The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-22


Angels also appeared TO Joseph in these early
days of his career. By them he was commits
stoned TO establish the kingdom spoken of by
Daniel In the following passage OF Scripture:-
'And in the days OF these kings shall the God
of Heaven set up q kingdom which shall not be
destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be lett 10
other people, but it shall break in pieces and
consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
forever. r.m-Dsniel, H., A.
To this same kingdom Christ referred when
He taught His disciples to pray-"Thy king
The speaker then described the image seen by
KING Nebuchadnezzar, with head of fine gold,
body OF silver and brass, and toes OF iron and
clay. 1t is during the destruction of the ten
kingdoms, represented by the ten toes of this
image, that the kingdom of the Latter Day
Saints Is to be established.
The speaker then exclaimed, with herce
attempt at emphasis, which was not altogether
witheut tsuccess:-''Look at that mere boy declar-
ing to the world his visions, and proclaiming that
he had been commissioned to set up this king
DOM which should triumph over all the other
kingdoms of the earthW
Up to the establishment of the Church, in
April, $780, when Joseph was twenty-one years
old, angels continued repeatedly to administer
him endo wments for the accomplishment of his
purpose. At first he had but six disciples, and
Jour of these we're members of his own house
hold. But not doubling his success, he ex-
claimed:-"The gospel of this kingdom, which
[ and my six brethren have established in
letter-room, shall go into all the nations OF the
earth for witness, and then the end shall
come"
How Joe Smith FULFILLED His own Pro-
phecies.
II is an easy matter said the speaker, to de-
clare this; but it is another thing to fulfil 1t.
II any of you addressing his audence) were to
declare it, something more than you would be
necessary to secure its fulblment. These boys
commenced to preach in the simplicity of their
hearts hearts, They were young yoppngi une;dsncated, ana ad
world. Old and wise men are the ones to sue
ceed in decelving mankind, and not mere boys.
Said Joseph, "If you will do the work of God.
believe on my testimony, repent of your sins,
and submit to the laying on of hands, and you
viii have your own witness in signs which do
fellow the believer"
The speaker declared that he did not believe
in the Book of Mormon because Joseph Smith
said it was true, but because its truth was 80
evident to him that it had become part of his
very being. He had seen many things to con-
vince him of its truth such as the healing of
the sick and blind, and other wonderful mani
festatons of power which he could not account
for In any way, although he had earnestly striven
to do go. He knew all this, for he had seen it
himself.
How the Saints Have PrOspered In These
Latter Days.
The Church established by Joseph Smith grew
in numbers, and was driven by mob violence
from one place TO another, until it was finally
OF the prophecy, the Gospel has already been
preached by the Latter Day Saints to nearly
every nation in the "'ole HEARTH" Another pro.
! phecy has likewise been fulfilled, for the Church
In Utah is made up OF people gathered from the
| four quarters of the world
| When Joseph Smith and his disciples CON-
meDCed their preach bing, emigration was not
what it now is. Mormonism, in fact, inaugu-
rated the movement in England 1t seemed as
ridiculous there to propose emigration to Ame-
rica to ask the people to sever all their family
! ties and 60 to the moon. Eighteen years ago it
! was an easy matter to persuade the people of
! England to believe in the doctrines of Mormon
ism. because they could see for themselves that
! they were all founded on the Bible, and were
! satisfied by miracles and other wonders Of their
! truth. But it was difficult thing at that time
! to approach the subject OF going to country as
far off as America; for emigration was young
| then, and there was no Atlantic cable. (Sen-
! sation.)
Buchanan's Wrath.
The speaker declared that it was the marvel
of this nation and of the whole world, that the
Church of Latter Day Saints should succeed as
1t had, with such great pretensions. 1t has, in
fact, become the problem of the age President
buchanan and his Congress, backed up by the
attempted to solve this problem.
The speaker here prepared to quote some
poetry, and we naturally expected 10 hear him
pronounce the once familiar lnes:--
'-0f Brigham Young. the Mormon King
!. And great Buchahans wrath, sing"
But, instead of that, he quoted from an old
copy of the New York Tribune the denuncations
which it levelled at the devoted foe of Nor.
mOulSu, comparing ms great Utdh expedition
to that OF the King of France who,
g. with forty thousand men,
Marched up bill, and then marched down aeain -
How Many Saints lhere are in These
Latter Days.
Buchanan and the rest of the world having
failed to solve the problem, the speaker pro.
ceeded to show how the Elders of the tire Church
had attempted to solve ut in Gods way, and how
God had prevailed. There are now, he said
100000 converts IN different parts of the world
There are many in England, Scotland Wales
and Scandinavia, and a few even in Ireland
England has, by the Church of the Latter Da,
Saints, been put under more complete organi
cation than by any other Church whatever B,
the mere lifting of the finger at the Presidencl
in Liverpool, the whole mission will move t(
the accom- plishment of the indicated task. |
so commanded, 1t would emgrate simulta
neOusy as in one body, to the United States
The speaker then dwelt upon the great perse
cutoDs which the Church had undergone. HI
spoke feelingly of the death of Joseph Smith
but reminded his hearers of the fact that 9Th,
blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church
fod and both America and England have beer
greatly moved by its progress.
The Wonderful Career of Elder WiIfreG
Woodruff,
in Herefordsbire, England, was then narrated
He went there, stranger, in 1889, and in sil
months that one man baptized forty or ffty
ministers, established forty or fifty preachini
places, built up forty or fifty churches and con
verted to the true faith about one thousand peo
plel He found a branch of the Methods
ChuIch which had split off from the main body
on account OF some dissatisfaction and this, in
cluding ministers, members, and chapels, ht
swept in body into the Church of Latter Da,
Saints. On one occasion, he encountered by th'
wayside two ministers in a Carriage III,
stopped them and began to preach, and befor,
he parted from them both had been converted
and baptized.
The Task Accom- plished by the Saints An