Brigham Young died at 4:00pm, Wednesday, August 29, 1877. The previous Thursday, August 23, 1877, Brigham Young had put in a full day. He rode out after dinner that day and later attended a bishop's meeting. Still later that night he began to have severe abdominal pains. He suffered for 6 days, dying nearly a week later.

It had been an eventual year. Brigham Young had dedicated the Saint George Temple. On his journey back to Salt Lake, he dedicated the ground for the Manti Temple. Over the last years of his leadership of the Church, President Young was in the process of setting the Kingdom in order. Just two years earlier, in 1875, Brigham Young had reset the order of seniority in the Council of the Twelve Apostles. This he did, making it understood that John Taylor was the senior apostle due to the brief 'disaffection' of Orson Hyde and Orson Pratt from the Church during the difficult times of the Missouri and Illinois periods. Thus the next Prophet of Christ's Church was in position to ascend to the Presidency.

On April 6, 1877, Brigham Young delivered his last conference sermon. He moved slowly to and from the pulpit, his body racked with arthritis. But this would not be the Prophet's last sermon discourse. There was a new Stake to be organized for Davis County, its first. So two months before his death, the Prophet and President Brigham Young would speak during this Special Conference held at Farmington, Utah. It was Sunday afternoon on June 17, 1877 when the Prophet rose to speak

As President Young spoke, he talked of the importance of being faithful saints and putting the things of God above the things of the world.

"I have no doubt that the majority of the people called Latter-day Saints desire really to be Saints; were it not for this I might feel partially discouraged. The people who are honest, who are seeking to know and to understand the truth, they are the ones who, so far as their faith and good works, and their influence and ability are concerned, sustain the kingdom that God has commenced to establish on the earth. When we consider the condition of the Latter-day Saints, and see how many there are who seem to have their eyes fixed upon the things of this world, things that are not lasting, but that perish in the handling, and how anxious they are to obtain them, how do you think I feel about it? We see many of the Elders of Israel desirous of becoming wealthy, and they adopt any course that they think will bring them riches, which to me is as unwise as anything can be—to see men of wisdom, men that seem to have an understanding of the world and of the things of God . . ."
(Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. [London: Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, 1854-1886], 19: 37.)

He was speaking then of seeking the 'riches' of the world, gold mines and such wealth which is hide in the earth, over obtaining the spiritual things. President Young pointed out that it is God who has the power to govern such things of the earth, to over see their protection, when they are accessible to man, and can and cannot be obtained. And while the President spoke of the 'worldly treasures' of the earth, he eventually spoke of other treasures of the earth. And yet today, it is not just the 'worldly treasures' for which men seek and sell themselves short in relation to the Kingdom of God. Wealth was only the root source for what the Nephites sold themselves. It was pride and when it comes to pride, there are other things involved other than just money. Pride is puffed up and thinketh itself greater than God and even God's anointed. And under such conditions, man's earthly learning comes into the picture. And the dangers of 'worldly intellectualism' are as real and as corrupting as any nugget of gold or physical item of wealth ever was. (2 Nephi 29)

Worldly wealth makes one feeling 'superior' due to the physical outward materialistic things that one can wear and have over another. Intellectualism, that is 'the learning of the world,' can make one feel 'superior' due to the things of the mind, the inward things, that puff a man up and make him consider himself superior because he is 'smarter' and more 'academically' intelligent and 'degreed' than another. It can be an even more dangerous and addictive evil, and the source of false pride, than any worldly treasure. It makes men think themselves wise and to know more than God and to place themselves outside and even above that of being reached by and governed by the Spirit of God, because such 'intellectually superior' people can 'know of themselves' through their own dissection and analysis of a matter. And they can know more than even the servants of God and can base their knowledge upon their own learning, and derived rules, and theories regardless of the Words and Writings of God and God's anointed. Such is 'false intelligence' for it fails to recognize, give credit, follow, and learn from the one true source of intelligence and that is God. And it is this danger which is a prevalent danger in the Church today. To think oneself the better due to riches is one thing. To think oneself the better due to 'false intellectualism' is quite another, but they both block the progression of man in relation to obtaining the Kingdom of God.

