Show TIM TH century CEN TUBy A revolutionary PERIOD revolutions their aim and effects have been very varied la in the worlds history physical revolutions have always wa ys been attended with disaster involving great destruction not only of property ro perty but bat more or less loss of life it is noamy not my purpose however to note many of these for history from the very earliest period down to the pres pres cut ia a made macle up largely of acco accounts unta of such revolutions of greater or less importance together with wita the causes which led thereto and their results for the periods of peace during the last six thousand years have been very le lew w and very far between there are nations it is true who tan can boast of bf an existence extending in to ito the centuries but we have only to lift their historical veil to read the story of strafes fes contentions feuds and internal struggles that have marred their lives and have stained their otherwise ail fame faine with many a foul blot the longer their existence has been it generally follows that the knore awe numerous are the dark spots in their history all the result of revolutions of greater oy r less magnitude i but there have been j many revola ions other than physical ones in the revolutions of ideas involving questions of religion eel science ence and ana philosophy resulting la in battles battle S that have been ai hardly fought aad victories as dearly wona sany that are recorded us as having occurred in the physical world I 1 in tho the ages ps past at the arts and sciences flourished tp to such a degree that the advanced nineteenth century is at a loss to account for the perfection perfect ibn of knowledge that these ancients attained to for in many respects we have to acknowledge that we are greatly their inferiors where is the master mind today to day that could conceive not copy the idea of a pyramid like that of which ancient egypt boasts and where la is egypt and why did id not her sons have pei ier bated in them such wonderful al in ival ical skill we cannot antedate the egyptian either lin in the knowl knowledge edae of the science of astronomy and astrology and his one art of perfected embalming is now lost to the world where is refined refine dand and scholarly greece whose mental achievements have been for ages the tha of the poet as well as tile historian the early discoverers of north and south bouth america notably Leit Leif erickson the Ice icelander iander christopher columbus john cabot amerigo vespucci ojeda and others found the he coast lands inhabited by a barbarous people with hardly a trace of f civilization yet in the after settling of the country inland palpable evide evidences hees of a civilization that would favorably compare with anything europe possessed ess essed were found in abundance but these sons of the forest were without a written history and could not net enlighten the an with more reliable than traditional U tales ales and lie he roams over and among the ruins of his ancient jaee with as little concern as the soulless ottoman wanders une unconsciously over the ashes of science and arts highest perfection thus has history bee been u releasing repeating eating itself during the ages r past as rel the he land that was yesterday the land of the highest refinement is today to day the home of the unappreciative barbarian all the result of revolutions so complete as to appal the histo historian while attempting to write their history as well as only teaching him such f fragmentary rag me 1 gitary portions of their wreck asto often tempt him to abandon the tha task altogether any attempted in innovations novat tons upon old established ideas either religious or of scientific have always been beau met with more or less opposition for while we claim that matl man is a progressive gres sive being and ever learning yet we approach the study of these advanced lessons not only with distrust but actual doubt and I 1 have thought with a degree of f fear ear lest they might prove to be true so wedded are we to the ideas of the past aud and L bo 40 satisfied also that the thought ol of being disturbed at all worries us revolutions of this his kino kind have in some instances been only partial ial while in others they have been complete when a heretofore flat earth was theoretically transformed into a globe it produced a complete revolution in the scientific world which did not subside until the theory became an established fact wycliffe Wv cliffe huss luther calvin and others dissented only in part from the orthodox doctrines of the church of rame hence the re rc ligi ligion ou revolution produced by their teachings was only oaly partial the church of rome borne retaining to te this day every doctrine intact from which these dissented it rema remained inea however f for or joseph smith the prophet of the nineteenth century to inaugurate an innovation inna destined eventually to completely revolutionize t fee he whole religious world he commenced first by announcing noun nolin cing that angels had visited him an and d that he had also seen ged who was wap accompanied by tho the savior of the world that he told him that the whole of christendom was in ia the wrong that their creeds were an abomination in his siant and that defor he for bad him having anything to do