A Manifestation of the Spirit.

Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Red Rock Branch, October 18th, 1899. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for iny sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven., etc.-Matt. v., 11-12.

To Our Neighbors and Friends:

We feel it to be our duty to express to you our grateful thanks for your nobie conduct during the late demonstrations of mob violence against us, in refraining from joining the mobs of our enemies or countenancing in any way the bitter persecution with which we have been assailed.

Although many of you differ with us on religious views and might under the circumstances have been expected to bitterly oppose us, we thank God for the kindly Christian spirit you have displayed and for the noble example of forbearance and religious toleration you have set to others. Friends and neighbors! You will not lose your reward! and we pray our heavenly Father to pour out His blessings upon you for your good works in this respect.

You know that we are an honest, Godfearing people, and as neighbors you well know that the charges brought against us by evil-minded persons are untrue and for that reason you have acted as you did. It is ever so with the LatterDay Saints, those who know us best love us best. Persecuting mobs are always made up of those who do not know us or are ignorant of our doctrine.

Perchance this may fall into the hands of one who has been persecuting us. My friend, put down your shotgun and take up your Bible. We freely forgive you, and we breathe the prayer of our blessed

Saviour upon the cross, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do;" | the same who said, "Love your enemies; bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you," etc.

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on

Dear friends, do not become discouraged at this persecution, but humbly serving the Lord and doing your duty. We know it is hard to bear, oh!

how hard! but God knoweth best.

Some time when all life's lessons have been learned

And suns and stars forevermore have set, The things which our weak judgments here have spurned,

The things o'er which we grieved with lashes wet,

Will flash before us out of life's dark night As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue,

And we shall see how all God's plans were right,

is it not a presumptive evidence that all
of them cannot be that perfect system
which was established in the meridian of
time? Do they correspond with the
teachings of that Lowly Nazarine both
in doctrine and in organization? If not
they have no legitimate
name of Christianity.
claim to the

"The fruits of the spirit are love, joy. peace,' etc. Does this letter indicate that the writers are in possession of these virtues? or the "works of the flesh," hatred, variance, * strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings and such like? The Spirit given by God does not incite the recipients to act as some religionists do, it is kind and long-suffering. We are told to try the spirits to see whether the Gospel of Christ was established Looking back, then, to the days when they are of God or not, and if the fruit of the spirit is "love," we can see by upon the earth, we find it came in conWe are told to "love one another,' men's actions if they have the spirit. flict with every religious creed then in for existence, because it was truth coming "love is of God," and "He that loveth in contact with error, and they could not not knoweth not God, for God is love." be intermixed. The laws and doctrines his brother, he is a liar."-I. John iv., of the Pharisees, Saducees, Ethenes and "If a man say I love God and hateth of Christ were perfect, while the systems S-20. other sects were mixtures of truth and error, because they did not harmonize with each other, and none of them harmonized with the teachings of Christ, yet they had become so popular and firm

If people believe the Bible, and "every word of it," as they say they do, why are they not doers of the word. In the persecution of the saints in 1846, when from "one city to another" they fled for protection, something they never could get, did the Spirit of God assert itself iny rooted in the minds of the people that their actions? We find them assembled but very few of them were induced to September day. On the other side was on the banks of the Missouri river one abandon it and receive the teachings of some incarnate monsters who had driven against." Does not the world today prethat sect which was "everywhere spoken them from their homes, had plundered sent a similar picture? their possessions and burned their houses. If the various These people knelt down and asked God teach the same things? If their laws are sects are all correct, why do they not what they were doing. to forgive their enemies, who knew not perfect, why the separation and multiplicity of sects rather than a unity? How severely did Paul rebuke the Corinthian Saints because it was reported that there them-because some were of Paul and were contentions and divisions among others of Apollis-and he further says that Christ is not divided. It seems that were that same Apostle to speak to divided Christendom of this day its severity would be multiplied many fold, because there are more division and thrice the than existed in the days of Paul. confusion among religious sects today

If men are to be known by their fruits who of these two factions were enjoying mobbers who threatened life and limb the "fruits of the Spirit" of God-the and drove the elders from the parish in which they lived? or those people, who believed as the elders, and prayed God to forgive their enemies for doing as they were?