Now there is one other barrier which I will mention, which fits this mode of wealth, worldly wisdom, and the false pride, which it can also cause, and that is 'power,' meaning the abuse of exercising authority or dominion over others. But I will leave that for another discussion at another time. Right now, I wish to return to President Brigham Young's sermon.

There is a quote of interest regarding 'physical spiritual treasures of the earth,' that is actual ancient scriptural records (2 Nephi 29). But before I go there, what President Young states at the beginning of that paragraph is of more interest to me to communicate in relation to 'intellectual wealth.' President Young states:

"You hear a great deal said about finding money. There is no difficulty at all in finding money, but there are a great many people who do not know what to do with it when they do find it. This is the great defect with the human family. I could relate many very singular circumstances. "
(Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. [London: Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, 1854-1886], 19: 38 - 39.)

Now the same can be said for that parallel danger we have been speaking of. That is to paraphrase: 'You hear a great deal said about 'education and learning.' In today's society, there is no great difficulty in becoming 'wise and learned' in the 'wisdom and arts and sciences' of the world. Men are more highly educated by the institutions of higher learning today than ever before in the history of the world. We have an abundance of 'intellectual wealth' of learning available today. But just as in the case of having 'an abundance of material wealth' and the fact that there are a great many people who do not know what to do with it when they have it. That is, they tend to misuse it and abuse it to the extent that is causes their own moral corruption and demise. So it is the same with having such great 'Intellectual Wealth.' Men just do not know how to properly use their 'worldly wisdom', 'knowledge' and 'learning.' They become slaves to their own intellects. They misuse their 'knowledge' and 'training.' They abuse it by making it the source of their pride of placing themselves as being 'superior' and above another. They abuse it by making the intellectual exercise the means and end of deciding what truth is and what it is not, regardless of the its real source, God. They become a law unto themselves with their new found intellectual prowess. It morally corrupts them as they consider themselves able to 'intellectually dissect, analyze, and discern by their wisdom and knowledge to know more than God's anointed and even than the Word of God itself'.

Brigham Young then discloses to the Special Conference at Farmington in his last discourse given as the prophet there, a matter which had been held in great confidence. Men who would seek the riches of the earth, if they had such a knowledge back in the 'non-Mormon' communities of New York. If they were to believe what Brigham Young was about to state, they would have likely become the 'treasure hunters' back in New York digging deep into the hill of Cumorah. Yet the spirit led President Young to disclose this confidence to the faithful members of the Church there in Farmington, Davis County, Utah that day. And since that time Cumorah has become the property of the Church, so in a way, that once held confidence is of a mute point. And from President Young's discourse, it would have been such a matter at any rate, as it is the Lord and his power that guards and protects that which lies within the hill at Cumorah. And just as the youthful Prophet Joseph Smith could not obtain the gold plates before their time, such is the case with God's protection and care of the rest of the records of the Nephites.

Now why did President Young choose to 'take the liberty' to tell what was once held in confidence by a number of the 'brethren?' President Young states, "I relate this to you, and I want you to understand it. I take this liberty of referring to those things so that they will not be forgotten and lost." What was it that was going to be forgotten and lost, which would prompt President Young to relate the 'protected' information that had been held by the likes of 'Oliver Cowdery,' 'Don Carlos Smith,' 'Brigham Young, himself' and others of the Prophet's family? The Prophet's family had always kept such things in strict confidence, not speaking of such things of God before the general public and before the world, which might compromise the records of the Nephites, the scriptures of God, and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It was a 'security' issue concerning the contents of Cumorah and even where Cumorah exactly was at one point in time. The Prophet Brigham Young felt impressed that it was proper to related some thing about Cumorah which had been 'privately' known by a select few by way of the direction of the Lord to his servants as to Cumorah. Brigham Young states that there are many things he knew about that land, and he states that there are many he could tell as he states:

"Now, you may think I am unwise in publicly telling these things, thinking perhaps I should preserve them in my own breast; but such is not my mind. I would like the people called Latter-day Saints to understand some little things with regard to the workings and dealings of the Lord with his people here upon the earth. I could relate to you a great many more, all of which are familiar to many of our brethren and sisters."
(Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. [London: Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, 1854-1886], 19: 39.)

