There are a few things, brothers and sisters, that I would like to say, concerning ?putting your trust in the arm of flesh?. We have a guide, a very fine guide. That is this, that he who speaks not according to the law and the testimony, is because there is no light in him, even those that come and talk to us from the other side. Take the eighth chapter of Isaiah. Wouldn?t we, the living, hear from the dead? Speaking about going to different ones to get the word of God:

Isaiah 8 20. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Speaking of the spirits that talk to you?today we have many of those things going on. Recently I had a chance to talk with a party who had revelations that they were going to do this and that. He had a plan laid down and fished for it, but not according to the law and the testimony. I want you people to know this: The Prophet Joseph, in

Section 90 of the Doctrine and Covenants, was given the keys of the Kingdom, and He said those keys would never be taken from him in this world nor in the world to come. The oracles of the Church would be delivered to the Church through him. When you get the truth, it will come down through the Prophet Joseph Smith, who holds the keys of this Kingdom of God in this dispensation. That is according to the law and the testimony. I want to tell you all, if we speak not according to the law and the testimony, and teach you anything that is not according to the law and the testimony, you have a right to tell us so. I don?t care where they come from. Those are according to the words of the Lord. I have just had an occasion to see the benefits of the Truth. I was wondering, in this congregation, how many of you are paying up and keeping this paper coming. We would like to see double the capacity of it if we could. As the Prophet of the Lord said, there would be certain men that would turn the battle at the gate. We think the fullness of the Gospel is hard to live. Let me tell you, if the laws that are up before the Legislature go through, you will find this law really hard to live. It is a law worse than we have ever had to deal with yet, and it is coming. Every wife, every expectant mother has got to go up before a medical man and tell who her husband is, who is the father of her child. I know we are going to get around it, but we don?t know how yet. The devil is working hard, but we will go on. You are a people that is the nucleus out of the people. From now on you are going to see this work grow by leaps and bounds. You are the very people that is the nucleus of the great Millennium, if you keep the commandments of God and keep sweet. A short time ago I told you to get the Spirit of God around you. I want to say to the saints again, pray to the Lord, get His Spirit. Remember these things, study them and prepare yourselves. I say to every one of you here, we have got to go on our own individual selves. This is an individual work as well as a collective work. We have got to know for ourselves whether the Gospel is true. I don?t wish any of you to hang on me, because my coattail is awfully rotten. I have got all I can do to keep going. I want every one of you to know it. I want you to know also that I know the Gospel is true, and wherewith I am talking and wherewith we have been called. Every man in this house can go humbly before God and get the same testimony, or you will never be able to go forth and stand up under the load. God?s work is going on. D. C. 1 14. And the arm of the Lord shall be revealed; and the day cometh that they who will not hear the voice of the Lord, neither the voice of his servants, neither give heed to the words of the prophets and apostles, shall be cut off from among the people; 15. For they have strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant; 16. They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own God, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall. What is the voice of the Lord? The Prophet Joseph said this to the Lord: ?Why do you justify Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?? And the Lord said to Joseph Smith: D. C. 132 1. Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servant Joseph, that inasmuch as you have inquired of my hand to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the principle and doctrine of their having many wives and concubines? 2. Behold, and lo, I am the Lord thy God, and will answer thee as touching this matter. 3. Therefore, prepare thy heart to receive and obey the instructions which I am about to give unto you; for all those who have this law revealed unto them must obey the same. Are we obeying it? Are we keeping it? I tell you what is going to happen to us if we don?t obey the voice of the Lord. President Young says the only people that will be exalted will be those that are living the Celestial Law. John Taylor said that God has given a revelation that will exalt us in the eternal worlds, and we do not intend to have it kicked out, whether in the Church or not. [Quotes Brother Woodruff.] Lorenzo Snow says: Lorenzo Snow Millennial Star 48:111 Though I go to prison, God will not change His law of celestial marriage. But the man, the people, the nation, that oppose and fight against this doctrine and the Church of God will be overthrown. Joseph F. Smith: JD 20:28-29 Joseph F. Smith July 7, 1878 SLC Some people have supposed that the doctrine of plural marriage was a sort of superfluity, or non-essential to the salvation or exaltation of mankind. In other words, some of the Saints have said, and believe, that a man with one wife, sealed to him by the authority of the Priesthood for time and eternity, will receive an exaltation as great and glorious, if he is faithful, as he possibly could with more than one. I want here to enter my solemn protest against this idea, for I know it is false.*** The marriage of one woman to a man for time and eternity by the sealing power, according to the law of God, is a fulfillment of the celestial law of marriage in part --*** But this is only the beginning of the law, not the whole of it. Therefore, whoever has imagined that he could obtain the fullness of the blessings pertaining to this celestial law, by complying with only a portion of its conditions, has deceived himself. He cannot do it.*** I understand the law of celestial marriage to mean that every man in this Church, who has the ability to obey and practice it in righteousness and will not, shall be damned, I say I understand it to mean this and nothing less, and I testify in the name of Jesus that it does mean that. I want to testify against this [that plural marriage is non-essential], for I know it is false, just like being baptized and not being confirmed; what good does it do him? Brother Grant comes up and says, ?A man that knows that the Gospel is true (speaking on this subject) and does not obey it would be just exactly the same.? It don?t matter how many is against us, that shouldn?t make any difference at all. We have seen what the Lord said and what the Prophets said. ?They seek not the Lord to establish His righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way,?....(Isaiah) President Grant said, ?I am going to make this Church popular.? The Prophets of God said, ?If you love the world, you are an enemy to God.? James tells us that. Where are we? Is everyone going his own way and seeking his own thing? That is the condition today. The Prophets have said there was a people that would come out from the Latter-day Saints on whom the nucleus of the great Millennium should rest upon. I want every one of us to look back and see whether these men followed down after the order of the Priesthood. Don?t take my word or any man?s word, but study it for yourself, and God will bless you in it. Think about what I said about the Truth. I just got a letter from Canada. Those people need our faith and prayers. Brother Ayers? one son is very sick and they want our faith and prayers. Things are getting too hot up there, and led by whom? By a man by the name of Smith, a grandson of Hyrum Smith, and he cut them off because they didn?t believe that Brother Grant was a Prophet, Seer, and Revelator. Brother Grant said he wasn?t a Prophet.*** Brother Grant has to do his part. Let him go ahead. We have got to have the opposite every time to know the good. Our mission is to turn the battle at the gate. God bless and help us to live up to these laws, is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.