As he approached this afternoon, observed this good-looking crowd. The other guys remarked that our common Christian inclination is to have our eyes on the stars and not looking where we're going. It all reminded me of a story that I heard in my youth about horse traders. One man owned a horse, and another one wanted this horse. When he approached his neighbor to try to induce him to sell to him the horse, Don't want to sell him. Well, why not? Well, he don't look good. The man looked the horse over pretty carefully, concluded it looked good enough to him, insisted that he have the horse. The man concluded he had told him the truth of the matter and didn't want to deceive him. The horse didn't look good. He didn't want to let him go. Another man insisted and paid the price, took the horse away, and after a few days he came back with a serious complaint.

A neighbor of mine, he says, he was telling me a blind horse. His neighbor, I told you that horse didn't look good. And I'm wondering, in my own case and many of you, just where we're looking, does it look good? No matter how good we may look from other people's viewpoint, are we looking as good as we should at our own course and where we're going? I very much have enjoyed the remarks of Brother Jeff and his very splendid and timely admonitions. Speak my faith.

see the course that we could pursue. And in Brother Blackmore's reference to obedience to priesthood, I thought of this, that prophet who presides over this dispensation was not able to look sufficiently with his naked natural eyes to effect the work that had been assigned to him to accomplish. He required the use of other instruments, and it is so as of today.

I think there's none of us that are capable of looking entirely with our own powers sufficiently good, if you please, to know just exactly where we're going without the use of the instruments that the Almighty has set to be our coaches, our guides, our directors. In order to meet the requirements of obedience that's made of us, we need to use some horse sense.

We're admonished to keep our ears aground, our eyes on the stars, and our hand on the throttle. To see where we're going, but to better observe the off-times with our eyes on the stars. Find our course into this. Maybe it isn't the right star we're looking to. I feel very grateful, and I, with Brother Jeff, feel humble today. The great responsibility that we bear, having made the claims that we have to each other and to the world.

know by the grace of the Spirit of God and by its power and influence the course that we are presuming to pursue. We shouldn't like the blunders that oftentimes many of us make. There is not sufficient excuse for us to get by in the course that we have sometimes followed. We have, we pretend, a knowledge burning within our own beings as to the truthfulness and genuineness of this.

premise upon which we stand, and of the direction that we presume to be traveling. And I believe we are traveling in that direction. But I'm sure there are many of us who are not making the advancements that we should be making with the opportunities that have been afforded us. As has so often been stated, particularly by President Johnson, we have not concerned ourselves enough about the condemnation that we are under. We take these things too lightly.

The Latter-day Saints have done all down through these many years and treated lightly the things that they have received. And I think it would be a splendid thing for most of us to just take a personal application of that matter and note wherein we individually are treating lightly the gifts and blessings that the good Lord has extended to us for our advancement, for our exaltation. We want to be.

content with a mere or the merest measure of salvation that can be extended by the grace of god we might sometime be used for something and in the language of president barlow so often expressed in my hearing we might be good people but we'll never be good enough until we think more deeply more keenly and resolve more determinedly to look more carefully if you please course that we're following and to the use that we make of the privileges and opportunities that are afforded us. It's one of the tragedies of all time, my way of thinking, that our blessed Mormon people, my progenitors and yours, my kindred by the hundreds, are going along treating lightly the things that they have received, ignoring the counsels of heaven.

and are wandering off into oblivion, with the blessings of the gospel having been extended to them by the hand of their leaders in the priesthood from the beginning of this dispensation to now. Still going on in indifference, carelessness, speaking lightly, these cases and blessed things. Learn in me just as I hope and pray, that the grace of God will be to us sufficiently, which I know it will, inasmuch.

and only inasmuch as we concern ourselves, as we should be, about these things that up to the present time so many of us have been seeking all too rightly. May the grace of God be unto us in sufficient measure that we would be induced, by some means, whatever means it might require, to awaken us and arouse us and to stir us into greater devotion to the principles of everlasting life.

This is my humble prayer for each and all of us, my dear brothers and sisters in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.