You'll give to President Johnson what time he wishes. Children and sisters, I have been sad tonight. I'm thankful to my Father in Heaven that I'm permitted to meet with you again this evening, rejoicing in the 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. They might not be tracked from the words that have been already said. The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. And if we want to perfect ourselves in the knowledge of the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, we must.

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. The Lord is very good to us, to the people that live upon the earth today. He's anxious that the honest in heart hear the truth and have a chance to accept or reject.

I've been associated with this particular work now for close to 20 years. I regretted the moment, but 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. And so the peace and rest that has come to me even in our dire persecution.

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 reached upon us. I have rejoiced in the fact that I knew that they were doing the will of God as far as our knowledge would permit us to do so. What we have to do is this work. The greater the testimony we have that it's the Lord's work. God bless you.

Visiting our people from Canada to Mexico. Where 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, or the condition that people are in. I rejoice in the knowledge that I have that 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 she tells me that this is not the only generation of time that god has poured out his spirit upon his children he has told us time and again through his prophet his children must repent and receive the gospel of jesus christ and apply it to their lives or they would be destroyed We're living under the same promise today, that 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 has an example to it of what the wages of sin are.

once a delightful people like you and i had risen to a height of intelligence equal to that which we enjoy today the 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 if they didn't set them to destroy when they became wicked and would not listen to his word when he took his prophets and apostles from among them we can see the result of it in the generations of the lamanite people how fast is the generations of the day The taking of the same elements of destruction that people forget. I 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. The ones that are living among us today, those unto whom the Lord revealed this work, namely the prophet Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor.

we received kimball another personally acquainted with the prophet joseph and the church of the spirit 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 people those men and we're left without excuse And as has been said here before tonight, the Lord is not pleased with us when we speak lightly things we have received. So the message that the Lord has for this people is get the Spirit of God and keep it. Be 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 in which you live.

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. When they wake up in the morning of the resurrection, they'll 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 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 man enough fame 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. Has God got enough man fame 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. The great missionary work to be done. Do that missionary work, there's three examples. 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. Then it's a four. Reminded of one little band of Lamanite people. 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 to say what they do they knelt before them and told 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 to be killed about two thousand but through that there was four thousand 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 displease the Spirit of God, we can't do it no more. We'd all fight it.

God. He didn't 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 of God upon you, each and every one, and pray that he Bless you with the spirit of His Holy Spirit, and bring you up to the point where you will be pleased with direction. I humbly pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.