The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-14
||[R|OUS RELIGION
Of ANCIENT EGYPT
biscoyery of Rosetta Stone De-
1 yelops Truth Concerning
Civilization of Past.
kGTPTIANS CONCEIVED OF
4 GOD AS A UNITY
klieyed Also in Immortality of
4 Soul and Resurrection of
the Body.

the dsaereeab,e
sther Sunday morning. the First Cor.
+rstional CHURCH was filled almost 10
. limit of itS capacity by a congrega-
q that ls manifesting much Interest In
series of discourscs by Rev. f.. !. CO.
.u on the worlds great religions. The
..ourse Sunday. which was the second
4 he series, dealt with the religion of
s!ent Egypt
M Introducing this subject, Rev. Goshen
ICED that In studying the religions ~
: world IL had been CUSTOMARY. TO COM
"A them with the religions of TODAY
a the usual conclusion was that they
<eentific and unfair method He said
ID Il was his purpose not to prove
e ancient religions false. but 10 find
sm as they were. and to discover the
-3sn thread that runs through them all
Ming attention TO the fact that clvili-
Ton hourished In Egypt centuries be-
a the present systems OF religion were
.sded. he showed that since the dlscov
a Of the Rosetta stone more truth con-
-nIug this ancient civilization has come
, lrht than was known by the histori-
= of Greece and Rome.
M best minds In Egypt conceived of
g ss a unity. he said but the god of
. yneph. Pthah, Thoth. Ammon Ra and
-Eous others. The Egyptian had no
@gty In recognizing various forms.
= we call Idols, Yet he gave homage
Ne supreme God. From records of
"a, Rev. Goshen showed that some
4 He prayers were such as might he
q by the most devout monotheist of
"a Moreover, the Egyptian believed
. as immortality of the soul and the
rusction of the body. This belief was
|r1sd before the priesthood was born.
4 Ehen the priests influence was felt
|:rwhere in the daily national and re-
trss life, when the priesthood had ac-
3 ihen Egypt fell-just as every nation
Ia fall that gives It's thinking over 10
h phvileged class.
Nv prizes, taught one idea OF God for
\ riesthood and another for the COM
. people: yet the Egyptian religion
Es crude conception OF the supreme
Nd Of the unity Of mans complex ma
q II had real message concerning
liz Immortality, ''As we study this
ron. remembering the early age in
"a It lived acknowledging It's errors
\ cruditics, and recognizing its points
north and value. We learn this; That
|Etyy age God has been in this world
y" said he. The Egyptians looked
= al outside people as heather. They
X wall and IL fell. and out OF the
~ and decay Egypt speaks To you
4 % ME. urging us never TO seek 20
= wall around truth, but 10 seek
y lei II come from whence IL may.
rome truth--let il be called by what
<r nsme-for light and truth are uni
q. and their rays az last shall food
gorld.
those ancient people built costly rest
places for their dead. and as they
4 The bodies Of their loved ones there
4 cried out with men OF every age. |
d man die. shall he live again.? and !
|eeir cry there came no audible reply. |
|knesling beside the tomb they sought |
|ftrcs the darkness, and from monu-
q and records now yellow with age, |
|am that 10 many a soul there came |
u OF light-Gods light, the only light |
=. L.