MINUTES

Sacrament Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 7, 1945 at 2: 00 :p.m.

Brother Joseph W. Musser presided and conducted.

1st Song: "O Ye Mountains High" Prayer: .Brother Wm. Chatwin 2nd Song: "Behold, the Great Redeemer Died" Sacrament administered by: Arnold Boss and Axel Fors, assisted by Otto Olschewski and Brother Monfranz, Otto Olschewski in charge.

Brother Musser:

All who have partaken of the sacrament have entered into a covenant with the Lord and with each other, that you will keep His commandments. I am going to ask Brother Rulon Allred to read an excerpt from one of our books. It is a comment on Brother Ivins position wherein he wanted to stop the fullness of the Gospel and also on the General Authorities as to their responsibility in the matter (from'Supp1anent to New and. Everlasting Covenant of Marriage" p. 151-155):.

Brother Allred read:

"To suppose, then, that the expectation of President Ivins, as ex­pressed in his letter to the effect that the "Civil law will enter this question (of polygamous living) making the lives of these people more miserable than they already are, for said he further, "that appears to be the only manner that the Civil law can in the slightest manner circumvent the work of God and "stay" his decrees, .is, no less than foolish imagination. .And we say further, "GOD PITY PRESIDENI IVINS IF HE REALLY HAS IT IN HIS HEART TO STAY THE SYSTEM".

In the light of this carefully worded statement of President Ivin s, one might be pardoned for suspecting that he has been selected to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of one of the leaders, whose duty it was to have the Saints spied upon, and assist in-·directing the prosecution of those believed to be living the Patriarchal order of marriage, yet surely such could not be true of him who 1s credited with· having done so much in Mexico, toward keeping that principle alive, after the Woodruff Manifesto was thought to have killed

President Grant expressed the same thought; said he ' I shall rejoice when the government officials put a few of these 'best blood', as you call them, (speaking of modern sincere polygan1sts) in the county jail or the state Penitentiary.'

The Lord has spoken; the verdict is rendered. How, you leaders of Ephraim, continue your ruthless hounding at the peril of your salvation. God will not be mocked.

As servants of the Lord, and in authority the Holy Priesthood and in the name of Jesus Christ, we bear the solemn testimony that unless you and this people speedily repent you will forfeit your anticipated blessings and be visited by the wrath of Almighty God, Those judgments are already sweeping the earth with destruction.;

J. L. BROADBENT

J. W. MUSSER."

Testimonies borne Neils Hansen

Brother Monfranz (Isaiah, Ch. 24)

Robert Shrewsbury Carl Fischer to curse, when inspired by heaven. As God lives this nation will be tried and you will find great judgments will be brought upon this nation and things will be so bad that they will not have time to think of this people, the judgments will be so great, and it ,will not be very many months. This is my testimony and witness to you, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Testimonies borne by: Irene Christensen Heber C. Kimball Ethel Jessop Lyman Jessop Pansie Darger Leona J. Allred Alfred Olschewski Norma Cook Ianthus Barlow Martha Doelling Rachel Zitting Marreta Cook Sr. Heber Chase Kimball Laura Barlow Ruth Jessop Axel Fors

Brother, Jos. W. Musser:

I was told to be home at 4:00 0' clock. It is a ticklish position I am in I guess I can wiggle out of it some way. I wish to announce that Brother Wm. Stokes has been called to labor in the office that Brother Jeffs is now in. He is to bless the sick, rebuke diseases, and anything that the call in the Priesthood be holds calls for. He is a good mm. Brother Jeffs is a good man. I would like to see you call upon these men When you need blessings. The members of the Council are hard to get at. Brother John is down south a great deal of the time; Brother Zitting is busy out of town and I am very busy. I would like to see the Saints call on these two men. I have been edified in this meeting. The prayer that I offer up is that when these judgments begin to fall upon this people that I will be, able to stand up under the strain because the horror of it, the terror of it will be hard. to endure. Very few of us will be able to endure. I hope to be able to endure. These prophesies that have been read, they will all be fulfilled. The Lord is going to vindicate His Word; these things are going to come to pass. Every word that has been given by His servants will be fulfilled. It behooves us as Latter Day Saints to carry this out and may the Lord help us to do that. And may He help those who come under His judgments and damnation that they may be put out of their misery fast.

Closing Song: "The Spirit of God Like A Fire" Prayer: Brother Chas. F. Zitting LJAllred.

Minutes of the General Meeting held Sunday, Jan. 14, 1945 at 2:00 p.m. in the Priesthood Home, at 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah Pres. John Y. Barlow presided and conducted. 1st Song : "When First the Glorious Light of Truth" Prayer: Lyman Jessop 2nd Song: "Zion Stands with Hills Surrounded"

Brother Ed. Christiansen:

1 am grateful beyond expression of' words for the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ that has come into my life, for the fu1nes: of the Gospel that has been put forth in the earth through the instrumentality of the Prophet Joseph Smith, for great men and women whom the Lord has permitted to come to the earth through various stages who have not been ashamed or afraid to keep the principles of Jesus Christ alive. I am thankful for my association with men who are now living who are not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and afraid to give all they have. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ or the testimony of the fullness of the Gospel, and it is my one desire to obey my Father in Heaven, to keep His commandments and to teach these principles to the children of men so far as it is in my power to do so. There isn't anything in the world that compares to the truth. There isn't anything in the world that will give you exaltation in the presence of our Father than strict obedience to the laws of the Gospel. The fullness of the Gospel must be adhered to and not just the first principles. We mustn't stop at the beginning principles, but have the urge to go on and receive all the laws which the Lord has given us and live them and render obedience to those laws .Then if we endure well and to the end, we will receive a crown in His glory.--but that promise is only unto those who endure it well and endure to the end. I love to read and contemplate upon the lives of great men who have accomplished lived in the earth --prophets of God who have been here and accomplished their mission and gone on to their glory I:love to read of the life of our Savior the short time that he tarried and the great lesson that be gave down to the children of men. I like to read about the lives of the great prophets who lived in the Book of Mormon and who suffered everything that could be suffered and tolerated everything that could be tolerated. There are men in this very room in this house who would suffer those very things.. Remember the men in those days who were so filled with the spirit of God that they suffered their children and wives to be burned at the stake? Have we that courage? I ask myself that question every day. I know not from one day to the next what is going to happen or what price I might have to pay. It is the priesthood we bear that is fighting against the priesthood of Satan. Let's go on and on and on. Let's never shake hands with the adversary. Let's overthrow anti-Christ. That's your and my mission in the earth. This is my testimony to you, that I love the truth, I hope that I can live each day that the Lord God will bless me with His spirit that I will never want to shrink or shirk. Read the 48th Chapter of Alma and think about it. What a great character It is a glorious privilege to be associated with these brethren, the Priesthood Counsel. We don't appreciate it. We don't know who these men are. It is a privilege beyond all utterance to be worthy to be in their presence and receive counsel and instruction from under their hands. May God bless them, inspire them and keep them in the earth as long as they have a mission and may I honor and uphold them as long as I have breath in my body. May we all have that love in our hearts and determination in our souls to go on and on and on, I ask in the name-of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Brother Clarence Wayman:

Said he had enjoyed the remarks of Brother Ed, that he believed all of what he had said to be true that he considered it a privilege to be in association with these men, was thankful to be counted among this people and hoped that some day he could count in bringing forth the Gospel and setting up His kingdom here on the earth. Bore his testimony as to the truthfulness of the Gospel.

Brother J. Marion Hammon:

I am grateful to be with you again. I feel very incapable of speaking to you today. Brother Joseph before meeting made some intimation that I might be called on to speak today and it scared me. To be called upon extemporaneously doesn't bother me. Brother Barlow told us down south that when he was called upon to speak he would like to be furnished a glass of water. Maybe he will be so kind here. I met a girl in 1927 and we were finally married. I met her again the other day and brought her with me on this trip. I am grateful for her association. I often think of the short-sightedness of our prosecutors how incapable they are of seeing the true values of life; and those of us who have women around us who in the capacity of Sarah of old who are filled with integrity, long – suffering and patience, who know no quit, who are just as brave as any man – have and insight that most people hear about but never see. Our capacities to understand and appreciate the Gospel until we bring ourselves to a position where we are willing to live it. We may understand some of its beauties, but only after we apply those principles to our lives do they become part of us. This world can never overcome the sin that is preying upon it until virtue replaces those sins, and there is nothing in the world that is very stimulating to and individual that desires good things: and that is the position that I think Latter–day Saints are in today, that they must desire the work of God. We might brush elbows with people every day who are trying to appreciate it, but it won't make any difference in our lives until we make the same effort. I have sought to ask Him to help me overcome the things that were displeasing to me, and I have found that He has blessed me with a desire to overcome these things, and when I am blessed with the desire to overcome it, I have been successful. But when I try to overcome a thing that I don't want to overcome, I have a mighty hard time to do it. The work of God is certainly rolling on. In my labor, for a long time I have enjoyed a good spirit -a good feeling –practically all the time. The thing that I am alluding to is that so often we go for a week or a month and then the Devil sits upon us and it practically takes us apart. But I have been free from that influence for a long time. Brother Barlow came down a week or so ago and said I should prepare my affairs to come up here; and just as soon as I tried to set my affairs in order all hell broke loose. I went to Cedar City and procured the things I wanted and went out to turn the switch in my car and couldn't turn the switch. It was about 5:30 and I couldn't get it started and worked at it for at least an hour. All the stores I had my things in were closed. I had been in such a dither and realized I would have to wait and stayed in Cedar City overnight. I found it a blessing in disguise, however as the next morning up drove Theral and Beck and in tow minutes Beck had the key unlocked and in that day I accomplished more than in any tree previous or since, and I know the Lord very often jacks us up and sets us down like we do a little child we want to have pay attention., I love to hear Brother Christiansen speak. It isn't so much, to me, what he says as the feeling he shows with it. I love to associate with men and women who love the Gospel. If they love the Gospel, they will try to make it part of their lives. I am grateful for the part of work I am associated with. We look at the future and are incapable sometimes of seeing the things that are in store for us, and I have looked in the future, straining to see something that we might expect. This last week I have seen something that I hadn't realized in a tangible way. We people are in a school, and as we meet morning and night our minds are open to suggestions and we are open to let men speak to us about personal affairs that under normal circumstances we should say are not their concern. As soon as you leave yourself open for mutual improvement, therein comes your growth. I have watched our men. I have been anxious to see the things manifested in them that would show just how courageous they were in their mental outlook on life; and I believe this past month has shown this to me better than I have ever seen it before. I had an experience along in December that was quite trying to us. One of our brethren was having some troubles of his own and I was disposed in my frame of mind and in my association that I would like to have criticized him and set him up straight but knew his integrity and knew he was as solid as any man I have ever seen, and so I thought, no, I will let him alone and see what he does. Night before last he called me off to the side and said I want to talk to you. The Lord has given me a good whipping. And in have come to realize that my course of conduct has not been right. And in that moment that man consecrated that thing to the up building of the Kingdom of God that to my mind is the greatest of all --his feelings. We see men with riches and talents, but when a man comes and lays his feeling upon the alter, there is something rich and beautiful about it, and that is something that you before you have embraced the principle of consecration must do. You may think, you sisters, that when you entered the celestial marriage that you went through the Garden of Gethsemane, but I find that this life is full of those gardens and every one seem to be more big and beautiful than the past one and every one of us have additional consecrations to make to the Lord. Brother Wayman said that we hope for the time when the Lord would come and set forth His Kingdom. I haven't known Brother Wayman very well, but I will just ask him, and you can reflect it –Brother Clarence, just how much are you doing for its establishment? If you mothers and families want a new home, you will go to almost any end to make some added means and strain every fiber of their bodies to get it, But are you making the same effort to establish the Kingdom of God? I'll tell you I know as I live and breathe the Kingdom of God will never be established and handed to a people until they are willing to groom it and keep it going. I know as you know the Kingdom of God will be established by power by the hand of God. Because no man is able to do it

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get every man doing it, and what have you got? A unity. I see those conditions, and it is growing and our brethren are beginning to expand and grow. We have a herd of people that is wearing our lives out. We are short of hay and I went back to Short Creek and asked Brother Roy and certain others and told the men our problem and told Joe to leave tomorrow morning at four o' clock with such and such and go up to Witdsoe and find Brother Steed and Dockstader, and that's all I said. Joe was asked if he bad any means. He said; No but I am going. He didn't stand· around and wait. I found that after he got up there he found means that the way was opened. How many of you older men are going to have some of these boys come along and take your place? Joe knew what he was doing. He knew he would get through. He hasn't been down there all this time for nothing Think it over Why wish the Lord would do something? Let us do something Show us the way to do something to bring some of these things into your lives that I know you are missing. I know practically all of you and am familiar with most of your trials and problems and wish I could do something to help you to give you an increase and be dependent upon the Lord instead of being so dependent upon your job. I desire to see this here people unite. I desire to see you in such a frame of mind you could turn your back on that city and never look upon, it again unless you were called. Could you women trust yourselves to wearing flat-heeled shoes? Could you trust yourself to put a scarf over your head instead of a hat? Could you men place yourself in a circumstance where you had a storehouse and a common buyer to get your things for you? When the united order is fully established, families will have considerable liberty, but have you ever wondered what it was going to take to school you for that liberty? When men become Gods they will have to preside over their families and they will rule on broad latitude. But they will have to be schooled and disciplined. As I understand it, Jackson County will be established by people who enjoy considerable liberty but who have been schooled in discipline that they will not break the law and ordinances of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I .know from my own experience that it takes considerable schooling and experience to keep from being selfish and greedy unknowingly that we tread on other people's sacred rights. If men are willing to apply themselves, I don't think one will possess that which is above that of another. I know I had a lot of training in trying to beat the other fellow to the draw and in my trying to school myself to let him draw first quite a change If we love each other, we will rejoice in each other's prosperity. Let's really prepare ourselves to keep the commandments of God. People in the Church are trying to buy their way to heaven with their money and think if they pay their tithing they can do anything. In the car coming up, I believe Brother Holm was speaking and-telling of a sister who said she had to go to Sacrament meeting and stay at least for roll call so that the record would be all right. People are paying their tithing so that the record will be right. I mean the portion that are doing it. How many of us are just trying to keep our record clean? You go before the magistrates of this earth and all they can look at is the record, but you go before the priesthood and eventually Christ and they might put the record aside and look right into you and never open the book. I was grateful for this last issue of· TRUTH. It brought something right out into the open that I had been trying to bring into the open for some time. That front page article in this last issue of ,TRUTH delivered by John Taylor, I think you will find on the 2nd page in the first column a little description of dishonesty, and if we have dedicated our talents and don't keep it, isn't it a reflection upon our honesty? Think it over. If there is anything that puts a sting on a man it is having him feel when he thinks he is honest to cast a little reflection that he isn't. When I read that article, I thought -there it is. We will just have to take it, and I looked into myself and thought of some of the things I have just let by. Some of those little things that you let slip, and I thought, how honest am I? How equal a break am I giving my brethren? And I have had give myself some real schooling not to abuse that privilege I have made mistakes, but am not concerned about those, but am concerned about the things I have done willfully. I pray the Lord will help us to see and knows these things. We have got to learn how to study the Gospel. We hear ,men shout and pray, but what are they doing about it? These people here in this room are the ones who will have to practice it. We are the ones who has got to live it. Look into your own lives. I have said enough, I know. May God strengthen us, ask in Jesus' name, Amen."

Brother J. W. Musser:

Brother Marion has given us some good keys towards improvement. The other brethren have given us the Gospel. l was asked the other (day by a party from Chicago, Just in a few words what are your aims in addition to those mentioned in the newspaper? He was referring to this group of people --the people particularly who are under sentence in the court, etc., and we are having a great many of those inquiries coming to us from people all over the country, Puerto Rico, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and other smaller places. We are trying to educate them to the thought that we are working for a definite system-- a definite religious thought. First, we want religious freedom. We don't want the privilege of practicing any religious thought that will interfere with the .rights of others, but we insist upon our own rights. One of those rights is the right of woman to motherhood. Men have not stopped to consider that situation enough. They have no trouble in their rights to fatherhood as a rule. A great many of them are too small to exercise their rights of fatherhood, but we insist and that is in a sense the crux of our position the right of every normal woman that God has placed in the world to become a mother --at least to take the steps to become a mother They would not all become mothers, because some are not given that privilege by nature, but that is the right of everyone. Now, we insist upon that. We insist upon the right of worshipping, God according to the dictates of our conscience They say, If you insist upon that, you will go to jail. 'Yes, that's right --Peter, ,Paul and James went to jail . My father went to jail and lots of your fathers went to jail. What for? For the privilege of asserting our rights to serving God according to the dictates of our own conscience What is the legislature up here doing up here .at the present time? They should be wondering about creating just laws --laws that will protect not only their kind but our kind There should not be men in the legislature who are so small but that they would fight for my rights. Joseph Smith said the only trouble with the Constitution of the United States is that it that the people were not prepared at that time to accept the fullness of God's inspiration and the. Constitution is weak. in that it does not compel the leaders of the nation or the leaders of a city or county to do their duty. When Van Buren at the time he was appealed to by the Prophet of God to help when he said, 'Your cause is just but I can do nothing for you. If I take up your cause I will lose the vote of Missouri. It does not say to him 'You have cast your own die and are to be hung tomorrow' The Constitution should provide the death penalty for any public official who does not protect the rights of those under him. I don't care who it is, the Salvation Army, Holy Roller, every human being no matter how small or poor has human rights --rights that must be protected; and if our legislature will not protect our rights, then they will have to be handled by the Lord God Almighty, because He is taking up our fight for us. Brother Marion has given us some good points on the way they are doing things in Short Creek. We are not doing them just the same way here, and the inference is drawn out that perhaps some of our people prefer their jobs, etc. Well, we need the jobs up here, Brother Marion. It has cost us $17,000.00 so far to date on this legal affair, and one of our brethren who is making good money says, I wish I could quit my job. I wish I could go to Short Creek. Your work is right here we need you -your income is too great a help to us at the present time. We need you here. He is contributing a great deal toward the legal situation, and we have to take those things into account. We are not getting the thorough training that the saints are getting down in Short Creek and we may have to send them down there to get that training. It is a question and has always .been a question of the. United Order being established and fully reached in these populated districts. Brigham Young, and John Taylor said it couldn't be done and to go into out-lying districts where there is a unity of purpose, where they can be one and enjoy it and can go under that discipline if necessary in order to bring about the cooperative plan. I hope that the saints here will get a good suggestion that has been told them in Brother Marion's talk. I think we can all get closer together. We can all improve in our cooperative spirit in our expenditure of money Most of us are spending too much money --we have too many luxuries. We want butter too much, and there isn't any but who has a few points to get their money. The time will come when we will have cows to furnish our butter, but we will have to have hay to feed it I think the brethren have done wonderfully down there. We are running a saw mill, running sheep, running turkeys, developing land in various districts --developing water etc., and up to date I think that we have done wonderfully. Our people have not suffered from want of food. Sometimes they may feel they are not clothed as well as the saints up here, but we don't hear any grumbling from them. When I have been down there, there has been a feeling of very deep gratitude. We wouldn't go back to our old homes in Salt Lake, Ogden, etc., for anything in the world. When they feel like that they are satisfied --at least in a large measure. The Lord is blessing them with that degree of satisfaction that enables them to go on and improve their lives. We are out for the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, as has been stated by Brother Christiansen, Brother Wayman. It's The Kingdom of God or Nothing.' Each of us has the facility, power, authority; to establish the Kingdom of God in our own homes, and when the Kingdom is established in our own home, when we have our own children, wives, our own families under proper control it will be an easy thing for the Lord to amalgamate us and bring us to gather. It is each family that has got to get in tune. I remember when Brother Nibley gave that wonderful address on the law of united order. He had been a very rich man; he lost everything. He speculated in sugar and instead of having the inspiration of the Lord with him (he was a Bishop in the Church) he wanted to buy and build more factories, and instead of the price of sugar staying up to 26¢, it went down to 4¢ and stock went down in value so his holdings were wiped out, He spoke on the united order and how necessary it was for the progression of the saints. Some days later, one of the brothers said I didn't .know Bro . Nibley was that near broke. He said, I am nearly ready but still have a pig. That is still the attitude of most of the people --but until we do make the effort to dedicate everything., we are not making progress. The easiest thing in the world is the law of Jesus Christ. The Lord said, My burdens are light and those who take up the burden will find it very light but those who try to take up the burden of Satan with the yoke of Christ will find it very heavy. That's the trouble with most of us. I was. impressed with Bro Lee, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve (if and when he becomes an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ he will know a good deal more than be knows now) in his statements published in the January 13, issue of the Deseret News. The laws contained in the Gospel are God's laws. They are not to be changed or modified to suit the whims of individual and are designed to promote our souls --- Brother Lee told the truth here. That's what we have been trying to tell the brethren for years., We have been running the TR1JTH magazine for 10 years and have enlarged upon these truths. The ordinances cannot be changed They are eternal. They are laughing at us because we have assumed the name that they gave us we believe in the fundamental Gospel of Jesus Christ as was given to us by the Prophet Joseph Smith and in their cringing and doubting way they call us cultists. We. are cultists, they, are cultists, but they want to heap upon us insult and injury if they can and so they call us cultists. Those men who believe in the Gospel as the Lord revealed it through Joseph Smith are guilty of:-a terrible crime --they all ought to go to a jail (men and women) and their children should be taken away from them because they are "Fundamentalists". We believe in fundamentals. We believe in the Gospel as God gave it through the Prophet Joseph, Brigham and John Taylor. We believe it and are going to stay by it. We don't care what they do. That is, I hope we don't. I hope we will all have the courage to stand by it and hope they will vindicate this cause of ours before the Supreme Court of the United states. Letters are going to the President of the United States and he can 't do anything until the case left the Supreme Court. We have at least two cases on the way now so that they have enough to test the situation out. They have five major cases there and we are in the hands of the Lord. If the nation doesn't vindicate these Latter-day Saints who are placing their all upon the alter, the nation will be broken into pieces and there won't be anything left of it. Those are the prophecies of the Prophet Joseph Smith adapted to the present situation. The time will come when there will not be a head to this government --a responsible head--and the Kingdom of God will have to be established and take charge of this nation. The time isn't far away. This is one of the laws of the Gospel that is going to bring it about. The Savior said, 'the men are born eunuchs from their mothers' womb . Other men are made eunuchs by other men ' and others make themselves Eunuchs for the Kingdom of God's sake and who are they? Those who destroy the doctrines of life and salvation as the Prophet of God revealed it. ,They go through eternity sterile and as eunuchs in order to accomplish what the Lord has for them to do . They call it for the Kingdom of God's sake. Now may the Lord bless us and help us and may the words of Brother Marion sink deep into our hearts. May we learn something, and may the saints at Short Creek learn something from the way we are having to carry on this great legal struggle There are many things we might accomplish were this legal fight not taking all of our time.

Brother J. Y. Barlow:

My brethren and sisters, I have been greatly edified and built up today in the remarks of my brethren. I have been thinking of the Kingdom of God. How many of us think right? It isn't what good can we get out of it but how much can we put into the Kingdom of God? to roll this work along. The Lord has said, 'Cast your bread upon the water-and after so many days it shall be returned. If we don't cast it on, we can't expect to have it return. We talk about paying tithing. People are paying tithing --very fine --but the first law that was given to the Latter day Saints --not the Former, but the Latter day Saints, after they had accepted repentance and baptism was the law of United Order. They refused it and wouldn't take it, and the result was that the Lord allowed them a lesser law of 10% --and now if they really were living the full law, there would be no 10% about it. That is the way it was given us. How many of us do care? How many think, 'Well I can't afford to do this today. I'm going to pay off debts today and pay the Lord later, for the Lord won't sue me.' He is badly mistaken . He will be sued. That was just one law. Now the other laws. we don't live-them, we can't get the blessing. The law of gathering has been abandoned and as a result thousands of our people have been killed. Instead of coming out of their countries and coming to Zion, they haven't come. Let me tell you something. You are just a little ways off from some great trials and persecutions and judgments of God --especially upon this people, for God has said that His judgments should start at the House of God among those who claimed to be Latter-day Saints and were not keeping the laws of God, and it is right onto us. We are going to get this. Those who are living right He said He would spare, but we won't all be, spared-- not by any matter of mean We will not all be spared. The righteous will be-spared to the wicked to some extent. I love this people. I know pretty well each man's heart and could pretty well tell you how he felt. I went to a man in Short Creek a while ago and said, 'I will tell you just how you feel. What's the matter with you?' It was only a short time until he was in tears. He said Brother Barlow, I couldn't have told you better than you have told me just what's the matter with me. We have got to learn, my brothers and sisters, to keep the commandments of God.; As Brother Marion said, we have ,Got to be educated to it. He can't jump into the work without being educated for it and trained for it. God's laws won't change. No matter what they do, weather they send us to jail murder or mob us, God isn't going to change His laws. They will stay there just the same. We may have to suffer, but in the end what does Christ say? 'He who lays down his life for the Gospel's sake will find it again that's life eternal. That's what we are working for. What difference does it make if we are mobbed or whatever we have done Nevertheless in the road of salvation we are pushing forward We are going on. I have been greatly edified in what Marion said. I asked Marion when I was down there to get the brethren together and take some of the responsibility of himself and you heard what he said was the result of it. Now each one of the men has had that burden pretty well put on their own shoulders off Marion's and that's united order. I don't know how it could have been done any different', but the time has now come for them to take the burden off the one man or set of men and take it on their own shoulders, and they will get just what they put into the Kingdom of God. I know the Gospel is true every principle of it, and I know if we ever get salvation (I won't say salvation but exaltation in the Kingdom of God), we will live the laws that give it to us or we will never get it. I don't wish to take up any more of the time. I ask God to bless and help you to think of these things yourself and help all of, you carry on in this great struggle you are in. Joseph said' we have spent $17,000.00 already and don't know how much more we will have to spend and don't know where. But whatever it takes we must go up now and test this nation. God bless you, Amen

Song: "Uphold the Right, though Fierce the Fight.

Benediction: ·Brother Axel Fors.

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 28,1945 at 2: 00 p.m.

Brother Joseph W. Musser presided and conducted.

Pianist: Myrtle Allred. 1st Song: "0 Say What Is Truth" Prayer: Brother Blaine Thompson 2nd Song: Ye who are Called to Labor.

Brother Carl Fischer

Was called upon to speak first and he said he has learned to love this people and he wished time would permit us to associate more with each other. He said he admired the way some of this people have stood up under the trial, and he did not know one who is going through this trial that has flinched; he feels that the time will come when he will be put to the test, and he :prays that he will be strengthened. He said that he often thinks of Brother Joseph and Brother Zitting, that no matter what has come to than they have stood it. Sometimes we misunderstood, and he feels that he is misunderstood by some of the Saints. He said he has full confidence the Church of Jesus Christ; that we are at the bottom of the ladder and the time is at hand when we will climb to the top; some of these people are going to be lights to the World, and some have already become so. He admonished the Saints to be faithful and. stand by the gun, food or no food, so that the things we all seek may come to us--life eternal.

Brother Herbert Olschewski

(on leave from Texas) was called upon next to speak and he said he felt weak standing before the Saints; that he has missed this people since he has been in the army; that he would like to come home soon to stay with his body all in one piece, but the Lord's will be done. He asked the Lord to bless all of us.

Brother Quince Kimball

was the next speaker and he mentioned how the boys in the service are learning to pray and it is a wonderful thing to know God;. He can bring them thru if it is His will. He then spoke of some personal experiences during his boyhood days with the Indians, herding cattle, etc. Then he :mentioned the pamphlet on plural marriage which he distributed among the Senators and Representatives recently and which contained the address written by Elder Parley P. Pratt and read in joint session of legislature by Mr. Thomas Bullock in Representative Hall, Fillmore, Utah, December 31, 1855 (Mill. Star 18:337). He said he felt humble and better than has in his life; and then. spoke on jealousy and how it is upsetting many people and their lives and said we must overcome it. He said thankful to be at this meeting and then read a letter from a friend to whom he had sent one of the above mentioned pamphlets on plural marriage•.

Song: "Praise to the Man"

Brother Lawrence Stubbs:

We just heard the words of the song, "Praise to the Man who communed with Jehovah" and we heard "mingling with the Gods he can plan for his brethren" Remember Joseph beheld a vision and the Lord told Joseph He was watching over this great work, going on and unfolding all that was to be accomplished in this last dispensation of time upon this earth. Joseph is there now mingling with the Gods of creation and he is carrying on the great work introduced on the earth for man's salvation and the salvation of every Saint. That is his mission; we have ours. We have been called into this work by the Priesthood of God; we have duly authorized servants of God. We are building up a Kingdom of God or a kingdom of the devil, but the fullness of the earth belongs to the Gods according to the promises of our Creator. So, brothers and sisters, in our mission we are confronted with many of life's problems. To some life is sweet and pleasant ; it has its ups and downs. It has its glory and our life here is what we choose to make it. Not very long ago God's servants assembled to go talk over commencing a plan that would help us as a people to unite more fully. We were taught these principles; we were taught plural marriage was one of these great principles and life without it is not complete and it is necessary to man's salvation and exaltation. But along with it is the United Order that the Lord revealed; it seemed to be dormant and we did not hear about it. At the same time the spirit of the Gospel brings the Saints together; whether they come together in body they come in spirit, they see alike, eye to eye. But in this meeting together, in fact, I am reminded of a statement of the Savior; 'Behold where-so-ever the carcass is there will the eagles be gathered together; so likewise shall mine elect be gathered from the four quarters of the earth." (Mat.24:2E). Another statement was made that wherever we find the oracles of God and ordinances being administered on the earth, there you would find the Priesthood of God functioning. Not long ago I heard one of the servants of God say that we are doing only what the servants of God before us have told. us to do. Do you think this work is just play, to amuse our­selves? No! We are gathered here to receive the truth and go forward in the earth to gather and 'build up the Kingdom of God' The agents of the Lord has seen that this work goes forth fulfilling their missions They have their mistakes and you and I have ours; but if we choose the better way we will not hesitate to long in making our decisions. It is either the Kingdom of God or nothing, as is also the statement of the grandfather (Heber C. Kimball) of this good man who has spoken today We go about in the earth and what are we doing? About two years ago I was with a group of men and we undertook to unite our properties that we might come closer together and help serve one another and that we night grow up in the bonds of working together and serving God The United Effort Plan was introduced. We can still unite our efforts; many have and others have not, But when we unite in the bonds of matrimony and are sealed to a companion by the authority of the Holy Priesthood who has the right to seal on earth as in heaven, we also have the right to seal and bind in our temporal affairs. By doing that we become a stronger body. Maybe more trials come, but at the same time we have more love and unity. We have accepted all of this Gospel and there is a feeling that we cannot express that lifts us up. I have watched this Gospel plan and seen many a time when the power of God has been manifested. I have seen things put together without our hand to do it. It seems to have commenced about the time our trouble started. We have our mission connected with it. It seems that the Saints who have a desire to serve God who weigh up these truths and the power of God will connect it with the Lord's representatives on the earth. Who was it that taught you the principle of celestial marriage? Who was it that made the appointment that we might receive these truths here today? Who is it that promotes this principle and that principle? It all comes together in one body and at the head is Joseph our martyred Prophet standing over this dispensation, arranging the seals, placing the authority on this man and that, and these men connecting clear down that this glorious work might be accomplished; that the glorious Zion might come up as a spearhead and the nations crumble, and that the earth might be cleansed for the righteous to dwell upon. We are here at this time, many of the noble and bright spirits, those who have the faith to endure with opposition; many of those spirits are reserved and it is their right and privi1ege to go on and take a stand and to battle the way, fight the good fight like Paul had to fight in his time. That is the mission we have here today. I hope we take courage and go forward. and not wait and sit idly by. It is a slothful servant who had to be commanded in all things, but when one of God's servants says to go forth and follow in this way, I have found it is wise to follow in that course. It does not matter, even though it looks like we are going to our graves. You know that we are going to have tests to buckle up against. After all, when you know you are God's helpmate and you find your place in building up His kingdom, you will find that joy and warmth and lifting up influence that you will never find. anywhere else. Burdens will become easy and the road light because you are not weighted down by the conflicts and burdens of the world, and you know that you are doing the work of your Father in Heaven and no power on earth will destroy that feeling and influence. That is my testimony to you, brothers and sisters. This work is broadening out. It is slow and it could be a lot faster, but its climbing stones are being laid on a solid foundation, and. with the help of the Lord it will go fast and on. Some I have seen hesitate, but it is my testimony to you that every one that hesitated before leaving for Short Creek would not trade that change for anything, for they heeded that call. Zion is to going on; your cal1 may be different, but if every heeding of the Council is obeyed, God will bless you. May the Lord bless everyone of you I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Charles. F. Zitting:

I ask for an interest in your faith and prayers. This comes as rather a surprise to me today. I was sitting here enjoying myself and not expecting to be called upon. But I know that even though you are expecting to be called upon, if you try to outline what you are going to say, it will not have much weight It is better to treasure up truths in your life that the Lord will come to your rescue at the time of need. We go through life end we :meet a lot of valuable experiences. I do not know of any experience in life that is more worthwhile to people than the experience of the Gospel, especially in the living of it. We know that the peop1e down in Short Creek have a mission there. I like the way Brother Hammon put it at one time -that that is the testing ground where the Saints are being tested, and here it is the fighting ground where they are fighting for the Gospel. I know they there are certain ones who have their missions here. I know at one time I wanted to go to Short Creek and I found one of the nicest homes in Short Creek. Brother Fish's, and he told me he wanted to sell it. I told the Lord what I wanted to do, and if it was his will that everything would go smoothly, and if it was not His will, that He would hedge up the way. I went that afternoon and told Brother Fish I wanted to buy his home He said he would think it over, and he thought it over and decided not to let me have it. I can see why I was not able to get to Short Creek on several occasions. I have played a part in the persecutions and trials here just like Short Creek is the place for others of the brethren. I feel good about Short Creek and always did. I feel good about that country down there, and it is a testing ground that is bringing men closer together. Down there they are being tested in the united effort plan; we are being tested not only in the united effort plan but also by persecution. But I can see that it is all in the plan and when the Lord gets through testing this people through persecutions and judgments there will be a lot of the weak chaff in the wheat will be a lot more clean. In praying I pray that the Lord will continue His judgments in so far as it for our good. but I do not pray for further continuance of persecutions. I remember a statement by one of the early prophets. He told of a time when the Mormons would come in a state speculation; each member of the Church has entered into speculation, and homes and towns and the State are in bondage. The City and County Building is not paid for yet. He said after that speculation and bondage would come persecution. A few years ago I could see the bondage and I wondered how soon the persecutions would come, and they came and hit hard. And the Lord has been with us or we would be in jail today. And he said after the persecutions would come the judgments as the persecutions had accomplished their purposes. Then there is another thought – I think of the millions that are being killed today. There are only a certain number of wicked spirits, and I do not say they are all wicked. spirits, for some have to preach to the wicked spirits; and after these wicked spirits have been killed off by fighting, birth control etc., then we can have the Millennium. Satan has only a certain length of time to accomplish his purposes and I feel that time is getting close to the end. It is going to be terrible what is left of it, but it is being cut short fast. The Lord said in the last days the righteous in heart will cry day and night for deliverance, and at that time the One Might and Strong will come and deliver us. under the direction of the Savior. I feel that things will get tighter yet. But when it comes to the point where we need additional help, in addition to what we have been getting where we the Lord's help that we will be able to stay with our families, if we can have your faith and prayers sufficient, that the lord will open the way up for us. I just wonder how many of the Saints are being persecuted and remember them night and day in their prayers. We have a number of our sons out in the world fighting for the liberties and freedom of this world, unless they do establish those principles, the principles the Savior set down, the world is bound to end up in destruction and chaos. The wicked on the earth will be destroyed but the earth itself will not be. May we be faithful to that end is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ .Amen.

Closing Song: "Think Not When You Gather to Zion~ Benediction: Brother Clarence Wayman. LJAllred.

MINUTES

Sacrament Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 4, 1945 at 2:00 p.m.

President John Y. Barlow presided and conducted.

Chorister: .Alfred Olschewski Pianist: .Mabel Allred ·lst Song: "How Let Us :Rejoice Prayer; Bro Carl Fischer Sacrament administered. by: Bros. Arnold Boss and David Darger, assisted by Guy Musser and Lyman Jessop. Alfred Olschewski in charge in Otto Olschewski absence.

Brother John Y. Barlow;

My brothers and sisters, this meeting I consider belongs to the saints. We would like to hear your testimonies. We would like those that hardly ever speak get up and talk to us, tell us what is in your :hearts. I should say the work of the Lord is rolling on much faster than many of us realize. I would like to hear you, everyone of you that feel you have a testimony, get up and bear it. The more you bear your testimony, the more it strengthens you. I never saw a man get up and testify that Joseph was a prophet of God but what he was strengthened. We are all trying to live the laws of God; lets draw nearer the Lord. We as a people that understand. the things that we do, can see why things are shaping as they are today. Those who are apostates, that fail and are selfish bring things in the condition that they are in today. Brothers and sisters, we have the light and many in the church today are in a cloud of darkness, and we, as a people, should remember that where much is given much is required. I say, God bless you as a people, to help you and help us all and keep pressing forward

Testimonies by Meralyn Thompson

Brother Monfranz

Lyman Jessop Russell Kunz Mary Fischer –Abraham sacrificing Isaac Heber Cleveland Frances Zitting Wm. Stokes Leah Cleaveland Mildred McLaughlin

Sister Monson

Mabel Stokes.

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

One thing that I shudder at and want to strengthen myself in is to be prepared to stand when the real judgments of God are upon this land. As I see this situation, I can see the heartstrings of every mother and father torn to pieces. We have been told to stand in holy places, places made holy no doubt by our own holiness, our own faith in God, our own loyalty to the principles of life and salvation. This group of people have the opportunity of giving the light to the world. I am very much gratified in the progress that the Saints are making in Short Creek and southern Utah, as Brother Barlow has reported to me today and as we see that progress from this end. It is growing n leaps and bounds, and is growing almost so fast we are frightened. Yes and we are a part of it. If you brethren and sisters are prepared to join the effort down there, we can spare you here; you are going to have that privilege. There are a number of brethren here that we cannot spare at the present time; they wish very much to be there, but we cannot spare them, they are a great strength here. But it is going to be a great privilege to mingle with the people down there, to be one with them and live with them, although they live in dugouts and we are living here in palaces. The reason they are achieving much is that they have the spirit of the Lord – they have not the things of the world near them. Even they will see something of the judgments of God or Nothing. The reason they are so situated is that they have not the things of the world near them. Even they will see something of the judgments of God People in the future will drop over dead; deceases will take hold of them and their children too. It is up to us to live in such a manner that we can call down the blessings of the Lord upon us; and the priesthood will rebuke deceases and plagues. And the time will come when we can rebuke them afar off. Things should not worry us for they will happen, they are going to happen; but we do know that the lord is at the helm. I received a letter yesterday from Edward Attarian. He was here with us a number of weeks ago, sang to us and gave us of his spirit. I think you will be glad for an opportunity to hear his letter.

New York City, New York January 30, 1945

My. dear Brother Musser:

I thank you sincerely for your wonderful encouragement. With your noble blessings and prayer, minor annoyances cannot discourage me. Those men in authority in the higher courts and upon the seats of Justice, who so wantonly aberrant God's Laws, must face the fact eventually that God's divine and Celestial laws will continue long after they and their seed are vanished. They and their paths are written in cheap, chalky pencil, but those of His children who keep His commandments in it entirety make their marks in indelible ink! Each day the Holy Bible is a glorious unfoldment to me as the words of the Ancient prophets mark milestones upon the Golden Stairway. I deeply regret that my visit was so brief as I wanted to purchase the Doctrine and Covenants, the Book of Mormon; also, The Pearl of Great Price. However, ever, as soon as my schooling in music and finances permit, I will be happy to obtain these works. I regret at every moment I reflect upon the Blessings you invoked upon me in Church on the occasion of the memorable Sunday evening. Give my love to the people. Again with heartfelt thanks, I am

EDWARD J. ATTARIAN.

