We have been taught that our
Father and God, from whom we sprang, called and appointed his servants to go
and organize and earth, and, among the rest, he said to Adam, “You will go
along also and help all you can; you are going to inhabit it when it is organized,
therefore go and assist in the good work.”
It reads in the Scriptures that
the Lord did it, but the true rendering is, that the Almighty sent Jehovah and
Michael to do the work. They were also instructed to plant every king of
vegetable, likewise the forest and the fruit trees, and they actually brought
from heaven every variety of fruit, of the seeds of vegetables, the seeds of
flowers, and planted them in this earth on which we dwell.
And I will say more, the spot
chosen for the garden of Eden was Jackson County, in the State of Missouri,
where Independence now stands; it was occupied in the morn of creation by Adam
and his associates who came with him for the express purpose of peopling this
earth.
Father Adam was instructed to
multiply and replenish the earth, to make it beautiful and glorious, to make
it, in short, like unto the garden from which the seeds were brought to plant
the garden of Eden.
I might say much more upon this
subject, but I will ask, has it not been imitated before you in your holy
endowments so that you might understand how things were in the beginning of
creation and cultivation of this earth?
God the Father made Adam the Lord
of this creation in the beginning, and if we are the Lords of this creation
under Adam, ought we not to take a course to imitate our Father in heaven? Is
not all this exhibited to us in our endowments? The earth made glorious and
beautiful to look upon, representing everything which the Lord caused to be
prepared and placed to adorn the earth. The Prophet Joseph frequently spoke of
these things in the revelations which he gave, but the people generally did not
understand them, but to those who did they were cheering, they had a tendency
to gladden the heart and enlighten the mind.
By faith and works we shall subdue
the earth and make it glorious. (JOD 10:235| June 27, 1863)
