Show SIGNS OF or CHRISTS P bestar star of bethlehem aya e r ii fAI TERALD my attention was 10 forcibly r Y ai arrested rested yesterday byan by an ar t lido in tho the daily HERALD concerning iho the star of Bethle bethlehem licin As my mind is a continually dai on this branch of theology I never allow anything of this kind to pasa without giving it dueno ducr noice the newly discovered star I take the liberty to bokiy my is not the star of bethlehem but is he like mhd present carnef one of the die many runny signs of tile ast last days pro previous ious to the tile coining of lie the son of man before the star of bethlehem or if you please Vea sethe the sign of tho me son of man v ji J i ill I make its reappearance in tile heavens every indication di af its re reappearance bearance pe arance will bo be so alain there will ile be no mistaking its density den lity among the people called I latter atter day saints for be looking for it but not ret ft I we tako take the testimony of resua jesus ra recorded fraed in tile chapter of matthew we v will ill there see lie ile Is ro erring ferring to the present generation that after the days of tribulation or in other words after the judgments of god have passed over the earth the sun shall bo be darkened and the moon not give her light 11 which ia 16 nothing more nor less adaa than a total eclipse of the sun and moon pro ceding the rea reappearance of the star of bethlehem Tearance the i stars also many of them will fall from heaven and the lowers of heaven beaven shall be shaken hen then shall a appear the sign of the so son at of man in tarr the heavens avens joseph smith tho the martyred marty red prophet of god in in the laet days prophesied concerning this star over forty years ago it was during the tile time a sect called Mille rites were creating reat excitement and were prophesy ng ing among tile that people alc plc that jesus would come in the clouds buds of heaven n 1844 joseph smith t toy them then hat that jesus would not come in 1844 nor 46 nor in 40 years but saki said ie there aro are those of tho the rising gen ration who not taste death till comes and furthermore said ie before christ comes judah will return and Jern jerusalem ulem will bo be rebuilt which ho however weyer is is progressing gressing and he the judgments of sr god od pass over the larth earth which every observing mind an ean easily see asat our very door then said raid he be there will be seen one cat and grand sign of the son of in the heavens and what will he world do some will bay say it is a planet I et and some will bay sayi it is a comet che world worl dill will then know it it is the star of bethlehem which is to re appear pp in 1887 as a abright bright and shining shung fitness in ean unto all nations kindred tongue and deorle people that the hour of f sods gods judgment Is a past as and the hour ton if of the coming of te the son of asin ayi is and the times of the gentiles will be fulfilled let them improve it n 1887 will be the sixth appearance at of the star of bethlehem since in the autumn of the fourth year before tho the irth birth of christ its seventh will be in the millennium bac kc cording to he ho testimony of writers it appears every ye years aus it ipp eared last in 1572 I which brings ts next appearance pe arance in 1887 this leollo A wilt IF then have bee been in in the forty years as ancient israel wore were forty years in in the so in 1887 will modern israel been forty years in the mountains pre preparing p aring for the future WATCHMAN |