Mormon doctrine, plain and simple : or, Leaves from the tree of life

FROM THE LIBRARY OF
REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON, D. D.

BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO

THE LIBRARY OF

PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

^ OCT 26 1937
X&OGICALSt^S*'

MORMON" DOCTRINE,

PLAIN AND SIMPLE,

OR

Leaves from the Tree of Life,

By CHAS. W. PENROSE.

PUBLISHED BY

THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR OFFICE,

Salt Lake City, Utah.

1888.

INTRODUCTION.

rpHERE is no subject of popular comment on which there
is so little general information as that called "Mornion-
i>in." This little work is designed to explain, in a simple
way, leading features of "Mormon" doctrine. The terms
" Mormon" and "Mormonism" are not strictly correct as
usually applied. They are inappropriately derived from the
Book of Mormon, which is a work containing the history of
the former inhabitants of the American continent, written at
different times by various persons and finally compiled by a
prophet named Mormon and inscribed upon metallic plates,
which were hidden in the earth to come forth in the latter
days, for the enlightenment of mankind in relation to the
origin of the Indian tribes of this land, and as a testimony
that Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified by the Jews, is
indeed the Messiah, the Son of the living God.

This record, giving an account of the dealings of the Almighty
with the people it describes, and whose origin and travels,
wars and industries, customs and religion, progress and decay it
graphically relates, was taken from its hiding place by Joseph
Smith in obedience to the revelation and commandment of
(iodand was translated into the Euglish language through
a heavenly gift bestowed upon that favored man. Those
who believe in the divinity of the book are commonly called
" Mormons," and the doctrines which they hold are known as
" Mormonism, " But it is as inconsistent to call people
"' Mormons," who believe in the writings of Mormon, as it
would be to call them Isaiahs, or Jeremiahs, or Peters or

IV. INTRODUCTION.

Pauls, because they believe in the scriptures written by those
inspired men.

The Church which has been organized under direction from
the same heavenly Power that revealed the Book of Mor-
mon, is entitled the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. Its members, then, should not be called "Mormons,"
but Latter-day Saints. The members of the church established
by Jesus and His apostles, as will be seen by reference to the
New Testament, were called Saints. The term " Christians"
was applied to them in derision, and was first used at Antioch.
The members of the restored Church of Christ are called
Latter-day Saints to distinguish them from their brethren
and sisters of former times. But as " Christians" came to be
the common appellation of the former-day saints, so "Mor-
mons" has come to be the title generally bestowed upon the
Latter-day Saints, and is used herein only in that sense.

In the twelve leaves which are plucked from the tree ot
life and herewith sent forth for the healing of the nations
from the effects of error and false doctrine, will be found a
sweet and sovereign balm for spiritual disorders. And by
receiving them, a desire will be created for further gatherings
of the same foliage. They will serve to open the eyes of
those who have been in spiritual darkness and are yet anxious
for the light, and as a preparation for the attainment of that
vital power which makes all things new, and quickens and
animates earthly beings with celestial life and light.

We ask for the principles here presented, the careful con-
sideration of thoughtful minds, and confidently invite com-
parison with those utterances of the Jewish prophets and
apostles which are contained in the Bible. References to
those scriptures will be found at the end of this work,
arranged to correspond with each chapter or "leaf."

The young people among the Latter-day Saiuts will obtain,

[NTRODl CTION. v.

by a perusal of this little book, an understanding of the
fundamental principles of the system which has cost the
blood of martyred Prophets and Apostles to establish. And
it will be found useful in the missionary field, as a sower of

those - 1- of truth which, it' widely scattered, will surely fall

upon sonic good ground and bring forth fruit for the service of
the Master.

We invoke upon this little work the Spirit of the most high
God. to whose cause it is dedicated, that wherever it may
go light may spring forth to the joy of those who desire the
truth, and that by its means many people may be directed
into the way which leads to the tree of life, enjoy its luscious
fruit and gain the gift of endless lives wherein redeemed man
is exalted and the eternal God is glorified.

C. W. P.

CONTENTS.

FIRST LEAF.

Page.

Value of Truth — Only One True Religion— Faith the First Prin-
ciple— Faith a Principle of Power — How Faith' Comes — No
Man can Find out God — Diety must Manifest Himself — God
the Father of the Race — Personality of God — The Great Law-
giver Governs Himself by Law 9

SECOND LEAF.

True Repentance the Consequence of Faith — Original Sin and
Actual Sin — The Work of Redemption — Universal Redemp-
tion from Original Sin — Conditions of Salvation from Actual
Sin — Baptism, its Object, Mode and Effect — A New Creature
in Christ Jesus 13

THIRD LEAF.

The Holy Ghost, its Nature, Office and Power — Conferred through
the Laying On of Hands — Gifts and Fruits of the Holy
S|3irit — How Obtained — Their Object and Design — Effects of
its Withdrawal— Infinite Riches of its Full Inspiration. . . 16

FOURTH LEAF.

Divine Authority — Without it all Gospel Administrations Vain
— It Cannot be Acquired — The Priesthood, its Antiquity,
Power and Blessings — The Priesthood of Melchisedek — The
Aaronic Priesthood — Priestcraft — The Authority of God
must Come from God — Ordination — Value of the Priesthood. 19

FIFTH LEAF.

The Church of Christ — Its Unity — Christ's Church under His
Personal Supervision — Rules of Admission — No Others Avail-
able— Apostleship the Chief Authority — Other Authorities
and Ministers — Necessity of These — The Church Progressive
— It Casts Off Evil-Doers — Brotherhood of its Members —
Mission of the Church 23

CONTENTS. vn.

sixth LEAF.

:n thf Primitive Church— When it Commenced —
The Apostles Predicted it — The Apostasy Universal— The
Woman Clothed With the Sun, and the Scarlet-Clothed Har-
lot -What they Represent —The Reformation — Spread of
Truth but Lack of Authority— Multiplication of Sects — No
Yoitv from Heaven 20

SEVENTH LEAF.

ition of the Gospel— Ministration of an Angel — Divine
Knowledge and Divine Authority — Keys of Former Dispon-
es Revealed— Rebuilding of the Church of Christ — The
is Following — Comiug d* Elijah — Dispensation of the
Fullness of Times— Triumph of the Truth

EIGHTH LEAF.

Apparent Doom of the Majority of Mankind — No Salvation but

by Jesus Christ— Is the State of Man Fixed at Death?— The

imon Belief Incorrect — Preaching to the Dead — The

Spirit Without the Body Sentient— Nature of Paradise— All

People to Hear the Gospel Either in this Life or the Next. •"■!

NINTH LEAF.

Decrees of God Fixed in the Spiritual as in the Natural Onh
— Ordinances Essential — The Living may lie Baptized for
the Dead — The Principle of Proxy— The Place for the
Administration of Vicarious ordinances — Revelation of
Elijah, the Prophet — Connection With the Spirit World —
True Order of Communication— Blessed Results of Work
Done for the Dead 37

TENTH LEAF.
Universality of Death— Results of the Transgression ol' Law-
Dissolution of the Body not the End of Bxisteno — What is
Resurrection? — The spiritual Body of Jesue — All to be
Raised from the Dead — The Order of the Resurrection —
a Immortal Body — Ignorance of the Lawsof
Nature — Matter Indestructible — Possibilities of Creal

Life and Immortality Brought to Light 42

ELEVENTH LEAF.
Man or Woman Alone Imperfect — Marriage Ordained of God —
actity of Proper Sexual Relatione Matrimony a Part of

Vlll. CONTENTS.

Page.

Eeligion — The First Pair Immortal — Marriage for Eternity
— Keys of Celestial Marriage — Condition of Those who
Marry Only for Time — Man the Head of the Woman — Plu-
rality of Wives — Continuation of the Righteous Forever-
Eternal Family Organizations — Everlasting Increase and
Dominion •••... 48

TWELFTH LEAF.

Christ's Work Continued After His Death — The Perfect Science
of Human Redemption — What was Lost in the Fall — What
is to be Regained in the Restoration— Justice Tempered with
Mercy — Loss Sustained by the Disobedient — Doom of the
Sons of Perdition— The Celestial, Terrestrial and Telestial
Glories — Redemption and Glorification of the Earth — Salva-
tion of the Whole Race— The Finished Work of Christ— Uni-
versal Dominion of the Father 53

"THE LATTER-DAY KINGDOM/' a Poem 59

APPENDIX. Scriptural References to all the subjects treated

upon in the body of the work 64

MORMON" DOCTRINE,

LEAVES FROM THE TREK OF LIFE.

FIRST LEAF.

Value of Truth— Only One True Religion — Faith the First Principle

— Faith a Principle of Tower — How Faith Comes — Xo Man Can
Find out God — Deity Must Manifest Himself — God the Father of
the Race — Personality of God— The Great Lawgiver Governs
Himself by Law.

'PHERE is nothing more valuable than truth. Religious
* truth, or that which relates to God, our duty to Him,
His laws and purposes, and the means by which we may now
come to Him and eventually be exalted in His presence, is
really priceless. To obtain a knowledge of religious truth,
both young and old should be willing to make every exertion
and to offer any sacrifice.

There are many systems of religion in the world, but only
one can be correct, for the simple reason that there is but one
God for the inhabitants of the earth to worship and obey.
If there were many true Gods to whom mankind owed rever-
ence there might be several true religions. God is the author
or revealer of true religion. Men may invent and arrange
methods of worship, imagine and think out doctrines, and
formulate and enforce creeds; but they are of no valm

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a means of salvation. God must be approached and served in
the way which He ordains, or the worship and service will not
be accepted.

The first principle of true religion is faith. This is the
beginning of righteousness. It is the very root of the tree of
life, and its sap runs through all the branches. "Without
faith it is impossible to please God." And "Whosoever
cometh to God must believe that He is." Faith, in its
simplest sense, is the assent of the mind, and its assurance of
the existence of things unseen by the natural eye. This is
belief. In another sense, faith is a motive power, a principle
of action. Examination into the secret springs that prompt us
in the common affairs of life will show that faith moves us
to exertion and incites us to perseverance. It is the assurance
we feel of the existence or attainment of things unperceived
by the senses, which urges us onward and inspires us with
energy. In a higher sense, faith is a spiritual force. It
reaches up to the heavenly spheres. It lays hold upon eternal
things. It acts upon the grosser elements, and moves
spiritual essences and immortal intelligences.

It is in its fullness all powerful. By its exercise God made
the worlds, bringing order out of chaos, light out of darkness
and visible things out of the invisible, all moved by that
spiritual energy called faith. By its power Christ stilled the
winds and walked upon the waves, healed the sick and raised
the dead. Elijah, by faith closed the heavens, that they
rained not, and overcame the might of death, passing with
his body into the mansions on high. By faith, Job beheld
the coming of the Redeemer, and Paul ascended to the third
heaven. And by faith men and women can overcome the
influences of earth and time, and rise to communion with
angelic beings, and even with God, the highest and holiest of all.

Man must have faith in God in order to become exalted into
His presence. No man knows of himself how to reach that
position, nor how to obtain salvation from sin and its effects,
among which are sorrow and pain, and death as the ultimate.
To learn anything in relation to these important matters he
mast be tanghtof God, and faith is therefore absolutely neces-
sary in the outset of any attempt to learn of Him.

NO man can FIND 01 r OOD, 11

This faith ''comes by hearing," or in other words is devel-
oped by testimony. Through the testimony of men divinely
appointed to speak in the name of the Lord, faith is awakened

in the human heart. It is a principle existing in every soul,
but in the condition of fallen humanity is measurably dormant,
until quickened by a divine influence. The word spoken by
inspired men, accompanied by the influence of the spirit of
truth, arouses faith in the soul of man, and by its force he is
led to call upon the Lord, and by its light to see his way to
repentance and obedience.

No man by his own researches can find out God. He may.
by reason and reflection, by observing and pondering upon the
wonders of creation, by studying his own internal and external
nature, come to the sure conclusion that there is a God, and
to a very small extent make an estimate of His character.
But without the Almighty manifests Himself in some manner,
finite man can never obtain a knowledge of infinite Deity. The
speculations of human beings concerning God are many and
various, and a va>t number of their conclusions inconsistent and
vain. Human learning, no matter how extensive, and human
research, no matter how profound, are of necessity inadequate
alone to the acquisition of a knowledge of divine things.
Hence an unlettered person enlightened direct from God, will
know more of Deity than the most erudite collegian who has
not received this divine illumination.

Some conception of God is necessary to proper faith in
Him. On this account He has, at different periods of the
world's history, manifested Himself to chosen persons, win tin
He has deputed to bear witness of His existence and attributes
to others, and declare His will and commandments. The his-
tory of some of these manifestations and revelations given in
olden times is recorded in the Bible. Those that have been
vouchsafed to man in the latter times are embodied in what
is popularly known as "Mormonism," but which should be
called the Everlasting Gospel, renewed on earth.

By these we learn that God is the Father of the human
rare As every seed in nature bears its own kind, it is reason-
able to conclude that man bears some semblance to the Being
from whom he sprang. And this idea is confirmed by the

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divine declaration that "God made man in His own image."
Our Father in Heaven, is then, a personal Being. He is a Spirit.
But He is also enclothed in a tabernacle. In other words.
He is an immortal Spirit dwelling in an immortal tabernacle
Every faculty and power to be found in mortal man exists in
the fullness of its perfection in the person of Deity. Those
glorious qualities which make so wide a distinction between
man and the lower animals are undeveloped photographs, or
rather, embryotic duplicates of the perfected attributes of the
Eternal Father.

