Show I 1 11 to jae e saints li I 1 I 1 1 our subject is truth our object salvation D disinterested i s benevolence constitutes no part of the composition of the hie righteous but they have an int interest in all they see tear bear feel taste or handle and what is that interest to shun shim the evil and grasp thi the gabd gab d for what purpose purpose that in the end they my may attain I 1 to salvation I 1 many ignorant and self righteous who know nt god and obey not his gospel think they be 90 so holy as not to have any interest in benevolence faith hope charity obedience and consequently y in salvation with such at present besent we have little tado for if one person can te be so benevolent as riot not fa to ive have I 1 I 1 any interest in the object of I 1 his par pursuits suits and exe rons I 1 another yes every ever other person may be equally equa benevolent ne on the same principle and no that ever did does now brever or ever via will ill live on the earth or in taio heavens beavens willever will ever receive a particle offo ot atgood good I 1 d through a universe ailed with such benevolence enc it t is disinter disinterested es ted and no one cm can have any interest in I 1 it either for good or eyu 1 1 I 1 chiy this then is theo the jeet and design of truth kopro to pro mote salvation give men every other good abod thit that cain can be named and deny them salvation and what would be their situ situation atio na I 1 miserable miserable indeed t and I 1 in in the extreme F what is 1 salvation 1 happi 7 can a man truly be said i to be saved sated while he e afler is perfectly miserable on other principle only that he is saved from ha happiness Who possesses sub a salvation salv lucifer and I 1 his followers who desires such a salvation and ana to its embrace for its its own I 1 sakes sake no ohp the tb devil himself I 1 despises 1 it and is sorry sony deathe that tie ever enlis enlisted ted in Us it an od and I 1 be every one who joinglis joins join chis standard andara st I 1 I 1 but of what consists the salvation that the slants are seeking after Happi happiness uv here and hereafter but if I 1 happiness I 1 is the great ceat object and ead I 1 otheir ot heir I 1 I 1 desires and nd exis existence tence why hydo do they look look so after truth and ald seek so ardently to become loty eyen even as bodis god is holy because our heavenly enly F father r x has wisely ordained that truth made manifest through a holy colyor or godlike life is the only means by chich true enduring and celestial happiness can avei effs be attained lay intelligent beings like eke men in probation 7 t and agency I 1 wh what at is it that the fee saints want saved souls what constitutes the soul of a saint his spirit and body but cannot the spirits of the saints be perfectly ha happy appy I 1 and be saved without their bodies no i inthey if they could ou 14 why did they ever condescend ito 0 agree and coven covenant I 1 ant with their eternal pathe in in the heavens to come to t this 1 a e earth arth for fora ahe s sak sake ke e offet aing tinga body hody tor for if the spirit when it leaves this mortal body at death for a little season could secure EL a perfect salvation without a resurrection and reunion union with the body as mr andrew jackson davis the clairvoyant represents thit that same spirit might have been equally happy without ever I 1 having a body just as it was when it came from ethehe the heavens avens to get a body and this would prove th that at a spirit can he be just the creation of this earth as happy as a soul and that for the purpose sf originating bodies fir the spirits before b orn om in alj heavens wasa work of supererogation and foll ya the eternal I 1 father which wedo not cho choose pa attribute thi bute to the god we worship 11 god made man in his own image what constitutes that cmaj imago I 1 A spirit and body just what was I 1 od walked talk talked ed and ate with adam enoch abraham and others andas and as god had got his big resurrected body the saints to continue their i likeness to their heavenly father must go on to per faction fec tion even to the getting of their I 1 resurrected bodies or they will never be prepared for a k celestial residence with the resurrected re e c t ed body of their heavenly father and of his son jesus 1 Christ christy who has also I 1 risen arid and taken his body and aid with him the saints who pad had died before bain ind and ha had d rike received ived of the holy priesthood I 1 but why is it that all the clairvoyants and mesmer aizers of the nineteenth century deny the resurrection of the body because their fisio is obscure dark and limited and they have not the power or ability to look into the dwelling of the gods and resurrected i saints and when a clairvoyant sees aj and A converses with a spirit from inthe the spirit world he be sees a spirit only for the spirits he holo holds converse converse with have never received their resurrected bodies neither can they for a long tune time yet to come they must wait their turn after af ter the first resurrection cpr they rae received dived not the holy priesthood while on the earth consequently are not entitled to its blessings and privileges a portion of which consists iu in having baving a alpart par in the first resurrection I 1 I 1 those who attained