The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-11-08

1ngly, then put his hand upon his own
mead and shaken 1t hopelessly to the
others.
The other who had not laughed was
Brigham himself. For to this great
man had been given the gift to look
upon men and to know in one slow
sweep of his wonderful Eyes all their
strength and all their weakness. He
had listened with close attention to
the remarkable plan suggested by his
merry young zealot, and he studied him
now with a gaze that was kind. A no.
ticeable result of this attitude of
Brigham's was that those who had
laughed became more or less awkward.
ly silent, while the Entablature of
Truth, in the midst of his pantomime.
froze into amazement.
"W'd better consider that a little"
said Brigham, finally. "You can talk
1t over with me tonight. But first YOU
go get your stuff unloaded and get
KIM OF settled. There's a cabin just
beyond my two up the street here that
you can move into" He put his large
hand kindly on the others shoulder,
Now run and get fixed and come to
my house for supper along about
dark"
Somewhat cooled by the laughter of
the others, but 1attered by this con.
sheraton from the Prophet, the young
man had gone thoughtfully out to his
wagons and driven on to the cabin
indicated.
Brigham talked to him late that
night, advancing many cogent reasons
Why it should be unwise to make war
at once upon the nation of Gentiles to
the east. OF these reasons the one
that had greatest weight with his
listener was the assurance that such
a course would not at present be pleas.
ing in the sight of God. To others.
touching upon the matter of superior
forces they might have to contend
with, he was loftily inattentive.
From matters of civil government
the talk ranged to affairs domestic.
Tell me-" said the young man, "the
truth of this new order of celestial
marriage" And Brigham had become
animated at once.
"Yes," he said, when the family
organization was revealed from Heav.
en-, and Joseph began on 'the right and
the left to add to his family, oh, dear,
what a quaking there was in Israel!
But there it was, plain enough. When
you have received your endowments,
keys, blessings, all the tokens, signs,
and every preparatory ordinance that
a be given to a man for his entrance
through the celestial gate, then you
a see it."
He gazed a moment into the fire of
hickory logs before which they sat,
and then went on, more ~confidentially:
Nov you take that promise to
Abraham-Life up your eyes and be-.
hold the stars. So shall thy seed be
as numberless as the stars. Go to the
seashore and look at the sand, and be-
hold the smallness Of the particles
thereof am giving you the gist Of
the Lords words, you understand
and then realize that your seed shall
be as numberless as those sands Now
think for a minute how many particles
eiS1o oIO, say III CuUlI lOOL I'll SdlU"
about n thousand million particles,
Think of that! In eight thousand
years, If the Inhabitants of earth in
creased one trillion a century, three
cubic yards of sand would still con-
tain more particles than there would
be people on the whole globe. Yet
there you got the promise Of the Lord
In hI001Y onH uyhftn Now 1@r, -.z-
Abraham to manage to get a founda-
ton laid for this mighty kingdom?
Was he to get 1t through one wife?
Don't you see how ridiculous that is?
Sarah saw it, and Sarah knew thai
unless seed was raised to Abraham he
would come short of his glory. So
what did Sarah do? She gave Abra-
ham a certain whose name was
Hagar, and by her a seed was to be
raised up unto him. And was that all?
No. We read of his wife Ketrrah, and
also of a plurality of wives which he
had in the sight and favor Of God, and
from whom he raised up many sons.
There, then, was a foundation laid for
the fulfllment of that grand promise
concerning his seed"
He peered again into the fire, and
added, by way of %clenching his argu-
ment: 81 guess 1t would have been
rather ~slow-going, if the Lord had con-
fined Abraham to one wife, like some
of these narrow, contracted nations of
modern Christianity. You see, they
don't know that a mans posterity in
this world is to constitute his glory
and kingdom and dominion in the
world to come, and they don't know,
either, that there are thousands of
choice spirits In the spirit world wait
ing to tabernacle in the flesh. OF
course, there are lots Of these things
that you amt ready to hear yet, but
now you know that polygamy is &C.
essary for our exaltation to the full
ness Of the Lords glory in the eternal
world, and after you study it you'll
like the doctrine. I do; I can swallow
1t without greasing my mouth"
He prayed that night to be made
holy as Thy servant Brigham is
holy; to hear Thy voice as he hears
it; to be made as wise as he, as true
~ - ----Q H.