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Show "The hardest truly is great, hut the VOL. 4. rjrte--- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, J ULY tAISNi. 1!!aci-- L V. msi. "A ' -i? W i 'ff ; ,;. ; - .. w-- r- ; ' ';-3- ; c ' - ' fWT '- - , 7. 3' r tT - fi - , E- i - ;"fs eiL '' !$ ' rdemp1 uu , p, peny speaking, or that coiseirns our i.htioij to th- divii.e law, is dure- - by the Nm of God Lnnstdi, m his personal uzcmy, and all that relates to oui inward eon n lion, oi that affects our interior spiritual life, is dune by the agency of the Holy burnt. llnu c, every particular act or elemem of flic in work of salvation tiiat is cxpit-s-ethe Scriptures by a foicnsic trim m ascribed to (Jhri-t- , and belongs to the legal aspect ot the scheme; ami ev my othei pmit that is, all that relate- - ti the inward work, niug. quickis ening regeuecatiiig, renewing, etc ascribed to the Spirit, and belongs to the moral aspect of the scheme. This is not arbitrary, nor is tr.e- distribution of the work and classifietiti'Ui f.ctru us of terms an accidental The arrangement. recognition of it is necestaiy to a propel under stan ling of the ordinances, and to right cm. epiiuns of many therdogical points rrii1' Ad with Chubtian cxpuuciisc. li ,o a, distinction and distribution founded in the nature of things, and established y the wisdom and eternal purpose of II on who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Timse two aspects of the plan ot salvation, and the twofold work, were prefigured unde i the, former dispensation. Pointing to our salvation from sirs, in its twofold aspects, were two classes of typical sei vieps; namely, bloody sacriThese fices and watery ablutions. related respectively to the redeeming blood of Christ, and to the cleansing power of the Holy Spirit, and lasted till Christ died and the Holy Spirit was Then all the tppieal bloody given. sacrifices wtere fulfilled in Christ, and all the typical washings with water were fulfilled in the outpouring of the Ho!yr Spirit. This done, aod the typical services were no longer in place. Their meaning was lost in their fulfill moot but, iu thtir dead, two services wee instituted, adapted to the new disp. gation the one a commemorative Hie, ; pointing to the blood of Christ, already-shedand the other a symbolic ordinance, pointing to the purifying influence of the Spirit cf God. The Lord's-snppe- r recalls to the memory of the Church that which was prefigured by the bloody sacrifices of the law; and Christian baptism symbolizes that which the old watery ablutions adumbrated. Tle-ta fixed, definite uncharjre-ablis, therc-foie-, relation between the Lords supper aud the official work of the Redeemer. In this service, Christs death is distinctively showu forth. It relates to Christ and to his work alone. The bread and wine are the symbols of redemption. The LordVsupper is the sacrament of the Ron of God, and relate! to the Lira! w aspect of salvation; and there is an equally direct and permanent relation between the ordinance cf baptism ami the Holy Spirit. The water of bapti.-is the ordained emblem of tie Holy Ghost working balvation within the soul. This is its invariable meaning: and design. Apart from thia it is without authority and without sense of significance Baptism is therefore the sacrament of the HoiyGhnfet. The work of the Spirit is the Lrun lation of the ordinance; and derives all it" bepth-.refficacy and value fron;aa relation to the Spint It is on rhis ac-w Lie b it icprenents, of the work the count that Spirit is snme-- i tide" ascribed to baptism, and that the wjr-baptism is applied to the Spirir. to denote the work oi the Spirit. a i; 1 oi This is chute by an egy a n and which cause in i effect, symlr.l and the thn.g symbolized, are rhet s figure which i familiar to &i suidants of the Bible, and no one. r ISS'livS lsSk d.s-tirreti- v' l- " ? - - 7i? -- i ? - A iA'Uf'S tete Utah & Ateto' :i. BISHOP ( " fJ--te- . Nevada Railway. BURIED BY BAPTISM. BY .i r C A- -' - ,7 "A vtete--.-- r BEACH, New Bathitig Resort. Or perhaps the real question Why is of the tins consummation this effect, leath unto sin, ascribed to baptism, as We the agent of its accomplishment must weigh this point well: for you see that it reaches the beait of the- subject. This will also suggest the question as to what baptism is intended, whether the outward rite, or that of the Holy Spirit; but I shall cheerfully accept the statement that the word is to be taken in its most obvious sence trial it means the ordinance established in the Church, to be administered by the use of water? wherever the Gospel w preached. Some insist that the baptism of the Spirit is meant, and that water is rel in the passage. 