Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-24
THE "MORMON" DOCTRINE OF DEITY
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may II not be possible for them 60 DO
In a few hundreds or thousands Of mil
lions Of years? What may they not
90 in eternity? TO what heights OF
power and glory may they not ascend3
sECTARIAN NOTIONS UNsAT1s-
FLYING.
II is idle today 10 ask men to be sat
sGed with the old sectarian notions OF
mans future life, where at best he is
TO be but one Of a mnstrelsy, twang
ing harps and singing 20 the glory
of an incorporeal bodlless. shapeless
passionless immaterial Incompetent
sible God. Such conceptions Of exist
ence no longer satisfy the longlngs ~
the intelligent or splritual-mlnde6 man,
Growth, enlargement expansion for
his whole nature, as he recognizes hat
nature I'm is intellectual moral spirit
ual, social, and affectionate demands
Is what his soul calls FOR; and thv
systems Of theology that rise not 10 the
level Of these hopes are not worthy oi
mans attention
Keep these thoughts In mind for
moment | pray you That Is, remember
the powers in men, what be- has al
talned TO In this life. and What II Is
conceivable for him 10 attain unto AZ
ter the resurrection from The dea0,
when death shah have been removed
from his pathway Keen This In mind,
while bring 20 bear on the theme an.
der consideration another line o.
facts,
THE UNIVERSE IN WHICH MAN
LIVES.
Let us consider lust for a moment
and In a very simple manner, the uni'
verse In which man lives. And bet US
start with what we know, and keep well
within those lines. First Of all, then, a.
10 the earth Itself Thanks 20 the
knowledge man now has respecting
the earth, il Is no longer regarded a.
the center OF the universe. around
which reyolves sun and moon and stars,
that In the ages of darkness were
thought 20 have been created for the
sole purpose Of giving light by day ana
by night to the earth. No. friends
man has learned the true relation Of
the earth TO these other objects In the
universe. He knows that the earth Is
but one OF a number Of planets-On OF
n group Of eight-tha revOlve regu-
larly around the sun-and one Of the
smallest Of the group at that. Outside
Of this group Of planets, with whose
motions and the laws thereof man has
become familiar, Is a vast host Of fixed
stars; that ls,stars that apparently have
no motion, or IL they do their orbits
are so Immense that man with the I'M
aided eye can not discern Thence we
call them fixed stars. Then our astron-
omers have learned that these fixed
stars are not like the planets which
move In their orbits about our sun,
but on the contrary are like the sun l.
self. self-uminous bodies, and doubt
less like the sun the center Of opaque
planetary groups, or az least We may
say that reasoning from analogy, that |
Is regarded as a very probable fact
With the unaided eye there Is ordin-
arily within the range OF our vision |
some fye or six thousand Of these fixed !
stars With the aid Of the telescope, !
however, there Is brought within the |
range Of mans vision between forty |
and fifty millions OF fixed stars, with |
the same probability existing that all |
these, as well as those fixed stars Of |
sufficient magnitude 70 bs within the !
range Of our unaided vision are, like |
our own sun, the center Of groups of |
opaque planets, which, because they are /
Opaque. cannot be seen by ua But |
this Is but the beginning Of the story |
Of the universe. Immense as are the |
numbers Of fixed stars TO which have |
called attention. and their distances so |
great that In some cases II would take |
a ray OF light a million years TO reach 4
US from them, though light moves /
through space at such speed that II |
VIII travel some eight times around the |
earth In single second-immense, |
say, as are these numbers Of fixed stars
discovered 10 man by the telescope.
they ARE after oil but as the first
street lamps" Of Gods great universe
but few ~ the notes In Gods
sunbeam. Let me explain You have
seen a ray Of sunlight dart into
n room through the half-drawn cur.
tains ind have observed that n
reveals the existence az mnumerable
notes floating about IN the sunbeam.
You know that Il the sunbeam should
shift Into another part of the room Il
viii reveal the existence OF notes IN
that part Of the room hlso-mlllons of
them 50 You know that the atmos.
phere IN the Whole room Is filed with
such notes that the atmosphere In eve
ry room IN your house iF IN that condl-
tlon--that IL, filled with notes. 50 all
the rooms IN al the houses Of your
friends, or IN the city; so also the whole
clrcumambient air Of the whole earth.
Wen, what man has discovered In
space pertaining 70 the existence OF |