The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-21
MORMON Church
AND EDUCATION
Apostle o. F. Whitney Delivers
Sermon in Which He Links
Faith With Learning.
DISCOURSE TO TEACHERS
Cites the Fact That Schools Were Els
tablshed by Joseph Smith and
His Policy Continued.

Dealing with the relation between
Mormonism and education, Apostle Or
son F. Whitney delivered a learned ad-
dress at the Tabernacle yesterday aft
erhoon before the educators of the
west, who have been holding their an
nuai convention in Salt Lake during
the latter part OF the past week.
Linking faith inseparably with learn
ing the speakers words were indica-
tive or profound cOgnizance with his
subject and that in his study OF the
theme. the relation of the two has
been no minor object of his considera-
Following is a review of Apostle
Whitney's address:
The presence OF an important edu-
catlonal body Is perhaps in itself suf-
theme for an occasion of this kind, but
over and above this circumstance, il
has been suggested that il would be ap-
Ffopriate TO present before this assO-
citation some ideas of education from
the standpoint OF the Latter-day Saint.
Friend of Education.
III is popular supposition that
MormOnism has little to do with any
lhlng that is enrolling or refined, and
II Is generally believed that between
TINS belief and education strained rela-
tiOns exist. A reverend gentleman of
the east at one time expressed himself
mat he could not approve Of Mormon
ism because il was unphilOsOphical.
osophic, others unpOetic and still 9th
ers unmusical. and, in short the antfp-
odes of what this article of faith sets
forth; that is. anything that is virtu-
Gus, wise, pure or ennobling we seek
after that thing.
Il maintain that MOrmonism from
the beginning has been the stauneh and
steadfast friend of education and is
and everything else that is refined, no
bic and sublime.
Joseph Smith. the founder of the
Mormon church, was a friend of edu-
cauOn- He wrote a signed manual of
education when he declared that the
glory Of God is intelligence; that man
gets his knowledge from this life that
will rise with him in the resurrection.
He advised men 10 seek wisdom from
the best books and to seek intelligence
by faith; TO make themselves learned.
but IN TWO ways. He declared that
man has all the literature in the world
before him 10 draw from, not merely
the Bible and the Book OF Mormon: not
merely religious works, bur classics in
prose, in poetry, science, philosophy
and music, and all that is good in liter
AZURE and learning, the wisdom of the
gospel, the knowledge of eternal things.
the knowledge which comes from on
high, and this was the nature of the
eXhOrtatiOn laid upon him by the Al
mighty-tO seek wisdom by the best
of books and TO seek intelligence by
faith.
schools Founded.
Joseph Smith had a passion for
learning and was always studying
when he had time from persecution
and was seeking wisdom both by study
and by faith.
He founded the school at Kirkland.
o., and many OF the early teachers OF
the church went forth from Kirkland ali
the better equipped to teach the gos-
pei 10 the people of the earth. He also
caused to be founded a school at indie
pendence. Mo. in Jackson county, of
that state. And in Illinois, when our
people went there il was 10 project an
and this school would have
been built but for the untimely death
of the founder of the church
During the exodus, when our peO-
pie were camping on the edge of the
wilderness, when they were living in
dugouts and huts along the edge of
the Missouri river, the school was
among them When the MOrmOns set
tied in Utah, two schools were imme-
diately established. and the teachers
taught in tents and in wagons, with
sawed-Off boards for seats.
Three years after the settlement in
Utah, the University of Deseret, now
the University OF Utah. was chartered
educational history OF Utah would com
pare favorably with that of any other
state in the Union.
Following these, there was the
Brigham Young university al Provo,
the Brigham Young college at Logan,
and then came the l. ID. ). university
in Salt Lake, and from time TO time
some eighteen universities between the
Mexican and Canadian borders exist
among the Latter-day Saints This
church school system is a Mormon sys-