Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-24

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life, but we are united to them (,
time aud for all eternity. We hay
learned that tie family association
hat the ties Of love which exist b,
tween a man aud wife, betyee
parents and their offspring, are Il,
limited to time alone. br
That they continue to cor
r'bute 70 cur happints
throughout all the ages Of eternity
that the privilege Of multiplyin
and increasing Is not confined to
few short years Of wedlock in thi
NE, tut as one Of our writers 5
! beautifully expressgs it-so long a
there is element In the great store
house Of nature, 20 long as there /
room in Infinite space, so long as tn
bosom Of the daughter shall GLOW
with affection, just 50 long shall tn
sons and daughters Of Ged be multi
piled, and their Kingdoms added q
the Kingdoms OF our God, constaptl-
increasing His power. His donnin
ION aud Ills glory. "a great aud Z
marvellous work j. about TO be intro
duced 10 the earth, +" saith the Lord
and II We have examined those few
things pertaining to it, tell me. /.
not the prediction fulfilled, has no;
the Lord kept his word in the un.
toldment OF His Church, the out
lines Of which 1 have briefly and
inlperfeCtiy sketchedg
But then, rs yet, we are merely
Ike children playing upon the
beach, We have simply gathered q
lew Pretty shells anu pebolgs upon
the beach; hat let me say that the
great ocean lies before Us. still un-
explored and still unknown. Such
Is the marvellous work SIS under
stand its development thus far.
Now in the midst OF this unfold
ment OF thepurPoses of God and the
intelligence Of heaven, side 10y side
with it, has been n glorious expert
euCe for the Saints. The purposes
VI God have not failed, but they are
being accomplished In spite Of ali
the Efforts that have been and arc
being made 10 oppose them.
Our pathway has been strewn
with successes. Now a great many
who are hut specifically acquainted
with our history may be inclined to
doubt that. rhey may ask, "Were
you succesful in Missouri, from
which your church was driven?
Were you successful in NauvoO from
whence you were expelled2 Have
you been successful in this Terri
tory, where your euemies have
gained triumph after triumph over
NJ" Nes, We have been success
nj in the past, aud We are SUCCESS
rul to-day.
let me call your attention to =
few items that may illustrate this
seemingly parad0xical position
which | have taken. There were
given to the Patriarch joseph, tine
son Of jacob, IN his youth, n number
% visions. Among them, remem-
der, was one wherein he dreamed
that IN harvest time, when all the
sheayes OF grain in the field had
been gathered together, his brothers
shelves came aui bowed TO his. On
another occasion he saw the sun,
the moon aud the stars doing 0bei-
SINCE 10 him. But these thing so Of
Tended his elder brethren, and on
one occasion when he visited them at
some distance from his fathers home
they captured him and said, "Let u
now sell this dreamer" They ap-
reared 10 understand the interpreta-
lion Of their hnUther's dreams. They
seemed % know that they must how
10 Lin IL these things were fulfilled,
and saii, 'Let us now cut or this
dreamer. that we be not liz suffice
ton u him. Having CAPTURED
aim they sold him into slavery. he
went Tito Egypt, lie frii into mis-
fortunes there, aud was east into
prison. Were those successes? Did
his look as il thJt was the path o.
empire, and control. ami dominion
over li- feliows3 And now did j.
terminate: Why, the very evil
that his brethren sought % dc
him vas or1 the meaus Of
bringing TO pass the very thing they
aimed tg avoid. He was sofa into
Egypt as a slave. i'It God Sss with
him and gained him favor ia the
Eyes of the nation where ne had
,gen EoiouTniEg until lac became
-e-Ond in authority and had TO di,c;
me administration Of the affairs Of
hat great Kingdom.
By and bye we see the dreams full
filled; bis brethren came into his
presence and bowed themselves
iOwu-.iid ohei-aucc unto him: and
even his aged father came 10 him 70
BE- sIccareu and blessed in his old
Ige. Now. then. was JoSeph's life
-uccessfui2 Yes. Notwithstanding
hose reyerses which overlook
him, in every misfortune hc
scored "a success. Was the mis-
sion Of Jesus Christ @ success? He
came aud was hailed by some Us
.sNiuE Cg the JeEs.'' lie told the
people that lie was the Son Of Col.
that He was the one Of whom the
Prophets had spoken, that He was
The Savior and the LSht OF the
Sorld. bat tbey rejected Him. They
bounded His footsteps, they eel
traps for Ills feet, they W. che!
his outgoing and II .aUJming.
hey tried 70 gE-u1re Him in His
words. and at last they did succeed
In fin.ing a traitor vino would tie
liver Him into their hands. After
had been passed upon
Him they crowned Him, they
sElote Him with their hands, sVat
laOu Him, crowned Him
With thoras. and in mockery
Trapped him with purple, in those
lays the insignia Of royalty. Was
he life Of Jesus, then, a success q:
they dragged Him before POntius
PLATE and insisted that he should
,snctiou the sentence Of death which
hey had passed upon Him, and he
was weak and CowaTdly enough tp
icceLe 10 their demands. They
fastened Him upon the cross aud
% humiliate Him they placed on
sitier side common thief
Yet what was ali this?
Why. it was the fulfilment
IF the mission to which He had
seen appointed. As His spirit went
Jut from His body, which was rent
with agony, it rose in triumph in
,tead OF defeat. For that end He
had come into the world, that His
blood might atone for the sins OF
many, and that He might become
the re,urrectiOns and the life.''
that His spirit, in it,
state, might 20 to tie
world Of spirits, unlock the door OF
he pris1n-houso and start the
Of the Gospel to those
who had been held in bondage.
Was not all this success? Was IL
not all triumph? Certainly it was;
md 50 wiil it turn out to be with the
experience OF the Lstter-day Saints,
however s0rrowful it may have been
u the past, or still may he in the
uture.
l think there is no blunder 80 FAR
= concerns the main object and es-
sblishmrut Of the work OF Sod il
he earth in relation to It's fulfilling
Is destiny For instance, when
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