REMARKS Made by President Wilford Woodruff, At Paris, Idaho (Bear Lake Stake Conference) on Monday Afternoon, August 10, 1891. -[REPORTED BY ARTHUR WINTER.]- I am very pleased indeed to meet with so many Latter-day Saints in this tabernacle on a working day, and I hope you will get paid for coming to meeting today. I have felt amply paid myself for my journey from Salt Lake City in, listening to the instruc- tions which our brethren have given ...

pure heart, that Priesthood has power with the heavens. If a man magnifies that Priesthood, the blessings of God are with him. The first sermon that I ever heard in this church was in 1833, by old father Zera Pulsipher, who died in the south, after having lived to be considerably over eighty years old. That sermon was what I had prayed for from my childhood. When I heard it I had a testimony for myself that it was true. I received it with every ...

took our axes and cleared some land for him. I was strongly impressed three times to go up and warn Father Hakeman. At last I did so, accor- ding to the commandment of God to me. The third time I met with him, his house seemed to be full of evil spirits, and I was troubled in spirit at the manifestation. When I finished my warning, I left him. He followed me from his house with the intention of killing me. I have no ...

and Covenants. It will pay any man to do what is right and to keep the commandments of God. This Priesthood has power on the earth; and when those holding this Priesthood go before the Lord and pray to Him, He will hear them and answer their prayers. This, brethren and sisters, is where our power lies. It is with God, not with man. He has heard us in the past, and we have been preserved and protected until the present time. We still live, notwithstanding all the exertions that have been made for our ...