| Show I iSEED OF THE WORD OF GOD 1 Delivered at the Tausrnaole Halt Lake City Sunday I ti ur February 17th IB05 by I PRESIDENT GEORGE Q CANNON mroRiEU > r ARTHUR WIN nil = = of tin words ol lead some I Ina hchbc dJreseilU > lion Zorlim AlaI b corded in the Jim chapter dtw jork I Book U r Almi I conimnclns at twids PariAtAlln 61 willthat It Wait tal I I rrn wills a fill I MY L W Ii r I I lirlls I hI iYat it thdowthiss I I e I I I 1 1 I If I I aal a = Zl it > A t 4 at faith fres al I It I n 1 S t Imat Whelan I I 11 0 ul unto a Wed > t 1 4 1 u I nisy im plani x r g i if I A true send l or of I I II Ili slid it l4piit 1 11 al l the I I It I e I wilhas YOU I I fillf4 swelling n A ill I in yomselYMT I I i i all14 It d Of I Ianxhlom t I 1 I k ill i ml gliten my I I dellcloul A 1 11 I i k Ih al be 146 tilt increase vour l T I I I I Va I tlhilhtcfa 1I I thIN th-IN I I n > Ikn Hi 1dg o a r I milliliroutlSil 0 i II n oool needs plit a I > < lt it locations td > isirii1 I I 11 to St u 1 I Irl i y 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Atria no-d 0 pluck J it up ODd a r 1 ilBlbiiiUfe the seed WAI not r Wi nit IKCJUU the hull thereof I tm loiulk tiuilti b11AUOe Your I I 411 l ud ye will not nourish law wrc i mnot li IK The fruit thereof 4 10 1 I II wall loot niiunih the word I l d l 0 in ele4 Lull to the fruit r I i ua i T pi a 01 Die nun I ol Ilia L I r I 10 b II wo 11 I consists I Itia tll 11 w by juice cause I aI4 1 lift palce look g 7 a v 11rrul II shall take real l I II i IM a it pillaging up unto I A I A < cl y ur dil iterice still I your f I I I r pu with The word in 1 u IV flit nIIl m yuu iMhoM I si 1 the fruit tliLKof olikh I 10 lilssnirl tlIlbJllI n i h 1 ic IlIale all that Is I si d tile i i call inn II l pure and Of t n I > allwo unliTood 1 I t i t er i t neither tluU ye t r I r y ball leap the towards u i I a I y it d aee and palkner fe la I I n Uis fur UK tree to bring t ni JV ltt words hall I have read In your were addressed to n people w ho lln > tit mikinc I j Inquiry of this propliel I rnttratin ilio I manner In which they I 1 urshlp the Lord They were a jfer people llo hid ybf throat out ai cl their pov criy from tire fil na ttt I Isi Ich they had helped lo build J a4str thy vera I brought down In J humility refoal W rsfoustout3instruclei anti 1 4 mu 01 boil a led I to streak to Jw In this itraln I was reminded JO much cl this In listening lo the lutrma thai has beets tuag mil niter j r Intse people l called Zoaml I Ill piiently npoHatlicd Irom the I 1 Alma who was the providing M I MCA caloric church took tits reealar ent among them to labor Laitt P hlly and 10 each them Iho 1044 tod lie found them In n very W 1 position They halt built a VI i nJri vited above the people < it 4 t uo man went up there anti V Chi < arms pealed into God In n Jpflui fashion such as hall not C known among thai race before Uiuspjuol their prayer P Gj b a U t a Hi HI Just eprai i it unit we do nut Mine Ad n rt r brethren luch WM a j 1 1 l rm br the tbilduhnou I ol i 1 Id I heve 1141 bull feet goV hu 1 f L 4 ad re of Lid Alm nt k 1 R Unto us thei there shall be f II I 1 It 11 1 I me Y 01 terday tolleyand to 1 D I t t elected I iis that we shall al an 1 ca lilt kit A1111111111 Us are sleeted I III IA Ih mill rio nt > hell for the I I E I x r 1 we thank thee I IIa do Co know what enect title hymn Ito ben sung lid a upon tile YOIIII1 al ILl soon I heard It In my b0hOOd l II tells Ile till I a feeling or feat Those had if great affect Olt me Vt I 1 it Ilan here we moot r q0tuAwallrawhoul L I I V11 1 I I hd then he la1 vrre 4 Ila th I I 1 it W I It I n1alitI 11 be art I t know W y n to k 1141 tl In Ito trd prepare I n cled w a tteat many people have be and IbJ f natty bull bellese y tire lon that there Ia 1140 he are Predchtined to sal I oIgI heard of 011ICTS to dartionano I Ivlzai I d ttis was lrldlhl Lelle when n child and led to fill great dread lest I was G demnation i tile tues anti wast one of that would be plucked up These 1 ZoramllM entertain thoMnic belief Flity had the Idea that Ihty were elected I by the Lord to co to iraven while ullieri were elected S lo RO 10 hell This doctrine U I horribly force All mankind are elected to lieuted No nun It I a tare union hU conduct makes him I such I He I If not predestined l to be a Lire car to lie I damned ls but he I II iredetttncd to receive If he will solve Ion and glory In the presence uf God We ahoulil understand that there