The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-08-10
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ELDER @. w. PEERosE addressed
the congregation. He rose trusting
that the holy spirit which made
things plain TO the human mind
{ might rest upon him and upon those
before him. The elders of Israel
stood before their hearers in the name
of the Lord, not to veutiAie their
own ideas, but as ministers oil CD;
who had promised III they observe GER
tain things, that IDEAS will come to
their minds and words to their
tongues. We are living in time
when there are great many religions;
when there is division. Men
search for knowledge, bul do not
come to any unity because they do
Aot apply to the fountain head With
the expectation OF receiving any
answer. Ia olden times God spoke
to the people, but, in the words OF
great divine, tine awful voice OF pro-
pheoy is sllenced forever" But the
LstteI-dsy Saints believe that divine
will can be communicated to man as
we'll to day as 10 ancient times, and
the religion in which we believe has
come to Us through revelation from
God, and It Is sans reliE ion that
va revealed TO the sDcients, AMI We
have proof that il is the same in The
manifestations we receive and by
reading such OF the SritiDgs of the
olden prophets as are handed do n
to Ne. There is disposition to 60 away
from God in these days. and it seems 10
be gaining; the Apostle Paul had
warned the people not to be lead
away by the vain philosophy Of men
instead OF the philosophy Of Christ.
1t is believed by many people in these
days that there can be no such thing
as literal resurrection; and that
when the elements OF the body have
crumbled away, there lie no literal
resurrection. This is one OF the
tenets of the great delusion OF
Spiri,uslists. Some OF the greatest
preachers of the Gay philosophers ]
upon this theory, advocate il and
teach it to their congregations. But
to the Latter day Saints there need
be no speculation about it, in that
God has made it plain; we are taught
that there are material and spiritual
parts, aud that unless these are
Joined as We are told they must be, We
can never receive q fulnets of Joy.
These must be Joined together alter
death, both the spiritual and material :
parts, otherwise We can never receive
a fitness of joy. The speaker refer
red to and quoted from the Book OF
Mormon regarding the doctrine OF 7
the Latter-day Saints on the resurrec-
lion of the body and the spirit and
their associations in AN immortal
condition aiteRdeaib. The meaning
Of the word resurrection should dispel
.he idea that death is q final separa
Tor OF the body and the spirit; it j
means al stand up again." Some Z
people have the idea that the olden
holy men of God had but crude ideas
)n this subject; but reference to their
will show that they had Il
very clear and distinct idea of tae :
ways of God and the resurrection. I
Here the speaker referred to the a
OF job, reading verses that u
ss the cloud vsnisheth, so when men l
lie they shall rise no more, but also
.ead further showing wherein he ex- Q
pressed an unwaveripg be iief that he
Sould rise again and that he would
Zee the Savior in his flesh. He also
eferyed to the writings OF Isaiah, o
relative 10 the resurrection. showing II
hat after the house Of Israel sba Il
nave been raised from the grave,
hey shall be clothed with 6eeh and
kin and that the breath of life shall Z
,nter them and they shall live; read \
ug also from Solomon, be showed :
hat the prophets, even before the =
ime of the Savior, had very clear =
md distinct idea of the resurrection. =
All that are in their graves, are sure
o everlasting life or sure to ever
asting shame and will come forth; and
be Scriptures snbstantiaied what was
tated in the Book OF Mormon. The
psaker also referred TO the crucifc- u
ion and resurrection Of Jesus, and d
lis appearance before the disciples Il
when be ate with them, and when e
Thomas touched the Savior himself. n
The Savior appeared in the same b
,ody in which be was crucified, and D
let il was not the same; be was put Q,
o death in the blood, but " ben he sG
ose up it was quickened by the spirit ii
# the Almighty; and it was e u
pirilual body. He had power to "a
manifest or to hide himself; he had c.
he power to enter a closed room and u
ct at variance what Nc call the law il
# grayitation and could raise to the d
heavens, which mortals could not do. u
We are told that our bodies shall be ?
changed like the body OF Christ; these 81
bodies shall be OF bone and flesh, b
nut quickened with the spirit of ii
he Lord; and they shall be born 10 Il
oy and h.ppinep; and husbands who v
rave lived rightsously shall secure a
he wives they have laid away in The b
receive them again il
hey have been joined according to
he law of celestial marriage; and to o
he mother shall bs restored her
,hildren, not hair of their heads
destroyed. The whole Christian re- y
igion hinges on this doctrine OF =
and believes it lie true; L
hen is our hope vsini And l
nave tried this afternoon to make it
clear to The minds OF those before
men why We hold this belief, and why
1e know We sball be resurrected ana I
possess literal bodies. '
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