[Brigham Young Sermon] The stranger who is ignorant of our history inquires:'"'"Have you the gift of tongues in your Church?'" Yes, and were I to permit it now, hundreds of the Elders and the sisters would rise up in this congregation and speak in new tongues, and interpret as well as the learned of the age; but I do not permit it. Does the gift of prophesy exist with us? This fact is so evident and plain that it appears to us almost a loss of time to talk about it. The present state of affairs and the present unhappy state of our once happy country, I have preached and prophesied of for the last thirty years; and so have thousands of others prophesied before the people of this land that the Almighty would come out in his wrath and vex the nation for persecuting the Priesthood of the Son of God; the fulfilment is too evident to attempt to prove.
[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
JOD 10:324.
ReplyDeleteThis is the corrected version of BY's declaration:
" ... the Almighty [Jesus Christ] [will] come out in [the fullness of] His wrath and [destroy the wicked off of this] nation for [not repenting of all of their wickedness and abominations]; the fulfilment is too evident [and can be plainly] prove[d] [from the Book of Mormon]."
Also, the Spiritual gifts of the gift of tongues and the gift of interpretation of tongues (as well as the gift of prophecy) are still manifested today in The Church of Jesus Christ (WHQ: Monongahela, Pennsylvania). The gift of tongues is NOT learning to speak a foreign language after 6-8 weeks of study in the MTC at Provo, Utah.
ReplyDelete" ... off of this LAND ..."
ReplyDeleteThis nation will fall ("a house divided against itself cannot stand;") ["how long can a nation stand; divided it will fall"] in order for a new nation to be born in its place. (Isa.66:8).