Improvement Era, 1903 by Unknown

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Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion

How?

A Discourse Delivered At the M. I. a. Conference, May 31, 1903, in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City. By Elder B. H. Roberts.

(Reported Specially for the IMPROVEMENT ERA.)

MY BRETHREN AND SISTERS-I arise this afternoon to announce a great disappointment. By reference to your printed programs you will see that President Joseph F. Smith is announced to make an address this afternoon, but he insists upon my taking his place. I tried to dissuade him from making the change, but he insisted upon it, and as he has the final word in such matters, I respond cheerfully to his request, and ask you, as soon as possible, to banish the remembrance of your disappointment and assist me by your faith and prayers, that what I may say may be fitting to this occasion and prompted by the Spirit of the Lord.

I think I shall venture to take a text, but not from the Bible. My text will be one that I have made "out of my own head." Perhaps that will account for its being so brief. It consists of one word only, and that one word is, "How?"

A way back in 1832, on the occasion of a number of elders being assembled in Kirtland, desiring to know the will of the Lord concerning themselves, and in what manner they should spend their time pending the commencement of a conference which had been called, the Lord said through his Prophet:

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