Show I 1 copyright secured I 1 HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH APRIL 1843 sunday 2 and N E snow fell several inches but melted more or less leas at ai 10 am wept to meeting heard elder 0 llyde preach comparing the sectarian preachers to crows living on carrion as they were more fond of iles ilea about the saints than the truth and alluding to the com ipe of the savior he said when he shall appear we hall shail be be like him ac he will appear on a white horse as a warrior and may be we shall have some of the same spirit our god is a warrior john 14 ch eh 2 and 3 v it is our oar privilege to have the father and son dwelling in mour our hearts hearts ac we dined with my sister sophronia me ale cleary when I 1 told elder llyde that I 1 was going to offer some sone corrections to his sermon this morning he replied they shall b be a thankfully f received when the savior shall appear ive we shall 9 see ee him ashe is we shall see that he ho is a man like ourselves and that ahat same sociality which exists among us here will wilt exist among us there only it will be coupled with e eternal glo gio glory which glory we do not now e empy n 0 14 john 0 2 3 v gt the lou iou appearing of the he either t dr and the son in that verse is a personal appearance and the idea that the father an and the son dwell in a mans heart is an old oi sectarian notion and Is false in answer to the question Is not the reckoning anin 0 of gods goda time tim angels time prophets time and mans time according to the planet on which they reside I 1 answer yes but hut there are no angels who minister to this earth but those who do belong or have belonged to it the angels do not reside on a planet like this earth but the they thay reside in the presence of god on a globe like ilke a bea sea of glass and fire where all things for their theli glory are manifest past ast present and future and lind are continually defore before the lord dord where here god resides is is a great arim and Thum mim this earth in its sanctified and immortal state will be made like unto crystal and will be a arim and to the inhabitants who dwell there thereon oti whereby all things pertaining to an inferior kinh kingdom dom or all kin kingdoms doms of a lower order will be tle tie mani manifest riest fiest to those those who dwell on it and this earth will be christs then the white stone mentioned in revelations ch 2 v 17 will become a arim ancl anil to each individual who receives otiel one whereby cereby things thinas pertaining to a higher order of kingdoms even elen all kingdoms will be made known and a white stone is given to ta each of those who come tome into the celestial kingdom whereon thereon ia is a new name written which no man save lie he that thai recel receive veth th it the new name is the ke key y word I 1 prophesy inthe in the name of the lord god that the tile commencement of the difficulties which will cause much bloodshed mood Wood thed previous to the coming of the son of manwill man will be ge in south carolina it probably may arise through the slave question this a voice declared to me while 1 wjk wis wa s earnestly on the subject december 1832 I 1 was onee praying very to know the time of the comma cammi of the son of man alan when whery I 1 heard hoard a voice repeat the following Jose joseph joseel pl nry my son sen if thou livest until thou art elm eig eighty AV ante years old thou shaft shant see the face of the rin ion ron son of maut matt therefore let this suffice and trouble me no more on this matter I 1 was left thus without being able to decide whether this coming refe reft referred to the beginning of the or to some previous appearing or whether I 1 should die dia and thug thua see his hia face I 1 believe thie thi coming of the son of man ilan will not be any soon sooner er than that time I 1 at I 1 pm attended meeting I 1 read the fifth chapter of revelations referring particularly to the sixth verse verge showing from that 2 the actual existence of beasts inn eaven probably ro those wera were beasts which had live lived on another planet and not ours god never made use uie of the figure ot of a beast to represent the kim kingdom odom of heaven when it ia Is made use ue of it ia is to re represent resent an apostate church this thib is the thie first time I 1 have ever taken a text in rev andia the young elders eldera would let such th things ings aone zone atone alone it would be far better then c corrected elder llydia remarks the same game as I 1 had done to him privately at the close of the meeting we ave expected to start for Cart carthage liage but the bad weather prevented so I 1 cal cabied kd another meeting in the evening between meetings I 1 read in revelations neve Beve lations with elder ejder hyde and expound edthe same during which time beveral several persons came in in and expressed their fears that I 1 had come in contact with the old scriptures at 7 meeting meeting I 1 res resumed timed the subject of the beast sh chewed very plainly that johns vision was very different from daniels prophecy one referring m to things actually existing in in heaven the other being a figure of things C vilich which are on earth whatever principle of intelligence we attain dinto unto in this life it will rise with us in the re s and if a per person son gains more knowledge and intelligence in thia life through his diligence and alid obedience than another he will have so much the advantage I 1 in n the world to come Thereisa there is a law irrevocably de decreed creedin in heaven before the foundations of this world upon which all blessings are predicated and when we obtain any blessing from god it is by 0 obedience e lenc totham to that law upon which it is predicated dica ted the father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as mans the son also but the we holy ghost has not a body of flesh and bones but is a personage oe of spirit were it not so the holy ghost could not dwell in us A man may receive the holy ghost and it may descend upon upun him and not tarry with him what is the meaning of the scriptures he that is faithful faith falth fiti fitl over a few things shall be made ruler over many manyard man mah yand and he that is faithful over many shall be made ruler over many more what is the meaning of the parable of the ten talents also the conversation with nicodemus except a man be born of water and of the spirit were vere questions put pat to me which I 1 shall not answer at present I 1 closed by flagellating the audience for their fears and called upon elder ilder hyde to get up and fulfill fulfil his covenant to preach three quarters of an hour otherwise I 1 would give him a good whipping ahl ing ep elder bixer llyde arose and said brothers brother s and is bisters sisters I 1 feel aa as though all had been sald said that c can an be a said I 1 can say nothing but bless you at the close of the meeting we returned to B F johnsons where we slept and J remarked that the hundred and forty four thousand sealed are arc the priests who should be anointed to administer in the daily sacrifice D B huntington returned having had hall a very cold and severe journey the ice I 1 ce in chicago harbor was three feet thick brought me a letter from mr justin butterfield Butter butterfield fiell monday 3 Al illers millers day of judge judgment ent has arrived but it is too pleasant for false prophets at 2 pm started for carthage where we arrived about 4 pm and staid at J B back enstam v elders young and tay taylor gor tor returned to nau preached four times I 1 in evening ven ng reading the book of revelations with elder dlyde and conversing with esq backman i upwards of have been recently expended by the tho french government to fortify I 1 the city of paris I 1 tuesday 4 spent five licurs figurs preaching to I 1 esq backman chancey robinson and the I 1 Backens tosses backman said almost thou persua dest me to be a christian we left carthage about 2 pm and arrived at nauvoo at 54 51 wednesday 5 sat with aldermen spencer Jt lills ir harris arris whitney and kimball kimbail associate justices in the municipal court on a writ of habeas corpus and discharged jonathan and lewis hoopes from custody A branch of the church organized at mount holly new jersey of about 25 members by elder newton |