President Young's mind was to relate these events, which had been a matter of confidence "So That They Will Not Be Forgotten And Lost." Now what threat is there of forgetting and losing track of the fact that Cumorah is Cumorah in the state of New York? Will, if you are one high and among the 'intellectual elite' of the Church's Institution of Higher learning, Brigham Young University, and are influenced and taught by that the associated research society known as FARMS, then you are right in the midst of 'losing' and 'forgetting' that Cumorah is Cumorah and what that should mean to the Church, its historic past, its presence, and its future involvement with that which is and is in the hill of Cumorah. And how great and important item to be lost to the Church. The Church went to great efforts and expense to obtain ownership of that hill. It must remain in Church ownership. There will be a time when what is contained in that hill will be brought forth to the world. As a Church we must not forget nor lose tract of the significance of the hill Cumorah and what lies therein. President Young was correct in taking the liberty. Without the likes of his 'recorded testimony' to the facts of the matter, those of the 'intellectual wealth' would so misuse their 'worldly wisdom' to take such knowledge from us.

Now for those who do not know the truth concerning Cumorah, which President Brigham Young, two months before his death, did take liberty to reveal to us, 'So That We Would Not Forget or Lose This Information,' here is the relevant quoted paragraph.

"I lived right in the country where the plates were found from which the Book of Mormon
was translated, and I know a great many things pertaining to that country. I believe I will
take the liberty to tell you of another circumstance that will be as marvelous as anything can be. This is an incident in the life of Oliver Cowdery, but he did not take the liberty of telling
such things in meeting as I take. I tell these things to you, and I have a motive for doing so.
I want to carry them to the ears of my brethren and sisters, and to the children also, that
they may grow to an understanding of some things that seem to be entirely hidden from the
human family. Oliver Cowdery went with the Prophet Joseph when he deposited these
plates. Joseph did not translate all of the plates; there was a portion of them sealed, which
you can learn from the Book of Doctrine and Covenants. When Joseph got the plates, the
angel instructed him to carry them back to the hill Cumorah, which he did. Oliver says that
when Joseph and Oliver went there, the hill opened, and they walked into a cave, in which
there was a large and spacious room. He says he did not think, at the time, whether they had the light of the sun or artificial light; but that it was just as light as day. They laid the plates
on a table; it was a large table that stood in the room. Under this table there was a pile of
plates as much as two feet high, and there were altogether in this room more plates than
probably many wagon loads; they were piled up in the corners and along the walls. The first
time they went there the sword of Laban hung upon the wall; but when they went again it
had been taken down and laid upon the table across the gold plates; it was unsheathed, and
on it was written these words: "This sword will never be sheathed again until the kingdoms
of this world become the kingdom of our God and his Christ." I tell you this as coming not
only from Oliver Cowdery, but others who were familiar with it, and who understood it just
as well as we understand coming to this meeting, enjoying the day, and by and by we
separate and go away, forgetting most of what is said, but remembering some things. So is it
with other circumstances in life. I relate this to you, and I want you to understand it. I take
this liberty of referring to those things so that they will not be forgotten and lost. Carlos
Smith was a young man of as much veracity as any young man we had, and he was a witness
to these things. Samuel Smith saw some things, Hyrum saw a good many things, but Joseph
was the leader."

Joseph and Oliver did not travel to some hill in Middle America. They traveled the relatively short distance back to the same hill of Cumorah right there in New York. And they walked into that hill, into a cave, into a great room filled with the records that Mormon had placed there, which included the sword of Laban.

Next, being the Prophet that he was, President Young next conveyed to the listener much more information concerning this situation for not just then but also relative to our own time and times to come by stating:

