| Show J i A f SCIENTIFIC WITNESS WETNESS Header nt ot the tM t Kestrel News NeI doubt doubtless less lea pa special attention to the ex cx extended extended tended report given In tn this tM paper ot of J the very vet ery able And lecture which was sva delivered by b Dean of ot the r ot of nm on en The Thu Old Ohl Testament In III h the Light Ight of ot tho the IT U of ot 1 In Among AmonE othor Instructive In explanations given by the learned of ot occurrences related In lit tho the Old Testament and confirmed by tub tuh lets lete an other rIle relics recently uncovered ered cred In Iii the tha exploration lit fit the antiquity of ot civilizations was very er clearly denny portrayed mid find the tho following remarks remark made naile by the tho a er et are lire of ot particular Interest r lt to the tho It lat Saints He lIe saki Jerusalem was aL not a Jewish h city un until iLl til sl tIl centurion after the occupation occupation tion on of or Palestine by the Hebrew na lIa nation tion and existed long Ions lon before under und r the jinine of ot how till tar back la t I not yet el known cnown Ho lie then referred to Mel tel Iel whom tho Scriptural tive speaks peak of ns as without or lineage or beginning or 01 o end 1111 of ot days This hns hils been heen hart hard to understand hut but It la Is now cleared up by b the tablet or cuneiform historical records which show that thin helm being without parent ngo Iiga or days clA referred r to priesthood which wn HI from everlasting and does not refer to any 1111 such mich thing thinK ne liS exemption from the tho ordinary diVe processes of or kind The hl language to the writ writer er fOr of or the epistle to the Hebrews that king of priest of the Most Io t High to whom Abraham paid lei tithing was Without father without mother molher without descent nt having neither begin nine 7 of or dayn dUYA nor nur end ent of ot life lite but hut matin ml lo like Ilk unto the th Son of at Clod a Driest continually lIell 11 3 haM haR been a n of ot contro controversy controversy versy erM or nt lit IllY HOY rate of or mystery m for ninny centuries Hut the mutter muller was pet IH et at rest for tor those who received the ns CM restored through Joseph JosephS S Smith tho the Prophet by tho the explanation that the and atu endless qualities of ot refer to 10 tho the Priest hood held helel by b I ni l not ot to I the tha That Is I clearly set et forth In the tha Hook of lit if Mormon which WAR van translated anil published many man decades decade before tho tim discoveries dl wert ert mode of ot the mentioned by Dr Penniman The Hook Book of ot Mormon orm n was wnM published In 1829 The Tho following pus pie passages sages are ore found on III 13 of ot that thal look hook This High h Priesthood being after tho tim order of or Ills iliA Ui Hon which order wan I 0 from irom the foundation of ot tho th world wurl l or orin orin I in III other worth word being luIng without nine fling of or days or end of It years being I prepared from eternity r to nil All eternity according to III foreknowledge of or nil all things s sY Yn Y n humble hum hie yourselves even Iven vea as IS anthe the people In III tho the days dayn or of who was WI nIne also nl c n a high priest titer atter this thin came ame order of ot which I spoken who sho ho also took upon tipon him thu th high priesthood for over An Is it also nina given glnn of at the man manner ner nr In III which established e paco In the land of Salem which on nn entitled titled title him to tl the tho name of 0 the tho lInco of Pence Peace anti It In Is S Now 01 there thre were many before hint nod also alma there nany afterward hut but nono none oro greater r fore of him ii lin they th have moro particularly a y mado muad o Int It Is In 1 further explained 1 lint Mel del Iel Will king of ot and In lit the tho throne from froni M hl hili father tathel i O 0 It Is In that the tablets I obtained by b the excavators recently made from from burnt bUllIt clay In III tho thu hue of ot Abraham establish J tho tile truth nt ot that Which we mae quoted quotel from the thc Hook of ot Mormon anil understood 1 by h t bo liL llever III In that work osor Inee Inao the tho Church of or Jesu Je Christ 1 of ot was organized Tho hood hold 1011 by h 3 greater than titan that Riven given to Aaron arnn In the tha time of fo the latter being hut but nn tin ap ark to the higher It wan coiled colled the tho because bL wa Wall a II mot most of ot that authority us liS Aaron taron aron wn wes of the tha Priesthood Irh which van WAI VA after hi his hie name that of lit Levi LaI r This ruin 1 i 11 rail all ii In 10 of 01 tho thu Doctrine nod Covenant and imil va Ili refer to It now to show how that tho the In point forth by b FC nce enee in tho the of or tho tim twentieth WM wu lint known In them the latter times time by the tho Prophet het In the early curly part Of JC t the nine nineteenth century I 1 Thus ThuN on th the lantern u aA s well II as IU on Ott this Western continent contribute to f th testimony le In iii favor of or tho time truth of off f I time the Hook hock of Mormon |
