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Talk of Richard S. Jessop, Canada, 29 May 1960

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29 May 1960

Talk of Richard S. Jessop, Canada, 29 May 1960

A talk by Richard S. Jessop at a general meeting in Canada. The archive file is labeled Richard S. Jessop. The automatic transcript of the opening does not clearly name the speaker. The text is an automatic, unreviewed transcript of the recording, lightly paragraphed for reading. The recording itself is the source.

Members · Full recording · 24:17

I feel like I need the support of your faith and prayers rather than just the small of it. In order to do justice to the call made in such circumstances as this. And yet, while we are asking for the Lord to make manifest to us, so that we may be false feelings that we need to correct, still I am aware, in some measure, that the answer is blazing before our eyes. We oftentimes say that signals are easy, but it's just a I'm very much impressed with Aunt Susan's remarks, it seems like she spoke from my heart.

It seems that some individuals are especially gifted with the ability to be public speakers. some of us it seems like are very much lacking in that ability notwithstanding the fact that when the lord calls a person to do a job Well, I don't seem the right thing to begin explaining about my inability, but the thing to do is to proceed and do the best that we can.

It's been my observation and experience many, many times in my life, particularly since this calling came to me. Sometimes when I've been left with a considerable amount of responsibility in our immediate community, all of my seniors going away, and at times I felt so burdened down with problems problems and perplexities and I felt like that I was just about snowed under and I was in the mire over my head but I couldn't see my way out. I found other individuals coming to me with their problems and expecting to be given a lift. Therefore, not taking my beatings and my I don't believe there's ever been a time when Constantine Bezos arose and I've been willing to exert myself to the best of my ability with what the good Lord has been kind enough

It's hard to stand to come to the rescue. And I believe that everything such as circumstances arise is what bears what comes to be a lift. What they have is. Even though I fell alive with my abatement, I already had it. Cutting me into the yacht within a mile beyond my ability to extricate myself.

And so often times I didn't know you were in bed with me. I still said it. It brought to me more strength than I had without that effort. to get out of my own load I feel like I have acquired a a lot of understanding a better way to to change my mind and fitness If I'm not gesturing toward him a little bit, in one of these days we'll leave a few lines.

What does this mean? I don't know what this means. What does this mean? 94, I don't even know what this means. I don't know what this means. And I write off these kind words to each other. This will come through the cards and I'll say it without changing the remarks. A retentive force, this wording, let me off speak kind words to another, but home was where I may be.

Like the warbling of birds on the heather, the cranes will be welcoming, too. Oh, the kind words I hear when a memory lives and sunshine forever imparts, let me oft speak I speak kind words to my brothers, kind words when feet close to the heart. As the sunbeams of morn on the mountain, the soul they awake to good cheer, as the murmur of cruel presence fountains they fall in sweet fervor and sneer.

Let us, then, in kindly common voices, our mutual friendship renew, till heart meets with heart and rejoices in friendship with every spirit, and every soul, and content to I can bring myself to that condition, to it, to it, no circumstances and conditions arise the time I've taken, as I look at my TV, and I'm at this position, and I find the answer to my question, that sometimes would be difficult to ask of myself, what is real, what do I What do I need to do? How do I need to revive my course of conduct?

I need to get myself in complete communion and harmony with the Spirit of God and with the responsibilities of my office in college. I don't recall whether I made reference to this particular matter when I was here, but it's ever new and fresh to me. Happiness, the object and design of our existence, happiness is the object and the design of our existence.

And we'll begin there off if we pursue the path of good gifts. This path is virtue of righteousness, faithfulness, holiness, and in keeping all of the commandments of God. But we cannot keep all the commandments without first knowing them, and we cannot expect to know all, or more than we now know, unless we comply with or keep those we have already received.

That which is wrong under one circumstance may be, and oftenly is, right under another. God said, Thou shalt not kill. At another time he said, Thou shalt utterly destroy. This is the principle upon which the home and the heaven is conducted, by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed. Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is. Although we may not seem to be here after long after the events transpired, if we seek first the kingdom of God, all good things the others. So was Solomon. First he asked wisdom, and God gave it him, and with it every desire of his heart. Even things which might be considered abominable to those who understand the order of heaven only at heart, but which in reality were right because God gave them

sanctioned by special revelation. The plant may whip a card, just like you, because you stole an apple. Whereas, if the child had asked for the apple, and the plant had given it, the child would have eaten it with a better appetite. There would have been no strikes. All the pleasures of the apple had then secured all the misery of schooling lost.

