Fireside given by Brother N. Marion Law in approximately 1983. He speaks about an experience he had on his mission with the Communists which revealed their plan to be like unto satan's plan. and more.

I recounted this particular experience to Pres. Benson a number of years ago and he asked me to write it and take it to Pres. McKay. He said that this is the detail of the plan that Satan presented in the preexistent world. He said that "I’d never heard it before but that’s it." And right after this experience happened, I met Apostle Matthew Cowley in Australia. He got me released early from my Australian mission and took me with him as a traveling companion to New Zealand for nearly 2 months. I recounted it to him and he said "You’re better off, the Lord has given you a personal testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost that Jesus is the Christ and now you’ve learned the other side of the story. And I have to tell you that this experience was so frightening to me that it took me about 3 days to recover from it. I couldn’t go tracking for 2 or 3 days. I was literally weakened from the experience to the extent that I understand what the Prophet Joseph went through because he wrestled with the powers of darkness and I understand what it does to you and understand it is frightening, it weakens you, anyway, I’d like to tell you about it.

The reason that I mentioned it to Pres. Benson is that I had been given an assignment when I went to Brigham Young University, as a special consultant to Pres. Wilkerson. Pres. McKay had instructed Pres. Wilkerson to remove from the campus those people who taught false doctrine and so Elder Benson had suggested that I might be called to the assignment because I seemed to have a rather orthodox approach to the Gospel and after an interview with Pres. Wilkerson, he invited me to come on board. I was not eager to carry out this assignment as Pres. McKay wished it to be carried out. Pres. Wilkerson was apprehensive about having those people removed, not nearly as conservative as he claimed to be and did not understand the gospel as much as he claimed that he understood it and so it was not really popular; in fact, much was changed there.

My assignments were primarily in organizing departments and selecting ? in administrative programming and found people who didn’t understand the gospel as taught by its doctrine and it was extremely difficult to get them removed but because of the results of that particular assignment, I had opportunities to meet with many of the brethren, working projects with Marion G. Romney and Brother Benson and some of the others, Bro. Packer and so forth and out of these experiences with those brethren, I gained a tremendous insight into the workings of the Kingdom and the attitude and perspective that the Lord uses in administering His Kingdom.

When I mentioned this to Bro. Benson, he and I were having a discussion about something that happened many years later. My wife and I were living in the SL area at the time. Bro. Benson had asked me if I would assist a fellow to keep his gun factory in SLC. I don’t know whether that there is one there, it’s the only gun factory west of the Mississippi, and he had brought it in from Mexico and set it up in SLC, and was manufacturing an automatic 22 line rifle caliber, fully automatic weapon which of course is only legal for military or police forces to buy but there was the gunsmith who was probably the finest gunsmith in the country. The fellow was over capitalized and spend ? thousand dollars to buy the gun factory and was having difficulty with it so he was keeping it, but he had been offered a couple million by someone in LA and he went to Bro. Benson and Bro. Benson called me and said can you help this man arrange some financing so we can keep the gun factory in this area. He said we have to keep it here and I said why do we have to keep it here? Well, we’re gonna have some problems. And I said, "Bro. Benson, let me tell you an experience that I had recently." We had some friends who had read ????? and these friends had decided that what we ought to do is to go over in the field behind Toulila. If you know Utah Valley, you know where Touilla, Utah is and you go around the backside of the Ocre mountains and when you come in there is a valley in thee, the entrance to it is about the width of this room and there is a little valley stuck in there and one of my friends had made an offer on that piece of valley and we were going to go back in there and build ourselves a "situation?" or hideout. Well this was kind of exciting. We had gotten excited and we were gathering things and one night I had a dream that really shook me. I had never realized that the Jordan River, the Jordan Taylorsville area of S.L. Valley was higher than S.L. itself. I had a dream in which I was standing over in the Taylorsville area on the street and I was dressed in my suit and white shirt and everything but all around me were people laying in the streets dying and dead people and as I looked out across the valley, I could see the flash of guns and the smoke, the smoke and fires, the city was on fire and it was a war, you hear the war going on, and I was jut dumbfounded. People were holding out their hands and pleading for help and it was a scene of intense warfare, and as I stood there in the middle of the street, a voice said to me "You can’t go. You have to stay and help the people" and I wakened up in the middle of the night saying to my wife, "I can’t go" and she said "You can’t go where?"

