This Persecution of the Priesthood by the Mormon Church; Live the Laws of God; The Nations of Today Are Like Unto Noah?s Time; The Name This Group Has Is ?Backbiting? My brothers and sisters, I have such a cold that I have not said much. I have been listening. We have heard a great many things today. When you see the brethren as they were a short time ago, going down the street with handcuffs on, etc., I began to wonder what kind of people we were. I do not think it hurt any of us. I believe that every man in the jail went with the spirit that it did not worry him. I know I was not worried. When they came here, it did not worry me any. They came in and went through all the rooms in the place. They had to be asked to leave the rooms while the ladies dressed. I do know that the Lord was with us, and I know He blessed our attorneys and we were set free from one charge. I do know we have another charge and we are under bond. I do not know how that is going to come out. The government is against us, but we do know that it is being run by those at the head of Main Street [the Mormon Church]. We know that this has all been fixed up by a man now made president of a European mission, and we do know that it was a bishop who put the law forth. Are we going to get mad? Let us let the Lord take a hand in that, and say within ourselves, ?God, forgive them, for they know not what they do.? Let us let the Lord take a hand in it. I do know that every man who raises a hand against these laws of God will sooner or later feel the power of God upon them. The Lord says to forgive all men, and He will forgive whom He will. If they can stand it, then we can. The only way we can get out of this is by fasting and praying to the Lord. I saw this over a year ago, and said if we would be humble and prayerful, that there would be a door open in the wall. Suppose some of us have to go to jail. Better men than we have gone there. I do not like jail, and especially the food they give us. I have some oppositions to it. If you do not know, Rulon Jeffs can tell you. After a bite or two, we could blow and almost set the bedclothes on fire. I would rather take bread and water. It is laughable now, but it was not at first. Some wondered where they were going and what was going to happen. But we did know this one thing. When the Hebrew children were asked to bow down before their king, and they asked if their God could save them, they said to try and see. But we will not give up the laws of God. Where the laws of the land conflict with the laws of God, let us keep the laws of God. Which damnation do you want, the damnation of the land, or the eternal damnation? I love the Gospel and its eternal principles, and I love the people that strive to live them. I want any one of you that wants to talk to the brethren, and talk on the principles of God, to come. It is the principles that we want, not the man. It is the principles that exalt you. A man might be foreordained to do something, but the laws of God are predestined to do something. The laws of God are the same as far back as we can think of. When God worked out a plan whereby the lesser intelligence may be brought up to the greater intelligence; as far as you can go back, the plan is the same. Let me tell you right now, in the beginning a great commandment was given: ?Multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it.? That commandment is the same today. God?s great work is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man, and without God?s principles you cannot do it. This nation and all other nations have got to where the nations at the time of Noah were?He cut them off so that the unborn spirits might come and take pure and clean bodies here. So, in the long run, God foresaw what was going to happen. Now, as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. What do we find here? A hospital here to accommodate those drifted in sin. How bad are we going? A young lady said to me not long ago that she was almost afraid to marry a certain young man because of the conditions of the world and people in it. Stand in holy places. You cannot pick up a paper but what it does not talk of birth control. The families of the nation are having one or two children, and the high blood of this nation has dwindled. Now they come out and say, ?I am not going to let you have your choice.? God bless you, and let us live pure lives and double our efforts. And above all, quit backbiting. That is the name that this group has?backbiting. What difference does it make to you and me,