They reported in the last several months that they are out of the Doctrine and Covenants, Book of Mormon and Pearl of Great Price. (Brother Boss arose and said that someone he knew had obtained a combination book of these three books by pressing the sale of one from the back of the store (Deseret Book Store), and thought possibly one could be obtained) We will try to get one of these for this man. I believe one day this man will join us. We have these people coming to us all the time. I am sure the fine spirit that he manifests that this man is preparing to join us. Now, my dear brothers and sisters, let us feel encouraged. Joseph Smith is a prophet of God; of course he is. This is his dispensation and will never be taken away from him. He is the one Mighty and Strong and will come when the House of God is set in order; he is one of the three Godhead, and as Lyman said, the time will come when we will worship him When you learn to know him, the time will come when you will know all you need to know about God. God bless you, Amen.

Testimonies by: Melba Allred Laura Zitting Arnold Boss Minnie Van Wry•

A special prayer was offered at this time for the boys in the armed forces, at the request of Brother Arnold Boss. He said he felt impressed during the passing of the Sacrament that a special prayer should be given for them; he felt they were in danger and in need of a blessing. The prayer was offered by Brother Chas. F. Zitting.

Brother John Y. Barlow;

My brothers and sisters, I have been greatly edified. While the brethren were talking, I have been thinking--we have been told to stand in holy places. How many of us in the house today have had your homes dedicated:? Now, let us be careful that we do net desecrate that house after it has been dedicated so that it will not be a holy place. Just such things have happened and can happen. We all ought to think in our supplications to God night and day, think what our children are doing in our homes, and away from our homes. And when they come home see that there is no contention, and let us see if we can live as saints ought to live. I ask God's blessings upon you and let us try each day of our lives to live right and really improve. God bless you, Amen.

Song: "How Firm a Foundation (3rd &;. 7th verses)

Benediction: Brother Russell Kunz.

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home ,2157 Lincoln Street Salt Lake City, Utah, February 11;1945 at 2:00 p.m.

Brother Joseph Musser presided.

Brother Charles F. Zitting conducted.

Pianist: Myrt1e Allred Chorister: Athlene Allred 1st song: ·'.Awake, Ye Saints of God, Awake" Prayer: Brother David Jeffs 2nd Song: "Come Oh Thou King of Kings"

Sister Ruby Tumer;

Was called upon to speak first and being very surprised said she was speechless. She bore her testimony that this work of the lord was true that we were in gauged in. She said although her family was very much opposed to it, she has had some experiences that have proved that she is right in the course she is following. She asked the Lord to bless each and every one in all they did.

Bro •Albert Barlow; Was the next speaker and he asked the Lord to direct his remarks. He said he hoped he could say something that would give him a greater determination to serve God and keep His commandments; that we must put into actions what good admonitions we receive from the servants of the Lord. He said he had made a lot of foolish mistakes in his life; we must have faith in God and in our brethren and over look each other's mistakes, have a cloak of charity; we must realize the other fellow is a son of God too and not hold grudges: we must know when another brother is right and believe in him, know when to speak and when to keep quiet. We must not complain.

Brother Jesse Bigley;

Was called upon next and he said he was grateful for the privilege of being with the Saints again in this meeting; that recently he was called a Mormon because he has been living the Gospel as our Prophet revealed it and he was happy about it. He said he hoped and prayed that the Lord will be with all these young people who are interested in the Gospel in its fullness, for they needed our faith and prayers and our encouragement to study the scriptures and gain a testimony for themselves. He said he knows the people of this Group are living closer to God than anyone else on earth; that he has a testimony of that, and a person wants to be with a people like that. He said he wants to bear his testimony to the young people if they will trust in their parents and study and pray, and live clean lives, that they will under­stand the Gospel and realize they will have to go through this sometime in their lives, now or later. He asked the Lord's blessings on all.

Brother Axel Fors:

Was the next speaker and he said he read a story recently which was on the subject he would like to talk upon today --the Lord has promised us as a people certain blessings if we will live His commandments; are we satisfied with the security the Lord has given us? How far are we willing to trust the Lord? If we are satisfied with the security a man puts up, then we know he will give us what that security stipulates. For every law that the Lord gave us, there was a security behind it ---if you will do this, I will do that; if you live up to my laws and commandments I will reward you accordingly. He said that some o the commandments are still being lived by the general rank and file of the church, but some of the commandment sand the security offered by the Lord, did not appeal to them; that in the days of Brigham Young and John Taylor the government of the U. S. enacted some laws against our laws, and the general run of the Church finally said they would rather live the laws of the land – the security of the Lord did not appeal to them. He said that a man mentioned to him that there was a clause in the laws of the U.S. that you must not live polygamy, and then some of the these people turn around and slap the government in the face. Here he res Section 98, verse 4 to 9 inclusive concerning the laws of the land, and he stated that that commandment was given to the Prophet in 1833 before any laws of the land were made against our religion. Did not the Lord command this? Why has the Church become popular with the world? Because they have gone along with the world. He also talked of the principle of gathering and how the Church has discouraged people in coming to this country, they could do more good in their own countries. He said but it will be a long and the One Mighty and Strong will set the Church and house of the Lord in order again: and he bore his testimony that this work we are engaged in is true.

Sister Mary Evelyn Allred

was called upon to speak next and. she said in her younger days she was happy in her church work and it seemed like a week was never complete unless she attended church; that recently she has been laid up with a bad foot and so has not been able to attend our meetings. She bore her testimony that this work we are engaged in is true, and that it is just as important to live the lesser laws and it is to live the higher laws, and in order to live the higher laws we must first live the lesser laws; that we must pray often, keep the Sabbath day holy, overlook the weaknesses of others, etc.; that Satan is trying us more now than at any time of the history of the world because he knows his time is short before he will no longer have any power over the people of the earth; that it is easy to judge and find fault with others but we must let the Lord be the judge. She asked the Lord to help us to do better.

Erwin Fischer was called upon to talk and he said he knows the Gospel is true and many of us take it for granted He said he often wondered why we are all come here to the meetings and what spurs us on, but when he mingles with the outside world he finds out; that we come here to receive good. He said, 'you all come here to get something but I am letting you down so I'll sit down.

Brother William. Stokes:

I am glad to see the young folks bear their testimonies. I know when I was young I did not know the Gospel was true, yet mother and father always said it was true. Whenever they heard me use language that was skeptical, they would say the Gospel is true; and. I would ask them how they knew it was true Father told me to ask the Lord and I would find out; so I did and I found it was true. (Here he told of how he went on a mission and was set apart far the mission by Seymour B. Young, one of the authorities of the church at that time, and he was set apart to keep the principles of the Gospel alive and promised that he would be protected from the adversary during his missionary experiences; and he told of how his life was preserved on several occasions, and how the ministers of the other churches were ready to go after him when his mission was ended.) The Lord has spared my life. five or six times. I received a promise in my patriarchal blessing that if I would remain faithful to the laws of God that the Lord would bless me in my old age and the Gospel would be a comfort to me in that time. I pray God that might remain faithful and that He will bless me that I will stand true to the principles of the Gospel no matter what the foes may bring. Let us stand firm and hold up our hands in the work of the Lord. I bless you and pray you will stand firm to His principles to the end in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

Marvin Zitting; Was asked to talk and he said he was thankful that he has the family that he has, thankful for his parents and that the know the trial will all come out all right. He said he hoped the Lord will bless and guide us all and that we will all stand faithful

Brother Joseph W. Musser;

I am glad to see Bro (Christensen ) here today. Old nick tried to bump him off the other day; he did fall of a train but it did not do too much serious injury. I am glad to see Mother Allred here today: I am glad to see these young people have the courage to get up and face the audience at least. Their sermons have been short, but it has put pith in them and they have started up the ladder of progress. This is one round they have climbed today. Next time they get up they will climb higher. The Lord will loosen their tongues and prepare them talk. But there always has to be a beginning; we cannot begin without stuttering. Much good has been given today -- Sister Allred's statements on the Gospel -- indeed it is impossible to live the higher principles of the Gospel without living first the lower laws. We have got to realize that. It would be ridiculous, for instance to try to live plural Marriage without first being baptized, without repentance, etc., first. They are steps 1eading up to the higher principles that will finally take us into the presence of Father if we live up to them. Brother Bert's expression, to exercise charity toward our fellowmen, is a splendid admonition. There are none of us perfect and there is not any of us that should not have charity shoed to us if we expect to make good. The Lord is our judge and He is the one who inspires us to do certain things. He is the one we look to for charity, Love and patience. My goodness, where would I be today with the Lord's patience. He has had an awful struggle with me. None of us are perfect and there are none of us that do not give way to the weakness of the flesh. It is a wonderful thing to learn to direct our language and intercourse with one another, along channels that elevate. Ins some societies, all of the talk that is done is directed toward each other in the line of Gospel; they haven't any more elevated thought, everything that they say is directed in the channel not of the gospel. Then there is another class of people that rise above that. They not only talk about the Gospel but they talk mostly about events, the news papers, and discuss those things. The newspapers are just a lot of trash that is a waste to give much time to; yet those who spend their time speaking of events are not very far along. Then we have another class of people, speaking of Brigham Young, Joseph Smith, John Taylor, etc and their wives, such as Eliza R. Snow—and such a class of women we have in this house today. They speak and talk and direct their attention almost entirely to principles – the principles of salvation, religion; the principle of the new and everlasting covenant, principles of baptism, faith and repentance, etc. Those things are on their minds and they talk about it and keep themselves above the ordinary people of their communities. Now in order to become like God our Father, and our Mother, we have got to get into the fires class and learn to direct our conversations toward the higher grade of talk and largely along principles. We should teach each other the principles of life and salvation . This is one of our purposes of meeting here today and in Sunday School. It is one of our grand purposes we want to achieve. Some of the Saints, I have learned, never seemed to have learned much in their span of life and have sat down with that accomplishment and gone no further. I have seen many people in my time that have gone no further than the first principles of the Gospel: They have stopped there. The Holy Ghost brings to our minds the things we have apparently forgotten and should teach and instruct. It brings to mind a man who had the Holy Ghost move upon him so that he quoted scriptures that he has never read, and he looked for an answer and had come upon him the spirit of the Lord directs. But it brings it upon his mind a clinches the argument. People who advance, that gift goes with them. But when people who are baptized and sit down and never advance, that gift does not come to them. That is not salvation to be just a high priest. I can be that and still be as ignorant as a child. Some people think that high priests are to be put on the shelf, but they are supposed to go our calling and being active and administer in spiritual things; seventies are to go our and preach the Gospel, and so forth. We are all anxious to get toward the climax, to get the higher sphere. If we are willing to pay the price, we will live every requirement of the Lord, no matter what it is. We talk about exaltation –exalted where? Where will we go ? What kind of an exaltation are we after? I am after one that will take me into the presence of Father and Mother; one that will establish me in their presence. That is the kind of exaltation I want; I want to get the highest and be a real friend of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Here he spoke of Section 84:63 &. ??) "And as I said unto mine apostles, even so I say unto you, for you are mine apostles, even God's high priests; ye are they whom my Father hath given me; ye are my friends; etc" And I want to be a friend of the Lord Jesus Christ and have Him say, "God bless you, you have made good" That is what I want; to perform my real mission in life. All spirits are directed in that direction, but few of them get along as far as we are. And very few of us, unless we establish ourselves in the faith of God will get farther than we are now. There is not one in the house today that will not have the privilege of proving himself and go back in the presence of Father and Mother; but we have got to pay for it. I remember when we had the old Salt Lake Theatre, we could go down in the dress circle and we would have a certain seat waiting for us, Then there was another place you could go for $1 and one for 50c/ then there was what we called "nigger heaven" for 25c/ That is where I sat most of the time. Now it is just a question of being willing to pay the price. If I am willing to go back where Father is. If I am not, I will never see him again. None of us will unless we are willing to pay the price. Yes we have done a lot of things, even committed sins, many of us. But the Lord is merciful. Through our sins are scarlet, they will be white like wool, if you will pay the price. That is the question for us. When you come from the old country and say to the government, "I do not believe in polygamy," it is true. I and you believe in celestial marriage There are people who do believe in polygamy and they practice it; the Japanese and Chinese and others. There are a great many good people in the Japs; some have the blood of Israel in them, but most of them have not. They have other bloods in them. They will see the Terrestial glory, the Chinese, Mohammedans, Turks, etc. They will get in that glory which is above their imagination in grandeur and "blessings. What they will get there has not been revealed to us. Then there is the Telestial glory--the lesser glory where murderers, thieves, robbers and hypocrites and those "who profess my name (God)" and have broken the everlasting covenant will go in that glory. That is all they are willing to pay for it. They have not had their eyes on anything higher than that. Yet it will be a glory so far beyond their imaginations that they will be surprised even there, but they will be disappointed when they realize where they might have been and how they might have gotten back into the presence of Father and Mother. There will be gnashing of teeth, etc. Now, we are after this higher order. There is one way to get there – after living all the other principles and having lived celestial marriage, which means plural marriage, taking two or more wives and living with them celestially. We can get back into His presence only by living that law. He has many wives; Jesus Christ has many wives and so have the apostles that were in the meridian of time. Some ask why Noah had only one wife when he went into the ark. Because she was the only one that was faithful. There were eight people out of all the nation of back sliders and wicked people who qualified to go into the ark. One of those had married an Ethiopian woman and through that line Cain's curse was carries on. All those early prophets holding the higher, order of Priesthood had large families, but the Bible does net talk much about it. Peleg we know little about, but he was one of the greatest prophets that had lived in that age. His achievements were tremendous yet we have only two or three lines in his life history. And so we go into the history of four thousand years of time. We have that history in the Bible, and if that history was written up by modern historians there would be several volumes on it. Now brothers and sisters, the work is growing; faith is growing in the minds of our people; the desire to do right by our people. I have been made happy, to see some of our girls who have been using rouge wash themselves up so we can see their faces again. It has made me so happy because I feel we are making some headway. Some of our sisters are making headway and showing signs of progress. These are good signs of truths; and I pray the Lord to continue to bless us. I hope these patriarchs (Brother Jeffs and Brother Stokes) Will bless these people and keep blessing them; they have been set apart for that purpose and to keep these people out of sin; give them blessings and the poor and the sick and. the afflicted; bless the sick unto life. The Lord has blessed them to do that and to bless others with like gifts. We can have the gift of being healed if we will exercise that gift and have faith. I would like to see these men among you people all the time, buoying you up and blessing your homes and bringing you up and preparing you for the future, and not have to work for a living, but spend all their time with the Saints. Things are happening very fast. I think I said last Sunday or some time before that my great desire is to be able to stand when the zenith is reached, because I know some people will not be able to stand. Why the Lords says we will cry for deliverance, cry to the rocks to fall down on us because we will not be able to stand and see those things that are coming and endure them. Just to the extent that we have strength of the Lord will we be able to endure. God Bless you to stand faithful and endure, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. .

Brother Charles F. Zitting;

I agree with what has been said this afternoon. I agree that some people have false appetites. I am very fond of apples and one time I tried. putting salt on them when I ate them, and when I got so I couldn't eat one without salt. But I know an apple is better for you without salt. I know, that when women use lip paint they look sick without it. People who are use to it and use to seeing it on women think: a woman is sick when she does not wear it but I think there is nothing like seeing a woman's shining countenance in its natural beauty. I want to say to you girls to go home and look in the mirror and ask yourself if you have ever seen any paint that makes your lips look as beautiful as they are now. I do not think anyone in the house today that has paint on. I commend you. I know God wishes us to be living examples to the younger brothers and sisters. If you will do that God will bless you. That is my testimony to you.

Brother Musser

Announced a meeting of the women in the Relief Society to be held next Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. here at the home during the men's Priesthood meeting, and that the women could arrange to come when the men did. He also announced that we have acquired an interest in the printing plant where we have had our printing done. He advised us all who have any printing to be done to patronize the Sugarhouse Press. Closing Song: "Lo the Mighty God Appearing" Benediction: Brother Ed Christensen. Leona J Allred •

Minutes of the General Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday, March 25, at 2: 00 p.m.

Brother John Y. Barlow presided and conducted.

1st Song: "How Firm a Foundation" Prayer: Brother Mondfranz 2no Song: Though Deepening Trials

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

I sincerely feel it an honor to occupy this place. I feel extremely humble today. I never felt weaker in my life than I do at the present time, and more dependent upon the spirit of God. The greatest desire of my heart is to be a righteous vessel in the hands of God, and especially at this moment to be an instrument of good in His hands for the edification of my brethren and sisters. I sincerely hope and pray that you will remember me in your thoughts and feelings at this time, in order that we may have a unity of faith and the spirit of God may rest upon us in rich abundance. I can't te11 you how much I miss these meetings. During the last two or three months I have tasted all that Babylon can 'dish out' I know and realize we must put up with these things, for we must eat and live and must be subject to the 'powers that be to a very great extent. We have to work accordingly in order to obtain the means we need for the Kingdom of God to go on. Make no mistake about it, the Kingdom is on its way. I testify to you that it is. The United Order is on its way. Many of the folks thought that the attempt in Short Creek in 1935 was a failure. I want to say that it was a signal success, to a degree, for out of it came a nucleus for the United Order to be built upon, and out of that the United Effort Plan was organized on November 8, 1942, and it is my testimony to you that that is the nucleus of the United Order in this dispensation to such a degree that it will never go back but will grow and go on until it gradually spreads over the whole earth. The Kingdom of God is established, and that order and celestial marriage will yet ride triumphant. The Priesthood of God is here and has never been taken from the earth. The fullness of all the keys is here. There has never been any back-tracking. The law was revealed and has never been cone away, because this is the last dispensation of the fullness of times. It is here to stay, not again to be taken from the earth again. So what part are we individually playing in this great drama? I am very grateful to be numbered among the saints of God at these last days and that the Lord through my parents has led me in the right road. So I think we all should take inventory at this time and ask ourselves '.Am I about the Lord's business?' Look around you and the things you are doing. Are you about the Lord's business? If you are not, let's get busy. I love this work and this people more than my own life and I pray that I may not falter. I wish to acknowledge my weaknesses and sins before you and ask an interest in your faith and prayers. I say again, let us repent. We need to repent, everyone of us. I desire to. I need to. Look about us, then, and see what we are doing. Children, look to your mothers; and wives, look to your husband's; and husbands, look to your file leaders; and file leaders look to your God --the same order over and over again. Let us desires be in the right direction, and we cannot fail. I was reading a sermon of Heber C. Kimball's where he says that whether we like it or not, there are certain servants of God upon the earth who hold the keys of power, and as long as God sustains them we are to follow them; and wives their husbands and children their parents. Now it is true we should get a testimony that the minute they speak we know whether it's right or wrong. We don't have to have doubts and fears if we have the spirit of God. We all surge forth as one head. That's what we have got to come to. God help us, I ask, in Jesus Christ's name, Amen."

Brother Jack Cooke

from Short Greek spoke for a few minutes, bearing his testimony and urging the necessity of "getting the spirit of God and keeping it."

Brother I. W. Barlow:

How united are we? I fear we are not as united as we should be. Do you realize how the Lord has blessed us to keep out of jail? TRUTH is still being published. We can still meet together --that He has protected us from sickness? Let us do as Brother Rulon said, humble ourselves before the Lord and unite ourselves and meet it. There should be nothing stand between brothers and sisters in this group. If we will do so, our enemies cannot harm us, and we cannot lose our children as God will hold them in. Heber G. Kimball taught us the way to have a heaven was to have a heaven in our homes I don't say I am setting a pattern in my own home, but that is what we should do, and by and by we will have a little of heaven, and if we bring them all together, we will have a big heaven. I am thankful to the Lord for the privilege of being among this people for being born when the Gospel is restored in its fullness. I am thankful to the Lord for my wives and children. Every day of my life for food and shelter and raiment and the comforts and blessings of life. I pray that I may remain faithful and true to the end and desire that when I leave here I may be permitted to a associate with father and grandfather. I realize I have more relatives on the other side --and so do most of you. I couldn't help thinking this morning when Brother Sturm's children sang a song he composed of how happy he must be to see them stand up and see his wife has kept firm to her covenants and is leading this family along. What greater blessings can there be? The Gospel is everything or nothing and if it is everything, then can we put too much into it? I don't care what sacrifices be, we can't put too much into it. because, after all, you will get out what you put in. If you accept the Gospel in this day and time, He has promised you eternal life and a place in the celestial kingdom. Can we ask for anything more beautiful? We will have a body as pure as transparent wax. The Lord has placed them here and said, The more you take, the more I will give you. If we reject, it is only our own condemnation. If we are not united in our Priesthood Quorum, let's get united; if there are any faults, let's get rid of them and ask the Lord's forgiveness. I pray the Lord will bless us with wisdom and light sufficient to carry us through and I ask it in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Brother J. W. Musser:

Brother Barlow wanted a report on Short Creek. He is down there most of the time and well qualified to give it himself, but I have had the privilege the last ten days of being there --the first trip I have made for some six or seven months, I guess, and I had a very pleasant trip. The trip enroute was hot very pleasant. We bad all the weather you experience in a year's time in one day. We left in a snowstorm and arrived down there in St. George in some sunshine, but when coming back we came back the same day a week later we had the same experience -­left there in a snow storm and arrived-here in sunshine. But after we got to Short Creek we enjoyed the visit very much. The first day out we got to Hurricane and were afraid to try to make it over to Short Creek that night because of the rains. They have a road there that is made of soap, and if you get into a bar pit you stay there. Brother Timpson got into a bar pit ten times before and walked twenty miles to Short Creek to get some help. It doesn't take long to get the roads into that condition, so we went over to Bloomington where we are developing a nice piece of land near St. George and we held a meeting there that night. We went over to St. George and brought some people from there. Sister Finlayson and her daughter were there among others. And one thing I was impressed with particularly on this trip in reference to our own situation here. That first meeting we didn't have room for the people that came in. In Short Creek the next day, Sunday, we held three meetings and that meetinghouse '(the school house) we are using wasn't large enough. Coming here this morning, this house isn't large enough. It isn't large enough this afternoon, and this morning it was filled with our little kiddies right to the brim. It begins to look like we need to knock out the walls to make more room for our congregations. I remember when we were meeting at Brother Leslie Broadbent's. At first, one room took care of us (Brother Boss's house was used, and others) and after­wards we were using two rooms. Now we fill the place in St. George to over­flowing and haven't room in Short Creek and haven't room here enough, and have a congregation up in Idaho --all showing some signs of growth . It isn't just a growth in numbers, but a growth in quality, faith , endurance and good works. I met with the people in Short Creek. I was there six days. I made up my mind this time if I went down to stay a day and look things over. I met all the people and talked with them. There were no complaints. We have what we cal1·a 'tent city' there. We couldn't build houses fast enough, so We bought some tents and they have some fine tent houses. They have occupied them all winter. They are not as pleasant as modern homes, but have been much more pleasant than being out in the storm and getting along as the early pioneers did here in Utah. How they are building homes there. They are really building four homes at the present time --fine rock foundation or cement foundation, whichever is preferred. We saw our own lumber and they are building really substantial places I was impressed with the feature of their dairy business. They have some cows, although I don't know what they feed on, but the y go out and browse around and give us enough milk to take care of us, morning and night. they have a little milk house there with a cement floor as clean as a pin and after the boys get through the girls come .and put the milk into bottles and it is distributed according to wants and needs to the entire neighborhood. I noted Ted Weidow who is an expert welder and doesn't know much about building and Tuesday we went over to his house and he was doing some welding for Brother Bistline while Brother Bistline was helping him put the windows into his home. They have no money there. I visited one family with three or four children and I had some nickels and gave them to the children, and their mother said they didn't know what money was, they will wait for Fred Jessop and give it to him. They all seemed to have all the food they needed. I ate at different homes, and the meals were all good. Their clothing was substantial. They have a shoe maker and he has more work than he can do, but he keeps "their shoes in pretty good shape. They have about seven hundred laying hens and have all the eggs they need. Wednesday they ground up some wheat into cereal --enough to last the neighborhood for several months. In that way they are getting along very well. Saturday evening was St. Patrick's day, or to them it was Relief Society day, the 17th of March. These big projects seem to have started in March --Brother Barlow, and Brother Zitting have birthdays and the relief society started on St. Patrick's day. They had a little show on the stage which was written by one of our girls there. (Gave a few details of the plot. ) Now they are having a wonderful program on the 6th of April. They had one last year, and the same authors have written another play, a .six scene play which will take up the entire evening and they ask that we invite all the Salt Lake people down there. I don't expect to be down there but would like to see you go down if you feel like it. You will get an earfull, eyefull and heart full of feelings. It was one of the most inspirational trips I have made. I have confidence in this proposition now. This t.rip has converted me if I wasn't converted before. Bloomington is near, as I said, St. George. The climate is that of St. George --an altitude of 1,000 ft. Peaches and apricots and all those trees were in bloom. It is a beautiful place this time of the year. We have something over 200 acres of land planted there. It looks like a floor, It is so even. Our water system there is in good condition. Our trouble in Short Creek is in not having plenty of water for irrigation. But now we have taken on this Bloomington proposition, about 600 acres, the boys are putting in a nice orchard. It will be a nice place for grapes. Jack, who spoke to us, his folks are there. It looks as though that place is going to help out Short Creek vary materially until we can get a good production at Short Creek itself. Brother Woodruff Steed came in with them in Bloomington and he brought a big caterpillar machine with him and they used that Tuesday to pullover the cedar trees for fire wood. In one day they pulled over enough to last a longtime for fire wood. They are hauling it now, and some are cutting it up for some of the widows. Grandpa Jessop is going around cutting wood all the time. George Woodruff saws and cuts wood. He isn't as fast as some might be but they are all working in that wonderful harmony, graciousness, love. I didn't hear. anything harsh there. No swearing or cussing. I went to a little store they have and all they had was a few spools of thread and crackers. They didn't have anything for the kiddies. We had our home meeting on Wednesday night. In the home I was in we had a very pleasant time. There was a half-dozen children there and they have all the energy that an ordinary railroad would have. That particular night they sat down there and took part and it was as quiet as this meeting today. After the meeting was over (they bore their testimonies and had little parts on the program) Fred Jessop brought out some peanuts and those little tots had a wonderful evening. They have a good school system. Grandpa Dockstader is the head teacher There are two other teachers, but I talked to Brother Dockstader and he reported favorably on the progress they are making in education. They have the grades up to and including the 8th. They have been able to inject a little religion into the school, and the teachers are looking into Mormonism that we are teaching down there. Those are some of the incidentals, but we are living the United Order down at Short Creek and at Bloomington. Nobody has any money --not that one cannot have money in the United Order. We expect people to expand after while We expect them to have their stewardship and develop those stewardships, and in our various enterprises we will have to use the currency of the realm. Today we have demonstrated this that a group of people can live without money. Three times a week every house has a little stand with a box on it and that is where they put the bottles of milk and when they want something they put a note in it and it is taken to Fred Jessop who has a commissary there. They buy things wholesale and whatever they want they try to supply them with. They can't always get it, but can get what they need. They don't have a great variety, but have enough for me. I enjoyed the meals I had the re. Of course they haven't any refrigeration. they haven't any meat but have a lot of canned meat and fruit and vegetables and are well supplied with those things. Once in a while they will get a big box of shoes --they have enough shoes to shoe the City of Salt Lake, it seems to me, when they are fixed up. I took down a lot of discarded clothing and bad the trunk of my car full of clothing, two or three suits and a lot of women's apparel. I went to Brother Lyon's house, who has been sick for many months, and he was making carpet rags and rugs laying there on his back. He had all kinds of piles of carpet rags there. Brother Hammon's family was taking care of him, taking his meals to him. Now those are just a few reflections I have of the efforts being made down there. It is the plan to live in the United Order or the Order of Unity It is an order from heaven. It is that order which the Lord has established as the economic order of this earth. Someday it will operate throughout the earth. This earth cannot be celestialized until that order is established and worked properly. It means to bring the rich down to a level that is proper that they should be on and to bring the poor up to there so that there will be no poor and no rich. There will be no situation where. men can, as they are doing now in the brothels of New York and elsewhere, spend thousands of dollars on drink and those things while others are starving. Those situations cannot continue when the Kingdom of God is established, and the effort has already been started --is already set up. This United Order we have set up is a part of the Kingdom and everything we do along that line is a development of the Kingdom of God and that Kingdom is going to grow and fill the earth. We know it, but it is going to do it far faster than we realize at the present time. Some of us get impatient and wonder when it is going to happen, but it is under way now and every person who is working for the up building of that effort is doing it for the Kingdom. And that is our motto 'The Kingdom of God or nothing.' We find people living celestial marriage and with very little or no friction. I have been in families and haven't seen any friction, and I tried to ferret into their home life and see if there was any friction. I have seen two or three wives in some families working together as three children might do, with that love and charm and beauty that words cannot express. They had the spirit of the Lord with them . That is the secret of living this .principle of the Gospel. Brother Barlow tells us to 'get the spirit of the Lord and keep it. The question arises, 'How are we to get the spirit?' Why, it is the easiest thing in the world to answer, but one of the hardest things to do. To get the spirit of the Lord, we have got to keep the commandments of the Lord. Job had the spirit of the Lord and got it by keeping the commandments of the Lord. The Hebrew children had it. They were clothed with it so that the fire of Nebuchadnezzar couldn't burn them --but they got it by keeping the commandments of God. They weren't perfect any more than some of you may be, perhaps, but they had that test and were prompted by that strong innovation in life that made them keep the commandments of the Lord. They worshipped the God of Jacob and would not bow down to an image. How can we keep it after we get it? By keeping on living the commandments of God. That's all we have to do. It is the simplest thing to explain. Our trouble is in combating with our mortal weaknesses and difficulties; our jealousies, our desires to get ahead of our brethren or our sisters, our desire to promote a greater talent in ourselves than those they have in order that we might feel the feeling of pride and vanity, etc. We have got to overcome those things. We have got to live here as they are living down there --eat to live and not live to eat. Sleep to get rest and not rest in order to sleep all the time. We have got to learn to have our minds devoted to t he work of the Lord at all times. "Now, my brethren and sisters, I am sure in my own feelings and I want to bear this to you as my testimony, that you people, the people at Short Creek, at Bloomington, in Idaho, who are working with us up there (the Hunters, Holms and others) that they are the people that will be selected very soon to begin to go back to Jackson County to build up the temple of Zion. That is my conviction. I don't know when that will be, but we are that people. Why are we that people? Because we are preparing ourselves to take orders and to live all the commandments of God. We are facing the penalties of the land before we will give in. We are keeping the laws of God as He has revealed them. We are facing death and prison, if need be, and all the persecutions that our enemies have the power to heap upon us. Thank God they haven't the power that He has. If we remain true and faithful to that stand, the Lord is going to bless us and we will progress faster and faster until the word will come from who is leading us, 'Brother ---, we want you to get your family ready to go back to Jackson County. We want you and you and you. And you will get ready to start on a certain day and the way will be opened for you to go back there and when you get back the land will be ready. And when you get back we will start to build a temple. Those things are mighty close to us --mighty close. May the Lord bless us to prepare ourselves for these great happenings and rid ourselves of the prospect of the judgments of God overcoming us. That is my prayer and I ask it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen."

Song: "Let Those Who Would Be Saints Indeed"

Leon: Chatwin who was home on furlough from the Army spoke for a few minutes, bearing his testimony.

Brother Dave Darger: Spoke on "Know the truth and the truth shall make you

free .I Exhorted the saints to cease their fault-finding .

Brother John Y. Barlow:

My brethren and Sisters, I am glad to be with you again. Looking over the congregation I can see many faces. And what are we doing? that is the question we have got to answer and the question., have got to meet. It is very fine to come and hear the remarks made. The spirit of God is here and we feel fine while here, but how many take home what they have heard? How many have heard? Has it gone in one ear and out the other without registering? I have a little here to read of what President Woodruff said: 'A few words to the brethren and sisters: Let us cease fault-finding', etc. We all know those· words are very true to us today. What I want to get to you is this --I don't care what the other man does; if he fails to do this or that, alright, but I am not going to do it. We must get into a condition where we will keep the commandments of God, no matter what. We have been talking for months and months on the united order; we have been talking on celestial marriage, and some few of us have stepped out. Some few are doing something and the others --now, the first thing the door is going to be closed on us and like the foolish virgin we will be on the outside, because as I have told you time and time again men will come up out of this group as out of the church who are going. to push ahead and forward and God is going to tell us what to do. He has already shown me one or two men in this group who will move up to the high circle. I am positive of it. He has already spoken and pointed them out. Just waiting. There is plenty of room at the top, brethren, but the man has got to qualify himself before he can get to the top and it has been that way all through the history of the world and it is that way today. I also hear some of them say something about some of the brethren here. Do you realize that when you go to talk about Brother Joseph, Brother Charles or those that they have been called of God as was Aaron . Do you realize that they are prophets of God, that they have been called and set apart for that? Go home and read the 12th Chapter of Numbers and see what God said to them when Moses took an Ethiopian woman and see what happened when they tried to reproach him and see what God did. Take other scriptures from the Doctrine & Covenants and others. It isn't the personality or a person. So be very careful and let us be careful of what we say and what we do and see if we can't get over the fault of fault-finding. I am talking to myself as well as you. I am a great fault-finder around home. But nevertheless if we don't keep the spirit of God we will fall. Some things coming up will try us and if the Lord don't see fit to turn Babylon on you, He will permit you to be tried in some other way and then He may turn the Priesthood on you that may try the life out of you. And, brethren, still remember to keep your head up and watch the commandments of God and keep His commandments no matter what they do. I would just like to give you that advice this afternoon. I know some people who have their whole hearts and souls in the work of God and don't know what to do. Some are left to the Devil when he says:"You aren't a good Latter day Saint; you ought to do this and that.' Say, Get behind me, .Satan; I am following the laws of Jesus Christ.' Don't try to do anything great, but live the laws of God every day and pretty soon God will say: 'Son, daughter, I want you here and there.' It won't be long before you are going to be called for a very important mission. The Indians have got to have some go there; the work back in Jackson County will have people called back there soon. Every blessing is predicated upon a law, and if we get a blessing it is by obedience; and if you think that you who had plural marriage have had all you can stand, it isn't a touch of what you will have in the united order, Let a man come up and say, 'We want a thousand dollars.' I would say, 'Go to thunder You will say, You have the right to lead us spiritually but not temporally. Can you live successfully plural marriage without the united order? You can't do it, brethren and sisters. Do you realize the condition the people have got into today? When President Young was here, he said, "The people are asleep.' The Lord said, 'If you live the commandments or God from this day on, your sins will be forgiven you. Did they keep the commandments of God? No, and the result is their children today have failed and strangers are coming from the east, west, south and north and sitting down in the Kingdom while those are being cast out. Will they continue? Yes, there will be some who will come and some who won't. Not very long ago we held a meeting down to Brother Theral Dockstader's home and I said, 'There are men in this house who will apostatize and turn from the truth.' We have seen the results. There were 'some men that were there that night fighting the truth and they have apostatized. They said you are all right to perform plural marriage, but that is as far as you can go. Think of it --a man can perform the highest law of the Gospel --is that consistent? I said, Are you trying to prove that you are living in adultery. He said, No. I said, If these men haven't the right to do what they are doing, you are living in adultery. The Lord is bringing these things together and it isn't going to be long before you will see a big change. Prepare yourselves. God bless you, Amen .

Closing Song: "Glorious Things Are Sung of Zion"

Benediction by Brother Edward Christiansen.

MINUTES Sacrament Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln St. Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1, 1945 at 2:00 p.m.

President John Y. Barlow presided and conducted.

(Brother Jos. W. Musser excused on account of illness.)

Sr. Mabel Allred pianist.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs Chorister.

1st Song: "For the Strength of the Hills" Prayer: Brother Johnny Barlow (Jr. ) 2nd Song. We Do Remember Thee"

Brother Barlow here asked Brother Rulon T. Jeff's to read a sermon by Heber C.

Kimball on the subject of the Sacrament from the Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1 p.80-83. Sacrament administered by: ,Bros. Rulon C. Allred, Jos. L. Jessop, John Butchereit, Ianthus Barlow; Otto 0lschewski in charge.

Brother Barlow;

I consider this your meeting and We would like to have you get up and -bear your testimonies and have a good -and enjoy the spirit of the Lord.

Testimonies borne by:

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs :

I am reminded of the practice of Wilford Woodruff in partaking of the sacrament; he said in partaking of the bread and water he would always bow his head and say in a whisper, "I do remember Thee" I cannot help thinking of the sacrifice of the Savior in giving us re­demption and also the sacrifice of Father Adam.

Rulon C. Allred Patriarch Wm. Stokes John Butchereit Jos. Lyman Jessop Aunt Susie Barlow Irene Christensen Carl Fischer

Brother John Y. Barlow;

I Just want to say to Irene (Christensen) that she is going to be glad that she went to Short Creek. Those feelings that she has will leave her and you will not be able to get her back if you wanted to. It is true with everyone down there. Brethren, let us get a line-up on the Priesthood and find out what people are following the Priesthood of God. In the Doc. & Cov., Sec. 90, v. 4 it says that the oracles of God will be given through the Prophet Joseph. Find any other people that you can where the oracles were given through Joseph Smith. Can you find any others that has the line that comes from Joseph Smith to Brigham Young;, from Brigham Young to John Taylor to these men? Can you find any other line? I want to know the authority in the things I want I have not heard of any other group that has been able to furnish an abstract deed as this group has in the line of the Priesthood. I Just wanted to say these few words. We want you to get the testimony for yourselves. I had to get it for myself.

Testimony by: Ed Christensen (and he sang "Count Your Blessings")

Closing Song: "The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning" Benediction: Brother Otto Olschewski. LJAllred.

MINUTES Sunday Afternoon Meeting, held at the Priesthood Home 2157 Lincoln St. Salt Lake City, Utah, April 8, 1945 at..2:00 p.m

Conference

Pres. John Y. Barlow presided..

Brother Joseph W. Musser conducted

Pianist: Myrtle Allred Violinist: Margaret Musser Chorister: Alfred Olschewski

Remarks (J. W. Musser)

This is the second meeting of our conference today. We will hold another meeting tonight according to schedule. We haven't confined our invitations to bishops of wards, presidents of Stakes, etc., but we have asked you to bring your wives and children and friends. The war boards have not confined us to certain memberships. We are glad to see you, brethren and sisters, and we are sorry we have not more room in this floor, but I apprehend. that when we push the walls of this house out, the Lord will make some other provision for us.

1st Song: "The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning." Prayer: Brother Russell Kunz 2nd Song: Oh My Father'!

Brother Albert Barlow

was called upon to speak first and he said that he has had a lot of reflections this past week, and it has made him realize what the pressure can be when a person does not know what is over the hump. He said that it is a consolation to know that you are standing for truth and righteousness, the thing that the Priesthood is standing for here on earth. He mentioned the jail sentence that is facing some of the brethren and the scripture passage in which it is said that the "saints would cry day and night for deliverance," and he said that he knows if we pray day and night and are faithful. The Lord will deliver us; that there is a lack of humility and a lot of cockiness; that we should fast and pray more and concentrate on the commandments of God; let us find out if we are going to stand for the laws of God or fall back to with the unbelievers; in that way we are going to serve the Lord if we are to redeem this earth; if this is it we must take it without flinching He said he hoped. we can take it like red blooded Saints, and not waiver, if they try to take our children away from their mothers, we can only depend on the Lord.