Being an individual, God, in His personality, cannot be
omnipresent. But by the Holy Spirit, which proceeds from
His presence and permeates all things throughout the
immensity of space, He can see, and know, and influence all
things. Yet the Being who has power over all His creations
proceeds by law, and while giving laws to all His creations is
Himself governed by law and never violates the eternal
principles of truth, justice and mercy. The "laws of nature"
are the laws of God, and He is consistent with them and those
higher laws which pertain to the spiritual spheres.

The Fatherhood of God is a glorious truth that must at some
time be impressed upon every one of our race. It involves
the brotherhood of man. It is full of ennobling and elevating
suggestions, and prompts those who are impressed with its
majesty to deeds worthy of so exalted an origin ; leads to
humility and obedience, and influences all the sons and
daughters of the Eternal Father to mutual help, forbearance,
charity and affection, as brothers and sisters of a family,
whose destiny is connected with the glory, and dominion, and
matchless power of the Almighty framer and governor of the
universe.

ORIGINAL SIN \M> A< CT \l. BIN. 13

SECOND LEAF.

True Repentance the Consequence of Faith — Original Sin and Actual
The Work of Redemption — Universal Redemption from
Original sin — Conditions of Salvation from Actual sin — Baptism,
. Mode and Effect— A New Creature in <v

FAITH in God once quickened in the human heart, con-
Bcienoe is awakened and the mind is self-convicted of sin.
Repentance follows as the consequence. This includes sorrow
for the past and determination for the future. This first of
these without the second is not genuine repentance. It is
barren and fruitless, and is therefore unacceptable to God.
Res lutions of future rectitude are naturally accompanied by
grief for past wrong-doing, but regret may exist without
reform, and such is not saving repentance, the virtue of which
is in turning from evil and cleaving to good. Tears, self-
reproaches, lamentations, self-abasement in language or in
ire do not constitute repentance, no matter how loudly
they may be indulged in or how conspicuous they may appear,
but it is evidenced by forsaking things one knows to be wrong
and practising that which one is satisfied is right. Humility
is one of its chief characteristics and this prompts obedience.
A> repentance follows faith, so baptism succeeds repentance.
For the wish to work righteousness in future implies a desire
for forgiveness of past guilt, and baptism is ordained for the
remission of sins. This opens the broad questions of sin and
redemption and the doctrine of the atonement.

There are two general divisions of sin, viz., original and
actual. Original >in is that which was committed by the
parents of the race, the consequences of which pass upon all
of their posterity. Actual sin is that committed by each
individual and for which he jfl personally responsible. Adam
and Eve broke the divine law given to them in the garden,
the penalty for which was death, natural and spiritual; the
fiist being tlie separation of the spirit ami the body, and the
second, banishment from the presence of God. The taint

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descended to their offspring. Death is the common lot, and a
vail is drawn between man and his Maker. Thus mankind
are prone to do evil, and the consequence is that "all have
sinned and come short of the glory of God. " "The wages of
sin is death. ' '

Redemption is rescue from the results of the fall. This
can only be achieved by the raising of the race from the dead
and restoring them to the presence of God. To effect this,
Christ came. Doing no sin, He gave Himself as a ransom for
those who sinned. He upon whom death had no claim gave
Himself to death that he might satisfy eternal justice and give
mercy room to act. Death came by Adam, life comes by
Christ. Through one act death entered the world, through one
act life will come to all that death has grasped. " As in Adam
all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." Good and
bad, believer and unbeliever, male and female, young and old
will be raised from the dead and brought into the presence of
the Eternal Father. This is the work of Jesus of Nazareth,
who shed His blood in this great atonement to redeem all
mankind from the fall.

But this was only part of His work. He died not only to
atone for original sm but for actual sin, and to become the
mediator between God and man. ' l Without the shedding of
blood there is no remission of sin;" this is the law. His
blood was shed for the sins of the whole world. For original
sin unconditionally, for actual sin conditionally. Mankind had
no part in the commission of the original sin, they perform
nothing in the redemption therefrom. Its effects came
through no acts of theirs ; those effects will be removed with-
out anything they may do. No conditions are required as
preliminaries to redemption from original sin ; it was com-
mitted by Adam, it was atoned for by Jesus Christ. But as
each person is guilty of his own sins, so he must comply with
the conditions which will entitle him to the full benefits of
Christ's atonement for his own sins. Among these conditions
are faith, repentance and baptism. *

Saving faith must necessarily include the Son as well as the
Father in its objects, because salvation comes from the Father
through the Son, and as Christ died for all, there is no other

BAPTI8M, its OBJECT, KODI AM> EFFECT. 15

name but Ili> given under heaven whereby man ran be saved.
Repentance, as we bave shown, includes humility, which leads
to obedience, and baptism follows, in which is given to the
repentant believer that remission oi' Bins, obtained through
the shedding of Christ's blood in the place of the blood of the
sinner.

Baptism as a part of the gospel is the complete immersion
in water of a repentant believer, by I man having authority
to act "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Ghost" All this is essential to its validity. The can-
didate must believe and repent The administrator must have
divine authority. The ordinance must be performed correctly.
There is but "one baptism," as there is but " one Lord and one
faith." Any other kind of baptism is spurious and of no
effect.

The believing, repentant sinner, after making covenant with
liod to forsake evil and keep His commandments, is taken
down into the water by the duly authorized and ordained
representative of the Lord Jesus, and, being dead to his old
sins by repentance, is buried from his old life by immersion in
watery grave ; and then, raised up again to newness of
life, is "born of the water," and stands on earth a new crea-
ture in Christ Jesus. He is clean before God. He is as pure
from guilt as a new-born babe. Though his sins were as
scarlet, he is dow washed whiter than wool, and is prepared for
the next Btep on the straight and narrow path which leads to
liie eternal. Happy indeed is he. Joy unspeakable fills his
heart. Peace indescribable dwells in his bosom. Purity
shines in all his nature. He has entered by the door, into the
sheep fold, and i> one of the flock of Christ. The load of his
past misdeeds is rolled from his shoulders and he is free.
The liberty of the gospel is his. Henceforth he should be
the servant only of the King of Kings, and a soldier of the
cross.

But he has a warfare to fight which will require all his

igth, resolution and fortitude. For he has come out from

the world and the world will hate and persecute him. and

malign him. and try to despitefully use him. The flesh of his

own being will lie in conflict with his spiritual nature now brought

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into actual life. And Satan, the great adversary of the child-
ren of light, with his hosts of emissaries will take special pains
to tempt and try to allure him from the path of salvation.
But God will be on his side, and if he holds true to his
baptismal covenants he will come off more than conqueror over
all, and obtain the full and complete benefits of the atonement
wrought out by the spotless and merciful Savior, who hence-
forth is his loved and loving Lord.

THIRD LEAF.

The Holy Ghost, its Nature, Office and Power — Conferred Through
the Laying on of Hands — Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit —
How Obtained — Their Object and Design — Effects of Its With-
drawal— Infinite Riches of Its Full Inspiration.

THE repentant, baptized believer arises from the tomb of
water cleansed from sin and washed pure of iniquity.
He is spiritually resurrected. His old life is gone. He is
born again. This is a type of the bodily resurrection to come.
He is now prepared to receive the Holy Ghost, which
' ' dwelleth not in unclean tabernacles. ' '

This is an endowment from on high. It is the Comforter
which fills the absent place of the personal Christ. It is a
manifester of truth. It bears witness of the Father and the
Son. It is the light of eternity. It reveals things present
and past, and unfolds events that are to come. It is the true
scripture -maker. By it the prophets wrote the word of the
Lord. It proceeds from the presence of God. It is the com-
municating element between man and his Maker. It is the
source from .which flow the spiritual gifts of the gospel.
Without it no one can say from knowledge that Jesus is the
Lord. Without it, the things pertaining to immortal spheres
cannot be comprehended by mortals. Without it, no one can
see the way which leads to eternal life. Without it, none
can enter the kingdom of God.

There is a set mode by which this great gift is conferred
upon mankind. God's house is a house of order. His laws

THK HOLY (iHOST. 17

are set in the spiritual as in the physical universe, and there
is no confusion in any of His works. The ways of men are
not His ways, and He does not bend them to suit men's
diversified notions. To obtain the gift of the Holy Ghost,
the necessary conditions must be complied with. These we
have already explained. The method by which it is conferred
is, the laying on of hands by men who have themselves
received it and have been called of God and ordained to
administer it.

True faith, genuine repentance, correct baptism, properly
administered, are as surely to be followed by the outpouring
of the Holy Ghost, through the laying on of hands, author-
itatively administered, as the* harvest is to come from seed
sown in good soil and ripened by the rains and sunshine of
heaven, or as the results of a chemical experiment are to be
achieved when the needful elements are correctly compounded.

The effects of this gift upon the recipient are not generally
of a startling character. They are not necessarily physical.
The chief office of the Holy Ghost is to enlighten the internal
man or woman. It administers to the spirit. It brings peace,
comfort and joy to the soul. It gives assurance of divine
acceptance ; and it establishes inward strength to resist sin and
evil and lay hold upon all that is good. But it does not con-
vulse the system. It produces no contortions of the counte-
nance. It will not throw people to the earth as if they were
dead. Neither will it cause them to yell, shout, jump around
in paroxysms or act in an unseemly manner.

Its internal fruits are faith, knowledge, wisdom, joy, peace,
patience, temperance, long suffering, brotherly kindness and
charity. Its external gifts are manifested in prophecies,
visions, discernments, healings, miracles, powerover evil spirits,
speaking in various tongues, interpretation of tongues, etc.

These several gifts are distributed according to the will of
God among the various recipients of the Holy Ghost. One
person may receive several of them. Some may not obtain
any of those gifts which are manifested outwardly. Neither
are the latter always the most to be desired. ll Prophecy" is
better than "tongues" as a gift, though the latter is more
showy, and wisdom and faith are better than either. Divine

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knowledge with divine wisdom in its use is a gift of priceless
worth, bringing joy beyond expression to its possessor, and
conferring untold blessings upon others.

These various gifts of the Spirit are obtainable through the
prayer of faith. "Ask and it shall be given you" is the
promise to the Saints. And they are called Saints who have
obeyed the laws and ordinances we have explained, and
received the gift of the Holy Ghost But their desires must
be pure in order to obtain the blessings for which they ask.
These are not given as signs to be consumed on any one's lust.
Neither are they bestowed as wonders to create astonishment
or feed the love of the marvelous. They are designed for the
comfort and confirmation of the faith of the true and obedient
believer, and as tokens of the love of an indulgent Father,
and they must be used in wisdom, or they will be withdrawn
and work injury instead of benefit.

The ceremony of the bestowal of the Holy Ghost is called
confirmation. As baptism is the birth of water, so confirma-
tion is the birth or baptism of the Spirit. Both are necessary
to entrance into the kingdom of God, whether that is viewed
in the light of the Church on earth or the glorious dominion
of the Father in heaven. Only they who are led by this
Spirit are truly the " sons of God."

As it is bestowed through obedience, so it may be with-
drawn through disobedience. The condition of those who lose
this gift after having enjoyed it is truly lamentable. The light
that was within them becomes darkness, and their last state is
worse than their first. Their spiritual tastes become dead or
vitiated, light seems to them darkness, and that which was
once their greatest delight becomes the object of their deepest
aversion. They then become a prey to influences of evil;
hatred and malice spring up in their hearts towards the child-
ren of light ; and the culmination of their career, if persisted
in and reclamation does not come, is the shedding of innocent
blood, for which there is no forgiveness.

The possessor of the Holy Ghost is infinitely rich ; those
who receive it and lose it are of all men the poorest. But
there are various degrees of its possession. Many who obtain
it walk but measurably in its light. But there are a few who

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live by its whisperings, and approach by its mediumship into
close oomm anion with heavenly beings of the highest order.
To them its light grows brighter every day. For them are
joys, anticipations and glorious hopes that thrill no other
bosoms, sweet experiences that earthly pleasures cannot bring,
and a spiritual growth towards the stature of Christ Jesus that
eternity only will fully untold to general view.

FOURTH LEAF.

Divine Authority — Without it all Gospel Administrations Vain — It
Cannol be Acquired — The Priesthood, its Antiquity, Power and
uings — The Priesthood of Mechisedec— The Aaronic Priest-
hood— Priestcraft — The Authority of God Must Come From God
— Ordination— Value of the Priesthood.

^pHE ordinances of the gospel, being of divine origin,
-1 require divine authority in their administration. Baptism
at the hands of one not appointed to attend to it is void. It
is therefore without value and without effect. If any
unauthorized person were to lay hands upon a baptized
believer, even if the correct form of the ordinance were
observed, the Holy Ghost would not flow to the subject. No
matter how good the intentions of either party might be, the
lack of authority would vitiate the whole transaction. No
company, firm, sociecy, court or government would acknowl-
edge or become responsible for the acts of any but its duly
appointed and properly accredited agents. Why then should
the Great King endorse the doings of men who take upon
themselves duties not required of them, or bestow, through
their unauthorized performance, blessings that belong only to
the administrations of Bis chosen ambassadors?

It is strange that intelligent persons who clearly perceive the
necessity of valid authority in human affairs, should imagine
that it is not necessary in divine affairs : that while no earthly
potentate would be expected to pay the slightest attention to

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proceedings of any pretended representative of a nation or
ruler, the Eternal Monarch of the universe must needs honor
the acts of any individual of a devotional cast of mind, who
chooses to perform ceremonies and ordinances in His great
name.

A man may have such faith in God as to obtain choice
blessings, behold visions, receive heavenly gifts, and lay hold
upon extraordinary spiritual powers, and yet have no ris:ht to
administer any ordinance in the name of the Lord. Man can-
not acquire this authority ; it must be conferred upon him in
the appointed way.

