Show DISCOURSE cy ey ener ewer JOHN vaylor TAYLOR yav TAY loil lOll tabernacles tabernacle sunday Mo cuing ruing ing mar may 18 its reported BY J V iongi we ve bave have just heard that Gl AngIs elangis trum irum beaven heaven Daiil and iruh truth fruh from earth earths have met mel bruets and nj both bave have anord borne we have also been hearing ol 01 thi gs gis pertaining to the jing jinn kingdom Jing 1 inn ing dom of tue the events tha that are arc about to transpires transpire and that are transpiring in wae these idt latt iab lat t days das dab dds jesus said in his day when speaking of a cattail class of individuals because Bt cause they seem see not arid and hearing they hear not do they understand under tand taDd 11 malthew matthew aia Ala thew alii 1 13 it has been so in almost every age and it is is so at the ibe present time tune inthe in the world worl dand and to a certain extent among the stints ol 01 the meat high god it is difficult for us sometimes to see and comprehend and to t 0 labored appreciate a pre our privilege privileges mankind have llave labored under this difficulty in everyal every age e of the world we come ino in 0 existence existence wi we find ourselves ted led with blessings we entertain ideas I 1 sit iii inre laton on to the great god that rules and overrules in the ole andias of the universe but we aie axe more tr t r less be clouded inor lnor in oi r in ads in relation to the great principles of eternal truth it is so among the people in tm th world and also among this beope atho we see things ahn gs moie clearly and with a different vision and understand tl ings more correctly than the rest of the human family yet jet we do not hot comprehend our true rosi rosl position tion arid and relationship to each other if we do we do not walk according to the light which is given unto us by the spirit f eternal truth what is more pleasant naturally natt nati rally ally far for the mind M ind of man to upon than the things of the kingdom of god the power the wisdom a d intelligence ot of the great in his bis works and designs design sg and our relationship to bims to the world and to each 0 het he how deep and sublime and incomprehensible to us ot t present that wisdom ald aad aid intelligence that governs this world and all other others that regulates the planetary system that prod produces aces seed aeed time and hir hit banest hanest est summer bummer r and winter that causes all the vilifying ing influences that operate to supply the necessities of animal lira lita in the tf the creatures of god that spreads throughout the en rn verse and fills all worlds as well as ais ours with lites ilfe life being and arid existence what mat could be more joyous alid and pleasing than for ibis and every other oiher world to be under the control of that intelligence and wisdom that governs all animate or matter in relation to this world it has been a thin thing that the prophets have delighted to dwell upon in days that are past and gone it is a geme that th poets have sung sting about they rejoiced in the prospect of the new heaven and aid ald lew tew earth wh vh rein dwell eth righteous nees ness they have also delighted to dwell upon that which shall shail exist in the animal creation where the stronger shall no longer press upon the weaker they have also aha deplore depiore 4 the fallen condition of mankind generally genei ally they have lamented over the evil passions and feelings that prevail among the human family 1 I hey have deplored the crime crimm the war the bloodshed and strife and in their songs they have bave rejoiced in the prospect of the time coming when these things shall be done away ini ing when w en the lord shall take the government into nto his big own hands when tle lion and the lamb shall lie down to together wether gether and the leopard become docile and barm harm harmless less and when i there shall be nothing to hurt nor destroy in all the holy mountain of the lord but the earth Bh shall bhail allbe ailbe be full of the knowledge cf of the lord as the waters cover the sea among the red rep republicans of france as they are called a great many of the leading ald ard and ent infidels inn aels think thins that by their it ir fluence they will be enabled etla etia bled bied to bring about the millennial mil mii millen lenial lal ial glo y they deprecate all ail these influences influence that lead to evil and they would ouid like another state of ot things ti to be introduced among the human family in fact aa as the president stated here not cot long ago age it is not natural for men to be evil all men admire that which aich is to good all ail a men admire virtue and truth whether they possess them themselves or not they still admire that which is good in others you may go to the most wicked man that exists and talk to him upon this will say at once 1 I am not an example flebut but hut such a nian man i is and there are certain pin win claes cloes that I 1 admire and it if I 1 could see ahem carried oat out I 1 should be he glad who does docs rob roi ot admire the truth and if men carry out gt od principles princ aples in their alivs all others aers admire both them and the principles principle who whole is there that does dos not admira admire virtue no matter bow lascivious they may be themselves