Latter Day Saints

Saturday Night Thoughts A Series of Dissertations on Spiritual, Historical, and Philosophic Themes

_The Sixth Day._--Saturday, in Christian lands, is a day set apart for house-cleaning, a time for "putting things to rights," in preparation for the Sabbath, the sacred day of rest. Preliminary to the condition of purity, order and quietness especially desirable on that day, t...

Chapters

8. PART SEVEN

What "Priesthood" Means.--Divine authority, or the right to rule, inherent in the supreme Source of all power--such is the primal meaning of "Priesthood." It also signifies the...

4. PART FOUR

"Dispensation" Defined.--What is meant by "dispensation." The term has a variety of meanings. To dispense is to deal out or distribute in portions, as when the sacrament of the...

7. Scene 1). As if Christians could be made by judicial decisions or

13. Talent and genius, brain and brawn, from every part of the world came in the early immigrations to Salt Lake Valley--farmers, laborers, tradesmen, mechanics, merchants, manu...

2. PART TWO

_Seer and Prophet._--"Seer" and "Prophet" are interchangeable terms, supposed by many to signify one and the same thing. Strictly speaking, however, this is not correct. A seer...

3. PART THREE

The Wise and Prudent.--Most strikingly have these prophetic words been realized by "Mormonism," in its relations to the lofty and the learned who have endeavored in a worldly wa...

1. PART ONE

_The Sixth Day._--Saturday, in Christian lands, is a day set apart for house-cleaning, a time for "putting things to rights," in preparation for the Sabbath, the sacred day of r...

5. PART FIVE

A stranger Star, that came from far, To filing its silver ray Where, cradled in a lowly cave, A lowlier infant lay; And led by soft sidereal light, The Orient sages bring Rare g...

6. PART SIX

"Come Out of Her, My People."--The Dispersion of Israel has for its complement the Gathering of Israel; the prophets who predicted the one likewise foretelling the other. The Sa...