Show = = = = = = Z = DISCOURSE I ed In tty > Tabernacle Salt Lake City Suridoy Mny 8 1800 by ELDER ORSON F WHITNEY my brethren and sisters the realize I follonlblilty of the position that one < I bo Is I called to be a teacher opts IT Temporarily to the Latlerday i even nd 1 feel i the need of depend lot I fj1 In Cod title afternoon for what upon ofr nbti Ml I PW tar JIS Itoly Spirit I hat II may Inspire the word which Si t bo spoken that nothing may 1 that ought not to bo said and old porting may be left unsaid that shield be l rP0111 li I a treat mlfilon that rests upon I I be mlle leathers In the midst I mn to I fellow men I am now think of their raii I g of three great tnhr whom Cod I o sent t forth to teach Ills truths to man truth that perhaps have be I itiodtruthil 1 so famlllnr to us that they Seem ai on ott fid tale but which were i8e And ttartung to the genera ta to which they were first delivered these three teacher I rigord u probAbly prob-Ably the greatest that ei er came forth rora Cod They are Mota Jesus I Christ and Joseph Smith An Inventl ration of the truths they taught will that I ally warrant the declaration pake concerning them There li I no question among Christ of th ina at to the preeminence Great Teacher the greatest of all even Jiuui Christ our Lord It Is I conceded con-ceded by all who believe In lllm tint I lie I spoke us never mOil pal < e AM I Inarly there be lho accord to the Prophet Mpres Matness And eminence II a taller 11 Is I ecorIIId that the Ten CommAhdmnt which Cod through Idm Ire the brief of save modern jurlrudnc IJut lhn It I comes to Joseph Smith the Prophet of tile lat dispensation a smile of In maulltt perhaps ot scarn mrcatheo many 0 face at tho bit suggestion that ke was 0 teacher and a great teaches come from God Hut let us judge the tree by Its fruit Men do not gather grapes of thorns cr < tt of thistles Jesus Christ llld this donn as a principle by which all nen might be tested Illy their fruits re shall know them not by Idle rumors ru-mors not by the slanders of their enemies ene-mies but by what the men themselves teach by the truths oc actors they bring forth by the works they make nnlftst for said He A good tree tsnnot bring forth evil fruit neither aa a corrupt tree bring forth rood j It a o Wherefore by their fi its shall know them We mho are tb disciples ct Joseph Smith or I ralbir the disciples of the Son of led hl foljo J through the teachings I of Joseph Smith Le perflctly willing that his lit C and Iilrl ltlC duracter its teachings and Ills works ihtll be submitted to thin divine test 14 Joseph Smith by the doctrine munolatod by the nobility of hi uraler by the Sincerity of his life 0 the eornln aDd honesty ot his Inst made ronlll In Ills wllllnor revs to die lot the sake of his eonlc 11one Do riot 1pilre him by Idle tojes and ruenorv Look at the yn himself him-self take I him teachings and his work and jUde nun and them by the ngui that llrhteth t every soul that God has l eletri lent Into the world First however lit us speak of Mote In what consisted the greatness of him ttachlars A n At the condition t Vlance 11 red ll if the n 0 riot 1 In hla time t li sufficient to hov till He It vvat who brought It man the knowledct tt the true cdmt Inl 01 Ed living Clod lin had been oroblppln various deities In the An lion round about Away ort In laid they worshiped the god Bra 1mm and saw In all the forces of nature and all the Passions ef men rood and evil eo many separate and flood I tn manifes IaUon ot the OlIO Iod Brahma aod I vAs In everything and these mantr btlon ot natural power were mnnltea ation of Crltya doctrine that modern mod-ern philosophy would call the Imman ny of Cod who Warm breeze In the sun refreshes In I the C1 > vsi In th I a stars and blossoms In the trPt IVev i through all life extends Ihrough all extent Spred undhided operates unspent But wa this a God that mn could elate Pet err Such near a divinity I to Could tied worship they ph in IB n Satisfactory manner Could the yearning foul of man lonrlng to draw hear to Us maker feel that such n Jhlnlty ii title was Its rather In heaven hea-ven Down In Ezjpt their were war hlptlnit begets ana reptiles the ox Ue > goat I the crocodile the beetle VtiM gta the Ftlan were cods Of shrines which the god Inhabited no hnd come down to the earth to watch t mnnklnd Such was the rever enc > vnld b > these ancient people to tte > e dellleii that It when one of the clmali died It was regarded DR a no U01181 inlnmltv nnd the rout or the ox ale hulled WI fit flostly and