‘I can’t go up in the mountains._________________. We had to cancel the program but that scene was so vivid and I recounted it to Pres. Benson and he said, "Brother Law, you have seen what I have seen." He said this valley will the scene of warfare and bloodshed before the Lord comes and so it was a sad occasion that I tell you Pres., let me tell you something else that happened to me and he, as I outlined for him what I’m going to tell you tonight, then he suggested to me that this has some interesting implications for us in our understanding of "whatever" that transpired in the preexistent world.

I was tracting in the city of Melbourne, Australia and we were traveling, we were working down in these streets that were about as wide as this room is again. It was a little English style, part of the city but the streets were not straight, they just wind around these little calf trails and the people would build along those calf trails and they just became little trails, (missed something describing houses on the street) you could almost reach hands across the street and the houses were side by side, they were just completely one wall, your wall was the neighbor’s wall, the street was just blocked "with it like this", so my companion and I had found a smart way to tract. He went one side and I went down the other and if we found somebody that would talk to us then we signaled the other guy across and away he came. Reed Payne was my companion and as the streets wound around sometimes I would get ahead of him and sometimes he would get ahead of me and so I knocked on a door and a fellow came to the door and said yes, I would like to learn more about your gospel and I said well I’ve got a companion here and I couldn’t see him and I said he’ll be back in just a minute. We never let each other get out of our sight and he stood there in the street for a minute and talked and my companion didn’t come back . I didn’t see him. I kind of walked around the corner and couldn’t see him. But the fellow said to me well cone on, let’s come in the house, I don’t want to stand to stand out here in the street and I said that he’ll be back here in a minute and we stood there for another minute and he finally said Listen if you don’t want to talk to me, that’s fine, and I said well I don’t know so I followed him in and we sit down and started to visit and I pop out to see if my companion is coming, wandering back to find me and so when we sat down. I began. I just barely began to explain the gospel and the man said to me, Mr. Law, we have a better plan. And I said, What is your plan? Then he began to unfold to me this experience that I’m telling you about tonight. But I was unable to leave the chair where I sat. It was as though I was physically bound and I felt as though I was chained. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t breathe, and he began to unfold this experience to me, a very foreboding feeling. I have felt the presence of evil, I have had the experience of casting out evil spirits myself from a house and I know what that’s like and this was the most terrifying thing of my life but anyway as the man began to unfold "this other plan", he said, "The nature of man occurs in 3 phases. First, man is an economic animal and therefore it is necessary for the state to control the economy so that we can have equality and it will always be fair because man will always be inhuman to man until we "can learn" to control that side of his nature. And then he said the second part of man is that man is a political animal and therefore it will be necessary for us to establish a dictatorship kind of government, what you would call a dictatorial form of government, but he said when we bring into effect the third phase of our program that won’t be fearful anyway. And so the third part, man is a spiritual animal and he said we control some parts of the political world, some parts of economic world. He said we control all the churches except The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He said we have them in our control and he said that when we have political and economic control of the world we will then be able to establish our total spiritual program. He said we have done research on thousands of animals and thousands of men, we know that we can create a perfect society because that by using psychological manipulation and psychological conditioning through the use of drugs, diet, and music, and force where necessary. We can condition the mind of man so that man will be sinless. He said there would be no, as you define it, sin. We don’t believe in that but you would call it sin, there would be no hate, no envy, no malice, no lust, no greed, no jealousy, no viciousness, none of the those things that you would classify as sin. Now he said if we were "the Gods", Mr. Law, how could God keep sinless souls out of heaven, if there is a heaven we don’t believe in those things but if there is, how could a just God keep a sinless soul out of heaven? He indicated that they would function as Plato’s Republic functioned in his description of a republic that the leaders would not oppress the workers, the workers would not be envious of the leaders and the teaching groups would perpetuate this sinless condition and he said if we could have started with the first thinking man, you claim that’s Adam, but we don’t believe in that myth either, if we could have started with the first thinking man, he said, we would not have lost a single soul.

