Elias: An Epic of the AgesWhitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
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Elias: An Epic of the Ages
Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Poetry; Latter Day Saints -- Poetry
40--983. **Mirror and Model of Humanity.** "God created man in his
own image." (Gen. 1:27.)
41--997. **Incomprehensible.** So modern Christians contend
respecting Deity. It is true only in part. God's unrevealed infinite
fulness is of course incomprehensible to the finite mind. But what He
has revealed concerning Himself is not incomprehensible. Else why did
He reveal it?
42--1008. **Each as a Star.** The Jewish or Mosaic Dispensation shed
light that prepared the world for a greater--the Christian
Dispensation; which, in its turn, made ready for one greater
still--the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times. This is the
significance of "Elias." (Compendium, p. 281.)
43--1020. **A Weapon for the Right.** Such writers as Voltaire,
Paine, and Ingersoll, subserve the cause of Christ by shattering
false traditions, erroneously supposed by many to be true teachings
of the Saviour and his Apostles.
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CANTO FIVE
1--Title: **The Messenger of Morn.** The fore part of this Canto,
down to and including the line, "Out, out of her, my people, saith
your God," summarizes the message borne by the modern Prophet. The
curtain now rises upon the last act of the redemptive drama--the
final restoration of the Gospel; Joseph the Seer, as the Elias of the
scene, heralding the tidings of the approaching millennial reign.
2--1052. **Whence Ye Were Hewn.** An allusion to Isaiah 51:1-3.
3--1060. **Wastes of Unbelief.** Gentile or heathen lands, refreshed
by the sprinkled blood of Israel--the blood that believes--and by
spiritual visitations that accompany or follow such dispersions.
4--1061. **Japheth, Thy Planet Pales.** Japheth stands for the
Gentiles, whose "fulness" now "comes in."
5--1077. **Mother of Centuries.** Time, as distinguished from
Eternity (though technically eternity includes time), comprises seven
thousand years, or seventy centuries, covered by seven Gospel
dispensations. The Quorum of the Seventy, with the presiding First
Council, is a probable typing in this connection.
6--1079. **Teach Them to Be One.** "It is necessary, in the ushering
in of the dispensation of the fulness of times, * * * that a whole
and complete and perfect union and welding together of dispensations
and keys and powers and glories should take place and be revealed
from the days of Adam even to the present time."--Joseph Smith, (D.
and C. 128:18.)
7--1084. **Shiloh Reigns.** Shiloh is another Hebrew name for
Messiah, whose reign of a thousand years will equal in duration one
revolution of the planet Kolob. (Abraham 3:4.)
8--1085. **Hast Labored.** The seven thousand years of Earth's
"temporal existence" correspond to the seven seals of the Apocalyptic
Book (Rev. 5 and 6) and are as seven great days, four of which had
passed before Christ came, while nearly two have gone by since.
According to this reckoning we are now in the Saturday evening of
human history. The Millennium will be the seventh day--the World's
Sabbath. (D. and C. 77:12; Abraham 3, 4, and 5).
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