| Show jud sud ti t i dis dit I 1 ui 0 0 R 6 i i j baa bau ega 1 BY ny i ELDEK iNT RT TT T iana at 11 t f J in gri the tabernacle salt sott it i make zake city 0 on dundai att ait un eLSS 1878 t air lle 1 i 5 noe aoe REPORTED by geo F GIBBS betl A 79 i ull uil will call the attention of t the e congregation to a portion of a fijo po p o aph eoy byMal achi achl which will be found in the last chapter of the old did testaments testament mw bor for behold the day cometh conleth that shall aha bar our sa ps gaid all the proud yda yea nil that ahall shall be stubble and the day ay that cometh shall burn them up saih sallih the tha thoI lord ord of hosts that shall shail leave atheni neither root nor branch but unto you that fear my name nathe shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye e gui 64 shail lithall shall go forth and grow grew up as calves calve of the stall wi r and ye shall bhail tread down the wicked for they ahall be niiles ashe under sunder althe the soles of your feet in the day t that I 1 shall ishall do this thi saith the loid lord of hosts hoats on arising and on opening the thie bible I 1 happened to open to the words which I 1 have havo just read re at I 1 j were spoken through malachi one of the last of the ancient prophets they are words very fa 61 to the latter day saints for their attention haafeen has haa deen jeen been often called callad to them in id rea reading ding the prophecies of the holy prophets we expect that that portion of df them 5 has haa not already been fulfilled will take place in its time rand raud dyad in its season wo do not read othe scriptures as most of the inhabitants of the ille earth do thinking that they must be spiritualized spi bpi ritualized g there are scarcely any of the pro 44 i but what this generation doas boas as well as ag some of the past genera cf tiona interpret aa as meaning kome some some S thing altogether gether different from the 0 reading of them they look loox upon va inspired men as saying sayid one thing and moaning meaning another and the only W way to td ascer ascertain taia tala what meaning athey othey really wish to convey fa to get can uninspired juan to give spine other meaning entirely different from the literal construction of the words of the inspired writer There aro arc but few individuals tfx comparatively nip ra speaking among the nations of if from the prevalent beiler beller namely that the bible ia Is a book lo io be bb understood only by bythe th e learning anink and wisdom of man mau that preacher who may be highly C educated after the maliner manner of deniis men meu 13 a great deal qualified to interpret the things of than he or they through whom tha they 0 o spoken the latter day atay saints who may have been biml elmi similarly larik urk Uri brained ined were mara to entertain such when they em everlasting gospel and receive d aft he holy ghost even that spirit by tt which the were written ni the they wiio were corrected 1 in their Judgment i And learned V that j the words or of bod would woula all be ful fuli dyl 1 filled which have not alrea already come topa to pass pabs 39 and that they Ih eyare are to 6 he be understood in im thel the same light and in the same sense cense as we would understand the writings of uninspired andly individuals i duals when plainly and clearly written any apy epe cial subject this la Is Bo D g theat that every ordina ordinarily lily man V without ny y book learning whatever Is able abie ablerto to dp do especially when language easy of comprehension is used eon fot i instance when get ietter letters a and nd from our friends abroad mpr we lever lexer think of ol putting putt iuga a different const construction tuc tion upon their sentences flenton flouton cesi and claim that they did not mean what they b had a d written wj itten itlen when therefore the ancient anclena prophets pr i predicted thach ltha jeha that shall ghail hur bur burrl paa pas as am java axen and that ahe proud yea and do dor wickedly shuit tod bod beo toe and the day that borlaf bua bum birn them thomra oft ha thy tsy that jt A aha aba jihan U leave thuna thua nei nel neither ther root nor belleve believe th that atthe the prophet meant what llo tie said gaid when we reau read iw in the tha book of Genesis genesia aboul about the tho rains which fell irom from the heavens causing a flood of waters to deluge the eart earth hiJa in fulfilment of a certain warming warning warn Waru irig message i which had pie Jy been boen tp preached reached to the pothen popie people bothen hopie then living by which they were swept away and drowned awer e must bel bei levet thal tha b the inspired writer who penn edthe words de dd scribed th tue the event devent as it occurred BO so far at least as the general facts are concerned concer conter ned and that the flood spoken of was a literal body of W water a ter anil anti dist that it did prevail upon all ail portions op tha earth I 1 do not say sa that the flood did pi evall eval at the sime momen moment ti cupoo ali ail all kail the face af the earth earthe but before the bhe floods abated every pirl pirt bf dolid portions of the were h habitable bik I 1 were covered by the waters how this iwas is nol noi given by thea bu ly hs left forus to the hoka has a greatt great many ways waya and meata