The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-17

home stands in the best thought of the
race.
THE individual man needs only to Gull
tivate absolute trust as the fixed atti-
tUde of the mind and perfect love as the
unvarying practice of the life to arrive
at perfection.
no man can selfishly seek and find
this Kingdom of God. but if any man
truly drink OF this fountain he shall
never thirst. All lesser things shall be
added unto him. What men cali mir
aeies shall be his normal experience
He shall generate and enjoy and radiate
health of body mind and soul. Every
friend whom the great heart in him crav-
eth shall lock him in his embrace. He
shall be a direct transformer through
whom power shall flow for the worlds
new birth.
a. Let man cast himself on his d.
vinest impulses and there abide. and he
shall see the whole world come round to
New Statement of Religion.
This is a new statement of religion
which appears to me TO make all skepti-
cism absurd
81 do not make this assertion con-
troversially, but constructively. and
hold out my hands to all my brothers
heather and Christian. Jew and Gentle.
Catholic and Protestant. and to the I'M
named multitude of the greater church
of no formal form of faith. and l sa-
each of us inevitable, each OF us here
as divinely as any is here, each of US
allowed his or her share of the full pur
ports of the earth that we may walk
in amity and mutual good will, as trust
ful and loving children OF the one spirit,
on our way to realize our divine origin
and our divine destiny
At the Tabernacle.
President John r. Winder presided at
in fba Tel
was the only speaker. 1t is seldom that
one not of the Mormon faith is invited
TO speak in the Tabernacle and Mr.. Mills
expressed his full appreciation Of this
distinguished mark of courtesy. Mr.. Mills
began by saying that the human race
has arrived at one of the springtimes
of its existence, after passing through
winter, the period when nature rests.
Now all that has been passed through is
approaching the fruition.
THE time has arrived" said Mr. Mills.
when we must adopt the religion of
trust faith and love. We must enthrone
the mind above the body and the soul
above the mind This is the new spir-
tual era which we are entering.
THE progress of mankind has been
such that one great scientist said that
the worlds great discoveries are twenty
in number and that thirteen of these
came in the nineteenth century. Man
Knows more about the universe than he
ever did; races are associated and all
languages are known. But the best of
all this knowledge is the knowledge that
he will know more. They used to take
nature by the throat and say: These are
the facts. and expected nature to con-
form to them. II was only seventy-fivc
years ago when men began to apply sci
entific methods. and the result has been
the establishment of definite laws. The
world is still a wondrous world. but 1t
is no longer a wonder world. Chief among
the knowledge that has been gained is
the fact that God is reliable
Progress Measured by Time.
Speaking of the progress of the world,
Mr.. Mills said that a famous scientific
man had said that if the worlds knowl-
edge and advancement were measured by
time. 1t would be shown that in twelve
hours IL would appear that all the worlds
knowledge up to a few hundred years
ago had been gained after five minutes
to p and that the worlds knowledge or
the last century had been gained at three
seconds of l.. The speaker said he did
not disparage the old civilization, its art
or it's achievement. but there we're at
work great agencies in the way of in
ventions which had overturned many of
the old beliefs. He declared that man
kind must move fast If il would keep
pace with God. Mr.. Mills declared that
the world must be guided by mans judg-
ment; that divine inspiration is not like
~ to come TO a preacher in the pulpit
if it does not come TO him in the study.
Will Lift the Veil.
Mr. Mills deprecated the narrowness,
meanness and strife, and foresaw the
time when these will be swept away,
when all will he moving forward NOR
ally
Mr.. Mills would that the moving for
ward be done together and not as rival
religions.
"if YOU can go a block with another,
go that far; if two blocks go that far
go far as you can. and the unity will
soon be complete. What IS needed is
the unity of spirit rather than the unity
of opinion"
The speaker predicted that the veil
that now hides the unseen world will
soon be lifted. The time has arrived for
man to burst through this curtain as the
application of electricity burst through
the curtain not so many years ago.
Mr.. Mills paid a tribute to the Nor
mons by declaring that the liquor traffic
and other vices did not exist until the
Gentle came. I am an optimist. said
Mr.. Mills. optimist of today, of to-
morrow.
He declared that the existence of graft
and political corruption were eddies IN
the great stream of human progress.
One of the most interesting features of
Mr. Mills present work is his series of
lectures on the Bhagavad Gita, which
are to be given afternoons at o'clock
at Unity hall. second East street. In
number of cities Mr.. Mills has given this
series at s O'Clock in the morning, with
the result that business men, lawyers
and bankers have left other business to
attend Nh Mills calls the Bhagavad
Gita the Hindu Sermon on the Mount !
He has made long study of Oriental
philosophy and his teaching has created
great enthusiasm in other places. Mr. |
Mills course of lectures on The Modern
World and the Sermon on the Mount
which begins this evening at Barratt
hall is one of his most popular series |
The lectures will all be free. The sub |
iect tonight is "Can the Twentieth Cen |
tury Man Practice the Sermon on the |
MOunt?'
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