Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-09-01

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our parts as to the use to which they
shall be put.
The spirit Of the Gospel, say. is
difused to a greater or lesser extent
among this people They feel that the
world is their field: that men and
women OF every color and race need
their attention. We do not know what
IS the cause Of these different conditions
In the affairs Of men. Why is 1t that one
man is black, another white, and an.
other is Yellow one is bond and one
Is iree2 We say Il Is nature. But do
you not suppose that there Is some
cause for this' There certainly Is. DO
you not suppose, my brethren and sis.
tiers, that your life here will have It's
! effect upon your future' fnot, what is
the use Of our strugglcs' II We are to
! be unrcwlrded lyf our good deeds or
unpublished for our bad deeds. what Is
! the use ofany effort or toll on our part
As We believe the Gospel to be true, we
expect that what We do here will have
an influence upon our future state And
as Il will be In the future so Il has been
in the past, our conditions here are the
result VI what Is behind us. We cannot
remember what has occufrcd2 We do
not remember being NJ the laying Of the
foundations Of this earth. God has
thrown over our minds a veil through
which the human eye cannot pierce.
True, sometimes the Spirit Of the Lord
rests upon Us and we see the past lie
almost as the present and realize how
these things have occurred, We have a
record Of one great man TO whom God
made known some VI the causes Tor
existing conditions. lie told Abraham
that he was % choice spirit; that he was
chosen before he came here for the
work which he performed. Jesus, as
we read In the scriptures, was the Lamb
slain from before the foundation Of the
world. So II Is with every man aud
woman who has taken part In the affairs
Of this world. They have been pre-.
ordained TO the work which they have
| done. Not that men are predestincd 10
destruction, or to follow iniquity and
become corrupt; but wc are prc-urdaincd
to come through certain lineage and to
do certain works. ID we neglect the
opportunities that are thrown In our
way and forget the lineage through
which We come, we may ail IN the mis-.
sion that God has assigned Us upon this
earth. So u = with the peoples who
occupy this earth. Through some &C.
ton that occurred In former state, they
have been placed In the various condi.
tons in which they find themselves to.
day But because men are born 10
ignorance, because they are blinded.
because they are hcathcns, or because
they are bOndmrn and cannot control
their own actions. shall Il be said that
these men are TO be condemned to
eternal punishment Not by any means.
The plan OF God Is SO broad and 50
permcatcd with mercy and Justice that
men and women, Whatever their con-
dilion IN lie, will be judged according
to the way they fulfil their mission. III
man is placed IN a position where he
never hears the name Of Jesus, through
whose name and none other the whole
human family will be saved, Is he to
be CONDEMNED to he'll and TO suffer
the tomcnts OF the damned NO. no.
Human reason and all our nature
cries out against such a punishment for
the man who, through no fault OF his own
In this life, IS prevented from hearing
the name Of Jesus, Or receiving the Cos.
pei. lie will be Judged according to
the light which he has received; and II
he Is one Of the unciylizcd races Of
Africa who never associated with peO.
pie OF what we are pleased to call our
intelligence, he will not be condemned
to the punishment which the man will
receive who, blessed with intelligence
and light, yet turns hts heart against the
light and shuts out the intelligence
which God would willingly bestow upon
him, What Is required Of men here is
that they should live up to their priyil-
eyes which they enjoy, hIl the measure
OF their own ctcauon IN usefulness, aud
show that they are filled with the
thought, which should be even present
with every child Of God, that we are
gods in embryo, and that we must
ascend from one step to another until
we reach place similar TO that which
our elder brother Jesus occupies, and
which the great Father himself has en-.
jOyed and does enjoy Is Il blASphcmy
that the son should aspire to be like his
iatheT' Is 1t blasphemy TO say that we
are brothers OF and joint heirs with
Jesus Christi And to say that we will
some day be as our Heavenly Father is,
creating and controlling worlds; that
our poslcrity shall be, like the promise
which was given TO Abraham, as
numerous as the sand upon tile sea
shore, OF as the stars OF Heaven No.
Il Is not blasphcmy, IL Is the aspiration
that should I'LL every soul and that
should prompt us 10 walk steadily for
ward IN the way that God has marked
out And Ia doing so, We do not rob
our Father OF HIS glory, nor OF Ills
power and majesty. We do not detract
nom His greatness, any more than the
son does who seeks TO follow the foot.
steps OF his father Such a son only
adds to the glory aud honor OF his
parents, So Il IS in our relationship to
our Eternal Father. All the good that
we can do, all the glory that we can
attain, all the cNaltation we can dC-
qnir1, will only add 10 the greatness.
tue majesty and power OF the great
God who rules the universe and whose
children we are, Therefore, Il Is our
duty as people Of God, protesting to
have the Gospel to seek to spread
abroad these principles and 10 make
every man and woman In the world
with whom we come in contact feel that
instead OF being their enemy we are
their friends. Jesus said, when Ger.
tam lawyer asked Him which was the
greatest commandment IN the law,
Thou shalt love thc Lord thy God with 40
Thy heart, and with no ihy soul. and with 90
ihy strength. and with all Thy mind, and thy
neIghhor as myself
But the lawyer, desiring to Justify
himself, said, "And who is my neigh.
hori' Then Jesus brought, forth the
following parable;
And Jesus answering Said, a certain man
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