menu meau h by which heo her coald ang tiring about hu iau event of thia this natilde nati natu fre lre for ir hist istance abee how easy ic it would ibe to drown all the of the temperate and arctic r regions eklons I 1 by just merely its axis unless there should hould be bei an othen other performed to prevent the a that thal tha are heaped up around the equatorial regions tro fro from in flowing to the polar regions they would necessarily aa the earth began to cease or rotate rotated more slowly in its axial it woud would cause the waters of the equatorial region to flow towards the two polar regions it Is an easy matter matet for a mathematician to demonstrate the depth orl of thet waters in any part or latitude of our globe should buch euch an event take place or happen the yv waters aters in receding from thu the great equatorial region would cover coven up the great mountain mountains bru ou our east and we in this altitude would be buried underwater at abu least byerl oyer over a mile in dep depth thI J donov donot say that this was the manner which the lord took in breaking up the fountains of the great deep 11 there may have veblen been other causes unknown to tous us but ut lo 10 say there uever wever nevel never was such an event la Is something entirely unwarranted still it may inny be said this would not cover dover all the solid portion of the earth but leave the equatorial land still further elevated above the ocean and if all the lands of the arth earth C were to be under water how could that be accounted for very veny easily cause the earth to rotate on its axis more swiftly than what it now doe bay eay for instance in one half the time in 12 hours instead of 24 21 and you would bury up all the equatorial lands of our glob how easy eaby a matter it would be for the fjord id cause the earth to rotate more more mote swiftly and then again to 0 rotate more tardily and produce tile the ef feets facts ascribed tb the flood bd when therefore we r read e ad that the earth was once a few individuals jhb were s saved in the ark wily should it IV be thought a thing incredible that the lord should again depopulate our globe not by a flood flyod but but bul by devouring fire file it be said that tha t we vve camilot see how universal Q bf fireman 6 ean eau can prevail over all the face fade of the earth there are various wa ways y aby by which this thib could be gheo how did the lord nord cause fire in ift ali ari i clent times to break breakout out among the children of israel when they transgressed his holy lawsl laws and when they hey murmured and aiom complained god fire was sent rent forth rom his presence forbis lye are told resie rested d upon the tho he was in the dibern tabernacle and cloud was over tho the tabernacle aclo acio v and fire nten went noen thith forth 6 thi this cen tremor orthe place where the tha lord chose chwe to manifest and show forth his hii glory audit destroyed many pf af the pe peppie koplo you may eay but thimas was a supernatural fire that from thu the the j presence of etheo proceeded od bom jom from the Ja bernacle tabernacle ing thousands u 8 i ds of transgressors transgress ors org 1 I 1 f would aski cannot that same bame being who vat wrt wa sabie sabio abie able to produce this des dea true truc tion by tire fire upon a few tabu i sand land individuals cause it to be mo more moro rd i extensive and more universal in its i 0 operation rallou has ho het not the ehme t power to produce a stipe supernatural rna nna tural liro jiro tire lire oven over all the earth even oven van ven to the 1 consuming of all the proud yea sea and all ail that do wick wickedly burning t them up liter ilter literally ailys allys their bodies bet becoming coming as ashes 11 aa as a farmer farmen c would bet ket jire lire to and burn up the t stubble stumble of his fields well you t say f if gif we wo admit that the first wa vrn c supernatural that god did actually t burn the tho dra among israel t by fire we are w illing willing to admit e at that the same bame being that could do i abla upon a email small ecale scale could per forma form a similar work on a universal scale that is very mery reasonable to admit but then perhaps the lord loni may not see proper to adothis do this thin work of burning burping in the latter days altogether upon a supernatural principle he may berb perhaps ps bring it about by cei cel tsin tain physical forge or laws by certain changes that may ba be wrought Vr ought upon our elee eloe ments for the lord holds in his 1 own hands all the elements and i not dot only those of 01 this thin little globe of ours but all the elements elemen ta that corni pom pow the uni universe vene veme they are in ha ilia I 1 bands hands he be can give int in t t they lire lere are made mude subservient lu the i i accomplishing of bi hn hil i great ad anid I 1 wise purposes now thle thie JK iff taj the very air which i we breathed brea bredt henu gais which all anim animated ate id bein being gik gio moie more eor or U asef ae breit breathe be and by uy they live i e a of hect aud and when this thia heat beat iu im its tt latent norm form is 19 evolved or C corner 0 torii from the constituents 8 of tbt tte the would there natle bp bea a a I 1 to produce this revolution upon the earth Is there not ilent mient 1 