The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-12-26

then upon the same principle am l
authorized to take away the life of
every false teacher, and where would
be the end Of blood, and who would
not be the sufferer. But no man Is
authorized to take away life in conse-
quence of their religion: which all
laws and governments ought to toler-
ate, right or wrong. If show verify,
that | have the truth of God, and
show that ninety-nne out of hun
dred are false teachers, while they pre-
tend to hold the keys of God, and to
kill them because they are false teach
ers, it would deluge the whole world
with blood. | want you all to know
God, to be familiar with him, and If i
can bring you to Him, and all pcrse-
cutions against me will cease, you will
know that / am his servant, for /
speak as one having authority. What
sort of a being was God in the begin
ming? Open your ears and hear all ye
ends Of the earth; for ! am going to
prove it to you by the Bible, and am
going to tell you the designs of God to
the human race, and why he inter-
fcres with the affairs Of man.
First-God Himself, who sits en-
throncd in yonder heavens, is a man
like unto one of yourselves, that is the
great secret. If the vail was rent to-
day, and the Great God, who holds
this world in its orbit, and upholds
all things by his power if you were to
see Him today, you would see Him in
all the person. image, and very form
as man: for Adam was created in
| the very fashion and image of God;
Adam received instruction, walked,
talked and conversed with Him, as
one man talks and communes with
another.
In order to understand the subject
of The dead, for the consolation OF
those who mourn for the loss of their
friends, IL is necessary they should
understand the character and being
of God, for | am going to tell you how
God came to be God. We have i'm
agined that God was God from all
eternity. These are incomprehensi-
ideas to some, but they are the sim
pie and first principles of the gospel;
to know for certainty the character
of God, that we may converse with
him as one man with another, and
that God himself, the Father of us
all, dwelt on an earth the same as
Jesus Christ himself did, and | will
show it from the Bible. ! wish | had
the trump of an archangel, | could
tell the story in such u manner that
persecution would cease forever: what
did Jesus say? Mark it Elder Rig
dom Jesus said, as the Father hath
power in himself, even so hath the
Son power; to do what? Why, what
the Father did, that answer is OBJ
viouS: in a manner to lay down his
body and take it up again. Jesus,
what are you going to do? TO lay
down my life, as my father did, and
take it up again. If you do not be-
lievc it, you do not believe the Bible;
the scriptures say it, and ] defy all
the learning and wisdom, all the COM
bined powers of earth and hell to-
gethcr. to refute it. Here, then, is
eternal life, to know the only wise and
true God. You have got to learn how
to be. Gods yourselves, to be kings
and priests to God, the same as all
Gods have done: by going from small
degree to another, from grace to grace,
eXaltation to eXaltation, until you are
able to sit in glory rs doth those who
sit enthroned in everlasting power;
and want you to know that God in
the last days, while certain individ-
uals are proclaiming his name, is not
trifing with you or me; it Is the first
principles of consolation. How con-
selling to the mourner, when they are
called to part with husband, wife,
father, mother, child, or dear relative,
to know that although che earthly
tabernacle shall be dissolved, that
they shall rise in immortal glory, not
to sorrow, suffer or die any more, but
they shall be heirs Of God and Joint
heirs with Jesus Christ. What is it
to inherit the same power and the
same eXaltation, until you ascend the
throne of eternal power the same as
those who have gone before? What
did Jesus do? Why do the things
| saw my Father do which worlds came
rolling into existence. | saw my Faith
er work out his kingdom with fear
and trembling, and must do the
same: and when get my kingdom |
shall present it to my Father: so that
he obtains kingdom upon Kingdom,
and it will cXalt his glory, so that Je-
suS treads in his track to inherit
what God did before; it is plain be-
You'd disputation, and you thus learn
! some of the first PRINCIPLES of the Cos