Show 1 I REMARKS br ny resIdent I 1 YOUNG youna nowery bowery july jull 13 1562 f RETORTED BY G D watta WATT I 1 will use for the toun foun foundation dation of my remarks words foli foti foil foll din dia rv lith chap loth verse and the seventh angel sounded and there X were egre gre t voices in heaven spying the I 1 kingdoms of this orid word bord orld are become the kin kid king doms oma of our lord and cf of his hia christ and h be e shall reign forever and ever 51 how near to this thia text I 1 shall preach I 1 know not here there is enough in it to answer my purpose lur jur pose and arid it is one upon which a great gibat deal can be said the plan of salvation cannot b told in one discourse nor ili in one day one month or one year for it is from everlasting to everlasting lear tear like ilke ia e the priesthood of the son of god gott without 1 beg beginning inning of days or end of life the gospel we declare unto you leads to eternal life and this kindom king tom is the kingdom of god he b bas promised by the mouths f his prophets I 1 that be he would set up tip in the last days a king dom dorn that mut triumph over all the ills that afflict the family of man and usher in everlasting righteousness alan manhal hag has wana warA wandered ered far from hla hia maker far from the path of cf rectitude his heavenly fa ther has marked out for his feet and is walking in a way strown with danger he be has left the artre liglin lili ami athi is walking in darkness diu dax kness chei the wisdom and intelli geace that la is from heaven and has his become I 1 benighted in ignorance and unbelief neither knowing god nor the object of his own exis eee tee tence teece ce upon the eath eaith this darkness and 1 agu ig orance crance must mua bs be dispelled by the preaching of lot the gop 1 and as many as will villi believe on the lord jesus christ and walk in all the thel ordinances ot of god goa blameless will ba be num bred b red ted with his bis sainta saints and be gath gathered ered tred into ha kingdom to ie be further taught the principles ot c cernal jfe the kingdom of go I 1 in the latter laur days must triumph upon all the batth ca th bub sub subdue we every of lin tin and dabir dabin y every source of orrow to wh c downtrodden down trodden hun humanity lanit ty has been subject the work of making the k ng of the world the tho kingdom of god and his bis christ has commenced and all the inhabitants of the earth without exception will wilt yet acknowledge jesus to be the christ to the glory of god the father all mankind marl maii kind are individually interested in thib thia latter day work for all ali have a future whether gl glorious erious or langlo ious lous man alan is created for a glorious purpose for a life that is eternal A great deal is comprehended ended in the two words eternal lifee life ilfe they entirely exclude death we have no heath to preach for we should never practice the elds ti cipes of death but pursue the path that E leads to the continuation of the lives lhea the world will be revolutionized by the preaching of the gospel and an ahl l the power of the priesthood and this work ve me are called to do ilo in its progress every foolish and unprofitable custom every unholy passion every frilich notion in politics and relia religion ion every unjust and oppressive law and whatever bax wax hat ever even else that ia is op rees reEf sive live to man ana ani that would impede h a onward brogi progress pro giess ess to the perfection of the holy ones hi in eternity wiil will be removed until i everlasting righteousness prevails ov ivr er the whole earth such was the deign of the preaching of the gospe in the days of the apostles it is written in the book of the acts of the Apo and when they found them not 1 they drew json jeon and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city crying these there e that have turned the world upside down are come bither hither also using the s me fil figure ure be elders of of the church of jesus christ of latter day faints are called to right up the world to turn it t over Is a gigantic work but it will be done fo for both the righteous on earth and the bandt fied in heaven are working at it and all ali 1 a I I 1 power both in heaven and ou earth eruth is given to the savior by bybia his father it is our business bustness to fully comprehend the sayings and doings 0 0 the savior cavior in his big mission on n the earth which ila jia is life to all ebo believe and feducc to the tle end bend edd in the pursuit of life eternal S A life time is too short abort to tell the extent of the mission of the savior to the human family but I 1 will venture to use one of his baying saying in connection with hat what bat I 1 have already quoted from the book of revelations when he was arraigned before pilate to be tried for i his hia life he said to pilate bly my aly kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that I 1 should not be delivered to the jews but birt now is my kingdom not from hence connect this saying with blessed are the peace makers malt mali erp crp for they shall be called the clid children dren io af pf god gd and we can understand bow the kin ain dom of 4 f christ is lotof not ot this world because it is established in peace unlike all worldly kingdoms which ar are e