How to Get a Testimony

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I got out of the hall as soon as I could and hurried home and went

to bed, where I lay and wept and prayed for some time. My prayer was soon answered. I had asked the Lord to tell me why I was afflicted. I asked him if I had sinned in my first estate, that I should be required to pass under such a severe affliction in mortality. I soon felt a good, peaceful influence take possession of me, and I knew the Lord had sent me comfort. A still, small voice whispered in my ear, "The Lord is displeased with none except those who will not acknowledge his hand in all things.

Your affliction was placed upon you as a check against your impetuous nature. It is for your good and for your salvation." I

wish to say to others who sorrow because of their afflictions, be comforted, for the hand of the Lord is in all things for some wise purpose.

HOW TO GET A TESTIMONY.

BY ROBERT ANDRUS, SECRETARY OF THE BINGHAM STAKE M. I. A.

Two passages of scripture have wielded a great influence over my mind, and together they are bringing to me a testimony of the Gospel: the first, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his right- of the eousness," led me to fasting and prayer for a manifestation truthfulness of this work— the work of the Lord as established and through the instrumentality of the Prophet Joseph Smith, kept me from doing many wrong things. In my search for a three days at manifestation, I often fasted and prayed, sometimes to receive satisfac- a time, but each time without result; I failed Time passed on, and I was still unsatisfied and somewhat tion. of scripture fast- discouraged, but at length this second 'passage "For whosoever ened itself upon me and has shown me the light: my Father which is in heaven shall know of the shall do the will of