The Sameness of the Gospel

BY J. T. CARRUTH.

Inasmuch as man naturally has religious tendencies, he looks around him to

see which of all the sects he believes will

bring unto him the most happiness upon
the earth and assure his abode in the
kingdom of heaven, and the one that
ally the one with which he affiliates. He
most favorably impresses him is gener-
believes that it will be the means of sav-
ing him in the kingdom of heaven. Ask
him what those laws are which he is try

ing or supposed to obey, and he will in-
variably answer that it is the Gospel.
Ask if he believes in the Gospel as it was
taught by the Savior and His Apostles
when they were upon the earth, and he
will answer yes. Should that Gospel be
the same today as it was then? I would
answer that if it is not precisely the
same it is not the Gospel and has no
power to save and exalt mankind in the
kingdom of our Father.

We have in the world today churches
of various kinds, all professing to be true,
but their systems of religion are as va-
ried as the individual opinions of men.

The Psalmist David says the laws of

If there could be found the same oristed then, with the same authorized serganized system of religion today that exvants to speak as one having authority, and the same eternal laws for mankind to obey, would it not be far better for

the edifying of the Saints than the multiplicity of sects speaking as the Scribes and Pharisees who crucified the Son of man, and who spoke without authority?

BE COMFORTED.

(M. F. Farnsworth.)

O! that bright orb, where dwells no night
Becomes our blissful dwelling sphere;
Where loving spirits re-unite
How sweet and peaceful 'tis to die
Whom death hath torn asunder here,
Meet loving ones and onward fly,
And leave this dreary world below,-

To golden shores' immortal glow.
To us, how dark, and drear and lone!
Would seem that brighter world of bliss;
If we should fail to find the one,-
Should fail to find our loved of this.
But there, again the ties shall twine,-
Not for long can death's hand sever,
And there we'll dwell in peace forever.

And how what seemed reproof was love the Lord are perfect. Then if these laws For there our love will brighter shine,

most true!

God knoweth best!

And now we say to friend and foe alike, investigate carefully out belief, look well into the principles of our faith and if you find therein anything contrary to the Word of God, come, show it to us and we will at once discard it, for we earnestly want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

May God bless you and lead you to a knowledge of the truth is our prayer, which we ask in the name of Christ, our Redeemer. Amen.

The above is a letter written by the Saints in Louisiana, and truly demonstrates what the Spirit of God does for those who have the true spirit in contradistinction to the spirit others claim to enjoy or the one they receive when they "get religion."

are perfect the Gospel which the Savior taught must also be perfect, and to change it in any particular to make it accord with the opinions of men would be bringing man under the most wretched curse. Jesus Christ did not establish systems of religion, but, on the other hand, established one system, and sent His disciples into the world to teach this perfect system, with the promise that all who rendered obedience thereto would become heirs of the blessings of that kingdom where none but the righteous, dwell. Inasmuch, then, as there are in made so by obeying perfect laws, can the world today systems which are called religion and are almost as much in opposition to each other as they are numerous,

It cannot be, we have no fear,
The light we have clouds not the brow;
We know there is a happier sphere,
Than this cold world that holds us now;
Our Father's ear our sorrow hears,
When heavy weighs death's icy chain;
'Tis God that bids us dry our tears,
The pure in heart shall meet again.
Manti, Oct. 28, 1899.

Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.

Albert Phelps, in the October Atlantic. In a dumb world, we mortals, deaf an blind,

Grope through the mystery in hope to find
An Immortality, and, scorning life,
Waste it to leave an empty name behind.

