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  • * [[Joseph Smith's First Vision|First Vision]]
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  • * Messages of the First Presidency [James R. Clark, editor] ** [http://gospelink.com/library/contents/819 Joseph Smith's First Vision: Confirming Evidences and Contemporary Accounts]
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  • {{Navigation:First Vision}} ...rried that the Prophet Joseph Smith gave a number of versions of the first vision anymore than I am worried that there are four different writers of the gosp
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  • ...se affidavits were collected by Doctor Philastus Hurlbut ("Doctor" was his first name, not a title).<ref>"Doctor" was not a title&mdash;It was Hurlbut's act ...young Joseph, just a year prior to his [[Joseph Smith's First Vision|First Vision]], to be competent and credible as a witness. Also, the suit being brought
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  • ...for a year and a half.<ref>Milton V. Backman, Jr., ''Joseph Smith's First Vision: Confirming Evidences and Contemporary Accounts'', 2d ed. rev. (Salt Lake C
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  • ...tiple accounts of the First Vision/Brigham Young never mentioned the First Vision]]
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  • ...e taught and practiced in the Church; determined me to leave the office of first counsellor to the president of the Church at Nauvoo, inasmuch as I dared no In greeting our patrons with the first number of the Expositor, a remark is necessary for the expression of some v
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  • The Gospel Topics Essay touching on the first vision touches on another way of looking at the evidence. It focuses on the awkwar ...y of the heavenly beings Joseph Smith stated that he saw. Joseph’s First Vision accounts describe the heavenly beings with greater detail over time. The 18
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  • ...0): "This wording in the present Pearl of Great Price is modified from the first printing, in which the messenger was identified as 'Nephi'" ...73 9:This wording in the present Pearl of Great Price is modified from the first printing, in which the messenger was identified as "Nephi"}}
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  • ...that beginning was is largely futile because [it is] unanswerable. In the first place we have no time unit by which to measure back through the ages to the <br><br>It is not enough to refer effects to the First Great Cause; it is unsatisfying and not always reverent to answer questions
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  • ...onages who appeared to the Prophet Joseph Smith or who were seen by him in vision. The list does not include instances where he only heard supernatural voice ...own history and the records kept by contemporaries who were present when a vision was received or when Joseph Smith spoke about his sacred communications. A
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  • ;Spring 1820: First Vision ...ight, and one the next day. He is directed to and sees the plates for the first time. He is forbidden to take the plates at that time.<ref>[http://scriptu
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  • This outcome is very similar to what Wilford Woodruff saw in vision. :The Lord showed me by vision and revelation exactly what would take place if we did not stop this practi
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  • A statement by the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...d to Joseph Smith, when, as a boy of fourteen years, he received his first vision.
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  • |L=Joseph Smith's First Vision/Religious activity in the Palmyra area in 1820 ...nflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision?
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  • ...nds. This article explores biblical theophanies and argues that Joseph’s vision fits squarely with the experience of ancient prophets, especially those who
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  • ===Symbols Shown By Vision=== ...ated on the exterior of the Nauvoo Temple can be directly connected with a vision shown to the Prophet Joseph Smith.
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  • ===Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery reported a vision in the Kirtland Temple on 3 April 1836 during which they saw Moses, Elijah Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery reported a vision in the Kirtland Temple on 3 April 1836 (see {{s||D&C|110|1-16}}). They rep
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  • |L=Joseph Smith's First Vision/John Taylor |H=John Taylor's understanding of the First Vision
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  • ...Question: What do critics of Mormonism say about John Taylor and the First Vision?]]
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  • ...Additionally, the Book of Jasher as listed in this collection of lore was first published in New York 1840. The appearance of the English translation was n ...Jasher 11:51, p. 143<ref>The Book of Jasher frames the attempt with Terah first pleading with the king to take Abram's life. The king then sends men to get
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  • Another relevant account is John the Revelator's vision, in which John says:
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  • |L=Joseph Smith's First Vision/Joining other churches |H=Did Joseph Smith join other churches contrary to commandment in the First Vision?
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  • |L=Joseph Smith's First Vision/Personages that appeared referred to by Church leaders as "angels" |H=Some Church leaders referred to the personages that appeared in the First Vision as "angels"
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  • ...'s First Vision/Accounts/Heber C. Kimball's statements regarding the First Vision |H=Heber C. Kimball denied the Father appeared in the First Vision?
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  • ==Question: Why doesn't Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision account mention a "new dispensation"?== ===The wording in the Prophet's 1832 First Vision account can be comfortably interpreted to mean that he understood this extr
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  • *[[First Vision accounts]] (Summary and index page) :'''Claims about the 1832 First Vision account'''
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  • ...Smith's struggle with Satan not mentioned in the 1832 account of the First Vision?]]
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  • |L=Joseph Smith's First Vision/Fabricated to give "Godly authority" |H=Claims that the First Vision was fabricated by Joseph Smith to give him a line of "Godly authority"
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  • ...id William Smith claim that a religious revival led to the Joseph's "first vision" of an angel in 1823?]]
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  • ...r:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Claim: "An amazing experience like [the First Vision] should radically change a person's life but by the age of 21, Joseph was a Joseph never claimed to be perfect, and mentioned that following his vision he made foolish errors ({{S||JS-H|1|28}}). However, the video attempts to d
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  • ...n witnesses never claimed to have seen physical plates or only saw them in vision is simply false, and a gross distortion of the historical record.
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  • :he did not believe it at first, it was so contrary to his feelings, but he said he knew Joseph was a proph ...om your mission to the East she came to my home for an item of counsel the first time that I ever saw her with my natural eyes I gave the required counsel a
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  • :''While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee. Arise therefore, a Peter has a vision about Gentile conversion. He presents this "Word of God" to the assembled
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  • ...hest level of heaven only if we play a little game and pretend to meet him first and give him a secret handshake. Also, if God truly wants us to make it bac ...s of films all stem from the fact that Joseph Smith claimed to have seen a vision which said all Christian creeds were an abomination to God. It was Latter-d
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  • ...fied openly, unequivocally, and unabashedly of that great vision. It was a vision of the Almighty and of the Redeemer of the world, glorious beyond our under ...7}}{{link|url=http://www.lds.org/ensign/1988/03/comparing-lds-beliefs-with-first-century-christianity?lang=eng}}
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  • ...account of the First Vision grow more detailed and more colorful after he first recorded it in 1832?]]
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  • ...there are several different contradictory accounts of Joseph Smith's first vision, how did the LDS Church choose the correct one?" |L13=Response to claim: "40. Why does the LDS Church teach that man first existed as spirits in heaven when 1 Corinthians 15:46 says that the physica
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  • ==The First Presidency== ....wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presidency_%28Community_of_Christ%29 Wikipedia - First Presidency (community of Christ)])
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  • The first point to understand is that we don't see God as something that is "Totally ...l earth life is a continuation of the process of developing that potential first begun in the pre-mortal existence where we lived with our Father in Heaven.
