What kinds of things will we learn in the New Jerusalem?

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A Dream
by Charles D. Evans

The Contributor
Representing the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association of the Latter-day Saints
Volume Fifteen
(1893-4)

Published By The Contributor Company
Salt Lake City, Utah
Printed By The Deseret News Publishing Company

1894

"A recent addition to the site is a dream from a volume at BYU Special Collections. This dream was included in The Contributor, Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association of the Latter-day Saints published in 1894 by The Deseret News Publishing Company."

 

Charles D. Evans talked about seeing the New Jerusalem in his vision.

Schools and universities were erected, to which all had access; in the latter Urims were placed, for the study of the past, present and future, and for obtaining a knowledge of the heavenly bodies, and of the constructions of worlds and universes. The inherent properties of matter, its arrangements, laws, mutual relations were revealed and taught and made plain as the primer lesson of a child. The conflicting theories of geologists regarding the formation and age of the earth were settled forever. All learning was based on eternal certainty. Angels brought forth the treasures of knowledge which had lain hid in the womb of the dumb and distant past.

The appliances for making learning easy surpass all conjecture. Chemistry was rendered extremely simple, by the power which the Urims conferred on man of looking into and through the elements of every kind; a stone furnished no more obstruction to human vision than the air itself. Not only were the elements and all their changes and transformations plainly understood but the construction, operations, and laws of mind were thus rendered equally plain as those which governed the coarser elements. While looking through the Urim and Thummim I was amazed at a transformation, which even now is to me marvelous beyond description, clearly showing the manner in which particles composing the inorganic kingdom of nature are conducted upward to become a part of organic forms; another astounding revelation was a view clearly shown me of the entire circulation of the blood both in man and animals. After seeing these things and gazing once more upon the beautiful city, the following passage of Scripture sounded in my ears: �Out of Zion the perfection of beauty God shineth."

And what is so weird, Zac recently bought an ipod Touch, and he and I were speculating that having a Urim and Thummim won't be so very different from that device, it will just be God-made and perfect instead of manmade and imperfect.