Our religion descends to the whole life of man, although some,
sometimes, say, there is divine law, there is human law, and there are
principles which pertain to our religion and there are principles which
pertain to the philosophy of the world. But let me here say to you,
that the philosophy of the religion of heaven incorporates every truth
that there is in heaven, on earth, or in hell. 15:125.
My mission to the people is to teach them with regard to their
every-day lives. I presume there are many here who have heard me
say, years and years ago, that I cared very little about what will
take place after the Millennium. Elders may preach long discourses
concerning what took place in the days of Adam, what occurred before
the creation, and what will take place thousands of years from now,
talking of things which have occurred or that will occur yet, of which
they are ignorant, feeding the people on wind; but that is not my
method of teaching. My desire is to teach the people what they should
do now, and let the Millennium take care of itself. To teach them to
serve God and to build up his Kingdom is my mission. I have taught
faith, repentance, baptism for the remission of sins, and the laying on
of hands for the reception of the Holy Ghost. We are to be taught with
regard to our every-day life in a temporal point of view. 12:228.
Our religion incorporates every act and word of man. {14} No man should
go to merchandising unless he does it in God; no man should go to
farming or any other business unless he does it in the Lord. No man of
council should sit to judge the people but what should judge in the
Lord, that he may righteously and impartially discern between right
and wrong, truth and error, light and darkness, justice and injustice.
Should any legislature sit without the Lord? If it do, sooner or later
it will fall to pieces. No nation ever did live that counseled and
transacted its national affairs without the Lord, but what sooner or
later went to pieces and came to naught. The same is true of all the
nations that now live or ever will live. 13:60.
This Gospel is full of good sense, judgment, discretion and
intelligence. 14:17.
No matter how true and beautiful truth is, you have to take the
passions of the people and mould them to the law of God. 7:55.
_A Fountain of Truth_--The Gospel is a fountain of truth, and
truth is what we are after. We have embraced the truth--namely, the
Gospel of the Son of God. Its first principles are to believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ, to repent of our sins, then go down into the waters
of baptism for the remission of our sins, and have hands laid upon us
for the reception of the Holy Ghost, which will lead us into all truth?
12.268.
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