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  • *The critic removes a single sentence which describes why the First Vision is important. More significantly, the critic omits the paragraph immediatel
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  • ...claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, "Chapter 8: The First Vision" ...to his later accounts of events such as the [[First Vision accounts|First Vision]], the [[Priesthood restoration]], the [[Book of Mormon witnesses|Three and
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  • ...anti-Mormon propaganda for the big screen. They are so committed to their vision of perfidious Mormons, that they can't accept non-Mormon criticism at face ...t in religion and passion for history led her to write September Dawn, her first screenplay, in collaboration with Director/Producer Christopher Cain.<ref>R
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  • ...them who shall be heirs of salvation?" And then let me ask nine questions first. ...he fall: man must have remained miserable forever, after transgressing the first commandment, because in consequence of that transgression he had rendered h
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  • ...gs and nothing existed prior to that creation." – Jon McCartney (Pastor, First Baptist Church of Tooele, Utah)</h2> ...during the long pre-mortal existence. During this time the Savior, as the first born of the Father, developed the attributes that allowed God the Father to
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  • ...ourney many dangers were experienced. Elder William W. Phelps, in daylight vision, saw the destroyer riding in power upon the face of the waters. ..." continues the Prophet in his narrative, "heard the noise but saw not the vision." "Behold there are many dangers upon the waters," said the revelation, "an
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  • ''A young man of ambition and vision penned his own letter of affection to a young woman. It was the summer of 1 <br>&mdash;Robert B. White, "A Review of the Dust Jacket and the First Two Pages," ''Review of George D. Smith. Nauvoo Polygamy: ". . . but we cal
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  • ...ilence of Joseph's mother and siblings in her history prove that the First Vision did not take place, and is a later fabrication by Joseph, and not well know |L2=Question: Did Brigham Young insert the reference to Joseph's First Vision into Lucy Mack Smith's history?
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  • ...ntext in which he originally presented it. Over seven years after ONUG was first published, the author posted the following statement on the Mormon Apologet ''He that is first in his own cause seemeth just;''
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  • ...o claim: 1 - The author claims that Louisa Beaman "was about to become the first plural wife of Joseph Smith" ...at Smith might have engaged in the practice prior to this, but this is the first documented marriage"
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  • ...laim: 15 - Did Joseph incorporate a documented 1824 revival into his First Vision story? |L5=Response to claim: 15 - Why does Joseph's 1832 First Vision account state that he was 15 rather than 14 years old?
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  • ...Response to claim: 26, 492n19-20 (HB) - Oliver Cowdery said that the First Vision took place in 1823 when Joseph was in his 17th year |L7=Response to claim: 27, 493n23 (HB) - George A. Smith merged the First Vision and Moroni's visit
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  • ...ch didn't even exist until 1830, and Joseph wrote the stories of his First Vision and Moroni's visit well after 1823. The author simply wants to dramatically ...ood''' that Smith found the golden plates not by a dream, or a ghost, or a vision&mdash;but by looking into his peep-stone and seeing where they had been dep
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  • ...the law; and it is asked by those who condemn the act, why the law was not first allowed to take its course before violence was resorted to? We answer that ...the nations that fight against Zion shall become like the dream of a night vision, as when a man who is hungry dreameth that he is satisfied with food, and h
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  • Paul also indicated that he had seen a vision of "the third heaven." ({{b|2|Corinthians|12|2}}) Therefore, one might logi ...February 1832 [D&C 76]|url=https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/vision-16-february-1832-dc-76/1}}</ref>
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  • Paul says, when writing to the Galatians, first chapter, 8 and 9 verses.-"But though we or an angel from heaven preach any ...from his hand I received baptism, by the direction of the angel of God-the first received into this church, in this day.
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  • ...horter" years after being told not to join another church during the First Vision?}} *Wilford C. Wood, Joseph Smith Begins His Work: Book of Mormon 1830 First Edition, 1:25-26,32; d. 1 Ne. 11:16, 18,21,32; 13:40, 1981 ed.
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  • ====November 1835: Journal account regarding Moroni's first visits==== ...ld me of a sacred record which was written on plates of gold, I saw in the vision the place where they were deposited, he said the indians were the literal d
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  • ...orward to the period of your being embodied with the Saints? What were the vision of your mind, and the operations of the Spirit upon your understanding? Whe I want you to look at the Saints before they first gathered to be mobbed; they expected all sin to be at an end at the place o
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  • ...to sustain life; notwithstanding these straightened circumstances, at the first Conference we held in the old Tabernacle, this subject was agitated, and $5 ...first heard of the latter-day work? of the Gospel in its fulness? when you first learned that the Lord had a Prophet, and Apostles, who held the words of li
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  • To me, these principles are like the vision of open day upon this beautiful earth. Life and death are easily understood ...or the same reason; because there is a curtain dropped that interrupts our vision. So it is, something intervenes between us and them, which we cannot penetr
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  • ...have gone abroad into the world, and knowing the ways of the Lord, and the vision of his mind being opened to those things we call mysteries, said—"Whom sh ...l now show yourselves at this late day, and try to have us believe you are first-rate Latter-day Saints. My thoughts are, "YOU POOR DEVILS!"
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  • ...he North-East Corner Stone of the Temple at Great Salt Lake City after the First Presidency of the Seventies and the Presidency of the Elders' Quorum had la ..., sealings, anointings, baptisms for the dead, and in the mysteries of the first, second, and third heavens, many of which are unlawful to utter? Angels and
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  • ...then with safety add another to that already laid; but if I cannot lay the first stone upon ground that is solid—if I cannot lay it upon a rock, I may des In the first place, then, we will look unto Abraham our father, and to Sarah who bore us
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  • In Paul's first epistle to Timothy, third chapter, he writes as follows— ...holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
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  • You may ask why? You may think that this contradicts my first statement—that the temporal things of this life are not even of a seconda ...the year 1831, when ancient "Mormonism," as it has often been termed, was first introduced; we call it ancient, because it seems quite long to us narrow mi
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  • If the first passage I have quoted is not worded to our understanding, we can alter the ...h a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin u
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  • ...pt among the people of the Most High. The Prophet gazed upon the scene his vision presented, until his heart sickened, and he besought the Lord to close it u ...he saw it upon the American Continent—in the region of country where he first introduced the doctrine of the Son of God; so we may look for calamity in o
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  • Since President Young and others have dwelt upon tithing it is coming in first rate, and Bishop Hunter has become frightened; "Good heavens," says he, "wh ...ght to be burned, and the rest gathered with us; for the Lord, in the very first start of this Church, said, "All those who have entered into covenant with
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  • ...ecution, opposition, and oppression that this Church has met with from its first organization, have been in a great measure in consequence of carrying out t ...re would have been no need of an angel to visit the earth to teach men the first principles of the Gospel of Christ, and administer its ordinances to them.
