Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-05-03


midst the Prophet. To be as mild of Ian
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 Elchard advanced down
the aisle a 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 Parleys 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 and thereby
know HIS will, just the same as if God Him.
self was present with us. am no more
afraid to risk my salvation in the hands of
this divinely-appointed man than I am to
trust myself in the hands of the Almighty
He will lead me right, and he will lead you
right, if we do as he says in every par
ticular. 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 go
drought the straight 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 daunting thing.
Del k<% HE -
in no sense heavy affair, for he arose and
placed his intellectual shoulder under the
load with easy blandness. He was a 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 slouchily, yet, after
time, with certain heat and heavy ham,
mering that doutless was Of welding and
shaping effect 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 lingual vehicle in which he 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
cumbent to apologize to ladies' for having
subjected them to the rather indelioate 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.
1.-THE building of Gods earthly kingdom"
he roared, "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 a man At to bear
them was born, Joseph Smith, the revela-
tor; then they was restored to earth, and
the operations of Zion with glory and power
have ever since gone on. When he died, Q
martyr in the cause Of Christ, q sacrifice
scarcely second to the Lamb that was slain
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
anointed Priesthood, power is given 80 that
things bound by US on earth are bound in
Heaven; and things loosed by US on earth
are loosed in Heaven.
"Of what value, would like to ask, is the
God Of the sectarian world2 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
"Well, brethren, what do we WANT Why,
the Kingdom of God spread abroad until it
shall fill the whole world; till every knee
shall bow. And it must be Gods Kingdom.
not mans. God must rule it through His
chosen Prophets, not by man-elected rulers.
As it il here among us the spiritual and
temporal governments must be one, and
God direct the workings of His Kingdom
through the Prophet-head which He has
chosen. And Gods revelations must be one
law; they must be held superior to all earth
To be continue,
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