Gospel Themes: A Treatise on Salient Features of "Mormonism"Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
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Gospel Themes: A Treatise on Salient Features of "Mormonism"
Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
According to Their Faith.--God works among men according to their
faith. Jehovah, as Jesus, came unto his own, and his own received
him not. He could not do many mighty works among the Jews, "because
of their unbelief," at which he marveled, as much, no doubt, as he
marveled over the faith of some of the Gentiles. And so, leaving the
latter to be converted by the Holy Ghost, he who had been sent to the
lost sheep of Israel, turned from Judah unto Joseph, from the Jews unto
the Nephites, whose faith was greater, and among whom, in consequence,
more if not mightier miracles were performed.
The "Other Sheep."--From the Nephites, the Savior went to "other
sheep," not of the Nephite fold, nor of the Jewish fold, but still of
the house of Israel, and therefore entitled to his personal ministry.
These may have been "the lost tribes," or they may have been other
scattered sheep, unknown to man, but known unto God, "keeping watch
above his own," in the mystical and remote regions whither his
judgments had driven them.
CHAPTER IV.
The Call of the Shepherd.
"Come out of her, my people."--(Rev. 18:4.)
All in Christ.--The Savior's personal visits to the various branches
of the house of Israel were preliminary to a general gathering of
the sheep into one fold, with himself as the Shepherd over all. The
prophets who predicted the dispersion, likewise foretold the return
of God's people to their own lands, after "the times of the Gentiles"
should be fulfiled. It was to be in the latter days, when God has
purposed to "gather together in one all things in Christ." The most
notable prophecies pertaining to the gathering of Israel are here
presented:
Moses.--"The Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion
upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither
the Lord thy God hath scattered thee."--(Deut. 30:3.)
David.--"Gather my Saints together unto me; those that have made a
covenant with me by sacrifice."--(Psalms 50:5.)
Isaiah.--"And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain
of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto
it.
"And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to
the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and
he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for
out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from
Jerusalem."--(Isaiah 2:2, 3.)
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his
hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which
shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from
Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea.
"And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the
four corners of the earth.
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