| 878 general conference was not a schism or separation from the Church itself.
"HELP FROM HEATHENS.-The last report of the London Missionary Society, which expends about $400,000, annually, acknowledges the receipt, during the year, of $78,804 from contributors at its various missionary stations."
(->) Upon reading the above in one of our exchanges, we could not help exclaiming:-How unlike the Lord's are the ways of the Gentiles!
After Jesus had chosen his Twelve, and gave them power, he said "go and preach saying: the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass, in your purses,
Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat."
The United States and Great Britain, if they could, would frame a tariff so as to claim duties on the exits and entrances into heaven.-Surely they cross sea and land to make proselytes, and make them twofold more the children of hell, than they were before.
The Infidels have advertised for a convention at New York on the 4th of May next.-All in order: men ought to prove contrarieties and bring out the truth thereby. There is a shaking among the "dry bones," and among the christendom sects, the Infidel ranks first, because he uses reason instead of fire and brimstone: He only lacks revelation to come into all truth.
THE POWER OF TRUTH.
Among all the great signs and wonders of the world, from the beginning till now, not one has left so lasting and incontrovertible a witness as truth. The wisdom of ages, the inventions of thousands, and the majesty of authority, combined with the pomp, circumstance, eclat and sycophancy of cozening millions, have passed in their time, like the shining meteor or trackless wind, into the region of forgetfulness, or into space, where there is no clerk to minute their greatness-and all is vacant.
Not so with truth; she possesses a power to persevere and continue-ad infinitum, Nor are her votaries less vigilant to keep the faith, the pledge, and never failing assurance, than herself.
An Abel though dead, yet speaketh. The prophets one after another, would die for the sake of the truth; and the evidence of their constancy, like the sun in his inimitable career, came in with the year, and went out with it, and no man, no mob, no king or potentate has been able to blot it out.
So Mormonism, which, emphatically, is eternal truth, cannot be conquered. Drive her peaceable subjects at the point of the bayonet, from Missouri; murder her innocent men, women and children; murder her prophet and patriarch in cold blood; taint the mind of the populace, and fire the hearts of wicked men, with the stench of false brethren, and the torch of apostates; rob the church of the benefits of legislative enactments; and blow the fury of wild imagination into a blaze of "utter extermination," as tried the Egyptians, the Philistines, the Babylonians, &c, and the Americans, or Missourians, and Illinoisans-and still the true Mormon spirit moves forward, as if God was at the helm. And so he is; and he is the power of truth that cannot be conquered. Who fights against the Lord? He that fights against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As to the apostates, they have their reward
"Who would be a traitor knave?
Who's so base as be a slave?
Who would fill a coward's grave?
Let him turn and flee!"
NOTICE TO THE CHURCHES ABROAD:
THIS may certify that Elder George J. Adams has been disfellowshipped and cut off from the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.-His conduct has been such as to disgrace him in the eyes of justice and virtue, and we cannot and will not sanction a man who is guilty of such things, as we have every reason to believe that he has been from the most indubitable testimony; we have for some time been unwilling to believe the foul statements made concerning him; but the nature of the testimony now adduced, compels us to believe that the statements are but too true, and that under the sacred garb of religion, he has been practising [practicing] the most disgraceful and diabolical conduct.
We think it just to the saints at large to make this statement. And let this be a warning to other elders, if there are any guilty of like conduct.
Done by order of the council,
BRIGHAM YOUNG, Pres.
WILLARD RICHARDS, Clerk.
Why is the term eternity used so often by men? The bible, as translated, useth it but once.
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