Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-03

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After having our little ult about rev.
elation ana religion or the way religion
Is revealed ! was prepared 10 let tho
case rest but IN the News OF June
q, which Glanced TO follow me to
Butterheld canyon, where ! was rusu-
eating, ] found another editorial along
the same line inqulrlug why / should
base q sermon upon a text OF Paul
and suggesting that It was very incon-
slstent Of me TO do So You entltle
your editorial why Quote From
Them and a reply demanded Of me to
avoid the Implication that am argu.
tentatively endorsed
In fist place allow me 20 suggest
that ! am entitled 10 a point Of view
Of my own. however mistaken q may
be. You say Of those Of Us who try to
be rati0nalistic IN our expoundng OF
religion why do they 60 TO those an
Client writings for a basis Tor their
own reasonlngs and remarks. II the au-
thors thereof we're a set OF decelyers
or we're themselves deceived. and whose
writings are unworthy the credence OF
enlightened people? Why quote them
at all II they were either frauds or de.
!uded fauaticsg"
In this you forget that DO not hold
the deception Of Paul. or OF Moses or OF
Isaiah, or any Biblical character can
now recall, which you insist is the only
possible conception 10 hold unless !
share your own thought which gives
Implicit belief 90 an that Is recounted
o. these individuals tried to ex-
plain that | regard religion as havlnl
"a natural evolution, as coming in that
sense from the soul OF man. but the ey-
olutlon Of man. physical mental and
spiritual conforms 90 and expresses a
higher law, That power not ourselves
which makes FOR righteousness So
man himself becomes a revelation as he
aScends from the brute and one part OF
human history Is as sacred and sug-
gcstlye as another. Now | know this
point Of view il revolutionary COM
pared with the theory Of all orthodox
Christianity and compared with Nor
m0nlsm, which as far as / can see Is
no. essentially different from orthodox
Christianity except that il has a few
additional revelations.
CALLS IT EVOLUTIONARY
am as well aware as any one that
this evolutionary thought eliminates
the thought Of a garden OF Eden. Of
man beginning IN perfection and falling
II denies the whole theory Of the VI
larious sacrifice Of Christ as an error
and one which has wrought much harm
! am aware Of all these implications
and accept them. SO far as my knoWl-
edge goes try 10 be logical And
there are many people, probably nine
tenths OF the educated and thoughtful
men and women among the Anglo
Saxon races. accept the evolutionary
thought Of the universe including man
and all his problems. Many Of them
have not yet made their religion square
with the facts as presented by modern
science. but who can doubt the mar
Vicious change which IL coming into tho
intellectual world and which must have
iis eventual effect upon religion.
OLD TESTAMENT LITERATURE.
You may consider me illogical m
holding this point OF view but never
theless such is my mental attitude and
such is the attitude Of quite little
body of people IN this city. and such
l. the attitude Of a rapidly growing
host an over the civilized world And
II you grant us this point OF view do
you not see how II broadens our whole
thought OF revelation. The old Tesla
ment becomes just so much human 1T
eraturc preserving 10 US the annals.
traditions, superstitions, laws and asp-
Iations Of very interesting race With
q genius for religion. But Il is only
a part Of the revelation Of q growing