Let me hear some personal thoughts. My dear brothers and sisters, I pray that the spirit of God may rest upon me, and may not be trapped in the spirit of this meeting. The President's message is speaking, and I am reminded of the thoughts that he expressed, and I think I should just read to you.

Whatsoever you ask, your Father shall be given unto you, to give him for you. under them the revelations of the Holy Spirit that they might know what to do for their salvation. Servants of God have continually invited the people to repent of trouble they might find them, have compassion upon them, and deliver them out of the hands of our enemies. A long time ago I had the privilege of visiting the great city of Mexico, Mexico City.

I had the privilege of going through that noted museum. Hundreds and, I guess, thousands of intelligence about the great idol-worshipping people that once inhabited this country. I also had the privilege of visiting some of the ruins in this great land of Mexico. And so what happened to those nations worshipped that? Oh, that Abraham's father, Sarah, was worshipping man. I don't have a better story to tell you than what Joshua says about Abraham and his father. He says that Abraham went to visit his father and he found idols of all his folks. And one Lord came and took the hat that he was wearing.

He broke the little idols all up. Terah confirmed what was the destruction that was taking place in his house. They asked Abraham what was the matter, what had happened. Abraham says he brought a new idol in the house and it greatly displeased the king of idols and he took the hatchet and went through and broke them down. Terah says he couldn't do it because he can't move.

Abraham says, and why do you worship him? If you can't move, why do you worship him? So he took the hatchet and began to beat upon the king of idols. And there was the night of Abraham that he reported him to the king and abandoned when he said to take his life. I walked down the streets of our beloved nation, stories of our stories.

Little innocent like I do. I'm so high and so on. And people are clamoring after them. In the homes of the latter-day saints. I don't have to do any further than my own home to see them. But if I were to go through my own home and pick them up and carry them away, I'd be the worst man in the world. Our hearts are being set upon the idea. The Lord says I shall, depending of our sins, seeking for the knowledge that God gave us when he created us? The Lord said unto Enoch, Hold these thy brethren in the ship of mine own hand. And I gave unto them thy knowledge in the day I created them. Now listen to this. And in the garden of Eden gave I unto man his agency. And to thy brethren have I said, and also given commandment that they should love one another and that they should choose me, their father. But behold, they are without affection and they hate their own blood. My brothers and sisters, the thing that the servants of God have been trying to get this people to do

If you live according to the teachings that they have received, that they might know and understand that we gain knowledge, that we are saved no faster than we gain knowledge. Knowledge of what? Knowledge of our Father in Heaven, who He is, why He created us, and why we are here. I have young men and young women come to me, and what it is.

place their hands themselves in the hands of the priesthood, that they might be placed correctly during the day. Now why do they come? Because they have been taught that they made covenants before they came here, and they want to know who they covenanted with. Now God has blessed them with the knowledge that they did receive something before they came here, that they wouldn't be seeking after. And what I have just read to you, is what the Lord said unto Enoch, that he gave man knowledge in the day that he created him. And there is a way to find out the knowledge that God gave us, and that's through keeping the commandments of God and applying to our lives the principles of righteous living. The things that Fr. Hammond and Fr. Mitchell have told us tonight are the ways that we can find out.

the knowledge that was given to us in the day that God created. I've had young women come, sent to place in the homes of our people, the women of Mormon, that great book. I made this statement. I have it every once in a while. Someone comes and makes this statement to me. The greatest desire of my life is to become like or be able to.

have the same knowledge as Elijah or Simeon. Well, how did she get there? By applying to her life the principles of righteous living and seeking for the knowledge of what she knew before she came here and submitting herself to the counsel of the three children of Israel. From 2 Nephi, When they are learned, they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God. For they set it aside, supposing that they know of themselves far, far. Thy wisdom is foolishness, and it profiteth them not, and they shall pay. But to be learned is good.

if they hearken unto the counsel of God. This people, the Latter-day Saints, the lover of what was his prophethood, unless they, if one of the ten ways, my brothers and sisters, that the evil one has of diverting the minds of the people from the learning that God has handed of his, of our salvation. A wish that I could express.

way that would be convincing to this body of people. I wish that we could place before this people the two pictures that would bring them into a position, into a condition where God would be bound to shower down his blessings upon us like he would like to. For I know that the reading be justly old.

the saints of God throughout the generations of time. When the saints have been faithful in keeping the commandments of God and have had the uppermost in their minds to keep the commandments of God and to work out their salvation, that he has heaped blessings upon them. They've become rich, not only in spiritual things, but in the things of this world.

They have become rich. And if we want the rich blessings of heaven to settle upon us, we're going to have to conform our lives to the requirements that God has given us. As these brethren have told you tonight, they have given you the pure line that will take you back into the presence of our Father in heaven.

And the things that we have tried to say before you are true, and they're for the salvation of this people. And no one has any assurance of salvation in any other way. You can cut and listen to the radio, TV, and watch the television, and see men and women act, and what good is it to this people? It's enticing, yeah. It's enticing.

But what does it profit us in the end, I ask? Every man and woman gathered in this house tonight has come here to hear something that might help them to gain an exaltation in the presence of our Father in Heaven. And what good is it going to do them unless they apply some of these things to their lives? I want to tell you, my brothers and sisters, that this is a serious matter.

with something that pertains to our eternal salvation. And unless we pay attention to what is said and begin to look around us and see why we are following the fashions of the world and see why we are deviating from the requirements of God and we do nothing to correct these evils, we are not repenting.

are complying with the requirements of the priesthood, all of the great prophets that St. Matthew spoke of, Joseph Smith, and trying to compile our lives, or compile our lives with this, and the requirements that was made of him through our Father in Heaven, through our elder brother Jesus Christ. Unless we are doing that, we're not doing very much.

And the expense of that particular time is not right before us. And I pray that the Spirit of God will settle down upon this people. And that we would commence to pay attention to the things that are before us at this time. Because destruction is at our door. And little do you know or I know how soon we're going to be called upon to ask the protection of our Father in Heaven upon us. And unless we respond...

striving to get his spirit and keep it with us, we're going to be found in a bad way because we're going to need protection of his arm. He said that he would make by his arm in protection of his strength if it made do that he sent fire down from heaven to do so. Now if we're worthy of it, the Lord will protect us.

But if we're not worthy, we're going to find ourselves in a bad way. We hate to speak this way, but we know it's true. For the prophets of God have said it. That great prophet Joseph said that if there was those standing in this generation in the day that he lived, his eyes would not close in death until these great things would come to pass. So we're not very far off.

And if we go into the history of the Lord's people and the destructions of people from this government, we find that just prior to the great destruction that the servants of God were moved upon to seek the same way to the people in that day. And they become so united in their efforts to condemn the prophets, In the teaching, when the Lord destroyed, the destruction was complete. Let's don't define him in that class at this time. Let's define him. Let's destroy every evidence in our home. Begin to apply to our lives and to prove his righteous living. May God bless you all. I understand the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.