Brother Guy Musser:

Brothers and sisters, I feel this is a great honor, but I feel very weak at this time. I pray God to bless me with His spirit that whatever I say will edifying and of use to you people. I consider this a momentous occasion. Christ was born some 2000 years ago on the 6th of April, so Joseph our Prophet revealed to us. This is Easter, and I am grateful today that God has permitted us to meet under these favorable conditions. It is somewhat crowded but we as a people are used to being crowded. I pray the Lord will bless us with a great deal of inspiration today. Alfred (Olschewski) reminded me the other day that the church is republishing the life of the prophet. In this new book it is said that a new interest is created. Not so with us; It is just what made him a prophet that we believe in and reverence. So it may be something new to members' of the church, but to us he is our prophet, the God of this dispensation as far as we are concerned. So in thinking about him I think of what he left to us. Many people think he was martyred because he introduced a new religion going contrary to the doctrines of his day. To me his martyrdom came about because he was beginning and trying to mold to the people the principles, of righteousness that would make them gods and redeem the earth and make it a pleasant place in which to live. When he went so far the Lord permitted his life to be taken. There were certain definite principles that he tried to give the people and taught them to obey, and those things brought about his death and. the death of some of the righteous Saints. And so they came to the Rockies and Pres. Young was busy bringing the people to the knowledge of the truth--the fullness of the Gospel. Many of the men fell martyrs to the cause in an effort to bring the Saints to a unity of the faith. But they failed. In this day when we are able to understand the same process which is taking place, substituted by the Priesthood Council, the fullness of the Gospel is again being taught; men have given their time and talents and even their lives to the establishment of these principles among the people again. In Short Creek and where ever the Saints are assembled together is a result of the reformatory movement that was started several years ago. And the Lord has placed mens in the hands of Satan and his followers to destroy this people, if it is possible. I wonder why it is the desire of Satan and his followers to destroy this work. Is it because we believe in baptism, repentance, tithing, etc.; is it because we believe in gathering to the :Mountains of God? These are only incidentals. There is something that is vital in our lives that will bind Satan eternally and exalt us; it was revealed to Joseph--celestial or plural marriage. If a man has that law revealed to him and does not abide it and accept other wives and raise children and build up a kingdom and increase, then what he has accumulated will be taken away from him. In developing these kingdoms we are binding Satan forever and then this earth could be made a paradise and be redeemed. And for revealing that great and important law of the Priesthood to the earth caused Satan and all his agents and assistants to battle and "nip it in the bud." Now as important as it is in our lives and to the life of the earth, is it the only saving principle in our lives that caused the death of Joseph Smith? He also tried to institute the united order that will bring about a unity of the Saint You all know how it has failed up to the present time. I often think that we as Saints have not made it a part of our lives enough. I think it was Heber C. Kimball that said if the Saints failed to live these principles they would become darkened. We know what happened at the time of the manifesto. Now we find ourselves today being taught these two principles, through the sanctity of the Priesthood that God has brought among us. it is a great step forward in accepting this. It is another thing to accept the place the Priesthood Council holds in the earth. There are sacrifices that we have to make The Lord says that those who made their covenant by sacrifice will be redeemed.~ I met an individual the other night who has no faith in the constituted authority, but does not believe in plural marriage. He has taken one step in finding out where the keys of authority are, but until he increases his family he will not increase. These are the things that the men in the Priesthood are going to jail for, if God so wills. I am reminded of a certain incident in Brigham Young's life in which a brother came to him and said; Brother Young, I have been preaching what you told me to for years; I have been teaching them what you taught me to and I know what you taught me was taught by Joseph the Prophet. Isn't it alarming to you that the people are so slow to accept and understand these things? Brigham Young said to him, I take it that you are willing to put your name on the dotted line and-make your sacrifice today." The man said, I will think it over." There you have it the people as they are from the time of Adam to today. If some of our people go to the penitentiary, it is because we are not able to, at the present time, bear off the Kingdom of God. If we will not hew to the line, then the Lord will cause us to. The furnace has been lighted and. the fire is burning. Those that are dross will be consumed. If some of the men and. their families come through the fire clean and pure, then God can use them; then God can redeem the earth. Many things are happening in fulfillment of prophesies. What would happen if the Lord were to come tomorrow? Would we doubt their authority if Charles or John said so? We feel we are ready for redemption, yet we are not able to increase our families. I said to my wife, what would happen if the Lord saw fit to give us this ward house over here. The first thing one of our children would throw a rock and break one of the windows. Are we ready? No! One day we will be. We must let the Lord know and feel and understand that we are in earnest in this work. Let us not let our brethren rot in the prison, if they go, because of our lack of faith. We are still rebellious, jealous, envious; we cannot accept the doctrines of Jesus Christ. And now we are here with this thing that is over-shadowing us. Even as He provided redemption for the men of Joseph's time, so He will provide redemption for us These things are the vital parts of our lives; the things that will bind Satan and cause the Lord to come and rule in righteousness. These things will bring fire from heaven, cause the water to recede, etc., and cause us to perfect our lives. These things will send us back to Jackson County; will cause the mountains to become level and we can travel on level roads, the trees to clap together. These things are important in our lives, and our children should be taught them; and if we love these things more than ourselves, they will become a part of our existence. as it was to John Taylor, Brigham Young, and the others. Why, they ate, drank and lived these things. Why Heber C. Kimball's wife wan not well enough to get up and bid him goodbye when he went on his first mission. It is said that Joseph would have over a million people in his following had the Saints remained faithful and true to the principles he taught them. We are faced. with the same thing today. Many of us accept the conditions as graciously as Brigham Young accepted his. These men eat, drink and live these principles and they do not know a time when they were not connected with this principle—celestial marriage --and they accepted it as graciously and generously as they did on the ether side before they came here. These principles have got to be a part of our lives. These girls have got to live and desire it as a part of their lives; they have got to live for it end fight for it. That is the purpose of their creation on the earth--to be a part of some faithful man's kingdom. And these brethren have got to love these principles more than their wives and children; for only through His principles can I and we redeem them. How degraded I will appear to them if I fail and they call to Father to take them up and ask Him to give them to some other worthy man. I wish to God that I could take the place of these brethren if the Lora, wishes them to go to the pits of the jail! I wish to God that I could be worthy. I have faith in these servants of God, and. in you, and I know God will come and redeem this people and the door will be opened when we are pure enough and make ourselves worthy to bear off the Kingdom and go back to Jackson County. I know these things. Thank God for Joseph the Prophet! All hail to his name! He is the One Mighty and Strong and is the God of this dispensation; and he is already setting things in order in the earth. I suggest that we sing, "We Thank Thee 0 God for a Prophet. Not only do we thank Him for Joseph and the others, but also for these men who sit here--these prophets! May a ram be found in the bushes. Let us rally together, awaken ourselves, unite ourselves and make our covenant 'by sacriffice through the Priesthood of God, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. Song: "We Thank Thee 0 God for a Prophet"

Brother Chas. F. Zitting:

Brothers and Sisters, I trust that I will have an interest in your faith and prayers while I stand before you this afternoon. It seems that when the people get word that we are in danger again they come more in numbers than before. This morning our Sunday School was crowded with people, and especially 1ittle children--glorious little children--there was hardly standing room. You see the house filled this afternoon, and if it should be the will of the Lord that these 15 men go to jail, I believe this house would be filled more than ever. I looked at those beautiful little children and wondered how many of them would be here if these 15 men had been in jail the last five years. The Lord has this work at heart. Somehow I feel that we will not go to jail. That does not necessarily mean that we will not go. We won't go unless the Lord has a purpose in it to further His work. Now what have we got to worry about? There will be 15 men that will go, if they have to, with their heads erect. I am going to call upon you Saints, not only the men and women, but you children, as I have never called upon you before, too fast and pray these next three weeks; and if you want to know the power of prayer and faith you will have it demonstrated the next three weeks if you will do it. We have been in a tight box before and every time the dark cloud has drifted on and the sun has come through. I know we are no closer to jail than when we first got this news. I know that God can put an opening in the way. I know that Uncle John got word before ever this came up, and he saw a door open in that wall and we went through and met the Prophet Joseph. I know one thing sure,--there is not any of us that will give in if it means our lives; but the Lord God said in one of His promises, "Do my will and I will fight your battles; and if you do my will I am bound." Have we been faithful enough? If we have, He is bound; and. He will just as sure do it as the world is turning on its axis. I do not care whether we go to Jail or stay out; He will fight our battles. You people are going to have some surprises in the next two or three weeks. Some are going to stand and some are not. Get down on your knees and pray and fast; that is my testimony to you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother John Y. Barlow:

Brothers and sisters, I attended a very fine conference Friday with the brethren down in Short Creek. We had a very fine time and the spirit of God was there in abundance. I want to say to you that a year and a half ago the Lord showed me that this people was going to be in a tight place and our enemies were all around us and we could not get away (as in a corner); no matter what we did we could not get away. I said to the people there if you are humble and prayerful enough you can open the door; there will be a way opened for you. I saw the people were prayerful and humble and I saw that door open. The very first man I saw on the other side of the door was the Prophet Joseph, who took me by the hand. Now, we up against it. Have we been prayerful and humble enough? Are we going to be prayerful and humble enough that God will protect us? We know God is able to protect us, but are we going to be like Isaiah said – your iniquities have separated you from your God and yourselves and He will not hear your prayers? When we heard about our young attorney (prosecution) We knew he did not believe in Mormonism; we knew that his grandfather held his head: high and told him he would not give up these principles. Then his grandson sends us to jail (Roberts). Didn't he say that their children would reject Him It is being done by many of the Saints--rejecting His commandments. Then you refer to the revelations of God, they say, we are looking to President Grant for that. They say Pres. Grant is responsible for them. (Here he told the story of the purse with three or four thousand dollars in it.) Who is the loser? The one who lost the purse. And you will lose your salvation in the same way if you try to put the responsibility on someone else. These laws were given by the Eternal Father for our exaltation and He said if we do not live them we will be damned. This, jail situation does not worry me one bit. Supposing they take our lives! What did the Lord say? Though ye be dead, yet shall you live. I know just as well as I am standing here the Savior is coming. How do I know it? Why, I saw Him come a good many years ago. And when He does come, these men will vanish--these men who are trying to stop us. When He comes there will be three of a field. and one of a family and two will be taken and one left. etc. Some of the elders have been out in the mission field and preached the Gospel, healed the sick, cast out devils, etc., but they came back and went to sleep. Heber C. Kimball said, Why you people are sleeping a sleep of death when I leave this life some of you will never see my face again. Pres. Grant's father preached himself to death trying to save the people and died under it. Why do they die under these conditions? When they see how we are going it makes them weep; our fathers on the other side are praying night and day for us and there is a reckoning day coming. First thing you know the Savior will come. I know that. God will step forth when these people fill up the cup of iniquity. If they put us in jail, we will turn it into a heaven. If God's spirit will rest upon us, it will be like Elijah was of old. Many of these things will happen. I want to tell you now, that anything that happens, God will be asked about it. If we petitioned the Lord now and asked for the judgments to come upon these people now, He would send them. Do I know that this is so? YES! I know what we are preaching you here is true! And I know this much--that those of you who are rejecting it will see it for yourselves. You will say, No I am not in it because I rejected it, the words that are taught to me. Brigham Young tried to redeem the people. See what a merciful God He is--1f the people who had gone to sleep would repent and accept the truth, He will forgive you and you can go on. Some of you people here will not keep the commandments of God. We want to clear our skirts. I know one thing--plain and simple--if you reject these things and turn the Priesthood away, the Priesthood. will leave and you will not go and advance. These things are true. I want you to remember what I have said today. You will find. out that what has been said today are God's truths. If the church could not advance forth in the days of Joseph, then today it cannot advance; instead of the church being a spiritual organization, it has turned. out to be a financial and political organization. We have some very learned. men at the head. Jesus said. in speaking of them "They love to sit in high places, but God knows their hearts. And. that is what He has plead is an abomination in the sight of God. You heard of these 800 cases of adultery that were only fined $50 or less and let out, and yet these faithful men they are sending to jail. Those things that have been going on in the political world are an abomination in the sight of God. We had. better quit quarrelling and fighting, and be prayerful and . humble; pray night and day for deliverance. God bless you, Amen.

Brother Jos. W. Musser:

I just want to add my testimony to that which you have heard today. You have heard the word of the Lord given to you today by Brother Barlow and the brethren who have talked. It is up to each and every one of us to accept that word if you want to go on. I want to read an item by Brigham Young (------) I wish you to notice this: We read in the Bible that there is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another of the stars (speaking of Celestial, Terrestrial and Telestial glories) ------- your own hearts can answer. That is the lesson to learn. This group of people are trying. to engage themselves in the work of the Lord and be guided by the spirit of the Lord, and. work up courage enough to go by their convictions, no matter what the church or people of the earth may say. If we have the true Gospel of heaven in our hearts, We will receive the true light of the Lord. Check up on these things through the Doctrine & Covenants. Then we will find out whether we are right. We have the power and courage and manhood and womanhood to see us through this present battle. I endorse in my feelings those things that have been said today. Pray to the Lord. Heber C. Kimball saw the time when we would be in such a situation that the more righteous people among; us would be praying day and night for deliverance. Now is the time, I believe, for that performance. Brother Zitting suggested that we fast and pray during the next three weeks. Jesus fasted 40 days and nights, but he did not go without food. When He was instructed by the Lord forty days and nights then Satan tried to tempt Him. You all know the story. We want to meet with the 15 brethren immediately after this meeting. Brother Boss is to collect fast offerings and contributions, but he needs a little help so we will ask Guy to help him.

Closing-Song: "Come, Come Ye Saints" Benediction Brother Lorin Jessop LJAllred.

Minutes of the General Meeting held Sunday, April 22, 1945 at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake, City, Utah, at 2:00 p.m

Brother John Y. Barlow presided and conducted

1st·song:-"Praise to the Man" Prayer: Brother Quince Kimball' 2nd Song: "Come Thou Oh King of Kings"

Brother Arnold Boss

My :Brothers and Sisters, I know this is the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ These. are the same principles that prophets and, yes prophetesses have given their lives to help establish on the earth. Joseph the Prophet gave his life for these principles that he could stand in judgment, if necessary upon the whole human family, and especially on those who profess to be Latter day Saints. Not only he, but many have given their lives., Many have been martyrs who have not been killed. I know there are people today who have suffered in their feelings because of conditions that have arisen because of circumstances they have been placed in and I know that it's a true statement that has been made many and many a time in the history of this dispensation that all those who are really candidates for celestial glory will obtain experience and come in contact with powers and influences here on the earth what will help to mold them and make, them the polished men and women God wants them to be before they can qualify for celestial glory. According to present teachings nobody would have to pay any price to get into the celestial kingdom --no persecution, no assassination of character you can come and go at your will and are popularized and looked well upon. But those are not-the Latter day Saints God had in mind and will never see the celestial kingdom. It takes mighty good men and women to get to the Celestial kingdom. The longer I live, the more I can see the truthfulness of the statements of our former leaders that God would put in our pathway everything He could to prove and test us and find out if there was anything in us that would relent or apologize for anything God had revealed. The Lord has not only proved a people who haven't receded, but has been proving governments. Our own nation has been put on record like no other nation has been put on record. " Related incident of early church history when Brigham Young set apart certain elders to go to the President and contact people in the various eastern cities to ask for charity for the saints and that in nearly all instances they were turned down Related how Mormonism was known throughout the continent and was hated by all, as well as the leader: that Brigham Young was-called the greatest criminal on the continent, but is now recognized as one of the greatest characters in American history and is being remembered in the Hall of Fame. The stigma that was formerly on the Church is now on this little group of people --it is the only group of, people that is being persecuted and prosecuted. Jehovah's Witnesses have had some persecution, but not like this people, and as sure as we have the authority of God we have got to be singled out. Related the circumstance of the Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery prophesying after their baptism, which prophecies were not contained in Church history but in the writings of some of the other elders of the day. They stated "it was shown to the prophet that the people would be persecuted and that persecution would start from a little handful of people, from a town to a city, a county and wouldn't stop there; then the whole state would take it up and persecute the Latter day Saints and then other states and then the whole nation would band together to destroy the work that God had started here by the Prophet Joseph Smith When the United States had done that as a body it wouldn't stop there but the power of God's work should continue. until every nation of the earth would, be arranged against the latter day work. The nations .of the earth have not yet· banded to gather to destroy the Kingdom of God from the earth. The Kingdom of God is going to receive its birth here in these valleys of the mountains and the work of God is going to take on such momentum as it has never taken before. I know that God is going to remove from His church all the dead material that is there that isn't. honoring and glorifying His name. It is the history of the past 114 years that those who have brought on persecutions on the Latter day Saints have drunk a hundredfold more of the dregs than they have ever brought on the heads of the Latter day Saints .Related how those who had persecuted. the saints in the early days in the states of Missouri, etc., had paid for their, crimes. and had died on the plains.

Brother David W. Jeffs;

Dwelt on clipping from news of April, 1945 conference on "Keep the commandments" and bore his testimony to the truthfulness of the fullness of the Gospel and the work of the priesthood council.

Song: "Come, Come, Ye Saints"

Brother Joseph W. Musser:

We have had some wonderful instructions today, my brethren and sisters. We have beard from our historian, Brother Boss, a man more faithful I feel doesn't live upon the earth. He has been working a number of years on the history of the Church, the Gospel, the Kingdom, etc., and has done a wonderful lot of work towards keeping the TRUTH magazine filled with information. Whenever we want information historically, we go to Brother Boss for it and he has an accumulation of data that will sometime be published Most of it is being put in line now for publication. His sermon today was filled with the inspiration of the Lord and I am very much impressed with what he had to say. Also glad to hear from our Patriarch, one of our patriarchs, Brother David W. Jeffs and his very forceful remarks. I thought I would like to sanction the fact that Brother Jeffs has been given the care of this priesthood home and surroundings to raise a garden, to put up fences, keep the hedges trimmed, etc., and to make this ground a spot of beauty and delight for people to gaze upon. so that when any of you saints receive the suggestion from him, as you may, remember that he is in charge here. These are sacred grounds. We are trying not only here. but in Idaho and in Southern Utah and northern Arizona to raise foodstuffs for our people, to keep them from hunger, to keep our livestock in good condition, to build our homes, to house our people, and one of those little projects is here on this little square we are buying. We haven't fully paid for this property. We are paying a little each month, but it is proving a great blessing and we have a very competent man appointed now to look after it and see that it is cared for by using the lesser priesthood when he can to assist in keeping the place beautiful and in proper order. I was glad to hear from Brother Jeffs this afternoon and the very strong sermon he was giving us Now, we may not be with you very long. and yet none of us are trembling in our knees. We may have to do a little time with Uncle Sam as a testimony to him. It hasn't yet been determined. The question is still in the bands of the Supreme Court of the United States and if they go against us there may be some other point brought up to at least delay the situation, but whatever does happen we feel convinced that it happens because the Lord wants it to --- it happens because we are appointed to get this testimony before the world. There are lots of good, men who are not indicted and convicted at the present time, and we hope they will not be .We hope if some of us have to go we-can go and feel that all is well with the saints on the outside and you can continue to hold your meetings;- to operate schools and the, TRUTH magazine delivered to you each month as it has been for the last ten years. I expressed the hope some six or eight years ago; and I was very serious in it, that the Lord would let me help to publish TRUTH, to arrange the editorials etc., for ten years, I had a ten year period--in my mind. Well: I was reprimanded the other day by my wife that I didn't make it fifteen years. This is the last number of the ten year period. I asked for ten years and the Lord has given it to me. I feel very grateful that I have been connected with that little publication and got all this information and got it out with the help of my brethren --Brother Barlow, Zitting, Boss and others of the brethren. You have got the information before the people that will go down into the annals of time and supply them with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as no other publication can do that is extant. Nothing else compares with it. I am not throwing bouquets to myself in saying that, but to the Latter day Saints. The people now that want the early volumes cannot get them. The early numbers are pretty well all gone, and we can't ordinarily keep the late ones on hand because there is such a call for them, but, I feel very grateful that I was associated with that movement and it may be we can continue to be associated with it. I do not know what the rules are, if I can continue to do some writing, but they can't keep me from praying, and sometimes I receive an answer. When I am entitled to an answer, they are always answered. Sometimes I feel we pray mechanically. We don't get down to the spirit of prayer. I fear I have been guilty of that myself. We don't know what it means to ask God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for a gift. We use that term mechanically. It goes through our minds often times without any deep thought and impression, but I will challenge any good Latter day Saint to ask a petition of God that is legitimate and proper and not get an answer because God does answer prayers. He answered the prayers of the brothers down in Short Creek. We had a couple of boys down there arrested and being convicted. And the jurors down in St. George where they were being tried are the 100% kind. they sat on some cases before and it took them just six minutes to bring in a verdict of guilty It took the Supreme Court six months to turn them loose. But that is the kind, of men we have down there to act as jurors. But the people in Short Creek got busy and held their prayer meetings --in the morning and at night they had, their circle meeting and prayed to the Lord for these two boys in such a way and with such faith and confidence that when the case was about to come up for trial there were no witnesses there for the prosecution and they had to dismiss the case. Now, that is the kind of faith we have got to have. These fifteen brethren who are now booked for 'Uncle Sam's Hotel' are men of faith. They are men of faithfulness in the Gospel. They are filled with the desire to serve the Lord. The Lord isn't going to put these men there unless He has something special for them to accomplish in that place. I remember when my father was there preaching to the spirits in prison and he converted some of them . He turned them from criminals to men of renewed faith and when they were released they came out to visit with us, and I remember one in particular who received baptism. I remember when Brother Johnson and Brother Spencer were at Florence that they baptized some of those prisoners. One family one father in particular who when-he Was liberated had them baptize his wife and children. I remember of --reading of Peter who was in jail in his day, who converted the jailor and the. jailor insisted upon baptism and Peter took hold of the situation and baptized him. Now, we don't know what the Lord may have-in mind, but we do know this one thing that the Gospel is true ; there are no compromises that can be made. There would be no necessity for us to go to prison at the present time if we would just say the word just give our pledge that from now on we would cease publishing the TRUTH magazine and cease entering in or encouraging the entering into the principle of celestial marriage. That would be all that is necessary. It has already been indicated that if we would do that they would drop the matter The Lord doesn't deal with those kind of servants. When the Lord placed Brother Barlow in this Priesthood Council and placed him at the head, He placed him there for He felt he had a man who would stand at the rack, hay or no hay, that he couldn't be moved one inch one way or the other. In choosing his assistants, he chose them on the ground and for the same reason. He says to you brethren, go on and get this group of people converted to this principle of the fullness of the Gospel because I want to organize a perfect priesthood situation. I want to organize a Sanhedrin; I want to organize the Kingdom of God, or to fill up those organizations. There are a number of vacancies at the present time. He wants those organizations filled up. He wants an organization upon this earth that he can talk to and talk through and that will take the head of my work here in the earth and bring it on to perfection. I want a people that will go on and like Enoch did, perfect a people and have the power that Enoch did that the earth trembled and frightened the people That's the kind of people I want and I want Brother Barlow and you other brethren to perfect this people, give them the word of the Lord and give it to them in power, burn them up with My spirit that they might stand firm and faithful and true under all circumstances. That is the mission we have at the present time. Our hearts must be filled with the spirit of God. We must. be so sound that we never stop to doubt the spirit of the Lord when it is manifested before us.. We must never doubt the Priesthood set up Our trouble now with the Church is they don't recognize a priesthood set up. They only recognize the Church organization. The head of the Church has never received the higher ordination of the priesthood as Brother Barlow has received, and yet he is trying to tell the priesthood what they shall do particularly with this principle which is a law to the priesthood and to the Church which the church has rejected, which the Church has turned away from and in turning away from they have lost the power to become sanctified and to become exalted because they can't go where Father is without living the laws that Father has. revealed. We can't go where Abraham is unless we live the law of Abraham. You people who have been in the Temple and received the marriage rites in the Temple with one wife, you understood in receiving that wife to live the law of Sarah. Many of you haven't yet been in the Temple, but those of you who have entered into. that covenant when you received your wife that you would live the law of Abraham and Sarah, and on the strength of that covenant and on the strength of that only the blessing of thrones and principalities and powers and exaltations were placed upon you, together with the blessing of fruitfulness, the blessing of Abraham; Isaac and Jacob --upon the strength of that covenant . Now, where can you get without that? Where can a covenant breaker get in the Kingdom of God? Only those who stand faithful and true can expect the blessings of the Lord. God bless you, Amen.­

Brother John Y. Barlow:

I just want to testify to what has been ,said. We know that it is true and we hope that the Lord fits-our backs to the burden I am not worried about myself. I am not worried about those we are leaving behind and how will get along, but we don't need to worry about them for they will get along, The Lord says; I will fight your battles, and we are depending upon Him and Him alone. As far as lawyers are concerned, I lost my confidence in them a long time ago. We have to have them to plead our cause, but I feel Brother Musser is a better lawyer than any we have I ask God's blessing upon you all, and some of you, if these men are taken, some of you will have to take the lead of the Sunday School here, and some are already prepared for it and we want the people to turn out and don't forget your prayers. That's the main thing. I remember a little instance where there were some fellows in Short Creek looking for some of the sisters and that one Sunday they went to my home and asked my little boy "What is your name? He said, Alma. 'Alma what? I don't know. They said, 'Do you know anything?' He said, 'It's just according to who we are talking to.' I want to tell you if some of our older ones were as keen and as smart, we would do well.

Song: "Oh Give Me Back My Prophet Dear" Benediction: Rulon C. Allred

MINUTES

Sacrament Meeting held at the Priesthood..Home, 2157 Lincoln St., Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday, May 6, 1945 at 2:00 p.m.

Brother Joseph W. Musser presided

Brother Marion Hammon conducted.

Pianist -Mabel Allred; Violinist -Margaret Musser. Chorister; Alfred Olschewski. 1st Song: Words of "Dark the Battle Clouds are Closing" and music of "What Was Witnessed in the Heavens". Prayer: Brother Wm. Chatwin 2nd Song: "Reverently and Meekly Now" Sacrament administered by: Bros. John Butchereit, Clarence Wayman, Edson Jessop and Don Wayman; Alfred Olschewski in charge.

Brother Hammon:

The time is now that you raise your voices to bear your testimonies. I suggest that you raise your voices so most can hear. Hasten to use the time.

Testimonies borne by: Edna Zitting Elvira Zitting John Butchereit

Edson Jessop Mary Fischer Patriarch Wm. Stokes Beth Darger '

Brother Jos, W. Musser:

We would feel-very bad, brethren and sisters, if Uncle Sam is agreeable to take, us under his wing for board and lodging for a season, if the attendance in these meetings decrease. It is my hope and prayer that the Saints will be diligent. Of course, we do not know yet what will happen; we do not know whether Uncle Sam will take us over. Men have been provided to take care of these meetings and the Saints, Brother Guy (Musser) and Rulon Jeffs, and they have been given charge of this work in our absence. So the machinery will go on, and there is no reason in the world why it should not go on. We have started a proposition here of preparing people for special blessings and appointments ,and exaltation. We do not want this incident to interfere with, our progress. We want it to go right on as if nothing had happened. Though the adversary has great power, we are here to build up the Kingdom of God and do the will of the Father. Most of us do not know the breadth and width and heights of this test that is going on. It is going right into the heart of Mormonism and the Kingdom of God and it is going to have the effect of establishing that kingdom. We are in the throes of a great war. It looks like the nations that have been more prominent in keeping this going are surrendering, and we are getting the feeling that there will soon be no more war:, As a servant of God, I wish to say that we are only in the beginning of great trouble. Some of our boys may be brought home before all this happens. I would not be surprised to see Japan beaten. We are still saturated with the wickedness of the earth. ,These experiences in the last four, or five years are teaching us a lesson. This awful debauchery that is rampant is making men carelessness; juvenile delinquency is more terrible and. we are meeting with a situation that they cannot stop. It has got to go on. The Lord has started a cleansing of the earth and that process has got to go on until the earth is cleansed. People do not realize it. Russia has not been defeated yet and the bear and the lion have not come together yet. The bear is Russia and the lion is England Millions and millions of German people are still there and some of the still have their high ideals of victory. These governments are going to clash again. This little meeting in San Francisco in trying to decide the peace ,of the world is foolish for men have tried to bring peace for four or five thousand years. We should all try to think of ,peace and bring it about. But they cannot do it outside of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Peace will never come until the people are prepared to say Jesus Christ is the God of this earth. This is the promised land according to the Book of Mormon and full of the bread of life and no nation can come and put it under bondage so long as the people of this land will serve the God of this land, Jesus Christ. There are not enough people in the earth to subdue us if we are prepared. to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We said in Sunday School this morning, it is somewhat a joke, and was discussed that Heber C. Kimball said, Why I have wives enough to whip this nation." Give him 100 years to teach his sons and daughters the Gospel and. they would clean up this whole country. That is what he meant. And he would have if they had. kept the commandments of God. I did not get up to preach, but I had. been reading Orson Pratt's prophesy and so came prepared to read it to you. It was made in England in I879 and was given as a warning to the people of this world:. When that day shall come, there shall be wars, not such as have come in centuries and years that have passed and gone, but a desolating war (desolation means to kill everything). It will be a war of neighbor against neighbor, county against county, city against City, etc. This war in Europe is just an incident in the great fire that is facing us for the future. There is only one remedy for this people--this group of people. There is only one safe course to pursue and that course is to serve the Lord, the God of this nation, who is Jesus Christ. We have His commandments. We partook of the Sacrament today and entered into a very sacred covenant that "we would always remember Him. and take upon us His name and keep His commandments which He has given us and in answer to that promise we will have His spirit to be with us. We have entered. into that covenant today. If we, if I I do not keep that covenant, the Judgments of God will come upon us, will come upon my family. These are serious things. Do not worry about these arrests; the wives and children will get along: What we are more anxious about is that we will justify this thing:-­that our lives shall be, such that we can justify our faith in this great Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ; for it is our mission to go on to complete success. We have-got to go on; we cannot stop here. Do you think Heber C. Kimball would have stopped in his day? He said, Never again will they drive us from these mountains. Now; let them do their damndest. What I want to do is serve the Lord and keep His commandments. I want to learn perfection day by day and hour by hour. I want to learn to love my neighbor as myself. If I do that I will be in good circumstances~ God will bless us, will bless you. Do not let these meetings wane. When the word comes out to us, I can rejoice and thank our Heavenly Father that we are the seed He has planted. That is my word to you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Bro, Charles Zitting: I want to say a brief few things. When these 15 men move out, if they do, leaving 15 seats vacant, it is like taking out 15 soldiers in the ranks of the army. Amen to what Brother Joseph said. think that all the men that go to jail feel the same way that I do;15 of those men standing pat, in unity, no army in the world can stop those men to vindicate the Lord's work. I want to acknowledge to the Lord His goodness to me and my family. If we do go to jail, I only worry about my families; but I feel that He is going to take better care of them than I did. I would like to see this house so full, if we go and when we come back, that we would not be able to get seats. May god bless us that there will always be plenty of children to fill His kingdom, is my prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Song: "True To the Fa1th" (requested by Jos. W. Musser) and it was sung with great power and spirit, shouting the "No" and "Yes". It was very stirring to the Saints.

Testimonies. borne by: Lyman Jessop We may ask for and receive much sweetness that it turns sour we sometimes ask for sweet turn sour things that would if we received it.

Martha Doelling T. R. Dockstader Frances Zitting

Brother Marion Hammon:

The time is drawing to a close and I would like to express my feelings I rejoiced in my trip into Idaho, It is wonderful the work they are accomplishing there; those young folks are gaining ground. When we drove into the yard they all came running from their ball game to greet us, They have set aside one evening a week for recreation like that and if it is too stormy, they spend the evening studying the scriptures together It is too bad I do not stay young. I feel well about our brethren too; I am concerned about them but not so much about their welfare. I have thought about each one of them and those .that are faithful the Lord will bless, You people have some improving to do. (I am going to sit down before I express my feelings to much.) You women are being lead by some wonderful men. You have seen some trying things, but it has not kept you in such a condition that you have not remained faithful. You have no assurance that your husbands will not have to go to jail, (He here related the sacrifice of Isaac.) I have never said, nor heard Brother Barlow say that these men would not have to go to jail, The women have been told that they would not have to go. Few have dedicated their lives and feelings to building up the Kingdom of God. Agency has been overdone, at least I think it has been overdone. When If I keep the commandments of God, then the more agency I have. If I am in harmony with all the laws and commandments given, then my agency extends beyond the heavens. Just as sure as I fight the things of God, then I lose my agency. Can I help myself? I cannot, and neither can you, It assures your damnation. If you repent, your agency will be given back to you. Some of us are clinging on to what we call our agency. You tell me what it is, will you? In hell there is no agency and in heaven your agency is boundless. We ought to yield more readily to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is quite a task to most of us to be taught constantly by men; but you yield to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it is not long until you are governed by principle. You sisters and brethren have embraced the principle of plural marriage and that great commandment of consecrating your property; you have grown until you shine. You have received experience enough to govern yourselves, and has your agency increased? Yes, it is expanding. And God is granting me more privileges. How cautious we must be. You have conditions here under which you live surrounded by Babylon; and oh, you think it is glorious and you find it hard to separate it from your feelings. I will be glad and the happiest day of my life will Be when I am separated entirely from it. As I tried to state this morning, I feel that my spirit loves the Gospel and everything concerning it. I cannot enjoy the full extent of happiness in the spirit because I am being restrained by my body. You people that are living in sin. and Justifying your misdeeds, have the devils arm around your neck. Do you think he will ever let go? No. He will try to hold on all the tighter. And will you let go? No. You will hold on the tighter. We cling to the bright experiences of our lives and we think we can walk into the pastures of Jesus Christ, and we are under a dilution. Those things are going to be hard to shake off. There is a way whereby we can bring ourselves in subjection to the laws of God. Let us find it. When Brother Musser was reading to us it came to my mind about the people of Ephraim--proud and rebellious, and I thought of that being our heritage. It is a constant struggle for us to keep ourselves in the proper balance. We have to learn to be obedient. The men have got to be obedient to the Priesthood and you wives have got to be obedient to your husbands. Your blessings are in the rights and gifts of motherhood. It will take a good deal of wise tutorship to hold some of you in the right. The work in Short Creek is growing in leaps and bounds. I do not know whether the Lord is going to drop a bomb shell into our midst and strengthen us or what, but there is a sweet spirit there. There has been some weakness. there, more this spring than any time since I have been down there. I see a wise purpose in it. You mothers who are finding lots of sickness, look to your knitting and try to see a reason. (Here he spoke of how turkeys are difficult to raise, and when sickness hits them they go fast.) I pray the blessings of our Father upon us that we will be wise and judicious and rally round our brethren. I am sure that Brother Barlow and Joseph have done well and yet they are wondering how well you will carry on if they are taken away from your midst. We are not looking for men and women who pin their faith on the sleeve of the brethren. The men and women who finally carry on will be those who put their trust in God; those are the kind of men and women who will carry on and see it through. We have got to trust in God. I bear you my testimony that this is the work of God, that it is more conducive of growth and expansion than anything I have ever seen, and I do it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Testimony by: Fred Richter

Closing Song: Guide Us, 0 Thou Great Jehovah

Benediction: Brother I. W. Barlow

LJAllred.

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln St., Salt Lake City, Utah, May 13, 1945 at 2:00 p.m.

Brother Guy Musser presided and conducted.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs assisted.

Pianist -Mabel Allred; Violinist-Margaret Musser. (Brother John Y. Barlow, Jos. W. Musser and 13 other brethren are incarcerated in the State Penitentiary . on the charge of unlawful cohabitation--for living the laws of God. 1st Song: "Our God, We Raise to Thee" Prayer: Brother David W. Jeffs 2nd Song: "Though Deepening Trials"

Remarks by Guy H. Musser:

No doubt the brethren are holding a meeting where they are. Mr. Roberts was right when he said we are as responsible as they are. We are grateful to have Brother Rulon Jeffs back from Idaho to stay and assume his rightful place. We are grateful to have our patriarch here with us too. Blaine Thompson and his wife are here from Idaho. He is on a project in Idaho and we will be glad to have him report.