In every age when the Almighty has had a church or
organized body of true worshipers on earth, He has sent
among them men who were authorized by Him to act in His
name. Of such were Noah, Melchisedec, Abraham, Moses,
Elijah, Peter, James and John, and many others. They were
not only endowed with the Holy Ghost, but were also
appointed and set apart to administer needful rites in God's
stead. What they sealed on earth by this authority was sealed
in heaven, and what they loosed on earth was loosed in
heaven. In other words, what they performed, as directed
of God, was accepted by Him and was of the same force as
though attended to by Him in person. Any authority less
than this is the same as no authority.

This delegated power from God to man is called the Priest-
hood. Sometimes this term is used in reference to the men
who hold this authority. Properly speaking, however, it
relates to the office rather than the person. Melchisedec was
a great high priest, and the authority he held was eternal in
its nature ; without beginning of days or end of life. It did
not depend upon lineage either of father or mother, and it is
written that he who holds it in faithfulness " abideth a priest
continually ;" that is, he retains it in this world, and also in
the world to come. Aaron received a Priesthood which was
of another order, and that ran in a family line, descending
from father to son, and was subordinate to the higher Priest-
hood after the order of Melchisedec.

John the Baptist held and administered the Aaronic or
lesser Priesthood, but Jesus received and acted in the Mel-

THE PRIESTHOOD. L'l

chisedec or higher Priesthood. So John could baptize the
repentant for the remission of sins, but could not confer the
Holy Ghost as Jesus did. In like manner, Philip, acting in
the lesser Priesthood, could baptize the people of Samaria,
but had to send for Peter or some other apostle acting in tl it-
higher Priesthood, to come down and lay hands upon them,
that they might received the Holy Ghost.

Jesus did not take this authority upon Himself although he
was the Son of God. ll He glorified not Himself to be made
an High Priest," but His Father called Him, saying, "Thou
art a Priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec. " Moses
and Elijah held similar authority in their day and retained it
when they left the sphere of mortality. And they came and
administered in that Priesthood to Jesus on the Mount of
Transfiguration. As the Father called Him, so called He the
apostles, and so, under divine direction, they called and
ordained others.

Thus the Priesthood in both orders or branches was con-
tinued in the early Christian Church, until through trans-
gression, it was taken from among men, and in its place a
spurious priesthood, destitute of divine authority, divine
inspiration and divine power, was set up by ambitious and
designing men. This is priestcraft, the base counterfeit of
the true and heavenly coin.

When the Priesthood is once lost it cannot be regained
merely by the hopes, wishes or acts of men. No matter how
strong a desire any one may have to benefit his fellow man,
he must not attempt to administer to him any ordinance or
ceremony of the gospel unless called of God so to do. And
this call does not come to men merely kkin the heart" or the
imagination. A great many enthusiastic persons have felt
themselves "called" to the ministry. But this over-anxiety
does not give them the Priesthood, any more than strong
wishes of a politician for the post of minister to Berlin,
clothe him with authority to represent this government in
the German empire.

The Priesthood is given by ordination. When there
is no man living in the flesh, who holds this authority, its
restoration can only be effected by the administration of

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heavenly beings who formerly held it on the earth. They can
return when so permitted and instructed, as Moses and Elias
did on the mount. But when the link is restored, they never
step over the line of the two spheres for this purpose again,
while there remains one man on the earth holding the legiti-
mate authority. For (rod's house is a house of order, and the
rights and powers of His Priesthood cannot be invaded with
impunity either by mortal men or the heavenly hosts.

Under divine inspiration and certain rules and provisions,
those who hold this Priesthood may ordain others by the lay-
ing on of hands. Thus, while mankind are worthy of its
administrations and accompanying blessings, it may be per-
petuated in the earth, a medium of communication between
Grod and man, a guide for the feet of erring mortals to the
straight and narrow path that leadeth unto life. Without it,
the inhabitants of the earth wander in spiritual darkness, and
those who presume to step forward as their teachers, are blind
leaders of the blind, and all their ministrations in the name of
Him who never sent them are vain, worthless and without
force or virtue in time or eternity.

T1IK (Mil K( II <>F CHRIST.

FIFTH Uv\I\

The Church of Chris! [ts Onity— Christ's Church under Bis Personal

Supervision — Rules of Admission No Others Available —

stleship the Chief Authority— Other Authorities and Minis-

of These — The Church 1': It Casts off

Evil-Doers Brotherhood of [ta Members —Mission of the Church.

THE Church of Christ is an organized body, consisting of
those who believe in Him and have shown their faith by
obedience to the initiatory ordinances of His gospel. It may
contain many branches, but they will all be connected with the
main body, and will all have the same characteristics ; that is
they will hold the same doctrines and be animated by the
same spirit. No matter how many sections of the Church
there may be, or how widely they may be separated geographi-
cally, they will be governed by the same rule of discipline,
and be under the direction of the same head.

The Church of Christ must be established under His own
supervision, and according to His commandments. A society
of persons professing to believe in Him, but organized with-
out any communication from Him, is not and cannot be His
Church, whatever its members may call it, or however sincere
they may be in their intentions. Some suppose that every
one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is, by virtue of that
faith, a member of His Church. This is a palpable error.
A- well might it be assumed that all who believe that the
Order of Masonry is a correct form of brotherhood, are by
that belief made members of the Order.

All societies have some established regulations for the
admission of members. The Church of Christ is no excep-
tion to the rule. But the initiatory rites in His Church
arc prescribed by Him, and no one has the right to change
them or substitute others in their place. They are uniform for
all people, of both sexes, of every race and of every grade <>t*
society. The churches established by men have various

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modes of receiving members and of conducting church govern-
ment. This is one proof that they are the churches of men,
and not of Jesus Christ.

We have already explained the first principles of the gos-
pel which must be received and obeyed in order to obtain a
standing in Christ's Church. Those who have believed,
repented, been baptized by one having authority for the
remission of sins, and have been confirmed by the laying on of
hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, are thus made members
of the Church of Christ. And this is the only way of
admission. All who have not complied with these rules are
outside of the Church and can get in by no other door than
this appointed entrance. Christ will not accept the devices
and ordinances and ceremonies ordained of men. They are not
His, and are of no force or effect so far as the kingdom of
heaven is concerned, either in this world or in the world to
come.

Christ is the head of the Church, as man is the head of the
woman. But as the woman has also a head to her own per-
sonality, so has the Church. The apostleship is the principal
governing authority thereof. When Christ ascended on high,
the earthly headship devolved upon His apostles, of whom
Peter, James and John were the chief. There were also the
seventy appointed by the Savior as His traveling ministers,
and He gave other officers to the Church, such as evangelists,
pastors, elders, bishops, teachers, deacons, etc. All these
were under the direction of the apostles, who were inspired,
and instructed, and led by Jesus, even after His ascension,
and were filled with the Holy Ghost, which bears record of
the Father and the Son.

A church which has not inspired apostles nor prophets, can-
not be the Church of Christ, for these are essential to its full
constitution. All the officers we have named are necessary, in
their various positions, to the complete organization of the
"body of Christ."

Through these apppointed servants of God, the members of
the Church are instructed in their duties, led along in the path
of truth, admonished of their faults, rebuked for their trans-
gressions, brought to the unity of the faith, corrected of their

TllK OHUROB PROGRESSIVE. 25

errors, ami when they become evil-doers, and reformation la
not probable, disfellowshipped from communion or exoom-
monicated from the Church.

The Church of Christ is progressive. That is, it advances
in the knowledge of the truth. As last as its members are
prepared for additional Light, through the practice of
principles already revealed, new manifestations are given, for
the growth of all who will reeeive the truths unfolded towards
tin' fullness of the stature of Christ desus. Old truths are not
discarded, but new truths are added, and clearer light is
thrown upon what was previously known. Thus the Church
advances and prepares its eomuiunicauts for a higher sphere
when they pass away from the plane of mortal existence.

But while it casts off no truth, it eliminates from itself, by
natural process, everything obnoxious to its health and vitality.
Corrupt and wicked persons occasionally find their way into its
sanctuary ; some, after being washed from their impurities,
turn agaiu to their filthiness, and others become rebellious and
discordant These incongruous elements are gradually
separated from the body. For the Church is a living thing,
and casts off that which does not assimilate or which is inimi-
cal to its growth, harmony and progress.

The members of the Church are all united by a fraternal
bond. They are all brethren and sisters, no matter what their
condition in life, no matter of what nationality. Indeed
nationality is >wallowed up in fraternity. They are no longer
Jew or (rentile, English, German, Danish or American, th ex-
are all one in Christ Jesus. They are no more Catholics or
Protestants, Dissenters or Episcopalians, but are baptized by
one spirit into one body, and in all essential principles have one
faith, and are joined together in the same mind and the same
judgment.

The Church of Christ in this and every other age, is con-
nected with the Church of previous ages. That portion
behind the vail works in harmony with the new Church in the
flesh, and it> members, whether in the body or out of the
body, move to the common end : the establishment of the
kingdom of heaven upon the earth, the spread of the principles
of the true Church, until "every knee shall bow. and every

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tongue confess that Jesus is the Lord, to the glory of God the
Father."

Then the Church will have filled its mission — to preach the
gospel, administer in its ordinances, unite the Saints, manifest
the things of God, establish righteousness, bring together the
heavens and the earth and make straight the path for the
Lord Jesus. And the vail of the covering will be taken
away ; the Church of the Firstborn will be one in all things
beneath and above ; evil will be swept from the earth ; and
truth, peace, harmony and praise will glorify this planet and
its inhabitants, who will know God, from the least even unto
the greatest.

SIXTH LEAF.

Apostasy from the Primitive Church — When it Commenced — The
Apostles Predicted it — The Apostasy Universal — The Woman
Clothed With the Sun, and the Scarlet-Clothed Harlot— What
They Represent — The Reformation— Spread of Truth but Lack of
Authority — Multiplication of Sects — No Voice From Heaven.

COMPARISON of the various sects of modern Christen-
dom with the Church of Christ as established by Jesus
and His apostles, which was briefly described in the preceding
chapter, will show that there has been a wide and remarkable
departure from "the faith once delivered to the saints." It
is contrary both to scripture and sound reason to think that
Christ would set up two or more discordant religious systems
to distract mankind and cause strife and contention. "God
is not the author of confusion. " There is but one straight
and narrow path that leadeth unto life. The mind of God is
oue ; the minds of men are various. The fact then that there
are various opposing religions in the world is conclusive evi-

APOSTASY FROM THE PRIMITIVE 0H1 EU II. L'T

denoe that men have been engaged in their invention. It is
also clear that they have established very imperfect imitations
of the true Church of Christ.

The departure from the order, doctrine, ordinances and
spirit of primitive Christianity commenced at a very early
period. Contentions began to creep in among the early
Baints, and they Boon commenced to array themselves in
tactions, some being of Paul, others of Apollos, others of
Cephas, etc. And the inspired leaders of the Church fore-
Baw the great apostasy which would take place, as may be seen
from their epistles.

Paul declared that the day of the Lord's second advent
would not dawn until a l 'falling away"' should occur. He
described the condition of apostate Christendom, when
the people '"would not endure sound doctrine," but would
"heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;" when
"doctrines of devils" should be taught instead of the pure
gospel ; when they would have "a form of godliness, but
deny the power thereof;" and Peter declared that false
teachers would arise in the place of the duly authorized ser-
vants of God, and bring in damnable heresies ; who "through
covetousness would make merchandise" of the souls of men ;
and by whom "the way of truth would be evil spoken of."
This "mystery of iniquity" had already begun to work even
in their day. and rapidly increased after their departure.

The combined powers of the world, the flesh and the devil,
made Buch inroads upon the Church of Christ, that, by the
time when John, the beloved disciple, was banished to the
isle of Patmos, where he received the great vision known as
the Book of Revelation, only Beven branches of the Church
worthy of divine mention, and some of them had
become so corrupt that terrible denunciations were hurled
against them, and they were threatened with complete rejec-
tion.

In that same vision the inspired apostle beheld the utter

and universal apostasy of the Church ami the Bpread of
spurious Christianity until all nations were "made drunk
with the wine of the wrath of the fornication" of Babylon,
"the mother of harlots and abominations/1 Instead oi the

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chaste Church of Christ, clothed with the sun, the moon
under her feet and the crown of twelve stars upon her head,
the scarlet-clothed impostor, sitting upon the beast, grasping
a golden cup full of filthiness for the whole world to drink.
Regal pomp and state power, instead of the solar glory of
the Melchisedec and the lunar rays of the Aaronic Priest-
hoods, with the stellar crown of apostleship shining at the
head ! Mystery instead of light ! Painted gaudiness instead
of modest purity ! Names of blasphemy instead of that one
sacred name at which every knee should bow !

When the lights that Christ kindled on earth to lead man-
kind in the only true way were put out by the hands of mur-
derous men, darkness overspread the world, and "gross
darkness covered the people. " Errors multiplied. Heresies
sprang up like rank weeds. The Spirit of Christ gradually
withdrew. And when what was left of the form of Chris-
tianity became allied to the softened paganism of the Romish
empire, tne angels looked down from afar upon another tri-
umph of the arch adversary, who rules as prince of this
world, and reigns in the hearts of the children of disobedi-
ence.

The Papal church, seated upon the Romish State, was
fitly prefigured by the woman upon the beast. The Church
of Christ was gone, without even a shadow of its presence to
be seen upon the earth. All nations were blinded and intoxi-
cated by the mystery and abominations, the heresies and
perversions, the pomps and vanities of this spurious ecclesi-
astical system, with its popes and cardinals in the place of
apostles and prophets, its priestcraft in the place of the
Priesthood, and its force, bloodshed, cruelty and lust in the
place of the love, liberty, peace and charity of the departed
Church of the Redeemer.

