| Show BY iry elier ELDER SHOW DELIVERED at logarta logan on saturday after noon nou mou athi 1882 REPORTED BY 0 F GIBBS the speaker commenced by reading the and derees verses of the chapter of the gospel according to st john and then said it is a question in my mind when reflecting upon the subject herein contained whether we take into proper consideration the great purposes that god has bas in view with regard to the human family and the manner in which he proceeds to accomplish them when the lord calls an individual or a class of individuals out from the world it is not always with an object to benefit that par lord has not in view merely tho the salvation of a few people called latter day saints who have been or who may be gathered into these valleys but the privation bal bai of all men the living and the dead when the lord called abraham he made him certain promises prom isea concerning the glohs glory that should come upon him and his posterity and in these pro abes we find this remarkable saying baying that in him and in his seed all the nations of the earth should bo be blessed paul in offering an explanation to this bays says in speaking of seed it did not have ference ree to seeds as of many but ono one which was waa christ jesus that Is in abraham and in christ jesus his seed all the families famines of the earth should be blessed L showing that in calling abraham land and in making this promise the design of I 1 he the lord was to bless biess not only hIm and his posterity but all the families of the tho earth in the tha dealings of god with man we find that he often ofte n called upon the heathen nations with a view to the accomplishment of certain pur par poses the sine sino vites for instance received a communication from the lord through the prophet jonah telling them that in forty days daya their city should be destroyed this thia people was worthy to receive warning by a revelation from god as they manifested afterward in their repentance and jonah fled froin from the pre pie presence senco of the lord for he knew that the almighty had respect for not only one nation and people but for all nations and peoples that feared him and lived according to the light which they possessed and he believed that the tho lord would forgive that people and therefore that he be as aa a prophet would fall fail in his prediction and would suffer in his hia character as aa a prophet however we find that jonah turned up at last in a wiser if not a better batter man and he went to in earnest performing the mission to which he had been called and delivered the message to the people the king heard of it and he had that faith in and that linow knowledge ledge of the character of the almighty that he believed and humbled himself and used hia his influence with his no bleg bios and people that they should do likewise that the wrath of god might be turned and he had bad hir his people preserved so he came carno down off his throne and called upon his nobles to put on isacke sackcloth lothi nud and commanded that the beasts or of the field should be covered with sackcloth and the people repented and humbled themselves before god in the hope would turn away his wrath from them and they so BO fully corri corll complied plied piled with the requirements that his judgment was reversed versea versed and the tho great city preserved and when the lord called upon the prophet jeremiah ho he told him that his hia purposes were not confined to the people of israel but that he was interested in the welfare and salvation of all nations on a certain occasion he was waa comme comma commanded tided to make mate yokes and to place them upon his neck and when the me messengers mangers from tho the various nations should come to visit cief t israel he was waa to send those yoles yokes to their mas mah masters their kings kinge end tell teu them what wha his mind and will were concerning them the yokes were sent bent to pix eix dif different lerent nati nat lors ons with a message requiring of those several kings certain duties those nations did not profess to be ibex irey Ife vain eln ein god they worshipped wor shipped idols but god had respect to them notwithstanding and it would not be almather al ai matter of astonishment to knoT knowah kno wat those people stood upon a faa faq eigher plano piano ot of morality and hta afu god than tho leopla of our boasted cent uary now the lord told them that it was hla hib intention to make a certain person king over all the nations including theirs and he them to submit to this tha cringe in their governmental stairs as ho he had appointed w to hold dominion over all nations and peoples peo pies arld and over the beasts of the field ali ail all these theeo things are mine bays says says the lard and have I 1 not the right to do with them as I 1 please now you sou na lions if you yon do not wish to be uprooted listen to the voice cf my servant jeremiah and bow your necks to the yoke of even his own people israel whom he had called and proposed to lift up in the eyes of the nations jeremiad Jeremi jeremiah ag was commanded to tell them to bub sub mit to and thus permit themselves to go into captivity which it if they did not they should be overthrown and jejusa lem iem destroyed but they would not listen they