Brother Blaine Thompson:

I am glad to be here with you today and it has been a pleasure to be with the folks in Idaho. You are kind of on your own up there; you do not have the brethren to encourage you and help you along. You have to depend on yourself to keep the spirit of the Lord .I have been more religious and more mindful of the Lord there. You have to stand on your own feet. Work is progressing very rapidly. Some are very diligent and others are negligent. There is a sifting going on in this group and that sifting is going to go on until there is pure gold .for the Lord to work with. Then men will be willing to die for what they believe. Those who are not able to stand up under these trials are going . to fall. If they cannot stand and be of use to their community they will fall. No matter what opposition we have, we are a majority so far as God is concerned. God and one man is a majority and may be the means of stopping mobs, reducing the mountains, etc.: If we receive inspiration and prepare our hearts and listen to the whisperings of the spirit, there is no end to what we can do. These 15 men have. gone through hell to keep up this principle and keeping it alive. They have gone ahead and lived their religion to the best of their ability. How many of us now are going to carry on with the work they have placed upon us? It is not the 15 men that I feel sorry for, but us who are left here. Look at these children; they are young now, but someday they will be taking our places. We have got to teach them not only to be as good as their fathers, but better. How are we going to teach our children if we do not overcome our faults and failings? The mothers are here to teach their children to keep the commandments of God. I know it is the wish of every man and woman here that their children learn to serve God and build up the Kingdom. We often look at this motto here, out how many really think about it and believe it in their hearts and can stand. up and fight for it. I hope I will be strong enough to do it. It took Enoch 400 years living the laws of God and preparing in order that they could be translated. It has been 100 years since Joseph Smith was martyred and he said what would I give to see a fully organized branch or ward and see it functioning. How many of us are living such lives that we will be able to look upon him as a brother? How many of us are going to have the privilege of meeting our Father and Mother and embracing them and knowing who they are? Just because of the things of the world, we are held down. It is not the big things that damn us as much as the little things. I have been out of Babylon most of the time lately but coming down here going through the little towns and hearing the young people discussing things, they make your heart ache. No wonder the Lord is going to bring them down in sackcloth and ashes. Are we going to be big enough to take on the harness that has been given to us, or are we going to push it to one side? These men have carried the load for years now, and now the Lord is going to see if we are willing and able to carry it. There are some who will not follow and others will hold to the iron rod and go on and increase. If we knew what was in store for us we would not let a thing bar us from keeping the commandments of God. Our human minds are not big enough to imagine the things that are in store for us if we will keep His commandments. At the beginning of this year one of the brethren stood here where I am standing and said this year would be the greatest in our history for bloodshed and terrible thing of the world. . The end of the war in Europe is" here, but no telling what will happen before the year "is up. It is said that' men's hearts shall fail" them. Let us pray that we can stand up to the load. It is not too heavy if you put your heart to it. We have got to stop our complaining and back-biting. Our feelings get hurt once in a while, but we have got to put them aside. We are just a rough stone and if we get a corner taken off here and there we soon become smooth stones. I pray we will all be smooth stones soon, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

Sister. Fawn Jessop:

Guy just knocked a corner off me. I pray for an interest in your faith and prayers. I have been very much edified and interested in Blaine's remarks. He has been in one end of the united effort" project and I have had a glimpse of the other end. I can bear witness that so far as, I am concerned the united effort is from the Lord. I am thanking Him every day for the little experience I have had in it. I am thanking Him every day for the parentage I have; for the association of the friends of God, and I do mean friends. It has been about 23 years since I first learned a few things that were going on outside the church and with the sanction of the Lord. I had that knowledge come to me in my youth. I had my own brother show me how I can get a testimony and that is by having an open mind and being willing to accept what the Lord had revealed. The Lord did not come down and show me things, but I can tell" you, that a feeling of peace that I cannot deny came upon me about these men of the Priesthood who are outside the church. The same feeling has come over me regarding the united effort. Some say, "Have these brethren the real authority to start the united effort? Surely if they have the authority to keep the principle of plural marriage alive, they have the authority to start the united effort. I can thank the Lord every day that my children are being brought up in-it and are being given responsibilities in that very effort. I have heard a few conflicting ideas since coming back here a month ago, on these very things, and it made me get in and dig and I am glad it did. I think I was taking too much for granted; it looked like I was called up here to do someone else a little service, but I think it was to do myself a little service, just as my going down south was a service to me. I consider my­self most benefitted in caring for my sister, Mattie, and the Lord has been doing me a favor and I am always being done a favor. Sometimes I wonder why the Lord was so good to me to have the parents that I did, to have married the man I did, to have the confidence of the people I associate with I hope to be worthy of all these blessings. I do not feel that I know anything that I can tell you, and I feel very humble and weak. I feel like I am closely effected by the brethren who have gone into the "pen", having brothers and brothers-in-law there, so I feel my interests are just as keenly in them. My prayers are sincerely in their behalf. I feel like Brother Blaine--they are taken out of our midst to test us. If they are released from the confines of the jail they will have big work to do; they will-be called here and you to do a great work, and we must become as firmly planted in the truth as those whom we have been leaning on; then we can succeed. I ask the Lord's blessings on everyone that they will make the effort to find out the truth and stand by it, and have strength I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Sister Edna Zitting:

I saw Brother Guy look my way and thought surely he would not call on me, my arms full of babies. Well, the Gospel is true; that I know as well as I know anything. If it were not so, I think I would be unhappy. But as it is, I can say I am happy because what is going on is the work of the Lord. Whatever the Lord wills, I will also. I feel 1ike Sister Fawn, I hope that we can get a testimony and become more like those who are in jail. We do not know the purpose of their being there, but it must be for a good purpose not only in the work of the Lord, but also for us individually. I have thought for years and years that we must come to the point where we stand alone in obtaining a testimony of the truthfulness of this work. I feel that the Lord is going to bless us but we are going to be tested. It has been so all through the ages. The Lord said, "My people shall be a tried people". I do not think we have been tried yet as much as the people that have gone before us. I feel we will be able to endure if we are faithful and true and the Lord will not call upon us to do anything that we cannot do. So if He calls upon us to go through the severest of trials He will provide for us and give us strength. I feel that the dream Uncle John had where he saw the door open and I hope and pray that it will be fulfilled. I pray that the blessings of the Lord will be with each and every one of us and the determination to go forth and do the Lord's will, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen;

Song: "Redeemer of Israel"

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

Brothers and Sisters, I know you must feel as keenly as I do the absence of our brethren in jail; it leaves a real void. We have relied upon them so much; but if we learn no other lesson than putting our trust in the arm of flesh, putting it out of our mind and heart, we have got to do it now. We have got to know truth and know it for truth's sake. There are some brethren that die when some of the brethren leave. Some of us may, not we must not.. So my heart goes out in prayer to these brethren, and. they will be with us again. I understand that Brother Joseph admonished the Saints to pray day and night that the temples will be opened to our Saints. My mind goes back to the time that I was called after my mission to be a guide at the Temple square. I knew little of what I know now. But I wondered then why so many of our Saints were called upon to suffer as they have--are they not worthy to receive the word of God? And how I rejoiced when I learned" what I know now. When I was guiding the tourists about the Temple block, how my heart rejoiced when we came to the temple and I explained some of the symbols that are on the outside--the stars, moon, etc. It was a glorious time, and I long for the day when I can into that Temple again and take my family, and receive some of the blessings and proper endowments. There are certain covenants that my mother and father have received that I want but they are a big responsibility. I heard an elder in the mission field speak of the rights and ordinances in the temple as a "circus". How he could perform a mission with that attitude is beyond me. So, my brothers and sisters, I pray for these things; we need the strength and power that those endowments and blessings will give us. I often think of Section 105 of the Doctrine and Covenants (verses 1-13) concerning the redemption of Zion: "Verily I say unto you who have assembled yourselves together that you may learn my will concerning the redemption of mine afflicted people--••• , they might have been redeemed even now---••••• And. are not united according to the union required by the law of the celestial kingdom; And Zion cannot be built up unless it is by the principles of the law of the celestial kingdom;---•••• it is expedient in me that mine elders should wait for a little season for the redemption of Zion--. that they themselves may be prepared, -------•• And this cannot be brought to pass until mine elders are endowed with power from on high. For behold, I have prepared a great endowment and blessing to be poured out upon them, inasmuch as they are faithful and continue in humility before me. Therefore it is expedient in me that mine elders should wait for a little season, for the redemption of Zion." And we have been waiting. The time is NOW. The united effort plan is the beginning attempt to live the united order that will take us back to Jackson County. I pray God that we will be able to live it, It will go on whether we are going to live it or not. It is .going on and it is up to us to hold on to the iron rod. It is up to us to pray unceasingly for the temples to be opened to us and the One Mighty and Strong will be with us and set things in order. Brother Wooley, I think, once said that the time would come here at the Salt Lake Temple when people would go there and they could not get in because the power of God was there at long last. Many would try to get in and fail, and the servants of God came there and they were permitted to go in, Do not ask for that blessing and then fail, for it will be a greater condemnation, Then there is the work for our dead. May we arrive to that point where we are worthy to go into -the temples of Almighty God, I pray humbly in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Bro, Otto Olschewski was the next speaker and he spoke of Mother's Day, gave examples of motherhood in the Bib1e, especially at the time of Christ; also of the brethren who are incarcerated in jail, and admonished the saints not to put their trust in the arm of flesh,

Bro, Guy H, Musser: I desire to sustain that which has been said today. I think our sisters gave a very honest expression of their feelings, So long as we have sisters to stand on their own feet among us we will be able to go on, I am glad that Brother Otto brought up "Mother's Day." V-E Day came the other day and President Truman set this day aside as a day to pray. I thought that was an unwise thing. We appreciate our mothers, sisters, father and brothers. I do not think anything on earth has left our women higher than this principle of celestial marriage. Some think that high and holy law means to become a slave to a man. Those who understand the Gospel in its fullness under­stand that they will become exalted in their position. When they are called from this earth by death, they will be called forth from death as mothers and some will become Eves. Some will be worthy to bear spiritual children and fathered by Gods. Talk about motherhood! Why, the people of the world know nothing about it. They have not even begun to scrape the surface of what motherhood means. I am not saying that a woman of the world does not know the pains and anxiety of motherhood, but they do not understand the great part the woman plays in the economy of God, for the man is not without the woman nor the woman without the man. Man will never become of God without his quorum of Eves; no matter how much she does on earth in a daily manner, she can do all her little duties as a mother, but if she has not a man that will exalt her she will be at rest until she receives a man that will bring her forth. We know what motherhood means and we know what motherhood embraces. You sisters that are sitting here today are beautiful to behold, both young and Old. There 1s nothing more beautiful to my eyes than a woman who has measured up to the full measure of her creation, with gray in her hair and possessing her dignity; and yet there is nothing more beautiful than those who are young and about to start on her voyage. So you are all beautiful to me. You all have the opportunity of becoming an Eves if you want to pay the price. If you want to leave the world and select a man that is faithful and then slip back great will be your condemnation. But I would feel bad if I was a sister, and through neglect or blindness selected a man who was not capable. You have a right to be exalted and it is your own fault if you do not become exalted. There are limitations if you take a man who does not hold the Priesthood. The Lord holds a man of the Priesthood accountable for his wives children, his stewardship, etc.; but you sisters are in a different position, you can become an Eve or a servant to an Eve. Now is the time to make up your mind. I have often wished that my good mother could be sitting here. She was a real lady after the true order of women. Now we have heard much about our brethren who are away. It is the first Sunday we have been without them. Now we expect them to be out shortly. There is one thing sure--they are like Abraham of old who marched to the mountain-top with his son, Isaac. If it is the will of the Lord that they should. stay for a few weeks for a purpose that we do not know of at the present time, then they will be there for a while. I know one thing positively, that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true, and whether they will be there tomorrow, I do not know; but they are there. They are under favorable conditions. I know you have been faithful in taking food and clothing up to them. I think they are holding a meeting up there. As I said in the beginning, we are the ones responsible for the work of God we are, and the wives are, the children are. You all covenanted in the preexistence to come here and be willing to lay your body upon the cross; and we as men made the same covenant to our Father. There is no doubt in my mind as to that. So we are responsible too, if they are taken away from us for a few weeks; we must carry on his work that has prospered so well under their direction. It is impossible to stop now in the work of God; we have gone too far. God has gone too far to destroy this people and raise up another people. And there are some among us that will stand the test of the fiery furnace and come out pure gold. And so we will go on; and we want you to know that our sympathy and faith are with you and the brethren. We want you to know that our services are at your disposal. We want to keep this group united as the brethren want you to be, if they are gone a few weeks or months, and they will return to the bosom of the Saints. We want you to know that Satan cannot destroy the work of God. We know they cannot and we will prove to them they cannot. You need not worry about the judgments of God being disposed upon the wicked, for time and chance come to all people. We have men who have trampled underfoot the divine principles of the Lord and the Lord. will take care of them, and they may go from this life before the penalty is imposed upon them, for they cannot get away from it. Someday, whether it is in the near future or not, we will fly the flag of the Kingdom, of God and men under the name of God will assemble in the courtrooms and the men who have passed judgment on the Priesthood of God and trampled His laws will be called in for judgment. And those who are dead will be called from their graves and sent back to hell; and those who are living will be given a judgment of hell and sent to their graves. And some men living today will sit, on that jury in the court; and the evil deeds and accounts against this people will be held against these evil men who are persecutors now. We have suffered nothing yet, as to the days of Joseph Smith, John Taylor, and the others; those who persecuted will be called up and their spirits are waiting in prison now--wait the day when they will be called to suffer and. receive their Judgment. The Lord is at the head of this work and His judgment is swift and true. But we must be faithful and stand in holy places when it comes in order to be proved. As Rulon has said, ,we will have to be endowed from on high to go into the hearts of men. That day is approaching; so let us be faithful. Now that the brethren are called to the prison house, we want to be of service to you. Brother Jeffs (D. W.) is set apart to administer to the sick and I know that any time of the day and night he will come to administer to you. We do not suppose to see that anyone suffers. If any one does not get the sustenance and necessities of life, we--Rulon and I-­do not want you to feel reticent to ask for anything pertaining to the kingdom of God. If you are not happy, call on us. It makes no difference what you have on your hearts or on your minds, we want you to know that we will treat it with reverence. We know that the brethren will not be there long. We are going to have to raise a knife as Abraham did over Isaac to make the sacrifice. I have not been told and Rulon says he has not be told, and I do not think the brethren have been told, what will be required for them to complete the sacrifice. Father (J.W.Musser) says he has not be told. While they are there we have got to go on and. be our brother's keeper and help each other to get to these meetings and prove to the Lord that we can be true and faithful. We want to leave this message today; to admonish you to be cheerful and be prayerful in your homes where the Priesthood is not there. You have a right to pray to God. So long as I live I will remember through time and eternity when my mother kneeled with us children in prayer; it was as a man with the Priesthood praying. And you have a right to direct your children and teach them to pray and keep the commandments. Let us not forget our tithes and offerings. Whether the brethren stay in or get out tomorrow, we need money to carry on. Many think because you have been cut off the church that your responsibility to God is not necessary. Whether you believe it or not, you owe ten per, cent of your money to God. You have that knowledge whether you are in with the church or not. We appreciate that if you can send it our way If you cannot do that, then send it to the church. If you can figure another way to give it to God, then that is all right but I know only one way and that is to lay it at the feet of Gods servants. Earth quakes are coming, the Judgments of God are coming so let us prove faithful and true and carry the torch just as though these brethren were with us and blessing us, with jubilant feelings ,and cheerful countenances until that time that the Lord sees fit to send them back to us. May we be united and pray constantly I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Closing Song: "Lord Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing" Benediction: Brother Axel Fors LJAllred.

MINUTES

Sunday Evening General Meeting Held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln St. Salt Lake City, Utah, May 27, 1945, at 7:00 p.m.

Brother Guy H~ Musser presided.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs conducted.

Pianist -Mabel Allred; Chorister -Alfred Olschewski. 1st Song: "Awake, Ye Sainte of God, Awake" Prayer -Brother Garrett Monfranz 2nd Song: "Before Thee Lord I Bow My Head" (Afternoon meetings were changed to 7:00 p.m. to facilitate the families of the brethren in prison to visit them, M.I.A. being discontinued for the present.)

Brother John Butchereit:

My brothers and sisters, this is indeed a surprise, though I feel my weaknesses standing before you and the deep responsibility more than ever since some of our brethren who have been with us have been taken away, I cannot help feeling a keen sense of the work that stands on this little group of people in carrying on the work for which our brethren are incarcerated; and I hope and pray that the Lord will give me strength and guide my thoughts in the few remarks in the little I say, and give you strength and up building in the work in which you are engaged. I cannot help having my thoughts come to the words of the first song we sang. I think the words are by Eliza R. Snow. It is such a beautiful picture of the establishment of Zion. (He read the words to Awake, Ye Saints of God, Awake, page 4.of the Green Hymn book.) As my thoughts go over some of these things I cannot help thinking of the continued opposition to the work of God. I believe as far as history goes back, starting with our Father Adam, and His sons, the opposition is necessary to the work of God. Then my thoughts go on to the time of Abraham. He had to leave his father's house where they were worshipping idols yet had to come out and stand up for the God of his day. Then we take many of the prophets of the old testament, suffered for the truth's sake, were driven and smitten and walked in skins and hid in the caves in the mountains yet it was for. a powerful testimony of the truthfulness of the work. Then I thought of the Savior and His apostles. He came, I believe, into a world that was against Him and suffered more powerful contradictions than any human being suffered. And then I thought at the apostles who gave their lives for the truthfulness of the work. Then we have the long period of darkness where the servants of God ceased to work in an ordinary capacity; and we know that during those dark ages millions and millions of lives were taken by the force and power of the evil one. If I were to review the days of the Prophet before he even introduced plural marriage, the persecution of the Saints who were driven from their homes, many of them were killed for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And the persecutions came to the Prophet. The adversary never ceased one moment or laid down on the job during the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. Joseph's life was endangered many times, and he had to hide the Plates. Some of his closest friends turned against him and caused the taking of his life. So people could not worship according to the dictates Of their own conscience, and it was not long-until the lives of the Saints were endangered again out here, and the Saints compromised with the world. And we see today that after all these persecutions and drivings, we see the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints taking a hand in persecuting the Saints who are upholding and defending the principles of our Lord Jesus Christ. It seems impossible! And many times we actually wonder-­it seems like the adversary nearly has power to overcome this work and is ready to destroy it; and it seems that he is even given power to do so. Yet we, in this trying circumstance have the word of God in the Doctrine and Covenants explaining to us and unfolding to us many things that we have not understood before. Still, as a little group of people, I think we have taken these things very lightly; and I feel that I have cause to repent and all of us have cause to check and take inventory and see how we stand with the Lord. We have no reason to think. as a group that we are entitled to many of the blessings neither is it justification because we live plural marriage to say that we are much better than many of the rest of our brethren and sisters who have not had that privilege or opportunity, or not understood these things of God fully. Let us remember that we have a work to do and that Work is only in its beginning stages and as we go along step by step that we may not be able to live plural marriage well. Do not ever think that the adversary is not right there to drive a wedge in the household of some of your affairs, though you feel you have done your best. No matter what side we lay on, we can improve. I feel that this people should be a very humble people and repent in sackcloth and ashes and ought to try to live up to the things that we believe in. I feel if we do that in all sincerity that God will answer our prayers. Maybe it is because we are not living as we should and so the Lord has not answered our prayers as quickly as we think He should. I have in mind an experience lately--the law of united order that we believe in; we say yes, we believe in it, we have lived it in our family and we are ready to live it on a community basis. I know one thing, that the united order is a law of the celestial kingdom and it takes plural marriage and the united order necessarily in the celestial kingdom. I believe that we are all guilty of partaking of the spirit of Babylon and have that spirit. I feel the absolute necessity for this people to come out and unite themselves and turn to spiritual affairs. (He spoke of Orson Pratt's prophecy concerning the darkening of this people.) I marvel at these things and I know as well as I stand here that I must live and subdue myself to live these two laws or I will not be an instrument in the hands of God in establishing His kingdom upon the earth. We; under the present circumstances, ought not to ,take notice of what our neighbors do, but realize that each one of us hold it in our hand to live up to these commandments of God which He has given us and we must love the Lord our God with all our might, mind and strength, and love our neighbor as ourselves. Do we love our neighbor as ourselves, or do we feel we are entitled to more than our neighbor has? I feel. that these brethren who have led us from week to week and year to year for the last 10 years in advocating these principles to us, must ,have feelings of discouragement in looking upon us and not ,seeing more fruits of their labors; and, while they are sitting in confinement back of the bars and suffering and keeping their covenants and keeping these principles alive, and if necessary to give their lives to maintain them, are we doing our part or are we slacking down and letting down a little here and there? I feel we have cause to repent and I feel that we should call upon the Lord daily for these our brethren, and repent and call upon the Lord to help us live as a family as God has intended us. God grant this, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Edson Jessop:

My brothers and sisters, I feel at a loss to know what to say. Nevertheless, I feel it a privilege to stand before you again. It is indeed a privilege to mingle with you I feel my work here is almost at an end, and feel a need of returning to Short Creek. I am thankful in doing what little I can in building up the-work here. It has been a joy to help out what little I have in the building up of the kingdom. We have got to live the united order. The sooner we are willing to give in and rely on the Lord for our blessings, the sooner we will receive our blessings. I know we are not united enough. I know in Short Creek the Saints are more united' than we are here. I know we held meetings at least once or twice a day and I miss that spirit. I feel that was one reason why I was released from prison, because of the spiritualness and prayerfulness and unity of the Saints there. I am thankful for the privilege of giving my time and talents to the building up of His kingdom. We have got to go on. There is no turning back or aside. We have got to honor our Priesthood. We have got to improve our thinking, study more. I am speaking to me. I have tried to be so busy since I came here that I have not studied as I should. I am sorry that I have not. I know that I must improve my time better. We have got to rally forth. Being the youth of Zion, the responsibility rests upon us. We must rally forth, improve our lives and power, time. I am thankful for the parentage that I have; for the many brothers and sisters that I have. If it requires prison sentence or whatever it might be, let us take it. I pray that the spirit of the Lord will rest upon us all and we will gain the testimony of the Gospel that we should have. There is much missionary work to be done. The time is now. The Lord will see us through. If we will start on number 1, and cease finding fault with our neighbor, and be thankful for what we have and help our neighbor, then we might live the Gospel in its purity. These blessings I ask in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Song: "Redeemer of Israel."

Brother Alfred Olschewski:

I am very much surprised. I hardly know what to talk about--the Gospel is great. I will bear my testimony and sit, providing I do not get shot for it. I know that the Gospel is true. I believe I will be open to the inspiration of heaven to say a few things for our benefit. I was just glancing over a song, and I will take a moment to read a few words by Emily Woodmansee, The day of redemption so near is at hand." (Page 37'5 in the Green Hymn book, and he read it all.) The situation has not changed any. In the scriptures it says, truth goes slow and ever goes forward. I have never heard anyone quote the verse preceding that. It says though there are one or two in unity ask of me, and that which they ask shall be given. What is our trouble that, that is not coming to us? Our greatest desire is to have the brethren come back to us; yet we are not able to accomplish it. Why? How many have with their prayers made covenant with the Lord to keep all the commandments? Every one of them? How about you young people? I remember Brother Hammon told you to cease using lipstick and yet you going on doing as you please. Do you remember where it says in the Doctrine and Covenants, His servants word is truth and 1ive by them?" And another place in the scriptures it says to live by every word. Yet our fathers and uncles, we do not think they know much. Do you think President Barlow, Brother Zitting and the others should suffer incarceration and we sit by and let it go on? At the Liberty Jail an inscription was, "Spent his time in jail for the sake of the Saints" Why should we stand by and let this go on? The judgments of God will start at the Lord's House, not in New York. This is Zion. Zion means the pure in heart. How pure are we? I was reading Geo. Q. Cannon and he delivered a beautiful sermon and said that if the people of the world had the truth taught to them and they could see it, they would like to take it up like the apostles. But they cannot see and recognize it. And I wonder if that is not like some of us, or all of us, the same condition. We are having doctrine taught to us. The Council are not only here to uphold the principle of plural marriage, but every principle of the Gospel, and to see that we live it. That is their mission. Often times I think we are blinded by the adversary just like the world. We are having the law of united order taught to us and most of us are blinded to it. We have not the right conception of these truths, and the spirit of God cannot do a thing with us. I am not open to suggestions and I cannot see the truth because the devil is blinding us. I hope that none of UB is looking to escape the persecution that is going to come upon us. When the Apostle Paul was speaking to us about persecutions he said, All those who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. He did not say perhaps, or might, but shall as a consequence. Perhaps we can educate ourselves to live a more godly life, and the more godly we live the more persecutions we have; for persecutions shall not cease until we have turned away from the Gospel, or until a time when we have perfected ourselves to the point where Satan is bound. They are the two ultimate things. We can have our choice; deny the principles of the Gospel, or else live every principle of the Gospel day by day and thereby bind Satan. There is not one principle of the Gospel that you can deny for another. The first time you get up in the church and stand up for the full Gospel they will cut you off the church. (He referred to Section 35 of the Doctrine and Covenants.) You cannot tell me a person believes in the fullness of the Gospel and will take it up later without losing his exaltation and everything that pertains to the fullness of life and salvation. As Brother John Barlow said, the fullness of the Gospel is the united order and the order of plural marriage. In the first volume of truth it says we believe in the united order and in the companion law of plural marriage. According: to Brother Barlow, and. it is true, you cannot get into the highest kingdom without living the united order. That law was given early in 1831 and from that time the Saints have been persecuted for it. Brigham Young said that wherever he went he found cooperators but when I look into it I find there are two or three at the bottom of it. And so in 1882 there came the first real law that could do anything about plural marriage, and the Saints thought they were free. They felt they had lost everything. How will we feel? Perhaps we are being threatened at having our political rights taken away from us; or be sent home to our countries. We have got to go one step forward--either deny the whole of the Gospel or else live the whole. As that song said, anyone that asks of the Lord will receive a testimony provided you are willing to covenant with the Lord that if He gives you that testimony you will abide in that covenant the rest of your days, You must show the Lord that you are asking for the testimony for the purpose of living it, or else do not ask for it. If you want to live the Gospel, "Live godly in Christ Jesus, you shall suffer persecution." Do not think that if we are able to get the brethren out of jail tomorrow that that will be the end of it. Maybe it is best that they are there. I took care this morning in looking at the Doc. &Cov., (I take from 5:00 to 8:00 every Sunday morning to study) and the scriptures say that the Saints will barely escape the judgments--barely. You might save your life in this day, but it is better to save your soul. What does it take to make a good Saint? The Lord says to cease doing this and that; cease to Seep late; cease to use idle talk; love your neighbor; love the Lord your God with all your might, mind and strength. What is love? One of the apostle said, "This is love--that you keep all of His commandments." Do not speak of the men that hold the keys of the Priesthood; do not say you love them unless you can keep their commandments. Do not think they have not the right to commandments, for they hold the keys that give the Saints rule over the earth. I know the Gospel is true and pray to God that I will remain true to the end; that whatever persecution may come, that I will always be able to remain true to the end, to the servants who are guiding us here on earth, I pray for this all in the name of Jesus Christ Amen ...

Brother Guy H. Musser:

It looks good to see you here, brothers and sisters, and you have been edified tonight. We have heard some good things. It is time that we applied the things we have heard to our lives, I have an article to read that might give us some consolation relative to our position in the earth at this time, Brother Barlow gave us this article to read, and I will read it. The heading is, "Persecution of the Prophets"(from the Mill. Star, Vol. 3, pgs. 113 and 114, Nov, 1842) from the "Times and Seasons", Nauvoo, Sept. 1, 1842: Since an attempt has been made by Missouri to arrest, or, rather kidnap Joseph Smith, the prophet, we have heard many curious surmises; and lest some who ought to know better, should cheat themselves into perdition, we have thought it would be no more than righteous to lay the matter before our readers in its true light. There is a strange notion afloat among the Saints and sinners relative to the purity of the prophets. etc........••........• Let no Saint suppose that righteousness will reign or peace be on earth, and good will to men and glory to God in the highest, to make the Wilderness blossom as the rose, till the wicked cease to bear rule, and till they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. So we can expect these things until they come, These brethren in prison are fulfilling their job and the measure of their work, So let us fill the measure of our work that we, with them, shall have joy and rejoicing in the day of the Lord Jesus, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Bro, Rulon T. Jeffs: We have been here for about an hour and a half. I feel to rejoice in the words of the brethren, I say, "Amen" to it. The key note has been a word of reformation to the Saints, Repent! repent! is the word to this people, I cannot help going back to 1941 when John and Joseph said messengers from the other side were present, and the veil was very very thin; and we were promised that the day would come when those messengers would visit us, We have not heard it in the last few years. What has happened to us, It seems to me that as a result of the brethren going to the prison, it is bringing us in closer unity. We do not know what the brethren and we will be called upon to go through, but we do know that if we live godly in Christ Jesus that we shall suffer persecution. I pray we will grow. ,It seems when we are called upon for blessings that we must renew our covenants with the Lord. We do that when we take of the sacrament. I SAY WE NEED TO REFORM and get the spirit of God and reform. The brothers and sisters in Short Creek have taken covenants for this very purpose, and we have got to do the same thing. I feel to repent of my sins and get closer to the Lord and build up the Kingdom of God in order to call upon His blessings. I pray this disintegration process will not take hold, in our brethren going to jail. Just as sure as we sit here.... there are some in this room that will turn traitors to the brethren and apostatize! It is true! I would to God that it would not be true, but it will be! And let us not say that the brethren in jail are perfect; but it gives them an opportunity to get nearer the Lord and sanctify their lives. So let us not, brothers and sisters say we are perfect until the Lord Jesus Christ comes and gives that blessing to us. Because we belong to this group of people, let us not be self-righteous and pious; for we are not. God help us to reform our lives and rally around the brethren in jail. Remember the Council incarcerated are still at the head of this work and God is at the helm. Let us pay our tithes and offerings, and feel, if you can, to enter the united effort as these brethren have said tonight. I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

This afternoon in discussing our meetings with John and Joseph, it is stated that some of the Saints have complained that with such a long interval it makes such a long waft between meetings. It was suggested that our preaching service be at 3:00 in the afternoon. It will give sufficient time to visit the brethren at the prison, and we also admonish the Saints to be careful in visiting the brethren. Brother Joseph said if it becomes too much of a hub-Dub, that they will curtail our visiting So, be wise. At 3:00 p.m. next Sunday we will have our Sacrament meeting.

Closing Song; Cone Let Us Anew

Benediction: Brother Russell Kunz LJAllred.

Minutes of the Testimony meeting held Sunday, June.3,"1945 at 2:00 p.m. at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln" Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Brother David W. Jeffs commenced. Meeting in absence of Brother Guy W. Musser and Rulon T. Jeffs who had been called to the penitentiary by the Brethren. They returned after the preliminary exercises. 1st Song: O Say What" is Truth?" Prayer: Brother Russell Kunz ­ 2nd Song "He Died The Great Redeemer Died" Sacrament administered by John Butchereit and Edson Jessop, assisted by Don Wayman and. Otto Olschewski.

Testimonies borne by:

Brother Mondfranz

Brother Wm. Stokes

Sister Gwen Woolley

Sister" Myrtle Allred

Sister Elvira Zitting

Sister Gertrude Hamblin

Sister Ethel Jessop

Sister Alice Barlow

Song: "Come, 0 Thou King of King Additional testimonies borne by: John Butchereit Freda Monson Pansy Darger Fawn Broadbent Russell Kunz Edna Zitting Ed son Jessop Laura Barlow Susie Barlow Evelyn Fischer Carl Fischer

Brother Guy Musser:

I am grateful to be here today. Would like to endorse Aunt Susie's plea that the. sisters cooperate with her in this Relief Society movement, for if we ever needed a relief society movement, it is now. The newspapers say there are 55 wives and 200 children left to be cared for. I haven't counted them, but there are a lot. So help Aunt Susie. You are the people that are the beneficiaries of her thoughtfulness. I know that it would have pleased the brethren greatly to have heard the testimonies. given today. These young people --it is an inspiration --young girls who aren't mothers feel they are doing the work that the Lord has marked out for them and they are doing the work that God has wanted them to, and they can't fill the measure of their creation until they accept the gospel in its fullness and throw off the world. You can't have the world and still have God. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. John who was put into a cauldron of boiling oil and could, not be destroyed, he knew what he was talking about. You can have a dress to put on and a coat and your shoes shined without loving the world. And you can still love the world and have nothing to put on and no place to sleep. It is a matter of feelings in the heart. as Aunt Susie has suggested. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, might, mind and strength. This, is the first great commandment and the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Upon these two hang all the commandments. When we are striving to keep those two commandments, you are coming out of the world and if the Lord sees fit to bless us with a few blessings, it is all right if it is all right in your feelings. I don't advocate that you wear fig leaves and eat honey etc., but it is here in the heart. The Lord came to Joseph and told him his Brother Alvin's heart was pure and he would have accepted all the commandments. That's how our hearts have to become in this world. The brethren in prison love all of us. Let's not worry about them. They are there because they have a job to do and they want to do it. There is not one, including Sister Rula who would have had their sentences suspended. They could be free men today and she could be a free woman, but they all have their jobs to do. They came to the earth to do their job and are happy in filling the measure of their creation. When the Lord is through with their record there, He will turn them loose and until He does turn them loose, we can't get them out. Our friends and our attorneys feel that this is the fight between the state and the fundamentalists but that is just the crust of the affair. This is a battle between Satan and God between the priesthood of the Almighty and the priesthood of Lucifer and that is. why it goes so far. We are not dealing with the issue of our physical natures etc., and even if the Lord could induce the people of the state to forsake their attitude of persecution against us, we would still have to combat the attitude of Satan who said he would buy up armies and navies and rule with blood and draw away the souls of men and there is only one thing that can draw the line and that is the priesthood of the Almighty. The time of the end is .short and the son of darkness knows that and he is bending every effort and the only time that we will enjoy peace and comfort and complete liberty and security upon the face of this land is when Lucifer is bound and his power is destroyed and the only time that will happen is when the saints of God become so purified so encompassed by the Spirit of God and we bind Lucifer with his awful chains. It is up to the brethren who have left us to unite themselves, to those in Short Creek to unite themselves, to those in Idaho, to we in these mountains to purify our bodies. It is an individual thing for us, and we should pray that if we are not in such a condition that we can be purified through persecution and chastisement etc. then. let us pray that we might be removed from the running that we might not be stumbling blocks to our friends. Let us bring it home and if we can't purify ourselves or at least make an attempt to purify ourselves, let us pray that the Lord will take other steps. That's our job here today to purify our lives and look after each other. We can never become pure and possess the spirit of the Lord without keeping the commandments, without loving God and leaving the world and loving each other for we are our brother's keeper. These are the things that our brethren have gone to jail for. Let us be true and faithful. They feel this and are greatly concerned about our condition on the outside They are praying that we will unite ourselves and be faithful no matter what comes and what persecution is heaped upon us. Let us be faithful to their trust. I am grateful that they have, the courage, faith and assurance to go there I don't know whether you folks have thought about it, but I have many times. My father could have made a bastard out of me and been with our family today But that's not the only reason he is in prison. There has to be something deep and abiding within a person for them to suffer imprisonment for the Lord's sake, but I am grateful that he has the assurance that this is the Lord's work sufficiently to go to prison for his faith. We should be grateful for the courage that they are exhibiting in contending for the right. Let us keep the flag high, be faithful and diligent. We are being watched constantly and we must be careful, prudent. Let us take the lessons 'we' have learned. Let us not make the same mistakes again. Let's keep our houses in order, brethren and sisters. Now the officials of the state are looking at these homes; these children these wives, and we are going on printing the TRUTH magazine and it is vexing them to a still greater degree of animosity and because of that they are going to see if they can't do something else to separate us. They have taken a covenant to destroy this work. They haven't destroyed it ,--they have accelerated it through their persecution and they don't like it and so they are going to see what else they can do, as they did in the days of John Taylor, Joseph and back to Father Adam., Let us keep ourselves above reproach. Let us not offend our neighbors. Let us learn to live alone with God and with the saints. I don't suppose there is a man in Salt Lake City who has more relatives than I do My people were polygamists on both sides and there is hardly a locality that I haven't relative in this broad valley --and yet-outside of the association with the Saints of God assembled here and-a few others, I am a perfect stranger here. I was on the Stake Board of the Cottonwood Sunday School, which is an enormous stake and yet-today I am alone. I am alone with the Lord and you. I can't have the world --can't have them and have you. I can't bring them to you and have them betray you and betray the priesthood of God. If they want to come, they will come, and if not they will stay out. When they come, they will come qualified and humble and show their fellowship like I had to come and you had to come and everybody else; that's the way we are going to live. Don't let your right hand know what your left hand does. You can't trust, anyone but God. Let's clean up our house and keep our children clean. Leave our neighbors alone. And if we do that, these people can't separate us one wife from another and children from each other. I was going to say something in regard to the visits to the prison. We got passes this week, and if we don't leave them alone, they will only give us a pass every two weeks. It is becoming very serious . If we don't leave those brethren alone the keeper is going to send them out to the point of the mountain. It is up to you. I think it is up to; the, brethren to tell the warden not to let anybody in, so-it is up to us. there is women up there at seven o'clock in the morning, the warden says. There is brethren up there all through the week, and there are men who go up, who have to see the brethren, on business who can't get in. Let's leave them alone during the week. Let's not insult the courtesies that have been given the brethren. They are already considered pets and the other prisoners are feeling badly toward them and the warden would have no power over-a riot if it were to happen. Now, let's not have them break the rules. Let's leave the brethren alone for a few short months and let them rest. Now, that's our counsel to you. I don't feel ,to be too strong. It is a matter We have to look into and the brethren will soon be with us again and we will be able to hear them and see them. If you go you can't see much of them and can't touch them . Those who do get a pass, I suppose they don't want to see you. Let's rally together. We want to do everything possible to carry this work along that the flag of religious liberty might ever wave. Let's prove to the world that we can take it under persecution and may God unite us and bring our brethren back to us. May God bless us with unity, with health and strength. May He bless these wives that they love one another, that they be helpful to one another, these children that the spirit of Lucifer might be driven from among us, that we might become that pure people that have been spoken of, as saints. May He heal our sick , keep us well. These are the blessings that I ask in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother David W. Jeffs

spoke for a few moments quoting a poem "keep the light that God has kindled on the altar of thy soul."

Closing Song: "Glory to God on High",

Benediction: Brother Axel Fors M.L.Allred

MINUTES Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. June 10, 1945 at 3:00 p.m.

Brother Guy H. Musser presided

and Rulon T. Jeffs conducted. Pianist--Mabel Allred Chorister -Alfred Olschewski 1st Song:"0 Ye Mountains High" Prayer: Brother Shultz 2nd Song: Words of "Glorious Things Are Songs of Zion' and music of "Israel, Israel God Is Calling"

Brother Clarence Wayman

was the first speaker and said that his wife told him that he was going to be called upon and was thankful for the privilege of speaking, and to be among this people; he felt honored to be with these brethren and the ones in prison, where the highest. men in the world associate with the lowest. He said he feels the Lord is taking a hand in things more now than at any time we can remember; this is the winding up scene of the last days. He bore his testimony and thanked the Lord for his parents, his family and all his blessings, for the very breath of life, and the wonderful plans He has outlined for us. He said he thinks we are more in prison than the men in jail; our bodies are in prison because we don't do as our spirits tell us; we are here to perfect ourselves

Brother R. T. Jeffs:

This afternoon while I was up to prison I was deeply impressed with what I saw when Brother Zitting was talking to his son Marvin. Come and speak to us, Marvin.

Marvin Zitting: They are fine up there. I think he is doing a lot better up there than when he is home. They have a lot of time to study. If we could be as faithful as they are up there, we could to what is right, we would be a lot better off. I hope we will always do what is right no matter what happens to them or us. I hope the Lord will protect us and that we will be faithful and true to the end. in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Sister Athlene Allred;

was called upon next to speak and she said she wants to thank the Lord for his blessings; that it is our trials that will make us grow and appreciate what we have; that this past month with our brethren in prison bas made our faith grow stronger, and the family has received so much kind help from so many people; she has worried and one day got ashamed of herself, and thought if we worry and profess to have faith, then it proves to the Lord that we have not faith which we profess to have. She said she feels the Lord has brought us greater blessings, and we on the outside are going to have to work for our blessings while the men in prison are receiving theirs; that we are going to have to be mighty good when our husbands come out and call upon the Lord more, for we are not ready to have them come home now; it is really our test and we must become more united and grow stronger. She talked to the young people telling them that they are throwing their blessings and heritage out the window and will someday be sorry; we are told and told what is expected of us, but until we change our hearts and build up the kingdom of God we will get nowhere. -She commended the brethren who are taking the place of those in jail.

Sister Susie Barlow;

was the next speaker and she thanked the Lord for the privilege of being chastised as the Lord says He does to those be loves. She said she likes to see the young people bear their testimonies for upon them will fall the responsibility of carrying on the Kingdom of God. She spoke of teaching the young children the Gospel and instilling it in their minds and hearts, teaching them the history of the Church and more of the life of Christ; there is one road to take to become a god and-­now is the time to learn it and teach it to our children, and teach them obedience to the spirit and laws of God. She said she has no feelings against anyone on earth, and hopes no one has any against her and asked for forgiveness if there was; that the Prophet taught us that if we forgive even before a person asks for forgiveness then the Lord will be just as merciful to us that we can obtain the spirit of the Lord only by striving to overcome our weaknesses day by day, and it is just as important, to guard our tempers and tongues as our thoughts; some say you cannot control your thoughts, but you can. She said she appreciates the donations and help of the sisters during the past week, and invited the young people to come out to relief society meetings and Thursday work days. She asked the Lord to bless the Saints that they may become more united, and strive to make the Gospel a part of their lives every day that His spirit may be with them.

Song: The Time Is Far Spent

Brother Russell Kunz

was called upon next to speak and he spoke on faith (referring to Athlene's talk); spoke of the gloom that has been over us since the men have been in prison, the rain and clouds, and that when we have learned the lesson the Lord is trying to teach us the brethren will be out He referred to the Lec; 6:,7; Lec. on Faith concerning eternal life. He asked if we are taking the course of life that we would want our children to follow, a course of life that would be accepted by God has this motto· The Kingdom of God of Nothing sunk in? Are we doing what we can to perfect ourselves? He said he feels as Brother Barlow does, that this is the best people on earth, but we are not good enough, and the Lord has not gone ahead and set His house in order because we are not good enough to accept the work that He has for us to do, and we must learn step by step. He expressed his love for the officers and teachers in. the Sunday School and how good a work they were doing. He recited a piece about a father and his son "I stepped in your steps all the way." He admonished the Saints to take the steps that we would want our children to take; and do our part that the brethren in jail may be released.

Brother Carl Fischer

was the next speaker and said he was very happy for the opportunity of working in the Sunday School and he further spoke upon unity and improving our lives at home among the children, to love one another more and share responsibilities together, and be worthy of the brethren when they come home. He said that he spoke with one of the guards at the prison and he said that if he had anything to do with it, the brethren would not be in there long; but they have a mission there to spread the truth. He .said he was thankful for the Gospel and that some of his children are living it; that he agreed with Guy when be said that you cannot put a new horse in an old harness and expect it to do the work of an old horse, it takes years to learn how to live the Gospel in its fullness. He feels that things are going to happen faster from now on and prayed that the Saints would live so they could be used by the Lord.