K A difference between lorvknowltdge and foreordination llecauw the Lonl know belore the birth of IJau and Jacob what their cornea would be 1 II did not allow that lie had predmtnrd one lube lu-be a faithful man and the other to be unfatlhlulbut by foreknowledge He vias able to comprehend that Hy Ilia I foreknowledge he if enabled to compre lend all out lives but became He h n this knowledge It doe not follow tlml we are lniwlled despite ourselves to lake the course tint he may Infuriate we ball take God haa given in our agency and we can exercise it In dolnc that which Is 1 right or In doing tiat which II i 1 nronK Thin liM with ourselves and I would like the young who are here today to-day to understand that their lives are before them rood and evil are before them They lime the io er to choute the Kood und reject the evil or to choose the evil and reject the Rood In no olhcr wa > can we he 1Old I accountable for the decd < dune In the body We r lull land before the Judgment leal of Christ nnd each ol lit will hate to answer for the dredt done In the body whether they be coodor whether they be mil an y the judgment I that will In pronounced uptinuawill be a rlghleoui ludgment II l we have done wrong we ball havelo atone lor that wrong If whave done that which If right 1 In the night ol God If we hate walked before Him I I unrihtlconfeating our ana and urTight1q obtaining I the forglvencm ol them an we hate gone along from day to d iv then IllhlI J r the reward that will be beitowrd upon ua will be because of our faithlulnttt In keeping the commandmrntaof God A great many hate mUunderalood tills Kilpturet on this point unit have fancied that tome were elected for exaltation and glory and others lor damnation Hut they have lost tight ol the olhtr languages of scripture to the ellect that every man hat Ills agency and will him MU beheld I accountable I for that which 1 he doe w ho Now are there I asking area the Kldert great I of many r thH Church people i what evidence they can obtain lhat that which the Ildert > leach U I true They lay that lithe Hlderf would work a ilun or perform a miracle I it would fur Ir 11 1tlJ null them with evidence that they 1 were true Ixrvanli ol God I iuppc this rcijuMt has been made thouundt 01 times In various lands and by different people of the Elders > of tills Church hey 1 lay Your Church profeues to hate the elfls that once accompanied 08 tco g the prose ling ol the Gospel Now let Ul tee the exhibition ol than power Uo something that we will I be forcedto admit It done by the power of God and we will bellete ou Invariably the Elders have declined lo do tills because they have been commanded not to work Signs to Satisfy curiosity Signs are Hi veil la follow the believer not to con Into people The experience ol the riders In prcldunj the Gospel hast been has-t that where men and women have Joined the Church lliruuijli teeing tome wonderful manifestation of the power 1 01 Goad It hat teemed to require a contln ued exhibition of fill < power to keep Iheir I filth alive Thlt U the experience 1 tupixxe ol nil the Idvrt I tnat have noticed these things Thor have been however a great many who hive teen the power ol God manifested and who hate been led by that lo Seek God anti to know for themselves anti hate not joined the Church merely because they hate teen the power of God manifested but because I their hearts wcrelouchei and their faith was aroused lo believe that tills wi the Church of Christ This bill evidence that men can get to far at I know concerning the divinity or Iho work ol God U lo take Iho course recommended by the tcrtant of God hose words I have read In your hear Inn I le compared the word ol God loa lo-a teed If U were received In I the heart and II began to SWell And to iproutum 10 crow those who received It until know thAt It vaas a good teed This 11 I the effect that the Preaching ol he Gospel pel has hall upon the honed In heart Inc In-c cy Ian I where the liters of tine Church hive cone The word ol God hai been Lane It hat fallen In many Inttance In good ground nd and wlicicitlustliuilillcn 1 clown and brought j It hasipruutfi form fruit which at the prophet taid Is tweeter than all Aeetnew whiter than nil II hilt new and purer than all purity I an dl J puritf turethe Utter djy Saints will seethe appropriateness ol the figure used by he prophet In their own case When they lieiril Ihu Gospel the knew but little about the