"The Lord has permitted our enemies to come among us, who would destroy us if they could. They are only allowed to allure the minds of the foolish and those who lack judgment and who know not the things of God. But when we, as individuals and as a people, learn things as they are, we will find this fact—all truth is worthy and worth possessing, while all untruth is not worthy nor worth running after, nor working for, nor spending our lives for. The Gospel of life and salvation which God has revealed to us, incorporates all the systems there are. Every true principle and every true science and every truth there is, are incorporated within the faith of the Latter-day Saints. This is something worth possessing, this is worth spending our time for; but the religions of the day, independent of their moral worth, are nothing but a myth, a shadow; there is no reality in them. But when you come to the philosophy of the religion of heaven, you have facts in your possession that are worth having, they are worthy the admiration of the wise, the prudent, the noble, the great and those that seek after the wisdom that comes from God, and the Latter-day Saints are in possession of this treasure! What are we doing? If we were the people of God, as we profess to be, there would not be a dissenting voice in all Israel in obeying the Priesthood. It was observed this morning by brother Cannon with regard to yielding obedience, that we were called upon to yield obedience because it was a command of God, and our faith demands obedience. To what? Why? Wherefore? Obedience to every principle of truth. What for? So that we may become possessors of all truth. Why should we do it? Because it gives us health, it gives us wealth, it gives us knowledge, it gives us power, it gives us beauty, it gives us excellency, it gives us treasures on the earth and treasures in heaven, it gives us a knowledge of God and of the love of God, it gives us fellowship with the Saints that are sanctified and glorified, and it gives us all things that will promote happiness and peace. These are the reasons why we do it. Should you take the other road, what do you get? Nothing. When persons turn away from the Gospel of the Son of God, what do they turn to? Nothing. And what do they turn from hereafter? All things worth possessing, everything that men and the Gods can possess in time and in eternity. Take the other road, and you get a shadow for the time being, and you may think you have the substance, but sooner or later you are left as a feather floating in the air, or worse than a ship upon the ocean, without compass or rudder, deprived of the light of the sun, the moon and the stars, tossed hither and thither until it sinks to rise no more. In order to yield obedience to the truth, you must love the truth and have the fear of god in your hearts. All who feel the true spirit of this latter-day work delight in the truth, they delight to hear the truth, and they delight to obey the truth; it is their delight to know the mind and will of God, that they may render obedience to it. This is the experience of every faithful man and woman in this Church. But take the experience of the apostates, and the experience of those who have risen up in opposition to the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Gospel brought forth and contained in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants and in the Book of Mormon, and the revelations that he was the honored instrument in the hands of God of revealing to the people; those that rise up in opposition to this, who are they and what is their end? You will hear one fact from them:—"Brother——, have you enjoyed yourself since resigning 'Mormonism?' Now speak the truth. Come, tell us just as it is. Have you experienced joy and happiness since leaving the kingdom of God? Come, now, don't lie!" Brother——answers, "I have not enjoyed one day's peace since I left the Church." This is the declaration of the apostates today, when they tell the truth about it. Look at their countenances—is there happiness depicted there? No, it is sorrow; they choose error instead f truth, they love darkness rather than light, and the end thereof, to use Scripture language, is death. The sorrow thereof they feel every day, for man's spirit is operated upon continually. We are as independent in our organization as the Gods are, but still we are creatures of circumstances, influenced by the spirits and by the powers of eternity that are here and round about us. We are here and are operated upon by them in our organizations. This is the place where every man commences to acquire the germ of the independence that is enjoyed in the heavens. These influences, in comparison, are like the cooling breezes from the mountains that are so grateful to us, that revive and refresh us, that give us life. But on the other hand, here comes the miasma from the swamp, bringing disease and death, and without knowing we inhale the poisonous air, we become conscious of weakness, we feel that we are taking fever, that we are getting sick—we become a prey to the enemy, and death ensues. That is the difference between the two influences that operate continually on mankind. It is either enjoyment or suffering. All are subject to these elements in which we live. Here is the good operating, all the time telling men and women, before passing the ordeals of redemption, that they must repent, that then the light of Christ will be upon them from time to time, to operate upon their minds, teaching them—you are doing wrong, you are saying that which is not right, you have renounced the Book of Mormon, you have renounced the Doctrine and Covenants, you have renounced Joseph, your endowments, or Celestial Law. When they reveal the truth of their hearts, they will say, as Lyman E. Johnson said, at one of our Quorum meetings, after he had apostatized and tried to put Joseph out of the way. Lyman told the truth, He said, "Brethren—I will call you brethren—I will tell you the truth. If I could believe 'Mormonism'—it is no matter whether it is true or not—but if I could believe 'Mormonism' as I did when I traveled with you and preached, if I possessed the world I would give it. I would give anything, I would suffer my right hand to be cut off, if I could believe it again. Then I was full of joy and gladness. My dreams were pleasant. When I awoke in the morning my spirit was cheerful. I was happy by day and by night, full of peace and joy and thanksgiving. But now it is darkness, pain, sorrow, misery in the extreme. I have never since seen a happy moment.."
(Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. [London: Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, 1854-1886], 19: 41.)

