him shall be taken, given the life which he has received.

For my spirit shall not always thrive with man, saith the Lord of hosts. And again, verily I say unto you, O inhabitants of the earth, I, the Lord, am willing to make these things known unto all flesh. For I am no respecter of person, and I will that all men shall know that the day soon it cometh, the hour is not yet.

but is nigh at hand, whence peace shall be taken from the earth, and the devil shall have power over his own dominion. And also the Lord shall have power over his strength, and shall reign in their midst, and shall come down in judgment upon a doomer or the world. Search these commandments, for they are true and faithful.

and the prophecies and promises which are in them shall be fulfilled. For I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I give not my share. And though the heavens and the earth pass away, my word shall not pass away, but shall all be fulfilled, whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servant. It is the same.

For behold and lo, the Lord God is true, and his spirit beareth record, and the record is true, and the truth abideth forever and ever. Amen. My dear brothers and sisters, I have a job to do. Here the Lord calls the whole world unto his center. I have heard many times the servants of God.

Tell us to get the Spirit of God in people. We have heard that in our days of peace when we've been permitted to gather together the saints and talk to them and tell them of the great calamities that are coming upon the earth for the Lord has spoken. In this revelation he meant that unless people repent of their sins and come unto him that they have no promise.

Then why is it that since the prophet Joseph Smith bore this great testimony that he saw and talked with the Father and the Son and was permitted to organize the priesthood of God in the earth and to set it up into operation, that there's no more than a mere handful at the present time of people?

who will accept the sin. When Christ leaves this earth, or this continent, so great was the destruction among the children of men that they remembered it for 200 years, and some of them more than that. What kind of a shake-up is it going to be, going to take in our day to bring about a thousand years of peace and perfect confidence among you?

children of men. The prophet Joseph told us that there were those now living upon the earth in his days whose eyes could not be closed in death until all these things that he had been telling his people would come to pass. And he'd been telling them about the calamities that were about to come upon the earth. It was filed away for the The turn of the ten tribes of Israel. How much longer have we got to wait? I'm afraid, my brothers and sisters, that the time is not very long. Some of us may live to see the day. And it may be our children who will see it, or our children who will see it. But the Lord has said that not one drop or pillar of the words of the prophets should go unfulfilled.

So why do we linger? Why do we stand by the wayside and bicker with one another over trifling things and hold out the grace of God for my need? What man among us can say that he is so perfect that he knows beyond any shadow of a doubt that he is right and our brother is wrong? Can't be done. Not in our way.

He might be called to revelation, to lead the future. But when he boasts in his strength, standing on it, might he turn out. So we'd better watch ourselves, each and every one of us. We're all working for the same goal. We all are working for that thing we call eternal life, for eternal increase. As none of us have forced to fall short of that great blessing.

We'd better watch ourselves and watch what we're doing. I remember one time having an argument with one of my brothers over some shift in doctrine, and I knew that I was right and he knew he was right. If we argued for two or three weeks during the daytime, we'd take a book with us and find points to substantiate our points.

Our belief. One night we started in right after work about 4 o'clock in the afternoon and we argued for back and forth for some 30 hours. And I went, I left in and said that I was, I knew that my views was right and I wouldn't give in. Because I won't do. I don't care what. What happens to me, I will not give in. So I went home, went to bed. I got to thinking, was this thing over? And the spirit of God told me, I'd better get up and go and ask forgiveness. I got brother in there. And the first thing I said, I'm not going to ask forgiveness. I've got nothing to do with forgiveness. If anybody asks forgiveness, he's going to come to me. But I couldn't go to sleep. And finally, something said, you'd better get up and go for a price here. So I went over.

I had to shake him to wake him up. He said, what do you want? I said, I come over to ask your forgiveness. I said, in the first place, I was wrong for ever starting an argument with you. I'm not going to do anything until you forgive me for what I've done. Well, he got up and put his arms around me.

Because I knew all the time you'd do this after a while, but you just had to learn your lesson. I had to give in. It hurt me like tradition for a little while. But I went home, I went back to the bed, laid down, and I guess the Lord put me to sleep quick so I'd forget what had happened. I didn't even know when I hit the pillow. Next thing I knew, it was daylight.

Well, from that time to live, my brothers and sisters, I found out, or I realized, that it does no good to argue a point of doctrine. Reverend Carter has tried to teach us that. He says, if you don't understand the point of doctrine, don't argue over it. He says, lay it on the shelf. Leave it alone. Don't even touch it or go near it.