with them for any man and especially an illiterate iU iterate youth to make such an announcement no was indeed startling and that too at a time when all had bad settled down dowa to the conviction that ancl cl and more especially god him 1 self had ceased to speak and would not loot again a appear to much less talk with It hman man buethe bat the boy joseph M maia bained his position in spite of aalop all opposition nor did he stop stop here for soon thereafter he made other still more starl starring Qing announcements viz that a dispensation of the gospel had been committed to him that john ajohn the baptist who was be headed W judea had conferred upon him the priesthood that peter james and john bohn had ordained him to the apostleship Apostles bip and given him authora authority aly 0 o build up the tha kingdom of god in all the earth that elijah the great restorer upon hina him the items of his min ministry i stry and that had also in person bestowed upon him the authority to vather gather israel from their long dispersion even p jo the leading of the ten tribes from the he north gorth country all this and much more did this latter day prophet aun announce ounce to the christian aft world claiming that he alone possessed the true authority a tp to teach in the name of the lor lord of or to administer the ordinances of the gospel that all the ministers of all the churches from the roman pontiff down dodato to tho th hill humblest lecal preacher of any sectarian church were acting without h authority from god thus laying the axe at the root of every so called Chris christiaa tiala tree free upon the earth no wonder that sued such an announcement should meet with universal opposition or that christian ministers b both oth of high agh and low degree should rally not only to the support of themselves I 1 in their individual callings but to save their several creeds from the destruction threatened or oy that all the moral for ces at comi fahd should be to ilo to battle against mint this presumptuous stripling for to sur reader re ilder as this bd abdy required was wai altogether out of the question ur or i ven to talk of capitulation while the garrison was vas considered im imi i pregnable could not be thought of for a single moment chebook the book of holy writ kalled called the magna charta of christianity was first to tiie cause of the many cent religions oue jue by byone due these ancient worthies worth kas who have filled the role of lawgiver king prophet and apostle from the days of adam down to the great seer beer who wrote the apocalypse v were ere coned consulted cited and that too most crit icalla out but these all decided in ill favor of the modern prophet and against christianity the prophets claiming that they had bad ili ia vision seen 0 inaugurated this last dispensation and its final triam triumph h over every thing that opposed it that the religious world had mys titled and misinterpreted their lif plainest ainest declarations upon this subject and that they hailed with pleasure the in man all who by the inspiration of the albig almighty could d r rightly interpret their w words mae disappointed and chagrined by the failure e of their stron strongest geft weapons they next call to their aid aidt t those ao e who have successfully wielded the weapons of science for centuries past and watch with confident expectation the onslaught and its results but buk these retire from the contest thoroughly defeated the phil esop ado C forces are now BOW und and do desperate battle bat only to be discomfited in their turn and entirely beaten T the he in retiring from the field is heard thus declaring himself 1 I c cem om oat the errors errors of ages and I 1 mathematical problems of universe uni universities versi tea with truth diamond truth and goi god is my right hand man Mord mortified fled and maddened by their yat t ter inability to at t all discomfit this prophet br prow him or his mission false they like the jews in the case cage of jedus Jesus seek his life th biag that by his d death t they will s secure 4 ur themselves in U undisputed Is a possession of their places t their ir dogmas dogma and their creeds but in t th 9 meantime this prophet has gathered around him many true arti disciples upon akem he has conferred ithe keys of power that he be himself received on and his has charged them to prosecute te with zeal the labor that he commenced andhor ana now forty years after his death which these christians acco accod M he be still till lives in ia his followers who are successfully c carrying on th this is greatest t of all reforms the regeneration of our race it has beera abbe fate ot 0 neatly all great reformers reformer sto to die f for r their prin pria caples eyen the savior gavid of the was not taB all exception except jon but the tha truths that they enunciated have uni universally survived them tham and and become the rule 0 of religious faiths or the cardino cardinal principles C of science talk about religious revolutions in the past where moral suasion has only been employed I 1 the one now going oa as the result of the mission of Joseph smith is destined to turn them the world upside down already a tangible heaven and a well defined ter babp belan been mair made e so 96 reil real that they are brought broach within he e