Improvement Era, Vol. 18

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Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 18: Organ of the Priesthood Quorums, the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations and the Schools of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, October 1915 Tradition fixes the scene of the Temptation on a mountain south of Jericho. It rises from the livid plain, sterile and forbid ding - naked and arid like a mountain of malediction. From this height Jesus could view the waters of the dead sea which typified the fallen world. What must have been his feelings when he viewed the land which had been, and was yet to be, the theater of the world's greatest tragedies! There alone he walked amidst the beasts of quarantina, whose howls made the night hideous and completed the desolation about him. At his approach, they for got their hunger, their ferocity, like a dissolving view, mellowed into half fear and half passivity. They read a wordless meaning in his presence, Lucifer could not fill them with rage, for it was not given him to tempt them, - the human heart alone is his battle ground. Well might their sentient souls have felt a bewilderment, for on that mountain the forces of heaven and hell were turning their gaze because the two brothers were there, their powers and their followers were being weighed in the balance. The one, half deadened through mortality, struggling for the mastery of the universe, trembled before his mission, the other, proud and sullen, with folded arms, waited his time. He knew his line of action, his plans were crystallized, tested, tried, and triumphant upon whomsoever he had laid them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.