After a time came the reformation. Protestants against the
tyranny, falsehood and gross villainies of this blasphemous
hierarchy sounded aloud the story of her abominations and
shook all Christendom with the force of their eloquence.
Anathematized and excommunicated from the mother church,
they established new churches, discarding many errors but
retaining as many more. Still further "reformations" were

SPREAD OF TRUTH BUT LACK OF AUTHORITY. 29

inaugurated, originating more churches, and thus Becta pro-
dnoed Beets, and as religious liberty increased bo religious

systems multiplied, until the term Christianity covered an
inoongruous mass of discordant elements, representing all
shades oi' human opinion, without a single authoritative

voice deputed of heaven to harmonize and bring them into
order.

For, though immense good aeerued to the world through
the exposure of error and the unfolding of truth, which were
the consequenee of the reformation and its successive develop-
ments, and though many excellent men spent their lives and
suffered cruel deaths for principles of righteousness, yet there
was no direct communieation established between them and
the heavens, and that authority by which the apostles
administered fur and in behalf of the Father, the Son and the
Holy Ghost was still unrestored to man. There was no
inspired prophet, no gifted seer, no appointed revelator
through whom the will of God could be made known. There-
fore, the ordinances of the gospel could not be administered
acceptably to God, and all such ceremonies as were established
among the various seets were of necessity void and without
virtue in heaven.

So the world rolled on, and men framed religions, all con-
taining some truth as well as some errors, and many persons
who would have done well in advocating what they believed
to be right, in their own names, undertook to assume the
name of the Trinity, and to officiate as though authorized by
Jesus Christ, while they openly admitted that there had been
no communication from on high for centuries, and maintained
that the days of revelation were gone forever.

And thus the effeets of Mystery, Babylon, the Mother of
abominations, were felt directly or indirectly throughout all
the nations professing to be Christian, and millions upon
millions of mistaken Bouls passed behind the vail without
receiving the principles and ordinances of salvation, and the
living and the dead were left in the spiritual darkness of
centuries of apostasy to wait until the dawning of the (Treat
and last dispensation, the times of restitution, when the
crowning act of God's mercy to man >hould be performed,

30 MORMON DOCTRINE.

and the ushering in of the millennial day should bring again
to the world, with increasing glory, the gospel, the Priest-
hood, the blessings and the powers of all former ages, for the
salvation of the human race and the permanent establishment
of the Church and kingdom of Grod, no more to be thrown
down forever.

SEVENTH LEAF.

Restoration of the Gospel — Ministration of an Angel — Divine Knowl-
edge and Divine Authority — Keys of Former Dispensations
Revealed— Rebuilding of the Church of Christ— The Signs Fol-
lowing— Coming of Elijah — Dispensation of the Fullness of
Times— Triumph of the Truth.

HAVING shown the universal apostasy from the Church
established by Christ and His Apostles, we now turn
with pleasure from the dark picture of error, strife, confusion
and priestcraft, painted in sombre hues during a long succes-
sion of centuries, to a more cheering and truly delightful
subject.

The same inspired apostles who foretold the general depar-
ture from the "way of truth," also predicted the restoration
of the gospel, the ushering in of a later and final dispensa-
tion, and the ultimate triumph of (rod's kingdom upon the
whole face of the earth. After seeing the dominion of the
mother of abominations extending to all the kingdoms of the
world, John, the beloved, beheld her entire destruction. This
was preceded in the vision by the coming of an angel from
heaven with the everlasting gospel for every nation, kindred,
tongue and people, and the cry from heaven, "Come out of
her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that
ye receive not of her plagues. ' '

We are able to state, with the most positive assurance, that
the angel with the gospel has come, and that the voice from
heaven has been utttered as a warning to all nations ; that

M1N1STK mON OE \\ ANGEL. 3]

the gospel will be preached and the warning will be Bounded,
by divine authority, to every tribe, and nation, and tongue,
ph Smith was the chosen instrument in the hands of God
to revive the glad message and direct its promulgation to all
the world. Angela do not travel and preach to mankind in
person; when they bring tidings from on high they deliver
the heavenly mandates to a chosen man who. in turn, makes
them known t<> his fellows.

But though the ministry of angels i> not general, all people
may know thereof of a surety by obedience to the command-
ments revealed, which is followed by a divine witness of their
truth and of the fact of the manifestation. Thus, while
Joseph Smith wis selected to receive direct divine communi-
cations, every one who in faith obeys them, obtains a satifi
tory testimony that the message i- true and that the messenger
was authorized to declare it.

But receiving the gospel, whether by angelic ministrations
or otherwise, i- one thing, and obtaining authority to preach
it and administer its ordinances is another. Knowledge, light
and revelation may be enjoyed, and yet the favored recipient
of these I may be without any authority to perform

any official act in the oame of the Lord Joseph Smith not
only received the ministrations of the angel bearing the<
lasting go-pel. but also obtained the right to officiate in all its
ordinances, rites, ceremonies and end iwments. lie did not
ive this auth >rity from man. A< we have already shown,
it had departed from the earth centuries before. No amount
of learnim: would bring it. No college, prelate, potentate or
prie t could confer it. All the wealth of the world could not
purchase it. It d >e> not come by the will of man.

How did Joseph Smith gain it9 Boly men of old. who held
the keys of this power in former dispensations, came to earth
as ministering spirits and ordained him to the same offices
which they held in mortality. First came John the Baptist,
who was beheaded for the truth- sake, bearing the k.
the Aaronic or lesser Priesthood, and ordained Joseph Smith
and Oliver Cowdery to the authority thereof, with the right to
preach the gospel of repentance and admin ster baptism for
the i >f sios, Unt as John did not hold the power

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when on earth to confer the Holy Grhost, he did not presume
to bestow it upon others. Next came Peter, James and John
with the keys of the Apostleship, of the holy Melchisdec
Priesthood and of the dispensation of the fullness of times,
which they conferred upon Joseph and Oliver, giving them
authority to ordain others to this ministry and to confirm bap-
tized believers by the laying on of hands for the gift of the
Holy G-host.

The lesser Priesthood holds the power of the ministration
of angels and authority to administer in temporal things. The
greater Priesthood holds the power of communion with the
Highest and of attending to all things, spiritual and temporal;
for the salvation and exaltation of man till he reaches the
actual presence of the Eternal (rod, and shines forth in the
fullness of the attributes of his Almighty Father.

. Thus power was restored to rebuild the Church of Christ,
to preach the true gospel ; to bapt;ze penitent believers for the
remission of sins ; to bestow upon them the Holy Ghost, bear-
ing witness of the Father and the Son and of acceptance with
them ; to appoint and ordain all the various ministers neces-
sary for the publishing of the truth to all nations, the work of
the ministry, the perfecting of the Saints and the edifying
and government of "the body of Christ. "

So the Cburch was set up in these latter times. Humble
believers received the word with gladness, and obeying it,
obtained from Grod the witness of its truth. The signs prom-
ised to believers followed them. They spoke in other tongues,
prophesied, saw visions, dreamed divine dreams and enjoyed
all the gifts of the Church as did the saints of old. The sick
were healed by the laying on of hands, devils were cast out,
the deaf heard, the eyes of the blind were opened, the lame
leaped for joy, the tongue of the dumb was loosed, the
heavens were opened to human view, and the Holy Grhost, as
on the day of pentecost, rested down in power upon the
Saints of the new dispensation.

Then they knew for themselves. Doubt had fled, the dark-
ness was dispersed, satan trembled, priestcraft raged, and
while the tidings of the restored gospel caused joy in heaven
and praise on earth, the powers of evil in and out of the flesh

THE RESTORATION OF FBI GOSPEL. 33

conspired to fight the truth, make war upon believers and per-
secute the servants of God unto death. Bui the Lord strength-
ened the hands of Bis people and poured out light and knowl-
edge from on high. The hidden things of ages were brought
forth. Revelation after revelation was multiplied to ihe Church.

Thou came Elijah the Prophet, bearing the keys of the
turning oi' the hearts of the fathers to the children and of the
children to the fathers, that the link of the broken chain of
the Priesthood through the ages might be welded together,
and tin- spirit world be known to men in the flesh. Next
came Bloses, the man of God with the keys of the gathering
of l>rael. that the remnants might be brought in from their
Ion- dispersion and inherit the lands promised to their fore-
fathers. And Raphael and Gabriel and other holy messen-
also appeared, each in their order, bearing the keys of
their respective ministries when living as men upon the earth,
that all the powers needful for the establishment of the gnat
and last dispensation of the fullness of times might be centered
upon the head of the man chosen to open it to the world, and
that he might bestow them upon others called and chosen by
the spirit of revelation.

Glory to God in the highest ! The straight and narrow
way is « »pened. The silence of ages is broken. Jehovah speaks
from out the bosom of eternity. A.ngels again come down
from the abodes of bliss. Communication is restored between
man and his Maker. The Holy Ghost again comforts, reveals
and bears witness. The Bacred gifts are once more enjoyed.
All earth shall hear the glad tidings. Every soul shall be
warned. And though Joseph, the chosen seer, and many of
hi.- brethren have become martyrs for the truth's Bake, and
the bosom of mother earth is Btained red with the blood of
the persecuted Saints, the Church re-established, the Priest-
hood restored, the truths now revealed shall never be token
from earth again, but they shall spread and increase and pre-
vail and triumph, until darkness and evil, ami sin and Satan
shall give way. and this planet, ransomed and redeemed shall
Decrowned with the glory and presence <>t it> rightful Kim:.

a the anointed, the sinles> Son of the omnipotent God.

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EIGHTH LEAR

Apparent Doom of the Majority of Mankind — No Salvation but by-
Jesus Christ — Is the State of Man Fixed at Death? — The Common
Belief Incorrect — Preaching to the Dead — The Spirit With-
out the Body Sentient — Nature of Paradise — All People to Hear
the Gospel Either in this Life or the Next.

ONE of the great difficulties in the way of inquiring minds,
desirous of understanding gospel truth, is the appare t
doom of the great bulk of the human family to perdition.
The declaration is plainly and positively made in the scriptures
that there is no other name given under heaven whereby man
can be saved, but the name of Christ Jesus. It is also pro-
claimed that "except a man be born of water and of the
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."

Many millions of the earth's inhabitants have passed away
without hearing the name of Jesus, or having any opportunity
of the privilege of the second birth. And the query arises,
must all these souls be lost in consequence ? And if so can
the God of the Bible be just? Further; the question comes
up, If the world has been in error so long, and the Church of
Latter-day Saints is the only true Church of Christ, what has
become of the generations of professing Christians, who lived
and died in the centuries between the loss of the gospel and
the Priesthood and their restoration in the present age ?

The difficulty arises through lack of a correct understanding
of the plan of salvation, and through the erroneous doctrines
of unauthorized teachers. Orthodox " Christianity' ' affirms
that the future state of man is fixed at death ; that the depart-
ing spirit goes either to an eternal heaven or an everlasting
hell ; and that there is no possibility of change, but, to use a
familiar saying, "as the tree falls, so it lies." The light of
modern revelation rolls back the darkness of ages and unfolds
the glorious plan of human redemption in its fullness, and the
illuminated soul perceives the triumph of justice in union with

is TilK STATE OF MAN FIXED AT DEATH? 35

mercy, through the extension of gospel privileges beyond the

narrow Bphere of this mortal life.

Why slumM the opportunity to learn and the power to obey
the truths o\' the gospel be confined to dwellers in the flesh ?
Is it to he supposed that when the immortal spirit leaves its
domicile of clay its powers of preeeption, of reason, of recep-
tion or rejection of truth or error, of submission or rebellion
to the derive.- of heaven, are buried with the decaying body?
The idea is contrary to all the hopes of the life to come kindled
in the heart by the promises of the gOSpeL Tt is also anti-
Bcriptoal There is nothing in holy writ which establishes
any such absurdity. Paul declares that all men shall be
judged by the gospel which he preached. If this is true ami
God is just, must not all men hear that gospel and have the
opportunity of receiving or rejecting it? And if this privilege
has not been granted to them while in the body, must it not
be afforded them when out of the body?

Peter states that the Lord shall "judge the quick and the
dead." and explains that fc' For this cause was the gospel
preached also to them that are dead, that they might be
judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to
God in the spirit. ' ' He mentions this in connection with his
history of the mission and works of Jesus, who, he tells us.
was "' put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit :
by which also He went and preached unto the spirits in
prison."

This accounts for the whereabouts of the Savior during the
interval between his death on the cross and His resurrection
from the sepulchre in the rock. At His appearance to Mary
in the garden, after He had risen, He said, "lam not yet
tided to my father." During the three days of His body's
Bleep in the tomb He was continuing the work the Father had
given Him to do. He was preaching "deliverance to the cap-
tives, and the opening of the prison to them that were
bound."

That these Bpirits in prison had been in the flesh, Peter
makes clear by stating that they were " disobedient * * in
the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing." The
pel was thus preached also to the dead, that they might have

36 "mormon" doctrine.

the same opportunities and be judged by the same gospel as
the living.

