Part 7 (2/2)

But to return to the subject of Revelation. ”There is nothing secret that shall not be revealed: neither hid that shall not be known;” this was a maxim of the Savior. And again: ”The knowledge of the Lord is to cover the earth, as the waters do the sea.” Now, I ask how this great overturn is to be brought about? And I know no better way to answer this question, than to quote the prophecy of Nephi, Book of Mormon (n.e.), 2 Nephi, xxix, 11-14: ”For I command all men, both in the east, and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the sea, that they shall write the words which I speak unto them: for out of the books which shall be written, I will judge the world, every man according to their works, according to that which is written.

”For behold, I shall speak unto the Jews, and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the Nephites, and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the other tribes of the house of Israel which I have led away, and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto all the nations of the earth, and they shall write it.

”And it shall come to pa.s.s that the Jews shall have the words of the Nephites, and the Nephites shall have the words of the Jews; and the Nephites and the Jews shall have the words of the lost tribes of Israel; and the lost tribes of Israel shall have the words of the Nephites and the Jews.

”And it shall come to pa.s.s, that my people which are of the house of Israel, shall be gathered home unto the lands of their possessions; and my word also shall be gathered in one. And I will show unto them that fight against my word, and against my people who are of the house of Israel, that I am G.o.d, and that I covenanted with Abraham, that I would remember his seed for ever.”

[Transcriber's note: the material in the following chapter was originally printed in two side by side columns. Side by side pairs of paragraphs are separated from following pairs by three asterisks.]

CHAPTER VII.

A CONTRAST BETWEEN THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST AND THE DOCTRINES OF NINETEENTH CENTURY.

”Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not G.o.d. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.”--2 JOHN, 2.

DOCTRINE OF CHRIST.

DOCTRINES OF MEN.

And these signs shall follow them that believe.

And these signs shall not follow them that believe, for they are done away and no longer needed.

In my name shall they cast out devils.

In His name they shall not cast out devils.

They shall speak with new tongues.

The gift of tongues is no longer needed.

They shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

If they take up serpents, they will bite them; if they drink any deadly thing it will kill them. They shall not lay hands on the sick, and if they do they shall not recover; for such things are done away.

He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to the Father.

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