Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-15

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| when He declared that all power in
| heaven and In earth had been given
| unto Him, and He was in the act Of
| sending His disciples into all the world
| TO teach and bapti2e III the authority of
the Father, Son, ana Holy Spirit--was
| u resurrected, immortal man of spirit,
\ Hcsll and bone, And since. l say the
Scripture teaches that the Son was the
| express image of the Fathers person,
| we conclude that the Father must be u
| parsonage of spirit, flesh and bone, Just
| as the Son. Jesus, is. Indeed your
| Athanasian creed. says that such as
| the Father is, such Is the Som" and of
course, 1t follows that, such as the Son
IS, such is the Father: that is, the
| Rather is parsonage of spirit, flesh
and bone, united in one person, very
God and very man." just as Jesus is
AND there are two separate personages
each distinct from the other in person
Two individuals, but both of the same
dlVlhe nature; and if two sesparntc
personages, individuals, may participate
In the one divine nature it logically
Follows that larger member than two
or three may participate in that ma
ture. And hence the Scriptures repre-
sent IN many places the existence of
| plurality OF divine personagcs how
many we do not know and 1t does not
matter. But we hear of God saying
Let US make man in our image" "the
| man has bescome as one of us. KNOWN.
good and evil" God standeth in tho
congregation of the Mighty. He judgeth
among the Gods. \ pavn
| said Ye are Gods. and an Of va, 49,,
children Of the most High" The lsst
a passage Of the Psalms quoted and de-
Tended by the Savior as Justification
of his own claim to sonship with God.
BAD ARITHMETIC.
OF your nonsense of one being three.
and three being but one, we win say
nothing. except to remark that Won
must reform your arithmetic If YOU ex-
pect sensible people TO pay attention To-
your doctrines.
one other item in which we offend
these reverend gentlemen is that we
believe Jesus had a Father as we'll ass
mother. Now gentlemen, honestlv' is
II any worse for Him to have had n
rather than ii is for Him to have had
q mother? You concede that He had
a mother; that His body grew as yours
nd in the womb of His mother; that
He came forth of the womb nv birth
pains that He sucked at the breast of
woman; that through the months and
years of infant weakness He was
watched and guided by the hand of a
loving mother. Tell me, Is it true
mat IN your philosophy of things ii is
all right for Jesus to have a mother
think of Him as having father? Is
not fatherhood as sacred and holy as
mothsrhood? Listen, people. there is
something else Having objected To
our idea of Jesus having u father, these
peculiarly pious gentlemen turn nov
and object to our faith because we be-
lieVe that we have for our spirits n
heavenly mother as well as "A heaveu-
iy father, They quote, in part that
splendid hymn of ours on heavenly
motherhood the great throbblng hun
ger of woman's soul and which was
given To this world through the in
spired mind of Eliza r. Snow; the
hymn is known to us as 20 My
Father"
SPIRITUAL PARENTS.
In the Scripture we read: I'VE have
mad fathers of the flesh and we did give
them reverence. shall we not much
rather be subject to the Father of spir-
Its and live?" So that We know we
have had a father TO our spirits; bue
because we hold that the spirits of men
nave also mother in heaven. as we'll
as Il father. behold these reviewers
complain against us. Now, observe
the peculiar position of these critics.
IT is all right for Jesus TO have a moth
er; but it is all wrong for Hin TO have
a father. On the other hand, il is all
right for mems spirits to have Fa-
thtI ~ lt6Ntllt pul OUT reviewers OBJ
Ject to our doctrine of their having a
mother there. | sometimes wonder
what in the world Is the matter with
you. gentlemen. | am puzzled to clas-
sity your views, or the kind of beings
with which you people heaven. ono
OF your OWN number, however has
thrown some light upon that subject.
and has so classified yOu--saving me
the trouble-as to enable us to under
stand to some extent your peculiar
views ! have book here that | am
going 10 use in this controversy II is
a new one. got 1t three days ago.
ana nave read IL nearly through in or
der 10 be prepared for tlis occasion.
IL is the work of Rev. II. j. Campbell
of city Temple, London. and Il is a
treatise on the New Theology" lust
now much talked OF in Europe. He
Describes ministers OF the gospel anu
gives them the classification referred
TO moment since, and which l think
must needs be all right. since it comes
from a minister. lie takes the aver
age business man of England, naming
him John Smith" for convenience,
and he says this about John:
John Smith, with whom We used to
go to school. and who has since de-
veloped into stolld British man OF
business with few ideas and "A tend
ehoy towards CONGRATULATIONS is a
stalwart honest, commonplace KIND OF
P''''hi VI NHpul Dflllhnt things were
never prophesied and who has never
heeh guilty of any. His wife and
children go TO church on sundays
John seldom goes himself, because n
bores him, but he likes to know that
religion Is being attended to. and he
does not want 10 hear that his clergy.
man Is attempting any daring nia6is
ne mas eood-natured contempf fur
elerRymon IN general, because he feels
somehow That. like women, they have
10 De treated with hulf-nctitious revcr-
'hee, nut that they do not count for
nluch ~ the ordinary affairs of life,
they are sort OF third sex
NOW ladies', ] ask you to rcmem-
Der IN passing, that I am reading the
words OF somebody else: they arc NOS
ne words. The phrase half GctItlnus
reverence Is NOT mine. | think you
ohsht 10 nave real reverence. no ncll-
tlous reverence at an.
SORT OF THIRD SEN"
The ministers are here in this pasasp
Q'HtiIped as "a sort " third sex" ana
! am inclined 10 think that IL rlgn
tof When man In one case object
70 person having a father, and IN ill-
ruer case considers II altogether uu
n"ly ioi persons 10 have mother
90 moi know how else to CLASSIFY him
nul as a sort OK third sex" kind pf
There seems to be objection In the
review to the idea OF the marriage
Iriht,W9 existing Ia heaven and
: upslsllng between divine being
L"uq complaint Is made, n you
,lull mat tie intolligences OF
M h. 10.