The exercise of faith is an operation of the spirit of man,
and so is repentance. These lead to obedience and obedience
to acceptance with God. The body without the spirit is dead
and can neither believe, repent nor obey , but the spirit with-
out the body is active, sentient and capable of exercising all
of its powers that are adapted to a spiritual sphere. It is
only through the medium of the body, however, that the
spirit can handle, experience and fully control or be subjected
to corporeal things. That part of the gospel which pertains
to earthly ordinances and observances is, therefore, unap-
proachable to the disembodied. But they can learn and sub-
mit to all its spiritual laws and influences and " live according
to God in the spirit." They can hear the gospel, for Christ
preached it to many of them ; they can obey, for He not only
proclaimed liberty to them but "He led captivity captive,"
and they must therefore have repented and become acceptable
to God. As one of the early fathers of the Church said of
the slain Redeemer, " He went into hades alone, but he came
forth with a multitude."

The Jews of Christ's day believed that there were two
divisions of the spirit world — Paradise and Tartarus. The
good went to the former, the bad to the latter. Jesus prom-
ised the repentant thief on the cross: "To-day shalt
thou be with me in Paradise." This is not the abode of the
Eternal Father but of departed spirits, where they wait until
the resurrection. A place of instruction and preparation, of
peace and rest, of joy and serenity, of progress toward per-
fection. And into this abode of the just, Christ led from
Tartarus the spirits purified and chastened through their cap-
tivity, who were disobedient in the flesh in the days of Noah,
but had suffered for their rebellion, and in the spirit had
gladly received the gospel through His ministrations.

And thus, in the due time of the Lord all who have dwelt
upon the earth in any age, Jew, Gentile, heathen, Christian,
may hear the glad tidings of the everlasting gospel preached
by those appointed and authorized, and have an opportunity
of repentance, improvement and reconciliation. But the ordi-

ORDINAN" ES E8SENTIAL. 37

nances which belong to the sphere of mortality cannot be

received in a spiritual estate; they belong to the flesh and
must be attended to in the flesh. Consideration of the means
provided by Infinite Goodness through which the benefits of

those essential ordinances can be obtained by believing,
repentant, disembodied persons, must be left till the unfolding
of another leaf. *

NINTH LEAF.

Decrees of God Fixed in the Spiritual as in the Natural Universe —
Ordinances Essentia] — The Living may he Baptized for the
Dead — The Principle of Proxy— The Place for the Administra-
tion of Vicarious Ordinances — Revelation of Elijah, the
Prophet — Connection with the Spirit World — True Order oi
Communication— Blessed Results <>\ Work Done for the Dead.

THE divine fiat has gone forth that "Except a man be born
of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
kingdom of God. " This is a fixed law. The same certainty
that is exhibited in the government of the material universe
obtains in the spiritual domain, and is as much a necessity
in one as in the other. As man cannot change the revolutions
of the planets nor alter the principles that underlie all motion
and regulate all matter, so he cannot turn aside the decrees of
Jehovah, nor modify, in the least degree, any rule or com-
mandment pertaining to the everlasting gospel. Neither will
He who reigns in the unseen world, as well as in the sphere
perceived by the senses, swerve from His established laws in
the former any more than in the latter.

Baptism, or the birth of water in the form and mode already
described, is an essential ordinance. There are others equally
Deeessary in their time and place in the divine plan oi' human

redemption. They must he rightly received and administered,

or the blessings that spring Prom them, as their natural fruit,
cannot be enjoyed. As aliens cannot be admitted to the

38 "mormon" doctrine.

rights and privileges of citizenship in an earthly government,
without complying with the naturalization laws in such case
made and provided, so aliens from the heavenly kingdom can-
not be received into its dominion, nor be adopted into the
family of the Eternal King, without obeying the laws set as
the conditions of admission.

These laws and ordinances will be made known to the inhab-
itants of this planet, either in the flesh or in the disembodied
condition. They will have the opportunity of receiving or
rejecting them on the agency given to man, that a just judg-
ment may be rendered in the great day of accounts. But ordi-
nances, such as baptism, the laying on of hands for confirma-
tion, ordination, marriage, etc. , belong to the corporeal sphere.
They are set for the state of probation.

Water is an earthly element, or compound of elements, and
the blessings ordained to flow from the death, burial and new
birth, typified by authorized baptism therein, cannot be
secured in any other way. Millions of earth's sons and daugh-
ters have passed out of the body without obeying the law of
baptism. Many of them will gladly accept the word and law
of the Lord when it is proclaimed to them in the spirit world.
But they cannot there attend to ordinances that belong to the
sphere which they have left. Can nothing be done in their
case ? Must they forever be shut out of the kingdom of
heaven? Both justice and mercy join in answering "yes" to
the first and "no" to the last question. What, then, is the
way of their deliverance ?

The living may be baptized for the dead. Other essential
ordinances may be attended to vicariously. This glorious truth,
hid from human knowledge for centuries, has been made
known in this greatest of all divine dispensations. It is indeed
light in the midst of darkness. It shines in the depths of the
shrouded past, illuminates the mystic future, and reveals the
infinite love of G-od and His tender mercy over all His works.
It explains the meaning of scripture texts long considered
difficult and obscure. It links by loving ties the living with
their dead. It shows why the fathers "without us cannot be
made perfect." It opens the way of redemption for the hosts
of departed heathens. It brings together in one all who are

THE PRINCIPLE 01 PROX1 . 39

in Christ, even though parted by the vail that la drawn beti
the physical and spiritual Bpheres, It gives men and women
the power to become "Saviorson Mount Zion," Jesus being
the great Captain in the army of redeemers.

In God" 8 house all things are done in order. There la a
right way and a proper place for the administration of ordi-
nancea for the dead. The living relatives of those who have
departed without an opportunity of obeying the earthly
requirements of the plan of salvation, if they have themselves
been born of the water and of the spirit, stand in the name
and place of the departed ami receive the ordinances to be
plaeed to the credit of the dead. Either sex represents its own.
Men are oot baptized for women, nor women for men. The
fir.-t-born son in each family has rights of priority connected
with this vicarious work if he has proven himself worthy.
The ordinances must be administered by those having author-
ity, being set apart lor the work, and must be duly witnessed
and properly recorded. The books on earth must tally with
the records in heaven.

The place for these administrations is in a temple built to
the Most High God, after the pattern revealed. The baptis-
mal font, like the brazen sea in the temple of Solomon, is
placed in the basement, under the place where the living are
wont to assemble, typifying the place for the dead, all things
spiritual having their correspondence with things natural.
That which is done on earth, according to the divine instruc-
tion-, is acknowledged in heaven, and is of force and effect in
the world to come. Herein is manifested the power of the
Holy Priesthood, loosing or binding on earth, and it is loosed
or bound in heaven, all according to the commandments and
revelation of the Most High through Jesus the anointed.

Thia principle of proxy runs like a thread of gold through-
out the entire robe of salvation. Christ is the proxy of blood
for the whole race of sinners. The Spotless One died in the
place of the impure. He is the offering tor the deadly sin of
Adam. IL- is tin- propitiation for the evil deeds of a world.
'Ph.- lamb on i he smoking altar, the Bcapegoat turned into the
wilderness, the Bprinkling of atonement, all the sanities of
the old covenant, as well as the infinite one of the new, are

40 "mormon" doctrine.

based on the doctrine of vicarious action and the divine accept-
ance of authorized substitutes.

The manifestation of this truth in the last dispensation came
from the Prophet Elijah in the temple built to the Almighty
by the Latter-day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio. On the third of
April, 1836, he who was caught up to heaven without death,
appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, and commit-
ted the keys of the power to "turn the heart of the fathers to
the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers,"
that the earth might be saved from a curse. The living are
thus authorized, under prescribed conditions, to act for the
dead, and the fathers in the spirit world look to the children in
the flesh to perform for them the works which they were
unable to attend to while in the body.

Here is the peculiar blessing upon the heads of the Saints in
the grand, culminating and completing dispensation of the
fullness of times. To labor for the redemption of their progen-
itors until every lost link in the line of their ancestry, back to
the Abrahamic stock from which they originally sprang, shall
be taken up and welded into the perfect family chain. Herein
is seen one of the blessings attending the perpetuation of a
man's name in the earth ; to die leaving no seed being consid-
ered in olden times, among the people of God, one of the
greatest of calamities. Indeed the glory and dominion, and
joy and rapture of the future state will be found to have
intimate relation to the family condition, and the promise to
Abraham of a numerous posterity was not merely of earthly
portent, but reached into the exaltation and beatitudes of
eternal existence.

This glorious doctrine bears the key to the sphere within the
vail It regulates the communion of the living with the dead.
It saves those who receive it from improper and deceptive spirit
communications. Tidings to the living from their friends who
have passed away do not come in disorder and confusion, nor
by the will of men or women, whether corrupt or pure. Order
is maintained in all the works and ways of Grod. Knowledge
that is needful concerning the spiritual sphere will come through
an appointed channel and . in the appointed place. The
temple where the ordinances can be administered for the dead,

RESULTS OF WORE DONE FOB THE DEAD. 41

is the plaoe to hear from the dead. The Priesthood in the
flesh, when it is necessary, will receive communications from
the Priesthood behind the vail. Most holy conversations
on all things pertaining to the redemption of the race, belong
in the places prepared in the temples.

The Saints in the flesh are required to use all due diligence
in obtaining their genealogies by the means at command, and
a spirit has moved upon men in the world to collect and per-
fect and publish the records of their ancestors, by which,
thousands upon thousands of acceptable names have been
obtained, and the work of vicarious baptism already done is
immense. But that which remains to be accomplished is so
Tast, that no mind, unless illuminated by the light of God, can
see how it can ever be performed and perfected. Yet it will
be done, and blessed are they who aid in the heavenly labor!
With what joy will they be greeted by the spirits of their pro-
genitors when they meet them in Paradise ! What honor will
crown their brows in the day of reward and compensation !
They will stand among the saviors, and shine among their
kindred who are redeemed, like glorious suns in the heavenly
constellations !

This divine plan of vicarious action, is one of the broadest,
brightest and loveliest leaves in the blessed tree of life. It
bears a healing balm for millions upon millions of earth's sons
and daughters who have passed away without hearing the only
name whereby man can he saved, or who, having heard, were
never taught the way of salvation as ordained through .1
Christ It is redolent of the love and mercy of the Eternal
Father, and bears the sweet perfume of charity and gratitude
of the children reaching out after the fathers, of the fathers
blest in the works of the children, and of kindred affect inn
enlarged, cemented and perpetuated for ever and ever. It
parts the vail between the physical and the spiritual, it softens
the heart, and brings the living and the dead nearer to God,
and it sanctifies the bouI to obedience, worship and devotion,
filling it with reverence and adoration of Him who has
devised this broad and universal plan for the redemption of
the human race.
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42 "mormon" doctrine.

TENTH LEAR

Universality of Death — Eesults of the Transgression of Law — Dis-
solution of the Body not the End of Existence — What is Resur-
rection? — The Spiritual Body of Jesus — All to be Raised from
the Dead — The Order of the Resurrection — Necessity of an
Immortal Body — Ignorance of the Laws of Nature — Matter
Indestructible — Possibilities of Creative Energy — Life and
Immortality Brought to Light.

"PvEATH is the common heritage. It is a legacy to all the
U childreD, left by our first progenitor. It is the result of
transgression, the penalty of violated law. The immortal pair
who dwelt in Eden fell into mortality through sin. Immor-
tality is the power of continued existence. But "all things
are governed by law." Sin is law-breaking. To live for ever
requires perpetual obedience to the laws of everlasting life.
" That which is governed by law is preserved by law." By
the same rule reversed, the reverse obtains. Therefore, that
which is immortal and obeys not the laws of immortality, will
become mortal. If obedience insures preservation, disobe-
dience involves destruction. Law reigns in the highest as well
as in the lower spheres of being. Eternal life involves eternal
compliance with the laws of existence.

All seeds produce their own kind. Mortal beings beget
mortality. When the parents of our race became mortal
through breaking the law of their immortal condition, they
brought death to their offspring as well as to themselves.
"In Adam all die." The curse of death smites the whole
family. "It is appointed unto man once to die." No
ingenuity he can exercise or precautions he can adopt will
avert the impending doom. The decree has been proclaimed,
"Thou shalt surely die," and it is irrevocable. The taint that
came from the tree of death whose fruit was forbidden, descends

DEATH NOT THE BUD OF r.\ 43

to all generations, and every variety of form and feature, aud
color and stature, and tendency and peculiarity, have the one
common characteristic, the certainty of death.
Hut is the dissolution of the body the end of existence?

Not at all. We have seen that the part of man that &
from heaven lives on when that which coinds from the earth
returns to the earth. Vet this is not sufficient. The query
arises, Shall this body, made mortal through transgression,
remain lor ever under the penalty of the broken law, or are
there some means of expiation for the sin, and restoration
from the doom, its <on>equence? Are all the association^
formed in the flesh and pertaining to this mortal state, to
perish with the decayed body and be scattered like the dust
to which it is resolved ? Are the fond relations of husband
and wile, and parent and child to be dissolved forever? Is
this exquisitely, " fearfully and wonderfully" formed mechan-
ism, with the experiences of its temporal existence, to be
obliterated and lose its identity in the material universe?

The answer comes down from the remotest ages, like sweet
and sacred music whose tones swell and increase as the chorus
is joined by the voices of the prophets and saints of each suc-
ceeding dispensation, until the grand harmony thrills every
respondent soul. The burden of the song is in the words of
the poetic Isaiah: "Thy dead men shall live, together with
my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that
dwell in dust : lor thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the
earth shall cast out the dead." And the ringing tones of Job
the ancient are heard as a solo whose melody reaches unto
heaven : ll I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall
stand at the latter day upon the earth ; and though after my
.-kin worms de-troy this body, yet in my flesh shall 1 >ce<i<Ml!"