established in war the scotta ut his hia ia Is peace on n earth and lood rood will towards men and hence not after thi tb order 0 of f gordly kingdoms it t was remarked this mornier thac that the book of mormon inno in no case contradicts the bible it has many words like those in the bible alid aid ald as a whole is a strong kitners 10 lo to the bible revelations when they have passed from god to man and from man into his written and nd printed language cannot be said to be entirely perfect though they may be as perfect as possible under the circumstances circumstance they are perfect enough to ans answer er the purposes oe of heaven at this time tt the saying ill my king kingdom domis is not of thi ihl world Y 1 and the saying the kingdoms kingi lomg of this world horld shall bail become the kingdoms of god and his christ 12 at the firt glance would appear palpable contradictions but when the they are read with their proper connections an and 7 d by a person whose and is enlightened by the power i of the holy ghost instead of contradict cont contradiction radic tion between them there is seen to exist a perfect harmony jo joseph se ph smith the prophet of tte last days f had a d a h ha a py faculty of reducing the things of haaven to the capacity of persons of understanding often in a single sentence throwing a flood of light into the gloom of ages lie he bad power to draw thea thes the spirits tf cf the people who listened to him to hi his standard where they communed with heavenly objects and heas beas heavenly enly principles connecting the heavenly and the earthly tog together ether in one blen bien blending dhir flood of heavenly intelligence when the mind is thus lit ht up with the spirit of ic ie it is clearly discerned that the tte heavens and th eath are in close proximity that time and eternity are one we can then understand that the things of aoi goi god are things which pertain to bis big children and that the expression form and ym sym mathies of his earthly children pertain to their great father and Cr creator eltor it has been by some gome hat that the he kingdom jesus established on the earth when aben he was biere in ac the tot not tol the kingdom daniel saw pardon me lne if I 1 differ from this view and anil s say ay that it wab wag the very kingdom that daniel saw but it was not then the time to estabi sh it in its fullness it was not then the time for the kingdom ot of god to subdue ali all a 1 other kingdoms as it would in the latter days jesus cada cama to eota cota establish blish bis his spiritual kingdom or to intro introduce duco duca a code of morals that would exhale the spirits of the p people le to godliness and to god that they nigh thereby secure to themselves a glorious resurrection and a title to reign on the earth when the kingdoms of world should become the kingdoms of our gos god and anti bis his chiist ile he also cam came e to introduce himself as he the S idlor of the world to ailed shed his blood upon the atar altar of atone atonement menty and open up the life to all believers when jesus came to his own they received him net not but said I 1 this is the heir let us kill h m and se z on his inherit inheritance a nce and the they caught him and cast him out of the vine vineyard yas yaZ and slew him had the jews received him as the heir and nd treated him as sueh such be would have established his kinnoin kin kinge gorn goin iiii among them at that time both Bp spiritually irittia y and temporally and anti they thoy would have gatheren ga therel the lost tribes that wandered from jerusalem would have overcome their twett toe tue tummies meir mies mlee yea kew Vea possess ea 61 valestine Vales vune Vine in peace and spread to the uttermost parts of be the earth and possessed the kingdom under the whole heavens again at the time the children of israel i left egypt if they had then received the gos j pel mogee hid had for them the kingdom ta would ouid then have been given to them and arid it never would have been broken up and the boube bouse of israel never would have been smitten and i scattered to become bondsmen among the nations if the children of or abraham isaac and jacob previous to the egyptian bondage bad j been falth faith faithful fulp they would have received the keys and power of the kingdom and would I 1 never have gone into egypt to suffer four hundred bundred years yearb in bondage but they ty their wickedness rejected the kingdom I 1 when god ep aks to the people he does it I 1 in a manner mander to suit their circumstances and capacities he ile spoke to the children of jacob through moses as a blind bind stiff necked people and llen ilen when lien jesus and Ms lia apostles came they talked with ith the jews as a benighted wicked selfish people they would not receive the 9 aspel though presented to them by the son of god in all its righteousness beauty and glory send an angel anzel i to rewrite the bible it would in many places be very different from what it now ia is and I 1 will even venture to say that it if the book of mormon were now to be rewritten in many I 1 instances it would materially differ from he ohe present translation according as people are willing to receive the things of god Godso so ty tre e heavens send foith forth their bes sings if the people are stiff necked