Brother Guy H. Musser:

I think that if the brethren could have been here today they would have considered the time spent on the hill very profitable, in hearing what we have heard today from you people. I think Brother Zitting would be happy to spend a year up there if he knew that his time there would be helping to build a testimony in the lives of his children and his wives; and so it is with the rest of the brethren. So it appears that we are beginning to learn our lesson. As fast as we learn our lessons the sooner they will be released. We have reduced in our attendance and soon we will be able to partition this room off. This decrease is not surprising to us, and we thought about all we would have left would be the families of the 15 men; they are bound to stick with their men. But still they would fill these three rooms. But if the 15 families can stick together it will be well worth the effort made. Lots of the other folks are afraid that they will make another raid; but we want to carry on this work and prove ourselves faithful and be willing to do the work we are assigned. That is our duty today. We love the Church. All the days of my life I have been taught to honor the Church. I do not remember a family prayer to which I was present wherein my father or mother did not ask the Lord to bless the Church and help it to come into its own. Some think we despise the Church. If that is your case, then you do not belong among this people. If that is your attitude then it is high time the Church had you and cut you off root and branch. and if your belief runs along that line too deep, then you have apostatized from the Church. The Church of Jesus Christ is the true church and God is at the he1m and is leading its affairs as He is, whether it is in the Church or out of the Church. We are only trying to do our job, that is all, the job that has been assigned to us. So it was with John Taylor and the others; they were set apart to keep alive certain principles. That is what the brethren have been trying to do--to keep alive the capstone and the laws of God. That is why our brethren are in prison and others will go to keep these things alive. If they could have done it without breaking from the Church, they would have done it. But when the time came they had to take their choice, and there was only one thing to do--that is to be faithful to God. That is our situation today. So long as we can remain faithful and true to God, we must do it. But when the time comes that we have to make a choice, there is no alternative-­we must be faithful. And being faithful to these sacred trusts means jeopardizing other things, even if it means our lives. We are here to be faithful and to hold high and clean and pure those principles that will redeem us, and redeem the Church. And if there is only a handful of people standing in the breach, then the Lord will keep those things from being destroyed. Why the Priesthood would no longer be if they were destroyed. Why the earth must remain true in its course; our redemption is dependent upon that . That is why we are here today--to keep that trust put in us. I have often heard people say that life is just one bad thing after another when are we to be redeemed The prophets have told us to sing about it pray about it, and dream about it. We may never have it on this earth. Joseph and Brigham never had it. So we may never have it, and so we may die struggling in this breach. But that is our job--the Gospel--and that is what constitutes this work, to be faithful. The race is not to the swift, but to those who endure to the end. You sisters here today, and others, are being prepared for a mighty job, when hundreds of people are going to cry out for the truth; they are going to have to be taught and prayed with and led from one day to another. Who is going to do it -to tutor the people from the Church? Why, you will. You are going to take those sisters and tell them what the ordinances are, and you are going to lead and direct; when they come to you, you are going to be the one to give it and put your arm around their shoulders and give them a boost. And so you are having these experiences so you can prepare for it. You cannot be a counselor or teacher until you have had the experience to do it. That is what you are having today, and when you are able to take these people in, you will be purified and cleansed. And as LeGrand Woolley said the other day, That is why we are not redeemed today and they were not in Joseph's day, because there were not enough people prepared to go on. The Lord wanted to, but there were not enough people prepared in Brigham's day , and John Taylor's day, and so He postponed the day. Because of our weaknesses He cannot give us a temple today. In an instant He could drive the wicked out and let no one but the faithful in . But we are not prepared. He cannot redeem us. Now, how long, how long must we wait before He can redeem us and give us those things that we want to build up; how long before our brethren can be released. We must purify our lives and keep ourselves together and unite ourselves; and when we can get the spirit of the Lord day in and day out in office, factory, school etc., then the Lord can guide us and turn over what is ours; and then He can get from the Church these faithful young people and old people and we can organize the wards, stakes, etc. Then we can do the mighty work ahead. Then it is up to us. There is no other people that have had the experience that we have. So He is going to work with us and He is going to see us through, if we will permit Him to. It will take years to raise a people that is as far as we are. As Rulon (Jeffs) said, we have got to take the step that the people in Wilford Woodruffs day would not or did not take, and when that time comes we will be given the Lord's arm and He will guide us and we can go to Jackson County. We have not been against the wall yet. Brother Barlow said we would get in that condition, and we are far from it. But we are going to and when it happens and we have been disfranchised, and our children and wives have been driven, and our backs are to the wall, we have still got to take one step and give our lives if necessary; and we have got to prove that. If the Lord has to take one brother from our midst, He will. That is why the brethren are in the jail today. They are there because they are going to stand at the rack they are going to be skinned alive if necessary. So these are conditions today. Let us stand united and love one another and keep ourselves pure and holy and we will be worthy. If the law of averages works out there will be some that will fail and there will be some in this room that will fail. But if we are going to work out, we are going to take the step The Lord has given us beautiful spirits and bodies and the world is acclaiming our group. Let us go on and stand true if we are whipped. The other man has his job; Truman has his, Maw has his; but we have ours, and it is to stand true and faithful. The 15 men have their job up there. Let us go on and be faithful in our jobs. Let us keep these stewardships true and faithful. Let us be faithful and bring true these things that prophets have prophesied about. May the Lord bless us and bring us together; that our wives will love each other and that our children will be blessed, that our relatives will leave us alone wherein they object to us; that we will become more united and draw nearer the Lord. If anyone wants to contribute to us, take it and hand it to the right place, because there are some that may need more help than others. The brethren in the Council give word that the people must not be left to suffer. Some of us feel that we need this and that, but our wants and needs are two different things. A colored man worked for a rich banker in Texas when the automobiles first began to come out. It was the thing to have chauffeurs drive the cars. This negro spoke to the banker one day and said, "Why don't you buy a car; you need one now?" The banker spoke this truth: "I want a car, but I don't need one. No man in the world can supply our wants, but we can supply what the poorest man needs." So it is, our wants are greater than our needs; the Lord supplies our needs but not our wants. I hope the Lord will not supply my wants, but I know he will supply my needs. So, if you folks hear of someone that wants to help, tell them where to go to best do it. Now, God bless you with everything that you need for your progress, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

I feel we have had some wonderful spiritual food today. I marvel at one thing--how strong and beautiful and sweet the spirit of God is. We do not need loud emotional speeches, but the humble sisters and brethren. I have found that God speaks through stammering tongues and the weak things of the earth. I do not feel that anything further need be said. One thing though, as each of those brethren at the prison today walked into the visiting room they had a beautiful smile on their faces. They feel good toward everyone. So let us fast and pray, or in other words, rejoice and pray. Let us repent of our sins to be worthy of the brethren when they come to our homes. Just as sure that they have made any progress in the time they have been there, they will expect more of us in our homes. I was impressed with the keynote expressed today. One bit of instruction to the sisters--it seems that some of the letters received by the brethren have been downright embarrassing. Let us realize that what goes in and out of there is read by others. Let us not throw our beautiful lives bare and open to the public Let us realize these things. I feel to have the spirit of repentance at this time. I feel very weak and humble and inadequate to the task placed before me. I want just to fill my little job and nice God help me to do that and each and every one of you the same, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Closing Song: "Lord, Dismiss Us With Thy Blessings" Benediction: Brother Jos. Geertsen, Sr. LJAllred.

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake C1'ty, Utah, June 24, 1945 at 3:00 p.m.

Brother Marion Hammon presided

Guy H. Musser conducted. Pianist -Myrtle Allred Chorister -Otto Olschewski 1st Song: "For the Strength of the Hills" Prayer: Brother Don Wayman 2nd Song: "School Thy Feelings, 0 My Brother"­

Remarks by Brother Guy Musser:

We are grateful for this opportunity of being here today. The sun is shining bright upon the earth, the trees are blooming, the flowers are growing, gardens are growing. These are many wonderful blessings that the Lord designs to give. And we are growing and have much to be grateful for in being here today. We are grateful to have one of our brethren here with us today, Bro~Marion.

Sr. Edna Zitting was called to speak first and asked the Lord to bless her to say something of benefit. She said she has no greater love for anyone than she has for this people, and after all, the. thing that makes us brothers and sisters on the earth is the Gospel; the more we live up to the principles of the Gospel the truer brothers and sisters we become, and we do want to become true sons and daughters of our Father 1n Heaven; that it is necessary for us to become one so that His family will be a beautiful family of oneness. she said she felt good toward everyone, the only thing was that she regretted that the brethren were not here; that we must not mourn in their absence, but purify ourselves that we can be worthy of them again being in our midst and so that they will not have to stay longer away from us because of our weaknesses. She prayed that we would stand firm and not look back or waiver, but keep in the straight and narrow path, and hang on to the iron rod; that we will have the spirit of the Lord with us every moment. She asked the Lord to make her stronger for she felt to be one of the weakest.

Sister Elsie Kelsch

was the second speaker and she thanked the Lord for her blessings and asked him to help her do better each day. She said we must try to do better in our homes every day and help the children more.

Sister Leona Allred

was called upon next and expressed her love for Edna Zitting and all the brothers and sisters in the Gospel, and said that Edna was an example to her by the sweetness and humility of her life. She said she loves the Gospel, and thanked the Lord for his blessings and those especially since the brethren were imprisoned. She said there is a need to get closer to the Lord in our homes; that we need to improve to the point where the Lord wants us before the men will be released, and feels that she has lots of room for improvement; that it is her desire to be an example to her children and the others as the Lord wants us all to be. She thanked the Lord for her heritage, her parents and brother who has always been an example to her; prayed that we would get closer to the Lord and stop our complaining. She said we have a bigger job than the brethren in prison have to do in preparing for the Lord's work; that she prays, as we were admonished by Brother Joseph, day and night for the cleaning to come and the opportunity to enter the temple of the Lord

Sister Evelyn Allred

was the next speaker and she bore her testimony that now that the Priesthood is out of our homes the evil one is trying to bring discontent and trouble; said that we have much to be thankful for, that we have got to forget self and overcome our weaknesses and have more love and charity for our fellowmen; that the Lord will overlook our weaknesses if we keep growing; that every hardship in the Gospel helps to improve us and we will be able to help others by going through it ourselves.

Brother Marion Hammon:

I have enjoyed the testimonies that the sisters have borne. I am anxious to see us make some progress. I believe I can see some growth in this new experience. There is one thing, that is the Gospel of Jesus Christ is going to cause us some heartaches because we cannot go on in it without laying some things, down that are dear to us. Tears are not always a sign of weakness, but also of faith being purified. I love to see tears stream down a face. I love to do it myself. It is a mellowing. There is too much justification among us for criticism; we are too liable to find fault with one another. I believe this experience we are having is going to help us all. Sister Leona's testimony concerning Edna is true. I have held her as an example too. It is true she is an example because she has suffered she is to be admired. I know my weaknesses better than you; I know what a trial they are for me to overcome. It is my prayer, and I have made a public record of it, that I want the Lord to take me through all the experience it takes to mellow me. You sisters have not felt quite keen enough for one another. We are brothers and sisters and when we go into the celestial kingdom we will be as such. So if you do not take a little note at those views you have, you will never be a Saint. If you feel charitable toward just Edna Zitting, or Mary Fischer, or a few others, then you will never be a Saint. These things are close to home. This people is just being prepared for greater perfection. Everyone of us are going to have to face it, some because they have to and others because they want to. Some of us are going ,to be driven in the neck. Let us have more humility in our lives let it settle upon our hearts and lives and lead us into a more serene atmosphere than before. I have had a desire for some time to try to deliver a sermon on the grace of God. I have not been able to get my feelings just right to do so, but thought today that I would try it with the Lord's help. It is my conclusion that when we are all saved in the presence of God it will be by the grace of God. Our works and labors in the Gospel will qualify us for the blessings of God; but there is in our lives here and there just enough. humility that by the grace of God we are going to be saved. I love the work I love the Lord and His people. I know when the Lord leaves me I am led into error. and make sufficient mistakes that if it was not for the Lord I would be cast out. That grace is going to be because of our humility and faith, etc. If the Gospel of Jesus Christ was just as hard as some try to make it appear, we none of us would be saved. We are going to have to earn what we receive in the grace of God, and some of it ,is going to be by what we have done together and through the love for the work; and that is how He will continue with us. The things that are facing this people are going to draw us nearer the throne of grace of God. No one knows when these men will be out; we do not know just what is facing us. We have had it prophesied that the judgments would fall so that when a man would walk up the street and take a drink of water it would be sweet, and another would walk up 'the street and take a drink and it. would be bitter and he would lose his life. The family of Brother Rulon Jeffs is exemplary; Bro Rulon is so willing to consider others needs before himself. A remark was made here that certain persons would go to Short Creek but they would not go down to the level they are on down there. I'll tell you that the Saints here have got a lot to do to get to the spiritual level of those in Short Creek; they are living the Gospel even though some of the homes ·are untidy. Some of the brethren who were there before I went down there still have not been able to teach some of their women how to keep up their homes, but the spirit of the Lord is there. You may not go to Short Creek, but if you go you are going to have some nobler feelings than you have now.(Here· he spoke of some of the trials of the early Saints in Missouri and coming west--babies being born on river bank, the persecutions, etc.) Your feelings and my feelings are no more sensitive than another's. (Here he spoke of Section 17 concerning the three special witnesses that would view the plates., quoting verses 2 and 8.) Now, would Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and Martin Harris do these commandments Yes we find that true later in the Doctrine and Covenants. Many people think these men are damned but by their integrity they come under this blessing. "For my grace is sufficient for ,you, and you shall be lifted up at the last day." (D. & C. '17:8) There lies in my estimation, some of our hope. If we do, what the Lord requires or us, there may be some hope for grace. When we deny some of the revelations of God, shed innocent blood etc. then we disqualify ourselves for the blessings of heaven. That is where some of us have failed. Some of your number here have said, they knew these men of the Priesthood were servants of God and held the Priesthood of God, and then they turn and deny the testimony that they have born. There are some serious conditions facing us. We must solidify ourselves to these things. The brethren do hold the Priesthood and the rights for continuation of it. Some may rise up and say that they received the rights from Brother Woolley but they do not have the right to confer it upon anyone else. The same could just as well be said about Abraham and the ancient prophets. Some have pinned their faith on Brother Woolley, and Leslie, and the same with Brother Barlow. I know Brother Barlow is a prophet of God and Brother Musser is a prophet of God because the Lord has revealed it to me and I know that those who come after them have the rights. A man may have the Priesthood ,conferred upon him, but only God himself can magnify ,us. You who have seen Brother Woolley and Brother Broadbent come and others think it is all right, but when Brother Barlow comes then you refuse to concede to it. I wager that when the time comes when Brother Barlow needs the blanket of God it will be thrown over him. We must understand these things. We must draw near to the Lord to find out. A whole multitude of people may say something, but that does not make it true. We have got to find out for ourselves. And we know also ,that sanctification depends upon keeping the first great commandment, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind might and strength as the word of the Lord through the Prophet Joseph to us. If we do desire to serve the Lord and still make mistakes, He is not going to damn us. if we try again. But there is a possibility that a man may fall from the grace of God In Section.84 of the D. & C. beginning with verse 97-to-102 it says that a song of the redemption of Zion will be sung by some of the Saints. We. must come to the unity of the faith, see eye to eye and be filled with the knowledge of' the Lord to accomplish this. Because Rulon (Jeffs) can outsmart· me in mental problems will not mean that he will look down upon me or anyone that does physical labor; because we are neat and tidy in our homes will not mean that we will look down upon those who are not. That problem to be solved is that we have got to help one another. Some of the finest men that live in the earth are men that have not the capacity to organize their homes so that they are delightful and sweet. A hand has got to be put out to help, not to hinder. Until all shall know me, who remain, even from the least unto the greatest, ------- According to the election of grace, which was brought to pass by the faith and covenant of their fathers." Now that leads me to believe that in the times past. both in the time of Enoch and others, they have the blood of Joseph and the Savior coursing through their veins, and they are going to be brought into subjection and into a desire to serve Him. That is what I say. I hope I can remain sweet during it; I hope I will not let bitterness enter my heart. I hope the Lord sees fit to take some of my loved ones from me that it will mellow me as it has others. I can see the love and depth in those that have had loved ones go on the other side. They have a connection with the other side. All these flocks and herds and riches that some have, I feel as Heber C. Kimball said, My feelings are so separated from these things of the world as the east is from the west. I deal in material things all the time and I see these things flourishing all the time and at times I get a little over zealous and anxious to get these material things in my hands. Often I am urged to go out and solicit talent and material things; they say we need to build this and that, etc. The only things we need to build is Latter Day Saints. I am sure that if we will be as gracious. with the Lord as He is with us; we will improve. Those who are taking sweetly and peacefully the things that are coming into your life are going to grow, and you will gain from it. If you are going to criticize the Lord you are going to lose. We must engage our time and feelings in the work of the Lord. I see men who are capable of putting their hands to things, but cannot put their hearts to it and vice versa. We must set our hearts to the work of the Lord. The answer is in your own minds it is in your own desire. If you think you are ready to put all you have in the hands of the Lord, do it. One man said he wanted to do what the Lord wants him to do but the way he wants the Lord to do it. The more experience I have in having men embrace the Gospel and falloff, the more convinced I am that they must receive the tutoring themselves. I do not think it is the right thing to force men and women into the united order. If you cannot get yourselves ready, then you better not try it. Do not try to push people into it; do not try to rush the Lord. You sisters who have the arrangement of family life in your hands, resolve to serve your God with all your might mind and strength. To receive His grace is for you to submit to His will. Then you will be sufficient timber that He can use; then He will exalt you. If you serve with only an arm and a hand, then you will not go very high. Now pray for the Priesthood. Brother Musser said that every time you defend the Prophet you will grow in might in defending truth, and will grow in knowledge and understanding. The same with Brother Barlow. Many of us have been through the temple and we know by what we speak. Ask Brother Stokes, he knows what he would remember and what he would forget—those I things that he loves and lives up to. My memory now reverts back to the things that I learned. The things of the House of God must be enlightened by the spirit of God. So it is with all things. I am thankful for this day and the times we are living in. I am thankful that the brethren are not suffering any more than they are. Let us pray and hope that they. will be out and we can, have them in the things that are coming. This political situation has strengthened us.. I do not know of a better time that the situation with the, government could be placed right in our hands. I pray the Lord will bring sufficient things upon us to humble us; that we might grow in sister and brotherhood. And I pray that we -will grow and increase and come to a unity of the faith. No party or people will go back to Jackson County unless they can see eye ,to eye. If our efforts are not in unity, then we will not go forth. I pray that we will work to this end, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

My brothers and sisters, I am glad to meet with you this afternoon I have enjoyed the testimonies of the sisters and of Brother Marion. I like the testimony of Sister. Edna wherein she said, "If we live the Gospel of Jesus Christ it makes us brothers and sisters." And how?, We are hoping to become brothers and sisters of God we are his spirit children; but the scriptures tell us that there is something more to do--to qualify. How? By living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is true The love for the Gospel is in time, engendered in us. I am grateful to have the beautiful truths brought, out by Brother Hammon. Unless we obey and submit to the Priesthood of God and keep His commandments, we will not receive grace for grace. There is no reason for slackening up. We must continue because it gives us more to live for. I desire to talk of the temple of God as Leona mentioned today. That is the last message that Joseph gave us the last day he was with us. We, pray God to cleanse it and then prepare us that we might receive those blessings. Brother Leslie said that we should pray to take the next step and then take it. That next step for us, I feel, is to pray day and night for the cleansing of the temple and the right to receive the blessings and endowments therein. I feel it. Do you? I do, so that I and my family may be able to step forward in power. So far as our families are concerned, we have daily troubles and problems; that is a constant problem. But the next step is to pray constantly for the temple of God. We want that blessing, and what shall we do to get it? Are we willing to pay the price? As-Brother Hammon said, we must be. able to come up to the mark. How? By measuring up spiritually and temporally. I pray that everyone here will be qualified to get into the temple but you will not. Things do not work out that way. Let us pray day and night that the spirit of God will abide with us day and night. These are the greatest blessings that we can receive. Let us pray for it. I rejoice in the opportunity to serve the Lord with this people. I want to be a faithful and humble servant that is all I want to be I want to express before you my weaknesses and my desire to repent. I want to bear my testimony that God has been merciful and kind to me. I know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true and we ,are engaged in a work that will set an example to the world. I know that John Y. Barlow holds the keys to Priesthood. They teach sound doctrine as the Prophet gave us. Every step that we take is going to be dictated by the Prophet Joseph Smith. This is my testimony to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Brother Guy H. Musser:

I have listened with keen interest to what has been said. We have been told some key things today both by the sisters and the brethren. If we cou1d abide by those things that we have been taught, we would be prepared for all the blessings that are in store for us. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, what things are in store for those who love Him." He has told us, "If you love me you will keep my commandments, and those who do not keep my commandments are not mine.. It is a sight to see you sisters. The brethren incarcerated on the hill are proud of you. They are expecting big things of you and your children. As long as those brethren remain faithful, these children will not be taken from you and them. I know they are proud of you. It makes me sick to see them looked up and not able to be out and enjoy this beautiful earth. It makes me sick that they cannot walk the earth as free men and serve God to suit their consciences. But they are still free men; they are, the freest men under heaven today, though they are locked behind bars. They can serve God and are not afraid to -That is what we have got to come to. We have got to feel that we can serve God no matter what the circumstances. Let us uphold those men and the principles of the Gospel Let us uphold its dignity while our husbands and fathers are away from us that we will be powerful. To the extent that your husband's hold the Priesthood of God, to that extent you hold the Priesthood in your homes. Let us pray. Let it be said of us that we are a delightsome people; that our women are pure, without vain ambition and pride; that our children are beautiful, that their faces are clean as well as their hearts;, that the men of the world will respect our power and purify ourselves before the world and the Lord. When your husbands are arrested, if they are, do not let it happen that they cannot go without a fair trial, because of your decency and pure living. I may have at some time tried to do something in the dark that no one could see, but the Lord saw it and I found it does not pay. The patriarchal order of marriage it a part of me. It is beautiful and it can be the most beautiful system on the face of the earth; but I also have noticed that it can also be the most degrading thing on the earth. Brigham Young said that principle can damn you as well as save you. We have come out of the world to become gods and god­desses; that is why we came out of the church and the world. We were not satisfied with the prospects of merely becoming servants. We ,have accepted these principles that in our own time and rights we will become gods. God will not smile upon us if we degrade these principles. It is up to us while we are out of jail to let the world smile upon us and see a thing of beauty and expression. Then when we are called upon to suffer trials we can do it with glad hearts and then the Lord will redeem us. It is up to us" you wives, to teach your children to love one another to love the principle that brought them here. These spirits, hundreds of them would not be here in bodies if it was not for this principle:. Let us treat our brethren right by treating ourselves and our children right. When the Lord says "It is enough," let us open our arms and say, "We have done our best." Let us school our feelings. Let us be calm. Do not become uncomfortable in your feelings that the brethren are coming out tomorrow. Lots of things are heard that stir us up. We have enough without heeding the things that are stirred up. When the Lord wants to release them, He will, no matter what is said or done. I have had no revelation or manifestation regarding the brethren, only that the Lord has them there because He wants them to be there. He has not revealed the time they will be required to be there. Let us go on and forget about the brethren, only that they are there and their graciousness and the debt they are paying; and let us live as though we were going to have to live without them the rest of their lives. I do not mean that I do not want to see tears. I would feel bad, and they would, if they did not think they are being missed. But do not store up dreams, but hope and pray that we will be delivered out of the bondage of sin, and purify our lives that they will be released. Now we have heard that there will be other arrests. There may be stool-pigeons in this meeting today. To them I say, we are only doing what we are told by the Lord to do, trying to live decently. If they arrest me tomorrow then all right; all I am trying to do is live decently. If the Lord sees fit for them to go after me, then I am not going to shoot a gun or run. I have a club upstairs but that is only for my family. (Laughing. ) The state and county have devised a system to try to stop these meetings, and this work. They are trying to worry us to death. Let us worry them to death. God is at the helm. The Lord said to stop your worrying; that is His worry I protected you without a roof over your heads; I gave you women babies under the trees on the plains etc; now stop worrying. That is what Wilford Woodruff was told to tell the Saints. Let us go ahead each day and purify ourselves, each day preparing ourselves for the things that are coming. The brief for the appeal on the habeas corpus has been filed and then the State will sit and decide on the issue. It is all in and it has all been paid for and we are doing everything possible in our power. But ,please do not hold your breath until the State decides. Now there are some of these little fellows that are of the age to be baptized. We are aware of this and we will take care of it as soon as we can. We love you and this work. Brother Marion loves you, but he is not here all the time. We are glad to have him. Brother Rulon here loves this work and no one knows more than I what he has given for this work, and he is going to go on giving his life if .necessary. Now we are trying to visit you as much as possible, but do not feel slighted if we have. not called upon you this week. And you men do not wait for us to tell you to go visit some of these families. Go take some of these boys and girls to a show or down town; do something that their daddies would do for them. We cannot do everything; we, sometimes forget to do some things. Let us be sweet to those men up there. If you feel bad because you cannot see them as long as you want to come to us or go out into the field and get your troubles off your chest; do not go up there with long faces. Take them the word that we are happy and uniting ourselves and doing everything we can to perfect our lives. After you have told the brethren your troubles they cannot do anything about it but call upon us to execute what they want done. We want to again tell you to call on us when you need any help. God loves you and us; call upon Him. May He protect us and anchor us in this work, and protect the dignities of our lives, that we came out of the world to live. May He grant us strength to teach our children that it is divine and sweet and that they are born through a channel that is sweet above all channels to come through. When the world looks upon us may they see the illumination of our lives and say, There is a pure people. They may say, "Your cause is just, but we can do nothing for you," but make them say, "There is a pure peop1e.God bless you is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Closing Song: "Come, Come Ye Saints"

Beneficiation: Sister Lucy Musser

LJA11red .'

Minutes of the Testimony Meeting held Sunday, July 1, 1945 at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, at 2:00 p.m. Brother Guy Musser presided

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs conducted

1st Song: "The Earth was Shrouded Deep in Gloom Prayer: Brother Russell Kunz 2nd Song: How Dark and Gloomy Was the Night Sacrament administered by Axel Fors and J. B. Thompson, assisted by Clarence Wayman and Alfred Olschewski

Brother Jeffs:

I trust we all realize the seriousness of the covenant we just partook. We should now be in a fit condition to bear testimony of His goodness to us and of the truthfulness of the word. The spirit of God comprises various gifts, which includes the holy ghost which witnesses that Jesus was a God and Joseph Smith in this dispensation restored the Gospel in its fullness and also that we have men inspired to lead us, headed by John Y. Barlow. The Priesthood is the power of Almighty God. Men have weaknesses, but it has been seen fit Almighty God to confer that Priesthood upon these good and holy men, and I testify to you that they are good and holy men to lead this people and perfect a people to be used in setting in order the House of God. I want to thank the Lord for my parents. As far back as I can remember this good mother, this noble father have nurtured me. At any time they would have laid down their lives for me. They have given me the last penny they had for something that I thought I needed and their sole object in life, it seems to me, has been to nurture their children in the ways of Almighty God, and I am grateful for that heritage and for my noble sister. When Leona chose the better part some years ago, I of all men was most grateful, and now I desire to speak of my dear Brother Guy Never in my life have I been so much in unity with another person upon this earth, and I love him. and I love Pres. Barlow, Pres. Musser and others who preside over us more than I love life itself --yes, more than I love life --and it must be so if we would fulfill the obligations that God has placed upon us. I trust we will. use the time profitably and rejoice together in the spirit of God, I ask in. the name of Almighty God, Amen."

Testimonies borne by:

Brother George Kaufman

Sister Bertha C. Icke

Sister Melba Allred

Brother Otto Olschewski

Mary J. Lavery read poem written by Maleta Jessop: "Why Prison Bars?" Bro". Niels Hansen Song: Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow

Additional testimonies borne by:

Brother Ed Christiansen

Brother Wm. F. Stokes

Brother Mondfranz

Sister Laura T. Zitting

Sister Mabe1 Allred

Brother Alfred Olschewski

Sister Violet Barlow

Brother Guy Musser:

It looks good to see everyone here. We have a good audience --mostly the relatives of the prisoners. We have heard a lot of things today --a lot of feelings. We have our feelings and we have a right to them. Brother·Hansen has been thinking of his boyhood years. He has something to remember, and so we express our feelings. All the key to success, as I see it, is to always have good feelings and so when we express ourselves our expressions will be holy and the desires of our hearts is what the Lord will judge us by. The Lord told Joseph that Alvin would be exalted because Alvin would have accepted everything. We find men and women in this work today who are making a fast race, but their hearts are not pure so they are going to be held back. We find other men and women who don't seem to be able to run so fast and yet they have desires that are pure and they are fully prepared. They have made the proper offering and they will get the reward. Hence the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but he who endureth on faith to the end. It!s the secret, folks. Brother Stokes could have told you that during the twenty five or thirty years he has been associated with this work he has seen men come and go. Some men have come in and got wife after wife. Some have lost wife after wife. So let's see that our hearts are clean and pure. I cannot judge and even Joseph said he couldn't judge. The Lord says he will try the hearts and give every man a righteous judgment. For that reason our hearts should be pure. If your heart is pure and if you have made your covenants and are not running as fast as the other fellow, don't spend your days worrying because you are all right and you have made your offering and are fully prepared. If no one had spoken today, we would have been well blessed because we partook of the sacrament of the Lord's supper. It was blessed by men holding the Melchizedek Priesthood and they passed it to each and every one of us. They read the covenant and we have made that covenant today. We have been told by the Priesthood, by the Prophets, that if we partook of the sacrament worthily our sins are forgiven us and we stand straight in the sight of God ready to try again. Now if we have partaken of the sacrament today worthily we are pure and the Lord is satisfied and has given us a chance to exalt ourselves. Let us rejoice that this opportunity has come, and let us go forth from this meeting renewed --new men and women -­in an effort to exalt ourselves. I want to witness to you today my gratitude for the Gospel of Jesus Christ in its fullness. I only wish that the Lord would give me words that could describe my gratefulness in being born in this time when the fullness of the Gospel has been given to the children of men --at a time when we have to show our moral honesty and courage at a time when we have to fight, at a time when we are not nourished and looked after but at a time when we have to grow because of faith and perseverance and good works. I am grateful for these things and I am glad I am here today and not when Jesus or Joseph were upon the earth or when Father Adam was upon the earth. I am satisfied with this year of my probation now. My only. regret is that I have wasted so many many precious years, moments and seconds. I am grateful that on the other side we were given to choose our redeemer, that we could come through this channel, celestial marriage, that we were worthy enough in our spirit condition to have our selection. I am grateful for a good father who is now in that dark cell for his faith, for his testimony of Jesus. Long ago and all through his life he could have repudiated the story, he could have signed the Manifesto. I am grateful that he has been faithful to this work. It gives me assurance, faith and determination to carry on and to keep on, carrying on in this work, for he has proven by his faith and his works that this work is true. The Lord knows my love for you people --for your faith in keeping the commandments. You have often heard me say there is something akin to me in those who keep the commandments of the Lord. I have lots of sisters in this City ---I passed 200 homes the other night, but I don't go in. They are blood relatives, yes, but they are strangers. I am looking to those brothers and sisters who come forth through Father Adam --those who are actually brothers and sisters in the spirit of God. That's why a man can put his arm around a woman who doesn't belong to him and love her -because on the other side she was his sister. I am grateful that the Lord sent this good man to my side. I never knew him before three or four short years ago. He sent him to my life to help me pull up and get into things that are worthwhile in this work. And that is where he stuck, because the Lord sent him. You see there a man -­and I bear testimony to you --a man without guile, pure in the sight of God. Treat him right, for he is your leader. Now, folks, these are our feelings. The Gospel is wonderful. I feel good today toward everyone in this house. I feel good toward the fifteen men up on the hill. We see a great improvement among the saints of God, and those who are not saints will gradually weed themselves out. The process is working and they are weeding themselves out. Now let's go on and be glad. Let's leave this home today filled up in our hearts. Let's be faithful in our lives and if there is anything that we would like to say to you today, to admonish you today, it is to keep nearer to the Lord. Pray before you leave your homes in the morning and pray when you come back. Pray before you go on your journey, before you commence your work. You cannot pray enough. Pray without ceasing, the apostles say, that you may not be lead into temptation. Satan is abroad and it is up to his agents to see that at least our usefulness is destroyed and it would be better if we hadn't been born, and that is their job and they want to do it, and so let us pray. There is nothing so small or so great but what we can honor God by asking His guidance or insult him by taking things into our hands. So let's pray together and teach our children to pray and the Lord will bless us in this work. May God unite us, bless us with His spirit, remove from our bodies, our homes, the afflictions that are bringing us trial and tribulation and may we be great to prove ourselves worthy vessels for His spirit, I pray in the name of Jesus, Amen. Closing Song: "Come, Let us Anew "

Benediction: Brother Axel Fors.

M. L. A.

MINUTES Sunday Afternoon Keating held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 8, 1945 at 3:00 p.m.

Brother Guy H. Musser presided and conducted.

Pianist –Mabel Allred; Chorister -Alfred Olschewski 1st Song: "Come Listen to a Prophet's Voice" Prayer: Brother Russell Kunz 2nd Song: "Gently Raise the Sacred Strain~

Brother D. W. Jeffs;

was the first speaker and he told of a blessing that was pronounced upon his head in 1894 by Patriarch Heiner, a great blessing, in which he was told he was of the seed of Abraham and a numerous posterity would spring from his loins; that he would preach the Gospel to the living and do work for the dead. He spoke of the time when Moses received a blessing of the Lord and at one time the spirit of the lord left him and Lucifer tempted him, but he rejected Lucifer. He told of some missionary experiences in preaching the Gospel when he first entered the mission field and before he had read much of the scriptures, and the spirit of the Lord was upon him and he quoted scriptures and caused an evangelist debater to flee; and then how the Lord chastised him (Brother Je!fs) because he thought he was a good preacher, and the spirit of the Lord left him. He said how necessary it is for us as Latter-day Saints to have the inspiration of the Lord. that blessings are predicated upon law, and in order to receive the blessing we must comply with the law He spoke of his ordination as a patriarch and how the spirit of the Lord is upon him in giving blessings. He read D. & C. Sec. 128:17-19. He said he called our attention to these passages because that work must be done; that we are all the children of our Father Adam, and in the spirit World we were taught and educated and schooled in the principles of the Gospel, and those who are of the promised seed receive this fullness when they come to this earth. No man can go on to perfection only as the gods have designed them to be. He said that the time is not very far distant when the faithful Saints Will have the opportunity of 'Working in the temple of our God and do the work for the dead. He spoke of the conferring of the Priesthood, how Joseph Smith received it from Peter, James and John, and he in turn conferred upon Brigham Young, John Taylor, and on to the present time-­Brother Barlow and those in the Council, in order that the true order of heaven might be carried on. Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses .shall the word of God be established. He admonished the Saints to be humble and prayerful. and blessed them that light and understanding would come to their minds.

Sister Laura Barlow

was the next speaker and she said she was glad that she is where she is and said the Saints should listen more to the teachings given. She spoke of the brethren in the penitentiary and bore her testimony to the truthfulness of the Gospel.

Brother Jimmie Jessop (home on furlough)

spoke next and he said how happy he was to be home with the Saints again and mingle with them. He spoke of how they in the service are fighting ,for the freedom of religion and yet they imprison our leaders in the pen; that it is because of their teachings at home the other boys from our group have measured up, and he is thankful for all he has received.

Song: We Thank Thee O God for a Prophet

Brother Axel Fors

was called upon and he told a story of a. man who believed in working on the Sabbath day; he plowed, seeded; irrigated and harvested on Sunday and had a sign in his field" "Watch my Sunday crop.* The crops were stacked and ready to thresh, when a spark flew from the thresher and caught fire to the crops, and everything burned to the ground, including the sign. He said how he had been teaching his class in Sunday School to keep the Sabbath day holy, and we must do as we preach, a sermon is better lived than preached; we do not live according to the light and knowledge we have had; have we apostatized from some of the principles or the Gospel! We give in to the edicts to the world too much, the law. of the land. He quoted here Sec. 98:4-10, D&C He spoke of the 1882 revelation; said in order to become gods we must obey these higher laws. If we are to be a light to the world We must live all the laws of the Gospel.

Bro; Guy Musser; I am not going to chide you folks for going to sleep while I talk. It is awfully warm but it will soon be winter again; and cold. It is good to be here today; We have heard some Gospel truths Now we can go back to the grim realities tomorrow again. It is beautiful to gaze into your faces, you women I am envious of the brethren up there (in prison}. I guess that is why they do not want us to go up there anymore. We are a pure people and we should. be a royal people; a blooded people. When we make our appearance in public. people should look at us a second time, and not because of our short dresses either It was said of Orson Whitney that when he walked down the street people paused and took a second look Why Because he was a pure person; he was not of the rank and file on the street. Nor should we be of the rank and file of the people of the world. A few years ago we resided in the spirit world We had our leaders there and we agreed to come to earth at an appointed time and some of us, had the opportunity of choosing our parents before We were born. Before we left that condition in the spirit world, we made covenants that would bind us on earth. Remember that this is just a part of eternity and the next life is a part of eternity because there is no beginning or end. Though the Lord has taken some things from before our eyes in memory, etc. is not a reason to forget that this is a part of eternity The brethren in prison at the present time made sacred covenants to keep the commandments of God. When we lived in the spirit world before coming to this new life, we made covenants to keep His commandments. Our Father said, Now go down you have kept your estate, and if you are faithful and true you will have that estate forever. You will be gods in your own right." The process is long. It will be filled with vicissitudes, bloodshed, etc. ,It was told to them what they would have to pass through, but in the face or it all they shouted hosannas So we find them in the earth; and the veils of their minds have been pushed back when they heard the truth and just merely remembered the covenants they made in the spirit world. One of the crowning covenants is celestial marriage and another the united order And the Priesthood. what was allotted to you sisters there. As it appears to me, you must have been among those who shouted for joy and sang hosannas At the very same moment classes were held for the females and told now you have your job To you it will be the most important thing in the world. It will be your opportunity to so capacitate and to add to your estate also, and walk hand in hand with the Sons of God in the earth in order that after death you can walk hand in hand With them throughout eternity to be their legal ,and lawful wives, to bear spirit children; But these blessings will require certain compliance on your part. It will be necessary to sacrifice and live under certain conditions, suffer pain, heartache and things of the earth. Your kindred will cast you out; your mothers who schooled you will cast you out from their presence. But these things you must remember and it will be your job to accept the Gospel when it is brought to you, and walk hand in hand and suffer all things, and you shall be added upon forever and ever. What was the answer Why, the record said the morning star sang for joy, just as the sons of God shouted For these reasons we are spirit children and are being graduated So we are here today--a few among the thousands that will come from the spirit world. Are we keeping our faith, renewing our covenants, walking hand in hand with our faces high? If we are, then we need have no concern or worry, it we are faithful and true Glory shall be added unto us. Just men will be called from the grave and take our hand and bring us. So let us be grateful and let us be faithful. I am not a woman, but I was raised in this principle. Father had several wives and in that day it had to be lived in more secret than it is now. But I suppose the time is coming when it will have to be lived in secret again I remember the day when my Mother suffered the anguish and pain "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard nor yet entered into the heart of man, what blessings are in store for the righteous and faithful to the end." (D. & C. 76:1-10) You have not the capacity to know what is in store for you. So you have a lot ahead of you. You must be faithful until you are called to the other side. The race is not to the swift, but to those that endure to the end. When you can close your eyes to the anguish and suffering o some that have suffered, there is much ahead. We must be faithful and true and endure at the rack. If the Lord calls upon you to see your husband taken from you and even your children taken from your breast, that is what you came to this life for and it is for your eternal experience. And when you die that man you were sealed to will call your name on the resurrection day and things will be beautiful and you will take his arm and you will walk arm in arm and he will present you to the right authority who will admit you to the realms above We are here but for a moment. We are here for one year, maybe for one hundred, but it appears but only a day. Brother Whitney, Orson Whitney, one of my favorite prophets, seemed to have a spark of dignity about him, wrote this; "There are who deemed Earth's hour of durance etc. (Pg. 230 Latter-day Saint Hymns). That is why we are here. You can have this corrupt piece of earth, but I want the home where Father lives--eternal, beautiful, bright, pure. God bless us and keep us. Be kind to your children, be prayerful, help your husbands. God bless us I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. Closing song: "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go, Dear Lord" Benediction:. Sister Gwenevere C. Timpson. LJAllred.

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 22, 1945 at 3:00 p.m.

Brother Guy H. Musser presided.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs conducted.

