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
57--1854. **So Shall It Be.** Terrible calamities are to precede the
Reign of Peace, as they preceded the events that typified it.
(Matthew 24).
58--1869. **Avalanche * * * Sun's Face.** Nephites and Lamanites.
59--1872. **Bloody Chase.** The Lamanites driving the Nephites to
their doom at the Hill Cumorah.
60--1883. **Oriental Sight.** The Western Hemisphere discovered by
the Eastern.
61--1885. **Faith * * * Patience.** The Brother of Jared was noted
for his exceeding faith (Ether 3:9). Columbus triumphed by patient
endurance.
62--1894. **Zion's Land.** Joseph Smith declared the whole of America
to be the Land of Zion.
63--1899. **Oppressed Become Oppressors.** Even the liberty-loving
settlers of New England, who had fled from tyranny in the Old World
to find freedom in the New, enslaved the red man and drove him from
his ancient possessions.
64--1904. **The Motherland.** Great Britain, mother of the New
England colonies.
65--1909. **Man of Matchless Worth.** Washington.
66--1922. **Joseph's Namesake Seer.** Joseph Smith, Jr., (II Nephi 3).
67--1931. **The Iron Rod.** The Word of God (1 Nephi 11:25).
68--1945. **Spirit Gardens.** The Heavenly fields. (D. and C.
88:51-61).
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CANTO SEVEN
1--Title: **The Arcana of the Infinite.** "Arcana," the Latin plural
of "Arcanum," signifies hidden, secret. This title is intended to be
an equivalent for "The Mysteries of the Kingdom"--the esoteric
features or advanced principles of the Gospel. Herein are summarized
those sublime doctrines that came directly to the modern Revelator
during and subsequent to the translating of the ancient plates. A
vision of the dispensations is involved--the reading of the Book of
Time and the Volume of Eternity.
2--1986. **One Vast Mind.** Joseph Smith, Prophet, Seer, and
Revelator.
3--2009. **The Solemn Dispensations.** In theology the term
"dispensation"--from "dispense," to deal out or distribute--signifies
the method or scheme by which God has at different times developed
his purposes and revealed himself to man. It also denotes a period
marked by some particular development of the Lord's work, such as the
Mosaic Dispensation, lasting from Moses to Christ; or the Meridian
Dispensation, ending in the apostacy that made necessary another
restoration of the Gospel and the Priesthood. While revelation is
silent upon the subject, it is probable that there are seven Gospel
dispensations--seven distinct periods during which the Plan of
Progression, revealed from Heaven to Earth, has been among the
children of men. The belief as to seven is partly based upon the
scriptural or symbolical character of that number, and upon the
Prophet Joseph's teachings relative to the seven periods, each of a
thousand years, answering to the seven seals of the mystical Book
seen by John in his vision on Patmos (Rev. 5, 6; D. and C. 77).
4--2022. **The Trumpets Seven.** The Angels of the Dispensations. (D.
and C. 88:92-116).
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