General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE ONE MIGHTY AND STRONG Among the various principles which the twentieth century Latter Day Saints are expected to believe and teach is one which says that God is going to fulfill the greater portion of His word, but that portion which pertains to the coming forth of the One Mighty and Strong, to set the House of God in order and divide by lot the inheritances of the Saints in Zion, has become obsolete and will have no fulfillment. This prophecy is the sum and substance of this chapter. We as a people have in the past stood foremost among those who believe and accept the scriptures at their face value. One of the many reasons for this course is that there is an unlimited amount of evidence connected with the fulfillment of all prophecy, which proclaims the fulfillment according to its plain reading and interpretation; therefore, let us make a brief review of the conditions which brought about this particular prophecy and then consider its wording. It was in the year nineteen hundred and five that a certain member of our Priesthood, of Salt Lake City, publicly proclaimed himself this Mighty and Strong One. His preaching on these prophecies, about which many of the Saints were eager to learn, soon drew them to his meetings. Now, instead of the authorities calling a general priesthood meeting and proving this individual’s claims erroneous by sound reasoning, and thus convincing that portion of the Brethren and Saints and possibly the individual himself, which course would have brought the matter …
