Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-01-27

Truth ~ como, He win guide you into
on truth fOf hc ghall no, SPEAK OF
lllinsof hut whatsoever lie ahall near
that shall lie speak, and ilo WIN snow
you things 10 come. John XVI ~.
DID the Great Teacher mean what lie
saidg In Its personal absence, were
His disciples 70 receive a Spirit that
would reveal TO them the WIN Of GOD
and chow them things 10 Gomez j.
seems SO, else what dld the Apostle
paul mean in writing thus to the Corr
lnthlan Saints
oBm as II % written, rye
hath not seen nor ear heard
neither have entered into me
heart OF man the things which GOD
hath preparcd for them that love Hun
hut God hath revealed them unto as by
Iis Spirit for the Spirit scarchelh all
Things yea, The deep thlngs Of God'-l
Cor li q-lO
This spirit Of revelation was prom
isod by christ and ma apostles to all
whom the Lord should call ana VINO
obeyed thc can aud received the Cos
pei. II was not reserved 70 the preach
ers but was free 10 the people. il was
not merely an apostolic endowment
but was siycn 20 the whole Church
and was the abiding witness" 'tho
Amounting from above Which teaohet6
an things Peter VINO By the reyela-
lions of that Spirit knew that Jesus was
the christ, and Who received it In the
mouncr promised by the savior with
his brethren on the day Of ponteoost
made this promise TO the assembled
multitude on tina, day
Repent and be baptized. every one
OF You. la the name OF Jesus Christ FOR
me remission ui sins aud Sc shall ~
ceiye me alft Of The HOLY Ghost For
the promise B unto yon ond 10 your
children. and 10 all lhat are atar olI,
even as many H8 the Lord our Goa
shall cali "-eActs " $3.50.
The preachers Who ridicule the idea
OF the enjoyment Of this divine gitt ~
the present age and who denouncc II
as "nnatlclsm' and consider IL dan
gOous. have TO depend entirely for
their religious guidance upon a book
which thcy seem 10 regard almost With
ldolatry what isit? A oompllation Of
books written by men having this same
Spirit Ii gives accounts Of things re-
yealcd from God BY that Spirit by
dreams, By visions aud by gifts be-
slowed from on high, and relating to
some Of the commonest affairs Of men
and nations as well az the deep
things Of Cod The whole volume de-
Ponds upon the reality Of divine regela
ton. without it. those writings would
have no more religious value than have
the essays and letters Of commentators
and writer's OK human thoughts In lat
ter times.
n God made known b. llls Spirit both
natural aud spiritual things to men on
earth at any time In the worlds his
tory why should He not do the same
today Has lie lost the power 10 DO SOP
Has Ills Spirit become dead or inactive,
or have the people and their ministers
OF later ages ceased TO seek for those
manifestations and become unsuscep-
tlblo TO their innuencey Christ told Ills
disciples that He would not give them
to the world. But lie definitely prone
sed them TO those who received HIS
word aud obeyed His Commandments.
II sod and Christ and the Holy Ghost
have not changed, the Spirit Of reycla-
tlon may be obtained ana enjoyed Just
as much in the twentieth century as IN
the lirsL and he who denies this denies
Christ ,bntradlcts the Bible, repudiates
the plan Of salvation and proolalmg
himself nndel 10 that which God re-
vealed IN former times and which
STANDS OF record IN the scriptures. ans
Is the spirit OF modern skopllcism,
which has found Its way into the con-
ilicting contendlng societies falsely
called Christian and into their col.
leges and seminares and universitlcs
and that impregnates the pulpits OF the
churches throughout the world 1t is
the spirit OF ant.Chrlst and contains
real and positive danger to the religion
of the i,edeemer
Every agnostlc, disbeileyer and world
~ rovller Of sacred things endorses ana
takes delight in such remarks as those
thar emanated from a Methodist pulpit
ON sunday morning They strike At the
very foundation OF the true Christian
faith, ana help to make wider the de-
parture Of mankind from the Eternal
Father who is the Source OF all light,