magnificent KmonUs It Is supposed that ono Itlie I secrets nf the hatred of then the-n > tl n for the Itraellteii wa be links the latter ni > ie shepherds and nt limn rlevt the fallings of their Hocks Ii Ihoenlcl round about the land of CsnRall I whlh Ioea wo oUli In J lead the Children of Israel I ho boa Just emerged il from Egyptian I I endageth wonhlll the un as had and the moon as Ahtorlhthp also 1 W Itlhlrlid tho a Ian the sessons and the forces of nalure Everything I I ght TVAV a golfor polytheism pre tiot lIet thererind thy worshipped I divinities with all manner of 11iinhoulneps yu remember the hID of Vent and Ahtoreth was this r real ductile Influence thnt proinllert At 1 limo iolnt the Children of Israel 14 at led lm away from the worship It yfhrn all thIle ilh wWe the IdPR9 t Prevailing in three centers of relliflona thought led dC 1 141040111Y I I Ihen Aloses the man at Cod CIA10 forth II Proclaimed ir llt them a this Idolatry t 11I I 1 in I tf fractices must fl ior r the Pun Or Ibis moon or any of 0 Jt In l lnltul orT sra the creutlonet I Cod thy oro not the Creator You mUtt worship Gild In hon tho In 111LI Jhvah tile ll l Eternal Father Mhr of hvn an1 ot nrth O riveted I Man In 1h likenepsin Ills llnf l Ihu Ire mail pri r to Tift illl your I lov Ih vIbIA It thlll1 of t91 Iln h and elk 1Ihov not YI 1 might 2104 141 AVIAlk trust by In still b You d t see TIM This OR thMullmanoenial h l I the teach Of r ol r r It iff the personality Inr ad lit ttt1hT 1 1 bern thnt the be F 1Iy wr to worship find created the n In 1118 Over image That wam riot sun nor the moon nor the trees nor thi flowers II mnnt that find wn A the form ra man for It lie last 1 ten I I d men In III w Iminre Is Mi4eff Must be In the Imlt ot min telex Tll w the gront sorviro that old rend1 la nunklnd It I nn song an oft told tale to u who bn Inhvilted this knowledge even bT tradition from the earliest times and have had It restored to us In these latter I times Ve cannot halt appreciate appre-ciate except by a great effort ot Imagination Im-agination the value of the service rendered by Moses the Prophet of God Allen lie taught men whom they wer to worship Jesus Christ taught the same truth He had been speaking of the Father to Ills disciples and Ihlllp said to Dim Lord khov us the Father and e h Th Savior answered Have I been so long time with you slid yet hast thou not known me Ihlllp he that hath seen mo hath seen the Father Christ was In the form of a man Paul tells us that He was the express likeness of Ills Fathers person Hire was a reentmclutlon of tin aim prlnolrie I taught by Moles but which had become be-come dllll In the mind Of mn 01 truth will ever become dim through the l Pf of ages It we do not take a course to keep the tstlmtnr thereof alive In our heart If re do not live is car to God rritctlnlng the principle a lie ban revealed and If wt do not hsvi among us Inspired mn 10 teach US Lad remind ui continually of the truth Any fire will die out If It la I not Flip piled with ful Anr Imp l will be extinguished ex-tinguished It It 19 not replenished irltn oil The testimony of the truth her tr h-er miraculously It may hare been kindled In the human hurl however brightly It may burn for a time will grow dim will gradually die and the living embers will become dead saves If 1 the works Umt Cod Ties enjoined ui on be be neglected If we da not meet together often as He has commanded and 1 hear Ills word taught If w > do not submit ourselves to tile discipline that He has Instituted for the purpen of renewing aud keeling allvn our faith and If we do not hat livinG Prophets and oracles of God to guide ui to re mind us to admonish uo and to teach us anew the eerle llng truth Then tlilnn come about van naturally very gradually but surly and lnultibl If we do not take the course that God has marked out And so It was that although al-though Motes had taught the knowledge edge of the true God to the children ot Israel they were continually turning their backs upon Jehovah forgetting the Invisible Deity and worshiping Haul und Ashtoreth things that they could see You remember how prone the were to Idolatry even In the days of Jloies tainted with It no doubt from thtlr long sojourn In Egypt so that while Moses I was up lu the Mount receiving re-ceiving the knowledge of the true God conversing with him face to face In order that he might testify that he had both teen and hold the God that Israel was to worship the people persuaded per-suaded Aaron to make them a golden calf one of the Egyptian gods It Is