I hope I can be blessed in the few moments I stand before you, because in and of myself I am not able to say much. I can say that for the past month or so, I believe my heart has been wrung as much as I ever had it in my life. Two months ago we had four of our boys working, teaching the Gospel, being brought up. We didn?t raise them to be soldiers, and we have had those boys called away to the army camps. We know they are going among filth. We have lots of fathers and mothers that have boys in the field that have gone out not to destroy life, but to save it. There is only one thing which we can depend on, and that is God, for we have taught those boys if they die in this cause, as long as they have kept the commandments of God they are saved; for Christ said, ?Though we should die, yet shall we live.? I believe it was Job that said though worms destroy his flesh, yet shall he live to see God here upon the earth. It is a time, my brothers and sisters, of sorrow, of great sorrow. Judgments of God are coming upon this people. But with all that, it is not as great a judgment of God as will come upon this people if we do not keep the commandments of God. I believe the Lord said in His revelations: D. C. 121 16. Cursed are all those that shall lift up the heel against mine anointed, saith the Lord, and cry they have sinned when they have not sinned before me, saith the Lord, but have done that which was meet in mine eyes, and which I commanded them. 17. But those who cry transgression do it because they are the servants of sin, and are the children of disobedience themselves. 18. And those who swear falsely against my servants, that they might bring them into bondage and death? 19. Wo unto them; because they have offended my little ones they shall be severed from the ordinances of mine house. 20. Their basket shall not be full, their houses and their barns shall perish, and they themselves shall be despised by those that flattered them. 21. They shall not have right to the priesthood, nor their posterity after them from generation to generation. Now, is that not a fact today? They have changed the ordinances. There is one particular ordinance that they have changed and taken the Priesthood out and put the government in its place wherever you go through the House of God. They have quit giving the Priesthood, and are giving an office or appendage. They are ordaining them Elders, which is only an appendage of the Priesthood, and are not conferring the Priesthood on them. He said: 22. It had been better for them that a millstone had been hanged about their necks, and they drowned in the depth of the sea. Can you have anymore judgment than that? We have been told that the judgments of God would start at the head. They couldn?t give us any more of the judgments of God than that is. We have been trying to get the people to get closer to the Lord and live nearer to Him, that we might be able to receive His revelations. If the Angel Gabriel were to come here today, it would consume the whole bunch of us, as we couldn?t dwell in his presence. It made me feel good to hear President Grant tell the people that if they wanted to be saved, they must keep the commandments of God. We have men looking around trying to find out this, that, and the other thing, and trying to bother us. Do you suppose we are going to live these laws of God without having some trials and tribulations? It takes just as much to get into the Celestial Kingdom of God today as it did any other day, and we can?t get there otherwise. Christ said, ?He that shall live Godly in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted.? Let us pray that God will make our backs stout so that we can take those burdens. ?Sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven.? Some of us get it in our families, and some of us get it in some other way, but we have to go through it. But until we cleanse and purify ourselves and get ready to have the Holy Ghost with us, then is the time we will get the Spirit of God and keep it. God bless you, amen.