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Show 374 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. " There's a good time coming, Saints, A good time coming, There's a good time coming, Saints, Wait a little longer." Having said so much on this point, we will return to the principle of legitimacy. God is our legitimate Father, and we are His children, and have a claim upon Him, and He has a claim upon us. We have come into this world to accomplish a certain purpose, and we have come in the dispensation of the fullness of times, when God decreed to gather all things together into one, whether they be things in heaven or on earth; and everything that has been in existence in any age of the* world, or that is, or will be, which is calculated to benefit and exalt men, we shall have ; consequently, it is for us to look after anything and everything that ever has been true, or that ever has been developed in any period of the history of man, for it all belongs to us, and has got- to be restored, for restitution means bringing back that which was lost. If the antedeluvians enjoyed anything that was good, true and eternal, which is not yet made known to us, it has to be restored; or if anything existed among the ancient patriarchs and prophets, that has been lost, it has to be restored. If there are any people of God upon any detached part of this world, they with it have got to be restored. God's word will also be gathered into one, and His people and the Jews will hear the words of the Nephites, and the ten tribes must hear the words of the Jews and Nephites,, and God's people be gathered and be one. All things will be gathered in one, and Zion be redeemed, the glory of God be revealed, and all flesh see it together. God's dominion will be established on the earth, the |