Show I v vI i ii i F I Ii f rv BECAME M A BELIEVER I I j i received have been I Many I i 1 from rom time to time regarding the mannor man mani Grant Orant first Aret firstI t I nor ner III tt which eider Bldr D F I i 1 became In the o othe of the Others who have known I I Elder Grant Orant tor lor a number of y Yearn have bae I a desire to be made acquaint acquainted I that incidents ed d with the particular are connected with thle most mOlt Important Elder Grant Orant hug hUI time of Idi hll Ute life r man many lettera IU In answer anwer to these thee time lime considerable 1 hu bu spent pent on the same lime and amI It still III they the continue mall mail at Inter intervale to arrive In hie hi desiring to all those that vale In order the may mayI Informed upon becOme the following folio I written the I j learn the following letter written l u letter a dear der dead lire is rev I n A F 11 Grant to by b request from tb the Ma March MarchI i S produced the Improvement ra raI I 1813 number or of I I 1 Grant County Count are Granite fo 7 1181 I t f lion n n t sly 11 D Dear r t you will willa I letter from m me at I a onder while you may not know but old man M and I think of If you ou It I often ottell talking about you ou the other day were 13 11 write you concluded to 10 and I 1 lit littie our that we lost boat know I you lU no doubt tenth of June JuneI the of yen even on tie girl IUS I 1 am now thought to return of I home home for or orI the winter the or do dol doIng t Ing so and amI my darling girl Irl not coming l meet me makes me very VII sad lid at to of you yuu times lime and nd It was wal while hilt thinking 1 short time Ume ago alo alof and uld lOll a r your reminded or of the way you oU f that I 1 w as viewed thia life hs have of oC u sea and many j I and the live WP this lived and Jut never Ih Ing for the th n 1 of lICe and never God clod thinking of that to come Om I 1 thank Father ever every da day of oC m my I our life to think that 1 been Into light can n now form know tor myself and not sa that 1 for for that d and that will willI Ills children and that lie we ar ore will tear hear and Answer our If we I but enough to to vail upon In prayers Oh fl B this And our ouri It at moat life le Is but A span i darling children flave lave gone but a few Cew da a ahead of oC U w and Just JUll think the on an this earth permitted to coma were I J and h their work return to their Father Father In heaven as un unspotted spotted b by the thill things of at this liCe as 11 they were the II the wre e born some Now we weI I all know there must lie be lome Ile j us upon this earth it If yose In placing Ilia ring should we not find out what that so III and then Ihen see If I we O are folS I Ft purpose It Is IsI lowing It This Is no Idle woJ word t a to us I now s uk aek on you I should we Wea take word wad on onI a ai I i question of oC so much Importance or should we not find out for 1 You loo know you have never taken any ones word for this and oven even If you ou had 1 and did not find It out for yourself It ItI would do you no good You CAnt I read ur or do else from the 1111 thea knowledge oth others but you mut a 1 go and acquire this knowledge the same sames me meI s II I a as the did and n In the saute m wa way When you ou con can learn to read for tor one olle of your our t 1 children then I Will learn the Gospel 1 t ot of Christ for lor you ou and when can IlIn f pl get the benefit or of your our learning to read i 1 p po i without learning It for Cor themselves then you can get the benefit t ot of III my knowl knowledge t st it I edge of oC tile the Gospel of Christ t without learninG It When you OU can Impart iY 0 yur feelings of oC love loe you ou have for tor your youry our y r wife Ite and children to me so that I can aan have havo the same samo love for tor them you youl t l x have th than n I will Impart to you ou the th thi e I 4 same t I have that make mAe the me i 1 know that God lives anti and that lie He hu J i 1 answered werd my prayers anti and In such uch a aa 5 S way a that I know It Just the came II as you ou know you ou love your family Now I Iou I you ou may mil lIay eay and think Pell Well Ir cI I has got gol It bad poor fellow It is III all 1 right and It will do him good If he het j t really thinks that way a I 1 i h I dill did but I 1 C cant And there you Oll let lel It end I h t T Oh poor blind man wh why will you let the furnish you OU these thoughts I II Ii I i will now to show how blind i men are when led lad by the power of darkness you OU were making i Fk nn an assay and I 1 was watching y you ou would tell me how you dill id It and that you received per month for forr r this work I 1 would H say Why Ii I 1 am working with a pick and shovel and rev reo Gut bUI CIO 10 I per r month I would anything It If I could away y Then t you would turn to me and Ill say Well I l I If you really tall wish to know a as much about this work as I 1 do all you have to 10 todo t do Is to du do the same une as al I 1 do clo Then you explain to me all about making 1 t i an assay and ancl how you OU received this knowledge then I should hould go 10 S i i 1 j I away and NY eay to myself Well Nell pour M D B hR hag got ot It bad but It Is 11 all right L It IC he can think this way bUll but I cant and at that I am content to top atop J