LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL.
How many were cast out of heaven down to the earth? We
suppose that the inhabitants of heaven here referred to
were the spirits begotten of our Father in heaven who were to
come down to the earth and take tabernacles. How many
were there to come down and take tabernacles? This, again,
may be difficult to tell, yet perhaps we may come near enough
for the purpose. It has generally been conceded that there
are about 1,000,000,000 persons on the earth at a time, though
the late statistics make out 1,400,000,000 at the present time.
But we will say 1,000,000,000. It is also said that a genera-
tion passes off the earth every thirty-three and one-third
years, making three generations in a century, which would be
3,000,000,000 in one hundred years. Multiply this by ten
and it will make 30,000,000,000 in 1,000 years. Multiply
again by seven and it will make 210,000,000,000 in 7,000
years.
The argument might be used that when our earth was first
peopled there were but two persons on the earth, and after the
flood but eight souls were left alive, but the probability is that
during the the inhabitants will increase very fast
as the age of children will be as the age of a tree, and the
inhabitants of the earth will not die off as they do now.
But we will suppose that there were 100,000,000,000 of
fallen spirits sent down from heaven to earth, and that there
are, 1,000,000,000 of inhabitants upon the face of the earth
to-day, that would make one hundred evil spirits to every
man, woman and child living on the earth; and the whole
mission and labor of these spirits is to lead all the children of
men to do evil and to effect their destruction.
Now, I want all our boys and girls to reflect upon this, and
to see what danger they are in, and the warfare they have to
pass through.
These one hundred to each one of the children
of men seek to lead them into every temptation possible,
to use tobacco, smoke, drink whisky, get drunk, curse, swear,
lie, steal, and commit adultery and murder, and do every evil
to cut them off from exaltation as far as possible.
On the other hand, the labors and strives to
preserve all the children of men from these evils; and the
LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL.
How many were cast out of heaven down to the earth? We
suppose that the inhabitants of heaven here referred to
were the spirits begotten of our Father in heaven who were to
come down to the earth and take tabernacles. How many
were there to come down and take tabernacles? This, again,
may be difficult to tell, yet perhaps we may come near enough
for the purpose. It has generally been conceded that there
are about 1,000,000,000 persons on the earth at a time, though
the late statistics make out 1,400,000,000 at the present time.
But we will say 1,000,000,000. It is also said that a generation passes off the earth every thirty-three and one-third
years, making three generations in a century, which would be
3,000,000,000 in one hundred years. Multiply this by ten
and it will make 30,000,000,000 in 1,000 years. Multiply
again by seven and it will make 210,000,000,000 in 7,000
years.
The argument might be used that when our earth was first
peopled there were but two persons on the earth, and after the
flood but eight souls were left alive, but the probability is that
during the the inhabitants will increase very fast
as the age of children will be as the age of a tree, and the
inhabitants of the earth will not die off as they do now.
But we will suppose that there were 100,000,000,000 of
fallen spirits sent down from heaven to earth, and that there
are, 1,000,000,000 of inhabitants upon the face of the earth
to-day, that would make one hundred evil spirits to every
man, woman and child living on the earth; and the whole
mission and labor of these spirits is to lead all the children of
men to do evil and to effect their destruction.
Now, I want all our boys and girls to reflect upon this, and
to see what danger they are in, and the warfare they have to
pass through.
These one hundred to each one of the children
of men seek to lead them into every temptation possible,
to use tobacco, smoke, drink whisky, get drunk, curse, swear,
lie, steal, and commit adultery and murder, and do every evil
to cut them off from exaltation as far as possible.
On the other hand, the labors and strives to
preserve all the children of men from these evils; and the
