My brothers and sisters, I have been greatly edified while here. One thing I want to draw to your attention is the talk of Brother Buckway, that we have a Priesthood that will enable us to do anything that we have enough faith to accomplish. We have a Priesthood that will heal this Brother (Kalmar), or to make Brother Woodruff to see. We have something so big and great and broad that we cannot handle it as a people. Undoubtedly, this sickness of George?s has come as a blessing. I wonder where the Pratts are, the Smiths, the Kimballs, the Youngs are. Brother ___ said that the children of the covenant will reject the covenant and aliens will renew the covenant. Look around you today. How many are rejecting it, and how many are coming forth? We will always find some that will stay. You will always find that some men?s children will remain. I want to tell you people something. Nearly every one of you that are here today, you went to school where you were taught the principle of plurality of wives. I wonder how you did then; how many of you knew of it on the other side. You cannot receive eternal increase until you live the law that will give it to you. If that is true, your Father on the other side taught you those things before you came here. This principle is not a principle for ?now?, but it is a principle of the holy Priesthood. I heard a man say the other day, ?Can you tell me just how the Prophet could have seen the Father and the Son, when the Bible says you cannot look upon the Father or the Son without the Priesthood?? I said, ?Yes, Joseph had the Priesthood before he came here. He was able and capable of seeing the Father and the Son through that Priesthood.? (He then told of the incident given in the papers about an inspector for fire insurance, who came to Salt Lake City from the East last week and remarked about the terrible whispering and gossiping that was going on in this city, and compared it with conditions here years ago the last time he was here?how wonderful it was then, and how terrible it is now; that he never wanted to come here again.) Apostasy has brought it on. We have been told that a people will leave this place saying the Mormons are cursed, and they want to get out of it. A man said the other day that obedience is better than sacrifice. Obedience to what?to God or man? If it is to the laws of God, yes, it is better than sacrifice. If it is meant obedience to man, then I say no. ?My people shall know My voice and they shall follow.? Do you think that this group is the only little group that has the Spirit of God? No, the children of God will come forth and show their mettle. We will see some of these people coming out and start preaching as they should do. I love the Gospel and know it is true, every principle of it. We know that if we live these principles, that we will receive the blessings that we have been promised. I was in Short Creek for a number of years, and I do not remember hearing the name of the Lord in vain all the time I was there a few years ago. Just a short distance away it is so different. I do not know of anyone in the group in Short Creek that smokes. I do not know of anyone who fails to pay his tithing. They are a kind of people that can get close to the Lord. Some say, ?What is the matter with their crops?? The Lord is going to test them out. None of them are going hungry. If they were like I am, it would do them good to go hungry. I have such an appetite that I cannot stop eating. Brother Rulon Allred tried to put me on a diet and could not keep me on it, because he picked deer season to do it. Brothers and sisters, it is up to us to keep the laws of God. Brother Rulon Jeffs is a professional floor dresser, but next time we [will] have some help. Last night at 2:00 A.M., I did not know whether he would get upstairs or not. It was like the ox in the mire. We have got to have some more work done here. We would like to get out from under this mourning. The Lord said, ?Let us have light.? I would like to have this black paint done away with. Another thing that is worrying me is that a little plaster comes down in the kitchen. We have got to get someone that will plaster it. Rulon has to have some papering done. Now I guess we will have to get a committee and do this work. I say, God bless you. I love this people, and I know most of you are striving to live the laws of God. I was well pleased when Brother Boss?s daughter took a change for the best. Brother Joseph and I went down and saw her. I told her, ?If you want to get well, make up your mind to get well, and have faith. God can heal you if you will.? What our people need is to be taught how to have faith. Many do not know what it means. Get some of these faith-promoting stories and read them and talk about them. God bless you, amen.