I'm happy to welcome you here again, mad brothers and sisters. Still more of an audience here than I've anticipated. I really rejoice to see you here. And say this to your own conscience as well. Never be afraid of your conscience. But be sure that your conscience is formed by the precepts of the precepts. That's one thing I'd like to be sure of in my life, that my conscience is formed by the precepts of the precepts. However, I guess the question has to...

die before he finds out whether his conscience was formed by the priesthood. To understand that the people who had made war with Christ in heaven were cast out of heaven and still thought they were in harmony with God and the saints themselves. When we get to the stage, brothers and sisters, that we know a thing and we know we know it and we know God knows we know it, I wouldn't advise anybody to go against that conscience. On the other hand, how do we know when we ever get to that stage?

Inception was placed on us the last time we were down in Salt Lake City and never let another day rest until we found out how we stood in the eyes of God. Sometimes that's a pretty difficult task. I wish I knew. Furthermore, brothers and sisters, I wish I knew how to find out. I guess I got a loose cog in my nation that doesn't seem to shift that. There's some things I know, though, and I know them right. And I know God knows I know them.

And I know him just as well as I know the prophet Joseph Smith knew that he saw a vision. He wouldn't deny that knowledge if it took him to him apart and destroyed him. Neither will I deny the knowledge that I have. To do so would be to my utter disgust. I ask the Lord to bless you people that you will be just as firm in sustaining your conscience and as firm to the priesthood as I will be in sustaining mine. I ask the Lord to bless his servants this night.

He may make them the great and agnostic physicians that can point out to you and I the things they see in us that are not according to the Spirit of God. The moral code, if you please, that I have gone through all my life and pleased to call a righteous life and has filled it up into what I call myself. Realizing as I stand before you and before God's servant and before God himself that I will have to answer for my folly and my sin and that every one of you will have to.

that we will be rewarded according to our merits, and that if we may have misjudged our neighbor in his intentions or his desires, we will have that brought upon our own souls. I pray to God that we will manifest to his servants just how we people stand tonight. You know, there are doctors that you can go to and ask for a diagnosis.

I don't know what to call it. Diagnosis, I guess. There's so many diagnostics and diagnosticians and diet stuff and everything. If a man gets his tongue tied up, he doesn't know just exactly which one he wants. I've met very good English men. These are like two to three symbols. They get their tongue tied up in a lot of it and put the head where the feet ought to be. They generally can make themselves understood. Some doctors, when they go and search through a man and they see something serious wrong with him, they're reluctant to tell the man so maybe the shock will destroy the man. And I hope...

The Lord doesn't stare at me like that. If he seems to dab in me, if he's afraid the shock will kill me, I may get to roll to dead now if the guy is slowly ending dead later. It's my humble prayer that the Lord will bless his servants. He'll let them be the great God's constitution. Tell us what it is. It's keeping the Lord from being satisfied with us. Or with me, I should say. I know he isn't. That's for certain. I don't know about you people. It's not my business to know.

Your business, you know, though. neither here nor there. I realize with the rest of you people that the Lord just doesn't play around with people. He gives them a certain amount of length of time and a certain amount of rope and they either hang themselves or learn how to coil the rope and keep it off their necks. I realize that we don't have too much time as a teacher. The Lord can raise up a people that he can talk to and talk with, but we're not as different as the people that can be united in doctrine and principle. I hope when he does that I've got enough of the intelligence of the Lord and the life.

spirit of light in me to be able to appreciate and see what those people look like. I don't ever expect to be one of them, but I hope and pray that some of you people will. Might be an interesting thing to see. Now, as I said before, I would really like to see the Lord go to work on me. People, like some doctors, say, look, brother, you've got a chance of growth inside of you, and unless you realize it, take proper steps, you'll be dead shortly.

There's no sense sidestepping or dodging the issue or pulling any punches. You're half dead. You're living in a slow dying race. You might just grow up to know you're dead if you died young. You're less than over. I ask the Lord to bless his servants. The man isn't prepared to come up to judgment. His belief and his understanding and his knowledge and what he knows is prepared to stand for it. He isn't much of a man. Or a woman either for that matter.

And they said that there's going to be things that test the faith of these people they weren't given. I know one person I see who's being tested, and that's J.R. Blackmore. And I'm not seeing you there. You people that are seeking for the principles of life and salvation, you better be sure that you know where you're going and what you're doing. You have to look more forward. You better be sure that it's the spirit of God and the power of the Holy Ghost that's prompting you and guiding you and inspiring you to do the things you do.

And if your testimony is right, you may see somebody else that thinks they've got the spirit of the Holy Ghost, the spirit of God and the power of the Holy Ghost, they're doing things that cause you to go astray. You'll be saved on your own knowledge and not by another's chance of saving. I suggest you find your own actions because somebody else's chance of saving. Now, why do I say these things? Because of some of the things that I feel the kids are saying. When the ingestion is placed on a people to be a...

a united people and become one and be a pure people i'd like to know on what terms doctor tells me that i'm sick mortally sick unto death but there's a hope for me and doesn't tell me what is wrong with me and where it is so i can go to work on it right and i guess as well as save my dollar bills and booted him right for an oblivious and 60 mile on the street i said before i hope that the lord will rest and inspire his servants and maybe point out some of these things to us A lot of these questions come to you, and it saves you two steps at the meeting. I really didn't intend to say anything when I got up, but things come up. I tell you, as soon as a man opens his mouth, you can tell what's in his heart. You want to know what's in a man's heart, so I just get him to open his mouth and speak, and you'll find out. Sometimes the best thing to do is to get it out of your heart, let somebody else see what it is, and maybe they've got a chance to correct it and help you.

Goodbye.