Now one will say that I misapply the quotation to those who are one amongst our own number and who would 'intellectually' rob us of our knowledge and consideration of our religious heritage and the facts about Cumorah. So be it. In truth the Prophet Brigham Young spoke of the strength of the ever lasting hills of our Zion to the fulfillment and culmination of all including the millennium. Let those who read the entire sermon get from it what they well. But the truth that applies to all throughout all time, past, present and future does apply both in particular and in general to all. The object lesson relative to Cumorah is here well understood as very much being of application, that we 'lose not' nor 'forget not' that critical piece of the whole message. And I submit that it does in fact very much apply as a very specific and telling application, which one of the very last sermons of God's Prophet gave just a few weeks prior to his death. And he spoke of the anti-Mormon, the apostate, the 'Jack-Mormon.' But I would that you consider that there are even of such among ourselves as we are not perfected either and are also prone to such error, folly and short coming. And in the realm of the 'Intellectual Prominent' there are those who would rob us of the truth of our heritage, perhaps not knowingly, perhaps not understanding what they do, perhaps careless as to what it is that they are doing, and perhaps falsely led themselves by that which is of the world and not of the Gospel of Christ. But still they are misleading us and if we follow, much is to be 'lost' and 'forgotten.'

Brigham Young was very conscience about getting the Kingdom in order. He was determined that until the earth was Christ's, he would do all within his power to see to it that the Kingdom succeeded and did not fail. Making sure that Cumorah be not forgotten and lost was but one small part of the over all whole and vision from which a Prophet of God works and speaks daily. His thoughts are not our thoughts. And his ways are not our ways. As God's Prophet, his is the Lord's thoughts and ways. And how dare the men of 'worldly intellectualism' second guess and speculate what a Prophet of God does or does not know and understand. They did it to Joseph Smith in relation to Cumorah. The did it to Willford Woodruff about what he has stated in his journals was from the Prophet's lips. And they'll just as likely say it about Brigham Young and the many other anointed ones of God who have likewise spoken regarding Cumorah. And what Brigham Young said applies to them just as surely as the scriptures do tie the ills of earthly wealth right in next to the ills of worldly knowledge. It does apply.

Brigham Young had accomplished much for establishing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. His perspective was a universal one which understood most assuredly the full intended mission of the Church in filling the ancient promises of the Fathers which where based from the very foundation of the world until the culminating word of the last 1000 years. In his sermon at the April 6, 1877 conference, his last conference discourse, he stated:

"This is the work of God," he testified, "that marvelous work and a wonder referred to by ancient men of God. . . . I never mean to be satisfied until the whole earth is yielded to Christ and his people. . . . I know not how soon the messenger will call for me, but I calculate to die in the harness."
(Dynamic Disciples, p. 58)

In the closing paragraph of his discourse at the Special Conference in Farmington President Young stated:

"Don't you think we have a work to perform? Yes, and it will take a thousand years to accomplish it. In the Temple last winter the brethren and sisters enjoyed themselves the best that they ever did in their lives. So they said. And our children, just old enough to work, how happy they were! They would exclaim, "I never knew anything about 'Mormonism' before!" If you were in the Temples of God working for the living and the dead, your eyes and hearts would not be after the fashions of the world, nor the wealth of the world. Yet the whole of this world's wealth belongs to the Lord, and he can give to whomsoever he pleases. Amen."
(Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. [London: Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, 1854-1886], 19: 45.)

Two years previously he set in proper order the descent to the Presidency. At the beginning of 1877 he dedicated the St. George Temple and dedicated the Manti Temple site on his way back. As he stated in his April 6, 1877 conference discourse, he would continue to work until the whole earth yielded to Christ. Brigham Young not only died 'in the harness,' he stands beside the Prophet Joseph and others to bring about the fulfillment of bringing the whole world unto Christ. Brigham Young's and Joseph Smith's understanding of the gospel and its precepts and truths was not a casual knowledge. They were Prophets of God. And when many seem to consider that they spoke 'casually' not knowing and being lead only by the suggestive thoughts of the peer pressure of a popular opinion in respect to the gospel, they need to reconsider their position. When Brigham Young spoke at Farmington he was still setting out the ordering of the Kingdom here. He would not live to give another general conference address. This was the time.

