Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

that stlll small voice--sald TO me, "This
is the last meeting you will hold Will
this people for many days. l told the
congregation so when ! got up. They
were very much astonlshed and asked
me where / was going. l told them
did not know. After. / went to ask the
Lord what he wanted of me. and He
told me to 20 to the south. That was
all the answer l got. took the stage
, and rode eighty miles south. The first
mans house went into was John Ben
bows. ] had not been in his house
fifteen minutes till / understood why
the Lord had sent me there. There
was a people broken off from the Wes-
leyan Methodists, who had banded
together and called themselves United
Brethren. They were watching for the
coming of the Son of Man, watching
for the Gospel of Christ, as they read OF
1t in the New Testament The first
thirty days after got there 1 brought
Into the Church some two thousand,
with fifty ministers. and all their
chapels. licensed according to law were
In my hands. There was no blowing
OF trumpets about that The Spirit of
the Lord told me to go there, and when
l got there ] saw why l was sent
That is, perhaps, enough to
say about those things Now, !
want to say to this congregation, to
the young men of Israel, to the Elders
Of Israel, to all our missionaries, the
day has come when the God OF heaven
requires at my hands. as the President
of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. to say unto you. 1t
is the will of God for you to take this
course. Get the Spirit OF God before
you go on your missions or anywhere
else. Get the spirit of revelation with
you. And when you get that YOU are
safe. and you will do exactly what the
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strongly impressed to say that to this
Conference. What can you do with
out revelation? We cannot do the will
of God and accomplish what Is re-
qulred OF us without It, We will make
no mistakes II we pursue that course.
That spirit is with the Apostles, and
with the Elders of Israel who are true
and faithful. The rising generation
should labor to obtain the Spirit of
God. Get 1t within you and 1t will be
continual monitor with you
That is one reason, brethren and sis
tiers. why my life has been preserved
l will tell you another reason. OF
course, this is my own reason for it.
One reason why l am here Is because
the Lord has chosen the weak things
of this world to preach the Gospel to
do His work, to build up His kingdom.
l do not think He has ever had
weaker instrument on earth to work
through than myself. The Almighty
has known that never for a minute
since l have been a member of this
Church have had any power to take
any honor or glory to myself with re-
gard to anything that / have been en-
abled to do in the work OF the ministry
or elsewhere. Why? Because / have
known 1t has come from God, and not
from me. And no other man who has
engaged in this work has had any pow
er of himself. This power has come
from God unto us. whereby we have
been enabled to do the work He has re-
CURED at our hands.
There is a change coming over the
earth there is change coming
over the Christian world; and It
Is at our door. You read the
revelations in the Bible, in the Book of
Mormon and in the Doctrine and Cove
nants appertaining to our day and the
generation before the coming of the Son
of Man. War! Yes; war In one of the
troubles that belong to the generation
In which we live. 1t will come to pass,
and no power beneath the heavens can
stay 1t. Who cannot open their eyes
and see the change in the things around
us? Read these revelations-the revela-
ton Just read by Brother Cannon, and
the others in these books. The God of
heaven has set His hand to carry out
these great purposes that you read of.
They are as sure to come to pass as
that God lives. There is no power on
earth, nor beneath the earth. nor any
where else, that can stay the fulfill