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  • ...e can learn the very first elements of knowledge, and act upon them in the first place. Instead of having the whole of the rich treasures of knowledge and w ...formerly possessed, could we be again tried as those who possess only the first principles of knowledge? We must begin at the alphabet of knowledge; and wh
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  • ...e enjoying the fulfilment of those predictions. We will, therefore, in the first place, bring up some prophetical evidences which prove the divine authentic
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  • ...elation was referred to at the April Conference in 1854. It was one of the first commandments or revelations given to this people after they had the privile ...y good we possess, every bright idea, every pure affection, and every good vision of mind from our infancy to the present time, are {{page break|301|top}} al
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  • ...re my ideas were strengthened upon this thing; but when I came to read the vision given to Joseph Smith upon a future state, as contained in the Book of Doct ...{page break|9|top}} up Daniel, and he would tell us he learned more in one vision, concerning the history of the Medes and Persians, and of the Romans, and o
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  • ...re they belong, and attending strictly to worship in its season, if not at first, you soon will be united, and be able to bring every evil principle into su ...ps some will complain of the speaker for chastising them, when perhaps the first sentences which meet their eyes upon opening the Bible, will convey the ide
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  • ...g has that story to go the rounds before it is told as a revelation—as a vision, and perhaps as coming from a man of God, from a proper source, that the Lo ...Saints—whom I have preached to from the first of my preaching, from the first of my testimony that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God, and that the Book o
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  • ...that they may be taught as we teach our children, that they may learn the first rudiments of eternal lives. ...man or woman comes to me and relates great visions, saying, "I have had a vision, an angel came and told me thus and so; the visions of eternity were opened
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  • ...not many calamities come upon the nations of the earth, until this people first feel their effects, and when hard times commence they will begin at the hou ...those who are inclined to serve the Lord, they will be the ones to suffer first. The Spirit has been in my heart all the time, and when the drouth came I l
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  • ...le finished on this block, as I have seen {{page break|249|top}} it in the vision of my mind, do you not perceive that the whole of the labor of the mind, on
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  • ...ow the very foundation and essence of the Gospel, they are schooled in the first rudiments of the education of the Saints—in those principles which are de ...y to his God unless he first learn to rule and control himself. A man must first learn to rightly rule himself, before his knowledge can be fully brought to
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  • ...ing subjected to certain evil influences, through the transgression of our first parents. At the same time, if it had not been for their transgressing the c Our first parents through transgressing the law of God, brought death into the world,
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  • ...eople, and He is the God that pertains to this earth—the first man. That first man sent his own Son to redeem the world, to redeem his brethren; his life ...e standard of Christ in that country. Did I at the same time see or have a vision of the angels of God—of His legions? No, I did not; though they were ther
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  • ...l salvation, is most astonishing to me, or to any person that ever had the vision of their minds opened. ...ur understandings, before you ask for the vail to be taken from your eyes. First reform in your moral character and conduct one towards another, so that eve
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  • ...e dream or vision. I noticed another thing in this Tabernacle. When it was first completed, brother Brigham wanted a certain number of seats reserved for hi ...is to try his wife first on the log, to drive his wife and children across first; he must drive. I do not like that, though some men are almost compelled to
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  • |L=Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Context and development of the vision story ...e Wikipedia article "First Vision" section "Context and development of the vision story"
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  • *{{Detail|Joseph Smith's First Vision/Smith family place of residence in 1820}} *{{Detail|Joseph Smith's First Vision/Religious revivals in 1820|First Vision/Accounts/1832/Doesn't mention a revival}}
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  • #{{Harvtxt|Bushman|2005|p=63}} (Harris had a vision that he was to assist with a "marvelous work"); {{Harvtxt|Roberts|1902|p=19 ...ra); {{Harvtxt|Remini|2002|pp=57–58}} (noting that the plan arose from a vision of Martin Harris). According to {{Harv|Bushman|2005|p=64}}, these scholars
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  • ...ry]] ([[Assistant President of the Church]]), [[Frederick G. Williams]] ([[First Presidency]]), [[David Whitmer|David]] and [[John Whitmer]] ([[Book of Morm ...p=346–51}} (Danites were under oath to be "completely submissive" to the First Presidency.)
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  • ...world, than any other man that ever lived in it."); {{Citation|last=Smith|first=Joseph Fielding|authorlink=Joseph Fielding Smith|title=The Historical Backg #{{Citation|last=Weber|first=Max|authorlink=Max Weber|title=Economy and society: an outline of interpret
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  • How does it compare with the vision that Joseph and others had, when they went into a cave in the hill Cumorah, ...the New Jerusalem will be built, where our Father and our God planted the first garden on this earth, and where the New Jerusalem will come to when it come
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  • ...zed in their several grades, and there appeared to be no obstruction to my vision; I could see every man and woman in their grade and order. I looked to see ...and there were no wicked spirits among them. He saw his wife; she was the first person that came to him. He saw many that he knew, but did not have convers
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  • |>=[[../32|Overcome the Powers of Darkness by Prayer—Spiritual Things First in Importance—Cleanliness]] ...imball said, his mortal body was not strong enough to bear its weight. The First Presidency have not addressed this people but a little time since the sacra
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  • ..., and I have concluded that if we do not enjoy the Holy Spirit, and if the vision of our mind is not open to comprehend the things of God, and the power whic ..., and I should labour until that is removed, for I consider that to be the first turning key, and we should do this to prove that we are honest before the L
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  • ...time obliged me to confine myself pretty closely to my rooms. This is the first time that I have walked so far as to come to this Tabernacle since the buri ...tially as they are, perhaps, as looking through a glass darkly, and in the vision of my mind, looking at this people called Latter-day Saints, and leaving ou
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  • |H=INTELLIGENCE COMES FROM GOD—SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD—GREAT CHANGES TO TAKE PLACE ON THE EARTH—ISRAEL OF T |T=Journal of Discourses 4: INTELLIGENCE COMES FROM GOD—SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD—GREAT CHANGES TO TAKE PLACE ON THE EARTH—ISRAEL OF T
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  • There are a few items that I wish to lay before the brethren; the first is concerning our northern mission. A good many names of persons invited to ...upon, I will present a few of my views in somewhat different terms. In the first place, to say that we "borrow light from one another." I do not know that I
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  • ...o not guess at this, because I have been at the other side of the vail, in vision, and have seen a degree of its condition with the eyes that God gave me. I ...of Jesus. So it is with the general authority of this Church; here are the First Presidency, the Twelve, the High Priests, the Seventies, Elders, Bishops, a
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  • ...speaking, say, "I have not a father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first nor second cousin, nor any relative whatever in this Church." Do you not he ...l, "Can you forsake your friends and your father's house?" This was in the vision of my mind, and I had just as much of a trial as though I had actually been
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  • Our religion is first and foremost with us, it is of the greatest importance of all in this gener ...he brethren, to relate a portion of their experience, or tell a dream or a vision, they have the privilege. But our Conferences are more particularly for the
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  • It is true that the Saviour says, "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness;" but now we have the kingdom of h ...th. A great many wanted to go to the Gila River: that was proposed when we first came to this Valley. It was said to be a lovely country, and that men could
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  • ...pened to comprehend the word of God and the teachings of his servants. The vision of my mind has been opened and quickened by the power of God and the gift o ...greatest principles which he has for us are the most simple and plain. The first principles of the Gospel which lead us unto eternal life are the simplest,
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  • |<=[[../13|A Vision]] ...es' Treasury; and I wondered. I cannot say that it produced in my mind the first pleasant feeling. The spirit of wrangling—the spirit of contention seemed
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  • ...d brightness, burst into the room. Indeed, to use his own description, the first sight was as though the house was filled with consuming and unquenchable fi "This cannot be brought about until first certain preparatory things are accomplished, for so has the Lord purposed i
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  • ...re called upon to speak their feelings,—most of them, I suppose, for the first time in their lives. True, they had sat under the teachings of the servants ...the Almighty, and {{page break|84|top}} the Lord taught him many things by vision and revelation that were never taught publicly in his days; for the people
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  • ...on of the Saints—Redemption of Zion, and the Downfall of Her Enemies—A Vision, etc.]] ...the order of God, and it is organized after the order of the Church of the First Born.
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  • ...ON OF THE SAINTS—REDEMPTION OF ZION, AND THE DOWNFALL OF HER ENEMIES—A VISION, ETC. ...ON OF THE SAINTS—REDEMPTION OF ZION, AND THE DOWNFALL OF HER ENEMIES—A VISION, ETC.
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  • ...on of the Saints—Redemption of Zion, and the Downfall of Her Enemies—A Vision, etc.]] ...was revealed to him? Is there a man or woman here who understood even the first principles of the Gospel of Christ until they were revealed to them?
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  • When I am alone, and look by the vision of the Spirit upon this people, my heart says within me, God bless the peop ...ess; and then greater is their darkness in the second instance than in the first.
