The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-14

! separate personages. He said he and
his Father were one, but did not mean
they were the same personages. He
was ChTiSt'S father, but he is also The
Father of his apostles and all man
kind. Christ is the mediator and the
elder brother of HIS apostles.
Jesus prayed that his apostles should
be one as he and the Father were one.
This did not mean they should lose
their individuality, but should be many
like the waves and one like the sea.
When Latter-day Saints pray to God
they do not do so in a mythical sense.
Our belief is that there are in one
sense three Gods. God is an organized
being and we believe that all elemen-
tary particles are eternal and indie
structable. Spiritual matter is also
without beginning or end. The Lord
said truth and intelligence were with
out beginning. Where these elements
find their fullest expression there is
God. It permeates all the worlds and
is in all Things All these things are
not fully understood; but as man
has this spirit of intelligence in
creased within him he approximaees
the perfection of deity and becomes
like God.
Christ represented the fullness Of
the Godhead bodily. When he went
back to the Father he was like God.
Revealed religion is for developing the
spirit of intelligence and bringing man
to incalculable glory
All people will not, of course. attain
this Many will still cling to the evil
and un-Godlike. All people have
their agency and can do as they will.
Justice will not be infringed. Like
mercy, it is an eternal principle. In
the Fathers house are many mansions.
and there men will dwell according to
their deserts.
Man is now in a fallen state There
is but one way for him to attain sal
way. which will enable to attain
the highest glory. Men have chosen
evil before light from the beginning.
They put the early prophets to
death and extinguished the lights God
had placed in the world for their
guidance. why will We die. o, House
of Israeli" he said. The voice of the
Lord is persuasive. leading his children
into the divine light
The gospel is the narrow way which
will eXaIt men. Before going out to
preach these ttdings they were told to
tarry at Jerusalem until the spirit
should come. When this spirit fell
apon them they had the power and
authority to deliver the message to
the world. That same spirit was
promised unto all whom the Lord
should call, to be a witness of truth.
The same gospel was preached by
Paul and Peter, and all others of the
apostles. They not only preached the
same principles, but made, the same
promises and administered the same
ordinances Paul speaks of the foun-
dation of the gospel of Christ; that
is the gospel. The same apostle says
there is one Lord. one faith and one
baptism, and that all are baptized
into one body
When men have the light of the holy
spirit it enlightens their minds in all
branches of wisdom. 1t is the key
which enables men to understand the
theory and workings of the universe
There is only one way for men to
be called to the ministry. Even when
Christ had appeared in a vision to
Saul and told him he was called to be
a choice vessel. that did not endow
him with authority. The authority
came when the holy ghost said to the
apostles, Separate me, Barnabus and
Saul. for the work WhereuntO [ have
called them" There is law and order
in all things. This is the economy of
heaven. The lack Of this spirit and
authority in the world is the cause
of all the religious strife. dissension
and contention in the world.
The predictions made by holy men
of old regarding the present dispensa-
tion have been fulfilled The time
was seen when the mountain of the
Lords house should be established in
the tops of the mountains. This house
has been established and the nations
are flowing into it. We have come
here to build up Zion Let the Saints
remember this and not be led away
by any will-o-the-wisp The Saints
cannot afford to allow any dissension
to arise in their midst, but should fol-
low the voice of the Lord.