Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-18

The Saints are the children OF lsrupl,
the lincal descendants " Abraham.
who has been called, "ihr father VI
the faithful, the friend Of God.". And
they have followed ia the footsteps
Of their great progcnitnr; they have
done the works NJ Abraham, AZ IL Is
written; 'Tfye were the children OF
Abraham We would DO the works Of
Abraham" lie was called 10 sever
his connection with his friends and
relatives In his own country aud 10
come 10 a strange land, 10 do the will
" god In order that lie might accom-.
plish His purposes for the sal.
walton OF mankind. lie came
10 the land pointed out 10 him hy God
and Of which he had the promise that
Y should be- given 10 him AMI his chil.
dren for an everlasting inheritance,
and God plaCei the blessing on him,
that In him and his seed 8hOuld MI the
nations Of the earth be- blessed. We
believe that the lineage Of Abraham Is
choice above all others aud that the
tabOrnnclps created through this lineage
are destined ~ be receptuclcs for
chosen race Of spirits. pre-ordained to
perform an important mission on earth,
aud that Abraham was chosen to be
the father Of the race through which
salvation was To come to mankind.
Through this Lineage Jesus Christ
came, a spirit pre-nninlncd 10 redeem
tie world, 10 teach the truth ami enun-
ciato ennObling principle. 10 men; 10
wash away the original sin Of tho
world aud make II possible ior all, after
having fallen, 20 return 10 the presence
Of God. This mission was given 10 Jrsus
Christ and thereby the promi g OF God
TO Abraham, that IN his seed should oil
tho nations or the earth ha blessed, was
literally fulfilled. There was no being
Ia tho tlesh, that hal partaken OF the
fallen nature of Adam, that could
have redeemed the earth or offered the
sacrifice Necessary. For ~ redeem
means 10 restore that which u lost.
Adam, through hi4 trans erosion,
placed the worlh Ia bonds, but Jn.us,
the son of God, gave His life aud shall
restore the earth from IT, fallen coudi-
ton and open the way to It, glorinca-
ton and the FINAL salvation Of the Ia.
hahitants thereof.
But we viii find that the work Of
Jesus on earth was not the end VI the
matter. The mission has been given
TO the children Of Abraham 10 assist In
the salvation NJ mguKind. The Savior
said Ia those whom He had chosen
10 preach His Gospel; aye are the salt
Of the earth; but II tho snlt has lost ~
SAVIOR, whorowith shgll Il bo salted?
IL Ia thencriodh good for nothing,
hut to bo cast out and tu be trOddon
under the feet pf men," Now, salt Is
n preserving substance aud our Savior,
In using IL asa similu, imprcssos upon
His Disciples the fact that th0ir mission
was to save.
Abraham had mission. He was
chosen as type oi God, the Father,
offering His Son for the salvation Of
the world. For he was put 10 "a test as
~ whether lac would offer his son at
the commandment Of God, and ~ no
proved himself willing 10 sacrifice his
only son, tho Lord blessed him, saying.
sin blessing | will bless thee, and In
multiplying I will multiply thy sized
M the starr of the heaven, aud as the
sand which IA upon the scnshOre; and
thy seed shall posses. the gates Of his
enemies" Has Col forgotten His
promises TO Abraham? Or whore Is
the fulHlment Of the predicted bless
ings given TO the faithful servant Of
God?
There would be no time now 20 trace
In ali the details the history Of the
children Of Abraham. You. are
all familiar with the story, how
the promise given to Abraham was re-.
peaied 10 his son, Isaac, how lsRac
had n sou, jacob, to whom the same
promise was given; how Jacob, who
later was called Israel, had twelve
sons; how tho brothers OF Joseph be-
came Jealous because he was favored Of
tho father; how he was sold Ia cap
tivity aud exalted by the ruler OF
Egypt aud became "a savior Of his
fathers house In the time Of famine,
thereby IMPLYING that Joseph, the
Son OF God, who became "A savior ~
our heavenly Fathers children; how
the children Of Israel entered Egypt
and there multiplied until they be-
came = power In the land; how they
were led out with wOndeta ami tigns
through Moses who lcl them for i0rIy
years In the W wilderness tea, hing them
principles by which they would have
been enabled to stand In the presence
Of their Maker, even a. Moses DID, who
converted with the Lord face 10 face,
as friend with u friend; but how the
love OF the things OF the world over.
came 20 IA great extent Ia their hearts
the love Of the things OF God, 50 much no
that they we're declared unworthy Of
Moses and his teachings, whertiOr, fin.
ally, they were left and the Priesthood
was taken away from them aud they
had only the lesser Priesthood. You
have oil heard, further, how, when
Israel had been taught the principle OF
strict justlcc--au eye for au eye, utc.-
There came man preaching another
doctrine as much higher than the Law
OF Moses az heaven Is higher than
earth. lie introduced what they sup
posed h be n new religion, no longer
demanding Can eye for an eye,n no
more recognizing retaliation, or rem
dering evil for evil, but showing "a
more excellent way, viz. 10 return good
for evil, To meet the sword with tho
olive branch, 10 show la words and
acts better example than that shown
by the priests, soribos and prominent
tenhrrs OF that generation.
People We're asinnished at these
teachings. Yet they were not new
doctrine. They were as old aa eterni-
;y. They were the principles
taught by Moses to what ex-
tent we do not know and
which his people were unpropaied 10
accept. They were embodied In the
Gosuel which Enoch taught and by
which his Zion was purified aud taken
awpy from the earth, lt was the
Gospel ~ Noah to which his genera
tl0n turned VI deaf ear. Tits was the
Gospel which Christ came TO RESTORE
not new thing. but the everlasting