Show WHAT ItI TIIU Another of l tho the Ian Teachers association was about the nature re of ot angels whether they th the y are human spirits disembodied or what The question WAS 1111 referred to a nept preacher who replied that he know This showed d a and a II confession n of ot ignorance on an the part of ot that gentleman that are U I Ing If not satisfactory The expounder of ot the Hebrews then save gave the tho teachers the lucid explanation that they are aro a n high higher er Cr r order of or beings Seeing that the tho epistle under tinder consideration quoting from a 0 former passage p of ot Scripture says that man loan Is III madd made a 0 little lower l w r than the angels the preceptors ex cx explanation Is III not lOt Strikingly explanatory The Doctrine and Covenants states by revelation through Joseph Smith that angels who minister on this earth arth are men who wh belong bOlong or have hao belonged to It That they are arc chiefly resurrect resurrected ed beings boIngs but hut when they are disembodied disembodied disembodied bodied spirits they appear In dory giry l ry arid and are not perceptible jl to tG human touch Tho The angel Moroni doronI who the tho place where tho the plates platen containing tho the hook Dock of ot Mormon were deposited and other angels who ministered to tt Joseph and conferred authority upon him wera persons who vho had lived on an earth arth In la former times This Is ii no weak and tion but a n direct statement and Is corroborated by testimony nota notably bly In the tho words of ot the tho angel to John tho the Apostle In Hev nev 3 8 II 0 The rhe pic pie pictures tures tureH of at angels angel with wings nod a n form torm halt half woman half h lt bird ate ute tho the result ot of untutored Imagination anti and lead head to Mho taho Ideas the ministering spirits sent Hent forth to min minister minIster mm ister liter for tor them thorn who Vho holl ahall bo ho b heirs heire of at salvation There are re angels of light and angels angela of or darkness The Tho latter arc aro under ulder tho the power of ot Satan The Tim Vouchers l chers association tried to decide whether wl ethor the Ad AtI Adver ver nry was a n personal devil or not but left leU the conclusion In a mist tike like other othor debated pe at d flare Hwe the th Doc Doctrine trine and Covenants speaks again with no uncertain sound soum nod to so does docs tho the Book Dook of ot Mormon tee Beo II U Nephi Ix 9 In the Vision described In D and C Section 78 76 6 we find tho th following And thus aw aiO and bear bea roe rec record ord Ott that an tin angel of Goil who was ras as In authority In the presence of pf Clod Goll whO wM rebelled against the Only Begotten Son whom the tho Father loved lov d and who was vall vallIn In the bosom of at the Ule thrust down from the presence of ot Oed God and tho the Son Bon and tind was Perdition lion for tho the heavens wept over was Willi Luci Luct Lucifer fer ter a son lion of the morning m Ve o 25 In section 29 of It tho ho same tamo book It Is revealed tho the was wan before be rare Adam for fur lie he rebelled against me paying lilTing Give Olvo mo me thins honor which Is my power fower and also a 11 third part ot or tho the hosts hasta of ot heaven hell en ho turned away from mo me be bO because cause RUSO of or their agency anil they th y were thrust down and und thus becam became the devil end and his hili angels And behold hero thero Is a a place prepared for tor them theta from the tho be beginning beginning ginning which place Is I h H Verso 31 30 This harmonizes with the Epistle Of t f Jude verso verse 6 And nd the angels which kept not their heir first estate state hut lut loft left their own habitation tion he ha hath bath reserved In everlasting chains under darkness unto the Judg Judgment judgment ment mont of or tho great reat day dayMan dayMan dayMan Man Is now no a 8 little lower than the angels but bit 1 It is destined If It obedient to the tho law of ot the celestial world to rise tat far above aboto thorn them th m In la glory awl and un power and light and dominion Into a far tar more and eternal and exceeding weight ot of glory and to judge e those who are lire to remain as Ill angels In hi eternity Spirits men angels rulers over worlds and endless kingdoms are ure all allot of the same species 1 I different degrees of existence aol and advancement as ns tho the Presbyterians will find dad out Jut If It they ther are not ot willing to learn doctrine now from the Saints |