I think there are none of us here, probably, who would begrudge a little more time. Let's extend to President Johnson what time he wishes to occupy. I don't want to incur the displeasure of too many people. Here I set sun back in the shade a while ago, and now the sun's shining in their face, and I don't know what they'll cut in their heart about me right now. But nevertheless, I pray that the Spirit of God will rest.

upon me and that I might say something that will benefit someone and that we might be partakers of the good spirit while we further wait. I've been very much interested in the remarks that have been made this afternoon and I know that the spirit of God has rested upon the speakers. The subject that President Musher has just presented to you is one of the most important of all subjects that I know of. For this reason that we'll be of no use to the progress of the kingdom of our Father Adam without a body. And to deprive us of the privilege of having a body in the hereafter is only to reject the testimony of Christ. That's all we have to do. So if there are anyone among us who thinks they can get away from it all by leaving this work, they only need to go to Mexico, out among these Indian tribes that we have, look over their suffering condition, and see what

suffering that we'd have to go through in order to shed these bodies. Go down on the street corner in the city and see men and women begging for an existence. And why is it? Simply because they have broken a law. They have some time along the line, they've had a chance or they're forefathers have had a chance to accept or reject the gospel of Christ, and they're on the road to road out. Some have met with misfortune one way or another. Maybe they haven't had the chance to receive the gospel, but the chance will be given them sometime later. But it only goes to show the condition that we would be in if we had the chance to accept or reject the gospel and then rejected it, it shows to us the suffering that men and women would have to go through in order to pay the penalty that Uncle Guy has just been telling us about. His body was given to us for a definite purpose of becoming like God is, for as man is, God once was.

And as God is, man may become. And the only way he can become as God is to live and apply to their lives the principles that will assimilate us into his character. And that's what the guy has been trying to put over here. It's a very serious matter, my brothers and sisters, to reject the counsel of the priesthood. The priesthood is...

God's power here upon the earth. Men who are called to reside in it are acting under the inspiration of our Father in heaven and under his direction. The only way that priesthood can be purely given to a people is through the faith of the people. It's true that men can buy their testimonies, but before you can...

know and understand the full purpose of that priesthood, you'll have to create a desire to know from our Father in Heaven His will concerning you. And there's only one way you can draw it, and that's through the channel that the Lord has instituted for the edification and the education.

of his subjects. The prophet Joseph was so instructed under the tutorship of Christ himself. That's where he received his first instruction. And then, under the direction of Christ, angels appeared to him. These angels didn't come until after Joseph had had a conversation with Christ himself. And from that time on, Joseph was instructed by men who held the priesthood and the right and the authority that was needed to institute the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the restoration of the priesthood in the latter days. And that priesthood teaches us the principles of our existence.

The necessity of coming here and receiving these bodies and purifying them and then taking them back in a purified condition. And anyone who feels that they can defile these bodies or go against the counsel of the priesthood in preserving them and get back into the presence of Father, which they'll have to go without paying a penalty for it, they'll have to be...

They need to be instructed and receive the instructions of how to do it. Because you cannot escape the penalty of disobedience. No man or woman, no matter whether they're living or dead, can escape the punishment of disobedience. And when you have lived and had the testimony of Jesus born to you, and then you want...

before your Father in heaven and ask him for a testimony and have received it, great is the responsibility that is upon you when you bear testimony to the world or to your friends that you know that the gospel is true. Much greater than you have stopped to realize or think upon is that responsibility. For there is a great work to do.

The Lord says where much is given, much is expected. And when a man goes before the Lord and asks for a testimony of the truth and it's given to him, it's his duty to do all that he can to perfect that testimony and apply it to his life that he might not come under condemnation. The wages of sin are terrible. So let's...

Pay attention to what has been told us this afternoon, my brothers and sisters, and go from this meeting with a firm determination to serve the Lord and keep his commandments and to do that which we have been told to do. May God bless you, I humbly pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.