Show THE COMING EVENT to is something more than bommon in the feeling that to is entertained in many places widely apart among different races and by preachers and people of various sects in regard to the second advent of the Ro redeemer deemer the interest that is being manifested on this important subject la Is remarkable and worthy the attention of all who take notice of the progress of public thought and the tendency of religious opinion the views of the latter day saints on this subject are ver very y clear q and positive unless it may be in regard to ao the time when the expected event shall take place the gospel they proclaim is sent as a witness of HN his approaching advent and the gathering of the saints Is in one of the s f and practical belief in hits his sanfry a coming acts speak louder than words and the doings of the latter day saints are the strongest proclamation proclaim tion that can be made of unwavering faith in his appearing the following in reference to the present agitation to is taken from the new york illustrated american the indiana are all agog over an expected messiah indeed they OW claim in that the messiah has come some even say they have seen him but reports as to his personal appearance are so conflicting condic ting that the pretended eyewitnesses e witnesses can hardly be credited whether hether be be an impostor red or white whether he comes in the character of an indian deity or christ himself is in still involved in doubt but bat there is no doubt about his mission he is in to restore the land to the indian he be is in to bring back the buffalo buff alo and the bison he is to expel the white man he comes however not as a warlike god but as a prince of peace ander the new gospel the red saint kainth are to possess the land but they will dispossess the usurper by peaceful means and not by sword other nations too are looking forward to r a deliverer who shall purge the world from aror n the wicked all orthodox jews the world over axe are still confidently awaiting the advent of then their long ex pecked messiah and in hungary a small sect of hebrews declare they have found him in a member of their own race and nation in the ibe west there is a man named who claims to be christ and is hailed balled as such stich by a body of enthusiastic followers many christians are looking forward to a second advent of christ the world seems in sore more need of such a deliverer the old religion are dying e are told there is certainly an interregnum of morality the agnostics are raising I 1 I 1 up P an altar to the unknown god like ike their fellow lievers as of yore there are wars and rumors of wars thrones are tottering ale dynasties have been overturned we are much in the same condition as our ancestors nineteen centuries ago then too all nations looked forward to a an n ex expected ec ted messiah whom prophets aej and ibyl sibyla sibyls had foretold that expectation was realized realize but in a most un expected way he came but with no pomp or circumstance he was born in a manger he was a member of a despised and conquered race the bomann of old who wh D possessed the earth and the falness thereof looked down upon the jews as much as we look down upon the indians indiana they scoffed as we scoff hooff now at the idea of a deliverer arising among a people whom they hold held to be so greatly their inferiors they were wrong in scoff ing who shall say that we are right the coming christ proved to be the downfall of the roman empire the death knell to heathen civilization the triumph of the barbarian and ana from the chaos that ensued a new and higher civilization was developed not long ago lord wolseley predicted that our civilization was seriously sei seri iou ly menaced by the descendants of the barbarian who wap wan beaten back into asia at the victory victo of chalons may not the conquer conquered WInd indian I 1 too beconi become a conquer erin in his turn |