The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-17

Elder c. W. Penrose preached to a
large congregation at the tabernacle
yesterday afternoon. and in his dis
course he dwelt chiefly upon the nature
of God as revealed to the Latter-day
Saints.
Elder Penrose said that modern
Christian sects are much misled in re-
gard to the nature of the Deity by no.
tons, traditions and vain philosophy
The creedS are so contradictory that
many people are forced to believe there
is no God. But the gospel of the Lat
ter-day Saints. to whom the Heavenly
Father has revealed himself again in
the nineteenth century. proclaims the
true and living God and calls upon all
people TO worship and serve him.
As to what God is, it is impossible for
the finite to comprehend the infinite,
but man may come to an understand
ing of God if God reveals himself to
him. Man by searching cannot find out
God, and he has made many mistakes
in such attempts, as attested in the
worship of Idols and images.
In modern creeds runs an erroneous
idea that God is a mysterious some
thing-almost nothing-immateria and
without form; but in the revelations
in latter times is revealed a spirit in
the body, but superior to the body. 1t
abides and remains the same, while the
body changes. 1t could not come from
the elements of which the body is COM
posed and is not satisfied with worldly
achievements, but through the medium
of the body is superior TO everything,
and reaches upward to the Maker.
REVEALED TO THE SAINTS.
The Lord has revealed to Latter-da-r
Saints. through Joseph, the nrOphet,
that the spirit sprung from the Heaven
ly Father, in whose image is man.
Jesus is the image of our Heavenly
Father, and he is our elder brother.
Through him We can understand some
thing of the father. 1t is a glorious
thought that everyone dwelling upon
the earth is his offspring. The learned
men of the earth are confused as to the
attributes of God, but the truth is he
is our father, and dwells in heaven,
and his spirit is diffused throughout
the universe. God is the father to the
son; the son is a son to the father, and
the holy spirit is the messenger. God
is spirit, but has form and shape. When
we go into his presence we will mingle
in his spirit, yet preserve our individ-
uaiity. He is a spirit everywhere pres
ent-the soul of the universe The pur
pose of the gospel of Christ is to lead
men to receive that spirit and become
one with the father.
Elder PenroSe endeavored to show
the Inconsistency Of the doctrine of the
God-head, as taught by the modern
creeds in that the Father. Son
and Holy Ghost all are separately in
comprehensive and infinite, yet all
three in one.
In these last days, said he, the eternal
father has revealed himself again.
Jesus Christ and the angels have come
and men are commanded to turn from
idols to the true and living God. The
Latter-day Saints are witnesses of the
gospel.
THE POOR COME TO CHRIST.
The greatest persecution of the Saints
has come from those who profess to be
ministers of Christ. As in the days of
Christ the poor came unto him, so have
they come unto the church The Latter
day Saints are charged with being only
common and unlearned folks, but We
rejoice in science and welcome the
truth.
Faith is increasing among the Lat
ter-day Saints, but in most of the ma
tons of the world it is dying out and
skepticism is taking it's place. The Cos
pei we have received viii be preached
TO every tongue. and men will flock to
it's standard. The obstacles will only
accelerate the work. The more obsta-
cles the more energy. Christ has come
TO reign from pole to pole and from
shore to shore.
There was an average attendance of
the members of the choir, and the mu-
sic was unusually good. No reference
of any kind was made to the unfortu-
nate remarks made by Apostle John w
TAYLOR in regard to the choir at the
church conference ten daVS ago.