Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-27

the blood by the Mormon Holy spirit
at Is almost blasphemy to speak tlils
name thus). which Is fluid Ike eieo-
tricity or magnetism, which they
breathe instead of air The 'chiet
glory of these gods Is to nave as
many children as possible born TO them
In the next world, these are spirit chill
dren, without bodies, and in order 10
finally become gods themselves, llke
their parents, they must come TO earth
and enter into little baby bodies
which is the way We all came here,
this being our second estate and IN
the next world become gods and god
desses. ana I'm turn may so to some
unoccupied corner of space and take
OF the exhaustless stores OF eternal
matter and make II over into new
world as Adam god made this world tot
which he Is now the Eod), coming theh
TO dwell upon II with Eve, one OF MS
poiygamous wives TO begin It's physl-
cal population, In order that the my
riads OF little spirits yet waiting might
be provided with bodies and go on pro-
crossing towards divinities.'
IL has been the fate of truth itself
10 be- burlesauod in Il similar manner
The Apostle Peter speaks OF certain
"persons who pervert the writings OF
Paul and the rest of the Scriptures
unto their own destruction" So 1t Is
not strange II the Gospel in our day IS
similarly perverted.
II is well known that the FIRST Chris
tlans were represented as believing the
grossest absurdities- Indeed, when
the Apostles preached general saliva
ton through the death of a supposed
malefactor, they knew that their doc
trines were offensive TO the Jews and
foolishness TO the Greeks. But they
knew also that they were wisdom
or philosophy in the best and highest
sense of that term. Those who under
stand the Gospel as given to the world
in this age, are very much in the same
position as the first Christians were.
Their faith is grossly mlsrepresented,
and yet it contains the truest phil
osophy ever offered to man. 1t solves
the great mystery of the origin and
mission on earth of man. And this
truth. Misrepresentation cannot oh
scure,
sdpG ltiilANlil lNpi tsstllAN ROu cts lAlN
Eternal Father of the human family.
1t holds, with the Apostle John that
In the course of eternal progress Eve
shall be like Him; for we shall see Him
as He is" The Saints believe In the
God OF the Scriptures as revealed to
Abraham and Moses, and the Prophets.
and as manifested in the Son of God
They have no other belief than that
which Is in harmony with the Scrip
lures. Mr., Nutting knows this, for he
has been told so repeatedly. But he
finds II convenient to conceal that fact
and to attack his conception of Nor
monism" as "Mormonism." But the two
are entirely different
1t should not be necessary to remind
a Bible student of the fact that the
Gospel can be appreciated and under
stood only by those whose hearts have
been prepared for the great truths it
reveals. Only those who have been
rendered willing to do the work of the
Father can know the truth of the
teachings of the Master We must grow
up to higher level than that occupied
by the world before we can understand
the things that must be understood
spiritually. We can follow truth only
to the level OF our own development.
BEYOND that it becomes obscure to us.
We cannot appreciate tho music that
Is beyond our own level of musical de-
veiopment, A symphony OF Beethoven
may be unmeaning noise to our ears,
until our souls are trained up to that
level. There is no poesy I'm the beau
tiful landscape to the soul that knows
no higher pursuits than business. 1t is
only to the mathematician that math-
ematloal problem has any fascination.
And so II Is In order to understand
truths the faculties of man must b,a de-
veloped to the level OF truth. But this
development is dependent upon honest
seeking after truth. That is the rea-
son why those who study system only
to find point of attack, generally find
what they are looking for. and no more
while those who seek because they
hunger and thirst for knowledge find
satisfaction and means of spiritual
growth.