Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 10 January 1941: Resurrected Beings Will Teach Us; Dream of the Wall; Persecution;
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10 January 1941
Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 10 January 1941: Resurrected Beings Will Teach Us; Dream of the Wall; Persecution;
A dated talk by John Y. Barlow from the compiled volume Sermons of John Y. Barlow. This date is not already published as a Salt Lake minute-book meeting or as a separate 1943 or 1949 document. The wording has not been changed. Reported by Leona Jeffs.
The Woman Is the Glory of the Man Just before Brother Woolley died, he warned all of us to have all our homes dedicated because of the judgments and diseases and pestilence that would come. A great many homes have been dedicated among our saints. ********** A great many thoughts have gone through my mind. How would you like to have a gathering like this and have President Young or Joseph Smith come in? That is just what is going to happen if we keep the commandments of God. The dead will come to us and talk with us and tell us things. How many have read about Sister Wilcox?that Brother Kimball told her how the buildings here on the hills would be torn down; how Joseph, Brigham, and others would come and help us. I have been talking?get united. I had a dream. I saw Joseph and Louis and these people driven into a corner. We couldn?t get away. There was a big wall. The enemy drove us to the wall. There were a lot of us that felt shaky. I got up and said, ?If we can exercise faith enough, we can go through the door that was opened. The wall raised up and we walked through and the wall closed up. Brother Cardon had the same type of vision. He saw some of the men straddling the line. The Savior came, and others, when we were struggling, and the clouds vanished. I was thinking about the things that Brother Jeffs and I were talking about?Love your enemies! That does mean love the wicked, but we don?t love their wickedness. Love them, but not their wickedness. As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. We are cast out, and we were told that we would be. Matthew 5 11. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Our people have catered to the ways of the world. We as a people have started to come out. Mark this down! You are going to see this nucleus grow and grow as you thought it would not. Brother Lorin said it would. The sons and daughters of men who have gone through the tests and trials, their fathers are praying night and day for God to save their posterity, their children, that they may see the light. A brother came to our house today to have his garments to be marked, and told me in the Wilford Ward how they defied these things?Parley P. Pratt?s grandson?what he had done to the writings of his grandfather. Everything on plural marriage (185 lines) have been taken out of the Key To Theology. The early records are being burned and destroyed. I am glad to be here with this brother. I have learned to love him since he has come into our group. He is a man that you can look into his face and know that the Spirit of God is there. You are not afraid to tell him the secret things of God and know that he will not tell them. If we can?t keep our own secrets, how can we keep the secrets of God? We must learn these things. Much has been said tonight about the women. I don?t know but what if a man would let a woman handle him, he ought to be handled. But sometimes he can?t do anything else, because of her actions. If her will is to be changed, it takes a lot of fasting and prayer, faith, and endurance. Isn?t it worth it? And are not these women our glory? If we want to cut short our glory, then give up these women. God doesn?t like a quitter. Plural marriage?it is the law. The people hate that law. They will cast you out; but let the Lord be glorified. God shall come here. The Prophet is coming before very long to straighten things out. How many of our men and women will be worthy to be chosen? It is just a short time, brothers and sisters, and put it down in your log books. Are we going to be ready? Will God use us? Brother Timpson, we will be back to visit you. I hope this will be a sacred place for you, and that you don?t let any evil designing men and women come into this home. Let the saints come here, and le