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They Will Sustain The Constitution And Laws And Institutions Of The United States, And Be The Champions Of Liberty And Of That Constitution When Its Integrity Shall Be Threatened.

There Is A Way By Which Persons Can Keep Their Consciences Clear Before God And Man, And That Is To Preserve Within Them The Spirit Of God, Which Is The Spirit Of Revelation To Every Man And Woman. It Will Reveal To Them, Even In The Simplest Of Matters, What They Shall Do, By Making Suggestions To Them. We Should Try To Learn The Nature Of This Spirit, That We May Understand Its Suggestions, And Then We Will Always Be Able To Do Right. This Is The Grand Privilege Of Every Latter-day Saint.

You Exert A Certain Degree Of Influence, And Be It Ever So Small, It Affects Some Person Or Persons, And For The Results Of The Influence You Exert You Are Held Accountable. You, Therefore, Whether You Acknowledge It Or Not, Have Assumed An Importance Before God And Man That Cannot Be Overlooked.

Our Being Edified At Conference Depends On Us. It Becomes Necessary That We Prepare Our Hearts To Receive And Profit By The Suggestions That May Be Made By The Speakers During The Progress Of The Conference, Which May Be Prompted By The Spirit Of The Lord. I Have Thought, And Still Think, That Our Being Edified Does Not So Much Depend Upon The Speaker As Upon Ourselves.

We Should Try To Learn The Nature Of [the Spirit Of Revelation]. . . . This Is The Grand Means That The Lord Has Provided For Us, That We May Know The Light, And Not Be Groveling Continually In The Dark.