The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-04-18

1t must be remembered too, that
Maine was the hotbed OF the opposi-
ton OF Senator Smoot.
In the town OF Utica, NJ Y. where
the elders were forbidden to hold
street meetings and great deal OF
antagonism was manifested, one Of
the leading papers recently came out
with an article very complimentary
to Brigham Young and the Mormons
as originators OF irrigation and devel-
opers OF the Great American Desert
The antagonism OF the pulpit is los
ing power and spirit OF fairness and
a desire to give credit where 1t Is due
is taking hold on the minds OF the
people. The Lord is opening the way
for the speedy contamination OF his
work, and that is the most important
thing. The success of the work Is
the desired end. The success OF the
restored gospel OF Jesus Christ is of
more Importance than the plaudits of
the people, though the one may be
one of the means toward the end. The
speedy deliverance OF the message OF
truth and righteousness Is the thing
to desire and whether this will be
enhanced by persecution or by peace,
we care not. We have accepted the OBJ
legations and 1t Is our desire to meet
them manfully
1t is a source OF pleasure to myself
that the Lord in His mercy has seen
fit to place me In possession of a
knowledge the gospel. That my mind
has been able to grasp the great truths
pertaining to 1t. ! have learned to
consider the gospel, in other words
the work Of the Lord, as the great
plan of the ages. | can see the conec-
ton of the creation, and life and
death with that great plan. My mind
is beginning to comprehend the utt~
foolishness of the quarrel betS sen
science and religion, a quarrel that
has caused much bitterness in the
world, This grand old world of ours
and the whole solar system, and the
laws which control the same and
which scientists are trying to inter
pref, are as much part Of the great
plan as Is the work we term the gospel
of Christ. The one contributes to onr
existence, and the other, by our ODE
dience, paves the way for nobler &C.
ton and higher attainments. The
world has accusedus OF materalism.
That our "materalistic views" tend
TO lead people away from spirituality.
They accuse us OF this because we
believe in glorified, personal SUI
preme being. Because, in other words
we believe that God, Heaven and the
glories thereof mean literally and
actually something more tangible
than fairy myth In my missionary
labors have been unable to find any
one that could explain a separation
of the material and the spiritual. A
believer in the word of God, as the
scriptures are termed, is certainly a
believer in the resurrection, and that
thtre will surely be union Of the
spiritual and the material. If the
spiritual power of Gods influence
was removed from this old material
globe of ours. 1t and we would soon
pass way. AS the spirit end the body
constitute the soul Of man so does the
spiritual and the material enter into
the life of the whole universe OF
which we are part. Neither is com
plete without the other
So my brsthers and sisters let us
go on worshipplng in what our enc
mics are pleased to term the materi
alistic way, for the bread of life Is
worth more than airy nothings anC