the tendency of the natural man to demand shine and outward mant fesUtlons the liraelttea wanUO a god that they could eke and hence they erected the golden calf and bowed down before It They were seduced again and again because they neglected neglect-ed to U < r the things that Cud required of tliwu and their Micas were darkened dark-ened In consequence The knowledge that Moves had kindled In Ulr hearts bicaine dim and gradual died away They forgot thut thlr God was In h avi and they worshipped the sun and the moon like the haathiu nations around them Hence It was necessary for the Lord to joint 1 prophttt again and again to rekindle the old tire te revive la the hearts of Ills chosen Pie Pie l the original knowledge that they rMtUed from lloics nmlndlng theui that Only must not italic by ilmt but must hnve faith In the Invisible God end believe the ttnUoionlei of these who had been worthy te set and con versa with him The maitea of the prvple were not worthy to see God UOP < S tried to make His people worth wor-th uto they would not aulxnlt them Be Ago to Uie necessary discipline < o the llechlsede Priesthood and the ftillneas of the Coipel wire tak o Into tin heavena when Moses departid and ttreel naa left with the law of Moves with the law of carnal commandments with the Antonio Prlesthond la rule over them until the dawning of a blighter day When Jesus Christ came He taught them new doctrines Uiat In I they were new to that reiteration who were astonished at Ibm and because 110 taught them Ra one hiving authority and net as the scribes lie told them He nast he Son of Owl and that Ile was In the Image of His Father lIe taught them that up above his world In a heaen of happiness peace and glory dwelt their Father from whom II a had come corno In fulfillment ot loses nnd the Prophets who had tea lined of Him He cam to restore the knowledge that was lost He came 10 fulfil the requirements of the Law which had preflgurid by Its sac Illicit and offerings the of tiring up of this eifj tnwlllce the Iamb of God in the meridian of time Think not said He 1 that I am come to destroy the Inly I or tin prophets I am not come to des troy but to fullll Hut lie came 10 teach a nee principle A new cent mandment I give unto you that ye love 1 > one another This uass to Ills disciples its Mae aid ao He But upon the Mount 01 Olives IIIrlnlt that great discourse ailed the Sermon on the tJount Ye have heard that It hath ben rate Thou shall love thy neighbor and hate Ullne enemy Hut I fay unto YOU Love your ene < nles bless them that curs ou do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you That ye may le the children of jour rather which la I In heaven for lie maketh Ills sun to rise on the evil and on the good and semleth rain on the just and on the unjust For It ye lovo them which love yu what reward hath Yet 0 not even the pllblloon ha-th < marniaI And If ye salute your brethren only what do je more than others Do not ten the publicans so He > o therefore perfect even as jour Father which U I In heaven Is par ft They were astonished at Ills doctrine Why Was It a new doctrine No It AAs as old us eternity It was a part of that everlasting Gospel that hud Ien formulated In fit heavn before the ohI was And hd been upon the earth In dlrtirciit < ll > p ni > ntlnni < Till same principle had douhe been taught by lnoch who i Sill his city rchd each a state ot perrcUon final they were taken Into the boavens by tranlaUon Cn Yale conceive hit Knoih did not lealh hI that tentIthtwiliniAe lr > y should love inch olhr Iht thY thould i0turn good for cvII7 I canlwt I believe that IllOrer Ill fullniesP of the Gospel has been pr ilud whather by an Adam an Uncoil u Noah an Abraham or a Moi s men hBV been taught to lovo sails other as the children of Coil and to cilium good for evil Hut It was n now do trlno to the generation to whom Cutlet 7 line Debt For fifteen hundred Yeats the Jrun had been schooled unir the M < of Moses It wan a lAw of strict justice with little or no merry It was the law of retaliation An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth Thl was as high a principle perhaps us they could comprehend and was good as fur at It went for justice cannot be abolished Men will receive the measure that they mete unto others Christ tnuiclit this principle along with the principle of rv tied forriverem and flip return of rood for evil Judge not Pays Its that ys be not judged For with what Juu ui nt Ills juuge ye Shall be Judged and with what maiure ye mete It shall be measured to You