Monday, October 10, 2022

Excerpts from Deseret Almanac (1855)

The following are excerpts from:


W. W. Phelps, Deseret Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord, 1855 (Salt Lake City: W. Richards, 1855)

 

Large idea.

 

Revelation informs us that “there is no space in which there is no kingdom and there is no kingdom in the which there is no space, either a greater or lesser kingdom.”

 

This important communication from God to man, uses up the philosophy of PURE SPACE and of heaven “beyond the bounds of time and space.” (p. 18)

 

A Short Catechism.

 

1. Q.—What is sin?

A.—The transgression of law.

2. Q.—What is the law?

A.—The rule of right.

3. Q.—What is right?

A.—To do unto others, what you would have others do unto you. (p. 24)