leu len heat not ot only to burn burli up the wl wicked eked and land the proud butto but to cau cause caute ip 4 ihu ibn very elements ot ahus fuin fula liing ling an another other prophecy y which says the hills melted afee wax wex at the presence ca of the lord and yet ai lother another kroph prophecy py which Y says tile the mountains shau flow flaw down at ht nis his presence like ifka substance run ilke like rivers in consequence of the intensity of he heat heit connected syth th the elements of which our atmosphere a and nd moun adius taina are aie abe com eom composed posed again independently ly of thola thela the tho la teni heat which llis ia connected connect edWith with thie ifie of our glabe J is he not ahle able to 6 cause ta the great centie centre of ou our out by t tt M the sun sui lp to irth more beat t to cob ob sume aume the wicked and melt the thu earth by its ye yes I 1 ir r collect reading g in one oue of the ll 11 e p prophecies a of isaiah 11 in rela tipa to to this matter I 1 recollect reading too in the tha revelations of at john yohn thit n men hould be scorched with great heat rev chap 16 verse versy 8 ll 11 wp was to be one ode 0 of the grea judg ments of vf the latter days aaleen by that inspired man juan and isaiah isarah in speaking on this subject ays moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun suh and the liht light of the bun eun shall but be le sevenfold etc the tho heat beta should be increased in the sane feame proportion that the light is increased or in other words supposing that our thermometers sj standing at fit a hundred degre a fahrenheit should be increased aed red to 0 degree fahrenheit what wha 1 t won jd d be the efrece A general conflagration over the whole faco face fac df ti e globe would be produced thereby V fulfilling fulfill ng ancient aa as Well weil una ern orn boutwe will pass on ib lou Is nut not for form ula unless we wib have bome some definite h instructions by the word of god to tell hell how he is going 1 to 5 accomplish bacow his bia great purposes it is us lis to know rubw that he will do it wellie weare this thia burning is to be universal salso so far adall as all ail I 1 the tho proud abu and all that do wickedly are ara are concerned it thebe Is tb be one obb of the last destructions destructions of wicked print prior to th this is there will be numerous destructions liy way oi of earthquakes earthquake plagues hall hail storms narsete war wars sete bete etc that will prevail and that will sweep away millions from the face of our globe but the great gret judg j ment that thatis Is to cleanse cle ele aubee anfee the t arth frd from mall mali ail all eln ein ib lb is 19 to be by the element of nire fire but ingul loqui inquires rm one do you thick there thero wili wiil will 0 ansay many in that day that will be to proud brouti and f i i i t 1 t c t t c t t e i 1 i I 1 t i I 1 a n h A c p wicked will they n not ot be e mostly 08 it y inverted nver ted an anu anu any d consequently eg cape this great conflagration OP nix t noah escaped being drowned I 1 will b fa other prophecy that now occurs to my mind recorded in the chapter of this man of bod t saw tiie the period of time when wilen the th e t the earth larth shall reel leel to and nd fro 11 like ake a dru dra drunken fiken naan man arid hevar he saw tabt glo gio rious fay lay when them lord of hoats boats t about to reign in silon STion eind and in jerusalem and among other be saw in vision was vas that 5 ae clie earth became defiled under ther inhabitants thereof A chuse be ause V Is ays VS the prophet they hey hare hake have tran traia gressed the law changed the a ordinance d brok beok bronfen n the everlasting 9 do covenant venant plainly mihaly showing t at they were to tb be lie a toft corrupt ulA people a c people who for instance would change the ordinance of baptism g lm m erslan to sprinkling or a pouring or er and in the hame tame a lug the various ordinances of the gospel from tho the original torm in which the lord revealed them he J says through the tho mouth of his pro fo phet that the people that thal bould hould oe ne guilty of wies wits th ia great wick wiek wickedness vAness should be visited with nire fire the in babl babi ants anta it t he thu earth are burned aid few men left lert I 1 bryhl this i a little more e definite we ve learned through S malachi that they be de ue strayed both root and ano bratich ilo biauce of wicked nes ha j cots of wickedness left b but t jromes if aea noa give us the proportion uti voi I 1 V th e righteous and the wi andt tue tut isaiah gives ua a little irttie f further u 1 jtb er alum iua lue lua to abi fo to the tho query hov many taddy are to be avet asken ly by this thia lap lay tr ant 1 lealah sa would ri 1 ltee inhabitants of theet tha the earth eaith iio rih orp arp burned tl and jew few men left n z chati only a t few persons persona 19 q be only a few to rece recce recci gobbel aud and be prepared for fon tho of t ioe ipe e andi bridegroom groom only a few people ito ft escape this awful desolation st t 0 says sass the a in tu the fhe great eftia eatla a na berous population of our gioe gloe even eten some pome few millions would pe few fe coni compared pared oared with w ith the twelve huil 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