Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-31
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sumits that are now within range OF
| our vision will become clothed In mist
| and we shall see them no longer. and
/ the desire 20 reach them win be gone.
| We have now firm foundation, ana
/ upon this We must build a fair struc-
| ture. Our todays and yesterdays are
blocks we can use.
In the elder days OF art
| Builders wrought with greatest care,
/ Each minute and unseen part,
/ For the Gods are everywhere.
| Let us DO our work as Wen,
| Both the unseen and the seen.
| Make the house where Gods may dwell.
| Beautiful. entire and clean.
! Build today, then. strong and sure
| with a irm and ample base,
And ascending and secure,
/ Shall tomorrow find its place"
Not alone FOR this earthly life do we
/ labor. 20 Time! wondrous and fear
| ful art thou yet there Is In man what
| is above thee The school OF life at
/ the longest covers but a short span Of
| time. Shall We graduate from that
| with honor2 Joseph Smith has said.
| Whatever knowledge We gain In this
/ life win rise with us az the resurrec-
/ ton What more glorious promise
| can be given 10 cause US 10 be anxious
/ by engaged In adding line upon line.
/ percept upon precept until the great
! day shall come when the Master shall
/ say. Thou has finished thy earthly
/ course" Then shall we stand face to
| face I'm the great commencement Of
/ eternal NE and may We hear the glad
/ words Thou hast been faithful over
I the talents given thee when l sent thee
forth 10 thy earthly school, and art
/ prepared tot enter my kingdom"
President Pauls speech was made at
! the beginning OF the meeting. IL Is civ.
en- here IN full
THE LORD Is MY LIGHT
a hundred lifetlmes ago, the Hebrew
/ seer gave uttcrance 10 thought so
/ beautiful and sublime that even the
/ doubling Thomas Huxley declared II to
[ BE- one Of the grandest that ever eman-
/ ated from the mind OF man. This
| thought said the skeptlc, Is as tender
/ and consoling toward human insignih-
/ canoe and weakness as a mothers en-
I brace. but sublime also as the starry
B heavens and majestic as the onward
| sweep Of ages and science now humbly
! repeats II as the sum Of all rs teach
/ lngs the final result OF its nvestiga-
| tons: The eternal God is thy refuge
/ and underneath are the everlasting
/ arms" This conclusion OF the physical
| scientist has its counterpart IN the final
/ datum OF the MISUNDERSTANDING all
/ human thought s but the manifestation
/ VI the divine Intelligence operating up
| on and In the minds Of men. When we
/ think. or reason. or observe and learn
| the laws OF nature. we rise into a region
/ of thought which Is not strictly our
/ own except In the sense that We can
/ understand IL and thus make II our
own We only recognize, We do not
I create the truths OF reason, the princi-
! Pies VI truth, the laws Of nature. They
/ are not Of our making, but they regu-
late am our thinking. They compel our
assent they Danish our doubts, and we
/ rest in the conviction Of absolute truth
when once We discern them. Nature Is
$50 constituted that we can understand
/ Co. II Il were a mere chaos, without law
0r order 0r Ineligible constitution, hui
| man knowledge would be impossible:
| Cor thought would ind In the outward
| world nothing 10 grasp. II Is only be-
| cause law. rational order and sequence.
/ in one word because reason exists in
| nature. that nature yields itself up to
[ our thought and can be cOmprehended
/ by our Intelligence. In other words,
! nature contains thought, or Is realized
I mind, and our minds find themselves In
nature. Nature Is the reflection OF our
| minds, as wei as the expression OF the
mind Of God. Mind discovers itself In
| nature. as In a mirror. Ii Is our true in
! teIectual self that we find In nature,
l however When we think and reason
| and observe the processes Of nature, we
o. 4.HNH a.
I Dauf that which nature gives US. We
must lose our own identity and indie
T.nieuce. so 10 speak. In order TO find
/ our higher self IN communion with ma
iurp. Scientific knowledge is such only
0u condition that we renOunce our own
individual fancics and opinions as to
what Is true. and accept without ques-
ton the absolute authority OF truth as
nature has IL. To attain 10 the uni
H.rsal life OF reason that is In the world,
W. must TenOunCe our own individual
ity and find the true realization Of our
own reason IN that absolute reason or
truth which nature manifests. As the
laws Of mathematics are systems Of
truth which we do not create but only
recognize. as IN all true study We sim
/ ply I.se into Jeglon OF thought TO
which our own thought much cOniormi
su d. follows that our thought Is but an
INTERPRETATION OF the divine thought.
So in an our thinking. 10 appears 10
D.. sober statement OF fact ANA not
mra flight II poetic fancy, to say that,
when we think truly, that Is. correctly
| ,. In accordance with nature and absO-
lIla truth. then ID is no longer we that
| think but IS the universal reason that
thinks within US Science. reason, and
human thought are thus the counter
II"Ts the image. Of the divine thought
jus, as religion is mans conscious rela-
/ Ton t0 God So mans thought is his con-
s..aug participation In the divine reason
Wanfasied IN nature. and the religious
! Impulse. which Is the faith. the hope
ana the aspiration OF mankind, is the
.nTs true ufe and Is grounded IN the
| g"g nature OF man as a rational ana
| spiritual being. Human thought there
fore rests upon and becomes possible
ory through the tacit presumption Of
fHa existence az an absolute thought or
n.rE. which expresses Itself On objective
| truths and realities 90 which our
ttmeht must conform. and without
which au human thought would disap-
Ir.ar In q mere chaos Of guesses and
separate sensations. This absolute
truth or reason Is not O life that Is Tor
agu i0 u.s. n "a is above US, u
- also within us. IN yielding 10 Il we
ore only submitting tO law mat ~
really our own law-the fulhlment OF
our highest intelligence. IL Is man s
WrUgatlvc that ne alone OF All beings
900 earth can rise above himself can
cease 90 think his own thoughts or pc
sUayed by his own impulses, can yield
. / fFrreaff ttD O., fhte divine thought ana