The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-17
DIVIDES EXISTENCE
INTO FIVE PHASES
George H. BrimhalI Delivers an
Interesting Theological
Discourse.
SPEAKS AT TABERNACLE
President of Brigham Young Univer-
sity Enters Into Very Deep
Subject.
SPEAKS AT TABERNACLE

DuDJtCbs
Declaring that any mistake he might
make in his address to the Tabernacle
audience would be unimportant in
comparison with the narm that would
result from a progressive error
which he might make before his class
| in theology in Brigham Young univer-
sity. President George NJ. Brimhan of
/ that institution opened his address up
on the five states of existence in the
Tabernacle yesterday afternoon.
4 could easily face the humiliation
which an error in my remarks 70 YOU
would cause me. You are adults. You
/ have the knowledge TO correct my en-
rors in your own minds without the
danger Of them becoming tiXqi and
progressive and following you through
out life. If 1 make an error IN the
conduct of my class, IL is taken for
/ the truth and becomes a part of the
mental equipment of the members OF
/ the class, leaving me without means
I of correction.
4 am aware Of the value of truth;
truth makes men free. Yet truth,
fixed firm in the bow of hate is a
poisoned arrow. 1t was Jesus him
self who said, 1 have much to tell
/ you, but you can bear il not
1t Is a wonderful opportunity TO be
allowed the privilege of going TO Gods
/ house TO worship on the Sabbath day
and partake of the sacrament Of the
Lord among fellow men. And it is a
! command as we'll as an opportunity.
Some men and women declare they
would rather lie at home. at their ease,
reading the magazines and newspa-
pers. Very we'll But the Lord says
go to the Lords house on the Sab
bath day.
States of Existence.
Il have thought that it may not be
out of place 10 talk this afternoon
about the five states Of existence.
First OF these is the pre-mortal
state. Some call it the unembodied
state, but as the spirit itself is body.
L prefer to call it the pre-mOrtal.
Second, the mortal when the spirit
is tenant of the earthly body
Third, the de-mortal, or that state
of existence when the spirit has taken
its flight from the body.
Fourth, the immortal, or state
when the spirit occupies a body so
constructed that there shall be bal
ance or equilibrium between repair
and destruction.
Fifth, the translated state, or state
when death has been suspended and
dissolution held back.
There are four sources of theo-
logical knowledge. The first of these
is tradition; the second, history; third.
revelation, and the last, necessary 10
them all, reason.
THE mother says TO the older chill
dren concerning her newborn babe.
This babe is a gift of Cod True. il
is the indirect gift of God.
From the Father.
What do we find in the history OF
the Mighty One? That no one ascends
TO the Father except he who comes
from the Father, and when he comes
TO the Almighty and says, Father, L
have Finished the Lords speaks 20
that prophet in words that should sat
isfy the most scientific and the most
skeptical. 1 knew thee before thou
vast born, and ordained thee
prophet unto the nation
when the prophet Joseph Smith
declared man cO-equal with God in
intellect, he placed upon man the re-
sponsibility. removing him from the
possibility of accusing God for making
him as he is, and blaming his weak
nesses to the Almighty.
Il am glad that L am what I am.
/ am glad that / am what my ances-
tors We're 1 am glad that my en-
lvironments are what they are. spirit
ually, morally and intellectually, but
finally 1 am what am because of my
choice. When I have chosen what 1
will be, have chosen what my de-
sires are. A man will choose for his
being in the direction OF his desires.
Hence, it starts with the choice OF
points of interest.
This choice is free as to causes but
not as to results of those causes. Man
may choose for his existence nobility,
but he cannot choose as TO the re-
suits. He may choose for himself de-
basement, but the results Of his de-
basement are not of his choosing.
For Illustration; I may choose to
make my bed upon a couch of ease
or in the mire, but / cannot choose as
to the results of such making.
'The fundamental purpose of our
coming here WAS TO get bodies. where
matter and spirit are connected in the
highest form of creation
There are three classes of intelli-
genee: unmeaning. ill-meaning and
gOOd-meaning. OF the first, we We're
so when We were children. A child
might set a house on fire. and yet we
may not define that child's motive as
lill-meaning. The result of the child's
act was unintentiOnaL
All Created Equal
|. I'VE hold this truth TO be self-evi-
dent: that all men are created equal.
We are all on equality in the unmean-
ing state OF intelligence. But there
are those of us who have kept that
estate and have made honorable prog
ress, and there are those of US who
barely got through. Il is the grander
TO show honest progress than il would
TO be able to say TO our fellow man,
I was always better than you
Psychologists say that the worship