Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-07
Elder Mathonihah Thomas DeIiv-
ers Powerful Discourse
At Tabernacle.
MAN MAY ACHIEVE GLORY.
Speaker Says Latter-day Saints Be-
licve God Is Man Exalted by
Adhering to the Plan.

Elder Mathoniahah Thomas was the
speaker at the special tourist service
at the tabernacle Sunday. Elder Bon
jamin Goddard presided at the service
and the opening prayer was offered by
Elder c. S. Martin. Elder Thomas said
in part:
We have the same church as was es-
tablished in the days of Christ. That
man may not be lost. a plan OF sal
vation was given by Christ We be-
lieve in the evolution of our own souls;
that we lived in a prior sphere. We
believe this earth will be celestialized
for mans good. The speaker read from
the eighth Psalm relating to man and
what man was made for and of his
supremacy over all the fishes of tho
sea and animals of the earth.
We believe every man upon the earth
comes from God, and we are here to
work out our own salvation. Christ
say II Will save all men who Will be
saved" We believe man should have
his free agency, and should not be
coerced. Christ himself, to show he
was obedient to the law Of God. went
into the waters and was baptized The
speaker likened the plan of Christ to
that of a great free government in
which every man has the privilege of
attaining the very highest place OF
honor In that nation.
We believe In Cod we believe In his
son Jesus Christ, we believe in the
Holy Ghost. We believe directly in the
power of God to reveal himself to man.
We believe God is perfect man: the
director of the universe that he has
acquired this great station by obeying
the great plan. We believe all of us
can obtain some part of this Cody
power. II man may. II man ever has,
then man can again be given powers
the Same light, the same power which
may lift him to greater heights.
You must admit God has revealed
himself In times past-has revealed his
mind. in revelations to man. If he has
visited man he may again visit man.
But to receive God, you must adopt
the same commandments, the same
plans as were In force in past ages
You cannot change the laws of nature
neither can you change the laws of
God. which are the laws of nature
We are of one great family-God is
our Father. and 1t is the happy lot OF
the Latter-day Saints to be the in
terpreters to man of his great eternal
plan. We believe he VIII again reveal
himself to man. 1t may be argued that
this world has advanced and we don't
need his revelations now. We believe
he has aided In the establishment of
this great country. We cannot. when
we look at the growth of this nation
exclude God from II. You cannot say
Washington. Franklin. Lincoln md
others were not aided by God In their
great works. He was undoubtedly
working through these men as his In
struments in founding this nation
II is because God has lived that man
has grown. Shall we deny him his
loving power? II he has revealed HIM
self in the past he can again. God has
established himself forever. he has
opened the heavens in these last days
and revealed himself to man and for
that purpose has ordained this Church.
that in the next world we may go on
and on in the endless eternities.
Professor John j. Mcclellan gave the
congregation a rare treat on the his
torlc organ. The program was an ex-
ceptional one. and the gifted organist
was at his best The first selection
was Evening Star" and Pilgrims
Chorus" from Tannhauser Next came
Lemare's "Andantino." This was fol-
lowed by Prof McClellan's own mr.
rangement OF that old melody, 'Wo
Need Thee Every Hour" The fourth
and last number was the famous
Largo" by Handel.