You have again the privilege of enjoying the society of your mother, and
I am thankful for this. I want to give you all a word of council considering
the signs of the times, the persecutive of our nation against us and at my
own age you cannot reasonably expect to enjoy much more of my society as your
father in this life, but you have with you your mother.
Now if it was the last testimony I was to give you on earth I want to
say be kind to your mother. You cannot always expect to have her with you,
altho she may live a score of years or more, time will be short. Do not give
way to anger, or say or do anything that you will be sorry for but I pray you
be united with your mother and with each other and look after each others
interest.
Again I wish to say to you by children, thatIknow that God lives, that
Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of the world, and he shed his
blood to redeem us from death, and God raised up Joseph Smith as a true pro-
phet of God, who brought forth the Book of Mormon, and laid the foundation
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the only true and living
church upon the face of the whole earth with which the Lord is well pleased. [Doctrine and Covenants 1:30]
And the Church of Christ, and the Zion and Kingdom of God has been organized.
It is on the earth for the last time, and this church and Kingdom of God
will stand and fill the whole earth and be thrown down no more forever.
Now you all hold this Church and Kingdom of God on earth, and I want you all
to pursue a course, so as to never be separated from the Church in time or
Eternity, and as your father has been called to the apostleship which office
I have held near 49 years and have also been called to stand as the President
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of the Twelve Apostles, now as an apostle, and as your father, I have a right
to council you and give you advice.
There is one particular thing I want to impress upon your minds, and that
is study the revelations of God and have faith in them, the Bible, Book of
Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants, and I want you all to begin in your youth
to make your wants known to the Lord in prayer, ask him for what you want,
not as a ceremony, but in faith, and he will hear you and answer your prayers.
Now my children, harken to these sayings and put them into practice.
The revelations of God are true and will be fulfilled. I want you all to
be saved and to be with me on the morning of the First Resurrection to dwell
with me forever with God and the Lamb.