Minutes Fast Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City ,Utah 2, 1944, 2:00 p.m.

President John Y. Barlow presided

Brother Charles F. Zitting conducted.

Song;"All Hail the Glorious Day Prayer: Brother Niels Hansen Song;"Reverently and Meekly Now" Sacrament administered by;-Bros. Carl Fischer, R. C. Allred, assisted by Heber Smith and Eric Olschewski; Otto H. Olsehewski presided.

Testimonies by: Pansy Darger, Jean Darger Fred Cleveland and

D. W. Jeffs, who after his testimony made a prophecy about as follows: I testify that the brethren who are leading us are true servants of God and the Saint will have to follow their counsel if they attain to the glories of a celestial life; that the Saints would have to press forward to perfection. "I want to testify as a servant of God as it has been prophesied by Daniel H. Wells, O. F. Whitney and others that there would be a people come out of the hearts core of the Church and push spiritual things to the front, likewise a faithful people will come out of the hearts core of this group chosen by God through the Priesthood Council to abide the celestial laws and to establish the United Order, the Kingdom of God and aid in the redemption of Zion. I prophesy this in the name of the Lord God of Israel) Amen.

Brother Joseph W. Musser

Arose and said he wished to testify to the truth of the prophecy made by Brother Jeffs, that the time was at hand when the Saints would receive heavenly messengers and greater guidance by the Holy Ghost than heretofore; and that during this coming year; that is, within the next few months of the fiscal year, there would be Saints arise under the influence of the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues, using the Adamic language. He said these blessings were all dependent upon the Saints sanctifying themselves, and that the sisters so sanctified would speak in the Adamic language; that some in the audience today would have that privilege. He told the Saints that greater persecutions were at hand and that if they wanted the blessings of the Lord that they would have to live worthy to attain them.

Brother John Y. Barlow;

arose and spoke of the song, "Up Awake, Ye Defenders of Zion" and stated that that song would have to be sung more from our hearts by the Saints. He said he wanted to testify that what Brother Jeffs said was true, that men would arise out of this group to become sanctified, becoming special servants of God; that those who came to that position would be blessed indeed. He exhorted the Saints to repent or their sins and seek the Lord with greater diligence.

Closing Song: "Lord Dismiss Us" Benediction: Brother Ed Christensen.

(Note: This meeting was not taken down by anyone during the meeting though word was sent to have someone the notes and through error it was not done; hence what is here written is given as it was remembered by someone present. LJA.)

Minutes Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday, January 9, 1944, at 2:00 p.m.

President; John Y. Bar1ow presided and conducted.

Song: "Children of Zion, Awake from Your Sadness" 1st verse sung by the Choir. Invocation: Brother Carl Fischer Song: "Our God We Raise To Thee"

Brother G. L. Dockstader:

Brothers and sisters, this is' rather an inspiring sight to see so many people here, and if you would that I would say something that would be of benefit to you, pray for me. It is pleasing to come back to Salt Lake. I feel like a missionary perhaps I am, but I do not believe you need faith, repentance and baptism. It requires a person to be in tune with the Gospel of Jesus Christ to reach out in space for the inspiration or Almighty God, to see the things that will be of benefit to someone. The more I learn about the Gospel plan the smaller I think I am, for the Gospel plan is such a big thing. The thought that strikes my mind right now is the thought or Joseph F. Smith when he said what a fine thing it was that the Lord Jesus Christ, the builder of the universe, and considering the time it takes to do that; yet He came down on this little sphere to take a mortal body. There are not many in this congregation who believe that doctrine. Not many of you believe that Adam was the Father of this earth, that Jesus Christ is our elder brother. We believe that we are of the covenant race. We are the blood of Ephraim. (He then spoke of Juda and the Tribe of Juda), My testimony is stronger, I believe, than when I went away from here. I have had experience. that have been the best things in my life. I learned things that I thought I knew. Perhaps you might be interested. We have a little community down there, and I have found that you must live close to people to find out what they are. It seems to be a fault to most human beings to think that that which is best to their interests is right. That is what causes so much trouble--because one man thinks what to his interests is right, is right. He is honest in his own mind, but yet he is wrong. The brethren down south I have lived closed to this summer. Brothers and sisters, they are real men. There are real men here that I love and have been close to; but when you eat out of the same frying pan, when you kneel in the morning in prayer with men whose clothes are stiff with pine gum, who petition God during the day--they are real men. They are men like the rocks of Gibraltar, but gentle as the dew. I have seen boys grow from young babies to young men and do the responsibilities of men. Two or three of the boys have done the work of men at the saw mill and have accomplished a man's work in a few days. These things testify to me that God is with those people and that we are in a choice part of the Lord's vineyard; in fact, we know we are. The Lord has touched my understanding and I have seen what that country someday will be. I have seen things so close and so possible that I wonder why the natives of that country have not done it. I have never seen a country so full of possibilities that have not been used. But I know why. Brigham Young said that someday the southern part of the State will lead and not be a part of the rest of Utah. At Tooele I have seen the vegetation die because of smelter smoke. Now there is twice as much smoke as there used to be. Prophecies are hard to see, and sometimes they are fulfilled under out eyes and we cannot see. I am glad to be here with you. I am glad that I was selected as one to go down to the southern part of the State. If there is anyone that is not behind Brother Marion 100%, I do not know who it is. We all make mistakes; sometimes we have differences of opinion, but we laugh at them. A few of the natural virtues of the country are apples (I have never eaten more crisp ones), carrots(crisp and sweet), etc. I love the work I am engaged in down there. I do not feel to say more. I know, and so do you, that we are living in perilous times, but we should be wise as serpents, and gentle as doves. Be wise and we say and preach the Gospel carefully to the right ones. (He then told of how he has for the past five years been a companion to one of his half brothers, but since he has been down south this brother has changed and he now misinterprets everything that has happened. in Brother Dockstaders past life; he has changed to the opposite.) So it is, in unity is strength. In our saw mill $10.00 a day in unity there is strength; and as a body of people we must say, "The Kingdom of God or Nothing," is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Brother William Chatwin

(who is now on trial for polygamy) was the next speaker and he bore his testimony that he knows the Redeemer lives and that the Lord has been with him and his wife and babies. He said that they have been praying day and night for freedom; that he knows the Gospel is true and that Joseph Smith is a true prophet. He said if he has to go to prison he prays that our blessings and prayers will be with him. .He said that before he left Short Creek he had a feeling that something was going to happen; that he feels that the Lord will be with him, but it breaks his heart to have his wife: and babies taken away from him. He said he knows that if we all stand faithful and true to the end that all will turn out right for us.

Brother R. C. Allred

was the third speaker and be thanked the Lord for the opportunity to speaking and asked Him to forgive him of his weaknesses and let His spirit rest upon him that he might be able to enlighten the minds of those present. When Brother Dockstader was speaking he said that it is a marvel that we don't get along better than we do, and I have been thinking that it is a marvel that we as individuals get along as well as we do. Our bodies are made up of billions of cells closely organized by the wisdom of God over a great period of time. Our spirits are made of matter so refined that it cannot be seen by our mortal eyes, but they too are composed of millions of cells. Our brain alone is composed of a billion or more cells that have been trained over many years to function and make up our individual lives and there is not one or us that does not have different colored eyes, different complexion, different finger prints, from all others on the earth. No baby was born that did not have an individual finger print all its own. yet, is it not a marvel that with each individual so unlike everybody else we harmonize our lives so well If we consider ourselves as individuals, it is a marvel that we do so well. There is only one thing that brings us together and that is the spirit of God that keeps us in a unity of faith, purpose and growth. That has been the keynote of the instructions of our leaders to us. If we have the Holy Ghost, it influences us all alike. ,If it permeates our bodies.. then indeed it is a marvel if we are not alike when we are influenced by this universal good. The fact that we do not see eye to eye, that we will subject our neighbor to trials for our own good, is a definite proof that we are not directed by that spirit which emanates from our Heavenly Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. The Savior was dictated by the fullness of the attributes of that spirit and He told us that we should become like Him, that we should make ·our life's endeavor the acquiring of the fullness of these attributes; that we should hunger and thirst after righteousness; that we should know the truth. and it will set us tree. And if we hunger and thirst after righteousness, We shall be filled with the Ho1y Ghost. Individual selfishness's, our individual characteristics, our persona1 cleverness lead us from that all prevailing influence; but we would become as one, if we were guided by the Holy Ghost. God did not mean that we should be one in body any more than He and His Son were, for Christ prayed that we should all be one as he and the Father are one; that is in purpose and attributes. Our purpose is to get the spirit of God and keep it. It is the spirit of God that leads us to perfection so that there is nothing that we cannot know and understand. Every creature should subject its own light and its own attainment and subject itself to the mind and will of God to build up the Kingdom of God. This was our Heavenly father's desire when He placed us in mortality. Each creatures should realize that its own hope and happiness is in the subject of its own will and its own mind to the will of God. This applies to all living things. Only in the subjection of self can we hope to live forever; and only by the domination of our own will, the striving to preserve our lives do we lose them. It was for this reason that the Savior said, ".He who seeks to save his life shall lose it; and he who shall give his life for my name's sake, shall gain it. It is only by living all truths and the eternal decrees of God can we live eternally. Eternal life was by God's decree predicated upon this principle. We who subject ourselves to our own wills must eventually be destroyed, for that, too, is in accord with the eternal decree of an all wise Creator. Section 93 of the D. &: C. says, in substance, that that temple which is defiled must needs be destroyed; the elements are the temples of God and that temple which is defiled must be destroyed; for nothing that is unclean can dwell in the presence of God. The Lord said that we were to worship him in truth; in fact we worship truth as exemplified in Him So we see that it is our duty to drive from our lives our personal discordant characteristics and subject our attributes to the all pervading influence of the Holy Ghost. We should devote our entire effort and sacrifice our entire time and talents to lift others up by our sacrifice and service. The scriptures say that pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: To visit the widow and the orphan in their affliction and to keep yourself unspotted from the world. Most of us in our own endeavor to preserve ourselves, forget to. think of others less fortunate than we. We do not realize that it is only in giving ourselves that we grow. When we cease to subject our desires, We cease to grow, Cease to expand, etc. J. Golden Kimball said, "I want to impress upon you--you are a good people, but I do not know what you are good for. What are we doing! Are we devoting ourselves to self. It we are doing everything for our own self-improvement then we are not getting very far. Only by reaching out a hand to others and living the laws of God, can we get to the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God has a king; it has its own laws, and its own officers to enforce them and must have subjects to be governed. God said,(P. of G. P., Moses 1:39) This is my work and my glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man Only by living the Gospel, by becoming one with God, by subjecting our every act and thought to His guidance, can we become rulers in the Kingdom of God; and we can, whether in life or in death, enjoy its influence and eventually live in the presence of Jesus Christ and the Father; for the Savior promised that with such, He and the Father would come and make their abode. If we do not devote ourselves to the building up of the Kingdom in this life, or in the life to come, all that we ever live for or hope to live for will be taken from us. It will be because we have permitted our personal desires to lead us away from the Spirit of God, for that man who becomes a law unto himself cannot be saved. If we are destroyed, it will be because of our selfishness and all that we attain independent of the spirit of God will be destroyed with us; for only by obedience to the Gospel and exercise of the pure principles of the Priesthood can we acquire an eternal Kingdom, and that kingdom must be a part of the Kingdom of God. Virtues to godliness can only grow by giving them away_ If we greedily strive to keep to ourselves our God-given talents, we lose all. The Savior said, He who is great among you, let him be your servant; and he ho is greatest of all, let him be the servant of all He devoted himself to others through He had God given powers All of His life was spent in succoring the weak and afflicted, and in teaching the principles and ordinances of the Gospel which He perfectly understood and easily applied. You and I often in our own efforts to gain, lose our hopes to eternal life All that we have in the eternal worlds will be achieved because we became one with the spirit of God. The whole Gospel message is We must cease devoting out time and efforts to our personal advantage, and rather use our personal efforts to the keeping or the laws of God, and the laws of God are administered in the Kingdom of God; and we are promised that Saints of the Most High, we shall be the officers to enforce Gods laws and eventually become like the great King. We must sacrifice all things if we are willing to prove that by our works; then truly we shall be in the Kingdom of God. As Brother Dockstader said regardless of our personal failings if we get the spirit of God then we will build up the Kingdom of God in ourselves. God grant that this will be our efforts, that we may sustain each other and help each other, and subject our will to the will of those who preside over us in righteousness Let us offer our prayers for Bro Chatwin and for Bro Zenz for if we serve God and keep his commandments, our prayers will be heard and their burdens will be made light. Let us pray that we may be found worthy to endure all things without complaint, that we may be guided by the influence of the holy Ghost. It is one thing to believe and it is another thing to live the Gospel, and still another thing to be able to endure all things. We may be strong in our own efforts, but we are lest we be delivered over to the buffetings of Satan, and we will be without strength. Brothers and Sisters, we are going to endure more than we can imagine. That time is at hand when we will truly suffer many trials and tribulations. Joseph Smith said, "Some say, Cannot we be saved without obedience to all these ordinances No, not the fullness of salvation; for he who is saved in the highest mansion will have to obey all the laws and ordinances as Jesus Christ did. If you do not, you will fall short of your exaltation and be destroyed. That man who would serve God and keep His commandments, even after he obeyed the ordinances of baptism and received the Holy Ghost, must abide by the by the whole law of God to be exalted. After paying his tithes and offerings, doing good to his fellow men, then let him continue to serve the Lord in all things and subject himself to the will of God, and the time will come when he will serve God at all costs. The time will eventually come when God shall say, It My son, thou shalt be exalted. Let us let the exalting influences of the Holy Ghost direct us in our life I pray in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Choir: "Hosanna Anthem"

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

I feel that that was a prophecy--We'll sing and we'll shout with the armies of heaven . Brother Chatwin is all broken up in his spirits today because of the trials he is going through--the wickedness of men that are trying to overcome him. They are trying: to take his children away from him and they are trying to break him down; but the time will come when he will, it he remains true, and he will, --sing with the armies of heaven, and those who are seeking his down fall will be among those at the outer gate. They will noshing their teeth and be in misery and trouble and wish that they had had nothing to do with this high and holy principle that they think they are persecuting Brother Chatwin on at the present time. We have had some very good counsel and advice given us today-..Brother Dockstader and Brother Allred. Both have given us a rare feast; both have given talks of intelligence that those who abide in it, will abide in eternal lives. We sometimes cannot always understand the purposes of the Lord; sometimes we get impatient. Brother Barlow is often asked—when is so and so going to happen. The Lord does not reveal those things to His children except in cases where it is necessary that they should know. If we all knew the purposes of the Lord we would not be walking by the power of faith; it is faith that is helping us to succeed. It is faith that is building up His purposes on the earth. Joseph Smith knew a great many things that we know very little about at the present time. in fact, it all of us knew what the Lord revealed to Joseph, we would not believe it. Joseph said that if he revealed all that the Lord revealed to him, there would not be a man that would stand by him on the earth. Of course, he had men like Brigham Young, Heber C~ Kimball, etc., who were stalwarts and were prepared to lay down their lives. President Taylor had five bullets shots in him, but his life was preserved--his time had not come. The Lord only gives us things as we are prepared to receive them. Some of us consider ourselves very weak receptacles. Some, we think, will grow very slowly. I know I feel that .I have grown very slowly. I have developed in a way that I should feel ashamed of myself that 1. have not gotten along farther than I have. But we are only human; we are just little children taking our milk, and as we prepare to take stronger food it comes; and I am very definite in my feelings that as fast as we are able to take stronger food, that food will come to us, and we will receive it. There are records now that are history of the world going down in the world since our Father, Adam; that the Ten Tribes are going through, etc., but in order to obtain them we have got to purify ourselves and sanctity our actions that we might get nearer to the Lord and be in a position to receive them. It is up to each one of us as we are willing to subdue the weaknesses of the flesh and put forth the effort to grow. :It is up to each one of us. The hand of the Lord is not hindered us; it is up to each one of us. In a forest you see one tree growing fast towering above the others, and others grow around it, and we wonder why it is. But it represents a composite of the human being--as one man towers above another man; as one woman towers above another woman. but it is in the Lord's purpose that we should remain down and grow and increase and enlarge ourselves day by day; and the only way we can do that is to overcome and resist evil day by day. Brother Allred's references today can tell us only one thing it can lead us to all truth; it testifies the Father and the Son. A man cannot quarrel with his neighbor if he has the Holy Ghost; he cannot steal, murder, etc., under the influence of the Holy Ghost. Everyone in this house who has been baptized has had the gift of the Holy Ghost conferred upon him. Now it is up to each one of us as to the amount of the Holy Ghost or the spirit of the Lord we can enjoy. We can enjoy it every moment of our lives if we are willing to; if we are willing to read the commandments and live them. We may have great power given us through the Holy Ghost. This is the condition we are heading for that is what we are here today for. There are a great many people being questioned by the F.B.I., bishops, etc., and people in the East and through the country--they are trying to get some kind of record that will enable them by law to get after us. We do not know when they will pounce upon us. Brother Chatwin is going through it now; others have gone through it. I used to go to the penitentiary every week to take clean clothes to my father. Many others have gone through it for living the commandments of the Lord. We do not expect Brother Chatwin to go there, and we do not know who will have to go. I feel that the time will come. And the Lord will handle the men who are responsible for much this deviltry that is going on at the present time. He is not only going to take one man, like Brother Talmage and others, but He is going to lay His judgments on this people, and they are going to howl and gnash their teeth at the condition upon them until they leave this people alone and God's laws alone. This is God's work; it does not belong to Hell. let those of our people who have received the testimony as it was revealed to Joseph Smith, they are going to suffer. The Lord is going to make them accountable. I feel good toward all this people. 1 want to have the love of all the people, but if they will not repent and insist on doing as they are at the present time track us down and persecute us--God will take care of them and make them suffer. Again I want to caution us to keep our mouths shut when talking to the officers of the government, state, wards, stakes, etc. They have very cunning ways of the devil. Those F.B.I. boys are just boys but they are trained in that one art of getting into our hearts and learning something of us. And when that time comes when they can put their handcuffs on us they will do it. Now it is up to us not to allow them to have information or get into our homes. Do not give out any information that might be brought against us. The devil is after us; just as sure as we are sitting here today the devil is trying to destroy that principle of marriage and the united order and if he accomplishes that mission he has won the war against the Heavenly Father. That is his great purpose, because without those two principles we cannot get back into the presence of God the Eternal Father. We are all soldiers until the conflict is over. Let us be wise and get the spirit of the Lord and keep it in this respect. Do not give out any information at all. If they were to come after me I would say, "It is none of your business; It is none of your business how many children I have, etc." They start out by praising your children, telling them what beautiful eyes they have, what wonderful husbands the women have, etc. They get you right up into the trough and they get you. May the Lord bless us. These principles of life and salvation are true; they are alive; they are in our hearts today. We are here to learn how to live more perfectly before the Lord. My we be able to do it, I ask in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen

Brother John Y. Barlow:

Brothers and sisters, we have had a lot of good sound advice given us today.

Closing Song: -Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow" Benediction: Brother Alfred Olschewski. LJ.Allred.

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 23, 1944, at 2:00 p.m. John Y. Barlow presided.

Brother Charles F. Zitting conducted.

High On the Mountain Top" Prayer: Brother Rulon T. Jeffs "O Say What Is Truth"

Brother Guy Musser:

I might announce before going on, that at 9:00 a.m. next Sunday morning at the Municipal Plunge all children and grownups that wish to be baptized or re-baptized will be baptized at that time. All those who have not a way of getting there, come here and there will be cars to take you there. Take that news to those who want baptism. I sincerely pray that the prayer offered may be in my behalf. I feel very weak, and I realize that there are notes being taken of this meeting; that messengers assigned to this particular work are taking notes of what is being said, sung and done here today; and for that reason I want it to go on that eternal record that I am saying the truth. I do not want it said that I said something that misled our children that will cause them not to go on in the work of our Eternal Father. This prayer is one of the greatest given to God's children. We are told that if we seek our Father through His Son, Jesus Christ, that He will be just in granting those blessings that He feels we are in need of. We are told in the Bible that whatever we ask in faith We will be granted: but in the Book of Mormon that whatever we ask in faith and it is for our good we will be granted. That is the key. We often ask for things of the Father that if He were to grant them to us we would sink to the low portions. So I have decided to let the Lord assign to me those blessings He feels is right. We as a. people are feeling that fine thread that is between us and our Father thread is prayer--honest and simple prayer. There is nothing that we can attain or achieve without it. If we without embarrassment at any time in our lives approach our Father for the blessings that we need, then there is nothing that we cannot overcome and so we can fulfill the full measure of our creation. So often things are asked for in prayer that are the desire of our hearts but which are not for our good in the sight of the Lord. We as a people. as well as the Gentile world, find ourselves often in that category. And so it behooves the Lord often to chastise us in prayer, and often our God does not give us what we wish and so we take matters in our own hands. When I was in the mission field an elder always addressed our Father as "All Wise God and Eternal Father," and so I thought it was very wonderful and 1 used it. So we find ourselves praying in different and asking for different things, and the thought has often come to my mind--is there not a pattern, a way to approach the Lord. The Doctrine and Covenants came to my mind, and there is a pattern given us in regard to prayer. Of course, it is necessary first to know to whom to pray. Would it be extravagant to say that there is only a few people in the world today that pray to the only true and living God If I were to say that most of our people were praying to an unknown God, I do not think I would be very far wrong. Who among us pray to our Father and know that He is Adam.. Our Father and God! Can we expect our Father to give us the blessings we are in need of unless we approach Him Of course not. and so it becomes necessary to know who we pray to. He is our Father and God and the time is here when we should know that. We must approach Him in sincerity , and it is the connecting link between us and him--prayer. (He then spoke of the parable that Jesus gave to some who thought they were good in the sight of the Lord--the parable of the Pharisees and the publican. The Pharisee said, "0 God, .I thank. they that I am not among men that are adulterers; and the publican would not even lift his head to heaven; he said, "Oh, bless me for I am a sinner" ) Now who was the most sincere! The latter is most sincere. He that exalteth himself must be humble." (He then quoted the Lord's prayer, "Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name etc.") Now we are given a pattern in all things and I take it that –that is a pattern. And we have been taught in these latter days that we should approach Him as" Our Father who art in Heaven". ·We should approach our Father Adam, and we should never listen to expressions that do nothing but hallow His name. We have been taught that our coming here is to fill the measure of our creation and do the will of God. We took that covenant when we were spirit children in the courts of our Father and we pledged ourselves to use our existence here on the earth to establish His kingdom here on earth and that all other kingdoms shall be subject to it. And when the sons of God shouted for joy, it was because they knew the Kingdom would be established and righteousness would be established on the earth, and that they would come down on earth and help to establish the Kingdom. And it was because the sisters took part in that and they knew they would come down here and help, and all nations should be drawn to judgment. Why should they not then take advantage of that and daily put forth our efforts to establish the Kingdom on the earth. until that time then the earth is being wasted and our probations are not as full and complete as they should be. In other words, the Gospel shall be established in its fullness and the Government of God shall come in all its power and descend to the earth to all the people and then the will of God shall be done in all earthly things, just as it is done where He dwells; then in doing that we are doing the will of the Lord in fulfilling the measure of our creation. (He then read the song, "There Are Who Deem Earth's Hour of Durance" page 230, Latter Day Saint Hymns, by O. F. Whitney.) Now this earth is not our home at the present time; we must help to establish righteousness upon it. We should forget the pleasures and things that are not long lasting, and seek the things of God. We are told that from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Now give us this day our daily bread". Some think that we should keep bread and let it become stale and staunch und moldy. It is true that the servants of the Lord have told us that we cannot become slothful in our stewardships. and we should not be extravagant and ask for things that are not necessary. So let us ask Him to give us those things that we are in need of, "forgive us our debts" on the condition that we forgive our debtors as we ask. Do we ask the Lord to forgive us our sins as we forgive the sins of others".: and deliver us from evil"; .we discussed this morning that we find it necessary to be tried in order that we may over come temptation. Only as we have the power to stand will He permit us to overcome evil. "For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen" So we have the pattern to prayer, and I humbly pray that we might humbly seek the Lord, Adam our Father, for He is our Father. Let us pray for the complete dissolution of all adversities and governments on the earth that will permit the destructions of the earth and God. Giving our diligence and struggles and efforts to serve Him will again begin to establish His kingdom on the earth. I wish to bear my testimony and say how grateful .I am that the Lord permitted me to be born of goodly parents and come through the channel of celestial marriage and come to this earth at this time. I am confident that this is the plan of salvation and that the Kingdom of God will be established in its fullness upon the earth. I know that Joseph Smith was a true prophet and that he was an instrument in the hands of his Father in establishing the Gospel on this earth again. I am grateful for those things and I pray that our faith, hope and love will increase day by day for each other, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother I W. Barlow:

was the next speaker and he said he felt weak in standing before this group for he can see many who probably have a greater understanding of the Gospel than he has. He thanked the Lord for the privilege of living at this time, for his parents and grandparents and the lineage that he came through; and said he knows the Gospel is true and that if we keep the laws and commandments of the Lord we will be saved. He spoke or the Savior at Gethsemane, how he left his wives, children behind; how "the disciples went to sleep, and God withdrew His spirit for a wise purpose; how He prayed to the Father and received sufficient strength to go through the ordeal. He also spoke of the Prophet and Hyrum and what they went through, how they received strength from the Father; how we must learn line upon line. He mentioned that Joseph said before he died that much of the world was as wicked as Sodom and Gomorrah; and the world is ten times as wicked as it was nine or ten years ago; that the time will come when the Lord will turn the tables on the world

Song:"As the Dew From Heaven Distilling"

Brother Cowles:

spoke next and told of how he left his native land and was compelled to leave his wives and children; thanked the Lord for the wisdom that He has given through these brethren here, and said that the adversary is doing what he can to thwart the purposes of the Lord; that when the night is darkest is when the Lord comes to our rescue. He spoke of the elders and the meetings in the old country, and said that they had the same spirit the people of this group here has He said that one of his. children not long ago told him that if he did not buy her a new coat right away that she would tell on him for going to these polygamous meetings. He prayed that the Lord would help us to do what we could to build up His Kingdom.

Brother D. W. Jeffs:

My brothers and sisters it is with meekness and fear and trembling that I arise before you this afternoon, because I know the responsibility on the man who is the mouthpiece to deliver the word of the Lord to the Latter Day Saints", and therefore in taking this responsibility I do humbly pray in my soul, and ask you to pray that the spirit of the Lord will direct me in what I say this afternoon. There has been a great deal of reflection upon that which has been said; the prayer which the Lord taught "Our Father which art in Heaven, etc." This morning as I sat looking over all these seats filled with little children and the responsibility of establishing the Kingdom under the direction of the Lord and establishing the United Order is resting upon our shoulders. We have been told many times that if we did not perform the work, God would raise up another people. This morning I thought how wonderful it is that God is raising up another people. These little spirits which have been reserved to come forth in this generation, and through largely the patriarchal order of marriage. I have often thought of these little souls as coming through to multiply, and these glorious mothers; there is hardly a time when a mother gives birth to a baby but what she brings herself down to the very brinks of the grave. And what a responsibility there is resting upon the mother and father to teach that little one, even before the child is born, and train them. in righteousness. As 1 looked over their little faces, I could not help but think of that. That motto we have: "Get the spirit of God and keep it", I thought of these little souls before me. As they develop into manhood and womanhood, what a wonderful thing it is that they be taught to pray and sing songs of the Lord, and the truths of the Gospel. I want to tell you, as God lives if we the older people do not keep the commandments of God, if we do not prove ourselves worthy, as sure as God lives we will drop out one by one and others will take our places. We were discussing this morning, as I remember in reading when the Prophet Joseph Smith, one of the three Gods of this earth when it is celestialzed was taken and cast in jail--of all the terrible distress he went through and all with him, when his soul was pleading for the "prayers and benefit of the people, the Lord gave him the revelation in the 121st Section of the Doctrine and Covenants. In that section He says, "Behold, there are many called, but few are chosen. And why are they not chosen Because their hearts are set so much upon the things of the world, and: aspire to the honors of men, that they do not learn this one 1esson--That the rights of the Priesthood are inseparably connected with the powers of heaven, and that the powers of heaven cannot be controlled nor handled only upon the principles of righteousness. etc." And before this earth was organized, three gods were in council and made covenants according to their dispensations of time, and they were: God the First, Michael, the Creator; God the Second, Jesus Christ, the Redeemer who made it possible that we might be redeemed; and God the Third, the witness and Testator. Take that man who was ordained to the Priesthood before he ever came to this earth, yet these miserable wretches cast him into that jail. And yet 1 understand that Sections 121, 122 and 123 were given to him while in jail. The same powers today are trying to destroy the patriarchal order of matrimony; the same powers today are trying to keep these little noble spirits from coming here into the world. Then after they come here, the devil sees fit to gather enough power to cast their parents in jail and take their children away from them, etc. Yet we are not going through one iota of what the Prophet and others went through. We have not come to that point yet. I want to call attention to the Doctrine and Covenants. We speak about our being a covenant people; we are having to go through trials, etc. Those who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. want to call attention to just one thing: Section 40 (which he read) concerning James Covill. He reached out to try to reach the Father, and he was not even a member of the Church; yet the Lord told the Prophet to let him preach the Gospel. The reason why I. call attention to this is that we have been told by the Priesthood Council, and I believe they are directed by the Lord when they say it, that we are the best people on the earth, but we are not good enough. In Section 122 the Lord tells the prophet that even if they accuse him of all manner of false accusations; if they tear him from the society of his father and mother, from the bosom of his wife, and of his offspring; if they cast him into the pit, or into the hands of murderers; and even if the very jaws of hell shall gape open wide for him; it is all for his good, and to hold on his way and the Priesthood shall remain with him. How many of us are going to be able to go through what we have yet to go through, like because we have yet to go through a refiner's fire and like a Fuller's soap. There are some people in this audience that have endured and are still enduring. It they continue to endure, they will receive the blessings that the Lord has promised them. We must comply with the law in order to receive the blessing. I know as well as I live that the Lord has inspired me to pray properly, and when I kneel to pray I know to whom I am praying. As sure as we live, when we kneel to pray to our Father, we pray to Michael, our Father and God. Our prayer will not go above our heads if we are not humble. We must repent of our sins, and humble ourselves before the Lord. If we hate selfishness, etc., in our hearts, we cannot expect the Lord to hear and answer our prayers. In 1894 the Melchizedek Priesthood Was conferred upon me in Farmington, Utah; before that the Aaronic Priesthood, but I did not have the rights to do certain things except as the Lord directed. We have servants here today who have the those rights. Ever since 45 years ago .I have had one desire. in my heart--to bless. That has always stayed with me and I thank God that I was called to administer to the sick. I have seen miracles performed. Now the time is at hand all souls will be put to a test; as Heber C. Kimball said, "The test, the test, the test; and the more righteous among them will pray day and night for deliverance. It Is that day here now? Certainly! Right in your faces do you display that spirit within you. I pray God that He will bless me that I will be able to endure and to sustain those whom God has appointed to direct us here on earth. In 1931-2 in Highland Park Ward I wanted to know and made an effort to see the to get information, and the only man that I could reach and approach was B. H. Roberts. I am thankful to God that I can approach these brethren in simplicity and without fear. I. do pray God to bless you and your little children to train them that they might be wise sons and daughters in Israel. As God lives, among these little children here this morning will be the great prophets and leaders that will help build up the Kingdom of God, and that wil1 be in the near future. 1 pray God to bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

My brothers and sisters, I have been greatly edified in the things that have been said today. There have been a great many things said here today that it we would put them into practice would do us a world of good. It we do not they will do us harm. I think Brother Guy just continued on what we had in Sunday School class. I have often thought of the warning that was given us when we used to go up to Uncle John Woolley's and Lorin's. How many times we sat there and heard told the very things that are going on today. We were told that the garments would be changed, the ordinances in the Temple would be changed, etc. Now we have lived to see them fulfilled Can you tell me one thing that could be changed in the temple! One of them was that when you used to go into the temple and made covenants that you will have nothing to do with any of the daughters of Eve except those that you are legally married to. Now it is "except those you love and are legally married" to.(He talked of "Uncle Sam" and the corruption of the government; the people and where they are going.) That is the way we have been going--from bad to worse. Brother Musser said that fundamentally we believe the Gospel as God taught it; we believe that it was revealed by the Prophet; but do we live it! Today you get to talking and they will say they cannot do anything about the Doctrine and Covenants, etc., but you are going contrary to President Grant. We are not contending with President Grant, but are trying to live the principles that Joseph Smith gave to us. We hear today, "It was all right in that day, but today we are progressing." Yes, it puts me in mind of a Danish man and his wife was in the hospital. The bishop asked how his wife was three different times, and the Danish man said each time that she was improving. The last time he asked the Danish man said she was dead. The bishop asked what was the matter with his wife, and the reply was, "It was that new disease "Improving" Heber C. Kimball said the test is coming, and when you can go along the street and cannot tell the Latter-Day Saints from the people of the world, the time is near. Latter Day Saints are mixed with the world; they gamble, near, drink, smoke, etc. That is the condition we are in today. What are we going to do about it; It is going to be up to every individual. Just as much as we do it and allow our children to live the laws of God, just so we will be able to stand. They. put men better than we are in jail. We do not like to be persecuted; we do not like our feelings hurt; When we get our feelings hurt, then there is something wrong. Let us put our feelings down and keep the commandments of God and live right. Nephi said that the Lord will protect us it they have to send fire down from heaven; We will be protected according to our righteousness. We have been told by many that there would be a class of people come out of the Church. We have been ostracized, not cut off the Church. I do not care who the man is, if he starts teaching the things we believe he will be ostracized. We have heard some good talking and sermons today. What good will it do us if we don't do it and quit talking! God bless you, Amen.

Closing Song: '·Lord Dismiss Us With Thy Blessings" Prayer: Brother Jos. W. Musser. LJAllred

Minutes Fast Meeting held at 2157 Lincoln St. Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday, February 6, 1944 at 2:00 p.m.

Brother Jos. W. Musser presided and conducted.

Chorister -R. T. Jeffs Organist -Mabel Allred; Violin -Margaret Musser. Song: "Come 0 Thou King of Kings" "Prayer: Brother A. A. Timpson Song: "Again We Meet Around the Board"

J. W. Musser

Remarks on the renewal of covenants .

Sacrament: Administered by Guy H. Musser, Arnold Boss, Alfred Olschewski and Lorin Jessop; Otto H. Olschewski presiding.

Brother Musser:

This is your meeting. It is not good, it is because you make it so. Be free in responding to the opportunity.

Testimonies: Mary Fischer, George Woodruff, H. Chase Kimball, Ed. Christensen, John Butchereit.

Song: "The Time Is Far Spent"

Testimonies: D. W. Jeffs Irene Christensen Winnie Jessop G. Von Modfrans Marie Broadbent -age 10 -related a dream she had about the people in the Church trying to kill us.

Brother Jos. W. Musser:

The slogan is "Get the Spirit of God and Keep It", and in doing so build up "The Kingdom of God or Nothing." How are we to get the Spirit? -Keep the commandments, all of them. A few years ago Saints were promised in Spirit of God that if we kept the commandments we would not have to see the inside of a hospital. I am alarmed at the number of sick who are going to hospitals and shown no faith in this promise. The Lord has given us a rule to be governed by -James quoted. Also cited Section 42 of D. & C., vs. 43-52; the same rule and promises are given. I just want to throw out this thought -if you die, you die unto Me, if you keep the commandments. I WA,NT TO SAY AGAIN -FROM THIS DAY ON, IF YOU SERVE THE LORD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS YOU WILL NOT SEE THE DAY YOU WILL GO TO A HOSPITAL. I was called out to administer. In authority of the Priesthood, I promised a party life, but in a few hours the party was taken to a hospital. This grieves the spirit of God. If you want a doctor to take you into his hands, all right; have your operations, but do not ask God to bless these operations. God never prescribed an operation. Stay out of courts and out of hands of doctors. Place your case in the hands of God. and leave the result in His hands. Brother Barlow and I were asked to go 170 miles to administer to a sister. There would have been no need if the brethren there had been faithful in their Priesthood. They were slothful. No man can hold the Priesthood and not manifest it and exercise it; otherwise he does not hold it, the Spirit of God is grieved and authority and power taken away Now leave your sufferings and sickness in God's hands. "If you die, you die unto me" I speak against doctor-craft as Babylon and Satan use it. Joseph Smith spoke against four crafts: Doctor Craft – Lawyer craft – Priest craft – King craft Which Satan was using to accomplish his purposes. I repeat the promise, if you keep the commandments of God you will not have to go to a hospital. God bless you, Amen.

Closing Song: "Before Thee Lord I bow My Head" Prayer: Brother G. L. Dockstader. (Minutes taken by R. T. Jeffs and typed by L. J. Allred.

Minutes Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at 2157 Lincoln St., Salt Lake City. Ut., February 13, 1944 at 2:00 p.m. Pres. John Y. Barlow presided, and conducted. Pianist -Mabel Allred; violinist Margaret Musser. Song: "Come to Zion, Come to Zion" Prayer: Brother Carl Holm Song: "Sweet Is The Work"

Remarks Brother Barlow;

My brothers and Sisters, I am glad to see so many out I hope we can keep the Spirit of God that is here.

Brother (Father) Holms

was the first speaker and he felt to thank the Lord for the round of the music here that came from the heart. He said he is thankful to the Lord that He has spared his life 6 or 7 times, and one time just lately; that he glad to be here and to be initiated in this work. He said he has lately been reading how the Gospel was restored and how the Book of Mormon was given to the Prophet, and as he read he could see how the adversary has been working from the beginning, trying to smother the work from the start. He told how his oldest son, a bishop, tried to show him how evil this people were; he defied him to show one thing, and he could not. He asked the Lord to bless this people that we may be the nucleus from which the power of God will perform his work:.

Bro Marion Hammon: I enjoyed :Brother Holm's remarks; he has the true spirit. There is probably nothing in this world that causes us to appreciate our position in life than to have our loved ones and friends ridicule our faith. It seems that we all find one of the greatest trials to bear is the time when we are friendless and abused. When you come to your home, you want to be loved and have a cheerful place; that when a man comes back he can get renewed faith. Show me a woman that keeps a cheerful, sweet home life and I will show you a man who is being successful in his work. There is no better under-pining place in the world than the home. I suppose you people have been reminded that we are living in perilous times. I suppose this people are being tested and tried and many are proving successful in standing for the truth. I am confident in the past months that many have made solemn covenants that they will stand by the Priesthood and see that this work goes forward. I feel that many of you are doing well in that; but I am confident that you are still going to go through a test. In the many things that are coming, it will take the people that are near the Lord to keep from being deceived. We have been told that false prophets would arise and even the very elect will be deceived. This people, that is most of them faithful ones, are the very elect. The Lord knows your hearts and He knows those who are faithful and who are not. There are severe trials in being able to stand. pat. The ward officers, stake officers, etc., think: they can lay their hands on us and hold on to us like a doorknob. There are many people who are going to be in utter confusion. Things will fade away like snow does in the hot sun and the things they think they know will fade away and they will look for principles that they laid hold of. So it is in the faithfulness of this people; some will feel and do feel that having Brother Barlow and Brother Musser and others to shake hands with makes their ability and determines their final strength. It is the actual living and laying hold and obeying the principles of God that will determined where you stand.. If you love the principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and live them, you will seek to associate With the people who uphold and carry the principles out in their lives. So we must act upon principle. You must embrace plural marriage because you know it is right and not because someone told you it was. If you are not on a pretty safe foundation, you are liable to slip. If you love the principle and the order of Enoch, it will not bother you what other people think, and you will be gaining a tutorship under God. These things are confronting us; we have a flourishing unit of the united order started. But what if a wave of discouragement comes--what will happen to it? You will say, "If he can, I can." Do not embrace a principle because someone else did. I believe two people can live the united order; and up to a certain point, three people can 1ive plural marriage. They might not gain quite as much experience, but they are at least getting some experience and bringing their hearts and feelings into subjection. I can see where your faith and prayers have been answered in behalf of your associates in the South. They are in the test; and insofar as they will be able to endure the test, they will accomplish much. They have set their hearts upon getting the Spirit of God; and they need it to accomplish what they want to accomplish. If your prayers are answered concerning them and their work, and the Lord smiles upon them, you have something to your credit; it may be a home to which you may flee. So if you build up somebody" sufficient to gain their faith, then you have someone to go to in the need of help. I think you will see now a great capacity upon the part of those brethren to keep the spirit of Gad. We all sit here and listen to beautifu1 singing and what is said until the first thing you know we have the Spirit of God. But that is about the only time that we obtain the Spirit of God. There must be some mental process as well as physical process that makes us obtain the Spirit of God or cause it to leave. We come here and. probably lay aside the cares and feelings against others when we are here. If we are able to obtain it here, why can't you go home and keep it? That is where you need it. That is the thing we are after--to have the Spirit of God with us all the time. This is a living, vital thing in your and my lives. We must get the Spirit of God with us all the time! Why can you not at home? Is it because the minute you go out of that door that you forget what you heard and so begin to worry about the rent, the money you need, etc. When you are in the city you spend your money for things you do not need. If you proceed cautiously and carefully, the Lord will bless you so you do not have to worry; otherwise, you take on a lot of adverse things that keeps the Spirit of God from you. Maybe I am talking about things that are not needful; but I am talking about things that confront our brethren. When we meet in meetings we have the spirit of God and after meetings that spirit is washed away. Why did it go? Because the minute we step out we start worrying about the cares of the day; because we have no confidence in the Spirit of the Lord. I do not believe I have ever preached a sermon like this before in my life. It is one of the things that we most need. I wanted some furniture. Uncle John and Joseph said that they had some old furniture that they did not want (and he mentioned several pieces of furniture they offered). :Maybe someday they will be willing to get rid of the things they do want. (There was laughter.) (He told an experience of recent date down south of a woman who wanted to get rid of something--she said, the things in it were hers, and she was told they belonged to the Lord.) If you really dedicate your homes and you want the Lord to bless it, then when you dedicate them to the Lord you will give them to Him. If you do what is right, you will make out a deed and deed it to Him. That is what Brigham Young did.. If you call the brethren out and want to dedicate it, give it to the Lord. I wonder how long God has had things in His family that He is letting us use. You may not think it is as vital as the people down south yet. You are in smaller units yet. We need more of the spirit of God. As the threats of our enemies come upon us, let us try to obtain the Spirit of God before they put us in jail; we need it as much then as we do in jail. I think you brothers and sisters should say, that is the reason why we have the Spirit of God at meeting and .what causes it to leave after meeting? Going to meeting rests you, only you are not asleep. You forget your cares and hear something uplifting. If you women folks are the cause of your husband's losing the spirit of God mend your ways. I am going to tell a story; I was talking in just the same terms in Priesthood meeting a few weeks ago, for the spirit of God was there in abundance, and we were wondering why we couldn't keep it. We resolved to try I was talking to one of the brethren and he resolved to keep the Spirit of God or else. When he his fan1ly jumped right down his throat. He said he resolved to keep still and go right down and make hay. I do not know where you could find a sweeter man either. Think it over, you woman. You think maybe once you are attached to a man you are on the straight road to the celestial kingdom, but you are on the road to hell These things are real. If you people think meeting in this house is your religion, you are mistaken. You want to meet often. One thing we require down south of the brethren is a reason why they miss their meetings. When you call a council of Priesthood, why should they not come and be there? That is magnifying his Priesthood. It is the need of the hour. I pray the Lord to bless us; and He will and is blessing us. I hope we will get some real desires about God's kingdom. I am confident as I breathe that your hopes are in the opposite of the building up of God's kingdom. Your idea and desire is the ideal set-up at home--false as hell! If the Lord should say He wants a band of men with horses and wagons to start east--that would be the happiest time of my life. If you want mansions like this one here (the house we are in), they might please you but they will not me. I want celestial kingdoms. I have been the happiest I have been in my whole life under crude conditions of living down south. One woman who is living in a tent with ground floor, etc., and she stood with tears in her eyes and told me that she is the happiest she has ever been in her life. I pray the Lord will bless us and that you may not be led away by your vain ambitions, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, .Amen.

Choir: "The Heavens Are Telling"

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

I have a mind to say just two phrases and sit down. I sometimes feel that the shorter a sermon the more it can be remembered. I am. deeply grateful that Brother Marion has said what he has about getting the Spirit of God. and keeping it, for that is what I have been trying to do here as they have down there, in my daily associations. I think it is found in two short phrases: (1) Obedience is the :first law of heaven, and (2) love is fulfilling of the law. God help us to do this, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, .Amen.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

I'll just say, brothers and sisters, we are getting a little toward what we have been trying to get for some time. I was down south lately and I noticed the brethren are getting more of the spirit of God. I want to say to the brethren: You get the spirit of God and you will lead your wives. (He then quoted President Kimball on the subject.) If you lead them and teach them these things, and then they will not follow, your shirts are clean. You cannot go into a house and kick one over here and another there--you cannot help but lose the spirit of God. There is not one man here but what loses his temper, that his wives won't too. If you will get the spirit of God and keep it, you will improve. A brother said. that he never embraced any man in the Gospel, he embraced the laws of God and principles of salvation. Wherever you go they speak against this people, but can they say anything about the laws of God. I often heard in the mission field what terrible men Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, etc. were. Can you hear one of them say anything against the principles of the Gospe1 A man who has embraced the laws of the Gospel end has the spirit of God, he can cope with any minister. If we don't get the spirit of God. and. be able to exercise it willing, we are going to be whipped into it. We know what is going on around us. The other day I got Brother Musser; pedigree about what a terrible person he is. It is the dirty little truths that hurt us. They are the things to watch and guard against. I have heard Marion speak lots of times, but I do not believe I have heard him preach a better sermon than he did today. He preached the very thing that will exalt you and bring you into the presence of God If we keep these things and carry them in our hearts and determining to serve God in spite of everything, God will help us through; if we do not do it, it will be our own fault. (He then told of Brother Kelsch and what a blessed man he felt he was when he spoke in meeting this morning, etc.) God gave us a right to follow him. (He then quoted a poem, "Though it is that every life,*****but never force the human mind. etc.") I am just a little in favor of the women, far I think they will back the men if they are lead right. God. bless you, .Amen.

