The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-22


against the crimes and sins and follles
| of those who inhabit its surface
In the days of Nauvoo there came a
| iesrned professor to that city OF the
| Saints aud delivered lecture on the
earth. speaking particularly of the rise
and fall, or the flow and ebb of the
| tides. On returning from the lecture,
the prophet Joseph Smith told lhe
professor that he could give him u
better reason than he had adduced for
the fall and rise of the tides. What is
it?" asked the man. why, said
| Joseph, 1.-The earth breaths. That is all
there is about it. And when the water
rises and the tide comes up, the earth is
simply respiring; and SO when it goes
down." This vas doubtless an astonish-
ing doctrine to this learned man. He
never had heard of such thing.
1t remained for Joseph Smith
the Mormon" prophet, to declare
| that the earth which we spurn under
our feet as dull and lifel-ss lump of
clay. is being endowed with life and
| intelligence; that it obeys the celestial
law, which is the highest law which can
be given to any creature, human or
other wise; and if the earth obeys the
celestial law and transgreSSes it not, it
y
us, who deem ourselves far more in
| telligent than the dull earth On which
we dwell.
But wish to recur to that port ion of
| the passage which says that beings of
celestial order shall inherit the earth
There is consistency, and harmony
in this, for like cleaves to like through
out the great universe. Truth claims
its own; mercy hath COMPASSION upon
mercy; and, throughout the vast do
mains OF our great Creator, this law
universally prevails. Like cleaves u to
like; and it is this which will decide q;
the last day who shall and who shall
not inherit the earth. Those who obey
the same law that the earth itself Obevs;
, these will inherit the earth. and will
be entitled to the possession of il
throughout all eternity. Those who do
not obey these laws, shall
go to another kingdom which
ls not a celestial kingdom; for they who
cannot abide celestial law are not meet
for celestial glory. And on the other
hand. they who Will not abide the ter
restial law cannot receive terrestrial
glory. Therefore, they will be assigned
TO kingdom which is not kingdom Of
glory; and thus will all men bt Judged
according to their works; justice will
claim its own; like will cleaVe 10 like,
truth will cling to truth, and the utmost
harmony and consistency will prevail
| Among the laws which were given to
this earth, according to the inference
which We may draw from the teachings
of the prophets of the latter days, is
one which, 1t must be apparent to all,
is sadly neglected in these times; and
that is the law pertaining to the Sab
bath day. Man was commanded to
rest upon the seventh day of the
week, and do no unnecessary work.
put worship God. and let his mind be
drawn out in the contemplation of
heavenly things. This law has always
been in force when God had q people
upon the earth 10 whom He commun-
icated His will. And although it may
seem but little thing in the eyes Ct
men, and in the eyes of many who call
themselves Saints. yet We will find that
we cannot with safety ignore Or despise
the simplest or smallest Of Gods com
mands. Now, the earth has worked
nearly six days, or 900 years. and it is
about to enter upon It's Sabbath when
it will rest from its iabors; for "a day
with the Lord is as a thousand years. !"
| We may believe that when God sent
this earth spinning through space. He
gave it the laws which pertain to its
salvation, of which laws the laws he gave
man are typical. For instance, man is
to labor six days of twenty-four hours
each; but the earth is to labor six DAYS
of thousand years each. But each is
required 10 rest upon the Sabbath, o:
seventh, day. Tue Apostle Paul says:
"a day with the Lord is as THOUSAND
years." and the exclamation of III is
given in the book of Abraham, to whom
God r. vealed the mysteries OF the uni
verse. He took him out into the night
and showed him the stars of heaven,
the moon and all the great planets Of
the universe. And far up, at the head
Of the starry stair way he beheld a
great planet which God told him was
named Kolob, and said be: This is the
governing one," being nearest to the
throne of God. Abraham was told that
this great planet revolved once in
thousand years, making day
for that planet; and doubtless
this was the ,planet upon Whole
time and reckoning the day
first spoken of to Adam was predicted;
for Adam was warned that in the day
ne should partake OF the forbidden
fruit he should surely DIE, and yet he
attained the age OF nine hundred and
thirty years. The inidel may laugh
ana mock, but God Gays: Fools mock,
but they shall mourn" and the Apostle
Peter warned his generation that they
should not consider the Lord slotLfu.
as pertaining TO to His promises, fer a
day with the Lord was as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day.
rhe earth. | say, has now labored
nearlay six thousand years (six days);
we are living in the Saturday night of
the worlds history. We are approach
ing tue dawn of the millennium, the
Sabbath of our earth, and after this
reign OF peace and Righteousness, the
earth, which has obeyed the law of
watery baptism, having been buried in
water anciently, will be visited with
fire and with the Holy Ghost. and
TRANSPORTED and made celestial
body to shine among the stars
of heaven, lise unto "a sea of glass
mingled with fre;' the fit abode for
those who have obeyed the same laws,
who have been baptized for the remis-
sion of their sins, who have received the
Holy Ghost, who have kept the Sabbath
day, and have done those things which
God required at their hands. This will
qualify men to inherit the earth. They
must become righteous. obedient,
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