[Brigham Young Sermon] Br Brigham then remarked when we are passive in the hands of the Lord we can receive Knowledge, but no truth can be written upon the tablet of the Heart unless that which has been written is first erased. When we are exalted even to receive a fulness, does it follow that we cannot receive any more, if we understand what will save us to day that is a fulness of knowledge but that will not be all that is not necessary for tomorrow. Do men know how to serve the Lord? will you understand it if I tell you? It is to do that which will result in the greatest good. In order to do this it is necessary for you to know & understand the result of all your actions. The Gospel of Christ is the perfect Law of Liberty. What say you, be subject to Law is this Liberty? Yes, it is Liberty. To increase without end, but not to dethrone the Lord nor subvert his Laws. which The liberty of the Devil is to injure your Brother & try to [-] run at large, & kill every thing you can whether you want it or not. Well, now you are not at Liberty to do such things & thereby bring evil upon this camp but any one is at liberty to withdraw from us or go back or go with those men who are going on ahead of us or go & live with the Indians, but if you stay here you must obey the Laws which are necessary for our preservation and for the building up of the Kingdom of God. To the name of Jesus every Knee shall bow & reverence must be paid to his Laws, whether men are willing [to] serve him in all things or not. They may serve the Devil and let him them bring them into bondage if they choose it, but to the name [of] God they must bow the Knee & acknowledge his glory. -- Horseshoe Creek, Wyoming [Norton Jacob Diary, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.. Also The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847, Ronald Barney, ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005. 172-173]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
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