The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-10-12

this truth. 1T is really that God is
one as to nature while three as to eX-
preston. The Hebrew word for God
is a plural one and thus at the very
opening of the Bible We have a gleam
of this great truth. This Is intensified
when we read that this God says. let
us make man In our image. Again we
read. The Lord thy God is one God"
Why then was this truth set forth.
The reason is that the trinity Is the
result of going deeper and deeper in
to tho nature of God First 10 appeal
10 a primitive people He was revealed
as the God of Power. the Creator
Then when the people had advanced
He revealed His truth and love as Tho
Christ is given to the world Lastly
when grace and strength is needed the
Spirit, or as the Christ called him. the
Strengthened, is revealed Notice
however, that from the very first We
have separate teaching concerning
each of these three. but not In full
ness. So IL is that the trinity is the
great God striving to reach and Win
the hearts and lives of men That
such is the case is also shown by the
results for pure unitarianism soon
either becomes cold and unpoTchul
or else It runs into pantheism The
trintarian religion is the only ono for
which men will suffer and die.
Furthermore the study of religion
reveals the fact that the belief In
trinity as to the Godhead lies at the
foundation of human life for we find
that all the motive and primitive re-
liGions arc trinitarian- The emperor
OF China once a year offers sacrifice
10 the spirit of Unity and Trinity,
and the great Chinese religious lead.
er, Lootse, was a pure trinitaran.
India has been called the home OF re
lision, but the earliest leaders there
were and still are trinitarian. Their
sacred writings plainly say there are
three deities but only one Godhead.
the Great Soul, The Chaldean. the
Babylonian, the Phoenician. the Egyp.
tian, the Grecion, the Thibetian, the
Tatarian, the Kettle Germanic and
Slavic mythology were all trinitaren.
Even the primitive American Indian
worShipped the sun under three I'm
ages which they called Father. Son
and Brother Sun. Their great dol
was called Tangallanga which means
''one in three" The three gods who
emlnated from the great spirit they
called "Trinimaaka." or trinity. We
were reading this week volume on
the native religions of Mexico and
Peru" and the basic thought was
trinitarian one. Now do you not sec
that the one who says that those who
contend against the trinity idea OF
God as unity and trinity have large
task in explaining why. II the trinity l3
false and unreasonable, If 1t is found
to be the natural way In which all
peoples thought of God There is
something about 1t which naturally ap-
pealS to the human idea OF religion
and which alone satisfies the religious
instinct. The religion of Nohammed
Is the only great unitarian one and
that is not primitive one and II
has had to depend upon force TO make
its converts.
or all the great religious truths none
give more strength. faith and blessips
TO the one who will study them than
this oft-decried teaching OF the one
God triune. All that Is richest AMI
best In our faith centers in IL. The
usual process of doubt is to com
mence with doubling this teaohins
and when belief In II is gone all that
is noblest and most vital in the re-
ligious nature has been given VI.
Therefore for Christian to scoff al
Its teaching is Ike one deriding aud
sconlng at his own parent,