again He did not do away wllh the principle of justice but reenunclated It Hut He did seek to take out of the hands of In dllduals tin Infliction of engeance upon those who hal wronged them Leave these things to God was what lie meant Vengeance Is I mine 1 will repay salth the Lord Do good to each other forgive all men neive God and He will arnK your Injurl Perhaps no other Principle li I so closIy acsoclated with the nam of Jesus Christ except It be the atonement and the resurrection which he came to teich and exemplify a > the principle ot the Golden llule the return of good for evil Now It seems a hard thing to do but there 10 I nlnays some iHnulty In obeying God There It 1 ulna > arnilhln to lie conquered In ourselves mlion we make up our minds to live near to flit Lord Hut that II l what we are hire for Belfoonquett la I the object of tile revs lotion of Gods will to man It li to make man Godlike to lift him up to make him more like Ills father In heaven for he It I deatlned to be like Him Hut hon Ion would we have to wait If mm continued to hat each other to avengi their wrongs and Inflict In-flict Injury In return for Injury how long would we hay to wait txforr mankind would be Godlike and this world worthy to be rolled back Into the pre enc > of Its Creator The Prophet Joseph BmUhthat muchmlundorotood menItao at one tune n itrlklng Illustration > f this 1rtM ellI It was when Zion cump was Polar down to Mn url In the year 1134 A member of the camp awoke one morning and found a rattlesnake In hd with him coiled and asleep mar hit plllon Hoirorittlcken lit arose and hli Drat thought ran to get a stick 01 a atone and kill the snake TUt Prophet told him not to do It Said ho Tho make tins not harmed you It hat trusted In you do not kill It for how Is I that great OlD of peace and goodulll to bi ushered In which the prophet hue predicted when the lion shall eat straw Ilka the ox when the sucking child hall Hay with the serpent and they shall not hurt nor destroy In all the holy mountain of the Lord hoill long mutt ue wait for that great ea the Millennium If men continue to treat cruelly the animal and crush their liven out of them without any provocation Joseph Smith taught men to be kind to be merciful tu be forgMng and to leturn good for eMI I bear In I mind another Incident In his history iNhan je and some of his brethren iere lying I lit a stars ton LIberty LIb-erty Jail Missouri I I during t1se winter I of IUSP after the Saints fifteen thou Small mn > Aomin and children h1 been driven from i tin elate of Iourl These brethren wore Pleated with rent cruelty la I prison It la said that the depravity of their jailers descended 00 low the they even cooked human flesh taken from the body of a nero who bad been killed and offered It to theta piltonais to eat and the Prophet named by the Lord told his brethren not to partaU cf It It Ass In the midst ot these clr cumalanoci that one of the broth ran as asked to pray and be rdm prayed that Cod would demn the trion who were triatuig them thus cruelly Wilson he got through the others were laughter at him He asked What Is I the matter They aaUWe I are authll I 0 K 2 I Our prave Iall I he replied I If sou want any better praying pray-ing than that jou can do It your selvta The Prophet then told him You yoWu1t mil I Y at ee E day vhen you will pity time I vary men who are Inflicting I tlliaa mjurlea upon you Clod has hon to rae In vision the out footage of the urnuJly and I had la pray to Was to cleat the vision when I saw the terrible judgments that would come upon the wicked Tho Prophet taught the principle of patient submission sub-mission to wrong And It la I this that lilts men up above other men When men Injure us they Put themselves In our debt and that debt remains until we cancel It bi An act of retaliation Hut men will say na r have heard them say Why If I should return good for evil to this or that person I he would not appreciate my moUte he would think I was soft foollah that I was truckling I and that I meant I Ian I-an nil acknowledgement ahIthn was I right and I was wrong slid had deserved de-served ufJI that hit had done What It i be should think t so What U some minis souls ore so limited that they cannot appreciate a magnanimous act It Is I n1 for the effect upon them alone that you at 0 taught to rncll tile t golden rule It Is I for the effect upon yourself You cn nol grov If you hat mankind l You cannot Increase and expand at least at rapidly l nt you might If you cherish feelings of anger Jealousy and strife It Is