BY PRESIDENT JOHN TAYLOR (Sermon Preached in 1853.)

(Continued from Page 398.) What are we? We are noble, intelligent beings, bearing the impress of Jehovah. With all our imperfections, we can reflect upon things back, and Our minds are capable things to come. of flying from one part of the earth to the other, in less than a moment of time. We can contemplate things we did in the years of our infancy, and thousands of miles distant from our present position; and in another moment contemplate things that are ahead of us. That is a degree of wisdom and intelligence which God has imparted unto us, and which we may improve as intelligent beings, and, having tasted of the fountain, go and drink, and participate more fully in all those blessings which are in store

for us.

I have often been amused at the narwhen I row contracted ideas of men, have looked abroad in the world, and seen their cogitations and calculations in their writings. One man believes in justification by faith, another in justificaSome believe in one tion by works. have thing, and some in another; all their own peculiar ideas, unguided and ungoverned by the only legitimate rule and standard of truth-the living and eternal Priesthood of God. Few can extend their charity sufficiently for to besome will be lieve it is possible that saved as well as themselves; but that some few thousands of people are going to heaven, and all the rest to hell, is the prevailing belief; and if a few, besides these "elect," reach heaven, they think The Protestit will be a hard chance. ants believe the Catholics are all in error, and pack the whole church off to hell as the mother of harlots, without any trouble, or without even a sigh. And the old mother is just as uncharitable towards her daughters, for they are her offspring, and she sends the whole of them unceremoniously to the same place. The Catholics and Prostetants are genthe Catholics and Protestants are gen erally united in sending all the MohameIt would be tans and Heathens there. something like it was with me when I was discussing with a minister on the principles of "Mormonism." Before I got through with him, he nearly destroyed and cast away the whole of destroy our the Bible, in his zeal to faith. He threw away one book after another, until but a small portion remained. So it is with the religious world generally; each one packs off his neighbor to hell; and after such narrow minds have made their selections of the worthy ones, and put them right, as they think, few besides will get to heaven.

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Others will take everybody to heaven, no matter who or what they are. think the latter idea is as ridiculous as the former, although there is something more pleasing in the last idea. I must The only confess, than in the other. thing I would hate in it is being associated with a multitude of cutthroats and For instance the old blacklegs there. world was cut off through their wickedness and corruption. I could not think all these it right of the Lord to take wicked fellows straight to heaven, because they were wicked and unworthy, and leave Noah and his family to combat with the troubles of earth because But such are the they were righteous. ideas of men; while some are all charity, others have none at all. I have sometimes thought that we "Mormons" are almost as uncharitable as others.

I believe God has a great design in view, in the creation of the human family. I do not believe that an all-wise Being would ever make a beautiful earth like this, and people it with man, and a multiplicity of other kinds of beings designed to exist upon it, and all for no I do not believe that 350,000,purpose.

a

000 of people that live in China in
state of heathen darkness are created
to live in this state, and be damned be-
cause they have not the right religion. I
do not believe that all the nations that
worship various kinds of idols, in dif-
ferent parts of the earth, and know noth-
will be con-
ing about the true God,
signed to burn in tire hereafter, because
I cannot receive any such ideas
they know no better than worship as they
do.
into my mind. Although I was going to
say I am not a Universalist, but I am,
In
and I am also a Presbyterian, and a
Roman Catholic, and a Methodist.
short, I believe in every true principle
If there is any
that is imbibed by any person or sect,
and reject the false.
truth in heaven, earth, or hell, I want
to embrace it, I care not what shape it
comes in to me, who brings it, or who
believes in it, whether it is popular or
to float in and enjoy.
unpopular. Truth, eternal truth, I wish

Now I come to us, "Mormons." We
are the only true Church, so we say. We
have got the only true faith, so we say
and believe. I believe we have got many
I will tell you how I feel
great and true principles revealed from
the heavens.
about it, and what I have said many
have been abroad among
times when
If
the priests, people and philosophers.
any man under the heavens can show me
one principle of error that I have enter-
On
tained, I will lay it aside forthwith, and
be thankful for the information.
the other hand, if any man has got any
principle of truth, whether moral, relig-
ious, philosophical, or of any other kind.
that is calculated to benefit mankind,
I promise him I will embrace it, but I
will not partake of his errors along with
If a man should say, I am in pos-
it.
session of one piece of truth, and, be-
cause I have got that, I must be right,
am I to believe him? Certainly not. It
does not follow that he has not many

errors.

