The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-15
Young Apostle Smith Talks to
Congregation at the
Tabernacle.
GEORGE @. MORRIS GIVEN
HIS FIRST TRY-0UT
Elder Speaks About the Various
Conceptions Held of the
Deity.

A large congregation listened TO two
strictly doctrinai sermons delivered by
Apostle Joseph F Smith, Jr, and Elder
George q, Morris at tho tabernacle Sun
day afternoon. The young mon strayod
not one whit from tho beaten path of
''the true and everlasting gospel as eX-
emplifed by Mormonism." Apostle Smith
was strong In his emphasis that many
people today are leaving the narrow path
and following after the philosophy OF
men minds who arc trying to do away
with the scriptures and whose philoSo-
phies are not true. Elder Morris con-
held conception of the dicty very much
similar TO that which obtained in the
middle ages. whereas Mormo1s @ believed .,,l
In the true God, the personal God, the
God OF parts and passions,
Smith Comes First.
Apostle Smith. the younscs of the
twelve, WAS the first sermonist He
predicated his remarks on a quotation
from Jude in relation TO salvation, and
proceeded to say that he did not believe
whom he spoke should be filed with
contention or that they should go out
among the people contending for that
which they considered to be the gospel
Ing them to seek for that faith which
was once delivered to the saints and
which Is spoken of by the Apostle Paul
in the NI Chapter OF Hebrew, IT was
just as necessary today as ever, Apostle
Smith held. that they seek for the faith
which was once delivered to the saints.
that simple faith which when it is pos
sessed by man that man can do mighty
works on the name OF the Lord. The
world today has largely forgotten that
simplicity OF faith and obedience TO the
Lord and in lieu thereof have taken upon
themselves doctrines and commandments
OF men who are teaching largely Il vain
philosophy and have departed from the
SGsPe OF the ord as reyeaed Thongn
themselves faith and doctrines, ard
are fdOowng after that which is not
truc-a philosopher Of mems minds trying
to do away with scriptures.
No knowledge or Study,
Men should be as little children. the
strength and think that through their
searching wisdom they can find God.
Men by following their own knowledge
and study will never find God unless they
mix with II a little faith. hope and a be-
lief in God. The apostle then proceeded
to talk about mans preparation here fer
holding that it was neces-
sary for Adam TO fall that man might be,
Mormon Belief in Deity
Elder Elder George Q Morris. the he,,.9 next x,
deity. He held the belief that men
throughout all the world at all times
believed that they were subject 10 some
superior being and at all times they had
worshiped something whether it was
river. a mountain or an image. Recently
n celebrated writer OH theology described
deity f'as omnipresent energy that
extends throughout the universe; that
deity is the principle OF life that goes
into all things In the earth and sustains
all things. Isn't that about the same
thing as the doctrine of the middle ages
where the personality of God was re-
jected?" the speaker asked ''Who can
love and worship such deity? Who can
obey such deity? I tell you the great
est and noblest conception Of the human
heart is God that Is In the form OF
man, but possesses all the infinite powers
and attributes Of deity In conclusion
the speaker contended that there is no
difference between the man who wor-
ships the sun and the deity of the in
OF today.