Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-10

luke-warm members into usefulness.
50 there are no high council trials, for
there was nothing Of that kind for thia
organization TO do.
Elder Charles Kent then sang very
effectively "The Seer the Seer
ELDER CHARLES W. PENRoSE,
Of the quorum Of Apostles, next ad-
dressed the conference. lie declared
that though he had attended n great
many conferences he had never been
present at one IN which there was
moro Of the Spirit OF God and a great
or uuanimity Of sentiment and feel
ing among the Saints, as expressed
lu their votes for the Church authorl-
ties. There had, indeed been re-
markable expression OF confidence for
their leaders on the part OF the great
body Of the Church iu its representa-
two capacity He said that he could
bear his testimony that God had been,
and was with the Saints.
The speaker drew attention 10 the fact
that our religion is not a mere pray
ms, psalm-singing faith, but on the
contrary was one for every day prac-
tisc. It concerns the temporal as well
as the spiritual I'm life, as we UNDER
stand these divisions. The Lord made
the body Of man Tor his spirit TO dwell
In, and upon the union Of these de-
Ponds our complete happinessThc body
as wen us The spirit, In It's elemental
character Is eternal Hence, he dccllr-
ed, there is a great labor for the
Saints in the care both OF the body and
Of the spirit
Elder Penrose maintained that the or
binary distinction which we make In
the temporal and the spiritual Is not
one that Is recognized by The Lord 10
Him these are spiritual because the
primary elements are without Begin
ming and end, He recognizes what are
termed gpirit and matter which are
both eternal 1t IS the union OF these
two that constitutes complete happi-
ness. The death Of the body or what
We call It's death, Is not the end, noith-
er OF the body nor OF the spirit These
bodies that God has given US though
fashioned Que OF the dust are our IN
herItancc, and will be made immortal
and given US In the next world. There
are laws, therefore for the body as
well as for the spirit which are reveal
ed to US by the Lord. The speaker
showed the absurdity Of the notion that
I'm the next world we would have no
need Of our so-called temporal bodies,
and that we should spend our time I'm
the eternal world In praying and sing
ing. But there would be work for as
there, In different spheres and glorios
great or small as we have pre-
| pared ourselves for &c here. So the
Lord concerns Himself with the tenn
poraP and the spiritual
Along this line were the laws Of tlth-
ing and conservation Abraham paid
tithes 10 Melchisedek, land, the speak.
er added 80 far as we are Informed
no one ever arose TO question Mel
chlsedeks use Of the tithes. This law
was revealed to the Prophet Joseph He
however, was not the author OF the
law; the Lord was Its originator The
speaker quoted largely from the Doc
trine and Covenants and from the Old
| and New Testaments, to show the ma
turc OF tlthlng, and especially It's pur-
poses and uses. This book tells Us
what tithing is for, and we have no
] need 20 entertain any conjecture re.
| speeding the matter
Elder Penrose testified to the honesty
and integrity Of the President Of ths
Church, lie felt that the Saints had