The Catholics have many pieces of
truth; so have the Protestants, the Ma-
hometans and Heathens; and am I to
embrace one of these systems because it
has got certain things that are right? No.
Well,
Suppose a person should tell me that two
I believe it with all my
multiplied by two makes four.
heart. But suppose he believes and
that is right.
four make
teaches also, that six and
twenty and exhorts me to believe it, say-
ing-I was right in the other calcula-
tion, did I not prove the other to you?
I will take out
O, yes, but you did not prove that six
and four make twenty.
the truth and leave the error.

Then you believe that we, as "Mor-
mons," have got truth? O, yes, I do, and
for this reason I have traveled exten-
sively in most of the states of the Union,
and in Canada; also in England, Ireland
and Scotland; in the Isle of Man, Jersey,
and other islands of the sea; in France,
Germany, Belgium, and other parts of
the carth; and I have not yet seen a man
that could find one error in doctrine or
principle connected with the religion of
God knows there is too
the Latter Day Saints. I do not talk
of practice.
I speak of
much delinquency among us.
principle. Then if you have got a thing
that nobody can overturn, but can be
sustained everywhere; that bids defiance
to the wisdom and intelligence of the
world to find one fault in it, you must
say it is right, until it is proven to be

wrong.

two
Can anybody prove to you that
multiplied by two makes six? There are
certain things which are matters of fact
-two multiplied by two makes four, and
two parallel lines infinitely extended will
never meet at right angles, but run to
These truths demonstrate
eternity.
themselves, no man can alter these mat-
ters of fact. And if I have got principles

which are out of the power of man to
prove false, I consider they are right, and
I stand upon them as a sure foundation.
On the other hand, am I to think it is
right, because I am right, to send every-
will leave them
body else to hell? No,
He has told me
in the hands of God.
to preach the Gospel to every creature,
saying, "he that believeth and is bap-
tized shall be saved; and he that believ-
And how many millions
me to do this.
eth not shall be damned." He has told
of mankind are there who have never
heard the Gospel?. And are they going
to be damned for not believing in a thing
came within their range, and that they
they have never heard, and that never
have not the slightest knowledge of? No.
What is it we have to do? We must
spread forth the light of the Gospel.
Why? Because God has communicated
to ennoble and exalt the human family.
a system of religion which is calculated

The world is confused, it is in dark-
ness and ignorance, and knows nothing
God knows
about God, His purposes, designs, or the
object of His creations.
how to touch my understanding, and how
to touch theirs; and if they live and die
without a knowledge of God, and His
law, we are told that they will be judged
law, will be
that have lived without
according to the light they have, and not
according to that they have not. Those
judged without law.

Am I going to weep over the condition of the world? No. God made it, and if He suffers millions to dwell upon it in ignorance of Him, I have nothing to do with it. All I have to do is, when God and light, intelligence, sends me, to go and teach the people the truth, so far as I know them, and no principles of further; and if they reject them, it is none of my business. In many instances, they do it for want of information, and according to the government, priestcraft, prejudices, etc., of which they are under the dominion. It is difficult for them to comprehend correct principles when they hear them, or to know the light when they see it shine. The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendperhaps better than you do, but they do not understand the principles of the Goseth it not. They understand many things, No man can underthe Spirit of God. stand that without the Spirit. A great pel as you do, for want of the light of many among the prevailing sects of the compassed sea and land to make proseday have to some considerable extent enlytes, and in the majority of instances where they have been successful, they before. have made them ten fold more the chilthey were dren of hell than They do not underThey have taught them hypocrisy, and evils of many kinds, of which they were stand how to propagate true principles, for they do not understand them themignorant before. selves, and how can they teach them to others? But I will love them, and let them go.