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  • ...mony. I have been acquainted in this Church and connected with it from the first year of its organization in the wilderness of western New York. It was orga When I first became a member of this Church, one small room could have contained all the
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  • ...e of difference in the fruit of all those limbs. Is it good fruit? No; the first limb is not worth a dime, and all the rest are just like it. ...other men. Brother Joseph actually saw those {{page break|216|top}} men in vision; he saw us in a day when we were all together. We have been separated by ma
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  • ...y medicine, law, or botany, and many of the sciences, you must study Latin first, because the doctors and professors make use of that language to convey the ...little stone would be cut out of the mountain without hands. They saw, in vision, that a little nucleus here in the mountains would arise, and that the moun
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  • The first thing we did when we came to this land was to organize a government for our Shall we lie down and let those scoundrels cut our throats? is the first question. Shall we untie our neckcloths and tell them to come on and cut an
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  • ...; and after yielding once, they have not the same strength to resist as at first. They become more and more weakened every time they yield to temptation, un ...than five, another over only two, and another over but one. They must all first be subjected to sin and to the calamities of mortal flesh, in order to prov
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  • ...same light, power, and glory in which the Apostles and Prophets saw it by vision and revelation; and that all which God has promised concerning it should ha ...enemies have been stayed from fulfilling their hellish designs. It is the first time the American army has been stayed in their course. They got as far as
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  • Now, the Lord moves upon the hearts of our First Presidency to say to the Elders of Israel abroad, "It is enough: come home. ...devils that brother Kimball and the other brethren saw in vision on their first mission to England seem now to have entered into the tabernacles of the peo
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  • ...living in his day, and to him was given the dominion. These men held keys first on earth, and then in heaven. ...nized them. He (Adam) is the head, and was told to multiply. The keys were first given to him, and by him to others. He will have to give an account of his
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  • ...occupy the Sabbath—instead of planning our business to infringe upon the first day of the week, we should do as little as possible; if it is necessary to ...you recollect what they said in the different States where this Gospel was first preached?—what arguments were used against your position and the doctrine
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  • ...above; he must be enlightened by the Holy Ghost; his mind must be in open vision: he must enjoy the blessings of salvation himself, in order to impart them ...ower and glory that the sanctified or glorified beings enjoy. And this is, first of all, what the Lord wishes of the people.
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  • ...d practising a law that will bring to an end, if you wish, not only to the first death, but also to the second. When the doctrine of salvation was first preached to me, and the vision of my mind was opened, I undertook to fathom the depth of the Gospel plan;
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  • ...n dealing with the human family. Tradition seizes upon the scholar when he first commences his education, and, more or less, clings to the human family thro Jesus of Nazareth, who appeared to Saul of Tarsus in the way, opened the vision of his mind, and conversed with him, and told him what to do. Did he tell h
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  • |<=[[../14|Duty of Sustaining and Upholding the First Presidency in all Their Operations, etc.]] What did that angel tell Joseph Smith when he gave him the plates? The vision of his mind was opened, and the angel showed unto him the condition of the
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  • ...branch of the tree of liberty planted on the 4th of July, 1776; and as the first display of oratory and burst of eloquence from this stand, on this interest ...ecept, and doctrine of the new Church which then existed only in prophetic vision. The Constitution of the United States forms the basis of that government,
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  • ...and I perceived that it had the same effect upon the congregation. In the first place, permit me to answer that inquiry according to the spirit that passed ...ith their eyes and felt with their hands, or when they have had a heavenly vision.
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  • ...hurch, having been baptized into the same only about five months after its first organization, when there were but a very few individuals numbered with the ...upon my own personal observations? It is the same to-day as it was when I first received the testimony that he was a Prophet. I know that he was a {{page b
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  • ...death never enters, and all else will sooner or later pass away as a night vision. ...ritten, sin was introduced to the human family by the transgression of our first parents, and thereby the Adversary of all righteousness gained great power
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  • ...e souls, to escape persecution and death, came from the old countries, and first landed in the New England States in 1620. They are called the Pilgrim Fathe ...the feet—not on the head, nor upon any other portion of the body: it was first to commence its operations upon the feet and toes of the great image; and t
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  • ...ons of this world, making these treasures his idol, has never yet seen, by vision, the glory of the celestial world,—has not had a foretaste of it. He has ...d with brother Joseph. He had all the weaknesses a man could have when the vision was not upon him, when he was left to himself. He was constituted like othe
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  • ...so, instead of patronizing those who stand ready to cut our throats on the first favourable opportunity. ...a people at the expiration of that time, it would be to us a most glorious vision, and almost past belief.
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  • ...say a few words upon the principles of the Gospel; or, in other words, the first principles of that great plan of salvation which was devised before the, fo ...ould see no necessity for it. It is recorded in Scripture history that our first parents, while in the garden of Eden, transgressed a certain law and comman
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  • ...ave frequently said, that, in my opinion, Enoch and his people, during the first twenty-nine-and-a-half years of their history, did not make greater progres ...here now a man in all the world, outside of this Church, that can tell the first thing about it? Although they have the Old and New Testament, and day by da
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  • ...vancement possible for them to gain and possess. But so it is: many of the first members in this Church appear as though they never could keep pace with the ...traighten up the perverse among this people, and bring that Zion we see in vision. They would either repent and do right, or go where society is more congeni
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  • ...hearts to lay aside the living oracles, what then? I would answer, in the first place, that the premises are false. Why? The very moment that we set aside ...is it that you are going to apply this to yourself?" I will tell you. But first let me quote from another revelation contained in the Book of Doctrine and
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  • First, believe in the Lord God Almighty, in his Son Jesus Christ, and in his Prop ...new revelation. Are they hunted and cast out? No: they are received in the first society of the land as gentlemen. They are associates for Presidents and go
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  • "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power." The death that is sp ...leaving the spirit houseless than the child, in its capacity, does in its first efforts to breathe the breath of this mortal life.
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  • ...d. To-day we have met in the capacity of a General Conference—the Thirty-first Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Thirt ...lone the Latter-day Saints—not those alone who have the privilege of the first principles of the celestial law, but to save all. It is a universal salvati
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  • ...know the colour of a piece of cloth by means of their outward or physical vision. When this inner light is taken from them, they become darker than they wer
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  • ...pirit they are of. Some do not receive the power of God, but they obey the first principles of the Gospel, live it to all outward appearance, and by-and-by ...he glory of God that has been shown to them when the {{page break|72|top}} vision of their minds was opened by the Spirit of the living God; and but little d
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  • ...the worlds that are and the worlds that have been,—who can grasp in the vision of his mind the truth that there never has been a time when there have not ...was a swamp. But a few years ago, there were no inhabitants here. When we first visited this place, after the people began to move here, there was hardly a
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  • I will read a portion of the vision Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon had concerning various kingdoms that God has ...Christ dwell they cannot come, worlds without end. This is the end of the vision which we saw, which we were commanded to write while we were yet in the spi
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  • ...nd those who have believed in him since he came, see eternal things by the vision of their minds being opened. They will consider it a great mystery why all
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  • At the first impression, the testimony of one man is equally valid with that of another; ...the least of which I presume is more glorious than ever John Wesley saw in vision. All the inhabitants of the earth will enter a glory, except the sons of pe
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  • ...17|top}}portance, and consequently the body is secondary. The body was not first created and afterward the spirit formed in the tabernacle, but we are infor ...eferred to this morning by our President and which are touched upon in the vision which God gave to Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon in February, 1832.
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  • First and foremost, I will briefly allude to some aspirants to office and honours ...oundation—the stone or rock of present revelation. Solomon says"Where no vision is, the people perish."
