The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-31
CHAPTER VII.-continued.


strength and all their weakness. H
had listened with close attention t
the remarkable plan suggested by thi
fiery young ZealOt, and he studied hil
now with gaze that was kind. A NJ
tlceable result of this attitude c
Brlgham's was that those who ha
laughed became more or less awkward
Iy silent, while the Entablature @
Truth, in the midst of his pantomime
frOze into amaZement.
"W'd better consider that a little
said Brigham, finally. you can tall
1t over with me tonight. But first 70,
go get your stuff unloaded and ge
kind Of settled. There's a cabin ius
beyond my two up the street here tina
you can move into" He put his large
hand kindly on the others shoulder
Now run and get fixed and come tc
my house for supper along about
dark"
Somewhat cooled by the laughter OF
the others, but fattered by this con.
sldeTatlon 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 GentiIes 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 Heay.
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
can be given to man for his entrance |
through the celestial gate, then Won
can see it."
He gazed moment into the fire of
hickory logs before which thew sat
and then went on, more confidentiallv.
Now you take that promise to
Aoraham-Life up your eyes and be.
mold the stars. So shall thy seed he
as numberless as tn stars. Go to the
and look at the sand, and be.
mold the smallness of the particles
thereof-l 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 minute how many particles
mere are, say in cubit foot of sand
ABOUT one 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.
ain more particles than there wonId
be people on the whole globe yot
here you got the promise of the Lord
n black and white. Now how VOC
to manage to get FONDA,
ion laid for this mighty kingdom
was he to get it through one wife,
Oon you see how ridiculous that isq
sarah saw it, and Sarah knew tbot
lnless seed was raised to Abraham bo l
would come short of his glory so
"hat ala Sarah do? She gave Ahra. c
lam certain woman whose namn MO.
aagar, and by her a seed was n ho +
,aiSed up unto him. And was that an9 F
NJ ~, we read of his wife Keturah and @
'iSo OF plurality of wives which ho T
~ 4 l..
lad IN the sight and favor of God and n
~ rom whom he raised up MANY sons +
nere' tnen' was foundation laid for a
ne Iuinilment of that grand promise $
concerning his seed" h
he peered again into the fire and
Iuueo' by way of clenching his argn, "
nent: L guess it would have h. y
amer slow-going, if the Lord had con. h
lnea Abraham to one wife, like Some n
Il tnese narrow, contracted nations ~ q
MODERN Christianity. You see thew II
on { know that mans posteritv in
MS world is to constitute his glorv
nu kingdom and dominion in the
%, 10 come, and they don't know
ltner' That there are thousands of
loice spirits in the spirit world wait. d
lg to tabernacle in the flesh. OF b
purse, there are lots of these things v
latG you amt ready to hear vet, but j.
w you know that polygamy is nee. fl
sary Tor our exaltation to the full. n
'ss OF the Lords glory in the eternal n
rid, and after you study it you'll B
re the doctrine. l do; can swallow tt
without greasing my mouth"
He prayed that night to be made al
oily as Thy servant Brigham is W
ly; to hear Thy voice as he hears te
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