The fiiitli of all people who have communed with God or
have been inspired by the Holy Ghost, ha- been that they
Bhould Ik- resurrected from the dead. They not only had the
assurance of Bpirit life beyond the grave, but of the revivifi-
cation of the material body. The signification of the word
stand up again." That which was laid down
was to be raised up. The n lease of the immortal Bpirit from
the mortal body would not answer to this. It was this mortal

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that was to put on immortality, this corruptible that was to
put on incorruption.

To make this matter certain, Jesus, who expiated the
primal sin, after being offered on the cross as the great sacri-
fice, gave up the ghost. His lifeless body was taken down,
embalmed and buried in a new tomb hewed out of the rock.
It was guarded by Roman soldiers. On the third day from
the interment that body came forth alive from the grave. The
same Jesus who was crucified appeared again among His dis-
ciples, and proved that the same body interred was brought
forth again, by exhibiting the wounds made by the nails and
the spear, by permitting them to touch Him, by eating and
conversing with them, and by repeated visits.

This was not a mere manifestation of the immortality of the
soul, but a demonstration of the resurrection of the body.
Yet that body was transformed. The corruptible blood was
purged from the veins, and incorruptible spiritual fluid occu-
pied its place. It was buried a natural body, it was resur-
rected a spiritual body. Here then, was a pattern of that
which is to come. This was the "first fruits of them that
slept," a glorious sample of the great harvest of the summer
of redemption.

Now the sacrifice of the Savior had as one of its chief
objects the restoration of mankind to the condition lost by the
fall. "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be
made alive. ' ' Death came to the race through one man's sin ;
life comes to the race through one man's atonement for that
sin. The remedy is as broad as the disease. The plan is per-
fect. This is why Christ is called " The resurrection and the
life. ' ' By virtue of His triumph over sin and His voluntary
submission to death, which had no valid claim upon Him,
being sinless, He obtained the keys of redemption for all the
sleeping dust of the Adamic family. So He made no idle
boast or mystic figure of speech when he declared, " The hour
is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear His
voice, andjshall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the
resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the
resurrection of damnation.

The raising of the dead, though universal, is not simul-

THK RESUttBECTION. 45

taneous. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, He will
first redeem those that arc in Him. Having put on Christ and
received of His spirit, they will come forth at His call to meet
Him. They who have part in the first resurrection are those
who have died in the Lord and are blessed and holy. Their
bodies will he fa.>hioned like unto His glorious body. Having
been planted in the likeness of His death they will be also in
the likeness of His resurreetion. That is, they will be quick-
ened by the celestial glory and be placed in a condition to
receive a fullness thereof, and inherit all things as joint heirs
with Christ.

The wicked dead remain unquickened for a thousand years.
They reap the fruits of their evil seeds sown in lives of trans-
gression. They drink the dregs of a bitter cup. Some are
beaten with many stripes, others with but a few. Justice
metes out to them their dues. And when they come forth to
stand up in their bodies, they will not be quickened by the
celestial glory, but by that for which they are fitted by their
respective conditions consequent upon their earthly acts, and
they will occupy positions accordingly. But all will be
redeemed in due season from the grave and stand the scrutiny
of the All-Seeing Eye and the judgment of unswerving
Justice, which will determine their eternal future.

In this age of general doubt, when human reason is exalted
above divine testimony, and the voice of faith is drowned by
the clamors of pretended science, the possibility and use of a
resuscitation of the body are scouted and denied. But "all
things are possible to them that believe," and the divinely
illuminated mind can perceive not only the use, but the n<
sit y of the iv>urrection.

The being that was placed in Eden and endowed with power
to wield dominion over all created things, was a living soul,
a Bentient spirit in an immortal body, a man fashioned in the
image of God. He fell from that condition and paid the pen-
alty of death. Christ's atonement, as we have seen restores
him to his original condition. But this he cannot have with
out his body again made immortal By the workings of the
grand scheme of human exaltation, he and hi- posterity, with
the benefits of the lessons of experience, will be restored t<>

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the immortality and pleasures of the primeval paradise, and
placed on the path of eternal progress.

And, mark this, a body framed out of the grosser elements
is essential to the perfect happiness and power of the refined
spiritual organism which possesses it as a tabernacle. The
principle of affinites and of the attraction and communion of
similars proclaim this truth. Spirit ministers to spirit.
Things of a like nature cohere. The higher or spiritual ele-
ment reaches upward to the loftiest things ; the lower or fleshy
element reaches downward, and the twain, inseparably com-
bined and governed by the laws of right and truth, draw
pleasure and delight from the heights and depth of the bound-
less universe and the ever-extending spheres of eternal intelli-
gence. A disembodied spirit is imperfect, and requires
clothing with its denser parts. Without them, its affinities
would lie in but one direction, and its joy and progress would
be limited.

The family condition too is formed in the embodied state.
Death separates the husband and wife, the parents and chil-
dren. The resurrection, in its highest conditions, reunites
them and restores all that was lost in the grave. Who can
picture the bliss, the glory, the power, the might, the dominion
and majesty that shall grow out of the redemption from the
dead of the righteous man and his household, dwelling in per-
fect harmony and peace with all the powers of their being,
spiritual and physical, purified, quickened, intensified and
enlarged to a fullness, with all eternity before them for the
exercise thereof in accordance with the designs of the Great
Greater? It is beyond the skill of man to depict it, and no
mortal mind can comprehend it without spicial divine illumin-
ation.

And who shall define the impossible, or draw the bounds of
the powers of the Creator? The secret of ordinary life is hid-
den from the scrutiny of the most profound scientist. He
knows not the mystery of the vital principle that quickens even
the lowest form of animated nature. His own powers of mind
and motion are incomprehensible to him. Their origin and
cause are beyond his ken, and he cannot solve the problem
any better than the ignorant Hottentot or the untutored Indian.

INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF MATTER. 47

The reproduction of plants from their seeds, the evolving of
life out of the midst of their death, is a wonder unexplained.

And shall we say that it is impossihle fol the Power that
regulates the universe to reanimate a defunct body ?

It must be remembered that nothing in nature is annihil-
ated No particle of matter i> destroyed by any process. What
is called death is but a change of form. All matter is not visi-
ble to the human eye. A body may exist, but so transformed
as to be imperceptible to the natural vision. The forces that
regulate the universe are occult, and though some of the laws
that govern them are known, there are others that have not
been discovered, and it is the height of presumption for those
who have obtained a smattering of information concerning
these things — and who has obtained more ?— to declare that
impossible which they know nothing of, or to limit the power of
that creative or quickening energy, whose nature, capabilities
and qualities they cannot comprehend in the smallest degree.

If one dead body has been raised to life, unnumbered mill-
ions may also be revived. That one we haye in the person of
Jesus of Nazareth, and He is the- forerunner of all the race.
Let the sons and daughters of men rejoice and give thanks to
Him who has wrought out this great redemption. Death is con-
quered. The grave has no terrors. Life and immortality are
brought to light. Eternity with all its prospects and capabilities
is open to the view. And through the power of the resurrec-
tion vested in Christ Jesus, the whole globe shall deliver up its
dead, and the great progenitor of our race, Adam, the "Ancient
of Bays," shall stand forth at the head of his posterity all quick-
ened and animated by the spirit of life ; and while Jesus the
Son is hailed as the mighty Redeemer, God the Eternal Father
shall be honored and worshiped for ever as the Author of our
being, from whom springs all life, light, power and glory
throughout the vast domains of universal sj

48 "mormon" doctrine.

ELEVENTH LEAF.

Man or Woman Alone Imperfect — Marriage Ordained of God — Sanc-
tity of Proper Sexual Eelations — Matrimony a Part of Religion
— The First Pair Immortal — Marriage for Eternity — Keys of
Celestial Marriage — Condition of Those who Marry Only for
Time — Man the Head of the Woman — Plurality of Wives — Con-
tinuation of the Righteous Forever — Eternal Family Organiza-
tions— Everlasting Increase and Dominion.

NO man or woman, separate and single, can attain the full-
ness of celestial glory. Perfection of being, happiness,
exaltation or dominion, is unattainable by either sex alone.
The nature, desires, capabilities and manifest design of both
male and female humanity proclaim this, and the voice of
Deity has endorsed and sanctified the utterance of nature.
Woman was made for man. Marriage is ordained of Grod.
In its correct form it is under the divine direction. The
Father of the race has the right to a voice in the sexual
unions of His children. Those relations are fraught with so
much consequence, relating to time and eternity, that the
Supreme Ruler should regulate them for the benefit of the
parties, the welfare of society and the good of posterity in
this world, as well as for eternal results in the life to come.

The male and female elements of humanity seek union, of
their own volition. The natural attraction that prompts this
is right and proper. But if there were no rules and restric-
tions for the government of these tendencies and the actions
resultant, confusion would ensue, and the effects would be
sorrow, ruin and destruction. Matrimony therefore becomes
a part of religion. It is a divine institution, and hence
should be divinely directed. The first marriage on record
was solemnized by Deity. It was Grod who said, " It is not
good that the man should be alone. ' ' It was God who brought
Eve and gave her to Adam. It was God who commanded
the twain made one flesh to "increase and multiply."

KARRIAGI ORD LINED 01 GK)D.

Marriage, properly contracted, is therefore holy and pure,
and its relations, unabused, are Bacred and chaste The

notion that celibacy is purer than matrimony, that either man
or woman is holier in the Bight of heaven because of non-
intercourse with the other sex, is nor, unwarranted

by reason or revelation. There is no attribute of the mind or
function of the body that is in itself, or in its legitimate
exercise, impure <>r degrading. It is only the wrong use of
any of our powers that is >inful.

The first marriage recorded in scripture was the union of
immortals. The curse of death had not been pronoui
when the ceremony was solemnized. There was no sin then,
and therefore there was DO death. The man and woman
became one bs eternal beings, and dominion was given to
them over all earthly things, together. Death and the rule
of man over the woman eame as the consequences of trans-
— ion. The penalty was paid, the redemption was wrought
out, and through the atonement those two persons are restored
to their pristine condition.

In the resurrection, then. Adam and Eve come together afl
at the first in the garden, and there is no more separation for
them. They are rejoined, not as ghostly beings without the
feelings and powers of tangible personality, but as the man
and the woman made one eternally, with power to increase and
multiply and have dominion, with all eternity before them
for the exercise of every power with which the Creator
endowed them, spiritual, mental and physical, standing at the
head of the race perfected by experience and obedience to
eternal law. and ready to act in the harmony with celestial
intelligences, and preside over their own posterity forever.

II is a sample marriage. It was not for time alone, but
for eternity. Death intervened, but only as an incident. The
bond that bound them in matrimony was not >undered. The
seal set upon them was of heavenly Btamp. Its virtue
reached within the vail. It- force extendi d into the world to
There was no end to it. God had a hand in it and
it was His * land - action that made it valid ami everlast-
ing. All other marriag .nized on similar principles
and under the same authority will be of the same virtue and

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effect. Ordinances performed by those divinely appointed
are as though attended to by Deity in person. "Whoso
receiveth you receiveth me," saith the Lord. What they
"bind on earth shall be bound in heaven." Herein is the
authority of the holy Priesthood, and herein is the sealing
power for the Saints of God, by which they may enter into
the holy order of celestial marriage that lasts while eternity
endures. The KEirs of this power are only held by one man
at a time on the earth, being vested in the president of the
whole Church of God in the flesh. But while he holds the keys,
others may officiate therein under his direction and authority.

Unions formed by men and women, of their own arrange-
ment without any divine sanction or divine ceremony, are
only temporary in their nature. They end when the parties
or either of them die. God does not acknowledge that which
He has not appointed. Neither the vows of the man and
woman, nor the ceremony performed by a person unauthor-
ized by the Almighty are recognized in heaven, but only per-
tain to earth and time. The claim of parents thus united,
over their offspring, is but of the earth, earthy, and does not
extend into the spheres beyond. Death dissolves both these
marital and parental ties, and each family particle becomes
disintegrated.

No power but that of Deity can bring them again together,
and as God proceeds by law, and the law fixed for these
relations have not been complied with, the separation con-
tinues while endless ages roll. " In the resurrection they
neither marry, nor are given in marriage," but, if in a saved
condition, are as the angels, and they are ministering spirits
or servants unto those who obtain the crown of eternal lives,
"a far more and exceeding and eternal weight of glory," than
that which rests upon any of the angels. Men and women
may be saved in a separate and single state, but they cannot
be exalted into the fullness of celestial glory without union in
celestial marriage, because that is a state of perfection and
comprehends the gift of perpetual increase, in which there
are endless dominion and the exercise of all the powers of
immortal manhood and womanhood united as one in the
everlasting covenant.

MAN Till' BEAD OF THE WOMAN. 51

[n the divine economy, as in nature, the man uis the head
of the woman," and it is written that "lie is the savior ol the
body." But "the man is not without the woman" any
more than the woman is without the man, in the Lord. Adam

was first formed, then Eve. In the resurrection they stand
side by side and hold dominion together. JEvery man who
overcomes all things and is thereby entitled to inherit all
things, receives power to bring up his wife to join him in the
ssion and enjoyment thereof.

In the case of a man marrying a wife in the everlasting
covenant who dies while he continues in the flesh and marries
another by the same divine law. each wife will come forth in
her order and enter with him into his glory. Is there any
reason why this should not be so? Is not each of these wives
entitled to her position in eternity, by virtue of the sealing
power which made her part of the man ? Why should one
enter into the exaltation of the celestial world, and the other
be relegated to singleness and servitude? They all become
one in the patriarchal order of family government. And if
this he tin- case in heaven, why should not similar condition.-
so far as possible exist on earth? Is earth holier than heaven ?
If a man receives from the Lord more wives than one under
the Bealing ordinances of celestial marriage, where is the moral
wrong? They belong to no other man, but are his by mutual
consent of all the interested parties, and they live together in
the marriage state, one as much as the other.

