I have had some revelations of late, and very important ones to me, and I will tell you what the Lord has said to me. Let me bring your minds to what is termed the "Manifesto." The Lord has told me by revelation that there are many members of the Church through out Zion who are sorely tried in their hearts because of the testimony of the Presidency of the Church and the Apostles before the master of chancery since I have received this revelation. I have heard of many who are tried in the things, though I had not heard of any before this time. Now the Lord has commanded me to do one thing, and I fulfilled that commandment at the conference at Brigham last Sunday, and will do the same thing here today.

The Lord told me to ask the Latter-day Saints a question, and He also told me to that if they would listen to what I said to them and answer the question put to them, by the Spirit and power of God, they would all answer alike, and they would all believe alike with regard to this matter.

The question is this: Which is the wisest course for the Latter-day Saints to pursue—to continue to attempt to practice plural marriage, with the laws of the nation against it and the opposition of 60 million people, and at the cost of the confiscation and loss of all the <of our> the Temples, and the stopping of all the ordinances therein, both for the living and the dead, and the imprisonment of the First Presidency and Twelve and the heads of families in the Church, and the confiscation of personal property of the people (all of which of themselves would stop the practice); or, after doing and suffering what we have through our adherence to this principle to cease the practice and submit to the law, and through doing so leave the Prophets, Apostles and fathers at home, so that they can instruct the people and attend to the duties of the Church, and also leave the Temples in the hands of the Saints.

The Lord showed me by revelation and revelation exactly what would take place if we did not stop this practice. If we had not stopped it, we would have no use for use of the brethren in the Logan temple and all the temples would be stopped in Zion. Confusion would reign throughout Israel. Trouble would have come throughout the whole Church, and we would be compelled to stop the practice. I know there are men in this church who have been tried and think that President Woodruff had lost the spirit of God. Now I want you to know that he has not lost the spirit nor is about to apostatize. The Lord is with him and with his people. He has told me exactly what to do and what the result would be if the <we> did not do it. I have been called upon by friends outside the church to take some steps in regard to this matter. They know the course the government was determined to take. This feeling has been manifested more or less by members of the church. I saw exactly what would come to pass if there was not something done. I have had this spirit upon me for a long time. But I want to say this: I should have let all the temples go out of our hands; I would have gone to prison myself, and let every other man go there, had not the God of heaven commanded me to do what I did do; and when the hour came that I was commanded to do that, it was all clear to me. I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write. I laid it before such strong men as George Q. Cannon, Joseph F. Smith, and the twelve apostles. I might as well undertake to turn an Army out of it course as to turn them out of a course they considered right. These men agreed with me and 510,000 Saints. Why? Because they were moved upon the spirit of God and Jesus Christ to do. I believe this leave this with you for you to contemplate and consider. The Lord is at work with us. He is doing things you do not comprehend.