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

I feel· like Brother Barlow has expressed himself well today. feel like the sermons from Short Creek is one of the best and if we will take every word of it and the spirit of it, we will go on to perfection. I guess there is no one here who is not aware of the fact that there is a large disputation among the people of the city and state; there are threatenings going on here, down in Short Creek, Cedar City, etc. They are making a thorough examination into the lives of this group of people, both those who are here and other places. They have examined a brother in Kansas; they are trying to corral Brother Barlow and others in the Council and pin them to the cross. They followed Brother Athay to Phoenix and tried to get information about us here. They are in California. Of course, the F .B. I. are on a salary and they have millions of dollars behind them.; they have no trouble meeting expenses, have no trouble knowing what to do; and they are scientifically trained to investigate. They take a course that invites conversation; they are pleasant in their attitude; they are scientific in their arranging of things. One man they· had in the office and they throughout a big bunch of papers on the table about me, and they said, "We know you know a lot of things and all we want you to do is to verify these things. They almost convinced him that he had to talk. Nobody has to talk; you can tell them to go to hell or what you please. They are after Brother Barlow and say they are going to come down and clean up this building. We have done a pretty good job of cleaning it; but I want to impress this thought upon your mind--I have done a little detective work myself, and when we go out we do not go advertising the thing until we get our man in jail. Then, of course, it is up to the judge and jury to do the rest; so that these so that these rank statements as to what they are going to do does not disturb my feelings one iota. If they were not bragging openly I would feel something was going to happen. I fear they are doing all they can to get evidence to convict many in our group of being law-breakers. (He then told of a man in Missouri whom they tried to get to swear that he had killed Joseph Smith, and if he did not they wou1d get him out and let the birds pick his bones. God said he would fight our battles. Speaking to the Ephesians He said, "Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." (Eph. 6:11-13) He meant, put on everything--embrace the full. wherever we preach the Gospel, we preach to put on the full armor--embrace the whole. If you want to get back to Father and Mother, you must put on the full armor --take it all. These are the instructions we have been trying to put over. Talking about doing away with these principles--this law of plural marriage--you might as well speak of doing away with the north star. It would be just as easy to try to control that star as it would to do away with this principle Joseph married Emma for time only that is all they had. Heber C. Kimball married his wife Vilate for time only; that was all they had. But after they had gone through certain trials and tribulations the Lord revealed to them that the law was not complete, and told them that before they came here they had a mother and father. That was a great revelation and likely it was hard for the Prophet to receive it. We remember how the Lord commanded him to put Heber C. Kimball to a test by asking him to give Vilate to the Prophet. He loved Vilate and cried about it he prayed for he could not sleep. For several days and night he walked the floor thinking about that great sacri1fice that he was asked to make. He did not stop to think about the sacrifice that Abraham had to made---how he was commanded to take Isaac up and kill him and spill his blood upon the altar. But he worried, cried and moaned and finally Vilate. received a revelation and went to him and said, "Heber, do as the Prophet tells you; the Lord has made it known to me. Heber took her by the hand to Joseph and said, "take her here she is" He had them join hands and he sealed them for time and all eternity. Death could not have parted them. Now he was in a situation that his kingdom could go on throughout al1 the ages of eternity, growing and increasing and building up. And they say they are going to break us up--the poor week critters. Talking that way about a celestial principle of God! As I said, they might as well try to move the earth. When this work was started, when Lorin and John Woolley were given this work to see that the time never came that children were not born in this principle, the Lord gave them the privilege of adding others to that Council also the Council of Seven. .And the Lord revealed the names of those He wanted in that council and when He did that He did it with that intention. We are living in a time of the restoration of all things, and those things are being restored to us and never again will be taken from this earth. If this principle is not to be taken from the earth, how are these investigators going to do it? They are barking up the wrong tree. Yes, they might take us, Brother Barlow, myself and others, away and take our lives, but that will not keep this work from going on. We are on the road to eternal progress and we are not going to stop. The Lord said, I'll fight your battles for you, but He wants us to be wise and careful. Some of us are not careful and discreet. Some of us advertise our affairs too much; yet He is considerate of us and. fights our battles for us. I do not believe anyone could give the officers a better case than Brother Zitting did, yet the Lord preserved him. He said, "Lord, you said you would fight our battles for us" and He did it. The Lord struck Brother Talmage as by a Shaft of death, as lightning strikes a tree, and shortly after died. Brother Ivins took the matter up and was ready to pounce upon us before the officers of the law, and one morning he was walking across the room and he dropped over dead. Brother Ballard was boasting around in the East and said the Church handled these things and took a case down in Arizona and tried to turn things against us, and he was stricken. I want to tell you that no one can do anything against us, except as the Lord permits them to do it for our own sakes or to set an example and show the world how much we love this principle. It has got to be re-established in the hearts or the children of man. We have a little community who are trying to live it and teach it. Now the Lord. may permit some of us to be arrested and sent to jail as a living testimony of fire, so to speak, to enter the hearts of men; to show them that it is a proposition that comes from Heaven and we treat it as a religious necessity. It is not a matter of licentiousness with these women; they are pure and they have the spirit of the Lord upon them. Sometimes they rebell and they cause trouble; there is jealousy one wife against another like Sarah and Rachel of old, when Sarah, who was barren, rebelled when she knew that Rachel was with child; Sarah went to Abraham and told him that she could not and would not stand it. .Abraham said, "She is your servant do with her what you see fit" and she was driven out. That was not the spirit of the Gospel that drove her out. There are other ways to direct those situations; other ways are to show them gentleness and kindness. When we get the spirit of the Lord as we should, then women wi11 not rail again at her sister wife, but raise her up to her level and try to build her up, if she is higher. She should try to build her up to that capacity. If we do not try to do that, then we have not the spirit of the Lord. The spirit of the Lord is peace, long-suffering, etc. Brother Marion and the Saint s under him are doing a wonderful work. Whether you think it or not, I want to testify to you they are living the united order as well as they did in New Harmony in the time of Brigham Young. None at them are 100% perfect. If we were 100% perfect, we would not be here. That is why we are here. When we get perfect enough the Lord will take us on the other side. They are living the united order and the order of unity. They all do not live in the same house, but they are living the order of unity. The Lord is blessing them. The way the Lord has opened up the way for them since a year ago is wonderful. They have been able to accumulate places and materials, get farm machinery, homes, etc. Of course, the homes are not like ours here; they are not modem, but they are much more modem homes than the homes Brigham Young came to here. It is a children's paradise, according to Brother Marion. They have the Lord's protection with them and the children are growing up with that spirit around them. Now may the Lord bless us that we may be wise and discreet in all things, I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Guy Musser:

There is something in the Fourth Volume of Truth by the :Prophet John Taylor regarding these perilous times. (He couldn't locate the article to read it.) Brother Barlow was telling us we have a combination house here--meeting house, seating house, sleeping house and hospital all in one. Brother Taylor tells us a few things regarding these fine, smooth-shaven people who invite themselves into our homes. Marion told us once that once we made up our mind to keep the commandments of God and put on the whole armor of Christ, that that would have to be the last decision we would have to make. I am finding that would be very true. In these meetings I find that the these men are taking the decisions right out of our control and make them for us; and all we have to do is to do it. If Brother Barlow comes and says to me, "I do not want you to let so-and.so into your house," then I am the happiest man in the world; and when that man comes, I don't let him in. As was related this morning, when Joseph stood between the two decisions--eternal damnation, and on the other hand, being mobbed; yet underneath it all, the decision was made for him. -For if he wanted eternal life, he had to keep the law. We made two decisions long before we came to this earth. We helped frame a government and made these rules and regulations by which we were willing to be governed when we came to this earth. My wife, no doubt, was one of the stars that sang and shouted and embraced her sisters, because she was told she would be permitted to endure the cross. She was not singing because they were giving away free ice creams cones, candy, and permanent waves, etc. It was because. of the beauty of these things and what they would be called upon to do when they came here to this earth to endure. I am a very young man here to you. To others it seems awfully easy for them to get another wife, except me. Now I do not say, mind you, that they are not perplexed and their women try them; but it is not the cross for the man that it is for the woman. But it also is not the cross for the women that it is for the man to be controlled by the .Priesthood. I am grateful beyond all expression, that the Lord has revealed to the Priesthood Council at this particular time that now is the time to try men's souls; now is the time to cast their souls into the furnace and they who go down, go down into perdition. I am glad that now is the time to ask us for our pocket books, :purge our feelings, take away our wives, if necessary, to try us; that now is the time to bear our cross, etc. May the Lord make us Heber's and Joseph's that we may be able to give all; even our feelings and the throbs of our hearts. May I give my life before I go before them with only half of my feelings. May we stand firm as the principle that is trying to exalt us, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

Song: "Our God We Raise To Thee"

Prayer: Brother Ed Christensen. LJAllred.

Minutes of the General Meeting held at 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City Utah February 27, 1944 at 2:00 p.m.

Brother John Y.Bar1ow presided and conducted

1st Song; "Though Nations Rise and Men Conspire" Prayer –Brother A1fred Olschewski 2nd Song: "Gently Raise the Sacred Strain"

Bro J. W. Smith bore his testimony to the fullness of the Gospel

Brother Louis Barlow:

Bore his testimony, hoping he could keep the spirit he then had with him, speaking of the promises given to him in his patriarchal blessing. Said he wasn't worried about losing his life in this war, as that was a minor affair in comparison with striving to live the laws of God. Said his experience in being away from home but four months had strengthened his testimony. Felt related to all there, as blood relationship doesn't make any difference but those who live the principles of the Gospel that we can love.

Rulon T. Jeffs: " A wise man said, Where ever a soul is being tried, there God is hewing out His temples" and Brother Louis needn't think for a moment, although he is in the very midst of hell itself, his trial won't tell in the future for the Kingdom of God. That is the feeling that come to me as he spoke. He is advancing the Kingdom of God if he is being the man God wants, because he can be used hereafter. I think we can get a good deal of strength from reading Section 121 or 2 where the Prophet Joseph Smith was writing an epistle from Liberty Jail. Among the things he said is that epistle was a prayer "How long, how long, oh Lord, must thy suffering saints be submitted to these things ? Hell is conspiring against this people. We are all in jeopardy. If we are afraid of jails or death, then we had better get out of this work, because some are going to go through both. I don't care what I do; it is in the hands of God as long as I am wise and keep my counsel. It is the same with you. Our enemies are setting a trap. Therefore we have need to be careful of what we say one to another, even by telephone and by letter. Wives and children must be taught to keep their mouths shut from strangers and among themselves. As was brought out in this morning in Sunday School by Brother Musser let all of our words tell for truth. Let us work for truth. May the Lord help me to stand firm for good in His Kingdom is my one desire in life. I ask the Lord to bless us in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother J.W. Musser:

I arise with feelings of humility and with a desire to be guided by the Spirit of the Lord in what I might say. We are here today to be taught in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and it is important that if we are going to have teachings along that line that our hearts should be prepared for them. And it is my desire that I might be an instrument in the hands of the Lord today in saying something that will increase our faith and our stability in the Gospel and have some good information given to us, some good gospel sounding in our ears today for we as a group of people, it seems to me, is trying to prepare ourselves to receive the greater blessings In Sunday School this morning, the facts were brought our that there are a great many blessings awaiting us if we are preparing ourselves to receive them. Some of those blessings pertain to the records that have not yet come forth, the record of Father Adam, the record of Enoch, the record of the Brother of Jared, etc., as well as the sealed records of the Book of Mormon, whatever they may be. They are prepared for us as soon as we are prepared to receive them. There are a great many blessings along that line. The Lord has said the time would come when our children would teach us in language that could not be written and would be forbidden to be written. Our children --some of the children which are here in this house today, no doubt will have their mouths open, their hearts will be set on fire, so to speak, and they will teach in the congregation of the saints and will prophecy and revelations will come through them through the spirit of the Lord. These are in the offing and are for us as soon as we are ready to receive them, but if the Lord would try to give them to us at the present time, they would probably wreck our lives. Brigham Young told us in his day that if the Angel Gabriel (we understand he will come and blow his trumpet) were to make his appearance to this people in his glory, the people would be consumed, they couldn't stand it. There is no one in our congregation today that could endure the presence of the Angel Gabriel. That was Noah; and yet the religious world is always praying that he will come and blow his trumpet. It is like a child asking for razor blade and not knowing how to use it. But as soon as we are ready for the blessings of the Lord, the blessings, will come. Therefore it is our purpose, my friends, to learn something each day. We have a motto in our Sunday School "Get the Spirit of the Lord and Keep it" and we are discussing all the time the purpose of getting the Spirit of the Lord How can we get it? How can we keep it. Of course, we can say we can get the Spirit by keeping the revelations --that answers the question. But it doesn't answer it to our satisfaction. How can we keep the commandments of the Lord? We know a lot of them, but how can we perfect ourselves to the extent that we are keeping them? One of the explanations given us this morning was by the use of our language. We are too flippant and careless in our conversation. It isn't only that we give away our secrets but we blaspheme and use language that is not intended to bring the Spirit of the Lord to us, and therefore while we are doing that we cannot expect the spirit of the Lord. As a group of people, we have got to learn to control our words and our thoughts. I think one of the greatest achievements in the world is to learn to control our thoughts. When they wander into forbidden tracks, we should bring them back and center them upon the things pertaining to God. We know there is a great many of us unable to control our thoughts . We go to a meeting and are inspired by the prayer that is being offered and probably here a third or fourth of it. We are inspired by a song that is sung and probably hear a line of it and our thoughts go off' and we only hear a little. Not much of the things you hear today will register because our thoughts are wandering. We are not receiving the fullness of that which is being offered to us. Joseph taught us in his day that if we wanted the blessings of the Lord we must learn to listen; we must concentrate our mind upon those things that are being spoken to us, and if the leaders are willing to devote their time and attention to the work the other members should be willing to do the same. There should be no whispering. That is one thing he taught us by concentrating our minds upon the things of God there would be no occasion for our minds wandering but when we turn to our neighbor and whisper, we are losing the trend of the meeting, the discourse that is being delivered is lost on us and we may get a third or tenth of it and that is all that we will get so that it is up to each one of us to so contro1 our minds to so direct our understandings that when we come to these meetings we would get a fullness of the Spirit of the Lord that is here. There is a representative here today from the other side making notes. There is a representative on this side taking notes, and our words are recorded by the Priesthood on the other side, as there is a representative here to take notes and to take back a report of what we are teaching this people. This people is a choice people. We are the people spoken of that would come out of the Church to glorify our Father which is in heaven and carry on His work, and in doing that the report is made of each of these meetings, no doubt, of what goes on in these meetings, what so and so's spirit is, and how we are progressing and if we are ready for persecution yet. We have got to be tried yet. Are they ready for it? Are they ready to be tested out?' These, no doubt, are some of the questions that are occupying the Priesthood on the other side. They make the policy and we carry it out. That work is going on very definitely. In 1891 the leaders of the Church, after the Manifesto was given to the world, Sent a petition to the President of the United states asking for a forgiveness of their past sins, that is asking for amnesty, a reestablishment of their citizenship in the United States. And in that petition I want to read to you one or two things to show what we as a people have done in the past. (Read from March, 1944 issue of TRUTH article beginning "To be at peace with the Government'). That is what we want to emphasize today. That our people have voluntarily put aside something they always regarded as a necessity to mans highest exaltation in the life to come. What did we get voluntarily surrendering principle of eternal life? We got apostasy, as Brother Barlow properly states. We got statehood and became State in 1896 when we apostatized and left the revelations of the Lord; and they were then friendly with us, Brother Grant frequently thanks the Lord that the people and government have become friends. There is none of them now that want to persecute us. The people in the Church haven't the spirit of opposition against them. What the Lord loves, the devil hates; so that we in 1890 opened up the gates of apostasy to this people. In order to get statehood, we signed the Manifesto. Let me read the Manifesto to you. They put that in the Doctrine and Covenants, and there isn't one man in one hundred in the Church that has ever read it. They don't know what it says. This is what they give us as a revelation It was written by three men, one of whom turned out an apostate, and was then corrected by a Gentile committee who made some changes in it and then it was signed by Wilford Woodruff as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. (Read over the Manifesto) That is what they call a revelation from the Lord Let me just read the beginning of a revelation: "Verily I say unto you" etc. What God wants brought here is brought through Jesus Christ in Joseph Smith's day. I our day everything comes through the Prophet Joseph Smith in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who holds the keys to this dispensation and it is his voice that must register here. This Manifesto was nothing but a political document gotten up out by a force of power. The U.S. was supposed to have forced them. They didn't have to do it, but they didn't have to sign that Manifesto and put it forth as a revelation of the Lord. After it was put forth a year, the people were dissatisfied and began to reprove Wilford Woodruff and so he made that statement that he went before the Lord with the matter and the Lord told him to write and wrote what the Lord told him to and then he signed it. He didn't say it was the Manifesto and he didn't write the Manifesto, because it was written by Penrose, Cannon and John White and given to us to guide our footsteps. There are no many in this house today that were alive at that time – 54 years ago. There are a lot of us 54 years old, but there are a great many here that were not alive: that can't bid them. It was sent "To whom it may concern"; it wouldn't concern you as you weren't alive then President Grant recently stated that in order to get exaltation we have got to live up to every revelation that is in the book of Doctrine & Covenants, so that if we are guided by the Present President of the Church's word and we want salvation, we have got to live that law. The Lord hasn't revoked that law, nor will He because it is eternal and how can he revoke an eternal law—the Lord can't do away with an eternal law. The thing that He had to do to become God is required of you and me if we want to become Kings and Eves in the establishment of other kingdoms. You can't get there any easier than those who lived in the days of Christ, more than God the Eternal Father did with his wife Eve, and others He had here upon the earth. Now, because the State of Utah says we mustn't do it, are we going to give up and surrender to them? In order to have peace with our enemies, the enemies of God, the Eternal Father? Those who are not for God are against Him. Those who are for Christ are Anti-Christ. The world today is anti-Christ as it was in the days of Joseph – in the days when Joseph went before the Father and asked what church he should join. Jesus said "Join none of them because they are anti-Christ He didn't use those words, but that was the meaning. They have a form of Godliness but their words are an abomination. And of course Joseph couldn't go ahead and fight against the Lord Jesus Christ, and this is the result. We are the result and we are coming out of the main body of Latter day Saints to magnify the Lord, to keep the principles of salvation alive that others following us might have them to direct their footsteps. That is our mission that is our work. We can't help it. We didn't do it. Brother Barlow isn't responsible for that commandment, nor is he responsible for sitting Where he does at the present time holding the higher order in the Priesthood, in being a patriarch to the world. It isn't his doing. He couldn't have made himself a patriarch or an apostle. He couldn't have given himself the highest order of the Priesthood. It was conferred upon him and now he is responsible to the Lord God Almighty and we are responsible with him to see that a year never passes that children are not born under the new and Everlasting Covenant of marriage. That is his and my duty and Brother Zitting's duty and nobody's business. Now, my dear brethren and sisters, we are going to have some trouble soon. Maybe I have already said too much because there is somebody in the house today that will report what I have said. But we are into trouble but still in America and still have free speech and free press under the Constitution. But the TRUTH magazine has the right to be published as long as the United States Mail will take it through the mail, and if they won't take it through the mail it can be distributed because of the Constitution provides for free speech. But I have stressed it before and will just mention it again – this matter of being careful with our tongues. Just got word they are investigating in New York. Try to get something on us of a federal nature as to what we are doing there. Some of you folks are under investigation now. You are not being investigated yourself but are being questioned with reference to this Priesthood Council and certain parties in the Council. I want to tell you again that we want to be "as dumb as an oyster" Now oysters don't talk, and we should be as dumb as an oyster when they come to question you. They have no authority to do it. They will try to insinuate that they can force you, but they can't do it. They have no authority. You never have to open your mouth except to tell them to get out of your house. Until you are in the witness stand, and then you only answer such questions as are fit to be put to you. Aunt Susie has a right, if they come here and her husband isn't here, to just pick them up by seat of their trousers and dump them out. That is what should be done. If you can't do that, you have a broom. But you don't have to talk and we should be dumb when it comes to meeting that kind of people. They are scientific and are educated and know how to appeal to our vanity and exercise all kinds of traits and characteristics in order to get us to talk. Now let us be careful about this matter. I was telling a brother this morning about my mother and when my father was out of the penitentiary my mother had another baby and no one knew anything about that for six months, and my father fixed the time so they couldn't him back to the penitentiary. She kept her mouth shut and kept him out of the penitentiary for the 2nd term in doing that. You might be able to keep some of your brethren and sisters out of the penitentiary. But you don't have to talk until you get on the witness stand. There will be few here who will have to go on the witness stand if you will keep your mouths closed., May the Lord bless us and help us each day to improve our talents. Let us prepare ourselves to receive these blessings that have been promised lo these many years. Twelve or thirteen years ago we were promised some of these blessings. Israel was promised that on a certain day in 1832 or 3 that Zion would redeemed at that time providing from this day on you keep My statutes and Zion isn't redeemed yet because the people didn't live the laws of God, and instead of being redeemed the Lord turned them over to their enemies in order that they could be cleansed, and they came out here in the mountains and we have growing a little group out of the body of the church. You have come and you are carrying on the work that they refused to carry on because the burden was to great of them Now, out of this Group today, enough in the group will be chosen, I will tell you in the name of the Lord God of Israel and they will go on an perfect the work of the Lord. This group isn't ready yet. We can't endure sound doctrine and persecution. They will be left behind and this other group will carryon and pretty soon the Lord and Joseph will come here. Well, here they are. We have done the best we could. Here they are. God bless you Amen.

Song: "Up Awake, Ye :Defenders of Zion"

Bro John Y. Barlow My brothers and sisters, how many of you have fathers and grandfathers who went through those trying days? My grandfather went through it all. My father was born in Nauvoo and came down through trials and tribulations, and now after having established the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and after having come here and President Young declaring the whole of the Gospel are we going to give it up? In the first place, the Lord said to the Prophet Joseph: In as much as you have asked concerning Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ( quoted 132nd section ) That is what the Lord said, The only people that will become kings in the eternal world and become Gods in their own right will be those that live the law of plural marriage. Alright let's come down a little further. President Taylor said Joseph taught them that law and afterwards told him to obey that law and he prayed to the Lord and found out it was true and if we didn't live it the Kingdom of God couldn't go on. Wilford Woodruff said, 'God has given us a law whereby we may have our wives and children sealed to us and there is no other law under heaven that we can do it. I talking to Mr. Beerbauer in Court President Lorenzo Snow said 'thought I go to prison , God will not change the law of Celestial Marriage; but the people, or and one that rejects it will be damned. Joseph F. Smith said, 'I understand it to mean that every man who has read this revelation has had it revealed to him, and I say in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that it does mean that'. At the death of William Clayton, he said, 'If we reject this law, we will come to a full stop and will never become as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but will come to a full stop. President Grant said, that whenever a law is given we should obey it and be like the Three Hebrew children. Those were the words of President Grant. Now they come and tell us we have got a revelation stopping it. Heber C. Kimball, one of the greatest prophets we have had in this dispensation, said, 'Let the President of this Church and all the apostles and all the authorities fight that principle and they will all be damned. Now my brethren and sisters, what are we going to do? They say they are going to wipe it out. They also said they were going to send army out here and kill the Mormons. Let me tell you now as a servant of God, if they set a trap and under take to do that, it will fall on their heads and this law will go on as Brigham Young said and triumph over all. It was given before the foundations of the world for this very purpose, that we might have eternal increase and men may become Gods. That is why the law was given. Then they came forth with a flimsy thing like the Manifesto and try to say it is a revelation from God Does it sound like God speaking? He never sounded like that that I ever heard. He always says, 'I the Lord' or 'Verily, verily, thus saith the Lord'. At the Conference where the Manifesto was presented, Brother Snow got up and bore witness. Is that necessary in the case o a revelation? No! They got scared. Any religion that does not ask for the sacrifice of everything earthly has no saving principles in it. We voluntarily give them up. Sometimes it makes my blood boil to think God has raised up sons and daughters of parents like we have them for us to go back on the very principles that will exalt us. Don't think but what we have it live the other principles, too But this is the principle that is being fought. They can't do anything to us if we are prayerful and united. The lions couldn't touch Daniel when he was united. Let us be like that song, 'Wake, Ye /sons of Zion' We have asked for redress. President Young said if they would keep the commandments of God they would never have to live except in the Kingdom of God. God will fight our battles if we keep His commandments.

Song: "Arise, O Glorious Zion"

Benediction: Brother Russell Kunz.

Minutes of the Testimony Meeting held Sunday March 5, 1944 At the Priesthood home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. At two o'clock p.m.

President John Y Barlow presided.

President Joseph W. Musser conducted.

1st Song: 'How Firm a Foundation' Prayer: Brother Lyman Jessop, - particularly remembering Brother James Martin. 2nd Song: 'We'll Sing all hail to Jesus Name'.

Sacrament Administered by Bro Dave Darger, Arnold Boss, Ed Christenson, and Herbert Smart.

Testimonies were borne by Quincy Kimball and Ed Christenson who sang a song written by Eliza R. Snow about the early saints and their trials.

Charles Zitting: I have a very strong urge to get up and say a few words. It surely makes us proud to think of the things that have come down since that song was written. Nauvoo was a beautiful city at the time the saints had to flee, cross the Mississippi River and leave everything behind and cross the wilderness to come here I can see those sturdy people coming out here --for what? Not for wealth, not for millions, but for the princip1es of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. and that's what we are here for, brothers and sisters. It doesn't make any difference whether they will let us meet in our meeting house up above, if we can hold to the principles and hold true. They have tried to stamp out those principles from the State of Utah and have failed and acknowledged their failure. And now they are trying to get the Federal government to stamp it out. In talking with Attorney Barnes yesterday, he said the only issue in the case the Federal government is concerned is have you lived in more than one state with a wife you are not legally married to. First they have to prove if you have another and then they have to prove if you have lived in another state. So how is the Federal government going to stamp it out? It will not be stamped out, brothers and sisters. The laws of God are going on. Will He fight our battles? How many of you have tested Him in that way? He said, 'If you will do my will, I will fight your battles.' I want to bear testimony that if you try Him a thousand times, He won't fail you once out of the thousand." Gave an illustration of studying science and of proving facts to be true, and not just theories. God says, 'If you will do my will, I will fight your battles and you have me bound. Then He tells us to try him and see if he isn't bound. If you do the Lord's will a thousand times, He will never fail you once. You have got him bound,. and I have experimented with that so many times that it is a scientific law. God will do exactly what He promised to do. "Persecution is coming. It is in line. Brother Joseph told us in the name of the Lord, I believe at our last meeting, that there will not only be a people come out of the Church that would be the nucleus of the Millennial al reign, ., but there would be a people come out of this people that would be that nucleus. I would be surprised in a few years from now if half of this crowd will be with us, but there will be many more with us and many others. But this is just the sifting process Brother John Taylor said, "that dreadfu1 day when all who can be shaken will be shaken,' These meetings are to go on. They are not stopping There is a Federal investigation on now and many of our acquaintances have been called to witness, but these meetings will go on and the Gospel and the principle of plural marriage will go on here in the state of Utah, and before this is over God is going to take a hand. They put a couple of saints in jail in Arizona and they got more publicity than they were expecting. Let them indict ten or twenty of us and they will never get up to tell about it. The Lord will take a hand. And, brothers and sisters, this nation is going to see the hand of God before another year, and you are going to see faction against faction. You will see things come so thick and fast during the next year or two that you will know that God is near. This I promise to you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

More testimonies borne by Irene Christensen and Dave Darger, and Clayne Wayman.

Song: "Do What Is Right" by Congregation.

Brother Barlow

read the words of "Uphold the Right though Fierce the Fight" by Emily H. Woodmansee.

Sister Ann Lingreen bore a very sweet testimony: I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation."

Marion Hammon: You hear me so often I try to restrain myself, but feel that if I can add a word or two that may give somebody some encouragement and benefit myself it will be time well spent. I am thankful that God rules instead of man. His judgments and laws and rules and: regulations pertaining to His kingdom seem a little strange sometimes, but as I see the Kingdom of God rolling forth I thank the Lord that He controls the saints and only permits those who have a desire to be faithful to go forward If you want to linger behind and let somebody else carry the fight, the spirit of God ceases to strive with you and you are left to yourself and what a blessing it is. I love this work. I love the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am only sorry that I haven't greater powers and capacities to labor in it. I feel sorry for the man and woman who think they can stamp out the Gospel of Jesus Christ. How great is going to be their sorrow! The suffering that they hope to bring upon us will only be for our purification and the judgments and damnation will only be upon them. We need to be persecuted, a little bit, and I feel the only reason we didn't have it before is because we weren't able to take it, and I feel that now that some of us are becoming solidified that the Lord is permitting us to be tried that we may be more staunch and firm. In partaking of the sacrament, I was impressed again today in taking upon us the name of Jesus Christ There are many people in the world who think they have taken upon themselves the name of Jesus Christ, and a according to their mind are willing to stand by their principles, but they are without light and understanding and know not where they are going. They are taking the name of the Lord upon themselves without being called of God as was Aaron, and that is why we have men in our midst today --because they have been called of God. None of us are taking any responsibility unto ourselves. I doubt if there is an Elder in the house today who received the Priesthood because he went after it, but it was conferred upon him. No man is standing in a responsible position that has sought to take any glory unto himself. Just as soon as our enemies drive us into a position where we are just and pure in the sight of God, just so soon will our enemies tremble in their boots. I was reminded the other day that Jesus sought his Father in the Garden of Gethsemane and said, 'Father, if this cup can be taken from me, let it be done, but if not thy will be done. And so it is with us. we are not looking for any trouble, but it is our responsibility to see that the Kingdom of God rolls forth and it doesn't matter if it takes our property and lives and wives and children, we must remain true to our trust. The Lord is only trying to raise up men and women who wil1 stand that test. I have in the past set out men who I thought would be firm and true, and I am commencing to leave that alone. But I do feel a confidence in my brethren and sisters, those that are coming forth, that there are men and women that wil1 stand true to the fight, and it doesn't matter what our friends or enemies say they will go forward. We have so much to do to bring ourselves in submission to the Priesthood of God. Some of you little know what awaits you. Advice has been given you here from time to time that is being openly violated with impunity; We are instilling ideas in our minds that we don't have to submit to counsel Some of you take the hurdles in your stride and others are always pushing them ahead. These people that are pushing their hurdles ahead expecting to take them later, how sorry will be their day If we are violating the counsel we have received, we should turn and meet it. The little things you could do, you ought to do. I do. not feel to prolong my remarks. I thank God for the Gospel of Jesus Christ that I have been permitted to enjoy. God is not going to shed forth His spirit upon any man or woman that doesn't have a disposition to keep His commandments. If you won't step forth and keep the commandments of God and do His work, you will never enjoy the spirit. You will be basking in the sunlight and will wither up some day. It isn't enough, you brothers and sisters and especially you sisters to keep your houses in order. Your faith has got to be an active faith. Instead of tearing down your husbands, you have got to build them up and sweeten him instead of souring him. I know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is in our midst, that we have the power of life and salvation, but I am not sure yet what we are going to do with it The Lord is so long-suffering and patient and kind with us I wonder how long we can try His patience and still keep sweet. As sure as God's anger gets kindled and He starts it take vengeance upon the wicked on this earth, I pity them. I pray that we may take grace in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I do it in the name o Jesus Christ Amen.

Aunt Susie Barlow bore her testimony. Also Arnold Boss And Frances Hammon.

Closing Song: "The Morning Breaks, The Shadows Flee" Benediction: David W. Jeffs

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2157 Lincoln Avenue March 5. 1944 Preliminary Program

OPEN SUNDAY

1st Song: Page 195 Come Let Us Anew Invocation: Guy Musser 2nd Songs Page 410 How Oft In Sweet Meditation In Charge: Lyman Jessop • Participations:

Speaker••• Brother Hunter from Idaho Bore a strong testimony that the movement has started and stated the Lord is behind it.

Duet •• Allie Fors and Rulon Jeffs "My Faith In Thee" accompanied by Mable Allred

Speaker: Heber Smith- Inducted in the Navy - home on leave Related how grateful he is for the experiences gained in the navy. Bore his testimony and how thankful he is for his belief

Lyman Jessop stated a few remarks regarding the endurance necessary to maintain faith till redemption. He read from 0rson F Whitney's song found on page 274

Solo•• Sister Otto Olschewski •• "Secret Prayer"

Rachel Zitting read a poem

Marion Hammond from Short Creek: He said the young men full of integrity and pure in heart will be the ones used to pruned the vineyard when it is pruned. Ladies: •••You are going to be as sorry as you can be for wearing your make up•• IT IS AS IMMORDEST AS HELL! It will be as true as you are living and breathing that it will bowl some of you over. You married women if you don't mend you ways and set the example to others you will pay for it in sorrow.

Piano Solo••Melba Allred, In a Persian Market

Speaker ••John Y Barlow Speaking on righteousness and how it must exceed the scribes and Pharisees of today

Trio•• Sister Allreds. "The Spirit Flower

Speaker • Rulon C Allred.•• Rejoiced over the goodness of God to him.

Closing Song: Page 180 Abide With Me

Benediction, Joseph Barlow

MINUTES

Sacrament Meeting held at 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, Apri1 2, 1944 , at 2: 00 p.m. Pres. John Y. Barlow presided and conducted. 1st Sang: "0, Came Thou King of Kings" Prayer: Brother Ernest Williams 2nd Song: "Gently Raise the Sacred Strain" Sacrament: Administered by Bros. Axel Fors, Fred Cleveland, Hunter, and G. Von Monfranz; Brother Otto Olschewski in charge.

Brother John Y .Barlow:

My brothers and sisters, it is a pleasure that I meet with you again in this house. We have had our meetings stopped for a while. It has made us a little more humble and get nearer the Lord, and we have seen His handmade manifest. But do not stop at that; we are not out of the woods yet and we may meet a bear before we get out of the woods. Sometime ago I told you people that I saw this coming and said if we are humble enough and exercise enough faith, there will be a door and we will go on; and we still say this. Some of the brethren may be sent to jail; I do not know, it has never been made known to me yet. If they do, it will press the work on a little faster. The word of the Lord has gene over the world. Remember the word of the Lord and keep His commandments. Brothers and sisters, the law is going forth before Zion, the law that makes kings, queens, princes, etc.; that law has gone out to the world. I for one cannot feel trembly in the knees. My little girl said, "We have seen. the ABC men take May away. Nevertheless, I am proud of men and women of that kind, and we must stay humble. We laugh and say. funny things, but this is a serious time. It may be a time when God sees fit to Vindicate His laws. I want you to be free, and I promise you if you rise up the spirit of God will rest upon you better than it has ever before. I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Testimonies by: G.Von Mofranz, Fred Cleveland, Aunt Susie Barlow-and as her testimony –"Who's on the Lord's side Who?"- Wn. Stokes, Jos. Geertsen sr. Lyman Jessop.

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

I was flattered when I learned that some of our sisters were spending time in jail. The news came to us in another room. There have been many surprises up to date in this matter. The first two surprises were victories of the brethren that arrested us. But I feel this way, that we have given out a testimony to the world in going to prison just for a short time. We do not know, some of us may have to go to spend much longer. I do not anticipate that many will have to go; I do not anticipate that any of the women will have to go again. We have given a witness to the world with reference to this principle of life and salvation, but this witness will go on and be registered in the heavens. The Lord will preserve the Saints and not let burdens bear down on them any more then they can stand. (He then gave the example of the three Hebrews and the fiery furnace, how they were told not to worship any other Gods before Him, that if they were placed in the furnace the Lord would come to their rescue.) We do not know what is going to happen in our case. There is one God to worship--the God of Abraham. If He does not preserve our lives it is up to Him. I imagine the three Hebrews knew that they would be cast into the fiery furnace, but they knew that they had to have faith. That is the case with these brethren. The enemy has entered into a conspiracy to charge us with conspiracy and put us into jail, to get us into their clutches and get us into jail and keep us there. The Lord is still controlling the actions of men, and will continue. I remember when Sister Barlow sang this song, "Who's On the Lord's Side Who" that Brother Goddard did sing that song. "Now is the time to show," that is the condition here. There are people here in this congregation that will not go on to the end., but a great many of you will. There is a certain group of people that were to come out of the Church. Now, there is a people coming out of this group that is going ahead and remain steadfast and true. I wish I could hope that all of us would be, but the Lord has made it known to me that this group is going to be separated. The test is on; we are going to be tested and tried. and it is going to be discovered what is in us--whether we are going to be steadfast and true to the end. Now, my brothers and sister, I wish you all would reach that great zenith. I am glad that we can continue our meetings and the Truth Magazine. We are working on the next issue. May the Lord bless us and give us the courage of our convictions. We want to be stable, firm and steadfast to the end. They cannot take any more from us than our lives, so do not let us worry about what they do. God bless you, Amen.

Testimonies: Melba F. Allred, Jean Darger (and also sang "Up, Awake Ye Defenders of Zion".

Arnold Boss made a prophecy (first telling of Joseph who was sold into Egypt and how later saw his brethren receive food at his hands when a famine came ) "I testify to you that God's Priesthood is here in this room. The leaders of the Church are jealous of this and have entered into a conspiracy against them. Someday the full meaning of this will be revealed. God will magnify his Priesthood servants and those who entered into conspiracy will someday be glad to receive assistance at their hands. Section 76 of the D. & C. shall be fulfilled.

Testimonies: Laura Zitting John Butchereit

D. W. Jeffs: I want to tell you in the name of Israel's God that there will be more surprises I want to prophesy that the people who are trying to crush the eternal laws of God will meet just what they did in the days of the Prophet Joseph. It is in the future and it is coming. You cannot crush it to the earth. I want to tell you in the name of Israel's God that if we submit to the will of the Lord and cast out jealousies and whims, etc., we will be blessed.

Closing ·Song: "Though Deepening Trials" Benediction: Brother Herbert Smart. LJAllred.

CONFERINCE

Held Thursday, April 6, 1944 at ; 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City,. Utah, at 2: 00 p.m.

President John Y. Barlow presided.

Elder Jos. W. Musser conducted.

1st Song: "Came, Listen to a Prophet's Voice' Prayer: Brother William Stokes 2nd Song: "0, That My Soul in Joy Might Meet"

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

I concede this to be the first day of the year, the birthday of the Savior; it is His death day--the 6th of April. It is the birthday of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was born 114 years ago today in western New York. A great many things have occurred since that time. We are now in the valleys of the mountains; we have been here nearly 100 years. Three more years and it will be 100 years since the Saint s came here. There have been a great many changes since that time. Saints were driven from New York to Ohio, then to Illinois and Missouri then to Utah. years ago the Mexicans conceded this part of the country (Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and parts of Nevada) to the United States. My mind has a great many reflections of things that have happened.--. the earlier days of my life when I was with the Church, the beginning of this group and up to the present time. Yet there has been quite a drifting apart. We are holding are holding a conference and the Church is holding conference too. This morning they took one hour to go over the financial affairs of the Church. We are here a little group, coming out of the Church, trying keep certain principles alive, these principles that are being fought and destroyed by the world today and by the desire that our Church has to be in harmony with the world. We have made a great many mistakes. I feel this should be a day of repentance and we should repent; we have made a lot of mistakes and our 1iberties are being threatened because of some mistakes; yet our human. efforts, not always directed by the spirit of the Lord, in them we did the best we knew how. We are learning a lesson; we must be humble and keep humble more than ever before. The injunction to get the spirit of God. and keep it becomes more important every day of our lives. It seems that the people are trying to crush us because we are advocating that which they have given up; the payment of statehood is what they paid. We are essentially a peaceful people. We believe in freedom of belief and religion, and in our championship of that great belief, which was given by Father Adam, we sometimes get into trouble because we come in contact with the notions of the world, the positions of the world. We have often times in the past, as well as at the present time, invited the opposition to work against us. I feel that this is a time when we should turn a new page in all of our actions "Wherein we are not guided by the spirit of the Lord. Mormonism has a high ideology; it has the highest spiritual ambition that can be conceived of. It is a gospel that takes us into the eternities. It establishes us in kingdoms with our wives and children, just as the Kingdom of Adam is being built up by Father Adam. So we expect, if we are faithful and. true, to build up our kingdoms. These laws of Enoch, Abraham, etc. have come down to us in a very definite way and we are expected to live those laws. Sometimes we have jealousies enter between us, priesthood claims, etc. Those things we should overcome and fight off. It has been the Priesthood issue from the beginning. It has not been a fight against polygamy. It was not known when the people were driven out of Ohio, Illinois, etc., and there was very little known by the rest of the U. S. about polygamy. So it is not polygamy they are after. Brother Barlow and I were reading an article --if it were polygamy, all we would have to do is change the name to mistress. But when the Priesthood. was established under the direction of Father Adam, Lucifer knew that unless he crushed that Priesthood he would be eventually crushed. He has a priesthood, but it is an inferior one. It has always been a fight between light and darkness. That is what we are fighting for at the present time--to overcome darkness. I feel to urge this people that we must live more as one to the end that we might perfect ourselves along the lines that we have been designated to perfect ourselves as a branch coming out of the tree, to accomplish certain work, keep the Gospel alive and spread the work throughout the earth. (Here he read an article by John Taylor: "There is no faltering no trembling in the knees, no shaking with us; God is our God, we are His people and this kingdom will go forth and roll onward; and woe to the man who attempts to stay the progress of Jehovah; he shall wither like grass--- and no power can stop His hand.) That is the theme of Mormonism today. We are fighting for freedom. God gave his children freedom; Satan tried to take it away from them. Through the 6.000 years up to date, he has tried to take that freedom away from us. I feel we should keep these things in mind, my friends. I like to call you friends, for you are friends. But I want to spend the rest of my days in building up the defense for freedom. We want all mankind to be free--free to think and act as long as we do not infringe upon the rights of others. We are free to act and think. I feel that the Lord will bless us and not let our enemies overcome us. As I have said before, some of us may have to be witnesses and be jailed, but we will never give that ideal up--freedom to believe and. think: as we want. (He then read from Malachi 3:1-12.) Now I want to emphasize that principle of tithes. It has cost us several thousand dollars and it will take a good deal more if we go to the Supreme courts. But that is not the reason why we should pay our tithes. It is a law of God. Those who pay their tithes will be blessed and those who do not will not be blessed. I feel. that those Saint s who have neglected this matter should start to pay their tithes that they may be used to build up Zion of the earth. That is the way we built up our farms, do away with disease and sickness. We can overcome that if we will observe that law. We must observe all laws of the Gospel. May the Lord bless you and this conference, I ask in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Rulon C. Allred:

My brothers and sisters, I never felt weaker in my life in being called than I do today in being asked to address this people I sincerely hope and pray with all my heart that I might have the Spirit of God in its power and might to dictate my words, that they might be as though from His lips to the edification of all of us. I marvel at God's goodness to us because of our unworthiness, and particularly do I marvel at His goodness to me in my unworthiness, transgression and limitations for His blessings are poured cut upon me and my household all the day long. When I rise in the morning and contemplate the blessings of heaven; in my laboring in the daytime when I see the hand of God blessing my efforts, when I return to my wives and children at night and feel the blessing of the Spirit of God in my household; and when I retire to my rest; my heart is filled with gladness and my eyes with tears of gratitude for God Almighty for all His goodness to me and my family and this people. I assure you, brothers and sisters, if our hearts are set upon keeping the commandments of God, if our eyes are single to His glory, there is nothing that can take place in life or in death, freedom or imprisonment, joy or in sorrow that can work to our hurt. We have the charge of working together for our gaining o glory and exaltation in the presence o God and for the accomplishment of his purposes in us upon the earth, and I feel moved to say, as Paul said. 'our eyes have not seen, our ears have not heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man what glories God has prepared for those who keep His commandments. What a puny effort it is, notwithstanding the numerical superiority of those who have raised their hands against us, notwithstanding the might of the nation and the state, notwithstanding the powers o hatred in the hearts o the people – oh puny it is, indeed, that they raise against us with Almighty God behind us to assist us in living and teaching His Gospel. We should be led to thank God with all our hearts that we are counted worthy to suffer some little or His name's sake. Boys from this nation have gone out into the wilds of the South Pacific, in the desert jungles of the earth, to fight a most brutal enemy. They have given their lives in defense of their understanding of democracy and freedom. Some of them have suffered untold agony because of their wounds. Thousands of them have endured torment of at the hands of merciless men who have taken them into imprisonment. Some of them have starved to death and some have suffered brutality in defense of what we consider our freedom, our wives and children and homes. And it is well that when we fight for just causes we should shed our blood and endure much. If some of us are incarcerated in the jails and penitentiaries of the state, have we yet endured what some of our sons and brothers and friends have been called to endure for their understanding of freedom, self-justifications and glory? I want to tell you brothers and sisters, if we do not repent and sanctify and hallo our lives, if we do not draw closer to God and entitle ourselves through righteous living to more of the guidance of His Holy Spirit, God is going to suffer us to be ground into the dust. Our righteousness as individuals must entitle us to God's blessings and as families must give us power to keep alive the holy principles of God. That and only that can give us the positive knowledge that we have His approval and will receive His help. God cannot justify us in our sins. He will not justify us if we do not merit it. Our people in times past fell short of upholding and sustaining the fullness of the Gospel – not because God failed to keep His promises and fight our battles against this nation – not because of the judges ---but because we were divided, because less than 3% of the Church ever lived the principle involved, because 97% of the Church didn't care if they lived it. That is why we failed, and if we fail today it will be because we are divided and haven't the integrity to call upon God and be heard. The principles and laws we live are righteous and all the truths we assay to hold up before the people are true as Heaven is true and will exist through time and all eternity. Then are we worthy to Hold them up And have those principles imbedded themselves in us enough to glorify us? If they are not in our hearts and our lives so lived, as God lives he cannot justify us and He cannot vindicate us because we are not worthy of it. That is the only question and needs be in your and my heart as to how far God will carry us along in this fight and save us from imprisonment, deprivation, misery and unhappiness. These principles we teach, three laws we try to live can never be done away. They will not be done away. This government and all the nations and governments upon the earth cannot crush out the principles and ordinances of God as reestablished by the Prophet Joseph Smith in this dispensation of time never to be taken from the earth again, and those principles if they are truly an integral part of our lives, if they sanctify and purify us, if they make these bodies pure and holy, those principles making us thus pure and holy will uphold and sustain us. But only if these principles are exemplified in our live will they save us, and that man or woman who thinks they can go on living after the pattern of the world, contrary to the principles of the Gospel justifying themselves in their own disobedience to god will find that the principles of the Gospel will crush and damn them instead of saving them, and that is true just as heaven is true. I listened to the address of President Heber J. Grant today. The things that were said were beautiful and soul- inspiring and obedience given to the counsel given wild save and direct the people o this Church into righteousness, truthfulness and holiness. I listened to the brethren presenting the names of the leaders o he Church to the members (only partially represented) to be sustained, and those listening over the radio were given the glorious privilege of sustaining the leaders in their home. And what a glorious privilege, because if they voted against the leaders at home they wouldn't be cut off from the Church. Now, that is dictatorship! You may say that isn't as it is, but if you do not vote to sustain the leader even in their sins, you will be cut off. That is true. The principle of free agency --- God gave us the agency to move and to exercise our intelligence and our physical powers within the scope of our authority. My religious liberty, my physical liberty, my spiritual liberty are circumscribed only by the amount of the authority I have from God in my given field. My family is under my jurisdiction, covenanting to obey me as I obey God in righteousness, and my authority, my religious freedom, and every other freedom, is unlimited. These brethren with the poser of the Priesthood would not and could not step into the confines of my home and tell me what my family should do or tell then what they should do without my approval. That is beyond their authority if I am righteous. If it is beyond the authority of those who hold he keys of authority in the earth, how far beyond the authority of this state it lies to tell me wherein my religious liberties can be circumscribed. How far beyond the prerogatives of this nation it lies to tell me the same thing; and where ever principles of righteousness are trampled upon, whether it be by the nation or the state or the Church, God will vindicate the principle. He always has and always will. If he doesn't see fit to vindicate us in living the principle, it will only be because we are not worth. What does it matter if we go to Jail? What does it matter if we spend the greater part of our lives in trials and tribulations? It matters not – if God is with us. His spirit will enlighten our souls and we will be far happier in the penitentiaries of this land if God so will it than those who are on the outside fighting against the principles of a Holy God. Through one of His Servants God told the people it was their wickedness that brought about their destruction. He said, 'I do not delight in the destruction of the wicked It is my desire that they turn form their sins and live. Only the righteous are to be saved That, my brothers and sisters, lays the line, definitely and positively for you and me. There is one thing that may trouble some of us, and that thing is will I remain faithful in the hour of travail, persecution and trouble and trials that are coming upon me, or will I falter and go by the way and become like the rest of the world? I hope it is in the hearts of but a few And then there is one other thing that should be in the hearts of all of us, regardless of how we will stand, and that is --- am I living so I can have a just and powerful claim upon God through my righteousness ? Can I be vindicated before these men I love, before God and all men.? Mercy cannot rob justice. We must have a just claim upon the blessings. And brothers and sisters, If you can know that you're are living so that you may have a claim upon the blessings, come what may it will bring you joy and happiness. Whether it despoils us of our goods, our possessions, deprives us of our wives and children, causes us to have our bodies torn asunder, it matter not. Foe we know that God is with us and He can do all things. Let us individuals, one and all, draw close to God in our everyday lives, in our everyday striving that we can look to heaven morning, noon and night and ask Him to bless us, and may we have a just claim upon those blessings I pray in Christ's name Amen.