Now I silk ask you ou If I should go 0 on In Int t Ii I that WI way how long would It b be before 1 1 I would know how to UI lY and what It t j Would you ou think of oC a men man that thal really 1 wanted to know something and would i l snake make no to Inform himself elf re j It Then rhen you were ere j 1 I In III having me gulp this knowledge to bring one hundred assay l I erg to tell me that IlIf they 1 the l knowledge that you did and that f thE they acquired it II In the same lame wa way you youk k I told me mc you ou did After all this what I J 1 I yell think of oC me Ine If I It still III would not belIeve you or t try to find out for tor torI I myself but would simply Imply say I think I you ou and all there theMe men melt are yourselves Then you might turn to r f rue me and uk ask what I know about assay i In lag anyway and I 1 would be compelled to say I snow now but very r little about it itIn 1 In fact all I 1 know Just makes makl It thi that much harder for lor ml me to understand It After all this If you still found me al t work with the pick and shovel would you ou think I amounted to 10 verr much much In Inthis I this world Oh B I no now uk ask you In the name of our Lord Lod and Savior Jesus Christ for tor your sake lake for or the 1 sake Buke ot of your dear family to top atop and andI I think of oC this subject and consider how I blind I n a 8 man acting thus thu would IH be I beg ot of you ou to examine your our condl I I tI 03 regarding the plan Illan or of salvation and see He If it Il dont tit fit your caw to th the very tr letter You ou kno know my put life t and the way ar I have hae viewed tb these things thIng I now II to you that I have been IlIen born again I 1 am a new man I II have ne new new lW thoughts i 1 I hay have as 81 you ou 1 know no traveled both roads dl S and should know about t them i 1 now Ia any to you God bel belI my witness e and r the memory ot of my little I girls I death t fresh h in n lilY my mind and andt t I k knowing I If I do not live Ih an honest hont life t I I can never go 10 where hern the she I Is and the gr greatest desire that I now have hae I is to t so Ih Ike e that I 1 will have hee her In the life to 0 thuI I knew that the gapel t I wt of t Christ I is true and that Joseph m t I wu U a Prophet e t of I t the h e true and living God and d that the Church of 01 Christ Chrtt has bu been established hed on the earth arth for the la last t t time I I say Y to o you that I 1 know this d and I gained n my know ledge by h humbling hll n myself In Int prayer and uk asking In God 04 our Father In r i t the name nume of III His Son jour Jesus Christ to gl ve nu 0 I thin tor torI I myself and I I Ii the e 7 ob i j spirit of trod N Now 13 I dont n t ask ak akI you to 10 take lak m my to for t this l It would I I do you no t Kod It If yoU did but ut I do uk ask OU to k r a f fut This IndU or yourself 1 J is III an dual 0 r k no one do It fur us an any more mor than they could Guld 1 eat for fot us UI and aati III Your our hun hunI hunger tr You must humble yourself enough to I bow dun down and all 11 on the Lord In hu s mUtt malty to give you 08 almo a knowledge ot of th thI these things arId and I promise you that t you ou Will WillI J knot knoll fat JI there wit be no I III It you I t ao longer on er be ber beI In d dut j r f Iou can oan ge elf by bJ yonn It I and nd Bali all Oft ca In prayer YOU yon alai i J I I l y t not make the start n In the presence ot of but your heavenly anyone Dont let It the thought ot of what will this or that tbt old friend think of what feel And know you OU from dol doing nil you to lit be right but think 01 o the U ty of life lite find and what this means to you and family The Lord rd will prompt your you read you hould you r ll on HIm but I promise ou that the will b be found set work ork with ten thousand things to kop you ou from doln doing It but you are the only one W to decide which of these theae you will heed You know you never lr did dl I anything wrong In your life that you lid did not receive the Dont do It It It Is III wrong and I hn hen woUld come cume the other ther prowl ling oh JO io ahead It Itla la is only a little thing thin anyway end and then no one will know It and you ou are 1 a pretty prell lood fello fellow anyway your our lite Ilfe th the how bow la b all right It Is II strange adversary will make u us think we are all right Do we are stronger evidence than than this that H 1 here hert to tomake make a record and we are these thelle lwe IO pr II left to dt do doride ride Ide on one we will follow It If this were not the case we would nut not be working out our own If you yoube could not du Ih II OU oc id not be be rewarded for doln bUt If you are prompted to do vong and you reo re slat n II then you hf he will be rewarded If you will 1111 lit honest with you will admit tM that you ou have never lIeH r tried to Investigate I ana aDd secure a regarding thelle hold thin things I wal years yar fore I 1 ever lver offered up a prayer to the Lord Lod and I 1 do know that lie He was Va pleased to think that I 1 had humbled myself to todo todo do this a as you rOil or I would b be to have one ot of our children who had been dl obedient rome come to 10 u us and say laY Father 1 have sinned forgive me and I 1 will duso du so no more mall but will