The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-19

the Bible, God had manifested himself
to many, and according to the testimony
of the Latter-day Saints He had also
manifested himself. He is a person.
not an imaginary being; man IS made
IN his image. In Genesis. it is recorded
so God created man in his own image
in the image of God created He him
male and female created He them It
does not follow that because God IS =
spirit de has no form, nor that He can
not be present, as many claim, IN DIFF
Ierent places at the same time Jesus
represented his father. ''who. being IL
the form of God. thought it no robbery
TO be equal with God" Moses and
Aaron went up into the mountain and
did eat and drink in His presence
Whenever God appeared to man He did
so IN the form of man. The spirit Of
man comes from and is the offspring of
God. Every seed begets its kind; the
vegetable and animal kingdom bore out
this assertion; 1t was the principle Of
evolution, so called. AS we are the
children of God we can reason out that
God, our father, was our progenitor
Man is spirit as much as
God is, clothed upon with an
earthly tabernacle which was shaped
and formed as body; when the spirit
comes out of the body IL is the exact
image of the body; men in the flesh
could not see 1t, but it was visible to the
spirits. A body without a spirit rs
dead: a spirit without a body is not
dead. The spirit of God filled the i'm
mensity OF space; it was everywhere
III the sun, the moon, the armament
every where; it was a substantial
reality. Spirit forms could talk, shake
hands and act with one another. God
is an individual, parsonage; our
Father, the father of our spirits and the
spirits of all flesh; all who lived on a. e
earth and other planets were His
children. Jesus was laid down a cor
ruptible body, but was raised an incOr-
ruptlble one, spiritual and immortal
body. When the Saints come forth III
the resurrection they will be quickened
and made like Jesus. 1t was asked,
God being personality, how can He be
OmnipTesent? He is not omnipTeseRt
only by His influence and spirit. God
never had beginning; in one sense He
had, in another He had not. The light
of truth and intelligence was never
created and will never end. In the
Scriptures it Is written that the Spirit
of God is in, through and around
everything, everywhere. The speakers
idea OF God was an exalted one The
Father of al had worked himself up 10,
the portion He occupied as Supreme
Ruler of the universe, by His own exer-
tons andfaithfulness Jesus did also he
/ kept ali thelaws and commandments and
conquered the world, the flesh and the
devil; he lived in and by the truth
overcoming all things, he was entitled to
/ be exalted above all things; he now sits
at the right hand of God, the Father
, Almighty, enjoying the power and
glory which exists in the universe. The
world say there are three GOdheadSr
/ the Saints claimed there was but one; the
world said God had no body, parts or
passions; the Saints maintained that he
! had. Elder PenrOse dwelt a short time
on the trinity-unity unity-trinity of the
{ Catholic Church, and SAID the Father,
Son and Holy Ghost were Incompetent
sible to the world. How do the Latter
day Saints comprehend God ? BY listen
ing to the whisperings OF the Spirit
which comes from Him; by living by
every word which he speaks; learning
little by little, and advancing step by
step; by learning what is right and iv
ing up to it. and learning what IL
wrong and avoiding it; by conquering.
as Jesus did, the world, the flesh and the
devil; by preparing for that celestial
glory in which God and Jesus dwell; by
entering into the order of the eveTlaSt-
ing priesthood, the principles of whici=
cannot be cOmpreh>nded with our him
tied knowledge. The works of the great
eternal God had no beginning and never
will end; there never was tirSG maEs
and never will be a last one. AS space
was boundleSs, so, also, was there mex
haustible material III that space; the
particles in space were always III ex
istence and would for ever be there was
no space without material. Duration
never had a beginning; there was nee
limit TO it. The works of the Almighty
are one eternal round without begin
ming and without end. IN conclusion,
the speaker eXhOTted the Saints to live
so as to be tit TO live where God is; ts
learn righteousness and gain exaltatiOR-
Ali had in their bodies the corruption o.
their predecessors, which it was neces
!, sary to overcome. he cOunseled al to
stand firm in the spirit of the gospel
that they might realize the promise, to-
him that oYercOmeth, and keepeth my
works unto the end, to him whl 1 give
power over the nations What Joy
would those who endured to the end ex
perience when they were greeted with 2
/, well done, thou good and faithful
servant; thou hast been faithful over a
few things, I will make thee ruler over
many things; enter thou into the Joy OK
} thy Lord"
The choir sang the anthem, Lord OF
Our Life" and President Angus II .
Cannon pronounced the benedictiOn-