King Follett Discourse
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Hey there, this is Glen from infants on Thrones. And here's a little quiz to start us off today. Short answer. Ready? Where did the name infants on Thrones originally come from? If you said the King Fallen discourse delivered by Joseph Smith on April 7th, 18 44 and recorded separately and notes taken by Wilford Woodruff, William Clayton, Willard Richards and Thomas Bullock, then you're correct. But how many of you have actually read the King falling discourse in its entirety, especially the one published in BYU studies that gives a comprehensive overview based on all four of these men's notes? Well, now you don't have to. You can listen instead. So let's climb into the infant DeLorean and go back to hear what the sermon may have actually sounded like when Joseph Smith stood up and spoke, these words at the funeral of some dude named King followed No, actual things were harmed in the making. I now call the intention of this congregation while I address you on the subject, which was contemplated in the fourth part of this conference. The wind blows very hard. It will be hardly possible for me to make you all here unless there is profound attention, It is a subject of the greatest importance and the most solemn of any that could occupy our attention. And that is the subject of the dead. I have been requested to speak on the subject on the deceased of our beloved brother, elder King Fallen, who was crushed to death in a well by the falling of a tub of rock on him. I have been requested to speak by his friends and relatives. But in as much as there are great many others here in this congregation who live in this city as well as elsewhere, who have also lost friends, their case will be had in mind this afternoon. And I feel disposed to speak on the subject in general and offer you my ideas as far as I have ability. And as far as I will be inspired by the Holy Ghost to treat and dwell upon this subject, I want your prayers, faith, the inspiration of Almighty God and the gift of the Holy Ghost that I may set for things that are true. And it could easily be comprehended and which shall carry the testimony to your hearts I pray that the Lord may strengthen my loans, stay the winds and let the prayer of saints to heaven appear that it may enter into the ear of the Lord of Sabah for the fervent effectual prayer of a righteous man. A bailiff much. There is strength here, and I barely believe that your prayers will be heard. I will speak in order to hold out before I enter fully into the investigation of the subject that is lying before us. I wish to pave the way, make a few preliminaries and bring up the subject from the beginning in order that you may understand the subject. What I come to it I do not calculate to please your ears with superfluidity of words with oratory or with much learning. But I calculate to edify you with the simple truths of heaven. In the first place, I was to go back to the beginning of creation. There is the starting point in order to know and be fully acquainted with the mind purposes decrees in order nations of the great Levine that sits in the heavens for us to take up beginning at the creation it is necessary for us to understand something of God himself in the beginning. If we start right, it is very easy for us to go right all the time Way, start wrong. We may go wrong and it is a hard matter to get right. There are but very few beings in the world who understand rightly the character of God. If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend their own character. They cannot comprehend anything that has passed or that which is to come. They do not know. They do not understand their own relationship to God. The world knows and comprehends, but little more than the brute beast. If a man knows nothing more than Teoh, eat, drink, sleep arise and not anymore and does not comprehend what any of the designs of job over our What better is he than the beast? For it comprehends the same things. It eats, drinks, sleeps, comprehends the present and knows nothing more about God or his existence. This is as much as we know. Unless we are able to comprehend by the inspiration of Almighty God and how are we to do it by any other way