Show TX simi aas SUNDAY dec 11 am A largo large audience nud aud ienco assembled in tho the tabernacle last la t sunday dec 17 after singing and prayer the tile sacrament Rac was administered ELDER sTAN STANro roi iiD D addressed the audience occupying OCCUPY ng tho the whole of the time with an interesting discourse on oil tile differ different crit degrees degres of intelligence enjoyed by beings in the spirit world be before ft ire their arrival here all who live upon the earth kept their first estate and agreed when the morning stars shouted together for joy to come and inhabit tho the carts earth that hat abode th they might gain a body and anti become as gods those who objected a third part of tho the hosts of heaven to the plan of an received their punishment i in that they were cast down from heaven and forbidden to receive bodies in thid this lies their damnation these same spirits are they who seek the bodi bodes of men upon the earth in iq order that tb they might deprive then them of living toz to fulfill cf their second estate ana and bring them to the same condemnation that is the unhappy lot of the rebel hosts such a spirit it waa vas that entered into the serpent fort for these liese spirits care not what bodies they enter into so they get flesh to cover them and was instrumental in betraying eve who betrayed adam who fell that man might be thus tha the devil became the instrument in bringing about what was originally intended but lie be and find hia his rebel busts ho aca are still stilt working upon man endeavoring to frustrate the designs of god ahei wherever ever we see men departing from tru truth th straying iti in evil loving that which is ij and unjust tho evil spirits have hard power with them if such men could see their former lives with god and know how anxiously they prayed him to come u upon poll I the 11 e ca earth rth to receive bodies bodie sano and thus me rise in the path of intelligence and anti power and glory they would quit their evil doing and nd say kay to the devil depart if examples where men had departed from the path of god arc are numerous in bible history cain slew abel for which sin tin he be was driven out from god and became dark and loathsome in other othe r words received a mark of god which was his curse men grew wicked and a flood was sent tent to destroy them from the face of the earth noah built an ark in it the races of men and beasts were saved abile god swept wickedness from the world through florou h the tile lineage of hem waa was the negro race perpetuated tho the speaker thou thought ht this more probable than that tho the whole cuiss cuis swits was received through the wn sin of ham ilam in beholding his fathers when jhc thc they d dwelt welt in a tent after the flood through I abraham came isaac who was the father of jacob who was the fath er of the tile twelve tribes we can only only trace now the tile seed of ifju ju dah all and joseph through ephraim and a part odthe of the tribe of manasseh to these is the sound ot of the goa gus pel and it is to gather them together into one that missionaries arc are sent to the four comers of the earth that aji ajr israel may bo be gathered out and receive odthe of the ble blessing dingi promised to abraham the father of the faithful f all other tribes arc are not of israel and cannot receive the tile earno same blea blessings angi of thu tho priesthood regarding the ten lost tribes the eaid they would come forth in in the duo time thile of the lord and he thought it in the interest of humanity that people should let tho the explorations of he the north alone he ile exhorted all the saints to bo be ready for the blessings ings in ili store for them that they might know the will of god concerning their ial salvation and praise god fur his bounteous good goodness nest |