"MILLENNIAL STAR."--This is the title of a weekly periodical of sixteen pages, published by the Latter-Day Saints at 15 Wilton street, Liverpool, England. This much esteemed and highly interesting periodical has been published for many years; fifteen volumes have been completed. In the British Isles, it has a circulation of about twenty thousand: it is also extensively circulated in Europe, Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands, and America.
Its columns embrace the general history of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints from its rise, together with the interesting news from our missionaries among all nations; they are also interspersed with many articles on prophecy and doctrine, opening the grand events of futurity, and elucidating rise principles of salvation, with a clearness which, at once, shows that they are the productions, not of human wisdom, but of the wisdom of God. The saints who wish to inform themselves of the rapid spread of the gospel, and upon every other useful subject, connected with the great Latter-Day Dispensation in which they live, should without fail procure the volumes of the Star, and they will have a continual feast.
We have volumes 11, 13, 14, and 15 on hand for sale. Prices as mentioned in the Catalogue, except vol. 14, which contains 44 Nos. and supplement, for $2, or $2 20 including postage pre-paid by us. Will the saints be indifferent about procuring these most valuable publications? Will they grope in darkness when light of the most pure and heavenly nature is within their reach? Will they plead poverty, as an excuse for depriving themselves and their children of blessings that would be of more value to them than any earthly consideration? Would it not be much better to dispense for a while with some of the luxuries of life, and thus save a little means to procure heavenly light and truth, than to live in ignorance of what God is doing through His people?
Would it not be more God-like to dispense with that nauseous and disgusting habit of chewing and smoking tobacco, and by that means not only save your health and constitution, but save funds to purchase a far more healthy and durable food upon which you can feast your minds both in time and in eternity? Or will you lie down and grovel in ignorance like the natural brute beast, and yet profess to be Saints? Will you, not only curse yourselves with blindness and darkness, but entail the same upon your children and upon your generations after you?
How can you be the children of light, when light shines all around you, and yet you perceive it not? One Presiding Elder over a branch of forty professed Saints in North Carolina writes that he had heard nothing of the saints since they were driven from Nauvoo. Now, if he had been in China, in Australia, or in the Pacific Isles, he would have obtained an abundance of news concerning them; but it seems that some impenetrable barrier down south has shut out all light and information for these many years; it must be a dismal place, indeed!
We can think of nothing to compare with it only the old antediluvian prison where no heavenly light or information burst in upon them for the long dreary period of two thousand years and upwards. How long it will be before the prison doors down south will be opened, we know not. There possibly may be some chance for them at the close of the Millennium.
As printed in The Seer, Vol.2, No.2, p.217 1854 |
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