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
22--4089. **The Sceptered Harlot.** The Woman described in the
Apocalypse as sitting "upon many waters"--a "great city" reigning
"over the kings of the earth." (Rev. 17.)
23--5002. **A Seventh Realm.** Joseph, paraphrasing Paul, said
concerning himself: "I know a man who was caught up to the seventh
heaven."
24--5033. **I Am.** The Name Divine. (Ex. 3:14.)
25--5047. **Light and Liberty.** "At the first organization in Heaven
we were all present and saw the Saviour chosen and appointed, and the
plan of salvation made, and we sanctioned it."--Joseph Smith
(Compendium, p. 288).
26--5055. **Freedom's Code.** The Gospel of Christ, "the perfect law
of liberty," typed by the American Constitution, guaranteeing freedom
and equal rights.
27--5070. **Not Esau's Hand.** Culture as well as strength must play
its part in the building up of God's Kingdom. Zion, at first
primitive and crude, shall become "the perfection of beauty," "the
joy of the whole earth." Her original builders may be likened to the
massive, immovable foundations of a structure whose polished walls
and glittering spires are represented by their children, educated
under improved conditions, and yet to stand in the forefront of the
world's civilization.
28--5072. **The Kingdom to Complete.** "The spirit and power of
Elijah is to come after, holding the keys of power, building the
temple to the capstone, placing the seals of the Melchisedek
Priesthood upon the House of Israel, and making all things ready;
then Messiah comes to his Temple."--Joseph Smith (Compendium, p. 283;
D. and C. 27).
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EPILOGUE
1--Title: **The Angel Ascendant.** The Angel ascending from the East
(Rev. 7:2; D. and C. 77:9). This is Elias, an address to and a
response from whom forms the body of the epilogue, or final division
of the poem.
2--6017. **Rose Again.** Elias the All-restorer is represented as
reopening for Adam the closed communication between Earth and Heaven.
3--6018. **The City Sanctified.** The City of Enoch.
4--6025. **Alien Fire.** The Gospel, restored through Noah, standing
at the head of a dispensation, was carried by his descendants, after
the Flood, to various parts of the earth, where fragments of it
remain, mixed with the traditions of men. Ceremonies similar to, or
suggestive of Gospel ordinances, and found among primitive peoples,
are thus accounted for.
5--6027. **The Root of Shiloh.** Abraham, ancestor to Jesus of
Nazareth.
6--6029. **Believing Blood.** "How, by the dispersion of the children
of Abraham, was the promise to the patriarch fulfilled, that in him
and in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed? * * *
By this dispersion the blood of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--the blood
of faith, the blood that believes--with choice spirits answering to
that blood, and selected for that purpose, were sent into those
nations where the Gospel was afterwards preached, spirits capable of
recognizing the truth, and brave enough to embrace it." (Gospel
Themes, p. 156.)
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