Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-16
SALT LAKE CITY, JULY 10, 1901.
ABIT OF MORMON PHILOSOPHY.

A BIT OF MORMON FlliLOsofhf H.
The horror Of being buried alive has
been felt, we believe, by the majority
OF human beings who have heard Of
eases of premature intnment, or OF
devices Of different kinds which are
frequently brought forward for the
purpose of determining whether per-
sons, apparently deceased, have passed
through the great change or not. we
do not think there have been as many
eases Of burial in trance as some
people imagine Accounts OF such
occurrences have been grossly exag-
gerated. and some OF them have been
fictitious or wholly imaginary. But
that there have been Instances Of such
q kind there can be- no reasonable
doubt A scientific method Of arriv-
Ing at a certainty In this important
matter win be hailed with pleasure
everywhere
The latest suggestion on this subject
has already been mentioned In tho
Deseret News 1t came from Prof,
ottolenghi OF the University Of Slena,
ana II Is that the X-rays, as the new
development In light transmission is
called, be applied In any case that II
doubtful. He is said TO have dlscoy-
cred that while II Is easy to apply the
rays TO the lungs OF a person who Is
alive or IN trance, II is extremely DIFF
Acult indeed practically impossible, to
apply them TO the lungs OF person
actually dead The professor has
made repeated tests of this kind and
always with the same result.
This would seem TO be practical and
sure method of deciding whether a
body Is really corpse, or under sus-
pended animation and capable Of re-
viycation. II would be well II expert
ments should be made by physicians
and others capable Of scientific exam
lnatlon. and able to give a decision de-
void OF mere opinion and without that
Jumping at conclusions 10 which so
many ordinary persons are liable,
The question Of the reason why the
x-rays viii illuminate living body,
even II in trance" and viii not do 40
with dead body, viii doubtless occa-
sion some controversy The origin
and process Of life is subject that has
engaged the attention OF investigating
minds from the beginning OF time. Ac-
cording TO the doctrines Of the Church
OF Jesus Christ OF Latter-day Saints,
the yitalizing principle In all the uni
verse and In the various living crea-
lions. from the simplest to the most
complex forms Of animated nature. Is
the all-peryadlng Spirit of God, 1t is
everywhere present 1t is the life Of
all things. II proceeds from the pres
snce Of the Father through the vast do
main of boundless space In one sense
that il God 1t is an essential part Of
the trime Godhead.
But that which Is the life OF all
things, IS also the light OF all things
For It is written in the revelations Of
God to the Church;
And the light which now shlneth.
which gyeth you light is through Him
who enlightenment your eyes, which is the
same light that quickeneth your under
standings: which light proceedeth forth
from the presence Of God TO fill the Inn
menslty OF space. The light which Is in
all things; which glyeih life 60 all
things. when Is the law by which all
things are governed. even the power Of
God who stitch upon His throne, who
Is in the bosom Of eternity, who Is in
the midst Of all things. Doc 4 Cow,
D. BOG.
Now when that universal spirit is
active In matter, which must be in q
condition capable Of susceptibility TO
its operations, life is manifest therein.
lAght II also there oven II In latent
state. There are fixed and eternal laws
by which II acts In nature, for Tight
cleaveth unto light and intelligence
TO intelligence That lght-action
called the X-rays viii not penetrate
what We term dead matter because
there is no corresponding activity Of
the light-giying and life-gyine spirit
within IT, The influence both from
without and from within must be recl-
procal In order to be perceived.
Spirit Is a reality as much as mat
ter is. The primal or ultimate parti-
cles of both are eternal. Spirit Is the
life and light imparing force, acting
on the grosser substance we call mat
ter, and the twain united perfectly and
inseparably, produce a fullness OF light
and life and happiness and power. This
IS founded on IMMORTAL truth 4 prop
er comprehension of II viii make clear
many things that are obscure. and H.
illuminate the soul with light that is
glorious and divine.