This principle was justly applied to all of God's dealings with his children. Everything that God gives us is lawful and right, and it is proper that we should enjoy his gifts and blessings whenever and wherever he is disposed to bestow it. But if we could seize upon those same blessings and enjoyments without law, without revelation, without commandments, those blessings and enjoyments would prove curses and temptations in the end, and we could have to lie down in sorrow and wailings of everlasting regret.

But in obedience, there is joy and peace unspotted on the Lord. And as God has designed that happiness and the happiness of all His creatures, He never has, He never will, to institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness that he has designed and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory for those who become the recipients of his ball and ordinance.

Blessings offered but rejected are no longer blessings, but returns but become like the count hid in the earth by the wicked and scornful servant the prophet good returns to the giver the blessing is bestowed upon those who will receive and occupy for unto him that hath shall be given and he shall have abundantly but unto him that hath not that were not received shall be taken away that which he hath or might have had. Our Heavenly Father is more liberal in his views and boundless in his mercies and blessings than we are ready to believe or receive, and at the same time is more terrible to the workers of the Mississippi, more awful than the execution of his punishment, more ready to detect every false wave than we are asked to suppose him to be.

We will be inquired of by his children, he shall ask that he shall receive, she shall shall come. But if you will take that which is not your own, or which I have not given you, you shall be rewarded according to your deeds. But no good thing will I withhold from them who will listen to my voice and to the voice of my servants whom I have sent. For I delight in those who speak diligently, who know my precepts, and abide by the law of For all things shall be made known unto them in mine own time, and in the end they shall have joy.

Thank you. This blessing is a gospel plan. Consist of everything that is true and right and correct and proper. Help me get through this phase of my life. Thinking of peace of conduct and thoughts and feelings are everything that pertains to us. All that's good and true and perfect and rich and lovely and enjoyable is part of the Gospel class.

That Gospel is full, containing those laws and ordinances, those principles, those ceremonies. Everything is calculated to prepare mankind to enter into the presence of God, I extended to those who were willing to pray to Christ a devotion, and that's it. When I stopped sinning, notwithstanding our beloved old minstrelsy institution, which is something like a billion and a half in numbers today, and all the population of the earth and the grand and glorious things that we see around us today.

Most of them not secular parties, salvation for souls and men. But we, a mere and significant handful of people, All that are left on the face of the earth, who have access to these faces of holy ordinances of the house of God, for the peace of the eternal people, are extended to us the rights that come with the soul of the earth.

and nobody else in this heaven or these things extended to me under those who are willing to open their hearts and minds and receive the truth upon which he came alive and said it to me. What a grand and extraordinary opportunity it is very next to the face of the day we live. And yet we go along, and all these many years of seeing life in a human vision, failing to take ourselves in hand in sufficiency, force, influence, power, to give ourselves or these Pesty little afflictions, personal tendencies and intonation Stranding our way, day after day, year in and year out, through lifetime It would seem to me that we ought to be on our knees every day of our lives.

We like bending our knees before the throne of grace every moment to think of it, and we ought to think of it continuously. In between the powers present, we extend unto us the strength, the power, the ability to forsake our sins. We dread from our very hearts and our minds and our souls, our thoughts and feelings, every faultless inclination.

And I'm sure it is as far as I am willing to make the effort, and it's not beyond my power to make the effort. Though I well remember in my early manhood, I went to an old graveyard for reflection, The reflection, among other things, is that we remember that through your creatures you are the master, and the evil ones cannot harm you, only as you give way to temptation and desire.

And I stopped and turned and waited, waiting to see if those roads made me stick in my boots. And there have been so many, many things in my course of life where I have failed. About the most in my mind, though, is form-reality, a circle of those days, stated on my head by the inspiration of heaven.

No, the old patriarch was not a neighbor of plural marriage. He didn't live that far in the patriarchal law. And yet I am satisfied with the news that oftentimes those words that do our sincere received much of the spirit and inspiration are often used by the good Lord to express his will to his dead.

I desire nothing less for you my dear brother and sister, my dear dear, dear dear to me, your association with my privilege to enjoy what you think of me. I have very recent several visits in other parts of the nation, in the association of those of you who have been on our way to visit with us there.

I have established in my heart and mind a feeling of bloody hope that I hope will continue never to end. May God grant that each and all of us may have the grace, the power of God to sit and to collect our own airways, and complete a charge without seeing or forgetting, to show our perfect service, over the faults of our bad news pictures, and never look for faults in one another.

To do our utmost to cover them with a bank of charity, and our own might be covered when we find ourselves one day, Going along in complete and perfect harmony and unity with one another. God bless you.

Sources

  1. From the Historical Short Creek archive, 1960 documents. Duration 24:17. Automatic transcript (unreviewed). Speaker identification is from the archive file name, checked against the opening of the recording where it names or introduces the speaker.

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