The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-26

understanding OF the wisdom OF the pIap
"h'ch nc had arranged and would, In due
elmc, work out; secondly. the angels
themselves never had come in contact
with sin OF any kind. Hence they never
mao been tested or tried I'm respccf 10
.heir opedlence and loyalty TO the Crea-
.' .pr' Ihey were permitted to attempt
tne recovery OF humanity-partly in order
to God. ~"" i"sai'S
Our knowledge Of spirit beings and
.ns powers granted to them by the AL
nienly is limited to our observation of
the blple record The angels who an
peared as Young men at our Lords Sc
pnlcher and again at his ascension. and
who. as soon as they had Accomplished
Inc purposes OF their visit vanished arc
Illustrations,
We remember the account of how Abra
nam nam sat In the door of his tent and be-
hoio, three mon came 10 him. Ho re-
ceiVed them as men. entertained them at
dinner and, we read "They did eat and
talked with Abraham" They had hu-
man powers though still spirit beings
ishcd.
Genesis vi, 1-2. informs us that this
privilege OF naturalization for fhe as
sistance OF mankind was eventually mis-
uscd py some OF the angels as an oppor-
lunlty Tor sinful intercourse with hu-
manity. The time at which this began
is not definitely stated. The expression.
face of the earth" might safely be esti
mated AZ about thousand years after
leave period OF 600 years to the flood.
Ii was approximately during the long
period that the angelic sons OF God see
ing the daughters OF men, took to them
selves for wives all that they chose Of
the fair daughters OF men. And they
bore children to them. The same became
mighty men which were OF old men OF
renown-and giants. We remember that
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longer than now and that manhood was
scarcely reached before century and that
few became fathers sooner; and when we
RENE m ber also that the children Of the
angels are not mentioned as boys, but
men, mighty men, renowned men. Ii gives
the thought that the angels without d.
vine permission. had really started to pro-
pagate new race and that their pro-
geny was much stronger than that of the
poor. Adamic stock.
The disregard OF divine law meant
be used selfshly and the licentious ex-
ample OF the angels had a demoralizlng
effect upon the children of Adam, as
we'll as Upon their own children. All
this is stated and implied in the words
"And God saw that the wickedness OF
man was great in the earth and that
every imagination of the thoughts OF his
heart was only evil continually" What
things before the flood, But God was
not astonished. for he had foreknown
everything. Hence he had a. great can
opy OF water in the sky which tempo
rarily gave the earth an equable, tenn
pcrate climate, but which he intended
should fall uopn the earth and cause
the great flood in Noeh's day. Hence at
the appropriate time God gave instruc-
tons to Noah TO prepare an ark FOR
the saving OF himself and his house
Noah and his family were the only mem
bers of Adams race in all the earth who
were not more or less contaminated by
those angels. How wide must have been
that influence when we read as
exceptional matter. Now Noah (and his
family was perfect in his seneration"-