Pianist -.Myrtle Allred Chorister -Alfred Olschewski 1st Song: "Come, Come Ye Saints" Prayer: Brother Schultz. 2nd Song: "Zion Stands with Hills Surrounded

Remarks: (R. T. Jeffs) It is a hot day folks, but I don't need to tell you. You men folks can loosen your collars, we do not mind. It is wonderful to be with you again and trust the spirit of the Lord will be with us and it will be as you pray for it.

Brother D. W. Jeffs:

During this past week I have met up with people that are not of full faith; they do not seem to understand the truth, and if you speak of it they think you have strayed from the Gospel. I am thankfu1 to God that during the last forty odd years I have had a witness in my soul of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and a witness of the Priesthood of God. This morning we had a discussion in Sunday School and I feel impressed to speak on the organization of God and heaven before we came to this earth. Before we came here we were organized and given laws by our Father to be trained in the paths of righteousness. We were in the spirit world a long time and were schooled in many things. One of the greatest things granted us was our free agency, and we could choose or reject what came to us. there was a long time, even ages, when we were trained in the principles of truth and those who were valiant were given greater blessings and promises. We came here with the understanding that all knowledge and comprehension would be taken from us as to the spirit world and we came into this world the most weak of things and through development we learn little by little through the spirit of Christ in the lines of the truth. Here we are a group of people; those who were true and faithful, God recognizes them. (Here he spoke of Jacob and his valiancy.) I want to tell you that goes back to the spirit world and that applies to faithfulness in the spirit world. How many times we meet people in the truth and we feel we have already known them for years. (Here he spoke of how he traveled without purse or script and were allowed no clothes to be sent from home, and how the Lord blessed him and the other missionaries; it causes humility and getting close to the Lord.) With reference to the Priesthood of God upon the earth--it is the controlling power that the Lord gives to man upon the earth. Before ever this earth was created--that is, Brigham Young said this earth was organized by God and was near Kolob and was organized for a certain purpose, and when Adam and Eve fell, the earth fell with them and it took its place among this solar system. (:here he read an article stating "Abraham was one of the great governing spirits; he was a great patriarch, etc. Abraham was chosen to be a great patriarch; of this world. It is therefore through his line that we who are faithful and true come, the patriarchal line which was established on this earth. The governing Gods of this earth are: God the First, Adam, the Creator; God the Second Christ, the Redeemer; and God the Third, Joseph Smith, the Witness or Testator. Read Section 135 of the D. & C. and it will tell you. Wilford Woodruff rose to his feet once and said that Joseph Smith was one of those great and noble ones and was one of the godhead and was trained for that before he came to the earth. Joseph Smith had times when he would have liked to have told who he was and what he knew, but there were ones on the earth that would take his life-­those closest to him. Read Sec. 121 where the Prophet sought the Lord to come out of his hiding place in behalf of the suffering saints. The Lord told him to have peace that their afflictions would be but a small moment and then told him many things, among which He said that the powers and rights of the priesthood are inseparably connected with the powers of heaven and without it we have no power here on earth. Read carefully the history record of the church and you will find that Joseph Smith says that there were seven great high priests and he was the eighth. In the days of Brigham Young there were seven chosen and they were ordained and given the higher order of the priesthood and called it the apostleship. In John Taylor's day six were called, and he said there would be a time when a manifesto would be brought up. (Here he spoke of the days of Moses when he was a baby and hid in the bulrushes that his life would be spared; and how he later led the children of Israel out of bondage; how 70 men were chosen and made elders and they failed to live what Moses taught them ,and Moses was taken .out of their midst and translated. The Sanhedrin was composed of 71. These high priests held the high priesthood and the patriarchal order. They held the high priesthood of God and they were judges, and usually there were seven in particular authority; and we have seven dispensations and the heads of those dispensations. We have another organization--the twelve apostles. And then you will have the great high patriarch under the law of Elijah. We now have other auxiliary organizations. We have the church and the kingdom, which was to be governed by a council of fifty two which were not of the priesthood honorable men of the earth--or 48 more or less. They also had their council. They are all subject to the Priesthood of God, so that all these rights, when the time comes the Kingdom of God is fully organized, it will be organized under the Priesthood of God. No man in the priesthood or under the priesthood can exercise that priesthood faithfully without the Holy Ghost. (Here he related an experience in the, mission field when he exercised the power of his priesthood and healed a man who knew of the elders and asked for them. Those who did not believe in the priesthood were asked to leave the home of this sick man and then he and Elder Hart administered to him and he was healed.) So we come to this body of people. There are only a few men left today and these noble women; we only get blessings as we comply with the law upon which they are predicated. And motherhood, glorious motherhood--they only comply with the law that Eve did. Through compliance with the laws we become like our Father and Mother in heaven. We have these brethren in the pen, and you ask them how they feel and they say "Fine" The assistant warden told me that he had been there 20 years and never have they had a better garden than they have this year; they go after the weeds and do most thorough work. He said that those men had not ought to be there. Let us all do better and throw out of our souls this biasness, jealousy, back-biting, etc. May God bless you and all of us is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Logan Kunz (home of furlough)

was the next speaker and he said how glad he was to be home with the Saints again and in this meeting; and that a person needs to travel half way around the world to appreciate the words of Brigham Young when he said, This is the place. He said that he was glad for the experiences that he has had in the service, for it has taught him things that he could not have learned any other way; that he has taught the Gospel and that there are many sins and transgressions in the world. He said he wished the brethren in the pen and all men of God were back with us.

Brother Schultz

was next to speak and spoke of the Priesthood and where it is can only be known by the Holy Ghost; and said that we must accept the truth, and that the men were in prison because they spoke the truth; that we must stick to the truth and trust in the Lord.

Song: "Though Nations Rise, and Men Conspire"

Sister Lucy Musser

was called on next and she bore her testimony that the Gospel is true and said she pretty near knows the Lord lives; she hasn't seen Christ and didn't think anyone in the audience had seen Him. She said the Lord is with us and watching over us; that He wants great characters to defend Him and His cause and our little experiences that we go through will make us great characters, a tried people. she said that she is very grateful that the Lord brought her and her family to this country and has blessed them with such great blessings; that she is always grateful to go out to the "pen" and behold the face of her beloved one--all are who have LOVED ones there that we must be faithful, true, chaste, pure and good in all our habits; before we can be together again, we must be tried, and the Lord only knows how long it will take if we keep our covenants. She said she was grateful to know the line of the Priesthood and was thankful for her testimony, for the knowledge and light she has; that the Lord has told us to stay away from sin; that only through obedience to His commandments and voice of warning through his servants and the still small voice and conscience and the spirit of God can we be exalted at the end of our mortal mission. She asked the Lord to continue to bless us.

Sister. Myrtle L. Allred;

was the next speaker and she reported that Rulon Allred and Lyman were fine (as R.T.Jeffs asked her to) at the "Point of the Mountain". She said she was impressed that the men are able to study more and draw near the Lord more constantly. She said that great things are ahead, that we are being tried; she said Rulon and Guy are doing a good work and they are so much appreciated in their efforts to look after the Saints and the families of those imprisoned. She spoke of her own faults and failings, mentioning her sharp tongue, and that we must all overcome our faults. She reported on the activities of Rulon A. and Lyman out at the point.

Brother Guy H. Musser

The last time David Jeffs spoke I fell asleep and he chided me severely, and fortunately the Lord closed his eyes while I am speaking. I take some comfort in the illustration in the New Testament where Peter, James and John were with the Savior in the Mount and He told them to rest and He was going to pray and when He came back they had fallen asleep. That happened several times. So even as great as they were, there physical imperfections overcame them. I hope, in listening to Myrtle, that the brethren are enjoying themselves at the Point. Speaking of milking cows, That is one thing that I do not want to excel in.

It is wonderful to be here and see your faces. I do not know of a time when I have associated with this people when we have looked better; when our women have looked better, and their countenances have looked brighter. I do not know of a time of my existence upon the earth when I have felt better than I do today. I am grateful to the Lord in accepting this people and qualifying themselves for the work of the future. It is the people of God that are going to build Jackson County. The temples are going to be built there. It is this people on the American continent, and with the help of the other tribes, that is going to build Jerusalem. That is our job. That is what we are qualifying our lives for. That is one reason the brethren are in prison. That is one reason why we want to be faithful to our brethren. The more I observe my own tendencies and our people, the more I reason that we are here just to qualify our lives. We came to this earth for that reason. Our lives here are passed upon that proposition,--just as quickly as we can, with the, help of God, we qualify our lives. But the people of God have always been slow in this qualification process. They were in the days of Moses, Christ, Joseph Smith, and our day. We often hear, "How long, how long will the Lord permit wickedness on the earth and so forth." We all give vent to that feeling, particularly when we are going through these experiences. The Lord will permit these things to exist as long as it takes us to prepare ourselves. The day of redemption was set and the Lord told Joseph to get the people prepared. I take it that Joseph thought a that time that the cup was full. In Brigham Young's days, other men fell as martyrs; men and women went across that desert waste. Yet in 1850 it was necessary to reform the Saints, and many gave their lives and are counted among the martyrs. In 1880 and 1890 it was again the duty of the servants of God to unite and begin to give up the things they sacrificed, even life, and they finally threw it away for a mess of pottage. And again today, the Lord is still waiting for a people that is strong enough to stand up and go back to Jackson County to build the temple. He is still waiting for a few men that can become united as He and the Father are united, and when he finds that those men can go into the temple endowed with power from on high. Then one will face ten thousand. Heber C. Kimball said that is how the Lord will work in connection with the armies and navies, etc. Fighting with armies is Lucifer's method. Brother Kimball said the earth will be redeemed by a few people and they will overcome the other men of the earth and command the elements to work for the benefit of the Lord's work. We are told that trees would clap together and mountains would be moved when the Saints go back to Jackson County. Why Because the power of God is greater than Satan. But we have got to be pure to hold it. If we do not, we will suffer. So, as I see it today, brothers, and sisters, our first duty is to get the spirit of God and keep it. Our first duty is to purify our lives. Wives, purify your lives. If your husband. cannot purify his, let him go. Brethren, purify your lives. If your wives cannot purify theirs, let them go. Children, purify your lives; and if there are men that cannot take you, then leave it in the hands of the Lord. Then God will gather us out and we will be that nucleus that God wants and we can turn our eyes to Jackson County and all the things that we have dreamed of and lived for will become ours. This work is true, as true as the sun that shines from the heavens; and we must have the authority necessary to bring us exaltation. Joseph Smith is a prophet of God; he is the God of this dispensation and I bear testimony that he is directing this work and the setting in order has been going on for years and years. Let us not suppose that because we have not seen angels, and seen Visions, etc., that this work is not directed by Joseph Smith on the other side. Let us not be found wanting in the sight of the Lord. May God bless us to purify our lives and set things in order, for the Bridegroom cometh," I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

I take a theme from the opening song, "Come, Come Ye Saints" "We'll find the place which God for us prepared, Far away, in the West; Where none shall come to hurt or make afraid; There the . Saints will be blessed, We'll make the air with music ring--Shout praises to our God and King; Above the rest each tongue will tell-­All is well All is well Isn't it ironical, my brothers and sisters, that the saints suffered, and shed blood and died on the plains, etc. trying to realize this blessing of William Clayton, to finally give up this blessing, the Gospel, and sign the manifesto; and now persecute those who desire to live the fullness of the Gospel? No matter; it is still the work of God, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Though it is said that mobs will come against this people, and among them people of the church, and some will give their. blood, for it will be necessary to give blood to reestablish this fullness of the Gospel; nevertheless, we must keep on loving this Church and its founder. As Guy said, Joseph, lead by his Master, still loves this church. We are going to save this Church of God and we must keep on loving those who persecute us and try to say in our hearts, "They know not what they do, God for­give them." Let us so love the church that we will lay our lives down and go forward, terrible as an army with banner may be, where a few men endowed with power from on high put the enemy to flight. Let us get the principle of love in our hearts. You will get that by getting the spirit of the Lord and keeping it. Let us love our families and brothers and sisters; and let us support the Priesthood of God on the earth. We little know how they suffer, their feelings at the slowness of this people to get bold and carryon this work and prepare for the blessings for the future This is my prayer in too name of Jesus Christ, Amen. (He announced a July 24th picnic at the Allred's for all families that wished to go.) Song: "Oh My Father" Benediction: Brother Bigley. LJAllred.

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Sacrament Meeting, held at 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 5, 1945 at 2,00 p.m.

Brother Marion Hammon presided and conducted.

Pianist -Mabel Allred Chorister -Rulon T. Jeffs 1st Song: Now Let Us Rejoice Prayer: Brother Ed Christensen 2nd Song: He Died the Great Redeemer Die . Sacrament administered by: Bros. David W. Jeffs, Jimmie Jessop Carl Fischer Don Wayman; and Otto Olschewski in charge

Remarks: (Brother Hammon) We have just completed a trip through Idaho visiting the Saints up there. I thought it would be of some interest to you folks to have a report. While we expect to give you the meeting to bear your testimonies, we will call on Rulon Jeffs to speak first.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

Brothers and sisters, if I gained nothing else from this trip, I was further convinced it is time for the Saints to gather together; for them to come under the teachings of the Priesthood of God, where we may prepare and humble ourselves and be clean in our hearts and bands so we may be worthy to enter the temples of God. We feel the Lord directed us to give the message to the Saints as we met with them in Idaho. We just need to leave Utah where the Priesthood is functioning to see the country is devoid of the spirit of God. We felt to rejoice in the spirit of the Saints generally, and in some few cases '(here were a few where their hearts are not fully with the Kingdom of God and it brought me to realize more fully how responsible we are for the salvation of the Saints. Brother Eslie Jenson and the saints in Mill­ville are fine and we found the spirit of God there. In Idaho we found some young Saints ready to put their hands to the plow no matter what the job may be. Brother Carl Ho1m is doing a fine work in his project and he is directing the young people there and doing a fine jab of it. And Grandma Watson, a dear old lady 89 years of age--it did my heart good to meet her. Brother Marion has received some wonderful tutorage from her, when he lived in Idaho. She is a wise and noble woman; the spirit of God whispers to her all the day long, almost. She knew Brigham Young and knew the meeting of 1886; she bore the fu1ness of the celestial law. She takes the Truth and loves Brother Barlow and Brother Musser; and how her faced beamed when Brother Marion entered the yard. Brother Hunter and the saints there send their love to you. This is the work of the living God. This people is getting into the narrows with not much to back us up from behind. Again, I know that God lives and that Jesus Christ is His son and is at the helm; that Joseph Smith is directing this work from the other side and has already started to set things in order. How we must prepare ourselves to go through the temples You sisters, there is much ahead. We must prepare ourselves to receive the white stone spoken of in Revelations (2;17). We need that blessing and power every hour. God help us with a new determination to serve him and go forward I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Guy Musser :

I think Rulon has reported in good manner. We were told this morning that the sin next to sinning against the Holy Ghost, is the sin of ingratitude. I would be terrible indeed if I did not thank the Lord for my blessings for me and mine, and all that He has blessed us with. I enjoyed travelling with these two men. I enjoyed seeing the Saints of Idaho. If I was only interested in obtaining life for this physical body, Idaho would be a beautiful place. The mountains and streams are beautiful to behold. As we drove along I thought all that is interesting, but without the spirit and peace of God there a person is not measuring up. We have been told to come to the mountains and live our religion. Idaho is a wonderful place, especially for farmers, but we are saints. we have been told to gather together and push in spirit ahead. It is a peculiar thing how lonesome the saints become when they are not living together. So I take it that spirit of lonesome­ness works together with the spirit of God and will draw the Saints together. It is my desire to witness before you my gratefulness for my blessings from our Eternal Father; that I was permitted to come here in this day and age and especially through the channels through which I came in the new and everlasting covenant of marriage, the only channel through which you can become gods. In my wanderings through the earth and seeking eternal life, and all my disobedience and moments of breaking my covenants, etc., the Lord has lifted me up on my feet and forgiven me. I bear witness today that we cannot live without the Lord and become a law unto ourselves, and say that our hands are sufficient to give us a livelihood. We cannot live a moment without the Lord; the very air that He permits us to breathe he can take from us in a moment, and it is not for us to say, for God is our helper. He is our provider in time of want. May God bless us with grateful hearts, that we have these beautiful bodies; that we have a right to the keys of knowledge, and if we are obedient the Lord will deliver us in time and give unto us those blessings promised the seed of Abraham through these many years. May God bless us to be humble and have grateful hearts, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Piano Solo by Marie Broadbent.

Testimonies borne by:

Brother Monfranz

Axel Fors Wm. Stokes "I can tell you in the name of Jesus Christ that if you live up to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that it will build you up.

Testimonies borne by Carl Fischer Pansy Darger David W. Jeffs "1 wish to say that if we are faithful and true, that the time is not very far distant when, if we live godly lives, those fighting against the work of the Lord will fail, and if they do not repent, they will return to the native element. That is my testimony, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." Irene Christensen "In the furnace God may prove thee, Thence to bring thee forth more pure"1t given by Uncle Joseph once. Georfe Kalmar Edna Zitting Don 'Hayman

Brother Doeling

? Woodruff Mabel Stokes Frances Zitting Elvira Zitting Leona Allred Leah Woolley Jimmie Jessop.

Brother Marion Hammon:

It has been my observation that at the close of testimony meetings the saints are more responsive than at the beginning. I recall Brother Joseph making the remark. at Brother Cleveland's at a meeting that much has been said that was good, some things that were said were bad and that the Priesthood would not take the responsibility of either. It was a testimony more than anything and it was an opportunity to express their feelings and take the responsibility to God. I have enjoyed myself today and beep built up in my feelings. I am thankful for your integrity. It is clear to us that you women are going to have to determine whether you have a testimony of the Gospel yourselves, or whether it is your husband. Such caliber of women in this work are going to have to determine, while the men are up there (in prison), whether they believe the Gospel or not. If we can become faithful and true and be steadfast in the work of the Lord, then we will be chosen in the last days to build up the Kingdom. You women fill up your bottles, whether you have sugar or not; if you have produce, put it away. You may be able to sweeten it later; or if you can't, it will taste sweet anyway, just to have it to eat If you cannot, sweeten your dispositions. I have a testimony of the Gospel. I know that Joseph Smith is a prophet and I have a testimony of the divinity of the Book of Mormon. We should know when we are deceived or not. If you are striving to build up God's laws, you are building up Joseph Smith. May God be with us I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

The closing song will be "Come, 0 Thou King of Kings". If you sing this song with any fervor in your heart, and go home and pray for the Lord to open the temples to us, you will not receive it until you do.

Closing song: Come, 0 Thou King of Kings

Benediction: Brother Russell Kunz. LJAllred.

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 12, 1945 at 3 :00 p.m.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs presided and conducted.

Pianist -Mabel Allred; Chorister -Otto Olschewski. 1st Song:· When First the Glorious Light of Truth prayer: Brother George Kalmar 2nd Song: "Sweet Is the Work"

Remarks: (R. T. Jeffs) It is wonderful to see you all together again. My one sincere hope and prayer is that we gather not in vain, that we will be edified and be more determined to serve God diligently. We have three of our service men with us today, and we would like to have them bear their testimonies. we will rejoice in hearing their words and getting their testimonies. (To the service men): We want you to know that we pray with all our hearts for you as we pray also for our brethren in prison.

Brother Lorin Jessop (home from the Atlantic)

I am glad to be here again. I am here for three or four days. We have been hauling troops back from the European nations and I expect that we will go from there to the Pacific. I have not been fortunate enough to see any of our boys over there. I have seen a little more of the world since I was here last time and the more I see of it the more vile it is. the terrible morals and devilishness that exists among the people today makes me more glad for my family and brothers and sisters here. Naturally, we can see the evils and faults of the world perhaps more readily than they can see them. They are committing those sins more or less ignorant of what they are doing. I have visited several of the brethren today, and Dad and Rulon at the Point. They all look very well, but you can tell they are worried about you folks, and can tell they would like to be here even more than you folks realize. We will have to become more united and get hold before the Kingdom of God can take hold, and in order for this people to be the nucleus. I pray that we may do that, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Grant Morrison: (from Germany)

It is a spirit of rejoicing I feel in being here today. I see a few familiar faces and new faces. I have a testimony to bear. I have had a number of experiences that I would not like to have again. I am thankful to the Lord that I am privilege to come back. There were a few times in Germany when I thought I would never come back. On the way over on the boat there were in my company two boys from Salt Lake and one from Arizona. They were L. D. S. boys and we got together on Sundays and had our own meetings and continued until the Sunday one of the boys was wounded. I never will forget that day. The platoon that I was in got lost and we did not get our equipment in, and this boy was wounded seriously in his head. I was not with him but knew it had happened and I went to see if I could administer to him. He was not expected to live, it was so serious, and they would not let me. Before going to bed that night I asked the Lord to bless this boy, that he would recover; and the next morning he did recover and he will be all right. He is here in Bushnell hospital and is walking. I have also received a fine testimony as to the priesthood these men who are in prison hold; they hold the priesthood of God. Fred and I received blessings before we left and received some wonderful promises, and I know that that is the reason I am here safe today. I know just the night before we bumped off--to get our baptism of fire--a man was quite sick and it left our ·tank shorthanded. One boy knew nothing about it and we had a four-man crew. The experiences the next day showed that the Lord was with us for we did not run into anything that jeopardized our lives, except one thing--our platoon man sent us out and we got stuck and we could not move forward. It was at that time that I uttered a prayer that the Lord would open the way for us if it was His will, and almost immediately the tank started moving. That was a direct answer to prayer. The next morning we were moving forward and the crew man turned the tank direct broadside of the road. The gun firing which ordinarily would have been directed to us was directed at another. The Lord has been so good to me and to us. Every Sunday we held our meetings when we could. Where there is two or more meet, there will He be also, was written to me by Fred. So I have been wonderfully blessed. Only two or three in our company were killed and very few wounded. It is astounding to me how the Lord has permitted our forces to be victorious. After a battle, rather than being in thanksgiving as they should, most of the fellows go to the closest liquor store and abuse themselves. Some of the boys and higher ups who were suppose to set the best example, were the worst abusers. The Lord has certainly blessed me and I know if it was not for the Lord I would not be here today. When I was in Hamburg, Germany, Fred wrote to me and advised me to dedicate the tank I was riding in. I do not know why I hadn't thought of it before unless it was because of the wickedness of the men in the tank. One day while they were all out of it I dedicated it to the Lord and it received hardly a scratch during the battles While in France, I received a letter from my friend in Bushnell and he had gone to church here but he enjoyed our meetings in France with us boys so much more. While we were there in France he showed interest in the Gospel and he said for the first time in his life he experienced the spirit of God and it thrilled me to see the change in him. Our company is being changed to the Pacific. If the Japanese surrender comes today, I pray that I will be able to stay at home here. I really thank the Lord for the place of my home and my loved ones. I feel it would be a way of humbling the people of the United State to experience some of these terrible things that other countries have experienced. The people of U. S. are haughty and polluted their bodies, and some day they will receive their full punishment. I pray the day will soon come when I can come back and assume my place among you. I pray the Lord will see fit to bring all the boys back, that we can be together and enjoy each other's company. I rejoice that I am privileged to be among you people once again, and I pray the blessings of the Lord on you and all, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen~

Herbert Olschewski: (from Italy) Brothers and sisters, I have been gone six months overseas, but I do not know when I have been so thankful to leave a place as I was to leave Italy. I have seen some combat though not so much as others. The Lord has blessed me in· so many things, that He has brought me home alive and without a scratch on me~ I am also very thankful that He has given me a wife. In case some of you don't know the former Afton Barlow is now an Olschewski. I am thankful that my Father in Heaven has guided me all the way from Germany and I know Afton is meant for me. I don't know whether I am nervous from my wedding or from my speaking. I have not had the fortune of meeting anyone from the group or an L. D. S. member while I have been gone. It is hard to keep the spirit of God when you have no one who believes as you do. I know I have not had the spirit of God all the time, but I am trying. Afton is a wonderful influence on me, and we are going to try to live the Gospel in its fullness, and with the blessings of our Father in Heaven we will accomplish it. I have been sent to the states to be reemployed. The orders of all the Fifth army were to be all brought out of Italy. We were waiting for orders and waiting for the ship to come in and we had just gotten our orders to get on the boat, and another order came to stay in Italy. It was only because the order had gone too far, and if the order had gone thru two days later, I would still be in Italy and I know it is because my Father in Heaven had a hand in it that I am here now. I feel good in this work. I know that the brethren have the true Priesthood and I hope I will always be big enough and strong enough to follow that priesthood. That is my aim to do so. I shou1d not talk too long. (Here he told a story of a man who was asked to give a dinner speech at a club, and he talked and talked until after the dinner was finished and finally said, "I am talking for the benefit of the future posterity." A man got up and said (if you don't quit they will soon be here to listen to you.") May the Lord bless us all, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother R. Jeffs:

We can be proud of these boys and I feel they are preaching the Gospel; I feel that on the shoulders of these boys will fall the burden of this work. We do not seem to be getting many converts lately, so there is a big job ahead of ,us. We haven't heard from Ernest Williams for a while. We will call on him.

Brother Ernest Williams,

was the next speaker and he said in hearing these experiences of the service men makes him feel his weaknesses keenly; and he prayed the Lord to bless him in his remarks. He said he embraced the fullness of this work in California; recalled the first meeting he attended there at Dr. Allred's office at which time Joseph Musser talked and gave a wonderful discourse on the fullness of the Gospel, and he went home to look up scriptures to dispute what was said, and instead gained a stronger testimony. He spoke of an experience he had one night when he was home alone with one of the children, and he was lying on the bed by him with the lights on' when (he was fully awake) a large man stood at the foot of the bed and as he came closer he noticed the man was of the other world; the man picked him up and threw him on his back by the dresser and then he turned and left the room. He lay in a stupor for a moment and then got up and turned out the lights and lay in the dark until the family came home. When they came his wife said, what is the matter with you, you look like you have seen a ghost." He told her the experience. He said he had several experiences like that--he was the leader of the group in California at the time and he asked Brother Musser the meaning of these experiences and he said that person would have destroyed him but his guardian angels came to his rescue. He said one time he had a terrific earache and could hardly stand the pain, and he was called to go and administer to a sick sister; he went and when he placed his hands upon this woman's head the pain in his ear left and he received the blessing. He spoke of how the church called him into question in California and told him he must conform to the teachings of the church or forfeit his membership. On the way home from that interview the spirit of the Lord rested upon him as he was driving along and a true picture of the way things are in the church was given to him. He spoke of how the judgments of the Lord would be brought upon this world and that we would be called upon to face many terrible things. He quoted D. & C. 5:19 and 45:31; Ezekiel 9 and the Book of Mormon concerning the writer with the ink horn. He s poke of the August 1945 "Truth" and the correspondence between Joseph Fielding Smith and Brother Musser. He said there is a demarcation coming and we will have to get off the fence. He asked the Lord to give us all strength to stand the trials that are coming.

Song: "Come to Me Ye Heavy Laden"

Brother Axel Fors

was the next speaker and bore his testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel; mentioned that he was leaving for Short Creek in a week and was glad for the opportunity to go south and participate in trying to build up that section. He spoke of the time when the pioneers first came to Utah and the hardships they had to build it up, and it took faith with works; and now how it is in bondage to those not of our faith . He said he may fallout when he gets down south but he prays the Lord will give him strength, no matter what the Lord brings upon us; that it has been proved that riches overthrow people quicker than anything else. The race is not to the swift, but to those that endure to the end;" we may be strong today but weak tomorrow. He spoke of the testimonies borne by the service men today and said that if we can do as good a job as they have done on the battle field, in being faithful, then the Lord can say to us, "Well done, my good and faithful servant, come into thy rest"

Brother Russell Kunz

was called upon to speak next and he spoke of the testimonies of the service men today; of the peace terms of Japan, what will be next, Russia, etc., and what will be next. What part are we going to play in the winding up scene? He said we must work at making our calling and election sure and receiving the second comforter, and we ourselves only can do it. He referred to the D. & C. 132, and the gaining of eternal lives; and said that this people should be busy getting the spirit of God and preparing for these greater blessings. He said he was up to visit the brethren in prison and it makes his heart ache to see them in there, but that they are on a mission to help us all learn the lessens the Lord has for us to know; and there will be a few here and there that will qualify, but it is up to each individual to put himself in order. He bore his testimony concerning the Priesthood here on earth and said he knows where it is; and admonished the Saints to find out for themselves and asked the Lord's blessings on all.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

I have rejoiced in the remarks made. I fell that our having met together, the purposes, have been accomplished. I just want to add a few things that have been going through my mind today. It makes my heart ache to see how many of those who have been in the group in times past have wearied and gone. I know how slow it seems and how far off it seems, when the Lord will come out of His hiding place to bring about these things. We agreed a long time ago that it could not be many more years and still here we all are. But it is coming as a thief in the night. I don't know when. We have been told that those who will be used by the Lord are those who stand by the rack, hay or no. hay. Where is the hay? You piled the hay on the rack; sometimes there seems not much hay to work with, but we have got to keep there and stand at the post. Suddenly it will be upon us. I asked Brother Joseph this afternoon what message to give you today. That was his remark: "Stand at the rack; keep punching." Let us emphasize. again about the temples. He concurred in the feelings that we have been impressed to call you attention the last few months to the fact that the obtaining of these temples is the next great step. ,My God, how I wish we could all go in there; but we will not, not all! We see the vision of it, brothers and sisters, how close it will be when these scourges pass over and we are outside and simply because we did not get the spirit of God and keep it. You do not know how these brethren feel for us when we do not stand at the post; and how they have been laboring all day long for the salvation of the Saints Let us look to our families. Does it make you think you are going to be exalted .because you are married to a good man? I do not care how good he is" he can only counsel you and direct you; but it is up to you from there on. Will you husbands be able to take you to the temples and give you those endowments? Now, brethren set your families in order. I say to you and myself: See that your skirts are clean and they cannot say to you, "you didn't tell me these things and provide a way for us" .The Priesthood has set the path and told us the way to go. Now, let us go and pray day and night with our faces toward the temple, that we may have wisdom and light that we may be able to go in when the scourges pass and be in the presence of Joseph, Brigham, Heber C. Kimball, John Woolley, and the rest. They will be here to instruct us. How many of you have thought of that? We are going to be instructed by them first. Let us live for these blessings, I humbly pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Closing Song: 'May the Lord Go with us" Benediction: Brother Alfred Olschewski.

LJAllred •

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 26, 1945 at 3:00 p.m.

Brother Marion Hammon presided and conducted.

Piano-Myrtle Allred; violin -Margaret Musser. Chorister -Alfred Olschewski. 1st Song: "Awake, Ye Saints of God Awake" (1,3,5,7 verses) Prayer: Brother David W. Jeffs 2nd Song: "Prayer Is the Soul's Sincere Desire" (1,3,6,2 verses)

Remarks (Brother Hammon):

We should be grateful for the privilege of meeting together. We should be thankful to the Lord in these times. of trial and distress to be able to meet and partake of the Spirit and comfort in each other. The time will come when we will not be able to meet and will have to go on our own. Brother Steed and his wife have been with us in the north during the past week and have had some contact with the Saints there. Come and speak to us.

Brother Woodruff Steed.

being called upon as the first speaker told how Brother Hammon and Brother G. L. Dockstader came a little over a year ago to purchase the sawmill down south, how he inquired about the fullness of the Gospel, the authority of the Priesthood Council and the work. He told that his father and mother had not taught him the fullness of the Gospel though he was a polygamous son, and they told him they had waited for him to ask for it and that he would find out someday where the authority outside the church was. He bore his testimony and said how good he felt in the work and that we have got to be one; that there is a lot of pioneering to do.

Brother Axel Fors

was the next speaker and he spoke of his leaving with his family to go south to Short Creek and his feelings concerning that part of the vineyard; said that no one should expect an easy time down there; that he always felt that he had an obligation in doing some pioneering--building something that wasn't there originally--and that is how he felt when he and his wife came to this country and built a home on a lot; that now he has an opportunity to do some real pioneering, and mentioned that it would take a lot or hard work to develop water and other things in the south and he was glad to have the opportunity to give his aid. He spoke of how we must have unity and gave the example of the Indian and his son--the father told the son to try to break a bunch of arrow together and he couldn't, and then told him to break Them one at a time and said where there is unity there is strength.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

I am sure, brothers and sisters, you must feel as I do, in gaining strength from Brother Marion who has been in the harness longer than we have. In our trip up north I gained strength from him. I once said that I was beginning to know what the love of brethren is, but I know it more than ever now. I appreciate what loyalty and strength of brethren means. I really appreciate it. I love these brethren. I love my dear brethren who are suffering for the sake of Christ, and I love you. I hope through that love to prove my obedience to Jesus Christ and the love of my brethren and sisters. I feel to repent of my sins and draw near to God. Uncle John told us that we would get up into a corner and we would not know which way to turn. Some think we have got there, but I do not. There is much to suffer yet. We have had it comparatively easy. I hope you are as I am--want to brace your shoulders for what is coming. Satan is not happy with what is happening. Brethren and sisters, just as sure as the Saints suffered in Missouri, Kirtland and Nauvoo, we -are going to have to go through the same thing. We have been told so; we have been told mobs would come. If you are asked to compromise, will you be able to take it, to stand in the breach? Now I feel that I need to be chastised, and the Saints generally to gain strength. I recall something that the Prophet Joseph told the Saints~ (Teaching of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 194-5, "Value of Chastisement" ) President Joseph arose and said: Brother Kimball has given you a true explanation of the parable, and then read the parable of the vine and its branches, and explained it, and said, 'If we keep the commandments of God, we should bring forth fruit and be the friends of God, and know what .our Lord did. Some people say I am a fallen Prophet, because I do not bring forth more of the word of the Lord, Why do I not do it? Are we able to receive it? No Not, one in this room. He then chastened the congregation for their wickedness and unbelief, for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son and daughter whom he receiveth, and if we do not receive chastisements then we are bastards and not sons. On the subject of revelation, he said, a man would command his son to dig potatoes and saddle his horse, but before he had done either be would tell him to do something else. This is all considered right; but as soon as the Lord gives a commandment and revokes that decree and commands something else, then the Prophet is considered fallen. Because we will not receive chastisement at the hands of the Prophets and Apostles, the Lord chastiseth us with sickness and death. Let not any man publish his own righteousness, for others can see that for him; sooner let him confess his sins, and then he will be forgiven, and be will bring forth more fruit. When a corrupt man is chastised he gets angry and will not endure it. The reason we do not have the secrets of the Lord revealed unto us, is because we do not keep them but reveal them; we do not even keep our own secrets, but reveal our difficulties to the world, even to our enemies, then how would we keep the secrets of the Lord? I can keep a secret till Doomsday. What greater love hath any man than that he lay down his life for his friend; then why not fight for our friend until we die?" It is a wonderful message. Speaking of secrets, I would like to say something. I wonder if there are any secrets left about our families I don't think there are any I have heard some say in coming to their friends, "Say, what is the matter that you don't tell me anything anymore?" It is none of your damn business; about a mans family (Brother Marion said Amen) Keep your secrets and you will keep out of the hands of your enemies. You may think you know something about me, but I am happy if it goes only that far. It will not stand up in court. You may think you know some things, but that is just hearsay. Your secrets are only your own. But if you don't say anything about it, then only you know it. God bless us to this end, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Russell Kunz

was called to speak next and he said that he was in accord with what Brother Rulon said. He asked what we come and separate ourselves from the church and meet under these conditions if we do not want to keep the counsel given us. :He spoke of the "test, a test, a test" that Heber C. Kimball prophesied would come to this people he mentioned the brethren in prison and that they are going through more than we think, and we are not going to escape the test, for we are going to have to have the spirit of the Lord with us all the time. He said he felt that there are going to be some very great plagues break out upon this nation. He particularly mentioned the purple plague and referred to the prophecy in Vol. 1 of the "Truth" p. 162 concerning it beginning: "Again the light shone, revealing an atmosphere tinged with a leaden hue" which was the precursor of an unparalleled plague whose first symptoms were recognized by a purple spot which appeared on the cheek, etc." He mentioned that that plague is prevalent today and said he has a letter from one of our nurses that was captured at Korigadore (?) who had those purple spots just before she died." It took six months for the disease to show up and in two days it spread all over her body and she died. Nothing much is known about the disease He said that we are going to have thousands of our boys come from the Orient with this disease injected in their systems, and they will spread it before we know what it is about. We need to keep the spirit of God and keep our guardian angels about us. So often we go in-to the Priesthood for a blessing and it is sealed upon our heads, whether they like their hands upon you:, or not; and just as sure as you keep the commandments of God the destroying angel will say that seal there is not broken, and will pass you by. There is only one thing that will break that seal, and that is whether you keep the commandments of God. It gives me great rejoicing to meet with this people, to know that we know where the Gospel of Jesus Christ is. I wonder how many of us know whether that testimony is strong enough that we will not compromise with Satan, every moment of our lives. I have a testimony of the Gospel and I thank God for that testimony and I am thankful that I know who is leading this people today. I know that if we get into the Celestial kingdom, these men will be the first men to judge us. There is no man that knows us better than these. If you do not know who he is, you had better find out. I want to mingle with them and want them to know me so that when I go before them they will know how to judge me. I pray for the spirit of God to be upon us and that we will go with our eye single to the glory of God. And let us pray for these brethren. I saw a great deal of sorrow in their faces today. May we be faithfu1 and true to the end; that we may be faithful when they come out is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Guy Musser:

