Saturday Night Thoughts: A Series of Dissertations on Spiritual, Historical, and Philosophic ThemesWhitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
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Saturday Night Thoughts: A Series of Dissertations on Spiritual, Historical, and Philosophic Themes
Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
Latter Day Saint churches
Article Eighteen: Moses and Aaron
Article Nineteen: To the Ends of the Earth
_Part Five.--In Time's Meridian_
Article Twenty: The Lamb of God
Article Twenty-one: The Special Witnesses
_Part Six.--The Era of Restitution_
Article Twenty-two: The Call of the Shepherd
Article Twenty-three: The Zion of Latter Days
Article Twenty-four: Redemption by Power
Article Twenty-five: Clearing the Way
Article Twenty-six: God's Hand Upon the Nations
Article Twenty-seven: The Consummation
_Part Seven.--Powers and Principles_
Article Twenty-eight: The Priesthood
Article Twenty-nine: Church Government
Article Thirty: The Law of Obedience
Article Thirty-one: The Divine Doorway
Article Thirty-two: The Second Birth
Article Thirty-three: Meaning and Mode of Baptism
Article Thirty-four: The Gospel's Accessories
Article Thirty-five: What Are Miracles?
Article Thirty-six: The Mainspring of Power
_Part Eight.--Beyond the Horizon_
Article Thirty-seven: The Spirit World
Article Thirty-eight: Spirit Promptings
Article Thirty-nine: Do the Dead Return?
Article Forty: The Goal Eternal
NAMES AND ABBREVIATIONS
The usual Bible abbreviations are retained.
Hist. Ch. stands for History of the Church.
D. & C. for Doctrine and Covenants.
Nephi, Jacob, Omni, Mormon, Mosiah, Alma and Ether, will be recognized
as names belonging to the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Moses, shortened to Moses, and the Book of Abraham,
abbreviated to Abr., will be found within the lids of the Pearl of
Great Price.
Other abbreviations, such as vol. for volume, p. or pp. for page or
pages, v. or vv. for verse or verses and ib. for ibid (the same) are in
such common use as scarcely to require mention.
PART ONE
OUR PLACE IN HISTORY
Saturday Night Thoughts
ARTICLE ONE.
_The Saturday Evening of Time._
_The Sixth Day._--Saturday, in Christian lands, is a day set apart for
house-cleaning, a time for "putting things to rights," in preparation
for the Sabbath, the sacred day of rest. Preliminary to the condition
of purity, order and quietness especially desirable on that day,
the house, in domestic parlance, is "upset"--"turned topsy-turvy."
Furniture is moved and dusted, floors are scrubbed, windows cleaned,
and stoves polished; the body is bathed, all rubbish burned, and
everything done that ought to be done, so that when night is past and
glorious morning dawns, the rising sun can smile approvingly on a
renovated, sweet and wholesome scene, and the Lord's Day be kept, as He
intended it should be, in cleanliness, which is "next to godliness."
Is there not something symbolical in all this--something suggestive of
things higher?
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