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Show OF GOSPEL THE place I I will say that the was to the first him. man Josepl who did hold them. Noah stood 1I deso-! Prophet taught us that Father Adam was the first man on the earth to whom God gave the keys of the Everlasting Priesthood. He holds the keys of the Presidency, and I WORSHIP WE GOD THE 18iI Wilford Woodruff "In the first --l I FATHER I nex These keys were given to Noah, he being the convulsions disrupted that creation and made it late. Both its animal and vegetable life forms were i I again consolidated, and it became And when those convulsions ceased, and destroyed. the rent earth was I desirable to replenish it, the work was begun by mak ing a mist to rise that it might descend in gentle rain upon the barren earth, that it might again be fruitful. Then came of the father of all living in his day, as Adam was in his day These two men were the first who received the Priest A garden was hood in the eternal worlds, before the worlds were it, and there the Lord brought to him every beast of They were the first who received the Everlast ing Priesthood or Presidency on the earth. Father Ada stands at the head, so far as this world is concerned. Of course, Jesus Christ is the Great High Priest of the salvation of the human family. But Adam holds those keys in the world today; he will hold them to the end and every man wh 0 Ie s sage s of eternity. And Noah will hold the or ever held has keys of Presidency of th Kingdom of God, from that day until the scene is woun will have to stand before Father Adam and give an up as we all will account of the keys of that Priesthood of the principle have to give an account unto the Lord the field and every fowl of the air formed. names to which has been people, and a a I source We As vegetation was created story I' religioub are informed that the Lord or made to grow upon some; plants them-I i selves were brought to our earth and made to grow or the I greatest I help-meet were brought from some older world to our own, to people it with their children. And though it is said that the "Lord God ! formed man of the dust of the ground" --it by no means; follows that he was "formed" as one might form a brick, so likewise or from the dust of this earth. II man and his We are all "formed" of the dust of the as Prophet Joseph Smith is credited with having said that our planet was made up of the fragments of a planet which previously existed; some mighty a ! I May 1889 B. H. Roberts In this God made every plant of the field before it was in the; earth, and every herb before it grew on our planet. Brother Cannon has given my mind with regard to :. Joseph Smith. I look upon Joseph Smith as the , his of much perplexity to of much impious merriment to older earth I and the seeds thereof I I cause reckless unbelievers. flesh. "The Afterwards was brought to Adam he was derived from man since she nothing is hinted at about man being made from the work is done in the Prophet that ever breathed the breath of life exceptin Jesus Christ. Father Adam as I have said stands at the head; but Joseph Smith was reserved to lay the foundation of this great Kingdom and dispensation of Salvation to the whole human family in these last days Deseret Weekly News p 389, March 23, 1889 and Adam gave dust, and woman manufactured from a rib, I our them all. I companion and the mother of his children. I when of God to the earth--Adam. named woman; and she became his help-mate I I sons planted in Eden and the man placed in his wife, whom, I that we have received one a brick we procreation; so also was Adam and his wife in And some for the story of the rib, under it I believe the mystery of procreation is hidden. older world. I ground, though instead of being rnoulddd are brought forth by the natural laws of as " Contributor 10: 265 -266 |
