| Show government most alost truthfully is it written that righteous ness less ex alleth a nation it therefore follows that I 1 jt it is idle vahl vail and useless to expect lasting pei manenty for any government whether individual famil family or national unless it is bounded founded and conducted duc due ted upon the immutable principles of justice all history aside from reason and revelation proves the invariable truthfulness of this position and still the minds of the human family are so prone under various to travel in every path but the one that unto life and to build up and sustain systems ulvich are not of theard the lord ord that at times one would be led to fancy that nearly all mankind are given aver over to that blindness which unto death th s self conceited generation wrapped in ia the pride of their vain philosophies are apt to imagine that they are exceedingly wise and that the prophets and end patriarchs of old were singular 0 old d fogles entirely entire unenlightened by steam lod telegraph I 1 rue they had bad not the present facilities for rapid locomotion ani and transmission of information format formal iong long yet et father adam walked and talked with jehovah and the priesthood continued in an unbroken chain to noah noali and all who wiio held heid it were preachers even of that righteousness which a nat on 1 abd was waa there po no benefit and enlightenment in those teachings and preach ings all must admit there was for enoch Enoth after laboring faith falth faithfully fully during inuring years so sanctified himself and liis ilis associates it 0 at they had llad faith falth to step aside for awhile and to take with ith them their city property and all necessary appurtenances call can this ge generation aeration with Us Ps steamboats steam boats locomotive telegraph wires pomp pom p splendor and vain lain imaginations accomplish such 1 a I feat they cannot even tell where enoch and his ilia city are but bat how about abort tile the hosts whom enoch left 0 they tiley were the tile philosophical thy they were the learned they were the handedly fand edly enlightened and pursued the tenor teno r of their way seeking out many inventions until noah had also prea preached clied i righteousness for the tile term of years ears and what were the tile worlds world ia enlightened about duning during durin 9 that long period setting noahs preaching at naught and pointing the finger of scorn at hlll his epe operations rations in boat building but what wint was again tile the result noah and only seven sevel other persons from all the myrhoda then on the earth were privileged wa with ith a I 1 berth and temporal salvation in that ark whose chos building had been so ridiculed while those rii pil enlightened lightened myr myriads ads were whelmed in the overflowing waters thus has it ever been and thus will it ever be with the Terent different di courses and the results thereof taken lalen by the truy truly wise and the fanci fauci edly edry enlightened until he reigns whose right it is to reign in tile the mean tim time none need deom deoni it st strange alig that in the p pursuit u arsu it and practise the of tru ili III they must aist meet the ridicule and scorn of the worshippers wor shippers of the tile god of this world and that comparatively but few aill il learn in III this time that r exal teth a nation and also cami uis his urs urb and individuals |
