Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-28

al responsibility stands behind spiritual
responsibility the relation Of the crea-
turc 10 the Creator, What Is our
relation TO the Creator2 The text sheds
light on our relation to God Behind
and beyond our responsibility Is our
relation, What, then Is God? What
are our mutual relations? How do
we depend on each other? on the
answer our hope must be built want
To know what God and man are
Il will call up five teachers 20 learn
The first IL "A beautiful woman whose
name Il Nature. Can you shed light
on the problem " what is God? She
aswers, God Is creator, nightly
smith, d maker Of worlds shaping
creature on the anvil OF His win, till
stars. consultations and blazing orb~
bound into the charms OF law appear
All OF this Is sane and. i'm a measure
true, but does not go far enough Ma
ture is Gods servant Man Graves an
the wiser things OF God. 4 servant
cannot know the business character
OF his master. \ servant " God cam
not know Gods inner life
Next comes "a grave and kindly
man who gives the name ~ doses
He said ! am the LAWYER OF Israel
OF him | asked What Is God? An
that nature said IS true. but lie s.
more. He IS King ruler. am cm-
peror over all Hc hath made he
rules all things lie gives rewards for
obedience. and penalties for disobcdi-
enCe
THE PERFECT WITNESS
Next comes dubious. doubtful fell
low whose name IL Agnostic or know
nothing. OF him | ask: What Is Cod.
God Is a nebulae. mass an un
wrought cloud, NJ man knows N can
know anything about God. Men who
pray to God are mistaken. The Chris
tlan. pagan or heather only Is de-
luded In believing there is God There
may or may not be a heaven, a hell,
II Judgment, With Moses and Nature,
he has never been able 10 see God.
God is unsearchable The trouble with
the Agnosic Is, he Is looking through
the wrong glass only one lens shows
us God The pure IN heart shall see
God MY Agnostic friend never look
ed through that lens.
THE fourth IL Satan, maleYolent and
hateful. What Ia God % I asked Of
him. A tyrant a despot He allows
men 10 suffer, lie catches and brushes
them This Is one who made lnutiny
IN the skies, and God hurled him down.
He IL trying to hurt God through His
children. He has Q grudge and a
grudge will ruin and distort any mind.
The fifth Is Jesus, He is a perfect
witness He Is near to ALL wise 70
know and true to tell all. He IS truth
incarnate Now we shall know He
tells us When ye pray as pray ye
must, say our. Father Not creator
or emperor or nebulae or tyrant, but
Abba. Father, We can got hold OF
that for we have children of our own.
This brings God into our understand
ing, 1t Is not that Jesus first revealed
God, for the patriarchs did Tint, but
that He got It believed by men that
God was. living factor In their az
fairs.
What is tho purport OF this? ?" There
are three aspects OF Gods fathorhood
no being can generate creature less
than itself All must bear the nature
Of the sire,
IT then, we are Gods children, we
are coequal in our essential being. II
Is not possible for any being To reveal
itself TO any but its own kind AS e
cup of water from the ocean repre-
sents all the water IN the seas, so
represent God only ! am finite II
am Gods child He viii always love
me
The services closed with the an
nouncement from the bishop that the
church debt was provided for IN the
subscriptions of the day and the
church was duly dedicated