POETRY. EXPERIENCE. Leland. 1835 Signs

POETRY.

EXPERIENCE.

thoughts on Times and Things. O tempora! O mores! — Horace. (Leland) 1836

Communications

THE SABBATH EXAMINED. [BY ELDER JOHN LELAND.]

 
THE SABBATH EXAMINED.

[BY ELDER JOHN LELAND.]

I have never been able to find out on what part of the globe the Garden of Eden was planted. Geography gives no account of a spot whence four rivers take their rise. It is, therefore, most likely that the flood so changed the bed of rivers that no such place exists. If it were at or near one of the poles, one entire day was as long as three hundred and sixty-five days are in the middle regions: of course, God was six of our years in creating and forming the heavens and earth; and all things therein, and thus ceased from his work the following year.

OLD MR. WELLS YOU CAN (LELAND)

In my travels, and among my acquaintances, I have heard much said about a Saviour, by the name of Well’s you can; but have never yet seen him,
the house where he lives, nor the man who entertains him: and I am almost in despair of ever finding him below the sun. His accounts of him are these: “If I do as well as I can, I believe the Lord will accept me, and if you do as well as you can, you will be saved.” If the salvation of the soul depends upon our doing as well as we can, who then can be saved?

ELDER JOHN LELAND SPEAKS ON MISSIONS 1835 (LELAND)

[This is an article that Leland sent to the Signs in support of their stance on Missions.  It is part of an upcoming eBook containing all the known writings of Elder Leland - ed]

KINGS-EVIL OR PRIEST-CRAFT?...

[ed. We publish this will little commentary, because truth needs no defense.]

WHICH HAS DONE THE MOST MISCHIEF IN THE WORLD,

THE KINGS-EVIL OR PRIEST-CRAFT?

IGNATIUS OR THE MODERN PRIEST BY JOHN LELAND...

SOT REPRINT: ON SABBATICAL LAWS...

The Mosaic institution, which formed the tribes into a theocracy, was very different from the government of any other nation, and from the government of Gospel churches.

SOT: MISSIONARY SOCIETIES...

A CORRESPONDENT in Palestine, in a late letter to his friend in this country, dated at Nazareth, in Galilee, writes thus: