The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-08

e to be saved-and he is the most IL
e portant man of this generation.
n Read the writings Of Ralph Wald
d Emerson; they are beautiful Many
il noble truth he proclaims in then
+ But in reading his philosophy you wi
e search in vain for any pointed instru
2 ton, any direct message telling yo
n what to do in order to harmonic
yours Elf with God. Take the poe
; Tennyson. or even Shakespeare, an
| what can they tell you of the worl
, to come? What can they tell you O
the life that went before this life
What can they tell you of the pur
pose for which man was placed herr
upon the earth? They can philoso
phize on It; they can guess it is fol
this purpose and for that purpose
they can espresso the hope that all
will be well ultimately. Joseph Smith
could tell you just what you want TO
| know. But some men cannot receive
message so blunt and so direct, God
believe, sends poets and philoso.
piers into the world to teach men the
measure of truth which they are
willing To receive. and when IL Is tue
truth. all is well But when any so
called science: any so-called philoso.
ply. seeks to undermine aud tear
down the eternal truth, belittle the
temple of truth. beware OF such and
turn away from them. II they cannot
teach you, they will bewilder and mys
tify you. They are only creators,
"will-o .the-wisps" leading you into
the marshes of despair and destruo.
ton. But when you find any philos-
ophy or any science which harmon
ICES with the revelations of God you
can use that as a lever, as means
of moving the hearts of men, in
spreading the truth, in filling the
souls of men, who would not receive
a principle, which is q direct and
blunt message. Only little handful
of people, 1t appears, were capable
out of many millions of receiving the
fullness of the gospel. They recogniz.
ed the voice of the Good Shepherd. II
Is we'll known fact that there we're
men and women in groups, in congre-
waiting in various parts of
the world when Joseph Smith came
forth and proclaimed the restoration
of the everlasting gospel These men
and women were waiting for il; they
had been prepared for it with great
visions and by impressions that the
truth was coming back again. You
could not make Methodists of them,
nor baptists, nor presbyterians, nor
nor even infidels of them.
They thought that something greater
was coming, and 1t came, and 1t found
them prepared to receive 1t, and they
received 1t gladly, When HeberC Kim
ball, Orson Hyde and Willard Rich
ards went to England In 1887, whole
followed them and were
swept into the fold, because God had
prepared the way for these men by
the impression of his Holy Ghost. They
received the message that God had
raised up a prophet. 1t was not too
blunt nor to direct for them: il was
just what they We're waiting for. 1t
was the voice of the Good Shepherd.
It was something they had known be.
fore. Did you ever know a sheep to rec
less 1t had heard it before? To state
the question is to answer it, Those |
people knew all about faith, repent |
lnce, baptism and the Holy Ghost |
Merely to transfer them from immor- |
ial to mortal beings and give them a
body of clay, even that could not en-
.irely dim their recollection of the |
eternal past. They received, as Cor
illus received, in advance, it would
ieem, the Holy Spirit, with Christ's
promise that it will bring things past
o remembrance, and show us things
o come, and they We're prepared be-
ore hand, and when the voice of the
hepherd sounded in their ears, per.
laps through some boy standing ur.
N a barrel on the street corner, per.
APPS through some poor man in home
pun or buckskin in the thorough.
ares of Liverpool, or at Glasgow, IN
oors or out of doors, by The roadside
4 in the populous streets, that Jcs.
phi Smith was Prophet of God and
hat the everlasting gospel had been
ostored. Some of those men and vo-
non halted to listel, though the great
attitude swept by Decdlessly Some
= them listened, and they caid, that
cy is telling the truth" and 1t
nc ught tears to their eyes, and they
him as an old Zine friend;
hey recognized the old time truth.