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
21--2288. **Felon's Debt.** "This earth was organized or formed out
of other planets which were broken up and remodeled and made into the
one on which we live."--Joseph Smith (Compendium, p. 287).
22--2293. **Law Hath Magnified.** "The earth abideth the law of a
celestial kingdom." (D. and C. 88:25).
23--2298. **Celestial Seer Stone.** Earth in its sanctified,
immortal, and eternal state will be like a sea of glass and fire
(Rev. 4:6), a great Urim and Thummim to its glorified inhabitants (D.
and C. 130:6-11).
24--2325. **Would Have Lived The Law.** Men's desires as well as deeds
will form a basis for eternal judgment (History of the Church, Vol.
2, p. 380).
25--2333. **Judah's One and Joseph's Three.** John the Revelator and
the Three Nephites.
26--2336. **Unclothed Spirit.** The Spirit seen by the Brother of
Jared, and afterwards embodied as Jesus of Nazareth.
27--2337. **The Triple Seer.** The Apostle Paul, "caught up to the
third heaven" (II Cor. 12:2).
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CANTO EIGHT
1--Title: **The Lifted Ensign.** The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, organized April 6, 1830.
2--2357. **Shepherds Twain.** Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, the
first and second Elders of the Church.
3--2366. **Giant of Untruth.** The parallel begun in the first stanza
continues through the second.
4--2380. **Time Yet Was Young.** Here the main narrative reverts to
the story of Enoch and his city, as revealed to Joseph the Seer, and
embodied in the Book of Moses (6 and 7). In the poem that story
continues as far as the line, "And Noah's righteous seed in me
rejoice."
5--2389. **Sainted Commonweal.** The City of Enoch.
6--2400. **Chain * * * Sundered.** The people of Enoch, under the Law
of Consecration, attained to such a superior condition that it was
said of them: "And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were
of one heart and one mind and dwelt in righteousness, and there was
no poor among them." (Moses 7:18.)
7--2404. **Armageddon's Conflict.** The final struggle between the
powers of Good and Evil, when Satan will be overthrown (D. and C.
88:112-115).
8--2409. **Terrestrial Radiance.** "Their place of habitation is that
of the terrestrial order." They are "held in reserve to be
ministering angels unto many planets," and "as yet have not entered
into so great a fulness as those who are resurrected from the dead."
Joseph Smith ("History of the Church," Vol. 4, pp. 209, 210).
9--2420. **The Captive Free.** Christ, during the interval between
his crucifixion and resurrection, visited and preached to "the
spirits in prison"--spirits disobedient in the days of Noah, and
swept away by the Deluge (I Peter 3:19, 20; and 4:61; Key to Theology
14).
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