Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-11
At THE TABERNACLE.
Elders Pcmosc and Smith Speak for
Industrial Utah.


Addresses dealing with the material
side OF 'Mormonism' ana the efforts
OF President Brigham Young to make Of
this the greatest industrial common
wealth In the Union. were made at the
Tabernacle yesterday afternoon by FL
ders Charles w. Penrose and John
Henry Smith. The speakers also bore
record of the divine mission Of Joseph
smith, and called upon those not con-
versant with the teachings OF Mormon
ism" to investigate the message and
thereby gain a testimony OF Its divin-
ity.
The choir sang the hymn
Behold, the Great Redeemer die,
A broken law 10 satisfy"
Prayer was offered by Elder John NJ.
knight.
The choir ana congregation sang the
hymn:
Praise to the man who communed with
jehovah,
Jesus anoiHted that Prophet and Seer.
ELDER CHARLES W. PENROSE.
Elder Charles W. penrose was the
first speaker. He said there were DIFF.
ferent forms OF religion in the world
and a great many different denomlna-
lions. All had one purpose in view in
assembling on the Sabbath. and that
was to worship God according to the
dictates of their conscience. The Lat
ter-day Saints, he said understood re-
llglon to be the service of the Living
God, In this their religion was of a
practical character, for It consisted not
only in believing but in doing, as well.
The Apostle James declared, Pure
religion and undeiiled before God and
the Father is this: To visit the widow
and the tatherless and to keep himself
unspotted from the world" This was
correct as far as II went IL was com.
monty believed that religion is a mat
ter Of sentiment but ;his was not the
BELIEF OF the Ldtter-day Saints. They
believed that they should become ac-
quainted with the Will of God and then
obey it, and they might he assmlated
20 Him in nature and character The
teachings Of the Savior were in that d.
recton. and He announced that He
came not to do His own viii but the win
Of the Father who sent Him
Elder Peurose referred TO the dual
nature of man, and stated that his spr-
itual personality came from God and
TO God II would return. The spiritual
essence Of man was an eternal entity
and not creature OF the dust. The
body was formed from the earthly ele-
ments and these though subject to
change were eternal IN their essential
atoms. The speaker explained that the
Intelligence of man was OF eternal de-
rIVation hat intelligence had no be-
ginning neither would II have an end
Thus man was with God in the begin
ming as Jesus was, and would continue
TO exist etcrnally. This life being but
one stage Of his everlasting existence.
The speaker said IL was required of
men that they yield obedience to Gods
laws. They had been framed with that
object in view, and men would be re-
warded according 10 the efforts put
forth 10 render submission to eternal
principles People had varied opinions
concerning things generally; they had q
right 10 have these personal views, and
TO exercise their individual agency in
their PRONUNCIATION. The things Of God,
however. were Interchangeable irrevoca-
bic They We're eternal I'm their char
aoter. All truth ana light emanated
from the Father OF light. The so-called
discoveries and inventions OF modern
times. which were FOR the benefit OF
mankind were frou' God and were not
really new but a bringing forth Of old
truths, development Of that which
had been from all eternity God, in His
wisdom, had reserved some OF these
truths until the latter days, but they
had been known to Him from the very
beginning; that Is, the beginning Of this
globe, for with Him there was no be
ginning"
The achievements Of the Pioneers UNI
der the direction of the great colonizer,
Brigham Young, We're referred to by
Elder Penrose. who paid tribute 20 that
great leaders genius and his implicit
faith In God. He led band Of refugees
driven from the states OF the east by
their Christian" friends they placed
their implicit trust and confidence in
God and set tn work retaining the
desert and making Il NJ for the habita-
ton Of man. This was done under the
Inspiration of the Lord through Brig
ham Young. In very early times he
taught the principle Of home industry
which. If adhered to, would have made
The dwellers In this section OF country