President Wilford Woodruff Remarked that as a few moments yet remained before the service of that afternoon closed, he desired to occupy the remainder of the time. He had been very much afflicted during the last three or four days—so much so that he at one time feared he would not be able to speak at this Conference at all. However, he had some things upon his mind that he would like to say to the Latter-day Saints before the Con- ference ended, and there were a few he might mention that afternoon. Referring to the subjects treated upon by the preceding speaker, President Woodruff said the Lord had labored from the creation of the world to do all that He could, consistent with the agency of men, to fit them for the highest glory they were capable of receiving; and from the days of Father Adam down to our day, whenever the Lord had a people on the earth who would obey Him, He had raised up Prophets and Apostles and given unto them the Holy Priest- hood and the keys and powers thereof, that they might administer to the sons and daughters of Adam and prepare them for celestial glory. But under that law, under the administration of those men, the opposition of the world had been encountered; and whenever men undertook to live righteous lives and keep the law of God they had to suffer persecution. The Lord had promised through the mouths of the ancient Patriarchs and Apostles, for thousands of years that are past and gone, that in the latter days He would send the fulness of the everlasting Gospel to the children of men; that He would raise up Prophets and Apostles; that He would organize His Church and Kingdom on earth; that He would raise up men to go forth for the last time and prune His vineyard with a mighty pruning, to prepare for the coming of the Son of Man. The sons of Israel today who dwelt in the congregation before him were a class of those men. God had called them from the nations of the earth—Apostles, Prophets, Elders, Seventies and High Priests, and the Lesser Priesthood, to labor in the vineyard for the last time, to gather out the inhabitants of the earth as far as they would listen to the testi- mony borne to them, calling upon them to prepare for the great work of God which was at their doors. The Elders of Israel had traveled tens of thousands of miles to accomplish this. The conduct of the Latter-day Saints should be very different from the rest of the world, who did not pro- fess these things. The Kingdom of God was here upon the earth in its fulness. There were many things be- longing to this Church and Kingdom which were not looked for in the world. One of these was union. That was a law of God belonging to the Latter- day Saints. Like the ancient Prophets and Apostles, the modern Prophets and Apostles should be united in their work in the flesh; and we as a people should not deviate from this rule. There should be unity throughout, a unity of heart and mind, from the Pres- ident of the Church and his two coun-