We "Mormons" think that we have made a wonderful stretch, for we say that all Israel is going to be saved, and we believe we are of Israel, and that we the fold with them. And when we are gathered in with all the Israel of God, as we call shall be gathered into What them, that have lived in the various ages with them shall be redeemed and saved of the world up to the present time, we in the eternal kingdom of God. Then His work will be accomelse? plished, you may say. But I do not think This looks like the time of the it will, though it will certainly be a great work. restoration of all things, but in reality it is only a restoration of a few. Why, you may inquire, will you take in someCertainly. body besides the Israelites? We are told they were beloved for the If fathers' sakes, and in consequence of the promises made to the fathers. they are brought in, it will be in conse quence of these promises. I wonder if there were no other men of faith besides And if there Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that existed previous to their days.

O, Lord, why did you make the earth,
and cause the sun, and moon, and stars
to be made to give light to it, and man
to inhabit it, telling him to multiply, and
replenish the earth, and cause it to bring
forth in its strength for man and beast?
I will go back further, and find the
spirits that are existing with him in the
eternal world. They came here, and ob-
tained bodies, that both bodies and spir-
its might receive an exaltation among
the Gods, and be capable of eternal in-
crease worlds without end. I think this
agrees more with philosophy and truth,
with an intelligent and extensive mind.
with true religion, with our fathers, and
with God, than anything else we see
abroad.

were, I want to know if they knew any-
thing about God, and obtained promises
for their offspring. I will go a little
further than old Abraham, and say, I
am glad to see your posterity saved,
Abraham, but I think some of your de-
scendants prophesied of the time when
Ammon would stretch out his hands to
God, and Moab and Philistia be blessed |
with the same blessing. I think some of
your descendants, when their minds were
enlightened and expanded, looked for-
ward into the womb of the future, to a
time when there would be a great gath-
ering, when people from Hamath, Cush,
and from the islands of the sea, when
different tribes and nations should flow
together to the name of the Lord of
Hosts. If Abraham knew how to ob- I see the world of mankind in darkness,
tain promises, I wonder, for instance, if and try my best to enlighten them as
the old man that was called Melchisedec, much as possible. If I can do them any
who lived before Abraham, and whom good, I will do it. God has revealed His
Paul in his writings makes a greater truth to us "Mormons." What to do? To
man than Abraham, for, says he, "the make us glory in it, and in nothing but
lesser was blessed of the greater"-I what God gives to us; and to teach it to
wonder if Melchisedec did not know also others, that they may be put in posses-
how to obtain promises for his seed? sion of the same intelligence that we en-
There was an old man who lived in the joy. What have we to do? To spread
land of Uz, who is said to have been a this Gospel to every nation, kindred,
very patient man; notwithstanding he tongue, and people, that the Spirit of the
cursed the day he was born, and the Lord may operate upon those who love
womb that gave him birth. He surely the truth, that they may have an oppor-
knew how to obtain blessings from God. tunity of embracing it, and of participat-
God came to him, and he obtained blessing in the same blessings we enjoy, and
ings from God, and could look forward forming a nucleus whereby a fullness of
through the dark vista of ages and con- eternal truth may be developed, and an-
template the purposes of God, and he gels come again and communicate with
saw himself not only dead and buried, the human family, that the earth may
but, said he, "though after
my skin
answer the end of its creation, and that
worms shall destroy this body, yet in my all men who ever did or ever will live
flesh shall I see God." He had the kind may answer the end of their creation,
of religion I believe in, exactly-a relig- that men who have fallen from righteous-
ion that caused him to know and under- ness may suffer for their sins and trans-
stand something of God and His pur-gressions, and by and bye come forth
poses; and he acted upon it, and profited
by it. Very well, if he knew about these
things, I want to know whether he will
not have some promises to claim for him-
self and descendants by and bye, when
they are hunted up.

