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want to go into the spirit world and
meet with my progenitors and have
them say to me, "You held the keys of
my redemption and my salvation and
you neglected to do this work, and I
am not redeemed." I have labored,
with the assistance of my friends,
in the St. George Temple, for
three thousand of my dead friends
of my father's house and my mother's
house, and have done all that I could
for them. This is the greatest joy of
my life, when I look upon these things
and realize that I have had this privil-
ege here on the earth. And when I
lay my body in the tomb and my spirit
goes into the spirit world, I shall re-
joice and have glory with them in the
morning of the resurrection, inasmuch
as they receive these principles.
"Well," perhaps you may say, "what
if these people whom you have been
baptized for do not receive the Gospel?"
That will be their fault, not mine.
This is a duty that rests upon all Israel,
that they shall attend to this work, as
far as they have the opportunity here
on the earth.

Brethren and sisters, I felt as though
I wanted to bear this testimony to the
Latter-day Saints. The Lord has
manifested this work from the day that
Joseph Smith received the records of
the stick of Joseph in the hands of
Ephraim—the Book of Mormon. From
that day until this there has been no
time that the Lord has forsaken His
Church. We have been persecuted, we
have been afflicted, and we have passed
through serious trials in our day; but
the Lord has carried us through all
these things. And we are here in the
midst of the everlasting hills, given by
revelation to old father Jacob, who laid
his hands upon the head of his son
Joseph and said that he was "a fruitful
bough by a well, whose branches run
over the wall," [##Genesis 49:22##] and that his blessings
prevailed above those of his progeni-
tors "unto the utmost bound of the
everlasting hills;" [##Genesis 49:26##] and these blessings
were to rest upon him and his posteri-
ty. These things have come to pass.
The majority of the Latter-day Saints
are through the loins of Ephraim, the
son of Joseph. Ephraim is "a mixed
cake." He is mixed among the na-
tions of the earth, and it is those who
have the blood of Ephraim in them
who, when they hear the word of the
Lord, receive it; and all that God has
promised through these Patriarchs and
their posterity will come to pass. So
with regard to Judah. Moses told the
Jews what would befall them. He
told them what would take place in
their Temples and in their cities. They
built altars to Baal and broke their
covenants, and he told them they
would be scattered and peeled, and de-
stroyed by pestilence, by famine, and
by the sword; women would eat their
own children, and a remnant of them
would be taken from Jerusalem and
scattered among the whole Gentile
world, and be trampled under
the feet of the Gentiles until the times
of the Gentiles were fulfilled. [##Luke 21:24##] Those
words have been fulfilled to the very
letter as fast as time would admit.

We are in the hands of God. Our
responsibilities are great, and we
should try to magnify our calling, and
not set our hearts so much on the
things of this world that we neglect
any of the oracles of God or the work
of God for the living and the dead.
God bless you all. Amen.