Now I ask President Johnson to speak. It's a wonderful sight, my brothers and sisters, and I'm grateful for the privilege I have of being here and listening to the word of God to you. When President Musser started to speak, I was reminded of the passage of Scripture wherein it says that all men are created equal. President Musser says that...

were not all the same height. I was wondering if there was a mistake made. Reminded me of one of our last trips together. One of the brethren left his razor home. Wanted to know if he had an extra razor or if he could borrow one. I told him I had a pile driver that he If you wanted to use that, you'd be welcome to it. You wanted to know what I meant by a piledriver. Well, some time ago, someone made me a present of one of these electric machines that you put on your face. Soon after you get through using one of those things, the whiskers begin to come out again. For all the other piledrivers, you drive them back in, and then pretty soon they rise back. Brother Musser said to me one day, he said,

Do you shave with an electric razor or one of these pulling machines? The answer was, it depends upon who I'm going to see. Well, we're all created equal. The Lord put a mind in our head, and we all have the power to use it. Someone said at the commencement of the meeting that there was a war in heaven.

between two characters and that war is still going on we are equal enough to know that this is actual fact and the lord has given us enough intelligence to know the difference between good and evil even the little child of the gentiles taught what's good for them and what's bad for them and most of them are taught that to obey their parents is one of the first laws of heaven, obedience to those who care for them. And to be disobedient, they're punished. We who have had the gospel of Jesus Christ explained to us know the difference between good and evil as the Lord has intended us to do, to understand.

But this great war that we've been talking about is still going on. But there's only two powers that we have to deal with. And one of those powers will take us back into the presence of our Father in Heaven. The other will deal to us damnation. So the only thing that the brethren are trying to put over to you people, is to heed the powers that will give you knowledge and understanding of the character of God, that you might assimilate yourself into that character. And we'd like to have you understand that you have nothing else in mind only to lay before you the conditions that actually exist among our people that might be holding us back from gaining these blessings the lord needs a people that he can put his trust in and we're trying to lead you along that road that you might become some good along the way in assisting the lord to redeem his people and we cannot be of any use unless we understand

the principles of the celestial kingdom for the lord has plainly said the divine cannot be redeemed only upon the principles of the celestial kingdom now if we can learn by if we can learn wisdom knowledge and understanding by the mistakes we make we make and listen to the counsels of the lord through his servants we can become a people that the Lord can use. And I humbly pray that the Spirit of God will rest upon us enough so that we can so order our lives that we might become useful in this work. I don't feel like speaking longer, but I ask the blessings of God to be upon you that we might go on now from this meeting.

and put into practice those wonderful principles that have been so beautifully laid before us this afternoon. God bless you. Amen.