Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-21

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This poem was not Inspired aud writ
ten by Latter-day Saint, but by a
man who had not received the light Of
the Gospel, man who had not received
the authority Of the Holy Priesthood,
nor the minlstration Of holy angels but
q man who was honest In his exprgs-
slons concerning the condition of the
religious world,
GOSPEL RESTORED TO EARTH
/ want TO bear my testimony that the
Gospel has been restored and that the
leayen OF the Gospel IL working among
the children Of men, II Is the testimony
OF thousands who have embraced the
Gospel IN Great Britain, where Brother
Dougall has been laborlng, and also In
all the nations where the Gospel has
found them, that their hearts had been
led to desire that they might live In n
day, when there should be Apostles and
Prophets among the children Of men,
ana they were 10 a certain extent pre-
pared to receive The Gospel when II
came unto them When the Elders OF
Israel declared unto them that they
could know of the doctrine Tor them
selves, whether Il was Of God or not
they believed their words and in an
swer to their obedience to the principles
Of the Gospel God did indeed make
known unto them that 1t was His work.
Going back to the subject of proph-
ecies to be fulfilled In these last days
l want to say that the day is not yet
for the universal outpourlng Of the
Spirit of God upon all flesh, as was pre-
dicted by the Prophet Joel You know
What the Apostle Peter said upon the
day of Pentecost. Because he spoke by
the gift and power of the Holy Grost
he was accused of being drunken.
When the Apostle Paul stood up before
King Agrippa and declared that he had
had n vision and had heard voice from
the courts on high, and was a witness
of the Son of God. they accused him vi
being mad. They said mucn learning
had made him mad, but II was
simply testimony of what he had
seen and heard On the day OF
Pentecost the Apostle Peter said they
we're not drunken seeing II was put
the third hour Of the day. Il suppose
they had a little order In those days
about getting drunk. We live IN tast
age, and there are those who get drunk
Lefore the third hour of the day. lie
said:
grhis Is that which was spoken OF by
the Prophet Joel;
"And it shall come to pass In the last
days, saith God, will pour out OF my
Shirt upon all flesh and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy ana
your young men shall see visions, ana
your old men shall dream dreams
Joel. in his second chapter adds TO
tlat other things that should take
place in the last days. He says!
"And l will show wonders In the
heavens and In the earth, blood ana
fire, and pillars of smoke
",rhe sun shall be turned into dark
ress, and the moon into blood, before
the great and the terrible day OF the
Lord Gomez
Jesus Himself prophesled Of these
events, referring to the day to come
when wlClSedness should be destroyed
from the earth, when the adversary OF
our souls should be bound, when the
lamb and the lion, as predicted In the
nth chapter Of Isaiah, should lie down
together, and when there should be no
ermlty between man and beast. But
do you suppose such a day Is to be
ushered in all at once? 1t would be
contrary 10 the purposes of God and
His method OF dealing with the chill
dren of men IN every age of the world
Before these great and glorious events
shall transpire, before the destruction
OF a people, a nation, or the world ne
VIII raise NJ n Prophet, as He ala IN
antedlluvlan times, to warn the people
When the Apostles asked Jesus what
should be the sign Of His coming. He
said that as it was in the days Of Noah
80 IL should be IN the days of the COM
ing of the Son of Man. How was II
in the days Of Noah? God raised up
Prophet SO II il shall be In the last
DAYS as II was in antedlluyian days
God will raise up q Prophet to warn
the world concerning these events that
are to take place In the last days. The
Apostle Peter did not say that the
prophecy OF Joel was completely ful-
filed then: but he pointed out that
II was the same spirit and power
which they were then enjoying that
in the last days should be poured
out upon all flesh He speaks concern
ing the second coming, in the 9rd chap
ter of the Acts. and In connection there-
with he commanded those VINO were
guilty of the blood of Christ TO repent
and be converted, that your sins may be
blotted out when the times OF refresh
ing shall come from the presence OF
the Lord and he shall send Jesus
Christ, which before was preached unto
you; whom the heaven must receive
until the times OF restitution OF an
things, which God hath spoken by the
mouth of all His holy prophets since
the world began" showing that there
should be- grand restitution OF an
that had been taken from the earth. |
restitution Of prophecy? Yes. A |
restitution OF revelation? Yes, a res |
tlitAion of the Church organization, |
with Apostles and Prophets endowed by |
the Shirt and power Of the Almighty |
Yes. If these things are not TO come to |
pass then the scriptures are not true.
But before the day OF the Lord, as / |
said in the beginning, Elijah was TO
come,
"Behold. / will send you Elijah the |
prophet before the coming OF the great |
and dreadful day of the Lord"
What does tnlS mean Inc great anu
dreadful day Of the Lord did not come
nj the first coming Of the Messiah, nor
at the preaching Of the Apostles; for
darkness covered the earth and gross
darkness the minds Of the people. They
crucifed the Prophets and Apostles, and
stoned them that were sent unto them.
So that day was not the great and
dreadful day Of the Lord. Who was
Elijah? A prophet Of God who was
caught 10 into heaven without tasting
death-translate by the power OF God,
that he might perform mission In the
last days in the body Elijah the proph-
ct has visited the earth In these days.
He appeared to the Prophet Joseph
Smith In the Kirkland temple, and re-
stored unto him certain keys, which
extend 70 those in the spirit world who
died without hearing the Gospel In the
flesh. Jesus said, "the hour Is coming,
In the which all that are in the graves
shall hear his voice." and the Apostle
Peter said that Jesus went TO preach to
the spirits in prison who had rejected
the Gospel in the days OF Noah. So
in the last days, when God raised up q
prophet, II being the dispensation OF
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