Show aj ril bilu B HOLY PRIEST by W G No wElts continued this branch of the holy priesthood then holds tile the power to bless or to curse tile the keys to bind or to lose loae tile the a authority lit hority to sea seal I 1 on earth and the verification thereof therdo f to reach lato iilo tile the heavens whereby men are enabled to carry with them into eternity that they have attained to in this life the reference in the bible to aliis branch of tho the priesthood is id not so particularly defined as aa to the power arid and authority held bell ther cund r but the principle reference referee ce theria is ii as to tue lial as the twelve patriarchs or tile the Va patriarch abrahah Abra Abr allax haj if in some few instances mention is made of blessings being bestowed by certain taira of tile the catri arcas archs as in the instance of father adam adain b fore mentioned anil and had we now an account of this great patriarchs sayings 43 it at that little lime so that we could them they might open up a door to koths thi people of hiis t ais generation enervation ene ration that would carry our minds mind s far into the future as to the catline of gods works among the child iea of men out but in the aure of this the very nature of this brancil of the I 1 priesthood FIest bood is intended to be unto those who possess it the same monitor nio that it was to father I 1 adam now let ui enquire it i is s zot not ot in tl I 1 e 0 W n miffs is ifs rr r vs r too ro do as adi ada india cill our posterity around us and bless bliem arid and prophesy unto ihen is it because men inen in this age odthe of the world are so enuch furth further er removed from god that ile he cannot ge reached or is it bol biot rather that we do not cultivate in uj ui that desire to know and lit understand der stand the i 0 kings odthe of the priesthood that thai we nold if the fortner former let lei us briw near unto tile the lord and beseech him to draw near unto us that we may be endowed doved en with at least as much intelligence inteli gence as was our great leather fattier but says one adam walked and talked with the lord in person and more than tit th it he lived longer I 1 and had a much better opportunity of extending a his knowledge v by the long experience peri ence lie he had this is all true but is tile the arm arin of tile the kord ford shortened I 1 is it not stretched out still is not this the same priesthood is no not t it its and of thu the same saine potency now as it was years a aio to basure it is mans lift life although ing hie time liine of experience is limited arid and this ahoi s us u how far we have wandered away away front from tlc alc lord in this our day da it ii would now flow take about 28 of tile the avara average e generations of man to attain atlle to alie ago age to which adam lived allowing tile average age of 33 years to the person and wore more than this there was it a greater percentage of irn mortality immortality in fattier father adam adain is now flow en cl joyed or possessed by roan mail for I 1 maintain that as the longevity longi vity of nian man has decreased as ac lie descend descended down the stream of little lime so man in i oi it of the obsession pis session of the eternal attributes of the deity has haa departed farther and fat fatcher flier from froin the inte ig iga c ci 3 of go do I 1 until lie ile arid and his attributes havu become i ignored nored among inen and man was wis letl without tile the direct inspiration 0 of f tile the holy spirit of god and entirely devoid oid of the holy priesthood for about 1700 year and luw that ibis ibia priesthood has agai again been restored by direct re revelation on ti through arct u 91 of lie bioly I 1 y angels who took it from tho earth carth stith shorn iv hen bell they dt parted behind thu jill veil man lias baff un iveral ly repudiates repudiate il I or ignored the personality of ofa a got god and we find today to day nien men are arc efforts to drive this lloy holy priest bood again front froin earth hut such is tile the nature of tile this restoration that has bas taken place in this our day that it will no wore more be thrown down nor given to another people nor again be taken from the earth until the eons bons of levi do offer arain again an n accept able beeri ng unto the lord in righteousness |