Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-08

God will be sought for in our own land
and in all the states where our people
live, because our conduct and our man
agement will stand out in such bold re-
liei in comparison with the management
aud conduct OF others, that they will
want 10 get our counsel and our help in
their extremity. TIL S will be the case,
not only right here, but elsewhere And
today, let me say to you, il our people were
united, we would hold the kew. We
occupy position where our influence,
If we were united as we should be,
would be more potent than that OF any
Other Stale or community in these United
states. do not overstate this IN the
least. know what am talking about,
ana 1t is the truth. But our divisions,
our par,isanship, our loss OF the Spirit,
our quarreling one with another, our up
braiding one ot another, weakens us and
takes away The strength and the power
that God mas placed within our reach.
pray God to bless us during the re-
msinder Of this conference; to pour out
His Spirit in power upon His servants
and upon all, that our hearts may be
filed with the light OF truth, and with
the joy and peace of the Holy Ghost.
Obi that we could understand how will
ing the Lord is to bless us; how his arms
are stretched out filed with blessings
for this people il we will prepare TO re-
Ceive them He will save us; He will
deliver us from our enemies; He will
make our path plain; and il we die
why, what is dealbl 1t is only change
from this condition into better one.
We OF all people should be the least
afraid oil death, because God has made
the greatest OF promises to us. If we
are valiant In His cause, He will reward
us and crown US with glcry; for He loves
valor. The Lord loves a people OF in
tegrity, a pc Pile who will not betray
one another, or fight against one an
other. He loves men and women oil
this kind. Aud He loves the women OF
this Church, because oil their integrity.
No women have ever shown greater
h roism and more integrity than the
women OF this Church have done. They
have been superior to the men in many
respects. Fewer OF them have shown
cowardice or unwiliingness to face and
bear all the consequences OF their acts.
| know the Lord loves the women OF this
Church, and He loves the men, too,
who are humble. There are thousands
OF them who are humble and obscure
men; their names do not appear prom
tlutully, we 90 not near tltH StruO 3,
they are not famous among Us; but the
Lord looks upon them and loves them,
because OF the integrity OF their hearts
and their valor in HIS cause. There are
thousands of men and women in this
Church who would gladly, il it were
necessary, lay down their lives for the
truth,
Well, the Lord bless us all; bless His
servant, our President. and grant that
he may be strengthened and made able
to perform the duties that devove upon
him. The Lord has wonderfully blessed
him, and we feel that He will continue
His blessing-in fact, We know He will,
whether in life or in death; but we want
him to live. Our prayers are Tor that,
and your prayers, too. l know tina,
\ President Woodruff feels that your
prayers have prolonged his lie, and
| thai he would have gone away from us
four years ago. if it had not been for the
prayers OF the Saints and the admins
tration OF the servants If God. He
knows now that The people are praying
Tor him, and it gives him confidence,
comfort and strength. The Lord bless
us in the name oil Jesus. Amen.