In this position there are occasions for the exercise of
patience, forbearance, charity, self-sacrifice and the exercise
of all the virtues to a far greater degree than in any other.
In this plural family relation, an experience can be gained
that no other condition in life affords, and the parties who BO
live ami keep the law will be, in the very nature of thi
prepared for a wider sphere of dominion, and power, and
dignity, and might in the eternal world, than those who have
only experienced the monogamic condition. They will, there-
fore, if they endure unto the end. go forward into the highest
ee of exaltation, while their posterity will multiply in an
ever-increasing ratio, until worlds will he filled by their genera-

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tions and they will ascend to the majesty and splendor of the
Gods on high.

Herein is our Eternal Father glorified and His dominions
extended. By the continuation of the seeds of the righteous
forever, the multiplication of His sons and daughters creates
the needs for worlds and systems, to be brought forth accord-
ing to eternal laws, to occupy their position in the universe as
dwelling places for spirits, and embodied mortals, and per-
fected souls, in the various grades on the path of progress
towards the perfection of the celestial order ; as orbs of light
and splendor, or globes of trial, punishment or correction,
each in its allotted sphere in the galaxy of suns and stars and
planets, and in the vast and wondrous plans of the Mighty
Architect, the Eternal Parent of organized intelligencies.

In obedience to His laws, there is present peace and future
joy. They who are in harmony with Him are in affinity with
the source of all pleasure and power. His commandments
are found in the laws of continuing life, which regulate as
permanent things ; and they who reject Him and His counsels
shut the gate against their own happiness and advancement.
But, for them who receive His gospel and conform to all its
ordinances and teachings, the door is open to the highest
courts in the heavenly mansions, and while they are helped
through the ordeals of mortal life, they gain the keys to all the
glories of that existence in which the family relation is per-
fected and perpetuated, and every power of the whole being,
refined, intensified and developed, finds exercise, in its true
sphere, to the complete and unalloyed bliss of each one in the
endless family circle, and the glory of Him who is the Patri-
arch and Buler of all.

CHRIST S WORK CONTINUED AJTEB Ills DEATH.

TWELFTH LEAF.

Christ's Work Continued After His Death— The Perfect Science of
Human Redemption What was Lost in the Fall— What

ined in the Restoration- Justice Tempered with M<
Loss Sustained by the Disobedient— Doom of the Sons of Per-
dition—The Celestial, Terrestrial ami Telestial G [emo-
tion and Glorification of the Earth— Salvation of the Whole
—The Finished Work of Christ I uiversal Dominion of tin-
Fa 1 1

^"PHE mission of Christ was to save that which was lost.
-1 It was not completed when He hung upon the ci
His dying exclamation, iv It is finished!" referred to His Buf-
ferings tor sin, the ordeals of mortality, His labors in the
flesh. As we have seen, He continued His work of salvation
when out of the body, by preaching to the dead. After His
resurrection He met, on several occasions, with His disciples,
and instructed them in the plan of redemption and sent them
to all nations, that the work He had commenced on earth
might be continued. He ministered to other nations, uttered
His voice to other sheep which were not of the fold in Pales-
tine, that the lost tribes of Israel and all who could not be
reached by His Jewish Apostles might hear the glad tidings
of salvation. This, however, not fully revealed in the Bible,
is made clear in the Book of Mormon. After His - osion,
to fulfill His own promise, He went to prepare a place for
His faithful disciples, that when they left the earth they might
be able to abide with Him.

But all this was only a small part of the perfect scheme of
redemption. That which was lost in Adam is to be regained
in Christ. Through the commission of crime, death tame
into the world. Satan gained dominion. The earth trembled
under the curse. Eden bloomed no more upon its face. The
tree of life was removed. Thorns and briers and doj
weeds came up in the place of the flowers and fruits of para-

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dise. Deity was hidden from the sight of man. Sorrow and
pain and toil and travail became the heritage of mortals.
Enmity arose between man and beast. Venom entered the
serpent's fangs, and rage the hearts of brute and fowl and
aqueous creature. Strife dwelt in the very elements and
death brooded over the face of the smitten globe.

What, then, was lost? The immortality of man; the
blessed tree of life ; communion with Jehovah ; the compan-
ionship of angels; the purity of paradise ; man's dominion
over inferior creatures; freedom from satanic influence;
exemption from toil and pain ; earth's affinity with perfected
realms on high.

Until all this has been restored, Christ's work must' con-
tinue. The earth must be cleansed from its corruptions.
The elements must melt with fervent heat, and be purified
from evil. Satan and his hosts must be banished and bound.
Eden must blossom again as at first. The lion and the lamb
must lie down together. The fig tree and the myrtle must
flourish where the rank weeds grow. The whole race of Adam
must be raised from the dead. The vail between earth and
heaven must be removed. The knowledge and glory of God
must cover the earth as the waters cover the deep, and the
spirit of life and peace and light and joy must be poured out
upon all flesh, until the whole creation vibrates with pleasure
and responds with praise.

The ushering in of the great millennial day, a glimpse of
which has been seen by all the holy prophets since the world
began, with the sweet rest of earth and its inhabitants, is not,
however, the completion of Christ's glorious work. His
kingdom must not only be established from pole to pole and
from shore to shore, but His saving power must penetrate to
every lost soul of our race in the regions of the damned.

A just'judgment will be meted out to all. They who reject
the gospel must suffer the penalty. Those who are found
worthy of many stripes must receive their portion. The
wicked will be turned into hell, with all the nations that for-
get God. Each condemned person will pay the uttermost
farthing for his sins. Justice, tempered, not warped or
thwarted, by mercy, will mete out to all their right deserts,

ETERNAL I'l NI8HMENT.

"every man according to Bis works." The punishment is
always existent, therefore it is eternal punishment. But each
one who suffers, receives only his just portion thereof. Shall
the murderer and the Sabbath-breaker, the adulterer and the
thief, the drunkard and the profane, all merit the same doom?
Would human courts proclaim Buch judgment ? Shall man
have more equity than » tod ? When Btern justice has claimed
its own and filled its purpose, shall there be no place for sweet
me rev '.;

While there is one soul of this race, willing and able to
accept and obey the laws of redemption, no matter where or
in what condition it may be found, Christ's work will be
incomplete until that being is brought up from death and
hell, and placed in a position of progress, upward and onward,
in such glory as is possible for its enjoyment and the service of
the great God.

The punishment inflicted will be adequate to the wroi
performed. In one sense the sinner will always sutler its
effects. When the debt is paid and justice is satisfied ; when
obedience is learned through the lessons of sad experience;
when the grateful and subdued soul cones forth from the
everlasting punishment, thoroughly willing to comply with
the laws once rejected ; there will be an abiding Bense of
The fullness of celestial glory in the presence and society of
God and the Lamb are beyond the reach of that saved but
not perfected soul, forever. The power of increase, wherein
is dominion and exaltation, and crowns of immeasurable glory.
is not for the class of beings who have been thrust down to
hell and endured the wrath of God for the period allotted by
eternal judgment.

But Jesus, the anointed, with His army of saviors bearing
the Priesthood after the order of Melchisedec, will seek and
save that which is lost until everything Balvable is redeemed.
Only those beings who have learned the law. received of the
light of truth, tasted the sweets of the divine spirit, basked
in the sunbeam.- of the heavenly glory, mad.- covenant to
serve the King of kings and received power to advana
the pinnacle of exaltation, and then have turned away from
the right, chosen evil rather than good, driven away the

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power and promptings of the Spirit of light and truth,
sought to become a law unto themselves, imbrued their hands
in the blood of innocence or, drinking in of the influence of
that evil one, consented to and endorsed the slaying of the
world's Kedeemer, thus sinning against the Holy G-host and
becoming servants of Satan and sons of perdition, will be in
their nature and status unredeemable, and therefore will
remain "filthy still" and thus be unfit for a kingdom of any
degree of glory. Those will go away with the devil and his
angels into the outer darkness, beyond the spheres where
flows the river of salvation and where blooms the tree of life.
For them alone of Adam's race there is no repentance, for
them alone is the second death, for them alone is the black-
ness of darkness forever.

When the work of Christ and His associate kings and
priests unto God is finished, the saints of all the ages will be
crowned with glory and receive their reward. They will be
made rulers over many things. In the order of eternity, they
will stand in the heavenly family organization, and all things
will be theirs. Of their increase there will be no end. They
will hold the key to all heights and depths. They will have
power over all the elements, spiritual and corporeal. The incor-
ruptible and fadeless riches will be theirs. They will mingle
with the highest. They will gaze upon the face of the Eternal
God and dwell in the presence of the sinless Son. Pain and
sorrow, and trial and death will henceforth be only known in
memory, to form the contrast needful to make their joy com-
plete. Eternity with its boundless opportunities and unutter-
able bliss and intelligence and majesty will be before them with-
out a barrier in the way, secure for them as to the Almighty
Father himself. This is the celestial glory.

Those who were not numbered with the Saints of God in
the flesh, but who received the gospel in the spirit ; the good
and honorable who were led astray by the designing ; the class
not fitted for the crowning glory of the celestial world nor
worthy of the doom of the wicked, will also receive their por-
tion. They will not attain to the gifts of increase and domin-
ion and the fullness of the highest, but will enter into their
rest, which shall be glorious. And though they reach not to

DIFFERENT DEQR] I - 01 GLORY.

the Father's fullness, they will receive the visits of the
and of His associates in the celestial world, and enjoy rich
blessings anspeakable in their greatness and perpetuity. They
inherit the terrestrial glory.

Those who were cast down to the depths for their sins, who
ted the gospel of Jesus, who persecuted the saints, who
reveled in iniquity, who committed all manner of ti
ions except the unpardonable crime, will also come forth in
the Lord's time, through the blood of the Lamb and the
ministry o\' Hi- disciples and their own repentance and willing
acceptance of divine law, and enter into the various degrees
of glory and power and progress and light, according to their
different capacities and adaptabilities. They cannot go up
into the society of the Father nor receive of the presence of
the Son, but will have ministrations of m< from the

terrestrial world, and have joy beyond all expectation and
the conception of uninspired mortal minds. They will all
bow the knee to Christ and serve God the Father, and have
an eternity of usefulness and happiness in harmony with the
higher powers. They receive the telestial idory.

Thus the inhabitants of earth, with the few exceptions that
are beyond the power of redemption, will eventually be saved.
And the globe on which they passed their probation, having
kept the law of its being, will come into remembrance before
its Maker. It will die like its products. But it will be
quickened again and resurrected in the celestial glory. Tt
has been bore of the water, it will also be born of the Spirit.
Purified by fire from all the corruptions that once defiled it.
developed into its perfections as one of the family of worlds
fitted for the Creator's presence, all its latent light awakened
into scintillating action, it will move up into its place among
the orl» governed by celestial time, and shining "like a
of glass mingled with fire," every tint and color of the
heavenly bow radiating from its Burface, the ransomed of the
Lord will dwell upon it : the highest >f the ancient

orbs will visit it; the garden of God will again adorn it; the
heavt-nly government will prevail in every part ; Jesus will
reign as its Kin-; the river of life will flow out from the
regal throne; the tree of life, whi were for the heal-

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ing of the nations, will flourish upon the banks of the heavenly
stream, and its golden fruit will be free for the white-robed
throng, that they may eat and live forever. This perfected
earth and its saved inhabitants will then be presented to the
Eternal Father as the finished work of Christ, and all thiDgs
will be subject unto the Great Patriarch, Architect, Creator,
Ruler, the Almighty, to whom be obedience and reverence
and praise in all the countless worlds that shine as jewels in
His universal crown !

TIIK LATTER MAY KINGDOM.

THK LATTER-DAY KIXCiDOM

How shall I sing thy beauty, pow'r and light,

< ) glorious kingdom of the latter da;
I see thy loveliness, \ feel thy might,

But find no utterance to speak thy praise I

I Beaich in vain the records of the past,

Which paint dead kingdoms in their short-lived pride,
They cannot picture thee, whose pow'r shall last

While heav'n and truth and Deity abide.

And shall the little " powers that be" to-day,
Be likened for a moment to thy majesty*/

As well declare pale vesta's twinkling ray
T'n folds the splendor of eternity.

In hist'ry only Egypt's greatness lives —
Lost are its treasures, all its wisdom hid,

it the scraps the crumbling mummy gr
The sculptured sphynx and tow' ring pyramid.

Assyria ! Thy sceptre lies in dust.

Thy bow is broken and thy pomp has tied.
Ptrished thy fruits of conquest, blood and lost,

With all the warriors that Tiglath led!

Where are the palaces of Babylon,
The " hanging gardens" and the golden tow're?

With the Chaldeans' Starlight wisdom gone,
Walls, gates and glory, images and flow' ITS !

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And couldst not thou, 0 Greece, avert thy fate,
With oracles and wealth and victory ?

Couldst not thy world-wide reign perpetuate,
With all thy gods and deep philosophy ?

The soul that moved thee in thy conquering march,
That spoke in poesy and art and grace,

Is disembodied ; and the mouldering arch
And chiseled fragment mark thy burial place.

And thou, 0 Rome ! proud mistress of the world !

Thine armored legions spread no terror now.
They bring no blood-bought spoils of gems impearled,

To deck thy bosom and thy haughty brow.

Thy Coliseum's vast and vacant walls,
Rot as an emblem of thy great decay,

And on the ear its mournful echo falls,
A dismal knell of thy departed sway !

0 ! all ye living governments and states !