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  • ...he everlasting Gospel, to labour for the sustenance of Zion, make that our first, our great, our only object, and fear not for the earthly things we may nee ...time a great many dreams, as men consider, are no more nor less than open vision, and a great many dreams are the result, perhaps, of fatigue—of over-exer
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  • ...a, up to the present time, the world have been ignorant with regard to the first principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is true that professed Christi ...the administration of an angel from heaven, whom the revelator John saw in vision when on the isle of Patmos; and when describing it, he says—"And I saw an
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  • ...stand when all earthly riches shall vanish away like the dream of a night vision. ...the faithful. Seek first for the riches that are in the future life. Seek first, as our Saviour bade his disciples, the kingdom of God and its righteousnes
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  • There are a number of subjects I wish to say a few words upon, and I will first make a few remarks pertaining to the kingdom of God on the earth. ...nd means to assist in gathering the poor {{page break|353|top}} Saints. At first, some deemed it inexpedient to call upon the people in this city to assist
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  • ...ory lie before the true-hearted Saint! Let your minds open up to behold in vision the greatness thereof for the moment that you can see what light, greatness
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  • ...nations, both in their social and political capacity; for they are in the vision of his mind. Who gave the ability to reflect and to behold the earth and th ...nkful for these precious gifts. As brother Kimball justly said, "Remember, first of all, the Giver;" worship and adore the Giver. Some will lose a great dea
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  • ...d government of God, when in reality they have great need to be taught the first principles of the doctrine of Christ. This brings to my mind the vision that Joseph Smith had, when he saw, Adam open the gate of the Celestial Cit
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  • ...se questions? Yes, readily, when I tell you. The redemption of Zion is the first step preparatory to the two last-named events. Just as soon as the Latter-d When Joseph first revealed the land where the Saints should gather, a woman in Canada asked i
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  • |H=THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL |T=Journal of Discourses 9: THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL
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  • ...trampled upon by their enemies, and when I talk about them I think of the vision I had some time ago, when I saw them in their redeemed state, and they look
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  • ...ht and understanding than we could in the countries that we came from. The vision is less obscured by surrounding objects. ...associated with him, and if the people cannot do as well as they would at first, let them not be discouraged, but try again, and continue their efforts,
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  • ...on of the Holy Spirit, and by opening the minds of the Saints to behold in vision things as they are in eternity. When true doctrines are advanced, though th ...are opened, we can then more fully realize this truth. And again, when the vision is closed up we are found, as a general thing, doing the best we know how,
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  • ...those principles which lead to exaltation, so that he could see beyond the vision of human ken, and the Lord could not keep him from penetrating behind the v
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  • ...ith its climate, soil, and general capabilities for productiveness, in the vision of our minds we could see in the future comfortable and commodious houses f
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  • ...eld only in part the glory of the latter day beginning to dawn, and as the vision of our mind began to be enlarged and expanded we were enabled to look forwa
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  • Brother Taylor gave us a very interesting discourse this morning upon the first principles of the Gospel, contrasting them with the religion of the Christi According to the vision of John the Revelator, there are to be "six hundred, threescore and six" fa
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  • ...e added unto you." Matthew records the saying still fuller:—"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness and all these things shall be add ...verything else that is necessary to enjoy on the earth. But it is our duty first to seek to know that the kingdom of God is established and organized upon t
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  • |>=[[../14|Necessity of Understanding the First Principles of the Gospel—Of Union among the Priesthood, and Attention to ...ough we see things more clearly and with a {{page break|50|top}} different vision, and understand things more correctly than the rest of the human family, ye
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  • ...ing, overruling and overreaching all motives of a political character. The first thing that, ever was proclaimed by the Elders of this Church was the Gospel ...o separate? It was the religious communities of the country that separated first, Baptist from Baptist, Methodist from Methodist, Universalist from Universa
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  • ...has always done so; but the heavens, in a manner, have been shut up to the vision and view of mankind for a long time, but now his dealings with them have be ...ably to ourselves and to the Work in which we are engaged. The child needs first to ripen in judgment and good understanding before the father can commit an
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  • Here we are commanded to assemble ourselves together on the first day of the week, as the ancient desciples [disciples] did and to offer up o ...est poor, and to let those who desire to shed the blood of each other fall first in this deadly strife.
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  • ...ience, must be buried in the water face downward, that he may come up back first to the spectators. And another, to answer his conscience, must be sprinkled ...God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. "While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, behold three men seek thee." Peter went to the h
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  • ...Lord is willing that we should have the good things of this world. In the first place, will we be of one heart and mind financially? You will at once say " ...loving our enemies a little too well. It is said self-preservation is the first law of nature, then let us preserve ourselves well enough to save our lives
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  • ...is made in the image of God. In the opening book of the Bible, in the very first chapter of that book, we read: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, ...Father and through Jesus Christ, never had a beginning. There never was a first world or man; there will never be a last. We cannot grasp that in its fulln
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  • ...rom every cloud, the past will recur to memory, the future will be an open vision, and we will behold things as {{page break|196|top}} they are, and the past ...o the Scriptures which are now being fulfilled. Among other things, to the vision of the Prophet John upon the isle of Patmos, who saw "another angel fly in
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  • ...pen into most glorious fruit, as delicious and sweet as that produced when first the tree of liberty was moistened with the blood of patriots. Let others th ...shines brightly like a star of the first magnitude, like a diamond of the first water that cannot be successfully imitated.
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  • ...This flood had been predicted long before it came. Enoch had beheld it in vision, and he went forth, as we are told in the record that has come down to us f ...them, and in the day of the Lord Jesus, the heathen will have part in the first resurrection. Our ancestors have, in common with others, been destitute of
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  • ...reached a ripe age, after laboring unceasingly among his brethren from his first connection with the Church. ...tory [of] the Church during that period. It was his pen that wrote for the first time the revelation in relation to the eternity of the marriage covenant an
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  • ...children, his all-piercing eye penetrates eternity, and the glance of his vision reaches us. ...f the earth, but where ever we may go he is there, his power is there, his vision is there to hear and to comprehend the desires and the wishes of our hearts
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  • ...to what is called original sin, but also to actual sin. The sin which our first parents committed in the Garden of Eden is called original sin; and the sin ...oly," says the Apostle John in his vision, "are they that hath part in the first resurrection; on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be pri
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  • ...at can I say about it? Can I say it is a dream? Can I say that it is all a vision? Can I say that this work is of man and not of God? Can I say these are rev
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  • ...Why, when I was a boy, 21 years of age, I had, for the two years during my first acquaintance with the book, read it so much that I could repeat over chapte ...that they are unnecessary; they say that these gifts were intended for the first age of Christianity, but when Christianity was once established these high
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  • ...r his image" etc., It is thus written in the Book of Mormon, in that great vision to the brother of Jared, in which the Lord condescended to take the vail of ...end the light—or the few feeble glimmerings of light, contained in these first and second chapters, of the uninspired translation. But our heavenly Father
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  • Now, in the first place, Job is speaking in regard to what we all seek in this world, in rega ...elations, read it, and you will find the resurrection portrayed to John by vision when he was on the Isle of Patmos. He says:
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  • ...e eternal worlds many different kinds of glory. In the 15th chapter of his first epistle to the Corinthians, he says that "there is one glory of the sun; an ...an. This Moses obtained during the few moments that he was thus enwrapt in vision. He obtained more information in those few moments than could be imparted i
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  • ...ity or habitation, he brought them forth to large and populous cities. The first city that they came to, after crossing from the east side of Jordan to the ..., and when they arrive in that solitary place or wilderness, they will, at first, be greatly afflicted, sorely distressed, so much so that they will be unde
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  • |>=[[../32|Visions of Moses—Rebellion in Heaven—Satan Cast Down—Our First Parents Fell—Before the Fall They Were Mortal—After the Fall, Mortal— ...is our right, our privilege, and our duty to call upon the Lord, that the vision of our mind may be opened, so that we may see and understand the day and ag
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  • |<=[[../32|Visions of Moses—Rebellion in Heaven—Satan Cast Down—Our First Parents Fell—Before the Fall They Were Mortal—After the Fall, Mortal— ...ow many of these things look dark when men look upon them with the natural vision, and as a consequence doubt and unbelief follow; but when you look upon the
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  • |>=[[../35|Organization of the First Presidency—Responsibility of the Saints, etc.]] ...ill say that would be possible, just the same as the Church of God, in the first century of the Christian era, delivered the authority to preach and adminis
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  • ...ne of the ordinances of the house of God. With some, this ordinance is the first and the last; and with others this ordinance is not {{page break|40|top}} t ...ot seen Him in person, but there are men on the earth who have seen Him in vision. As to whether the Savior has got a body or not is no question with those w
