September 27, 1886.

You have asked me concerning the New and Everlasting Covenant and how far it is binding upon my people.

THUS SAITH THE LORD: All commandments that I give must be obeyed by those calling themselves by my name unless they are revoked by me, or by my authority, and how can I revoke an everlasting covenant? For I the Lord am everlasting and my everlasting covenants cannot be abrogated, nor done away with, but they stand forever

Have I not given my word in great plainness on this subject? Yet have not great numbers of my people been negligent in the observance of my law and the keeping of my commandments? and yet have I born with them these many years and this because of their weakness, because of the perilous times

And Furthermore, it is now pleasing to me that men should use their free agency in regard to these matters; nevertheless, I the Lord do not change and my word and my law and my covenants do not.

And as I have heretofore said by my servant Joseph: all those who would enter into my glory must and shall obey my law and have I not commanded men, that if they were Abraham's seed and would enter into my glory, they must do the works of Abraham? I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting and those who will enter into my glory must obey the conditions thereof.

Even so. AMEN