As I have received the good and the evil, the fruits of obedience and disobedience, I think I am justified in exhorting all my young friends to always obey the whisperings of the Spirit of God, and they will always be safe.
The Spirit of God will rule over and guide all men who will permit it and seek for it, and this is especially necessary for young Elders who are laboring in the vineyard of the Lord. For the Lord knows where the righteous, honest and meek of the earth are, and will lead the Elders to them.
I have already related a remarkable instance of this in my own experience, when the voice of the Lord came to me in the town of Hanley, England, in 1840.
In that case it dictated me quite contrary to my expectations, for I had appointments out for a week ahead. But I obeyed the voice of the Spirit, went south as I was directed to, and my readers know the result.
I will refer to one more instance in my experience upon the subject of revelation:
All the Latter-day Saints understand that we build temples for the purpose of administering ordinances for the dead as well as for the living.
The Lord has opened the way in a remarkable manner for many of the members of the Church to obtain records of the names of their dead for several generations.
I had also obtained a record of somewhat over three thousand of my father and mother's families.
After the dedication of the temple at St. George, President Young appointed me to preside over it. When we commenced work in the temple I began to reflect: "How can I redeem my dead? I have some three thousand names of the dead who have been baptized for, and how can I get endowments for them?"
I had none of my family there, and if any had been there they would not have been able to get endowments for so many.