[Doctrine and Covenants 84:33-41] covenant of my Father, which he
cannot break, neither can it be
moved." Now, I sometimes ask
myself the question, Do we compre-
hend these things? Do we compre-
hend that if we abide the laws of the
Priesthood we shall become heirs of
God and joint-heirs with Jesus
Christ? I realize that our eyes have
not seen, our ears have not heard,
neither hath it entered into our
hearts to conceive the glory that is
in store for the faithful. We are
placed in a position to be proven and
tried; we must be, we have been, we
shall be, until we get through with
our labors in the flesh. The Lord
told that he would
prove us in all things, whether we
will abide in his covenant, even
unto death, that we may be found
worthy: "for if we will not abide in
his covenant, we are not worthy of
him." [Doctrine and Covenants 98:15] Jesus Christ abode in the
covenant; he kept all the com-
mandments while he was upon the
earth. He even was baptized by the
hands of , although it was
not for the remission of sin, but to
fulfill all righteousness. There was
no part of the Gospel that Christ
did not fulfill, and he called upon
Joseph Smith to fulfill the same.
This he did. He laid down his life.
He went to the spirit world, and he
is there watching over this people.
He has power there, and so have our
brethren who have gone to the other
side of the veil. They are laboring
for us. They are watching to see
how we perform the work left to our
charge.
I hope we live our religion. I
hope we strive to keep the command-
ments of God. We occupy a very
important position in the world.
There are very few of the inhabitants
of the earth who are laboring to
build up Zion. There are very
few, apparently, who are able to
abide the law of God. There are
very few who are willing to sacrifice
anything for eternal life and , and thousands will have to
inherit a kingdom other than the
celestial.
Nevertheless, my brethren and
sisters, we are laboring and progress-
ing in this work. Zion is advancing;
the kingdom of God is rolling on.
The progress of this kingdom has
never stopped from the day of its
organization; it never will until
it has accomplished all for which it
has been organized and established
on the earth to accomplish. We
have a great work to do. We are
commanded to preach the Gospel to
the nations of the earth. The
Elders of Israel have been doing this
for the last fifty years. We are still
doing it, in the United States and
other parts of the world. We shall
continue to labor among the just as long as the Lord says
we must do so. But at the same
time we have now been commanded
to turn to a branch of the . Here are the Lamanites,
thousands and thousands of them
surround us. They look to us for
the Gospel of Christ. It is our duty
to go to them and organize them,
and preach to them the words of life
and salvation.
Then, again, we have temples to
build in our day and time, that we
may go into them and do a work
both for the living and the dead.
Our mission is more extended and
extensive than we realize. There
have been no Prophets, no Apostles,
upon the earth for the last 1,800
years, that we are much acquainted
with, except , who dwelt upon
this continent several hundred years
after the death of Christ. There
has been no one upon the earth
with authority to preach the Gospel
to the nations of the earth. Many
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covenant of my Father, which he
cannot break, neither can it be
moved." Now, I sometimes ask
myself the question, Do we comprehend these things? Do we comprehend that if we abide the laws of the
Priesthood we shall become heirs of
God and joint-heirs with Jesus
Christ? I realize that our eyes have
not seen, our ears have not heard,
neither hath it entered into our
hearts to conceive the glory that is
in store for the faithful. We are
placed in a position to be proven and
tried; we must be, we have been, we
shall be, until we get through with
our labors in the flesh. The Lord
told that he would
prove us in all things, whether we
will abide in his covenant, even
unto death, that we may be found
worthy: "for if we will not abide in
his covenant, we are not worthy of
him." Jesus Christ abode in the
covenant; he kept all the commandments while he was upon the
earth. He even was baptized by the
hands of , although it was
not for the remission of sin, but to
fulfill all righteousness. There was
no part of the Gospel that Christ
did not fulfill, and he called upon
Joseph Smith to fulfill the same.
This he did. He laid down his life.
He went to the spirit world, and he
is there watching over this people.
He has power there, and so have our
brethren who have gone to the other
side of the veil. They are laboring
for us. They are watching to see
how we perform the work left to our
charge.
I hope we live our religion. I
hope we strive to keep the commandments of God. We occupy a very
important position in the world.
There are very few of the inhabitants
of the earth who are laboring to
build up Zion. There are very
few, apparently, who are able to
abide the law of God. There are
very few who are willing to sacrifice
anything for eternal life and salvation, and thousands will have to
inherit a kingdom other than the
celestial.
Nevertheless, my brethren and
sisters, we are laboring and progressing in this work. Zion is advancing;
the kingdom of God is rolling on.
The progress of this kingdom has
never stopped from the day of its
organization; it never will until
it has accomplished all for which it
has been organized and established
on the earth to accomplish. We
have a great work to do. We are
commanded to preach the Gospel to
the nations of the earth. The
Elders of Israel have been doing this
for the last fifty years. We are still
doing it, in the United States and
other parts of the world. We shall
continue to labor among the Gentiles just as long as the Lord says
we must do so. But at the same
time we have now been commanded
to turn to a branch of the house of
Israel. Here are the Lamanites,
thousands and thousands of them
surround us. They look to us for
the Gospel of Christ. It is our duty
to go to them and organize them,
and preach to them the words of life
and salvation.
Then, again, we have temples to
build in our day and time, that we
may go into them and do a work
both for the living and the dead.
Our mission is more extended and
extensive than we realize. There
have been no Prophets, no Apostles,
upon the earth for the last 1,800
years, that we are much acquainted
with, except , who dwelt upon
this continent several hundred years
after the death of Christ. There
has been no one upon the earth
with authority to preach the Gospel
to the nations of the earth. Many
