Show DELIVERED BY XU PRESIDENT JOB TAYLOE at ae the assembly nall razi OM on sunday afternoon march harch ath 1882 REPORTED BY GEO F GIBES we are living in peculiar times we aie ate operating in an eventful era we are associated asto elated with a peculiar pecullar E dispensation and we have a labor to perform which in many respect respects tb differs fram from that of all other ages or times the tha dispensation that we are connected with la is called in scripture the dispensation of the falness of times in which it is recorded bozi goa will gather together all things in one cne whether they be things on the earth cr or things hi in the heavens there are ideas associated with this dispensation that are in many respects distinct and dissimilar from theeo that havo have been enunciated and proclaimed informer in former ages and dispensations and inasmuch as much as the tho present dispensation Is to embrace every thing that has been conceded with all past dispensa eions all the prominent features as well as the minor ones that tha characterized the church and kingdom of god in former days that were e essentially necessary nece noce to tu its growth and devel elopement must appear reappear re in connection with tho the work of gad in thia this our day if the manifestations and of other despen sitione h ivo been made known to us we have had revealed to us doctrines theories organizations and that have hava existed among the of 0 them because it Is emphatically the ther dispensation of the bulnes of times if it they had bad anything that was peculiarly characteristic act inthe in the tho days of the ancient patriarchs we have the same bame revealed to us if they had bad anything prominent and lm important in the d dispensation Is pensa tion of noah we have it and if noah was called upon to preach tho the gospel to the world in his day before its destruction r eo 0 o are wo we if in the Abrah amlo amio or mosaic di dla dia pansa tlona tiona god revealed important principles we havo have allear knowledge of those things made known to us and the reasons the whys ghys and Where wherefores pertaining to them if they had amythine anything amy any thine among the ancient pro fro prophets peets and men or dosi god wo we have the same sanae principles developed if in the days of jesus they had manifestations revelations doctrines or organizations those things ara made known to us or if the people upon this continent to whom god revealed either elther the people that came from the tower of babel or those who came from jerusalem during the reign of zede klah if anything was iove love revealed aled to them wo we have had it revealed unto us and this is why certain thing things 0 exist pertaining to organizations organization st etc referred to by brother hatch we have here on the ceiling of this building pictured to us moroni making known to joseph smith the plates from which the book of mormon was translated which platos had been hidden up in the earth and in connection with them was the arim and thum min by which acred instrument joseph was enabled to translate the ancient characters now given unto us in the form of the book of mormon in which is 13 set bet forth the theories doctrines princ frinc principles i if I 1 CS organizations lations zat iOns lons etc of those peoples deop deor es who lived upon this continent people talk about their disbelief regarding these things that la Is a matter of no moment to us I 1 do not intend to bring any argument upon this question caring nothing about what people believe wo vo know certain things and know ing ithem them wo we regard them aa as matters of fact if we were to tako take the world and its ideas and theor theon theories es we should nind find that there is hardly one person in every thousand who believes lives ilves the biblo The Christian world PI professes 1 professes esses belief in the bible that is 1 they believe it when shut but not when open consequently I 1 do not propose this after afternoon noun at least to address myself to infidels whether they go under the name of christi christian an or any other name I 1 am ELM 81 makIng speaking of certain principles to a people who believe them to be true and I 1 wish to refer more particularly to some events associated with the dealings of god with his earthly children 1 when john was on the isle of patmos certain things wena were revealed to him that were to tra transpire in the last days and he prophesied of them while wrapped ped pea in prophetic vision gazing on OR the purposes of god as they were to be unfolded in later time among other things he saw an angel flying in A thu the midst of heaven I 1 having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth to every nation kindred tongue and people saying with a loud voice fear god and give glory to ahlm for oon the hour of his judgment is come this was waa a declaration made by this ancient apostle and prophet of god while banished for his rell reil gionas certain men today would if they could baulsh baniah u 6 we now declare to the world that this part of the visions j of john has haa been fulfilled that the angel has come and appeared to man upon the earth conferring upon him this heavenly charge namely tilo the responsibility of opening up a new gospel dispensation and we declare flint