however dishonest the man roan may be himself there is a feeling of admiration of honesty in others this feeling prevails among the children of men the only thing with them and arid that which puzzles is how bow shall bhai itha ltha the wor d be redeemed how shall m be pur purified ifield and correct principles be introduced among the human family men know that their heart v are evil and they are ever ready to charge this upon the question e i 0 now i ow in jo how bov shall good and godlike pr principles i tic 1 P 1 e s P predominate among the human f family am Y and how shall fraud and arid unrighteousness be put down an i correct principles rise to the fescue lescue ef of a fallen world this is the problem that ph cosoi hers have tried to introduce and that wise men nten in all ages have endeavored to solve great men in every age have tried to introduce som Pom something ething good ng that was calculated to do away with the evils that have existed and to this end they have introduced something which they thought was more noble more dignified pure and philanthropic ic principles more holy than those that have prevailed this thi subject has attracted the attention of all me men and the design of many of these philanthropists has been bien bi en to lead mankind in the way of life to introduce correct principles amongst a fallen world to bring people to a state of truth light life b happiness P pi ess and exaltation in this world or in t the he kingdom i adom of god what is it that missionary mission iry institutions are auton foot foi to convert ibe the heathen that they may introduce among th m correct pi elin in caples supposing that thai they have got them themselves and that all the orid world orld may be brought un tin tet let er this divine influence which they suppose a they poss possess esq and be civilized and anti evangeli evangelized zed and obtain an exaltation in the kin kingdom d am 0 of r our G d all kinds of societies ba have bave bee been organized in the world which have had bad for ther their t the amelioration of the condition of the human family for instance almost all have seen that drunkenness was an evi evl evil and hence men have introduced temperance societies which are very good but that does not constitute the kingdom of god but it shows what feelings have inspired the humin human bosom goin 8 striking king at the foundation of evil A knottier tl r irge large class of men hai hal bale baie e cupi su posed ased that war was a great evil and so it w ip 2 arid ana they ahey they have striven to introduce peace and soine some I 1 0 of f the mos most t influential men in europe have united t t gether to form peace societies but luhar do air efforts in this respect amount to jyh what at have they accomplished netting Not Ling there is nothing done iniquity ty abounds just as much as it did before they tried to prevent it temperance societies have hare tried to make beope egber hober I 1 iut tut ut people are as mich m ich given to in em perance as they were before the temperance societies were introduced thee does dues not not seem to be any dil dif difference Terence their agents have been sent forth and their mis sion aries for years and years have been laboring to ameliorate the condition of mankind and to lead them to the cledge of god and arid what have they done let the world answer what have they done among the heathen nations what have they done among what are called christians the peace soci kocl ety what has it don done let t the h e united states answer let the present powers of europe answer let the world answer NO withstanding human exertions mav may have been very necessary in many of these moves to try to beter the condition of the world it must be acknowledged knowledg ed that they have signally failed and that unless lnore inore be done a more powerful and a better kind of religion introduced and a better kind of te temperance mp erace u pullo philosophy sop by a better kind of morality a more wise and arid liberal kind of government and I 1 a better code of laws jaws instituted the world has got to go on as it has done without any amend amendment in fact it is getting worse v arse and worse instead of better and better the great problem it is presumed will bare to rest us its and the almighty in relation to this matter it requires something more potent intelligent powerful and wise than adyth ng that has bas aisted existed heretofore among men to introduce intro duce dure that change which is BO so desirable si man blan by searching cannot find it out ilan lian man jian with the utmost stretch of bis big intelligence is unable to c or introduce the kingdom of god upon the earth and all the earth and all the various societies separate and combined have failed to introduce any principle commensurate with the ants of humanity and in all respects calculated to ameliorate the condition of the human family arid and to place them hem in the condition in which the prophets have beheld them when wrapped in prophetic vision and the opening glories of the kingdom of G d who doubts the sincerity of many of the reformers whether religious social moral or cal NJ man many of these men have been sincere nobe nohe brave and ingen inzen oua and anti have tried to stop the torrent of in equity but their means have not