| Show BE SURE ME YOU ARE RIGHT the simple things of the kingdom this has baa been the injunction of the leaders of the church to the elders who are sent gent forth to preach the gospel of the kingdom as a witness to all nations the desire for something new which has become a veritable craze in the world need not he be pandered to by the servants of god called to be minis ten of righteousness attempts to gratify this demand for novelty have often led good men into doubtful paths and sometimes into arlev grievous errors elders who are am very frequently frequent y before the public aro arc in danger of going astray from orthodox lines iines through efforts to interest their hearers by the utterance of something out of the common way tend a repetition of the caution at the b beginning of this article becomes necessary for their benefit and the good of their hearers bearers every man is entitled to his own opinion and he is free to convince other people that he is right if they are willing to hear his arguments and explanations but when mius ministers of the gospel in the church of christ officiate in their calling they are required to teach only that which has ha s been established by revelation or the recognition of the church A nd they should be careful not to as doctrine that wiloh is only their personal opinion we have been requested to publish in brief the findings of the high council of the salt lake bake stake of zion in regard to some lectures delivered by elder wm M palmer containing views in conflict with generally accepted church principles thin in IB not for the purpose of injuring elder palmer but 16 protect the public and particularly young people not thoroughly indoctrinated from being led in the least degree from the strict line of doctrinal accuracy in a lecture on the resurrection delivered in the seventeenth ward Ass assembly embiL hall and in substance in other places elder palmer taught that what the germ in needs ta Is to the the germination of ef the seed so an is haibe the holy ghost the germ that will germinate or bring forth the body from the resurrection he showed that as a germ in grain can le be destroyed by roasting so eo by sin cau an we destroy that germ the holy choa ghastin Gh ostin hi our hearts and he likened the resurrection tv to three pans of flour into which yeast is put in different quantities and argued thus on the same principle with the holy spirit representing to the body what the yeast does to the flour floar as a s the pint of yeast will cause the bread to rise first so the abundance of the holy spirit in that person who has abided iho hb laws of his creation and kept the commandments of god will cause him to rise rime before the other person who has not lived such a perfect r 1 feet life like the yeast in the arr oread e ad the holy spirit germinates and causes life to spring up and the more a per son has of that spirit the so ner mer will he be resurrected speaking of the first resurrection resurrect iou and of those who would be worthy to come up in the thereof he be said while they who are lea ids faithful will r remain min lp hi the tomb until antil the six sixth t h the seventh the eighth the ninth and ana tenth hour of the day yea some even until the eleventh hour of the day or if you please these are they who will not rise until after the five hundred six hundred nine hundred and nine hundred and fifty yeats years have passed away after christs Christ 8 coming before they will be resurrected concerning the sons of perdition he be formerly form friy beij the opinion that they would not be laisee from the dead but had changed his views and believed they would be re ted aed but would have their spirits separated again from their bodies which would go bark back to mother earth to commence over again if hey do not lose identity altogether he also taught that a man could be born of god one moment and the next moment be not born of him in another lecture he maintained that the kingdom which and daniel saw that was to le be set up in the latter days is the government rf of the united State Stute sand that it would be given to the people of the saints in another lecture he taught that god had bad never never instituted any other order of marriage than the cei celestial estial or t eternal order other and less important ideas were taught by him which need not now be specifically mentioned these teachings the high council derided decided were erroneous the holy ghost is not a germ in the same material sense as the germ in a kernel of wheat or the yeast in a pan an of dough it is the spirit of life and will be the qUicken quickening trig power tn hi the resurrection and its 10 influence is enjoyed by the diligent and faithful paints in a larger degree than by those who are less faithful the resurrection of the saints is to take place in the I 1 ginning of the millennium when the angel sounds his trump and the dead in christ chiist come forth to join those who were alive and were changed and caught up to met mamet the lord in the air but no revelation recognized in the church declares that any of the saints worthy of the first resurrection will remain or or years in their graves after the sounding of that trump trum but that those who have part in the fanst resurrection ur will rein reign with christ a thousand years while the rest of the dead live not agin ag in until the thousand years are fulfilled eventually all the dead are to be brought forth from their graves the sons son of perdition included and they only are to buffer the second death which is the same as aa the first firt detsch pronounced upon abw w k lien hen driven from eden and this is a death or banishment from the pre presence of god pronounced in the sentence IN depart palt ye cursed 91 1 the revelations revelation ft of god expressly declare that not only the extent hut but the end and of their torment is 18 not and will not he be mado made known to man and will be understood by them only who suffer this condemnation the loss lose of identity altogether is not taught in the revelations of god as recognized by the church Cli firch the kingdom spoken of by the prophet daniel is that typified by the stone cut out of the mountain without hands and is the kingdom of gol goa spoken of by all the prophets over which christ will reign as king and is not any of the governments of this world while the church of christ is not to be regarded as the political kingdom of god it will not be composed of the clements tile ments of human governments hut but will be of heavenly origin the eternal marriage covenant is the higher law of wedlock for my holy priesthood the lord but marriage in bi general is ordained of god for the perpetuity of the race and that the earth way he be filled with the measure of man according to his creation before the world was made marriage for time has been hud and is authorized of god if no lio other form than the celestial order was so ordained no man unless he held the mi priesthood could be righteously married ried and thus one of the purposes bes of f god would be frustrated all gods laws are in one sense for eternity but are adapted to the di different Terent capabilities of mankind and yet are the same in all ages to people who are under similar circumstances these and other collections of doctrines were made by the council and willingly received by elder palmer who when shown his mistakes cheerfully agreed to act on the decision of the high council which was that he be requested to cease from advocating in this stake of zion the views declared by the council to be erroneous and to keep w within athin the strict line of that w wilch i lob lel is held and recognized by the authorities thorit ties les of the church as plain and sound doctrine elder palmer has been over zealous to interest and instruct the youth of this community but has manifested a desire to ue ie set right and to learn and understand the truth and to le be guided in future by the living oracles every person who occupies the potton of a teacher of the people amblad be careful to lay a solid foundation in doctrine and to advocate only that which can be demonstrated by the recognized standards of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints |
