We should impress upon the minds of our children the evil consequences of com- mitting sin or breaking any of the laws of God, they should be made to understand that by do- ing wrong they will inherit sorrow and tribu- lation which they can easily escape by doing right, and they should learn this principle by precept without learning sorrow and affliction by experience from doing wrong.

We as a people should be humble, be prayer- ful, be submissive to the powers that be that we may receive the promised blessings of our Heavenly Father.

It is our duty, brethren, to live in that way and manner before our God that we will find no diffi- culty in administering in any of the ordinances of the kingdom of God; we should live so that the spirit and power of the Holy Ghost will rest down upon us; we should humble ourselves be- fore the Lord in our closets and live day by day so that we can know what is right and what is wrong, and when the Presidency give us any in- struction or charge, to live so that we will be ready to follow their counsel.

Show me a man that does control him- self and I will show you a safe man, or a man that has prepared himself by this principle is on the road to salvation. A man that is prepared to lay all that he hath upon the altar and his life with it, for the gospel's sake and the kingdom of God, is in the right way, but the moment that we teach a doctrine that we do not practise we show our weakness. The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weak- ness, and so with any of us when we do any- thing wrong.

If men could see and understand their relation- ship to God and the position they occupy, they would not see one moment of their lives that they would desire to do a wrong thing, but they would pursue a straightforward course, they would avoid all kinds of evil words and improper expressions.

I feel that this call of repentance and baptism for the remission of our sins is an important one, and that we cannot again go to sleep with impu- nity, and I feel that inasmuch as we will walk in the light, awake from our slumber, repent of our sins, we shall receive the blessings of the Gospel of Christ and all things that pertain to the king- dom of our God. These things that God has given to us through our Prophets, will prove the savor of life unto life or of death unto death.

When I was a boy, there was an old man used to visit at my father's house; his name was Robert Mason, and I heard teachings from him from the time that I was eight years old and up- upwards, and they were teachings that I shall ever remember, and he taught my father's house- hold many important truths concerning the church and kingdom of God, and told them many things in relation to the prophets and the things that were coming upon the earth, but his teachings were not received but by few, they were unpopular with the Christian world, but nearly all that did receive his teachings have join- ed the Latter-day Saints. Prophets were not popular in that day any more than now, and I have often thought of many things which the old man taught me in the clays of my youth since I received the fulness of the Gospel and became a member of the Church of Christ. He said when you read the Bible do you ever think that what you read there is going to be ful- filled? The teachers of the day, said he, spiritu- alize the Bible, but when you read in the Bible about the dreams, visions, revelations and predic- tions of Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, or any other of the prophets or apostles, relative to the gather- ing of Israel and the building up of Zion, where they say that Israel shall be gathered upon litters, swift beasts and dromedaries, you may under- stand that it means just what it says and that it will be fulfilled upon the earth in the last days. And when you read of men laying hands upon the sick, and healing them and casting out devils and working miracles in the name of Jesus Christ, it means what it says, and he further said the church of Christ and kingdom of God is not upon the earth, but it has been taken from the children of men through unbelief and because they have taken away from the gospel some of its most sacred ordinances, and have instituted in their stead forms and ceremonies without the power of God, and have turned from the truth unto fables, but said he, it will soon be restored again unto the children of men upon the earth, with its ancient gifts and power, for the Scriptures can- not be fulfilled without it; but I shall not live to see it, but said he to me you will live to see that day and you will become a conspicuous actor in that kingdom, and when you see that day then that which the Prophets have spoken will be ful- filled.

If we as a people follow the council of the Presidency of this church, repent of our sins, wake up, do our duty, keep on the armor of righteousness, live our religion, and are filled with the Holy Ghost we shall soon see that sinners in Zion will tremble, and fearfulness will surprize the hypocrite.