Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-11
.LATTER-DlY SAINTS
ARE PROGRESSIVE
Elder orson r. Whitney Delivers
Able Address in Tabernacle
Sunday Afternoon.
CRITICISMS ARE ANSWERED.
Founder of Church Was ItVcmplu of
prccr- -iou--A Little History
NBW Honest Governments.

A large congregation listened 'D cn
Interesting discourse by Eldrr Ors,u p.
whitney, 90 the council OF apostles. AT
the Tabernacle yesterday afternoon.
The criticism made against the Latter
day Saints that they are a uon-prosr cs-
sive people was taken up by the spcak-
or and answered in an eloquent and
convincing manner
Tho services wore presided over by
President John r. Winder. Presidents
Joseph 4. Smith and Anthem H. Lund
were also uDon the stand. The choir
rendered the hymn. 20 Say What y
Truth and The anthem. Light and
Truth. and the congregation ana
choir sang Come Come Ye saints.
Elder William McLachlan offered the
Invocation and benediction was pro-
nounced By President Anthem II. Luna'
ELDER oRsoN r. WHITNEY.
Following IS a brief synopsis OF Elder
Whitneys remarks. The assertion or
repeated that the Latter-day SAINTS
are lacking in progressiveness l5 nor
founded on fam The three words
best descriptive OF Mormonism are
TRUTH progress, and peace. II cam.
into The world 10 move things ana
wherever l,s adherents nave l"cate"'
progression. spiritual and otherwise.
has resulted.
Josonn smith. who under the guild
ance of the Almighty. was the FOUNDER
of MormOnism. was all his ire am cA-
cmrlar OF progression ana development
lie was not satisfied with the reiis Gus
conditions that obtained in his early
youth. and 10 was his desire Tor some
thinp better that caused him Co seek
wisdom from on high. and this result
"a I'M his being chosen % usher in the
disnensation of the fulness Of times
Not culy were the Father ana son re-
yoaiCd to the youthful seeker al'eI
truth but heavenly messengers APP
ucarcd. revealing the history OF au-
liert America. aud ordaiulng Joseph
and his companion, Oliver CoWdery. 20
th. Aatonic and Melchiscdek priest
hnoCs.
SPIRIT OF PROGRESS
Early in his career the prophet was
unlettered. and untaught but so nm
Iuol ,yaa ne with the spirit OF prog
reSs that at the time OF ms martyr
dom ha was comparatively a leaiheh
man. having been student OF '1u-
Cages history. law ana the SEs'yliS
90 earthly government. he eslapil9 t,i
among his people schools ~ ohlo' ~
Nfissolfri ana az Illinois, ana ltusut
tb,-, man salvation Is a process OF edu-
cation. mat men are saved no faster
tban they gain knowledge, ana tu"l
tine Glory Of God lis intelligence. nc
or Inc hrst revelations given T" ~"
church includCu the lnluncVol tlNs
as ,,,sn,llors should seek wisdom ana
t,,o,,,isg,-o o,it of the best books. And
not am. we're ,he prophet and his iol-
lowers commanded 10 improve lneW
minds bv tine study Of books, but 'ney
were to seek unto the Lord ny Iallh'
to receive the mind and viii or heaven
cgncerning tha Church and themselves
as individuals.
ohio and Missouri On the early thirues
The church has spread and increased
urtu now there are 55 or 30 stakes IN
the Rocky mountains from CANADA 20
Mexico, and the adhcrents or the
Church organized with but SIX mem
hers. are numbered by hundreds OF
.hniisarlg. There are u stake acade-
mics. and tha great school system IS
crowned bv the Brigham Young unN
vorsitv 1t provo. the brigham young
college az LOGAN and the Lattcr-day
SAINTS university In salt Lake The
history 0f Normnnism. numerically'
Internationally g mporallv aud spiritual
ly shows &c 20 be- a work of progress
sion. ..
A LITTLE HISTORY.
Ed0 whitney briefly. sketchcd the
early colonization of Utah ana the
events LEADING thcreto. The picture or
the iher almost unknown west par
uculariv the rurtiou known as tho
Greet American desert. drawn ny DAM
icl Webster uuon tho floor of the
limited states senate I'm the early for
tics. was quoted. The start Of the Nor
mon eNiics upon the long Journey they
scsrcely knew whittier. was told and
tho government can FOR the Mormon
battalion Wn0 placed In It's true light
THO ptoueers under thoir leader Brig
h1m Young finally resumed their Jour
now and iu 3 ais, fRi7. halted ana pitch
rf their toms i1 tho very heart of the
drsolalion De- crihcd and dccrici by the
great Webster. as Inhabited only by
sayagos and wild beasts
wANT HONEST GoVERNMEN1,
In conclusion Elder Whitnew said:
'I want you o. understand that 'h"
Mormon people stand FOR progress, for
Improvement and that they are ready
20 ioin hands With their Gentle neigh
bors ir tho carrying ON OF AN legitimate
cntorprlses that WIN benefit ana bless
thtsi land. iu' they DO not believe
iu boukrupting themselves ana beg
garing their ncighbors by running fast.