Show THE jboob B OOK OF ABRA abba ABRAHAM A M I 1 ats r it genuineness established BY my ELDER clemp stir abraham ddn parah Pw rah rab henron throne P se makes a treaty ending a one ff undrea hundred years war the true pj system yfem of astran astronomy am y planets fia fla nets logus considerable 1 id erable ridicule has been heedlessly expended on the abo s tate state y ronni that the euling fi gurein in plate III of the book of ji t bents that patriarch hitting fitting upon lg neby ot the tb klag eking 11 it has haa je heen en hoof fc coffed fed eibi tipi T at r aa if ab idoa idea entirely tao silly tid to b bhe met with 64 to im lagine kine iha ihn t uhe the ereau great and mighty ruler rulen inter of egypt would invite an gil 1 arab shiek at NA beau a phem shepherd e rd wrin prin prince dd toBit upon his hib thrane was wab altogether too absurd for a serious consideration subh such extraordinary condescension would shame a chesterfield but bui wei we all know that thal it M often I 1 as easy culo aa as it ia is difficult to disprove eo ab we will let the scoffer scoter jest whilst we wd bring forward our stron fe reasons for believing this as wel wei aa as all other portions ons ond of abraham Abraha mys 8 divinely inspired record josephus sephus To writes book i c chap hap ylli viii that that when pharaoh discovered that the woman sarah whom he desired ta to take iota lota his hia household iwah was wab the wife of Abraham he madoas as kii iii an excuse fot his bis action that thab gif Ulf evInK her to be the patriarchs sister he wished to marry her from his ids daz d sire to be related to EO so a personage as abraham this could not dot be irony pharaoh was not in a condition to be ironical with his bis guest it must have been aa an excuse that bore upon ib ili face thie afie the of truth and one that be 0 a 0 cited as denni genni neby the powel powei powerful ful fui A from frow canaan had it fit been othier wise it would have been ad to 0 injury and instead orAl 0 avraham abraham raham remaining in egypt to become teacher to ita people we should probably learn tha thai it in anc ren eer he returned to his ovin own land geu men ru yu ohal awn statement to be true ia Is it diM cult 1 ti to 0 believe that he who wished to be id ao nearly allied to Abraham woud would in the falness of tet eastern politeness think it piny any too great ja A condescension bion blon to ask him to sit upon his bis 1 throne explained to him and to his court thel the ondera wonders of the numberless creations of G god ad nor is this all we have bave yet other Ge testimony Almony of how powerful a man was abraham amongst the children of th the eNile hile our readers will probably recollect that we have already t drawn attention to a statement of J josephus sephus that at the time the patriarch visited egypt the people of that country despised each others sacred rites and were very grigry angry one with another on that account fur fun ther thee 1 that abraham proved to them that their vh various rious ware waro were vain and void of troth modern research has shown that abra 1 ham bam bam did more than this it up api to pears that somewhat more than wone yone o hundred years advent one of df iti its mon faress bien aien cherek cheres aftem attempted apted toes to es 6 the worship of fairis oyer over all egypt AS a result d a great reli riou rlou war ensued alich continued fora century the history of the J country at this time becomes involved and obscure in the highest highe at degree but one fact is 13 absolute absolutely y certain and that fag lag is that this civil war was fierce long continued and with varying success A late bit brit tish historical textbook text book states that in the year 1984 1934 BC according to the best chronology which is however far from satisfactory abla abis abra abia ham bam visited and aided Ach pharaoh in forming a treaty with i E nis his rival to terminate the religious war then if it 1 it t be true that abraham was so great 1 a power indis in his bis da day y that by his alda nida ald aid a civil war of one hundred years duration was brought to an amicable close is abere there anything incongruous in the idea that he politeness by sat eat upon the throne of the ruler to whom he had been of so great service about I 1 this this time as near as can be told a great change was effected in the religion of the egyptians which we ascribe to td the preaching r in their midst of the gospel by the father of the faithful it appears from herodotus that accord inz ing inz ing to the story of the idolatrous as egyptian priests of his day that when choops ascended the ahr throne one he be closed the temples of th the e fa false e gods and prohibited their sacrifices t choops is baid eaid to have reigned fifty years and was succeeded byais by his brother also kept the temples closed in the succeeding reign the temples were again opened and the people returned to their thein oid old modes of 0 worship so hated were these two sovereigns