| Show DISCOURSE ourse b 4 elser eiser L eam SAT snob SNOW lowered ats Sh sait salt zake lake afy aty eti bli elf a stiano sunday djahon ddn jam jan 14 1872 sia tia iio evi avi REPORTED OVI byk ByA VT RYANS ial jal pleasure this afternoon inmar in mail male pink ing 14 a few remarks t the tho latter laiter day saints a as to any strangers stran gors that may be in eay say ar midst 1 I never designed be a preacher at cher it was only a kense tense of positive duty duty thal thai induced me to occupy the position as a preacher of the gospel for t ma ix may y say I 1 nearly thirty fave five years adi afi an understanding giten giyen yen ten through froug the e revelations of air the abra r jesus ea christof hris tot the e t ohe the jeatter r day saints sainta nasi have ini in f du dured me to travel through the tha world bearl bear i i dog jog testimony of those things whick J as do know pertaining to the gospel 0 lifland ilme life ana and salvation revealed in this our oai dayd ithe relation that we sustain to thelora the lord i our oar god and the blessing and andi privileges to through tha he system of life ilfe which we we have received are worthy 0 of abd ouk deepest consideration and alid it ia Is no lesa lei necessary 0 that we understand the dutie dulled the performance of which la requisite fori our part for the attainment 0 of f those ba blesa inka inga and privileges and to keer keep ourselves esl esi ii the path on which chwe we may secure escure the hagli estl test esti ad advantages vantages which the system orr oft zelk zeik glon gion we haye have received is iain lain in its nature c ca pable of giving the relationship which we sustain te to go do our Father as well aa as world at t large I 1 e IV properly improperly understood and ampre appreciated a d is calculated to wake us up to the performance erbor of the duties required of us as la latter ater day saints we ought to understand tha that we have es espoused aused a system of religion that is calcut calculated to in 1 ts nature to increase within us wisdom and knowledge that we have entered upon a path that thatis Is progressive that will increase our spiritual intellectual and physical by s 1 advantages and everything pertaining g to our own happiness and the well being of the world at large we be bem bea lieve have that we are the offspring of jia jin jn lia heaven and that we possess in our spiritual fritzal u 1 organizations the same ze h ties s powers an and ana d faculties that our fathel eathel i possesses although in an ati infantile state Je requiring quiring to pass pasa through a certain course or ordeal by which they will be developed dey eloped an and ana dIm improved roye rove ac according cordin to the heed w we e give aveto to t the 0 principles les ies wet we have ave received W we e believe iove love that god Is no respecter respect ei of persons but that ha he confers blessings upon all his children in pro proportion portio n to ta the light they have or in proportion as they proceed ae jac cording to th the elight light and knowledge they possess less mess in the different circumstances of ilfe flab life I 1 hat that may surround teem aldem them we believe that the spirit which enlightens man min jamily family proceeds from the presence orthe odthe almighty that it spreads through throughout oiA all space ice that it is the light and life ufa of all nil things and nd Eat that every hones theart possesses it int in proportion to his virtue inte into integrity anido rit nit y ana aria his desiro destro to know the arm truth and dog gadd doa doo to his fellow men we seo see the provi dences oford in alt all things 0 1 ilip I 1 j we see them in raising up tom muni ties and establishment sin th tha 01 wyrla w orld orid for the general and universal benefit of bf mankind we see bee tho the provi dences of god id ri raising up a luth muth br and a joh job john n wesley we see the providen provi dences cea ces of god enill the christian organizations and s wal ell we trace the band of the thin almighty Z 1 in w framing the constitution odbur land a add d i belleve believe thai that the lord raised up men ulen puri puro for forthe the accomplishment of this ob bb eject eject raised them up and inspired them to frame frama the constitution orthe of the united states statis we trace the hand band of god his S von borkin workings vor kin gi up upon on and among all classes of people wilether Cl christian ristian br or heathen t that at his provi dences maybe carrl carri carried d that formed before teo tee star stars atar 3 sang aang together or the tho t p athe the earth were laid ikid may be bd ultimately 1 filled he slackens blackens not his hand band hla his hia designs uno rio efort his purposes Ads vilh but his ibis worlds ono one eternal round WA wal trace tta tra ce the hand band of the almighty and wesee his hf hib spirit moving in ties for kneir 1 good restraining and encouraging establishing fishing and nations ning kingmen ingmen king ing men td take a course that shall ms f addan advance be his purposes the bev sev se time 0 o abail como shall work more fu nully fully ily liy sandl s and ana effectually for the his designs an dw hen ben q sorrow tvr wickedness wj 1 ake evil crime bitter a tion distress and poverty 1 s shall bhail h all ail cea