Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-10

| Inc heueeiner claimed To be klns,
| though not over kingdom "of this
| world AT the crucial moment, when
denial might have brought Him lib.
erty. He affirmed His right 10 kingly
authority and honors, though not in a
worldly sense:
Jesus answered. my kingdom Is not
| OF this world: II my kingdom were OF
| this world then would my servants
| nght That | should not be delivered
| 10 the Jews: but now Il my Kingdom
not from hence
| "Pilate therefore said unto Him, Art
| thou king then? Jesus answered,
| Thou sayest that am king. To this
| end was born and for this cause came
/ into the world. that | should bear
witness unto the truth. John Is: 81,
| 81.
The followers of Jesus were popular
ly supposed TO preach sedltion. Paul
and Silas encountered this accusation
at Thessalonica:
But the Jews which believed not,
moved with envy took unto them GER
| tain lewd fellows OF the baser sort. and
| gathered company, and set all the
city on an upr0ar, and assaulted the
house OF Jason, and sought 10 bring
them out TO the people. and when they
found them not. they drew Jason and
certain brethren unto the rulers OF the
city. crying. These that have turned
the world upside down are come hith-
err also; whom Jason has received
And these all do contrary to the de.
crees OF Caesar saying that there Is
another king. one Jesus And they
troubled the people, and the rulers OF
the city. when they heard these things
Acts. II; So.
Public indignation was sometimes
aroused by the fact that the disciples
had TO meet In secret in order to es-
cape the prosecutors, Some OF their
teachings were impaired under the form
of symbolic expressions. not understood
outside their own circles, as Is evident
from the book OF Revelation by John
And sometimes the Apostles did not
care. or did not dare. TO commit what
thoy had 30 say to writing, as when
the Apostle Paul, for instance, In his
second letter to the Thessaonians,
writing about the appearance of the
Christian power. refers to the sec
ular government In these mysterious
terms:
"And now ye know what withholdeth
that he might be revealed in his timo
only he who now letteth will
let until he be taken out OF the way
III Thess. ii. 6, 7.
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dressed knew what the Apostle referred
to. For he says: Remember ye not.
that, when l was yet with you, told
you these things?" But TO the strang-
ers his language was az mysterious as
the number 500 of the Apocalypse. The
very mystery with which some Of the
teachings OF the Apostles necessarily
were surrounded, lent color to the ma
llclous charges Of wicked men, ana
seemed TO Justify the agitation.
But such accusations and riots did
not change the teachings Of the Apos-
ties. Paul says;
Until the appearing of our Lord
Jesus Christ which In his time he shall
show. who is blessed and only poten-
tate, the King OF kings and the Lord
OF lords" Tim. g. ~. Is,
Then Cometh the end, when He
shall deliver up the kingdom to God
oven the Father, when He shall have
nut down all rule ana all authority
and power. for He must reign. till He
hath put all enemies under His feet
l Cor Is: "a. %.
Jesus Is in the Scriptures represent
ed specially as the king of Saints"
Great and marvellous are thy
works. Lord God Almighty; Just and
true are thy ways, thou King OF Saints
All nations shall come and worship be-
fore thee; for thy judgments are made
manifest" Rev rs. ,. 4
As we have already remarked. there
were no more loyal citizens than these
| men who proclaimed the coming OF the
kingdom OF God among men, and Jesus
as the King Of glory; but when they
were imposed upon. they did NOT hesi-
tate to rebuSe in flaming words the
iniquity Of their tormentors, Paul,
when the high priest inter.
rupted his defense before the
court, with the suggestion that some-
one ought to smite the prisoner turned
Indignantly upon him and said: God
shall smlte thee thou whited WALL for
sittest thou to judge me after the law.
and command me to be smitten con-
tray TO the law?'
In this he but followed the precedent
set by the Master, who exclaimed.
'Ye serpents. We generation OF vipers!
How can We escape the damnation OF
hell? Wherefore, behold. / send unto
you prophets, and wise men, and
scrbes, and some Of them ye shall kill.
and cruelty 80. that upon you
may come all the righteous blood shed
upon the earth, from the blood OF
righteous Abel" Matt 2S; 1896.
Il Is easy to "wrest" the Scriptures
and to support a charge of disoyalty
to the state. from the texts quoted, It
Is, In fact, less dhlcult, by twisting
the teachings OF Jesus AID His Apos-
ties, to prove the former-day Saints
traitors to Rome. than to prove the
Latter-day saints disloyal to the Unit
ed states, But it will be found that
those who engage in that kind Of ex-
egesis only prepare their own de-
structlon.
Centuries have passed since the great
German reformer lived and hurled his
thunder-bolts against the corruption
OF his age. Millions revere and follow
him. as a messenger from heaven, And
yet,even al this late day millions regard
him as man OF exceedingly corrupt
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