Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-09
DEsERET EVENING NEWS MONDAY AUGUST q 1909

binary course of business This revi-'
val found Its way to the western part;
of the state of New York, where the
family of Joseph Smith lived, power
fully affecting them. II g also re-.
ferred to the after results of5strife and,
bitterness which followed the revival,
which We're noted by the boy Joseph
Smith, who In his extremity was I'M
pressed by reading James 1: 5. n any
one lack wisdom let him ask of God, y
etc. He went into a grove near by
and knelt In prayer when after being
almost overcome by q spirit Of dark
ness, he afterwards saw the Father
and Son, of whom he asked which OF
the churches was right and Which he
should Join. The answer he received.
that they We're all wrong and were
teaching for dictrine the command
8ments OF men, might seem harsh, but:
IF 1T We're not true there could be no
monism Or the PRONUNCIATION of its
message. THE people living today are
not wholly responsible for this cons
$dition, said the speaker. Many of the
errors taught today have been handed
down from other a ges. e are willing
to concede that many people in the
world are doing the best they can, and;
fled and not all professors Of religion
are corrupted. That some of the
teachers have gone astray there can be-
no doubt. If one only considers the
teaching of tho awful doctrine of eter-S
nal punishment. BY the statement
Of God as to the creeds OF the day
the rubbish of ages had been cleared 4
"a way God has done so in no unnlis-
taxable terms.
GROWTH OF, MODERNISM.
The speaker referred to the growth
of modernism In the Roman Catholic
church, which demands that the church
come away from the symbols and
.creeds of the middle ages. The church
is endeavoring to watch for and silence
the assertions Of those who say that it
needs rejuyenating After reading ex-
.cerpts regarding the condition of the
Catholic church, the speaker asked |
Why the rejuVenation of the Catholic |
church was demanded If it We're not |
wrong.
" He then adverted to the articles ap-
pear1ng IN the Cosmopolitan magazine |
from the pen of Mr.. Ralsey. on the
trend of University Education. 1t was |
asserted in them that the churches |
nave set up "a car as Gcd which has |
made man afraid and done uncalcul- |
able damage. 1t was stated also that |
the church was the last to come into
the line of truth in m directions |
and also that new re, elation was
needed and should come from the free |
and unfettered minds in the universi-
ties The church was said to have
murdered many victims not for |
crimes, but for reading the Scriptures;
and to have impeded the growth OF the
Woflo, SO sthat a. new revelation Is |
now being formed and is needed.
THE MESSAGE Of MoRMoN1sM.
Elder Roberts then proceeded to
show that Mormonisnl met this need |
with its message of truth direct from
God. God has again spoken and re-
newed official relationship with the |;
world. At the time when men had con-
cluded that revelation had ceased and
he canon Of Scripture was full, God |
designed to speak again and reveal /
the record of American Scriptures, the
Book of Mormon. God renewed rev
elation and gave a new dispensation /
thority to warn the world that the
hour of Gods Judgment is come. And |
is this reestablished |
church or it is nothing
GOD through his spirit perneates 4
all elements. He is in the sun and
moon and IS the power by which they
were created He8is also in man. The
elements are eternal The material un-
verse Is but the garment Of God. With
he Latter-day Saints God is not an !;
distraction. He is a person being re-
sealed in Jesus Christ, who. was in the
mage Of God. He said when He was
~ earth All power is given me in
heaven and on eartll.'' AS He stood
before men In the flesh He was God.
l'he message of NJ orrnonism proclaimsB
nan divine and God human, one and A
he same race The relationship Is
hat Of father to child. b
MANS IMMORTALITY. 4
The Immortality of man was then
ouched on and the speaker referred to
he pre-eSistence of man as we'll as the
lie after death--an existence that ex-
ends back Of this life and reaches for
yard beyond It. The soul cannot be
destroyed because it was not created
ut will grow and develop in truth eter-
ALLY. In conclusion the speaker ad-
ressed a few words to the G. A. r.
'eterans. "On the day when you, the +