Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 72: August 11, 1910 Now to the Latter-day Saints: You have put your hand to the plough of the gospel. It would be destruction to you to turn back. If Mormonism, so-called, is true, then you cannot desert Mormonism without deserting the truth, and yet some men will deny the faith and depart from the Church, because they become offended at the conduct or the acts of one of their brethren. No matter what other people do, yet I say as one of old said, As for me and my house, we will serve God. Let each individual mem ber of the Church feel in his soul that he has found the great prize, and that he will not yield it up, that he will not trample it under his feet, but that he will treasure it in his soul, and will re tain it though all others in the world depart from it. It is the truth that will make us free, and upon the foundation of truth we must build our hopes and our expectations of salvation in the kingdom of God. Remember this, that no church can rise above the truth. N 0 man, no teacher, no instructor of men, can ever be come a law unto himself and build himself up above the truth. On the truth we must stand firm and steadfast. One of old, I think it was Pilate, asked the Lord, What is truth? Christ did not immediately answer the question, but He answered it at another time, and this was the answer that He gave to the question: Saith the Lord, my word is truth. If God has spoken, He has spoken the truth. If He has sent His servants who teach His word, then His servants teach the truth, and the Lord Almighty is bound to sustain His word, which is truth, and also to sustain every individual soul who has established his hopes upon the word of the Lord. Now permit me to say just a few words more with reference to this. What is truth? God is truth, and Christ is truth, and the plan of life and salvation instituted by the Father in the beginning is truth, and this truth permeates every doctrine of the gospel of Jesus Christ. N ow, the question arises in the hearts of many people, Is the mission of Joseph Smith true? We come to the world to declare to you that his mission is divine, and from my point of View and the point of view taken by every faithful elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, if the mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith be not divine, then the mission and the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ will fall in the same way. This is our testimony to the children of men, and this testimony bears to you, our friends, a message of peace and reconciliation to God. We believe in every doctrine taught by the Son of God, and our belief in these principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are not of any avail to us except we do more than simply believe in them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.