Show TRIUMPH IN TRIALS the unceasing conflict between light hot and darkness forms one of the striking I 1 features of new testament history no sooner Is the announcement made uva of the advent of the master before trembling and tear fear seize upon the rulers of the land and they decide to destroy him the cruel murder of innocents at a t bethlehem is all due apparently to a misunderstanding of the scriptures concerning the messiah but in fact to an influence fluence im of evil well aware of at the mission of him whose ate we wan so ao eagerly sought it was the same rama influence he encountered in the desert of juda offering him the world A M a reward for yielding to temptation it was the power that at times represented him as the associate of transgressors gres sors as the plotter platter against and the blasphemer blaa phemer of god and that hat succeeded in condemning him to death it was the power that pursued his hia followers until nearly adlof all of the prominent nt ones had bad been removed from earth there is an analogy to this sad chapter of human history in inthe ahe history of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints from the beginning the powers of darkness exerted themselves against the prophet merely because becalm like paul he testified that he had had a vision since that day there has haa been a conflict conf con blot liot the points of antik attach against the church have var mariedith iedith varied atta times and circumstances but never entirely ceased this Is a strong evidence that the church to la founded by the almighty because it is gadi therefore the arrows of eyll evil are arb directed against it it is well then to turn the bhe leaf oad look at the other page of the hi stoy it tells us of a providence over the affairs of men and all toward one end the final ariu triumph M V rf of that which I 1 Is planted in and truth even the cronn croaa vlot ory the church of god to te ioviti tam att the windo noay j allt their mighty 1 voices I against the lighthouse and in tar fury perhaps sway away the building perceptibly and the angry waves may hurl themselves against the very foundations yet the structure remains it was built tor for the very purpose of standing sate safe against the force of at the combined elements the church is the lighthouse built by an all wise architect like the mighty oak that ends it roots deeper the bhe more it is exposed to the elements eld ments and thus becomes bec onies stronger to withstand each succeeding storm so the church becomes stronger and might mightier ler as a of o f each succeeding trial this too 00 is the lesson of history |