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

n nan came up IRON the lower orlSin
of the animal creation. We are reject
o ing unnaturalism and supernatural
q ism But we will take the middle
!. ground and believe that he was ;
II good, wise teacher, the wisest ant
C the best that the world has evei
u known, and by his ethical or mora
g teachings We will live" lone ask us
I to do that, but what is the ground
/ that they want us to stand upon. Why
! do they ask us to throw away the mi.
I racles of Christ and manifestations
: of divine power? Why, they say moth.
ing of that kind is happening now and
therefore it could never nappen.
When was a missionary for the first
time. things happened to me that
never have happened since. Can YOU
make me believe they never did hap
pen? No, not while the world stands
They do not need to happen now. Cir
cumstances have changed. They ale
happening to others, have no doubt,
just as they happened to me. They
would happen to me again in like
conditions But shall | deny that they
ever happened to me simply because
| they are not matter of every day &C.
currence? Because | never saw the
Father and the Son shall reject
what Joseph Smith declared that he
saw? In my simplicity when boy |
once thought that 1t would be big
favor to look upon the face of God
as Joseph Smith did. | thought that
our Father in Heaven would be show.
ing partially II he did not appear TO
me, just as he appeared to Joseph
but | learned to put away those chill.
dish things in relation to that matter.
have learned that there is a spirit
that distributes the gifts of God as
he Wills, and to one of us give the
gift of healing; to another, the gift of
prophecy; to another, the gift of see.
ing Visions; to another, the gift of
speaking in tongues; but these gifts
come from God to us as God wills.
While / believe that the Lord could
speak to me and has spoken to me
and has shown me the truth and has
given me testimony that this is his
work, he does not give it to me in
the same way that he gave It to Jo-
seph Smith. neither do | expect him
to do so. II took the eyes of seer
to see what Joseph Smith saw. lie
had to be specially prepared for that
mission. In one of the books which
read the author says that Ralph Wal
do Emerson was a seer. Why, he
knew better. ] was not deceived by
that statement. 1t simply showed me
that the learned writer has lost the
meaning of the word seer A man is
not seer because he thinks big
thought; because he conceives gu.
blime image. A man Is a seer when
he sees. What is Joseph Smiths ties.
timony? He says, II saw two glorious
beings in the form of a man and they |
spoke to me-" That is the greatest |
part of that revelation, of the first |
vision to Joseph Smith and not in the
answer to his questions, (which of all |
the churches shall ioin?" and he was /
told to join none of them. But what
he saw was greater than what he
heard, for what he saw was restored
after ages of absence, the lost know.
ledge of the true and the living God.
The world was worshipping a god
that had no semblance whatever to
the God of the bible, because Moses
said that God created man in his own
image, and to Phillip, "he that hath
seen me hath seen the father" the
God of Paul who declared that The
Son of God was the express image
and likeness of his fathers person."
The world was worshipping God
without body, parts or passions, a
essence of spirit prevailing
in all space, yet at any time diet
that anybody could comprehend.
When you enquired about 1t they said, :
i Is incomprehensible-a mystery
Joseph Smith shattered il in the
very first vision that he beheld. lie
saw two beings in the form of man.
That was the restoration of the lost
of God, and he took man
ike unto Moses to bring it back. We
10 not half appreciate Joseph Smith;
We do not begin to know what 1t
means to be a prophet, seer, and a
'evelator. He saw these things. Jo-
ieph says they may cast out my
name as evil; they may take my life,
out know that | had seen a vision;
and knew that God knew il, and
could not deny It," He never did deny
L and he died rather than deny that
ne saw the Father and the Son. had