Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-30

fot Him to 40 10 school since the daye
! " Adnm In order TO learn knowledge.
| He always know what He cJuipu
bends touuy,aud He could tench Adam
everything that vas necessary 70 10
! taught Not only that, tut mou who
lived as long a. they dld must have
/ learned on Immense amount. THINK
OF II, Adam living nearly a thousand
/ year What progress he would make
| "a tue knowledge OF earthly thinge.
even suppOilg he started out Ignorant
/ 80 with The others, until the earth was
| hllud with knowledge. But men cor
/ ruplud themselves anu foil iutu dark.
ness and SIN, anu became ~ wicked
! that God, In order that Wlckedntas
might not destroy His purposes, had
! 10 sCuI ii0Ui To wipe thsm OUT, cX-
! reptiur fcw. Enoch walked viii
God tGteu hundred anu sixty.hve
yyafr aad tue Bible laya h. WIS not,
tor God to X him. II lac walked with
G0d thnt length OF time, he must have
known t1meihing about HIM, aud
about the heavens, aud about tue VI.
ganizaiion Oi tue earth, aud something
about what N called science now,
geological az we'll a. astronomical Our
revelations tell uH that rot only he
but his city was translated. They were
all taken, with the exception Of Methu-
saloh, VINO was leit en- thu earth, be-
rpuso the promise hal been made 10
him that through him one should Rfise
who should bu tic prOgenit0r Of new
world. Tbs proved 10 he Noah, his
grahlfon After that the enith waxed
worse and wofse until the hood WAS
sent anu destroyed the world. might
road you something 10 sh.w yDu how
much Adam knew about tho Gospel.
lhufo are many precious parts Of the
Bible which have beun taken from IL.
IL hiss passed through great many
hands aud hns been mutiiatod 10 "a vcfy
great extent, many parts that would
throw great light upon Gli's dealings
with meu having been taken away
from IL. But this ratt trat read from
has nton restored by revelation In our
day.
Aud ho called upon our father Adam
by his own voice, sayiug, 1 am God;
mndo tho world aud mon before they
were In the iloshi and ho also said unto
him, II thou wilt turn unto mo aud
hoarkon unto my voice, and believe, aud
rupont n all thy transgtossions, aud be-
hapuznd, oven Ia water, In tho nhmo "
mino Only Begotton Son, who is fnll u
grace and truth, which IL Jesus Chris',
tuO only namo which nhnli bu given uu-
dor heaven. whereby salvation shall
come unto the children Of mon, 80 shall
receive the gin Of tho Holy Ghost, ask
ing all things In Ills uamo, and whaiso-
ever yo shall ask II shall DO given you.
And our father Adam spako unto tho
Lord, and sald. Why ia IL that men must
repent and be- baptized IN wainrf Aud
tho Lord said un.o Adam, Behold / have
forgiven thee thy tmusgrossion Ia tho
Garden u Ell0n Hence came tho say
ing abroad among the people, That the
Son OF God hath ntonod Tor original
guilt, wherein tho sins " tho parents
cannot be- answered upon tho heads OF
the children, for they arc whole from the
foundation Of the World.
Aud The Lord spako unto Adam, say
ing, lnasmuch ~ Thy children atu con.
ccivod m sin, Oyun ~ when they begin To
grow up, yin cDucoivoth In tholr huasts,
and thOv taste the biitcr, that thoy may
know 10 prize The good. Aud % W. given
unto thom 10 know good rom evil
wherefore they arc agents unto thOm.
Folvos, and have given unto YOU an
other law and commandment. Where
lore teach Il unto your childrsui that all
mon, everywhere, must repent, or they
Can Ia no wise inherit the kingdom OF
God. Tor no unclean thing can dwell
there. or dwell IN his presenter for, Ia
tho language " Adam, Man u Holiness
" his name; and tho nnmo OF his Only
BogniiUn ~ the Son Of Man, even Jesus
Christ, a righteous Judge who shall como
Ia tho meridian Of ttno. Therefore
give unto you % commandment, TO teach
those things freely unto your children.
SAYING, That by reason Of trnusgrcssion
comoih tho fall, which fall bringoih
a.
iuio tho world hy water, aud blood, aud
tho spirit, which / have made, aud 10
became " dust % living soul, even 40 We
must be- born again into tho kingdom NJ
heaven, u water, aud oi tho Spirit, and
be cleaned hv blood, oven tho blood u
min only B0go tons that go might hl
t.T' tinri FROM all sin, and ouips tho
words NJ eternal liie M this world and
eternal life la tho world 30 come, oven
Immortal glory' For uy tho water so
krUp HE commandment by tho Spirit
NoHrr Justified, aud hy the blood 80 Arr
saucIiuudi therefore % b givon 10 abide
iu you. tho roclrt ~ hotNOn! tho Com.
fnuuf; lho ptacplb,e thing. of immortal
glory, the truth u nll thing, that
which uulohuuu b ull thing, which
mnhuih aliVo an things. that which
kuuWoih all lhiugs, aud hath all power,
according o. wisdom, muroy truth, JUS
lice, aud Judgment
There Is much vi the same character
Ia thls revelation, which shows plaiuly
luut in that early day Cod sent Hir
angels 10 Alan; That lac repeated Of
his tius auu WAS bapil'i 10 water by
an angel, and lao received the Holy
Ghost, just ns much as we who live
now 10, and probably In grratrr power
These are the principles OF the q ispol,
nul .nis was In the beginning. Every
phHciplo that was taught TO mun by
The Savior la His day, 40 far az Der.
tnueth 10 the G0spei, was taught In
lhuic early dgyy. II In the height a
folly, II is "a libel On our Father in
heaven, 10 say that those men who
lived m those lays lwolt In ignorance,
ur that the revelations OF God IN them
were imperfect, or that Goa has im.
proved since their day. He was perfect
lhou. He knew all thiugs thor; anu
He taught that which was necessary
chen Tor mani salvation. The name
ot jesus h q q only name given under
heaven whereby man can bo saved,
no man could bee saved IN tue begin.
ming without that name, nnd % he
did not hear it on the Garth ho would
have TO hear II somewhere else, or Au
could not hu saved, Paul spsakB OF
this IN the third chapter OF Galatians,
where ho say, "Fgrtseeing that Goa
would Justify the heather through
iuilh, preached before tho gospel unto
Abmhum," Abraham unIrntood tho
Gospel. Muichiledeo undrTstool thu
Gospel 10 was . priest OF tho Most
Hish G1J, 10 is said, Rud he received