power of God but they received It In their hearts they cherlshei It cl they hotbed ll It and It began to swell and to sprout and to grow and 1 It Im tilled them with light uiin J joy and will peace and they r know beyond r all quit lion lhat l the seed which I they nature ceived In their hearts Is n good teed anti i that Ihe fruit It has borno his been good Irul It has sntiihed the lonilni or their souls and they testily before God and angels Hint III Is the truth that they hive received They may Oliver have Ken an niigel they may never hate teen the dead railed to life hey may never hate teen the blind mule lo lee or Ihe deal made to hear they may nol have even seen the kick healed by tile la Ing on ul l hands but because they have I not lien these mlghly works It i has not deptived them ol a knowledge concerning that which they lute re calved Thai has rested uiioi them in power and they know fur t enelve II I 11 ol God They have cherished the seats they halo dug about U and nourIshed nour-Ished It and It hat crown In their heart unlit It has Fred gcova most Precious fruit filling their souls with oy with peace end with a heavenly Riling And this is a greater testimony lilY urtlliriil and 1 sisters than visions or dreamt or angelic Illarille stations or c = = = I 1e 1 al G manbAuted through ro tIK rif1I I of the nick I her uisr It li a living testimony In Ihe soul of man = oohe There are Instances however such M title prophrt lludos lo where men do pelts IF Ist11111eud 1 111oand hJ On not cultivate I Ihe seed I and do not watch over It they do not In other words pray Prayer Is I to the t soul like the Irrliatlng itreani to our dry and parched ring anil orchards Prater nourishes strengthens and Imports vitality lo the seed alThis teed crows under Ihe Influence In-fluence of prayer Hut where prayer Is I neglected the results ate just at we tee Ihem when we neglect to Irrigate outfields out-fields and orchards That which Is planted there hh to wither and dry up So Ills I with Ihe word or God In the human 90 114d It must be watered by Ihe Spirit of God Prater must be exercised exer-cised In order la invoke the power and blessing ol Cod la real solaria il Then Hie seed grows the tree growl and flourishes flro branches spread abroad and fill the whole man and he know that II Is the word of God tint he has received He hat a living I anti abiding = rI r r an5 5 testimony I In hit bean concerning II and iloubt hat tin room ivllliln him lint let h ru neglect lilt prayers let him neglect to cultivate the I teed and to watch over It then li liexiiu to wither and he be Rim I to iloubt and to ask himself whether this Is I Indeed the work of God This U not because the teed I was nol xood III Is because ol the neglect of the liidwiduil This It tire history of the people who have joined his Church fhouiinds have been faithful Ihe Church The ground of Ihelr fallhfulneis has been Ihelr devotion to the commandments of nxl watching over themselves anti I invoicing 1tt hr r Yit yoking by faith the bleating and powor of God In rest upon them that Ihey might be kept from tin and from dark Actor and unbelief hal doubt might never niter Into their hearts Hie have stood firm and steadfast In the midst of all the persecutions that have come upon the people of God There hat been no wavering In their faith no trembling In their kneel no shaking In their hands but they have been Hun in the power witch God hai Riven unto Ihem and they have lived and died faithful the truth bearing testimony la their lar I t moments that God has I Indeed In-deed established Hit Church In the last clays Dial lie hat restored the everlasting ever-lasting Gospel from heaven In III original orig-inal purity with the power and authority author-ity lo administer the ordinances thereof unto the children of men Hut there isis is-is large class who have not taken this course It brings very sorrowful reflections re-flections lo think of the number who relive joined this Chuich and who are now nol nnniliered with II and who have I diet without tile fellowship of the Saints of God and without the promises which Gd nude unlo them when they were faithful Is this because Ihu seed that witzscovin In Ihelr hearts was not Rood seed No We can testify as did this ancient prophet that this is I nol I ho case It it I not h came then Is any defect In Ihe wo d if 1 God nor any unwillingness un-willingness on Hit port of God loin stow nr I