chosen; for the day of choosing is at the door.

Why be afraid of a sacrifice?
I have given my all many times and am willing
to do it again. I would be glad to hear the Lord
say through His servant Joseph, let my servant
Brigham give again all he has. I would obey in
a moment if it took the last coat from off my
back"

Remarks of Elder Kimball

Among other things he said

"I speak in parables. I compare
the Saints to a good cow. When you milk her
clean she will always have abundance of milk to
give; but if you milk her a little and she will
soon dry up. So with the Saints. If they
do but little in building up Zion they soon have
but little to do with. This was the case
in Cincinnati. I had a dream concerning
the Saints there. I thought I was in a field
of wheat that was stacked up; and we had to
draw it into the barn; but when we came to
open the stack the bundles would all fall to
pieces and it was filled with clusters of rats
and mice who had been eating up the grain
I thought that these rats and mice were the
Elders and official members who had been in
and laying on the Church—living on the wheat,
eating them up instead of building up new
churches so that when the Twelve came along
they could not get anything for the Temple or
Nauvoo House or hardly a place to stay the
rats had eaten up the wheat so. We had to
go to the world for a home to stay while we
were there.

We are not polished stones like Elders

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chosen; for the day of choosing is at the door.

Why be afraid of a sacrifice? I have given my all many times and am willing to do it again. I would be glad to hear the Lord say through His servant Joseph, let my servant Brigham give again all he has. I would obey in a moment if it took the last coat from off my back"

Remarks of Elder Kimball

Among other things he said

"I speak in parables. I conpare the Saints to a good cow. When you milk her clean she will always have abundance of milk to give; but if you milk her a little she will soon dry up. So with the Saints. If they do but little in building up Zion they soon have but little to do with. This was the case in Cincinnati. I had a dream concerning the Saints there. I thought I was in a field of wheat that was staked up; and we had to draw it into the barn; but when we came to open the stack the bundles would all fall to pieces and it was filled with clusters of rats and mice who had been eating up the grain I thought that these rats and mice were the Elders and official members of the Church — living on the wheat, eating them up instead of building up new churches so that when the Twelve came along they could not get anything for the Temple or Nauvoo House or hardly a place to stay the rats had eaten up the wheat so. We had to go to the world for a home to stay while we were there.

We are not polished stones like Elders