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Doctrine & Covenants
Section 81
Jehovah commissions a high priest to stand as counselor in the Presidency of the High Priesthood, making plain that the keys of the kingdom belong always to that presiding office. The charge is specific and layered: faithful counsel, unceasing prayer both vocal and silent, public and private, and active proclamation of the gospel among the living. The covenant terms are equally plain — succor the weak, lift the hands that hang down, strengthen the feeble knees — and the promised end of faithful service is a crown of immortality and eternal life in the Father's house. Alpha and Omega seals the word.
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Verily, verily, I say unto you my servant Frederick G. Williams: Listen to the voice of him who speaketh, to the word of the Lord your God, and hearken to the calling wherewith you are called, even to be a high priest in my church, and a counselor unto my servant Joseph Smith, Jun.;
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Unto whom I have given the keys of the kingdom, which belong always unto the Presidency of the High Priesthood:
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Therefore, verily I acknowledge him and will bless him, and also thee, inasmuch as thou art faithful in counsel, in the office which I have appointed unto you, in prayer always, vocally and in thy heart, in public and in private, also in thy ministry in proclaiming the gospel in the land of the living, and among thy brethren.
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And in doing these things thou wilt do the greatest good unto thy fellow beings, and wilt promote the glory of him who is your Lord.
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Wherefore, be faithful; stand in the office which I have appointed unto you; succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.
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And if thou art faithful unto the end thou shalt have a crown of immortality, and eternal life in the mansions which I have prepared in the house of my Father.
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Behold, and lo, these are the words of Alpha and Omega, even Jesus Christ. Amen.
