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Show CH 42 ender p ants that seem to be growing sun rises and scorches the them, and we have to cry to the people, ''Reform,ORM, REFORM," when in reality it is a disgrace that such instruction should ever be 2.The in necessary. 3.It is a great disgrace,it is mortifying to angels, and I ldll insure that it is mortl£ying to our Father Adam. His heart is pained with such things J and the Prophets are pained with them, and so are all 'Who unde stand and have proved themselves 'Worthy of eternal life, ••• 4. When will we possess knoid.edge and power, and glory, and wisdom , When has his work. Jesus finished independently? When have ourselves we 5. proved. worthy to be crowned, when we have passed through all the ordeals 13-j.? of suffering, trials, and temptations, Father and our God that we are His friends, that we serve Him, and not forsake our parents w1ll not forsake our Father's house and His precepts. 6.when we have proven ourselves faithful in the flesh,. and have gone have done all that is required through the vail into the spirit world of us in preaching to those .mo are in prison,- and are faithful until we receive our bodies again until these tabernacles ldlich we now occupy are resurrected and brought again to the s:p1r1ts, and the spirt to the tabernacles, and Jesus ca.lls on us to come up and be crowned. among the faithful who will receive crOlmS of glory, immortality, and eternal life, 7.then we will receive that power,knowledge, and wisdom, and possess it as independently as the Gods possess their power. a.lt will then be bequeathed to them that they will have light within themsel ves Why? Because they have control over the elements. and it will never be until then. 9. We have no light, no power at present, only what is given to us. Brother Hyde ca.lls 1t borrowing, but I ca.ll it a free gift, or begging. 10.The Lord's giving does not diminish His fountain of spirit that our philosopher brother Orson Pratt speaks of, that he believes occupies universal space, or, in other words, that universal space is filled with, and that every p3Xticle of it is a Holy Spirit, and that that spirit is all powerful and all wi_se, full of intelligence and possess1ng all the attributes of all the Gods in eternity. 11.1 hardly dare say what I think and what I know, but that theory, though apparently very plausible and beautiful, is not true, 12.for it is, or 'Would be contradicted by the Prophets, by Jesus and the Apostles, and by all good men 'Who understand the principles of eternity, both those who have lived and are now liv1_ng on the earth. 13.Brother Hyde was once upon this same theory once, and in conversat1.o rlth brother Joseph Sndth advanced the idea tha.t etern!t y or boundless space was filled ldth the Spirit of God, or the Holy Ghost. 14.After portraying his views upon that theory very ca.re:fully and minutely, he asked brother Joseph what he thought of it? He replied that it appeared very beaut1:f'ul, and that he did not know of but one serious objection to it. Says brother Hyde, "What 1s that?"" Joseph replied, "it is not true." 15 With all the knowledge and wisdom that are combined in the person of brother Orson Pratt, still he does not yet. know enough to keep his foot out of it, but drOlmS himself in his own philosophy, every time that he undertakes to treat upon :principles that he does not understand. 16. When he was a.bout to leave here for his present mission, he made a solemn promise that he would not meddle with principles which he did n fully understand, but would confine himself to the first prinCiples of the doctrine of salvation, such as were preached by brother Joseph S and proven to will live and our - - - , J38,339;Seer,p225 p10.5 • and the Apostles. 17.But the fLt thing that we see in his ltt"itings, he is dabbli.1lg ldth \... ) |