io aad be no more moro known and the ahil c happiness orbis children be secure dh en the earth shall be rolled back into int oits oita its pris pria tino tine purity and tho the he Inhabit inhabitants snI k lt thereof 6 beof dwell upon it 4 in and ana a aepli edir edit thera there is any class dass of people in id the cu world that have to ba mona wora liberal ard sad randa aad generous gen gea erous towards their fellow orea onea cre cne crea ai jt turps ures atia it lethe the latter latte day dav saints afia ahn I 1 if adur our f liberality arid are no not va moro more than they are it is enca ence g ca c of the pressure of circumstances witly with which we are surrounded restrain restraining ingus us fro milie exercise the thereof thereon yet we expect I 1 t jad bd hereafter in circumstances when 5 will havethe privilege and opportunity a B bf doing as wp wo in these HoWever dl io regard ia to thih this matter matten bhe er circumstances circum atances cogge arnot or inoh inot we e know that we have obeyed nante a system 0 progression might speak iw in jie jre lener iener i ener fsr 2 ence to the increase of k knowledge bowled to any cje e doctrines doctrin ea we abut teach but that which is most moat interesting to baja the tha progression dohe latter day saints themselves ln in the system they have received rec elved elied oar our faith views and the principles we haye have obeyed all c coincide i perfectly with those of bf former day saints which we wa read about in this book the bible were ministers at the resent present day to stand up in their pulpits ans and ana announce doctrines in reference to the progression of saints as they were preached pik pie ached in former days le the doctrin doctrines ea would be considered at 1 least 11 ter yer very 7 startling and a committee of I 1 investigation ve agapion would undoubtedly be ed d at onoe once by heir their oo 00 congregations to ascertain 1 tain whether or northey not they had bad seceded from their previously avowed principles for instance let a methodist presbyterian or baptist minister mini rise in his bis pulpit and suggest t to his congregation as panl paul aul ani did on oa a certain occasion flet let ilet thib this same same mind be bo in you jou which Is also in christ jesus who having the form of god thought it not robbery 7 alier y i to be equal with god it would bag beg b consi considered dereda a startling announcement so also would the doctrine of john the reve reves i s lator on od a certain occasion when be he says sayi we are fida now the sons song of god it does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he that is christ shall appear wo we shallie like him fer fee wo we shall see bee se e him hint as he is and every man that has his this hope in him puri puni purifies fles ties himself evon even as god is pure that would be a startling ans an s no of doctrine did any ond one present acquainted with the methodist baptist baptist bartish presbyterian or episcopalian soi so i cle cie cleties ties I 1 es ever hear suggestions or doctrines doctrin ea like ilke these I 1 never did and iwas I 1 was former I 1 ly well acquainted with these societies net not let lot mais fals same mind kindbe be in you which was in christ jesus who finding himself in the form of god thought it not robbery robbers to td be equal with god and he that has this hope in him purit purifies les ies himself eveni even as god Is pure and again when he shall ap pear we shall be like him for we shall see him dim as he is 19 11 we were bom born in the image of god our I 1 father he begot us like unto hims himself elfi eife there Is the nature of deity in the composition olour of our spirl spiritual tua organization in our spiritual birth our father to us tho capabilities powers and faculties which he himself possessed ad aa much so as the child on ita its ni others mothers otheus bosom possesses although in an undeveloped state tile the fact fac ullies powers and susceptibilities of its parent apostles prophets evangelists evangelis tsi pastors and teacher teachers we are told were placed in former days in in the church for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of christ until we all ial come to 0 the unity of we the faith and of the knowledg knowledge ik of the son of df god unto the th perfect mau man P what is meant by this the perfect man and again unto the devid measure eirthi of cir thi the stature af the rulin fulIn fullness bis of christ A system of things was had in r those th so days through which a saint saini could comer come up and be a perfect mah man in the lord nord jesus jedus 4 a system by which saints could bould id advance vance vanee in the knowledge of the things of god to an understanding of his purpose purposes 11 of their own natures and characters odthe of their thein relationship to the almighty and of ta trie ordeals it was necessary for them to p pass na 4 through that they wey might be perfected as the son of god was perfect this system of things thinks taught by christ and his apost apostles lei leh was not then first intro d it was known ages beforehand before and was established before the foundations of bf the earth were laid I 1 will quote a passage from the book of doctrine and ana covenants 11 which will be found on page pao 85 section 