Show CACHE COUNTY EDUCATION AL INSTITUTE BY ELDER 0 aw W NIBLEY AND APOSTLE APO aro MOSES THATCHER an interesting lecture on the subject should land be private property was delivered by elder OW CW nibley at bogan on last erlda erida friday evening under the auspices of the Cache County educational institute the view of the speaker the journal says bays was that under a truly theocratic government a higher and a better condition of hap bap pines pinea and prosperity was attainable under a system that made land public property but that such a system would not do under any of our present earthly governments on the following night a packed audience at the logan legan hall listened to a lecture mosea moses that cher who took as hla his hia themo theme the reformers the speaker in his well known pleasing and instructive style traced the history of reform from the earliest ages presenting jesus of nazareth as tue the grand centre around whom all other re who went before or came after him must cluster and included in the list such illustrious names as abel abea seth enoch moses mosea and other ancient prophets as well am aa those who followed christ and opposed pot sed sod the supremacy of papal tyra ny ho he came finally to joseph smith the prophet of the last dispensation and after giving a sketch of his bis career closed with the following eloquent peroration he fhe came when unbelief had waxed uncertain and religious practices unsound the world was full of bpi spi spiritual ritual idolatry men drawing nigh unto god with their lips when their hearts were far removed from him god instructed joseph and enabled him to look beyond the show of things and stand firmly on the very heart of things an earnest be believer llever a prophet priest of tho the most high he pierced with the eye of a seer the insincerity and semblance of things seeking not the suffrage of the world he did his bis glorious work regardless of the outward look of iti it he unveiled the hypocrisy of the age and struck a fatal biow blow at men tal idola tryl unlike mohammed he found no gods of wood and wex but blind leaders of the tho blind teaching the people to worship a bodiless passionless myth which they call god touched by the inspiration of a real god cod the almighty living father a flood of light divine truth eternal came into the world through that unlettered boy unaided by the wisdom of the world he taught astronomical geological physiological and philosophical truths leaping with a single bound beyond the then known demonstrations of scientific research forham for eor him god rent the veil of eternity and showed him thrones powers principalities and lives everlasting lag at his hia word dense darkness fled away and the tho victory of christ over death hell and the grave stood revealed by faith he rent the veil between the living and dead com power TO save even beyond the grave and talked with god face to face he testified of the personality of god and of the brotherhood of jesus christ he gave us the history of dead nations brought to light the mission of the redeemer on this continent and explained the authority of the priesthood banishing from the minds of men the horrors of heily hell heli he conferred keys that unlock the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven and sealed for time and eternity poor despised persecuted hated how weak weaker than a child the churco of god when he organized it a half century ago bat but that weak thing has become strong because it is a true thing it was thought despicable laughable then but nobody can manage to laugh at it bowl now the world was blind as tho the world has always been but ho he saw cities towns villages hamlets farms springing up in these mountain vallies he saw the stakes of zion strengthened and her cords lengthened and though bearing the malice of a corrupt generation his hla eye was single to the glory of god C calmly bravely ho he met the brunt of its for fon sion blon disturbed a bea sea of malice that since has known no rest standing upon the heart of cf things looking the world and the devil straight in the eye how nobly how grandly he beat down spiritual idolatry while dispelling tho the darkness that covered the earth carthand eart hand and gross darkness dark darb nebs ness that be clouded th the minds minda of the people firm as the granite of the everlasting hills he stood amid the tumult of oceans as they were lashed into foam and fury fary upon the reefs of prejudice everywhere around him faithful unto death God hath given him the crown of life while we enjoy the fruits of his unselfish labors let us hold sacred the memory of the worlds great reformers who stand as beacon lights along the shores shares of time for to them under god are wo indebted for the freedom we now possess among them after setter christ stands joseph the great modern prophet preeminent the head of the last dispensation the founder under gods direction of the universal kingdom over which christ shall 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