The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-04


cordng to the flesh must have been as
sociated together In the capacity OF hus-
band and wife; hence the Virgin Mary
must have been for the time being. the
lawful wife OF God the Father.
LAS God the Father begat the feshy
body of Jesus; so He, before the world
began, begat His Spirit; as the body re-
CURED an earthly Mother so His Spirit
required a heavenly Mother. AS God
associated in the capacity of Husband
with the earthly Mother. so likewise lie
the heavenly one: earthly things being
In the likeness OF heavenly things, and
that which is temporal being in the like
ness OF that which Is eternal. Or in
other words. the laws OF generation upon
tho earth are after the order of the laws
OF generation In heaven."-Orson Pratt
in The Seer, p. 139.
The Goddess Wife of go, My Father
Eliza r. Snow, the Mormon high
priestess and poetess, gives voice to
these doctrines IN her famous "lnyoca-
ton; OF, the Eternal Father and
Mother :"
Most of lis have heard it in the Tab
erDacle; many, however, have not un-
derstood its teachings. We quote two
stanzas:
'In the Heavens are parents single?
No; the thought makes reason stare;
Truth Is reason. truth eternal
Tells me I've a Mother there.
when l leave this frail existence
When l lay this mortal by:
Father, Mother, may ] meet YOU
In your royal court on high.
-Latter-day Saints Hymnal.
obedience will the same bright garland
weave
AS It has done for your great Mother
Eve.
For all her daughters on the earth. who
will
All my requirements sacredly fulfil.
AND. what to Eve. though In her mortal
life
She'd been the first. or tenth, or nftieth
What did she care, when in her lowest
state.
Whether by fools considered small. or
Twas all the same with her-she proved
her worth;
She's now the Goddess and the Queen
OF Earth.
Eliza r. Shows Poems
''It men and women are the children
OF God sons and daughters OF heavenly
parents. fashioned In their image. en-
dowed with their attributes and destined
to become like them in perfection, why
there is a Mother as well as Father in
Heaven? 1t is reasona BILE philo-
sophical and. like all truth. inVsilnerable .
Address In Tabernacle, Summer of 1906.
Apostle Whitney.
''rbe Father of our spirits has only
been doing that which His progenitors did
before Him. Each succeeding generation
OF Gods follow the example of the pre-
ceGing one; each generation have their
wives, who raise up from the. fruit OF
their lolns immortal spirits; when their
families become numerous. they organize
new worlds for them, after the former
patterns set before them. They place
as the inhabitants Of previous worlds
have fallen. They arc redeemed after
the pattern by which more ancient worlds
have been redeemed The inhabitants of
each world have their own personal Fa-
theT. whose attributes they worship. and
In so doing all the worlds worship ths
same God, dwelling in all OF His full
ness in the personages who are the Fa-
theirs Of each. Seer. 135.
Savior Of the World Probably Married
IL 10 be His duty to fuhll all righteous
ness? Aud If the Saviour of
the world found il His duty 10 fulnll all
righteousness to obey q command OF far
less Importance than that OF multiplying
His race would He not find II
His duty 10 join with the race of the
faithful ones in replenshinG the earth?"-
Orson Hyde, Journal Of Discourses, vol,
ii, J.. 20.
He shall soc His seed If He has
And who shall declare His generation?
II he had no generatlon, who could de-
clare it%'-orson Hyde, Journal OF Dis
courses. vol. H. p. SO.
We say il was Jesus Christ who was
married (at Canal TO the Marys and
before lie was crucified "A postIe Or
son Hyde. Journal Of Diecourses vol. ~,
Next let us inquire whether there are
any intlmations in The Scriptures con-
cerninG the wives OF Jesus. One
thing Is certain: That there were several
NYfiH. o '<zr.. Ta=
such as Mary and Martha her sister.
and Mary Magdalene; and Jesus greatly
loved them and associated with them
much; and when He arose from the dead
instead Of FIRST showing Himself 10 His
chosen witnesses, the apostles He ap-
pearcd hlst 10 these women. OF I least
leDe. Now. it would be very natural for
a husband IN the resurrection to appear
nrst 10 his own dear wives and afterward
show himself 10 his other friends. II all
the acts Qf Jesus were written. we no
doubt should learn that these beloved
women were HIS wives. Indeed, the
Psalmist David prophesies In particular
concerning the wives OF the Son Of God
Kings daughters were among
thine honorable wives, upon thy right
hand did stand the Queen in a vesture
OF gold Of Ophir. Orson Pratt
III The Seer p. l59,
Joseph F. Expects to be God.
Concerning the doctrine Of man il is
declared; 1--WE hold that man is verify
the child of God, formed in His image,
endowed with divine attributes. We be-
heve in the pre-existence of man as n
spirit. and in a future state of iudivi-
dual existence, IN which every soul shall
find it's place, as determined by justice
and mercy, with opportunities of end
less progression III the varied conditions
of eternity This statement cannot
lie said TO fairly represent the preeepts
of the Mormon church at this point.
For in addition to the above. they be-
licve and teach in their own congre-
cations that: - AS man is, God once
was; as God is, man may be- that
man s disobedience of the first com:
mandmeDt given was commendable, and
was the source out Of which his chief