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Show 41 ; , - ' tf - ' A ; 1". ', : 7.t . ' t : p. I' f ,,,' . 4.- .- I' :": ,;,..' , '. ,. 1, I , - A ,..1 , --- . . S'l C I 14( 'CH P'A .E.D'UTOR I Al, ... .. ... , ... .. . - - . , - -- , ----...- .. t G . ... . .:.L ..- :.. - '' ' . - . . 7 ' , , - , evetalion from - - - Go - it is - . 1 ----- ExrerPts from a conforsaco acesrato of 1964, : , ' - '. W - ' - , ess--------- .. Eller Delbert S. Stapley of rho Comocil the Twelves Salt Lair Taboroade, April ., -- 1 - - -an.- - -- - , - , Truth 'must be lived -' - ... , , r - - .. , - ( f Thought Gems O ' - - ' -- ' 7 ' - - - " ' , i - , - - ' : , ' ' ' ' c - ,.. '''' . ., , of . 6; , - - ' HEN Jesus uttered the 'words: "This Is life eternal, that they - might lalowtheetheonly true God, and 'Jesus Onist, whom thou haat sent" (John 17:3), lie expressed a truth at once profound and eternal. , But truth must be sought and under- - : --sod lived-ot- her - --,,,4111, . wisé It Is sieless:t does1 -- --- impose itself; it waits:- - , --'it, It waits tobe teddiscoveTed. y ,to in. 1 Ago... --- --, ',-lipoiti-bfr'''''''"----6---. cetIvise judgment; ' but when discovered and , utilized, it, places one on road to Goil-- to enjoy ' ' like unto that of rod,- which is . eternal life . When truth is known in Its --- , '- '' because hardllistened who y people unrighteous - . they did not believe God would Sneak to them.. -- , The7whole - rllristiatrertrwas:I;nevrievelation.----stood This principle opposed t to : churches of the world - . The almoungernent2o1,- t!le Angel, - came the the . Then rlinheth ' opened . as as much Bible the to - , today, who Profess thin es.pecially From Jesus. and istries on, of John ---- - -- -, , Litter-day Saints:do the , ' work was a entire as regards the Savior, whose , , , Why the sects of Christendom take this position constant revelation. , . , la daft. in the face of what their own7Bibitstss .. The labors of the Twelve and their associates -cult to understand, except .that they have taught it were likewise tilled With new light from heaven::-.---a-li- fe for generations and proba blyknow nothing else. Angels came to mit-th- eiltranre-thin-ct Is tliat even when they. are Miracles were performed. for God bows and understands all ,,--- --- - -, shown their error, and read the truth in their own Jetus thhigs. - This ---is - the - reason why itIBLE guidance-froone of THE WHOM -'story, is -- - utteredthis . - - sciipturet, they still told to erroneous tradition'. that And prototmd - -appearing to and sneak' -condition is what God wants for -- --- -clear ' all His children, for Ile has declared: writhig of new scripture, ing with his servants,1the who is willing May see that the history of the Lord's he , Ter beheld, thus Is mi work and mY - - -to-th -- ministry by direct coni;-manidnd from the begirming of time - the calling of men dealings-witbring te pass the immortality gioryto -MIMI and eternal life of man.- (Moses 1.39) . has been a continuous series of new dispensations, ' ' II God were to guide 'His Cturch and His People, Now, where shall one go to discover s' --- , with much new revelation la each instance. ,, .. will the utilized, . bring - --- - It was a revelation when God appeared to Adani.,--- It could be no other wayo e enternal life? Shall one go io the world's enIn most How is it that pitiable -1- 7- , whenHe haus of learning,. the laboratories efthst-- It: wasthess-m,-today, worldof the :. age . sciences, the studios of art, the dens 01 was new revelation when with Noah and Enoch.--- It which made the Bible live and which same metaphysical speculation? Was it from principle him to He as with He talked Abraham, appeared such institutions that Jesus derived His God. men touch in with hmught '; on the plains of ''aiamre. wisdom respecting mortal life, His an- HoW unfortunate that millions of people are will- ' derstanding of eternal life? No, indeed! ITWAS NEW revelation when he opened the Mosaic condemn these to believe that God has closed the heaven's against Although He ing dispensation, speaking to Moses many times and interests of men, Ile never used them refuses cto to and them, them, any speak He never even referred to them as , giving volumes of new revelation,- much of which them alone with a book wmch has passed to hie everlasting. He did refer often we have in the first five books of the Old Testament through so many mnds that it has become so . to Kingdom of God as the repository 4. ' It was new revelation when Joshua was called, cult toJuiderstand that hundreds of churches have of that truth which makes men free, that ' and also when Samuel was brought into the ministry. based their conflicting creeds upon It means one of with well being, provides 1 The Latter-da- y Saints must 'ever raise a loud perhaps important, yet incidental to the It Was new revelation when Saul was called . and the voice to the -world aMOUTICing that God ' has ' spoken I. 4 greater matters of the Kingdom of G o& David was dioser Jesus declared:. "Ye shall know the , again in this day, 'even as He spoke repeatedly in The life of Solomon Ls a gfeat testimony to the i ancient tunes you truth, and . ,. , , free" (John 8.32) Did He mean pluloso- If we persistently preach it, and consistently lise principle of npw revelation. His proverbs alone are an evidence of that, for no Man could write them In harmony With.our teachings, perchance the world' phi or the scientific theories propounded by man? Surely He was not opposed without light from heaven. some or who live In itwill eventually recognize , from what source de. Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah, like others of the the same truth in the new revelations whichleooLti...util; no matter source of divine new were revelation which advocates of prophets, plainly set forth in the Bible, but to which theyhave tmd it belongs to the ICIngdowasof God. -i ' ' to been blinded the men. traditions of they give by YU no- doubt, is - the reason for Ms ,,,., - ; .,,,, --- - .. -- ,- -- -- - - - -- , bSEPH SMITH diedas amartyr to the prin- ciple that Cod gives new revelation to man-, -, - - -- -- he"-'-----. - - - - - - - -- - .,,-- -- - --,..- 1- ------ . - - -- . - . ,, - - - --L- - . m -- - - -- s-so The-Bible-i- off-th- - -- -- , --.77---t--- 77.-----"------- of-the- -- -- - --t- he m. - - -- i be-ad- - , --- 131111-,-- . - - - -- e. -- -- is heaven,-the-Almight- - bled Y- - ,;- - -- 7 -- - - ..- T , en ' , trutlf,-that,--wh- , -- : - ed ,appeared--brand-lalk- oi--i-reject-iiih-i . - -- - --- - , , ----- -- ot did-n- - , , es pima-leav- dtttitial 4 -'- - -- - -- - , ' -- ----- Idng;----------- . , ' . b ' . , - ' - , --- : . . , fust-h- e e admonition,---,"Seek-y- t - idngdomaGodrond, ------ - ------'-------12--- --------- --- and- - ---- goods)--- -- - shall be added tmto you.'1 (Blatt. 633) , - - Roiiinent Mormon Women great-- - Caroline Perkins Defies Family Join To Church LDS , . , JOHN HAiRIMAN'S long, gray locks rippled over his brought to the hospital, she helped care for them. , he nodded, listening intently to his daughter's recital of The discovery, of gold at nearby Sutter's Fort and the subsequent rush of gRANDFATHER her Caroline. . settlers to California, enabled John Joyce to rocket suddenly from poverty to 1 wealth. In doing so, he gone out of her mindwants to join the Mormons; Mrs. apostatized from the Church. - , Perkins was telling her aged father. She expected him to second her disgust remained Caroline to faith and true a desire to join the Saints the cherished -the in Utah. She aided rnisnionaries traveling through San Francisco to and from since be had been a Baptist preacher for a bait . ' . . their Belds of labor and frequently sent seeds and nursery stock to the valley , century or more "Where is Caroline" the old man asked. Then be aged, "if the Lord has - settlements. ' ' ----nd and husband she Caroline joined the Mormon - her any more light for the Children"Of Men, I for one am willing to receive it'r----7Eventually, separated,-a. This was not the reactioh Mrs. Perkins wanted. Caroline; listening in an colony at San Bernardino. When Col. Alden' A. M. Jackson came there on his had known him in San Francisco and adjacent- TOOM was overjoyed. But when her mother came Into the room,- she way to Utah, she married him. ordered Caroline to get her bonnet and shawl. Without being given an oppor- in his conversion to the Church. They did not complete , had been instrumental he tunity to soniuch..as say helloInbet grandfather,thegirlwas whisked ollto---tjourney to Utah until 1869 whentheysettiain StsGeorge.ThereCartilinel -visit some relatives., t- . continued active in the Church until her death in 1876.-4Irvine In spite of all her parents could do, Caroline did loin the Church... .She had to leave home, but was soon after married to another young convert, John Joyce. I -4 The happy ,couple was active in the branch that met A4fle t:e711.1.11. Hall. There Caroline had first heard the Gospel preached by young Erastus ---.F I - I Snow. His word and the hymn, "The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning," , oo, ii 4 : i t had moved her to tears of joy at that first meeting in 1842. ' v'' ,e'q -- -k .., .Ea. , Caroline had a beautiful voice and often was asked to sing at the services .i ' i .., : .following her conversion. k , , ' In 1845, she and John bearded the ship "Brooklyn" with their baby daughter ,,, 1! ,....... i Coast-They 4, hered ---, Cape Horn- to the Pacific. 1,' -,, sf 114 '-the terrible storm during which the captain told them to prepare to die. They i 1t . $, mopPw i 1.1 . ,..-- . ,,,,,,., I also lived through the many days of ,eating moldy bread and drinking. slimy ) 14 - 0 41,1, , V ''i 1 water. I ,.. ,.., f';----- , 1 . When at last they reached the outpost of Yerbe Buena on San Francisco - -- ....0.-- , Bay, the food situation was little better. Moldy, stale ship bread continued to be 1 i ' , . . the main course at every meal. , . . ro,elks,,t '4 The Joyces moved into in adobe building with 15 other families from "Brook- II , ,,, 1 .1. Of ,, ITN: ' to in of measure for a order quilts , "I1 MUM( lyn." They bung partitions provide privacy I2!r116)., --, - --- ' for each family. Later John and Caroline moved Into another btuldlnewThich , ,f1 i . ''' - 1,' housed a military hospital and a printing office. Caroline sometimes assisted III , -, 14, Donner -Party -were with the newspaper work. - When survivors of the and ire girl'a-strange-des- - , ' - : - -------L,- . ,. - , -..- - ,yre Ps -- . .....---, --- -; i ). .,! -- tt . , . -- f -- , --, - - -- , L - -) V -- r I6CHURCH . Week Ending May 16, 1964. .. ililal. : ' . ,. - j .. t ill-fat- -,- , , - - ,- . , , - . mold ' ,'''''s ' ;"'-..- 'clip' - . - - - -- . - ) |