The Lord Showed President Barlow How the Spirit of God Protected the Ancients; Be Humble and Prayerful and the Door Will Open Up; If You Have the Spirit of God, Your Trials Do Not Hurt; Do Not Speak Against the Lord?s Anointed My brothers and sisters, I have been greatly edified this day through the Spirit of the Lord. I was way out on a ranch west of Cedar and came there one night, and the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me, and this is what it said: ?Go tell the people to get the Spirit of God and keep it.? Those were the words that came to me, and I listened. He said, ?I want to tell you a few things. If you want protection?you remember Job, don?t you?? ?Yes.? ?And how he was tried and all about it?? All the sons of God came together, and satan came also, and the Lord told me there what was to be done. ?Remember Daniel?? ?Yes.? ?Remember he was put in the lions? den.? He said the Spirit of God was around him, and they could not touch him. Satan said to the Lord, ?Job?you have got a hedge around him, I can?t get at him.? That hedge was the Spirit of God. ?Take it away,? he said, and he will curse you to this day. We know how Daniel was. Then again it said to me concerning the three Hebrew children being cast in the furnace: ?Well, they had the Spirit of God around them, and the fire could not burn them.? This was the message that was sent to the Latter-day Saints. This is the message that I took to them. I saw how we were going to be troubled, and how we were up against a wall and could not get away. I told them if we were prayerful and humble, the door would be opened in the wall, and let us pass through. Some of us went to jail. If we had been humble and prayerful, we would not have had to. After we got in there, were they humble and prayerful? No. Some of us were. God gave us His Spirit. You know, if you have the Spirit of God, your trials and troubles do not hurt. I was thinking while here, we are the most blessed people on the face of the earth today. God sent His holy messenger here, and Christ came Himself, and sent Joseph Smith, and gave men authority to do the things we are doing. And we are just a handful, and have been drawn out. If we go on right, we will form the nucleus of the great Millennium. There will be some that will go. Some will stay. Some will fall by the wayside. The only way we can stay is to get the Spirit of God and keep it. Whenever we hear anything said against the Priesthood of God, check it right there. I remember a boy in Short Creek. He was just a boy, and some men were talking about Uncle Joseph. This boy said, ?Do you know that he was one of the Lord?s anointed?? A man said, ?Well, he is just a man.? The boy said, ?He is one of the Lord?s anointed, and you better let him alone.? I have seen that man go down, and down, and down ever since that boy rebuked him. I know that the brethren are all human, but we have a work that we have got to do, and if the people receive it, they will be blessed. If they don?t, after receiving it, they will be condemned for it, just as sure as I am standing here. Brothers and sisters, we have had a good time here today. The Spirit of God has been with us. Let us remember we have heard a lot of good things. There have been a lot of good things said. How many heard it? To some it has gone through one ear and out the other. If we keep these laws and commandments that these brethren have brought before you, you will go thr