unto the fhe holy priesthood estwood on the 6 earrk in d eions f ram e days 4 of adam to jesus are the ones who have with jesus received their resurrected bodies and like him are dwelling in their own dominions and are governed by the laws specially designed for them and such as are appropriate to their sphere of action 5 which laws forbid their manifesting themselves 40 men on the earth only to such as have received atthe like priesthood with rhems themselves elv es with the exception of the opening of a d dispensation n after the priesthood had been taken from the earth as it was shortly after the death of peter who in process of time manifested himself to joseph smith for the purpose of conferring on joseph the same Pst priesthood hood that ohp blessings thereof might again be realized by all th th inhabitants of earth who were e willing to receive it aan former dispensations I 1 since the priesthood has teen been fully restored it is the business of men who have hecei received ved that ii arl priesthood lest I 1 to minister therein for the children ol of men consequently there bisno is no need for the ancients who held the same priesthood to continue to minister in their office on the earth they have done their work and retired behind the veil and axe are resting in the enjoyment of their resurrected bodies which it j is not their privilege to show to wicked men and if a wicked man should once behold the glory of a resurrected body he would d die in its presence and if a clairvoyant or or any in man an not having the he holy priesthood should say that he has seen the glory lory of a resurrected body and ana yet lives his assertion would be a contradiction of truths but as no clairvoyant I 1 is permitted by the celestial law to converse with or see a personage who held the priesthood on the earth and who has got his resurrected body he very naturally concludes there is no resurrection of the body and consequently publishes his false conclusions elu clu for certain facts or truths and this is is prominently one of those items referred to by an ancient apostle apost lb when he gave the intimation that deceivers would arise ir in the last days who would if poss possible ablo deceive the very ery elect but this c cannot annot b be e or the saints who have received of the holy priesthood ea t know of the power of the resurrection of the bodye which is to be reunited re united with the spi spirit rittO to constitute inen to endless diess soul and they are exerting themselves to 6 afe prepare are fonts and temples wherein to administer I 1 for ae the living and the dead that the blessings of this I 1 power 11 may not be loat to those who are and who have been on the barthi earth with honest hearts bearis we did not comm commence ence to write for or against dair or nis mesmerism it is a subject we think little i of ind and care I 1 less e as and any person who can be deceived by such amess a mess mesa of hotch botch of truth and falsehood as we we ha have ve seen I 1 combined in the authors we have noticed is for the fhe kingdom of heaven and it if ay apy one 1 chooses to believe a lie arid and inherit thereby ta a lower kingdom after we have had the privilege of 0 telling him the truth he is just as welcome to his low place as he would have been to a high one iche would world bu bu have believed the truth and accepted it our garments ate are t clear claa of bis blood I 1 he is his own I 1 I 1 I 1 agent i for li life or death ath 1 our business now is with the saints those who have a little truth and want a great deal deall more and aad for what that they may attain to salvation well th then an the saints know that faith in the lord jesus crist christ baptism for remission of sins the laying on of hands for of the holy ghost the lords slipper and the gat gathering bering together as I 1 doves dovea to then their windows before a storm are necessary and haye have attended to these or ordinances id mances and they also believe in the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment a after which I 1 they s sh i h 4 1 dw dwell e 11 m afi the presence of the E eternal t epal aa rather er m iri U his i s likeness spirit and body united and anything which chic h tenda tend bobrink to bring brink about this glorious event is good and should be cherished I 1 the as ls I 1 what is most needed now atthe at the I 1 present moi nent the present ye year ar by the s am ta ap to bring about I 1 this niest niost I 1 desirable I 1 of all objects a celestial salvation salvati oi or we answer w without I 1 hesitation domestic mawin home fiade goods implement materials aad us eables of all kinds that we catanoff do without do you think this is ac curious urious teaching can you be comfortable with ou out ff arouse to live in this cold weather yes you cn can be far more comfortable without a house now than yr your splits spirits can wil without bodies hereafter I 1 as the devils priesthood represents all spirits will be and why loes does the devil instruct his priest crips 4 to teach suck sudi doctrine because he is without a body himself which Thi cb is ip the alie tuise curse which was put on him for far bi his transgression and he wants 4 all men to be like bimi himself elf amering vw Biering to and fro in the midst inida of the e earth a eig for a ta tabernacle