Show DISCOURSE by orson hyde october fth 1854 I 1 am called upon this morning beloved brethren and sister sto make a few remarks and speak unto you concerning the way and manner of gathering the people of god in the first place to show unto you that there is no religion with which we are acquainted quain ted except that of the latter day II S saints that cn can in n its exercise eser cise ind and in its 0 operations pe rations br bring ing to pass the fulfillment fulfilment of the predictions of the prophets all the types and figures presented to our lord and savior to truths weighty and important por tant show that in the last days there is to be a gathering together of the people they will be gathered by the peculiar attraction that will prevail at the time when they are not weighed down with mortal ta bernace beina eles e s but released from this cumbrous clay their immortal spirits its will be gathered around the throne of God there to rec receive elve a welcome into the everlasting glory prepared prepared for the righteous or to hear bear the dread fril sentence depart ye cursed into outer I 1 darb darkness peas where there is weeping sad aad wailing and gnashing of teeth i but my friends there is to be a gathering of the people here on oa earth the husbandman when he sows bows his seed in the soil watches jt it and cultivates it with care he does not wait to reap his harvest in some other region but ho he reaps ii ic on the ground where he sowed bowed his hib seed and there he realizes the benefits and returns of ilia bia labor not in some other country but here the savior says the kingdom of heaven is like a fish net that is cast into the sea which took of every kind both good and bad and by and ana bye they brought the net to the shore and gathered the good into vessels and cast the bad aai away av so shall it be iril in the last days in the the gathering dispensation shall be int ed and the gospel net is drawn to shore not in some foreign clime or mountain beyond the bounds of time and space but on the shore that skirts the margin of the water as testified by this fig figure ure so on earth the gathering of the people will be we are also told the manner in which tivy thy shall come they shall come upon swift beasts upon dro and camels and the ships of shall bear them home and a high way shall be cast up for the ransomed rans omed of a the lord to walk in that highway is not an immaterial one that leads to mansions mansions in the sky but it is an highway that has to be cast up on earth and it may li be that chevery the very railroads that are being cast up ai are e one means by which this opt operation of the gathering will be greatly facilitated lita ted this may be the subject which the prophet had his eye upon when he be said the lions whelp elp has not trod there and the eye hath bath not s sen en it at that time it was not cast up but was as reserved to be cast up in the last days the lions whelp had never trodden there but by and bye it might when it was cast up the old prophet had bad his eye upon the increased speed of ships but our translators have made him to say that swift messengers ahll be scat sent to the nations afar off on in vessels A of bulrushes bul rushes what do we understand by vessels of bulrushes bul rushes do we ever see such vessels or hear tell of such except the cradle that was made for moses to float in on the nile have we ever read of men swift messengers going in in vessels of bul rushes it is nonsense such a vessel could not wit withstand batand the baffe tings of the winds and the waves nor ride in safety through the elements contending wita each other as it were for emair empire e or as if the winds and waves were both armed with eager vengence to see which should first grasp the little speck struggling f for or life upon the surface of the boiling element who believes anything of this sort the idea is i inconsistent nt but when we come to look at ai it in another point of view it is not so inconsistent and obscure bro caril cam who is present knows how the german bible reads I 1 believe it calls them pipe ships the bulrush is hollow resembling a pipe and the old prophet had nothing nothing else to represent his 1 idea d es by but the bulrush blush though he saw ships in which hollow tubes an and d pipes were running in every direction and he was at a loss f for or the name steamship to apply to them now says he swift messengers shall be sent in pipe ships looking at the time when steam should be used as a propelling power what is this steam power for ii it 2 y for the accommodation of mankind or has nas god made this an important agent to perform his work to f facilitate his bis purposes in the last days the matter is unquestionably the design of the great creator Ore ator not only so io but in conne with nth this the savior says in aspea kin ing of his coming it shall be li 1 the light of the morning or like B I 1 varl nine that shinetha from one end of 0 f tale to the fyie other even so shall the GOW camj 11 CID A son of man be what do we A about b 10 t the do constructed on earth to briny brins electric TX wire running irum une cuen Y bb bo and already it is in contemplation to carry I 1 it across the atlantic to bring all nations ill i immediate communication does this look that spreads