worshipped wor shipped false gods goda and they obeyed not the voice of the air Ali almighty but were guilty of all kinds of abomination and were so full of wickedness that the anger of the lord wab way kindled against them and he permitted him whom he called nis his servant to destroy their temple break down their altars and scatter them throughout his kingdom on a certain occasion the lord inspired king to issue an edict in which els elb his people israel were much interested as they were in captivity bad discovered the true and living god and lie he felt to honor him and in order to fully satisfy hia feelings in this respect he passed an edict edlet to the effect that whosoever would not reb relf poet the gud of Shadra Bhadra cb and abednego should be cut to pieces and a dunghill be made of their houses in this way the people in jerusalem and in the country rou round nd about while in captivity were compelled to have regard to the true god according to the edict of the heathen king this is the way god worked in those days finaly finally when jesus came he lie came as a sacrifice not simply inthe in the interest of israel 1 or the posterity of abraham imao isaac and jacob but in the interest of the whole human family that in him all men might be blessed that inyim all men might be saved and aud his hib mission was ito to make provision by which the whole human family faintly might receive the benefits of the everlasting gospel not as I 1 say ray r say ay israel alone but tho the whole human race and not alone those dwelling upon the earth but those also in tho the spirit world the at first did not comprehend orn om the universality of the purpose of the lord and it took the lord some time to convince them there was peter he had the idea that ibe the gospel was wara to bo be confined to the jews and in order to show him to the con arary tho the lord bent cent a special manifestation fe in the form of a sheet let down from hea heaven velt veit containing all manner of beasts and then commanded him i 3 arbee armee slay anit angl an eaf eat ea but peter demurred giving as a reason that nothing unclean had bad entered his mouth but ho was told thatchat that what the 14 1 lard 4 had made clean no man should call unclean and after he had received this ilea llen venly vision he was waited on by messengers sent by a distinguished personage it appears that the lord had found a gentile 31 uttie who honored him who pavo to the poor and who prayed honestly and fervently unto U him iiii when peter was conducted by the messenger to tha place he learned that it itwara wab was cornelius a gentile who had bent cent for him who had assembled with his friends to her hebr what the lord had to communicate when peter dle dib discovered covered himself in the company of gentiles he be considered it highly improper for ono one who was a jew to be been seen associating with that class of people and then cornelius explained how bow that an angel had appeared tj him instructing ting him to bend send to joppa to the house of one simon aimon a tanner etc on hearing thlu peter commenced preaching to him and his gentile friends and while ho he wea speaking ahing the holy ghost fell upon them and they I 1 a tongued and prophesied his eyes were now opened and his views became changed from those thore narrow conceptions that he had bad entertained in regard to the dispensation of the blessings of the lord being confined to vi a few but bat when he saw that tho the holy ghost was upon them as it had fallen upon his own ho he asked who can forbid water that they should not bo aid ald he comme comma that they be baptized roter reter learned that tho the gospel of the kingdom was to go to all nations that a all nil 1 might receive cei cel vetha the tha benefits of bf thes ther the same ameal according to the promise made to him and in chris his freed reed all the nations of the earth should be blessed blee sed bed it itwara was equally difficult to convince the other apostles in regard to this matter for when they found what peter had done they chided him for so doing bohe explained to them how this departure occurred how that the lord had convinced him as to the propriety of allowing the to be baptized I 1 have thought sometimes that wo we take too loo narrow a view of the character and purposes of god when the a dispensation to his hia sei servants as ai a general thin thir thing 9 it ib becomes nece necessary seary esary for them to operate in the interests of many there Is ono one thing hore horo however vers verp that should not escape our notice from the which I 1 have read the frn lin importance po and the necessity necessia essit y of tile tiie apostles Apo aties atles being united was chown bbown in order orden that the purposes of the lord might be in the world for unless the tha apostles and those that believe on them were united the world could not believe in the mission and purples purposes of the savior therefore jesus jebus prayed to the father that all those these whom the father had given him might be one as he and I 1 the h a father waie were one that the tho world might believe that the father had sent him in fact thib thia Is what the lord rord designed to effect through israel jn in bringing them out from egyptian bondage he wished to make of them