The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-15

apart for the work of the ministry, as
were Paul and Barnabas. They took
upon themselves an authority and as
sumed a power which God had not be-
slowed upon them and said to the eVli
spirit, we adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul
preacheth." And the evil spirit who
had possession of this person called out !:
"Jesus l know, and Paul 1 know; Dut
who are YEP" Then the man leaped on
them and tore their clothes OF them,
and they fed from the house naked and
wounded. This was fearful lesson;
but God causes the wrath OF man to
praise Him, and teaches through many
means the lessons of the gospel. When
the apostles. who had been called by
revelation and ordained by Gods au-
thority, commanded the devils to come
out of people. their words were obeyed,
and they returned to Jesus, saying,
Even the devils are subject unto US. ="
Jesus made very beautiful reply.
Rejoice not, d" he said, 'that the spirits
are subject unto you; but rather re-
joice that your names are written in
heaven"
In speaking of the future of man,
Elder Stayner said: Jesus told HIS
disciples that there were different places
and conditions for reward and punish
ment. On one occasion He said:
I'm Ny Fathers house are many
mansions, but I go to prepare
place for yoa, that where am, ye
may be Also" Now am aware that.
Notwithstanding such plain passages OF
Scripture, there is an idea prevailing in
the religious world that there are but
two places; the one, the highest heaven,
ha oil oil n ~
the righteous shall attain where they
are to SIT in the presence of God sur
rounded by His angels and glory; the
other to which the wicked shall be con-
signed, place too horrible to
imagine, let alone to describe, where
they are said to remain through all
eternity. But on reading the Scrip
lures by the light of the Holy Spirit, we
do not find that this proposition is a
true one. Paul was caught up to the
third heaven; inferring that there
are other degrees or heavenly condi-
tons; and again he said: There is a
glory of the sun and another glory of
the moon and as one star differs from
another in glorv. so is the resurrection
of the dead The condemnation
of those who reject the gos-
pei of Jesus Christ, consists in the
fact that they will be cast into outer
darkness where there is weeping and
wailing and crashing of teeth-a re-
morse for their sinful folly, and sorrow
for the mi cry which they brought upon
themselves by their own neglect,
through their own sins and blindness,
And this is the condemnation" says
Jesus, THAT light has come into the
world, and men loved darkness rather
light. because their deeds were evil"
The gospel is now being preached, but
some fail to see the light and still
oppose the truth like the Jews who re-
jected Jesus, and consequently were
condemned. The nature of their con-
domination and punishment is only
made known in full to those VINO are
partakers of it, Many are the religious
ideas regarding paradise. According to
the teachings of Holy Writ we learn
that paradise is not the highest
heaven TO which Christ asc, nded from
the Mount of Olives, to stand at the
right hand of the Father; but that it is
spiritual condition, an intermediate
state; it is place where spirits, who
await the resurrection of the dead, en-
Joy a certain rest. Those who are
worthy to rise in the first resurrection,
will rejoice while those who have been
sinful will be in sorrow. We under
stand from the sacred writings that the
fullpess of glory is not reached until
the body be first resurrected.
We read in Johns revelations where
be saw q vision described in language
like this: And | saw a great white
throne, and l saw the dead. small and
great, standing before God. and the
h
was opened which was the Book of Life,
and the dead were judged out of the
things which were written in the
This was the second resurrection
which win take place a thousand
years after the first resurrection.
Speaking of the thousand years of rest
for the earth. the speaker said that it
was to Immediately follow the first
resurrection and the coming OF the
Lord. During that period Christ will
reign upon the earth as king of kings
and lord of lords. Now who are the
kings who are to take part with Him in
His great government? Those who
have part in the first resurrection. for
they shall be made kings and priests
unto God" They hold the Melchise-
dec or spiritual priesthood. They will
rejoice in Gods glory and will take
part with Christ in the blessings to
come upon the earth during the thou
sand years of Sabbatical rest
This period was typified in the begin
ming, for we read that in six dsys-and
you know a day with the Lord is a
Thousand years-God made the earth
and created all things that are therein
and He rested on the seventh
day; whereupon the Lord blessed
the seventh day and hallowed it. He
commanded the people of Israel through
Moses sto observe the Sabbath in COM
memoratipg his rest Immediately after
the work OF creation, and also as a pro-
phetlc symbol of the feign of the Lord
after the six thousandth year of the
worlds history. We are now approach
ing this sacred time. Therefore. is it to
be wondered at that in the evening of
these six thousand years, God should
send a revelation calling upon men t,
repent? He has in this dispensation
revealed to boy prophet that Christ
was soou coming to reign upon the
earth, that the Sabbatlcal year of the
Lord was about to commence and that
preparatory to this event, He would set
His hand the second time to gather the