Now, I’m beginning to hear some things that I have heard before, you know, and I am thinking, wow, where is this man coming from? Now realize that I was there for 3 solid hours, my companion just about went out of his skull wondering where I was. He searched the streets thoroughly, over and over and over, didn’t dare leave, you don’t go home and say Mission President, I lost my companion, give me another one. He was terrified as much as I was because he had no idea of what had become of me and he was really frightened but anyway, he described to me in considerable detail the concept of psychological conditioning. I was running a college in Calgary "something college" and I remember one of our administrators or deans came to me and he said I want to start a new program now this was 25 years after I had been in Australia. He said we want to have a T grouping session. I said what’s that, so he described to me how everyone gets around in a group and everyone confesses their worst thing they have ever done to the group, and it was a group confession type of thing and he described how this conditioning the group would be. They would lose their inhibitions, that they would literally throw off the shackles and this would free their creativity and their abilities to function. Unfortunately, we had discovered that these processes do not free the inhibitions, they shackle the individual because then the individual becomes subject to the inhibitions and pressures of the group and therefore, once having thrown off the inhibitions, that the group then exerts a group pressure and those people who get involved with it, literally run amuck. They just come unglued and so I said to him no but I discovered a little while later that it was not just 3 or 4 days before he was holding these sessions in his home anyway but we had gone through those and we had now all kinds of those sorts of things.

He described the drug culture to me, something I just couldn’t comprehend and he described how it would be used to condition people to bring them to a point of freedom, freedom of thinking and so forth. And he described a process that 25 years later came into being, it’s interesting of course that Red China’s most profitable export to U.S. has been drugs. The death of drugs through drugs so we have literally become a part of that drug culture, he described diet, we will use diet he said. We will put into food things that will make it possible for us to condition people, the whole purpose of the program is to make us conditionable, so that we are susceptible to whatever they wish to teach us, but the thing that was the most shocking and I didn’t understand it at the time was music.

He said we will use music, he described rock music, and it didn’t make any sense to me. I just didn’t understand it. Since then, we are very much aware of the fact that Pavlov was a Russian scientist who as you know used the dogs, conditioned the doges to respond a certain way and then conditioned them to respond other ways. Pavlov, we now know, was taken into Lenin’s home in Russia and he helped him complete the experiment. They conditioned a dog so if you had the metronome play at 60 beats per minute, the dog would produce saliva, without the presence of food, then if you play a metronome at 120 beats per minute, you can condition the dog so it cannot salivate under any condition even if it’s starving. It can be conditioned that it cannot salivate, cannot swallow its food, then they did the next experiment which was to play 2 metronomes, simultaneously, one at 60 and one at 120 and the dogs are conditioned to do 2 diametrically opposed things simultaneously and the dog had a nervous breakdown. It collapsed, it couldn’t function, then they killed the dog by a very simple experiment. They had one metronome going at 60 and one at 120 and this one at 60 was suddenly stopped and switched to 120, this one at 120 stopped and went to 60, and they went back and forth, and back and forth, and the dog expired—just literally terminating the dogs.

