The Contributor: Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-day Saints, Volume 1

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Page 142 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Page 57 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder : and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...
Page 266 - And wrought but malice; lifted up so high, [ 'gdained subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burdensome; still paying, still to owe...
Page 266 - Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, «° Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless King.
Page 256 - Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the seven ? for they all had her. Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Page 259 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Page 266 - Omnipotent. Ay me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of hell, With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery: such joy ambition finds.
Page 51 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Page 266 - Thou hadst: whom hast thou then or what to accuse, But heaven's free love dealt equally to all? Be then his love accursed, since love or hate, To me alike, it deals eternal woe. 70 Nay cursed be thou; since against his thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues.
Page 26 - Father, in my name, it shall be given unto you; therefore ask, and ye shall receive ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you; for he that asketh, receiveth, and unto him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

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