obey you OU Think or of the Joy this would give Ive U us and how WI we would clasp this child In our arms and do all 11 we could to make It feel that we had really forgiven It Our flue ly Iy Father will receive you the same as al you would child and were milk make you know know and feel feel that you re and would Iw he w 10 long IU as you ou would fol follow follow low Ills IIII Jt If you to know something bout about farming you OU would go 10 to farmers and talk with them and associate with them hem themIe t If Ie you wish to know about the things or of JO ere and talk lalk to and awl aNO e elate date with men of God and you ou will find the they carry an influence with theft for good lood that you cant help feeling when In their presence an any more mor than you ou could stand b by Ii a red hot stove and not feel the heat from It I might pick seine fruit of a peculiar kind and taste lute It and taste It H and then turf to you and say lIay It la III good but ha has a avery avery very peculiar taste you rOU would think maybe mabe It had but you ou would not know One hundred more mIght go and UnI par partake partake take of this fruit and turn and tell you OU th the same lame as I 1 hal had done regarding r the peculiar taste lut but this would only 3 strengthen n your our belief bellet you OU would still bt be In doubt but if IC you go 10 situ of this fruit then all doubt le II you ou have an actual aNual living knowledge for yourself thereafter and nu mount amount ut of talk from others other that have hae not tasted this fruit and dont know lit of the I I IUar liar taste It has hili could Ihn change your knowledge You yourself might hO go hOon goon on all your lire life telling this to others and lI never ver succeed In one that thaI would accept your you testimony still this would nut not change the fact that you OU were wre telling the truth We find that In the time of our Sa Bas lot lor thy they would not accept HI Ills testimony but put Iut HIm to death not for tor any wron wrong lie had COm matted but for tor the Gospel He fie preached We also find In our da day they would not accept the testimony o of the Prophet Joseph Smith hut but he died a martyr tot COl the Gospel or of Christ and not for tor any wrong he had committed sad and iIO it hM boa been In ht all ages and will continue to the end of this world I 1 might IlO go on telling you OU that I 1 know this I is the Gospel or of Christ Your dEar dearold old mother whose whole words you would stake your life lite of for things JI to thIs life can tell you that site knows these things and any an umber or of others might do the same lAme and ancl still It will count for tor nothing if I you will 11 not try to find out for Cor yourself I Is It not strange how different things will arouse us UI to action Now Oo It If I were Wre to come to your house houle and II say B 11 vile One or of your cows I b down lucre herE herEIn In II a mud hole and will lIe die IC t you dont get et her out at one once you would not doubt my word for tor one moment but would hardly walt wait for tor ml me to un until tI til you would be oft off to Ut ease the co cow Now uw com comes the rub my boy r I II say to you OU repent or of your our JO go down clown In Into into to the waters o of baptism take your our family wIth you ou then IhEn go 0 to the templE of the Lord and have them sealed aled to you ou for tor time and eternity and then strive to keep the of God and I promise e you that thal you ou will have your Tour little girl Irl who hu has gone to the UtI Great Gra t Beyond and as 88 man many more of 01 your our children u shall go titer thee at as Pure as she WU was and that t you will all gal gain life litE eternal worlds world without end ond how you would take my word wont and go to 10 work ork at once to save your ow cow le Ia It that you think more or of your cow COI than Ihan you ou do of youree yourself and family Lot us admit that 1 de deceived dt II rl lit In Ihl this am I asking anything Ihl that t you ou cannot do dow w any to In you or your our Iy It If you till do It It not hurt you 1111 I taw a 1 u 11 d Ia rt uJ d it 1 i I 4 I I II 11 l you ill 1111 net huO your i I In III the 1111 world to tn conk far you kno know ou only bound death doth I IU part hart partH Ii H I 1 say ay to you with all II the sin ot or my heart that when I went to the temple and had my my family all sealed to me for tor time and eternity that t there hI 11 sas a change rams ramI over all ot of ofus us Wp thought we loved oi 01 another before this thill and wo w e did but There wa waa war wara a new 10 love after attu we had takEn this step Now why would I 1 tIll tell you these things It If I did not know them to tobe tobe be true What rood good would It do me It If I Iere the only one that could tell you ou that these thin things are true trul tb then h hyoU yoU night aa say and justly too that I 1 might bt be mistaken but when you find hundreds lit of thousands that will tell you ou the same things among Amons them your own on mother broth brothers and lIte sisters are you justified In think thinking In that they are all deceived when some IOme ot of them ha have spent a lifetime In this work The They must be very dull or they would have discovered that they were wert 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