Choir: "Hosanna Anthem"

Brother Charles F. Zitting: :

My dear brothers and sisters, I had a feeling today that I may be called upon to speak and I prayed to our Heavenly Father that I would not be called upon unless I had His spirit and guidance in the things 'that I might say. So I ask for your faith and prayers that the time will not be spent in vain. I feel it a great responsibility in standing here to talk to you, more so than if' I were talking in the Tabernacle. I am more happy in my position than I would be there because we are in the minority. As history has shown, it is the minority and not the majority that is right. In the days of the Savior He and His followers were in the minority. In the days of the Prophet, he and his followers were in the minority. You do not have to apply it to religion; in the days of Columbus the same prevailed. He believed. the world was round and few others believed it. (He then gave the example of a new invention and how the majority are usually against it.) Satan is ruling over this world. When he is cast out, then and then only will the majority be right. That is a beautiful day that we are looking forward to--a day when all truth will come forward and all shall accept it. That is the day that we speak of as seeing eye to eye. We are living in a world that Brigham Young spoke of as "'hell". He said you will stay in hell until you bring yourselves into subjection to the laws of God. The sooner we stand for truth, no matter how small or large it is, and stand up for all truth, lay our petty selfishness aside, and stand up for right, the sooner the Millennium will come on. It seems that the spirit of the Lord is working on all flesh all over the world in establishing principles of freedom. There has got to be freedom if we expect to grow. The powers of Lucifer have never been stronger than they are today. We have got to stand for the principles of evil or the principles of truth; you cannot stand on the fence. Find out what is right and -what is wrong. How can you do it except by showing a willingness to your Father in Heaven to live it? If you find out certain principles are true and you tell Him you will die for it, He will answer you. Is your motive right? The world is groping in darkness too day Why? Because there are many countries of the world that do not have their freedom. Even our country is not free. We have gone a long way on the wrong track toward dictatorship. Satan is trying to establish his church on the earth. There is only one way he can establish it--by putting dictators at the heads of the nations. The work of the Lord is as far from dictatorship as anything in the world can be. There is nothing that you are forced to do like you are in these kingdoms of the devil. What is the plan of Jesus Christ? Did He put those principles of dictatorship in force? No. But he taught love, kindness, patience, etc The Lord will not give you a testimony of the Gospel unless you have searched and exhausted your efforts to obtain it. If we are going to get the real things in this world, we have got to work: for them and then the Lord will help us. This nation has become corrupt because it has gone a long way toward establishing Satan's principles. You cannot raise what you want on your farm unless the Government tells you what you can raise and how much of it. (He then told of how on a Sunday he tried to buy some milk to feed his baby, the grocery stores were closed and none of the other stores would sell him any to take away from the place of business because of the regulations of the Government ) So we have gone a long way along the lines of European nations. This nation is going through that trial now and in the next few months it will go through that to the extreme. The Lord has promised us that no king shall rule over this land if we keep His commandments. Are we going to have a king? If no king rules over this land. of America, it will be because a small minority will stand up for the truth. So you have a big responsibility on your shoulders, brothers and sisters. We are going to go through some trials. I think we have come to the point where we can take them. I know we can go to jail. Thirteen years ago I was put in jail and now I have been put in jail again for 24 hours. I believe we are going to see some tough times and I believe we are going to pay the price for what we claim to be. I have often wondered if I could give my life for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, if we all could. I have prayed to the Lord that if it came I would be prepared. There is only one time I felt I could take anything they handed out to me and that was when Aunt Susie was singing that song last Sunday, "Who's on the Lord's Side Who?" Through what group of people is Christ going to save the world? Through those who are willing to be saved on free agency in which this world was created. May we go on, pray and try to do better each day. Let us not be indifferent; it is that that keeps us from progressing. If we do not move on and do better, we will be at a standstill. May we grow; may we go on and come out with greater victories I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, .Amen.

Brother Guy Musser:

I pray that my Heavenly Father will bless me, for I feel weaker at this time than I ever felt standing before an audience. I feel that there are messengers here from the Counsel on the other side. Let us pray that we may be blessed with the spirit of the Lord. I feel that we are the most blessed people on the land. There is stark starvation in this city. Many men are running about starved for the principles of life and salvation. Yet at this very moment the Church of God has assembled together to give them His word. Yet we are more fortunate; God has called us forth as lay-members and is permitting us to hear the words of the Lord and listen to the marvelous singing. So I consider today one of the significant moments of my life. I feel grateful that the Counsel of the Priesthood still sees within me a chance to overcome and go on in this great and mighty work; and with all our weaknesses and mistakes they see in us, yet they call us to repentance with the hope that we can straighten ourselves out and become true and stalwart in the work of Almighty God. There is a force in existence among us today, and that force has lived as long as I have lived, to bastardize the people of this State. But I will not and cannot be bastardized! When I look into the eyes of my father and think and reflect of the angelic mother that suckled me, and look into the beautiful eyes or you who have come also through those lines, I realize there is no other line in the earth for those faithful souls to came through except through the law of Celestial marriage. There is no law on earth other than this that can enable them to excel and rise to celestial glory. If people in the State, or in this audience are satisfied to feel that they are illegitimate, it is all right With me, but I feel prepared to say to the world this very moment that I am not! There are boys who represent us in the forces of this nation in the in the islands of sea this very day, fighting for the rights of the people to serve God, whose Saints have been imprisoned because they feel to exercise that right. Is that agency? Is that freedom of conscience? Is that religious freedom of worship? .If it is, then deliver me from it. And even in the face of this great and disastrous thing that has come upon our people, many of us are willing to sit neutral in our feelings and let the nation thwart the purposes of God. Lucifer has been schooling his people and the armies and captains and lieutenants for many, many years. Now he has declared openly, without warning of any kind, against the Saints of God. We have been preached to time and time again; our brethren who lead us have told us that we bear the Priesthood of Almighty God, and that our wives bear it with us, together with all the powers and authority. necessary to work out our salvation and to consume the evil one, to live happy in the earth. Now, we are faced with a condition in which we can prove ourselves and find out if we are of a chosen lineage or a chosen people; or whether we are an apostate people filled with all manner of sin and immoral1ty. The time is here today; not tomorrow or next week. It is here today! We have been told by authority in the name of God that we have the right to expect help from Almighty God if we so order our lives in the channels that He desires us to. And if we do not do that, we have no promise. We cannot accept the Gospel in part. I cannot say to myself that there is a certain portion of the Gospel that appeals to me and I will accept that portion of the fullness of the Gospel and I will perfect myself in it and I will work out my salvation in fear and trembling. Such folly, brothers and sisters! As President Barlow has said, "If we are guilty of part, we are guilty of the whole." There are omissions that are serious, and we will find that out. Unless we are willing to accept the fullness of the Gospel, then we are not fully prepared to accept the responsibility placed upon us. Heber C. Kimball said that the time would come in these valleys that the conditions would so surround us that the more righteous of the Saints of God would cry unto Him. until we are delivered from it. But much worse could be the condition of our people. But if we did not pray night and day for deliverance wives and children would be taken away from us; our people would become destitute and forced upon their knees until the Lord is willing to redeem us and open the way to establish Zion. Now that test that Heber C. Kimball speaks of is coming upon us. Now, have I a man bearing the Priesthood, given to me by the hands of my father, the strength, the fortitude, the faith in this work to sacrifice all things for it? If I have not, then I had better examine myself on this the first day of this new year. I had better examine the feelings of my soul to see whether I am willing to go all the way, whether I am willing to embrace the fullness of the Gospel, which not only is the law of plural marriage, but the united order and a score of other things that face us at this time. .And only by becoming united and worshipping in the same true manner, having faith in the same authorities, accepting impartially the commandments of God, can we receive strength to carry on and keep up the work that has been so nobly started. These are a few of my feelings today, and I have felt the Spirit of God. I do not know in all my life when I have been so pleased with the work of God that we are engaged in today. I was no more pleased in my life than when this nation saw fit to begin to fight against this people who are trying to keep the commandments of God. Who, do we think we are if we think we can so comfortably enjoy the blessings of the world here and still receive blessings on the other side? Joseph was arrested 52 times falsely, and acquitted 52 times. The 52ed time he was murdered. Now who are we to suppose that this people is far more faithful than the Witness who came to this earth and gave us the Gospel? I am confident that we look forward to the day when we can clasp hands, with Father Abraham and look into each other's eyes and know that we have fought a great fight and know that we are entitled to those blessings that are rightfully ours. So it is folly to think that we can go free without persecution. The Lord may give us, Strength for the next hill to climb, but if the prophets are right and the prophecies are true, then we can expect to be persecuted by our own people, and even those of our own household. May He give us strength. Before closing, I wish to bear my testimony as to what Father spoke of--tithes. We as a people feel that when we become outlawed from the Church that we are free from obligation, etc., relative to the work of the Lord; but since the brethren here permitted me to do so, to pay my tithes, I want to bear testimony that I have enjoyed the spirit of the Lord and physical prosperity, and witnessed in my home innumerable blessings that I contribute to that --blessings that I did not know could be given. I do not know of a group of men who has more right, need, etc. to take in the tithes of this people than the Counsel that leads us and directs us today. And if they are left wanting because of our lack of belief and our lack of faith and integrity, they will not fail; the Lord will raise unto them a faithful people, and we will be burned as stubble. We have been promised that and that means Guy Musser as well as anybody else. Because we are outlawed from the Church does not give us excuse not to meet our obligations. If you do not believe these brethren have the right to take your money, then in heaven's name, find out somebody who has and keep the Lord on your side; for in the last days tribulations will that will be poured out upon this nation for at the house of the Lord will they start. Can we stand at one side and watch the earth be cleansed and made perfect? May God give us strength to rally to the standard of truth. It has been proved that truth thrust to the earth shall rise again. And so He will, though we may be trampled, crushed, murdered, the Lord will lift us up and we shall be an ensign, and we shall assist in the work of building up Jackson County. Let us rally up; let us be true to our covenants; true and kind to our wives, leaders and examples to our children, wise men in the earth. I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

My brothers am sisters, I have such a cold that I have not said much; I have been listening. We have heard a great many things today. When you see the brethren as they were a short time ago, going down the street with handcuffs on, etc., I began to wonder what kind of people we were. I do not think it hurt any of us. I believe that every man in the jail went with the spirit that it did not worry him. I know I was not worried. When they came here, it did not worry me any. They came in and went through all the rooms in the place; they had to be asked to leave the rooms While the ladies dressed. I do know that the Lord was with us, and I know He blessed our attorneys and we were set free from one charge. I do know we have another charge and we are under bond. I do not know how that is going to come out. The government is against us, but we do know that it is being run by those at the head of Main Street. We know that this has all been fixed up by a man now made President of a European mission and we do know that it was a bishop who put the law forth. Are we going to get mad? Let us let the Lord take a hand in that and say within ourselves, "God, forgive them for they know not what they do.!' Let us let the Lord take a hand in it... I do know that every man who raises a hand against these laws of God will sooner or later feel the power of God upon them. The Lord says to forgive all men and He will forgive whom He will. If they can stand it, then we can. The only way we can get out of this is by fasting and praying to the Lord. I saw this over a year ago and said if we would be humble and prayerful that there would be a door open in the wall. Suppose some of us have to go to jail, better men than we have gone there. I do not like jail and especially the food they give us. I have some oppositions to it. If you do not know, Rulon Jeffs can tell you. After a bite or two we could blow and almost set the bed clothe s on fire I would rather take bread and water. It is laughable now, but it was not at first. Some wondered where they were going and what was going to happen; but we did know this one thing--when the Hebrew children were asked to bow down before their king and they asked if their God could save them, they said to try and see. But we will not give up the laws of God. When the laws of the land conflict with the laws of God, let's keep the laws of God. Which damnation do you want, the damnation of the land or eternal damnation? I love the Gospel and its eternal principles, and I love the people that strive to live them. I want anyone of you that wants to talk to the brethren and talk on the principles of God to come. It is the principles that we want, not the man. It is the principles that exalt you. A man might be foreordained to do something, but the laws of God are predestined to do something. The laws of God are the same as far back as we can think of. When God worked out a plan whereby the lesser intelligence may be brought up to the greater intelligence, as far as you can go back the plan is the same. Let me tell you right now--in the beginning a great commandment was given: "Multiply and replenish" the earth and subdue it. That commandment is the same today. God's great work is to bring to pass the immortality and. eternal life of man and without God's principles you cannot do it. This nation and all the other nations have got to where the nations at the time of Noah were--He cut them off so that the unborn spirits might come and take pure and clean bodies here. So in the long run, God foresaw what was going to happen. Now so it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the coming of the Son of man. What do we find here? A hospital here to accommodate those drifted in sin. How bad are we going? A young lady said to me not long ago that she was almost afraid to marry a certain young man because of the conditions of the world and people in it. Stand. in holy places. You cannot pick up a paper but What it does not talk of birth-control. The families of the nation are having one or two children and the high blood of this nation has dwindled. Now they come out and say, I am not going to let you have your choice." God bless you and let us live pure lives and double our efforts; and above all quit back-biting. That is the name that this group has--backbiting. What difference does it make to you and me if we do not do it. God bless you, .Amen.

Brother Jos. W. Musser:

To show how desperate those men were that had handcuffs on their wrists--Bro~ Barlow, whose wrist was large said, "Take that blame thing off and I will just hold on to it." They did and he held to it. One thing we must learn--quit writing letters. If you do, burn them immediately. The court has many letters and. they may tell things that had not ought to be told.

There will be no meeting tonight.

Closing Song: "Children of Zion, Awake From Your Sadness." Benediction: Brother George Kalmar. LJAllred.

Minutes of the General Meeting held Sunday, April 9, 1944 at 2:00 p.m. at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln St., Salt Lake City, Utah

Brother J. Y. Barlow Presided and conducted

1st Song: "Lo the Mighty God Appearing" Prayer: Brother H. Hans Doolling 2nd Song: "Softly Beams the Sacred Dawning"

Brother Barlow:

We all know the trials we have been going through ---or had I ought to say the blessings we have been going through and I have a letter and an article here I would like to let Brother Rulon Allred read

Brother Allred

read letter dated March 31, 1944 from Athol, Idaho written by R. Porter Conger, copy of which is attached hereto. Also after read article appearing in "New York Daily News" of March 16, after commenting as follows: These thing have come from the outside world and express the feelings of all of us. I think they will help to strengthen our testimonies and I think that the thing I feel will be apparent to you, and that is extreme humility. This article is the result of a statement Bro Musser and I were called on to give at the time of the trial This publications is founded upon that conversation, along with other findings that they took from the prosecuting attorneys and officers. So if you find my name mentioned in it, you will understand it is not only because I was in this conversation but because some of the later references were taken at a time when I was appointed to oversee presenting our cases before the world in pictures and story, and Bro Darger presented his case to me and asked my advice and counsel under direction of the Priesthood. After completing the article, Bro Allred said: I hope these things will prove inspiring to you. With this letter came several clippings – one the picture of the girls in jail, and another clipping from publications in which we were strongly defended and Jean Barlow Darger and Marie Beth Cleveland appear and the letter is addressed to Jean. "This persecution and prosecution is going far to convince the world that we have the heart to stand for these principles as we do and have the blessings of God attending us".

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

I am grateful that these things were read in our midst, because I am sure all of you would have been curious enough to have wanted to have a copy of it for yourselves. One of the outstanding things that has been on my mind in the course of these far-reaching events is, how careful we should .be. It warms my heart that when such a thing comes as this, such a man as my beloved brother, Rulon C. Allred, can stand in the search-light of all the world and can be set as a light or a hill, and my question is can we do the same? Of course, he has my beautiful sister in his family, and I never experienced a happier or prouder day than when I sat at the table with my father and mother and felt to give my love and approval to this man to have my sister. And so, if we can get one lesson from these things, my brothers and sisters, let's get that one. Can we stand of the search-light ? Or are some of these dirty little truths going to come out when the world finds out about us? Now, I consider it, brothers and sisters, a privilege to be among the brethren who have been called, you might say, to stand before the world for these principle. I don't care how long I shall have to stand in jail --I think we should all feel that no matter how long we have to go to jail or give our lives, that we want to present these things to the world, and the greatest way is by example. It is marvelous to think how this can' be put before the world without our having to go on missions, but I don't think it will be long before we will be doing that. Now, I would like to revert for a few minutes to some thoughts along some thoughts along lines taken up in Sunday School this morning These things call for a day of repentance, on the part of each and every one of us If ever we should be humble, it is now. This in my opinion gives the best way of preaching these Principles Let Brother Allred or any other man that has been set up as an example here to become boastful and high-minded, and it will turn to our hurt and his so I would say let this be a day of repentance to the Latter –day Saints. Let us forgive each other of our short-comings, weaknesses, and let us get together. It makes me tremble to think of the lack of unity in our ranks, as these things go before the world. This is about all I have to say, brothers and sisters, but I love this work and this people. I want, while I am on my feet, to pay tribute to another very dear brother who is not here today, and that is this man Guy Musser. He and I were discussing this the other day There has never been once in the year and half we have lived under the same roof that we have even had difference of opinion – never an argument. We have never crossed one another or had need for and apology, and that is what I want to see among all of us. Talk about the love of a man for a woman! I will say the love of a man for man can transcend it, or we will not be the men God wants. May God help us all, I pray in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Brother John Y. Barlow;

My brothers and sisters, I can back Bro Jeffs in what he said. I can say I never met two men I could trust more than I could trust these two men They have been here in the home, and often we get together and discuss the principles of the Gospel. The lesson we had this morning was on repentance. I might say, what shall we repent of? On of the things is our worldliness. If we want to get close to our Father in Heaven, we have go t to do it in that way. We can't go on like we have been going, and I want to say to you here.- it is time what we did get humble that we did so, for many of our brethren may be taken fro us in that way. We have been told that we would be praying day and night for deliverance. It is here. The time is here. You go down the streets and what do you see? My brothers and sisters, what do you see on the streets --of the girls, of those that are walking the streets today, who's fathers and forefathers have been God's honorable men. Yes; now I want to know the reason. What is the matter? We have read the 3rd Chapter of Isaiah and see it literally fulfilled. The Savior told us to listen to the words of Isaiah, for all "those ,who had not been fulfilled would be fulfilled. He said: 'My people that lead thee cause thee to err ***That is the secret. That is the reason for things that we see today – 'For they that lead thee cause thee to err and pervert the ways of my path' We have a fine example of it now. The government and State try to persecute and prosecute those who try to live the laws of God God said 'those who turneth from their error' **** If that isn't true today, it never was true. The Prophet Joseph saw this, and I am going to read what he said: (Vol. 1 pg. 315 "Church History" And now I am prepared to say by the authority of Jesus Christ when the United States would present such a scene of bloodshed as has not been **** It was quite a long while since that was said. We begin now to see some of it fulfilled, but we have just started. And I say to my brothers and sisters, be prayerful, be humble, forgive one another of their trespasses and cease to strive among yourselves and get closer to the Lord. The Lord has shown me in dreams and visions what would happen' to us if we would not be humble· and prayerful and united. .Is there anything we can say to arouse you to get closer to the Lord, that we may have His Spirit to be with us continuously? For months and months we have been preaching to 'get the spirit of God and keep it. For months and months we have been preaching 'The Kingdom of God or Nothing' Do we mean it? The time is here for us to repent. We have listened to a great sermon from Brother Rulon, calling this people to repent. We have been told there would be certain ones come from this group to go ahead. And there are some men that are going on. God is blessing them and they are going on to perfection, and if we stay with them we will live the laws and keep the commandments of God. God bless you Amen.

Solo by Rulon T. Jeffs -"Were You There".

Brother Dell Timpson:

Paid a tribute to Rulon T. Jeffs, having known him all his life; said he and Rulon. were thankful for his parentage because they had brought the fullness of the Gospel to them. The prayer that I ask is that we can 1ook at the character and integrity of Rulon. Jeffs, and pray continually that he will always retain that disposition because he wants to serve God and dedicate every talent and ability he has to that service. We have heard much about patriarchal marriage, and why do we hear much about it? And why does it go around the world in just a few short hours when something is stirred up by the Devil and all his angels concerned? Because it is the most fundamental law of life that concerns us. Marriage is naturally the culmination of every normal human being that has come to the age of physical development; and I say those who do not care to enter it are not normal, either physically or mentally. That they are not normal in one respect or another. Even the most wicked who refer to jealousy and selfishness and hatred and animosity, in connection with the principle will say that they are the only things that make it impossible. If they have studied it, they will know that the things that characterize Satan and. hell are the only things that stand in the way, and if you pin them down to a further analysis of the subject they will say that is .the reason I, can't live it. I don't know how. true this is, but a rumor came to me the other day that one of the judges said: I have come to the age where I cannot live in a normal marital relationship and I will see to it that others do not, as far as it is in my power. I don't know if this is a statement of fact, but I know it is the spirit of the world against this principle. I do know that those .that cannot live this principle because of their own jealousy will do all they can to stamp it out, because that is the spirit of the Devil. This has gone on eternally and is one of the most outstanding characteristic: of the churches who have gone astray -forbidding plurality of wives and even going to forbid any marriage at all. I am very glad to be identified and associated with this people, and I hope and pray that we will always hold the ideals which Joseph Smith has taught us and those who followed him in the rights of the priesthood, because I have no respect for any laws contrary to those advocated by our early prophets and it is my desire to use what intelligence and talents that I have --which are very limited--to the end to hold up these principles as a standard of the salvation of our Heavenly Father's children throughout the world for there are very many cases like the author of the letter Brother Rulon read to us, who want to know the solution to our problems and this covenant of the family relationship is near and dear the heart of all who want to live with our brothers and sisters .If we can't have this love in our home, we can't have it in the priesthood, the Church or the nation. It follows as the night the day. If we want strong, fundamental government we have got to start it in our own family relationship and I realize how much I fall down in that respect I acknowledge it freely and I pray God that I. might understand carefully, and I pray the love of God for all of us in the name of Jesus, Amen."

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

I hope I can enjoy the same spirit that has been manifested today and not detract from the many good things that have been given we have received good counsel and some wonderful information. It should be very encouraging to us. I feel inclined at the present time to coach the saints against judging our fellow beings. One criticism we hear very frequently among our people that is stirred by some of our group is against, as they term it, 14 year old girls marrying 70 year olds, etc. My little six year old girl says she is going to marry her daddy, and I thought that was quite a compliment. This is my view on that point., I have never married a 14 year old girl. Either taken her or married her to another person. If she is ready for marriage --and often time she is as ready as an 18 or 20 year old girl that is the business of the people involved and it is not my affair. We shouldn't talk about it and criticize. I think most of these 14 year old girls are nearer 15. I understand Mary was between 14 and 15 when Christ was barn and nobody seems to criticize the act of God or Christ. She was prepared by the hand of God for that glorious motherhood, and she was old enough. We have girls among us in this group who are naturally faster developing because of the substantial beginning they have. Girls who were born in the polygamous relationship under the law of Abraham come into the world (and boys too) with fewer weaknesses, generally stronger bodies, and they grow fast and mature early and if it is the will of God that those assume the responsibilities of wifehood and motherhood, then they are on the path of progress and perform that part of their life. Now I am not advocating 14 year old marriages, but I am advocating that the Latter day Saints, this group, shall cease criticizing others who we think marry those. It was preached to us all day today that we must humble ourselves and repent of our sins and weaknesses and get nearer to the Lord. And this will be the solution to this problem. I remember in reading the account of Gideon with the Israelites in the old Testament days when because of the sins of the Israelites **** (Told story. ) Now, what is the secret? They were told to do a certain thing by the Lord, and they did it. When fear of death or hell entered the hearts of the Mennonites and they couldn't stand it and ceased to fight. And that is the thing that is going to happen now. Here is a church with a me membership of 920,OOO who are fighting a little group like we have in this house today --a few hundred people scattered throughout the country. What show have we to win out against this great army of people who claim to have the revelations of the Lord, who claim to have their Prophets, Seers and Revelators, etc., and who, by the way, get permission to spend an hour in each meeting of conference. That is the thing that we are up against, and that church that controls millions upon millions of dollars, that has the great financial set-up of this section of the country has aroused the feelings of the outsiders, the gentiles, to combat. They have gone to the Government of the United States and tried to arouse the feeling of 600,000 people to stir up their feelings against this principle of eternal salvation. That is what they are doing. God gave that Revelation to the Prophet Joseph and when the time came to enter it, establish the principle, Joseph hesitated and the Lord sent an angel from heaven to force it upon him, and after he refused on the ground it couldn't be done because the world wasn't polygamous in its structure, the angle threatened his life if he didn't establish this principle. Now, under those conditions this principle was established. The life of the prophet was threatened. The progress of the Church was threatened. This Church and this Kingdom cannot go forward another step unless you establish that principle. Joseph finally gave his life with his brother Hyrum and hundreds of others that gave their lives for that principle. Thousands of them were hunted and chased and placed on the 'underground' and many of them imprisoned and they lost their properties and women were put in jail And we were brought up under those conditions and now after all that struggle we find the Church ( and I sometimes feel to morn to think that the Church would do those things) is trying to stir up feelings against those who are now keeping the principle alive, a few. who have been called by revelation and set apart for that purpose and who have sanctified themselves to that end and who have made the sacrifice in order to carryon. We are threatened by our own Church --by those who should stand by us, uphold and sustain us we are threatened with the penitentiary. "I shall rejoice, said President Grant, when those men living this principle shall be placed in the penitentiaries". Think of it "I shall rejoice to see your families broken up, you husbands torn away from your wives and children scattered" That is the spirit that is existing now, and that is the spirit we have got to face That is what we are fighting against we are fighting to keep this principle of life and salvation alive. Now, can we quit? Is there a stopping place? Sister Zenz was given the opportunity to denounce the principle, and no doubt she wouldn't have to go to Jail, but she wouldn't. And I have hope she will be our soon. But that is the situation that faces us today. Our own Church today occupies the same position that the Sanhedrin did in the days of the Savior It wasn't the Gentiles, but the Jews – the people of the Church --- that sacrificed the Savior, that gave him over to the executioner and hollered for his blood. 'Let his blood be upon us and our children' They have had 2,000 years of it now and are still suffering. I feel good, my brothers and sisters. Give up a principle like this? Give up a principle that means eternal lives, that leads to God's bosom. Give that up in order to be at peace with our brethren, with the Church leaders, with the Gentiles whose lives are rotten to the core? You can't think of that for a moment You have got to go on. I have admired these girls who had the courage to go to jail. Of course others would have gone if necessary. But these girls who went, the time will come when they will go down in history as the great exponents of this principle. I remember when Sister Ida Belle-Harris went to the penitentiary because she wouldn't give the name of the father of her so they sent her to the penitentiary and I think she was there something like two months. When she came out of the penitentiary, my father gave her a reception, and I remember how they glorified that women. They put her on the top of a pedestal that was grand and glorious. How good she felt that she had made that she had made that sacrifice. There were no tears of sorrow shed there. There were tears of joy. I remember that. And ever since that time, which was about sixty years ago, her name has been held in reverence. Every time I think of that name, I feel to honor her. That's what these girls and these brethren are going to get who are going through this, and who sustain the great principles of life and salvation. Of course, the Gentiles don't understand it. They understand only one thing, and that is to satisfy their own lust to the ruinations of woman. That is all they understand. What right have I to say that my sister who may not be married mustn't marry a man who already has a wife If she can't get anyone else, what right have you or the church or society or the government or any other party to say that a woman mustn't marry? Don't you suppose a woman has the instinct, as much as a man has those of fatherhood? When they come of a certain age, their natures begin to yearn for these things. It is biologically true. You can't get away from it. It is socially true that women should have the privilege of becoming: honored wives and mothers ,and not outcasts of society. There are millions of women who would give their lives to have the opportunity to become wives and mothers. There isn't anything they wouldn't sacrifice. They have been sacrificed by the wickedness of men -- that is going on all the time. Now let us not criticize those who do not want to enter into polygamy. It doesn't matter. Those who don't want polygamy, let them stay old maids. It doesn't matter to us, but it matters to them as it stays their progress. They dry up. You see them on the streets and in their homes There is only one way of living and that is according to the laws of nature. God has placed those ties in our hearts, bodies, and spirits, and we are expected to live in accordance therewith. Now just let me say a word again upon this point of criticism. I know there are a lot of women here today who don't like their husbands to take a fourteen year old girl, but there are some who will say they would let him take one if he could find one. Why? To propagate and to go on and raise children. And who will let them take young wives ? That is the spirit of the Gospel. These are serious things. The other day I had a man come to me who wants to get married. He wants to go into this principle. He is not married at all and is 40 or 50 He admitted he had lived the life o the world and said I can't find anybody now. I said of course you can't. A man who has lived the life you have, of course you can't. Well, can't I repent. Yes, but I doubt if you will get the type of young girl you want. I want you to keep clean and pure and be prepared to meet the issues of life. To this end I pray the blessings of the Lord upon us Amen.

Song: "Uphold the Right, Though Fierce the Fight"

Prayer: Brother Charles Zitting.

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Athol, Idaho March 31, 1944

Jean Barlow Darger – Greetings to you and others as in enclosed photo ---- Since reading the first news items relative to case in question, have followed and thought of the matter considerably. Was impressed to write so chose you as the leader of your group. While meditating on the situation you are in or facing there comes to me an epigram. An entertaining it among my collections of sayings. Perhaps there are others like it, but this is my own---- "Any honest enterprise, effort, truth or belief will withstand and welcome investigation or criticism no matter how severe". Have studied this picture considerably and find nothing displeasing about you, nor--- do I find anything in your faces indicative of shady character. Have shown the picture to a number of persons and all agree you are a clean looking, cheerful group. As the above epigram implies ---- you must have a belief or conviction, then accept my admiration for standing your ground. Do not know whether you have any connection with the belie of early Salt Lake settlers, namely Brigham Young and others, but about a year ago an acquaintance of mine, a Mormon, loaned me a history of early Mormons and the "persecution" they went through. they were of hardy stock, their travels and experiences prove it. Take the one case alone: grasshoppers were destroying their crops. Young, his wives and his followers prayed that their crops be saved and what happened? Seagulls by the thousands came (an unheard of thing so far inland) and devoured so many of the hoppers the grain was saved. They did not pray to Baal, they prayed to God. There is no doubt in my mind; it was He who answered their prayers. No doubt they were good, God-fearing people. In my study of Brigham Young, it is my understanding he had a number of wives, twelve I believe, or a few more. A few days ago my wife and I were discussing this matter. I told her "Seems to me these folks have something to stand on. Compare King David, Brigham Young and others. Looks to me they have biblical backing. "David, a man after God's own heart" had may wives, and even concubines, but did not rouse the wrath of God till he went too far and caused the death of his General, Uriah, because he had unlawfully taken Uriah's wife. Up to that time God had not objected to David's many wives. It is my conviction David really loved his wives as did Brigham. I reason it this way ---- God's love is big enough to love all of this human race, both male and female, in spite of our being born in sin. David had love big enough to take in all his people as well as his wives. In sparing King Saul's life so many times, David proved how deeply he love even his sworn enemies. If David was capable of so gig a love, then it stands to reason there were others before him and after. Some people will say those things were permitted only in old Bible times. My answer to that one is ---- tear out the dividing page between the old Bible and the new and see if there is any difference. It will have to be proved to me. Brigham lived long after the new testament was written. God answered his prayers as well as those of David. I further believe David would have been allowed Uriah's wife had it come about in God's way and had David not committed murder to gain his ends. In my 43 years of life, I have loved a number of girls, one case particularly where I really loved two girls at once. It was a real trial to me, which one to choose. To take both was according to public opinion out of the question. Both were beautiful, wonderful, upright girls, Christians and both loved me with all their heart. Had I understood the Bible and what a multitude of things love covers, then, like now --- public opinion would have caused me. Would have taken both and believe they loved me enough to approve. Some misunderstanding people would laugh at this; some would shout "polygamist" *** I married one, leaving the other completely broken in heart and spirit. She married a man just a few hours later she did not love; her life was sad I learned not so long ago. Could I live a thousand years, never will forget the real pain in her voice when Informed of my decision. Some of these folks who call others polygamists I'll bet are either living with or in love with some other person's companion and on the "q.t." have know and know of many such cases of "judging of others while guiltier than all". Take this enclosed picture ---- here's what I see ---- a decided fearlessness, smile of perfect confidence ("perfect love casteth out all fear"). I find no trace of haughtiness or presumption. The world is full of "so called" respectable married men or should I married-to-one-wife-men who secretly are having affairs with other women and many are high in various church or social circles. This is one of the worst forms of hypocrisy and God sure hates a hypocrite. I know, for I was one for several years. Brigham and David were not hypocrites in my opinion. In my study of the scriptures, it seems this war will leave the world with seven women to one man. What of the lonely women who will have dead sweethearts and husbands only as a memory? Most certainly, any sensible human should love God first above all earthly things. If we love him first, then we will be able to love human as the occasion calls for , permits or is consistent with the Love of God. I most certainly believe it is possible for one man to truly love more than one wife. The world may see and accept same before time is over. It is God's right only to judge the man that has more than one wife. The "You-can't-have- more-than-one-wife-law" is strictly man-made, and I defy anyone to prove otherwise. The savior was God's son in Heaven before the world was. He was conceived of Mary by the Holy Ghost, not of the seed of Joseph, for she was a virgin. Looking at this through the much distorted human eyes, what would that make Jesus ? Form the spiritual side, it was the only way fallen man could be redeemed to God and His love is sufficient so who are we to question Even though Jesus was a spiritual child born in the flesh his human side craved love and companionship I have seen many a clean girl who starved for companionship and love because she chose not to marry a man she knew would be a "not at home" drinking gambling perusing strange women and generally carousing around. Personally, I'd rather see a number of women married to one man and see him good to them and true, than a "carouser" married to one women, having ten on the "q.t." and true to none of them. Again I say what of the hundreds of lonely women today and those this war is yet to bring about? Honest and before God, I cannot see where it is so terrible for a group of women to have one man as their companion, especially if he were an upright individual and God-fearing. I have a wonderful wife, she is goo in all she does, is God-fearing and what a cook, a real stay-at-home. We just bought a ranch back in the hills, next to God. Our nearest neighbor is one mile, but we love the quiet away from beer parlors and dives. She get lots of petting and making over; that is part of my privilege and God-given duty. Would she see it as I do, there are lonely girls no doubt who could share with her my affections, thus keeping them from the ravages of some of these "he-wolves" that are out for their destruction, both body and soul. From my heart I believe I could face God without fear if I has six wives on each side on the day of judgment. It is a God-given trait of women to be caressed, love and petted (not babied) Few men realize that this is almost as necessary to woman as food, especially after being married a time. In it not a greater sin for these extra women to go out and be made over promiscuously than to belong to one man, even if she were one o twelve? A multitude of sins could be prevented by this method, not to mention case upon case of sickness and disease. What is going to be the life of the hundreds upon hundreds of "war widows" not to mention others when the real shortage of men arrives, as this war goes on? Unless some upright, method of meeting the situation is devised by our government. Certainly Hitler's system of illegitimacy is not the answer. Some of the time it meet and plan against it – not when it arrives. I know of the nudist colonies in Oregon and understand there are many in California. If having more than one wife is so terrible, there must be varying stages of blindness among those who seek to persecute you if they can't see nude men and women gallivanting around together a slight way from the famous Mt. Hood in Oregon. Just why they can't get the "needed sunshine" individually instead of in mixed groups, I have been, as yet, unable to figure out. I know some of them personally and many are not married, Either. Looks to me these reformers are getting the "cart before the horse" or is it some more of our federal or church or social inconsistency? Sooner or later many of these surplus women, in their daily travels, are going to run into the "over-age wolf" or "rich play-boy" and the like who are out to "capitalize" on loneliness and absence of husband or sweetheart to the sorrow of the women, most, who have hearts as good as gold that paves the streets of the Holy City. This may seem strange, but two weeks before the enclosed picture was in the paper I awoke about 1:00 a.m. and never slept a wink till time to get up. Realization and revelation came to me along these lines, relative to your case an what is written herein. Believe me, this is true and startled me at first. Even thru this letter I see things never seen before in my life. Should this case go against you, there is the possibility of jail sentences --- that is what is the secret of your courage in view of this ---- think I know Would like to learn of your beliefs and conviction of heart. It is my hope and belief that persecution and prosecution will fall by the wayside. Whatever may come, you have my backing in thought, meditation and prayer, so keep those cheery smiles and your courage and "cheerio" to all If you want your attorney to read this and he cares to, would be pleased for him to do so.

Sincerely (Signed) R. PORTER CONGER.

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 23, 1944 at 2:00 p.m. ' Pres. John Y. Barlow presided. Chas. F. Zitting conducted. 1st Song: "0, That My Soul In Joy Might Meet" Prayer: Brother Ed Christensen 2nd Song:"The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare"

Remarks (Brother Zitting):

Once more we are meeting in very favorable circumstances, and Truth Magazine is going on the sane. Today the sun is shining and there is plenty of moisture in the ground for irrigating again.

Brother David Darger:

Brothers and sisters, I have been advertised enough without speaking. I feel extremely humble, for I know the work we are engaged in is truly the work of the Master. We have been called as a small handful of people to champion one of the greatest causes of the Celestial Kingdom of God. I feel very unworthy in myself to be a participant in this cause. However, the Lord has seen fit to place a part of the responsibility of carrying out this work upon my shoulders and it is my desire to fulfill that responsibility in a manner pleasing unto Him. (He then told of how he had received a patriarchal blessing from Hyrum G. Smith and that it is being fulfilled. He said that the work of the Lord is moving rapidly and the adversary is trying to see that it does not go on, but one man and the Lord. can do much; that we have been admonished to get the spirit of the Lord and keep it, and that he has been trying to teach his family how to do it, and not to fault-find, or judge others unrighteously; that he has been trying to overcome that fault. He admonished the Saint s not to speak ill and stay off the devil' s ground and not carry the devil' s spirit into our homes. He said we have some of the most serious charges against us ever brought against a group of people. We are going through this to prove ourselves worthy of being with our Father Abraham, and he said we should guard. our words and actions that we will be held blameless and pure and God will answer our prayers. Be asked the blessings of the Lord upon the Saints.

Brother Alma A. Timpson:

I rejoice with Brother Darger in the opportunities that are ours. As I sat down by Brother Hammon he said, "Brother Dell, how do you feel in the work?" I said, "I feel as wonderful as I can feel with all the hell around us. I feel happy in the knowledge that we are living in the dispensation of' the fullness of times. I feel wonderful in the fact that my father and mother embraced that Gospel in its fullness, that I was born under the covenant. It is wonderful to have the servants of God among us. I sometimes hear criticism occasionally from people outside our people and sometimes in our people of the weaknesses of the Counsel. If we bear with the affirmatives of our brethren they will bear with our weaknesses. (He went on and told of a friend who asked why they were all arraigned against this particular group when there are so many other groups breaking the law, and his answer was that it was the power of evil against the Priesthood. He then spoke of the persecutions of the righteous during all ages of the world, since it began. He said that everything we invest in this work of God, every seed we sow in this work will bring blessings back l00-fold.)

Brother Lyman Jessop:

I too am very happy to be numbered among this people, and particularly in the requirements that we are called upon to pass through at this time. We are accused of conspiracy; the Saints at the time of the Prophet were likewise accused. The Prophet Daniel was accused of treason. My mind is called to reflect the reason why we are so accused. There are none here without a particular reason. The majority are here because they desire religious freedom. The world wants to know why we take the stand that we do. (He then gave some history of the ruling of the U. S. against the Mormon people. The Supreme Court ruled that all these plural marriages would be unconstitutional. Would the Lord forget that such was the case when in 1882 President Grant and George Teasdale were called to the Quorum of the Twelve?: .-In 1886 President Taylor received that wonderful revelation that it was required of the Saints to live that law. These are reasons why we have taken the stand we have. In 1889 before signing the Manifesto, President Woodruff went before the Lord enquiring what to do and the Lord told him not to make any pledges with this government. Yet within one year a pledge came and the Manifesto was signed and the amnesty act in order to bring peace with other states and the nation. But everyone did not voluntarily give it up. Some say we are harping on plural marriage all the time; but it is not that, it is that we are defending it. We believe just as firmly in tithing, the united order, etc., but there is nothing much said about the other laws of God. Everyone is fighting against plural marriage, therefore there is so much said about it and against it. In the marriage ceremony it. says you do these things of your own free will. It is and must be your own free choice. It is a shocking thing to some people that the ceremony and sealing is so binding. God is not bound when a person promises to do something and then never does it. I know we need waking up. We hope to stand no matter what we are called upon to endure. Better men than I have been persecuted. (He then spoke of Daniel in the lion's den; the three Hebrews, etc. ,and how they endured to the end.) There is no 'bargain counter on this road to heaven; you will not get it any cheaper than what others have had to pay. May the Lord help us to remain faithful. to the end, I pray. Remember the race is not to the swift, but to those Who endure to the end. May we endure to the end, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Trio: "Ye Wondering Nations Now Give Ear" 'by Myrtle, Athlme and Leona Allred.

Brother D. W. Jeffs:

Many reflections have passed through my mind. What is in our hearts as a particular group of people (125 or l30)? What are your conclusions in the battle for truth? I have been informed that there has not been a single meeting held by this "cult" as they call it, but what there was a spy present. I was fortunate enough to see the name of one of those spies. He was called on to speak and often to close the meeting. He is not here now. One of the charges is conspiracy. We are charged with purchasing this building to hold meeting. We have this "The Kingdom of God or Nothing" slogan here; they may charge us with conspiracy on that too,. I guess. What brought the accusing of the 50 brothers and sisters? Was it conspiracy? Was it so as they stated in court? These thoughts have been going through my mind. Another thing is this--there never was on the face of the earth from the time of Adam until now a uniformity. In the days of Moses when the Lord inspired him to go into the Mount to write certain commandment s, was there a uniformity? No, the people came down and worshipped the golden calf. In the day s of the Savior, He was foreordained to come down and give His life. Was there uniformity then? No, they crucified the Savior. In the days of the Apostles, how many believed the words of the apostles? In the days of Joseph Smith, was there then? We are told that there were 20 in the Church that would testify that Joseph was a prophet of God. At the time of this declaration there was only two who stood. by him. At the present time is there uniformity? No. The church and all the world have joined to persecute the people who are trying to live the laws of God. (Here he told of how the F.B.I. entered his home and of the evidence they obtained against the Saints.) As the Prophet said, "Oh Ye Twelve and all ye Saints, see to it that you do not betray heaven, the Priesthood of God, the brethren; see to it lest you find blood on your skirts and you go down to hell. Is there betrayal today? I had a thought come to me today when I was reading a booklet. Brigham Young said, "How long will it be before the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith will be fulfilled? etc." We are in the throes of persecution. It is a witness to my soul that we are right, for the devil will not persecute his own. Heber C. Kimball said, "Persecution comes next" many will apostatize and many will stand still and many will not know what to do -- darkness will come to the earth -- the judgment s will be poured out upon the earth etc. Before that day comes, however, the Saints will be put to a test --- the more righteous will be persecuted ---- and the most faithful will be called to go to Jackson County and build up the New Jerusalem. I know that, having come through 55 years of experience, through times when I did not know what to do, yet now it comes up to the time when I am at the rack hay or no hay, will I stand? The keys of exaltation or the keys of eternal increase will never be placed upon me unless I comply with the laws upon which they are predicated. I make this statement and I make it with the fervency of my soul (and I guess they will call it conspiracy too), that this is the work of the Lord, and I bear testimony that it is true. During this experience in the court, I feel. that witness as the Prophet said, it is the knowledge that saves you. How? Because you do not give way to the opposition of the truth. May the Lord bless you. There have been many blessings and I have received blessings myself. I have had witness of the healing power or God. I want to bless all of you, my brothers and sisters, especially the ones who have ailments. I do this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

I can testify as to the truth of what has been said thus far. I am sure we have all been edified, and we have been strengthened for our attendance here today. We are living in the last dispensation of the fullness of times. We are here because on the other side in the spirit world and condition we were appointed to come at this time. Abraham and others were appointed to come at an earlier date. We were appointed to come now and given a mission to accomplish, given the mission to keep the principles of salvation alive; to continue the fight that began on the other side. Now when Israel. wanted a king, Samuel felt bad about it. As a matter of fact, Samuel's sons were not ruling in righteousness. They petitioned for a king and wanted to be like other nations--have somebody who was full of glamour. Samuel felt bad and went to the Lord about it. The Lord said for him not to feel bad, for it is not you that they reject, but it is me. They have the rule of the Priesthood and they want to get away from the Priesthood. Give them a king, but before you do, tell them what will happen wars, conflicts, kings would make their subjects slaves, kings would tithe them beyond their power to pay. But let them have their king. But let them have their king. And they were given one. War came and Israel had to fight for her safety. Saul went out to fight the heathen nations and they have been fighting ever since. There have been very few times until the present time but what there has not been some conflict of some kind. In this dispensation the Lord gave a new reference to the wars, Section 87 of the Doe. &. Cov.: "Verily, thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina, which will eventually terminate in the death and misery of many souls; and the time will come that war will be poured out upon all nations, beginning at this place. etc. In the course of time these wars have continued and Great Britain has called upon other nations, and now all nations are in the war. There was a decree made before the foundations of the earth that these nations mankind would bunch off together, living together, and they would raise up kings and leaders and try to get their countries away from them, etc. He entered a decree that the time would come when all nations shall undergo consummation; they will be consumed. and done away with. And then His kingdom shall come in and rule. So as I see it, this is not going to happen all at once. This nation, by consenting to the martyrdom of one of the three Godhead; they lead the seeds of death into the body politic; and although it has gone on since that act was perpetrate the seeds of death have gone on and until now there is no stability left. In the lesson this morning we talked of the Constitution. There is none now. We are being governed by the boys in Washington. We are in conflict with other nations and other nations are beating us up to date. Maybe I am treasonable when I say that, but they are and we can acknowledge it. We have knowledge that the Japs have us pinned up, although the government says we are going to destroy them. I see the beginning of the end in this matter. This government is being rapidly consumed because of her wickedness, her idolatrous ways, her whoredoms, thievery, etc. The government consented to the murder of one of the Godhead, Joseph Smith. No nation can consent to such as that without paying a penalty. We are all in the fight whether you are under arrest or not. You would be surprised at the sentiments of the people for this. A man called from New York to find out about the Truth Magazine, and letters are coming from all over. A letter came yesterday from a nudist colony and they want to join us. They want us to go down over the Mexican line. May the Lord bless you. We are in the throes or the fulfillment or the prophecies of the Prophet Isaiah when he told them that the lies would be discovered, when they hide behind the great refuge of lies. Then He will expose those lies and the covenant of death (Manifesto and the petition to the U. S. asking for our rights; we entered into it) shall be disannulled. Why, we have already done it. He exposed the Manifesto and said it had not been lived up to and never intended to be lived up to. He exposed that before the U. S. and so strengthened the machinery that this thing shall go on and not cease; and the hail has whipped away these lies. "The Truth Magazine is the hail" of the Gospel. We have been 9 years exposing these falsehoods and lies and placing the germ of disease and death out in the sunlight. That is what we are doing, this group of people, God-fearing people. Those in Short Creek are engaged in this great work of human salvation. What do they care about courts as long as the Lord is with them. When the Lord wanted to destroy the 30,000 Assyrians He picked up 300 men and destroyed that great body of men. We have that Priesthood. here today Let us honor it and. live up to its demands and use its powers in carrying out the Lord' s work Let us go to jail if the Lord wants us to. Let the walls of the jail fall down as they did in the days of Peter. May the Lord bless you, Amen.

Closing Song:"Zion Stands With Hills Surrounded" Benediction: Brother Marion Hammon.

MINUTES OF THE TESTIMONY MEETING HELD AT THE PRIESTHOOD HOME 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah Sunday May 7, 1944, at 2:00 p.m.

Brother J. W. Musser presided and conducted

1st Song: "Guide Us, Oh Thou Great Jehovah" Prayer: Heber Chase Kimball 2nd Song: "While of These Emblems We Partake"

Sacrament administered by Ed. Christensen, and John Butchereit, assisted by Guy Musser, and Adelbert Timpson

Testimonies borne by the following: Irene Christensen Edna Christianensen Zitting Ronald Geertsen Winnie Jessop Marie Broadbent played a piano solo, "On Wings of Song"

Congregation sang: "True to the Faith"

Additional testimonies born by: Mary Fisher Pansy Darger Evelyn Allred Cliff Lyon Bro Mondsranz

Sister Guinevere Cawley

David W. Jeffs -related experience regarding the pictures appearing in "Life Magzine" Heber Chase Kimball Joseph Geertsen Rulon T. Jeffs ---Read from Sec. 5 of Doc. & Covenants relative to Joseph Smith giving revelations for this and all coming generations

Brother J. W. Musser:

Brother Teasdale used to have a very happy statement: 'Brethren, be kind to yourself'. In other words, take the course that is going to bring you salvation."Be kind to yourself" Some time ago, one of the brethren came to me and wanted to know why the Priesthood Council wasn't organizing the United Order in this group of people and he felt quite upset about the situation. I asked, 'Are you ready for it?' 'yes' Do you understand that the United Order in its fullness means you consecrate everything you have to the Lord?' He said, 'Yes' 'And yet you can't give up 10% of what you have got now. He replied, The reason I am not paying tithing is I heard something about you a few months ago I didn't like. And yet tithing is and eternal law, and those who are not tithed are to be burned, according to the revelation, and yet you would let something that somebody said about me stand between you and your God and your salvation and exaltation. Since then, this brother has been paying tithing, but I wanted to bring that to our attention. The thing-that was reported about me didn't happen to be true. They could have told a lot of things worse than that, perhaps, but the thing is don't let me stand in you:, way of salvation Don't let any man or any woman prevent you from going on. I remember the statement f old Bishop Gardner in the southern part of the County who would frequently get aggravated against Brigham Young, and one day Brigham Young gave him 'Hail Columbia.' and said, I now go off and apostatize, and he replied, saying, It's not your Church; it is God's Church and I'll not apostatize. And Brigham put his arm around him and said: "You are all right.' Now let's keep that in view. They say things --we are all human and are all are making mistakes. Is there a perfect man or woman in the house today? Please put up your hand. Then if you make mistakes, why blame the other fellow? Let's keep that thought in mind. Let's look in and not out. Let's investigate ourselves and say we are going on no matter what Sister Jones or Brother Brown does. I am going on.' I know the Gospel is true and what the revelations are, and I have not right to be drawn away from those things because of the actions of men and women. We have had a splendid meeting today and I appreciate your expressions. I want to tell you we have not been persecuted yet, but the time will come when we will be persecuted. We have got to purified as was Abraham, Joseph Smith (he was arrested fifty times and in jail months and months and finally shot to death). We have got to go through some of those experiences in order to get the purification that we need. If we don't go through the actual experiences, we have got to get our souls, our minds, our hearts in a situation that we are willing to go through them. We don't all have to make the sacrifice that Abraham made in offering his son on the altar. He was willing to make it; He made the effort, and the Lord saved the situation. We don't all have to go that far; but if we go where Abraham is; if we bask in his presence, we have got to live the law of Abraham did. That is my understanding of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We don't all have to be sacrificed on the cross as Jesus was, but we have got to come to a condition where if that possibility comes we will stand and take it without murmuring. God Bless you.