i for his I 1 spirit and would run all the foe swine into tap pe water and drown them rather thim than I 1 pot opt get one or of their filthy bodies bodi i and yet with all his hii strivings te tells ila bi his 8 priests to teach the doctrine that a body is not necessary kt and if they have one n now ow they cannot have one hereafter no faiq of the tha boo body I 1 f I 1 r but why wh I 1 y ae maid f acquive the one nee needful adful for the saints in utah at the prea j P i because they have no other means of sus s A e 4 tabernacles I 1 iles or houses I 1 bof of ith their air spirits I 1 aby cariote cani ote amy we i need as we I 1 h I 1 f lii because iise you have no no m money p ey with aith nad I 1 i I 1 your credit is gone P for farjou you I 1 have run iii ii 4 foreign parket market in a day ay of go gaw 14 das I 1 t 1 1 ve noA oney left to pay what you now ewt 0 en debut out of aunt count your credit and cass cas future 1 1 1 necessities I 1 alfi must we go gd to work or k with our 0 sto s to paie make and and build gaid nd manufacture every th want for our own use 1 yes les yov m must do it a that forthwith forthun th or do a great deaz deal worse 11 but may we not go to california and get some gold and pay off our debts and thi abea eai we can buy what we want I 1 and be independent again and go 50 ahead as usual 11 no sam you cannot go to california as you have done in years gone by and retain the fellowship of i I 1 th the e church it is w I 1 getting too late in the day for the children of the kingdom kingdo to trifle with wa the kingdom much leniency yes ail 4 that our heavenly father would allow has hitherto been granted by the church to such as professed to be saints and wanted to goto the gold regions and spend their lives for that the love tf of 0 which is to root of au a MI evil but the spirit now whispers iiii it is enough let my servants twy tarry at home and attend to the things which I 1 require at their bandstand hands band sand and if thoy they do 40 it not at a scourge speedily awaits them and it will be manifest that they are not of me I and let those also who are now in the gold regions 1 beware lest they be overtaken in in the snares of the I 1 i evil one and ana if they will be wise they will return as speedily as possible to this place or repair to the presidency which has been appointed in that r rd fand d and take counsel and follow it without gainsaying gain saying but why is it not nat just as well to go to the diggings now as hitherto suppose that it is does that prove that athas hitherto been right and the e best thing that could be done no certainly not I 1 men have hith hitherto eFto gone because they would go and d god has had patience with them in their folly the same as chehad with his ancient israel 5 for when he gave them one law I 1 and th they ey would not I 1 keep that he would tell moses to give them ano another th er if by any means he might save a remnant of his covenant people distinct from all alf others on the earth and when they ey had sufficiently proven that th at they would keep no law he would let their enemies loose upon them or send a scourge to depopulate them as a nation and can you expect anything easier at this I 1 late hour if you continue to run away from your duty I 1 it if you dodou do you will be greatly disappointed suppose you go to th the mines and return again in in safety on what may you safely calculate as the final result can you expect to do any better than others have done who have had the chance atthe at the dig diggings i b before you the proposition is unreasonable well then select one two three or five hundred A of those who have been to the mines and count up their wealth today to day then count the wealth of an equal number odthe of fhe brethren who bb have tarried tamed at homed home I 1 and done as they have been counselled counseller coun selled and you will find the last on one e two or five hundred are able to b buy I 1 out twice tace the number of those who went to the mines this is good logic for staying at home but this is not the end of the matter the influx of gold in our territory has tended to idleness la laz siness limB speculation and fraud aud god is no not t well pleased with but how inthis is this aye you are the tery ery man w we e are after you would barter your soul away for a little gold and thenie then leave ave your shop untended your i garden untilled unfilled your grain uns owed or reaped I 1 your cattle in mischief or in the pound your f family elm i ly for your prayer meetings unattended your duties forgotten and your god neglected anarum and run ana drive through the streets as though your evil gaj genius was after y you ou to get ti the first chance at a good trade with a weary traveler even if you had to compromise a interest in your ba bargain r ga in yes when you knew your neighbor 0 r h had c 1 made a bid or contract you would offer a sixpence more on the bid and throw a temptation before a wicked man to fly his contract on tract and thus waste the time and nd destroy the interest of a friend who perhaps was lawfully froy do doing ing what he had a right and which providentially denti ally came in his way to do and aad thus deprived an honest man ofa of A portion of his bis living 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