1 make no point of this kind-Thtruth is never advanced by the assumption of extreme ground in its defense, not warranted by the facts, or the force of the words employed. The word baptize occurs a few times in the Scriptures in connection with the work of the Spirit, so that the ie is a baptism of the Spirit, which is the ral bapti-of which that with waair b but the symbol, or outward expression. But it is probable that the word baptism pdes over fi opt the outward rite to the inward vverk, as a metaphor, because of the relation between the ordinance and that which it repress nts. Tins relation is not accidental, noi is it temporary or vanaiiie. It is h i elation chosen by divine ordination, and is therefore definite, fixed, and imaitcral le. When this thought is pioperiy developed, it will show at oniv why the Wuihof th Spirit is called a baptism, and why the whole work of salvation, which is wrought only by the Holy Spirit, is escribed to -. S. M. MERP.IIL Continued.) V The tenacity with which lmm hold their traditional notions of a text whi. h has been used to bolster cherished prejudices is most wondeiful. Hence, we Here must look, again at this language. The apostle says, we. is the pronoun We are buried; and does not this refer to the pci sous baptized, simply as men ? Well, yes; the whle experience it wrought within the person. The old and when our ns&n is our old man; old man is crucified, we are crucified; and when he dies, we die to sin; and when he is buried into Christs death, we are buried. Yes; and when the newness of life is raised up in us, ice are risen old with Clnist. Just so, when the and him is we man off; put put off, when the new man is pnt on, we him on ; aud are we put Our the new creation. identity remains; bu all this does not make the eld man and the new mass the same thing in the metaphorical representations of the apostle. Paul uses the pronoun elsewhere quite as emphatically, when no cue will imagine for a moment that he had any physical action on his person in view. Head Galatians iu i0: I atn crucified with Christ : neverthe less 1 lire; yet not I, but Christ livsth in me : for the life which 1 now live in the flesh 1 live by the faith of the Son of Gd, who loved me, and gave B unself f Here is the same thought, forme. not literally, nor is the am ci unified whole person the subject ot the crucifix ion ; but, as he more definitely states in Romans, the old man is arucified, dead, and buried with Christ, and the new man, or newness f life, the life of faith m the Son of God, ensues. Turn as vow will, you can not escape this style of thought. This personification of the earnal nature, and the metaphorical ei ucifixion, death, and burial of the old man, is the key to much that is otherin these Epistles, and, when wise dearly appiehendel, it unlocks many mysteries, and sheds ft flood of light upon some knotty questicns in theology, in leard to the deepest experiences of the divise hfe. The experience it ufoid3 H vital. Unless the old man is crucified with Christ, dead and buried with Llu, ho that ' we are brought or grafted into his death, we can have no fellow-shiwith Chnst, and must fail to reach We the likeness of his resurrection. can not, therefor1, ail old to fritter away a truth so irepwi tar.t and piacious as this; tome that to toduco end it does and burial with this cruciGiio.i, Christ info his death, to a sudden dip vH the body in wister and out again, is hi tie short of hacdiing the Word of God - e baptism. In ordei foundation a seeming salvation is i to the development of this prim iple, you rou-- t indulge digression. The work of divided, so to speak, iutotwo departments. The first relates to the law of (rod, and our relation to the law, as sinners; and, for th- - parpo-- e of distinguishing it, we call tin-- the legal aspect of the scheme. The othi r department relates to ourselves, to our "ter-io- r state or condition, as donated person"; and this we may designate the moral aspect oi salvation. As sinners, we are under the lew, under ite curse, and liable to all its male fictions; and within ourselves we are piritually bund, depraved, dead. To effort oar deliverm ance from this twnfdd lUp!e-s:;- e alvaticn the purpose of the p'un n revealed in the Gospel. In the nature of must the case, tlm work, of iuh. U-- t aff-t r it hare a twofold bearing; our relation to the law, and it must work a transformation iu our pi,itu&n.at'i"ea. Accordingly, o .nec,f this twcroJcl tli- - e are two personal deceitfully. m bllint here is another question one agents roveaUd, each esigia'ej i.amt h iy , own nt; pnrtaappropriate wldoh you have, pesLaps, anticipated: What has baptism to do with this burial t tins Sou of God, anu the Spir,t os God, -- n 1 -- fk, f -- li- pie-cise- ly e e m mc-anir- 1' I J ; j i s-- d g-i- ; r inter-hange- 2 Q he FS i , pei-.m,- MiBPSaagelgmil -- ff tiat - -- t - .i?:-a&Mrga- ;- ' All e V -- - 4 - r. iV -- ou C QHieuaid spi-er- h. Hi rid FSTKlIL-- 1 F.lBTiil. Vra,.n iVicled !j f isi V. hat I'fii". - TNO. i Orson Pratt, one of tin tbriiiiM fhiirrh. d! 