Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-28
RELIGION IS THE
ANCHOR OF THEs0UL
I'm Much Conventionality IN
Modern Worship Says e..
der W. H. King.
IS AN AGE OF FORMALLY
,.,oonismr n Religion That Teaches
Living Faith TO Its Members
,long LIES stormy Way

rider william II. King delivered an
..ostinv discourse at the Tabernacle
.A,y afternoon, TO a large and APP
,,arye congregation. The services
.,e nresided over by President John
v,nder After the choir had sung
HMM beginning, Behold the
ntain OF the Lord Elder Hamil-
n a.. Park offered the invocation.
Tight and truth" was then rendered
NJ the choir
Rrl6N. King said the congregation
"a met for Il service Of SON.. prayer
ssS speaklng Worship he declared.
saond not be perfunctory. II should
~ devoid OF Formally, and be entered
40 with the utmost sincerity. There
Woo much convention and fornality,
.nssryed the speaker, in the religious
aid God Is n spirit, and should be
o,sbipped in a manner strictly splr-
mai Religion has a legitimate place
\, Inc sphere Of life. II is gilt OF the
s,sna Master and is OF far greater
,ialne than the wealth and honors Of
,Ss world. Religion is an anchor OF
Nv. soul said Elder King and has
,,oe into the world TO sanctify the
t"r,on family. II teaches men that
,hsy are children OF God, and It's mis-
yon k to purge them of frailties and
aovslon the God-like attributes inher-
ont within them,
Elder King said that many who
roror the LatteT-day Saints by visit
inr their houses Of worship have a
,ois,onception OF the doctrines believed
/, BIZ the Mormon people, He had
gently read Of missionaries of the
rburch who had escaped prosecution
bs-ause II had been decreed that they
we're not Christians What IS a
Christian? Asked the speaker. II is
ma, a mere name. he observed, You
cannot determine what a man Is SIM
nm from his profession, Many per-
ION claiming 10 be r Christian, leads
ANYTHING but a Christian life. ON the
other hand, not n few disbelieVers
follow more or less the precepts Of the
Master.
Tho Mormon" people believe In
Christianity declared the speaker. and
not only believe In II, but labor for its
success ana desire To see IL triumph In
every land and every cline. For this
much desired consummation Mormon
ism" sends It's missionaries to the con-
iinents and to the isles of the sea, in
advocacy of the divine mission OF
Jesus Christ. lie Is the great eXem-
Mar OF the Latter-day Saints, His life
ana death and resurrection are ever
before them,
While believing that there had been
ar apostacy from primitive Christian
IFS. ana a partial abrogation Of the
prlncples laid down hy the Son Of God,
Inc Latter-day Saints claim that the
fitness Of the Gospel was revealed 10
Joseph Smith, His followers maintain
hat the doctrines proclaimed by Christ
are essential for uniting the people of
!he earth The teachings of the saw
for are panac ca for all the Ills of hui
mauity.
The wisdom and philosophy " man
aye Insufficient 10 satisfy the ycaUning
soul said Elder King Herbert Spen-
cor with an hi- knowledge. pointed
nut no path thlt leads To the goal of
llfe Soul-satisfying principles are
found only In the doctrines OF Christ
The Mormon people. continued
Tie speaker want religion that
teaches a living faith, Ia lead them
along LIES stormy way. This faith,
they believe is found IN The teachings
~ Christ The l.atter-day Saints be-
licye that those principles win yet
hear sway from tho rivers to the ends
az The earth. Unity Of faith shall yet
come
There Is too much fornality, too
much conventiuuality IN the churches.
repeated Elder King, In their re-
searches after thc unknown. men adj
here 10 the objective, seeing not and
feeling not tho great first cause be-
mind and beyond It all To see God
Only IN His creations Is not religion,
u Is idolatry different In degree not
M KIND from heathcu idolatry. There
are said the speaker, too many
churches and crceds and too little
gonuine regard for the true personality
f God Men should feel His power
ana love ana soul-deyeloping attri-
huter
There can be too much devotion,
SAID Elder King even to country and
IT, Institutions. This sentiment may
DO deemed unp3Uioic and treason
ape hut It IS not Men should ever
DO loyal and true, but when any insti-
lGIlon works wrong and oppression. II
#ould not be upheld.
Iho Lattcr-day Saints. continued tho
speatcr want n religion that appeals
~ me n"art That baniShes selnshness.
nav VIII plnd In peace and unity all
humanity The "Mormons" are not
~, 'uomS's They do not believe that
christianity win recede. but they are
~, .,hliuced that II will 60 forward un-
wi u shaIi nave driven out all other
Ir'si'nS aud omancipate the world.
Gag '0' VI"
Let's have, mid Elder King, more
,aUu' moro good deeds more charity.
.nnpII" love. more humanity. this for
,,No'mons. as well as "GentIles."
tl',nosI'ip and affection should be
'lmonism" said Elder King, il
gL.''lnluenlly religion of self-sacrl-
we ana " love, I'm a word. II is tho
'VSprI vt Jesus Christ.
ISL conclusions Elder King said the
quo. mon people have no desire for
w obstruction Of the government.
KY are not prnvokcrs Of discord but
fo- mNeIH 81 peace, and are laboring
world III an inv
H. me choir sang the anthem. orIow
p.aeutnl Upon the Mountain" ana
,Ndrn' Hugh j Cannon OF LIbertv
"' pronounced the benedictinu.
AnDnrinr m \ nt,Ann1.