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Show 37 What I know concerning God, concerning the earth, concerning government, I have received from the heavens, not alone through my natural ability, and I give God tne glory and the praise .•.. I say to the whole world, re• ceive the truth, no matter who presents it to you. 42 In my doctrinal teachings I have taught many things not written in any book, ancient or modern, and yet notwithstanding the many things I have told the people, I have never looked into the Bible, Book of Mormon, D &C, or any of our Church works to see whether they agreed with them or not. When I have spoken by the power of God and the Holy Ghost, it is truth, it is scripture, and I have no fears but that it will a~ee with all that has been revealed in every particular. 9 I will say, as I have before said, if guilt before my God and my brethren rests upon me in the least, it is in this one thing,that I have revealed too much concerning God and his kingdom, and the designs If my skirts are stained in the of our Father in heaven. least with wrong, it is because I have been too free in telling what God is, how he lives, the nature of his providences and designs in creating the world, in bringing forth. the human family on the earth, his designs concerning them, etc. If I had, like Paul, said--"But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant," perhaps it would have been better for the people. 17 Some years ago I advanced a doctrine with regard to Adam being our father and God, that wiU be a curse to many of the .Elders of Israel because of their folly. With regard to it they yet grovel in darkness at will. It is one of the most glorious revealments of the economy of heaHad I revealed ven, yet the world hold it in derision. the doctrine of baptism for the dead instead of Joseph Smith, there are men around me who would have ridiculed But they are ignorant and stu- . the idea until dooms day. pid like the dumb ass. 18 There are men upon whom God has bestowed gifts and graces, and women who are endo~ed with strong mental ability, and yet they cannot receive the truth, and then the truth condemns them; it leaves them in darkness. When they cannot receive every truth, let it be ever so important or unimportant to them, their neglect to grasp in their faith the truth God reveals for their benefit weakens them, comparatively, from the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet, and the enemy may have the advantage over them To please our Father in in an hour when they think not. |
