| Show LIS ils TALMAGE amoeo AMONG THE PROPHETS the bw rax tr dr T daw dew damitt itt ith taimage talmage 2 after attitudinizing before the public la in various postures oram or im postures has now startled the nation by es saying the roll of a prophet before this untoward generation only thib this new aiana aI ant flavors strongly of plagiarism he must have been peru perusing sing P P pratts volee voice of warning published in the year of grace 1835 or possibly some of the predictions of the great american prophet and martyr joseph smith uttered half a cen lury bury ago and now having a literal fulfillment fulfilment creating consternation in the heuts hearts of many and a general feeling of insecurity causing mens hearts to fall faut while fearfully looking for those things which are coming uron upon the earth in one of the rev bev Tal tai magas tabernacle sermons serra serna ons 9 NI published in the Fi fireside companion ot of august 1883 entitled gln gin in ambush Is the following culminating mina ting peor atlon of the fhe be discourse T believe that the next twelve months will be the most stupendous year that heaven heaten evec ever eversal ev eisaw saw the nations are quaking now with the coming of god it will bo be a sear year ear ot of successes for roe tho the men of joshua joshus but hut or of doom to the men of A al I 1 you put your ear to the rail track and you can hear the train miles milea away elway so I 1 put my caz ear to the tho ground and I 1 hiar hinr the thundering on of I 1 be the train mercies and judgments the mercy or of god Is first to be tried upon this nation it will be rie preached everywhere people will be ba invited to accept the mercy of the gospel and the story and the bong song and the will be 41 meroy mercy but suppose they do not accept the octer orten of mercy mery c Y what then then taen god will come with his I 1 judgments and the gra whoppers grasshoppers will eat the crops and the freshets fresh ets will devastate the abe vall val leib leis elb eyb and the kha detal milons will swallow the money markets the nines fines will burn cities into ashes and the earth will quake from polo pole to pole the notable religious teachers of modera times especially those of the sensational school in order to cater to the popular taste would fain as a general thing endeavor to lall uli their victims into carnal security carity te rity rivy cannot wholly ignore passing events as they are speaking in tt thunder undertones under tones to tah generation the astounding signs of the times are forcibly arresting the attention of reflecting minds and they demand of their religious teachers and gulde guide whether as preachers or journalists the nae rae meaning aning of these thase verious various wide spread calamities and what they portend ahe eiders riders of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints as com corm ed servants of god gody have been sent forth clothed with authority as in ancient times to publish to the world of mankind the restoration of the gospel and bear the message of life and salvation both te temporal M 1 0 ral rai and spiritual to those who will obey its mandates while to the ent and scorner they announce a warning voica of impending judgments which are now new beg beginning ining to be poured out in fulfillment fulfilment of tha apocalypse cit f st bt john but bat who has report not many great not many wise be ao cording to worldly wisdom bat a few of the meek and lowly jowly braving the scorn and contumely that is heaped upon them misrepresented and misunderstood have rallied around the gospel standard stan etan dard and by divine command organized the nu cleus of that kingdom portrayed by daniel I 1 which should as z atone stone cut out ot of the mountain without hands break in pieces all other kingdoms and become a great kingdom chith should nii nil the whole parth earth part h fen for never a truth has baa been restored they may curse it and call it ita a crime pervert and betray and slander blonder and atay alay its ita teachers a time but truth shall conquer at the last As round the rental renial run nun and even ever bhail right como come it uppermost and ever shall J lastice justice altice be done while the balmages Tal tai mages deny and oppose direct communication or a message from heaven in these latter times they endeavor to reconcile concila re events to suit their own vain systems and as gis blind leaders of the blind wilfully close their eyes and grope farther and farther from the beacon light of truth and so eventually all fall into the ditch together let them beware leai nat the just sentence be pronounced against them out out oat of their mouth will I 1 condemn them so bo shall the wise in calmly watching the precursors of and patiently waiting for the coming of the king of kings to sway awny his righteous sceptre tre lift up their heads and re foice folce knowing that their redemption nigh a H |