Now that’s __________ of rock music. That’s the underlying beat that goes on and it constantly changes, it is constantly changing. That’s why you’ll have several guitars and several instruments that are the same, the instruments are the same, they don’t have a trumpet and saxophone and a violin because what they need is the conditioning ability of those instruments. They need intense volume, they can deliver any message whatsoever, whether it is backward or forward, doesn’t matter whether you can hear the words in the language that we are speaking or whether it’s exactly the opposite but the brain will unscramble is an pick it up. And so we know, for example, that this melodic dissonance can create a conditioning effect so that you will believe what ever it is that you are taught. This is the beginning of the free love revolution, is the beginning of the drug culture, the beginning of anti-authority revolution, the beginning of our deterioration of our respect for the flag, the country, the policemen, all the institutions that hold the fabric of our society together. And so these things, he described to me, in great detail. It was fascinating, it just was sort of overwhelming to me. I just was, so much of it I didn’t remember because it was so foreign to what I could relate to and so he indicated of course that they would use force where necessary. He said to me that we’ll take the children from their parents, early enough so that we can condition them, we eliminate all mental, emotional, and physical cripples at birth. They would of course have to be terminated. He said we are now researching and doing experimentation with science so we can extend the life span so that man can live forever. He said the day will come when we will be able to reach into the planets and create a whole universe of these perfect, sinless souls. Well, I protested that you cannot enslave the minds of man, you just mustn’t enslave man’s mind this way. He said, Mr. Law, you’ve been here how long? Well, I had been there about 10 or 12 months. He said, how many people have you saved? I said, well, not very many. And he said you don’t love anybody then and I said of course [I do], but he said that is not why you are here. If you love everybody, you would embrace our plan. Yours is failing. You have admitted it. How many people have you brought into the light of the gospel? Well, not very many. He said you are right but in our plan, every living soul will be saved. And I said, well, that’s a great plan but I, everyone is going to have their free agency. I was as dumb as they come, I admit it but this guy is a very sophisticated, intellectual individual, and he said I can even prove it with your own arguments. He said, who do you love? Well, just 2 or 3 months earlier, I had gotten a Dear John from a girl I’d left behind so I said I love my mother. He said I can prove you don’t even love your mother. He said we know, for example, he said that the Mormons believe that strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth to heaven and few there be that find it and I said yes, oh yes, but there is…. "Don’t tell me about the 3 degrees of glory, we also know that many are called to be Gods but few are chosen, isn’t that Mormon doctrine, many are called but few are chosen. Well, yeah. He said so that means that your mother can choose Hell if she wants. Well yeah. Or she might even fall through the cracks in the church, he said don’t you have a doctrine that also goes on to say that many are called to be Mormons but few are chosen to be Gods. We do have that, its kind prevalent in the D&C. He said so you don’t even love your Mother. Under our plan, it’s guaranteed that she’ll be saved. I said but I can’t force her to go into heaven. When she finds out how beautiful it is, if there is such a place and it is as good as you say it is, she’ll spend eternity thanking you for making sure that she was saved. Well, he said that we’re only lovers of humanity, we are the only ones, who truly love our fellow men, you don’t, you’re prepared to let them go to hell.

We don’t want anybody to be hurt or abased or offended or wounded or punished or anything. Why should they be punished? We’ll save ‘em all, we’ll condition their minds, he said we know we can do it. When we take political and economic control of the world, we will institute our spiritual part of our plan to you and I said well, boy, uhhh, I have heard some of this before. He said that is not possible. He said you might have heard of the political part of the plan, you might have heard pf the part of the economic part of the plan but never the spiritual part of the plan. He said the spiritual part of the plan is not written or recorded, only the hard core elite are exposed to the spiritual part of our plan. And he said, I ‘m one of those in Australia who controls our plan. And I said to him, Why did you tell me? He said I’m not sure. I felt inspired to tell you and I said well, you’ll never take over the world and he said we already control 2/3rds of the world, politically and economically, and he said only the United States stands between us and total domination and I said you’ll never take the United States and he said let me tell you how it is. W e control the entertainment media in the US, we control the news media and we control the education system. I didn’t know anything about the news media, the entertainment media but I had just finished 12 years of schooling and I was an expert in education, having graduated from high school, I said you don’t control the education system and he said let me tell you how it is, Mr. Law. When you go back home, you take any text book, any textbook you come to pick up and you determine whether your plan is there or ours. After 7 years of university and 25 years of education, I have to tell you that there is no textbook that has our plan it in, only his is in the textbooks. You can pick up any textbook you’d like in the public school system and their plan is there in all its glory. Well, he asked me where I had heard this plan of his, and I said well I must have heard it in the councils of heaven and he laughed at that. He said we would like to bring some of you young dedicated missionaries into our program, he said that’ the one thing we lack is dedication and commitment to our spiritual part of our plan. I said to him What is your plan? What is it? What do you call it? He said I’m a member of the Central Planning committee of the Communist Party in Australia, there are 3 of us who control it, and I said I’ve heard of communism. He said you have heard of the political communism and the economic communism, he said you have never heard of spiritual communism. Now, I’ve heard Pres. McKay talk about it since, spiritual Satanism is what he called it, said he defined communism as spiritual Satanism.

