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Show have not read Behold | say unto you, He the Scriptures ; if so, they do that denieti yesterday, and in him there js no variableness, nei- a a God | ther shadow of changing. And now, if ye have imagined up unto yourselves a god which doth vary, and in him there js \ shadow of changing, then have ye imagined up unto yourselves which is not of miracles:~ But behold, I wil! shew unto you a God of miracles, even the God of Abraham. and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jaco b; and it is that same God which created the heavens and the earth, and al! yihings that‘in them is,_ Behold, he crated Ada m; and by Ad- 7 am-came the fall of man. And because of the fall of man, ~-camé' Jesus Christ, even the Father and the Son; and becau se of Jesus Christ, came the redemption of man. And because of the redemption of man, which came by Jesus Christ, they are brought back into the presence of the Lord ; yea, this is wherein all men are redeemed, because the death of Christ bringeth to pass the resurrection, which bringeth to pass a redemption from an endless sleep, from which sleep all cane shall be awoke by the power of God, when the trump wet sound; and theyShall come forth, both small and great , anc all shall stand before his bar, being redeemed and loosed from this eternal band of death, which death is a temporal death ; and then cometh the judgement of the Holy One gyro and then cometh the time that he that is filthy, shall be fl iy still; and he that is righteous, shall be righteous still : ee is happy, shall be happy still; and he that is Oe be unha ppy still. And now, O all ye that have unto yourselves pcan a god which can do no miracles, Bwou « Of you, have all these things past, of which | hare rE ‘ Has the end come yet ? Behold I say unto you, Nay; an aie uP ie God ahd has not ceased to be a God of miracles. Behold, chee things that God hath wrought, marvellous in our pv Whe and who can comprehend the marv ellous works of Go of i, ‘Shall say that it was not a miracle, that by his word tl £ ee _ en and the earth should be; and by the power of ips le _ man was created of the dust * of his word, hath of the earth 2 and miracles been wrought ? Ant Bi s * i ¥ wm 57 wrought by the bands of the And behold J say unto you, so, he would cease to be God; He changeth not: if and he ceaseth not to be God, andis a God of miracles. And the reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the children of men, dwindle in unbelief, and depart from the is because thi not the Ged in whom they should trust. right Way, and know Behold ] say unto you, That whoso believeth in Christ, doubti ng nothing, whatsoever he shall ask-the Father in the name of Christ, it shall be granted them: and this promis e is unto all, even unto the ends of the earth. For behold, thus saith Jesus Christ, th Son of God, unto his disciples which should larry ; yea, and also to all his disciples, in the into all the world, and preach hearing of the multitude, Go ve the Gospel to every ¢ reature : and he that believeth and is baptiz ed, shall be saved, but that believeth not, shall he be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believeIn my name shall they cast ls; they shall speak out Deywith new tongues ; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shalk not burt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall ver; and whosoever shall reco believe in Iny name, doubting ng, unto him will I confir noth of the earth. And now m all] my Words, even unto the ends behold, who ean stand Works of the Lord? against the Who can deny his sayings? Who will power ofthe Lord? Wh o will ¢ Who will bi despise the childr en Spisers of the ord, for ye shall works of wonder and perish. ~O then despise onder not, but he arken unto the words’ of the e Father in ia foes ca the name of Jesus for what things Lord e soeyep. | oe not, but be believ leads ~ : and ing, and become unto the3 Lord Wi‘itth all yo ur ling before him. BP Re oeeey ith fear and trem. Sp Yourselves of all uncleanne ss ; ag - Of your probation - sume it On your lusts, ye will yield to-no t but ask with . ies eg a And say that Jesus Christ didnot do many migh ty miracles’ * ble bemg. not understand do we not read that God is the same mighty miracles MORMON. apostles. And if there was miracles wrought, then why has God ceased to be a God of miracles, and yet be an unchangea- not the Gospel of Christ; yea, they to-day, and forever: god there Was many hor speaking with tongues, and the inter pre. these things, knoweth them-For nor prophecies, nov OF orthines Mon of the Li s ving 3 ee tation of tongues. BOOK is no revelations, oo gilts, nor healing, there MORMOo™. G od; ee away, that OF ta done BOOK ee 236 |