Gaze on the relics of far mightier powers !
The hand that shattered them, uplifted waits

The bell that ends your few remaining hours !

In the high chambers of the West, I see
An infant kingdom struggling to the birth.

And the prophetic spirit says to me,

11 In manhood this shall govern all the earth."

0 Zion ! built by Saints of latter days.

Bring forth the promised kingdom to the world !
Upon the mountain tops "the ensign" raise,

And spread its shining folds to all the world !

Gathered from ev'ry clime and tongue and race,
Under the banner, righteous men shall stand,

And the all-conquering Christ shall show His face,
And give dominion to that faithful band.

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Armored in truth and God's authority,

I > ; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 38 and terrible, yet lull of 1<>
The King shall lead them unto victory.

And bring a van-guard from the ranks

No weapon formed against them shall prevail,
\ i cunning plan shall prove their overthrow!;

The princelof all earth's kingdoms they assail,
And drive his forces to the shades below.

The spirit that gives wisdom to the wu

From Council, Congn 88, Parliament, shall flee —
Shall rest on those whom all mankind despif
And leave the world to human policy.

Left, in a day of storms, each bark of state,
Rotten and rudderless, whirled madly on

Against each other on the sea of late.

With awful crash to depths of death* go down.

But see the >hip no storm can overwhelm.

Saving the remnant.- of the wrecks below !
"'The Priesthood" "> written on her shining helm,
I id's Kingdom" i.> inscribed upon her how.

God's Kingdom ! seen in vision by the Beers !

God's Kingdom ! Clothed injustice truth and light!
Theme of the prophet and the hard appears,

To save the nations from chaotic night.

A perfect government for all the earth.

Not a republic nor a monarchy,
And yet from both all principle- of worth

Are blended in this great Theocracy.

Wielding almighty power in ev'ry land.

The willing people bend to its supreme
And mutual tnt'rest, like a golden band.

Binds in odc social compact men of all decrees.

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Appointed by the great Jehovah's voice,

By intellect and virtue qualified,
And a free people's universal choice,

The leading spirits govern and preside.

No longer bound beneath the cruel weight
Of idle vampires, draining their life's blood,

The joyful nations yield the pow'r of state,
To legislators for their country's good.

Earth's treasures, hiding 'neath the deep sea waves,
Bound in the rock, or shining on the strand,

Or glittering in subterraneous caves,

Come sparkling forth at industry's command.

New sciences and arts diffuse new light,
Knowledge of future and of past events,

Wisdom to comprehend the secret might,
And subtle forces of the elements.

In wondrous implements, mechanic skill
Grives unto labor swift and easy wings,

Making each sterile spot with life to thrill,
While water from the thirsty desert springs.

Thought, freed from human trammels, brings to light

Its glorious conceptions without fear,
And mouldy Precedent, struck dead with fright,

Reposes on an unregretted bier.

The laws which life and health perpetuate,
By inspiration's sacred voice are taught,

And every passion made subordinate,

To principles with lasting pleasure fraught.

Jesus, the Sinless, fills the regal throne,
To Him all other rulers bend the knee ;

He reigns not by His right and might alone,
But loving homage swells His majesty.

TBE LATTER-DAT KINGDOM.

Earth linked into the chain of worlds on high,
Among the ransomed planets takes its place,

And finds itself in blest affinity
With orbs that govern time through bound!'

Such is the kingdom now on earth begun,
A branch of the great Governmental Tree,

Whose mots arc grounded in the central sun.
Whose boughs bear fruit through all eternity.

Sappy are they who labor in its cause,
Happy are they who suffer for its sake ;

For all who are obedient to its laws,

( >t' all its joys and honors shall partake.

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APPENDIX.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES IN PROOF OF T:iE DOCTRINES SET
FORTH IN THE BODY OF THIS WORK.

FIRST LEAF.

But one God to worship — I. Cor. viii, 6.

Man's ways not accepted of God — Matt, xv, 9.

Only one correct way — John x, 1.

Faith the first principle — Heb. xi, 6.

Faith a principle of power — Heb. x.

How faith conies — Rom. x, 14, 17.

Human learning inadequate — I. Cor. ii, 5-14.

God the Father of spirits — Heb. xii, 9 ; Eccles. xii, 7 ; John

xx, 17.
Man in God's image — Gen. i, 26 ; I. Cor. xi, 7.

SECOND LEAF.

Death by Adam, life by Christ — Rom. v, 12-21.

All, good and bad, to be raised from the dead — I. Cor. xv, 22 ;

John v, 28, 29 ; Daniel xii, 2.
Christ died for original sin — John i, 29 ; Rom. v, 18, 19; I.

Cor. xv. 21, 22.
Christ died for our actual sins — Rom. iv, 25 : v, 8 ; viii, 32 ;

I. Cor. xv. 3 ; Galatians i, 4 ; Ephesians, i, 7 : Collos-

sians, i, 14 ; Heb. ii, 9 ; ix, 28 ; I. Peter ii, 24 ; iii, 18 ;

I. John ii, 2.
Faith, repentance and baptism fundamental principles — Heb.

vi, 1, 2 ; Matthew xxviii, 19, 20 ;
True repentance — II. Cor. vii, 10, 11.

APPENDIX

Baptism is immersion— Rom. vi. 1 ; Acta viii. - John

iii. 5, 23 : Matt iii. 16.
Baptism is for the remission of sins — Acts ii, 38; Mark i. \.
But one baptism — Ephesians ;

But one door into the fold— John x. 1. l\

THIRD LEAP.

Gift of the Ih'ly Ghost by laying on of hands — Acts viii.

14-19; srix, 6; II. Timothy i. 6: Dent xxxiv. 9.
Office of the Boly Ghost — John xiv. 26 ; xvi. 13.
Fruitsof the Spirit— Gal v, 22, -
Gifts of the Spirit — I. Cor. xii. 4-17 ; xiv, 1-5.
Birth of the Spirit essential — John iii.

FOURTH LEAF.

No man to take the Priesthood upon himself— Heb. v, 1-4.

What is sealed on earth by authority is sealed in heaven-
Matt, xviii. is ; xvi. L9.

The Melchisedek Priesthood eternal — Heb. vii, 1-4, 16, 17.

The Aaronic or JLevitical Priesthood another order, Heb. vii,
11,21.
did Dot assume the Priesthood — Heb. v, 5.

God called Jesns to the- Priesthood— Heb. v, 10; Psalms ex, 4.

Moses and Elias administered to Jesus — Matt xvii, 1-5;
Mark ix, 2-7 ; Luke be, 30-

is ordained apostles to the same authority — John xx.
21-23 ; xvii. -2-2 ; xv, 16.

The ordained others — Acta i. 23-26 : vi. 5, 6 : xiii,

]-:: ; xiv. 23 : xv, 22 : 1. Timothy iv, 11 : Titus i. 5.

FIFTH LEAF.

Christ the head of the Church— Ephesianfl v. 23 : i. 22.

Apostleship firet authority iii the Church — I. Cor. xii. 28
Ephesians ii. i

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MORMON DOCTRINE.

Peter, James and John chief Apostles — Galatians ii, 9.

Seventies called and sent forth— x, I.

Officers of the Church— I. Cor. xii, 28: Eph. iv, 11; I.

Timothy iii, 1-13 ; v, 1.
Apostles and Prophets to continue — Eph. iv, 13.
Progress of the Church towards perfection— Eph. iv, 12-16 :

v, 27.
Church casts out evil doers — II. Thess. iii, 6-14 ; Rom. xvi,

17 ; I. Cor. v, 4-11 ; II. Cor. vi, 14-17 ; Matt, xviii, 17.
Members of the Church all one ; no nationality — I, Cor. xii, 13;

Galatians iii, 28 ; Rom. x, 12 ; Ephesians ii, 19-22.
Church of the present connected with the past — Heb. xii,

22, 23.

SIXTH LEAF.

God not the author of confusion — I. Cor. xiii, 33.
Contention among the early Saints — I. Cor. i, 11.
Great apostasy foretold— II. Thess. ii, 2, 3 ; I. Tim. iv, 1 ; II.

Tim. iii, 1-7 ; II. Peter ii, 1-3 ; Revelations xiv, 8.
The iniquity commenced in the first century — II. Thess. ii, 7 ;

Rev. ii, 3.
Christ's pure Church symbolized — Rev. xii, 1-5.
The apostate church contrasted — Rev. xvii, 1-6.
Darkness covered the earth — Isaiah lx, 2.
Spirit of deep sleep poured out — Isaiah xxix, 9, 10.
The world worshiping God only with their mouth — Isaiah

xxix, 13.

SEVENTH LEAF.

Restoration of the gospel by an angel — Rev. xiv, 6, 7.

Knowledge to follow obedience — John vii, 17.

John the Baptist could not confer the Holy Ghost — Matt, iii,

1 1 ; Acts xix, 2-4.
Powers of the Aaronic Priesthood — Doctrine and Covenants

Section cvii, 20.

APPENDIX,

Powers of the Melchisedek Priesthood— Doo. and ( \»v. Sec.

ovii, Is. 19 ; 1 Ifl». v, ix.
Signs to follow believers — Mark xvi, 17. L8; I. Cor. xii, 7-11.
Dispensation of the Fullness of times— Eph. i, 9, 10.

EIGHTH LEAF.

No salvation but by Jesus Christ — Acts, iv, 12.

Birth of water and of spirit essential — John iii, 5,

All to be judged by the gospel— Rom. ii, 16.

Gospel preached to the dead — I. Peter h

Christ preached to spirits in prison— I. Peter iii. 18-20.

Preaching to captives foretold— Isaiah lxi, I : xlii, 6, 7.

Jesus led captivity captive — Eph. i

Jesus did not go to heaven when He died — John xx, 17;

Lukexxiii. 43.
Living and dead to hear the gospel — Rom. x, 14 ; Isaiah xxiv,

21, 2±

NINTH LEAF.

Baptism for the dead — I. Cor. xv, 29.

The fathers without u< not perfect — Heb. xi, 39, 40.

Saviors on Mount Zion — Obadiah i. 21.

Order of baptism for the dead — Doc. and Cov. Sections exxvii,

cxviii.
Elijah the Prophet to come — Malachi iv. 5.
Christ the proxy of blood for all— Heb- ix, 12, 14. 22 ; x, 10 ;

I. Tim. ii. 6.
Knowledge about the dead to come from God — Isaiah viii,

19, 2

TENTB LEAF.

Bin the transgression of law — I. John iii, 14.

Death the wages of Bin— Rom. \i. 23.

All men to die— Heb. ix. 27 : Eoclea iii. 20.

68 "mormon" doctrine.

Death inherited from Adam — Eom. v, 12.

Life after death — LI. Cor. vi; Eccles. xii, 7.

Resurrection of the body — Job xix, 25-27 ; Isaiah xxvi, 19 ;

Luke xxiv, 36-42 ; I. Cor. xv, 35-54 ; Phil, iii, 20, 21.
First resurrection — Rev. xx, 4-6.
Three glories— I. Cor. xv, 15.
A body necessary for full happiness — Ezekiel xxxvii, 2 ; Doc.

and Cov. Sec. xciii, 23, 24.
The Ancient of Days — Daniel vii, 9-14.

ELEVENTH LEAF.

Woman made for man — I. Cor. xi, 9.

Marriage ordained of God — Gen. ii, 22-24 ; i, 28.

Marriage honorable— Heb. xiii, 4.

Man the head of woman — Eph. v, 23 ; I. Cor. xi, 3.

Man not without the woman in the Lord— I. Cor. xi, 11.

Unmarried persons as the angels — Matt, xxii, 30.

Saints to judge angels — I. Cor. vi, 3.

Angels to be ministering Spirits — Heb. i, 14.

God gave David wives — II. Samuel xii, 7.

Gideon and his wives — Judges viii, 30.

Jacob's four wives — Gen. xxx, 1-26.

Abraham and his wives — Gen. xviii, 16-19 ; xvi, 1-3 ; xxv,

1-6.
Abraham and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven — Matt, viii,

11, 12 ; Luke xiii, 28.
Celestial marriage — Doc. and Cov. Sec. cxxxii.

TWELFTH LEAF.

Christ came to save that which was lost — Matt, xviii, 11.
Christ ministered to His disciples after His resurrection — Acts

i, 3-8 ; I. Cor. xv, 5-8.
Other sheep besides the fold at Jerusalem — John x, 16.
Christ prepared a place for His disciples — John xiv, 2, 3.
Earth to be cleansed from corruption — Isaiah xxiv, 1-6 ; Mal-

achi iv, 1-3 ; II. Peter iii, 10-12.

APPENDIX. 69

Satan to be bound— Rev. xx, 1-3.

Restoration — Isaiah xi. 6-9 : lxv. 17-25.

All to be judged according to their works— Rev, \x. 12-15;

Matt. xvi. 27.
Some beaten with few, some with many stripes — Luke xii,

47, 48.
Pay the uttermost farthing— Matt v, 26.
The unpardonable sin — Mark iii, 28, 29 ; I. John v, 16.
The second death — Rev. xxi. 8; xix, 20,
Remain filthy still — Rev. xxii, 11.
The future of mankind — Doc and Cov. Section lxxvi.
Every knee shall bow — Philippians ii, 10.
Earth to be made new — II. Peter iii, 13 ; Rev. xxi. 1.
Sea of glass mingled with fire — Rev. xv. 2.
The righteous to inherit all things— Rev. xxi, 7.
The river of life — Rev. xxii, 1 ; Ezekiel xlvii, 1.
Leaves of the the tree of life— Rev. xxii, 2.
All things become subject to God — I. Cor. xv. 24-28.

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