god himself took part p itt in it and that jesus jems the mediator of the new covenant accompanied him both of whom appeared to joseph smith upon which occasion the father pointing to the son said this is my tolover bon ROD hear bear him following this the gospel was to be preached to every nh nation what gospel the same gospel that was preached to adam and to the patriarchs and men of god of every age the gospel of salvation and deliverance from sin ein through the theato atonement ato of jesus jebus christ the resurrection res ur from the dead life immortal and all the blessings blek bles singa associated therewith and when this gospel was birst first proclaimed in this age agey who knew anything about it nobody it was not and had not been among men for centuries the world of mankind had been left without direct communication from the heavens and as a na ila tural consequence while grovelling gro velling in the dark they thoy followed the devices and desires of their own hearts they were 9 governed by man mado made system systems on end bowed to the dictum to the n notions ons the theories and follies fol foi lIcis of men en there was no apostle no prophet no inspired men of god holding his holy priesthood to say thus eaith haith the lord this Is s the way walk ye in it in connection with this I 1 may a allude to an incident in my personal experience to show the state of the world religiously some forty or fifty years yeara ago not being then acquainted edwi with h this church a number of us met together for the purpose of searching the scriptures and we found that certain doctrines were taught by jesus and the apostles apostle which in elther neither the methodists bap nap P fists presbyterians rians Episcopal episcopalians ians nor any of the religious sects beets taught and we concluded that if tho the nible bible was true the doctrines of modern christendom wore were not true or if they were true the bible was false our investigations were impartially mado made and our search for truth was extended we examined every religious principle that came under our notice and probed the various systems aa as taught by the sects to ascertain if ther there e wore any that were in accordance with the word of god but wo we failed to find any in addition to our researches and investigations we prayed and fasted before god and tb the c substance of our prayers was that it if he had a people upon the earth anywhere and ministers who were authorized to preach the gospel gospels that he would send us one this was the condition we were in wo we knew all that the Metho dista knew then and all that they know now wo we know all that the presbyterians rians knew know then and all that they know now we know all that the episcopalians Episcopal lans ians knew know then and all that they know now we knew all that the roman Cat catholics holles knew then and all that they know today to day for we made ourselves conversant with the doctrines and examined them thoroughly as well as the theories cfall of all ali men who pretended to have knowledge of gospel we played prayed earnestly and in in answer to our prayers the lord sent us elder parley P pratt who gives an account of this in his autobiography auto biography which has been published since his death brother fratti Prat tin relating the circumstances says bays that brother heber mckimball C KI dball earno camo to hla hia house one night after he had retired that brother cimball requested him to get got up which he be did rind and then b besan began an to prophecy to him ho 0 told him there were a people la in canada who were seeking for a knowledge of the gospel and they were praying to god vod to send tim them a minister who should reveal to them the truth brother kimball then commissioned him to repair to canada telling tolling him that the lord would bless biess him and open up 1113 his way just previous to that time the saints had bad been engaged in building the temple in kirtland ohio and were all very much embarrassed aa as to meane meant brothe broths pran with tho balance planes bay hay ing devoted everything he had to spare spire for that purpose among other things ahinga that brother kimball kimbau told him was that where he was going he would find nind means to relieve hini blea himself self seif and that many of the people would embrace the 0 gospel and that it would bo be the mesena mesina of introducing the gospel to england and furthermore said he your wife who Is now childless shall ahall have a abon ason bon son in the course of time she did have a bon eon and they named him parley idonat I 1 do not know but that says say I 1 knew know him bifora barbra he was born laughter I 1 speak of this to show that there was at that time nobody of whom we had any knowledge from whom we could obtain any information with regard to the gospel of tho the son of god or that could teach us the doc jesus and nis his apostles taught as contained in the tha scriptures brother patt pratt came and found uge u and he came in answer to our prayon at least that ia Is faith in re gird gaird to the matter and aereal these things yes iwas baptized mys myself elfand and others and I 1 baptized many others in that country and it was the means also of sending fending the gospel to england john geodeon Go odeon who