Show DISCOURSE Y ise ASE I 1 I 1 J acs k ml wf ta VA I 1 ti 1 ON THE FIRST pra nar iriv ink GOSPEL 0 BT ELDER P P pratt 36 1855 v ab from pago page 37 well if I 1 have been en maie mace made a ah witness oe of these things what brou brought girt glit the truth to 0 o me roe it was through the ministration of angels under whose hands these triv iny brethren have been ordained to the holy prie priesthood and it brought down with it the blessings of the everlasting gospel for it could not rot be in the world without a call for those who previously hed held bed it had bad gone to another sphere the io lopel onel pel pei was revealed to ancient men in different different clunes eludes and countries wb whenever enever there here were iven tien men to be saved and it it was was wag revealed ti to modem modern men because there were modern mento be saved by it the gospel was to all whom the lord our god should call in every age and country and but for this call cal I 1 we would have been as blind as bats in the traditions of our fathers led away by divers livers creeds and by the cunning of men who lie in wait to tode deceive cehe where would we have llave been if it had not been for this call we might have been good men enough perhaps but where would we have llave been the introduction of the gospel was worthy of an angel angeir yes the errand was worthy of a corps of them it was worthy of a host of them it was worthy oe 0 a god godi it was an object of importance ortance that called jesus from the bosom of nis his hi rather father in the eternal world A call was necessary then faith was necessary and faith comes by hearing bearing the word of god gd and ind how could you hav heard atif it af nobody had bad been called to deliver it we were in the midst of darkness and the darkness dai dal kness comprehended it not we could see revelations eiven given in other but we want k them in our a age ae e but we wanted a call I 1 am aware that some will be thinking thinkie thin kim of their grandmothers or grandfathers who died in the middle ages and who died in hope as far as is they could get pet at it I 1 know they will be querying all the while tn to know what has hal become of them well it is no mattei matter it is is for us to attend to our own bu business arid and see to our own salvation if we we do this we shall shail have no condemnation W we e konot donot know but as we ve progress in in righteousness besk hesi that in the provisions made by our great father rather we may have to serve sen r them and to do forthome for thoe those good old fathers and mothers 0 of ours ou rs who did see the light afar off but could not come comp at atit it for want of a call for want of a priesthood which is without beginning of days and men boding the aulgo ity of heaven yes we may lia iia have ve to do for them what they have not had bad the privilege of doing for themselves I 1 i 1 well weli what is the provision why did I 1 not just name to you that this eternal priesthood is without beginning of days or end of life after the lorder of the son of god do you suppose that when a man passes beyond ilie the veil leil he is any leslia priest if aksels or men by the spirit lit of prophecy have laid their hands upon upa n him lihn and ordained him to an office in in the priesthood of the son sor on of god and have given him a call in the name hame af pf ther ord to give salvation to other do you yow OH slip suppose pose that by passing the veil he becomes what di did dJesus jesus say to the jews says he be the heggod godl Godi of abraham isaac and jacob is iq the god you profess to 0 o worship but says he I 1 want yato au to understand that he hels heis is not the god of the dead what gl glory ry would there be in thai but says pis pys he bf 11 he is the god of the ily liv livine iriz he was speaking to the children of abraham who were dead as much as to say that abraham was living then well then when a man roan holding the eternal priesthood passes the veil he be sill still holds his antho authority tho rity and his heart is full fall of affection and love towards god gods creatures and he is clothed with the i power r of god and lie is is his big prophet apostle and a arild elder eldeir it is impossible to keep a man silent who is filled with the testimony of jerus jesus I 1 would as soon undertake to shut up fire in d dry ry shavings as to shut up in that mans mand heart the good news for he has liis bis mission which is to preach the gospel to those that were and are in darkness f th the good old oid father fathers falber s and mothers who had not trie tle privileges and blessings blessi pu of the gospel go belfor for instance go to deliver your message to them that they may come to the light of truth and be saved the apostle when addressing addres sim the says but VP ve have obeyed from the heart that form farm 1 rf cf doctrine which was delivered to you von being then made mae free flom from sin ye became the hf servants of ri righteousness 11 romans 6 17 and 18 there thene thera there was the fre freedom edorn edoin of obedience to that form of doctrine delivered to them obedience to that form of doctrine made them free but it iv did i not prevent them from frond acting as men in a temporal point oe of view the apostle al ain aho aln n speaks of 0 passing from froin