Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-16
lRfSBYT ERIANS
\ AND MORMON GOD
. BADEN SAYS Latter-day Saints Concep-
aoo Of Deity is All Wrong-He
Is Sure OF It.

one of Robert Browning's poems de.
nouncing the idea Of the personality OF
God, and saying that the Mohammedah
has his idea of the master OF nareiii,
projects it into heaven ana calls
il God "The carnal man, ADDED
the speaker has a earnal Goo, anu
the spiritual man has spiritual Co..
Speaking Of the analogy between man
and God. the doctor said we are
little like Him. We have a little OF HIS
mercy. a little Of His love. But there
is n wide difference in maintaining that
in some points we are like God, ana
maintaining that in all things we are
like Him. He worships himself VINO
worships q God made In mans image
The very crudest conception Of God is
that He has limbs and organs The
doctor took the position that all anu
sions 70 the various parts OF Gods Dody
of which the Bible Is replete were mere
figures Of speech, When we speak OF
Gods hands, said he, we thlnk OF
His efficiency, His ability to do things,
when we speak Of His eyes and mead
we think OF His knowledge. and when
we speak Of His heart we think OF
His love We have no reason for mink
ing that God is like us. We may think
that we are nearer the likeness or the
Creator than any other form of crea-
ton, but that doesn't warrant us In
saying we are altogether like Him. Be
cause II is written that God VIII break
the teeth of the wicked are we to sup
pose that He will go up and down the
earth knocking peoples teeth out"
The doctor continued his argument
along that line and declared that the
finite cannot comprehend Me Infinite.
We may apprChend one Of His attri-
butes but we cannot comprehend Him
in His mightiness. eve bear the stamp
Of His image In cur spirits, rather than
in our bodies and who is there who
can draw the image of his own soul.
We must still cry out with Job, Cans t
thou with searching find out God etc
Man is made In the image Of God but
not in the measure of God. In the
character of Christ" and the doctor
emphasized character three times, we
have a revelation Of as much OF the
character Of God az we need TO know.
He who does not feel God inside his
heart will never find Him outside. But
| believe that in the dominant Church
the idea of God Is becoming more
spiritual all the time. think the
teaching of a material God and a
plurality Of Gods Is heathenlsh."
Mr.. McClain asked DR., Paden II the
entire Mormon system was not based
on their conception Of God, and II they
were to change the latter, nearly all
the difference between the Mormon
Church and the scots would pass away,
Or. Paden replied that II the Latter
day Saints changed their ideas Of eter-
nal procreation and similar tenets
they viii have to change their concep-
ton OF God. He though that Joseph
Smith wanted an easy-going material
God which is very attractive TO men
OF his kind,
After the lecture was over DR., Wish
ard announced that In the afternoon
session he would talk on continuous
revelation and he wanted the teach
ers 20 bring their pencils and notebook
for he was going TO shake up some old
dry bones which he wanted the teach
ers to take away with them.