been commensurate to the end designed iniquity like the mountain snot snows is when the sun bianes upon it and the south wind blows is loosed from its rest cent and comes down like a mighty avalanche breaking down all barriers bursting all bonds and deluging and destroying all before it leaving morality and religion aghast ing ng social order del dei deluging aging 0 philos phy and in ng that man alone may as well attempt to blow bloy wit o it the sun or stop the wheels of timp timo as in his pigmy efforts to regu ate the world how shall these things be accomplished accomplish ee I 1 think we shall have to say as john wesley said saia Gl except the nord lord condret tb tt hran tikran Kran pan jsn the th b tt conc arted sch me Is va nj n and never neven cn can succeed I I 1 think that unless there is a more comprehensive philosophy than that which has entered into the brains of our learned men none of that intelligence that dwells in the bosom of the great goj to contro oard and guide a mans feelings and desires and to tn bring them into subjection to some law by which all can be managed orderly w and systematically there is something in ilie lilo designs of god and in all his hi ls operations that so far out ont outstrip strip the operations of man in his most moat mighty efforts for they are all puny weak and childlike look for fon instance at the which the united sta cs es at present labor under in providing for their armies aran arnn es at the difficulties that they are placing themselves under in a very hort time unless some change takes place they will be bankrupts and doubtless obliged to dishonor thir contracts and yet 1 the united states are a wealthy and powerful nation what ia is it that they are running in debt for to feed their armies and their ariere is upwards of of people in the united state states ad a d about one malion of them are engaged aih fi h ing each other and the chers are busy supplying their friends wants it would woud really seem as if they were all bank erupts notwithstanding z all their fidanc finan ering ening cering their resources and their wealth and not only is that the case with them but look at great britain and what they have tried trien to accomplish ilish Is with ith all their professed wisdom they have ave depended upon obtain obtaining iric lile cotton from this land and now cannot do ft it it is supposed that they can never get from under their indebtedness which paces places a great part parti of the nation in a state ot vassalage va and poverty what is the case with other nations they are just the same cr or worse they are maintaining their large standing armies to preserve their di dignity nita and heir their pride in the must maist of the proud a aristocrats of the old world what does their present condition show it shows there is a weakness and a want of union and of one in another let us look at the act ant of the almighty and ani compare them wah the acts of men look at the human family there is from to that inhabit the face of this earth on the right and on the he lafr in the north and in the south and who bo is it that provides their dinner supper and all their sup pie piet why it is the gret gnet god him who hears the young ravens when they c y whose wisdom is infinite ard who is capable of taking care of the human family then look at the hills and valleys aal the animal creation the fish in the sea the beasts of the forest al all ali I 1 teeming deemin with life and yet this intelligence which is in the almighty and the knowledge by which be controls all things and which enables him 0 t take care of ald and provide for all creation the myriads and myriads of be inee that fill the air and sea and yet notwithstanding they exist in counti as ss numbers his bis wisdom provides for all of them and anti he la is not bankrupt bin krut but ie is still abundantly able to meet his engagements for fifty years to come just as weil well as a he is today to day now contrast the difference between one thing and the oher well ivell it is not necessary to dwell long upon these things enough perhaps may have been said to show ahe the wisdom the kno knowledge Medge arid and the forethought 11 of the almighty now what is lei it that we want if we could have it and knew how bow to 0 o obtain it and anti if there was any way of accomplishing it we want to get that w v adom which dwells in the bosom of got goi that intelligence which governs the universe that produces seed time and harvest and causes evert every everything thing to progress in regular order under the sanction of that carp care forethought and compra comprehension hension and arid power that enables the lord oue oui our god to provide f fir r all ail allot of his creature to apply our wants wanta and this shows something of that beneficence that dwells in his bosom that enables b bm bro m to feel for the wants of or his neighbors ai for his own and to seek after common welfare ald aid int interest prest if we cannot get gei god to be interested in our cause if it he lie wont put his hand to the wl wt eel we may despair of ever bringing brinagh g about that thing that the prophets have spoken about just na as much as noses moses did in former days when israel had bad shined sinned against god 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