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  • ...arth, particles which defy the most powerful glasses to reveal them to the vision of finite man, possess a portion of divinity, a portion of infinite power, ...th and the children of men from the original sin that was committed by our first parents, and bring to pass the restoration of all things through His death
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  • ...steam-boat and locomotive that were propelled by steam, and riding on the first railway. Before that, locomotion had to depend upon the winds and tides and ...ng, feeling, comparing and analyzing, what do we know of things beyond our vision, hearing, or comprehension? We can read, in the history of the past, of the
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  • ...baptism through the administration of Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, the first elders of the Church. The cause of that organization is something we should ...ct himself to the ridicule of all around him, knew not what to do. But the vision was repeated several times, and in these repetitions he was instructed to c
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  • ...ment of his Fathers kingdom in any part of the great domain of heaven, the vision of that angel is opened to see and understand the magnitude of the work tha ...driven out of Missouri I had a vision, if I would dare to say that I had a vision, and saw that the people would go to the east, to the north and to the west
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  • ...done with this mortal life we are promised a glorious resurrection in the first resurrection, {{page break|69|top}} and that our bodies shall not sleep in ...r the next thousand years, we are not under the necessity of beholding, in vision, our posterity straying into darkness in such a manner as to close the heav
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  • ...; his will can call them forth, and they pass in panoramic form before his vision from some source, where they are deposited and registered; all those things ...e, if you have the power to use it, a true resemblance of the objects your vision takes in, so nice and so precise are the figures conveyed to the human mind
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  • ...n any other avocation or trade. In the Church of England, with which I was first connected—inducted into it when a boy, or rather a child—{{page break|8 ...asked her in his letter something like this:—"Have you got among you the vision of prophecy?" I do not know that I give the words exactly. She came to me t
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  • ...ting this Work in the various changes through which it has passed from its first origin to the present, we see the hand of God manifested and his power exhi ...nothing more about the work of God he had been connected with? No; but the first promptings of his evil heart were to sell his Lord and Master—to be his b
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  • ...ith truth, with the things of the kingdom of God; and many of them had the vision of their minds opened to behold the fate of the work of God in all generati ...twenty-one-days, in the establishment of this work, after he organized the first branch, with six members on the 6th day of April, 1830. He was martyred on
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  • ...the whole community? Very few. And take the inhabitants of the earth from first to last, there is not one man in ten, neither is there one in twenty, and p ...what kind of poor? Now the poor may be divided into three classes. In the first, place there is the Lord's poor, of which you may pick up one here and anot
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  • ...his city. I do not know that I will live in the flesh to see what I saw in vision when I came here. I see some things, but a great deal more has yet to be ac .... Why? Because you are the mother of all living. You might as well prepare first as last. If you wish to be Eves and mothers of human families you ought to
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  • ...onsequence of revelations that had been given. This was the case when the "Vision" was given through Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon.
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  • I have looked upon the community of the Latter-day Saints in vision and beheld them organized as one great family of heaven, each person perfor ...ions and their children for the gospel's sake, and all this because of the vision of eternity which has been opened to their minds so that they beheld the be
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  • ...re much the same as they are when given to His people in our days. When we first receive the Spirit of the Gospel we receive great joy therein, great peace, ...d abroad among the nations of the wicked. The Apostle John no doubt saw in vision, by the spirit of revelation, Zion in her beauty and perfection, and that Z
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  • The Twelve Apostles, when first anointed, went into almost every part of the States, from Ohio to Nova Scot ...nd brought up very poor, and when nine years old I laid in my bed and in a vision saw those things that I have since passed through. Soon after I was baptize
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  • ...gments of God were to be poured out upon the ungodly. This they saw in the vision of their minds. They saw the Saints were to be gathered out, understanding ...strength, and thy neighbor as thyself. Now, is this not almost one of the first requirements that God has made of His people? and I have not yet required i
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  • ...the gospel, how elated we were, and how glorious everything looked to our vision. We saw no difficulties but what we were willing to attempt to surmount. Th ...an old story. They received {{page break|233|top}} the word gladly in the first place, and were perhaps a good deal elated with the idea of being members o
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  • ...between fourteen and fifteen years of age, and as soon as he related this vision, although at that young and tender age, the wrath and indignation of the pe ...ords' points against each other. They always have been from the period man first accepted this earth, down to the present time. There has been no union betw
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  • ...the matter, about "old Joe Smith." How old was Joseph Smith when the Lord first manifested Himself to him? He was about fourteen years and four months old. ...urch. This young man was also requested to unite himself with this church. First one and then another of the different persuasions would come and converse w
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  • ...rt of charitable institutions. But it is very few of them who reflect upon first principles; they do not like to trouble themselves on such matters. ...oman Catholics, or any others; and when "Mormonism" was presented to me my first inquiry was, "Is it Scriptural? Is it reasonable and philosophical?" This i
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  • ...s and the myriads who are to come! These are the two-thirds who kept their first estate. Their numbers, probably, cannot be less than two hundred thousand m ...ered into a certain animal or beast, called a serpent, and came before our first parents and beguiled them, and they suffered themselves to partake of the f
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  • ...e vision of an holy angel. When this personage appeared to him, one of his first inquiries was, "Which of the denominations of Christians in the vicinity wa ...ouri, they purchased land, built mills, established a printing office, the first one that was established in the western part of the State of Missouri, and
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  • ...of listening to a very interesting discourse from brother Penrose, on the first principles of the Gospel. I say the "few" who were here, for there were few ...never had the ague. But upon this occasion I was taken with the ague, the first time in my life. All the Twelve had something the matter with them. But we
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  • ...tle together, and I will give both Saints and strangers a few of my views. First to the Saints, I will say that you and I have professed to believe in God w ...t, or instruction—without, the life and intelligence which came from the vision of the mind? Ask the mechanic—Who influenced you to bring forth this and
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  • ...seen, heard and learned—what I had experienced and rejoiced in; and the first discourse I ever delivered I occupied over an hour. I opened my mouth and t ...England binds them to-day when they have to be bound. We have not owed the first farthing to those who have done this work for us, but have paid promptly, a
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  • ...ith regard to ourselves and our children; and when the mind opens upon the vision of life by the spirit of revelation, there is not a person but what can see
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  • ...elings towards the inhabitants of the earth. It is called the "Vision"—a vision Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon had while they were translating the New Test
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  • ...the mountains mining, as was the case at our drill to some extent. For the first two or three meals the tea or coffee was scarcely thought of; but before th ...n the vintage is over, might be gathered out as the Apostle John beheld in vision while on the Isle of Patmos. He saw an angel flying through the midst of he
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  • ...ration in connection with the keeping of the commandments of Jesus. In the first place it is very essential and necessary that we should know what his comma This is the right way to keep the Lord's commandments; but it is, in the first place, necessary to find what His commandments are. You might have taken th
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  • ...s been reiterated in our ears, and scarcely a meeting has been held by the First Presidency, the Twelve Apostles, or any of the Elders of Israel in which th ...e Lord, it was like seed planted in the heart; its influence and effect at first were not very powerful; but if it were planted in the heart, by and by it b
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  • ...people. We have assembled here on this, the first day of the week, and the first day of the year 1871; and this leads my mind to reflect upon the age and ge ...ed Adam in the Garden of Eden when there was as much prophecy, revelation, vision, and word of the Lord and promises of God to be fulfilled as there is in th
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  • ...earth. The Prophets looked down to the days of the future and they saw in vision that God would perform a great and mighty work in the midst of the inhabita ...to gain a foothold. We have gained this; we have gained and organized the first hundred thousand people. We have achieved a position that will render our f
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  • Isaiah, in looking by prophetic vision to this day, makes use of very strong language in endeavoring to express hi Isaiah and other prophets saw in vision much concerning the building up and establishment of the latter-day Zion of
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  • ...of this congregation to a portion of the word of the Lord contained in the first five verses of the fourth {{page break|59|top}} chapter of the prophecies o ...of the inspired Prophet Isaiah, most of which remain to be fulfilled. The first two verses contain a prediction not yet fulfilled: '"Comfort ye my people,
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  • In the first place, I want to say to the Elders who go forth to preach the Gospel—no m ..., or fifteen thousand dollars. I did not know where I was going to get the first dollar; but I did just as I always do—my duty and trusted in God. I had n
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  • ...ks of me, nor whether, if I sought such a manifestation, he would come the first night I knelt down to pray, or the second, third, or fourth, or whether I s ...at I should like to ask such persons what they had seen in their trance or vision; and when I got old enough and dared ask them, I did so. I have said to suc
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  • I will read a portion of Scripture which is found in the 17th chapter of the First Book of Chronicles, commencing at the 3rd verse— "According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David."