Wee, I was really just dumbfounded. I really was just shocked and to conclude that experience, I said to him, well, and he said what’s wrong with our plan? And I said you have to give people their right to choose. And he said they’ll go to hell if they choose and you are not saving anybody. How many people are in your church? There was about, then I think there was less than a million people. He said out of 2 and ½ billion? And the rest of them are going to hell. No, don’t give me any of that 3 degrees stuff he said. If you don’t make the top, they haven’t made it.

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…that Jesus Christ is his Son and he became violently angry. He said we don’t believe in that myth. That’s a myth, that’s a mystery. They are just parables. And I said no I have heard the voice of the Lord, I have felt his power and I know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. This man became so violent with me, he attacked me and only then could I break loose and run out in to the middle of the street. I found my companion wandering up and down the street, he had to help me onto the street car and take me home and after that 3 hour experience it was a nightmare. I haven’t taken the time to recount to you all the things because he did go through in detail in the method in which they would use diet, the drugs and the music and I’ve explained to you just a little bit how they would introduce this music and then the drugs, they would introduce it into our diet, our foods, they would do all kinds of things that would condition us so we that we would be susceptible and easily led. We would not fight against them so that we would literally embrace their principles and these doctrines.

Let me just read to you a quote by J. Edgar Hoover, one of the most maligned men of all time and probably was eliminated by those people he was standing as a bulwark against. He said:

"We must now face the harsh truth that the objectives of communism are being steadily advanced because many of us do not readily recognize the means used to advance them. No one who truly understands what it really is can be taken in by it. Yet the individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monsterous you cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization that the evil has been introduced into our midst."

Pres. Benson removed, personally, 1,800 communist agents from the agriculture department alone. The amazing thing is, that our government is infiltrated, no wonder, Pres. Joseph Fielding Smith said that all governments have been taken over by Satan. I t is now his domain. Do you remember this morning in our Sunday School class when we read in the 7th chapter of Moses how the Lord said when he was describing to Enoch "and there came generations upon generations" when he was showing to Enoch in Moses 7:24 "And there came generation upon generation; and Enoch was high and lifted up, even in the bosom of the Father, and of the Son of Man; and behold, the power of Satan was upon all the face of the earth." And we have been told that we’re living in a day when the power of Satan totally dominates all governments. Not only communist governments but our own as well. And Joseph Fielding told us that the thing that keeps us in a state of freedom is that the Lord stops Satan from going so far. He only allows him to go so far. Remember that in the 87th section of the D&C, we have been told that the Lord will make a full end of all nations at the end of the world. "And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, shall the inhabitants of the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation, and chastening hand of an Almighty God, until the consumption decreed hath made a full end of all nations;

That our hope will only be in the government of God, that the Kingdom is the only place that we can be. Now, that experience got me involved in politics. I was a member of the police commission in Calgary and in Canada and much involved in the anti-Communist activities, in fact, I was the first director of the Freeman Institute in Provo, Utah with Cleon Skousen. But I left that association and that activity because of President Lee’s request that we not tweak the tail of the beast. He told Bro. Skousen his whole program, the prophet is under constant pressure to protect the church against our own government. He said the beast is alive and thriving and he said we are threatened constantly with annihilation of the church, its properties, its ways of doing things, by our own system of government. He asked Bro. Benson to give no more anti-Communist talks and you have not heard him since that time. It’s kind of interesting; we have to be aware that when the prophet is changed, that often the direction of the church is changed.

President McKay pleased with the priesthood of God to destroy out of America the secret combinations. In a priesthood session in 1965 that was the whole substance of his priesthood talk. He gave the whole priesthood session and he pleaded with us to eliminate this vile thing Moroni in 12th chapter of Ether told us would come upon us, and if we didn’t eliminate it, it would engulf us. As for this reason, brothers and sisters that the Lord told Nephi in the 14th chapter of Nephi beginning with the 10th verse: "And he said unto me: Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth." And that if you are not part of the church of the Lamb of God, you are a part of that other organization which, whose function and existence, and being is to destroy the church of the Lamb of God. Now we have not yet come under total direct attack, but we will. Because the great and abominable whore of the earth is bigger than the Catholic Church. Bro. McConkie said it in his first volume of Mormon Doctrine and withdrew it, as you know, from the next editions of it. It’s bigger than that. It is a conspiracy. It is a money conspiracy. It is bigger than Russian communism. It is a worldwide conspiracy of money. Listen to the temple ceremony, listen to what Satan says and he says that he will institute a money conspiracy that will be financed and controlled on the basis of money.

