We Were Taught the Celestial Law Before We Came Here; We Are Not Good Enough Brothers and sisters, I have been greatly edified this afternoon. I was glad to hear Brother Joseph mention the words he did. About a week ago I told you to round up your shoulders. Since then we have had brothers and sisters come to us asking what we can do as a people. We can live the laws of God. I was asked the question: ?Do you think we were taught this law, plural marriage, before we came here?? I answered, ?Do you believe you will have your wives in the next world? Do you think you can raise celestial children then, and not be taught the law before you came here?? We are working to have eternal increase. We expect to have our wives on the other side, and we expect to beget spirit children. If that is the case, we were taught that law before we came here, because we were brought up in that kind of element. This work is progressing faster than a great many of you think. You are good people, but you are not good enough. We have got to learn to live closer to the Lord. We have got to keep His commandments. President Taylor said: JD 21:2-3 John Taylor August 31, 1879 Logan ...we have, with the help of the Lord, succeeded in gathering out many of the honest in heart from among the different nations of the earth. And we have come here to carry out the will, purposes and designs of God. I never supposed that we were to come here to get rich, to increase in worldly possessions; but we came as I understand it in accordance with an express command of the Most High, that we may be taught in the knowledge of God, that we might come to an understanding of his laws. We are not here to follow the devices and desires of our own hearts; we are not here to carry out any particular theory of our own; we are not here to build up any system of man?s creation; but we are here simply to do the will of God in the establishment of his kingdom on the earth. In many things however we have not lived up to that high and glorious privilege which has been presented to us; we have been careless and indifferent, and it seems as though Satan has been permitted to try and tempt us in every possible way. For a few years past a spirit of greed and covetousness has run through the land and cursed as with a withering blight every thing it has touched. It is as bad in its effects upon the mind of man as any pestilence or plague upon the human body. We have begun to run after the things of the world; our hearts, feelings and affections, in many instances, have been estranged from God. It is time that something should transpire to wake us up to a sense of the position we occupy; it is time we realized how God and angels look upon men who are absorbed in the things of this world instead of living up to their professions and the covenants they have made with him. Now let us make a new start and new resolution. I want to say further, of late we have been getting some messengers telling us what to do and how to do it. If we took the counsel they gave to us, we would be in a pretty bad fix. We must take the counsel from the Lord. I know that this Gospel is true and that the plan we are following is true. I ask God to bless you, and dig down in your hearts and be careful of what you say about the Pries