But leave it alone. Because one of these days somebody will say something about it and you'll understand it. It's better to do that than to argue it. So we've got a lot to learn. Every one of us. And we have to have these things come along in order to make men and women out of it. So that we can learn how to get the Spirit of God in people. One of the great things that the matter will give people and all other people.

Then the matter was with the people in the south and in the forest, and in the middle south and everywhere else. The matter is this little word says, Too many of us have not value, value make one another. A bitter man was the father of the prophet Joseph Smith, and he was called to his position as patriarch of the state. You know what the Lord said to him? I'll read it.

Behold, a marvelous work is about to come forth among the children of men. Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind, and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day. Therefore, if ye have desire to serve God, ye are called to the work.

For behold, a field is white, ready to harvest. And lo, he that trusteth in his sisters with his might, the same layeth up in store that he sayeth not. But bringeth salvation to his soul, and faith, hope, and charity, and love, and a nice window to the glory of God. qualify him for the world. Remember, faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, godliness, charity, humility, diligence. Ask and you shall receive. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. Amen. That's what the Lord said to you. Father, the Father, Jesus, Amen.

Again, the Lord said, And if you have not faith, hope, and charity, you can do nothing. Go back a little bit. Ask your Father in my name in faith, believing that you shall receive and you shall have the Holy Ghost, which manifesteth all things which are expedient unto the children of men. And if you have not faith, hope, and charity, you can do nothing. Again, and let him repent of all his folly, and clothe himself with charity and cease to do evil, and lay aside all his hard teachings, and stay stuck and also under the hand of the storm of the noble house for himself and for himself.

his generation after him, from generation to generation, and so forth. That is the key to our great success as brothers and sisters. That little word says it. There are many other references that we might refer to that will help us along the way. Let us seek, my brothers and sisters, to overcome these weaknesses we have.

Even though it hurts, if we can overcome them, if we can go to our brother and ask forgiveness, it don't make any difference whether we're leaders or whether we're not. Sometimes we have to do it. The Lord will uphold us in our righteous doing. Sometimes we make mistakes and we have to repent. Sometimes we say things and we say one thing and we mean another. Sometimes we hate.

feelings of our brothers, they can't take it. But he that can take his drawings and teach them a brother and not hold feelings, he's got much faith. He grows that much faith. I remember one time when he was a servant to the Lord, he wrote me a letter. He'd been misinformed, and when I got the letter, I knew by the tone of the letter there was something wrong. There was something wrong.

He'd been told that I had done things that I hadn't ought to do. Took the hide off and the crown of my head to the shoulder of my feet. He told me a lot of things that I hadn't, that happened to me if I didn't do that, if I didn't retaliate. I knew that the situation had been misrepresented to him, so I didn't say anything about it. By the way, the next time I met the man, I ended up...

Good times with him. I've never mentioned it to him. I never heard it again. He put his arms around me and he says, Roy, you should be stuck. If it had been any other night, and I knew it, I'd have heard that. It's the saying that makes us grow. My brothers and sisters used to be able to take some faith, and faith was what a guy used to give, give, and give.

I pray that the Spirit of God will rest down upon you. I also am delighted with the progress of this people. It's a wonderful thing, my brothers and sisters, to see the great progress that has been made over the last 10 or 15 years of our service among you, of our church among you, not only you, but people in the far south.

The Lamanite people, they were down there this month and baptized 34, 32 people. Some of those, some of them were men who had been converted by the Latter-day Saint missionaries that weren't quite satisfied with the doctrine they taught. First thing they done, they placed one of these books in the Mexican language in their hands.

According to the testimony of these men, the relatives couldn't answer some of the questions to satisfy. They asked on some of the doctrine of this person, and there's more in the doctrine of this person. So, they come over to hear us talk. After they heard it, they came up and asked about this. They had men that were...

had known us years ago, then misled by other men, found out that they were misled, came back, wanted the grace, and they asked for baptism. So the Spirit of God is working upon the Lamanite people as well as upon those of the Gentiles who accept the gospel. They're the Gentiles. I pray that the Spirit of God will continue with us, and that we continue to project and increase, and that we can get together and bear our differences, not only one way, but in every way possible, that we might get the Spirit of God to speak with us. And I pray that the Spirit of God will permeate every soul here.

and everyone that is done with them, given more time determination to solve a lot of difficult problems around the world and in the future.