I'm sure you will speak to us now. As long as you're with us. I guess it's coming. I'm certainly pleased, my dear brother and sister, to meet with you tonight. And every time you have an opportunity for that matter, certainly gives me joy and satisfaction to see so many of you interested.

in coming to these meetings. And I humbly pray that while I occupy a few minutes, that I will be directed by the Spirit of the Lord, that I may say something that will be of benefit. I have to bear my testimony for the truthfulness of the gospel. Seems like from my earliest youth I've never doubted it, and I do hope.

that my testimony has grown with the years, because I do want to be able to endure all things until the end, that forever the Lord sees good to take before me. It seems like we have wonderful privileges, if we could just start to realize them, the brethren that have been aging and aging us too.

that we might be among the first people that would come out and ask and learn their things. I think I read a little concerning these people. We've had some of our older prophets, yet latter-day prophets, have told us. The other day in the late world, in 1875, said, Many will doubtless make shipwrecks of your faith.

and will be led away by the allurement of sin into vile and forbidden paths. Yet the kingdom will not be taken from this people and given to another. But a people will come forth from among us who will be zealous of good works, willing to do the bidding of the Lord, who will be caught in his ways, and who will walk in his paths.

Now, do you want to be God's people? Are you willing to apply these principles to our lives and become one in heart and mind as the people of Enoch were? If you're going to meet God's people, you must work to that end. Again, President Daniel H. Wells said in 1882, you have often been asked the question, Can your kingdom be given into the hands of the saints of the Most High God? And I have always answered in this way. Just as soon as the Lord finds that he has people upon the earth who will uphold and sustain that kingdom, he shall be found capable of maintaining its interest and of extending its influence upon the earth.

When he finds that he has set a people, a people that is sound, firm, and faithful to him, a people that will not turn it over into the hands of the devil, then, and not until then, will he give the kingdom into the hands of the saints of the most high in its high and infinite, when it shall fill the whole earth.

The promise is that the kingdom of this world shall become the kingdom of our God and his Christ, and it shall be given to the saints to the most high, and it shall stand forever. That is when we may expect it, and we could not reasonably expect it any sooner. Therefore, it depends in a great measure upon the people themselves. Now there you have it.

dependeth on each one of us. Do we want to be among that people? Are we going to rally around the priesthood and heed their teachings and their warnings? They've been trying to tell us if I can read a rite with the time short and the Lord is ready for that people if we can get ourselves ready for him. The promise is that That is when you may expect it, and you could not reasonably expect it any sooner. Therefore, it depends on the great measure upon the people themselves, as to how soon the kingdom of God, the kingdom spoken of by Daniel, shall be given into the hands of the saints of God. When we should prove ourselves faithful in every emergency that may arise, and capable to contend and grapple with every difficulty that threatens our peace and welfare, and overcome every obstacle that may contend to improve the progress of the Church and Kingdom of God upon the earth, then our Heavenly Father will have confidence in us, and then He will be able to trust us. And if we As a people, do not hold ourselves on the altar ready to be used with our means and all that God has bestowed upon us according to the Master's bidding. For that building of his kingdom upon the earth, he will pass on and get somebody else. Because he will get a people that will do it. I do not mean to say that he would pass on and leave his people. No, they will come up from the midst of his people, that people which has been talked so much about. For the kingdom will not be taken from us and given to another people. It is too late in the day, as it has already commenced to go, and it is going and will continue to go.

Now if it was too late in the day, back in 1892, how much time have we got? Not very much. So it behooves us, each and every one, to be on our toes and apply these principles to our lives and become one. We need to get back to this priesthood in every move and venture that they require.

other and not hesitate to be their bidding because the Lord will have this people and if you want to be among them, you have the opportunity to be just that people. And I pray the Lord will inspire and touch our hearts with understanding that we will see more clearly our duty before him.

that you may come out and be that people that he that has been spoken of. Peter C. Kimball himself said, The time will come when the Lord will choose a people out of his people upon whom he will bestow his gracious blessings. Now, do you want to be that people? I hope that and pray that you do.

And that the Lord will give us strength and faith to carry on our humble prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.