Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-23

dded a :, .,nltn and his two counselors
josapn TX" XXI and WInder and Apos-
PI''r Inn Henry Smith ana ., ~ ~
t's 9vpg The principal feature OF the
TooiIu' the sermon Of Bishop
o'casg ,,,,ney The full text Of which
or helow It was strong ana
appears cor, and was listened to with
npi oil arvIces were begun by the choir
the se,sreaotion singing the hymn
end S TSenk The 0 God, Tor d Froph"
Ell ,orlng prayer was offered by
the opg,uW penrose, after which the
Elder y orod the anthem, "Rouse, o
choir renue ne pawn ls Near
V hols''wp blineyH eloquent address
vas as follows ,,n,sa
oleHop wHITNEYs ADDRESS
,o..,y.slx years ago--let come TO-
Nueg he Prophet Joseph smith lhe
moHg" If mis- Church, the reyelator
iounu,E' religlon--the Church ana the
o. wv ~ ne Most High God-opened
Keltyn, roi ewes upon this world II Is
DIS ns. ,l, altIng that the Latter-day
enihep.so ,lA commemorate this event,
Nlh.s PHI r. where Il belongs, among
anu p,k tides of the calendar the
ue ~ us Kindness may ignore or
WORM ,o his man and his w0rk--for
y pgbat ace dld the world ever reeog,
ui,o or appreciate a prophei OF H9u
a auS hls achievements? But the people
slu bls church. the children OF ialth'
'u o,hered Israel Of God, cannot nj
wv ~ ,ake any other View than the
WV ,sev 40 take OF this man and MS
wy %' Tbey cannot afford to place
nls', .,a, before him. or upon the same
NY ,..a Win him, In the pantheon OF
p ,air ofeotlons. In the high and sacred
Wv" ~ their reyerentlal regard
w vaoa, ,he summit OF an almost complet-
"A century since this great spirit came
w Garth let us contemplate ms IRE
work ana the aims and motives that In
spired him. ..a sor ao,orot
me prtphets ancestors Tor seVera'
uneralioue were native Americans
H. humble town Of Sharon, Windsor
conrtv Vermont witnessed his birth.
Tb ~' on The 23rd day Of December,
is@ came he into the world. He was but
ion wears Old when his parents-~honeSt
torm folk IN lowly circumstance
,"a,sd with their family OF seven sons
ana three daughters, Joseph peing me
fourth child into the back-woods OF
western New York. and II was IN tnat
then modest and retired corner OF the
word--a world that now rings with ms
zane fold By both good and evil
,ongues-that the curtain arose upon
ire great drama Of the latter days.
when about midway between fonr-
tom and fifteen years Of age, he re-
ceived his first miraculous manifes-
tation-that glorious and unspeak-
able appearing Of the Father and me
Son, which has been for over seventy
years the theme OF 80 many tongues
and pens, Of 50 much comment. favor
Bic and unfayorable; TO the Genties
foolshness and to some Latter-day
Saints, skeptcally inclined, stumbling
stone,
II was period OF great religious ex-
element In the neighborhood OF JOS
ephs home. the little village of Man
chester, REVEALS were in progress, camp
meetings were being held by ministers
Of various denominations, and II was TO
solve a question In his mind as 10 which
Of all the Christian churches was the
true Church Of Christ that he went
one spring morning into the woods near
his fathers home, 10 ask for wisdom,
for spiritual light and guidance, Of that
God who gyeth 10 all men literally
and upbraideth not as testified
James the Apostle,
His humble prayer was more than an
swered for after brief but fierce
struggle with the adversary Of souls,
who sought to push him aver the brink
OF destruction, and thus prevent the
birth Of Gods design, there burst upon
his enrapured yislon--freeing him In
stanty from the power OF evil that
held him bound-a pillar OF light whose
glory dimmed The noon-day sun, and
IN the midst Of which stood two ra-
dant personages In the form OF men,
one Of whom. proclaimed by the other
70 be his Beloved Son" announced to
me boys astoDshed ear the opening
Of the last dlspensatlon
No church the Chrlsts--none therefore
should he Join;
All sects and creeds had wandered from
the way
PrIeatcraft in lieu Of Priesthood sat en-
thrOned
Dead forms denied the power Of godli-
ness
Men ~orshipped with their lips, their
hearts AFFAIR."
None served acceptably in sight Of
God
wherefore a work Of wonder should be
wrought,
ana perish all the wisdom OF the wise
marvel and a wonder. indeed. now
HvaWned upoa the world. as the ancient
lIVphew had predicted. and the be-
shining OF Il waS this strange and
sNillQg proclamation OF the personal
"Ppea'lng In human form Of a Being
b WON lot ages the Christian world had
e oegn Worshippng only as a spirit, an
Worms in the sun. refreshes in the
breeze
trees, ''0''V''' - Wy
"'e an through all life extends through
spreads undivided, operates unspent'
hId due sVupendous event was a stunning
NV 10 apoSato I'm l,-ot srnte Chris
tlaniW. lu a ''V ~ ~
epoh when Chi diam ,.rofsssos q,
n@, ~ Nndcated the word of Moses
apo, n Nv c, created man IN his own i'm
of "a 'V ,,, the saying of the Son
secn 49, ne that hath seen me hath
taachn~ rhlheri It corroborated the
fNho vs. " raul, that Jesus the Son
before "us NE form OF man, both
The ~, snu after His resurrection is
Fau eA2res- image and likeness Of His
formoI person Paul who told the
a S,',e' gay Saints thai when he ord
him ' 'hey should be like
min5 I'1,g5gerl9s assertion to the Gentle
declarot'ousn devout ChrIstlan-this
again " o, mat The heavens were
flows c open' nat yislons and reyela
lleved VA, mo, nor as had long been he.
chanr,obi 5ao.cte; that God the un-
todoy g"n'e answered by theae means
stu as much as AT any time ,he
b "' t prayer Of the falthfnl ana h,rm.
exalted % nll The idea that two such
came r. ,,'i'ss as the boy declared
should con ,i' una conversed with him