lit blcsslngi I 7 It It nt because He hat elected t tern lo be d mined but It Is became they have neglected to keep the commandments of Goad No rnin ever fell away fn I ni till Church witnout a cause God ours not deal with Ills I children In that manner He I docs not leave them to themselves He I does not desert them Tills Is I the glorious feature fea-ture connected with the service of God In tire hour of ilia creates extremity f If mtIJr In the time when Ills I I children need help the most He Is I always I near to thorn He surrounds them with Hit power and He I bears them oil as on vertical I wings fhcrelore no nun ever fell into darkness no man ever became weak in the faith no man ever teat bit standing In this Church vaithout a cause and that cause hat had III origin l j In him tell Within himself the cause can be traced and the allpicrclng eye of God the Ltcrnal father has penetrated it He I knows It The Spirit of God from which nothing can be hidden knows It The I Holy l Ghost it i one dr the God c d nnd when nil thing ol title kind u I dune He Is irevedand withdraws Himself 11 from ihu Individual tll who i Is then tell 1 lo 111 Into the dark Ihe I light uf heaven wlthdrawi itself from such an Individual 1 and he I no loon r l 1 feels the testimony of the Spirit I ami li wonders within himself how he could speak as he once did Toils does not take place nil al once Kuely Is Ihe S flit entirely withdrawn in a moment tip Is like the linking of tits sun In our western lioilzon We see the great orb of day disappear behind I the nioun lalnland the I heavens are still Illumined with his glory but gradually mid almost al-most Imperceptibly In our latitude darkness spreads over the scene So It is w itli the bplrit ol the Lord Being grieved and offended and there being no repentance It gradually withdraws Itself from tire soul until turknesi taken possession and the man Is I led then lo whatever influence and spirit ha has yielded to One noted man who was once one of tire twelve Apusllqi and had been cut off flit Church a man who had testified that h had Ken angels of GotlltI on in occasion lo some who hid I been hu onthren 11 1 would Kite lily right hand II 1 iojJ r five f htT feel as I once felt That it a strnuc I remark lo make but he had become so dark and DO baldened In Im heart that there was appareully no room within him fertile aplril 1 of God mid It I had entirely witmlraun I llnell Tint man to hovered ol heaven who hid testified lime and again lo the truth uf I Ibis work and haJ preached It lnpuewas tell In this condition Hut I he lould recall Hie joy that no had had He may have kit that then was n lime of Ignorance bin lnoiant though he was at that Into according his own Idea tile joy lhat he lull he could not forget and he Said he would give lilt right hand II he could experience It once again Inat was the result of tranigretiion trans greiklon 10 plain and palpable that all who knew him weiuutUned what the rciiilu would be They knew he would CO down unless ho repented thoroughly and Sincerely 1 Ue have compared the word of God I tu 1 seed Wo can ulna compare wrong doing to a iced The leeUt ol wrong doing are sown in Ihe liuunn heart il 1 there H not cue taken to uprout ihete seed > they also will grow nnd II per milled lo go on unchecked If noiirihed and cherished Way will increase and become strong and they will bring form fruit aUutho fruit of evil My brethren and tillers bl how thai I we pro vinl the growlh of this evil teed flow lull we cherish me growtn ol this good seed I have spoken tu you about prayer Prayer coupled will repent mice u I ono ol the me ins or doing linn God I extends II 11 I I Is arms ol I men y and lov lug kindness lo oWi His l children and beseeches them lo turn lo Bad and tepinl of ihelr lint Our tins maybe may-be is LAIC IUI I If I we will repent of them He will nuke them while as wuol No matter w hit our ilol may be save tile unpardonable tin If we will I repent f of el them with all our hearts and coulees them In humllilv before God and make atonement lor them to The extent ol uur ability He will lurklve them lie comforted = l tu J147 i forted then 1 all ye nlH > nt slnncrl lie comforted ill ye people lor 1 those it none of us hiu i I hat cogelft II tIer We are all offenders In the IIlhl ol Gods exalted purity There Is no human being thai Heads Z earth the Is I not a Banner One therefore cannot repromh the other Not one ol ut call look