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  • ...d participate in the blessings of the Gospel. Just as Peter awoke from his vision there came a rap at the door and the messengers of Cornelius inquired for h
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  • ...manifest in the prayer offered by this young man at the time when the Lord first revealed himself to him. ...to the contrary, any more than Paul could when he heard Jesus in his first vision.
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  • |<=[[../23|Persecution—First Principles—Priesthood]] ...each the Gospel of the Son of God to every people under the whole heavens, first to the inhabitants of Judea and Jerusalem. They were to commence there to f
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  • ...d has made in the eternal ages that have passed—mansions that were made, first temporal and afterwards redeemed and made eternal. Mansions, no doubt, cons ...et John, "I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had fled away."
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  • ...s they were moved upon by the Holy Ghost, and who, while rapt in prophetic vision, saw and foretold what should transpire on the earth. God revealed the same
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  • ...hat prophecy that was delivered to John on the Island of Patmos. He saw in vision, as represented in the 14th chapter of his prophecy, the Son of Man sitting ...we learn from these predictions some three or four very important things. First: that when. the gospel is again committed to the inhabitants of the earth i
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  • ...st, and the faces of an innumerable company of angels,—the church of the First Born, and mingle themselves, as it were, in their society. All these things ...e threshhold of the pulpit, proclaiming himself to be Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the Great I Am, &c. And he gave keys of instruction and couns
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  • ...rhaps, have theirs. We place God, his service and his worship as among the first things that ought to attract our attention. Considering ourselves immortal ...hose ancient men of God, when under the inspiration of the Almighty, had a vision of, and contemplated its glory.
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  • The first question that naturally presents itself to the mind in regard to Zion is th I will begin with some of the first principles which God has revealed, and which it is necessary for mankind to
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  • ...nsation and generation when the whole flood of prophecy and revelation and vision given through inspired men for the last six thousand years is to have its f ...ll be effected in the next twenty-four years? No man can see it unless the vision of his mind is opened by the power of God. The Lord told Joseph Smith to la
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  • ...y other foundation will fade and vanish away like the baseless fabric of a vision, and leave not a wreck behind. ...od, would they do it? No, they would not, they would see the gospel damned first, and then they would not. They do not understand the principle by which we
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  • ...ge; and when you meet together, if you have a word of prophecy, a dream, a vision, or a word of wisdom, impart the same to the people. ...e at the place of gathering promptly, to the minute, that you may hear the first word, then you will hear every word that is spoken and every counsel that i
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  • ...passed away since the Government established by the Patriarchs, or by the first man, was commenced here on the earth. From that time until the present vast ...s declared that such an event should take place. John says that he saw, in vision, an angel come from heaven to earth, to restore the everlasting Gospel. No
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  • ...be very tempestuous round about him." This was not a characteristic of his first coming; there was nothing specially connected with that event that would ex ...we find it predicted in various portions of the prophetic writings. I will first refer you to the prediction recorded, if I recollect aright, in the 43d cha
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  • ...illing to receive the divine law. Their sin however was so great, that the first law which the Lord intended to bestow upon them, namely, the law of the Gos ..., the same Gospel that was taught in the days of Christ, was given to them first, with this one exception—the children of Israel were required to look for
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  • ...have been negligent and careless, we should repent, for repentance is our first duty. ...Robert Smith in the town record. Robert Smith was supposed by us to be the first of our family who settled in Massachusetts, sometime previous to the year 1
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  • ...to have faith in him, and to approach the Father in his name. That was the first condition of the Gospel as taught by Jesus and his Apostles. ...usness," and he went down into the water and was baptized by John, and the first evidence that we have in the Scriptures of his recognition by the Father wa
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  • ...d history. I learned this by experience, and I got this little item when I first started in business in my youth. We were building up a little town. A few m ..., said, "Yet you know our weakness is such that we turn round and grab the first man we come to." How natural it is!{{page break|133|top}} Well, ladies, jus
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  • ...irit of God upon our minds through obedience to {{page break|168|top}} the first principles of the Gospel of Christ; for, while the world of mankind general ...nstrating the truth of the Gospel as we have, not having complied with its first principles. That which is light, intelligence, intelligent, happifying and
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  • ...ispensation of the fullness of times. You will find this prediction in the first chapter of his epistle to the Ephesians. Paul there declares that a new dis ...was, this youth ventured to go and ask the Lord for wisdom, having, in the first place, read a passage in the New Testament, which says, "If any man lack wi
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  • ...ic ministry, learned some few lessons in regard to public speaking. In the first place I know that the wisdom of man avails but very little, and that our ow ...in the right channel; we have placed ourselves in an attitude to learn the first principles in this great, divine university called the kingdom of God. God
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  • ...arden of Eden, are Scriptural facts, which we all believe; but did not our first parents, and all their descendants have an existence, before there was any ...at man had an existence before he was placed in the Garden of Eden. In the first chapter of Genesis we are told that God made the earth, and the seas, and t
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  • ...private library. The reason why I make these remarks is, that this is the first Sabbath after Christmas, and the day on which I believe the Roman Catholics ...that we know what this date means—"in the thirty and fourth year, in the first month, and in the fourth day of the month." Now I think this gives us a clu
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  • I will call your attention to the first two lines in the first hymn that was sung this afternoon,— ...with these two lines, I will cite the attention of the congregation to the first verse of the 60th chapter of Isaiah,—
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  • ...ed the region of Palestine in which the Prophet lived he presented himself first before the king; but he being filled to a great extent with the spirit of u ...of the whole, in order to prove their position. In the 13th chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians, Paul says—"Whether there be prophecies, they
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  • ...Gospel;" and hence John, while on the Isle of Patmos, wrapped in prophetic vision, beholding a succession of marvelous events that should transpire in after ...darkness. This light, truth and intelligence can only be obtained, in the first place, by obedience to the laws of God; and, in the second place, it can on
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  • ...he wilderness, we were suddenly fired upon by an unknown enemy, in ambush. First one solitary gun, as was supposed, from some out post of the enemy, brought ...untry and his God. The young Obanion, who was shot through the body by the first fire of the enemy's sentinel, also died about the same time. Thus three bra
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  • This was also a theme for angels as well as prophets. We read in the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, that Jesus led his disciples out to th ...rivate interpretation. But the Apostle Peter,{{page break|204|top}} in the first chapter of his second epistle, in writing to his brethren on this subject,
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  • ...een proper thus to deal with the human family. He seems to require, in the first place, faith on good, sound, substantial evidence, instead of imparting kno ...no." "Has God ever spoken to you?" "Oh no." "Have you ever had a heavenly vision?" "Oh no." " Has the Holy Ghost given you a new revelation?" "Not at all."
