The Rise and Fall of NauvooRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- Nauvoo; Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History
I am like a huge, rough stone rolling down from a high mountain,
and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by
coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated
force against religious bigotry, priest-craft, lawyer-craft,
doctor-craft, lying editors, suborned judges and jurors, and the
authority of perjured executives, backed by mobs, blasphemers,
licentious and corrupt men and women, all hell knocking off a
corner here and a corner there. Thus I will become a smooth and
polished shaft in the quiver of the Almighty, who will give me
dominion over all and every one of them, when their refuge of lies
shall fail, and their hiding place shall be destroyed, while these
smooth polished stones with which I come in contact become marred.
* * * I am a rough stone. The sound of the hammer and chisel was
never heard on me until the Lord took me in hand. I desire the
learning and wisdom of heaven alone. I have not the least idea, if
Christ should come to the earth and preach such rough things as He
preached to the Jews, but that this generation would reject Him for
being so rough.
OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS AND THEIR REDEMPTION.
Commenting on Revelation v: 13--"And every creature which is in heaven,
and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and
all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory,
and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb,
for ever and ever"--the Prophet said:
I suppose John saw beings there of a thousand forms, that had
been saved from ten thousand times ten thousand earths like this,
strange beasts of which we have no conception; all might be seen in
heaven. The grand secret was to show John what there was in heaven.
John learned that God glorified Himself by saving all that His
hands had made, whether beasts, fowls, fishes or men, and He will
gratify Himself with them.
THE PROPHET'S DEFINITION OF THE WORD MORMON.
Before I give a definition, however, to the word Mormon, let me say
that the Bible, in its widest sense, means good, for the Savior
says, according to the Gospel of John, "I am the good shepherd,"
and it will not be beyond the common use of terms to say that good
is among the most important in use, and though known by various
names in different languages, still its meaning is the same, and
is ever in opposition to bad. We say from the Saxon good; the Dane
god; the Goth goda; the German gut; the Dutch goed; the Latin
bonus; the Greek kalos; the Hebrew tob, and the Egyptian mon.
Hence, with the addition of more, or the contraction mor, we have
the word Mormon, which means, literally, more good.
MAKE YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE.
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