Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 26 July 1942: Fire From Heaven Will Protect the Saints; The Laws of God Will Judge Us; Must Get Rid of Selfishness; Make Peace With Each Other
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26 July 1942
Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 26 July 1942: Fire From Heaven Will Protect the Saints; The Laws of God Will Judge Us; Must Get Rid of Selfishness; Make Peace With Each Other
A dated talk by John Y. Barlow from the compiled volume Sermons of John Y. Barlow. The wording has not been changed. Reported by Leona Jeffs.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Charles F. Zitting Home
My brothers and sisters, I can testify to the truth of what my brothers have said. I know they have been speaking under the inspiration of the Spirit of God. I can testify as to Sister Foote?s testimony. I can testify that Brother Foote, while he has aged and is hard of hearing, he has the Spirit of God. The people down there try to keep away from him. There has been a great deal said here today. Stop and think of what time we are living in. We are in the eleventh hour of this dispensation. Brothers and sisters, the times of the gentiles is nearly full. It is only going to be a short time until the Gospel will go into the House of Israel, and the House of God will be opened up to the saints. Brother Woodruff got up once and said that it will be but a few years when famines and pestilences will spread over the earth. He said that God has promised them that if the people will keep His commandments, that He will protect them if He had to send fire down. (He then spoke of Elijah and the fifty men on the hill.) We have been told all the way down to search the scriptures, ?for in them you have eternal life.? Even Christ Himself was told to search the scriptures. Some say today, ?Will you be our judges?? No. The laws of God will judge you. Then if you have kept them, you will be saved; if not, you will not. Brigham Young said life or death is set before you. If we choose life, we will go on and on. Death is to shrivel up?the opposite. One will be saving; the other will cause us to go down to destruction. We have long looked for a house and a place to meet. As Brother Joseph said, Brother De Yonge called me at eleven o?clock one evening, and as soon as I saw the place, I knew it was for us. We have been having quite a time, but the brothers and sisters have been liberal. We expect it to be one thing that we will be owning in common. And if we keep on, as we told you, it will be the United Order before we get through. Brothers and sisters, if we had put our trust in the hands of God and Brigham Young, and a united effort, the saints would have owned Salt Lake City today. We have got to get this selfishness out of us. We have all got it in us. The Lord has said, ?If you are not equal in temporal things, you cannot be equal in spiritual things.? If you put a bunch of sticks together and try to break them, you cannot. If you take them one at a time, you can. We have men among us who are financiers, honest men who would make good finances. The men down south are working together. What one has, the other has. If one had something and another wanted it, that brother would give it to him. I hope the time will come when we will not only live plural marriage, but the United Order, too. It is pretty hard sometimes with big families that some of us have got. Now brothers and sisters, the Gospel is free. I often think of the poem of John Wesley: ?Know this, that every soul is free, to choose his life and what he will be, etc.? If your brother has odds against you, go to him and make it right, even if you did not do the injury. We will think just a little more of each other. God bless you, amen.