I am grateful, brothers and sisters, for this opportunity of being here today. We have had a good spirit I think the words to this song fit us ('Awake, Ye Saints of God, Awake), the third verse, "Tho' Zion's foes have counseled deep, Although they bind with fetters strong, The God of Jacob does not sleep His vengeance will not slumber long. It has been a long time since the enemy of righteousness has had to cut deep at the servants of God. He has even placed means to move the hedges for the benefit of the enemy of righteousness, and they have counseled long and deep, but the God of Jacob does not sleep. Our God is not asleep. It became a law of God to give the enemy of righteousness the opportunity to test His children; it is true that the success of God is based upon standing by to see his people suffer. And so it becomes necessary for our enemies to counsel deep in an attempt to destroy. We hear from every side, counsels against us. They have threatened that if it will take a thousand years they will destroy the work of God. Lucifer has been trying for 6000 years and has not succeeded yet. Why? Because God is counseling deep also and He is the originator; the devil is the imitator. Where God builds a temple, the devil builds a tabernacle. But God builds a temple first. Despite He has permitted the armies of the adversary to surround us and bring us into ill repute, God is at the head of this work; we are only doing what He has told us to do. When the law has been completely satisfied and Lucifer has been given the rights they were fore ordained to exercise, then God will make bare His arm and His counsels will be made to the nations and the earth will rot and those who have been faithful will rise up and go on. That is the condition. We talk about destruction. If these poor finite minds can make the atom bomb and destroy cities, what can the purposes of the Almighty do? It is the power of God to know who to destroy as well as preserve. In fifteen minutes the other night a thunder storm caused more damage up here in the avenues than the people could cope with. Men had their cars, beautiful cars, in their garages, their bellies were full, they had a lot of money in the bank and they were singing "all is well." In a few minutes a rain came, and look at the destruction. I am not saying these are the judgments. But what could you do with your two bands and feet if floods came? The only power that you could use to cope with it is to know to whom to pray. That is Adam, and that is where you would have strength, and who could deliver you from destruction. I suppose there were people praying up on the avenues last week more in those few minutes than they had done in a hundred years. One family told me they had prayed for they thought the judgments had come. So we are here today, a delightsome people. Our brethren are in prison. It has been threatened that the State will destroy this principle if it take a thousand years. What is our responsibility to God? What shall I do? Signs are coming. We know that when the cup: is full the wicked will be destroyed. What can we do in the meantime What is the measure of our creation? We are told to stand in holy places, and the angels of destruction will pass by you. What can we do to escape this? Or will we be caught in the whirlwind and be taken? That is the question that hits my mind all the time. What will happen to our children? Will I be able to stand in my home and dedicate it and command the elements to leave it alone? The brethren before me today told us. Brother Rulon read a sermon oozing with truth. So we are without excuse. The Lord said, if you love me, you will keep my commandments; he that says he loves me and keeps not my commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him." So it is up to us to prepare our lives for this thing and light up our lamps and be faithful and true to God. That is our duty today--to maintain in dignity the principles that have been given to us--celestial marriage, the united order, etc. It is up to us to prove to this world that they are vital and true and show that these things emanate from Him It is up to you to stand amidst this tribulation, to see to it you walk in Godliness, not to weary, to be strong at night as well as in the morning; to stand through all the afflictions. If we do not, then afflictions that take the people of the earth will take us, because we have not been faithful. So all things are upon that condition--if we do God's will, and every word that proceedeth from His mouth. I tremble at my weaknesses; I wonder whether I can stand in the great day of the test. We are not doing without electricity, refrigerators, etc., but in these valleys it is a moral fight; a fight to see who will stand for God and His priesthood against friends, business associates, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters; that is what it is today. Women against un-virtuous husbands; husbands against un-virtuous wives--to come out of Babylon and leave the things of the world alone And as I stand here today, we have not come out of it, and if we do not come out of it we will be destroyed; and do not blame the Priesthood if the destructions come. You do not have to work with the ungodly, eat and sleep with them. I can tell you that in the name of God--you do not have to do it I have been working on The railroad and people of the world surround me; I have hit my fingers and sprained my ankles, but there is not a man before God who can testify that I have not remained true to my religion. I do not have to take anything from these men of ill repute. I do not care if those engines run or not; I give them my time and they pay me for it. If they want to blow up, I do not care. My heart is not there. I did not tell them, I love you, when I signed the agreement to work. I agreed to labor with my hands for so much an hour and they give me my hourly pay. They do not reserve my rights to serve God. .and you can do it wherever you work; you can serve God and get the spirit of the Lord and keep it. If you cannot, do not blame it on your job and other people. Blame it on the desire of your own. Those are my feelings in regard to these things I wanted to say a few words to the young folks. I do not think there are a more beautiful young group of people than the young people that come from this principle. They are beautiful and delightsome The world recognizes that fact and they are. Do not worry about what the world thinks of us. You have everything in the world. Some of you have your husbands and some do not; but you have your expectations and your desires. You have everything. Don't you know you have God and work and God will destroy this wicked world? If I were a gir1 and had men speaking to me ungentlemanly, I would be ashamed of my appearance, that it should bring disrespect from them. if a man speaks disrespectful as you walk clanking down the street, then I do not blame him, but you. I had a gypsy come and see me the other day and she barged into my too, and told her what I thought of her. As I have told my wife, Margaret, it should not interest her what Marion or Rulon think of her dress; she should pleas her lord. What is she accomplishing by it if she does? You are beautiful, sisters; but the Lord will take it from you, and I tell you that in the name of God. Do not think you are smart when you walk down the street dolled up. I would feel ashamed of myself. I see some of our young brethren in this group batting their heads against the wall, thinking they should do this and that. You have the oracles of God and you can become gods; and you women can become Goddess but you have got to lead a straight path and not partake of the world and keep faithful to the covenants that you have made in your favor. If you do not, you will never inherit the Kingdom of God. As Brother Marion said once, I do not care how you part your hair; unless you walk the straight line, you will never inherit the Kingdom of God. You have got to conduct yourselves along those lines, or the Priesthood will not be magnified in you. You can say what you want, but it is not easy to crawl back the old slimy trail as it was to go in. So it is with some of the Saints; the trail is slimy to come back. So we are " do what is right, let the consequences follow" Leave the world, folks; there is no excuse in the world. I know this work is true. I hope I have not insulted anyone. The thing today is: Can I stand in these mountains? If we were faithful enough and our brethren faithful enough, we could shake the walls of the Utah State Prison down; but we are not faithful enough. Why? Because we are still clinging to the things of this century. Let us throw off those shackles and hold our hand out to our God. The lines are being drawn tight. Soon our God is coming out of His hiding place, and then the world had better look out; and then if we have done our work well how glorious it will be to hold our heads high and go on in the work of the Lord, knowing within our consciences that our hearts are pure. May God bless us to this end, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Marion Hammon:

I do not know when I have listened to such a pleasurable delight in sermons as I have today from men of God. I was interested in our Sunday School this morning. Sometimes we think God is going to come out of· His hiding place for our sakes, that we are so fine that he will do it. I wish I could look upon our families sand see something ,there, something besides disorder. No matter where you go there is some sister grumbling, or another ,puttering or another finding fault. Maybe there is one that is immodest in her dress. Where can you find a house among this whole people that is in order I try to divert my attention to other things and excuse myself. Let us not be conceited about it. Do you realize that there are people that were on this earth whose blood has run into this earth? You do not need to think that you can be so proud that your blood will redeem this earth We must make ourselves so good that God will redeem this earth. I told you something a long time ago--that you will have to make a choice either the Kingdom of God or nothing. If you have not the faith, you have not the moral courage. Guy has told you the truth, plain and simple. I believe I was more on my guard when I was working around the world than I am working with the Saints. I have been tried with the experiences of this day and bear the things that have been told. I would to God you would practice what you have heard today. How wonderful it would be. I have tried for years to get you women to braid your hair that it will become your crowning glory, yet you have it curled on the ends. You will never become a queen without a head of hair that is compatible with your position. Many of the mothers have tried to teach their daughters, but they will not hear it. If you accomplish that one thing, virtue will enter your soul; seek your father instead of his sons. I tell you this is a day when you need to keep close to the Lord and be obedient. Everything you have heard today is true. The judgments of God are at our very doors, and we are not going to escape it as easy as you think. I do not think God is going to destroy this people, but it will be a vexation to see our neighbors go through it all. Let us prepare to meet it. Pres. Young had such a vexation ,to see what others went through, but he said he never sorrowed because he felt the persecution was a blessing These experiences will be for our good and if we do not get it, it will be to our damnation. If you are doubtful or wavering in your feelings, get the knowledge and then ask God to testify to it. I tell you there are those who get up and say they know those men are men of God who are all right for a time. It is like a seed thrown out in the road--how long does it grow? you have have the knowledge and background and depth to it, to know and understand these things. That is where we are lacking. There is no excuse for it. We have the books and we can study. Let us read all about it and then when we do not understand. ask God to help us. Saints that obtain the membership in the church are not necessarily members of the Church of the First Born. You will be members of the Church of the First Born, only by keeping the commandments of God. The Church of Jesus Christ is only preparatory. Let us open our minds and the books. President Young said until you acquire a knowledge of God to secure your faith, you will not . When you see your brethren, and they tell you things, seal them in your hearts. If they do not measure up to the standards, they will not. be any good to you when they come out. So do not be praying for this and that. Pray for God's will to be done; that they will have the light and knowledge. I have heard Brother Barlow preach and the others too, and when they had the spirit of God on them. But for the life of me I cannot see, no matter where they are, anything for them to do but to live up to their convictions. See to it that you encourage the men and help to build them up. I want you to know today, that if I ever go to prison, and make a compromise, do not pattern after me. If I make any, it will be because of weakness and not strength.· If you see me wavering, do not follow after me. you give these men courage and strength, if you cry your hearts out; We said many times, we want God to redeem us. If I ever get so weak from hunger and abandon our principles and weaken, I pray that you will not follow after us: As I feel in my present state of mind I would not but should I never follow me. I tell them all to go to and stay put, and that was a signal not to put shackles on me again. I pray for you to seek after righteousness and truth. You women, seek after these things. You are beautiful and we are anxious to see you on your way. God bless us, I. pray that we might stand to the end that we might prove to our Father in Heaven that we are the people who will stand, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. Closing Song: "How Firm a Foundation" Benediction: Brother Ed Christensen .

LJAllred.

Minutes of the Testimony Meeting held Sunday, September 2, 1945 at 2:00 p.m. in the Priesthood Home, Salt Lake City, Utah. Bro . Guy H. Musser Presided

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs Conducted

1st Song: 0, Say What is Truth Prayer: Brother Alfred E. Olschewski 2nd Song: "How Great the Wisdom and the Love Sacrament administered by Brother Axel W. Fors, and Brother Jess Bigley, assisted by Otto and Alfred Olscbewski

Brother R. T. Jeffs:

The time is yours, brothers and sisters. I feel we have more to be thankful for than any time before in our lives. One of the greatest sins in the sight of God is ingratitude. The Lord has told us He is displeased with none other than those who have failed to keep his commands and bear testimony. Let's remember these things.

Testimonies borne by:

Sister Winnie Jessop

Sister Elvira Zitting

Sister. M. Evelyn Allred

Brother Alfred E. Olschewski

Sister. Edna Zitting

Brother Otto Olschewski

Congregation sang: The Spirit of God Like a Fire is Burning

Additional testimonies borne by:

Sister. Pansy Darger

Sister. Laura Zitting

Sister. Susie Barlow

Sister Jess Bigley

Brother Guy Musser:

We haven't taken advantage of the use of the time today as we could have It makes no difference where I go, I can't sit down without talking, and it seems good to sit down and meditate. I would be ungrateful if I failed to acknowledge the hand of God in my life today, and that's what I want to do. Now, one or two observations today in regard to this work. Most of these women here today are represented in the State prison by their husband. A lot has been said since the Manifesto and before the Manifesto about keeping the commandments of God. Lots has been said since the men went to prison about keeping the commandments of God. The longer I live in the earth, the more assured I am that this is an individual fight and Joseph W. Musser isn't going to assist anyone except those who are sealed to him and are exaltable. Have you thought of that? You sisters who have husbands in the penitentiary, there is only one thing to do --don't worry about what they are going to do --just make yourself exaltable. The man you have up there may fail or you may fail. It's an individual thing. When Christ was in the Garden of Gethsemane weighted down, so weighty was the burden upon him that he cried out, 'Father, I can't stand it anymore. I know what my work is, but I can't stand it. I can't bear the cross.' He said, 'I will try to if it is your will.' and he bore it. He prayed to his father. There is no doubt that be knew the condition, but he had the right to fail if he wanted. Don't forget that. God hasn't taken that right from us. If Aunt Susie surrenders, it doesn't affect my salvation~ The brothers in prison were carrying too many people on their backs. Lots of them have fallen off and have become decayed in their? faith. Leslie once said, I would like to walk down Main Street smoking a big black cigar so these people would fall off my back. Lucy is going to have to stand in the gap if every man is dead and make herself exaltable. There will be time when Joseph won't be there to reach out a hand and steady her. Why? Because the Gospel of Jesus Christ requires that and that's the situation we must face The Lord has been bringing us along, adding line upon line, to the point where we can stand. We hear lots of talk about the brethren doing this and that, but this is what I have concluded: that we are going to be forced to stand on our own feet. Because when the 'One Mighty and Strong' comes to establish righteousness in the earth, he is going to a select people who are faithful enough to go ahead. He is going to Jackson County and that is the way the Saints are going, and women are not going to have to wonder if they want to go. They will be packed up and their tickets will be bought. The men have dreamed about and prepared themselves and that is the kind of men and women who are going into the temple for promises, and then when the hailstorms and winds come there will be men and women making their way to the door of the temple while the wicked is wiped from the earth with their homes and crops. Our leaders have told us that that is the next step to prepare ourselves for, that it will come like a thief in the night. There won't be a lot of noise about it. They will be quietly admitted because they will have the signs and symbols in their hearts, and that's our job here today, we who expect to make the grade. I know that my father can't exalt me. He can do everything possible that is the right of a patriarch. If he becomes a God, he can't exalt me. I've got to do that and I've got to know, and these wives today have got to know the same thing. and the men in prison have got to know the same thing. they've got to know that no matter how sweet a woman is to their marriage, how dear to her children how comprehensive her mind is to this condition, if she doesn't make herself exaltable, he can't worlds without end exalt her. There are laws that bind Gods and laws that bind sons of God and the woman who won't be exalted, her husband can't exalt her. there are rules and regulations that are set, and it makes no difference how -good a provider a man may be, how sweet he may be to their children, how loving he may be in their domestic relations, if he doesn't have the capacity of Godhood, he will not make it. So why subject yourself to the relationship if there is no salvation? The woman doesn't have to submit and neither does the man. So today let us firmly resolve that it is between ourselves and our maker, and Jesus the Savior is the medium. Let's learn to stand on our two feet and not lose faith in the Gospel. We know that if we are faithful and true and understand the right and are properly qualified the Lord can't do anything but select us for a great and important work. Let's see that we find a place to do our work. I am not worrying about you. I have enough worries of my own. I am not concerned if Brother Bigley has ten wives or one. I am not worried about it. Don't worry about me. Keep yourself grounded, keep yourselves standing in holy places. If the brethren come out faithful, you can take hold of their hands and follow them. I love this work. It is life and salvation to me. My eggs are all in one basket and my bridges are all burned bare. To me it is the Kingdom of God or nothing. I don't want anything less. I know that I can't have the world and the Lord. That's the way I feel about this work. It makes no difference whether they call it a cult, a group of fundamentalists, or polygamists. It is the Church of Jesus Christ to me. I wish we could meet in our separate wards. That was the plan of God. However, we can't meet in the wards, so we have come here to get strength, to mingle in song and testimony. But all we are interested in is the fullness of the Gospel. Let's make certain that we don't become bitter towards the Church because it is God's church and we is directing it. We are here to fulfill a mission to keep the principles of the fullness of the Gospel alive --to prove to the world that celestial marriage is divine. That's our position. The bishop has a job to take care of a ward -let's take care of ours. I desire to acknowledge the hand of God in my family. I know that every breath we draw is dependent upon Him. He owns us. We have been given this opportunity to come to the earth to prove ourselves and outside of that we are directly possessed by the powers that created the earth and all that is in it. We couldn't exist, couldn't find peace, couldn't earn our living by the sweat of our brow, couldn't have our lives and remain protected without the all-seeing eye of God. I pray God to bless us all, and we haven't, come up against the wall yet but may be approaching it. Troublous time s are approaching. In that we are going to have rest. These are not troublous times. If they are, you had better quit now. The gap is broadening. The war is nearer than it has ever been before. the war is reaching now the greatest depth. God bless us with the strength to be faithful, with sweetness, with humility, with faith in our leaders and with strength to stand firm though we stand alone I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Additional testimonies borne by:

Sister Frances Zitting

Sister Mary Fischer

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

It seems like we get the spirit of it more towards the end than at the first of things. I would just like to leave you one message that the brethren asked that we give you when we visited them this afternoon. You have heard a lot of talk about a paper that they have been asked to sign? How many of you have read that paper? They assure you and I assure you they are not doing anything but the will of God. So don't worry. There has been too much talk about it. Much too much. We talk about following the priesthood. I wonder how far this is going to go. Just a word to the wise. Now I pray to the Lord to bless us and give us strength to stand. I love this work and this people more than my life. I am thankful to Almighty God for my families, the Priesthood, for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that I am free to worship Almighty God, that I am free and have peace in my soul. No, brothers and sisters, let's be careful what we say. Be sure we are right when we are called upon to state our feelings and stand and state them with the spirit of God in our hearts. I know that God lives. I know that Joseph is leading this work, and that he is the one mighty and strong spoken of and he will come to the temple of the Lord Jesus Christ to direct the setting in order process. Let us live worthy of entering that place, I ask in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Closing Song: Do what is Right.

Benediction: Brother Bigley

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln street, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 9, 1945 at 3:00 p.m.

Brother Guy H. :Musser presided and conducted.

Mabel Allred -Pianist; Alfred 01schewski -Chorister. 1st Song: Guide Us, 0 Thou Great Jehovah. Prayer: Brother Carl Fischer. 2nd Song: When Dark and Drear the Skies Appear

Remarks: (Brother Musser) We are grateful for your attendance today. Lots of people are not here on account of some of the brethren being transferred to the point of the mountain (prison farm). They feel their place is to visit the brethren and we do too. We are grateful to have this beautiful day, and meeting under favorable conditions here, and that the Lord thus far permits us to meet together and partake of his spirit. We see others of our brethren here today from California, southern Utah and other places. we are glad to see these folks.

Brother Don Wayman

Was called upon first to speak and he ask that the spirit of the Lord direct his remarks and thoughts, to say something of benefit. He said the reason he is here today is to pursue that course which it is necessary to pursue to get to the Celestial Kingdom of God. He spoke of the big peace meeting of the members of the different churches and sects at the Tabernacle last week; mentioned how the church is collaborating with the churches of the world and the things of the world, and contrasted it with how the Prophet Joseph knelt in the grove and asked the Lord which of the churches was right, and He said, "None of them," He said he thinks we should treat them with brotherly kindness but go no further with them; that it is rather hypocritical that the church should let other churches come into their buildings and speak, and go on persecuting their own saints and not allow them to go into their buildings. He said he hopes we will be the pure people that comes out of the heart's core of Mormonism and leaves the things of the world, we have the laws of God that are paramount, the garment of the Holy Priesthood, brilliant men in our midst that have determined to serve God and not man, and we are being persecuted for the cause of truth. He bore his testimony as to the truthfulness of the Gospel and said he has determined to serve God, and that his testimony is increasing because of the things that are happening. He acknowledged his weaknesses and prayed that we may remain faithful no matter what comes.

Brother Calvin Cope (from California)

was the next speaker and he said we must live up to the light we have received; that be prays for strength to come out of Babylon and to stand firm and asked that the saints would pray for him that he might gain greater light.

Brother Orson Nielsen (from southern Utah)

was called upon next to speak and he asked the Lord to direct his remarks. he said it has been a long time since he was in the church and he has learned a lot of things that he could benefit from, and one particularly is tolerance; we must be sweet and keep out that spirit of hatred and revenge. He said that in listening over the radio to the sermons given at conference time by the church he wonders why they don't practice what they preach, especially concerning the junior delinquency they preach about; that it is the little things that will get us into the kingdom of heaven. He said down where he lives he sees bishops and other officers of the church going out into the fields and working on Sunday and he has heard men in the church profane the name :of deity. He said that if we live up to the laws of our Father in Heaven as we understand them, we will gain more light; that his father served time the State pen for the laws of God and that when he himself was a little boy (at that time) his family spent much time in the underground and in hiding. He said let us live up to the light we have and practice what we preach; be gentle and sincere and show appreciation to the Lord for what we have.

Brother Ed Christensen

was the next speaker and he asked the Lord to direct his remarks. He said that since he became acquainted with the truth it has revolutionized his life; and he realizes the necessity of adhering to all the principles and laws and commandments which the Lord has given to His children no matter what our friends, enemies or neighbors think, -- we either stand up for the principles of truth or we don't; the Savior never compromised with the devil, he came out boldly and taught the principles His Father gave him. He said he was grateful beyond words to express for the testimony he has of the Priesthood of God and the association he has with them and the men who have stood by the rack, hay or no hay; men who have not been ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, some of them having gone to prison for it. He said these men will be our judges; that there is not anything that· could change the testimonies some of these men that have gone to prison, and the same of some of these men in this room today, and women too. He said Brother Hammon told him yesterday that the crops of the Gentiles are flourishing and the crops of the Saints are with withering; the devil is trying to instill discouragement and backsliding in the hearts of the Saints; we have not had any trial yet so far as the bounties of life are concerned, but we are going to be tried and tested and proven; if we don't go to prison for the testimony of Jesus, then we are going to be tried in some other way, the women as well as the men. He said he was grateful for the association of these brethren here, and that we must be true to the covenants that we have made and take, no matter what comes or goes and stick to the rack, hay or no hay. He spoke of the great prophets of this hemisphere thousands of years ago who. stood up for the same Gospel that we are striving to live now could we stand by and watch our children burned, homes pillaged, etc .--that is What it takes to make Eves and gods if the F.B.I. comes and asks if you are backing up the Priesthood of God, what will you say? It will be a war to the finish between Christ and anti-Christ; we must uphold the brethren; if you hear anyone speak against these brethren and you stand by and listen to it, then you are just as bad as they are. What is your life if they should snuff it out? It is t be Lord who made it; it is His right to snuff it out. What is death compared with the fullness of the truth? Suppose we are snuffed out for a little season, and then we live for all eternity. Suppose you lose your families because of the truth, what is there to lose? Think of what you gain "I trust that we will strive to do better and never shirk or quiver or quail when adversity comes to us, but stand up boldly for the truth in the face of it. The Lord cannot use anyone who is ashamed of His work. You will never go anywhere , no never! what is the frail body? Think of the glories on the other side. Let us bear these things in mind and uphold these brethren with our faith and prayers. I do not think anyone of us realize the burden they hold upon their shoulders. Let us stand behind them, and this I pray in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Song: "Time is Far Spent" .

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

It seems that after getting through with the Sunday School I am all worn out. My mind is a perfect blank now. I do not know when I have felt weaker or more humble before the Lord because of my weaknesses. I do not know when I have wanted more to be savor vessel of righteousness in the hands of the Lord and really be a part of the work of God,--as potter's clay." That is my mission. Brother Guy and I talk quite frequently about the welfare of the Saints and our brethren in prison and wonder what more could be done to bring ,the faithful up to perfection. It seems that the prophets from the beginning of time have pointed to the latter day Zion. Enoch cried to the Lord when he saw the would be wickedness of the earth then. And Noah, how grieved he was when he saw the wickedness of the peop1e--only eight saints could be taken on the ark. He cried to the Lord and said, O Lord, when shall the earth rest?" And we are still at war, and there is no peace yet. All the prophets down to Jesus and from Jesus until the present have pointed to the latter day Zion, and what are we doing to build it up? Do you know what is the matter that we do not do better? It is because you love the world too much Think of it! You should not have anything to do with it except to make a living; but you can turn that to the glory of God and the Kingdom of God. My C.P.A. (certified public accountant) does not mean a thing to me except to build up the Kingdom of God. I think I have related this to you before, but I am going to say it again. I was interested in helping the brethren build up this house and the three years was about up when I could sit for the exanimation--Pass the final examination (I had passed the first half of it previously and the last half was the most difficult a real tough. one); and I had to pass it at the end of that year or forget it. I told Brother Joseph that I didn't want it unless the Lord wanted me to have it, and without hardly turning a page in review during some three or four years, I went up to the Capitol Building and said to the Lord, "Lord, if you want me to have it, it is up to you" The Lord brought to my mind the answers. I do not say that boastfully, but humbly, to show you what is necessary in living in the midst of Babylon. As I see it, we are trying to hold on to our "Pocket knives" and this little thing and that, as Pro. Marion has stated. What did you decide to do when you came here? I know what I am doing. Yes, I came here because, and you did too, I wanted to live the fullness of the Gospel. Are you living it? Are you here because you want to make a covenant with God to set all upon the altar? Or do you want to hang on to your pocket knives? You want reservations, don't you? You do not own anything anyway; it all belongs to God. I do not. Make no mistake about it, the effort in Short Creek is going to lead the faithful to Zion at Jackson County; and this effort too but the Short Creek effort especially. If you want to join the vanguard, make up your minds. We come here to listen to the Priesthood of God and what do you do about it? On November 8, 1942 there was a quiet organization made on the United Effort Plan--a small piece of property belonged to the four men that remained faithful from the last effort in Short Creek. Do not tell me about the weakness of men. The four down there remained faithful and true. Others were faithful up here. John Y. Barlow, Roy Johnson, Rich Jessop and Fred Jessop--that was the beginning of the united order from the last time. Those four were the nucleus of it. If you want to get back to Jackson County, you must join the effort. The next step is to prepare for the entering of the House of the Lord.

I feel to rededicate myself and my families and my all to the Lord. He has everything else and has them also. let us be more diligent and determined to serve God. I do not care what others do, even the brethren on the hill. You have got to learn the Gospel is true for ourselves. Guy has to. We must know that God is at the helm, and Jesus is the Christ, and Joseph Smith is directing this work. How I love that name That is the road--standing in the breach. The Gospel is restored never to be taken from the earth again. I was reading the words of the song "Praise to the Man"(and he read the whole song, the words). I want to testify that he is mingling with the Gods and planning for the work here on earth, and I bear it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Guy Musser;

I would like to mingle my testimony with the others today. I have rejoiced in hearing the truth, and feeling the pulse of these brethren. It appears to me that there has been a firm determination to right our lives and serve God. I am grateful to have heard from these brethren from afar off. In looking at Brother Chase, I remember years ago how he came to my father. I was a young man and I guess he thought a very unruly young man. ,You men, I look at you and I sit and observe my own life; the more I hear these brethren speak, the more I see that this is an individual thing--this life eternal. We may try to hold our families together and live in a community way and lean back on the Priesthood; but in the final analysis, exaltation is an individual proposition. Ernest Williams cannot hold me back. If he came out of the world in a place, he is going to be exalted in that place.. I might hold myself in a place for a while and then whirl into oblivion. But I cannot take him out of his place. The things we did in the world before we came here has a determining factor. Let us know from this moment that our eternal exaltation is dependent upon one person--the one who is seeking for it. You women who are sealed to men--that man may not be able to exalt you. That does not take from your glory or your becoming Eves in the Celestial Kingdom of God; you still have that right and the man cannot take you from your glory. You men who have women sealed to you, they will be incident as to your receiving your exaltation. So the time is upon us when we can no further say, "My children, wives, the world will not let me go ahead" That is out, and that is how we justify ourselves. It becomes a true picture to me each day that if Guy becomes exalted, to he has got to exalt himself and his father has little do with it. That is how I see it. We have got to stand up on our own two feet, for the Lord promised us that we have got to be shaken, and everyone that will be shaken will be shaken. And yet He has promised us that He is going to cut His work short, and He will have to do that. All of us will have to be shaken that have not been. The time will come when the Lord in His mercy will redeem us and help pick up the lost threads. It is true, God's grace is mighty and all encompassing, but remember there is a law irrevocably decreed. Remember that. Mercy cannot rob justice. (Here he spoke of the account of Elijah.) How do you feel about it now. So I accepted a little of the world in my life. It is not worth considering. It was foolish. Do you remember the account of Saul and Samuel? (Here he gave a brief history of it (I Samuel, Ch. 15). "To obey is better than to sacrifice." It will take all the time that is allotted you here upon the earth to prepare your lives for eternity. Each split second that God gives you from the cradle to the grave must be used to prepare ourselves. To be obedient is worth more than all the things we can possess, or that we have. This is the day that we must decide to do. (Here he read the following poem:

I made a cross myself Whose weight was later laid on me This that is torture as I toil-­ Up life's steepy Calvary. To think mine own hands drove the nails I sang a merry song And chose the heaviest wood I had, To build it firm and strong. If I had guessed--if I had dreamed-­ Its weight was meant for me. I should have made a lighter cross To bear to Ca1vary.

From the day of Joseph, we have been warned that our lives are out of harmony with the Lord. It is true we must leave the world so far as our feelings are concerned. This is the day to do It for when the Lord sends His messengers to the Temple and Joseph Smith appears to set things in order he is going to do it, and because you are prepared will you go ahead. Those who have been wasting time will have to go to the end of the line. And he is going to call the Priesthood in first and those who cannot cut the mustard are going to be sent out. And then the brethren will go out to get the faithful men and women, and that is the day we have been waiting for--to go back to Jackson County, not for Boulder Dam to be finished--but to go back to Jackson County. Our dreams are set in that, and if you are ready you will go. Suppose it should come to Ed (Christensen) and" say, "The time is here, for you to go and sit at the supper of the house of the Lord. (Sec.58 ) and Ed should say, "My wife is not ready, I do not know whether I can go or not." And so to another; and he says, "l do not know whether I can, I have a little work to do" And so it is--if you are prepared you are going, and if your wives are prepared they will go or be left to stay at the end of the line. But we do not know the hour or the moment when that day is coming and it is up to us to" prepare ourselves. It reminds me of the story of the negro who went into the cemetery and looked at an engraving, "Not dead, just sleeping" He shook his head and said, "Brother, you are not fooling anybody but yourself" And so it is with us. You are not fooling the Priesthood of God or the One Mighty and Strong. If your garments are not in order, your feelings not softened, then you are not prepared. This is the day of preparation, and it has been for years and years back. may God bless us in this great and glorious work and help us to overcome our sins and weaknesses and feelings; leave the world and come into the full faith of the Gospel of Jesus Christ prepare ourselves for that great and dreadful day. I know this work is true and the Prophet Joseph Smith is a true prophet of God and he directed the saints to this valley for one day he will appear again, and in that day he will set things in order. That is the day we are crying to the Lord for and are hoping for May God bless us that we may be found worthy, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Closing Song: Lord Dismiss Us With Thy Blessings Benediction: Brother H. Chase Kimball. LJAllred

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held at the Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 22, 1945 at 3:00 p.m.

Brother Guy H. Musser presided.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs: conducted

Myrtle Allred pianist; Alfred 0lschewski -chorister. 1st Song: "High on the Mountain Top" Prayer: Brother Ernest Williams 2nd Song: "There Is a Green Hill Far Away"

Remarks: (Brother Jeffs) Again, brothers and sisters, we have cause to rejoice that we enjoy the blessings of God, that we are at peace and that we are gathering together in His name, and that the Priesthood of God is with us. I sincerely trust that the prayer Pro. Williams offered may be answered in our behalf and that we may have a rich out-pouring of His spirit and we may put into practice what is given us.

Brother Lawrence Goldman;

was called on to speak first and he said he was glad to meet with the Saints again and was enjoying the spirit of the meeting and the humility with which the songs were sung; to be valiant to the testimony of Jesus Christ is the greatest thing in life. He asked the Lord to bless each one and those near and dear to them, and make manifest His hand in these troublesome times.

Brother David W. Jeffs:

This is not a surprise to me and I pray that the inspiration of Heaven may rest upon me. ( He spoke of how he was called on a mission by letter September 25, 1895 by the Presidency of the Church, saying that he was called by revelation to the southern states. He said he thought only persons who had money were called on missions and he prayed 3 days and nights and a witness came to him from the Lord, calling to his attention that he had $200 saved up.) When we left the spirit world, it was with the understanding that all recollection of things there would be taken away from us and we were to go through the gateway of Adam and Eve. We progressed in the spirit world just as far as we could and we made covenants with our Father in Heaven to keep our second estate and keep the commandments of God; and if we kept that second estate faithfully we would enter the spirit world and be resurrected to keep our third estate. It was absolutely necessary that there be a devil, because without opposition we could not progress. Therefore, we see the conditions we have today. I have a statement by Brigham Young that I wish to read pertaining to our lives to show whether we are endeavoring, through the independence of Heaven, to keep the commandments of God: We read in the Bible , that there is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars. In the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, these glories are called telestial, terrestrial, and celestial, which is the highest. These are worlds, different departments, or mansions, in our Father's house. Now those men, or those women, who know no more about the power of God, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, than to be led entirely by another person, suspending their own understanding, and pinning their faith upon another's sleeve, will never be capable to entering into celestial glory, to be crowned as they anticipate; they will never be capable of becoming Gods. They cannot rule themselves to say nothing of ruling others, but they must be dictated to in every trifle, like a child. They cannot control themselves in the least, but James, Peter, or somebody else must control them. They never can become Gods, nor be crowned as rulers with glory, immortality, and power in the celestial kingdom Who will? Those who are valiant and inspired with the true independence of heaven, who will go forth boldly in the service of their God, leaving others to do as they please, determined to do right, though all mankind besides should take the opposite course. Will this apply to any of you? Your own hearts can answer."(J. of D., Vol. 1, 312.) These things are confronting us today, everyone of us. Remember this, though, it is necessary to get the spirit of God. In order to be valiant, we must get the spirit of God. (Here he spoke of the incident where Heber C. Kimball and Brigham Young appeared to Wilford Woodruff while he was in the underground in Arizona and came in a chariot of white and told him to teach the people to Get the spirit of God; they cannot build up the Kingdom of God without it.) That is the key The Lord inspired men years ago, under the direction of Joseph Smith, to set apart certain individuals to carry on the Priesthood of God, and perpetuate the order of celestial marriage. We have those brethren in our midst today. We have part of those brethren serving in the penitentiary for keeping the laws of God. If we work and labor through the independence of heaven, we will have the spirit of God For the last several days there has come over me a blue, melancholy feeling. I don't know why. It is the power of something pertaning to our lives in the future, and in the humility of my soul and the inspiration of heaven I have asked the Lord to direct us. I wonder and marvel why 15 men should be held in the prison. Then my mind goes back to Abraham who passed through many times more than these brethren are passing through; Moses, the three Hebrews, and others. But as these things go on, you will learn why. "If you live godly in Christ Jesus, you must suffer persecution . I have a little note that would like to read from Orson Pratt (J. o~ D., Vol. 2,.337,341,346): "When I speak of the Holy Spirit, I speak of it as being a substance that is precisely the same in its attributes as those of the Father and the Son. **** And wherever the Holy Spirit is, it possesses the same attributes and the same kind of qualities that the personages of the Father and the Son is possessed of; consequently, the oneness that is here spoken of, must be applied to the attributes, and not to the persons themselves." The Savior prayed for the apostles to be one even as the Father and He were one. To continue, "Now Jesus, in his prayer, had no reference to the oneness of their substances, but to the attributes, showing to us, in a most explicit manner, that the attributes that dwell in the Father dwell also in the Son.*****Give two individuals of the same capacities the same knowledge of anything--let them see and understand so that they shall have the same views, formed by that sameness of knowledge, and they will not quarrel about their views, but they will act and consequently will be one in the thing which they understand alike. The way we keep the spirit of God is by living in harmony with the spirit of God and the Holy Ghost. I'd like to read another statement by Brigham Young (J. of D. Vol. l13-ll): *****Hear it, all ye Latter-day Saints Will you spend the time of your probation for naught? 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?" I am very thankful indeed that my life was controlled by the direction of heaven, and that I was eligible to associate with this group of people. (By Parley P. Pratt, Key to Theology Vol. 5:101) "Therefore, a person must live such a life as will harmonize with the fruits of the Holy Spirit in order to receive it and maintain its power and exercise the authority of the :Priesthood either at home or abroad."

"Our God we raise to Thee Thanks for Thy blessings free We here enjoy; In this far western land, A true and chosen band, We sing for joy. 0 may Thy Saints be one, Like Father and the Son, Nor disagree; United heart and hand, So may they ever stand. A firm and valiant band Eternally. --Eliza R. Snow

In Sunday School we were speaking of the temples, and it is a singular thing that this people is excluded from them. I have gone through several times and I want to testify that the first time I went through I didn't go through alone, and I don't mean it was mortals. It was a marvelous testimony. .If we are to have the privilege of entering them again, we are required to live clean and pure lives. Are we improving. Brother Guy said a while ago that everyone of us has to stand upon his own feet. That is the condition today. I have been thinking very much about these brethren in the penitentiary. You see·15 smiling faces. You ask how they are and they say "Fine." It does not stop the work of the Lord. They are performing their part. It is going to depend upon them and us to remain faithfu1. I want to refer to motherhood. I have a little document pertaining to these mothers. There are few men left to take care of the families of the brethren who are in prison. When you go into their homes they and their glorious little children are glad, and are so happy to receive fruits and vegetables. Eve came down from her mansions of glory as a resurrected being that she might have the added glory to provide a way for all the children in the spirit world to receive tabernacles and go on to provide and be exalted in the presence of our Father in Heaven. It was a way for us to come upon the earth, you and I. Why did she do it? To provide a way for us to sanctify this earth. May the inspiration of heaven be with you. I bless you and say that if you are faithful and true that light and understanding will come to you, and I do it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother William Stokes:

My brothers and sisters, I am really glad to be with you today~ and hear such wonderful sermons. I hope we will all put it into practice. The best way to get the spirit of the Lord is too fast and pray. It will not hurt us to pray all day long, to pray to our Heavenly Father to guide us and serve Him in righteousness is the best way to get His spirit and keep it. You know, there are many who have started out to serve the Lord and all hell was against them , but they remained faithful even unto death. Let us stand firm to all the principles of the Gospel, no matter what comes along, to be saved in celestial glory. what a beautiful reward that is. If we do as our neighbors, where do we expect to go? Let us round up our shoulders and keep His commandments and do as Brother Jeffs has told us, and He will strengthen us. I Know there are lots in this house that are growing in the course they are taking. Some have asked me if I would like to live my life over again. No. I know what I have done now. I know that we have the Priesthood with us and we have no cause to complain at all. Let us be firm. I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

Brother Joe Barlow (from Short Creek) :

This is a surprise I hope I can be a worthy representative of my father. I have just came from prison and speaking with him. I wish I could have the spirit of the Lord with me out here free as he has in captivity. All the folks in Short Creek are fine. We have our problems down there. but then we all have. I know that this is the gospel of Jesus Christ and it is a knowledge now. I have no desire to be anywhere else. I have a wonderful mother waiting for me on the other side, and I know she is watching my actions to see whether I am going to make good. I need the faith and prayers of you brothers and sisters. It seems prophesies are being fulfilled as fast as they can be. Brigham Young, I believe, stated that persecution would cease against the servants or God when the saints turned away from God. I hope we can all be men and women of God and cast off these little things that are troubling us. The big problems don't worry me half so much as these stinking little things. I hope the Father will help us all to be true representatives of Him and His work.

Brother Rulon Jeffs :

That is right, Joe. One person apostatized over a pint of cream, but I don't think you will over a pocket knife, as Brother Marion has spoken of.

Brother Royal Madsen

was called to speak next and he said that he was glad to be here, though he has had little opportunity for some time. He said he had just visited the brethren on the hill and it makes him feel so terrible that men of their caliber should have to be in such a place, and quoted, "All who live Godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution" it must needs be that offenses come, but woe, woe unto them by whom they come. He spoke of the admonishment, "Get the spirit of God and keep it," and said he thought every day of it and wandered what he could do to fit into the pattern better; knows that he could control his temper more. He said if we don't get the spirit of God more we are going to fail.

Brother Alfred Olschewski

was the next speaker and he gave a little gem: "Truth lies in character. Christ did not simply speak truth; he was truth--truth through ,and through--for is not a think of words, but of life and being. He said, as he has mentioned before, that our testimony is our life and our life our testimony, and that is the truth for that is what our Savior pointed out to us. He spoke of the Savior taking His disciples to the Mount and teaching them life; and after He started His mission in the wilderness to be taught for 40 days and 40 nights, and He was tempted by the devil, and then he started out on His performance of miracles; then He took His disciples to where there were hundreds of fishermen and he gave the Beatitudes. He taught them that if they would remain out of the world and accept the truths that He gave. them, it would become their nature; and that spirit that came down from heaven was nothing but truth. He said that we are suppose to attain to the same level that we had in the preexistence we promised that so that we might reach right back to the point where we were, so that we may receive this body in its perfected state. He said that that sermon was given to the Nephites and in Section 35 of D. & C. to the Prophet Joseph; that these fisher men had a world to live in and had to make a living, just as we do, their hearts were in the world too; they wanted to get an education in Jeru­salem, and it is the same with us today--some of the "best" people go to New York to rise to fame and honor in the world. It took Peter a long time to say, "Thou art the Son of God." and the Savior said, "It is better that ye deny yourself these things than be cast into hell. He quoted the first great commandment here, and also the second. Love is the basic principle of the Gospel, and when we understand that we will be able to deny ourselves some things. He said the brethren in prison are suffering for the name of Jesus Christ, and we must do the same things; perhaps that is why there were not more of us there--we were not good enough to accept that sacrifice. He said we should search the scriptures every day.

