22nd Sunday President Addressed the Saints as
follows. If I can see the motives of the Heart of man & know
Eternal things by the Spirit of God it is far more Beautiful
than to Hear their words of men. Should an Angel come
& convers with any man in the congregation No other one might
know it. He would think the person spoke to him as one speaks to
another face to face when He would not be seen at all ownly by
the spirit of God or By vision. we may know by the spirit of
God what is in a mans heart before He speaks. at all times listen
to the still small voice of the spirit of God And it will save the saints
from many snares. If you get Angry dont sin nor let the sun
go down upon your wrath I do not expect perfection in men
not what the world calls perfection I have seen A pe[r]fect prophet
And perfect Apostles, that is perfect in their calling. But not the
perfection the world looks for. If had Been as perfect as
the people wished him to be He could not have lived with the people
nor stayed this side of the veil as long as He did. we co[u]ld not Have
herd his voice nor seen his face. He would have had to Been veiled
Israel could not endure the face of at times. The Lord exp-
ects us to be in the path of Duty when we get in Eternity we
shall be Angels or Goods we shall their Advance to the Godhead
if we do right.
In speaking of the Law what a simple thing ist is
what is the Law to those who do right. It is not made for any
body but the transgresser & lawless & wicked. If we do not infringe
upon the rights of others all things are ours in Heaven & Earth time
& Eternity Life & Death Heaven Earth & Hell & all that is therein
is ours if we do not infringe upon the rights of any other Being
we shall become gods & fill immensity as our Father in Heaven
does I can weigh all the sleepers, philosophers, & Learned men
of the Earth in the scale & know just what they weigh & can cir
cumscribe them all. All is mine Heaven, Earth, Hell wives children
and am cChrists & Christ is Gods. [1 Corinthians 3:23] It is not known to us whare
the stakes are set to Gods immensity. Take the world at large and
they get to the end of their chain when they get to the mill
pond. It is a startling Idea to think we are worshiping a God
that once was once in the situation that we are in ourselves
they had to pass through a probation of pain, suffering & the fall
like ourselves & He made perfect through sufferings. The passed through it & the Father would not require of a son
what He would not do Himself. All our sufferings will exhalt
us in the presence of God if we endure them patiently. A word of
Advice concerning lawing I dont never want to Hear of another
law suit among the Brethren. Is it anything but good common
sense to Never have another suit before a jud[g]e to say nothing
of revelation. It does not require any great perfection to
accomplish this, let men do right do your Neighbour good not
evil. The Lord will burn up the Earth to cleanse it as you would
an old pipe. You think it hard to have to water your land Here
but it is far more healthy than to have rain it was so in if
it did not rain in & more than Here it would
be far more Healthy this could be reasoned out on Natural
principles. A word more upon Law suits their would not be a Lawsuit
in this if all men would do right & were saints but the net has
gathered all kinds good bad & worse let twelve men get drunk
in this community & it ruins the place in the estimation of
of good men we have to bear the character of the drunkard
a few stinking fish in the net defile it. & the whole net stinks
And it creates a prejudice against it. Those who were acq-
uainted with know that if He delt any in temporal
things it created a prejudice against him. He bought many
goods to help carry on the public works but the people were ready
to get it all away from him. So it is now But I say unto
all men who are Saints put to your hands & help build up Zion
& the Kingdom of God we are scholars in the great school & must
learn we are a kingdom & must bring the kingdom in subjection
to the will of God