And so we have an interesting assignment ahead of us, because we have gone to the point now where it is no longer possible for us to eliminate the secret combinations from around the world. Our assignment is to gather the church together as tightly as we can, to pull it together as strongly and as vigorously as we can. I was asked to speak to the John Birch Society a few years ago because of my very out-spoken attacks on communists, communism and their doctrines. It’s the doctrines that we embrace that are the most frightening. And so when I had finished speaking to them, they asked me why aren’t you a member of the JBS. And I said well, there is only one organization in the world that will defeat satanic communism, as Pres. McKay calls it, and that’s the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And I already belong to the greatest communism fighting organization there is. And my goal is to teach truth so that people will come to the truth and thereby know to reject the evil. And so, we need to be aware that the agency of force, of unrighteous dominion, the greatest agency is government. Because government administers out of the end of the barrel of a gun. It’s always that simple. Until we come to the day where we have a government of God based on the Constitution then we will have the only true form of government upon the earth. You see the thing that concerns me, Pres. McKay made a statement, he said "We have no enemies. The Catholics are not our enemies. The Protestants are not our enemies. Labor is not our enemy, organized capital is not our enemy. He said we only have one enemy and that is satanic communism and those who support their doctrines. Let me tell you some of the kinds of doctrines that we face.

We’re taught, we are being led to believe that we can live in a peaceful coexistence with Russia. There is no such thing. The communist Manifesto maintains that they must conquer. And that they will live in a peaceful coexistence, as that is their word, until the 5th column is tried enough that they can then by military action, take over a country. We’re encouraged to believe that we can build bridges of understanding. You can’t build bridges of understanding with Satanism. You just can’t do it. Let me explain to you what dialectic materialism is. Dialectic materialist is one who does not believe in God. If you do not believe in God, we’re so programmed by the Lord Himself to believe in God. That’s our nature. We’re children of a divine Father. It is put into us. It’s a part of our genes almost that there is a God and we believe in that God. Now if you don’t believe in God then what do you belie in? You must believe in a God so God becomes something—the greatest being you know. Well, what is that? That’s me! There is no God. I am next. Therefore truth becomes whatever advances me. And therefore if I have to eliminate Bro. Bliss because he is in the way of my advancement, that’s truth. Now the American mind, the Mormon mind particularly, the Latter-day Saint mind has difficulty in dealing with something that cunning and that subtle, that devious. But that’s the mentality that we face. Now, realize you can take this one step further, therefore, it is perfectly logical and truthful for me to propose a law that takes Bro. Bliss’s property away and gives it to me, provided I do it in the name of charity. Right? Because charity is good, right? Isn’t that what we are taught, that the works of charity, that if there is somebody poor or depressed or ignorant or hungry or cold or whatever than we must be charitable. A satanic charity is that we will enact a law that takes property away from some people and gives it to other people and that then becomes charity. That is legal, that is morally right. We have come to believe in this county, that that is morally acceptable. But stealing has never been morally acceptable to the Lord. An interesting concept and we have embraced it will all of our hearts. Our whole education system is based on it. Our welfare system structure is based on it. Millions, 50 millions subsist on it. And live under it and we accept it, we believe it, we vote for it, we endorse it, we embrace it, and it’s an amazing thing that we have come to that point. Now, we are in a condition of survival. And so Brothers and Sisters, I think that our responsibility, and I assume part of that responsibility, my responsibility is, and I listen to the messages form the prophets. Bro. Benson, I used to ask him about his, he always got up and gave a talk on communism in conference. He went around the country teaching ant-communism. And he really got lambasted, regularly. Brigham Young University was his greatest enemy. And I said to him, Bro. Benson, do you always give a talk on communism? He said Bro. Law I would dearly love to give a talk on love but Pres. McKay always calls me and says Bro. Benson, we have need for another one of your good hard hitting anti-Communist talks. And he said so I give them. I do remember Pres. McKay was our last anti-Communist prophet. We haven’t heard a whisper of it since. Not a whisper. We’re now in a different stage of our progress towards the millennial time. We are in the stage of gathering in just as fast as possible, every living soul that will be gathered in to the kingdom. We’re in the stages of the 3 stages of intensifying the testimonies, of creating a holy people (the gulf between Satanism and the kingdom of God has widened. Bro. McConkie told us this up at the, Faye and I attended a stake conference up in Snowflake, 4 years ago, a couple of years before he died and he told us then. He said that the gulf is greater than it has ever been, it’s much easier to see the enemy on one hand and the kingdom of God on the other hand. And our assignment is to teach the peaceable things of the kingdom to make holy men and holy women, that’s our assignment. So I rarely, there was a time when I gave the talk about this a couple of times a week. There seemed to be a need for it, an urgency for it. Pres. McKay had instructed Bro. Benson, have Bro. Law tell that every chance he gets to anybody that will listen. But that time is passed. We’re now in a different stage, a different time. Let me suggest a couple of things to you.

