DISCOURSE Delivered by President Wilford Wood- ruff, at Logan (Cache Stake Con- ference), Sunday Morning, Aug. 3rd, 1890. I have a few thoughts and reflec- tions which I would like to present to the Latter-day Saints who com- pose this conference; but in order to do it, I need the help and assistance of the Spirit of God, as does every man who attempts to teach the people. The subject that I have upon my mind is, union among the Latter- day Saints. The Savior said to His Apostles anciently, and to the Apostles in our day: "I say unto you, be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine." [Doctrine and Covenants 38:27] "I and my Father are one." [John 10:30] There is a prin- ciple connected with this that I think is very important to us as a people and as a Church here on the earth. With all the divisions, and all the discontent, and the quarrelings and opposition among the powers on earth, or that have been revealed from heaven, I have never heard that it has ever been revealed to the children of men that there was any division between God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. They are one. They always have been one. They always will be one, from eternity unto eternity. Our Heavenly Father stands at the head, being the Author of the salvation of the children of men, and having created and peopled the world and given laws to the inhabitants of the earth. This principle is shown unto us by the revelation of the laws which belong to the different kingdoms. There is a celestial kingdom, a terrestrial kingdom, and a telestial kingdom. There is a glory of the sun, a glory of the moon, and a glory of the stars; and as one star differs from another star in glory, so also is the resurrec- tion of the dead. [1 Corinthians 15:41-42] In the celestial Kingdom of God there is oneness, there is union. In reading the history of the dealings of God with men, from the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Doctrine and Covenants, we can see that, from the days of Father Adam, the Lord has raised up a class of men, in every dispensation, upon whom He has bestowed His Priesthood, and unto whom He has given power and authority to do His work upon the face of the earth among the children of men. And these men have been in possession of principles of union with God, with the Son of God and with the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost was given to Father Adam; he was filled with it when, in his last days, he blessed those of his sons who were High Priests and the residue of his posterity. [Doctrine and Covenants 107:53] Father Adam, Enoch, Moses, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and all those old patriarchs and prophets were obliged to have communion with God. They were under the necessity of seeking unto the Lord, for unless they had this communion they were not qualified to do their duty. They were dependent upon the Lord for revelation, for light, and for instruction to have power to carry out the commandments of God. This union that the Lord re- quired of the ancient patriarchs and prophets, and which Jesus required of His Apostles, was required of Joseph Smith and his brethren. It has been required of all Saints of God from the foundation of the world till today. Men who have held any portion of the Holy Priest- hood, and have had its gifts, graces, and blessings bestowed upon them, have been under the necessity of having communion with God. In the whole history of the world I have never read of any man whom God has called to stand as the head of His work, who has not sought the Lord while in that position; and the Lord has been with him. It is my faith that the Lord will never per- mit any man upon whose shoulders He places the authority and power to lead Israel, to go astray, or to lead the children of God from the path of duty. The Lord would re- move such a man from his place. In every age of the world the Saints of God have been obliged to be united. Babylon may divide; the inhabitants of the earth may have all the division they wish for; but they will receive the results of that disunion, and have done all the way through. City after city, nation after nation has been de- stroyed by the judgments of the Al- mighty whenever it has become ripened in iniquity, as in the case of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Babylon, Nineveh, Tyre and Si- don, and a great many other ancient cities and countries. But the Saints of God cannot prosper unless they are united. This has been demon- strated in the history of the world. Moses, in his day, was obliged to have communion and fellowship with God. The Lord gave unto him commandments, upon tables of stone, for the guidance of the children of Israel. When Moses came down from the mountain and saw the rebellion, the dissension and the abominations of the Is- raelites—that, notwithstanding all the miracles they had witnessed, revelations they had been given, they had made a golden calf to worship, because he had come back to them in time—he was so angry at their wickedness that he cast the tables of stone to the ground and broke them. [Exodus 32] Of course you all know about this. But Moses had to have union with God. So in the whole history of the people of God in all ages. They have had to be united. They have had to work to- gether. They have had to receive the law of God together. Jesus