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  • |>=[[../25|The Powers of the Priesthood not Generally Understood—The Necessity of Living by Revelation—The Abuse of ...ll the world, and that was to be efficacious to all the world, it mattered not what color or country, what nation or language, learned or unlearned, Hindo
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  • |H=DIFFICULTIES NOT FOUND AMONG THE SAINTS WHO LIVE THEIR RELIGION-ADVERSITY WILL TEACH THEM TH |T=Journal of Discourses 3: DIFFICULTIES NOT FOUND AMONG THE SAINTS WHO LIVE THEIR RELIGION-ADVERSITY WILL TEACH THEM TH
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  • ...d, for I have been labouring under indisposition for several weeks, and do not possess that physical force which is natural to me, therefore I need more o ...ak|16|top}} and obedience, for being more happy than other people. We have not the facilities that the people of many other cities and parts of the earth
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  • ...the mouth speaketh. Brother Chislett has spoken upon that principle. We do not expect the brethren to rise up here to instruct the people with regard to t ...he goodness of the Lord in revealing to you the truths of the Gospel? Does not that strengthen your faith, give you an increase of confidence, and witness
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  • ...e history of this church. It was not my wish to be understood that I could not give the leading items of every important occurrence, at least so far as wo I do not deem it to be necessary to write further on the subject of this excitement.
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  • ...this congregation, who personally have been strangers to me, and who have not heard my testimony. I have been acquainted in this Church and connected wit ...and that, too, without being crowded; for at times, I presume, there were not fifty.
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  • ...ries, in order that you may understand the subject when I come to it. I do not calculate or intend to please your ears with superfluity of words, or orato ...t or that which is to come, as respects their relationship to God. They do not know, neither do they understand the nature of that relationship; and, cons
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  • I have never yet seen the time that I had wisdom, strength, and ability enough to preach a G ...n to the grave. If we enjoyed healthy bodies, {{page break|284|top}} so as not to wear upon the functions of the mind, there is no end to a man's learning
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  • ...roughout this Territory, with but a few exceptions. A great many families, not only in Salt Lake City, but throughout the settlements, have practically em ...wish to wait in ignorance until we are brought before the great tribunal, not of man, but of God.
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  • ...for the Book of Mormon, which I now hold in my hands, such a Church would not have had an existence. The probability is, there would have been no settlem ...s of all reasonable persons that it is a Divine revelation. If it has been translated by the gift and power of God, through the means of the Urim and Thummin, an
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  • ...man's informing himself upon all subjects. This, I have often thought, is not understood as it ought to be by the officers of this Church.
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  • ...} Smith the plates containing the record from which the Book of Mormon was translated, in which is recorded the history of the ancient inhabitants of this countr ...mighty work and kingdom, which should be the kingdom of God, and it should not be thrown down, but stand forever: but you cannot now comprehend the extent
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  • ...efore, we acknowledge the hand of Providence in all things, we acknowledge not the designs, plans, and schemes of all nations, any more than we acknowledg ...discovery to be made. Millions of spirits in the spirit world, who had not yet taken bodies, nor passed the ordeal, in earthly tenements, of a residence o
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  • ...les have been revealed to the human family in various ages of the world,—not only revealed in the meridian of time by Jesus and the Apostles, but to gen I have read this that the Latter-day Saints who have not had the opportunity of reading these inspired translations of the Prophet m
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  • ...but the will of my Father who is in heaven. That which is meet to me might not be to a mixed multitude of people. God knoweth best that which is suitable ...Let me speak, therefore, not according to any selfishness that is in me,—not to speak simply my own feelings, but that the mind of Christ may be in me,
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  • To those who have not reflected seriously upon the dealings of God and his laws, the Lord appears It is true mankind have not at all times been susceptible of receiving and appreciating the same degree
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  • ...g of tongues set in motion by wicked hearts I have always met, and they do not affect my character before my God, nor in the eyes of just men. ...n their God in their feelings, and connected themselves with those who are not in the Church; they know my character, and have much more confidence in me
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  • ...r next week. If it rains, all we can do is to say, Let it rain; if it does not rain, all we have to do is to prepare to do the best we can with the dust: ...nherit every good thing. This is not saying that we are Saints. I have not yet come to that, though I firmly believe that we are trying to be Saints. Thos
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  • ...regard to revealed religion; and they inquire of the Christian, "Why does not your God do thus and so? Why does he delay? Why does he permit the enemy to ...ave answered the ends of its creation—the inhabitants of the earth could not have been accountable. If he had to take possession of the earth at this pr
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  • ...ed people, and in relation to ourselves, and our duties in regard to them; not that I expect my feeble abilities will impart anything that is of much cons ...purposes, and fulfil the covenants made with the house of Israel, and yet not lift one solitary finger to facilitate the answer to their prayers.
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