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Show Adam: Who Is He? Adam Was Not Deity The Fatherfrequently came to visit his son Adam, and mistakenly made to read: "Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven." (JD, 1:51.) talked and walked with him; and the children of Adam were more or less acquainted with him (JD, " .... 9:148.) On April 9, 1852, President Young said: "It is true that the earth was organized by three distinct charac .. ters, namely Elohim, Yahovah, and Michael, these three forming a quorum (JD, 1:50.) Then could " .... Adam possibly be Elohim, as some say? These were three distinct persons. On November 6, 1864, President Young said: "Three years previous to the death of Adam, he called Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, and statement made on October 7, 1903, by President Joseph F. Smith: "I want to call your attention to an important Methuselah, who were all High Priests, with the residue of his posterity who were righteous, into the valley of Adam ondi Ahman, and there bestowed upon them· his last blessing. And the Lord appeared unto them, and they rose up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the Prince, the Archangel." (JD, 10:355.) Can anyone misunderstand that plain language? Elder Charles C. Rich, of the Council of the Twelve, was present on a day when President Young gave an address that was wrongly reported as saying Adam was Deity. In the copy of the}ournal of Discourses that he had, Elder Rich referred to the misquotation as it appears in the Journal of Discourses, and in his own hand he wrote the following as the correct statement made by President Young: "] esus our elder Brother, was begotten-in the flesh by the same character who talked with Adam in the Garden of Eden, and who is our Heavenly Father." (This signed statement is in the presiding .. . hands of the Church Historian.) Some of the reporters at the Tabernacle in those skilled as others, and admittedly made days mistakes, such as the misquotation of President Young as above, which was corrected by Brother Rich and were not as . That other errors were made by reporters who recorded sermons of the brethren of that day is well attested. As one case in point, we provide the following matter. There is being printed in circular form now by .. . On the face of it the mistake is obvious and was quickly noted by Elder Rich, who was present and heard the sermon. Hence the correction that he made. unauthorized persons a sermon delivered years ago by President Brigham Young on the question of High Priests and Seventies, that is not correct. When I was over the British Mission some years ago, this printed in the Deseret News and when it came to Liverpool, Charles W. Nibley and Henry W. Naisbitt were laboring with me there assisting me in publishing the Millennial Star. They had the form set and I said, up ready to print and brought me the copy 'That discourse cannot be printed in the Star.' 'But,' said Brother Nibley, 'is it not the sermon of President Brigham Young?' 'Perhaps it is,' said I, 'but it can not go sermon was in the Star.' Then these brethren took up a labor with me to convince me that I had no business to interfere with President's discourses. I said, 'It makes no differ does ence, that discourse is not true as it is before you, it not state the truth, it is not true, it is contrary to the word of the Lord and it can not be put in the Star.' Next morning I heard a rap at the door and when I asked what the matter, this was long before daylight, and when I went to see, 10 and behold it was a cablegram from was which has caused some persons in the Church to go astray. The erroneously reported statement had been President Brigham Young, commanding me not to pub lish that discourse in the Millennial Star, and it never was printed, by the authority of President Brigham 16 17 |