Brother Hansen bore his testimony.

Closing Song: "The Joyful Song"

Benediction: Alfred Olschewski.

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2151 Lincoln St. May 1 1944 Preliminary Program

OPEN SUNDAY

1st Song: Page 24 Praise To The Man Invocation: Charles Zitting 2nd Song: Page 151 Nearer My God To Thee In Charge: Lyman Jessop. Participations:. 1.Arnold Boss gave a synopsis on the feelings of John Taylor on the Kingdom of God Or Nothing. He said that president Taylor was given to understand at the time of his conversion that he might be called on to lay down his life for the sake of the Gospel. President Taylor was scholarly and very firm in the defense of Truth. . . 2.Violin Solo••Margaret Musser••Mighty Like A Rose accompanied by Mable Allred 3.Solo: "I Love Thee" sung by Jean Darger accompanied by Mable Allred 4.Duet: Jean Darger and Connie Timpson sang, ''When You Are Away" accompanied by Mable Allred 5.Speaker •• Logan Kunz going into the armed forces I will remember this evening for a long while and the words that have been spoke will go with me and will be a comfort to me. I am pleased to know that this group will keep growing and I will do all I can to help keep it going. These blessings I ask in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen 6.Violin Quartet: Joseph B. Thompson, Margaret Musser, Sister I Barlow, Otto Olschewski•• accompanied on piano by Little Alfred 7.Speaker••Mervin Allred•• soon to leave for armed forces•. Spoke or-his enjoyment in the United Effort plan and gave his testimony. 8.Congregation sang, "We Thank Thee 0 God For A Prophet••page 102 9.Two accordion selections , ••Brother Reeder 10. Brother Joseph Musser spoke briefly on the Life of John Taylor and :the inspiration Pres. Taylor gave him. He recalled that he was called, "The Lion of the Lord" 1l.Selections by the Orchestra

Benediction David Darger

MINUTES Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at 2157Lincoln Street Salt Lake City, Utah May 14, 1944 at 2: 00 p.m.

President John Y. Barlow presided and conducted.

1st Song: "When First the Glorious Light of Truth" Prayer: Brother Wm. Stokes 2nd Song: "Ye Wandering Nations Now Give Ear" Remarks- (by J. Y. Barlow): Let us pray that whoever is called upon to speak will be endowed with the Holy Spirit.

Brother Joseph Jessop Sr.

Brothers and Sisters, I am. very happy to be here today once more. I would much prefer to be seen than heard. I still have faith in the Gospel and the servant s of God. I still have a testimony of the Gospel; in life and salvation. I fully know that without the Gospel there is nothing else worthwhile in the condition the world is in today. The honor of men simply amounts to nothing. If I should fall by the wayside, I hope the Lord will take me out of this life. I am fully convinced that no man can connive a scheme whereby we can start out as Latter-day Saints and then detour. It cannot be done. It is bad enough when we sin before God and then humble ourselves and go before Him without it being made public. Brothers and sisters, we have got to stick by the truth and abide by the law, if we expect to gain the blessings. Let us strive toward that end. Let us keep the faith and depend upon God, and not forsake Him. I have made blunders enough in my life to know that we have to have the experience. Christ learned that way; not that we have to go through grievous sins. Oh, if I could be what Grandfather Yates said to me; if I could be as charitable to others as I am to myself, I would be happy. He went to the penitentiary twice. (Here he told how the F.B.I. (7) came into Short Creek to arrest the men there, early in the morning on March 7 1944.) Oh" I had to bite my tongue. They said nothing to me, but I kept still. I felt a little slighted when I saw all these pictures in the paper; I felt kind of envious of these friends of God. I know these men are my brethren and friends. I am sure the Gospel is true. May God grant that I will never deny that testimony or go back on my brethren or betray them. It is the same spirit today that is striving to get us as the spirit that crucified the Savior. The persecution has brought us together. The greatest unity among men has been brought about in Short Creek. We find time to get together and counsel together and seek God to deliver us from this. The enemies of truth are being watched by God. He is laying a heavy hand upon them, but we have to be charitable and let God deal with them I hope I will have sense enough to leave it in His hands. May we be determined to keep the faith and humbly serve God, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

Brother Moroni Jessop:

I can say I am very pleased and happy to be numbered among this group; while at the same time I may not be worthy of the blessings that I have--to be numbered among you. I happen to know these brethren, and know that they are right in their place. (He said that in his work he meets up with all kinds of ,people, like they are in other Cities; that even in the Mormon families you find as much opposition to the truth as in the non-Mormon families; that you must size up people before you tell them anything). He then referred. to "The Coming Crisis"--that things were coming that would deceive even the very elect, and there are not many in the very elect; and we are told that the Lord will put means in the hands of the deceiver so that it would be very hard to determine the truth from the counterfeit. He said this is the time that is the greatest since the time of Adam. (He spoke of the criticism that is being made against the counsel, and said we must not have too much to say about matters of the Priesthood and other people's affairs, and there are some things that we are not ready to receive; that men and women who will go back to Jackson County will be chosen. He spoke of the law of Plural Marriage and how it was instituted for God's glory; and said that no man can give up the knowledge he has, or side-track the truth, and win out.)

Brother I. W. Barlow:

Brothers and sisters, I like Brother Joseph Jessop, thank the Lord, for the knowledge that I have of the Gospel. I often ponder over the things of my life. I have tried all my life to teach my children that there is a God in heaven. (He told of having received a letter from Clayne (his son) in which he said that he and May visited their brother and. stuck up for their parents and the way they are living, and 'What a thrill it was to have May take that stand though she married an outsider.) I know that these men are apostles. of Jesus Christ; I know that, though there are some things that I do not agree with them in. I know that Marion is also ordained , and know it because I found out for myself. The folks here, are working in a united. effort system. These men feel they are right, but I am not condemning it and them. We need men; men to establish His work here on earth. I am thankful to the Lord far the trials, for they are a little of something that is to draw us together. We cannot depend upon men, but we can depend on the Lord. I pray the Lord will bless you all; that we may be able to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience, in the name of Jesus Christ, .Amen.

Bro Joseph W. Musser: One thing that Brother I. W. Barlow said, that it worried him about the members of the Counsel. until he found out for himself--my humble prayer is that it would worry everybody I wish every member in the group would worry and be worried sick-until they find out for themselves, and it will be no cross to them but a testimony. The Lord is willing to reveal His mind and will concerning these things to all his people. It is your duty and responsibility to know these things, and find out what the will of the Lord is. My testimony is that He will make it known to us if we desire it. I was thinking what wonderful strength we would have if all of us knew that; if we were all one and would stand up and testify as Brother Barlow testified today; here the Priesthood is. It has got to be somewhere; it has not been taken from the earth. It isn't with the people who have denied the Gospel and helped to chain the Latter-day Saints and jail them; are they the ones, or is it in another group? Unless we know, we are in spiritual jeopardy .The Lord has said through His servants, "After you have stood all kinds of tests" then the Priesthood would test you." Which way will the Priesthood test you? In the way you need to be tested. The Lord will permit that to be done. As Rone (Jessop) said, even the very elect would be tried; for you are not the elect until you have placed yourself in a position where you can be tried. Power is now being given to Lucifer, and people now look upon him as a God. (It has already been purported that they teach that Adonis is our God and Lucifer is our God and they worship Lucifer.) We have been told that Lucifer would set in the temple of God. These things are all coming, if they have not already come. The time will come when only a very definite knowledge would keep us on our feet, because people would be tossed to and fro as sand on the sea shore. That is one thing we should work for, and insist upon, and we will get it, if we are living in accordance with the mind and will of the Lord--the right way. Those who understand and live, the Gospel according to the their knowledge and understanding, the Lord will give them further light and more light, and with that light we will be able to go on though all kinds of persecution. I pray the Lord to bless us to do His will and keep His commandments, and get the spirit of God and keep it. Get the spirit of the Lord and keep it, as John (Barlow) has told us. Let us say "The Kingdom of God or Nothing" and mean it. We have not been tested much up to date, but He is going to test us more. Until we get to the position where Abraham was with his son, Isaac, we will not go where he is. We have got to be willing to give our 1ives and all that we have and are, as John and some of these brethren have been willing--yes, to give their lives, and mean it; then we will go where we desire to go. God bless you, Amen.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

I just got back from Short Creek: and .I can say that this trial has made a big difference to that people. The brethren have got together. They have been holding prayer meeting morning and night They have a very fine system of it. They meet at prayer at 7:30 in the morning; they all go to breakfast at the same place and determine what they are going to do that day and then all go direct. Sunday we held a fast meeting and in all the history of these people I have never seen. the spirit of the Lord manifest as it was there. The young people could not get up fast enough. One sisters had to get up five times and finally made it. We have boys in the prayer meeting just boys. Sister Fawn and Brother Rich have boys there, and David is one of the finest boys there. He goes with Uncle Fred to see what the people need from house to house. Brother Marion here goes to see what the people need and put it in the warehouse and leaves it there until they need it. They are really getting towards the United order and will if they keep on like they are going. I visited nearly every home there. Many came for patriarchal blessings and wanted to know what they could do to further the work of God. I only wish that the rest of my family was down there. They do not go to shows, but they have good times. They had a Kangaroo court ,and enacted Judge Johnson and the prosecuting attorney. They had lots of fun and later they danced. You people that have been down there, where Aunt Lizzy lives they have put a great big tank and they are letting the water down and preparing a garden. The women are digging their and putting in gardens. At the chicken coops the girls were sorting eggs. I had a talk: with Brother Carling Spencer and his wife and they are turning in money for the cause there. Some others that have not been in are coming in. That is a little bit of what is going on down there. And I notice-in praying they did just what the Lord told them to do about it--mention the names of the men against us. We can pray them right out of our homes, if we will. I know God is with these people and I know Why they are right and why God gives them a testimony of these things that are right. These men who are prosecuting us, they may kill our men and put some in prison, but that would not make the laws any less true. I want to tell you that if we get an exaltation we will get it by living the law, not any other laws. Joseph Smith was asked about that, but he could not get it through the people's heads. We talk and talk of these things, but the only way you can get it to is to do it. Unless you do these things you, will not get the blessing. I like to hear Rone talk I knew Lorin (Woolley) and he also told me things. I want to bear my testimony to the truth when he said that the Priesthood came on down from John Taylor, etc. Read the 90th Section of the D. &. C. where it tells us that the keys of the Kingdom were given to Joseph Smith. Now I want you to find any other place in the church where they say that. The keys came down through John Taylor and the others. I was glad to hear my brother say that he got that .testimony for himself I want you to find out these things for yourselves Let us be humble and prayerful. If we get through this in the courts now, it will only be because we are humble and prayerful that He sees fit to do it. If our attorneys are hedged up and we go to jail, well--better men than we have gone to jail. We heard a good talk this morning on integrity. We do not know whether we will go through not, as Rone said. If we have the integrity, then we will go ahead. The same is true of this people--if we have the integrity and faith in God, we will go on. If we do not, we will be pushed aside. I received a letter from my son (Louis) and he said he and Erich (Olschewski) see each other and have good times together. He said the things that are going on in the world just make you sick and he has to go off to himself. It will not be long until the One Mighty and Strong will be here and set the church, the temple, etc in order. Then we will have to go and walk as the Lord said. Then seven women will take hold of one man; that they will eat their own bread and wear their own apparel. Now, brothers and sisters we have a lot to say, a lot about the brethren at the head. Let us not be too hard on them, but thank the Lord that we are the people that, have been chosen to receive these truths. Do not pray to much for the judgments to come. May God bless us and help us to live his laws and commandment s more fully, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Guy Musser:

I have enjoyed this beautiful Sabbath day. We often times have our Sabbath days planned and filled with work, and even though it is filled with activities that we have here, I still enjoy these days when we can assemble and meet with each other and enjoy the companionship of the spirit at God. I feel good in this work; better than at a:any other time of my brief life. I thought one time I enjoyed the work in the mission field, particularly when I was laboring without purse or script. But now I can say that there were things lacking at that time. If I could be called to go again, it would be a marvelous thing. But I can truthfully say I truly enjoy the Lord' s work. My constant prayer is that I and. my family might become more qualified. in our spirits and understanding; for we know that great and important things are about to be poured upon the earth, and great and important thing. are going to be poured out upon us as a people. And I for one must become more qualified or I will be swept away, for it will require strength in the Priesthood. It we fail to do this, then we fail and we will be left behind. It makes no deference how good our intentions may be, or how pure we suppose our hearts are, or how firm our feet are in the work:, we will have to quality as men and families in order to make that small nucleus to bring to pass that work the Lord has for the people of the earth. The work will go on. The Lord is not depending too much on a certain individual or certain group of people. He has people in all the earth who will prove strong and worthy. If we are not thriving in this great and important work, then the Lord will gather another people--those who have sought to be a good and important people; those who have sought to build the kingdom. Those are my feelings regarding myself today, and so it is the constant prayer of my heart, to go with my family, to qualify ourselves, for we feel that the time is short. Things can happen overnight. Time is short when nations can be destroyed, earthquakes begin to rumble, etc. Overnight the Lord can cause things to happen. He is not going to curtail His work because I am too slow. So the only thing that is before me is to make certain that we must be faithful and true, qualify ourselves, temper our spirits, have our feelings strong and steadfast, know that there is a Priesthood in this cause for we owe them allegiance, and we must take their direction. There is some opposition among the people of the Church and the people in this group--God is not a respecter of persons. He is governed by law and our Father Adam is governed by law as strictly as we are; and it is impossible for Him to give me concessions. Joseph understood that--that the balance is even and we hold an even weight with the ancients inasmuch as we keep the commandment s of God and stand firm; that God permitted us to gain our salvation on no less principle than they did in the ancient days. They were governed by law; I am, and am responsible to these men here (the Counsel), I know that. ·I am grateful for the privilege of being here today. Today 1s Mother's Day. Mothers are being looked upon and thought of more solemnly than any other day of the year. We stop to look upon and mourn at the foolish things we do. Fathers have a day and sons and daughters, are we are prone to think of those things only on that day. We as a people understand and should appreciate the motherhood of our sisters, more than the world. And we really can pay them reverence and homage, and we really understand when she is fulfilling the measure of her creation on the earth. There is no other way she can fill the measure of her creation in the earth than that to fill honorably the office of motherhood. People look at our women and. say they are slaves before they understand their positions. because they are called upon to be obedient to their husbands. Truly the real slaves .are those you see walking down the street with their gay clothes, etc. Our women are free, free to act to choose. We are trying to do away with the foolish and vain traditions of women and unlock to them the plan that will make them become eternal and become Eves and help propagate worlds and bring forth spirit children. Do you call that slavery? That is freedom. But there is a cost to it--obedience to your Lord as He gives obedience to His Lord and so we give homage today. I can honor the mother of my children and the mothers of other children better because I can more :fully understand their missions. These young women who dwell among us here have one of the greatest opportunities that God has ever given to His children on earth--they can reach the acme of perfection; they can choose their husbands and lords and can choose for themselves whatever they want. There is both young and old who balance the Priesthood of God, who can exalt them if they remain faithful to their covenants and commandments of God. We have some here today who are slaves to the things of the:. world--lipstick, short skirts, etc. There can be no concessions made. Let us forget the past. Today we are here; the Lord loves us or He would not bestow His spirit upon us. From this moment we can start anew to be faithful and steadfast in our feelings and our souls, and one of these .days the Lord will look upon us as a people strong in power in the Priesthood and prepare us to build up Jackson County, that all purposes of tm Lord might be consummated We are free men and women to start today anew. _May we be prayerful in our families and our hearts. I know this work to be true and that Joseph Smith is directing this work and that he is the One Mighty and Strong; that he is already setting things in order to begin the great order to progress. Let us be a part of that order and prepare, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Closing Song: "May the Lord God With Us"

Benediction: Brother Marion Hammon.

L.J.Allred

MIINUTES OF MUTUAL

2151 Lincoln Avenue May 14, 1944 Preliminary Program, 1st Song: Happy Greeting Invocation: Brother Riedle 2nd Song: Page 256 Sometime, Somewhere In Charge, Guy Musser Participations : 1. Speaker, Marion Hammon••• briefly on how important. to him the· work in Short Creek had become He said we were at a place now that would through how we act, determine the success or failure of the move. He said, I -looked over the congregation today in meeting and I saw people that would be living in Short Creek within a year••May 14, 1945. La Verne Barlow sang. "Mother Dear" accompanied by Eater Barlow Gary Anderson sang two numbers accompanied by his mother.· Mother of Mine What God Made Mothers For

Classes ADULT CLASS Axel Fors teaching Subject; The lineage of The Priesthood bearers and the right to preside. Re -Assembly Remarks: Rulon Allred made it known that Marvin Zitting met with a serious accident to eyes and hand through playing with a dynamite cap. Asked for your prayers. Closing Song: Page 224 Jesus the Giver of all we enjoy Benediction: Lyman Jessop

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2151 ·Lincoln Avenue May 21. 1944 Preliminary Program lst Song Page 48 Scatter Seeds of Kindness Invocation: Brother Riedel 2nd Song Page 11 My Own Home In Charge: Lyman Jessop

(a baptismal would be held Wed. night at Louis Kelsch's) ·

Participations;

Brother Stokes on Kingdom of God or Nothing

Duet••Rulon Jeffs and Leona Allred, "Though Deepening Trials" accompanied by Myrtle Allred

Classes

ADULTS CLASS••Rulon Allred teaching Subject: Discussion on the legal right of men to hold the High Priest Apostleship and the Keys over the Kingdom of God Re -Assembly

Closing Song: Page 98 Come .Let Us Anew . Benediction: Brother Gertsen

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 28, 1944 at 2:00 p.m.

President John Y. Barlow presided and conducted.

1st Song: "Redeemer of Israel" Prayer: Brother Niels Hansen 2nd Song: "As the Dew, From Heaven Distilling"

Brother Barlow:

Brother Musser is excused because of matters he is working on concerning the brethren who are sentenced.

Brother Lawrence Stubbs:

I felt this coming, brothers am sisters, yet my mind seems to be a blank. It looks good to see your pleasant faces again am the miles you carry with you. have been thinking a great deal about this people, about Almighty God and his power here on the earth in this time and day we are living. I have been feeling the spirit of the people of the world--California and Arizona and up through this state in regard to their attitude toward this people and the persecution that is coming upon us. It seems that it is causing a division in the minds of the people who are taking one side or the other. When I see that it reminds me of the words of the Savior when He said what the conditions would be in the last days--the famines, earthquakes, pestilences, etc. , that would come upon the earth, and the days of sorrow; and after that period He referred to the time when the eagles would gather about the carcass. I notice that this is very ,true; where this people have a testimony or this work they are inclined to gather and prey upon them. The blessings of heaven are ours if we live for them. There is not the unity among this people that there should be I do not know why, but there should be greater unity and love for Christ and for our fellowmen. It seems that these trials are dividing some. The majority of us need to feel the spirit and power of Almighty God, for this is His work and we are instruments in His hands to accomplish His purposes in the earth. I know this to be true. The people of Short Creek as a rule have a good spirit With them. In the recent months we have had some of the best meetings that we have ever enjoyed because they are getting the spirit of God and the Gospel of Christ. We know, and if we do not know, we should know, this is the work: of the Lord and it takes all our time, talents, means, etc., to keep it alive and build up the Lord's work here in the earth. If there is anyone who is not doing this, he is losing step by step on the ladder we should be climbing. God will grant unto us those blessings according to our faithfulness. But as Paul said we must keep a good fight, when he said, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith" (II Tim. 4:7) In the case of Saul the Lord said, "Saul, Saul, why persecute at thou me?" (Acts 9:.4) And Saul obtained a testimony and it did not take any more. All the rest of his life he promoted the righteous principles that exalted mankind. I want to tell you, brothers and sisters, these principles are the only principles that will enable us to be exalted and be with the Father. We must Withstand the persecution and trials that are being put upon us. Those who are persecuting us will someday realize what they are doing to us; the Devil has power over them. I hope we will go on as Saints and carry the load that is put on our shoulders, that the mothers will go on rearing their children. The time will come when these principles will be lived more fully. We must go on and take it with a smile and say, "Father, I will do the best I can," and, say it with a smile. Sometimes the days will look dark but if we go on looking we will see the silver lining that is always behind the darkest cloud. Through it we will obtain salvation that the Redeemer of this world , gave us. That is the only hope that we have, and we must go on and obtain the testimony, and if we go on our yoke Will be easy and our burdens light. I know this is the true work of the Lord, and it is giving this people a chance to develop and go on and see where they stand; give us a chance to unite as one family here upon the earth. And oh, how wonderful it will be when we will be united as we should be united, as a family in heaven, and, we will be a united Kingdom of God. I pray that we will be able to become like that. The time has come when great changes will be made in the earth, when these nations will be shaken and brought to their knees. And how wonderful it will be when we are one and we advance to the point that we can go back to Jackson County and help build the New Jerusalem. I hope we will all have our eyes upon the glorious blessings that are in store for the faithful, and I pray it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Ed Christensen:

It has been quite some time since I had this privilege of being mouth for just a few minutes. I hope the Lord can see fit to forgive my weaknesses and imperfections for just a little while. I realize very-keenly that without the spirit of the Lord it is impossible to touch your hearts. You might hear my words and they go into your ears, but it takes the spirit or the Lord. to impress them upon your hearts. Yes, we are living in a day when we need the spirit of the Lord in rich abundance, and we will need it more and more as we go along, that is if we are willing to follow the Priesthood Counsel. Then if we do not, we will not need the spirit of the Lord, and we can go our own way. But as for me I want to abide by the council that they give from time to time. The Lord has been merciful to me to impress upon me that these men are the Priesthood of God. People of the world think they are going to overthrow the work of God, but they will not for it is going on. It is up to you and I to uphold these brethren. At one time in the days of the Prophet Joseph there were only 20 men who were not ashamed of him. Are we ashamed to admit that Brother Barlow and Brother Musser and the others are prophets of the Lord? Are we willing to admit it? It we are, then quit now! Are we willing to go to jail for the work of the Lord? They can only take our bodies and after all it is not our body. It belongs to the Lord. We must have the courage to go on. I love the truth as you love the truth; .but I can see only one price to pay. It is like my wife said the other day. I see the Gospel of Jesus Christ as buying a railroad ticket; I can buy chair car ticket, a tourist ticket, or a Pullman ticket if I pay the price. So it is with the Gospel –if you are willing to pay the price you can get to the highest degree at glory. So, let us uphold these brethren, for if we will do that the Lord will bless us. They have little weaknesses and make mistakes, of course they do. They play with their children; they take a little tea or coffee, etc., but are you going to apostatize because or it? It I want to take a drink of coffee, that is my business. Do not let it bother you. If they want to take a drink of coffee, that is their business. The devil does not care about anybody else, he 1s interested in this little group. Why? Because we have the Priesthood. That is what the devil is after. In the paper they said, We are going to stamp out polygamy." Let them try and they will be stamped out. It is an eternal principle and cannot be abolished. Now, brothers, and sisters, let us repent and humble ourselves before the Lord. Do not be ashamed of what men and women say about us, let us hold our heads high and let them point the finger of scorn. Remember you are fighting for the Lord not man, and He will sustain you. These are my thoughts and feelings; and I wish I could, live them 100% but I have my weaknesses and imperfections to overcome. May we stand firm and true is my prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

I would just like to say a word or two. I do not want you to go off with the wrong idea that you can smoke and drink and keep the spirit of God, for the spirit to God cannot dwell in unclean tabernacles. Brother Ed meant that we should not let such things roll you over. Now how many times have I told you to get the Spirit of God? I told you that this people would be in a corner and if we are humble and prayerful enough a door -would be opened. Now we see what has happened to us; they are trying to get rid of us. We must be humble and prayerful and faithful and the Lord will bless us. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against· you falsely, for my sake. (Mat. 5:13) Jesus Christ was slain for this cause; Peter, James and John were lead to prison, Peter was slain and John was beheaded for this cause. He that livith godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Connect that up with this group that are being fought against. Find out about them. God said (I believe to Nephi) that He never commanded a people to do a work except that he opened a way to do it. Now the laws of the land come up and say, if you do live the laws of God you will be sentenced. I am among others are being sentenced and they want to put us in jail and make it hard for us to keep out. I do not know but what it will be a good thing for some of us. It will humble us. I do not want to go if I can get out of it, but if they do put us in I hope the Lord will give me strength to go on. As Brother Snow said, "Though I go to prison, God will not change the laws to marriage." And this people should know by this time that Mormonism, if one of its leading principles is wrong, because it is from God, all God's laws are wrong. Some of us know that that thing is right; we know what is coming, that we have a fight on ,our hands. The whole thing is not plural marriage, it is the Priesthood of God and who has the right to it. It is not long before that stone is going to roll and when it starts it will not stop and as the consumptive decree. will be sent out there it will put an end to all nations. There. is not any of us that needs a prophet of God to see what is coming. It is before us. I say to all you men and women--get behind the laws of God. That is what I want you to do. God bless you, Amen.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

My mind is a blank too, brothers and. sisters, but I know how I feel. I was talking to my boss not long ago and he put up a proposition to me regarding these arrests that are being made. He said I ought to get out and fight it for myself for they were going to railroad us through. I told him that He did not have to put that proposition up to me for I made my decision five years ago. Once we make a decision to put all in the work of the Lord, that makes the burden light. This haft way business is what makes it hard for us. I have been impressed too with what the Saints went through in the 80' s. Many of the brethren were put in prison and finally they tried to take the properties of the Church away from them. Had it not stopped just short of this, the power of God would have fought the battles of the Saints. Now we are getting up to the same point and pretty soon we have got to withstand even more than they did, for this is the end. I would exhort you brothers and sisters to make your decision once and for all and then go forward. I was reading an article this morning before Sunday School regarding false spirits that are continually getting in our way. It we are not on the right path we invite false spirits to be in our way and take possession to us. These jealousies and backbiting and talking--they are the most sure ways of inviting these false spirits into our families How' we make other people's business ours that is not ours, is beyond me! We are not going to be used by God Almighty until we get rid of that fault. That is what keeps us from paying our tithes and offerings, makes us go against the Priesthood of God. They are real things; there are two forces working on the earth--Christ and anti-Christ. Anti-Christ is striving with all the forces of hell and you cannot stop it This is my testimony to you in the name of 1esus Christ, Amen.

Closing Song: "Zion Stands With Hills Surrounded." Benediction: Brother Alma A. Timpson. LJAllred.

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2157 Lincoln Avenue, May 28, 1944 1st Song:. Page 50 Lord Accept Our True Devotion Invocation: Robert L Schrewsberry 2nd Song: Page 66 Beautiful Words of Love In Charge: Guy Musser: Participations: Duet of the Guitars ••Jean Darger and Connie Timpson The Spanish Tandango

Remarks by Joseph W. Musser

Tried to impress upon the people the importance of not letting their tongues wag and telling important events or adding to rumors that come their way , Gave a brief petition for more faith and less worry and let things rest in the hands of the Lord He noted how proud he was to be chosen to uphold this sacred principle of salvation in the eyes of the world

Classes ADULTS CLASS•••Teaching Rulon Allred . Subject: The line and descent of the priesthood down to Moses.

COMPENDDT.M CLASS•••Dell Timpson teaching Subject: Marriage•••its history and changes

JUNION CLASS ••Marvin and Katherine Allred Subjects Filth Promoting Incidents ••first of the series by . George Q Cannon's, "My First Mission

Re-assembly Closing Song: Page 272 I know that My Redeemer Lives

Benediction: Don Wayman

Minutes of the Testimony Meeting held Sunday, June 4, 1944, at 2:00 p.m., at the Priesthood Home, Salt Lake City Utah

President John Y. Barlow presided and conducted.

1st song: We Thank Thee, Oh God, for ,a Prophet" Prayer: David Darger 2nd Song: Behold The Great Redeemer Died

Sacrament administered by John Butchereit and Axel Fors, assisted by Ed Christensen

Brother John Y. Barlow:

The time is again here when we have the privilege of bearing our testimonies and testifying of the goodness of the Lord. I think that a great many of us have a testimony and are thankfu1 that God has heard and answered our prayers. I would like to see today some of these young people get up and bear there testimonies along with the others. We would be glad to hear them; and we will promise them, Whenever they will get up to bear their testimony the spirit of God will rest with them and they will know this work is right. I know it is right and according to the will of God, and for that reason they persecute us. Whenever you see the people keeping the commandments of God, Those 'who will live Godly in Jesus Christ shall suffer persecution' We have bad the privilege, (Brother Joseph and I), of Going down south and seeing how the boys are doing, and I was wonderfully surprised and glad to know how they were working. Will just say that they have completed 60,000 feet of lumber and the man they got the mill from charged them nothing but told them they could have the first 60,000 feet. Most of them went to Short Creek to Sacrament meeting today, where they haven't been for almost a month. I was well pleased with the spirit of most of the boys. I could see a big improvement. God bless you, and I hope that the spirit of God will rest upon everyone who gets up to speak today, that they may testify of the goodness of God, and' I do it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Testimonies borne by the following: Russell Kunz, Fred Cleveland John.Butchereit, David Darger

Brother Mondfrrnz, Martha Doelling

Alfred Olschewski, Gwen Balmforth Isabel Barlow, Laura Zitting Ed Christensen, Elvira Zitting LaVerne Barlow, Mary Lavery 'Alice Barlow, Mabel Stokes Celestia Darger, Marvin Allred Jean Darger

Congregation sang, "Come, Come Ye Saints"

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

I have been .very much edified by the testimonies this far and feel that I want to commend these young ladies for their courage and spirit that they have had that has caused them to stand before this congregation today, and I feel to promise them that from now on they will have more strength and more power and greater inspiration, and in the future will be of more value to the work of the Lord than they have been in the past. Sister Doelling's statement that she has ceased to be a neutral, she had commended herself to every Latter day Saint, because among Latter day Saints there are no neutrals. "We are living in a day, more than ever before, of marshal life, militant life. We are working and fighting in the great army of Jesus Christ as our Master. He is the bead of the army, and we are taking orders from him. He will never get away from that militant situation as long as the devil has any liberty at all, for we have registered and enlisted in the army until the conflict is over. So that there can't be a time when we shall be neutral until Satan has been entirely chained. There has been considerable said here today about prison, about the courts, etc. I want to testify that. Brother Barlow's dream he had some time ago has been realized and will be realized more than ever as time goes on. He saw a time when we were all crowded up to an impenetrable wall, but he said that when we had been pushed back as far as we could there is a door and that door will be opened to us and we will get through. There were a number of us and we exercised faith and the door was opened and we went through. I saw this very plainly manifested recently when the courts tried to put us in prison and did all they could to keep us from getting bonds. They stood in the way and objected to our bondsmen and nobody could qualify under their strict restrictions. We had three or four different days efforts made to qualify our bondsmen ---each of us had to have a bond equal to $3,000 in value, and a person in order to sign a bond had to have property worth --in the first place, they deducted $2,000 and for a husband and wife they deducted $2700 and for the children they deducted $300 in addition for each child --so that property had to be worth $1500 above all those deductions and when they came to place the value on the properties, they took the taxes, the assessor's report which is always a low valuation and cut away anything they could. We did our best to pay a man $300 to buy our bonds, but he was scared out: and we then raised the ante to $500 to get another man to stand our bonds. There wasn't one of us who could pull off and he was making it clear, but he wouldn't do it. And so we came up against that impenetrable wall and were in court and all were booked for the prison house, and all at once something 'clocked' and within a few minutes we had fifteen bonds there. We have $22,500 worth of property put up to give us freedom. In other words, the door opened up in that wall and we went through without any trouble. I know that that was the Lord's work. The prosecuting attorney seemed to mellow down and the judge mellowed and they began to use common horse sense and they permitted us to make up those bonds, and we enjoy our freedom today. Now, my brothers and sisters, some of you are in jeopardy now and this next week under a federal indictment you will be declared guilty. I am not expecting anything very drastic to happen. I want to tell you girls, you women folks, that you are not going to jai1. I tell you that in the name of the Lord God of Israel. You are not going to jail for this crime that you are charged with at the present time. Your duty is stand by your husband as he stands by the priesthood of Almighty God, and you won't have to suffer incarceration in jail. This work is going on It is spreading so fast that you can't keep up with it. We can't realize how fast it is going ahead. All over the world these leaflets on celestial marriage are being brought before the people, and thousands of people who have never joined the Church are of the blood of Israel. They have got the blood of Israel in their veins and the love of God in their hearts and are beginning to see and understand these things and this little thing that has happened to this group of people is spreading the Gospel very broadly. It is influencing hundreds of thousands of people today and preparing them for that day when war beginning in this nation, that they will say 'Let us go up to Zion because Zion is at peace' And we will beat peace when that time comes, and so woe be unto those who try to destroy people with unrighteousness. These things are right on us ad great troubles are before us. One of these days we will be called into the temple for protection while the great trials and tribulations are passing by this people. There will be diseases among us , and there will be earthquakes here and there will be other troubles come upon us, and the more faithful among the people will find refuge in the temple of God. And these things are before us. You young people, keep up your faith. Never fail to bear your testimony when you feel moved upon to do it, and don't think to be neutral because you can't be neutral and be a Latter day Saint, because that day is past We are in the army of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our King of Kings and Lord of Lords pertaining to this earth, and His power going to be manifest among this people and those who are operating this Church. The heavy hand of God will be laid upon them if they don't repent, stop trying o thwart the purposes and laws of righteousness. The Lord won't stand it much longer. God bless you, Amen

Testimony borne by Brother Riedl.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

My brothers and sisters, we have had a little taste of the Spirit of God here today. Now if we are humble and prayerful and do what we should do , it won't be long before we will be privileged to have resurrected being here to teach us, opening the way and helping us. It's going to be up to us. Bro Musser said God wants to help us, wants to use us, but until we purify ourselves and live his law and keep his commandments, we can't expect it; but if we will do that, the lord will do His part. President Brigham Young said we will be walking along a street and be talking and a resurrected being would walk long with us an talk and instruct us. This thing has gone so far in apostasy that it has got to have help to restore it and I know that God did hear and answer our prayers in the courts, and so does everybody else that was there. They were going to qualify one woman to sign for two of our boys and after the way was opened, she was able to sign for eight.

Song: "The Spirit of God Like a Fire is Burning"

Benediction: Lyman Jessop.

M.L.Allred

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2157 Lincoln Avenue June 4, 1944 Preliminary Program

OPEN SUNDAY

1st Song: Page 258 "Send The Light" Invocation: Rulon Jeffs 2nd Song: Page 294 "My Prayer" In Charge: Guy Musser Commenting; On Services held in honor of Duane Gee

Participations : Guy Musser••remarks concerning the persecution and trials and events that are upon us and how blessed we should be to be counted worthy to be mingled With God's servants Piano Solo•••)(Mable Allred Rulon Allred speaker••Repertory on some old poems •• two by Longfellow "Cremation of Sam McGee Piano Solo~ Alfred01sohewski (little one) Speaker s Marion Hammond: Spoke briefly on the trials :at !lend end the. persecution and trials that are coming upon this people. Piano Solo•••Marie Broadbent•••Artists Life•••Johann Strauss Speaker •••Duane Gee (soon going into the army) Sister Gee, his wife, spoke briefly on her feelings about her husband going into the army Trio••Allred Sisters 10.Joseph Musser, speaker: Duane is coming back. Be is coming back with a sound mind and body. Duane will make a wonderful record. The spirit of God testifies it to me. 11 Speaker•• John Y Barlow: spoke quite briefly on the necessity of living Gods laws. Closing Song:' Page 76 Oh Say What Is True •

Benediction: John Mc Laughlin

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at 2157 Lincoln street, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 11, 1944 at 2:00 p.m.

President John Y. Barlow presided.

Elder Joseph W. Musser conducted.

1st Song:"Now Let Us Rejoice" , Prayer: Brother Schultz. 2nd Song: "Sweet Is the Work, My God, My King"

Remarks by Brother Musser:

It will be nice when our army gets back and we have more of our boys here. We have a splendid respresentation of women. Next Wednesday, June 14, is ,the birth date of Heber C. Kimball, one of the greatest prophets of this dispensation.

Brother Quince Kimball

was the first speaker and he invited the Saints to come to a meeting to be held on Wednesday, June 14, in honor of his grandfather, Heber C. Kimball, at his home 237 North 1st West at 3 :30 p.m. He spoke of the wonderful meeting they had five years ago at Liberty Park. He then said he felt very humble, that he knows his weaknesses and did not want to know other people's weaknesses; that there never was a time in his life when he would compromise with anyone on religion. that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the Gospel in its fullness and you cannot get anything in it for nothing. He then spoke of living among the people of the world; that he was taught to protect all girls as though they were his own sisters. that he has been tempted as other men have; etc.

Brother Bill Lavery:

was the next speaker and he said that he had been out of town working and was fearful that he would not get back to here again. he bore his testimony and said that "the Kingdom of God or nothing". was his goal; that he tried to teach the Gospel where he was working.

Brother Otto Holm:

Brothers am sisters, It is with joy that I am in your midst and partake of the spirit. 1 remember reading in the scriptures how the Lord fed five thousand men and after He was through a lot of people followed Him and, He told them that in order to have eternal life they would have to partake of His body, eat His flesh and drink His blood. Many were astonished and most of them left Him. He asked his disciples if they also wanted to leave. Peter said, -To whom shall we go to have eternal life?. In reflecting upon the people of this group, I wonder where shall I go and what shall I seek for. I have read the Bible, Book of Mormon, etc. from the beginning. The teachings that we get from the leaders of the church today are short and we do not get what we used to get--that which enlighten us and feeds us. I rejoice that I have received light of the Comforter and I rejoice in the blessings that He has given me. We have had more rain this spring in Idaho than we have had in over 40 years. It looks like we will have moisture enough to grow crops that we have been able to grow before. I hope the time will come when the earth will be prepared for the gathering of His people in the Holy Land as well as in America. I pray God to bless you and strengthen you in your afflictions, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Song: "How Firm a Foundation"

Brother Alma A. Timpson:

I feel very weak after that declaration of faith that we have just sung, which is fitting at this time. I have been called aside by old friends who are faithful to the church and the leaders of the church, and in the true spirit of brotherhood they have offered a word of encouragement to me and others in this indictment at this time. I want to say "again before the Lord and before you people that I am grateful for the friendship of you people and the friendship of others outside. There is a saying that I would like to quote if I can remember it:" He that knows not; and knows not that he knows not, is ignorant; teach him. He that knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a fool; avoid him. He that knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep; awaken him. He that knows and knows that he knows, is a wise man; follow him."

We aware of the commandment that He has given to all His children to perfect themselves, to be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect in His sphere. It is in obedience to that commandment that we are here. It is a glorious feeling to be identified with his. people. I have ,had men whom 1. know express to me and others that they feel guilty in their lives that they are not identified with this people It is a gratification to me to see men who have become receptive and turned their backs on the church. That is the line that is dividing the sheep from the goats in the chuech. People are learning and wondering more than they did before, because they cannot understand apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ persecuting this kind of people. Many are shocked and are getting on their knees and getting the answer. In the next few years we will see thousands of people coming out of the church and a line themselves with this group of people because of this persecution that has come upon us, which is our blessing in disguise. If anyone looks upon this as anything but a blessing, I am sure I misinterpret the purposes of the Lord. there is another important mission to this, and that is to give the people an opportunity to see and hear the truth--over radios, through newspapers, etc. If their hearts are right I am sure the Lord will bring to pass sufficient means to divide the sheep from the goats. The time will come when we in the group will not be able to straddle that line. There have been some cases in the past where people in this group hold fellowship to the church and the group. We have got to a line ourselves with the Priesthood of God or turn our backs on them. The Lord has given us a testimony as to the truthfulness of the principles of the Gospel and of the Council and the authority they have to preach the Gospel. The greatest thing on earth is the authority given by God to magnify our callings before him I have heard the expression among some of the younger sisters of the group that they wanted to be the first wife. They have also expressed the opinion that they wanted to be a first wife because the first wife has certain privileges and authority over the household. This subject came up this morning and I expressed that a first wife does not necessarily mean the first wife married to the man; it is the one who stand first in the standing in the order. Every woman has the privilege of being a Sarah or a Hagar. The first wife is the position attained to with her husband in seeking to serve God. I may be wrong, and I would like to be corrected. We are being accused of teaching polygamy; but we not teach polygamy. We advocate that when certain brothers and sisters come to an understanding of the Gospel that they go to the Priesthood, and if it is their divine providence, the Priesthood has the privilege and prerogative to seal them in the Priesthood. Polygamy means the marriage of more than one woman to a man, or more than one man, to a women. We do not teach that. We believe in certain rights in the Priesthood. It is a Priesthood issue. You young sisters, the main thing to understand is whether the principle if correct, whether the man is the right one for you, whether it is right with the Priesthood, etc. But do not be concerned with being married to the man to be the first wife. I pray the Lord will bless us and help us to understand the Gospel and to work in harmony with each other and live the Gospel more fully, in the name of Jesus .Christ, Amen.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

My brothers and s1st.ers, I am glad to be here with you today. First I will say to Dell (Brother Timpson) it is the woman who lives the law most fully, though she is the tenth wife, if she excels in keeping the laws of God--the laws of her husband. If you excel in that·, you excel in all. There was not one that went into it that did not live the law of Sarah, no matter what wife she is. We have had quit a a lot said here today about what they are saying in the church. Did you ever find in the history of the world but what the church is the one that fights the truth! Samuel the Prophet made a prophecy regarding the .church in that respect and those things came true just as that prophet said they would. They have come true today. Isaiah says, "O ye scornful men who have made a covenant with death and an agreement with hell, etc."' How many of us can read the handwriting on the wall God saw then and prepared for it. Nephi said that.(1 Nephi 3:7) the Lord never commanded a work to be done but what he did not prepare a way for it to be done. President Taylor did do it and prepared a way whereby we might get salvation. What part of the Priesthood was taken away in the time of Moses That part which gave eternal increase. That is what they are trying to take away from us today. Heber C. Kimball said "You might as well deny Mormonism, and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives. Let the Presidency of this Church, and the Twelve Apostles, and ALL THE AUTHORITIES unite and say with one voice that they will oppose that doctrine, and the whole of them would be damned." (J. of D. 5:203) We have never taught polygamy. we do not believe in it. We believe in celestial marriage--plural marriage is true, we know that. John Woolley said that his brother Samuel told him if he did not live this law, he would not have his first wife .President Young taught him that, and others and he did not believe it. But the Lord told him, and he believed Him. (he then told of how John Woolley's wife was shown to him in the Temple and the Lord told him so, etc.; and how Joseph F. Smith married them.) Joseph F. Smith was hounded and died a martyr; Orson F. Whitney died a martyr and others. This thing is going to keep coming up, and I , want to tell you that the Priesthood of God is living here upon the earth for it is going to come forward. (He then told the story of the division line of darkness and of truth and right.) The Lord does not like half way doing. I do not know whether there are any in this house today that could take word to the enemy, but if they do, I do not care. I am not afraid and none of the others taken up are afraid. We do not want prison, but if it is God's will we will take it. It is not what we think that worries me, but whether we are on God's side Find out for yourselves whether it is true or not. I want to tell this people here, that if they will live the laws of God as taught here by some of our teachers under the spirit of the Lord (and we have some excellent teachers in our classes that cannot be beat, both in Sunday School and night meetings) you cannot go wrong. And I say God bless them and help them to learn more of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and get a firmer foundation in the spirit. You cannot scare the spirit; it is just the body that gets scared. If you let the spirit overcome the body, then you will not be scared. God bless you, Amen.

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

There are three sets of laws in the world--telestial. terrestrial and celestial.. You will never get into the celestial glory through the terrestrial laws; you will never get into the terrestrial glory through a telestia1 law. It is up to the individual to know where he wants to go. Some are satisfied with the terrestrial glory. You get what you earn. We have had a good time today. Just one thought flashed to my mind while Brother Barlow was speaking--that is, we are getting very close,. to something. The Lord is wanting to choose some more men and that is why He is testing us It is like the testing of the Saints going from Zion's Camp to Missouri. They wondered what would be accomplished, but those who proved faithful were chosen. They .went there to release lsrae1, those in bondage; and when they got there the Lord told them to back to Zion's Camp. When He got through He selected other officers, the Twelve Apostles, etc. When the Lord gets through with us. He will have a choice to make, and selections to make, among those who are faithful. Closing Song: "The Time Is For Spent Benediction: Brother Jesse Toomey LJAllred

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2157 Lincoln Avenue June 11. 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 53. Improve the Shining Moments Invocations Arnold Boss 2nd Song: page 57 Gently raise the Sacred Strain . In Charge: "Guy Musser Participations: Brother Charles Zitting spoke briefly on the Kingdom of God Or Nothing: We have grown closer to each other in the purposes of God since the persecutions started against this people . Jean Darger song, "Drink: To Me Only with Thine Eyes" accompanied by Mabel Allred

Classes ADUUTS CLASS •••.Axel Fors Subject: Labor bearers of the priesthood. Discussion continued on The Keys and Authority of the Kingdom of God

COMPENDIUM CLASS•••Dell Timpson :teaching Subject: How to choose a wife or husband and. get the will of the Lord on the subject Re Assembly Closing Song: Page 293 Sometime We Will Understand Benediction : Ruth Barlow

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2157 Lincoln Avenue June 19, 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 7 Join The Children of the Lord Invocation: Ed Christenson 2nd Song: Page 12 Zion is Growing In Charger Lyman Jessop Commenting on Bribery & persecution that faces the saints .if they are to endure to the end. Participations: 1. Short story by Beth Jessop•• "There is good in everybody if we get close enough to see it. 2. Solo by Alfred· Olschewski, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" accompanied by .Sister Allred Classes ADULTS CLASS. Rulon Allred teaching, Subject: Elias, Elijah, Noah, Gabriel. John the Baptist, their offices and authority. . How comprehensive is -the Dispensation of the Fullness of Time and will it include all -that has come to earth or yet to come and include that which will come during the millennium. Text: The Way To Perfection . .COMPENDIUM CLASS ••Dell Timpson teaching Subject: Marriage for time an d Eternity and the opportunities to marry in Heaven for those who have and who have not a chance to hear the Gospel on the Earth. Text: D &C Sec 132 JUNIOR CLASS••Sister Cook teaching Subject & Text: My first Mission by George Q Cannon

RE -ASSEMBLE

Remarks: John Barlow spoke briefly on Martyrdom of Joseph Smith~

. . Closing Song Page 37 Sowing Benediction: Owen C Allred

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at 2157 Lincoln St., Salt Lake City, Utah, June 25, 1944 at 2:00 p.m.

President; John Y. Barlow presided and conducted.

1st Song: "High On the Mountain Top" Prayer: Brother Guy Musser 2nd Song: "Praise to the Man"

Brother Fred Cleveland

was the .first speaker and he reflected upon the 1ife of the Prophet Joseph Smith, that the Prophet did not fear. the Conspiracy and trials that were brought against him and he knew that eventually it would bring death, and he did not fear death; that he understood the power of the Priesthood he bore, the revelations, and knew where he stood; he feared no man. He spoke of the trials and situations facing the Saints of today; The position the Church has taken; that the truth has been placed before the head of the nations and that it will be vindicated eventually. He said that he knows, of all people, the Prophet had a definite mission, and that if he were to be faced with death at this very moment his testimony would stand as it is now, because he had seen :him and talked. with him. He said that the same work is being carried on by the Priesthood today; that he is happy to be associated with this people, and that he had no desire to quit; that in spite of the persecution at this time, the Lord will have His work accomplished. He testified that Joseph Smith was a true prophet and is; and never will a man prosper who criticizes him, Brigham Young; John Taylor, etc., or any of the Priesthood today.

Brother Russell Kunz

was the next speaker and said that there was a feeling of sacredness that came over the atmosphere whenever the Prophet Joseph Smith is mentioned, and wondered how long it would be before he would be here and preach in our meetings; that it seems that the evil spirit is upon all that we associate with, and that feeling and spirit will have to be suppressed in order for us to get where we are working for. He said that we have been told time and again to get the Spirit of God and keep it, and when we do others will see that light and it will spread to the ends of the earth. He bore his testimony as to the divinity of this work and that we have the servants of God with us; that they have the authority necessary to lead us back into the presence of our Father, and he is thankful to God that they know him and he knows them.