I will go further back yet; to old Noah, for instance. He was a good man, and while the whole earth was destroyed, his life was preserved, and his posterity with him. He was a man of God. I want to know if he could also obtain blessings for his posterity, and whether he will feel after them some time or other, and if the time will come round that they may partake of the covenants and blessings of God, and stand in their proper place, and not be consigned to all eternity in this dreadful hell. I think he would not like to see his posterity there, more than Abraham would like to see his. All these holy men have their interest to feel after their posterity, and all desire to see them brought forth.

"But," says one, "they are fallen creatures." And so are the Israelites. Where will you find a more corrupt set than the descendants of Ephraim, so far fallen and so debased a set as the In dians that dwell in these mountains, and that roam wildly over the broad prairies of this country? Their fathers have got to do something for them, to bring them forth to inherit the promises. It is for Abraham to feel after his seed, and be interested in their welfare.

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We will go back to old Adam, and see him coming on the earth, as he is the head and father of us all. Well, now I want to know if the old gentlemen would like to see his children packed off by nations into a place of torment, millions and millions turned off into the Catholic hell, to roast there to all eternity. think he has fatherly feeling to his numerous offspring, and would desire, and seek earnestly to have them saved. have them redeemed from their fallen and degraded condition. For they are no worse fallen, no more degraded and corrupt, than the Israelites are, and have as much right to be brought forth at the proper time, and be blessed, as they have. This is my doctrine, and these are my feelings.

to

You may go to the head fountain of all, to the God who made Adam, and say,

and enjoy their proper lot in the eternal
world.

"Oh, then," say you, "I will do as I
please in this world." Very well, go
and do it. It will prove that you do not
live by the truth because you love it,
but if you follow the truth, you are ac-
tuated to do so by a dastardly fear of
hell. If this is the case, I would not give
the ashes of a rye straw for ten thou-
sand such "Mormons." If a man cannot
stand up in the defense of truth, to the
death, it is not worth having, and he is
not a man who is acknowledged or con-
sidered worthy among the Saints. But
such will find it is a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living God.

judged according to the deeds done in the body." So you see they have got to come out to be judged according to their works, whether they be good or evil. Suppose we have a state's prison, for instance, in this place, a transgressor of the laws of the land is put in for a certain time, according to the deeds which he has done, and the evidence and circumstances of the case. After he has suffered according to law, he is set at liberty, but, mark you, the prison still remains, which may be compared to eternal punishment, or God's punishment. Who will go there? The wicked, for the punishment of their sins, and to teach them a useful lesson. The Scriptures say that some will not have forgiveness in this world, nor in the world to come, but these we will leave in the hands of God.

Some people will ask if we think the devil will be saved. You must ask him, for I have nothing to say about it. I have gone far enough in my remarks. I believe God will accomplish all His purposes, and Satan will not have power to frustrate His designs in any way whatever; for if he did, he would be more powerful than God. Every man will be rewarded according to the deeds done in the body. Those who have received pure and heavenly principles, and lived up to them, and kept the celestial law of God, will enjoy a celestial kingdom. Those who have not attained to this per fection, but can obey a terrestrial law. will receive a terrestrial glory, and enjoy a terrestrial kingdom, and so on. But I believe, furthermore, that there are eternal grades of progression, which will continue worlds without end, and to an infinity of enjoyment, expansion, glory, progression, and of everything calculated to ennoble and exalt mankind.

