A PROPHECY

The Lamoni reunion of 1911 was pronounced by many one of the best reunions ever held in the Lamoni Stake. The prayer meetings were spiritual feasts, the Spirit being manifested in an unusual degree. The following prophecy was given to the Saints by the Spirit through Apostle J. W. Wight at the morning prayer service of August 25.

Yea, thus sayeth the still, small voice of the Spirit—that Spirit that pierceth the soul, that comes as a comforter, sent to the people of God, promised by the Son of God as a comforter—saying to my people, I have come to you in special enduing power during the sessions of this reunion, and had my people been more faithful, more humble, I could have exercised greater power among you, and your lives would have been made to rejoice even more.

This special endowment has come to give unto my people a foretaste of what it means to dwell in Zion, and to help you make the needed preparation for that great event. Oh, in pleading with you this morning, my people, will you from henceforth make greater effort and seek to overcome more of you own follies, foibles, and weaknesses, and to heed the injunction given thee? More especially will the young of my people, hearing, give heed to my voice and to my pleading, and forget not. Go not away and turn again to the follies of the world. Let all my people cease their bickerings, their strife, their backbiting, their follies. Overcome these weaknesses. Cease to be jealous one with another. Seek to please God in all that you do and say, forgetful as to whether it shall please man or not; but seek to be examples of that life lived by your Master so long before you as an evidence of the attainment that my people may be permitted to reach.

Your Father has sent forth his Spirit this morning to witness unto your souls, to give you comfort and consolation, and has spoken to one of the handmaids of the church for special reasons, to give her encouragement in the hour of need, and now speaks to one and all, that inasmuch as you give heed to the injunctions of the voice of that Spirit, that still small voice that comes in the very hour of need, if you will but prepare for it, now speaks to you, and again admonishes to be faithful, be diligent, be earnest, be prayerful; overcome the temptations and trials of life; seek to build character for God, so that in the day of preparation, you may really be among the number that shall see Jesus; and diligently strive that you may be with the faithful, having made the necessary preparation to meet your God.

Oh, will my people hear the pleading of my voice, and live more humbly, more faithfully? And then will the blessings be poured out more and more, and there will come to you that comfort, that consolation that nothing else can bring. Thus saith the voice of the Spirit. Amen. —Saints' Herald, November 1, 1911.