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
"The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah
shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex
Ephraim.
"But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines to ward the
west."--(Ibid, 11:11-14.)
"And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which
shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that
he came up out of the land of Egypt."--(Ibid, 11:16.)
"Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and
gather thee from the west;
"I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back;
bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the
earth."--(Ibid, 43:5, 6.)
"And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness
of thy rising.
"Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves
together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy
daughters shall be nursed at thy side."--(Ibid, 60:3, 4.)
The Ensign.--According to the faith of the Latter-day Saints, the
"ensign" referred to by Isaiah was set up, when the Church of Christ
was organized on the sixth of April, 1830. Thus far, however, only a
portion of the half tribe of Ephraim has been gathered out from the
nations.
Shoulders of the Philistines.--"The shoulders of the Philistines" are
understood to be the steamships, railroads, and other facilities of the
Gentiles, whereby the gathering Saints have been and are being carried
westward to American shores and into the tops of the Rocky Mountains.
The Highway.--"And there shall be a highway," etc. This part of
Isaiah's prophecy seems to have reference to the tribes that were
carried into captivity by the Assyrians, and in connection with whose
return a miracle is promised similar to the dividing of the waters of
the Red Sea, in the days of Moses, that Israel might go over dry shod.
Jeremiah.--"Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am
married unto you; and I will take you one of a city, and two of a
family, and I will bring you to Zion;
"And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed
you with knowledge and understanding."--(Jeremiah 3:14, 15.)
"Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no
more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel
out of the land of Egypt;
"But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from land
of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them; and I
will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
"Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall
fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt
them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of
the rocks.
"For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face.
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