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Show THE WOMEN OF MORMONDOM THE '79 MORMONDOM. OF WOMEN There are the" glory of the sun," and the" glory "'of the moon," and the" glory of the stars." The children of Israel belong to the glory of the nobly They They kept their first on probation. trying to keep their second estate are estate. sun. Let the devotion. the faith. the divine heroism of the Mormon sisters. witness this. He is the God Adam is our Father and God. .. .. 180 Adam and Eve are the names of the fathers and make a brick. nor was Eve taken as a rib-a bone from 5'0 says Brigham Young. of He He is the He is the Ancient of Days. our elder Christ-the brother, Jesus father of him who shall also come as 'Messiah to as well as the reign. He is the father of the spirits tabernacles 01 the sons and daughters 01 man. Adam! M'icliael is one of the grand mystical names in the works of creations, redemptions, and resurrec name. tions. Jehovah is the second and the hiher the Gods-is the first name of Eloheim-signifying trinity. the celestial Michael was a celestial, resurrected l'eing, of another world. .. I n the beginning" the Gods created the heavens and the earths. they said. let us make man in In their councils our own image. So. in the likeness of the Fathers, and the Mothers-the Gods-created they man was for mankind, with He prepared Michael. as Adam. came down. brought him one of his wives. and he called her name Eve. (W wosucx M()R:llt):-;(l(lt., human came by generation. mate of man. was or a But rib of She was taken from his side. in their glorified man. pirit. race, These constituted world a R. held prominent of LDS women, edited a work by Edward W. Tulledge intitled Women of Morm The intention of the book was to be used by a group of Mormon women going out in to the world to give lectures on Mormonism. This idea was suggested by Eliza Snow and ondom. father and mother of a world of and recieved her associates of to distribution. spirits w!:to had been born to them in heaven. TTlese spirits had been waiting for the grand period' of their probation, when they should have bodies tabernacles, so that they might become. in the resurrection. like Gods. When this earth had become an abode for man or kind. with its Garden of Eden. then it was that the the sons and stars sang together, and morning for shouted datlhters of God They were joy. com'in down to earth. The children of the sun. at least. knew what the grand scheme of the everlasting Fathers and the nerlasting l\lothers meant. and they. both sons and claughters. shouted for joy. The temple of the eternities shook with their hosannas, and trembled with divine emotions. at length in their' They came on purpose to fall. The father and mother were Garden of Eden. Thcv fell" that man miht be : and man is, that he l1ligla have joy." Thy ate of the tree of mortal life. partook of the clements of this earth that they miht aain become mortal for their children's sake. The), ("viI that nuot hcr world miht have a proba tion. rnl:·t11l'tiClI! ;!Ild resurrection. THE WO:lIE::-': OF 200 )IO.OI0="por. When nribam Youn!!' proclaimed to the nations our Father and G_od. and EYe. his that Adam ,,'as the :'Ilother of partner. a ,,"orld-bot);} in a mortal THE WOMEN and Mother God. Who shall number the Adam himself thousand priests This grand patriarchal revelation is the very key stone of the" new creation" of the heavens and the anathemas upon that Iorious cohort of men and women, whose lives have'left immortal records in the world's history, meaning- to the whole system of theology-as much new meaning- to the economy of salvation as to the economy of creation, By the the holiest. grandest of Mormon faith would rank Joseph primeval ciated with a divine sisterhood. One pre imagine the inspired authoress of the hymn existence. to have been a bright angel among- this Her hymn is as a memory of that sister throng. soul's primeval life. and her invocation is as the whose courts yearning for the Father and Mother in on she was reared. and near whose side her spirit was nurtured. These are the sons and daughters of :l..c1am-the Ancient of Davs-the Father and God oi the wholc human (lmil\', These are the sons and dau!.;llters of l\Iir.hael. who is Adam. the father of the pronounced. " sons and God blessed them. be fruitful. and earth. and subdue it." • The practical Unitarianism is th is Christ is not dragged from his heavenly estate. to \\'hat be mere I a mortal. but mortals arc lifted up to his He is still the Gocl-Vl an : hut h« is celestial plane. one brethren who are among many also God-Ylcn. And So far. it is of but triMing moment /zotu our" first parents" were created: whether like a brick. with the spittle of the Creator and the dust of the earth. more intdligible method man of generation. and woman's creation was for the /l7Il'p(l.fCJ r>_f r rrat mu, "He fruitful. and mult iply and replenish the earth. .. offset And Eve Mothers-e-lias been made the frailties of the a most even "IS, the The Mor grand parents of our rali:e. name of Christ more sacred than ,tht:. names of Adam and Eve. to Not them I t was to them high priestess addressed her hymn invocation; and Brigham's proclamation that the poetess and our Father and God is like a hallelujah everlasting names. The very earth shall yet take it up; all the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve shall yet shout it for to the joy, primitive by the to exalt the Adam__is multiply. and replenish the u Very different is Mormon theology! chonls to their unto serpent have thundered of accursed Adam." head wicked and abandoned. them: and God said words of their genesis are." Be fruitful and multiply." The prime object of by-word of Here is the very obiect of man and woman's cre command. The first ation exposed in the or M other of a world. And God created image of God created very in his own image; in the he him: male and female man created he them. spirits daughters of Eve. the "And there was light!" of the the Appalling. oftentimes. their pious raze, mons The revelation was the" Let there be light" again blasphemies of the secta grand parents'( Ten rian churches against our first the works of the'Son are illumined. .. of all our race. These are the new understanding- of the works of the Father. easily can It gives MORMONDOM; maternity. they begin to ascend the ladder to heaven. Father being Adam). were Seth. Enoch. :\oah and Abraham. Moses, David. and Jesus Christ-indeed earth. OF and to their exaltation in the courts of their Father and a celestial sense-he made the most important reycla:tioA ever oraded to the race since the days o! Among these the endorsment page presents portions of the book be used by these lectures for This family of pre-existin souls. Brightest among- these spirits. and nearest in the circle to our Father and l\lotht:r in hean.:n (the Smith. Brigham Young. and their compeers, I n that spirit-state. these were also asso the Brigham Young. intended were 106 First 'and noblest of this reat farnilv was J esus of the b;other. in Christ. who was the elder whole They the wife workl.nnd brought by him to earth to be the mother .. male and female. When this earth THE his side. woman. as offset most Adam was not made out of a lump of clay, as we These Adam is the great archangel of this creation. is Michael bout Mormon of a race. of the earth." "false" opinions a by the world, Eliza Snow" wife of Joseph Smith and perhaps ot women In order MORMO::-JDOM. OF mothers of worlds. , father WOllf':','l' THE and subdue it." by countless spring. 2 millions. of your off ends of the earth. in everv ronsue I firstthe "God-Mother Eve stands. then. in the maternal trinity of this earth. Soon we shall meet Sarah. the Mother of the covenant. and in her daughters comprehend something of pan iarchal But leave we marriage-" Mormon polygamy," awhile these themes of woman. and personal thread of the sisters' lives. return to the ' |
