The Contributor, Vol. 5: A Monthly Magazine of Home Literature; November, 1883 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Junius Free Wells

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0243336039 ISBN 13: 9780243336036

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Contributor, Vol. 5: A Monthly Magazine of Home Literature; November, 1883

Some of these my brethren know what my feelings were at the time Joseph revealed the doctrine; I was not desirous of shrinking from any duty, nor of failing in the least to do as I was commanded, but it was the first time in my life that I had desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation, and to regret that I was not in the coffin, know ing the toil and labor that my body would have to undergo; and I have had to examine myself, from that day to this, and watch my faith, and carefully medi tate, lest I should be found desiring the grave more than I ought to do. You will probably wonder at this, and that such should have been my feelings upon this point, but they were even so.

Now, if any of you will deny the plu rality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned; and I will go still further and say, take this revelation, or any other revelation that the Lord has given, and deny it in your feelings, and I promise that you will be damned. But the Saints who live their religion will be exalted, for they never will deny any revelation which the Lord has given or may give, though, when there is a doctrine coming to them which they cannot comprehend fully, they may be found saying, The Lord sendeth this unto me, and I pray that He will save and preserve me from denying anything which proceedeth from Him, and give me patience to wait until I can understand it for myself. Such persons will never deny, but will allow those subjects which they do not understand to remain until the visions of their minds become Open. This is the course which I have invariably pursued, and if any thing came that I could not understand.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0243336039
• ISBN 13: 9780243336036
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 55