I because Rod want You to grow to beom like I 11Im that lie ak you top to-p your hearts free from these things Therefore wbat matters II whether your mtlvo are undertoo1 or nt You are not the first to have jour motives mlsunder rtood The effect upon you and upon me cannot be otherwise than good If we f3rgle those who have Injured UB and otrlv 10 love our enemies frI fr-I believe that even this Is I poi lble It we stand upon a plane high enough It we remember who 1 and what we are that We were sent Into this world to leach and exemplify the truth that wu came to be saviors of nn bearing tile Holy Priesthood havinG the Gospel ot peace and goodwill to administer If we remember that we have been chosen to follow the Lamb of God whltherzo Hn goeth can we not advocate ond practice the principles that He preached and that He died for If we cannot what right have we to call ourselVes our-selVes Ills disciples Follow me lit raid Ue that would be ray disciple lot him take up his crisis und follow me Fattier forgive them for they know not what tray do This wis one reason why He could practice the principle Ile recognized that It wits i Ignorance to a Bievt extent that Prevented men i fom doing right They did 1 not know fully the results of wl0ked 1 course Even the mn who murdered him did nol know to the full extent what Ihey were doing Ile could pity their Ignorni and he lift eel himself so high above them by a righteous life that He could say and not only taj but feel Father forgive them for theY know not whit they do lie came to ulTer fr heir sakes I nnd He was wllllnll 10 Puffer And lie haR sold 10 up In these latter I 11trits 11 the Lord will foritlVr whom I will forgive but nf you It IS l required that you forgive all men Why Because < lod wont nil to crow arid extinsid And I leeinst codllke We cannot do this with hatrd In our hearts Wo can only dn It to the bal advantsire with love In our hot with feelings of klndne Ilarolty mercy forbearance and 1 forgiven for-given Th it In I why wn are required to irnctlce theme virtues Joseph Smith the third great teacher as I have already reminded you taught then same prln Iples He brought now Into the world the knowledge I of the true and living God Mm had again forgotten he true God and how to worship hln Yes In the midst of thl full blaze to ailed of Uosptl light men had Wall W-all forgottn wht bd bon taught thusa of Years before r I trding the oonIlIY of the CIA A tir They Avert ruhlpplng 11Im again as a beIng be-Ing without body parti or passions who was In the sun and the moan and the atari who was In tne owers and the trees and In all the Montreal lion of nature And so lf Is In one men > Ity Hit Spirit He Is In all tile thlngithat Spirit which llghteth every man that vometh Into < the world < The light ot the un TeeThe Tee-The light of the moon Yu Tile light of the stare Ye the light of on things for light Ilk trUth has bill one aource God Hut we must not confound the Spirit of God with the personally of God our Fattier In heaven He who created man In His gn linage as Moses taught the chll dron of Ioraol ne who wu In 1M express ex-press likeness ot lilt Son Jesus Christ who was lit I tilt form ot men and who hilln others talllht this truth ilis the world This woo the OoJ ut men were to worship But thy are not worshipping Illin when lost li h Smith cause forth to reraveal and redeclux HIM Ills mind was onfuitd ever tin many onnictlng claims ot the arkJu Christian amcls one saying this It I the right way anuthir uy Ins that Is I the right way Mo I hr ti I Christ lo there It Chrlit In rn much that he did not join any 01 them but went te the Bible l iron had come down through tin mi ron lalnlng the woid of Cod lit i a so I the Epistle of James If any lack Ws dom let him ark of Ood who gtvith to all men liberally and upbialdeth flat and It shall be given him lie did nt nnd there that hi wat to ge to tills man or that man to rbI chuioM or that church for the Priesthood anZ the Ohuich or God wore net upon the t Perth but to go > to Cod go directly to his Father In htivtn and Oak Him for Madam la jtb tlmpl bll bW j f i faith I ol hit heart ha carrlid boutJj Wheat and while pralng 111 the wood near Ml lathers hOUIO1 I gloileu Vision Intel upon his tlew firI however how-ever he wan attacked by nrj r evil Innu t once which Ud his tongue and nad INery ellort to lUlu r him but he kept on Praying to Ills 11 t If t w a light above till heal brighterthai l T I the noonday sun and L pillar of glory de stgded until It rtod upon the top ef the trtts In