Show EZEKIEL AND THE DEAD SENECA 8 C feb 16 thinking a few lines from the old palmetto state to would be of interest to your year many readers I 1 will try and pen you ou a abort letter I 1 was waa reared here berm i led le d the church and emigrated to utah to tab where my wits wire aej I 1 did quite a work la in tue tiie temple for our oar dead we then left utah and oame came bacil to the old palmetto state elate in search of genealogy with the expectation of returning sue and doigg other work in the temple I 1 to draw the attention of the people who are working for their dead and who expect to 90 do so 0 o to Eza kiePe pro prophecy phoy in hla his thirty seven Be ab chapt chabier ch apier or where bosaw a the be saw aw the valley filled with dry bone and ago the question was asked him so bo of man can these house live verse verae he said raid 0 lord god bod thou kuo he was waa told to prophesy prop beay upon pon those bones bonea ond and ale what to say aay to them that I 1 will bause breath to outer into you and yo shall live alsos alio ann ana I 1 wil alii lay isy anew sinews upon you and will arii beriau ail up upon you and will cover you with skin kin and put breath to in you anu yo ye shut live and joi e shall hall know that I 1 am the loro 11 the seventh vera term says aye ebu au I 1 prophesied as I 1 was wa corn com aud as ae I 1 abere war wa a noise doie and it a shaking and the bouk came together bone to hla his bone tb eighth veree tells lella bow tue the sinews and the blugh came upon them anu ana the kin covered them but there was waa no breath in them then ezekle ezekie was told to prophesy pro pheny by unto too toe and may bay unto the winds come from the tb alous 0 breath and breathe spoil these slain that they may live ezekiel 2 klel prophesied as be b was commanded and the breath oame came in to them and they lived saki and stood apoi their feet an exceeding great army he was wa told those boas bobea were sue tb whole house bouse of israel in tha eleventh verse veree comes a mosette from thode dead people behold they ay tay t I our bone bon 9 are re dried and our hope bopa to Is lost loit we are out cut off from our pary elovie JB zekie was given is a message to deliver tu to them now he be bad men a type of the he notion faction or of the house of larae israel he cobau hau not been n a real resurrection for christ chela waa am the first fruits of them that slept but bat ezekiel exekiel saw aw a vision of the recur and he had abili abl vision a testimony ot of the resurrection belore he could deliver she maage which was given him as recorded in the to the fifteenth verses he was told to say bay 66 rhua smith alth the burd 0 my people I 1 will open your houi graves and cause you to come up out oui of your gratts and bring you in to the abe land of israel H records the delivery it f she be first two messages but dues does record deliver log ing that in the tbt twelfth to the iha flitt boti verses he could easily arliver the first two messages as une jue of them wa to be delivered tu to the donee bones and tbt abe other to the but the third me same he was waa to be delivered to spirita tp anu izekiel ize klel would have to the die and go to where those spirits were before be could deliver the be third message thus thui we we see ee why be mover bald ald he had bad delivered that last it message alter after his hl cislon be could go to the spirit parl world and tell the house 1 ol 01 I israel irael there with unshaken faith that bat he be bad seen the type of the resurrection he could hooulu tell anem to copse murmuring forb for be obad bad eon een their bones come together and fl A eh abband and skin cover them he be could tell lell them teem he be bad seen their spirits come back loto into their bodies eluo but bat they would yet live he bad to have this testimony of the tb in the before be could preach it to those spirits wit with b unshaken UDe baken faith lot let all read thib hirty seventh chapter and consider coo aider li it ezekiel did not have a mission to preach to the dead jamzs JAMES A SMITH |