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Show 9 We have a Father; He is in heaven; He has told us to call Him Father; He says that we are His children .... Now, excuse me everybody that does not believe in the Bible, or who is inclined not to believe in it, we are so unwise, so shortsight ed,so foolish in our imaginatio n that we believe the Bible, we actually believe that God the Father is our heavenly Father, that we are His children; .... Who is that God? He is my Father, He is your Father; we are His offspring. 34 There are some plain, simple -· facts that I wish to tell you, and I have but one desire in this, which is, that you should have understand ing to receive them, to treasure them up in your hearts, to contempl~t e upon these facts, for they are simple facts, based upon natural principles1· there is no mystery about them when once under· stood. 2 I expect in my remarks I shall allude to thing? tha~ you search after as being absolutely necessary for your salvation in the kingdom of God. 7 The riches of eternity and the marrow of life are ·embraced in them; they are full of life to all who desire life; they will increase life to those who live, and give It is as easy to life to those who seem to have no life. understand these principles when the mind is opened by the Spirit of the Almighty, as it is to understand one of the 23 simple lessons in the child's first reader. First ... I wish to say to all men and women who be''lie·v e in the Lord Jesus Christ, ... in the Holy Bible, (and in the) revelation s that have been given at sundry times from the days of Adam to the present, I request that I may have your faith and prayers united with mine that whatever the Lord is pleased to give to the Latter Day Saints through your humble servant this .afternoon , he may give it, and that he does not wish to give he may retain, and keep from you. I make this request of the saints for this reason; I know by my experience , by the visions of eternity that God reveals things to ·individual s that do not belong to the Church at large at present, or that do not yet belong to the Mass. That I know .... The Lord blesses his people with temporal things in abundance, and wishes to bless them with knowledge and understandin g that is not for the world of mankind who do not believe in him. That I also know. |