death unto life because they lov edthe brethren passing the veil does not alter a man inan it certainly takes him from the fhe eves eyes of flesh but the capacity the intelligence the thinking power dower r are all alive and quick J and it they hear the gospel they will be eg glad giad 4 an and he the promises are made to them and I 1 they e al will rejoice in them let et a inan nan pass ass the veil with the everl everi everlasting aRtio priesthood having baving magni magnified bird fird it to the day of hll his death and yon you on cannot get it off him it will remain wi with him im in the world of spirits and when he wakes up in that world among the spirits he be has that power and that obligation on on him that tha if he can find a person worthy of 0 salvation why ay as soon as he ascertains that and lie he remembers what be may teach and who he may teach he then discovers that he has got pot a mission and that mission is to those souls who had flad not the privilege which we have habein in thi this world that they may be partakers par takers of the gospel as ag well weli as we and herein when fully c carried 0 out oui u I 1 are the keys of the baptis baptisti bi for foi the dead and thesal the al ration of not an the earth a subject into which I 1 need not now enter although it i as s among the first principles of salvation but they are so eathy that we ive cannot dwell won upon the them at all ail alo ato I 1 fc r SA 1 A ff a 1 one time f r f jh suffice it to say that when hen the lor loro m madei madel ad e provision that there should be beane one nime name bvm byl which nian man sh be saved and vilen he planned glai glad ming tidings s of great J loy joy oy to go over the islands and continents and to tar the four quarters of off the earth he also remembered the spirits in pris prison n and he be made provision wiell as eternity that it might reach the case of every creature 1 under every circumstance that could arise within the reach teach ol 01 mercy s ile he so ordered it that ali ail all gall mi ina of inq fins ins and blasphemies bla bia phemie in due time might be forgiven except that which could not be justly forgiven in this worlds nor in that which is lo 10 to come the plan pian was so devised deviled that every nian man might have repentance and remission of sins annd arid the gift of the holy ghost in his time and in his big plate plaze if lie would but if he would not very well weil then he might do as he be pleased whether in ihn world or any nv other according to the clear freedom that he be live lives under you know you cannot compel one of the dumb animals korink to rink you can lead him to the water direct his attention to the clear crystal pure stream but still lie he mav may lle ile lie die of thirst and men aren may die because they hey will weil not leave off their sins and lay hold bold of the cros cross and if they will die of thirst and will not lay hold of the salvation offered by a bleeding savior they may die the death of the wicked I 1 and arid if because they will not eive elve up their freedom to do right I 1 they can go they will rill die to all eternity and never be compiled to obey the truth lruth well friends here is the gospel and where is the mans heart 0 o hard that he be will not see and embrace it A man must be hardened in wicked wick edne nem nen that will not abide the law of the gospel and arid that hat yon you on who have not obeyed my invitation is to iou jou you all and in all of you in the church who have not obeyed the gospel in its fullness see that you obey bey it in its fullness I 1 mean to every day attend to the repentance pen tance part of it the leaving off part forsaking eal eat zing king your evils the conversion part and b bring ring 1 forth fruits suited to a new new life I 1 will ivill llave bave to be judged for my roy preaching and you for your hearing I 1 shall be pretty careful f for or rn myself I 1 can do that I 1 think I 1 hall ball to lok iok k it into to thines things prepare my mind to discern r rn between the right and the wrong otherwise I 1 might neglect and anti it will keen keep a man pretty busy to repent and bring forth fruit fruits for a new life there will be a good deal of wat watching batchin chin and praying and lie be will have to be pretty careful to live sa so as asto to get the iho holy spirit so that it will pot not leave him and he be will be yit without vit hout it like a fish out of water or like a person in in hot weather destitute of pure air if he once loses the spirit after having rec received eivid elvid it it will keep him pretty j busa to get it acain again a aln ain that repentance and that burial in the name or f the be risen iesu jesus wants a good deal of humility and p perseverance for there is the old man with his deeds d er severance s to put odi off and lay aside and to walk a new life ilfe ife it does not only mi mopan mian an som thing betit but it is shown forth in the actions of the man well wont that keep a man pretty busy husy I 1 think irwill in such a world as this we in this sense of the word the saint saints are called upon to obey the gospel and repent all I 1 the he while white but we talk of dying unto sin and of wal kingin newness of life the dying 11 unto sin and ris rising n in the new flew life and the baptism were to be