(John Y. Barlow recollected the meeting with Brother Olson and Brother Jessop in Millville, of spending about twenty-nine months on a mission and then being handled when he returned; how he learned more in six months after than he had learned during his life up until that time. Said he was) --forced to either deny the Gospel or Jesus Christ or else take a course, the course that Joseph Smith laid out for us. I know that the Gospel is true, and I know that there are many in this house that know that the Gospel is true, that the plan was laid down by our Savior and brought out into light again by the Prophet Joseph. The Gospel has always been here, but the authority to administer in the ordinances thereof was not here until it was restored again. The Gospel was taught to Adam. It was taught all down to Noah. It was taught to the children of Israel. John, in speaking to the children of Israel, said that the Gospel was taught to them but did not stay home with them, not being administered in faith. And it was taught by the Savior and His Apostles and disciples until they had killed them off and destroyed them?another angel flying through the midst of heaven having the Everlasting Gospel to preach. ********** Now, my brothers and sisters, we are today living in that hour of judgment when God is going to cleanse this earth and purify it, and if we as a people do not live up to these laws and allow ourselves to be purified and cleansed, we will be pushed aside and there will be others who will do it. Our boys, a great many of them today, are being called into the service; and a great many of them are feeling bad because Brother Woolley told them that they wouldn?t have to fight. But remember, he put a proviso there?if we kept the commandments of God. Have we kept them? If you have, I haven?t kept them?not as well as I should, and neither have you. We are today just as the Prophet said we would be?heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure and not of God. That applies to you in the group as well as to the people in the Church. I think also right today that the words of Isaiah come very true: ?children are our oppressors.? Did you ever live in a day and age when the children said, ?Your father is an old fogey?? But, my brothers and sisters, if we do not keep the laws and commandments of God and cleanse and purify ourselves, we can?t expect the blessings. What does the Lord say? He says just what Brother Woolley said: ?If you will keep My commandments, I will fight your battles, but if you do not keep My commandments, you have no promise.? Now, I don?t want to scold. I love you, brothers and sisters, and believe you are the best people on the earth today, but I want to see you change and get better and prepare yourselves, so that when necessary, the angels of God will come down and direct us in what to do. We can do it if we will live for it. Many of our boys are going to the war, going into the army, and it makes our hearts sad. We didn?t raise our boys to become soldiers. We raised our boys to be soldiers of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is what we are raising them for, and that is what we want them for?not to go out and kill and fight. While we want to be loyal and do the best we can in every way, I want you to go home and read the 98th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants and see what it says about war. You will find that the Lord tells us when we should and shouldn?t go to war. I love the Constitution of the United States, the original Constitution before it was tampered with, and before it was broken and cast aside and ceased to be. There is no such government on the earth as our government, but when the wicked reign, the people err. But on the other hand, my brothers and sisters, the Lord tells us that these things were brought to test us and try us and see if we would keep our covenants even unto death. And if we won?t, we aren?t worthy of them. Are we going to keep them and live worthy so we can? We think we have seen sorrow, we think we have seen trouble; but we haven?t seen anything, and we will see some. President Kimball said if these people didn?t turn and serve the Lord, the judgments would come, so that their enemies would weep for them. Remember, where there is much given, there is much required. Let us take these things to heart. Let us remember that God has blessed us with this place to meet, and now let us use it in a [right] way. And remember, as soon as we can dedicate this, it will be sacred to us. And we don?t want any swearing or anything of that nature. Let us not go out and mingle with Babylon. One of the worst curses among our people today are picture shows and the radio. I haven?t seen a man in my life but what needed to repent; and the higher you go on, the more you will have to repent, and the harder you will find it to do. I don?t want to take up anymore time. I pray the Lord to bless you to live His laws, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.