“I know that there is a people, in the hearts core of this people that will arise in their majesty in a day that is near at hand and push spiritual things to the front.”
“And if we as a people do not hold ourselves on the altar ready to be used, with our means and all that God has bestowed upon us, according to the Master’s bidding, for the up building of His Kingdom upon the earth, He will pass on and get somebody else; because He will get a people that will do it. I do not mean to say that He will pass off and leave this people; no, there will come up from the midst of this people that people which has been talked so much about.”
“The idea was suggested to me a short time ago…how fortunate it was that there were some who had not obeyed the law of God in regard to plural marriage…. [But] I tell you, the salvation that will come to this people, will be through the faithfulness of the men of God and the women of God who, in the face of an opposing world, contrary to their traditions, to their education, to their preconceived notions and to the popular prejudices of the day—who have in the midst of all this stepped forward in the vanguard and obeyed the command of God, and have dared to endure all the consequences, and been willing to endure all the penalties.”
“What would be necessary to bring about the results nearest the hearts of the opponents of Mormonism? Simply to renounce, abrogate, or apostatize from the New and Everlasting Covenant of Marriage in its fullness. Were the Church to do that as an entirety, God would reject the Saints as a body, The authority of the Priesthood would be withdrawn with its gifts and powers and there would be no more heavenly recognition of the administrations. The heavens would permanently withdraw themselves, and the Lord would RAISE UP ANOTHER PEOPLE OF GREATER VALOR AND STABILITY. For His work must, according to His unalterable decrees, go forward; for the time of the second coming of the Savior is near, even at the doors.”
“The time will come when the Lord will choose a people out of this people upon whom he will bestow his choicest blessings.”
“If we are not faithful, others will take our places. For this is the Church and the people that will possess the kingdom forever and ever. Shall we do this in our present conditions as a people? No; for we must be pure and holy, and be prepared for the presence of the Savior and God, in order to possess the kingdom.”
