Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-29
Prof Nelson, Author Of Preaching
And Public Speaking, as a
Publisher.
TO START new MAGAZINE.
Opening Chapter Of the First Article
And Why the New Publica.
ton Is Needed.

FTols M L. iNcisoii, hcau Vi 'he NC
partment of English In the Brigham
Young University. and author OF
Preaching and Public Speaking" Ia
about to start new quarterly maya
zine. the title of which is to be 1.-THE
Mormon Point OF View" The first
issue is to appear o Jan. I. In the
following article which Is to be the
opening chapter of the issue the pro-
fessor. sets forth why, in his judgment,
this magazine is needed. His ideas are
couched in the Following language.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
WHY THIS MAGAZINE is NEEDED,
Looking upward from my study win
dow toward the east, see a magnifi-
cent range Of mountains, rugged and
precipitous In their lower reaches,
covered midway with sombre belt OF
pines. lastly capped In the dazzling
Wilderness of eternal SHOWS. On the
south | look out upon a splendid val
ley, lately. a sunburnt desert echoing to
the metallic screech OF the cricket now
variegated with garden, meadow, field,
and orchard, and broken here and there
by a succession of rural towns. The
connection between what l see respec-
lively from the two windows Of my
study,--between the snow-drlfts on the
mountain tops and the smiling valley
below-.is too obvious to need pointing
out.
But In more spiritual sense, let us
live this miracle of transformation
over again. Let those dazzling banks
OF CONCEALED health and wealth. pure,
beautiful enhaloed by heavens own
blue, but withal cold and distant
stand for the religious ideals OF man
kind. Next let the valley again be
conceived as barren and mfruitful; let
It's teeming and throbbing evidences OF
life, It's marvellous co-mingllng OF form,
color, sound, and motion. be counted
for what they are-the world OF NAM
mon I'm which we live, and breathe,
and have our being; overlook all these
things, and still see vast stretches OF
soul barrenness among mankind.
Then the purpose of this magazine
IL TO help melt those snows-those lofty
OSCILLATIONS Of theology and philoso-
phy--and cause them to flow
downward to the thirsty valley OF
spiritual life; help dig up the canals
and laterals TO the sun.baked regions
or the human heart, neip ureet tne
streams Oh you tIutn up
on the social, moral, anu spirltua ue.
serts In world given up 10 greco ana
self-seeking.
Religion must De soclalized' " mas 700
long been cultivated lot the sake OF a
Hypothetical heaven-a PARADISE OF tne
Imagination. ana hereafter OF our
dreams. There IS no heaven other than
Inc here and now, no nell more dread
rul than that which overtakes tine SIM
ner every day-.if ne could put realize
ne deadening erect 'he soui-para'ysis'
~ his evil DEEDS.
That there VIII be future heaven.
both as to mental state ana also as to
ocality-a time ana place IN which the
lere and now snail nave advanced IN
'naply IN slory--wno can doubt that
observes the trend OF human lfeY That |
here VIII also be future hell-the
both as TO place and mental
tate, OF the daily denominations OF dis
ord In the soul--accompanied perhaps |
" keen .awakening--is also past ques-
ion TO any believer In the persistency |
4 life after death, who notes the pro-