a united people a peculiar nation a nation of people whom god could honor and respect in orden orde r that the world might believe and that they might receive the blessings which he wished to bestow upon them inasmuch as the human hum an race are all the tho offspring of god and it if israel had carried out oui hl hla require requirement mentE the world no doubt would have been greatly benefited thereby and the purposes pur Doses of god more fully effected the lord wished to show his character and the character of the heavens and wished to extend lils liis love and blessings through israel to the whole wh ole human family but israel waa was disobedient and would not hearken to hla his voce and as to the Apostle eso eho seo far as their fulfilling the wishes of the savior concerning their being one wo we are told by the tha revelations of the lord luord through the prophet joseph that his disciples in days of old had feelings cne against another and forgave not one another la in their hearts and for this reason they were wet a chasteney chastened chast ened ye yes they were sorely chastened chasteney chast ened the apostles apo rles ries were persecuted and with ontex one exception perhaps were finally mar byred and the churches they established never came to that union which the alvior prayed for and consequently cons they failed to stand the tlde tido of gf opposition the latter day saints are trying to do the work that israel failed to do and that the former saints did not accomplish and we can ean only do jt it by becoming one even as the father and the son are one and this in order that the world may believe that wo we are sent of god wo we have got to to bo perfect and anu come to the measure of the stature of christ jesus in order that the world ril lii may a 1 ay know that jesus has bent sent and commissioned his apostles and restored the holy priesthood if wo we have division in our midst if we be divided either spiritually or temporally we never can be the people that god designs us to become nor can we wa ever become instruments st in ia his hands of making the world bellove that the holy priesthood has been restored and that wo we have the tha everlasting gospel id order orden for us to effect the purposes of god we ell emi havo have to do as jesus did conform our individual will to tho the will of god not only in one thing in all things tings ti and rend to live so that the will of god shall bo be in ua iiii we have the camo samo priesthood that jebus jesus had and we have got to do as ho he did to make haeri bacri our own deelores desires end feelings as ho he not to die martyrs as ho he did but dut we have got to make sacrifices in order to carry out the purposes of god or we shall not be worthy of this holy priesthood Prest pr eat hood and be sailors of the world god intends to make us saviors not only on ly of many that now awe I 1 on or the earth arth c but of many in the purit world vori d he will not only pla 0 ua is ja i 2 a ti to anve but tutt lie he will make us competent lu ta lo is the redemption demp tion of many of the ofia IAL 9 of tile the almighty and that we may assist jn the bulvahn Bal sal vahn of ober other people wa va are building this T em jle jip on oti yonder plateau ana anu ua all latter day saints in this temple district are called upon to aid in accomplishing comp lishing thia this work I 1 have come now to what I 1 wish to say about the business of this thib temple in reference to which I 1 dewe desire sire bire to speak a few minutes I 1 suspect that many of the SaInt sainta sare are anticipating the completion of thib thia temple next spring As to when it will be finished I 1 am notable to say eay I 1 think thinh however it will upon the efforts we make to that end the speaker then went on to speak of the work that was waa necessary to be done and proposed a way to accomplish the same and then baid bald I 1 would not ba afraid to prophecy if I 1 w we in the habit of prophesying that the people of this temple district will te be found ready and willing to do all that may way be required by way of completing thib this building and I 1 have not the least doubt in the world I 1 believe it full that angels will minister to the people and the power of the will be made manifest to a greater at any aby other t me or in any other house hoube since the days of jesus you know how it was in that kirtland temple tempie tf mple jesus the son bon of god appeared in HI hh i glory standing upon the breastwork of the pulpit his eyes ilke hlo a flaming nire fire 1 and his hair as white as the dr driven 1 V rw snow enow while his coun tena tens ce f r shown hown like the sun in his brightness and those who saw baw HI him M testify to this thia fact and they describe nis his voice a as s the sound of rushing water sas he bald baid F r am he that was slain I 1 am he that lives I 1 am nai your advocate with the father your bins sins are forgiven you and he then blessed who had assisted in building the temple to his name and he accepted it at their hands and this people will be entitled to those bleesing blessing that jesus in his glory pronounced upon those who aided in lri building the kirtland Ki rlland temple inasmuch as they contribute in the future as liberally as they have in the past paste amen |
