The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-15
STAND FOR THEIR RIGHTS.
Elder Phelps Urges the American
People to Action.

At the Wacouta street chapel last
evening Elder H. F. Phelps spoke from
the words: And He doeth great Won
ders, so that He maketh fire come
down from heaven on the earth in the
sight Of men, and deceiveth them that
dwell on the earth by means of those
miracles which He had power to do in
the sight Of the beast Rev. xiii. 10,
Ia.
In brief the speaker said: In all
ages of the world men have been prone
to run after the wonderful, after the
supernatural. And men will actually
believe in a pretender or pretended
miracles much quicker than they will
believe in the word Of God. There is
power in Gods word to accomplish
the very thing written. And the per-
Torrance of that word is a miracle in
itself. But men refuse to believe the
word, and the power that is in that
word, while the miracle that is the re-
suit of the power Of that word they
attribute to chance or to evolution or
to nature. The growth Of a plant, the
constant changing of the seasons, the
revolution Of the earth, producing day.
light and darkness, the existence OF
man are all miracles of divine power.
We live in a wonderful age. We
live in a wonderful country; a land Of
wonderful inventions. But these in
vantage Of monopoly. We have a most
wonderful government; a government
Of the people. But the people are for
getting themselves, their rights and
the power that is vested in the people
to right their wrongs by peaceable
means, and are denouncing a govern
ment founded upon the most wonder
full principles-the equal rights of all
men, civil and religious liberty. But
these foundation principles are lost to
sight by the masses, and are being re-
pudiated by the people, and the rights
of the people fast being submerged III
the whirlpool by rising religious mo-
nopoly. And as the masses have lost
sight of the true principles of civil
and religious freedom, principles that
can only be made practical by self-gov-
eminent, the time is near when the text
will be fulfilled, miracles performed for
the sake of deception, performed by a
rising religio-political despotism, and
that for the purpose Of deceiving the
people who have forgotten and repudi-
ated these principles, to their utter
ruin.
In the days of Elijah, the prophet of
God, the test between the true God and
the false gods was calling fire down
from heaven. But this miracle will
never be the test again. That miracle
will be performed for the purpose Of
deception. AND 1t Will De brought III
as a demonstration that the theories
and institutions Of men are Of more
value than Gods word. Men will al
most run wild over pretended miracles,
so-called miracles wrought by so-called
divine healers. and faith cures and
Spiritualistic manifestations, and so on
all through the list of wonders, rather
than follow "Thus saith the Lord. -
What then will they not do when that
,oi0 oir.oo III crixrn fncf Of h0
true God shall again be performed for
the purpose Of deception? And that
to demonstrate the word Of a man, the
imam of SIM as against the word Of
God?
But there is no more power in the word
of any man than in the man himself.
And when the man shall die, there is
an end to their word. But the word
of the Lord endureth forever" o,
then, let US build our hopes upon that
word, that we, too, may endure as
long as the word.