Brother Guy Musser:

I think we have been well fed today. I have enjoyed the meeting and feel sure that the spirit of the Lord has been here. I am just wondering what I. could say that will give the people of God comfort at this time. Brother Jeffs spoke of the pressure that he has felt. No doubt most of us have felt this. It is not only apparent among the Saints, but among the Gentiles. We appear to be on the verge of something big. We feel that the judgments are beginning to be visited upon the earth. And in feeling this way we begin to shake and tremble for we. realize that hardly the righteous will survive. And so of late I have been greatly concerned with my own salvation, wondering just what more I could do to assure it; to prepare myself and keep the spirit of the Lord. We know how to get it; we keep it the same way we get it. It is a constant struggle. It was the spirit of God that surrounded Daniel when the lion sneered at his heels. It was the spirit of God that surrounded the three Hebrews in the fiery furnace, and others. That is the protecting cloak--the spirit of God. And that is what we must have. We maintain it in our souls the same way we get it--through constant prayer and good works for God Almighty. And so we are here assembled, a light and delightsome people, going about our business on the earth. we are not suffering great privations or persecutions; and I am wondering if we are ready for the great work that we are praying to come upon us. I am wondering if we are. Looking at my own life, I am wondering if we are. If we are not, then the time is short. Years ago Leslie (Broadbent) said the time is short. Before that the brethren said the time is short. And now we are saying the time is short. From my observations I observe the Lord is soon ready to bring things to this people. If things are right, then He will; if not, He is going to postpone it. In his mercies and grace He gives things to the people on the earth. From what has been said in the past and prophecies, I take it that we are on the verge of the end. And that is what I am interested in. Am I prepared to give an account of my life? My spirit might face the Priesthood on the other side and in paradise tonight. So let us stand on our own two feet and work out our own salvation. That is what has to be done today. If you do not believe this, then you are deceived. If you do not shake yourself from the coat sleeve of others; then the Lord Almighty will. And you are going to stand up with your head up and know the Gospel is true. That is what we are going to face today and it is true. there are those who may give counsel, in your hours of afflictions, but you must go on and answer to our Father. Let us organize our lives and purify our lives that you might go any moment to meet our Bridegroom. As I said, it is near the end of the world. About the Indians, etc., we know these things are going to hap­pen. If we live upon the earth when they happen, we will hide our faces at the things that come. we will marvel that we have charity toward the wicked. So let us clean our garments, brothers and sisters, and be prepared to face the Lord; for that moment we think not and our spirit is called on the other side, that is the end of this estate and condition here. That seems a simple matter to prepare ourselves, but it is not. Here we are today--our brethren in prison and sickness among us. Who among us is capable to call upon the Lord and ask for administration of angels? Can we do it as a group of people? No. Let us hope it can be done individually. These are the facts that face us today. Let us go on. I love this work. I am trying to organize my feelings. I am trying to stand upon my own feet. How wonderful it is to have the hold of a brother and your wives and children. That is wonderful, but those conditions will not save us because this is the day spoken of by the holy prophets who said, "AII those who will be shaken, will be shaken." Heber C. Kimball said, "The test, the test, the test." It is beginning, brothers and sisters. If you are in the moral battle, you are in it. If you are on the outside, then you are in the rosy world. You must continue every moment of your lives to prove to your file leaders what you can do. I love these beautiful wives who are being true to their husbands; who are endeavoring to stand in the gap, endeavoring to raise their children up to be servants of God. these sisters are beautiful. I have little use for the world now. These children are beautiful who have come through this patriarchal order. They have-their lessons to learn . We all have. I feel today if I could place myself upon the cross and insure salvation for this people, I would, for I love this people. But I cannot do it. I can't even save myself. Now let us be strong. Father said before leaving that we should pray constantly that the Lord will control the temples and cleanse them and cause that this people will; be able to go forth in greater glory. It is our message today, that as a people we have become stagnant and we must be endowed with power from on high. These sisters who have not received their endowments must receive them to be saved. Without those endowments we cannot have power over the adversary; Without the Priesthood we can't. In our secret prayers, family prayers, and public prayers, let us pray that the Lord will set .these things in order to bring to pass His purposes. Let us not be ashamed to pray that the wicked will be destroyed and the Kingdom of God be established, and plead constantly day in and day out for these things. For we will not get them until we plead for them; day and night, Heber C. Kimball said. Until we do, are the judgments going to come? No they will not. Let us feel that we are doing our part. Let us desire to have these things happen, in spite of our loved ones and everything else. Now this work is true; celestial marriage, plural marriage, is true. That is how it was defined by God and revealed by God, even down to this day. Joseph was a prophet and gave his life for this earth. Let us have strength and faith in our Father, and a determination to do what is right, let the consequence follow. Let us remember the song, "The soul that on Jesus, hath leaned for repose, I will not, I cannot desert to his foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, I'll never no never, I'll never, no never, I'll never no never, no never forsake. (How Firm a Foundation) God bless you, Amen.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

These wonderful sermons, brothers and sisters, I have only one thought. to add to. Brother Guy has touched upon it. The matter of holding onto the coattail of the brethren. As far as I am concerned, Uncle John and Joseph, upon whom the Saints have leaned so heavily, have kicked me out to swim for myself. If you do not realize it, you are in the same boat every man for himself now. Nothing I like more to see in a man than that he is earnestly working, righteously working for all things. For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things; for he that is commanded in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant; wherefore he receiveth no reward. Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness; For the power is in them , Wherein they are agents unto themselves And inasmuch as men do they shall in nowise lose their reward. But he that doeth not anything until he is commanded, and receiveth a commandment with doubtful heart, and keepeth it with slothfulness, the same is damned.(D. & C. 58:26-29) Is there anyone in this audience today that does not know what his job is? We have these things all the days of our lives and they teach us, and we tell you again today "this is a good people, but not good enough" You have been taught that over and over again. But still where are we? It is time we got out and swam. As far as my family is concerned, I intend to teach them until they do for themselves out of the righteousness of their heart. I think it comes to this people. Of course, there are appointments that we must receive before we can do some things, such as baptism, etc.; but there are so many things that we could be doing. It is but a day of warning. I feel as the other brethren have said, the time is very short. As far as I am concerned, I want to be ready when the One Mighty and Strong comes and the temple is cleansed and He says, "Come on, brethren, your job is ready. This is a day of .preparation. So now that we have all these things before us, we do not need to be told what to do Of course, the Lord has His servants to counsel us in our problems if they are big enough, and we know within ourselves what to do, without running to the brethren every day of our lives. Now I feel the counsel of the Lord is:-Now that we know what to do, let us do it. I feel this is good counsel, and I pray we will do it, in the name of Jesus Christ; Amen.

Closing song: "Awake O Ye People, the Savior Is Coming"

Benediction: Brother Garrett Konfranz. LJAllred.

MINUTES

Sacrament Meeting held at the Priesthood home, 2157 Lincoln Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 7, 1945 at 3:00 p.m.

Brother Roy Johnson presided and conducted.

Myrtle Allred -pianist; Margaret Musser violinist. Alfred Olschewski -chorister. 1st Song: "Awake, 0 Ye people, the Savior is Coming. Prayer -Brother David W. Jeffs 2nd Song: "Reverently and Meekly Now" Sacrament administered by: Bros. John Butchereit, Ernest Williams, Garrett Monfranz and Otto Olschewski.

Remarks: (Brother Roy Johnson) My brothers and sisters, this is the regular fast meeting. You Saints have the opportunity of bearing your testimonies usually, but as this people at this time is passing through one of the most critical times of your lives, when the Lord is testing the faith of the Latter-day Saints, we thought it best to deviate from the regular testimony bearing to receive counsel from these men that have been placed to direct us. Our first speaker will be Brother Marion Hammon.

Brother Marion Hammon:

I feel well today. I can't think of a time when I met with the Saints and felt better. I thank the Lord for that feeling. It has been many weeks and many months since I have had the feeling of realization as I have it at the present time. I know that you people are wanting something and I would to God that I could say something to comfort your hearts and I know you have become weary in your faith. I am confident that the Church is holding their regular conference to build up and encourage the people. I am sure you people are here out of a desire to be edified and built up in your faith. There is a sweet spirit here. It is one of the things that is a sorrow in our lives, that we have to be in strained circumstances before we. can be humble before the Lord and be contrite. I have had an opportunity today of visiting Brother Barlow and Brother Musser, and a half hour with Morris Kunz and Brother Kelsch} and it is no secret that many of the people on the inside are in a strain and the families on the outside are under a strain, and you are afraid that something that will be done will be compromising. We have been taught so well and trained so studiously that it will be a great trial for you to anticipate that something will be done or is going to be done that will try your faith. I do not believe that I am any different than you are. I might say that maybe I have some information that you do not have. But God has called us to act as His representatives here upon the earth. I believe I see clearly today the path of this people. The Lord has placed me in a position that I have been able to watch the growth of this body of people. I believe I see what is necessary in the hands of God for the advancement of this people. The greatest stumbling block is that they have not been united. There has been a spirit of love and devotion, but to say that we walk as a body is not true. We have some of the noblest men and women in this people that ever walked on the earth. But they have not been able to see things alike. We have one family here (pointing to the Kelsch's) trying to see things through the eyes of their husband and another here trying to see through the eyes of their husband. I know you are in sorrow I have been depressed in my feelings. Brother Johnson and I have only been able to judge our thoughts by rumors and thoughts of others. But now I am going. to approach this subject from this angle, and it is my firm conviction that it is true; The people that this people must become before God can use them is that they must become united I am firmly convicted of that. I have spent this last week thinking upon what unity really is. Down there (S.C.) the brethren are at peace with one another. I suppose that we have 15 or 16 men and only one or two are not. We are happy and as a Priesthood we have a minimum of back-biting and so forth. The women are more numerous and are prone to do that more. I am inclined to know what unity is. That is what is lacking here. It has pressed my mind into channels to ask "Why?" We have men whom we can hold up as examples; and we have some we can show as to what is lacking. Yet we have not yet come to a full realization as to where we are. My conclusion is that the law of unity is the spirit of obedience. The scriptures say it is better to obey than to sacrifice. We all have our conscience and we are afraid of blind obedience . We are not thinking, and it is not my nature to think, in terms of blind obedience. We must grow; we must put ourselves in a position where we can be of use to God. The thing that governs our actions may change tomorrow according to circumstances. So as men we may sit and study the scriptures, and to say that that one study of the scriptures is a basis for the action is false. We must deliberate on things and get the spirit of God. The Lord has blessed me with a spirit of unity and peace with this people. I pray that we may all obtain that and go forward in the Lord's work. The days of Joseph Smith are gone now. We revere his name. He has become a God. In the subsequent years we have had it revealed that he sits with our Father, Adam, and his elder brother, Jesus Christ, as a witness over the whole world. So we find by sealing the testimony with his blood that he has sealed it to the world. And so we find through his life that it will be damnation if we disobey (life of HCK p.333) In the days of Joseph there were not 20 men that stood with the Prophet. Not that Joseph was any less a prophet that day than the day he was martyred. Did the people raise their voice against him simply because they did not see? They did not have the understanding to render obedience. Consequently, they stood in darkness. Their consciences did not permit them to. Oliver Cowdery found that he (Joseph) was in the association of women that were not his lawful wedded wife, Emma. That was not hearsay, it was knowledge. Joseph had at that time the right to teach plural marriage. And so it caused apostasy. And in this day they said it was the law of God to live plural marriage. And so they cannot understand and see and do not obey I wish to speak here of the great test and trial brought upon Heber C. Kimball when he was required for him to surrender his wife, his beloved Violate, and give her to Joseph in marriage. (See Life of Heber C. Kimball, p. 334) How was Heber C. Kimball able, after fasting and prayer and deliberation for three days, able to take his beloved Violate and present her to Joseph? He knew that Joseph was a prophet of God and he knew-that Joseph's words were as the words of God to him. He would have apostatized if it had been blind obedience. After that, Joseph told him the Lord required him to enter plural marriage, and Heber told him that his wife would not be able to bear it. The Prophet told him to keep it a secret, that he was not to say a word to Violate. And so Heber stood once more at the cross roads--which should be do, obey the Lord or the other. Suffer? He suffered all that a man could suffer, but he stood in :obedience. He went to Joseph and told him that he could not stand it. The Lord told Joseph to tell Heber to do as he was commanded and if He saw that there was any danger of his apostatizing, He would take him to Himself. Now, my brothers and sisters, we have two men at the ,head of this people--John and Joseph. I have borne my testimony for a good many years that they are the Lord's servants They have been placed here to keep this law alive until the One Mighty and Strong comes. Now, if these men hold that chain of Priesthood that was handed down from Joseph Smith to John Taylor and down to these men, God will not suffer that He will let them lead this people astray. No man from Adam, who holds that Priesthood, has been permitted to lead the people astray. I find that we are so quick, and just as soon as a man does something that they do not understand, he is a fallen prophet. And you decide long before God has made known His will, just where that man stands. I do not believe that we have the comprehension and understanding to know always the spirit by which men are dictated; and this document that these men have agreed to, has caused many of us to think it is another manifesto. They are not binding you and me and they are acting in what they consider in the act of God. Those men belong to God and not to the people; and if the Lord has impressed them, and I believe He has, then there is no doubt as to the path to follow. Brother Joseph was impressed from the time it was presented he is sure. Brother Barlow was not so sure. Some brethren have not believe it is right and still don't. If it was not right at first, then why is it since it has been changed We have in Brother Joseph a man who stands about as close to Brother Barlow as a man can, in helping Bro Barlow in the work of God. We have Wilford Woodruff who received a revelation and he wondered what he should do. The Lord said, "Aren't you equal?" and He told him to take it to the Lord's servant, John Taylor. Our men, John and Joseph, are instrumental in helping each other. I wish this people could have better faith. I am sure that blind Obedience, as we see it, is just as good as no obedience at all. I think we can stand in our place and watch the thing move and pass our judgment and consider it and we are. just as safe as we are if we render blind obedience. That man that has faith, a sure knowledge and satisfaction of that course he wants to follow, is a useful man. So the condition that we see today, where men are not in agreement, are not in a position for condemnation. And I am confident that you are too hasty to say that Brother Barlow and Brother Musser are fallen prophets. I never felt more in my life than I do now that they are true prophets and never felt more peace with them. I know that you men often find it hard to follow. I have had that experience. If my deliberations have been of any help to you, I am glad this is not the day to rise up and say this and that and the other. You women stand behind your husbands. It is no time to have men in prison and say that they are out of harmony with the laws of God. They have grown a lot. They are men ready to stand by their own convictions, if they don't see things as Brother Barlow and Brother Musser. But if they are going to progress in the work of God, they have got to render obedience. They have got to develop the capacity to see. You are going to. have to develop in that respect. We are going to have to school our feelings in the work of God, in order to progress. We have men who understand how God our Father propagated species on this earth, but they cannot understand why they have to consecrate everything they have on the earth. We have men of different capacities. Men see things different today than tomorrow. I feel warm in my feelings and I feel good in the course that these brethren are taking. Some men are signing because they see it a way to get out of prison. Maybe they are signing because they see the result of the course they are taking. I tell you, you and I have no right to pull this one this was and this one that way. This you can be sure that Brother Barlow is not going to sellout for nothing. If this pardon board is willing to let them out on this condition, than I say, "Amen" All we have to contend with in this work is public sentiment. All that we have dealt with is sentiment. Those officers would not put a hand on them and they would let them out tomorrow because you people are causing them too much trouble going up there so often. They would be glad to have them out. It is the legislature of Utah that is keeping them there. You think things are bad now. You will see judgments begin at the House of God. The things those people in the war have suffered are only a drop in the bucket to what the Saints are going to suffer. The church is still the Church of Jesus Christ and God has not rejected it. We know that the Lord is going to send the One Mighty and Strong to set it and the House of God in order. It is going to take the hand of God to pull this mess out of this condition. Let us not lose our faith. in this work and in the principles of Jesus Christ. I can march right behind Bro Barlow as straight as an arrow, and if he is to be removed, let God remove him. And as the same applies to me, let the same apply to you. Be sure you do not pass judgment upon someone you do not know anything about. We bow before Him night and morning pleading in our prayers for these brethren. How many of you women realize who have the garments on you, that you are not yet wearing them as you should and who stand in just as great condemnation as anyone? You are breaking your covenants right on :your knees. I am not criticizing you, but telling you what you ought to do. We are suppose to be keeping the commandments of God and yet we are not. How much stuff have you got in you to stand out against the world? You want Brother Barlow to stand out and cheer and wave a flag, but are you waving yours? The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not a double standard, it is a single standard. You women are under just as much condemnation as the men. God grant that we may come to an understanding and a unity of the faith, that we may see and understand our path in this work, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

I am very grateful, brothers and sisters, that Brother Marion has spoken as he has. He has been lead by the sentiment that he loves this people and feels that they need the instructions and counsel at this time. I am grateful for this counsel. He has expressed my feelings 100%. I have hesitated saying too much about it until we knew what is going to happen. A lot of people have been saying a lot of things, and there were not enough of us that knew enough about it. And now that it is pretty definitely settled where the situation is, do not think that all of us have not been tried in our feelings; do not think we have not been tried wherein it is our part. In my prayerful consideration, I go back to the key That the Priesthood has given to us the woman is bound to her husband until the priesthood releases him, and we brethren are bound to follow our leaders until the Lord releases them. Surely, we are to get a testimony for ourselves, but what was that testimony to be about?' God said He will do nothing but what he reveals it to His servants. It is the most serious thing in the world, as you will find in Sec. 84 (v. 35-41) of the Doctrine and Covenants; those who honor His servants, He will honor. What testimony are we to get? Where the Priesthood is, and then follow. If you haven't got that testimony, you had better get it. Marion, I want to say this: To you sisters, follow the first part of that key; support your husbands until the Lord releases them. I love all those brethren according to their desires in righteousness; naturally, we love those men who are keeping their covenants greater. And I love you brethren and sisters. One more point about the spirit of God and keeping it. We have spoken of it many, many times. Uncle John has drilled and drilled us in it. I like the way Brother Marion has spoken on unity. Until the Lord gets enough men who can move in one body, He will never be able to move His work forward--this people. I dare say brothers and sisters, we have tried to feel that we have been lead by the spirit of God. It doesn't go in two directions. We are entitled to it. If we come into a unity of the faith, with the·"men holding the High order of Priesthood; the anointed of God, then the Lord will have a people. God help us to be that people God help us to honor His church and Priesthood and help us to go on in His Kingdom, the Kingdom of God or Nothing," I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Guy Musser:

I feel that this is an imposition. We are before you all the time, Rulon and I. I know you will be glad to see the brethren again; to hear different voices and see different faces. And some of the men have hair on their heads, too. I rejoice to be here today. I rejoice in the cause that has brought us together--the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I rejoice that we have come to the earth at this time when we can fight the good fight) when we can take part in this great world conflict, at a time when we have to decide as to whether we want to keep the commandments of God I am grateful that I live in this day, and among this people, and that the Lord is forcing me to choose for myself just what course I desire to pursue. We are not as the brethrens; we have light, these beautiful, compassionate bodies, and we have understanding. I rejoice in what. these brethren said preceding. they have been dealing with things that should not even concern us as children of God, and yet they find it necessary to reconcile your feelings. Yet if we were spending the time perfecting ourselves in our probation, we would have little time to worry about these things. All these women have to do is live the law of their husbands. All the men have to do is follow the counsels of their file leaders. It is as simple as A,B,C--falling off a log. That is just what it is. The greatest thing I can say is: Get hold of and cling to with all our might, mind and strength, the Spirit of God. As I listened to the sacrament gem, I was struck by the latter part of it. We partook of the sacrament today and it was administered to by the proper authority, and we have partaken of it worthily. And now our sins are forgiven us, and we stand as children without sin to pass the next hour. (Re read:) "0 God, the Eternal Father, we ask thee in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the souls of all those who partake of it, that· they may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him and keep his commandments which He has given them; that they may always have his Spirit to be with them. Amen.~ That is why we keep the commandments of God--as a clothing to our bodies from the crown of our heads to the souls of our feet Today we have no time for anything else but to get that spirit and keep it; refusing all these other things in order to get it By continuing to live by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God. And then no matter what the evil one does, it cannot thwart us. We would be like the three Hebrews. They could not say, "Father will save us," but they did know He had the power to save them is they had His spirit. They knew that they had His spirit and had kept His commandments and said, If we burn, we burn unto the Lord; and if we live we live unto the Lord. Daniel and Moses and Abraham and others were of the same thing. They were able to get that spirit and make it a part of their lives. They were so permeated by it that they could control fire. We are just human beings today and many of our women. are like Sarah and Hagar. We have weaknesses and imperfections through the traditions of our fathers. God is dealing with us just as He did with these other people. We are facing these life and death issues, and salvation is an individual thing, as we have told you. The brethren on the hill have shaken us off and the church has shaken us off. We are men and women and we have been told what is expected of us. It is up to us to see that we are obedient. It is up to us to be united people and a people that can set their eyes to the New Jerusalem and Jackson County. God grant that we may have power to keep His spirit, and live prayerfully and humbly, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Roy Johnson:

My brothers and sister I am indeed thankful for this opportunity to be here this afternoon and see your faces once more. trust that the spirit of God will dictate to me what to say this afternoon. I have a desire to serve God and keep His commandments. I thank Him for the testimony that He has given me the testimony of truth as I understand it. Christ was asked the question one time, which was the greatest commandment. He said, "The first and great commandment is to love the Lord thy God with all thy might, with all thy mind, and with all thy strength; and the second is like unto it. Love thy neighbor as thy self. To me, brothers and sisters, this is one of the faults of this people. Do we love our neighbors as ourselves? Think upon it. When this people can love their neighbors as themselves, they will be getting some place, where they never expected to get. the Lord will begin to bless us and continue to bless us. We read in the Book of Mormon where the Nephites had all things in common for over 200 years. Why? Because they had perfect confidence in one another. Have we got perfect confidence in one another? Let us think it over. Brother Marion said he thought or believed that we lack in unity; we lack that something that pulls us close together close enough together so that we can love our neighbor as ourselves. I am thankful that I had the opportunity to come to Salt Lake at this time and for the visit I had with Uncle John and Joseph; and for the visit I have had with these brethren who are associated with me in the Council. Brother Marion related to us the story of Brother Kimball and his wife, Violate, very beautifully. He showed us the faith of that great man, Brother Kimball. If this people here, those whom I am speaking to today, had the Gospel grounded into them as Heber C. Kimball had, there would be no need of signing any papers. But we have not learned one thing obedience to the counsel that has been given to us. If there is any of you women feel upset because your husband is signing something he should not, it is not your duty to say anything to upset him. Have you taken into consideration that prophets of God have given it. Let us see, maybe there are some here that do not know whether they are prophets or God or not; whether they were called through God; whether they really stand in a place where they had authority to counsel their brethren. If there are any that have that doubt in their mind, it is high time that you were being converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ It is high time that you got down on your knees and asked God to give you a testimony as to whether we have prophets of God leading us and that have their callings Yes, we have a right to know. And God will give it to us if we place ourselves in a condition where He can give it other to us. If these men stand at the head of the Priesthood, and the other men have the Priesthood, and the Priesthood counsel him to do something, has a wife a right to condemn him for his actions, or anyone? If the Lord dictates something to Brother Barlow to release them from prison, have I a right to criticize him? It is my right to get behind him and see to it that I do not do anything displeasing in Gods sight. It is not my right to condemn him or question him and what he does. As it has been stated this afternoon-­God will not permit the Priesthood to lead us astray, if we are walking in the line of our duty. If this people will learn that one thing,-­to be obedient to the counsel given--there is no power on earth that will permit us from progressing in the work. of the Lord Everyone in the sound of my voice is seeking an exaltation in the Kingdom of God, and there is no other way you can get there than by obeying the counsel the Priesthood gives us. Some have called us "yes men" I have been called that, because I did what I was told by the authority over me. Did it hurt me? Of course, it did not. I do not care what they call me, as long as I know I am following counsel coming from the right source. When I follow the counsel of some one that I am not sure holds the Priesthood, then I am a "yes man". I know that the Gospel is true. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, and I know that these men that have been called to lead us are prophets of God. I have heard them prophesy and I have seen their prophecies come true. I have heard them prophesy things that it seemed impossible to be fulfilled. I am glad for this opportunity and I am thankful that the Lord has blessed me with a testimony, and for the privilege of mingling with this people. It is a trial sometimes to know just how to conduct ourselves; just how to live so that we can be loved by our neighbor; so that we can love our neighbor as ourselves. This people is coming up to the mark more than any other people I know, and faster than any other people I know of. I believe the Lord is pleased with the actions of most of us. I believe the day is coming when this people will be driven together and we will love our neighbor as ourselves because we have to. The time is coming, as Brother Marion said, when the outside world will look and mourn over the condition of the Latter-day Saints when they (the judgments) start at the House of God. We just as well start now and serve God and keep His commandments. And I pray that God will plant that seed in our hearts and so firmly that everyone of us would rather come up willing and go on and on, all who can, and serve God and keep His commandments before He drives us to it. I pray the blessings of God will be upon us and I do it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Hammon (asked for the privilege of saying a few more words):

Word has come to us today that it would be better for families of the brethren who have passes sent to them to use them among themselves, rather than send them to others. You families who get passes, use them for your own use and ·not for friends who are anxious to see the brethren. It will be much better for the brethren. While I am on .my feet I would like to draw a few more things to your attention. I have observed that there are many who have a testimony of the Gospel and say they would die for it; and in a few months something comes up that changes that--a bad dream or something. There is a key, and it has come to me through people seeking counsel. Some people go to Brother Johnson and he tells them one thing, and then they come to me and I tell them something else. The same with Brother Barlow and Brother Musser. Let me tell you something and you study it out for yourselves. You go to any one of the servants of God and you get a bit of advice. One man's advise is as good as another, and one's Priesthood is the same as the other So it does not work out as it should and you go to another of the brethren, and he tells you just what is right and so you go to him from then on. You lay yourselves liable It is a rebuke to the spirit of God. We are going to have a test that will put this in shape. If you think this is a test round up your selves for the next one. If you once had a testimony in your heart that the Brethren, Lorin and John Woolley, had the Priesthood and you haven't it today; if you went to the Lord and got a testimony about plural marriage and something came up in your life and you are torn to bits and you decide He made a mistake, and you go to Father and say, "Are these men servants of God?" He will probably say No. Why? Because you asked him once and he gave you a testimony. You should go and say I am tried in my feelings, and I don't know what to do. You got your answer once and why should you ask again. Moses was tried on the Mount .He said, "Get thee behind me Satan" and he prayed to God for strength. You people remember that. You wives and you husbands, pray to God to increase your testimony. If you follow that key, you will find that you will save yourselves a lot of trouble. About this obedience--wasn't it David who refused to kill Saul? Saul was as wicked as a man could be. David came upon him in his sleep, and he was afraid he wou1d waken before he got through. He said, "No let the Lord slay him. I would rather be found upholding a fallen prophet till the Lord couldn't uphold him any more in anything, than to place myself liable to condemnation or damnation. Are we not quick to rob a man of his salvation? Let us begin to learn and cherish those noble virtues, instead of those that tear down. Learn to grow in your faith and if you do that you will find the road easier. If we find a new test a month from today, let us go on and not have to go back and relearn that first thing we learned. If you have a true key given to you, fasten on to it and learn some more. God bless you, I pray, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Closing Song: "We Thank Thee 0 God for a Prophet" Benediction: "Brother Ernest Williams. LJAllred.

MINUTES

Sunday Afternoon Meeting held Priesthood Home, 2157 Lincoln St. Salt Lake City, Utah, October 14, 1945 at 3:00 p.m.

Brother Guy H. Musser presided.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs conducted.

Chorister –Alfred Olschewski; pianist -Mabel Allred. 1st Song: "Israel, Israel God Is Calling" Prayer: Brother Alfred Olschewski. 2nd Song: "Ye Wondering Nations Now Give Ear"

Remarks: Brother Jeffs.

My brothers and sisters, we should rejoice again in this opportunity to meet together as Saints. I have felt the need to say to this people, we need to have more of the spirit of true worship. Members of the wards and stakes constantly have irreverence and we should do more, being a people who are trying to live the Gospel as we do. This home is not Brother Barlow's home, it is the Priesthood home and the Lord's. Let us be careful of the things we handle here and how we act. We have with us today another young man who is home from the wars. We are always glad to hear from them. Brother Wayne Horsley is home and he has been faithful and has tried to keep himself free and unspotted from the world. He is the pride and joy of his mother's heart, and right­fully so.

Brother Wayne Horsley

said he has missed this people, and has found that at times out in the world it is hard to keep a good spirit; but that he has had the opportunity of seeing several of our boys--Heber Smith, Louis (Barlow, likely) and Lynn Cook--and have enjoyed being together.

Brother Carl Fischer

was called upon to speak next and he bore his testimony as to the truthfulness of the Gospel; said how happy he was that Wayne is home, that he is interested in the fullness of the Gospel and has been studying all his spare moments, for his mother has sent him books and literature that he might. He said that he doubted very much that we will be able to continue with our meetings much longer; that the Gospel is true and the price has to be paid, and if we expect to sit at the table with Abraham; Isaac and others, we must serve our master with diligence; that this people .can and must improve and pray more, and no matter what happens we must stand on our own feet--stand at the rack, hay or no hay"} that the majority of the brethren in prison are sound and good men and are serving the Lord, and for him and his house they hope to continue to serve the Lord. He said he hoped the Lord will bless and help us to maintain the truthfulness of the Gospel until the Christ comes again; and We should gossip less and look to ourselves.

Sister Marreta Cook

was the next speaker and she said she was thankful for the privilege of associating with this group of people, that she wished to praise the Lord for His goodness to her and the testimonies she has received from the beginning and until the present time" She spoke of the sacrifice of our Savior—his life--for us; said that we must have more charity and kindness for each other and forgive, and she. applied it to herself as well for she feels very weak and has many things to overcome; that she has had her prayers answered many times; that she has seen the power of the Priesthood manifested in behalf of herself and her family; that the testimony of John Taylor wherein in the Priesthood was conferred to men to carryon, is true.

Brother Shultz

spoke next and he prayed that he would live a life that little children will follow, and can, as the brethren in the Priesthood are an example to us; he spoke of the sacrifice of Jesus and of eternal life in the celestial kingdom~

Brother Don Wayman

was called to speak next and he asked the Lord to direct his remarks. He said that standing by the rack, hay or no hay, reminded him of Brother Joseph Jessop when he lived in Millville and of Brother Leslie Broadbent, and Lorin Woolley; he remembered when he was listening to Brother Woolley with some of the Saints at Millville and he said that there would be a lot of things he was telling them that they would forget, but the time would come when they would remember them; and he said since then he has heard Lyman say things that they heard then and he has remembered other things at times. He spoke of how the Lord had directed his life after his mother died and how thankful he was that he could remain under Grandpa Jessop's tutorship and receive all the wonderful truths that he has received. He spoke of a dam, how it is built to stand storms and floods, and that is how we should build our lives--to stand whatever comes and not weaken.

Song: "Though Deepening Trials"

Brother Ed Christensen

was called to speak next and he said that this is a day to repent and· draw. near the Lord, and to put aside all light mindedness, to lay on the shelf our pride, false pride; a day when we should not be ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for we need to get the spirit of God. Would you rather go along with Babylon and partake of their styles and what they have to offer than to be that pure people whom the Lord is trying to raise up in these last days? Go with them if you want, but do not expect any leniency from the Lord. The books will be open and you will be able to read the acts you performed while here on earth. we have made covenants with our Father that we will uphold that Gospel. Are we doing it? The women were told this morning to lengthen their dresses so that when we wear the holy garments we will have them covered and not be ashamed of them • We have much to learn and much to repent of. I speak to myself also. I have need to repent and draw nearer the Lord. Do you think the Lord our God has permitted some of our brethren to go into the prison for nothing? No They have gone there for a wise purpose. The Lord has said that He will try us, and try us, and test us, and said there will be a sifting and more sifting. we have been told time and again that if we do not stand at the rack, hay or no hay, then we will fall short of our calling. And the brethren having to go to prison to me is a process of sifting. What do I care what they prepare to present to the brethren to sign? That isn't any of my business. It is my business to know who they are; to know. they hold the High Priesthood and know they have been called by revelation. If I do know it, then I don't care what they do up there. That is their business. It is a sifting process and let us keep it in our hearts. It is our business to know who they are and pattern after them. If you follow them you will go into the celestial kingdom of God, for that is where they are going. Brother Joseph has stood up here and said (about Brother Barlow): I know that man will never apostatize and fall to the way side. Brother Joseph is not a man to talk idly, for he speaks under the spirit of our Father. If President Barlow is going into the celestial kingdom of our Father and Brother Joseph is, then we should follow them. It is up to us to know their position. They are just the same as the prophets of old. They hold, the same position that Nephi held in the days of Moroni. (Rere he gave an account of those days as spoken of in the Book of Mormon.) that is the position Brother Barlow holds; he is the mouthpiece of God on the earth. That is the thing we are to find out. So my testimony is that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true whether we go along with it or not. If we fallout, it does not matter,. it is just as true. The Lord God will raise up another people. Let us remain faithful to the covenants we made with the Lord; cove­nants we made even before we came here. Let us remain true to these brethren and sustain them in their callings. That is my prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Guy Musser:

I am grateful to be here today, brothers and sisters} to see everybody here today and look into your faces. Paul said upon one occasion relative to the condition of the Saints, that the sufferings they go through are not to be compared with the glory that shall be within them. He summed up the whole situation in those few words. And also this people is going through the valley of suffering at this time; our sufferings are not to be compared when we consider the great blessings that God has in store for the faithful. It is recorded, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, the things that are prepared for those who are faithful to our God above. It is not comprehensible, the blessings that await the faithful. In speaking of the degrees of glory, Joseph Smith told us that the telestial kingdom if more beautiful and peaceful and grander than human beings can realize. And yet that is the place .we term "hell. And when we think of the celestial kingdom, true we cannot comprehend the things that await the faithful. We are having growing pains now at times we find growth very painful, and I observe that many of us are in great pain and travail. It is a good sign. The Lord is preparing a people. He is not satisfied to leave us dormant, where we are not progressing. He has set us now to prove ourselves faithful and true and in the process of training we find pain and sorrow, but from out this pain and sorrow will walk sons and daughters of God who will go forth and build the new Jerusalem. Just mark that -down1 I have a little scripture I would like to read. It is not new to you, but it is to be brought to your attention for your edification. We are living in a day and time ·when we are beset on every side by temptation. Many of us are following. many of us are justifying ourselves in our weaknesses, and as usual, few love to hear the things they will have to admit. People become very angry at the Lord generally in speaking of their weaknesses and sins. We are eternally trying to justify ourselves in our weaknesses. I find myself doing it. For the kingdom of the devil must shake, and they which belong to it must needs be stirred up unto repentance; or. the devil will grasp them with his everlasting chains and they be stirred up to anger, and perish; For behold, at that day shall he rage in the hearts of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that which is good. And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell That man was certainly inspired when he wrote this. "And behold, others he flattereh away, and telleth them there is no hell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none -and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no deliverance. Yea, They are grasped with death and hell; and death, and hell, and the devil, and all that have been seized therewith must stand before the throne of God, and be judged according to their works, from whence they must go into the place prepared for them, even a lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment. Therefore, woe be unto him that is at ease in Zion Woe be unto him that crieth: All is well Yea, woe be unto him that hearkeneth unto the precepts of men, and denieth the power of God, and the gift of the Holy Ghost (2 Nephi 28:19-26) Now that bit of counsel pertains to this people the people in our church, and many of the people of this group. All is not well Times of tribulation are upon the people of God. The nations are sick. Hearts of men are failing. Great contradictions are being felt in the hearts of men Reason alone is not safe. We are living in the day when the Lord's anointed must lead us; when we must pray constantly to God and through the Holy Ghost be instructed from day to day for our eternal good . Not a second must pass but what we have our hearts and prayers ascending to God, for one of these days He shall come as a thief in the night, and when the night cometh, the light is no longer there and we see no more. The day is to see and we can go on with our labor. But one of these days it will be the night and the Bridegroom will come and the Lord will send out His servants to call other people up. It may not be tomorrow, or this year, or next year, but just as surely as we live, it shall come to pass. But if it is ten years from today; it is too soon for most of us and our families It is high time to overcome the world and forsake it and leave it behind in our feelings. And because a sister or brother wants to wash his or her face clean, is no sin. Because we want to leave the world is the only salvation of God. we should not spend another minute in the world or building up the kingdoms of the world. I feel myself that I should leave it and constantly build up the kingdom of God, and consecrate my wives and children and my life to establishing righteousness in the earth. That is the way I see the picture today. These things are true. Let us gird: ourselves for the battle which has just begun. Let us see to it that our backs are strong and let us be faithful and true to the Priesthood of God. It is not what has been said in your floundering, for the Lord knows us more than well; He will lift us up. But let us not betray our brethren Their callings are holy and to me they are exalted. Let us see to it that we are walking in our right place down the road and then it will be up to God to see that we get our right deserts and our right punishments. I love this work and my hopes and my heart are in the work of this people, in the work of God. My desire today is to see the destruction of the earth and that this people be brought out of tribulation and placed in their right place upon the earth. I pray that such a time and a condition may hasten, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Brother Rulon T. Jeffs:

I do not know when I have felt weaker and in need of the spirit of God. I know, brothers and sisters, how you people are tried for Guy and I have had it on ourselves and I have cried for you and prayed for you. Don't think our hearts don't go out to you. We have talked with these brethren in prison and know what they are going through and have cried for them. But as Brother Guy has said, they are for our own good. I know from my own experiences that God does not put trials upon us, if we are faithful, unless we have the strength to bear it. Enough people have been gathered around the servants of God that He is now prepared to sift us and get the strong ones. That is where I feel we stand today. If ever we needed love, it is now -to understand our brothers and sisters and love them for what they are trying to do, and not to stand in judgment against them. There is only one judge--God, and His servants if He sees fit to reveal it to them. And so I feel to plead with you to have charity. If you don't understand these situations, please put them on the shelf. We expect some of the brethren to be out soon. We don't know. Let us leave it up to them to say what they have done and why, if they choose to do so As for me, as said last Sunday, I feel I have a sure key. The Lord has not left us without keys and principles to follow. The Lord will direct us if we follow those keys and principles. Joseph Smith himself gave it to us It is well know who holds the Keys of power and who does not, for we are likely to be deceived." Is there any plainer path than that? Therefore it is up to you to get that testimony. Brother Marion spoke of Heber C. Kimball and the test that be had. What was the thing that went through his mind when he went through that test. He said "Either Joseph is a prophet now as he always has been, or he is not. He has asked me to do something that is wrong on the face of it. But he went and got his wife and presented her to Joseph. Brigham Young said there was only one case in his life that he doubted the Prophet and that had to do with financial affairs, and just as quick as it came to his mind, just that quick he put it out of his mind. Joseph Smith was a prophet, or he was not he held the keys, or he didn't. Yet on the other hand, we have had Brigham Young say he feared the church (the people) had so much confidence in their leaders that he feared they would go down. He said both, but the main thing is; Do God's servants hold the keys of power? I might say, we have been told that we should not place our trust in the arm of flesh, according to the church. What Priesthood are we dealing with now though? The Lord God will do nothing but that he reveals it through His prophets. There is a reason for what has been done. I have that confidence in my brethren. Now let us get down on our knees. The Lord is not going to bring the walls of the prison down until we are ready to receive the blessing. Are we ready? We are not yet on our knees, not humble; we haven't broken hearts and contrite spirits. We don't pray enough; I don't. my dear sisters, whose husbands are in jail, are you keeping up your family prayers; are you admonishing your children to pray morning, noon, and night; all the day long? You will not have strength in your families unless you do. It is all the same repeated admonishment This people is a good people, but we are not good enough Repent, Repent, is the word of God to this people, all the day long. Let us get out of the world with our feelings and actions. If we don't, we can't go on. If we want to come out of it, for this Priesthood and this work, it will be done. Let us have peace and charity in our hearts. Learn to love the servants of God. Learn to love one another. The Lord, in speaking to the saints in setting up the United Order said that they were to be equal according to the family and circumstances and every man must seek the interest of his neighbor and do all things single to the glory of God. That is all there is to the United Order. God help us to do that, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. It seems that most of the brethren feel to fill their lockers with deer meat. I would admonish them to do so this week, for hunger and famine, but not for sport. I doubt that we will be able to have enough cars available to bring the folks to Sunday School next Sunday so there won't be any meetings next Sunday. Closing Song: "Abide With Me." Prayer: Brother David W. Jeffs. LJAllred.