It was no happenstance event at which he took the liberty to disclose what had been to that date a 'trusted exclusive knowledge' of only a select and trusted few. He would not live to the next conference and this was a parting event at which he might so disclose such items of importance as he did. He may have been aged and old in body, but in mind he understood the entire plan of the Gospel and the Church. To appreciate that one need only read his words of his last year including the dedications at St. George and Manti, his last conference address, and his entire discourse at Farmington. It was totally mindful of his position as God's Prophet. And in each discourse he was indeed speaking as the Lord's Prophet in every matter as it applied to the Church.

And when he said he revealed that knowledge of where the Golden Plates had been returned to, in that hill of Cumorah, he did it with purpose to preserve such knowledge in the God's Kingdom for later reference and 'so that it would not be forgotten and lost.' It is important that we know and understand the truth about Cumorah. And though he stated that which to an extent was common knowledge at that time in that it supported that Cumorah was Cumorah, he reveled it so that at some later date his statement would be used as a testimony to insure that it would not be forgotten and lost. And he put it in the middle of his discourse along with establishing that validity and sanctity of our scriptural home in the everlasting hills. And he saw the entire vision of the mission of Christ's Church through to the envisioning the work through the millennium. He once said of the Salt Lake Temple, 'He was not building it just to last a mere 100 years, he was building to last for over 1000 years'. He had the vision of the whole of the matter.And he knew very well the place that Cumorah and the records in its care would play one day over the whole of this extended time. And he made sure, not to impress with a 'secret,' but with important information. When it comes time to obtain those other sacred records which Mormon had placed in the Hill of Cumorah, we need not be going around Central America trying to find where they are at. That has already been manifest and confirmed by the Prophet Brigham Young and many, many others of the Church's anointed servants of the Lord. And it is important not to be mislead on this point by some group of 'intellectuals' who determine based on their own analysis and worldly prowess that Cumorah is not the Cumorah of New York, thus convincing many and making them to forget and lose the truth of the matter.

Sometimes we are our own worse enemies. Brigham Young said our enemies are amongst us. That was true in New York when Martin Harris lost the 116 pages. It was true in Ohio when wavering men of the early Church caused one group of the fleeing New York saints to have to immediately continue on to Independence. It was true in Missouri when the saints' own acts of pride were in part the cause of the common man's opinion of the Mormons. It was true in the last days of the Prophet Joseph's life when trusted members turned against the Prophet and in part caused his death. For as he thought, 'If my life had no meaning to my friends, then I will not flee.' If all the saints had been in support of Jospeh, they would have had him much longer. It was also part of the cause of the problems on the journey west and the establishment of the Church in Utah. It continues to be the source of many of our own problems today. In a very real sense, we can be our own worst enemy, and the enemy is amongst us. When we take exception to the Prophets in word and deed, when we do not stand united with the Church, when we follow after the things of the world and 'kowtow' to the precepts of men over he words of the anointed of God, then we are indeed being the source of our own enemy amongst ourselves. I would that it were not so. But it is. It is a matter of 'agency' and we are free to choose. At times we think that it does not matter or that it matters but little what we as individuals do. It is 'my life' and it 'hurts no one but myself.' But in that we are wrong. If the saints in Missouri had been more Christian, humble and faithful in the Gospel, we may have been blessed to have continued to have a place there all these years. But they would 'brag that they where going to buy up all the land' and it was going to be the 'Mormon's Zion.' And they were not as faithful as they should have been. And they were not as Christian to their Missouri neighbors as they could have been. Yes, Satan had a role in stirring up the mobs and jealousy of the people, but the saints where not without blame either. And so it is with us today. We pick and chose and make argument with the teachings of the Church with which we do not agree. We've yet to live the United Order and the full Law of Consecration. We have yet to be so faithful followers of the Lord's anointed. And in such things as that and as to Cumorah, we tend to be our own cause of the problem. We continue to choose not to follow the Brethren in every precept and concept of truth. And we do continue to pick and choose to suit ourselves. And God forgive us, in doing so. We are the enemy within.