from e east ast to like the lightning west even so shall the coming of the son of man be the electric telegraph takes it from eastern climes to western it is so quick t that at a speech m neade in washington city at twelve oclo ck is delivered in st lo 10 louis uis at half past eleven the same day dav el electricity flys with so much enuch greater velo velocity dy than the earth that it is half an hour before the times between washington and st louis even so shall the coming of the son of man be or in other words in the last days in intelligence telli gence shall fly with such rapidity so go quick shall it be in the day of his com coming ing we conclude that we are approximating mating very near were in in t the h e neighborhood of it now sava he watch when you see sea the fic fig ill tree and all the th e trees beginning to bud and PU put t forth their leaves kaow that summer sur A mer is is nigh nig rh and when you begin to see these things come to heads and rejoice for your your pa pigs ss lift up your redemption nigh I 1 may bave begun at the wrong end of my have haie I 1 will get at the discourse dige oarse but if I 1 i other end of it before I 1 have done so that 1 you on shall have all the parts of it if the I 1 bord lord will give me strength through your the sum and substance shall have I 1 vou pr prayers kvera mako nee ot of what I 1 was W s required to 9 I 1 known to yau you but I 1 must havo nay MY 0 own WA way of telling tailing it I 1 the gathe gathering of the saints together is to take place but says one wo we do not be heva fieve that the gathering of the people will take place in the last days literally we do not believe that angels N will ill minister any more to us the old fashioned religion is I 1 we ve have got all that heaven was pleased t 19 give ive and that can be proven by the good 0 0 old bible let the angels stay i in n atory glory and wo we will stay on our farms and go goa sp church from one year to another and follow same old routine ovar and overa over I 1 again until we go down to our graves and that is the end of our service in the flesh 1 do you nut not see sea that all of the christain wor world 1 rejects the administration of an angela andelt gelt the latter day saints excepted and some fow few others that believe in these things thero there are many in the last days who believe in spirit rapping and in such cuch kind 0 angels that hare bare no mouth to speak the angels angela that visited the servants of god had mouths months and them theys suppose you were to ask me a question and I 1 have intelli intelligence 9 ence and a mouth to communicate but instead of f speaking to you I 1 set the table to jump 1 1 ing or kick over the chairs and the bureaus bure ius etc what would you know about it you would know the d devil e vil was to pay you would know there was a total absence of good fooling and intelligence man was vas created in the image of oa 01 gol and the holy angen angela that surround his throne the 11 flaming mining mossen messengers mers to bear his will to man a are in his image and likeness even the servants of god in the days of old when they baw one of those celestial spirits began to bow down and worship him as though lie ho were the god who created t the he beav heavens eds and tho the earth but they were commanded to worship god there ho he was standing in in the image of his maker and the prophet mistook him for the lord those these an angola als are in thy the likeness and imig im ig e of god and men are also in his image I 1 believe if god gave me a message to deliver deliler to the tha people and I 1 did not deliver it in the fayhe would close my mouth because bebau se I 1 would not give it in the way ay he gave it to uio me spirit rappers kappers below pur par what is the matter there has har some nome I 1 dreadful thin thing taken place what is it ie we cannot telf tell you adyth anything ing about it only there is a wonderful ado a wonderful thing has has happened in tho the land of ham 3 I 1 1 tell you those wh who reject the truth borne to them by the sarvan td of god who to them in plainest pl ainess will be acquainted with muttering spirits that know nothing 1 for their 9 goodford good rood for for this cause god shau shall send them stron aprong 11 de delusions that they may believe a lie that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in un righteousness 1 when people reject the tha truth they become the pa plaything of wild delusive spirits brits and are tossed to and fro by them lmke like a bubble on the wave true messengers of god do not come coine in this way but says bays the world angels camo cain 3 in olden times but do not come now to earth any anymore moret they hev have gone to heaven and thera is nothing moro for them to do here I 1 can speak t to 0 the servant of a king when I 1 cannot speak to the king himself I 1 could approach the lower orders of his subjects when I 1 might not approach the higher airle if a man re rejects 11 eta the of angel and will not believe in their existence nor regard 6 their words orda I 1 do not know how they will ever obtain access to the king if they will not acknowledge 0 e his ministers I 1 do not know how they are goin going 9 to speak to the king him himself solf 1 have an angels gels anything to do with what will