This is one of our first estates, or it is our second estate, if you please, and so we move on from state to state, with a knowledge of the true principles of the eternal world revealed to us, which principles are eternal-eternal truth, eternal life, eternal intelligence, leading us on to the possession of celestial kingdoms of God. From intelligence to intelligence, from glory to glory, from power to power, we proceed onward, until we possess thrones, and powers, and dominions in the eternal worlds. And I pray God to give us power to obtain all these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Louis,

1899. 1894,

THE DEAD

St.

Sister Barbara Johnson, of Bay
Miss., departed this life Nov. 6.
She joined the church Sept. 9,
and was an active member of the
Bay St. Louis branch of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and
bore a faithful testimony to the last.
Her service and assistance will be great-

ates.

A precious one from us is gone,
A face we love is still
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled.

I will notice an instance for your information, to stir up your pure minds, if you have got such minds. I read of many people who were destroyed by the flood; and in Jesus Christ's day, we read that He was put to death in the flesh. and quickened by the Spirit, by which He went to preach to the spirits in prison, who had been disobedient in the days of Noah, etc. He preached to them, and they came forth out of their confinement. "Well, that would be all right," you say. O, yes, but I want to know how you would like to be shut up in prison three missed and mourned by her associor four thousand years, or even one year. We join in sympathy with the It is said in Scripture that "it is a fear- bereaved. ful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." It also says that "the wicked shall be turned into hell with all the nations that forget God." Do you believe that? "Certainly I do." I remember a minister once asking me a question upon this subject. Says he, "Do you believe in eternal punishment?" "O, yes, I believe the wicked will be turned into hell, with all the nations that forget God." "Do you believe they will stay there?" "O, no." "Why do you not?" "Because it is not according to Scripture." "But if they all be turned into hell who forget God, and will go away into everlasting punishment, will they not stay there forever?" "Yes," I said, "they will go into everlasting punishment, but they will come out again." "How is that?" "Why the Scriptures declare that death and hell will deliver up their dead, and the sea deliver up the dead that is in it; and all nations will stand before God, to be

God in His wisdom has recalled
The boon His love had given,
And though the body moulders here
The soul is safe in heaven.

-W. Samuel Windom.

Releases and Appointments.

The following brethren have been released after filling honorable missions: James Duffin, Virginia.

D. W. Gibson, East Tennessee.
R. M. Owen, Georgia.

A. W. McKay, North Kentucky.

The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year.-Voltaire.

AN EXAMPLE OF CHRISTIAN CONSISTENCY.
O, wad some power the Giftie gie us,

VOL. 1.

"BUT THOUGH WE, OR AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN, PREACH ANY
OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU THAN THAT WHICH WE
HAVE PREACHED UNTO YOU, LET HIM BE ACCURSED."GAL.C.8.V
ХОЧТАЯ

CHATTANOOGA, TENN., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1899.

No. 52.

OR a number of years the need of a Mission paper in the Southern States has been earnestly contemplated. President Elias S. Kimball made a vigorous effort to establish a paper, but because of non-support he was compelled to abandon his hopes.

Ben. E. Rich, when appointed to succeed Elias S. Kimball as President of the Southern States Mission, was informed about what had been done, and being enthused with the same spirit that actuated President Kimball, made a thorough investigation of the matter and was assured of the hearty support of the Elders in this Mission, and received the sanction of the authorities of the Church. Elder David P. Felt was called into the office from Georgia, and assisted in establishing the paper and acted as its first editor. Elder Ray Ashworth succeeded him, with Elder A. F. Cardon as his assistant. When these two brethren were released, President L. R. Anderson assumed control until the arrival of Elder Geo. E. Maycock from Utah.

The paper has held its head above water, and at the close of the first volume we have a few dollars to our credit.

Our next issue will be the first number of Volume II. If the same support will be given from Elders and Saints as was manifested in Volume I. we will continue to send forth THE STAR as a weekly visitor and as a powerful missionary to all who receive it. Through its distribution we hope to bring the Saints and Elders of the Southern States Mission nearer together, as it were, and acquaint all who receive it with what is being done in this Mission.