The Privileges and Blessings of the Gospel. Delivered at the Tabernacle Feb. 20, 1853 pg 309-316
"Truly happy is that man, or woman, or people, who enjoys the privileges of the Gospel of the Son of God, and who know how to appreciate his blessings." pg 309
"In this dispensation all things will be gathered together in one, and, strange and marvelous as it may appear to the world, these are the people who are instruments in the hand of God to bring it to pass." pg 309
"Here is the plan of salvation, here are the words of life, here is the light of eternity, here is the intelligence that will instruct kings, and impart judgment to rulers." pg 309
-there are very real and wonderful blessings that come through the gospel, can we realize this and step up to meet it?
-really you just need to read this discourse
"...they will all, with one voice as it were, testify to the truth of this work in which we are engaged." pg 310
"Nothing less than the power of the Almighty, enlightening the understandings of men, can demonstrate this glorious truth to the human mind." pg 310
"If I do not enjoy all I anticipated, if my happiness is not as complete as I anticipated,... the cause is in myself, in my own heart, in my own disposition..." pg 311
"It is a mistaken idea to suppose that others can prevent me from enjoying the light of God in my soul; all hell cannot hinder me from enjoying Zion in my own heart, if my individual will yields obedience to the requirements and mandates of my heavenly master. He has set me a pattern to copy, which if I initiate faithfully, will yield to me all and more of heaven in my own heart than I can anticipate." pg 311
-someone else doing wrong isn't a good reason for you also to do wrong
-you are the person to be blamed for your actions whether they be good or bad.
-no one will get you heaven or hell but yourself
"I will apply my heart to wisdom, and ask the Lord to impart it to me; and if I know but little, I will improve on it," pg 313
-the Saints had many trials and persecutions etc. and we may get discouraged, or be glad, thinking that we could not have endured such, however there were also great blessings that came along with those trials
"Anything I can do or suffer in the cause of the Gospel, is only like the hopping of a pin into the sea; the blessings, gifts, powers, honour, joy, truth, salvation, glory, immortality, and eternal lives as far outswelll anything I can do in return for such precious gifts,..." pg 313
"It is easy for us to think how things should be, bu the difficulty is, things are not always as we would like to have them." pg 314
"People suffer more in the anticipation of death, then in death itself. There is more suffering in what I call borrowed trouble than in the trouble itself." pg 315
"Those who are apt to go to one extreme, are almost sure to go to the other, which always causes disappointment, either agreeably, or disagreeably." pg 315
"...establish CONFIDENCE IN EACH OTHER." pg 315
-let people have their little private things and leave them alone
-stay out of debt