the midst etlt he low two proons In the form ot mon and one of theta calling Jotep by name and polntlus to the other mil Thl U I my bloOd Son hear Him Could Joseph Smith doubt from ttikt moment If he had ever doubted before that hit Flhor In limaien ANss In the form ot a loan just as the Lord Ju Christ as In the form of a mino It was as plain at daylight for there was the vision gloulnr In glory before his eyes 110 was told not to Join urn of the churches for God won about to found Ilia Church upon the earth And he this bohnd bn chosen to do n reat iork for Cod In thl JASl I dlspUon Ibis was the calllnc Joseph Smith lie taught anew that God was In the form of mn that man was mad tn the Image ofaod and he taught the Ulnclplis of Justice mercy charity a nd forgiventsi Therefore 1 Ley as one who belles In lilm AS a Prophet of God judge the trte by Its fruits Do men not Inspired of God teach men to live each other to twleve In the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the Od of Moses thi God ef Jesus Chrltt to be charitable to be honest to be virtuous to be upright to be kind loving nKI forgiving H to return rood far evil I No they do not You ray knew tin tree by Its fruits Men do net gather groves of thorn or flga of thistles And If 1 men drsw near to God In their llvn and teach and practice I g ffactlce Use toachlings of Hit ten ants they follow In the footitipt of their Savior they do not follow after evil and Joseph Jo-seph Smith did not He taught the truths that Bit Prvbets before him had It au and he went beyond ukpt atb them ci for this great movement nlkruned Mormonism In like a mighty tldtl nnve rolling up the beach of history destined to make a higher ripple mark than any wave that has prtedd It Joseph Smith taught men 10 look up to heaven and conceive ota ot-a Od In the form of mn Ue taught dim that they could become like their rather and God who wan an exalted Alan And what It more simple and raonabla1 Dont you parents expect Your children to become like You Or do you expect your children to be Some thing else than men and women No You mn will mee Your an become mn you women will see your dough tore become women Then God our Father > ej and our Mother In r klnnlowno 1jj J heaven look At down upon this world this school house In whIch their children chil-dren are beleir educatedexpcl and Jooph Smith taught It us a truth that i 1Fahtt efuW w their children will be exalted It they pursue the proper course until they than become divine beings themselves worthy to stand upon thai Plane where stand their Father and theIr Mother In heaven Like begets like and the principle of eternal progress will make of man a God Joseph Smith olio taught the great principle et universal salvation The Gospel of Jesus Christ save all men but saves them according to their merit In different degrees of glory True there ale some exceptions There are same who cannot be snved who remain filthy till bu thy wm not receive the truth or rather having received re-ceived It throw It away and trample upon i It wlttLngl Men who knowing that a tiling IB I true will not receive It wm nol live It cannot 10 I nuUOd by that truth Men who Ire so perverse that they will utterly reject Utht and i knowledge knowing It to bo light and knonledge cunnt be redeemed by It for they place themselves outside the Palo of redimptl Hut are there many who would do thin I have this muli confidence In the human hu-man race I believe that the most of men would If the truth were brought to ttum obey It either fully or In part that they would not fly In the face of God knowing him to be God nor reject Hln truth knowing It to bIlls b-Ills truth Hence the Savior said Inther forgive them for they know not what they do But those who do know their elluiUlon Is far more serious God Is merciful to Ignorance He cannot look upon sin with allowance allow-ance hut he can allow for human weaknens He cannot compromise with Fin He saves us from our sins not In our kins and He has Instituted means whereby we may get lid of our sins He tells us to believe to have faith to lepent of our Ins and have Ihim washed away by baptism by beIng be-Ing I Immerrd is riedIn the water and brought forth out of the water In the 11 keresms of His birth and rcsurrec lion And not only thir but we tire required to practice al that God re vents Thin I Is I the celestial l4wpi live by every word That proceeds from Ills mouth not to select this principle or that nilndpl ond fay This Is I my Gospel hut listen to Him nnd to Ills Servants who bear the holy