4 paragraph 6 ho he that recel veth me the ibe lord f andee that r ecel veth velh uny tny iny fathers kinig dom therefore be given un unto to him and this is according to the oath and covenant which the priesthood therefore ail all those who receive th the priesthood receive this oath and aud covenant of my father which ehg hr cannot break neither can it be moved but hoso hoko whoso choso trea keth thid this covenant ant after after ao hd hath haith i received it and ana 66 bhail shall not havo have forgiveness of st siria 1 I is world norin the world to 0 come this is ii a revelation that t t has a been een g ven to the latter latte r i day saints and 86 nir fir its ibl provisions in re reference arence too lo those thoad ha who receive it itis its it Is p precisely roo roe IS el jr 1 in n k kebling g with I 1 those pasa passages gesl I 1 have quoted M t tle tie 0 Ire testament they were weta the burden hurden of the teachings of the apostles in former formen da days s they 0 fow abow 1 to I 1 tue the tb W ch christian 8 world by their ministers and ana religious s teachers they would bo be cofeild considered red ned stat ling this system instein ij stefn stein of things was aff wall weh known to adam after he was exp eap expelled i froh from the garden of tir eden it baswell was well weil known to preached it antediluvians for one hundred and twenty years it 16 was wag also known in the days of II moses kioses oses osos ire he preached edit it to the israelites on tho the banks hanks of the red sea pea I 1 1 1 l E would not have you iri iii ignorant d sky siy the apostle in reference to this point ilida how that our oui nat fat fathers liers U through h the th qiea sea bea were all under the cloud clond f all ate the same spiritual meat all drank the bame same spiritual brinki drink fon ton they drank of that spiritual followed i rock was wait itis it is eviden aru MiM tf ta that thab the tho gospel bf ilfe life i but told that la in lc consequence wickedness of andu ana and pl gospel 0 pel pei was tek tak r aken gri from th e p a in la pays anys f e vo of A gs q ei I 1 I 1 bacdad ifield igo not noh 1 T f them e 1 and n the there ora ofa introduced tro a otero which was called the slid schoolmaster to bring them to christ on and hardness a of f h heart e a r P t they h eyia refused tu fid kid iid f icil f mieke I 1 v i i 6 of f the privileges ge s within their reach nor for when hen the to comedown into lito their with them sace face to face aa he did with moses mose they requested moses to fora dhent nna and ana speak with the al AP mighty likht 1 4 add an ct being filled with unbelief and lind uncil unwilling ti inz ing 1 to become acquainted with God their father the gospel and all ail its privileges 1 9 dw were i ero erd withdrawn Ith drawn but bat this gospel has been heen een iriti introduced at various vailous times into the world it waa wis known by the prophets understood plainly and distinctly that Jesus was waa the lamb iamb stain from benore before the foundation of the world and ana that season beason hew ha ouid oula buld manifest himself ot men that ho he would dle die far for their sins anat andt Q crucified in norderto order to complete tho the plan of salvation the tho prophets harthe had the gospel and its fa advantages advantAge Efin erin in their midst ana and tiie tile holy spirit that Is evar eyen ever connected with it was poured out upon lipon them ln IL falness ful ness there was a certain blessing connected only daly with oui oti edien edlen ceko ceto the gospel that was the giffor the holy roly ghost W C f pie received the ordinances gospel they th ey were promised that they should ret rem colye the gift of the holy ghost the sa sai sal a i vior who undoubtedly knew beit best about the tho nature natu io aidi character of this gift ift raid baid taid it those who received f it t into all truth and ana show them things to come it should bo more than that spirit which pro pio i i coeds from god filling the tho immensity of space and enlightening enlighten ing log every man nian that comes commes into the world the tho gift of the holy holk ghost should lead into all ail truth and show them thing come furthermore in speaking of its effects ithe the apostle bays says the spirit la is given to everyman every man to profit withal ithai ithal to ono one is given faith raith 11 not aa V common ordinary faith which some peo i pie eie ele pretend to aitho atthe atthe present day bu but t a faith falth which enabled its possessors to be 8 sawn awn asun asunder dbr to td be cast east into dens of lions faery fiery furnace sand to uil uli undergo dergo tortures tortured of every eveny description this whis was the tho kind of falth faith falth that the holy ghost conferred upon those who possessed it enabling its I 1 posses saes sor to stand inthe in the midst of every dl difficulty zo cult bys hys I 1 defy every opposition p and lay down dow n his h Is life if necessary for lor we the causo caubo 6 h had ad es esh h abused doused there thene war wass wads an almighty inspiring power in this faith falth given giten iven by the lord through the holy ghost which lid no other principle could communicate to one no was given faith to another knowledge not that which is 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