When the Lord bestows gifts upon the children of men in connection with the Priesthood, those who receive those gifts are responsible for the use they make of them. We are respons- ible for the use we make of the Holy Priesthood which has been placed upon us. Whatever is necessary for us to receive and enjoy, it is our duty to ask the Lord for. We should go before Him in secret places and make our wants known, that our prayers may be heard and answered upon our heads. Herein lies our strength. Our trust is in God, and not in man

We are engaged in the last dispensation. We are called upon to build up this Church and this Zion. And we can only do it by the power of the Holy Priesthood. No man has authority from God to administer to the children of men the ordinances of life and salvation only by the power of the Holy Priest- hood. The power of that Priesthood is with the Latter-day Saints.

When our brethren go out to the world--I do not care whether they are Priests, or Elders, or Seventies, or Apostles -- and they offer to the Gentiles the Gospel of Christ, the power of God is with them, as long as they magnify their calling. That power bears record to every honest man and woman concerning the truth of the message which these men bear. By that power men and women have been pricked in their hearts and the Spirit of God has borne testimony to them.

I know the Lord preserved my life when I held the office of a Priest. In one instance a man who sought my life, without any action on my part fell dead at my feet, as though he was struck with a thunderbolt from heaven, and I attended his funeral the next day. I had many blessings as a Priest, and had the spirit and power of God in that office.

Every man in every office ought to magnify his Priesthood.

I know the Priesthood is given for the salvation of men and for the adminis- tration of ordinances both for the living

Out of the fourteen hundred millions of people on the earth the Lord has chosen this handful of men to bear this; to or- dain, to organize, to warn the world, to preach the Gospel to them. I hope my brethren that bear this Priesthood will remember the value of it.

All thrones and dominions, principalities and powers, shall be revealed and set forth upon all who have endured valiantly for the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Let us go in secret prayer be- fore the Lord and call upon His holy name. There is where our strength lies.

We shall all find our re- cord in the great library of heaven; and I hope we may so live that when we come to meet that record we will be satisfied with it.