The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-13

THE PULPIT PLATFORM WAS rHICKLY SEATED.
guage as one may. they looked any thing
but spiritual. Their system had written
itself in their faces, the marks of low beliefs
were there, and on few something very
like the stamp of Cain.
As Trean and Eichard advanced down
the aisle very plain pricking up Of ears
about the pulpit might have been discerned:
The Prophets hard cold eyes lit up with an
unpleasing CLEAN, and Parley's heavy red
face turned dark The two young people
found a seat near the front. and presently,
after prayer and singing. preaching began.
The Bishop first offered some remarks
that placed the Prophet on an exceeding
high pinnacle. from which point Of vantage
he was presumably to cast himself down
upon the people. Among other rather
astonishing assurances he proffered his
flock the following:
1.-THE word of our leader and Prophet is
the word of God. We can't see God. we
can't converse with Him, but He has given
US man that We can talk to ind thereby
know HIS will. just the same as if God Him.
self was present with us. l am no more
afraid to risk my salvation in the hands of
this divinely-appointed man than 1 am to
trust myself in the hands of the Almighty
He will lead nae right, and he will lead yon
right, if we do as he says in every par
eicular He holds the keys Of life and sal
walton on this earth, and you may strive as
much as you please and not one Of you will
ever go through the straight and narrow gate
into Gods Holy Kingdom except you 60
through the straigh: road he points out to
you"
To arise and meet the responsibility de-
picted in this, the virtual position Of God ON
earth. would doubtless have appealed to
most mankind as q rather dsun.ing thing
But TO this man Young it evidently seemed
in no sense heavy affair. for he arose and
placed his intellectual shoulder under the
load with easy blandneSs. He was heavily
built man, impressive in way, and well on
IN years, but his great animal energy and
greedy. fraud-carrying force were clearly
unabated. He spoke sloachly, yet, after q
time, with a Gel tain heat and heavy ham,
mering that doutless was of welding and
shaping effest with the dull and passive
mass before him He delighted in literal in
terpretations. Indeed, upon occasion, were
the matter he presented ever so assimi-
liable, the Hngual vehicle in which lie prof
fered it, to the decent, would have pre-
vented its reception. In truth. gentlemen
of the first refinement had, after more than
one discourse during his history. felt it in
-cumbeat to apologize to ladies for having
subjected them 10 tho rather indicate ne
-cessity of hearing him. Upon the present
occasion. however, he WAS in somewhat
cleaner feather, and after some extrava-
CANT and snowy whiting away OF rind and
-cuticle began to slice of and pass over to
his hearers some solid Mormon meat.
The building of Gods earthly kingdom
he reared. for eighteen hundred years
has been stayed, that you know. For
eighteen hundred years through mans un-
fitness, the keys of prophecy and apostleship
had been withheld. Then man fit TO bear
them was born, Joseph Smith, the reveal
tor; then they was restored to earth. and
the operations of Zion with glory and power
have ever since gone On. When DE died, a
martyr in the cause Of Christ, sacrifice
scarcely second to the Lamb that was slam
on Calvary. God IN His wisdom and love saw
fit to place them keys in TO my hands. Yes.
into my keeping He placed them. touched
my lips with the live coal Of inspiration
from of His altar, breathed into my bosom
the spirit of prophecy, and opened my eyes
to see the angels and glories of the unseen
world. Unto me. and even unto all His
Amounted Priesthood, power is given so that
things bound by US on earth are bound in
Heaven: and things loosed by Us On earth
are loosed in Heaven.
s'Of wnat value, would like to ask is the
God of the sectarian world! They hain't
seen him for eighteen hundred years; they
receive no revelations from Him; He can't
assist them IN any way. Let them keep
their God: we don't want Him. Our God
can be seen and talked to. He's Of some
account.