Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-28

himself quoted boy the Prophet Joseph
I distinctly setting forth a principle tina
/ your minds cannot De blinded upon
/ you will only open your eyes and YOU
| understanding to tins saying. How cat
| The Apostles become one Too Christ H
! Christ and God are one, 10 Christ anJ
/ God are one person. Can the lively,
/ Apostles become one person. Aud how
| can all they that believe ON the words
| OF the Apostles also become one with
| the Apostles 100 Christ ls Christ is one
/ with God. % God and Christ are one
/ pcrson' OF course, the absuriity up.
/ pears at once. ] DO not need tl mul
uply words in regard 10 this matter
because every child ought Co know
better tf1u that because Christ is God
because OF the Spirit and The Son. De.
cause OF the flesh, therefore that lie and
the Father are one person, or body. luI
/ the Holy Ghost is one boz them. aud they
| three are only one being. Strange Js b,
may seem 10 YOU. this Is the doctrine
advocated by men who profess to be
Elders in the Church.
tn conclusion upon this matter ! want
10 read the positive word OF the Lord.
that cannot DE denied You may twist
the scripture, as you please, but % YOU
believe ihc truri aud are willing Co be
guided by Do. you will have TO come
bJcl, 10 this that shall read 90 you.
and then 10 wiIl clear up 100 mystery
from your minds with relation To- the
personality of thc Father and the Son.
Joseph Smith, on April end. 1898, de-.
clarcd O. follows
'lls Father M.a body of lsh nI bones
as nHrH. II mans tHe sHua..l"
Than how arc you going to get them
into one pcruuf President Cannon
says ibis agrees with what Paul says.
OF course. % agrees with a.l the scrip.
lures OF divine truth, and with every
manifestation ot God 10 man since the
beginning % the world 90 the present
time. Then the Prophet says
"nl. ihe iioIy Ghost blt uol a. body of 1c.b
and bones bot % rrn0mrH oi spHI Were
% DOT 70, thr Holy Ghost could not dwell boz
ut"
When Joseph Smith, a boy Of 90 years
OF age, went out into the woods Co HsE
the Lord 90 guide him into The right
church, De kue.t down aud prayed, and
after he was delivered from Wt power
Of the adversary, who tried 10 destroy
Linn, two heavenly percentages appeared
before him One of these pcroulgcs.
pointing 10 the other aud calling Joseph
by name, said. "IUs b. my beloved
son hear him. Here were two dis
tinct perous-thc Father and the Son.
each with % body of flesh and bones as
tangible as mans. the Father bearing
testimony OF the son not only Co Joseph
Smith, but through Joseph Smith to all
the world of mankind These are
truths, and you need not care what YOU
read about the Father and the Son be-
ing one. OF cuuBr, they ATE ouc-iu
attributes. They arc one in love, one
To- knowledge one boo mercy one 10
power, one iu 40 things that make them
united and powerful, glorious and great,
because in them is perfected 40 truth,
all virtue, and all righteousness. But
they are two persons, as much as my
father and ! are two persons. Vet there
s unto as but one living aud tue God.
Paul says
"Itsfr be- gods many lui Iarl. many bui
20 ul tIrfg D. but one God. the llihef. of whom
arc 40 iH.HE. aud We loo him. and one Lofl
lrua Christ by whom ace al. things, aud wg
| Uy h.m.
ANA Jesus Christ says
"rhh is ll- eternal. that they might know
ihse iia emily tue God, ani Jgus ChH1i. whom
/ ihuu hast sent.
That alone should be enough TO dis.
| pei from the mind of every intelligent
| man and woman the iallacy that the
| Father and the Son are not two beings
Let as seek Tor the knowledge OF liie
eternal. Let us work out our salvation
IN fear and trembling before our Father
and be faithful to the end. Remember
/ that YOU have enlisted iu this work fui
time and for all eternity There Is mo-
! backing out OF Il. no falling away from
10. except Boz sin. and then comes the
! penalty OF tunsgtcssiou. But II you
expect cN1lmtIon q you expect fathers
| and mothers brothers aud sisters. kin,
drcd and friends ii YOU cXpcc, glory
| Intelligence and endless lives. you must
get them IN Gods work, tor nowhere
outside can YOU get them. Therefore
let every sympathy and interest be cen.
tired in this cause Let al your love gu
out toward this Causc and this alone
Let the world go. Let Il have is secret
combinations, and let It have its own
way; but let as preach the Gospel To
them and show them a better way, and
that men can only become one when
they are Chu.srs. They can never be-
united until they do become Christ s,
/ but when they become Chhsts, then
they can be one with the Father and
with the son. as the Father and the Son
are one. God grant that we may come
10 This knowledge, and be faithful to
the end. Amen.