History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 6Smith, Joseph, Jr.
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History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 6
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
I wish to accomplish something, I wish all the Saints to have an
opportunity to do something. I want the poor with the purse of five
dollars to have a chance. The widow's two mites were more in the
eyes of the Lord than the purse of the rich; and the poor woman
shall have a seat in the house of God--she who pays her two mites
as well as the rich, because it is all she has. I wish to have a
place in that house. I intend to stimulate the brethren. I want to
get the roof on this season. I want to get the windows in, in the
winter, so that we may be able to dedicate the House of the Lord
by this time next year, if nothing more than one room. I will call
upon the brethren to do something.
I cannot make a comparison between the House of God and anything
now in existence. Great things are to grow out of that house.
There {299} is a great and mighty power to grow out of it. There
is an endowment. Knowledge is power. We want knowledge. We have
frequently difficulties with persons who profess to be Latter-day
Saints. When the sacrament will be administered in the Lord's House
it will do away with a great deal of difficulty that is now in
existence. If we can have a privilege and confess our faults unto
God and one another every Sabbath day, it will do away with these.
* * * You sisters shall have a seat in that house. I will stand on
the top of that pulpit and proclaim to all what the sisters have
done. When you offer up your sacraments every Sabbath, you will
feel well a whole week; you will get a great portion of the Spirit
of God, enough to last you a week--and you will increase. We are
now deprived of the privilege of giving the necessary instruction;
hence we want a house.
All the money shall be laid out for what you design it. It shall
not be paid for anything else. I am one of the committee. The
committee tells me the quarry is blockaded; it is filled with rock.
The stone cutters are wanting work. Come on with your teams as soon
as conference is over. It is not necessary for me to tell who will
come and do it. I will prophesy that you will do it. There is not
one in the city but what will do right if he knows it, with only
one or two exceptions, and they are not worth notice. God will
take care of them, and if He doesn't, the devil will. I described
them once, and you will always know them while you see them. They
will keep hopping till they hop out of town. Some of them are tree
toads, who climb the trees and are continually croaking.
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