Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-05

announcement OF His impending death
and the assurance that II would result
not in evil but In good to His disciples.
He had already told them that He
must die and that His death would he
in reality a means of blessing TO them.
He now repeated that prophecy and
promise in vivid and impressive sym
Dol. AS the bread was broken and the
wine poured out so must HIS body he
broken and His blood she'd but not In
vain; 1t was for their sake, and not
for theirs alone, but for the sake o.
many. To read into this simple ana
touching nct-unpremeditated and yet
summing up in itself the whole story
of His life of service and OF sacrifice
subtle and abstruse doctrines Is to
do Jesus great injustice; for II takes
from the scene all its beautiful nntur-
alness, which Is so characteristic OF
Him and so perfectly in keeping with
His direct and unaffected thought and
speech. He was not teaching theology.
nor was He giving yelled utterance to
any mysterious truth concerning His
person and work"
From all this It is apparent that the
most modern theology has at last
shall we say In the process OF evolu.
tion?-arrived at a standpoint from
which 1t can deny the divinity OF
1HTlHt. u IT'S ilIl view Ilt uDItAAE
merely MS the personlncation OF pop
ular error regarding the coming OF a
Messiah and n kingdom of God Tradi-
ton is the source OF His inspiration.
His unique religious individuality
shapes His life; but it Is an error. For
this his dies. and as result of it
the Christian religion springs into OK
istenoe,
To establish this view, II is neces>
sary to deny the testimony of the
evangeists. These tell us that John
the Baptist knew that the Messiah was
about to come and that the Spirit was
to descend as sign TO John. The
Baptist testities that he had seen
the sign and knew 'the Lamb OF
God" They further tell us that the
truth of the Sonship of Jesus was re-
vealed to His mother, and, we may
well infer. impaired TO Him at an early
day by her, and that 1t was confirmed
by voice from heaven at His baptism.
They tell us that Jesus promised His
followers the Holy Spirit to guide
them into all truth. But all this the
new school denies. The Jews We're
mistaken; John the Baptist and Jesus
We're merely the children Of their age,
carrying out the mistakes of the jews
to their logical consequences. Christ
ianity, then, accordingly. is but
grand mistakel What about the resur-
rectlon? What about the divine power
that was manifest In the early Church?
In rejecting on the apparent tenden-
cies OF modern theology. 1t becomes n
matter of profound gratitude that our
time Is one In which the Lord God
again has spoken to the children of
men. One of the first visions granted
In this dispensation was that of the
Father and the Son. and the testimony
was given, In a scene of transcendent
beauty. to the divine Sonship of Jesus
In this way foundation was laid for
faith that remains mistaken In the
midst of the changing currents of hui
man thought. Witnesses for God were
raised up whose testimony cannot be
impeached by the alleged discoveries
of critics, because based on knowledge,
1t was needed. lest the whole world
should be enwrapped in the darkness
of inhdelity.