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generation to generation. His hand
has been manifest from the beginning
of the work until the present day.
It will be until this scene is wound
up. I have a great desire that, as a
people, we may be united in heart;
that we may have faith in the reve-
lations of God, and look to those
things which have been promised unto
us. We should be humble before
the Lord. Trace the history of Jesus
Christ, the Savior of the world, from
the manger to the cross, onward
through sufferings, mingled with
blood, to the throne of grace, and
there is an ensample for the Elders
of Israel, an ensample for all those
who follow the Lord Jesus Christ.
In meekness and lowliness of heart
He labored faithfully, while He dwelt
in the flesh, to carry out the will of
His Father. God has laid upon our
shoulders and has sealed upon our
heads the holy and eternal priest-
hood, which is from eternity unto
eternity. Without that priesthood
we have no power to administer in
the ordinances of the Gospel of Christ,
either for the living or the dead.
But with that priesthood we have
power to perform the work that is
assigned unto us. By that priesthood
we have preached the Gospel, we have
administered in the ordinances of the
House of the Lord, and we have ga-
thered together the sons and daughters
of Zion into these valleys of the
mountains.

I feel as though I want to bear my
testimony to the truth of this good
old book, the Bible, for a few minutes
—the book that all the Christian
world profess to believe in. There is
an effort made to-day by the infidel
and unbelieving world to ridicule the
Bible, as not being the word of the
Lord. I will refer to a few things
that have been manifested in fulfill-
ment of the record. To commence
with, I will touch upon the first deal-
ings of God with man. The first son
that was begotten by Father Adam,
whose name was Cain, proved to be a
murderer. He slew his brother Abel,
who held the priesthood, and the
Lord pronounced a curse upon him.
He showed Cain the position he was
in, and told him what the result of
his crime would be; and Cain said
unto the Lord:

"My punishment is greater than I
can bear.

"Behold, Thou hast driven me out
this day from the face of the earth;
and from thy face shall I be hid;
and I shall be a fugitive and a vaga-
bond in the earth; and it shall come
to pass that every one that findeth me
shall slay me."

But the Lord said unto him:

"Therefore, whosoever slayeth
Cain, vengeance shall be taken on
him sevenfold. And the Lord set a
mark upon Cain, lest any finding him
should kill him." [##Genesis 4:13-15##]

What was that mark? It was a
mark of blackness. That mark rested
upon Cain, and descended upon his
posterity from that time until the
present. To day there are millions
of the descendants of Cain, through
the lineage of Ham, in the world,
and that mark of darkness still rests
upon them. Though nearly six thou-
sand years have passed and gone, this
mark is visible to the whole human
family. Yet the fool and the infidel
say there is no God, and they ridicule
the Bible.

The Lamanites, on this continent,
suffered a similar experience. They
went to war against the Nephites;
they thirsted for blood, and they
painted themselves red, and the Lord
put a curse of redness upon them.
Hundreds of years have passed since
then, but wherever you meet the La-
manites to-day, you see that mark
upon them.

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