scope of mans j intelligence while hell itself has been explored and add its torments sp clearly defined that our reason is no longer shocked shacked at the contemplation of its horrors because the punishment thereof is shown to be only an lot integral al part of tie the justice of a its jast st god the creation of this earth as explain edby by joseph causes ss the to pause while it gu confounds n founds thamah of science the deist finds the foundation stones of his structure giving v agway way as joseph josep W reveals the only tov hang ng and true go god d mans rala relation tf his maker is so s clearly portrayed that he in lal wl yearns to be brought rought li back S taala g in into his presence ale hile toe tibb birta ot of the th e savior of the he world jipos the most natural principles woj Is 19 amle 0 so plain that the greatest skeptic can no longer deny a christ born bora thus tans paving toe the way for a firm belief in an actual resurrection resurrect 11 from f t e d dead e a 1 I the eternity of t the tto V maniacap mani aap covenant taut produces aboud between betwee husband wite wile and children that christianity was incapable pf af conceiving of atis st is also revealed that man dead can caa be reached and his redemption demp tion secured as well a as man MAII alv aug iago ili id short it brings every odo ones up to degree of glory except the sons of perdition father adam aud and M mother other eve immortal first st wards mortal and f 1 doduc itaf 1 their posterity to therod and the evil make clear the fall ol of man and the necessity for hi s redemption last but bat not least joseph smith reveals the giand principle ol 01 plural or del celestial estial marria marriage ge thus antagonizing the practice of of eJu exclusive sive monogamy made sacred b by centuries of efm time band and in spite of au opposition his bis followers have in insisted ted upon its practice PT thus t u 8 we find in a little more than afif fifty ty years avei eveia y moral force exhaust edi and all those who have employed them discomfited ind and beaten in ia every at tempt to lo prove joseph smith a false prophet or dr solitary doctrine taught by him ann to be untrue I 1 wi the history of western con continent ti has been by him dug up and what to us is A new is shown to have been inhabited inhabit ed for a period at t least dati dating ag back to the tower of uel babel of bi bible 61 e fame the emigration of other colonies to this land afterwards as well as the names of their leaders aud and the families to which they belou belonged ged is clearly narrated together with their times of f peace and great prosperity Wity as well as their wars and adversity the high mental lii culture by theia the a different periods affords a vy satisfactory solution of the hitherto ait herto unexplained mark marine of a high decree of civilization liza tion tiou that are met mat with within in abundance C both ia north and south A america sod and thus is the mystery of 1 the tied galans origin arizin fally solved this same prophet dated also to enter the arena ot political strife and dictate to this nation a line of policy in regard to the much vexed question of slavery which had tro it been adopted would have saved millions of treasure end and four years of dreadful dreada u bloodied blood sned Aed aid destruction and sorrow and F that too several sevi eral years after he haaso had so truthfully predicted the war which grew ou out t of this hi very question the lauati U aloof of scorn ornan and d derision degidio a thit hat accompanied the early announcement of afi these advanced doctrines by bv the prophet is no longer heard for now the pulpit press and people have united unite to together gether and in place thereof hasteen has been 1 el a settled and de W plan ian for fer their dver overthrow w tor for they leel that their pet theories are to longer continue the contest upon moral grounds being now considered hopeless the advocates of thes doctrines are seized seize d and shut up p 14 in dungeons in ift ha hopes pes of 69 t thus 1 u 8 stopping their spread but as early christianity under chi confiscation exile exil d and death and as the torture faggot and other ether moody appliances failed to tg check the growth of ref it 1 atory ideala few centuries ago so will 1 the murder of the prophet the diff anci 11 or imprisonment of f followers his 11 as signally fail in the be future for the revolution now co commenced will continue until it has finished its work and turned this world completely upside down I 1 accompanying this felig religious lous revolution are others quite aum as startling ag in the scientific and mechanical world borla and which seem to tte oe a very necessary ly following folio wing for when god beveans himself to man he does not confine his revelations to 0 what we wm term religious matters merely but lights up ip mans malas whole being and be thus it us becomes infused with inspirational ideas upon everything pertaining to his wel fare in this life as well as in the life to come No wonder then when boid is moving in the midst of mankind that we behold such advancement n t in made adein in science and aad mechanism as has been made during daring the past fifty years and as he shall continue t to 0 m move 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