Brother John Y. Barlow;

Today we are talking mostly of the Prophet Joseph. Why? Because the testimony is not in force until after the death of the Testator; and today his testimony "is in force. I am going to read to you just one piece that he said so you can see what is coming (History; of the Church, Vol. 1, p. 315, 1-4-1833): "And now I am pressed to say by the authority of Jesus Christ that not many years shall pass away before the United States shall see a scene of bloodshed etc."

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

As I mentioned this morning, brothers and sisters, I have seen promises that Brother Musser has made concerning the Prophet. Every time I have heard a testimony made or his name mentioned, I feel nearer the Lord, and I have drawn nearer the Priesthood on earth, those who have taken his place now. In godhood it is not above the dignity of a man to be a God to his generation, as Abraham, Moses, etc. were to their generations. Now, I am prepared to say in the name of Jesus Christ that this humble, lowly man. John Y. Barlow is a God to this generation and those associated with him in the Priesthood Council. We rub elbows with him; he speaks the words of truth; he speaks the humble words of God when he speaks, even with the weaknesses he has, as you and I have. We Can speak of those called of God all we want .We do not happen to have the Prophet leading us directly at this time, but we have these men, and we must obey the words and laws that they give to us; they are the personal representatives of God on the earth. Until we honor and observe the teachings of these men, we will never see the face of the Prophet Joseph, let alone the face of Jesus Christ, because these men will introduce them to us. I just want to bear that humble testimony to you today. As Brother Joseph told us in Sunday School, the more we bear testimony and place respect upon the authority here upon the earth, the nearer we will become to God and bring the blessings of God upon us. Yes, there is Brigham, Heber, John Taylor, Lorin, and John Woolley, etc., and what keeps us from them? Number one--you yourself. I exhort you as I do myself, to everyday renew your covenants with the Lord. I have found. that whenever I want a blessing that I must make a covenant with the Lord and keep it, and I have never failed to receive the blessing if I keep the covenant; and I promise you the same blessing in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

This is to me a very sacred occasion end a very great responsibility. I trust. the. prayer offered in the beginning will be fulfilled in my behalf, that I may enjoy the spirit of the Lord that what I may be lead to say will come from the Lord; and if that is true, you will benefitted.· We have been benefitted thus far, and there is no reason why we should not continue. You brothers and sisters all have questions in your minds and some of you have problems that you would like explained and want information upon, and by concentrating your minds on the speakers and praying the Lord to bless them, there is no reason why you should not all receive answers to your prayers. The subject that involves us today is the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph. It is just 100 years next Tuesday, June 27,1944, that he was martyred and took his place in the heavens. In our Sunday School class this morning we had treatments of various parts of his life, and the statement was made, very clearly, that he was the third one in the Godhead, that he does bold the office of the Holy Ghost. Some may think it very queer and find it difficult to understand. We understand the Holy Ghost is diffused in the various parts of the earth--in the rocks, the streams, the animal life, etc.; then how can Joseph hold that office? It is his privilege and duty to direct that power. A railroad dispatcher directs trains, stopping and starting them; he directs them by keys, keeps them from having accidents and sees that they get to their destinations; he may fall asleep but it would cause all kinds of trouble. Joseph is the dispatcher of this world, and therefore. He holds that great office, just as Jesus holds the office of Christ and Adam holds the. office of Eloheim to this earth. Joseph Smith was very active in life. He was arrested 50 odd times, but was never convicted of a crime. He was arrested for casting out devils at one time, and for teaching Daniel's prophecy, for conspiracy, treason and many other charges that cluttered up the courts in that day, as is the case in this day, but he was never convicted. He was always active and alert, never losing a moment. Even at the ,last at the Carthage jail he was given a revelation that was taken down by John Taylor, and that revelation is awaiting this people now. Part of it is known to some, but the rest is awaiting this people. He had no time to waste; every moment had to be used in the proper manner. John Taylor said he never knew the real mission of the Prophet until at Carthage Joseph said, I am going to take my place in the heavens." What was that place? The place in the Godhead.; that place to which he was appointed before earth was inhabited. According to President John Taylor, Joseph lead the pioneers out here in his resurrected form, and Hyrum too. They paved the way for the pioneers in the path they followed. At the time of the 1886 revelation Joseph was there in Centervil1e and took charge of the meeting. It was his duty to be there at that meeting with John Taylor, John W. Woolley; George Q.. Cannon, and others. Joseph directed the meeting and the setting apart of the brethren to carry on the law of celestial marriage. And. while they were shaking hands with Joseph, the Josephites were telling how they had found his body and were removing it to a new grave. Joseph was just as complete in his bodily farm as we are today, except that spirit took the place of blood in his veins. Blood dies but spirit lives on, and spirit is the blood of a resurrected being. He was· resurrected in leading the pioneers; he was here in 1886 and has been here a number of times since. It was at one of these meetings that it was decided John W. Woolley would have to go beyond. It was his expectation to stay here. Lorin expected him to stay here, but at that meeting it was decided that he should go on the other side and carry on there and that Lorin should remain here and that Leslie Broadbent and John Y. Barlow should help him. It was on that occasion that these other brethren were considered to be called into the Priesthood. Joseph was mortal. and had his weaknesses. Lorenzo Snow said it was a consolation to him to know that he had weaknesses; that if the Lord could bless him and save him after giving him all the information He did, and he would be saved, then maybe there could be some chance for himself. It was necessary for Joseph's blood to be shed, for Christ's blood to be shed; for Michael's blood to be shed. He (Michael) became mortal; we do not know how, but he became mortal and was the father of Jesus Christ. Every head of a dispensation must wind up his dispensation as a witness and testator. It is necessary that offenses cane, but "Woe, Woe, unto them by whom they come." We do not know much about Adam in His mortal career, but we do know about Jesus and the sacrifice that He made. It was such a tremendous sacrifice that he said when he was on the cross, "Father, why hast Thou forsaken me?" He had not forsaken him, but in order to make the sacrifice comp1ete "the Lord had to withdraw from him. Had the Lord been with him the sacrifice cou1d not have been made; Christ would not have suffered. God had not forsaken him, but it was necessary to let him suffer the agonies of mortal death without interference. Joseph was sacrificed; the Lord was never nearer him than at that time, but His spirit was withdrawn from him for the moment for it was necessary for him to go through the sacrifice of mortal death. It was just as necessary as it was necessary for Christ to go through what He did. It was the last mortal act of life. Joseph knew he was going to his death, and he said, "It shall yet be said of me--he was murdered in cold blood." That is the way it is today; we have our conspirators, and he had his conspirators not only in Illinois, Missouri, but they were sitting in Congress and the Executive chair and they even reached into England. They were conspirators, and. even assisted: in that great mortal sacrifice The last opportunity the Lord gave the nation was when He offered the Prophet Joseph to be the President of the United States, to lead this nation out of the muck and mire that it was in. He saw what the slave situation was and what would result. He was the Author of the Constitution of the United states, that great instrument of government, the greatest that has been written by man in this world.. The Lord. offered them His prophet, the Prophet Joseph Smith. In the ancient days when the Lord. gave the Israelites, Elijah, Elisha, and other great prophets to direct them, and when they received. direction they prevailed over the Amalekites, Philistines and other enemies; but when they forgot the Lord they were defeated. That was the same situation that prevails in this day--He permitted Joseph to become a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. The other candidates who were running for office wanted to get rid of Joseph Smith and the conspiracy went over to Europe, and today those countries are on their backs breathing as though for the last time; France is driven to the wall and if it is saved it will be because of the blood of its citizens being spilled as an atonement for national sins. The Lord said that this nation must atone for the blood of Joseph. We are beginning to see some of the signs of dissolution. Why should these things take place? To make way for the King of kings to take his place over the nations. These people in Missouri said to kill him and get rid of him and they will assume the responsibility. And they did it. They killed the Prophet and his blood is upon their shoulders. The Prophet Joseph is not far from us. He is the One Mighty and Strong and has already come and started the work that is before us, to get the Lord' s house in order, etc. It cannot be done more quickly; it must be done gradually. There are hundreds and thousands of Saints the Lord wants to save and He is patient with us all and wants to give us all the opportunity He can. There is not one person in this house or on the earth that did not come here for the purpose at getting an exaltation and the Lord wants us to have all the opportunity we can get to accomplish it. But His work is going on. I have made the statement before and I will make it again--that if we could see how fast His work is going on, we could not stand it, for the speed with which it is going on would overcome us. We are expected to overcome our weaknesses, and. repent of our sins and resist them and leave them off entirely It will not be long--Brother Barlow has told us--before we will converse with resurrected beings. We will walk with them as we converse. We will meet with beings on the street, as was done at the time of Christ's crucifixion and immortal beings will walk with us. Some of the brethren have already experienced those sensations. My testimony is that Joseph Smith is at the head of this dispensation; he is a member of the Godhead and he is the One Mighty and Strong, and it is his work to set the house of God in order. Let me say in reference to the business that is going on to curtail this work and the united order, etc. ,--the first steps have been made and there is a determined effort on the part of Satan to see that it will not go on; it is Satan's priesthood against Christ' s. He thought Joseph, Christ, Adam, and all the prophets of God. It was his priesthood in opposition to the Priesthood of God and it is that same agency that is working now again at us; but the Church, the government and the state will fall to the ground and will be the same kind of failure as all the efforts of Satan have been, because the work of the Lord cannot fail. It must go on. The principle of celestial marriage is the law of God, the crown of the Priesthood. It is the principle that was set forth. before the foundation of this work: was made, and it is the principle that will go on and take us into the eternities with Abraham and all the patriarchs and prophets that have been here on earth. Talk about doing away with that law--you might as well try to blow the world over with your breath. It is a law that made Eloheim, and his Eloheim, and his Eloheim, and so on; that which has made gods and preserved gods and that which will preserve the world at the present time under God's leadership. They cannot do away with it no matter what the opposition may be and what they do to any of us. Now, this is my testimony: That Joseph is a prophet of God and a member of the Godhead. I know that Brother John (Barlow) occupies this position to which Rulon (Jeffs) talked. He is the God of this group and will be throughout the eternities under Lorin and others. We will all occupy our positions when the time comes. When I go over on the other side I expect to preach the Gospel to the people I knew here and bear my testimony to them. This work will go on and on. Brigham Young said that if you want to know something about eternity—every man who can be called a Latter Day Saint when he has more worlds, more kingdoms credited to him than the sands upon the seashore, then you will have an idea of what we are looking for. We are going on and on and never stop. God bless you, Amen.

Medley of Songs: Played by Margaret Musser, violin, and Mabel Allred, piano--"Joseph Smith' s First 'Prayer," "An Angel from on High "The Seer," "The Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief," and "Praise to the Man."

Brother Lyman Jessop

was the last speaker and he said that Brother Joseph (Musser) has given -us a revelation and opened the eyes of our understandings, if we are in tune to understanding very important points in connection with the mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and that he had thought for days and days concerning the coming June 27--the 100th Anniversary of the martyrdom of the Prophet; that he feels that something is going to happen. to this State and this nation; that the blood-shed of the Prophet has not yet been atoned for, and he wondered if it would ever be. He said. that it seems that we, as well as the world, cannot stand things at a close view and so have to wait for years in order to look back on them and. see them, and until now the world is looking back honoring the Christ; that we cannot stand the closeness of the situation of the Prophet; we build up barriers, mental and physical, that hold up our salvation. He said he often asks himself why we cannot get rid of this individualism that keeps us from something greater; that our advancement is dependent upon ourselves; that the pressure is on and it is according to our capacities what we can stand. He believes that the Order of Enoch and celestial marriage are the two greatest saving principles; it is an eternal course that we must follow to go upward though the road is full of hard knocks and hardships; that the best way to keep our equilibrium is to get the spirit of God and keep it as we have been told He said that there is no greater security than to hand over all we have to the Priesthood, even though we have the world to battle against us; that there is nothing that can equal the observance of the laws of God.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

Now, my brothers and sisters, you have heard a great many things here today. How many heard it?' Have you heard it? There has been a lot said. If we heard it and it sinks into our hearts we will do it. The Lord said once that it was not the ones that hear His words that will be saved, but the ones that do them. "Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he "that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. (Mat. 7: 21,24) Obedience is the thing that counts. Lorin said that you have got to know the Gospel is true and know that you know it is true I am going to say this and you can call it a prophecy or what you want: From this time on you are going to see the judgments of God thicker and heavier than in the past, thicker than we have ever seen them before. The Lord told me to tell this people to get the Spirit of God and keep it, and I'll tell you now that you will need it more than you have ever before. We say we believe these things. Yes I believe them. Remember this one thing: By their fruits you shall know them.

Closing Song "Come, 0 Thou King of Kings" Benediction: Brother Chas. F. Zitting LJAllred

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2157 Lincoln Avenue June 25, 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 327 Hail To the Prophet L D S Hymns Invocation: Brother Gertsen 2nd Song: Page 181 Ye Wondering Nations, Now Give Ear " In charge: Guy Musser Commenting on: Read and discussed the Life of the Prophet We needn't look for the one might and strong to come, for he has come, brothers and sisters. He has come and revealed his mind and will to his servants on the earth. Classes

ADULTS CLASS.. Axel W Fors teaching Subject: discussed question of Elias and Elijah and there authority and the office and. calling. Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Jesus and Joseph Smith were the heads of their seven dispensations with three major dispensations within that Adam, Jesus and Joseph Smith

COMPENDIUM CLASS ••Dell Timpson teaching subject: Statehood and how it was obtained and Plural Marriage was Outlawed.

JUNIOR CLASS ••Sister Cook teaching Katherine Allred asst. Subject; George Q. Cannon's first mission -Incident read on this story Class following a series of "Faith promoting-incidents"

Re -Assemble

Closing Song: Page 329 How Firm A Foundation L DS Hymns

Benediction: Alfred Olschewski

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2157 Lincoln Avenue July 2, 1944 Invocation: Joseph B Thompson

2nd Songs Page 242 The Joyful Song In charge: Guy Musser Participations: Speaker: Charles Zitting Contrasting between this people and their families and the general families of the world. i.e. their size and the way the world is lacking in repopulating itself. . There will not be one of us (the men arrested) that will go to jail unless the Lord has a purpose in it. That is just how much -we are afraid of jails. The Lord will fight our battles if we will just stand by our guns.

2nd Speaker: John Bucherite Treated on the subject, "The Kingdom of God Or Nothing" Unless we live the laws of God and keep his commandments in "the fullness we will not have the protection from the persecution and judgments that are coming

Solo: Athlene Allred, "Because of Thy Bounteous Care -accompanied by Myrtle Allred

A document was read that was "dug out" of the volumes of Church History. It paralleled the situation that this people are facing in regards to their belief and. the persecution that is exerted because of this belief read by Lyman Jessop

Piano Solo: Myrtle Allred "Butterfly"

Speaker: Rulon C. Allred

Solo:Forgotten by Howells••••Lucy Musser . accompanied by Anna Broadbent

Remarks: Joseph W. Musser The Lords work is going on.· He is trying to save all that will be saved.· I do not believe that the judgments of God have started in the intensity that it will start in the house of God.

Closing Song: Page 283 God Of Our Fathers

Benediction: Axel W Fors

Minutes of the Testimony Meeting held at the Priesthood Home Sunday, July 3, 1944, at 2:00 p.m.

President John Y. Barlow presided.

Brother Joseph W. Musser conducted.

1st Song: "For the strength of the Hills" Prayer-: Brother Neils Hansen 2nd Song: "Gently Raise the Sacred Strain" Sacrament administered by Rulon C. Allred and Lyman Jessop assisted by Alfred Olschewski and Brother Shultz

Testimonies borne by the following:

Brother J. W. Musser:

We feel before beginning our program of bearing testimonies that we should call attention to one matter that involves the Latter day Saints particularly at the present time, and that is regarding our defense. The Lord in the 133rd Section of the Doc. & COV., through the Prophet Joseph Smith, tells us that we should protect ourselves, that we should petition the government and take all steps possible to register the names of those who are bringing trouble upon the saints and upon the Church, etc. I would like to have you read that Sec. when you get home -Sec. 133. We feel that it is important for all of us who are of age to register and vote and prepare to vote, at least in the coming election. We hope to. have some recommendations as time goes on as to suggestions that is, but we feel that we should uphold men, or women if they are nominated, who will be just and fair and we can expect to be just and fair. Brethren and their wives and sons and daughters who are old enough should register and be prepared to vote. It isn't necessary to say any more on that point at the present time. Now this is your meeting, and we hope these young people will bear their testimonies, as well as the older ones. We hope to have a spiritual feast today. Am going to call on Brother Rulon C. Allred to open the meeting and to announce a little matter of business which he has been appointed to attend to.

Brother Rulon Allred:

Asked that the saints submit pictures of their children to be used in the work of the Lord. "I pray that the Spirit of the Lord will be with us today, that those who have a testimony to bear and feel moved upon will bear it. that our faith in the Fullness of the Gospel will be strengthened and our determination after we leave this meeting will be to serve God better than we have in the past. l am thankful for the talents that the Lord has given me. my faith, my testimony of the Gospel, the privilege of living in this dispensation, the noble parentage, the testimony that I am of Ephraim, the hope I have of eternal life and salvation, the assurance I have that I and others of my family will go back and build up the new Jerusalem. I pray that God will give me and mine sufficient strength that we will let our light shine that the world will acknowledge that we are good and clean and holy and pray that that will be the blessing poured out upon all of us. Let our environment be holy. The Lord has told us to stand in holy places and that by faith the saints should be purified and sanctified. I pray that God will give us the strength and courage to do it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Testimonies borne by: Edna Christensen Pansy Darger Wm. F. Stokes' Chase Kimball

Song by Congregation: "Arise, 0 Glorious Zion

Brother Alma Adelbert Timpson bore a testimony.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

"My brothers and Sisters, I thought in looking over the picture of Brother Allred's family that went out and this picture of Lyman Jessop's family has done more good than we could have done in sending out preachers for 10 years. People look upon us as though we were sexual and they say. How can you live this law without being sexual By seeing these pictures, they begin to think we mean what we are doing. Now, just think, all we have to do is turn away our wives and live with them as mistresses and all would be well. The law only prohibits having 'wives' and where men are willing to go to jail for them. If they were sexual, they wouldn't have to take wives. Anybody knows if they were sexual they wouldn't have to take wives and raise children. Common sense would tell you that, the way the world is today, everywhere you go." Related an experience of going to a hotel and being asked 'with or without' "Then have. them tell you-you are sexual by having wives and raising children and honoring those wives, ready to go to jai1-I want to tell you, these people in Utah ought to be ashamed of themselves. Turning from the very laws that could give them eternal increase for a paltry sum of an office. No wonder Brigham Young said they ought to go back to the East. He told them if they would live the laws of God they wouldn't have to live under anything but the Kingdom of God. Would they do it? No, and they wouldn't let those who wanted to do it Sometimes indignation arouses my soul so I can hardly contain myself. Let me tell you, to assure you that are here and under the sounds of my voice, that God is going to take a hand –and not very long before He does. Are we going to be ready? Are we going to be living the laws of God? When the Savior comes and there will be two in the field, one will be taken and the other left. Are we going to be left here? Let me tell you, He was speaking of the Church when he spoke of the 10 virgins, five foolish and five wise. The wise had been keeping oil in their lamps, but while the five foolish ones went for oil the door was closed. That wasn't speaking of the world, but the people of the Kingdom of God. When they returned and found the door closed, they said, Lord, Lord, open unto us,, and He said, 'Verily, no.' Why, because they had turned and not lived the laws of God. He said, 'Depart from me; I never knew You.' That is speaking of apostates who have turned from the Gospel of Jesus Christ; apostates have turned from a principle. What a terrible lesson Joseph got on that line when he listened to Martin Harris. The Lord told him-he had listened to the persuasions of men, and we are shown what will happen to us if we do. A man asked me the other day, 'Do you really believe the Gospel and plural marriage are true.' I said, 'I don't believe it, I know it.' But I want to tell you that if we reject any law that God has laid down, we will be the loser. We will never be able to have eternal increase and have an earth as Adam did. We have got to live the laws that were established for that purpose. "Now, I don't wish to take up much of your time, but I want to tell you and prophesy in the name of Israel's God it will only be a short time before the One Mighty and strong comes. Are we ready, brothers and sisters? Are we ready? What are we going to do? Are we going to live as we ought to, or are we going on as we are doing? Think it over. God bless you, Amen.

Rulon Jeffs: I know after a spirit like that we sometimes hesitate to arise for fear we might spoil it. There is nothing but gratitude in my heart today: first of all that Father came upon the earth and took upon himself flesh that we might be able to tabernacle this spirit. 2nd, for my Elder Brother, Jesus Christ, and, 3rd, for the Witness and testimony of Brother Joseph. I know that these three constitute the Godhead of this earth. I am thankful to be associated with you brothers and sisters and know where the keys of Priesthood lay. I pray that I may stand true and faithful to that testimony. I want to acquire the heritage I have received through my parents. I am grateful for my family. May I be true to them and save them in God's kingdom, I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.-

Brother Neils Hansen, Fred Cleveland, Arnold Boss

Brother David W. Jeffs:

I must rise to my feet and bear witness to the things God has blessed me with, to bear witness to the Lord and you people that He has given me many blessings, witness and testimony, notwithstanding my weakness, which I am better acquainted with than you people. I am very much thrilled. with conditions as they now are. I have been in close contacts with the federal court with the district court and also connected with filing papers for the attorneys in the Supreme Court for the defense of this group called the 'Fundamentalists' and I want to tell you there has been a great change in the feelings of some of these people to what they were two or three months ago. I was thrilled with the prophecy of Brother John Y. Barlow today that the time is not far distant when the One Mighty and Strong would come. want to bear witness to you that because of a condition in this country it will be torn asunder as a potter's clay, and that condition is not very distant as people are now receiving millions and millions for nothing and as soon as that starts to stop the revolution will come, and I prophecy that this time is near at our doors and that it will start in our country, and we who are faithful and true (will I be faithful and true?) will be the only ones to stand. Bore his testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel.

Sister Mary Fischer bore her testimony.

Brother J. W. Musser: "

I want to endorse very heartily Brother Barlow's admonition that we get oil in our lamps and be prepared because the time is short –very short It is up to us to prepare ourselves, to cleanse our lives of impurities and to learn to love our neighbors as ourselves, to get into that condition that the Lord mentions --get oil in our lamps. Be faithful and true.

Song --Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow" Prayer: Russell Kunz

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2157 Lincoln Avenue July 8, 1944

Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 152 Let Us All Press On

Invocation: Alfred 01scbwski

2nd Song: Page 204 Master The Tempest is Raging"

In Charge: Lyman Jessop

Participations:

1. Two poems given by Martha Doelling

2. Talk by Grant Morrison••• home on a furlough from the armed forces.

3. Vocal Duet acc by duet· of Violins. Janice Taylor (voice; Marilynn Thompson Joseph B Thompson( violins Otto H Olschewski( accompanied by pianist•••Alfred Olschewski

4. Current Events: Don Wayman

5. Violin Duet.• Joseph Thompson and Otto H Olschewski

6. Talk by Heber Smith • home on furlough from the navy at Farragut, Idaho••• experiences in the service.

CLASSES

ADULTS CLASS••Rulon Allred teaching

COMPENDIUM CLASS: Dell Timpson teaching Subject: Marriage and ability we must attain to live correctly in this relation

JUNIOR CLASS: Sister Cook teaching Subjects: Missionary experiences

Re-Assemble Closing Song: Page. 255 Parting Hymn

Benediction: Ruth Allred

Minutes of the General Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City. Sunday, July 9, 1944, at 2 O'clock p.m.

Brother J. W. Musser-Presided and conducted

1st Song: "Redeemer of Israel" Prayer: Brother Geertsen 2nd Song: "Guide Us, 0 Thou Great Jehovah

Brother Geo. L. Dockstader:

Commented on the very unique procedure adopted by the defense -attorneys in the trials, that not since the beginning of common law and not since the days of Jesus Christ have we seen such intolerance. There is nothing like this court procedure in the court records, and that to his mind it was an inspiration from God Almighty. The Lord will open the windows of heaven and pour upon his people more than they can contain; but we will have to get our feet on the ground. Related experience of going back to his old home town, and of seeing an old vision realized in the, paths of life taken by his old acquaintances. "Let us forget our selfishness, forget the things that would make for us honors among men, but never fail to leave written upon their hearts the examples of the lives we live and the Gospel we teach, is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Brother Jim Athany

Bore his testimony of the gospel in its fullness. Commented that the trouble today is with our own people that they had compromised with sin. Was thankful for the title of "Fundamentalists" We teach and live Mormonism, and the main body of the Church are afraid of it. When you try to teach people today who constitutes the Godhead and why we believe as we do, they don't want to accept it." Read from July TRUTH the presentation made by Claude T. Barnes in court.

Sister Irene Christiansen:

Related her experiences of going back to St. Louis and of her son Eddie's being hurt and of being healed through faith, of visiting with various of her friends there and bearing her testimony

Congregation sang: "The Morning Breaks, The Shadows Flee" 1(" q

Brother Heber Smith:

Commented on the growing tolerance of outsiders to the stand taken by our people, contrasted with the intolerance of the C1:rurcb members.

Brother Chas. F. Zitting: "

My-dear brothers and sisters, I pray I will have your prayers and be able to say-something. I don't wish to talk long, but to say something that will do someone good. Like Brother Athy, I am glad they called us 'Fundamentalists' The fundamental thing we have to hang to is the revealed word of God. That is fundamental. So I don't see where they could have chosen any nicer word than to call us Fundamentalists. I just thrill every time I see it in print." Commented on the history of the Church where the saints were driven and of the hardships endured until finally they made a "covenant with death and an agreement with hell, and of increasing the penalty for living the laws of God until it is now from five years to life. The Prophet Joseph lived fourteen years after establishing the church, during which time he was arrested 52 times --an average of once every three months. The Church itself has now turned prosecutor, and in rounding up fifteen men,. 283 children, wives and homes are left without a father in order to put down the word of the Lord, right at a time when our sons are in the army and navy, fighting for the four freedoms, one that of religion. Compare this ratio of families and children with the average for the nation per family for those actually married of 1.74. I have been wondering when the judgments of God are going to start, brothers and sisters. Are some of us going to jail for a while first? Maybe it will come to that. There is just one thing I pray for if some of us have got to lose our lives or lay in jail or go through greater persecutions before the judgments of God come, I pray that I may have the spirit of the Lord. These things aren't hard if we have the Spirit of the Lord. I feel sorry when the judgments hit the wicked, because they haven't the spirit of God. We see the wars killing people by the millions, but do not think of those things as-the judgments of God. That is the work of Satan himself. Satan said that with armies and navies he would rule the world. That is not the judgments of God When they start, it will be at the with those who profess to know Him, but have blasphemed his name. They will start at the house of the Lord and will come as a whirlwind and we will see something we have not seen before in the history of the land. When this country was turned upside down two thousand years ago, that was the judgments of God; at the time of the flood 4,000 years ago, that was the judgments of God. About every 2OOO years we get a slap from God; it-is another 2,000 years again. This time when the judgments of God come, there is going to be resurrected beings come and mingle with the those that are worthy, and the judgments are going to be poured out in a big measure upon those people have trampled His laws in the dust. There will be terrible suffering. I am reminded of what President Taylor said. All that can be shaken will be shaken in that dreadful day.' It just makes me wonder how far we have got to go, how much trial we will have before that time comes. "I was very much impressed with what Uncle John said last Sunday we are good people, but we are not good enough; and let's not lean towards the foolish things of the world. We can't do it and keep the Spirit of the Lord. I don't care whether it is the styles of the world, following after their foolish ideas, the ways of the world, or the love of money or public opinion more than the love of God. If we lean the least way towards the ways of the world, we are not going to be able to stand when that time comes when the Prophet states all will be shaken who can be shaken. Do you want to stand? Ask yourself that question. Not only that, but you will be the means, brothers and sisters, of setting an example to your other brothers and sisters, to your daughters and sons to my daughter and sons, or you may be stumbling blocks to them by setting improper examples and thus justify their making the same mistakes. Let's not be a stumbling block to those we are supposed to be a light to. Teach that to your children and try to do it by example That's my prayer to you. May we-be-faithfu1 and not look upon sin with the least degree of justification. May we look with an eye single to the glory of God, that our children will follow in our footsteps, that they will be safe, that they will not go with the tide of sin. Some fathers and mothers are afraid to talk plain to their children for fear they will turn them against them. They are going to be hurt, and you are going to be hurt, if you don't talk plain. Take them in your arms, and get them to cooperate with you." Tell them you will show it to them the way you see it. Do not force them, as that is Satan's plan; but do point the way for them and then say to them, Now, it's up to you to choose. I wish I could tell these things the way I see them; and I can see plenty of things right in our own group that hurt me and the other brethren. Things we have got to weed out if we are going to be worthy of the blessings that are coming to us within the next year. There are people within the sound of my voice who won't be with us a year from now --and it will be their own fault. There are children who won't be with us, and there are others who will be prophets of God and reap a rich reward. It is a rich reward to belong to this group, who believe all the word of God and try to live right. We have such a rich future of blessings, that everything else looks cheap Where would you find something better? Let's try to make ourselves worthy of belonging to this people is my· prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother J. W. Musser:

Among the many good things that have been given us today I want to emphasize what Sister Irene has suggested with reference to the healing powers of God and the privilege that women have of anointing their sick and rebuking sickness. Don't do it in the authority of the Priesthood, but you have the privilege of taking consecrated oil and anointing the heads of the sick and rebuking disease and sickness, and the prayers of the faithful will save the sick. I think we should remember that, you sisters, because often times the Priesthood Isn't available. The time will come when it isn't nearly as available as-it is now, and there will be more sickness than there is now, so that we should prepare ourselves to use this great gift God has given us.

Song: "Before Thee Lord I Bow My Head"

Benediction: Owen A. Allred, especially remembering Elizabeth Kimball. M Allred;

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2157 Lincoln Avenue July 16, 1944

Preliminary Program

1st Song: Page 62 Hope Of Israel

Invocation: Fred Cleveland

2nd Song: Page 48 Scatter Seeds of Kindness

In Charge; Guy Musser

Participations:

Remarks by Brother Smith from the southern part of the state.

Piano solo "The Lost Chord" by Melba Allred Solo ••Leona Allred•• voice Sister Guy Musser••violin Mable Al1red••piano

Remarks by John Y Bar1ow

The highway is straight and beautiful and we know we are on it. The church is on a detour and are in the swamps and byways.

Classes

ADULTS CLASS.Ru1on Allred teaching subject: The books of the law of God and the Book of Remembrance

COMPENDIUM CLASS: De11 Timpson teaching Subject: Marriage •• its importance and how we should attach to it when prohibited by the unconstitutionality of the law of the land

JUNIOR CLASS Sister Cook teaching Subject: Missionary experiences of early leaders

Re-Assemble .

Closing Song: Page 70 Nearer Dear Savior to Thee

Benediction: Winnie Jessop

Minutes of the General Meeting held Sunday, July 23, 1944, at 2:00 p.m .in the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln street, Salt Lake City, Utah

President John Y. Barlow presided and conducted.

1st Song: "Oh Ye-Mountains High" Prayer-: Bro Otto Olschewski 2nd Song: "Our Mountain Home so Dear"

Brother John Y. Barlow:

We have just got back from a trip down -south where we had an enjoyable time and looked over the ground. Night before last we were up to the saw mill and bad a bonfire with some of the fruit pickers and some of the folks from Short Creek with the workers at the sawmill and bad quite a crowd in the fire light like they had while crossing the plains. We had a very fine sketch this morning from Brother Boss telling us of "the pioneer days and of Joseph's prophesying they would come here." Read from l07th Psalm: "0 give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy endureth "forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy. And gathered them out of the lands. * * *" (To end of Psalm) If the Prophet bad written that, be couldn't have got it any plainer. Here's way-back. in the days of David, l07th Psalm, we had a wonderful city which the Lord blessed us with. Now I want to read to you more about it. Then read from Jeremiah, 23rd Chapter -1-3 Vs., then Vs. 9 to 22, incl. then Vs. 33 to 40, incl. Now we have the history there. They came here and then turned from the ways of the Lord. And what do they say ? It is a revelation from God --the Manifesto is a-revelation of the Lora. And the Lord says they have put the burden upon the Lord and that City shall be taken from you. Ninety percent of these homes used to belong to the saints, and now 75% belong to the Gentiles. the City has been taken from them because they put the burden of the Manifesto upon the-Lord; where as if they had heard the" ward of the Lord in these things and stood for them, it would have been" a different story today. Because they wouldn't listen to the counsel of the Lord, the Savior came and prepared John Taylor for what was coming. Here a few years ago where there was one man in this work there is now 500. Wherever you go, they are beginning to think, here's this picture showing what these-men have done. They were set apart and told to see that there never-was a time when children were not born under ,that covenant. Here's the proof of it up here --283 children to 15 men; and for having children and keeping the commandments of God, they-are now sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. We have appealed it, of course, but that's the situation. It is worth it, even if we have to go the five years. The wives and children are worth it, and our exaltation in the eternal worlds. There never was a time when we felt it more than we do now. Here we are celebrating the great Pioneer Day when the people came into this valley and Brigham Young said 'This is the place.' It will only be a short time before the 'One Mighty-and Strong' comes to set the thing in order, and then you will see us drawn to the line and hewn to the plummet God hasten the time I ask God's blessing upon-you, and let us live the laws of God is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Brother Charles F. Zitting:

My mind has-been going back over the history of the Mormons this morning --I guess on account of it-being close to the 24t-of July. It was only-about three years ago when we were back East and saw where the Church was established, where the saints had been -mobbed and massacred, driven; where their lands had been -taken from them. In one place they spent $318,000 for lands and after building their homes the people around about told them they could stay there and live in peace it they would give up their religion and belief and doctrines and-do away with their bishops, pastors and this in a land where we were supposed to have religious freedom. If they wouldn't they would be exterminated according to the orders of the Governor of the State. They wouldn't give it up and were driven from their homes. We saw the place where they were driven across the river in the middle of winter and at Council Bluffs over-600 graves of people who died that year. And this in a land-where-they were supposed to have religious freedom. They were finally driven after their Prophets were killed-in cold blood, 1000 mi1es into the wilderness over deserts, mountain ranges into this valley which wasn't anything but a dry desert. A thousand miles to-them seemed about like lO,000 to us now with our automobiles and paved roads. I guess they thought they were getting away from Satan and could live as they wished. What happened? Even as they were so far-away, within ten years, July 24, 1857 while celebrating up at Brighton up in Cottonwood Canyon word came to Brigham Young that the United States Army was marching against them. Told of the strategy used by Brigham Young in fighting them and in sending men to destroy their supplies and of sending salt to them to prevent their getting sick and of finally routing them without shedding any blood. "The point I want to make is that as-long as you live on this planet you won't run away from Satan. I don-'t care whether it's here or Short Creek or any place-else. You needn't think you are going to move to a place where Satan won't have effect on you and your children. There is only one way we a going to get away from Satan, to build up a wall between him and us-, and that is by living the Gospel, by getting the-Spirit of the Lord and keeping it . You will then have a hedge bui1t up so Satan can' t-get through. We have got a hard battle. I can sympathize with everyone of. You are not up against anything small, but something big, because you are·1iving in hell. Brigham Young said this place I live in is hell, and it is the worst-place I expect to see, and you People will stay-in hell until you subject your-selves to the word and will or God. Satan said he would buy up armies and navies and rule over-this earth. Live the Gospel! Do not give way to the little ways of the world. Do not copy after them. Try to keep nearer-to God and keep His commandments, because you are going to need it badly before many years --yes, -many months, when the Millennium start's. We-really feel sorry for you now, ourselves included" because you are trying to 1ive a Celestial law in a telestial world. You are to be commended that you are able to keep any of the Spirit of the Lord among you with Satan and his forces on you every minute. If you are going to have your children, you will have to set a good example, and is it worth it? ' Are we looking the-ways of the world and influencing not only our children but those of our brothers and sisters? Let's not have those things on our shoulders. Let's find out what the Lord wants us to do and try and do it is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Guy Musser-:

I greatly-rejoice in what has-been said today. We have been fed the words of life. But I feel a great responsibility resting upon me at this time, because I know that we must enjoy the spirit of the Lord before we can illuminate others, and I pray God in humility that he may bless me with His Spirit, that I may not detract from the splendid things told us so far.' Peter once said Holy men speak as they are moved upon by the Spirit of God. So we bear that great responsibility that we teach nothing but that which has been delivered to the children by the Prophet Joseph for the purpose of restoring the fullness of the Gospel and delivering it to the Saints.· Referred to his recent trip to the south. one-of the most inspirational he had been privileged to experience. Observed that the-crops looked fine; .the people are building up the communities; appreciated the struggles of the people there to subdue the desert; of visiting the sawmill about 50 miles from Short Creek where they held an inspirational meeting. Short Creek has filled the measure of its creation and has made fine men and women. That's what it is doing, and we can well take note of their progress; and there will be some whom if we don't look out we will be left in the dust because there are people in this-group who desire the fullness of the Gospel, and the Kingdom of God to be established and who desire the formation completed of the United Order. They are coming from the mountains, from the cities from-the-waste places they are gathering; children of the old patriarchs who lived plural marriage . Related instances of visiting with some descendants of those who formerly lived plural marriage and of their testimonies. It was an inspiring sight Thursday night when we held a meeting in the school house and saw those sisters coming in dressed in their modest clothing --not as the world would come. They were different. We are a peculiar people. Why should we want to be as the world? We are a peculiar people. We are royal --as royal as we-make ourselves --a royal priesthood; a chosen priesthood; a pure priesthood; and who should conduct themselves so that they are a peculiar people. It was said when Orson F. Whitney walked down the street people turned to take a second look. Was he trying to be as the world? No. He was trying to lift it up. He could walk with kings and not lose the common touch. We can be tolerant, but not so tolerant that we could permit the Devil in our homes and in our lives. So it was inspirational to me to see that there are those who are trying to keep the commandments of God and to realize the purposes of God. "It is an inspiration when we speak of the 24th of July and sing these songs relative to these sacred mountains but we are coming along just as the world is. We worship the suit of clothes that Joseph wore we look in admiration at the hat he put on. We go to the museum and look at the furniture he had in his home; but do we stop for-one moment and conclude why he was killed and what he stood for? What he was trying to do upon the earth? He was, sent to the earth--- prophets long before prophesied that Joseph would come to restore the fullness of the Gospel; and the 'fullness of the Gospel' is celestial marriage and the united order, Brigham Young tells us. That is what he restored, and because of it they killed him. Don't you suppose he knew what would happen when restored the principle of plural marriage. Of course he did. He told the people. For generations before, only monogamous relations were taught and all other relation outside of that was impure. Even he had taught the people those teachings, and now the angel of the Lord had revealed to him that the time had come when the celestial law which Celestialize the souls of men must be lived; for this was the dispensation of the fullness of times, and the Lord said, 'Teach the people this celestial law-which will purify the women and make Gods of the men, and if this isn't the case they can't live and-abide in a Ce1estial world. The Prophet refused, saying, They'll kill me if I do. But the Lord wasn't fooling. The time was short so he told an angel, 'Go down and take his life and we will raise up another man who will restore the celestial law. And the angel came-with a sword and Joseph was made to decide as to what course he wanted to take; and from then on he said, I have made this my rule -- when the Lord commands, do it.' And he instituted the patriarchal form of marriage. He told the people The Lord wanted to unite them, and later on restored the plan of United Order which would make them the sons of Enoch. He told the people that the Lord wanted to redeem them and unto him the Lord set a time when it would be redeemed. Now those are the things That he stood for. That is why the pioneers came to this valley --not because they believed in baptism, but because the Priesthood of God was at variance with the Priesthood-of Satan. We are the result of the, colonization of this state. And now what has happened to us today? The Lord has again set about, through His Priesthood Counsel, to redeem this people. He has tried to redeem them time and time again. He would have redeemed them in John Taylor's time Leslie Broadbent knew He would have-redeemed this people in his day if He could have. These brethren are laboring day after day that the Lord can redeem us in this day NOW. They-are trying to make a City of Enoch of us, so ,that the Lord can catch us up and burn the rest of the earth as stubble. That is what they are, trying to do, and we are kicking against the pricks We don't want that . We don't want to be made pure and celestial! But these brothers are trying -to. They are-giving their livers, and will give their lives-to this cause. They are laboring and traveling. My aged father is now traveling in the south to teach some new people these great truths. Why? Because it is their responsibility to bring to pass the purposes of the Lord in our behalf. These brethren are teaching the plurality of wives. Why? Because they want to prepare us for a celestial habitation. We can't enjoy a celestial world unless we are living Celestial laws. The Lord has told us that --not only through Brigham Young, John Taylor, but through angels. And yet people in this very audience today and in the church and among our people everywhere the sisters think: they are being imposed upon because they are asked to live a celestial law. They feel that ,the brethren are imposing upon their desires and their freedom because they are asked to do this. God is the creator of His commandments and the restorer of His blessing. These brethren agreed in the spiritual world that they would teach these things. We are being asked nicely to live these commandments and live them nobly. These brethren know that the day will come when every knee will bow and every tongue confess That Jesus is the Christ. I don't have to worry if I have wives or children who won't bow the knee. They will stay in one place until they confess. But we don't want that." Related experience of Joseph Smith asking a young lady to marry him in celestial marriage and she said she didn't care to and she was told she could live alone eternally if she preferred I can kick against the pricks I but the Lord brings so much upon me that I am glad to do what is right but during the period of my disobedience have lost some of the days of my probation. That is vital to my salvation -and each day we lose and haven't put to good use we have lost and it will take that man more days, months and years in the next world before we are able to go on as well as if we hadn't gone through these years of disobedience --years of pleasure and pastime. These are my feelings. I know I am the most unworthy of all this group. I know that I am not possibly prospering in the work as well as I should; but these things come to my mind; and I see the brethren faithful and true, making an effort to unite us as a body of people so that the Lord can use us .He could come today it we could stand it and turn our eyes to Jackson County. We would have power over--the sun and the night and" as we traveled we would have power to turn everything to the prospering of that work. That would commence tonight if. we could stand it. But if the least of the angels above were to make his appearance in this room how many. of us could endure the light? Is there one? And then we pray constantly. Thy kingdom come thy will be done. Father. send the One Mighty and Strong.-I What if Joseph should come and stand here today with all the magnificence and illumination of his position? We know he gave his life and his wives and children were flogged and beaten. Do you think we could bear to see him stand here in our present state? Of course we couldn't. That's what he is trying to do through these brethren --he is trying to bring us together. These men are telling us to enter into plural marriage --they are telling these young girls to live righteous lives and become as Eves --and these men to be in very truth noble men worthy of wives and children, worthy of dominions. That is what they are trying to do. That is only part of their great job. They are trying to unite us in a united order. It is leading us to a plan which will perfect us. How many of you can live the United order today? If Joseph was to say All you who can, live the United Order, how many-could come up and sign up this minute? You are going to be able to do it by overcoming. The people in Short Creek are far ahead of us collectively and yet they are a long ways from perfecting the united order and yet when the Lord draws on those who can live the United Order, who is He going to draw on? Those that have proved faithful to the little they were called to do. They are trying to unite us and make out of us a City of Enoch. There are some here in Short Creek: and in Idaho who are preparing themselves for those "Things" and as I feel the spirit of the Lord, I know that the time is here when if we as a group can't--qualify to the line and make the grade, then Joseph through these brethren will select those who can and will go on above us and go on to bring about these wonderful things in the last days --and every day brings us nearer and nearer to these things. And so here we are. Let us be faithful and true. I love this work. I appreciate bearing, especially, the confidence of . Pres. Barlow in permitting me to go on this trip. It was an inspiration to me. And these men are great men. I am speaking of Brother Zitting, too. They are good men, and it warms your!' soul and spirit and bring illumination to one to be with them and to receive of their course and yet through it all they have a sense of humor, a sense of being human that they must have. We have them here and don't often reflect upon the importance of their mission. So let us arouse ourselves, brothers and sisters if we can. Let us get behind the movements that are being sponsored. If they fail, they fail not because God hasn't the power but because we are not faithful enough. Did the plan of redemption fail because of the Prophet Joseph or Brigham Young? No, because the people failed. Will the United Effort fail?' Yes, if the people fail. Will it be because Brother Barlow wasn't inspired of the Lord in permitting us to do this? Of course not; if it fails, we make it fail. So we must arouse ourselves and cause that the 24th of July shall be a day of making a new -determination to do what the Lord wants --to live the Laws of God. In closing I would like to repeat this great song that Pres. John Woolley loved so much: 'Up Awake Ye Defenders of Zion'."

Closing Song: "Up ! Arouse Thee, Oh Beautiful Zion" Benediction: Brother George Kalmar MyAllred

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2151 Lincoln Avenue July 30, 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 29 0 What Songs of the Heart Invocation: Guy Musser 2nd Song: Page 291 Hear Us Pray In Charge: Lyman Jessop Commenting on: Current situation that we find ourselves in regard to our enemies. He said that we should pray for our enemies••not that we should pray for them to continue persecuting us but for them to repent. Participations: Cleon Chatwin•••furlough from Camp Roberts •• stated that he has no desire to kill. Asks our prayers that he shall not be required to kill his fellow men. Speaker•• John Y. Barlow Love your enemies because they are God's children and "have the privilege of living on this earth as well as we have. I tell you the" one mighty and strong is soon to come and he will require more men. These laws of God are true that is all we need to worry about. If we could see how fast the Lords work is going we would just wonder.

3. Speaker••Charles Zitting If we are all bad and are going to a lesser kingdom it won't be bad company. Find out what God wants of us and then do it. 4. Extra Song: Page 264••What Shall the Harvest Be Classes ADULTS CLASS•• Axel Fors teaching Text and Subject: The Way To Perfection Chapter 12 COMPENDIUM CLASS••Dell Timpson teaching Subject: Discussing of those who do not receive a body a third of the hosts of heaven... " For-ordination and Pre-destination JUNIOR CLASS Sister Cook teaching; Subject: Missionary Experiences Re-Assemble Closing Song: Page 226 That beautiful Land Benediction: John Buchereite

Minutes of Fast Meeting held at the Priesthood Home Sunday, August 6, 1944 Salt Lake City, Utah

President John Y. -Barlow Presided Brother

Joseph W. Musser Conducted 1st Song: ~Earth, With Her Ten Thousand Flowers Prayer: Brother Russell Kunz 2nd Song: "O God Thee Eternal Father" Sacrament administered by Edson Jessop, Herbert Olschewski Clarence Wayman & Don Wayman

Brother Musser:

If we don't have a good time today, it is our own fault. We have a good setting today for a four or five hour meeting and have made a covenant that we will take upon ourselves the name of Christ and always remember Him and keep His commandments. We have friends here from Detroit; Preston, Idaho; Short Creek, Arizona; and Orval Johnson on a health furlough from the South Sea islands; Herbert 0lschewski and many others. We are going to have a good time and if the spirit prompts us to prophecy, sing or talk in tongues, do so. Let's give heed to that spirit and let's don't have any time waste.

Testimonies borne by; Jess Toomey Irene Christiansen related experience of being separated from her sister at the St. Louis Station by a closed gate and compared it to what will happen when we get on the other side when there will be ,a separation between those who live the laws of the Gospel and those who will not., Susie Barlow Herbert Olschewski Edson Jessop Orval Johnson Mareeta Cook

Congregation sang: "Oh, My Father" with Rulon Allred singing melody. Mary Evelyn Allred

Pres. John· Y. Barlow: My brothers and sisters: We are all sitting here wanting the word of God. How many-of us take these things that we are told to heart? We claim that God set apart certain men to see that His laws and His ordinances should remain. Brother Lyman said this-morning they were set apart to see that there never was a time until the coming of the. Savior when children are not born in the Celestial Order. We, but a few of us, have fulfilled some of the instructions given there and the results are that the adversary got stirred up and wanted to stop it. Do we realize that God's great work is to bring to pass the eternal life and immortality of man, and it can't be done without spirits being born upon the earth. Many have merited being able to come through the patriarchal order and are being held back. How many of us are fulfilling that law? How many Latter Day Saints have lived that law? How many have turned and apostatized? We have been told, certain ones of us, to go ahead and see that this principle is kept alive and .if it takes our lives to do this, very well and good. We can't help it. We want to remember the song, "Do what is right, let the Consequence follow." There are some of the brethren who are living this law, and some of them are going still further and living the United Order, and some of them are trying to live it in their families more than they did before. Let me tell you this Priesthood shall not be taken from the earth and be given again. The Priesthood will remain on the earth. It is the fullness of times when all things should be gathered in one and when one man said, in the days of the Nephites they were told they could have but one wife, I say that isn't in our day, it was in the days of the Nephites. For today it was delivered for the last time, never to be taken away or to be given to another people. Everyone of the Presidents, everyone of the brethren who have looked down through the signs of the times has told us that a people would come out of the Church who would live the laws of God and they should be the nucleus of the Millennium. Are we that people? I wonder how many of us think of these things and believe that we are that people? I want to tell you that we are and I want to tell you another thing that a people will come .out of this group and still go on, and some will remain. Some will go on until they reach the place that Heavenly Father wants them to. I know this work is true --I don 't believe it, but know it; and that these brethren here behind me have been called by God by a Prophet as was Aaron, and it will be well for us to take heed to what they say and what they do. I ask God to bless you. I say to rise up and bear your testimony. Every time you bear your testimony regarding the Prophet Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor, or any of the Prophets, your testimony will be that much stronger. God bless you, Amen.

