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hlEueE ever as IL IS appfuhtneuf anu
hence. progress IS eternal even fOI
the highest OF cxistences.
one other thought ln connection with
all these matters. 7 read 20 you few
moments ago a passage 10 the effect
that to an these kingdoms OF the In
finite universe is given "a law. and unto
every law there are certain bounds also
and conditions" Later I'm the same
revelation this is added: Verify ] say
unto you. he tGod) hath given law
unto all things by which they move In
their times and In their seasons. And
their courses are fixed. even the courses
Of the heavens and the earth. which
comprehend the earth and an the plan
cts. and they give light 90 each other
iu their times and iu their season. IN
their mIuuets. iu their hours. I'm their
days, in their weeks. IN their months.
iu their years: an these are one year
with God, but not with man.
In passing ~ may he Interesting 20
note respecting the idea expressed
above VIZ. that "to every law there are
certain bounds also and conditions
that remarkable statement was made
by a learned man Of our own country
touching this same principle. Ihe
passage quoted from Joseph Smith
bears the date Of December. 1892. Six
ty-thrce years afterwards Henry
Drummond. speaking upon this princi-
pie % law being limited by law-or law
itself being under the dominion Of law
said:
zone Of the most striking generaliza-
tons Of recent science a. that even Jaws
have their law"
That is to say. even unto laws
there are certain bounds and condi-
lions that limit them Let me illus
tratc Co. if I can. Tho old-tme mariner
say Of q hundred years ago. knew
nothing OF natures forces applied 70
navigation CNcout tho tides, the ocean
currents. and the winds He believed
these were an tn propelling forces
that entered into ocean navigation. n
he were alive today. and could see one
OF our great ocean greyhounds, the
modern passenger ocean steamship
dashing through the waves dead
against both ocean currents and the
wind. and vet making greater speed
than he could ever attain In his sail
ing vessel with both wind and the tide
in HIS favor ne would declare that he
beheld "a miracle. But that would not
be true. We Of today. with our knowl-
edge OF other forces than those Of wind
and ocean currents operating In ocean
navigation. look upon the steamships
speed as perfectly natural. The natural
forces with which the mariner Of
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simply overcome by other forces In ma
ture: not IN violation Of any natural
law. but through the application OF
forces unknown to the sailor Of hun
drpd years ago. So. doubtless we shall
find 40 true IN relation 70 nearly all
laws or forces that exist We shall
find still other laws, still other forces,
that limit or superccie, when applied,
the forces now known 90 us.
But what a.1uted 90 do Is merely 20
call your '' zion 90 the fact that
Mormonisu % mes this very great
doctrine. Wiz hat the whole universe
unlimited and uubouuded as II II,
and having within II and now operat-
ing processes both OF evolution and
devolution-as Il is written In the Book
Of Noses pearl Of Great Price,; BE
hold there are many worlds that have
passed away BY the word Of my power.
And there are many that now stand,
and innumerable are they 20 man.
And as one earth shall pass away and
the heavens thereof, even so shall
another come; and there Is no end 70
nv works"-notwithstand all this IS
going on in the universe, the opera
ton OF both creative and destructive
forces. vet we are assured by the word
OF God as we'll as by the deductions OF
scientists and philosophers that all the
mighty changes going on In the uni
verse. as well as the universe itself
are under the dominion Of law; and In
the consciousness OF the reign OF law
our faith teaches US 10 repOse sublime
and nerfect confidence IN the fact that
cod IS in his heaven:
"Au Is well with the world
such 1 conceive TO be the effect Of
this conception that We live under the
reign OF law: and that constructive
forces predominant IN the economy Of
things. else things that are would
not be nor persist
SOURCE OF MORAL EVIL.
Now We come TO an element in our
faith, extremely interesting and that
is the transgression Of law. which the
Apostle John declares 10 be sin; FOR
SIM" said he. rs the transgression OF
the law" This transgression OF law
is a fact that has 20 be taken into ac-
count IN the sum Of things. The ex-
istence Of moral evil IN the world Is
one OF the problems that has vexed
Christian theologians from the earliest
of times until now rhey have had
treme difficulty IN reconciling their
conception OF God as an absolute being.
Infinitely wise, all-powerfuL all-good,
and that he created everything out Of
nothing. and vet not assign TO him the
creation of evil II an things have
been produced by an infinitely right
cous. perfect. all-powerful. and good
Creator. how can moral evil exist I'm
his economy That IS a question 10
which no satisfactory explanation has
yet been found. Mormonism teaches
that God does not create moral evil;
but that moral evil arises out Of the
agency Of intelligences, and that so
long az there are iutelligences. possess
ed OF Gree agency II means that they
can violate law, II they insist upon
doing f. To conceive this as impos-
siblo would be 90 deny the free agency
OF utaligeuces.
J know there is one passage that, per-
haps. might be quoted against my
evil II occurs in the writings OF
Isaiah il is said-and II is the only
place in Scripture where Il Is said
so FAR as / have been able 20 learn
81 TGOdl make peace" and "T create"
what? The opposite OF peace, such
as war. famine, and the like. But 20
what end does God cause war or
famiue' For corrective purposes only
TO chastize men, 10 bring them to
realization OF wrong-doing, or national
transgression. For these ends God has.
sometimes, brought to pass these con-
ditions that We call evil But that
class OF evils Is quite a distinct thing
from moral evil. While God may bring
on n famine. storm. tempest. or war
for corrective purposes, yet God Is not
the creator OF falsehood; he is not the
creator of SANDER; nor Of drunkenness;
nor OF ayarice, nor malice, nor OF rob
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