One of our so-called friends, Mr. Robert Johnson, not long ago, he told him about the same thing that someone told the Prophet Moses in his day. You're not serious enough. You smile too often. But I thank God that he's reconciled his life to submit to the will of heaven and has taken upon him the yoke of Christ.

Teach Christ to eat, and his yoke is easy, and his burden is light. Then I heard from Pastor John. My dear brothers and sisters, I pray that the Spirit of God will rest upon me, and that I will not be trapped in the spirit of this news. While Pastor Matthew was speaking, I was reminded of a thought that he had expressed, and I think I should just read to you.

That's what President Musser said before. The passage is found in the radio section of the Boston Covenant. President Musser quoted the first part of it that I'm going to read. Draw near unto me, and I will draw near unto you. Seek me diligently, and you shall find me. Ask, and ye shall receive. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Whatsoever ye ask your Father in my name, it shall be given unto you. That is experience for you. No doubt every person in the room has, in this building, has asked the Lord for this Holy Spirit. To give unto them the revelation of the Holy Spirit that they might know what to do for their salvation. The servants of God have continually invited the people to repent and to get near the Lord, that in the day of trouble they might find him, that he might have compassion upon them and deliver them out of the hands of our enemies. Some 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 where they have hundreds and I guess thousands of idols. The Book of Mormon tells us about the great idols worshipping people that once inhabited this country. We also had the privilege of visiting some of the ruins in this great land of Mexico. And in the museums that surround these ruins, we find thousands upon thousands of idle, devoid statues. Rift-sized to mountain-sized and giant-sized statues. We all know what happened to those nations that worshipped such He was told that Abraham's father, Sarah, was an idol-worshipping man. And I don't know of 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 sizes in his home.

fell as the king of idols. So Abraham takes the hat and goes through and breaks the little idols all up and tears them from him. They were mad because of the destruction that had taken 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 said, greatly displeased, 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, then why do you worship him? If he can't move, why do you worship him? So he took the hatchet and began to beat upon the king of idols. And Terah said to Abraham that he reported him to the king.

and abandoned and understood to take his life. I walk down the streets of our beloved nation and I see in the windows of our stores hundreds and thousands of little idols. Little innocent little idols. And that goes so high and so high and so on. And people are clamoring after them. I see them in the homes of the Latter-day Saints.

I don't have to do any further than my own home to see. Now they're little innocent things. 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. Why? Because our hearts are being set upon the idea the Lord says I shall serve no other God beside me. Are we repenting of our sins?

Are we seeking for the knowledge that God gave us when he created us? The Lord said unto Amos, Behold these thy brethren. They are the workmanship 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 into thy brethren have I said, and also given commandments, 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 is to 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 wanted to place themselves in the hands of the priesthood that they might be placed correctly during their lifetime. 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 change of President Ammon and President Michael is 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. Since we placed in the homes of our people the women of Mormon, that great book. 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 give her to have the same knowledge as Lazarus know her. 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 priesthood who wrote it. A little more.

I'm going to read from the second from second nephi in the ninth chapter this time that they know of themselves by far thy wisdom is foolishness, and it profiteth them not, and they shall perish. But to be learned is good, if they hearken unto the counsel of God. This people, the latter-day saints, are a lover of high learning, but what does it profit them unless they apply it in the right way it's one of the turning ways my brothers and sisters that the evil one has of diverting the minds of the people from the learning that god has demanded of his children for their salvation a wish that i could express myself in a way that would be convincing to this body of people who are listening to me tonight. I wish that we could place before this people the true picture 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 through reading the history of the saints of God throughout the

generations of time, that 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 kept 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 great 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 life that will take you back into the presence of our Father in heaven and the things that we have tried to do.

placed 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 sit 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, yes. It's enticing.

But what does it profit us in the end, brethren? Every man and woman that has 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, But this is a serious matter. It's something that pertains to our eternal salvation. And unless we pay attention to what is said and begin to look around us and see how in we are following the fashions of the world and see how in we are deviating from the requirements of God and we do nothing to correct these.

evils. We're not repenting or complying with the requirements of the priesthood. All of the, that great prophet that President Messer spoke of, Joseph Smith, in trying to comply our lives, or comply our lives with this, the requirements that was made of him through our Father in Heaven, through our elder brother Jesus Christ.

Unless we are doing that, we are not doing very much to repent of that which is not right before us. I pray that the Spirit of God will settle down upon this people and that we will 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 He asked 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 the protection of His arm. He said that He would make by His arm in protection of His strength.

if it need be 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 there were those standing in this generation The day that he lived, his eyes would not close in death until these great things would come to pass. They were not very far off. And if we go into the history of the Lord's people and the destruction of people on this continent, we find that just prior to the great destruction, the perseverance of God was moved upon to seek.

the same way to the people in that place. And when they become so united in their efforts to condemn the prophets, in their teachings, when the Lord destroys, when the destruction is complete, the left won't be found in that class of Christians. Let's destroy every evidence of worldly ideas in our home and begin to apply to our lives the principles of righteous living. May God bless you always. I understand the name of Jesus Christ in you.