'a in lie id the old bai'lltdof who ola v thy oiilmance of inarnage? Wv have ir.v.clunl to the young men of this fen it uy, an bad be foie them the pacred-- n of t!i iiteuuiKe covenant. (e hai? to! ! tiie.il an,! the young women that it is their dun to entir iuto tlm covenant as tench is it i thur duty to be baptized for the tend- - ion of their das. The satae tint c.'iuni,. I Jti.e Liturgave the revela tiu cojieei nmg the man iiuje cov enant, yet tere ,ue "Uir aim will gnu heed to one ordinance-bupL- vn - but will be careless ami nnhftVrerit about the other. By taking this ivurse tiny do not altogether forfeit tVir r;g!il an i ntm to i liter their kingdom, hut tiny do forfeit their light and title to no kings therein. What will be their condition thii. ? I hey wili be angels. Then are many different classes of beings in the eternal worlds, and among them are angel". Who are these angels V tome of them have never yet come to take upon them in "lies of flesh and bones, but they will come in their tiue-e- , seasons aud generations and receive their tabernacles the same as we have done. r imn there are others who were when Jh"uu was, when the graves of tin Saint" were opened and many came fuith and showed themselves to those who weie then living in the fletb. Besides those there are angels who have been to this world and have never yet received a resurrection. whose spirits have gone hence into celeuial paradise, and there await the resurrection. Ye have now mentioned three eiitefM of angels. There are others, among them borne mleemed from former creations before this world was made, cue of whom administered to our first parents after they were cast out of the garden as they were offering sacrifices and burnt offerings, according to the commandments which they received from God when they were driven from the garden. After they had done this many days au arigcl came aud administered to them and inquired of them why they offered sacrifices and burnt offerings cato the Lord The answer was, 1 know not, save it be that the Lord commanded me. Then this angel went on to explain to our Mrst parents why these offerings were made and why they were commanded to shed the blood of beWs tilling them that ail these things were typical of the great and last acnfice that should be offered up for all the Su of the living God. mankind, uum-GTfic'-came to Adam weie not lint asgete men who had been redeemed from this earth, not men who bad been translated from this e&rthtut limy pel tamed to former worlds, about the coming of Jesus, fhev under-too- d the flutme of there raci bices, etc. Some of these angels have received their exaltation, and still are called angels. For uist'diie-1- , uiihaeliri" received his exaltation, lie is not without his kingdom aud crown wife or wives aud posterity, because he lived faithful to the end. WhoisLeV Our hi at progenitor, (dam, is caiied Michael, the Prince. 1 am mentioning now things miints are acquainted that the Latter-dawith. Many oi these things I have just been quoting are reiUstbus given to us, as those who are readcis will recollect. Some of these augeis have received toeir exalta-tiuThey are kings, they aie piiests, they have entered into their glory and sit on turont", they Imld the scepter over their d posterity. Those other classes I have have neglected the new and everlasting ci'Wiir.nt of marriage; They can not inherit this gioiy and these kingdoms, titey can not be crowntd in the celestial tVrut purpose will they serve? world, bo sent on errands, be sent to will They ollur worlds as misshmarha to minister, ou whatever business the iiiey will ha Lord proper; in oti er wor la, they will To who n wulthey be servants ? beqjrvanf" To Iho-t- - vi ho have oteyed and remained faithful to tbo new and everlasting covenant, aul have bem exilted to thrones; to too".1 who have eowmatel bfore God with wivt-- s so mat they may rates up vud mnlti-pt- e immortal mfcili being" through ait the age" of etra;ty. HeM is the dtetme-lio- u of cL'""'i, but ail of the sameglwy called celestial gmry. But In w ab ..i! thtY tenetrials, can they up into the eu. tu's? Nn, their li not prepared ;e.JCS h j kuowie Jge au 5 h I.ipte them to dwell with those who giory, consequently they reign