In the 45th section of D&C, we have a need Brothers and Sisters (Bishop, thanks for reading your scriptures) we have a tremendous need that we be not deceived. You recall, the 56th verse, it says that in that day when I shall come in my glory, shall the parable be fulfilled which I spake concerning the 10 virgins, that they that are wise and have received the truth and have taken the Holy Spirit for their guide and have not been deceived. We are so deceived by the lies and deceptions that are practiced upon us that if we’re not careful, we will embrace them. Our minds will be darkened by those deceptions of Satan. And let me just point out to you how dangerous it is.

You brethren and you sisters, the 95th section of the D&C says: "For the preparation wherewith I design to prepare mine apostles to prune my vineyard for the last time, that I may bring to pass my strange act, that I may pour out my Spirit upon all flesh—

But behold, verily I say unto you, that there are many who have been ordained among you, whom I have called but few of them are chosen.

They who are not chosen have sinned a very grievous sin, in that they are walking in darkness at noon-day." These do not know the doctrines of the kingdom. The mysteries of Godliness are told to us in the temples. We don’t go to the temples often enough to get our training, the university, the training ground of the Lord’s Kingdom is in the temple. We don’t read the scriptures, the Book of Moses. I kept a class, Bishop, 6,7 & 8 chapters of Moses for 2 weeks and we should have spent 6 months on it. Cause that experience with Enoch is so tremendous. We ought to know the signs of the times. It’s amazing. You know, I used to be called upon to give a lot of talks about the signs of the times and having your calling and election made sure and we don’t even bother with studying the scriptures enough. The Lord has told us that the foolish virgins will be in the Kingdom right up until the very end and those are those who are deceived and who does the deceiving? Well, let me just refer you to a couple more scriptures and then in the 46th section of the D&C, the 6, 7 and 8th verses.

And again I say unto you, concerning your confirmation meetings, that if there be any that are not of the church, that are earnestly seeking after the kingdom, ye shall not cast them out.

But ye are commanded in all things to ask of God, who giveth liberally; and that which the Spirit testifies unto you even so I would that ye should do in all holiness of heart, walking uprightly before me, considering the end of your salvation, doing all things with prayer and thanksgiving, that ye may not be seduced by evil spirits, or doctrines of devils, or the commandments of men; for some are of men, and others of devils.

Wherefore, beware lest ye are deceived; and that ye may not be deceived seek ye earnestly the best gifts, always remembering for what they are given;

And in conclusion let me point you to the 112th section of D&C and this is the one that we really need to pay particular attention to.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, darkness covereth the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the people, and all flesh has become corrupt before my face.

Behold, vengeance cometh speedily upon the inhabitants of the earth, a day of wrath, a day of burning, a day of desolation, of weeping, of mourning, and of lamentation; and as a whirlwind it shall come upon all the face of the earth, saith the Lord.

