Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-23

that has been performed. The greatest
are those who have been INSPIRED a"tl
endowed by the maslergenius and special
ly chosen TO do His viii w useilA thelr
innate light or genius ia leading man
kind iron error 10 order that they might
bask in the sunshine OF truth Tee
Hebrew Moses, humanity's great law
giver's mighty and great genius sowed
beyond the mere things OF this mundane
sphere and his great and lofty endow-
ments appear somewhat akin to the
master genius OF all, but the sepheric'
fire has illuminated the genius OF others
whose sublime thoughts and actions are
recorded in language that breathess
the names OF many that were endowed
and gifted with the heaven born spark
OF genius divnely inspir, d.
In this our own time ! presume that
the most o! mankind throughout the
world have heard, and many have
known that there appeared divinely
inspired genius in tue person OF Joseph
Smith. the Prophet, q young man anu
quite unlearned 10 the theological ignof-
ance OF the age and who achieved great
renown in doing the will OF the divine
Master. Truly his work has been both
a marvel and a wonder. He was just
allowed to live long enough TO herald
the kingdom OF God In these the later
days on the earth, and after his Marty
dom another inspired genus was found
in Brigham Young, whose innate force,
foresight and consummate " sdom fully
enabled him to gather together and lead
people altogether and 5upremely
different in religious ideas nom the
generality OF mankind. The true Nor
mon, or Latter-day Saint IN fact, Is bora,
not made. Perhaps there is no people
who lives in this age that seem TO be
governed for good by an overrullug
Providence and the Almighty favor
vouchsaied toward them flow Ike In
many respects they are TO the Jews whose
exceeding faith or patience has over
whelmed and sanctilled to them their
many and sore prosecutions. Patience
and perseverance is seemingly as much
the badge OF the Mormon as OF the Jew.
Notwithstanding the prosecuting laws
that have been enacted against them the
principles OF Mormonism being OF
eternal duration are bound 10 shine more
and more brilliantly and are thereby
Calculated to outlive all the irothy
enactments of shortsigh,ed politicians
who are supremely ignorant OF the
power that they foolishlycontend against
No doubt the succeeding leaders OF
the Mormon people who are yet des-
tined to become both great and mighty,
are invested with the required inspira
ton to fit and enable them to govern
and lead those that follow them in build
ing up on the earth the Kingdom OF the
Master in these the latter days.
There have appeared in this dispense
ton, some whose greatness fitted accord
ing to the ideal OF many, that should
be classed akin TO inspired genius and as
far as inventive power and wondrous
might is shown their efforts had the effect
in impressing and changing toe minds
OF many regarding the religion and
traditions, that had Tor ages formed their
character. Still the greater portion oil
mankind affirm that the efforts o, the
great reiormers were both zealously and
ignorantly misplaced But no doubt,
some Of the reiormers were both earnest
aud honest in their desire in exposing
the errors and the despoiic attitude Of
the mother church. Luther must have
been endowed with extraordinary
strength of character, extreme irmness
and powerful conviction in order TO
enable him to assail and attack the doc
trnes that were promulgated in his own
showed the like spirit and achieved the
power more or less successfully in his
warfare against the church OF Lu,heris.
English daughter, who had been weaned
with others from mother Rome centuries
before. John Calvin, though branded
as being red handed, is nevertheless the
author OF some fearful strange though,
scrlptural ideals, which, the Scottish
auti-papal fiber and John Knox, turned
too and tuned the iron bound creed OF
Calvin in order to catch the ears and form
the minds OF his countrymen which, to
some extent, has entailed the gloomy,
sellrighteous and severe trait of charac
ter that's to be found in many OF the
Scottish people to this day, | feel
somewhat embittered that one OF Scot.
LANDS sons was unfortunately endowed
with the power to achieve such a lasting
calamity.
The creed of Calvin, is calculated to
produce fear, fauaticism and hypocrisy
The doctrine that It teaches is beyond
the comprehension OF mere men and
it is therefore fatal and dangerous to
spiritual progression, its PRONUNCIATION
may have had some OF the power to
hand the hangman's whip, OF Robert
| Burns, though It has completely failed
in lashing It's wretched thinking ones 10
order. 1t is only those who breathe the
spirit OF actual revelation that have the
power TO know and understand in part,
such doctrines as the free will DEGREES,
election and purposes OF God, but ac-
| curdiug to Calvin, the whole revealed
will OF God TO man is contained within
| the boards OF the book. Calvin has per
haps stepped more souls in deism and
iniidelity than all the ism's put together.
| Tn ecreeds which the reformer's efforts
gave birth TO have siugularly failed, the
errors OF the mother church, nearly re-
main the same-even the efforts and the
up and ready methods OF the Salvation
| Army seem to achieve more moral and
spiritual influence with the masses OF
| humanity than the influence OF men,
stepped in the theological knowledge OF
the several creeds.
The work OF the reiormers, as times
| speed on, is ever being more divided and
sub divided and every opinionated blast
OF the windy and learned shepherds who
may see fit to alter some lltlle OF hell
| pavlngIorthodoxy. Frequently some OF
the learned blind show a glimmer OF
| light and are honest enough to be per.
haps outspoken which they very well
| know will speedily drown them in the
| wide and dire river OF heresy- orthodoxy
| is a ditch in which many are bound TO
fall. Through system of false or
wrong theological training and a worldly
spirit they are influenced and taught TO
worship the golden God; and they