Outlines of Ecclesiastical HistoryRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Religion
Outlines of Ecclesiastical History
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Church history; Latter Day Saint churches -- History
these ten tribes into the height of Zion, into the midst of it.--Orson
Pratt--Journal of Discourses, vol. 18, p. 22, 23.
5. All Nations Flowing Unto the House of the Lord.--One of
the features in the celebration of Pioneer Day--24th of July, the
anniversary of the day the company of Pioneers entered Salt Lake
Valley, 1847--in Salt Lake City, 1880, was to have represented the
various nationalities composing the population of Utah. A man and a
woman {375} of each nation from which people had been gathered by the
proclamation of the gospel were selected as the representatives, each
pair bearing the national colors of their country. They occupied a
platform in the Tabernacle during the services, and after a historical
sketch of the introduction of the gospel in the various nations was
read by Orson Pratt, the representatives of the nations arose and
President John Taylor said: "I wish to state to the congregation that
the Lord commanded his servants to go forth to all the world to preach
the gospel to every creature. We have not yet been to all the world,
but here are twenty-five nations represented today, and we have thus
far fulfilled our mission."
6. The Latter-day Saints of Israel.--The set time was come for
God to gather Israel, and for his work to commence upon the face of
the whole earth, and the elders who have arisen in this church and
kingdom are actually of Israel. Take the elders who are in the house
[the old Tabernacle in Salt Lake City], and you can scarcely find one
out of a hundred but what is of the house of Israel. * * * Will we go
to the Gentile nations to preach the gospel? Yes, and gather out the
Israelites wherever they are mixed among the nations of the earth. * *
* Ephraim has become mixed with all the nations of the earth, and it
is Ephraim that is gathering together. It is Ephraim that I have been
searching for all the days of my preaching, and that is the blood which
ran in my veins when I embraced the gospel. If there are any of the
other tribes of Israel mixed with the Gentiles we are also searching
after them.--Brigham Young. From a Discourse preached April 8th, 1855.
REVIEW.
1. What great work did the visit of Moses to the Kirtland Temple
inaugurate?
2. Who are Israel?
3. Give a sketch of the history of Israel to the revolt of the ten
tribes.
4. How came the ten tribes to revolt?
5. Give an account of the fall of the kingdom of Israel.
6. Why are the ten tribes called the "lost tribes?"
7. What evidence have you that they are in the north?
8. Give the evidence to be found in the words of Jesus to the Nephites.
{376} 9. What statement does the Apocryphal writer Esdras make
respecting the ten tribes? (Note 2.)
10. Who were the Samaritans?
11. What tribes formed the kingdom of Judah?
12. Give an outline of the history of Judah to the birth of Messiah.
13. What befell Judah about thirty years after the crucifixion of
Messiah? (Note 3.)
14. What can you say of miscellaneous dispersions?
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