Saturday Night Thoughts: A Series of Dissertations on Spiritual, Historical, and Philosophic ThemesWhitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
Religion
Saturday Night Thoughts: A Series of Dissertations on Spiritual, Historical, and Philosophic Themes
Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
Latter Day Saint churches
Continuing the comparison: These voyagers paid only for second-rate
privileges. They "drew the line," giving a part but not all of their
allegiance to Him who hath said: "Thou shalt have no other gods before
me." The things of this world were more precious in their eyes than the
riches that perish not and that thieves cannot steal. They loved Truth,
but not whole-heartedly. They loved money and pleasure more, and strove
for fame and the applause of this world, rather than for the approval
of heaven. Though clean of conduct and honorable in deal, they were not
zealous for Christ, and knew not the meaning of self-sacrifice. These
are worthy of the Kingdom, but not of the Crown; and they shine, not
like the golden sun, but like the silvery moon, with a diminished or
secondary radiance, with reflected rather than with original light.
Telestial Glory--Servants of the Most High.--As for those who inherit
telestial conditions, differing from the terrestrial as the stars
differ from the moon--were they not symbolized by the steerage and its
occupants?
"These are they who are thrust down to hell. These are they who shall
not be redeemed from the Devil, until the last resurrection," at the
close of the Millennial reign. Criminals of every type and grade, they
"suffer the wrath of God until the fulness of times, until Christ shall
have subdued all enemies under his feet and shall have perfected his
work." They receive not of "his fulness in the eternal world, but of
the Holy Spirit through the ministration of the terrestrial; and the
terrestrial through the ministration of the celestial. And also the
telestial receive it of the administering of angels who are appointed
to minister for them, or who are appointed to be ministering spirits
for them, for they shall be heirs of salvation." [7]
The heirs telestial are those who "receive not the Gospel, neither
the testimony of Jesus, neither the prophets, neither the everlasting
covenant." According to the Vision, they "were as innumerable as the
stars in the firmament of heaven, or as the sands upon the seashore."
Concerning this vast multitude, the voice of the Lord was heard, saying:
"These all shall bow the knee, and every tongue shall confess to Him
who sits upon the throne forever and ever.
"For they shall be judged according to their works, and every man shall
receive according to his own works his own dominion in the mansions
which are prepared.
"And they shall be servants of the Most High, but where God and Christ
dwell they cannot come, worlds without end." [8]
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