upon hf brother anil say He Is I A sinner and I am not Tour man that Ioj > ks upon up-on his I brother as a register mid himself at wilhuiit un It I Mil righteous anti he may know that that feeling isnotol IIVk lixl We can then be conduits i in Ihe I reflection that If we wlllconleai our tint and repent ol them He will forgive tneni If we will pray unto God con Ifuiully to how unto us our weaknesses still shortcomings by the light ot bit Holy Spirit we men may nope that we wlI be able 101 persevere Until the end tlr our live I call say for tile en cuuragement of all who are iltu gling that I God Is very very merciful I lie III Is willing lo forgive all who come unto Him J in humility All wtio will ask Him fur light He will give light wtlU who ak allins 1 for strength Ho will give I Strength All who ask Him for peace He will give peace 1 All who ask Him I for joy and luoiiinem tit I near lo them lie will give these blessings None will go way unsatisfied Train b tile way to preserve ourselves In the truth so that wo can walk without tlevi illon In thn straight and narrow path that leadeih unto God Ihe I humblent can do it I he molt Ignorant cm do IU rise child an do il It It I not for the wise alone II il nt alone lor those who have ex Pontifical III Is not alone lor thote wno leave talent Ivory foul can do II no nailer how unlearned or how weak hat tout may be And outlines we dj his my brethren and inters there Is no guarantee lor any man In this Church 10 mailer how great hll office may be that he will be Nothing lo the end unless he keep the umiinandminll of God 10 that God will be with him believe I however Iho are men that have obtained such Isllh with God throttle wou d nol allow them lo go aalra He would lake their lives from the earth iclore He would burger It Ai our be uved President Iran oaten laid to us him ell the Lard would not permit him tu do anything that would lead I this people nfn wrong I believe mat with I alini I heart I suppose Ihere are thousands of the atlcrilay bunts whose constant prayer unlo the Lord Is I mat their lives may betaken be-taken Irom live earth rather than Dial hey should be unfaithful lit the coven ami whicn have nude with God I believe that In I every faithful soul Ih u edmg exists i 1 I Ine tallerday > anl never want to lone their tnlimum can cerning this ospel they never want to W Ir gel Into the dark they would rather die nan lose I Ihilr Won and Ihe 1 promiies hich God has made unto them But It U tar better for us to live Cud does not want us In die unlli wa have tilled our missions Me does not want iro take its away to prevent us from aposlatiilng llelter to stay here and battle with tin and show our Integi fly 1 land faithfulness to the tery last moment of our existence than lute lo be taken oil 10 lave ill Of coarse this U I far better than to live and deny the faith hut the best thing is lo live and keep Ihe commandment of God enjovtng the fellowship and communion com-munion of Ihe Holy I Gliosl all our again This II I the better course for us to lake and by our lalthfulnes set an examplo 10 < our children and lu everybody el 1 us for example Is I far tetter than precept llU mens nIItl Hint have the greatest effect upon those who surround them Every man and wo nan in this churc mould be a good example 10 that those thai come In contact willi them will feel better accounts of It tnev will feel purified puri-fied bv Ihelrexanipleand by their word they l feel streiiutlieneO in their fallli by teeing their food nuiks I And this will tiling true sloppiness lo all I such I happiness tint they cannot experience In re ny other way The word ol Alma were wrlitim tome ninety years before the birth ol tire rr icars eu oal Jrpii I Savior but they are true lid applicable today Men wonder how Ills I that we know Ihe look 01 Mormun Is true Why the evidence Is within itself When Alma tills these things he tells ui that which we knew ourselves and we know thai no human being cuulJ elll It unless lie had had experience We have proved it ourselves nd we know that roved 1 I bo ii I Is with other teachings In the Book ol Mormon We know by our personal experience that the are true In addition lu tm we know by Ihe testimony of the Spirit of God that this ls I a true work anil that II came from God lint who Cuul1 I write base words Hut I bate read In four hearing unless lie had experience In tin things of God We know that they arc true I will