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  • ...{page break|264|top}} man is the same in every age of the world. Adam, our first great progenitor and father, after the fall, received this Gospel, and he r ...his mother, a Hebrew woman, because Moses was her first born, and all the first born of the Hebrews had to be slain. The daughter of Pharaoh, through the p
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  • |H=REVELATION ON THE JUDGMENTS OF THE LORD—FIRST FRUITS OF THE RESURRECTION—WHAT BECOMETH OF THE SOULS OF MEN—REDEMPTION |T=Journal of Discourses 16: REVELATION ON THE JUDGMENTS OF THE LORD—FIRST FRUITS OF THE RESURRECTION—WHAT BECOMETH OF THE SOULS OF MEN—REDEMPTION
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  • |<=[[../43|Revelation on the Judgments of the Lord—First Fruits of the Resurrection—What Becometh of the Souls of Men—Redemption ...the church of Christ. We there find that the church have placed within it, first, Apostles, secondarily, Prophets, thirdly, Teachers, after that working of
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  • ...with all our hearts to be prepared for this future state of being and the first resurrection. ...d then in the earth; but there was no such thing as mortality when man was first placed in the Garden of Eden. Neither beast of the field, fowl of the air n
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  • ...en they shall have received this, which is expedient that they should have first, to try their faith, and if it so be that they shall believe these things, ...at which shall come forth, even that which is now being translated." "Seek first to obtain my word, then shall your tongue be loosed; then, if you desire, y
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  • ...les or take off the veil from their minds. Still they hesitated; still the vision of their minds was not fully open to comprehend the true nature and charact ...here already there seems to be almost a majority of the early Apostles and first Elders of the Church, preaching the Gospel and preparing the hearts of thos
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  • ...n devolved upon the Twelve, and upon the Priesthood of the Twelve. Another First Presidency was appointed about three years and six months after the martyrd ...o such an office as brother Hyrum Smith held, when he was taken out of the First Presidency and placed in the Patriarchial office.
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  • These words were spoken by the inspired man long before the first coming of our Savior; they refer to the future condition of the world, a st ...trictly specifies that this Gospel is to be preached to all the world, but first to the Gentile nations, and when they are fully warned, and their times are
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  • |<=[[../31|Arrival in Salt Lake City—The First Principles—The Question of Authority—The Ordinances—Education of Our ...od. Can we now see the limit of this work? Is the horison [horizon] of our vision bounded by those things actually transpiring around us, or do we still stre
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  • ...e Israelites came to the American continent, some few centuries before the first coming of Christ, he had this great gift. Ammon, a servant of God, who expl ...and much instruction is given in regard to the coming to this land of this first colony, how they were brought here by the Lord from the tower, and how, in
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  • ...g in my carriage through Emigration Canyon into this valley, which was the first time he set foot upon this land. The question has been often asked by stran ...in the New Testament, which principles never deviate one from another. The first was faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; the second was baptism in water by imme
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  • ...original, in which these Scriptures were written by Moses, signifies "the first man." There was no effort at distinguishing between the one half and the ot ...ers say he was, and Ann Lee says, "Christ came in the form of a man in the first place, and now comes in the form of a woman," and she was that form.
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  • ...ned to try them in their agency, with a small degree of light and truth at first, to see how they would act in relation to the degree of intelligence given; ...on, but in the world prior to the existence of this one—in our former or first estate. There we were born, there we were begotten, there we received a spi
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  • ...of years, and are now the other side of the vail. There are but two of the first Quorum of the Twelve with us in the flesh, and only two of the second Quoru ...phecies of Isaiah and many other ancient men of God, who were permitted in vision to see our day.
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  • ...t of the family that fell, but the two-thirds who kept the law of of their first estate who were really and truly accounted the sons and daughters of God, t ...number of worlds that the Lord had created, the voice of the Lord, in that vision, declares that all the inhabitants of all those worlds were begotten sons a
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  • ...should be heirs of salvation here upon the earth. But by and by, after the first century of the Christian era, the heavens became as brass over their heads .... While there suffering for the gospel's sake, the Lord showed unto him by vision, things that should take place upon the earth. And among other things that
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  • ...modern world, there is not a man living that can place his finger upon the first revelation of God to man, from the days of father Adam to the present time, ...possess it. The Lord never had a church on the face of the earth, from its first organization until to-day, unless that church was organized by revelation,
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  • ...nd burn up the stubble of his fields? Well, you say, "If we admit that the first was supernatural, that God did actually burn the transgressors among Israel ...he Archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we, which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them
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  • ...EVELATION—THE GREATER THINGS SHOWN TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE RECORD—THE VISION OF MOSES—THE CREATION, ETC. ...EVELATION—THE GREATER THINGS SHOWN TO THOSE WHO RECEIVE THE RECORD—THE VISION OF MOSES—THE CREATION, ETC.
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  • ...hey have become experts in preaching spiritual salvation, in preaching the first principles of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ; in telling the people ho ...thinking man upon these subjects, a man who takes in, to the extent of his vision, all the evils which threaten our nation, without having him acknowledge th
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  • ...empt to establish the Church while translating those records. This was the first duty required at his hands—namely, to translate from the plates of gold, The Lord did not see proper, at the first, to give us the fulness of the authority that he afterwards revealed. He ga
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  • ...revelations to Joseph Smith; and placed them upon the foundation that was first laid by Joseph Smith under the immediate revelations of the Lord. And God e
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  • ...fast as we can reach these things, to correct them, to remove them. In the first place we have got to correct and remove them from our own midst. It is a sl
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  • ...of earth's inhabitants to some other peculiarity of the Divine greatness? First because it is customary with the Lord and his angelic messengers to general
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  • ...ich must be hereafter." All we read in that Book of Revelations, after the first verse of the 4th chapter, describes events to transpire after these things ...ration to be divine, or not believe it at all. The Apostle John saw in the vision that at a certain time the angel was to come again to earth and reveal, or
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  • ...rit of revelation? Yes. Did they have the ministry of angels? Yes. Was the vision of all truth open to their mind? Yes. They comprehended the manifestations ...who wrote it, that he would do. And one of them while wrapped in prophetic vision gazed upon the purposes of Jehovah in relation to this generation, and saw
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  • ...the ends of the earth;" of the time when that wicked one "who tempted our first parents in the beginning, who introduced evil and death into the world, and ...the people of God in these latter-days. The same evidences are open to our vision, and we know as sure as we know that God lives that the day is close at han
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