in i be logeL ni tat glury. They c.jj not have not the Ihw tint pertains to mil they could not abide it. glory, r. t 1 b- -- p y n. Dteu-tlene- s-- in-te- h-- 1 i'a o'st ji YIH. Bat will thhre be blessings adinin;st,.,.j them by those who dwell in eelo iri.u gh'-- ? Yes angels will be sent fortli frum ih' celestial world to minister to thine who inherit the glory of tle moon, benimr mesvoe of joy aud peace and of al! that winch Is caleulted to exalt, to redoeni and e .uoole those who have beau resurrect id ino n glory. They can receive the m.iat of the Lord there, and the mini flatten of angels there, Jow let us come to still inferior gloite-- . I have mentioned those who lnlierit the glory of the stars. Who are tmy? They are not the heathen, for they come up higher Into the teirestrial glory. tVlio..r they tLeu, who are permitted only io lyh.-ua glory typified by the stars? 7 In y arc the general world of mankind, those who have beard the gospel of the Son of (rod but hove not obeyed it. They are to he punished. How long ? Until Jesus bas reigned here on the earth a thousand years, i; w mnch little .season has longer? Until the r afti the end of the thone.i id away paed years, and then when the final end "hall come and that the trump of iod "hail sound, and the great white throite shall appear and the heaven and the earth shall Coe away; when that time shall come, the "onnl of the trump shall call foith those sleeping millions of all ages, generations and mtions who have heard the sound of the gospel and have not obeyed it, but until then their bodies must sleep. They are not woithy of the first resurrection, Bloswd and indy is fee who has part in the first resurrection, for on such the second death has no power. But those who will not give heed to the Lw of the gospel have no claim on this first resurrection, and their bodies must sleep through all these long centuries that are to intervene between the time of their death and the end cf the earth. Where will their spirits be all that time ? Not in any glory; they cannot inherit a glory until their punishment is past. They are not permitted to enter into prison, A great many people, and perhaps some of the Latter-daSaints, have supposed that these characters will go into prison. Ido not know of any revelation anywhere intimating that any one of this class of persons who will ever be put in prison. Where do they go ? To another place altogether different from a prison. A prison is designed for those who never i.e&id the gospel here in the flesh, but yeti.ave committed a few sins without the knowledge of the revealed law, and who have to be beaten with few stripes in prteou. But those persons who hear the gospel, as the nations of the present dispensation are doing, can not go to prison, it is not their place, o'hey fall below a puson, into outer daikness or hell, where there wili be weeping and waii-inand gnashing of teeth. Thera they have to remain with th8 devil and his angels in torment and misery until the final tnd, then they come forth. Can they come where God and Christ dwell ? No, worlds without end they cannot come there. Can they go into the presence of the heathen, where the glory is that of the moon ? No, they cannot even come there. When they aie dLuemi from the power of Satan and end! ss death and brought forth, where do they go ? If ter-resti- t y g they do not go Into the presence of God the Father, if they are not counted win thy to enter into the terrestrial world emoug the d heathen, where will they go ? God has mansions for them according to their works here in this world. Having suffered the vengeance of eternal fire for the "pace of a thousand years and upwards and so fid n 1 the extreme penalty of the law of God, titey can now be brought forth to inherit a plte--i where they can be administered unto by terrestrial beings and by angels hohu-.the priesthood, and whet they taut uLelha Holy Ghost. Those in the terrestrial world have the priveiege of beholding Jesus s .m they can receive the presence of the ", m. I .it l r t th fullness of the Father; bniGue iu the tehstial world still mwor, ree iveoi-'- ;V Holy Ghost, administered to tin m t y r.'-sergeordained and sent forth to euv-vteiothrim for glory and exsUatteii, p, vi V.g they will obey the law that isgiun : them, which law will be t lestIA law. 71, t will finally exalt them. How f,.r 1 ki ,w nut, but where God sud Ckrtet rq, y ,.u(1 not corns worlds without end, pn-vide- 'ki'q rs IVue u a mocker, strong ? ng G lagi.ij, J'suited U.trely A n A wist. Proverbs of Solomow. at. 1 ichosutcer is Ochoa spirit of rein-no name to be know a hater Cdli tins, W(,UU- - SHAi.E-,- ! ! If th U. id u HXllL. |