warrant you that there is not A soul I In tills home who has leen lilthful lo the truth that cannot bear > testimony that these words which Almi speaks concerning con-cerning the word of I iud and tile results that follow III reception are true They have proved I them to bo true In their own experience We ourselves are living liv-ing witnesses of their truth Trans III If that tile testimony of men In all ages Is alike the Spirit I of G i 0 > I produced that effect In the days ul Adam Abel and beth and the right out descendants Adam bad that experience Abraham and Atonal I afterwards had I Jltl as did tlalI and Ellidja and the atficar pro photo It I wa ho hame In Ihe days or Iho Savior It I Is I the Iuncurroal 111 mony of the righteous men of all ages They all lutify lo tire MIIIO grand truth try there are any in this congregatloi IIh confreagation r who are members of I tile Church of Jesut J Christ ol Latterday Sainti and who have been guilty ol any ago let me exhort > ou tills afternoon as you love your soul and as lOll rIIII ho favor and the salvation ol ml repent or your sins Lvery one ol I u < should do tills not only toili but everyday This U tire voice ol all I to us Repent Re-pent of your sins vc J littrrday Saints I I rlr luin away from your inllullis 1u everything that Is smtul tar front you lie humble Do nut MI up your own will but be governed by the will of lel God Examine I uurtl ves in the Ugh ol the Spirit 1 of God Go unto Him In > our secret places < all upon lima fervently and mlgimly m the name or Jesus 10 give IOU Hu Holy Spirit that You mat tee yourselves In Ihu Ugh thereof and that seeing yourselves you miy repent fl that wliult I Is ollensive in Ills I sight Ut no > led of bitterness nu seed ol wrougloing no seed ol evil il dc lodge I In your hcaiu and Ecrminat I there to bring forth a crop ol bitter fruit r Mulling In destrullon This Is I the I i I ourte for every one to take and I eilily to you H a servant ol God thai Ir > uu will humble yuiirsckcs m thlt i inner God will pour allan Hit Holy 1 > nlrlt upon y all-an In power Yur souls will be cleansed by that power You will lie sanctified end renovated aull made anew ea It I were md 011 will feel I he power of God en I can testify concerning cerriluat dG Ilie11111clon cerning It end then > ou will feel at houib you could forgive the whole world rou I any of four brethren and isten have wronged you 1 YoU will feel tits forgive I them with llr ln a rt 1or I tell I you when men nnd women git 11 10 Spirit of 1 Ood on nl them if they hAve lone wrunp to a brother they will re tent ol II II I go any gar so If to Ji me In Any m liner nil I ask Is 1 that God will hour out n1 Ills alllik il upon them That Is all till revenge I want For I know thai If God will pout out Ills Spit It upon them II they have done me wrong they will see it and if I havi done wrong I will sec It and 111111 I feel 10 make that wrong tight Therefore we an commanded lu pray for our enemies and those thai despitefully use Uo Why Because If we pray for hem end they gitt the Spirit of God hey will repent of Fthe wrong they hive lone and make II right We should theIguman cherish love lor the human family I for God is i love He it It loving Father anti 1 1 we should love and not hale Haired 1 It I antagonistic to the Spirit of God and It 1 cannot reliin In the heart where Ihe spirit of hll Is I It Is I love thai will iiiquer II Is 1 love that will win II I la by ova that God draws Hll children to Him and It it I by love lhal wo sill draw people to Us uol by haired and not by seeking to retaliate If you feel prompted prompt-ed to retaliateur I as men say gel even loans may know that that Spit flo nol of God that feeling It I nol one of the fruits of the S pIn ol God We an engaged In the graatrtt work hat ties ever been upon the earth God hat chosen the latterilny Saints to lav no Inundation l ut a work that will Hand forever For one thousand yean there will bo uninterrupted peace Oil this lair mill ul ours Satan will be I bound anti will not hive power lu tempt There I will be such a righteous 1 people hat they will not linen Ir his tempi along Ihe I Latterday balnia are Ihe wople whom God hat chosen to do this work Olr they will hir they will I nol do h I Hit will raise up those who will for tnu work cannot stand still It may be hat many ol Ibis people will bu like the children ol Israel whum God led out of Egypt lie designed II they land been