Testimonies borne by Pansy Darger and Fred Cleveland

Brother Rulon C. Allred:

God is going to judge all men by the standard of the laws He has revealed to all men in the Holy Scriptures. out of the books shall the living and the dead be judged. God keeps a record in Heaven, and men make their record in life, and there is hardly a mortal who lives but the details of his life are found in some manner in the records of the sectarian churches and the records of the state or nation in which he lives. God says if we will live His laws and keep His commandments, we will be saved. The greatest sin is the shedding of innocent blood, to take mortal life, to rob man of his measure of existence; and next is that of sexual impurity. I want to dwell upon those two points and apply them to the world and you people today. Lucifer has said he would take the Church today and bind them as if with a flaxen cord so they could be lead carefully to hell and bind them in his awful chains from which there can be no deliverance. What could be worse than shedding innocent blood? The greatest sins are not the sins being punished by the Federal Government or the crimes punished by the state or the nations abroad, but are the sins being enacted and nothing by mortal man or mortal laws is being done about them at all. No hand is raised against these grosser crimes. They are not the sins of the shedding the blood of our fellow men in an open war in defense our homes, our wives, our children or our liberties; because terrible though it is these are not the greatest sins that fall upon the shoulders of mortality today --these greater sins are condoned by all the churches in the earth, including the Church of Latter day Saints. The greatest sin is the shedding of the blood of our little unprotected, unborn children. Next to this sin is the perversion of the sexual act purely for pleasure without being willing to assume the severe responsibilities dependent upon it. When men and women come together as man and wife in the sexual act without any intention of assuming the responsibilities dependent thereon and then when they find a child is conceived they destroy that life, they have violated two of the· greatest laws of God. They have committed two great sins: 1st, they have prostituted-the sexual act for unholy reasons; 2nd, they have shed the innocent blood of their own offspring. The greatest race that lives upon the earth today, the white race, has for generations slowly been committing suicide by interfering with the fountains of life and so popular has that diabolical science become that it is common practice, laughed about and considered smart and the proper thing to do by no less than 75% of the member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. Less than fifty years ago John Taylor said, 'There are those in this nation who seek to direct our affairs and tell us whether we can have more than one wife. They think we are a bunch of fools, but we have the best of them because we know that .they are. They are interfering with the fountains of life and they are killing their unborn children. And· as God lives they shall be damned I have been informed that there are certain of our sisters who are taking up these damnable practices, and I want to warn you that any of the sisters or husbands who encourage these practices among you shall be damned" for God will not tolerate it. You shall be wiped off the face of the earth and destroyed in the eternal worlds if you do these things. Today the art of birth control, the methods of bringing about abortions and destroying that life conceived is so common its training and practice among the Mormon people that it is considered in good taste and I have had women who are otherwise sweet and good come to my office and ask me to take their unborn children from them and when I have told them that I will not lend my hand to the shedding of innocent blood they have been surprised. I have told a good many such cases, I will not help you to destroy your Child, and if I find you have done it I will assist in prosecuting you. I had one such woman come to my office, a Mormon sister. who had deliberately taken the life of her unborn child. I asked her if she was concerned about herself. She said, Never mind about that, what is the situation of such a person? I told her she couldn't stand the answer if I told her. One sister told me that the methods of birth control were taught in the Relief Society and· that 75% of the sisters, by their uplifted hands, sustained and approved of the practice. Do we wonder that the world is ripened in iniquity? The interpretation I have here given is not my own; it was that of the Prophet Joseph. I have felt impressed to talk thus plainly because these things have come to my mind in the last few minutes with a great deal of force. I am confident that there is not a man or a woman within the sound of my voice today who would dare face the vengeance of a Just and an Almighty God by in any way interfering with the fountains of life. But I want to say, as a servant of the Lord, if you do you will be damned, as God lives. When you have no knowledge, then God Judges the heart. but Latter day Saints were taught in these principles from the inception of the Gospel in this dispensation, and any Latter day Saint who does these things has a hard time excusing himself before the Throne of Deity. Therefore. thank God we are free from these grosser sins of the world of today. May God help us to stand out as a light and an example of the truth in all things is my prayer. in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Testimony borne by Brother Alfred Olschewski.

Brother J. W. Musser:

"I think we are pretty well filled today. We have had a great deal of good suggestions given to us and a good deal of sound, solid gospel. If we can go home and seek the power of God to help us put them in practice, we will be benefited. We have a great deal to try our faith at the present time. The news that came last week that Brother Marcus Wayman is missing has unstrung some of the brothers and sisters particularly the immediate family. I want to offer this suggestion, that these boys who are now out are proving before the world and are in the hands of the Lord. The Lord takes those whom He wishes take, and leaves those whom he wants to remain upon the earth. That's His business. I haven't felt have tried to get the Spirit of the Lord and the true situation as it exists --and I haven't been able to bring myself to a feeling that Brother Marcus is not yet alive. But whether alive or not, the Gospel is true. I am well aware of the fact he was promised he would return, but those promises are up to the Lord and the Lord may desire otherwise. The thing that we must prepare ourselves to do is to accept the will of the Lord, no matter what happens. It was a very great shook to the saints in Nauvoo when Joseph and Hyrum were killed, but they couldn't help it. The Lord took them for a purpose. Their mission in mortality had ended and they were taken because they had a greater mission, a great assignment given to them; and some of our sons and. some of our daughters are taken in the same way --some of our little children. I remember Sister Irene t s little child here years ago was taken. There was no reason, no question in the world but what she was taken because Father wanted her. Brother Zitting and others have lost children, and we now wonder why it is that these pure spirits are taken. We might say because they are pure --too pure to remain here. That may be one reason, but it is in the hands of our Father and what He does and what He says and what He directs we should receive with fullness of heart and desire. I want to endorse with all my heart the remarks of Brother Allred with reference to this growing evil. The reason why France was taken away and destroyed as a nation is because of its corruption; and the reason England is being destroyed is because of its corruption; and the reason America is going into dissolution is by reason of its corruption. Killing their unborn babies and enjoying themselves in the pursuits of life while they are doing those things. They can't do that and get by with it. The Lord will curse any nation. I am not upholding Hitler in any manner, but I feel in my heart that he is being used as a battle ax against these corrupt nations that have corrupted themselves in destroying the lives of other people by the millions. There has been no greater destruction that that going on in our nation today. They are teaching it openly. I remember my daughter when she was about to give birth her 8th child and she called in a Relief Society sister to wash and anoint her and this sister said, You have had enough, Mary, and after this one comes I will tell you how to avoid having others. She didn't call that woman in again and is the mother of thirteen children. Our own people are advising those things and that is what is going to bring the judgments of God upon us. The war is soon over as far as Germany is concerned; and then is the great revolution that is coming upon this nation. I can see it crouching upon us like a panther. These great cities are going to be destroyed. The time will came in the lives of most of those here in this room when there will be no responsible head in this Government and the Kingdom of God, the Priesthood of Gad --I don't care whether it's John Y. Barlow or Brother Musser; but the Priesthood of God is going to set up under the direction of the Lord the Kingdom of God; and that will be established in Independence, Missouri, which will be the capitol of this country. These things are coming about in the lifetime of most of us here today. You will live to see it. I may not live to see it, but it is coming; and God's judgments are coming upon this people --upon the Mormon Church and many of them who are in this group who are not standing up to the rack, hay or no bay as Brother Leslie told us, will be among those who are to receive those judgments. Our men will be destroyed through disease and" we will have earthquakes here that will destroy many of our big buildings. These things are before us; and only those who stand in holy places --and how can we stand in holy places? By being holy ourselves. If I am holy and am doing the work of the Lord and living .His laws and keeping His commandments, then I stand in a holy place. I expect some of you brothers and sisters to be called into the Temple one of these days for protection --all who are worthy of it will be called into the Temple for protection while the Judgments are going over this land. Let's take these things seriously. It is up to each one of us to prepare for these great events --for the Kingdom of God is going to be established upon the earth! 'The Kingdom of God or nothing' is our motto. That's why we have come out of the Church. We haven't done it voluntarily but because they have pushed us; but God has done the pushing by permitting us to be pushed in order that we might be tried and tested and set aloof from the Church proper. "May the Lord bless us and help us and prepare us for these great events that are coming! They are not far away. They are coming swiftly. We will hear of other tragedies, some that will make our hearts faint, but God will bless you. I want to say with reference to our patriarchs. Two of the brethren were set apart a while ago to give Blessings. Brother Martin isn't well enough to be out at the present time, as he has a bone infection; but Brother Jeffs is here and I don't believe that we employ him enough. I would like to see him employed more along this line. I know Brother Barlow is busy and Brother Zitting, no doubt. A couple of weeks ago I had approximately nine or ten evening appointments, and I can't make it •. You who feel you would like a patriarchal blessing, go to your patriarch here who has been set apart for that purpose. He is a good man and has that spirit and calling and lives the patriarchal law and is qualified to give those blessings.

Closing Song: "Lord, Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing" Benediction: Brother Herbert Smart

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2157 Lincoln Avenue . August 6, 1944 Preliminary Program

OPEN DAY

1st Song: Page 165 Sunshine in the Soul Invocation: Dell Timpson 2nd Song: Page 224 0 Jesus the Giver of All We Enjoy In Charge: Lyman Jessop Commenting on: .An outing scheduled for Aug. 1.1. 1944 at Rulon C. Allred's place Participations: Recitation: ••Winnie Jessop Speaker••Orville Johnson••home on furlough•• told of experiences in New Zealand. Vocal Duet •• Marilynn Thompson Janice Taylor Speaker••Herbert Olschewski•• related amusing incidents in connection with his army life. Two poems by Connie Timpson Solo••Rulon Allred "My Prayer" ••tune My Rosary. Brother Allred wrote his own words•• accompanied on piano••Myrtle Allred

7Speech: Marilyn Thompson••• "Faith" an interesting treatise on Faith. 8. Speaker•• Edson Jessop of Short Cheek 9. Piano Duet •• Mable & Melba Allred•• arrangement by Beethoven. 10. Brother Dockstader spoke on comparison between the speakers in the church, their spirits, with those in our group who rely on the Lord. 11. Solo••Rulon Jeffs "Going Home" Violinist: Margaret Musser Pianist: Mable Allred 12. Lyman Jessop spoke briefly on Faith and on our hope that Marcus Wayman will return home. 13. John Y Barlow: We should not worship worldly possessions at the ·peril of our salvation. Mind Your Own business and don't fret and worry about other people's families and faults. I am scolding you but I am going to keep on until you turn and serve the Lord.

Closing Song, Page 258 Send The Light Benediction: Ed Christenson

Minutes of the General Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday, August 13, 1944, at 2:00 p.m.

Brother Charles F. Zitting presided and conducted.

1st Song: "0 Say What is Truth" Prayer: Brother Gerhardt Olschewski 2nd Song: "Though Deepening Trials" Brother John Y. Barlow and Brother Joseph W. Musser excused becauseof being out of town.

Brother John Butchereit:

I feel thankful to live in this age, when God has brought me from Babylon to try in my humble way to do His work. Was thankful for the Gospel and having accepted the higher principles which now meant so much in his life. Stressed the importance of having the spirit of God with us. Believed the nucleus of the people predicted coming out of the church were in the audience and desired to be worthy to go on with them.

Brother Fred W. Newbold:

Described recent trip through Utah and Nevada and Arizona and of visiting Short Creek and meeting various of the saints there. Suggested the use of a rock saw to saw rocks to build with. Bore his testimony of the Gospel and stressed the importance of helping one another.

Congregation sang "An Angel From On High" with Jean Darger, Rulon Jeffs and Lyman Jessop singing the verse.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

Whether you feel it or not, this is a terrible responsibility. I feel it in Sunday School and on these occasions. When the saints of God come for spiritual food, they should be fed. The responsibility is yours as well as mine. I have been thinking since Sunday School of a remark of Brother Dell Timpson's. This expression of getting the spirit of God and keeping it' is still a vagary in most of our minds. I would like to see a showing of hands as to how many it is a vagary with? I have thought of it a great deal and have lacked it a great deal. It's like Brother Joseph said last Sunday, the only hedge we need throw up around ourselves and our families is the spirit of God. That's the only way we can stand in holy places, and though the furnace burns it will not consume. That is the only way we will be able to go into the temple, after it has been cleansed, and there find a refuge when the judgments are poured forth. That time is very close at hand. I have reflected of late how near at hand the time is when the Temple shall be cleansed and the Prophet Joseph and Christ shall sit therein to direct the work. I would like to be ready. Not so much when Christ comes, because we will not come until after things are set in order, but I want to be ready-when Joseph comes and have my family ready so he can come and visit and I know I can't get in That condition without having the spirit of God. This morning I didn't kneel down as I usually do and pray for the Lord's help. I always pray that way, but not especially this morning, and I felt it in class. Therefore, the first step, in my feelings, is to pray. Pray alone, go into solitude if necessary. Separate yourselves from the surroundings of the world and plead and beg the Lord for His Spirit. And ask for forgiveness for your sins and imperfections. On many occasions I have only felt to kneel down and ask for forgiveness. That was all I could say, but have felt wonderful afterward Therefore, let us pray for that spirit, first of all. We have to know, first too, whom He is, who 'they' --the Gods --are, and to learn the workings of that spirit. It is in here (pointing to his heart). You have all felt that blank , feeling when you haven't had it. When there's that warm, tender feeling in your bosom and you are contemplating a subject or a decision as to what to do, you will be guided by it. I haven't felt I could take a step forward until I have that feeling of surety, and until I get it I won't step forward in any decision. What is next? I would say to place ourselves in harmony with the Priesthood of God. We, receive light and intelligence that way for the conduct of our families. Light and intelligence are two of the fruits of the spirit. I know when I have felt at 'odds' with any of my leaders I have not had the right spirit for the direction of my family. I haven't felt at 'odds' with these brethren since I had a testimony as to the authority that they hold, and it has been a great source of help to me. And another thing is to study the scriptures. Brother Rulon on one occasion stated that two of the, greatest means of getting that spirit was through prayer and study. Too often is it the case with most of us· that we are not studying the scriptures. Lots of times I find that if I can sit down and in prayerful study seek these things, I can get that spirit. Now about keeping it --here's the rub. First of all, I think we need to find out what causes us to lose it. We lose it when we have fits of temper and arguments in our families and with one another. We must cultivate love in our families and in directing their affairs. Brother Orville and I were discussing at lunch today that one of the greatest reasons we as a family don't have the spirit of God is the fact that we don't get together and have an understanding. Therefore, another means is to get our families together, reason and study and pray and have differences brought out and understood a little open dealing will bring out so many misunderstandings. Let the family know what your desires are in righteousness. Give them the rules in conduct. Counsel together with your wives. They are companions, brethren; and I think we can learn a great deal from our children. Obedience, to me, is the greatest key of all. To know the will of God and then to obey it. Brother Joseph said the way to keep the spirit of God is to obey the Gospel every day of our lives. What do you do to obey the Gospel? I would say, study and pray --and last but not least I would like to mention with regard to our daily lives. Attempt not a single task but what we have a prayer upon our lips and heart. When I go to work to accounting or tax work, I won't give a hang, brethren and sisters, how much I build up anybody else's fortune or anything of the kind, but I do care that I do my job well enough to get the salary I get, which is a means for the Kingdom. can't look at it in any other light. We work out in Babylon. We say, how to keep the spirit of' God in Babylon? We can if we have the aim of getting means for the priesthood. We get a blessing in tithing, but will get a greater blessing in united effort. I want to recommend to you, if you want to have the best of this work for you, don't be content with a mere tithing. You will never be content until you can turn everything in --every cent every pay day and then get back what the Lord wants to give you, according to your needs. We want to get united to have the spirit of God Until we can get united, we can't get the spirit. And if we want to get united I recommend that one single means of getting united in our families and then as a whole. It is easy enough to get these people to go into plural marriage, but as I see it now they are trying with all their might and main in uniting people in an united order, and it can be lived as well here as in Short Creek. A little different way, but it can be lived --even in the midst of Babylon. I used to excuse myself, and am sure most of us have --we can't live that order until something great comes and the wicked are cleared off. But we can live it in our hearts and families and get together and help one another, as Brother Newbold said unite with our temporal means so we can share alike. We can get to the paint where if we sit down to more than Brother Lyman has we will feel guilty. We have got, to get to the point where we are sharing our food and clothing evenly. Some complain they don 't have the law of stewardship in this thing. I can see the stewardship to be in our particular ,job. I going back and forth to work to produce the most funds I can for this effort. That's mine. Brother Rulon is in a different line, but it's his stewardship. The invitation has been given out. Some have complained they have no right to give it out I testify they have the right and are exercising it or else we have nothing. If they haven't the right to' administer the United Order, they haven't the right to administer celestial marriage. Brother Guy and I can say we have never had greater happiness than since we entered into it --and the invitation is still out to all of you. I want to express to you again my love and desire to help this people. I feel very humble and weak among you, and the greatest need of the spirit and blessings of God. My only desire is that nothing should come between me and God in the mission He has cut out for me. That is my job. God has a job for everyone of us, and we should have that spirit that nothing ,would prevent us from fulfilling that job our stewardship. I would hate to meet my judge in the day of judgment and have it said, Rulon you laid down on the job.' That brings me to another theory I had --spiritual laziness is the greatest reason for losing the spirit of God. You have got to be spiritually industrious, as well as temporally industrious. May God help us to accomplish these things. I feel keenly my part in working to unite a people that God can use. May we be ready, as Uncle John has said, for the 'One Mighty and strong' when he comes. Get the Spirit of God around us and keep it --every waking moment of our lives. "God bless you, Amen

Brother Charles F. Zitting:

I feel that we have received some very good instructions this afternoon, and in receiving those instructions are we looking at the other fellow, or are we applying it to ourselves? It reminds me of a picture show I saw once where a man was thought of as being very unloyal to his government. He was spit upon by his friends and loved ones and children and even his wife --and all the time he was a secret service man in the United States and. had to act unloyal in order to get the information for the government. They didn't know how loyal he was until he was dead. Let's apply it to ourselves and not to the other fellow when we get instructions like that. This life is similar to a play where all play different parts; and sometimes the part that looks like a minor one turns out to be the biggest. God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform We should find out from the Lord the part He wants us to do here upon the earth. I have had the spirit many a time, but have held it .back in standing before you and acknowledging the many blessings the Lord has blessed me with. The greatest blessing we have is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and I want to acknowledge the hand of the Lord in that. Other blessings that have come to me are my trials where things seemingly went against me and at the same time it was one of the blessings that really helped to straighten me out and help to get me in the right line. I want to acknowledge the hand of the Lord in everything. He has taken wives and children from me to the other side, and I know that the time will come when I will see that that is a great blessing to my family and to me. I want to acknowledge the hand of the Lord in the work and responsibilities I am under. The load we are all carrying is a blessing to us. I want to acknowledge the hand of the Lord in my family and my wives and children. They have been a great help to me and have tried to encourage me in everything I have done. They have faith in what I have done. I feel that in time their faith will be justified. I want to acknowledge my thankfulness for my friends, for you people, and the temporal things of life. I never get money for food but what I know it is through the blessings of God. I have seen so many times I have been down to my last dollar and didn't know where any more was coming from. I want to acknowledge the hand of the Lord in these trials and arrests and convictions and sentences, and I feel that it is going to come about as a punishment to those who started it. I know for a surety that there won't be a single one serve a day in jail unless it is to further the work of the Lord. That I promise you in the name of Jesus Christ. I want to acknowledge the hand of the Lord in the attorneys we have had and what they have been able to write. It hasn't been their words but the Lord has inspired them in the way they have shaped it The Lord has His hand in all of it. It· is going to come out all right. All we have to do is be faithful to live the Gospel and go on. May we all go on and do that is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ Amen .

Brother Lyman Jessop:

We don't realize the responsibilities and the result of our acts. ---There are remarkable symbols in life. We plant a seed in somebody's heart and it remains to be seen whether that is a fertile spot or whether it is a spot that will produce quick growth with not very much depth of soil; it may grow and flourish for a while and maybe only a short while and then maybe that seed will bloom throughout eternity. I see some in our group which I know positively are of that latter variety. I have seen some which I know are of the other variety which rise up and flourish and bloom and show great promise only for a short time and then fade out of the picture, and there I see the symbols of life. Every person that I know about in life has run across some difficulty in life that is like the weeds of the gardens. Brother Zitting says he acknowledges the hand of God in all things that surround him. That is truly the situation. We can view the trials that come as a means of stirring us up, and if the depth of the soil is deep, that cultivation and that stirring up of the soil will remove some of the weeds from around us. There is a science in all these things, that our individual plants require a certain amount of room, and we have to uproot the weeds and give them more room. That is true, to a certain extent, with the rearing of families. We need a certain amount of room, and some of us might be too crowded to accomplish the most good. Men I have worked with who have heard of my large family have said, 'You are crazy, you haven't got room, time to spend with them individually, haven't got what it takes to properly take care of them. And that is true to a certain extent, but there is a balance, again. Many times I have spoken to you people of balance, and that is a constant thing. I find myself getting over-balanced in experience, ideas and thought and have to be brought back by the pendulum of time or condition to an upright position again. And so do you. You find weeds in your life that have to be pulled out. Next compared irrigation as a symbol and spoke of the parable of the wheat and the tares

Song: "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow" Benediction: Rulon C. Allred (remembering Edith Jessop particularly) My Allred.

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2157 Lincoln Avenue August 13. 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 200 Proud Of Our Home In the Mountains Invocation: Clarence Wayman 2nd Song: Page 273 Through Deepening Trials In Charge: Guy Musser Participations : 1. Brother Gertsen treating the slogan. "The Kingdom Of God Or Nothing" Related his desire to stay in the church as the best means of doing good. Bore his testimony as to the fullness of the Gospel. 2. Quartet: Lyman & Edson Jessop, Dell Timpson &Rulon Jeffs "See the Mighty Angel Flying"

Classes ADULTS CLASS Rulon Allred teaching. Subject: Can a man with his mortal body: spirit act as an agent unto himself without the influence of one of two influences either good or evil•• Decided they are always present but man as an agent must choose between "the two Text: D & C 58 Section 29 Section" Page 187 Teachings of the Prophet Joseph COMPENDIUM CLASS. Dell Timpson teaching subject: For-ordination and Election JUNIOR CLASS Sister Cook teaching Subject: Missionary experiences of George Q Cannon and others Re-Assembly . Closing Song: P. I Know that My Redeemer Lives Benediction:-Orville Johnson

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2157 Lincoln Avenue .August 20, 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 118 Do What Is Right Invocation: George Kalmer 2nd Song: Page 248 My Father Knows In Charge: Lyman Jessop Participations: 1 Remarks by Ianthus Barlow•. Faith promoting incident relating to Patriarch Bridges and how he came to work in the Temple 2Solo: Joe Barlow, "Out on the Deep" 3John Y Barlow spoke briefly, "There is one thing about Short Creek. If they don't raise anything else they will raise Latter Day Saints. .

C1asses ADULTS CLASS: Axel Fors teaching Subject: How and where man learned to speak and how he learned to use his vocal chords. COMPENDIUM CIASS Dell Timpson teaching Subject: Free Agency discussed JUNIOR CLASS •• Sister Cook teaching Subject~: Missionary Experiences Re-Assembly Closing Song P. 256 Sometime, Somewhere Benediction: Edson Jessop

Minutes of the General Meeting conducted Sunday, August 27, 1944, at 2:00 p.m. at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln street, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Brother J. W. Musser Presided

Brother Chas. F. Zitting conducted

1st Song: "Israel, Israel, God Is Calling" Prayer: Brother John Smith 2nd Song: "Guide Us, 0 Thou Great Jehovah"

Brother Alfred Olschewski:

What is our part in this work, and what are we doing about it? Maybe we like to study the prophecies. I arrived at one conclusion, that all these things couldn't help me at all to raise my family and give unto them that which they need. Told story of an example set by a father to his son, and stressed the importance of the kind of examples we set for our children to follow, and to teach them the importance of humility. Mentioned learning in Sunday School that if a man desires to become a husband, he should be willing to place all, even his life, upon the altar stressed our dedicating all we have which the Father gave us including our bodies which were given to us that we might overcome them upon the altar and not excuse ourselves because we are mortals.

Brother Mondfranz:

Bore his testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel. Told of being the only one of a family of seven to join the Church and of laboring for the past twenty years with the rest of his family and village to join the Church and come out of Babylon as the judgments were coming, but they did not heed the call and were now trapped there by the war.

Piano Solo, "Liebestraum" played by Marie Broadbent

Brother David W. Jeffs:

Mentioned Conspiracy charges against 34 defendants and that a movement was under foot to thwart the opposite side of truth. Quoted from Joseph F. Smith, Page 172 of Gospel Doctrine, and applied it to the present conduct of our people today, to prosecute the faithful ones, who are endeavoring to live the fullness of the Gospel and observed that keys of eternal increase are predicated upon the patriarchal order of marriage when received and approved of our Father in Heaven, as covenanted by Abraham; and unless they live-the laws as Jesus Christ lived them they will never go where Christ is. Gave some missionary experiences to bear upon ~Getting ~he Spirit of God and keeping it. As Christ prayed to be "One with the Father," so this group is trying. to become united. When the time comes for additional members to be selected to add to the Priesthood Council, it will be done through the direction of God. Explained that the meek of the earth" are those who have been purified" sanctified and they will be the ones who will go back to build up Jackson County, Missouri. There will be a lot of us left behind. Mentioned our boys being called into military service and the promise that their lives would be spared if they would remain faithful and true.

Brother J. W. Musser

Seven million women can't get men. Someone sent that in from the mission field the other day. Brother Duane Gee sent it in. There will be seven million before this thing is over who want husbands and before it is over they will be mighty glad to get husbands --even a 7th part of one. But they have got to be purified and washed clean by the Gospel of Jesus Christ" --purified and glorified, and then shall the daughters of Israel become glorified It is coming and not very far off, my brethren and sisters. These things are converging to a point now very "rapidly. And it won't be, long before the Ten Lost Tribes will come down here. The Lord led them away. He said, I have hid them up; and it won't be long for those men have left this earth, this mortality, and are getting them ready to make that great trek down into the land of Joseph where they will receive their blessings and washings and anointing at the hands of Ephraim. Ephraim is getting ready to perform that labor. It will be a glorious labor. And then those who belong to the Old Jerusalem will go back there and those who belong here will stay here and the New Jerusalem will be built here and the Kingdom of God set up in perfect operation. This country is going to lose its political head, and the Kingdom has got to take hold of the constitution and flag of the country. Those things are in the very near future. So near we can't realize how close it is. If we knew how close it is, we wouldn't be able to stand because we would be frightened; but the Lord is blessing the people and preparing them for this great work. We have been asked time and time again how to get the spirit of the Lord. Brother Jeffs spoke of it today --and keep it. There is only one very definite way to get the spirit of the Lord, and that is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, might, mind and strength, etc., and love your neighbor as yourself. Anybody who does that will get the spirit of the Lord, and upon that hangs all the law and the testimony. Honor the Lord thy God and love your neighbor as yourself. When we accept that, we will have the Spirit of the Lord. Then how shall we keep it? By keeping on honoring the Lord and loving our neighbor as ourselves. That's all there is to it simple as 'a.b.c.' but in order to accept it we have got to do away with tradition, do away with jealousy, overcome selfishness. You have got to be willing, you womenfolk, to share your husband with other good women and be willing that they shall be exalted as well as you. You men with all the burdens that are upon you (and some of you are breaking your backs with these burdens, they are almost killing you) you men have got to brace up and take upon yourselves that responsibility of bring salvation and exaltation to the daughters of Zion. This isn't a matter of 'puppy love' but of living the laws of Jesus Christ, that we might obtain a fullness of life Why is it that the devil is after us at the present time? The devil knows that the only way he can attack us and destroy us, destroy our power is to prevent us from having eternal lives --that is, in other words, prevent us from bringing eternal offspring into the world. That's all there is to it. If we don't bring eternal increase into the world we have no kingdom by Father and if we have no kingdom we fail. The 144,000 who were set apart by Father before we came here --not one o£ them can ever be exalted unless they have a Kingdom How are we to become Kings? Unless we have eternal lives given to us? It is necessary, and that is just what the devil is trying to defy in us at the present time. If he can do away with this principle of celestial marriage, he can defy this principle of the Lord and can see that not a person that has overcome here upon the earth will have a kingdom if he can prevent them from having an issue, eternal lives. And that is his business. He is industrious and faithful; be is true to his mission, and that is his mission. I sometimes think we blame the devil too much; we blaspheme him too much. He has a mission to perform. He is fulfilling it, and it is just as important to have a devil as it is a Christ. We couldn't have a Christ without a devil. Christ wouldn't become a Christ if it hadn't been for Lucifer's fall. He is doing his work admirably. If I can stand up under the pressure he is bringing to bear upon me, the Devil will help me to exalt me. He will make it possible. So I shouldn't feel badly about it. I should praise him and I should thank God that there is a devil and I am subject to his pranks, powers, etc., in my mortality. On the other hand, I have the Gospel, and I know if I live the Gospel that the devil can have no power over me. I know if I am true and faithful in this life the Devil can't reach me at all and will fail as far as I am concerned. So we should thank the Lord for this great element he has made that gives us salvation and exaltation. Now, my brethren and sisters, you are going to be up before the courts again in a little while, and it is up to the Lord to take care of the situation as He sees fit. It is up to us to be justified in our actions and to be sanctified in our work, to serve the Lord and keep His commandments. We know how to get the Spirit of the Lord and how to keep it, and it is up to us to get that spirit and to keep it. Everyone o£ us who have been baptized have had the gift of the Holy Ghost conferred upon us everyone of you. Now that gift is going to operate with us in proportion as we keep the commandments of the Lord. And what is that Gift for? Nobody knows and nobody can say that Jesus is the Lord except by the Holy Ghost. If Christ were to come in this house today, we would see him and we might be introduced to him and there is not a man or a woman here who could say he is the Son of the Living God and the Christ, the Savior of the World, except the Holy Ghost bore that testimony to us. The Holy Ghost is to bare testimony to what has been said today as being truth. We want to know whether this is true or not. Whether the Priesthood Council is properly called, etc. No power on earth can convince you of that. Nothing but the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost has been conferred upon us and we have it and it is our right to enjoy its fruits and to live in such a manner that we will be led day by day, foot by foot, inch by inch under that great power; all of us, to get it. It doesn't belong to me; it doesn't belong to Brother Barlow, to the Church, to Brother Grant. All of us can have the Gift of the Holy Ghost and the gifts we need at any time if we will just live the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. I think we have had enough today. Let us remember these things we have heard today. Let's don't glorify ourselves because we are human. If we weren't human we couldn't go on and be exalted. Let us not glorify ourselves because we have weaknesses. Let us overcome our weaknesses and live in accordance with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us shame our prosecutors. Let us be a living testimony to them that we are living according to the light of heaven. There-are a great many Gentile people who are a little more tolerant, friendly, to us; desirous that we be vindicated than our brethren in the Church. Let us show them by our lives, by our works, by our tolerance, by our willingness to take prosecution, that we are following in the footsteps of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We can't expect anything else than those things we are getting if we are true to the Lord Why can't we go back to Jackson County without living a celestial law? Because when we go back and we are going to build a Celestial City to build a temple which is celestial .--and people who are not willing to live a celestial law can't build a celestial city. And so we have to live that law. Nobody will be called to go back there until they have been "chosen" and learned to live that celestial law --the law of the Heavens --the law that God lives --and the law that Christ and all the patriarchs have lived up to the present time. That is a celestial law of God and is the only way that we, as Brother Jeffs quoted, we can get back to Jackson County and is the only way we can get back into the presence of God the Father and Christ, His son get back into the presence of our glorious Mother. God bless us and help us to learn to live those two great commandments --honor the Lord your God with all your heart and learn to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Closing Song: "Come, Let us Anew" Benediction: Brother Ed. Christiansen.

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2151 Lincoln Avenue August 21. 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 46 Love At Home Invocation: Arnold Boss 2nd .Song: Page 246 Truth Reflects Upon Our Senses I In Charge: Lyman Jessop Commenting on: The Kingdom of God Or Nothing" and how necessary it is to have the Spirit of God. Participations 1. Russell Kunz spoke briefly on current events and how things are coming about. Read from Section 122 of D &: C. "If it takes the sacrifice of all things to enable us to acquire the faith' necessary to obtain Eternal Life why should we shrink from the test. 2. Duet Gwen and La Verne Barlow sang. "Living for Jesus" accompanied by Esther Barlow 3. Piano Solo: Fay Chapman

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ADULT CLASS Rulon Jeffs teaching Subject: Ancient Books of Remembrance Text:-Chapter 12 The Way To Perfection COMPENDIUM CLASS •••Dell Timpson teaching subject: The difference between the Holy Ghost and the Gift of the Holy Ghost. JUNIOR CLASS : Sister Cook teaching subjects Missionary Experiences of George Q Cannon Re-Assembly Closing Song: P. 103 Abide With Me Benediction: David Jeffs

MINUTES

Sacrament Meeting held at 2157 Lincoln St. Salt Lake City, Sunday, September 3, 1944, at 2:00

President John Y. Barlow presided and conducted..

1st Song: "Redeemer of Israel" Prayer: Brother Ernest Williams 2nd .Song: "Behold the Great Redeemer Died" Sacrament administered by Arnold Boss and Guy Musser, assisted by Blaine Thompson and Ed Christensen.

Remarks by Brother Barlow:

All defendants in the conspiracy cases are expected to be in court. We have come again to fast day; it is considered to be your day. We hope those here will bear their testimonies. We would like the young people to get up and bear their testimonies of the Goodness of the Lord. We now turn the meeting over to you.

Testimonies borne by: Marvin Zitting, Ed Christensen, Lyman Jessop,? James Athay, Herbert Smart, Fred Cleveland

Song: "The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning"

Brother Jos. W. Musser:

Dear brothers and sisters, I have a very definite testimony of the truth of this work. I feel very much moved. today in my feelings, but I know that God lives; I know that He is with us and I know He is moving upon the minds of men preparing them to help push His walk along. We get numerous letters from strangers encouraging us, sending contributions to help with the fight we are engaged in there offering suggestions that they figure might help to better entrench us in the principles that we are advocating. The other day I received a letter from a party in New York He addressed himself as a Presbyterian; he has written a thousand word thesis on the principle that we are engaged in and he states that polygamy is legal in the sight of God However, he is trying to get around the name of polygamy, and he has asked the privilege of submitting the manuscript to us and getting our reactions. He thinks he has something that the legislature will pass and put in the law that will protect the brothers and sisters in living their religion. This is one thing that is being put forth by strangers--men belonging to other religions yet they are impressed with the law that we are trying to live. A party in Boston, Massachusetts, sent a letter to the head of the Truth Magazine, c/o Mormon Temple, and it came here. The Lord works upon the minds of individuals. There are a great many righteous men in the earth, men who are trying to serve the Lord and· keep his commandments. I recall my father telling me when twenty-five men were sent to India, China and various oriental countries on missions. They, upon arriving at San Francisco, needed $6,000. They tried to get it together. A man came to them and said he had been sent there with $6,000 to give to these missionaries to send them on their missions. Now the Lord worked upon his mind and sent him to those missionaries. We have other men today who are righteous and who are taking a hand in these matters. The Lord works upon certain principles and He opens up the way for that advocacy. When the Lord wanted to gather the Saints to this country, He gathered them out from different countries and impressed these men with the spirit of government--they had been governed by kings and dictators, etc. But the Lord knew when He wanted to establish His church and He had to have men who were free. So He impressed the minds of men like Washington, Jefferson, etc., with the government of freedom; and out of that came the Government of the United States--freedom of thought, religion, etc.--that religious right protects the Jew, Gentile, etc., so long as these men are under the protection of the Constitution, so long as they do not infringe upon the rights of other men. And after that Constitution was accepted by these people and that great government was established then the Lord knew that it was time to establish His church upon the earth. Joseph Smith was raised up to establish that Church and he was set apart before he came here. The work has gone on. They could not establish the fullness of the Gospel in Kirtland. Although we had freedom, the Saints and the people would not let it be established. The Lord gave the entire picture to Joseph. The Saints failed in the attempt. They went to Nauvoo and built a temple and at that time they were not able to establish that principle. The only marriage that will take us back into the presence. of Father was hinted at and a mobocracy was stirred up and the Saints had to come out here. The Lord brought them out here that they might be prepared to establish that law. The Lord does not change the minds of men by force. The Gospel is free and their agency is free; so He brought them here. They wanted to go on to California, but the Lord said if they went there they would go crazy, and told them to stay here in this God-forsaken desert country; stay here where they could live their religion, and grow up in the great shadows of these mountains. While they were here they established that higher law of the Gospel, but the Saints have not been able to live at it here. It is a little nucleus group that is living at this law that has come out of the Church. Some are trying to live at the Order of Enoch; we are all trying to live the law of baptism, the law of loving your neighbor as yourselves, etc.--you people, another bunch down south, and in Idaho and Nevada, and a few throughout the United States. Now the Lord is going to take this group of people, those who remain faithful, and start than back to Jackson County, after He cleans up that country, to establish that law and build a Celestial city; and in order to build a Celestial city, we have got to live a Celestial law. It is a law that pertains to the Celestial Kingdom of God where God lives and Joseph Smith and others of this dispensation will reside after they finish their work. Now; brothers and sisters, this work is worth putting our minds and efforts to. We cannot fail. I have an extract given in 1882 by John Taylor, "In regard. to our religion or our eternal covenants, we have no compromise to make, nor principles to barter away; (same were willing in that day to barter away this principle just for statehood in this government of ours) they emanated from God,--- and they will live and exist when Empires, powers and nations have crumbled and decayed; and with the help of the Almighty we will regard them sacredly, etc." Nothing could un-daunt these men. The Lord. was working upon them and is working upon some men in our day whereby this principle can go on and we can live Godly lives. May the Lord bless those people. I want to advise you as Saints to pray for our lawyers and the courts that the Lord will inspire the judges, the supreme judges of this State, the district judges, those in St. George and in Denver, Who are sitting upon our cases there; to ask the Lord to bless them and inspire their minds and give them the milk of human kindness. That is what the Lord wants us to pray for--these men, our leaders in the Church that they might repent and get back, if possible; and if not possible, that they will be removed. These are some of my feelings. I ask the Lord to bless you with the firmness that John Taylor had and that Joseph had when he was martyred. I pray for this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Testimonies by: Laura Zitting, John Butchereit

Brother John Y. Barlow:

I have been greatly interested in the remarks of the day. Let us keep the commandments of God. Let us go home and pray. How many of us have family prayers night and morning? We have been promised that if we will pray night and morning we will never apostatize. Let us keep the commandments of God. Trials are coming on again. Let us roll up our coat collars and go on. There is not one principle that can be done away. All principles have come through direct revelation from God. We are living them because God has commanded it. Closing Song: "God Be With You" Benediction: Brother LJAllred

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2157 Lincoln Avenue September 3, 1944 Preliminary Program Open Sunday 1st Song; page 130, "We are all Enlisted" Invocations; Bro Ruff. 2nd Song: Page 264 What Shall The Harvest Be In Charge Guy Musser Commenting on: Those holding the keys; these brothers hold a higher calling and a higher Apostleship than any of the· brethren in the church Participations: A Missionary Experience of Lorenzo Snow to the Sandwich Island by Louise Jessop Piano Solo "The Waltz You Get," by .Annamarie Anderson Speaker••Charles Zitting treated our slogan The Kingdom of God Or Nothing. Read a letter from his sister in the Hawaiian Islands, July 18. His analysis of the attitude of outside people with regard to this people Recitation•••" A Friend" by Martha Doelling Duet. Before the Master passeth" Sisters- Lucy Musser &: Anna Broadbent Recitation:" "True Riches" by Ruth Jessop Rulon Allred spoke on the pending trials in the Courts of (Justice?) Also touched on how thankful we should be for our blessings. Did you ever see a bad spirit with a smiling cheerful countenance? 8. Piano Duet: ••Maria and .Anna Broadbent 9. John Y Barlow spoke 10. Joseph Musser spoke I believe I can testify that Brother Barlow will never give up and lose his testimony. 11 Lyman Jessop spoke and related how he appreciated his associations with his brethren Closing Song: Page 13 Behold T'is Eventide Benediction: Marita Cook

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Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 10,1944 at 2:00 p.m.

President John Y. Barlow presided.

Brother Joseph W. Musser conducted.

1st Song: "Come Listen-to a Prophet's Voice" Prayer: Brother Paul Walters 2nd Song: "Ye Wandering Nations Now Give Ear"

Announcement: (by Brother Musser) Sister Holm is being buried today. She has been ill for some time and she was a very fine Latter Day Saint and is now called. home, and the Lord has released her. Sister. Ingram who had a stroke some time ago is now feeling better and writes to the Saints to thank them for their prayers.

Brother A. Reidl

was the first speaker and he said how good it was to be back here again for a week or two and that the Lord was instrumental in his going to Short Creek; that the Lord knows his mission and he is thankful for the Gospel. He said he hoped we will have the spirit of the Lord with us and that we will live up to the requirements of the Lord.

Brother Axel Fors was called upon to speak second and he referred to the second song that was sung--the principle of gathering. He said that we are trying to live the Order of Enoch, and in trying to live that we can live the principle of gathering; at Short Creek they have gathered together, and are helping each other. In the city here we are miles apart but if we would gather together, even if we had to live in tents, we would be blessed. He spoke of when he worked in a mine and some of the men and their families lived in tents and their children did not even have colds and it was zero weather. He said we could have electric lights in our tents and many conveniences that they do not cave at Short Creek; here we are slaves to the other fellow if this people would gather together and try to pay off the property in the hands of this people they would be blessed. Independence would come and we would not have to bow to the government for help and sustenance transportation could be saved by such a movement. Are we willing to sacrifice? He asked the Lord to bless us that we will see the opportunities at our doors and take advantage of them and be the people the Lord wants us to be; remember this, that if we are not equal in temporal things, we cannot be equal in spiritual things.

Brother Otto Olschewski,

the next speaker, spoke of how the polygamists seems to have to suffer poverty more than anyone else; of his experiences since he has been in Salt Lake City of the reactions of people to each other; how people long for something far better in enjoyment. He said that he has the longing to enjoy constitutional liberties that we should enjoy. Where is the high standard of living--religiously, civilly, financially? It is our aim here on earth to become equal financially, religiously, and spiritually; we are judged by our actions and not by our words. He said if we will learn the wisdom that we should have and a.be trying to embrace, we will always be on the safe side.

Brother D. W. Jeffs:

I can say this afternoon that this is a surprise. I have nothing in particular on my mind except that in my silent moment s I try to improve myself. There is a deep meaning to ''multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it." When Michael, our Father and God, and Eve, one of His wives, came down from their mansions of glory to bear a cross, they did it for each of the numerous spirits that they might receive a body. We came here as little infants with all our knowledge taken from us that we might learn the celestial laws of heaven. That way was prepared by our Father Adam, and Mother, Eve, or we would not have come to this earth. Jedediah M. Grant said, "The spirit in our bodies came to this earth by the appointment of our Father and. by our own selection. It was a stewardship and it depended upon That action in stewardship what would be done in. the actions of our bodies. I think of divine motherhood, as our Mother, Eve, brought to this earth, yet we do not know our former lives. These are a few of the thoughts that have been going through my mind in recent days. In regard to the subject that Brother Fors spoke of, as to the united effort--it is not the law of United Order, but when it comes in that order, it will not rob us of our individuality. I want to read something from a discourse delivered by Brigham Young at the opening of the new Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, April 6, 1852, taken ,from the Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1, p. 202 & 203: "What hinders this people from being, as holy as the Church of Enoch? I can tell you the reason in a few words. It is because you will not cultivate the disposition to be so--this comprehends the whole. If my heart is not fully given up to this work, I will give my time, my talents, my hands and, my possessions to it, until my heart consents to be subject; I will make my hands labor in the cause of God until my heart bows in submission to it. The Lord God Almighty has set up a kingdom that will sway the scepter of power and authority over all the kingdoms of the world, and will never be destroyed, it is the kingdom that Daniel saw and wrote of--- If such is your wish, identify your own individual interest in it, and tie yourselves thereto by every means in your power. Let every man and every woman do this, and then be willing to make every sacrifice the Lord may require; and when they have bound up their affections, time, and talents, with all they have, to the interest of the kingdom, then have they gained the victory, and their work is complete, so far as they understand If this people would take that course, what hinders their being in the millennium?--- The millennium consists in this--every heart in the Church and Kingdom of God being united in one; the Kingdom increasing to the overcoming of everything opposed to the economy of heaven, and Satan being bound, and having a seal set upon him. ----- If the people will not serve the devil another moment whilst they live, if this congregation is possessed of that spirit and resolution, here in this house is the Millennium ----- Let the whole people of the United states be possessed of that spirit, and here is the Millennium, and so will it spread over all the world. I sometimes wonder how many of us will willing submit to those things. One of the things that is foremost in my mind is to build up the Kingdom of God. There is one thing that I would like to refer to--these brothers and sisters who are indicted. The law says they have been convicted, but no they are not. In going into these things with the attorneys I discovered the fact that God has been fighting a battle with these people on the other side, against the lies and influence of the government and the State. I am very thankful that I have been associated with this group of people. There is a great responsibility placed upon this people and if we do not live up to it and do not follow out the lines that have been given us--to keep the commandments of God--what will become of us? I pray the Lard will be with us and direct us and direct us to teach these little children, that we might eventually receive exaltation, in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Song: "The Earth Is Shrouded Deep In Gloom"

Brother Charles. F. Zitting:

I do not know whether I did the right thing today or not; turned to a passage in the Doctrine and Covenants in case I was called upon. But what I say, I pray the Lord will bless me. I agree with what Brother Fors said wholeheartedly. The time is right at our doors when we must acquire all the land we can. This land will be worth thousands of dollars an acre. We should get a piece of land and cherish it. I was reading an article about the Jews redeeming Palestine. The temperature there reaches 160% and they are taking land that is 17% salt. Not a blade of grass will grow and they are pumping the sweet water of the Jordan to the land and washing it 80 times within 10 days. At the end of 10 days that land will produce ten times as many tomatoes as the best land of Palestine. That sub-soil is not like the soil here, it is fine and not rocky. That land where Brother Ianthus Barlow lives is some of the best soil in the valley. At the time I dedicated his house I was impressed to dedicate the west half of the Salt Lake Valley, and I was impressed to prophesy that within 2 years that that land would be built up. It was within the next year that the arms plant was started. The Jordan River runs through that west half of the valley and it is emptying into the Great Salt Lake and carrying the soil. That land of Ianthus' produced corn that grows above my head, carrots as big around as my arm. That land you can buy for taxes. There are acres and acres of this level land, and you can take either the canal or the surplus water from the Jordan River to irrigate it. Some of the brethren said it would take $250 an acre to put it in shape. There are literally thousands acres west of Brother Doelling's that will grow wonderful, crops. You can get that land and be glad that you got something. Some of the Saints are going to get some, but not all of them, and it will produce. I took some of the boys out where they were digging a basement, and in five feet they struck water. I think we should take advantage of this land because this valley is our home. It is just as much ours as Palestine is the Jews. When Brother Joseph dedicated Brother Allred's home he promised him that that would be his inheritance and some of his family would be called to go to Jackson County and some of the faithful would stay and keep it up. I want you to know' about this land on the west side of the valley, and don't ever say I didn't tell you about it. (He then referred to the Doctrine and Covenant s, Sec. 101: 79-90, concerning what Brother Fors said about our being in bondage.) One day when we were in jail, Brother Cleveland was pacing the floor and I made an effort to find out what he was thinking about. He said,. Isn't this the fight of the Gospel of the Kingdom?" And it is. We know that it is going on today and it is being ruled over by two great High Priests. Yes, it is the fight of the Kingdom, and some of the greatest men of the earth are fighting for that Kingdom today. Some ask when the work of the Kingdom will begin. I will read a few verses of the Doctrine and. Covenants, Sec. 101:76-95: "And again I say unto you, those who have been scattered by their enemies, it is my will that they should continue to importune for redress, and redemption, by the hands of those who are placed. as rulers and are in authority over you--according to the laws and constitution of the people, which I have suffered to be established, etc." So there is where the kingdom will take hold. It make s us stronger to fight. When the hand of God comes down upon this kingdom, the kingdom will grow strong and it will take hold of this world That is my testimony to you in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

We have had quite a variety today. I feel that this finger of scorn being pointed toward us does not amount to much. It is like the Swede who was called all the bad names that could be thought of and they asked. him what was the matter and he said I have been a Swede all the time. That is the same thing that is the matter with us. What I want to know is who many of us are keeping humble? How many are asking the Lord to help us? That is the thing that is worrying me more than anything else. The Lord showed me that if we would be humble and prayerful and exercise faith enough the door will be opened for us. And it will, if we are prayerful and humble enough. If we are not, we will have to be buffeted until we do get humble. Yes, we are a few people being cast out. What does the Lord say about it? Who shall gain in the end? Nearly every prophet has told us that a people would come out of the Church, a people that would live all the laws. Brothers and sisters, we have got to live all the laws. We talk about the united order, and we will have to 1ive it. The Lord said that Zion would not be redeemed until we do. We hear some say that you haven't the right to do this and that. If the brethren hold the keys of the Holy Priesthood, then they have a right to all of them. If they hold the keys of Elijah it gives them the right to administer in all the ordinances of the Priesthood. We enter the Kingdom of God the moment we are baptized. Faith gives us the power to become citizens of the Kingdom. Then you go in order from one step to the other. There is order in the Priesthood. We may have the priesthood conferred upon us and stop there, but it gives us the right to go on up. We learned of the Sanhedrin and how things are going to come. If you give your who1e heart and soul to these things, we could tell you what is going to come. If God orders us to go to jail, He will put us there if He does not want us there, he will not put us there. There is not a man in that group that was arrested that is not worthy of the blessings that would be in store for him. A. newspaper man asked if it would stop this principle if they jailed us. I told him no it would not stop it. He asked what would become of our wives and children and I told him that I was not afraid of that, the Lord will care for them. What would happen to us? Why, the wives and daughters would all go to work and keep going just the same That would not stop us. God's work is going on. Whether we keep up with it or not, it will go on just the same. I wonder why they do not go after some of the other groups. Because they know where the Priesthood is and are fighting it. If we are prayerful and humble, God will come out of His hiding place and protect us. President Kimball said that if this people do not keep the commandments of God their enemies will weep tor them. .Are we going to be numbered among them? As Brother Fors said, if we will work together and get so we love our neighbor as ourselves, we would be a wonderful people. God has given us a chance and everyone of us has his agency; God has not taken that away yet. I have seen certain individuals in this group arise and come up and up. I know I know the heart of Brother Joseph I know he will stand and rise up to the rack. I know the hearts of a good many more men. Their hearts will stand right up to it. I believe that if Brother Joseph knew he was going to be killed the next minute, he would not falter an instant. he does not care about this life; he is working for an exaltation in the Kingdom of God and he will get it. I can pick out a number of others that are going to keep going and going. There are some of these sisters here and many of these people in this congregation today will be caught in the air when the time comes; and that is our right and privilege if we are faithful and true. God gives us our agency if we keep His laws. One man told me we do not believe in predestination. Yes we do! The laws are pre-destined; they are just the same as they were in the time of Adam, and in the worlds before ours. There are fathers for many, many worlds above that have taught the same laws that you are being taught here today. And they are going to keep creating worlds. We are a long way down the line in creating worlds and people. The purpose of the laws of God is to bring about the immortality and eternal lives of man. Let us be humble and prayerful let us go home and ask the Lord to bless our attorneys and judges in the supreme court and otherwise, that they will let the work of the Lord go on. They cannot prevent it, but they can hinder it. I do not mind a good enemy, but I am afraid of our friends. That is what Joseph once said too. Stories start and grow and grow. (Here he told the story of the crow). Do you not think the same cause always produces the same effect? (Here he spoke of the days of the Savior's crucifixion.) Let us find out what is right. Blessed are you when men persecute you and say all manner of evil against you. I do not wish to take up any more of your time. .All I ask you to do is to be humble and prayerful and find out these things for yourselves. Above all, study the things that will save your soul. God bless you, Amen.

