| Show KNOWLEDGE KNoWLE DUb ADD revelation the truth of the saying baying knowledge to ie power can te be proved in many ways toy by experience the glory ol of god la is intelligence and the man ol of intelligence certainly possesses a power powei which the unlearned lacks iri in pro portion to the knowledge they possessed of the country they inhabited the information they acquired in the arts art and science acl encee nj the knowledge they displayed in agriculture and virtue men in different ages of the world have arisen and flourished and main gained their rights the duration stability liability exaltation and happiness of any community therefore ico oes es hand in hand with the learning possessed by the ghe people when applied to laudable ends and the truth of the saying or of the wise wige man 91 righteousness leous noes exal tetti a nation can be plainly seen for or righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge la Is power reasoning from this view of the ubert subject it will readily be perceived that two kinds of knowledge have from the adamic dispensation actuated inan mankind kind for it cannot be denied that all men have not been righteous though they may have been at the head of flourishing nations kingdoms and countries to speak of this subject in its true light would be b to mention that knowledge that cornea comes from above revelation which is one of the most difficult doctrines doot rinea of the gospel for the world to understand its difficulty lies in comprehending the jact fact that all knowledge cornea from and that when it has been revealed repealed all men have not believed it to be a revelation at the time the truth to te corroborated as far back as aa the days of adam adain when the offering of abel was accepted of the lord that knowledge was communicated communicate a by revelation through which abel received power from goj god cain knew the low lord and believed in his father adams scripture or rv revelation elation but thinking one revelation was sum he decamp kofl disbelieved and ultimately committed murder noah was given power to prepare and save himself and family from the destruction of the flood through his bis knowledge of revelation of what was to take place upon the earth but the inhabitants in the dispenza tiron scoffed at the great prophet lai cove lations they did not deny that adam was the first man made in the image of god that enoch walked and talked with god and ws wis translated to heaven without tasting death yet they not see the necessity for new reve revelation lalion said they we believe as OW our fathers did but away with new revelations 11 the lord took them at their word and the flood swept both revelation and the people away how was it with abraham when this prophet whose enose seed said the lord should be as numerous as the sands on the seashore made mallette maL lethe the announcement that god had appeared to him in the plains of mamre that he had seen angels and had partaken partaker par taken of food and drink with them lie he was laughed at and his big religion thrown aside because ike he had bad received new revelations abe revelations of adam Ada enoch anu and noah no imo one doubted doubled enochs pillar and living monument of his faith and works noah with his bis ark resting on ararat and the majesty of the rainbow spanning the earth from time to time were witnesses that the uld revelations were true but what proof had they of the divinity of abraham Abra hamPs mission they had many evidences but rejected all ali of them and drove the great patriarch from his country and kindred to become a pilgrim in a strange land when moses appeared fresh from the presence of god with now new revelations and calculations and tested the folly and wickedness of a corrupt court and people by destroying them through the power of god with plagues and miracles the inhabitants opposed him MB all cain did abel the wise wine men sought his life because they could not bear information direct from heaven the cunning priests of egypt as well as those of the land of canaan were living witnesses of the power he displayed yet the same spirit of fanaticism hypocrisy and unbelief took possession of them that seized the ante dilu viane ns and the egyptians were sunk like lead in the red sea This spirit of unbelief in the necessity of revelation line upon line precept upon precept here a little and there a little can be tracer with great effect in the history of the children of israel prior to the appearance of the messiah lor or the records show that no sooner did they begin to be puffed up with self belf sufficiency than they honored the old revelations in word or profession and stoned the prophets that came with now new ones onee when the savior came in the flesh this same principle that has been traced from age to age was most signally manifest among the jews boasting of the old revelations they made long prayers for a pretense and crossed sea and lano land to make proselytes proselyte prose lytes 4 yet when now new revelation was introduced by the savior they called it blasphemy and cried away with him crucify himl 1 Is it to be w wondered at that paul seeing the saints beginning to question the decet necessity sity for more revelation should inform timothy that perilous times should come for men shall be lovers of their ow own n selves unthankful unholy lovers of pleasure more than lovers of goo goa ajl when one pauses to consider these facts and exemplify the truth of the saying history repeats itself it does not seem strange that the same ourse was taken and the same lan jan guage used when the book of mormon was introduced over sixty years ago the people of the generation in which the book was introduced believed in old revelation and blessed the old patriarchs pilgrims and but new ones esthey they could nut not yet in their diversified forms of faatu and worship from toe the poor bru orant a vage that prostrated prostrates pro strates himself before a stick or stone and through all the shades and variations of religious belief the inhabitants of the earth furnished incontestable evidence of the truth of the statement that continued revelation from god was necessary that god did reveal himself to maskind in former aires airee is admitted by mid millions ions but that he should now do so is in looked upon as strange and improbable yet it is ia doubtful it there was ever a period in the worlds world Is history when revelation was so much needed as it is at the present time when the state of the religious world of today is ia viewed the saying where chere there is no vision the people peri beriah seems to be clearly exemplified the he enlightenment of the age and the destructive tive criticism of our time is de mo polishing moli ahing lishing many a tottering belief and to IB disclosing the great religious verities verifies veri ties of the true gospel in all their might and purity the spirit of revelation with out which the people cannot be come united in word and deed nor the church live reveals reveal the grand sequel of the actions of those who have rejected present revelation from adam aown it illuminates the pages of history from which can be gleaned this glorious truth that all the saints from our great progenitor down to t the present day having a knowledge of things past present and to come by the power of the holy ghost have had power to shut the mouths of kings and lions to walk in the fiery furnace scorched to live hated bated and die for christs sake whereby they have tasted of the glories of the world to come have mingled with the spirits of just men made perfect anti and know that the glory of god is intelligence and I 1 ak knowledge no wedge to is po power 11 1 1 WB dougal jr in millennial star |
