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Show OF GOSPEL THE 197 FATHER 198 WE GOD THE WORSHIP ) "We hear considerable about evolution. there that believes more Who is faculties and powers a 5 He pos ses se s, capable of enlargement through the experience that we are now Let me illust pas sing through in our second estate. same in true evolution than the Latter-day Saints? --the evolution of man until he shal a god; until he shall sit at the right hand of the Father; until he shall be a joint heir with Jesus!' That is the Gospel of Jesus Christ believed in by the Latter-day Saints. That is the kind of evolution we become believe in; but not the, evolution of man from low some type of animal life. There is a tendency today in the scientific world to entertain and advocate such ideas concerning the origin of man. prove that has man come The attempt is made to up from the lowest Deseret Weekly News Oct. 8th, 1893 p , rate. Here is I I I depths" just I knowledge couplet: that was communicated to me I embraced in this As man now As God now That is a is, God once was. is, may be. man very wonderful thing. before. come , It was a Now, however, it is into I me. did! know-I I ; property; but I do not know how many there are here that have got a real knowledge of these thing s in their hearts. If you I have] , I will tell you what its effects will be. As John said: Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth hirn self, even as f God is pure. . Now, how it is that God proposes to confer this mighty honor upon us and to raise us to this condition! of glory and exaltation? Who are we that God should ! do all this for us? Why, we are just beginning to f ind] out that we are the II No va,st emPire.1 that infant up as to make it suitable to be one would, unless he had condition accomplished in his experience; place seen seen offspring of God, born with the : the I then to infant develope into boyhood, I possessing all the powers, fac ul t ie s and po s s ib i l Lti e s an of his father. I few years after that; at common his He has Now, we begotten are us the sons in His own man,ho,d,' and daughters of image. He has given us faculties and powers that are capable of It was to preached leat, the' Prophet Joseph taught this idea to the Twelve Apo str Ie s a his throne? God. possession of ledge that I had no business with; but I knew it was true. Nothing of this kind had ever reached my ears not know but that I had one r ars e such things The he proposes governig 'Who would believe that he could "Now I will say what I received in vision, which was shone. son sitting upon his throne and 506 on sun ever That I I 1894 clear as the sitting upon his throne, day to set upon his throne, to govern and control his empire. Here is that infant, perfectly helples s, not knowing how to sustain its own life, not able to walk alone, I without any knowledge, and here is this mighty emperor of its mother. Lorenz 0 Snow as emperor governing and controlling his empire wisely and pro perly. He has an infant son that sits upon the knee to such Dec. 3, an I II en-I largement until His fulness is reached which He has promised--until we shall sit upon thrones, governing and eternity eternity, posterity fro,m o controll,ing the fact st nq eternally. "I'hat and incr regard to our 10 lS ea these matter, and there are some I I people who understand distinctly what I am saying. Does it seem a hard thing that God should raise His posterity and place I I them upon thrones, to govern and control their po ster ity I from eternity to eternity? There are a thousand things that I might be said in connection with this subject, but I refrain from saying There are many more because my time has expired. I it would to and we attend that have us to, pay things I well to attend to them. God ha s pointed out the r e s ult's of traveling upon this road of glory and exalta.tion and! the promises are sure. The Lord knew precisely what! He could do. He knew what materials He had to I operate |