Brother Jos. W. Musser: Speaking about scattering rumors--one of our attorneys called me the other morning. He asked me if I read in the paper the other night about some of these F.B.I. men finding some whiskey in one of the homes of these men in our group. I told him he was crazy and to go look at the paper for himself (for the elevator girl had told him about it). Later he called back and said that liquor incident referred to the old Aimes case. I do not know where that story given by the elevator girl would go if I did not stop it there.

Closing Song: "Lord Dismiss Us" 'Benediction:' Brother Otto Olschewski (Sen.) LJ'.Allred.

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2157 Linoo1n Avenue September 10, 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 118 Do What Is Right, Invocation: Arnold Boss 2nd Song: Page 119 Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken In Charge: In Charge: Lyman Jessop Commenting on: Baptism service will be held Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock at Louis Kelch's home. Participations: Joseph Blaine Thompson treating the subject, "The Kingdom OF God Or Nothing" See Ye first the Kingdom of God In All Righteousness 2. Recitation: "Nothing To Laugh At ••Edgar A Guest ••• by Edith Jessop 3. Slogan, "The Kingdom Of God Or Nothing" Aunt Susie

Classes ADULTS CLASS•••,Axel Fors teaching Text &Subject; The 'Way To Perfection COMPENDIUM CLASS••Dell Timpson Subject: The Holy Ghost &the Holy Ghost (spirit) JUNIOR CLASS•••Sister Cook Subject; Mission~ experiences of George Q Cannon

Re-Assemble Closing Song: Page 288 Jesus The Very Thought Of Thee Benediction: Clarence Wayman

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2151 Lincoln Avenue September 11. 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 145 Children Of the Saints of Zion Invocation: Roy Madsen 2nd Song: Page 144 Kind &: Heavenly Father In charge; Guy Musser Commenting on: We are a peculiar people and we are distinguished from other people by the. fact that 'We love the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we live it. Participations: 1. Chorus of Girls from the South Lucy Barlow Daisy Mae Lindgren Ailene Jessop Ruth Jessop Yvonne Dockstader--accompanied on piano by Esther Barlow

2. Speaker, John Y Barlow:. We are not going to call you . We have given you a chance to enter into this law if you wanted to Now it is up to you. Classes ADULTS CLASS ••Rulon Jeffs teaching: Subject: Events that face us in the near future and how we as saints are preparing for that which faces us in the near future. COMPENDIUM CLASS•••Dell Timpson teaching JUNIOR CLASS •• Lillian Morrison teaching Re-Assembly -Closing Song: Page 38 Parting Hymn Benediction: Don Wayman

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2157 Lincoln Ave. October 1, 1944 Preliminary Program

OPEN SUNDAY

1st Song: Page 231 Redeemer of Israel Invocation: Otto H Olschewski 2nd Songs Page 272 Before the Lord I Bow My Head In Charge: Guy Musser ·Participations 1. Lucy Barlow spoke on the slogan, "The Kingdom of God Or Nothing" . 2. vocal due~••Leona and Melba Allred, "Jesus Lover or My Soul" accompanied by Mabel Allred Piano solo••Annamarie Anderson "Roses are blooming in Picadilly Recitation•• "aln't he oute" Johnny Barlow Solo, "The Deseret Song" •• LaJean Steed accompanied by Esther Barlow

Remarks by Marian Hammond ••.The Constitutional Law Section .98 of D .& C Verse· 1-8

7. Vocal Solo Rulon Jeffs••"Danny Boy" Margaret Musser••violin Mable .Allred!•• piano Recitation: Clear the Way••given by Maritta Cook Violin Solo••Margaret Musser••"Believe Me If All those Endearing Young Charms . accompanied by Mable Allred 10. Remarks by John Y Barlow Every time you get a chance to bear your testimony ••bear it. If they can put the old in jail they will do so ••but you young people go on and triumph 11. Genevieve Hammond••~"I'll See You Again" accompanied by Mable Allred 12. Lyman Jessop spoke on the theme, The definition of Music He touched on the condition of things ••men that are charged with conspiracy ••when they are endeavoring to better themselves. Let us stand up for our Motto.

Closing Songs Page 34 Oh My Father Benediction: Goldie Musser

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Sunday Afternoon Meeting held in the Priesthood Home at 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 8, 1944 at 2:00 p.m.

Brother Joseph W. Musser presided and conducted.

1st Song: "Awake, Ye Saints of God, Awake" Prayer: Brother Wm. Stokes 2nd Song: "We'll Sing the Songs of Zion"

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

Since we were with you last, some of us have been promoted again We are rather pleased to have with us some of the sisters at this time, and they sent 15 of us to jail for unlawful cohabitation; but think the matter over being advised of the scriptures, man should not be alone, and this time we have some of the women with us. The men is not without the "woman and the man is not without the women. We feel very gratefully honored in standing as a wittiness in the work of the Lord in this day and age when not only the world but the Church has apostatized. The Lord wants us to be humble and get His spirit and keep it. The only way to get the spirit of the Lord is to be humble, be charitable, kind. and considerate; and pray for our enemies; love those who hate us; love them with an honest love, love that will say to them--repent or be taken from the earth. This group stands alone and separate from the world. We are 1iving in the world, but are not of the world, we hope. I hope that we will get more humble and be more humble day by day; more considerate of our kingdom, the Priesthood we hold; and that we will not fret and feel badly about these things that are occurring, only as they effect the brothers and sisters that are not one with us. This is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Jimmie Jessop (on leave from the service)

was the next speaker and he said he missed this people and the meetings that we hold, and. he was thankful to be with us today. He said there is no doubt a purpose in the boys of the group being in the service--to be of use in the Kingdom of God and more use to themselves. I have tried to keep my life clean as I have been taught since I was a little tot, in order to get where I want to be in the Kingdom of God. I ask the Lord to bless us according to our needs and desires. in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Moroni Jessop

was called upon next and he said he was glad. to be back with the Saints; that he has been thrown among people that did not even look like human beings and the world is fast going into distress and trouble. He stated that if the men go to jail it will be no more than hundreds of others have gone through far the Gospel and no doubt same will have to shed their blood for this principle; that the leaders of the Church have done just what Heber C. Kimball said they would do: Raised up against this people and they will be damned. He said he has wished many times that this people was ready for some of the things that the Council is ready to tell us, but we are not ready for we are not united enough to receive them; ,that John W. Woolley said years ago that we are in for plenty of trouble and it will come from the inside out; in the days of the Prophet it came from. the outside (of the Church); now the people of the Church are against us. He said. in June it was 100 years Since the martyrdom of the Prophet, and. he understands that the angel of God told some "a century cometh and then look out" and that century has come. He mentioned that he did not think that many of the men would have to go to jail, and if they did he does not think they will have to stay long.

Brother Rulon C. Allred

was the next speaker and he asked the Lord to direct his words. He said that he thought none of us fully realized the importance of things that are transpiring about us, and we have not yet endured things that we will be ,required to endure we have not suffered in relation to the principles of the Gospel as the early leaders did but the time is at hand when the viciousness of the people and the church will be manifested like it was in the early days. Sixty years ago John Taylor decried that the Constitution no longer gave freedom of religion, and the right to vote according to desires; that the Utah Commission passed a law which made it compulsory for officers of ,the State and nation to question the would-be voters about their belief in polygamy, and if they believed it they were denied the right to vote and that was considered good law, as stated in court recently by Brigham E. Roberts, grandson of B. H. Roberts who lived plural marriage. He cited the case of George Reynolds who submitted himself as a trial case. Notwithstanding the fact that the early leaders of the Church declared that the laws of God came first and they must be obeyed, Brigham E. Roberts gets up in court and says the laws of men must be enforced and they cannot stand for this foolishness; and may the Lord damn him for the thing s he said. Woe unto any people that sneak in and betray the men of God." Church spies! The names to characterize them they are in the names of the lower animal kingdom. They say we who are on trial are lying, and we should stand up and take it like men, we should not hide when they come to arrest us! (He elaborated further on the Church spies who have been watching us,: yet they say ,those being prosecuted are of Protestant churches, yet they have cut us off.) Brother Allred then spoke of Jesus Christ and. how the law of God was binding upon Him, and so it is today. He said those who are prosecuting us are trespassing and trampling the very laws they are trying to enforce; that Judge Symes was the only true judge who dared to do as he was convinced. He said, "I know the Gospel is true, and it burns in my heart and soul; it means more to me than my life, or my lands and livestock, or my wives and children, and I would rather rot in jail than turn traitor to it. Brothers and sisters, we have got to stand true to our religion and get into a position that we can be saved. God cannot use us if we do not. May God bless us with a testimony of Jesus Christ; may His spirit be our constant companion; may ,We walk in holiness That the glory of the Lord may shine from our eyes , that men may see our good work s and glorify His name , I pray in the name of Jesus Christ Amen

Song: "How Firm a Foundation"

(on leave from the service) Brother Wayne Hunter: I am glad to be here this afternoon and partake of this wonderful spirit. I feel very fortunate to be able to associate with such wonderful people. It is said that where much is given much is required, and I try to keep the principles of God before me so that my light may shine for good wherever I am. It is going to take big men to hold true to the last and bear off the Kingdom. Sometimes I think it is such a waste of time. to be in the army when so many men are gone from home and are needed there, and we are not doing any good in the army. At the same time there are many individuals in the army who are honest in heart and waiting for the Gospel. Many people in the army have contempt for the people who are not living the laws of God. I pray we will be all worthy to bear off the Kingdom of God and I do it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Arnold Boss:.

My brothers and sisters, I sincerely trust that I might have the spirit of the Lord with me, for it is a wonderful thing to have. It is something that none of us can live without today and be in tune with the Lord. I have been touched with some of the things that have been. said today. I feel it an honor to be associated with this people here today. We are coming face to face with some real things and the work of the Lord is surely moving on. When we can get the attention of a great and mighty church and state power combined and federal authority work together to stamp out a little group of people like we have here today, it is really something; we must have something. While I was listening to some of the remarks today, I recalled a statement of Brigham Young about like this: (When the church and state combine against the laws of God, know then that the work of the Lord is going on in tenfold greater power than it had done before.) That is my interpretation of that today. I thank the Lord today that I am associated with this group of people and that my name has gone all over the world with this people. I know that the Gospel is true and it is here to stay, no matter what may be said or done. The Lord has no apologies to the state, the church and the federal authorities. He has had nothing to say since the time of Adam; the people have thrown the laws of God over board, and when He cannot find a people that will do what He says, He takes His Gospel away from them (He then related how happy Orson Pratt and others were to come to these valleys of the mountains the hardships they had to put up with, yet it was a paradise after being persecuted in the East, a place where they could think and do as they pleased; that Orson Pratt was one of the first vanguards to come out here, and the first thing they did was to dedicate the valley to God.) I want to call your attention today to the fact that we have been informed by the historians who wrote about the Jaredites and Nephites that this land was choice above all the other lands of the earth and that God had dedicated it to liberty and freedom, and that whatsoever people lived upon it would have to have Jesus Christ as their King and obey the laws of God or they would be swept from the face of the earth. It is my conviction that Father Adam was the first to come to this land. and He blessed and dedicated it and that the prophets, Abraham, Isaac, and. Jacob blessed this land and that that blessing is still in force upon. this continent and it has never been withdrawn and never will be. You will come face to face with the people of God the very people Who were driven, and whose fathers and mothers lie in the plains, and sons and daughters are being persecuted for the things they gave their lives for. It is quite a thing for a person who has never been a member of the Church, but it is another thing for the children of those who fought for the laws of God fight the laws of God. It has been said that the Gentiles would weep for what they saw here in the valleys of the mountains. Something is in the offing; the blessings of God will be with His people who keep covenant with Him. We are making history. Things that have been transpiring in this valley since March 7 of this year will be looked upon with more importance than the times when the pioneers came here, for the Lord's house is going to be set up here. (Here he spoke of a statement of John Taylor's wherein he warned the people of the Church that it was not the Gentiles but those who had preached the Gospel and prophesied and healed the sick and cast out devils, who needed to worry about being damned; and he warned. those higher up in authority before 1886; he said it will be sorrowful what can be told in days to come.) Brothers and sisters, we are seeing some of these things now I thank the Lord I am here and associated with this people. I am telling you," history is being made. When a little handful of people can attract the world, the devil must have something in mind against us. God's program will be worked out; persecution will come but this work is going straight forward and it will never turn back; and the time will come when we will be in the Tabernacle, the temples, etc. The Lord has His way of accomplishing His work. I know the Prophet Joseph is directing this work; I know it is His position to direct it. I know when greater troubles come along he will be here and engineer this work. We do not need to fear; we have the God of all eternities behind us and they have the devil behind them. This is the greatest thing that has taken place in these valleys. If they combine all the forces of to the world, this work will go. Joseph the Prophet who never gave utterance to anything that did not come true, said that early in the rise of this Church, first of all we are going to be prosecuted in a little community and then it will take on further propositions; town and city will prosecute us; then counties will take it up and then the whole state will take it up; and then states and the whole country will take it up and. prosecute this people; and finally all the nations of the earth will take it up and prosecute this people. Part of that has been fulfilled. The Work of God is going on and He has His parts of material here and there that will bring about; His work. The work of Gad has brought in ten times more converts than it did When it was going on in a quiet way. This publicity is working and bringing about the purposes of the Lord. I hope the day will come when this people who do not know who Joseph Smith is will have the opportunity to know him and they will have the opportunity of accepting or rejecting :His work. You will see the time when the spirit of patriotism will raise up against this people. Apostates never will save this constitution, this nation, this land of the free. It is just as important if you see a Catholic or Protestant in trouble to save him, as anyone else. The wicked will go: down while the righteous will raise up. I thank the Lord for all the experiences that I have had. I would not know the hearts of the people I associate with, if I had not had the experiences that I have had. The word of the Lord is like a two edged sword. That is why we are being hated today, for the work of the Lord. is getting out. Why-the idea that a man cannot write or print anything anymore; it is damnable! That is what men gave their lives for in this country. These things are true; let the work of the Lord go on. We will by and by find out who these saviors of the world are. It shall come to pass that some of these people shall judge all things pertaining to Zion and those who are not prophets and apostles shall be known." I see something coming that is momentous. I can see the work of God shaping. May the blessings of the Lord help us to remain faithful and true, is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ amen.

Brother Musser:

We have had something to think about today. Let us go home and think about it, and be a little more humble about it than we were yesterday, and a little more humble tomorrow than we are today. Do not get the idea that we will not have to suffer; we must round up our shoulders for the things that are coming on. The storm is corning; put up our coat collars and be ready for it. The Lord has never yet forsaken His people. If we will do our part, the Lord will do His. Many of us have been weak and reckless and indifferent to the commandments of the Lord; the Lord wants us to get back into the harness. We were told in conference yesterday that if we will keep His commandments, the Lord will protect us. The man who said that was inspired. We believe everything in the Doctrine and Covenants except the Manifesto. Fear the Lord. I remember in 1890 how the brethren were tried and arrested and found guilty and shut up in the penitentiary and fed food not fit for hogs; they had to lay in beds that almost crawled away from them. Yet they rejoiced in it. My father and my father-in-law were among them. They preached to the spirits in prison; but they did more than that--they testified to the world of the Lord Jesus Christ. And now they (the people of the Church) have gone astray and are seeking after money and other things; have apostatized, and this little group is trying to keep it going. If we I'd will keep this thing going until the Lord in His power comes and subdues His enemies, we will gain our reward.. We have some people among us who are tattlers and spies; all the things that were given to the state were given by people who came here and professed to be our friends. People who have been here and partaken of the hospitality of this home are forsaking us. One particular woman was offered money to come here and spy on us and she refused because she said she was not in that business. It is being done with the help of the Church leaders; we have that evidence and it will likely be published when the time comes. The conspiracy as the court has defined it, says that two or more of us get together and encourage you to break the law. I am not going to encourage you to do that, but encourage you to do this--keep the commandments of the Lord and do as He wants you to do. God bless you, Amen.

Song: "Though Nations Rise and Men Conspire"

Benediction: Bro• .Albert Barlow.

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2151 Lincoln Avenue October 15, 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 338 Oh Ye Mountains High - Invocation: Ianthus W Barlow 2nd Song: Page 418 Sometime We'll Understand In Charge: Guy Musser Participations 1. Albert Barlow treated the subject, "The Kingdom of God Or Nothing There is nothing beyond the Kingdom. of God all else will end and come to naught and be nothing , 2. solo•• Alfred 0lschewski "Truth Reflects Upon Our.. Senses accompanied~ by Little Alfred Olschewski 3. Classes ADULTS CLASS•••Guy Musser teachings . Subjects Joseph Smith and his teachings. The matter of history repeating itself in regard to persecution and prosecution Compendium CLASS ••Dell .Timpson teachings Subject Matter: Pupils are called on to give their testimony on different principles of the Gospel. JUNIOR CLASS: •• Sister Cook teaching Subject; Missionary Experiences of George Q Cannon Re-Assembly Closing Song: Page 158 Come 0 Thou King of Kings Benediction. Jeremy Jessop

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 22, 1944 at 2:00 p.m.

Brother Joseph W. Musser presided and conducted.

1st Song: "Redeemer of Israel" Prayer: Brother Neils Hansen 2nd'Song: "Though Deepening Trials"

Brother Musser (remarks):

Word has come to us that Sister Mattie Barlow is failing fast. Some of the brethren wanted to go down to Short Creek. Sr. Mattie has been a very wonderful woman and is the mother of 14 children; she has gone through many trials and sacrifices. The Lord is very kind in releasing her.-Thank God for death; that is one of the achievements we are working for. Our physical bodies, when they are worn out we should not mourn over death, for it is a great and glorious blessing. It has been revealed very definitely that Sr. Mattie has finished her mission here. We have done all we can to heal her and the Lord has done all that He could. I just wanted you to know that.

Brother Ernest Williams

was the first speaker and he said it would be a glorious thing if we could have it said of ourselves when we die, that we had done our very best -had died in the harness. He said that since he came from California he has gone through more trials than he had in his life up to that time, but he rejoiced that he has been counted worthy to undergo those trials, for trials are given to us for our good. He related that when he was in California he received some wonderful letters from Brother Joseph, and said that we should not seek counsel unless we expect to follow it; that Heber C. Kimball said, The time will come when you will, have all the trials and trouble that you can stand; ---- to meet the difficulties that are coming you must have the knowledge of the truth; ---- if you have not a testimony, seek one; ---- the time will come when no man or woman will be able to live upon borrowed light. He said that he has been criticized for mingling among his friends and teaching the Gospel; Some people say he has apostatized from the group, because he has not been coming to all the meetings; the authorities of the Church have been spoken of discourteously, and he does not favor that; we must learn to love one another. Here he read a poem called "A Friend": One Whose grasp is a little tighter, One whose smile is a little brighter, One whose deeds are a little whiter, That is what I call a friend.·

One who Will lend as quick as he'll borrow, One who's the same today as tomorrow, One who will share you joy and sorrow, That is What I call a friend.

One who s thoughts are a little cleaner, One whose mind is a little keener, One who avoids those things that are meaner, That is what I call a friend.

One when you're gone who will miss you sadly, One who'll welcome you back again gladly, One who though angered will not speak madly, That is what I call a friend.

One who is always willing to aid you, One whose advice has always paid you, One who's defended when others fail you, That is what I call a friend

One who's been fine when life seemed rotten, One whose ideals you have not forgotten, One who has given you more than he's gotten, That is what I call a friend.

He told a story of how, when a person speaks rash words in anger they are as hard to gather back in as feathers blown to the four winds; he said we must love our fellow men and prayed that we will all do all the good we can

Brother Heber Chase Kimball

(grandson of the Prophet H. C. Kimball) spoke next and he bare his testimony as to the truthfulness of the Gospel, and said that the church of Jesus Christ is the only the church recognized by God, and called it after the name of His son. Be said that he was saddened at the news of Sister Mattie Barlow and then related how she welcomed him and his family when they went to Short Creek a few years ago and showed them great hospitality in her home while they were there about a week. He asked the Lord to bless all the Saints in all their troubles and trials.

Brother Ianthus Barlow;

was the next speaker and he thanked the Lord. for the testimony he has of the Gospel, and that He has put up with his weaknesses for ,so long for the Lord has been so good to him, he said. He said. That some men think they would like to live the law of plural marriage but want. a wife that comes up to certain qualifications. He then told how Patriarch Woolley was made to sweat for 12 years to show what his condition would be if he did not obey that law after having had it revealed to him, and when he was working in the temple one day the Lord told him in the middle of his lecture who his plural wife was, and, he went immediately and asked her to be his wife. He also told of the incidents of Alma Butler and how it was revealed about plural marriage and the wife he was to take; also of Annie and Joseph Jessop. He thanked the Lord for his association with this people; he spoke of the United Order and how Lorin Woolley told him just before he died that it would be set up, and how it has been started. "Is it perfect? No. But it will be set in order when God's house is set in order. How many of us are really living plural marriage? So we have been given these things to learn some lessons in preparation for the setting in order of the house of God. I think the men who are ready in the Priesthood should join hands together in the Lord's work. I pray that we will all prove true to the end, in the name of Jesus Christ) .Amen.

Song: "Come, Come Ye Saints"

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

We have had some very splendid. counsel and suggestions today. Brother Ianthus has touched a key that I felt impressed to talk on a 1ittle; that is in reference to revelation. He is sound in his doctrine in that we have not a full revelation in Celestial Marriage. The Lord told Joseph that this was sufficient and He will give more later on. Some parts of it were not given. More will be given as the time goes on. We really know very little about it. We frequently have people with come to us with questions that they are not prepared to receive the answers to. I remember Lorin-(Woolley) telling on different occasions when he asked John Taylor a certain question that Brother Taylor said, Lorin, if I should' answer that question you would want to take my life. Brother Lorin did not understand why Should he get hostile? Bit he lived to see the time when he realized the answer was given. He was speaking on plural marriage at that time He went back and unpreached to us the things that he had told. us, for we were not ready to receive them. There are many things that we want to know, but we are not ready for them We want the records of Enoch, the sealed records of the Book of Mormon, but we are not prepared for those records yet. We might get some comfort from those records, but if those higher laws were given to us and we are not ready for them, our condemnation would 'be that much greater. We cannot ever become as perfect as God is for His work is going on all the time, but we can become as perfect in our sphere as He is in His. Brother Williams touched on apostasy he has not apostatized, because he is preaching in the church every Sunday. he is doing a good work. Brother Kimball is. not an apostate for the seeds of Heber C. Kimball have come into ,his life and he is actuated with that seed. Heber C. Kimball was not afraid of the truth. The Lord took him where his sphere of action will be greater. We have been praying that the Lord would relieve Sister Mattie of the pain and strain that is upon her. There are others whom the Lord is going to relieve and send them to another s:phere of action where they can work and do a greater work. I remember Bro Martin came to me about entering plural marriage and wanting to know if I could recommend somebody for him. One day I was up there in Millville and took a walk and. I spent a half hour with the Lord and Brother Martin that he might receive an answer to his prayer. The next Sunday I sealed a woman to him. He is a very faithful man and he is sinking now and is very feeble. Brother Butler was one of the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ in his day. He gave people blessings and I sent people to him and I know of his work. The Lord has revealed to me that the Telestial glory is even more glorious and full of joy and blessings than our minds can contemplate, and all these people that live on the earth today, unless they become sons of perdition, are going to receive glories, so much greater than they anticipate that they will be satisfied. They will realize, and it will be a great horror to them; if they had followed Joseph Smith's teachings they would not be there but they are there. They got all they were entitled to, and they will be satisfied with the justice of the Lord.. It is, the Telestial glory, so wonderful that we are not able to realize it I do not know of a principle of the Gospel the t has been revealed in its entirety. I have a little article for the next month's TRUTH on the life of Enoch and his city, how he grew, how he had to be translated--it just came automatically. They were so perfect that it had to come. Enoch was entitled to have that city moved up off this earth into the upper ethers somewhere where they could go on and live their religion and not be contaminated by the world. Some day Enoch is coming back to us and it will1 set in the place it was taken from but we must first perfect ourselves we must become ready. The same with Melchizedek and Peleg; those parts have been taken and have got to come back. When they come the earth will not be as it is now. It will not be far from Jerusalem; it will not be far from one capital to another. It is up to us; as individuals, to get ready to fight the battle of the Gods here upon the earth. That is what these soldiers are preparing themselves for at the present time--to fight the great battle upon the earth. Why, you talk of these little persecutions; they do not amount to a hill of beans to what is coming. Unless you are righteous, and accept every principle, you will not be able to stand. Our enemies will come to destroy us; it will be "are you a Mormon?"--not a polygamist. The Temple of the Lord will be the protection. Why, this little experience at the court does not amount to anything yet. But we are getting ready. The devil is going to do everything he can to destroy us, you and me. Can I stand? I hope so! Can you stand? I hope so! I fear when I see a man withering, when we see some of our women folks faltering, for when these trials come it will be more than they can endure. Now I thank the Lord. again for the blessing; that has come to Sister Mattie and John. She has done a wonderful work and has a wonderful family. May the Lord. bless her children; one is in the army, but I think he is going to come out all right. It is up to each individual to prepare himself. We should be better tomorrow than we are today. We should get away from the idea of criticizing our neighbors and. brothers and sisters ,--picking them to pieces. A great deal has been said of late about our talking. One of our attorneys, when I was talking to him, said for God's sake go tell so end so to keep his mouth shut. He is one of our group. What a wonderful blessing silence is. If we can just keep our mouths shut until the time when things are to develop. May the Lord bless us and help us to get hold. of ourselves. I pray the Lord will bless us with a sense of propriety and have enough sense and faith to carry them out. There are many things we would like to talk about During the Millennium which is being ushered in the time will be spent in looking after our dead. The time will come when men and women Who have shown the proper preparation and their hearts have been right, the work Will be attend to for them during the Millennium. No man or woman will fail to receive the blessings that they have lived for in mortality. Men and women who have a number of wives who have not been worthy will have their wives taken away from than and will be given to someone else who holds the Priesthood and will exalt than. We are living for that now. During the opening of that great Millennium our time will be spent in looking are our own and others salvation and it will be one glorious line of people. But we, the group at Short Creek, at Anthony, Idaho, etc., must get closer to the Lord. Get the Spirit of God and keep it! God. bless you, Amen.

Closing song: "The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning"

Benediction; B:ro. Grant Morrison LJAllred.

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2157 Lincoln Avenue October 29, 1944

Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 87 Ho·.... Firm A Foundation Invocation: Albert Barlow 2nd Song: Page 88 Hay, Speak No Itl'

In. Charge: Guy Musser .

Participation:

1. Edna Zitting treated the slogan,', "The Kingdom of God Or Nothing" The way is place before us and outline to follow in order to belong to the Kingdom of God. . .If we understood properly we would be willing to sacrifice all we have in order to belong to the Kingdom of God The power of evil grows stronger each day to destroy us and it is necessary for us to have more of the spirit of God to hold us up.

Guy Musser surrendered two epitaphs in honor of Martha Jessop Barlow who died last week.

John Y Barlow spoke on the Kingdom of God and the difference in belonging to the kingdom and to the church. He stated the number of sons and daughters Mattie Barlow had and how long she will live in her progeny

Solo••Alma Timpson Page 83••• 0h My Father

Classes

ADULTS CLASS ••Axel Fors teaching Discussion: The Way To Perfection

COMPENDIUM CLASS•••Alma Timpson teaching Subject: Discussion on races and their promised blessings •• their practices .and descents.

JUNIOR CLASS••Sister Cook Missionary Experiences

Re -Assembly

Closing Song:· Page 103 Abide With Me

Benediction: Charles Zitting .

Minutes of the Sacrament Meeting held Sunday, November 5, 1944 at 2:00 p.m at 2157 Lincoln St., Salt Lake City, Utah

Brother John Y. Barlow presided and conducted

1st Song: "Now Let Us Rejoice" Prayer: Lyman Jessop 2nd Song: "Why Should I Falter, 0 Savior of Mine?" Sacrament administered by A. A. Timpson and Ed Christiansen assisted ·by Fred Cleveland and Clarence Wayman

Brother Barlow:

I am pleased to be with you. I have been away for a few Sundays. We all have ups and downs in life and the greatest blessing we have is contentment When you ,see a person who isn't content, there is something wrong with him. Wherever you find a man or woman who is discontent, there is always trouble. So let us try to have the spirit of contentment; for no matter what happens, God is at the helm. "We have been going through some troubles --I wouldn't say very many trials. Why? Because God gave us the spirit of contentment. God gives us His spirit in our hearts that we know these things are true and it is for those things we have been going through these trials and for that reason we haven't felt so bad. We haven't had things so bad yet. My parents went through the persecutions in Nauvoo, Ill. I heard a person ask the other day, 'What will we do?' What will we do? I expect to go on and do the best I can. If the Lord sees fit to put trials upon me, I pray He will give me strength to bear them; and there isn't any of us but has trials. We don't know one another's heart's and what they are going through every day of our lives. And these trials and tribulations and sacrifices are the stepping stones to exaltation. We have been ,told that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things has not a saving virtue in it. I was taken up a short time ago about breaking up families and causing the mothers and fathers distress. Did you ever see the Gospel of Jesus Christ preached when it didn't break up families? My mother and her family received the Gospel in England and were cast out. My mother's mother was a Lord's daughter in England, and she was cast out. Nearly every book of the history of the Church proves beyond. a doubt that the Gospel did not come to bring peace, but to bring a sword. The Gospel of Jesus Christ separates father and mother, brother and sister, husbands and wives, and God said, If you think more of them than you do me, you are not worthy of me.' Read the inspired translation of the Bible.' The plan is laid down, and if we don't follow it, we can't get the blessing. There is a plan laid down, and this same plan has existed through all eternity, and we aren't the only ones who think this way. We are not fighting the Church. We are contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints; and we believe the Gospel as Joseph Smith taught it to us, through God ..explaining it to him, bringing it forth out of obscurity to the Church. We believe that just as much today as we ever did. Jesus said, 'If you say you love me and keep not my commandments, you are a liar. We come here and are here a little while and then we are gone. We go over into another sphere of action, another place, to prepare for a greater exaltation. When we die, we are not dead but are changed. When we die and are cast off at the last, then we go back into dissolution, both body and spirit. That's death. That isn't the end of us, then. God never created our intelligences. They always existed. So we go on from on sphere to another; and if we keep the commandments of God, then we are blessed. We have agency; and no we are told that the light we accept will either save or condemn us. I-ask God to bless you and I would like to see the young people get up and bear their testimonies . I will promise them if they will get up they will feel better than they ever have been in their lives. I was talking today to one of the sisters who said she still believed the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to be true I told her to ask for a knowledge and get it. God bless you, Amen.

Testimonies borne by Brother Kaufman, Fred Cleveland, Myrtle Allred, Elvera Zitting, Mabel Stokes, Brother Mondfranz, Ed Christiansen sang "A Poor Wayfaring Man", Irene Christiansen, Clela Cook, Alice Barlow

Brother J. W. Musser:

We have had some wonderful blessings given us of late and some trials. The Lord has promoted two of our good saints, Sister Mattie Barlow and Brother Martin. He has released them from this stage of activity and sent them on to a higher class. It's a very wonderful blessing that they have received. Sometimes death is saddening to our hearts. Sister Mattie was the Mother of fourteen children, twelve surviving her, and no doubt their hearts were broken and touched very deeply by her going; and yet she performed a wonderful mission and was entitled to the release which came to her. Death is as much to us as birth --without birth into mortality we could not go on. We came to a place where we-stopped and there was no further progress. And without death from mortality and birth to immortality we could not go on. We could not progress; so death is something to be proud of and to be hoped for. I feel that we should keep these matters in our mind. We shouldn't mourn because of the death of our loved ones who have made good. We should rejoice. Naturally we mourn because of a vacancy that has occurred. Brother Barlow, if he had the privilege, if the power were offered to him, he wouldn't call his loved one, back; and neither would Sister Darger here and the other part of the family They have gone to a greater field of activity. They have kept their second estate. He who has kept his 2nd estate shall have glory added upon his head forever and ever. Now, these people have kept their-second estate. They have made a glorious record through a mortal life. They have indicated that they were prepared for every test that the Lord might apply; and now they are as I say promoted. We have had other sorrowing situations Sister Mary Fischer's losing her beautiful child after working so hard and anxiously for motherhood. There is some reason which may not be clear to us that brings these things upon us. It seems like Satan is bound to keep these precious spirits back if he can. He doesn't want them born. There isn't anything that he can do to prevent them from being born finally" because they will finally come to existence and through the channel as chosen for them by the Lord, but Satan makes it very difficult at times. He doesn't want these prophets and prophetesses to come forth in this time. He knows his work is short and wants to prolong it as long as possible. This good woman is grieving now because of her loss, but the Lord will bless her if she is patient and comfort her spirit; and you womenfolk who are not permitted to have children and who are yearning for them, remember that the Lord is the author of life and your bodies belong to Him. And He is the one who will correct this situation as time goes on. "Sister Barlow has been mentioned today by Sister Allred. She has never been permitted to have a child of her own, but she has mothered a great family. She is a mother to all of us. She hasn't lost any blessing and won't lose any blessing through not having any children of her own. They are all hers --all that her husband has brought forth in his family belong to Aunt Susie, and we all (I feel at times) belong to her., She is a Mother to all of us. The Lord will regard those things and bless her. Don't grieve because of barrenness, but let your, hearts shed forth thanksgiving to God for your life that you can have an understanding of this Gospel, the Gospel that will sometime, through your faithfulness, take you back into the eternal presence of God, our Father and our God. That's worth everything 1tI feel to bear my testimony today that the Lord is blessing us in our court matters. We need not worry --and blessing our attorneys, and blessing us, and He will continue to bless us and will continue to fight our battles for us. After we have gone through the test and have found out definitely we can stand at the rack hay or no hay, then the Lord .will appear, throw off his disguise, as was. sung so beautifully by Brother Ed today, and crown us with that glory that we came forth to prepare for when we came into this life. "My brothers and sisters, let us feel to honor the Lord and keep His commandments. Let, us get nearer to the Lord day by day. Let us get so near that we can hear the whisperings of the spirit of the Lord as it guides our footsteps from time to time. We can be living fountains of revelation if we will train ourselves. The Lord will not be able to refrain revealing His sacred words to us. And like the children of Enoch, the Church of Enoch, the people of Enoch became so perfect in their deportment before the Lord, so perfect that it became mechanical with them. It had to come. It was the law. This people could be translated and taken away from the enemy if it were necessary, provided we lived to merit that blessing. Enoch's people did. The people around them were so wicked that they demanded to be taken away from them, and through the principle of translation they were taken. Someday they will come back and we will fall upon our necks and weep for joy-Yes, there is so much to look forward to, my brothers and sisters so much. God Bless you, Amen."

Further testimonies borne by Frances Zitting, Susie Barlow, Marie Cleveland Closing Song: "May The Lord Go With Us" Benediction: Blaine Thompson ML Allred.

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2151 Lincoln Avenue November 5. 1944 Preliminary Program

OPEN SUNDAY

1st Song: Page 4 Awake. Ye Saints of God, Awake Invocation: Axel Fors 2nd Song: Page 8 Think Gently of the Erring One In Charge: Lyman Jessop Participations: 1.Three Monkeys given by Thelma Boss,Wayman 2. Piano Solo.••Alfred Olschewski Jr•••Under The Leaves 3. Remarks by Clarence Wayman who is going into the armed services. Thankful for leadership we have and. for his wife. and family. I am indeed thankful my parents and for this people and for the Leadership from these men. It is certainly a privilege to be associated with' them.

4. Solo•••Rulon Allred sang Awake Ye Saints of God Awake 5. Piano Solo ••Athlene Allred

6. Current Events: Connie Higgs 7. Poem•••Hazel W Boss 8 Remarks •••John Y Barlow, It is time we called on the Lord in mighty prayer. If we are humble and prayerful we will come out all right if not we will be scourged until we do come out. We have fearing and tremble but it is the body that is scared not the spirit The spirit is not scared. Trio••Allred Sister•••• "Softly and Tenderly"

Excerpts: from the autobiography of Parley P Pratt•• ready by J. Lyman Jessop••"Incidents relating to the fate of those who were directly responsible for the Martyrdom of Joseph Smith. Closing Song: page 69, The time is Far Spent

Benediction: Charlotte Olschewski

MINUTES; Sunday Afternoon Meeting held. at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 12, 1944 at 2:00 p.m. Pres. John Y. Barlow presided and conducted. 1st Song: -"Came Listen To a Prophet's Voice" Prayer: Brother Bert Barlow 2nd Song: "Ye Wondering Nations, Now Give Ear"

Brother Duane Gee

(home on leave from the service): I feel. very humble and. thankful for being home today; .I enjoyed Sunday School and the spirit that is here I am thankful for the opportunity of being associated with this people, and. I never let an opportunity go by to let others know that I am associated with you. I am thankful for this privilege that God has given me. I believe that God has a mission for me to fulfill in the world. I believe that there will be a time when we will have to defend our lives with arms, but I hope that it never comes to that. I am extremely happy that my wife has come to the place that she has in this work and that you people have come to know her. It is a funny thing that some men who hold the Priesthood out in the world seam to assemble themselves with the world. I have kept to my own back yard, with Marvin (Allred). There will come a time when we will have to defend the Gospel together. I have been. thinking of you and I pray the time will come that we will be able to associate with you again. Lots of times when we received clippings from home about the trials we would get mad, at the things that would be said.· I told Brother Marion that the climate we are having to get use to is getting us ready for Short Creek. I cannot say that I enjoy it, but I know I must apply myself· the best I can to the conditions in the army, the men that have no honor or virtue in them. I have thought many times how easy it would be to defend the loved ones at home with my life's blood. I want to bear you my testimony, and I know that it has increased since I left. I know that the principles of the Gospel are true" and hope that I will be one with you in the Kingdom of Heaven, in the name of Jesus Christ, .Amen.