And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord;

The Lord will begin to cleanse the earth, beginning in his own house. Upon those who are deceived, who know not the plan of the Lord, who don’t understand the power of the Holy Ghost who don’t understand what it takes to purify us. I mentioned to our Sunday school class today that when I was traveling with Bro. Cowley, he told me a tremendous thing. He said he showed me the place where he had translated the Book of Mormon. He started when he was 16. His father, Matthias F. Cowley, who was an apostle sent him out at the age of 16 and said it’s time for you to go and his 1st assignment was to translate the Book of Mormon into the Maori language. A horrendous assignment for a boy of 16. And I said, Bro. Cowley, what did you do? And he said Bro. Law, I did what you always do when you run into problems. I quit eating. He said, I fasted and I prayed till the Lord gave me the answers. We don’t understand that principle. We believe that once a moth, for 2 meals to care for the poor is what it’s about. The Lord fasted for 40 days to get his spirit in tune. Moses fasted for 40 days. I’m not suggesting you need to fast for 40 days. I want you to know that here is power in the fast. Someday I’ll tell you about an experience I had as a seminary teacher with a little girl who was destroying the class and the testimonies of the whole group.

I didn’t know what to do with her till I read what Alma did for his sons, the sons of Mosiah and I elected to try that method. And it worked. The Lord gave her a new heart and he told her why he gave her a new heart. Because Bro. Law has pleaded for your soul. My brothers and sisters, we have got to become a holy people, a Zion people, because those are ones that will be gathered into the city of Enoch, to the New Jerusalem and time, we don’t have time to live all the mistakes that are possible for us to live out. To go though all the mistakes, to the repenting and all that sort of thing. Our time is now. So I suggest to you, Brothers and sisters, that here are some things that we need to do. We need to search the scriptures, to feast upon them as Nephi said. And to make them the most integral part of our lives. They will trigger us to the right actions. They will bring us to action. We need the action but it has to be the right action, for the right reason. The scriptures will do that for us. They will condition us. In the 121st Section of the D&C, it says

Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven.

Realize that these things come from conditioning our minds. That’s why we have these scriptures. You can’t read these enough. And then the Lord gave us that weapon that Bro. Cowley used, fasting and prayer that we become humble and contrite, teachable spirits. Then the Lord can make us a Holy people. And it doesn’t matter what forces Satan brings against us, we shall be able to withstand. We shall have gathered around us a group of people who can withstand who live in hope and not fear. So when the terrible times of the earth come upon us, and we have not even begun to understand what those are, the signs of the times, are frightening and terrible, in fact, we’re told that they will become so terrible that the Saints will stand still and plead with the Lord to let the end come. But here has to be a group of people that are so committed, so faithful, and so righteous that around them can gather the weak ones and they can become stronger and stronger so that the kingdom of the Lord can be established that the New Jerusalem can exist and be real. I want to bear you my testimony that the Lord has been tremendously good to me. He gave me my wife by revelation, he has guided my life many times by revelation and I have heard the voice of the Lord witnessing to many things but most precious to me is the feeling, the piercing of my soul with the Holy Ghost that testified to me when he told me that Jesus Christ was his son for this, according to the prophet Joseph is the true testimony to know that Jesus is the Son of God.

And I testify to you that these things are true, the enemy is about us and all around us, it is everywhere, it is in our midst, it was at BYU in great intensity. There were men there who sent a petition to Salt Lake encouraging Pres. McKay to resign and become a prophet emeritus so that they could get on with somebody that wasn’t old and feeble and broken down. And the Lord runs the Kingdom. It is his kingdom. He decides. I want you to know that I love the Lord with all my heart and I love the Lord with all my heart and I love his son Jesus Christ. And I just wish I was a better man. I wish I could become a Holy man and be as good as I preach. I have the same problem as Paul had when he said when I would do good, evil is present with me. The good that I would, I do not. The evil that I would not, that I do. But I encourage you Bro. and Sisters to know that if you will feast t upon the scriptures, if you will fast and pray that it will give you the strength to be men and women, men and women that the Lord expects us to be. And I testify of these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.