the lord lard can tell them theia but little I 1 the kingdom that jesus jeans came to establish Is the kingdom daniel saw b but t that hat 1 stiff udd necked rebellious gee generation ration wound TO not cepe cewe ye the gospel and be he did not fully bis his kingdom at that time could the them lord consist antly autly have given them power over overt beir leir enemies to 0 o whom they fhe were subject while abile in this state of rebellion to god and his laws they would have become more wicked than the romans om ans or other heathen callous nat fois lois of the he land had he given them power over the egyptians in the days of noses moses they would la ha e become more wicked than the egyptians anu aim would have used this saving caving power to brino bung upon them a nore ilore n ore sure and terrible tei tel de sarn action the lord called unon upon upon moses and he stood amid tle tie the thunders and nd of mount sinai moses was a good and great man maibit bit bat be he had bad lived with and 0 o often been aggravated tous lous with a wicked murmuring and rebellious people that lie he could not look upon god in his glory but be he cou d hear his bis voice and converse with witla his big he heavenly venly venty father in the pillar of cloud and fire ile he was on one occasion bior in company with seventy elders of israel permitted to see the back parts of the allik almighty atily he ile received the law of carnal commandments for israel from the mouth of god I 1 believe with all my heart that it the children of israel had been ready to receive the gospel in all its fullness ulness the yoke of carl can al commandments would never have been placed upon their necks moses was a high priest after the order of gf bb and yet be partook of the sins of the children of israel to ah a dem degi degl 0 ee that he could not see sic the face of god the very kingdom that jesus said was not of this world would in his big day have I 1 een perman antly established in this world if the he people could have received it but they would not nave have the man christ jesus to rule over their they turned away from the holy commandment man dment and preferred fables when jesus stated that his bis kingdom was nat not of thia thim world he did not mean to convey the idea hat that it had no right to be on this earth but that his kingdom was waa a righteous right boug holy kine king do and ana nov not like the wicked of the i wort and the wickedness of 0 the world was waa I 1 such mat that he be could not then establish his kingdom u upon pon thia his earth when 11 m moses 0 ses went into the tain to con verse wiil with h the tae god of israel the cy cry was beard in the camp where is this Mo mose nose set and hey they made a moulten calf of the jewelry they had bad boi bol borrowed rowed from the egyptians and gaid said these be thy gods 0 israel which br aught thee up out of 0 the land of egypt and when aaron saw it he be built an altar before ra it aud and aaron mace mad e a proclamation ani anil said to is a feast of the th e lord and they rose un ur early on the morrow and offered burnt offering offerings and brought peace offerings oT rings and the tbt people bat sat down to eat and arid i to drink and ant an t rose up to play there was as much sense in this proceeding as there is in peoples wor arsh shipping aping their property and money at the besent day the earth is the lords and the fulges ful full nes hereof nd he wishes toes to es ea ablith his bis kingdom upon it I 1 do no think any person will wili start a single argument to prove that tb the lord docs does not own 0 this earth and all that ii upon it all ati christians acknowledge ibal that the ibe earth is the loy lay logaa V avia axia the fullness thereof i aa ana nat nal jesus ia is the christ and heir of all things one excellent idea mat that was wab advanced this morning I 1 will venture to carry out a little further the time was when the test of a christian was his confession of christ in the filst first epistle of john it is written beloved believe not cery e ery spirit but try the spirits whether they are of god because many false prophets are gone out into the w rid lle ile hereby rely know ye the spirit of god every spirit that confes seth that jesus christ Is come in the flesh is of god and every stat confes seth not that jesus christ ia is come in the flesh is ignot not of god and this is that spirit of antic anti antichrist crist ristp m whereof hereof ye have heard that it shoud aboud come and even now already is in the world this ia is no test to this generation for all men of the christian world confess that jesus has come in the flesh this generation ho however wever is not left lift without a teah teat I 1 have taught for th arty years and still teach that he that bell belic eveth veth in his heart and confes seth beth with his mouth that jesus ia Is the christ alid and that joseph smith is his prophet het bet 1 generation is of god and he atiat th at confes seth not that jesus has coine in the ush and sent joseph smith with the fullness of the gospel to this generation is nut of god but is antichrist all who confess that joseph smi h is sent of god in the latter iatter day days to lay the foundation of his everlasting ein kin 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