Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-05

ing all things for our good, and " WE
are faithful lie will deliver Us.
But | want you, my brethren and
sisters, to realize II you can-l want TO
realize 1t myself-that which God has
done for US. How different are all our
thoughts and all our Bnticipatlcns from
those that our fathers hal who had not
the Gospel We look at things differ
emily. UOd has thrown Hood Of light
upon the principles OF the Goapel. He
has shown unto VA that we lived with
Him before We came here. We can
understand why our Savior should be
born as He was, because through
the revelations that God has
given to us we know that we were
born In like manner. We know that
we existed In the spirit world before We
came here, ana that we Rre really the
offspring OF our Father In heaven, aud
that He desired us TO come here and
receive tabernacles Of ilesh, that we
might DO tempted, tried and proved,
to see whether We would be- true 10
Him or not. The scenes Though
which we pass have for their express
purpose this testing OF our Integrity, l
tell you that Latter.day Saints ought
TO bea people OF the strongest riendshipa.
We ought to be people that are bound
together by ties that are far stronger
than death. We ought to have love
for one another that would be- like the
love OF angels. How can l 10 true 10
my Father In heaven II | am not true
10 my brethren? AZ the Apostle John
says, "iie that loveth not his brother
whom he hath seen, how can he love
God whom no hath not seem" A man
that " not true TO his brother cannot
DO trusted. A woman that In not true
TO her husband and 10 her children
cannot he trusted. Such people God
VIII not trust, and sooner or later they
lose the Spirit Of God and go out OF
the Church. And this spirit OF divorce
that IN 20 prevalent IN the world is not
Of God. There 10 too much OF II among
Latter.day Saints. | tell you that
where that spirit prevails the spirit Of
God does not prevail. God intends TO
have people who will not break their
ovenante; people who will suffer
death rather than do this. II thoy have
a tris IdshiJ they will not break that
friendship II they have brother,
they viii DO true t. that brother.
They would rather lay down their
lives than be untrue. They will
not speak lightly about their breth-
rem. They will not beliltlo their
brethren, nor dispMage them. Nei-
thor will sisters dispsrage their
sisters, nor speak lightly Of them,
nor backhite them. God is going
to have people Of this kind.
You remember what the Prophet
Joseph said; so ye Twelvel ami all
Saint! profit by this important key
that In all your trials, troubles, tempta-
tons, Affections, bonds, imprisonmsnts
and death, see to II that you do not be.
tray heaven; that you do not betray
Jesus Christ; that you do not betray
the brethren; that you do not betray
the revelations OF God.
Yea, In all your kicking and founder,
ings, sec 10 IL that you do not this
thing" We are now In the midst OF
politics aud all sorts OF things, aud
think We are going to be tried, or are
being tried, as wa never were tried;
and a good many, II they are not care
iul, Will forfeit their Integrity. We
have got to be- watehiul, for tell you
| God has sent us here to test us and to
/ prove us. We were true in keeping
our first estate. The people that
AFRO here today stood Loyalty by
God and by Jesus, and they
did not finch. II you had tlinched
then, you would not be here with the
Priesthood upon you. The evidence