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Never Taste of Death |
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O Huntington 2:165. |
| Joseph: Phelps never
taste death |
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Joseph once told W. W. Phelps
and wife that they should never taste death. |
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| Joseph: Phelps never
taste death |
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The manner of the fulfillment of
that promise is rather singular. They supposed, and so did all that knew
of the promise, that they were to never die, but the Lord does business
in his own way and his way is not as the way of a man. |
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| Joseph: Phelps never
taste death |
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Before Brother Phelps died he lost
all his judgment, lost al his mind reason, consciousness and all sense.
He knew nothing, not even his name, nor how to eat, thus being unable to
taste of anything, not even death. His mind gradually dwindled, withered
and dried up. His wife was killed instantly, so quickly that she had no
time to taste of death. She was killed as she was dipping up a bucket of
water from the ditch, a gust of Independence hurled a board from a house
and it struck her on the neck breaking it instantly. “She never tasted
of death nor even felt the blow.” |
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Blessings: This Life (or Next) |
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| Joseph Smith Sr. blessings |
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[Joseph Smith Sr.] was very specific and marvelous
in his blessings given the saints. |
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O Huntington 2:197. |
| Man dies without fulfillment |
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On one occasion he blessed a young man with
a very remarkable [blessing] and in a few weeks the young man died, which
worried and troubled the patriarch very much so much so that he went to
his son the prophet, or rather the seer and after telling him the circumstances
asked what it meant or how the blessing and the sudden death could be reconciled
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| Joseph Jr: next world |
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The Seer replied that the young man could not do all that in the flesh
and received the blessing promised.
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| "Watch until I come" |
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This circumstance in principle corresponds and
reminds me like a key that unlocks other principles, subjects or mysteries
in Godliness. For instance: Jesus commanded his disciples to watch for
his coming always “even until I come”. In order to keep that
commandment they must yet be watching. He has said to others in this dispensation “Watch
until I come.” Them men are dead as to the flesh, but are commanded
to continue watching until He comes again. |
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Beliefs & Practices
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