My brothers and sisters, I have been greatly edified by the words of the brethren. I have been away a great deal of the time this winter. I have been with others of the brethren who are trying to live the laws of God. Celestial Marriage?it is the principle that gives eternal increase, that makes us Gods, that has remained from the beginning until the present time. Then I say, why should we fight it? I believe as Brother Kimball says: JD 5:203-204 Heber C. Kimball October 12, 1856 SLC Such persons have half-a-dozen devils with them all the time. You might as well deny ?Mormonism,? and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives. Let the Presidency of this Church, and the Twelve Apostles, and all the authorities unite and say with one voice that they will oppose that doctrine, and the whole of them would be damned. If we turn from it, it will be to our detriment. In the paper I read that twenty-seven hundred people are coming to Salt Lake now. What will they do when they are hit on the west coast and the east coast? How many of you have read the vision of Joseph F. Smith? He said thousands would come west. Our Prophets have told us time and again to store up our wheat and food. So many are coming upon us that we cannot feed them. We had some wheat saved up once, but they turned it over for cash. Now, what are we going to do? How many can even feed yourselves? We will have to be producers and not consumers. That is the condition that we are coming to, and it is coming with leaps and bounds. A brother talked about being in California. About four years ago I was there and told them what was coming, and to get out. Last year we told them again. They said, ?We will get out when we see the bullets flying.? Some of them are getting out now. We are living in very trying times, but the worst is not yet. The Prophets said the saints would cry day and night for deliverance. There are not many of us worried about these things. It is about time some of us did worry a little. If we keep the commandments of God, we will be saved, and we can stand up under it. I told you to get the Spirit of the Lord around you. How many of you did it? We are good people, but we are not good enough. We are not keeping the commandments as we should. We are not living as we should. We are not loving our brother as ourselves. We talk about living the higher laws. How many of us are living the United Order and other laws as we should? After the Lord revealed to me that I should live this law, it was twelve years before I entered it. Finally the Lord blessed me, and I did get into it. Let us try to live the laws of God as we should. If we do not, we will not get the blessing. God bless you; and in the authority of the holy Priesthood that I hold, I do bless you. And those that are here today, I bless you that your minds may be enlightened; and I feel to bless you that you may live the laws of God. God bless you, amen.