Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-10
ON TRUE EDUCATION.
Hon. B. II, Roberts Spoke Before L. D.
S. Students in Barratt Hall.

The weekly session Of the student
body Of the Latter-day Saints uniyer-
sity was held yesterday in Bar
raft hall. After singing, God
Is Love- and prayer by stu
dent d. o, Harris, Prof William &,
Give played on the violin, to his lit
tie son Clifford's piano accompaniment
Schumanns beautiful Grade Song"
followed by the Hungarian Dance"
of Brahms. In response to the thun-
der OF applause that greeted these Sc
lections, Prof, Give gave the Concert
Polka" by Fox, piece requiring a
bewildering combination of artistic
skill in ito rendition.
President Paul announced that Hon,
II. II. Roberts had consented to address
the assembly. MIR, Roberts began with
some pleasant illusions to the differ
enoes between 'us fellows on the out
slde,' and the fortunate young people
on the inside OF modern institutions of
learning lie said that Cecil Rhodes
was a character whom men were bound
30 admire, even II they disagreed with
him. In some respects, this man
achievements resembled those of the
pioneer Brigham Young. Mr., Rhodes
provision for the education Of young
men Of other countries In the English
universities was referred to, and the
following definition of education was
quoted from the articles prepared by
the founder of the oxford Scholarships
What Is real education2 The tweu-
tleth century will say that 1t Is
the teaching of truth not mere
language and fables what the
universe IL. what our earth is;
what man is; how life Is brought into
existence; the laws which govern mat
ter and force" II will be a long time,
continued the speaker, before these
subjects are generally acknowledged
and taught In the schools. What man
Ii, mark you, Is one of the topics, |
congratulate you that here in this in
sitntion none OF these subjects is omit
ted The great central truth Is that God
Is our Father, Jesus Christ our broth
en- When In the Jewish Sanhedrim the
| High Priest asked him whether He was
| the Son of God. Jesus saith unto him.
| Thou has said Other Scriptures tn
| the same effect We're quoted and the
| statement In the preface to Johns Cos
| pei, I'm the beginning was the Word
| and the Word was with God and the
| Word was God" was taken TO prove
| the divinity and the eternity Of Christ
| Why He was called the Word the
| speaker said he did not know, but 4
| word In the expression Of something
| and Jesus Christ came to earth as the
| expression the revelation Of God the
| Father, The speaker then said that
| man, too, Is an eternal being; his spirit
Is not II creation as the body is but
| existed before the birth as 1t viii exist
| after the decay of the ileshly taber-
nacle You young people may build
| with reference to the fact that YOU are
eternal and not temporary beings, foi
| you, too, were in the beginning cock
| istent with God,
This line Of thought represents true
| education In the sense of the definition
| quoted Religion is right feeling to-
ward God. Theology ia correct knowl.
edge Of God. II must finally be, as tbs
Jewish Talmud says that he who has
a right understanding Of God will no,
sin against Him and that he who has
the light feeling toward God win com,
to right knowledge concerning Him