The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-04-01


come here in the imagination. merely.
OF the ancient Nephites? Was 1t only
a fantastical feeling which arose in
their minds; generated in their minds
that Christ came there among them?
Not much. Jesus went there just az
taugbly and as literally as He arose
from the dead, He preached to His
disciples on more than one occasion,
and conferred the priesthood upon
them after His resurrection from the
dead. They were endowed with the
Holy Ghost after the resurrection Of
Christ. After His resurrection He laid
His hands upon them and conferred
upon them the Holy Ghost, and said,
receive we, the Holy Ghost" and told
Them to go, until they should be en-.
dowed with power from God; that Is,
until the Holy Spirit of God should
descend upon them. which it did on
the day of Pentecost, and appeared
unto them in cloven tongues like as of
fire, and II sat upon each of them"
and each of them preached the gospel
to the people who were assembled, to
each nation and to each individual in
his own name.
Now, is 1t not just as easy for Christ
to come again to Joseph Smith, to
come and walk on this earth, where
He walked before; is 1t not just as
natural to suppose; is II not just as
real, and as just to admit, and to
claim that Jesus will come again in
these latter-days? Why is 1t that God
cannot come to the earth, that He
cannot visit His children, to whom
He has sent His gospel and His mes.
sengers? VIII people be so obtuse, so
unbeleving, so faithless. or so ignor.
| ant. II you will, as to imagine or
| suppose that 1t is impossible for God
il belongs. or IL disgrace for Him
| to come here, II He chooses to come
oh, what nonsense, Why, they say
God has too much to do: He is toe
| great being; He has too many
greater things to attend to than tc
come here and talk to a little boy, On
to reveal anything to the world.
Well that is all theory; that is fried
froth."
fear time will not permit me t
read, but will refer you to wha
Joseph Smith says and Oliver Cow
derry now joins with Joseph in state
ment to the world that they went on
anu ploSNuI anu Ut 'iib Niiit ~ wa
not the Father and the Son VIII,
came to visit them, but ii was an
other parsonage, An angel. Wen, wha
is an angel? There are two kinds o
angels, at least. There may be three
but there are two kinds that we know
OF, There are the angels who are res
directed men and resurrected women
and there are angels who are olsen
, bodied spirits, who are not resurrect
! ed. And then there may be anothe
kind of spirits who have never bee
embodied in mortal flesh. They wi
come by and by and receive table
nacles. So there may be three kind
: Of angels, but the kind that came
the Prophet Joseph Smith and to o
iyer Cowdery on this occasion was
resurrected angel, a resurected ma
and his name was John the Baptis
3 who was the son of Elizabeth and Ia
[ amos. and he was ,ne foreruanel {
4 the Lord before His frat coming, an
b. He was to come again as the for
runner OF Christ before His secon
? coming, He laid his hands upon J.
A seph Smith and Oliver Cowdery an
a said to them. upon you. my fello
q servants. In the name OF Messiah,
y confer the priesthood 90 Aaron. whiC
+ holds the keys OF the ministesing