Sanctifying our hearts and affections until there shall be nothing abiding in us contrary to the Holy Ghost

Brethren is your Mission ended? No, it is as much upon you here as when you are out in the distant parts of the earth preaching the Gospel. Jesus Christ made water into wine by calling together from the elements the properties of wine. He fed thousands of people with five loaves and two small fishes by calling the elements together to compose bread and fish; and he says, “Greater works than these shall ye do, because I go to the Father.” It is our privilege and our duty to continue to learn, until we shall have wisdom enough to command the elements as he did, and until the earth is brought back [p. 23b] to its paradisiacal state. But we must first redeem ourselves from every root of bitterness that may be in our nature, striving daily to overcome the evil that is in the world and in ourselves, sanctifying our hearts and affections until there shall be nothing abiding in us contrary to the Holy Ghost in its perfect and full fruition of enjoyment to the creature. I think it likely that after a while I may be able to so humble myself and become like a little child, as to be taught more fully by the Heavens.

Author: President Brigham Young
Source: Never-Ending Character of a Saints’ Mission—Organization of the Kingdom of God. Discourse by President Brigham Young, delivered in the Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, Oct. 6, 1862. Reported By: G. D. Watt.