take place in the last days I ile ha le makes his h ia angels ministering ministering z spirits and ald they aie are bent forth tu to minister for them who shall be heirs beirs of salvation the lord is everywhere present by his hia ministering ill angels angela 11 just like any other ruler monarch ork irig who has ministers everywhere throughout his dominions and gods ministers are everywhere he has servants in flesh on earth and they are going feo ing through the lind land in every direction and god is p present resent ever everywhere with them and he knows everything how bow when his angels and ministers tell him of it like any other ruler I 1 have been at some soine of tho the prayer circles and meetings in the sectarian world and heard thair pious minister say bome sinner bow to the yoke of christ behold the guardian angel standing g waiting 0 to be the honored agent to carry the news to heaven that one more soul is converted if god knows it already what is the use of angels to mrry arry the intelligence c god knows everything through 0 his agents I 1 or servants and that i is s the way he be is is everywhere present but if you were I 1 to see him in propria persona you see a person like yourself how was it with stephen was god scattered to the four winds everywhere it if lie was it in particles 3 smaller thant than any mathematical calculation could define you could not see him but stephen being full of the holy ghost looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the 1101 elory Y of god and jasus standing on the rio right lit hand of god and said behold I 1 see tide the heavens opened and the son of man on the 1 right z hand of god if god was wi without phout body parts part and p passions assigns assions as how could stephen kno know v whether hether lie he stood on the right hand or the left or whether ho he stood upon side however we TO will aili pass this by for the present angels will wiil have a part in the work of tile the last days willit what are they to di do says the savior the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed bowed nod seed I 1 his field but while mer jept his enemy enemy g and sowed bowed tares among the bhea and 1 way he e let et tem grow together uie je ag yg tj time ilmO of harvest then he wit will I 1 say to reap and bini 11 ll ae 1 gather ve together first f the tares but in i bundles bandl es and abid burn them gather ann A d IS the i uto dinv inv barn i lne 1 ile I 1 sj aho 1 I MU v VF ivay V F cio 0 U inisi 11 angels you say eay are coming to earth no more this wot do for the reapers readers are the angels the good seed are the children of the ong kino d dom 1 om and the tares are the children of tho the wicked one and the enemy that sowed bowed them is the devil in another place it is said and he shall send his angels angela with a great bound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from froin the four winds fr from m one end of heaven to the other 1 andyes and yet the present christain Ohn stain world say that angels have no more to do of course then they do not look for any thing of this kind their faith does not embrace the sayings savings of the savior and jus his apostles touching the winding up scene scebe and without faith it is impossible to please god consequently they cannot ca n not share in the blessings of the gathering dispensation of the last days their the ir unbelief un beliet excludes them it is said that god helps them that helps themselves 1 I have been showing you what will be done for his elect in the last days but will w ill he do it for them who will do nothing for themselves vesP I 1 say no sod god helps those who help themselves I 1 recollect when I 1 was waa in pottawatomie I 1 was determined to raise raise a crop if I 1 could I 1 commenced and plowed zip up the landane lan dand went into the woods when it was hot enough in the summer season peason almost to unsolder a a skellet kellet and hauled quat at my rails and fenced and sowed bowed the lund laud when snow sno vr came there the re was a fleece of wheat over the land like wool on a pa 00 I 1 ha 1 back president young saw aaa it and he be said I 1 it pleased lim and he said I 1 know that god helps those who help themselves we marsit may sit down and persuade ourselves that it iq cods will we should do nothing for ourselves and we may 0 go o to beggary beggary but bat if we help ourselves and bestow t the e f labor for nature to bring bf bax forth we shall have an abundance gunj god will be faithful in blessing our oni labors we are looking for these things to transpire in the last days to bring about the gathering of the saints preparatory to the coming of aa the son of man we can see the electric wires extending through the earth and sh ships i 9 are constructed to bear forth swiftly the te messengers of salvati onto bring home the saints under the indulgent hand of our heavenly fattier father what does he require us to do says he I 1 commit to 0 you von my servants the keys of the kingdom of heaven the authority of the priesthood light and intelligence and knowledge to make you acquainted quainter quain ted with all these things now nosy I 1 want to see if isyou you will put forth a helping hani hand knowing as you do your masters will and understanding his whole plan of operation |