Discourse 1892-10-09 [D-38]

THE DESERET WEEKLY.

PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF,

In the course of a four minutes' address, bore his testimony to the remarks of President Cannon on the important subject of temple building. He pointed to the fact that as the Apostles and disciples of God in former days were ever ready to lay down their lives for the Gospel's sake, so since the day of the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph this people had always been willing to make similar sacrifices in His holy name. There were but few in the world, he said, prepared to obey the fulness of the Gospel, and that was why the Latter-day Saints had been chosen and brought to these valleys from all nations of the earth. It was because the true Gospel had been offered to them and they had received it. We had been called to go upon missions, to warn the wicked of the judgments which were near at hand. The priesthood belonged to the celestial law, both for time and eternity.

The Lord had made great promises to all His faithful Saints, from the beginning of this work, and if we remained steadfast to the end these would all be fulfilled; and no power on earth or in hell could take from us the blessings which were in store for the righteous. We had everything to encourage us in the good work which we had espoused; but the Lord required much at our hands, and if we united together and carried out faithfully that which He asked of us, we should reap our reward in due season.