apostatized iong long ion lon ago john snyder a good faithful man who was waa one of the committee of the nauvoo home house aad who lied diled tied in the ward of this city isaac and joseph fielding uncle to brother jos F smith were of our number embraced the and were afterwards called to a acom eom com pany brother heber C kimball and orson hyde to england for lor the durfos purpose 0 of opening up he the work in that tha land and I 1 was the first person that wrote a letter to england on the subject of the gospel I 1 did it at the request of brother Fielding who got me to write for him to a brother and brother in law of his who were ministers in Eh england giand glaud thebe these were tho the men wen that helped to introduce the gospel into england in early day T speak of this for the information of many of you when brother pratt came to me I 1 wa perhaps as well read in the letter of the bible bitile as rss I 1 am today to day and as eoon soon as he commenced to talk about prophets I 1 said yes we believe in them and he talked about apostles andl andi remarked yes wo we nave bave been looking for such men but wo we cannot find them ho he talked about the organization of the church as it ift was anciently and about the gift of tongues and the gift of healing cand et etland we were delighted with his message it was something wo were beeking for and it was waa all new now to us we ld had heard rumors about the mormons cormons Mor mons just as people hear rumors inow of ui and the rumors we heard were not of the most complimentary character anymore any more moro than aro arc those that aro are circulated about us today to day or that were circulated about jesus and the former day salute you yon know the tile pious byco hypocritical bitica ri tica clergy of that day put the savior down aa as the tho vilest creature that ever over lived and influenced the populace against him for sad the they I 1 ho he heals the sick give god the glory for wo we know that this hisman man is a sinner and when he cast out devils this same class clasa attributed it to the power of beelzebub the prince of devils and they spoke of him as being a bastard and cast all manner upon him the savior in speaking to his disciples gave them to understand that inasmuch aa as they had persecuted him they would also perse ferse persecute ute sute them and eaid said he further when they persecute you in one city flee fleo to another and he also told them to be exceeding glad when they persecuted for righteousness sake what to be lied led about by adventurers and political demagogues who seek seeh to rob and plunder you aes yes that is a good and favorable sign if it we were guilty of the infamies amies that they seek to lay at run vur door that would ouid be another matter but whilst we are not asgood as good aa as we might be we do know that what they say mid fand publish publish to the tho world about us which hns has as had a tendency to arouse the feel ff clings ings of the general public against us are internal infernal falsehoods blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall bay say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake rejoice and be exceeding glad etc in this we but share tho the lot of the honorable of other azos azes the men of god who stood the of their fellow man and who in many instances were persecuted much worse than we are our oar present assailants have not learned how yet but they are trying upon a email small scale to introduce the th inquisition and may by py and aad by in some degree succeed in carrying carry ing out their nefarious objects this is their w work ork if they can stand it we think wo we can there are thousands of honorable men who will look don with contempt upon all such unprincipled and mendacious efforts after the lord bad spoken to joseph smith and jesus had manifested himself to him and after moroni had revealed rove aled to him the hidden platea containing the history of the tiie ancient inhabitants of this continent tin nt which in the wisdom of G god od have bi blen bien ben b en translated into our own language in the form of the book of mormon and which in connection with the bible is to ba the tho means of confounding fahe falio doc doe the one being co of the other in principle and doo i trine and in relation to the designs and purposes of god after this it was necessary that the priesthood held by men informer in former days should be restored in these latter days that now as men might be authorized to act in the name of the lord nence hence john the baptist who held the keys of the priesthood came and laid his hands upon the heads ef of jose joseah joseph h smith and oliver cowdery u finx these words upon chupon you my follow servants ber frer vante in the name of messiah I 1 confer center the priesthood of aaron which hold hoid 3 the koss keys of the tho ministering of the gospel of repentance and of baptism by imme immor aion bion for the of sins and this shall never be taken again from the earth until the sons of levi do oner offer again blain an au offering unto tho the lord in ri g after having been ordained to this priesthood which is after the order of ot awon amon it was waa necessary that they should have another priesthood which Is a 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