Priesthood nnd follow them and obey them for they art the mouthpieces And oracles f Gd This Is 1 the celestial law You iced not try to tie It down lo any ont things It moans evcoining on-t we are commanded do We are here that It may be en whether vve will observe U do all that the lord our God re qulrit at our hands And what nwtlts those who oby thli I Clleitltl law Then are thoy who nle of the flory of lie tun of the celestial 1 kingdom Avhuie glory tile tun of the firmament li written of as being tjpl CI They who receive the Gospel In I Hit flesh when It It pretntrd to them who live Its I holy principle und ut faithful unto 111 end thy ale tavit redeemed sanctiniJ and 1 eulted by It Tiny go Into the cela t Ill kingdom to enjoy the full Prettier ot God the Father They are beings clei till ail their glory In I the glor of tile Bull All thine lie theirs und they ore Chrltft olid Christ In Godm Hut they who reject the Gospel here and Put I off the day of their salvation und have to be preached to In the spirit world where their spirit will go at did the spirits of tile antedlluvluni those uhe wells swept ort by the Hood end to whom Christ In the spirit went nnd preached even to the spirits In Pllionthey who put off the day AId ot their itlvatlen and think Ie will have a ituud tluir Iii4 IJ nil Ls tbl Uipel heitufter thy mutt answer for this neglect and utter they hue answered fr It and realized what they have last they will be dnot In I the celtttlal klurdun but In a lexer I kingdom called Uie terrestilal the dlf ferince between which and the celestial world li I aa the difference b twen the moan that rulei the night and the sun that I It king of day The restless nations na-tions that wire never given the Gospel ord consequently ner Innd against It are Alto 1 heir ef the terrestrial kingdom king-dom Hut thoole who liject the Compel all ittlier and are besotted and crime ital > > od what of them It It I wrltttn that they will be thrust down to hell I even the murderer the liar the eat certr tad the wtiartmoncer They will fd Uf In inert k < dnnne But they Attli only li damned to the extent justified ty their tint Even for them there It I hop alter they have paid the utter insist fartling They will be punished erthlog ZYh as au Mtn meet be for neglect of duty for tra n egress I on of the laws ot God but after they have been pun Ithid sufficiently they wlU be brought forth and lived In a glory ot which the stars U heaven au ttllttl Joseph Hillh taiwht this great and mighty fextrlnt He riiuuncUted an old truth for Paul the Apctle had rokn neDlng It though mn hat loit 1 Uie knowledge ft what he meant when ht said There Is I one glory ot the sunand another glory of the moon and another glory of the tara for one star dlffareth from another star In glory So also Is I the resurrection of the dead Brethren and sitters we who are Latterday SnlnU we who are fol lowerss of Jesus Christ of lotith Smith of llnjiam Young of John Taylor of Vtllford Woodruff and of the Apostles anl Irophetn of today whom Oollia plated over us lu counsel and so rheh ui we ere entitled If our count bu onistnt to the highest florj of all Ihe celestial kingdom Uut In order to attain It we must not live after the manner of the world Air must live by rvery word that procirdtth front Ihe mouth of God we must bu wllllna to make tacrllicts even aa great aa Atira hm In orterln his un Isaac should God require It This Is I the key to Ihe celestial klncdomthe principle ot obedient which may Involve many and lriut sacrifices IMi It I what makes the way itruleht and the Kate narrow nnd few there be that IIqJ It because our heart 0 are so toilets set upon the things of t his world und vvc love tho honors ot inene love ellltb love Pleasure wu lave this world we bow town 10 It And orshlp It os Israel vtonhlped > t Ihf golden calf we cannot or do not lift our thought all theaime to vor hp > the Invisible Got llccauie f 114a I many of us stand In Jeopardy of losing celestial glory Hut God grant that nil who are straying t Yf such there be may turn Into tho right waXthr narrow wllond serve God with all their hearts their might mind and strength May we not d1vappo Int the heavens that ent us forth to be teachers and exemplars and saviors ot mn arid when the time comes that the fullns decreed by the Father ihall be bellowed upon III children may we not twinkle like the ittri or beans like the moon but Mil Ilk the sun In hit noonday niajetty aa Inharl lantt and citizens of the celestial commonwealth the glorious kingdom of 9Ur God Amen |