willing to have led them into the iromued land II I In did everything that could for them He mamletted H flower f-lower He led then with a cloud by day mid a pillar nf fire by niglu He I fed them with outlets load from heaven as the tflmlst culls It II I le brought Hum water Mm Ihe Ihnly ruck He wroughl many mlraclet in their behalf Yet it Is 1 a s id tiling to say that mil ol the multitude ol ha Israelites who CtO Egypt unl II two of them over twenty team of proge lived 10 nler the promised land Hie caret I c car-et of Ihe people laid In 1 Ihe wilder nets because they were hard in Ihelr leans and Ihty provoked tile Ixird i thfirl Tn Frovoked lh and He aware In Ills wheels that they should not enter Into that land He I took away the Holy I Melclnwcltk Prison hood train them and gate them the Aaronlc Priesthood lid the l law of carnal commandments Width held be un schoolmaster to bring them to Christ bo hard In their hOI were they that when Ihey were bitten by the fiery ser porous Ihey perished because they would kl theK J7 ti r1ro lot lake me trouble or did I not have the faith lo look upon the braitn serpent which Motel had nude at the command of Gad The Savior in alluding lo Ihls said I thai 1 llr I should be nl tilled I up oven as Moics liltd up the boaters serpent in the wilderness and these who looked to him should receive salvation Now my brethren and listen we may not be so hard In our hearts they were but we are m a somewhat similar condition We are In a slate of probation proba-tion land of trial foil hai aitlgned USA us-a great work il we will take hold ol It I Il should IM the desire or every man In that I Church lo so live that the promises I of God r will be sure lo him extenuate will spare Ills teed to that In every generation gen-eration ai long at lime shall last I he will 1 ll have fllhTul men Ioojhl Ins detcent bearing the 1rleilhood lo stand I up before be-fore God and to servo Him Ohl lhat my posterity may live and In faithful to the truth to that when wickedness and all who do wickedly shall be swept from the face of the earth they will remain numbered among the people of find 11 Ihlf 1 Should be the feeling of every lallerday Saint And how shall they rmiinln Only by keeping tile com maiidiiiciilsai r God ourselves and teaching teach-ing them lo do so Every man should feel Hint there Is I a great responsibility retting upon him > i set n proper t xam pie before bill I family l and every va Qatar obould real ilia omme IIIal their children may copy after them and with profit HO that it shall nol be slid that through our unfailhfulncM our children have gone astray and done that which Is I wrong Sonic ol titan perhaps will go astray anyway do the best we cm Eli t there i Sorrier I no responsibility attaching lo ul II we do our duty we will at least have our garmenta clear uf their blood anti the blood ol all oilier men Thtu fore In all II our floorings I my brethren and sisters sis-ters let ul remember who we arc let ut remember what God hoi promised unto us and what He I loan chosen us to do He I has chosen us to be kings and priests and to hold great dignity and iwwer In Ihe eternal worlds and wo should I live worthy ol 1 II We should bear testimony unto our father by our lues I that we have not received lhe > u blestingi in vain that we shall I nol be bleasiors hh III w1 r te cut olfot the children of Israel wile without teeing Iho fulfilment or the pruutbHis of God but that we may live out our days and uur children alter us lo behold the goodness or God and the going forth ol His mighty power In the earth 1or Ills power will be I more and more manliest anti wickedness will be swept from the face of the earth The day if I approaching when tills will lie the case and when all who practice wicked iiist will share laid dreadful Wrong which the Lord has spoken God gram my brethren and sisters that we may he faithful that we may keep Ihe como tilindmeni ol com-o J and cherish I HU word in our hearts until it growl und tills us train the crown 01 our heads lu the solos of our feet t that we wil I be full of light and Inttlli Hence and lull I of the testimony I ol Jesus and that eventually we may lie save Land received by our Lord In His pies lllv once and be counted worthy to ill I dawn with Him and wilh the righteous of all acet wlu have tone before In thu Ling dam of our lather I and lad which I humbly ask In Hit name of Jesus for allot all-ot us Amen |
