This subject was presented to me since I came to the stand, he then asked what was the object of gathering the Jews, or the people of God in any age of the World? I can never find much to say in expounding a Text. A man never has half as much fuss to unlock a door if he has a key, as though he had not, and had to cut it open with his Jack knife.

The main object was to build unto the Lord a house whereby he could reveal unto his people the ordinances of his house and the glories of his kingdom, and teach the people the way of Salvation, for there are certain ordinances and principles that when they are taught and practised must be done in a place or house built for that purpose.

It was the design of the Councils of heaven before the world was, that the principles and Laws of the Priesthood were predicated upon the gathering of the people in every age of the world. Jesus did everything possible to gather the people and they would not be gathered and he therefore poured out curses upon them. Ordinances instituted in the heavens before the foundation of the World in the Priesthood for the Salvation of men, are not to be altered or changed, all must be saved on the same principles.

It is for the same purpose that God gathers together his people in the last days to build unto the Lord a house to prepare them for the ordinances and endowments washings and anointings &c. One of the ordinances of the house of the Lord is baptism for the dead. God decreed before the foundation of the world that that ordinance should be administered in a font prepared for that purpose in the house of the Lord. “That is only your opinion Sir” say the Sectarians. When a man will go to Hell <​with his eyes open​> it is <​more than​> my meat and drink to help him to do as he wants to.

If a man gets a fulness of the Priesthood of God he has to get it in the same way that Jesus Christ obtained it, and that was by keeping all the commandments and obeying all the ordinances of the house of the Lord.

Where there is no change of Priesthood there is no change of ordinances <​says Paul​> if God has not changed the ordinances and Priesthood. Howl ye Sectarians. If he has, when and where has he revealed it, have ye turned revelators? then why deny revelation.

Many men will say I will never forsake you, but will stand by you at all times but the moment you teach them some of the mysteries of the kingdom of God that are retained in the heavens, and are to be revealed to the children of men, when they are prepared for them. They will be the first to stone you and put you to death, it was this same principle that crucified the Lord Jesus Christ, and will cause the people to kill the Prophets in this generation.

Many things are insoluble to the children of men, in the last days, for instance that God should raise the dead, and forgetting that things have been hid from before the foundation of the World, which are to be revealed to babes in the last days.

There are a great many wise men and women too in our midst, who are too wise to be taught, therefore they must die in their ignorance, and in the Resurrection they will find their mistake. Many seal up the door of heaven by saying so far God may reveal and I will believe.

All men who become heirs of God and Joint heirs with Jesus Christ will have to receive the fulness of the ordinances of his kingdom, and those who will not receive all the ordinances will come short of the fulness of that glory, if they do not loose the whole.