The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-22
ROBERTS NOW GUIDE
AND PHILOSOPHER
Elder Says Prophet Smith
Sustained by Educated Men
of Country.
HE QUOTES EXTENSIVELY
FROM COSMOPOLITAN PAPEI
Claims That the Prophet From
Vermont Leads Them All
in Thought.

Brigham II. Roberts was the guide ana
philosopher So far AS Mormonism viii per. !.
NIT OF philosophy. 10 the flock which cou.1D
grczatod in the tabernacle Sunday after. (,
noon. II would he son1cV hat difncuI
20 ind uue to MT Roberts sermon
Mr. Roberts began by saying. NJ
1t is my purpose today 10 proceed !,
as With piece ~ unfinished business r
Early In August OF this year / addrese{
a congregation from this stand and whef
my remarks were published those wias'
had In charge the publication cntitls{ I.
them The Message Of Morulonlsm.'" b
Whether or not this title suited Mr
Roberts EC did not explain: but pcrhaus y
a NOR" suitable title would he Man ID
the Incarnation OF Divine Spirit" 10
cause under this coCnomcn Nr. Robrrttt.
can claim everything. which he ccrtalnh
did. all 10 tho Gloribration Of Mormon'rp
ism and the prophet. Joseph Smith. NfI
Roberts held. and h" quoted from n scrio, 4
OF articles published i'm the Cosmopolltsi =
Magazine. beginning in July or this war n
that al the professors of the uuIvcr~ltio., :.
ot this cpuntry-al, the educated mlnds-;, Il,
had declared themselves. ipfcrcntialIy. a.
I'm accordance with the doctrines pro
claimed by Joseph Smith. They cam. :
trailing iu.' said Mr. Roberts. ''sevcnf,d
years after IN" truths had been an =
uouncCd by our prophet. IA
Claim Everything in Sight. ia
Tho articles quoted by AIr. Roberts wer.1'
written by Harold Balsom after n tvf r
years itinerary through the Unitet I
dom" said the speaker. ARE an sboru .
inatlOn unto the Lord has received CONT
iirmati0n from the utteranccs OF thca
professors quoted from tho artioie< ~
name. 1t IS useless FOR the world ~
deny tho great fundamental doctriueD
announced by The prophet Joseph SmIu !
/ H.saN
anc"s Of an uncducatcd. obscure and irl'
noraBt youth. since | believe ] win ba
able to show YOU that from the hid
seats OF tho Learned in the land thct
comes wonderful confirmation OF n :,
things our prophet taught
Mr.. Roberts then began NolumInou
quotations from the Cosmopolitan AIaEas
Zine, beginning With tie July numbe1
There editorial expression WAS given q
the fact that university professors anr,i
| philosophers viewed spiritual progress IL
of this theory Prof. James G. Moniesr !,
was quoted. The philosophers OF the Lad =
century claimed that man was conceiven'
| in sin and shapcn in iuiqulty but tn
| the son of God and tho eternal lnhcri;.r-
anCe was His Spirit According 10 til
educated OF today man Is eternal al
comes into this world just prcdlctfn
| by the prophet In tho beginning maGs
was with God, declared the Propr
| Smith. Ec had a spiritual existence prI q
| cipcs advocated by the thoughtCIl minfF n
today. according 10 Mr.. Roberts. wcl u
Identical 90 the principles revealed ln
| Joseph Smith. "TEe learned men" sal
! Mr.. Roberts. were, unconsciously. sd (.
| scrihiug 10 Mormonism and God vi !,
using this Indirect means To spread ~
gospel and was doing It better than vNN.
| the Mormon people IN their direct 60
orts." Is
Man Represents Infinite I4
! Professors see in man. said Mr. Roi,,l
/ erts. consciousness and power To swim
the world. and according to his inisrprz
! tation OF the quotations, the ncw psycho- !
| ogy Is that the spirit Of man Is the hieF +
| est conscious expression Of the intnir
| Many OF the professors in their quou y
| lions referred 10 Christian Science, Va
| Roberts did not explain this To his hc1er
ers, but the presumption is that tN v
referred TO religion or Christianity asE.
/ science, not as n religion. creed or d4 4.
ma Science has demonstrated" coI y
manifest in the flesh. Moro than sevtIn-N
! ty-fve years aEo the Prophet Joscita
| Smith predicted all this. Man is u
aide dc camp. the incarnation OF God +fs
| Not directly. said Mr.. Roberts. but 4, !
! implication the professors sustain u
doctrine OF Joseph Smith as TO the bel ar
! The speaker quoted from n sermon q, ,''a
| livered by The prophet IN lsii on ga
| Adam God proposition. and, continui1 ~
! said. III man is God ln"ernate the querr
| ton resolves itself into this: Is th<n,,
/ .....M
! Christ answers yes. and proclaiins Hif :, =
! self the resurrection and the life ~
the first fruits or the resurrections ~
! that II man Is the incarnation OF O. N
here more omphatlcally may he becor nj
so i'm his resurrected condition; he wou AZ,
still he Cod incarnGtc.'
Quotes an Old Friend. ri
Mr. Roberts then proceeded 10 qu4r i
| from the work OF Sir Oliver Lodge. 81 an
encc and Christianity which the e'4
claimed made "A reconciliation OF =,
two conditions. n tho word be ~ VI
missihla, Tic prophet had claimed, ~
MIR. Roberts. thai there was pluraI lhb
OF divine intelligence; that the holy VI lrs
Ity were not one and the same entIk
that the Father and the Son arc 81 -
rate and distinct alone. This the prov "
sors. Mr. Roberts says. Is their view ~ "
they claim that man Is the incarnaN 1
OF Cod hence there must be a muiut1,r,
oC divine intclliGcnccs Just as predicI ~
bv Prophet Smith. In conclusion n slo
Roberts said the question might DC IlY .
up 10 him that he meant In hts discouS 4
that tle principles taught ny Jos1 =.
Smith were today receiving the appfV ~
of the learned, and this. lie INSERTED. ~ ,
absolutely believed. and this fact ~ On
confirmation of his faith. |Eh