by the heathen dwellers by the nile of bf later years that herodotus states that they would not even mention their names mr john taylor author of the great pyramid why was it built and who built ital it from various evidences brought to bis his notice infers that these kings might have been preeminently good or were at all events of different religious faith from those who told the story to herodotus putting the various facts before stated together that abraham taught holy principles to the egyptians that his bis teachings so wrought upon them that they brought to a close a civil wedi war of one hundred yearb years ye ars duration and that near nedr this time the idolatrous temples were vere closed all parts of one harmonious who whole lewe we arp irresistibly drawn to the conclusion that these changes were brought about by the proclamation of the gospel more especially are we led thereto by the hatred shown to the tha kings who accepted this message ana fhil and carried but out these ref ormsby the worshippers wor shippers of osiris in succeeding generations it BO so much resembles the course I 1 pursued brothers by others in like cir clr circumstances curd curn ces cea in other lands and at other times almes choops is usually credited with being the builder of the great pyramid ild lid alid and to that mighty structure turene we shall by ond and by appeal for testimony mony mODY to prove that whoever its buil hull builders dira were they were acquainted qua quain ted with the sublime system of astronomy revealed by jeb jeh jehovah to abraham with instructions to teach it to the egyptians abraham tells us that there were werd three ways by which he received his knowledge of astronomy 1st through the records handed down to him from the patriarchs by the use of the bilm and Thum min which herec he received elved from the lord in the ur of chaldea ad by y direct communication arth with t the al almighty I 1 aty who tace face I 1 to hace face a a wit ma a own gulmi i to him the laws that govern his countless creations the system of astronomy revealed by to alor ATor anam Is so ad vast ja BO grand eo so comprehensive that n no 0 uninspired man ever searched ott oat oit its depths or ascended its heights heigh tp occasionally a patient se archler searcher after truth caught a faint glimme of its glory but that was waa all burthey but they none learned ag as abraham le learned Arnod nor did the pro soundest foun dest astronomers of forty years ago have aught but the most meagre and valli cone one c conception of the truths alven given to world by joseph smith in ilis lifs his inspired of abrahams r re a cord indeed the truths there set bet forth areto recognize recognized d by the more conservative schools of astro astronomy hom bom it is only the more darine darlne minds that thit accept them even in part the great truths told by abraham regarding the starry hoats boats bf heaven are fec fee recorded corded thus tl saw the stare stars that they hey were ve very r y great aha sha that one of them was nearest the throne of god and there were many great ones tones that were near nean it and the lord si ald said unto merhe me these are the governing ones and the name of the great one is because it ia Is nemr near ne arinto yinto linto me for I 1 lam iam sim vim the lord thy god I 1 have set thia this one to govern all those which bg buu long to the same order of that u upon on which thou stan dest andice and ebe ube lord baid said i d unto me by the arim and vh Thum ummil mim that was after the manner of bf I 1 the lord loro according to its an and d seasons I 1 in the revolution i thereof e thab that one ono devolution wast waar a day unto the lord loid atter after bis his man ner der of reckon reckoning ift it being sand years according ne cordin k to the time appointed u unto nto that where dnn dri id stan dest reckoning bt the lords time according to the reckoning kolba 1 in other gordh thesa great go governing planets control ail all oth leers ibers in their oi or are the thu ce cep cen tres a around round which the others I 1 te volve As shemoon the bigon moon 6 rou round 1 d the earth and the earth with t ane a other primary rind lind nd Be condary eta belonging to ibis this solar eolar cyst n revolve round the stin sun eh sh habl haai the ther tsun nun a centre around which it with all its earths and moons revolves while this grand centre centie hig hast a go governing planet also a sun or wor world around which its ita mt attendant batic of suns arld arid 0 0 and so on until we come to L the hd nearest arest to the celestial or the resl resi residence derice deltee of t god which is Js the grand centre which governs all the suns and siad of suns auns which belong to the same order aa as our earth and those that move with it tho the coni cori consideration of these sub lime ilme ll 11 ideas 8 must be our duty Hart court Doc or bf deluge delvee vacti and dates DAti iby yby by n bev ber A mackay edinburgh 1670 1 to be continued |