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)
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37--1657. **After Tale.** These words--part of a brief comment by the
author--introduce a summary of the Nephite narrative.
38--1665. **A Leper.** Jerusalem in her degenerate state.
39--1666. **Prophet Pioneer.** Lehi, a descendant of Joseph, through
Manasseh, with a colony from Jerusalem, succeeds the all but extinct
Jaredites upon the Land of Promise, where they extend the glory of
their great ancestor.
40--1669. **Joseph's Bough.** "Joseph is a fruitful bough." (Gen.
49:22).
41--1690. **Chosen Seer.** Lehi predicts the coming of "a choice
seer" who is to be a lineal descendant of Joseph. The name of that
seer is also to be Joseph, and it is to be the name of his father--a
prophecy fulfilled in Joseph Smith, Jr. (II Nephi 3.)
42--1692. **Buried Lore.** The Book of Mormon.
43--1695. **Favored Son.** Nephi, who succeeded his father Lehi, and
against whom his brothers Laman and Lemuel rebelled, thus dividing
the nation into Nephites and Lamanites.
44--1712. **Heavy Rod.** The Lord used the savage Lamanites to
scourge the enlightened yet ofttimes disobedient Nephites.
45--1717. **Infinite and Spirit Minister.** The Spirit of the Lord,
declared by Nephi to be in the form of man, and with whom he
conversed as one man converses with another. (I Nephi 11:11).
46--1731. **Prophet Prince Foresaw.** Nephi's vision of the future,
in which he beheld events upon both hemispheres--Christ's crucifixion
and resurrection, and his subsequent appearings to the more righteous
of the Nephites, preceded by awful judgments upon the wicked (III
Nephi 8-11).
47--1757. **Final Doom.** The conflagrations that destroyed Nephite
cities were prophetic of the end of the world, which is to be by fire.
48--1771. **Infant Innocence.** The children of the Nephites, blessed
by the Saviour. (III Nephi 17:11-24).
49--1785. **Other Sheep.** Jesus said to his Jewish disciples, "Other
sheep I have, which are not of this fold." (John 10:16). They
supposed that he meant the Gentiles, instead of which, as the Book of
Mormon tells, he had reference to the Nephites and to other branches
of the House of Israel. (III Nephi 15:17-24; 16:1; 17:4.)
50--1803. **Japheth's Destiny.** The Saviour portrays the future of
America and the diverse fates of the obedient and disobedient
Gentiles (III Nephi 16 and 21).
51--1811. **A Lion to the Chase.** III Nephi, 20:16; 21:12.
52--1820. **Sun's Red Glow.** The wrath of the Lamanites, turning
upon their white oppressors.
53--1822. **Eternal Rays.** Divinely revealed laws by which Zion will
be redeemed (D. and C. 105:4, 5).
54--1826. **Servant Marred.** "He shall be marred because of them."
(III Nephi 21:10.)
55--1834. **He Sanctifieth Three.** The Three Nephites (III Nephi
28).
56--1847. **Forebeam of Day Divine.** The happy condition of the
Nephites, for two centuries after the coming of Christ, was a
foretaste of the Millennium.
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