ar for tor a moment but me tle stream that flows from obedience is perpetual perpetua well those out of the church are certainly called upon to 0 o obey the he gospel and when aben people are careless and indifferent respecting their thein duties then tunit it is that wicked people rise up amongst uc u and we are then called upon to repent and obey the gospel I 1 will clear my garments as far tar as one day lay will do it before e I 1 sit down the little children are called upon to obey the gospel such as are capable of being tau taught ht and arid I 1 they hev ou ought 11 ht to be taut taught I 1 h by their parents so that if they lev ley may understand dar der stand it by the timothey tim time they ethey are eight years of age then they are called upon to repent to understand and ani bring forth the fruits meet for he the klug king dorn of godana and be buried in he li kenes of death dealt as jesus was and then leave off all their foolish and sinful ways and rise out of their watery grave understanding that jesus rose again arain from froin the dead f from torn his cra era ye ve and kirin knowing winz this they should then t ike up tip their crosa cro thi io a figure to show us that then commences a new life now you von folks that have been brought up in the jost gost gospel in the light hit lit nf of heaven but have been careless or wicked rise up and obey the gospel and dont you be baptized without you repent for all you hear of the gospel and attend to unless you are as brimble as is a little child it wont do you any good and remember that it is through the th name and the atoning blod blood of jesus chris christ that you can have remission of sins th through roligh the ordinance of baptism which represents the burial and those people that li have ve not been teen brought up within this call and influence I 1 say come and obey it and anti do not noi no call vours yourselves etves elves outsiders and aliens but fellow heirs beir to the maie male to braham and which were established by him film and div el en to him for an everlasting covenant you yon mav may suppose that it was a part of the law divento hiven riven to moses and therefore tb done away in christ let me tell fell von that the everlasting covenant made with abraham and anil mentioned in the scriptures was made four hundred and fifty vears years before the law lav was thundered from mount sinai separate and apart from the gosnel gospel the law was wag given alven eiven given to moses but not to disannul hat that covenant and when the lord jesus christ came lie he never aisan isan nulen it but commanded his apostles to preach it itis it is muc much holder hoider older than the law for it applied before moses was born and alo aio alo afterwards and all we have to do is to come into it and be faithful as abraham was faithful land and then we shall become aws and if sons sona the sons sony of abraham and if daughters the daughters of sarah sarab because behave embraced the same gospel and principles arid then whelk when we heaven with rachel and aid leah itah they avil will ill lii n not lot 9 oabe be ash ashamed med ot 0 us n v whal whai ia is ismore 1 ire ole 0 we ire will dro fil noe not otibe b 1 pt them thi tien n vit vir we e shall hhall be hall ball f fellows ello eilo T well weil v if met land we shill shall sit down in the ki of if god anajo and go no mone more out forever and add and Aud many will come conie from and from the west hn and d will sit down i in the kingdom of gob god and unless we are faithful we shall be shut out therefore I 1 wish you to understand that the promises that are special will not apply to us ui and where they go 0 o we cannot come except by adoption may mav the lord bless yon amen I 1 jike like preach me iha iho th gospel this morning before le I 1 came ame here I 1 thought what shall I 1 say if hey they call on me roe to speak to day arid and the thou thought r lit tit came into my mind I 1 will preach the gopi goni 1 and aid the moment I 1 came brother kimball cimball said br parler come preach the gospel to in us I 1 replied thatis that is just what I 1 was wag thinking of SPEECH OF AH AN ANCIENT lorb LORD OF MEXICO TO HIS DAUGHTER ON HER AT THE YEARS OF DIS discretion translated FROM THE SPANISH BY P P PRATT BEING AM AN EXTRACT FROM LORD eings KINGS BOROUGHS antiquities OF VOL 5 page pare thois thou my daughter precious as a sum of gold as asa a rich feather issue of my loins whom I 1 have hive begotten my blood and arid my my imago thou art here present hear with atter attention Aion alon if that I 1 at w which I 1 1 1 C 11 I 1 have to say as thou halt hast already arrived to years of discretion god the creator who ia is in every place hath bath given thee the use of reason and ability to un understand der and it 13 thus then that thou hast bast to comprehend how bow the things of the world are arid and that in this world there la Is not true pleasure I 1 or rest but rather labors and afflictions and extreme I 1 tolls and abundance of misery and poverty 0 my daughter thou that this world is a place of weeping and of affliction and anh unhappiness app where there are colds and dimps damps and heat heats and that it is a place of hunger bunger and thirst and slid this is a notorious fact which we 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