Brother Otto Holm

(from Idaho): My brothers and sisters, I am glad to be with you again and I always try to find opportunities to come down because it builds me up and gives me courage to carry on I want to do all I can. I wish you god speed and God's blessings in the trials. I know things will all turn out for the best. Times are close in the Lord's time now. Zion is being built up in its strength, and the Gospel has to be preached to both Jew and Gentle. I want to do my part and. I ask God's blessings to do this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Marion Hammon:

I do not know Why I should feel, afraid, for I rely on the Lord what to say I had something' going through my mind from the Doctrine and Covenant s that I would like to read to you: For what man among you having twelve sons, and is no respecter of them, and they serve him obediently, and he saith unto the one: Be thou clothed in robes and sit thou here; and to the other: be thou clothed in rag and sit thou there--and looketh upon his sons and saith I am just? Behold, this I have given unto you as a parable, and it is even as I am. I say unto you be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine. Now we are all trying to be the children of God. Sitting in prayer meeting about a week ago, the discussion got a little heated ,and at the end of the meeting I noticed Fred (Jessop) had written on his notebook, "Don't try to get the last word in, try to get the last thought." We had a pleasant. time in the class in Sunday School, but I noticed that we try to impose our thought on one and another, and at times try to impose our thoughts on one another and at times try to correct the members of the Council. But some say, "Don't you want me to express myself" Yet we are supposed to be one. When we came to class, if we are able to see eye to eye, we must be able to receive the truth. I find ,myself as well as others wanting to express my views in order to see eye to eye. If we are not one, we are not the Lord's. We have expressed that we want to live the united order, but what are we doing about it? I hope that none of you will be abused in your feelings. I feel some are not accepted because we feel that they are not qualified. Some .statements in the past I have thought were true. I thought no law was greater than the law of Celestial marriage. I thought that a person qualified in that law could live any other law. But I was mistaken. Brother Barlow said there is no law that will try the souls of men like the law of United Order. I think you will all agree with me that in the law of Celestial ,marriage there are a great many more things to consider than we realized. We have men and women very ardent in their desire to live that law because of physical attraction. Some men are not ready for that law. I know many restrain from associating themselves with extra good men because he will be too strict. .Am I right? I t1hlnk we have men who are impelled by motives that they will not be led by the spirit of God to enter plural marriage. , I have never known the united order to start out on any basis other than poverty. The Saints, whenever they have endeavored to practice it, have been driven and plundered; and by the nature of things they were led to help each other. Now when we get to living toward that law I find this--that in order to endeavor to live that principle you must hasten to the time when you will be impelled by the highest motives. Men may live the principle for a number of years, but in order for a people to succeed as a unit, as a number of families together, they must be impelled by the highest motives. I have seen this thing which Brother Barlow stated a long time ago--that it took the highest type of people to live that law; the lives of the people who live that law must be humble, meek and lowly, not full of wealth and pride, etc. It is like Brother Musser told us that a brother got up in the Tabernacle and, said he was ready to live that law and one of the authorities turned to another and said, "I did not know he was that poor!" We must have a love for that law. "When they get up to the point of being one with their brothers and Sisters, they must be impelled by the highest and most pure motives. This people has got to be one! We have been sifted and we are going to be sifted. This room is not as full as it was at one time. Brother Ed (Christensen) said that they could number 50 people (families) but we do not see that now. As the sifting goes on, when you can get united, you must stand strictly on your guard and not injure your fellowmen. Talk about schooling ourselves. I know that a lot of you people said that I would learn a lot in Short Creek. Well, I have learned part of it, and I hope I can learn the rest of it. You people are more closely allied with us down there than you think you are. You say, they are down there and you are here. Well, we live out of a store house; if you have anything you want to send. down there, put it in. When you send more to one than the rest, then they will be an object of pity. Let me encourage you, if you have something that you want to go down there, put it in with the name of the person you want it given to, and. then send it to Fred. Your mind does not count and neither does mine. A man handles that who is a man of God. That man, Fred, never peddles his troubles. He never breathes a person's name. It is a condition, not a name. How many of you people could do that? He is just like a sponge, if you want anything out of him you have to squeeze him. You people have the odds against you here, with the world around you. Brother Barlow gave us a fine key in one of our Priesthood meetings; he said, "Pray for your brother instead of complaining about them. That is the answer, but how many of you are doing it? Just last Sunday I was warmed through and through with the attitude of our brethren. Some are having more trouble than others. .Our young men--it is surprising to me how they can take responsibility David Broadbent--he is a man now, but I once wondered at Millville what he would turn out to be. He stands with Fred taking care of the storehouse and he is a boy 15. Nothing escapes his lips and he does 75% of the work down there. I thought when Rulon read this morning that the Son never did anything but that it was the will of His Father, same people would call that a "yes man." We must have harmony of feelings. That is the way these boys are. I told you once that our strength would come from our young men, and I often wondered about it, but that is the way it is now. And the young men in the armed service are being such a help financially too. Do you think they are keeping themselves clean? Where they send their checks is where their hearts are. Give me a young man and his faith hand determination to serve the Lord; they are real stalwarts. It is our works that put us on top. Brother Duane's testimony just thrills me to death. he is gaining ground. (Here he told the story of the Wind and. the Sun--who was the stronger.) Let these boys go out in the army and. they will know who is the stronger; they will know whether they want to serve the Lord or the devil. We might know ever so much and want to set others right, but remember the parable I read. What about the dictates of the spirit to you and me. I have seen Brother Barlow and Brother Musser sit by and let things go that were not true; they let people believe what they want to believe. In my home in Idaho Brother Musser and I discussed the One Mighty and Strong. I asked him who he was, and he said, Who do you think he is?" And it was left at that, and since then we have all been taught that he is Joseph Smith. Some of you are going to take care of your loved ones inspite of anything. This work is God's and if we are going to excel we are going to excel in His way or we, will not excel. So many of you want to lead in social ways. Somebody selected my family to send some chewing gum to. Boy, did steam go off my head. We are trying to live the United Order; are you trying to help me? Are you trying to make my family an object of pity? Are you going to stand in the way of my family' s. salvation. I go into the grocery store lots of times to buy something, but when I do I buy a whole box of it so everybody can have some. Of course I like chewing gum but so does Fred and Rich and the rest of them. Let us get our eye on the beam on-the principle, the pure virtuous conception of it. There is nothing we will not do for the Saints of God. I want to say something here about Aunt Mattie. She taught her family to respect their father. She did not have anything the rest could not have. When she was so terribly sick and weak near the end of her time here we asked her if there was something she would like that we could get for her, and she said, God bless her, she did not want anything that the rest of the Saints could not have. (Tears filled his eyes.) Women would walk these damn streets to get some hat cocked on their heads. Nothing like that has the spirit of God, never has and never will I told my wife if she could not iron my shirts just the way I wanted them, I would send them to the laundry. I got over that and I am thankful. I am thankful to have her even touch a shirt of mine now. We are suppose to be -Saints of God. Plead with your women to layoff makeup. I promise you women, everyone of you if you will come to meeting tonight without any makeup on the spirit of the Lord will be with you. What about Zion? Some of you people are crying to go to Jackson County and redeem Zion. Some of you are going to put it off one day too long. I know for my life has got to be cleaned up. You know you cannot violate the laws of God and keep the spirit of God Some men will procrastinate just a moment too long. Who is it up to? Are you going to let your kids do the work and get the glory? It is here for you and me. I only excel by my works. Just because you trekked across the plains, or came from Europe, that does not make you. a Latter Day Saint. The only thing to make you a Saint, is to comply with the laws at God. Let these things of vanity and frivolity alone. I think it is delightful to make yourselves beautiful with simple things; I think it is wonderful. But when you go for I the things of the world, it is not. You women know you cannot make demands of your husband's time, only according to his capacity. Unless a man makes a woman stand in her place, he will never make the grade. Some men are afraid because of some tricks a woman. has over him; you say you cannot do anything about it. Half of you men are letting your women rule over you. Let us be men and women; let us be Latter Day Saints and be one. I know the Lord will open the way for you to be one just as fast as the Priesthood brings themselves to it. I find men and women who are being tried in many ways. I have asked for certain men to go to Short Creek and I have been told I cannot have them they are doing their work here. Get on the Lord's side. When you are on the side of the Lord, you will win. We have men who are standing by and standing by and waiting for this blessing, and some will continue to stand by. Let us heed the counsels that have been given us. Let us love the Lord :with all our mind and strength. These things I pray for in the name at the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Rulon C. Allred:

My brothers and sisters, I hope in standing before you I can be dictated to by the spirit of God in all I say. I have never heard a speaker in a meeting but what I try to apply his words to myself, not the other fellow. I want to grow; I want to become a servant of God, to be clean and pure. When a servant or God speaks, I want to apply it to myself. I felt that Brother Marion spoke directly to me, and I feel.· I can benefit by it. I do not know when I have become more aware of my imperfections. I do not profit much by the things that I learn. When. I went home after Sunday School this morning some of the members of the family asked if we had a good lesson and I told them that I had too much to say I hope the Lord in His goodness Will guide me by His spirit that I may know when to hold. my peace. There is nothing that I would rather do than to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I have as sincere desire to attain the attributes of Godliness. The more apparent my weaknesses are, the more humble I feel. Since I was a child I have been taught to pray, pray sincerely that my Father would hear my prayers. I thank God for that for as I grow older I realize the importance of that. Brothers and sisters, when we became aware of our imperfections so that we, in our intimate closets, can say "Lord, forgive me a sinner," and really men it, we will have accomplished something. Many of us are just like a sieve; our neighbor sees the holes and we do not. The Lord is trying to qualify us to be used. There is never a more glorious opportunity than now to qualify. We say to wait until tomorrow; another day does not making any difference. We can stand back in the mud one more time. We can taste this sweet morsel one more time we will wait to perfect ourselves tomorrow .I feel "that if we are as we should be every lip and every tongue would say, "Here is a people that .is being persecuted for the Gospel's sake," then the Lord would use us". We go on making mistakes and they reflect upon our brethren and sisters and more particularly on the work of God that we are supposed to preach.. I sincerely pray the Lord will teach us to be humble and live every day of our lives as perfectly, as we can. What we are and what we do reflects itself on our countenances to those who preside over us. We may think that we are better qualified. for this or that than the other fellow, but they know how bad we are; and the more you grow older you will learn that the spirit of God dictates those things. May God forgive me my imperfections; may my Father in heaven teach me to overcome my weaknesses; may God strengthen my back that I may see them and overcome them, for it is written of old, "They that became perfect in their generation." I want to become perfect. We all do not see the doctrine of Jesus Christ alike, but we will do this one thing submit our minds to the will of God and be as one led by the Shepherd. Some of us are going to prison; some of our women are going to be left desolate. I wonder how I:many of us have forgotten Johnny and Lola Zenz. How many of us would take, it as humbly as they have., How many of us would say they would willingly take care of those left desolate when the suffering of the saints demands it, when the imprisonment of e Saints demands it. God bless you and your families and guide you by tile spirit of love, even as the angels of God. I sincerely hope that the trials that we will go through and are going through will not be too much, that it will not destroy us. I was going to close, but there is another thought that I would like to express. Some of the young people may think that Brother Marion, Charles, and others of us impose our thoughts upon them too much. They feel that they can do what they want. Some of us have lived long enough to see some children destroyed by the things of the world. I know that some of our boys and girls have forfeited their opportunities to gain an exaltation. Your brethren will counsel you to do what you should, but they will not force you to do it. The servants of God get up and talk to us and we do these things when we want to, but when we do not, we shake them off. I never knew anyone who knew quite as much as the 15 or 16 year old boy or girl thinks he does. Then we think, old grey-haired Dad does not have much sense. Get down on your knees and say, "Heavenly Father,-Thy will be done." Prophecies are ,being fulfilled concerning the daughters of Zion. Let us get close to .the Lord, and I prey this in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

How many of us feel like the poet said in "Awake Ye Saints of God, Awake!" (by Eliza R. Snow, p. 4 of Latter Day Saint Hymns). We are right in that position today, my brothers and sisters. Not only the men are sentenced, but the wives and daughters of some of us also. What for?, For keeping the laws of God. Where is it coming from? From the same place that persecutions usually come from. {Here he spoke of Samuel getting upon the walls to tell the people what to do, and how they tried to run him off.) "0 ye scornful men who have made a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. That is the position our persecutors are in. How many of you can see the handwriting on the wall? Brothers and sisters, if we are prayerful and humble a door will be opened for us. If we are not, then some of us Will be going to jail. Are we ready? How many are? I do not want to go to jail, but I will if I have to; if it takes that to purify me then I will have to. We all say we will do this and. that. Wait till we get up against it. You have been preached to today and it-puts me in mind of a horse parade wherein a man said, "You have shown me the 'has-beens' and the 'going-to-bes', now show me some others." We must keep the commandment s of God ourselves. All the early prophets and those down to our present time have told us what was going to happen. Do we believe it today? Brigham Young said he want out by the hot springs and saw a bunch of sheep. Same were fine looking sheep and others were not. They were a fine example of the people. The spirit said that they were all sheep and had to be taken care of. We find it just the same today. Some are outstanding, some are not. How many of us have our family. prayers day and night and turn and face toward the Temple of God as that prophet told us to do. "When Thy people are cast out and they turn their faces toward Thy house, hear their prayers." Brothers and sisters, the people are against us, the laws are against us, the church is against us. What are we going to do?, We have only one friend; that is God, if we approach him in the right way. If we keep His commandments and live in a way. He will send His messengers to us as he did to John Taylor and others. When we get to that place, then we will advance. One must not be pulling one way and another -another way. I ask you people, all of you, to remember and pray. And I want to say to the people today, if any of you have any property to go bonds, help us out. The judge told us plain that we would go to jail Friday if we do not get them. God has never revealed just how this thing is going to go. I have asked Him but He has never revealed. it to me. One thing we do know, we will not back down and go the way they want us to do. God bless you that you may be humble in your hearts that you may be able to meet whatever comes. Be prayerful and humble. If there is anything that the Lord dislikes, it is a proud, haughty people. He likes a meek and humble people. When we learn to be humble and prayerful, no matter what comes, then we learn to serve God in spirit as well as in action. God bless you, Amen..

Song: "Come Let Us Anew" Benediction: Brother Paul Walters.

LJAllred.

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2157 Lincoln Avenue November 19, 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song: Page 7 Come Ye Children of the Lord 'Invocation: John Bucherite 2nd Bong: Page 2 Beautiful Home In Charge: Lyman Jessop . Commenting on: Sunday evening meeting to start ½ hr earlier 7:30 instead of 8.00 p.m. Participations Duane Gee••Home on Leave "Everybody Smile Happy to be here Tells of his home sickness --How he appreciated the Gospel while away from home. Charles Zitting Tells of a meeting Brother J. Musser's home 18 years ago. At that time there were only 25 at meeting. We thought it large Our work is growing. In Number s In Importance. Speaker•• Alfred Olschewski Reading of a poem which was dedicated to a nephew of Brigham Young .aged 15 who went on a mission to the Hawaiian Islands-- He became homesick and turned to go back He became blind and told the Lord in prayer he would go back to his mission if he could see again. His prayer was answered--he learned the language almost overnight... .

Classes ADULTS CLASS•• Axel Fors Subject: The three orders of Priesthood Text: Teaching of the Prophet Joseph JUNIOR CLASS ••Sister Cook Missionary Experiences COMPENDIUM CLASS. Dell Timpson Subject: ApostasyRe -assemble Closing Song: Page 242 The Joyful Song Benediction: Irene Christenson

Minutes of the General Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln St." S:llt,Lake City" Utah, at 2:00 p.m." November 26" 1944.

Brother John Y. Barlow presided and conducted,

1st Song: "Awake, Ye Saint of God, Awake" Prayer: Brother Lyman Jessop 2nd Song: "Prayer Is the Soul's Sincere Desire"

Brother John Butchereit:

Wished he could spend every day in the service of God and thinking about God who means so much to us. In all our trials and troubles (if you want to all them such), we still fail to keep our eyes concentrated upon the great work in which we are engaged. How willing are we to forsake the world and everything in it? From a worldly standpoint, we have been living in times of temporal prosperity. I believe the people as a whole have the last few years been able to get along better and have more of the things which they would like to have, but in that condition there is always a great danger. People as a whole in that condition are drawn away and do not keep their mind and heart concentrated on the ways and things of God; and I think we are sometimes in the same position --we are not entirely ready --we still love the ways of the world and are week and imperfect. We have got to get entirely away from the outside world. I would like to be able to devote every minute of my life to God's work and cause." Regarded our cases, striving and struggles as being the purposes of God and that we need to be made pliable as clay to be molded as by a potter. Quoted a poem by Edgar A. Guest, "A Licking".

Brother Warren Black: Bore his testimony.

Brother Dell Timpson:

During the five years I have been with this people I have had the greatest joys and sorrows of my life, but we have to pay the price for all we obtain, and I feel with Brother John" grateful for the persecution that has come on this people, and I am very glad to be numbered among those who are persecuted. It is another sign -- fitting sign --that we are at least trying to do the will of the Lord. When people try to do the will of the Lord they will have persecution. The Savior said we should rejoice in it. He said 'Weep for joy when men say all manner of evil against you falsely.' Now our problem is to see that these things spoken against us are false. We are going to stand condemnation to the extent that they are true. Uncle John has told us on many occasions that .these people are the best people on the earth, but he has also told us that we are not good enough. that the principle of repentance applies to us as well as to anyone else. So our problem is to prepare ourselves so that the spirit of the Lord can bring us to repentance."' Commented on. the Sunday School class that morning ,in studying Parley P. Pratt's "Key to Theology" regarding the spirit of God. Said we must prepare ourselves for exaltation and harmonize ourselves with the spirit of truth.

Congregation sang "Hail to the Prophet Who Pointed the Way"

Brother Marion Hammon:

The Lord explicitly states in the Book of Mormon that people who live upon this land shall serve the God of the land and makes it so plain that if any Latter day Saint reads it he will know that the Lord means what He says. And so it is a day of reckoning with the Lord. We know and they know that they have not served His name, and so we with them stand to be judged. If we have been declared free of the blood of this generation, all-will be well for us; and if not we will receive the same judgment as the world as we have had the law given to us and been born with intelligence enough to understand it. We have been blessed with the promise that no king. or monarch shall ever rule over this land. We should always be free. The Lord states in the Doc. & Cov. that He has made us free and we are at perfect liberty to work out our salvation. I don't feel in my feelings that the children of Israel the faithful sons and daughters that have come into this earth are laboring under any deception. -They are here talking themselves out of the true situation, because I honestly feel that the dictates of their conscience tell them what's right. I don't feel-that there is any excuse for them. We know that we are governed by law. We are not governed by societies. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints has no vitality in it. It isn't any different than any other church, only as it embraces correct principles. That is what makes it the Church of Jesus Christ. It was an organization set up to house and teach correct principles, and when they departed there from they became just a shell. I always recoil when people ask me if I am a: member of the group To me it is a hypothetical situation that could not exist. If we are leaving the Church of Jesus Christ, we are members of the Church of the First Born. In certain conditions we are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I have never felt I was not a member of the Church. As long as I feel in my heart that I embrace the principles of the Church, I regard that I am a member. Let them think I am cut off, but I know I am not. This is no off-shoot or branch, but is there by appointment of the Lord to preside over His affairs in the earth and will preside just as far as He wants them to. When the Lord is ready for them to preside over the Church, they will preside. Personalities don't matter. Joseph Smith is the One Might and Strong and for all we know he might be the next President of the Church. Don't quote me. I said he 'might be.' You can mark this that when the Lord sets the Church in order there will be somebody in the-Priesthood who presides, and that man will have his hands full. That will be the day and time when we will have to keep the Church in order, and that will be a big man's job. "We have had a condition where we have been permitted to make our mistakes, but when the Church is set in order it will have to stay in order. "I feel that we can improve continually -that we can center our determinations more effectively upon the Lord and his righteousness. I have often reflected upon the lesson taught, You, shall learn to love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, might, mind and strength, and thought he was asking quite a-bit; but as we grow in understanding and the knowledge of the attributes of God, we can understand who He is and our love will increase and become complete without ever having met Him. So when we love the Lord, our desires to serve Him will increase. When we pray, we increase our devotion. When we see our prayers answered, our faith grows strongly. I feel the saints are growing toward the end that they are going to forsake the world and keep ,the commandments of the Lord. The sifting process is going on, and more and more we see our people growing to keep the faith. The Lord is going to require this people to serve the God of the land, and they will be swept clean if they won't do it. It was done in the days of the Nephites, and when the time came they were taken up or slain. The land was left to the wolves. And it could happen again. There are enough faithful people in the world today, that when the Lord sends His judgments upon the earth that they will go on and redeem it and establish the Kingdom of God. We don't know who they are. We are the covenanted race, the chosen people, and God has promised to bestow upon us His choicest blessings. Let's go out and get them. Men now are standing in readiness to heed the call and go forth and lay their hands and hearts at the feet of the brethren doing this work. I believe that in our present condition there are fewer failures than there ever has been in the Church before. I don't believe there are nearly as many failures among our people as there have been before; the percentage is higher now. I think this is not a coincident, but a providence of the Lord. "There are hundreds of young men who will be called out to carry on the work of God. I know the Lord is going to call His young men, as He has said he would. As we go on we get into such a frame of mind we won't do this and that. There will always be men seasoned in years and judgment to stand at the head to counsel and encourage and stimulate patience. I look to see the older men in the church having to take a back seat. We are just getting the blueprints made, and when they are put in the hands of the youth of the Church you will see this work go on. I don't feel I give anything away when I take counsel, but I gain plenty. Circumstances of my work could make me feel high and mighty, but I feel Uncle John could come and teach me a lot more than I ever knew before, and those little expressions only take him five minutes to tell me and seem to help me and how much is it worth to me? It affects my life, the lives of the whole community. Some little thought that through his seasoned judgment be has learned. You wives, encourage your husbands. There is nothing can boost a man's feelings like having his wife respect his authority. If we submit to the powers that be, we will be blessed. "I am anxious to see us get united -feel united. Any time you do anything that is contrary to the feelings, you are destroying that unity that we are trying to establish. If we will ease up on our selfish and greedy dispositions, it will help us. I won't be surprised if you people in the future will move south, and that will be the land where the saints will become united and this will be the battle-grounds and that will be the proving-grounds. One cannot live without the other. I ask the blessings of the Lord upon us, and I do it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

I know this work is true. When we think of men and women that haven't ever done a thing condemned to the penitentiary. My daughter here -they said she bore her testimony and sang. She didn't bear her testimony. She got a year in the County Jail. Do you call that justice? There isn't another state in the union that would have done what Utah has done now, and when you think of it, they are the children of the covenant. I look back now and think what Uncle Lorin meant when he said that children of the covenant would reject the covenant and aliens would restore the covenant; and so we can look and see those outside of the State say it is a crusade. People that don't belong to the Church would fight. right now for us, while those who are the children of the covenant are rejecting the law. They are fighting the law of God. They aren't fighting us. Look at it square and see. They aren't fighting us, but the law that was revealed that we might have eternal increase. We have had some very good instructions given us this afternoon. How many of us have taken it to heart? How many of us have had it go in one ear and out the other? How many of us improve through coming here Sunday after Sunday? The time is coming, and not very far distant, when we will want the Lord and want Him bad, too. The Prophet Isaiah said, 'The Lord's ear is not heavy -that he cannot hear; his hand is not short that he cannot save; but your sins have, separated between you and your God. I Now you see, that isn't so of this group. The only difference is we know more. We have had more taught us; and the strife is going to be heavy. One of the old prophets looking down said, Because I have called you and you listened not; you have put at naught my counsels * * * and the prosperity of fools will destroy you. Isn't it verily true? Don't we turn away .from these things? We come to our Sunday School class and learn of the spirit of God and analyze these things, but do we obey them? That's the thing that counts. Every blessing is predicated upon obedience, and whenever we receive a blessing it is by obedience to the law that gives us that blessing. If we fight that law, how do we get a blessing of that kind? We can't. I am still of that opinion like Pres. Kimball said, I pray for my enemies. I pray that God will dry them up like an old herring that they can't increase. That's what they deserve -that's what they are asking for. That's what they want. Let's let the people have what they are asking for. "These judgments are on the way. They are coming. Let's do everything that we can and live every law that we can to protect us. He says that the righteous shall scarcely escape. If that's the case, we had better be very careful of what we do and say. The brother spoke today of the family. Yes, the ,wives can pretty near make or break a man.· A wife can bring him in, keep him in shape, be a stay and a staff unto him; but if they turn the other way and won't listen to his counsel and get after him because he won't do this and that and ,the other thing and it won't be long before that husband won't care to come around -they aren't hurting him near as much as they are hurting themselves. A wife that dictates to her husband injures herself out of the kingdom of God. So if you are used to ruling over your husband and dictating to him, while I believe there are many women who have better sense than a man has, for heaven's sakes if you have made your choice, make the best of it and help the husband out of it. I ask God to bless you and take these things to heart and know these things for ourselves. You can know whether these men who are talking have what they claim just as well as you know if baptism is true. God said, If you do my will, you can know if I speak of myself or of God. You can get that as well about the Priesthood as anything else. God help us to stand firm and steadfast We will continue to call on the Lord and He will fight our battles.

Closing Song: "Zion Stands With Hills Surrounded" Benediction: Brother Ed Christiansen

MLAllred

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2157 Lincoln Avenue November 26. '1944

Preliminary Program 1st Song: P. 258 "Send The Light" Invocation: Owen Allred 2nd Song: Page 24 "My Father Knows"

In Charge: Guy Musser Commenting on: Carl Niederlein's funeral--Wed 2.p.m. Presiding: Axel Fors.-- Rulon Allred

Participations:

1. Slogan••The Kingdom of God Or Nothing , Beth Jessop . We women want to apply it to our everyday life. Learn to govern Our Feelings.

2. Speaker•• John Barlow _ How many of us realize that we are in the Kingdom of God through our baptism? Baptism is only legal if the man performing the baptism has the priesthood

3. Marion Hammon•••Repeating Beth Jessop's remarks on apply the Kingdom of God to our everyday lives ••Women can make or break a man.

Classes

ADULTS Class. Teaching..Axel Fors Subject: No matter who was told to live certain commandments before our time, the fact remains that we were commended to live all the laws at the present time. We cannot live in the Celestial Kingdom without living a Celestial law.

COMPENIDUM CLASS•••Dell Timpson Subject•••Development of Character

Re Assembly

Closing Song: P. 128 "Battle Hymn Republic"

Benediction: Emma Sturm

MINUTES OF MUTUAL

2157 Lincoln Avenue December 3, 1944

Preliminary Program

OPEN SUNDAY

1st Song: Page 338 Oh Ye Mountains High

Invocation: David Jeffs

2nd Song: Page 28 We'll Sing All Hail' to Jesus Name

In charge: Lyman Jessop Commenting on: Sympathies were extended in behalf of the congregation toward the Joseph W. Musser family over the death of Samuel Musser who was killed in action in Arabia.

Participations:

1.Trio••Allred sisters

2.Chorus sang, "Where you walk" . Leader•••Alfred Olschewski

3.Joseph W. Musser --- We have a tremendous amount of talent considering the numbers we have.--JWM spoke on the resurrection. It is one of the greatest principles of the Gospel but one of the least understood. There will be two resurrections. Those who come forth in their fullness and those who come forth shorn of the blessings of propagation and ·in increase because of lack of living the fullness of the Gospel The Government has lost its right to live because of its rejection of truth and its course of decay. It is the business of the ten tribes to come down and put the L D S in their rightful place --those who are LD Saints The Mormons will wield a sword like no people have done since the days of the early prophets, in order to establish their right. With all your. kicking and flounderings see that you don't betray the revelations of God. See that you don't betray your brethren. See that all you do is first dedicated to the Lord. Your work, and all that you do

4."The Strong"••• Liszt••• rendered. by Mabel Allred

5•. Lord's Prayer•••Solo by Lucy Musser accompanied by Anna Broadbent 6. Congregation sang page 70 ••• "Kind Words are sweet tones of the heart. 11 7. Speaker: Rulon Allred••treating from a genealogical standpoint "The Kingdom of God Or Nothing." . Pray-learn how to pray or God will teach you how to pray through the tribulations that you will be forced to go though. 10 The Lost Chord •••rendered by the Chorus . Alfred Olschewski••• Leader 1 Closing l:Song: Page S 231 "Redeemer of Israel" Benediction; George Kalmer

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157· Lincoln street Salt La1te C1ty, Utah, December 10, 1944 at 2:00 p.m.

President John Y. Barlow presided and conducted.

1st Song: . "The Earth Was Shrouded Deep in Gloom" Prayer: Brother George Kalmar 2nd Song: "Sweet Hour of Prayer"

Brother Charles. F. Zitting:

I ask that I have an interest in your faith and prayers, and if I have ever needed them, I need them at this time. I pray that the Lord may direct my words and. that I may be able to say something that will make us stronger, better people and hold fast to what we have. We have plenty if we just hold to it. There have been certain conditions come up the last few weeks to let me see just what the people went through in the days of the Manifesto. It was just a simple document, and I think the people did not know what was really coming up. They did not make it. a revelation. It starts out "To Whom It May Concern." I am sure, brothers and sisters, that it did not concern any of us. There are not many here that could have signed the Manifesto, for many of you were born after the Manifesto. We are free from that document. We have never sanctioned it. At that time they advised the Saints to live up to the laws of the land. The Doctrine and Covenants, Section 98 says to for to forsake anything evil and in the verse following that it says anything that comes of man is evil. We are told to forsake the Manifesto and walk by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God. It is the interpretation that they put on it that got the church in bad with the enemy. Brothers and sisters, do not make any concessions with the enemies. If we started -to make concessions this group would fast become what the church is today. I do not think it will come to that, but that is who our sifting will be made. As Joseph said, there will be people come out of this group. We are just as much under the commandment of God through Wilford Woodruff of 1889 as anyone else. You hear the talk about free people and about Europe being under bondage and not being free, and just recently I have been wondering how many of the people of the United States are free. If you are free you will live your life the way you want according to the dictates of your conscience. You will live the Gospel of Jesus Christ no matter what anyone does. the people are free who are living the fullness of the Gospel and they are -the only ones in the earth that are free. You are free and when you die you will die free. Even ,if the Lord showed us that we would be shot for the principle of freedom, we know that God would not let us be shot any sooner than the Lord wanted us to be. Just as sure as you are living, not one of us will go to jail that the Lord does not want to go to jail; and if we go to jail, it will be for a purpose for which we were foreordained. Joseph Smith accomplished everything on earth that was needed to be accomplished before he was martyred. We have nothing to be afraid of unless it is that we will be weakened in our families and in ourselves. We have plenty to fight for that is worth more than the whole State of Utah. We have a principle to fight for. The earth itself depends on our stand If we do not, another people will be raised up to save this world and redeem it. It cannot be redeemed short of all the principles of Jesus Christ. Now, may we go on for that is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother D. W. Jeffs:

My brothers and Sisters, I stand before you with my mind a blank. I am only an instrument in the hands of the Lord and I :pray that I might receive His Holy spirit that I might deliver His word. to you. Whenever a person becomes a student of the scriptures of the word of the Lord, it is a definite fact that there is a division of the people of the earth. I reflect I back to the time of Abraham, a man who was pure before God, whom the evil one tried to divert and also hi s Wife" Sarah, and appeared to her as an old man to tell her directly that she had. done wrong, but through the spirit of God and inspiration given to Abraham she knew it was not of the Lord. Talk about the trials and concessions ,and giving away to the devil why if there ever was a time upon the earth that the evil one has had power, it is now. If anyone gives in to the evil one it is a hundred times harder to come back. ,(Here he spoke of Joshua, the twelve judges, how the children of Israel could not cross the Jordan and they wanted to return to the ways of the world and did, and finally demanded a king of Samuel; Samuel went to the Lord about it and the Lord said to give them a king, but warn them what would be the result, and Saul became their king.) Ever since then the world has been in war. Now let us say something about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I could not help reflecting on-the first song we sang this afternoon. After the Church was established in 1830, what happened 60 years later? Just as in the days of Samuel, the Church made a concession with the world in 1890. Now Who is being persecuted It is almost impossible to think that the church would cause such a condition as it has with this people--the people who are trying to live the fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. There is a law irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated--and when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated." (D. &. C. 130:20-21)

Brigham Young taught, "--- Hear it, all ye Latter-Day Saints: Will you spend the time of your probation for naught, and fool away your existence and being: You were organized, and brought into being, for the purpose of enduring forever if you fulfill the measure of your creation, pursue the right path, observe the requirements of the Celestial law, and obey the commandments of our God. It is then, and then only, you may expect that the blessing of eternal lives will be conferred ,upon you. It Can be obtained upon no other principle. Do you understand that you will cease to be, that you come to a full end, by pursuing the opposite course!-(J.of D. 1:113-4)

Just as soon as we make a little flicker in the opposite course, the spirit of the lord leaves us. I was in the court when Edna Zitting was asked to make a concession, but she and the others stood firm and said they would rather go to jail than make concessions with the world. I was in the court room also when the women were asked to depart from their husbands , and not live with them anymore and they said they would be set free. That was what the devil said through the District Attorney. But they refused to do it and stood firm and faithful. They have all been tried with false evidence and they have been sentenced to 5 years in the penitentiary. Some of the good women are preparing for birth of children and some have just borne children, and it seemed strange that the judge would stand before them and give them the full penalty of the law. What would happen if they did make concessions! They would go down and never amount to anything in this life or the life to come. I could not help but think about the time in our lives when everything seems dark and we have blue spells is there anyone here that does not pass through those spells! Here is a statement relative to this condition:(-Coming Crisis, Truth, Oct 1939)

"He (the devil) will be so far unshackled and unchained that his power will deceive all nations, even the world. And the elect will barely escape the power of his ,SORGERIES, ENCHANTMENTS, AND MIRACLES: AND EVEN GOD, HIMSELF, THE TRUE GOD WILL CONTRIBUTE TO PUT MEANS AND INSTRURMENTS IN HIS WAY AND AT HAND FOR HIS USE, SO THAT HE CAN HAVE A FULL TRIAL OF HIS STRENGTH AND CUNNING, WITH ALL DECEIVABLENESS OF UNRIGTEOUSNES IN THEM THAT PERISH. --- WHATEVER EXAULTS AND OPPOSES IT'S SELF TO GOD, THAT IS ANTl-CHRIST WHEATHER IT IS A CIVIL OR RELIGIOUS POWER. But the most formidable that will be arrayed against Christ and his Saints in the last day s, will consist in the REVELATIONS OF SATAN These revelations of Satan will come through every medium and channel by which the cunning and power of Satan can be brought ,to bear against the Saints and their Lord"

That is the reason why God has given us the inspired Priesthood, so we can hold to the truth; but the main thing is to get the Spirit of God and keep it These are some of the thoughts running through my mind today I was at one time among these defendants, but I guess it is because I was not good enough to go ahead with them. News of this persecution and prosecution is all over the world. The United States government is on trial, as Joseph said. They have been tried and given the privilege by our Father in Heaven to see what they would do. It they do not repent, they shall really be tried by our Father in heaven. I would like to read. a statement by Willford Woodruft, 1874:

"Can you tell me where the people are who will be shielded and protected frOm these great calamities and judgments which are even now at your doors! I'll tell you THE PRIESTHOOD OF GOD WHO HONOR THEIR PRIESTHOOD. AND WHO .ARE WORTHY OF.THEIR BLESSINGS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO SHALL HAVE THIS SAFETY AND PROTECTION. They are at our very doors: Not even this people will escape them entirely. They will come down like the Judgments on Sodom and Gomorrah. AND NO ONE BUT THE PRIESTHOOD WILL BE ABLE TO ESCAPE. God has held the angels of destruction for many years, least they should reap down the wheat with the tares. But I want to tell you now that those angels have left the portals or heaven, and they stand over this people and this nation now, and hover over the earth waiting to pour out the judgments."

I just wanted to call your attention to these thoughts. Brother Zitting called your. attention to the prophecies made concerning the sifting. If we do not carry on, our children will. I pray the spirit of heaven may be with us. There is just another thought a statement of Brigham Young pertaining to the spirit and power of healing:

"Do you suppose that Jesus Christ healed every person that was sick, or that all the devils were cast out in the country where he sojourned: I do not. Working miracles, healing the sick, raising the dead, and the like, were almost as rare in his day as in this our day. Once in a while the people would have faith in his power, and what is called a miracle would be performed, but the sick, the blind, the deaf and dumb. the crazy all those possessed with different kind, of devils were around him, and only now and then could his faith have power to take effect on account of the want of faith in the individuals".-(J of D. 3:45-46) .

May the Lord bless you and comfort your hearts, is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Song: "Up, Awake Ye Defenders of Zion"

Brother Fred Cleveland

was called upon next to speak and he quoted "Give me liberty or give me death;" and then spoke of the court trials and the progress therein stated that we should go on as we are and do the best we can under the circumstances. He then gave a brief history of the Book of Mormon, and. spoke of how about every 20 years a serious condition arose for the people to be tried and tested, and likened it to conditions of the people and world at this day and age. He mentioned that for years the world, the countries have had kings to rule the and finally some people rebelled against that rule and came to .America where they could think for themselves and then in America trouble arose--the Civil War, the sifting of the righteous and so on to our ,present day. He asked if the Saints would have the courage to stand and be shot at, the courage to go on even if it means the taking of our lives. He said we have got to stand up for God 100%; if we are wearing the garments of the Priesthood, nothing can move us, if we are faithful and true. He said he believed that there will be people among this group that will have faith sufficient to accomplish the Lord's will; asked how many of us can follow the admonition of Brother Woolley when he said, "How many can stand by the rack, hay or no hay?" He said he was not sure that the appeal for the cases on unlawful cohabitation will get before the supreme court and he has his little black bag all packed and ready, but he would much rather stay out of jail and take care of his family; women do strange things when they are separated from their Priesthood. He stated that Lorin Woolley made the statement, "You started this thing, and by the Gods we will finish it."

Brother John Y. Barlow:

Down in Short Creek the other day we got the children to praying for the brethren. who were on trial there and the F.B.I. Wheeled around and got out of there like a shot out of a gun. Over a year ago I saw this condition. I told you a door would be opened for you. How many of you listened to this'? What are we going to do? Are we going to get down on our knees and ask the Lord to help us? When Lorin said "by the Gods" he was not swearing. I think the door will be opened. How many of us get down on our knees and pray? How many are asking the Lord to protect us? Some have prayers night and morning. I do not know what way it is going, but I know I have been terribly depressed for the last three weeks. If we go, the Lord will send us. There is no quitting. Brother Joseph and I are older than some of the rest that are in it. Some say they wish. they were in it with us. They can just let us out. I would rather take care of my family. Just like when I was a boy and Father said he was going to give me a whipping; I was not hunting for that whipping .If we would. live up to the wonderful the prophecies. Just like Brigham Young said, "Dedicate all you have to the Lord. I would like some of you to live out doors what you pray indoors . Some of us dedicate all we have to the Lord. and then say you do not know whether you can live without this or that. The Lord has brought into our hands means we never thought of. better than $16,000 has been donated to us. and we do not know where it has all came from. If they had taken one of us at a time, they could not have reached us, but when they took all of us at once, it is harder on us. I do not worry over us men; but I do worry over the sisters, If they keep going the same way they have been doing, they will not take any notice of the facts. It is just plain conspiracy of the Church and government, from the top to the bottom. One of the brethren said that we cannot expect much here, but if we can get it to the Supreme Court we can expect some consideration. If we do, very well and good; if we do not, very well. If we do our best, that is all we can do. I do not feel very trembly in the knees, but they say where there is no sense there is no feeling. But I am not afraid. I tell you, everyone of you, to go and ask the Lord to help us. He said He would fight our battles if we keep His commandments. I love this people; there are some good people here. Some try to do right and some are handicapped. Some say, "Oh well, we will see about it tomorrow. I often think of the poem where the man said he was too busy until he called on the Lord for help, and. then the Lord said He was too busy. If we do what is right--"if ye do what I say I am bound." I am not as scared of going to jail as I am of what they will do with our families. If they do one thing, they will not stop at anything. May God bless you and keep you in His care, and may we always strive to do what right. Talk about compromising! It is not the people that they are after, it is the law we are living. It is God they are fighting. They are rejecting God. May God's blessings be with us and may we ever strive to be prayerful and hope for the best and prepare for the worst, and take joy in what follows, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Closing Song: "Our God We Raise to Thee"

Benediction! Brother Axel Fors.

LJAllred.

MINUTES OF MUTUAL 2157 Lincoln Avenue December 17, 1944 Preliminary Program 1st Song Page 134, "Tradition &Error in Battle Array" Invocation: Charles Zitting 2nd Song: Page 295 "Dear to the Heart of the Shepherd" In Charge: Lyman Jessop Participations 1.· Axel Fora spoke on the subject-- Mechanics in the Kingdom of God--One who puts together 2., Dr. Edward J Atterean sang •• "A sleep in the Deep" "Old Man River" by Jerome Kenn Classes ADULTS CLASS Rulon Allred teaching Subject: Promise to Abraham JUNIOR CLASS••Sister Cook COMPENIDUM CLASS •• Dell Timpson Re –Assembly Remarks: Dr. Atterean Sang: Near My God to Thee Battle Hymn of the Republic Closing song; Choir and Congregation sang •• "Hosanna Anthem" Benediction: Alfred Olschewski * Dr. Atterean was given a blessing at the hand of J W. Musser. He was promised help from the Lord in his effort to help his .people. He was given .great promises upon condition that he remain true to the trust imposed on him.

Minutes of the General Meeting held Sunday, December 24, 1944 at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln St., Salt Lake City, Utah, at 2:00 p.m. Pres. John Y. Barlow presided and conducted. 1st Song: "Guide Us, 0 Thou Great Jehovah" Prayer: Brother Lyman Jessop 2nd Song: "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief"

Brother Carl Holm, Jr.

We have accepted the fullness of the Gospel, and how far we go depends upon our actions. I know much is expected of us. All the principles of the Gospel, from the least to the very highest, are given to us and I pray that we all may grow to love the Gospel with all our might, mind and strength. Expressed his joy in associating with the saints hoped none would be locked up but if the Lord wills that that time should come he hoped we could bear it with patience and love and say "Thy will be done."

Brother Marvin Allred sang: "Awake, Ye Defenders of Zion"

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

I have been thinking lately about the statement that was made by BrotherMarion Hammon in one of our meetings that remains with me to this day,· and I hope it always shall. He said, There is only one decision you will have to make when you become connected with this work, and that is to devote your life, your family and your possessions to the work of God. Put all your eggs in one basket and then go forth. That's the last decision you will have to make --and I have found that to be true. Whenever it has come up in my life since I made that decision as to what I should do and which way I should go in my activities, my decision has already been made for me long before." Cited the incident of being arrested and his boss trying to persuade him to have a separate trial and separating himself from the group and his saying, But that decision was made five years ago. I am not making any decision now, and I am not deserting my brethren. Likewise when it comes to decisions in my daily work as to what I should do. It has already been made I don't have to worry. Since I decided to devote all my life and possessions and income to this work, my what a relief! I don't have to worry about financial problems any more. It is all taken care of for me. I don't have to worry about setting aside 10% of this or that. I know where every dollar goes -one place. It is wonderful. I recommend it to you. There is just one place for every word, thought, every bit you have in life, your family and loved ones they are all dedicated to the service of God think that is what is meant by the commandment, thou shalt love the Lord with all thy might, mind and strength. Until we come to the point where we can say all we have is the Lord's, we are just sitting on the fence. So, I will say again. I don't want to hear the term of 'tithing' applied to me any more in this work. I don't want any more half measure about the social relationships in life. I don't want there to be any question about which way we stall go, as there is only one way and God help me to keep in that path I pray in Jesus Christ's name, Amen."

Brother Wayne Hunter bore bis testimony.

Brother J. W. Musser:

I have enjoyed the remarks of our brethren and their attitude. I am glad Brother Barlow is back from the South with us again. I don't expect he will be with us long, however, as he is giving more careful attention to the work in the southern part of the State. I know we shall be glad to hear from him. This is a select group of people. A group which has come out of the Church --not left the Church, but come out of it. Brigham Young explained the Kingdom of God was an organization that came out of the Church. The Church was the beginning of the Kingdom and after it survived for a certain length of time the Kingdom was organized from those who had been identified with the Church. We more particularly represent the Kingdom at the· present time, although we do not. concede the statement that we are out of the Church. The Church of the Lamb of God is .comprised of those members who are seeking to keep the commandments of God and who are willing to live the fullness of the Gospel as it has been revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith and to the Prophets of God. For we don't intend to surrender our 1eadership, our membership, in that Church. I recall the fact that just a few days ago some of the brethren came to my son with a paper to sign asking the Church to take his name off the roll. He didn't sign it and told them he wouldn't sign it, and the men who brought the document told him they didn't blame him, they wouldn't either. We are not asking that our names be taken from the roll. We are asking that the roll be modified or rather purified, and that the Church reaccept the Gospel as it was first revealed. Under those conditions we would be glad to join and say that the teachings are sustained. We would be glad to help to .build up the Church when the Church is ready to accept the fullness of the truth. But we are not asking for a privilege of leaving the Church. This is God's Church. We do we don't want to leave God. It is the Church of Jesus Christ, and we don't want to leave Jesus Christ. People have asked us why don't we come out in rebellion against the Church since the Church has started these legal proceeding. We are not coming out in rebellion against the Lord Jesus Christ, and this is His church. We are trying to remain true and steadfast and are trying to defend by ourselves the best we can. We are not vindictive. We are just asking them for the privilege to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience. That is all we are asking for. That is all we want. We don't care whether John Jones or Ben Brown or anyone else believes the principle of plural marriage is true; but we want them to let us believe and to leave us alone in our belief That is all we have asked of them, and we feel it is a very reasonable request. And yet we don't want to be left alone because if we were left alone we would begin to weaken and would begin to lose if we did not have to suffer persecution. So we don't want them to leave us. alone, and yet we invite them to for their own sakes. For while it is necessary that these woes come upon us, woe, woe to those that bring them upon us. We are being promoted. We are being eulogized by the powers of heaven. We are being built up and given attention that we should be proud of. We should enjoy these things, but the poor, miserable scapegoats that bring these things upon us are the ones who will suffer throughout the eternities unless they repent and make good here in their mortality. We are celebrating today the anniversary of the Prophet Joseph Smith one of the members of the Godhead. If we would make that statement in the Tabernacle, We would be hissed down, but we happen to know that that is true. It is one of the principles of life and salvation that has been taught to us, that he represents one of the figures in the Godhead, the Trinity. He is the Testator and Witness. He represents and is in the office of the Holy Ghost. Those things are not generally known or considered by our people, and yet they have been taught to us ever since the Lord revealed himself to the Prophet Joseph. They have been taught to us all through the Bible and Book of Mormon; if we would stop and listen that is the only conclusion we could cone to. Some people have rather criticized the Prophet Joseph --or rather, under estimated --his bigness, his powers, by placing above him Brigham Young who was the great pioneer leader into this valley. Brigham Young was a great man. He was raised up by the Lord at a time when his talents were particularly needed and after the Lord had decided that people were not worthy of the continued association of the Prophet Joseph. Joseph had moved above them, gone beyond them, and so a lesser prophet was given. Brigham Young came upon the scene and he led the people out here under the direction of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Brigham Young's inspiration was a reflection of the Prophet, and the Prophet received the fullness of the Gospel. The Lord revealed to him the full plan of salvation, and those associated with the Prophet got these things from his lips. Brigham Young was with him day after day and received instructions from him. John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and others of our leading brethren were with the Prophet and heard his instructions from time to time, so that whatever they received came from the fountain-head of truth. Joseph received them from his father, and his older brother, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he conveyed that information to those other men who followed him in the Priesthood succession. Joseph's mind was not on the little trinkets that we see in the 5¢ and lot stores. They say he wasn't a businessman. His mind was upon the planets, of which this is one. He has travelled beyond the atmosphere. Before he died he was communicating with those on the other side such as Enoch and others who had been translated. He had overcome the elements here to that extent that be walked across the Missouri River when there was no other way to get across to meet his appointment He went one evening and met with the Quorum of Apostles who were then stationed in England to give them certain instruction and to straighten out certain conditions among them, and he was back here the next day. He didn't go by a boat, but by the power of faith and by the power of the Holy Priesthood --by which way when we have become perfected as he was perfected by which we will travel from place to place. "The time will be when we will be expected to go from one place to another. We will go by power of faith that comes to us through the Priesthood of God through our diligence in keeping the commandments of God --and Joseph had accomplished all these things. "When he couldn't go to a certain person and administer to him, he blessed his handkerchief and gave it to Brother Woodruff and said, 'Wipe his face with it and he will be healed.' He had the power of God here in this mortal sphere. He was not troubled by a lot of these things that trouble mortal men at this time He was the greatest man that had ever been born in the earth, save only Jesus. Christ, and he retains that position. "John Taylor said he didn't know who Joseph was until the last few hours before his death in Carthage Jail when the Prophet said, .'1 am going to take that place among the Gods and then it began to. dawn on John Taylor This man was only 39 years old. What place did he have among the Gods? The place that was appointed to him before he came here -",the place that he occupied in the spirit world. When he was teaching us and was gathering the great army against Lucifer who had rebelled against God. He had that position at that time and knew the forces opposed to him; and he knew where he belonged and he was now about to go back and leave this people who had in a large measure ignored him and refused to abide by his leadership and counsel, and go into an atmosphere where he could do more towards guiding the people and Kingdom than be could by remaining here in mortality. Joseph Smith was a wonderful man, and yet he was a mortal and had his weaknesses, as we are mortal. He said, I am going to break down this sectarian idea of religion, and he did break it down. He didn't hesitate-when a preacher came up and looked at him 'Is this the great Prophet Joseph Smith? He doesn't look like a prophet to me.' He didn't hesitate to challenge him to a wrestle, and to-banish him away, because the fellow couldn't receive that kind of a sentiment from a prophet. He thought he should be growing wings with feathers But Prophets have greater power than wings to give us. "There was one time in Kirtland when the whole Church practically apostatized and when they accused the prophet of apostatizing. They said they were all right but the prophet had apostatized. There weren't twenty people who said the Prophet Joseph was a true prophet. Heber C. Kimball said there weren't twenty people in the earth who would say he was a prophet out of a church membership of 20,000. And Heber C. Kimball and Brigham Young were the only two who stayed with him. Joseph had to leave Kirtland to keep from being killed at that time. He had to go to Missouri to see what he could do there to bolster up the people and then when he had finished his mission he went back to Kirtland and back to Missouri. He was on trial before the courts 46 times. We have been on trial a few times; but he was on trial 46 times. He was arrested over 50 times. We want the Prophet we want his life, "Laws can't get him, won't reach him but powder and lead will" and that is the way they finally decided to reach him with powder and lead which they did. "This is still his work. He is at the head of it. Brigham Young didn't plan the passage out here, as great a man as he was. Joseph Smith led them out here.· Joseph Smith investigated this great country, as it has grown to be. at the present time. I guess there was no more faithful man to the Prophet than Brigham Young. and yet we have got -to learn this one truth that-this and Joseph stands at the head of one of the dispensations with his peculiar and particular mission. And it is Joseph Smith that we will look to-to let us through the pearly gates, as we call them, instead of Peter. We will have to pass such men as Lorin C. Wooley, Brother Broadbent, John W. Woolley before we can ever get to where Joseph, is, and when we reach him (if he passes us) we will get higher and higher. Joseph is one of the Godhead. He represents the Holy Ghost. He isn't the Holy Ghost, but he regulates that power. He is the witness and testator of the world. These are some of the missions, some of the prerogatives of God. l want to say this before closing, that we must never think lightly of that name. All those who sustain the Prophet. The other day one of our Stake Presidency still, of course, in good standing in the Church, made this statement. He said if Joseph Smith hadn't been over sexed we would never have had the principle of plural marriage given to us. Now, that man unless he repents he is going to hell. He will never go into the high exaltation that his father has evidently gone into, because he was a good man and he lived the fullness of the Gospel, but this man and any of us, brethren and sisters, who make that kind of reflection with reference to the Prophet Joseph Smith or the Prophet Brigham Young or John Taylor or any other Prophet of God that ever were or ever will be on the earth unless we repent we will go to hell because those kind of expressions are not from God, and are not from angels of God but are from Lucifer and his angels. They are from darkness and those who speak in favor of the, prophet, sustaining him, every time they. open their mouths in that respect they will be stronger and will grow and increase in wisdom and knowledge., I give you that as a key, that if you want to grow and increase and to get the light of truth, if you want to get a testimony from the Lord in reference to .certain things, get behind the Prophet Joseph Smith and sustain him in everything that he did and you will get that much nearer to the Lord. That is where strength will come from. God bless you, Amen."

Brother J. Y. Barlow:

l have been greatly edified today, both in Sunday School and in meeting. I am glad to get back among the people here again, but I can say that we have a class of people down there that's living and keeping the commandments of God and they have a very wonderful spirit. I was greatly taken up today with what Brother Rulon said. When we make up our mind we are going to keep the commandments of God, there is only one decision we will have to make. If we do that, God will bless us and we will be at ease. If we don't do that, we are on the sideline, afraid of following on through. l know the Gospel is true. There are a great many in this house who knows the Gospel is true. Talk about the principle of celestial marriage If it hadn't been for that principle, we wouldn't be here. The greatest persecution that ever came before the world, came with that principle. They hadn't had anything to test the people before that. My grandfather and great grandfather went through the persecution in Missouri and my grandfather was getting away from the mobs .when he went to Nauvoo. And then a man here has the audacity to say that we are not "fundamentalists " ·but are just a few who have accepted the Gospel, when most of us here, or a great many of us, have been with the Church our parents and grandparents have been in it ever since it was organized. But they don't hurt us any. I have said many times, it isn't their lies that hurt us, but the "little truths" that hurt us. I can well remember the underground days. I can remember men hiding at our home and women being taken across. I remember Uncle John Woolley telling of a case where he went to Grantsville with a "Woman who gave birth to a child on the way and he had to attend to her himself. How many of you have read the pamphlet that Ellis got out? Get it and follow up the trials and tribulations they went through. We haven't gone through anything like that yet. What we will go through I don't know, but I do know this if you are humble and prayerful a door will be opened and we will be relieved -' If we don't get humble and prayerful, what will be the result? The Lord will whip us until we do. You take today in the Church, many of these brethren who are of the pure blood of Israel and they will have to take punishing until even their enemies would weep. Now, if we want to miss some of that, it is by coming up and doing what Brother Rulon said today. What good is money, anyway, if it isn't to the end of building up the Kingdom of God? President Young said he heard one of the Apostles say: 'Never use another dollar or dime of your money to build up the kingdom of the world, but use it to build up the Kingdom of God. "We have been taught we will never go to Jackson County unless we go back under the celestial law. That means we will not go back there unless we live that law. We can't get back without. Why do we hang back? You can't tell me that a man who is trying to live that law won't get farther than one who isn't. I ask God to bless you and start things. If you will make up your minas what you are going to do and what you aren't going to do. No one can force you. Using force is on the Devil's ground. Now, we are not trying to force and we are not asking to force, but we plead with you, brothers and sisters, to be humble and prayerful and don't forget that the Lord is watching over you and He knows our conditions and He knows our hearts and he is going to judge our hearts "God bless you, Amen." Closing Song: "Praise to the Man" Benediction: Brother otto Olschewski MLAllred