The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-08
The PHILOSOPHY
OF MORMONISM
A Timely Discourse Delivered
by Apostle Orson F. Whitney
AT the Cache Stake Quarter
ly Conference, Sunday, Feb
ruary 18th, 1912, at 2 p. M.
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theorize, and to dogmatize. and TO /,
vent, or to create doctrines, as the
nave created deities, and ask men {
bow down and worship them. and [
accept them as divine truth. ReIigio
has never suffered from the triumph
OF science. but dogmatism has: falls
doctrines have suffered: the maj
made creeds have suffered, but re
ligion-eternal truth eternal know
ledge, remain as it always was, ant
that is the rock upon which the III
ders of Israel must always plant theil
Feet. The Book of Mormon tells u.
in the teachings of the Prophet Alma
Alma teaches that God sends unto
every nation, or raises up in every
nation men of their own type to teach
them that measures of truth that il
is His will they should receive. Alma
breaks forth in a rhapsody iamen.
tation, you might say--saying, i
would that ! had the tongue of an
angel, that might declare to all men
the truth that God has delivered unto
me. that so satisfies my soul" Bat
he says, Il am only n man; | am not
an angel" And this is the wish, the
thought of a mans heart, the wish 20
make all men see what he saw, and
give to them the same testimony that
he has concerning the fulness of eter.
nal truth. But he says, that is the
wish OF a man, for God has shown
me that He raises up unto every ma
ton good and wise teachers to deliy!
er unto them that message OF truth
that they are prepared to receive. |
thought while President Smith was
speaking this morning of an utterance
by that great philosopher whom II
have already named Emerson The
President was showing us the path |
that we must walk in, we, who have
been enlightened by the fullness of the |
Gospel He was building the platform |
Tor us to stand upon to teach the |
principles of eternal truth He was
not condemning science nor philoso |
ply, nor anything that Is true aud |
wise, and beautiful. He was simply |
warnig us against the forms and the |
nists and the vagares of men, false |
~ called science, falsely called philos.
ophy and he warned us against those
things and showed us the rock upon
which We are expected to stand, and
thought of an utterance of that
great American PHILOSOPHER, Ralph
waldo Emerson-s some think him "A
cold teacher, and he Is. He is as cold
rs an iceberg, but an iceberg is a great
Dig thing. ] am told that an iceberg
loaling on the surface of the ocean,
houeh IL be as high as mountain
tboye the level of the waters, ogn
shows small part of itself under
'eath the waves, far greater mass
u that iceberg is to be found than the
'aIt that Is merely above. An iceberg
an be a great big thing. And his
nan Emerson was a great big man,
nd a great thinker, in spite of his
oldness. Emerson said, what ! must
10 Is what most concerns me: not
What men think" | consider that
reat saying. And have found In the
writings of Emerson, in the writings
u Carlyle and of Burns, and of Ten.
tyson and of Shakespeare, and OF
reat writer's and teachers, something
hat confirms the truth, as received
originally. But mind you, | do not
% wondering after these things be.
ause ! have any doubt of the truth
hat | already have, but | love 10 find
n the teachings of great men and
'reat women the truth that agrees
With the truth taught by the Prophet
oseph Smith, because II gives me
power to approach men In the out.
ide world who reverence that poet,
II that philosopher. or that scientist.
md who would not receive a blunt,
lirect message from me, testifying
hat Joseph Smith Is a Prophet OF
iod. But II | can point out to them, in
he writings of the men they revere,
he men they respect and whom they
nave learned to love and to follow. II
can point them to the fact that their
'wn poets, their own philosophers are
eaching Mormonism, teaching what
Joseph Smith taught, think | have
ust that much more leverage and ad-
vantage and can have a better chance
Of securing their attention, at least,
while preach to them the gospel
For many years have taken a
delight in reading the best of books,
for the Lord tells this people through
Joseph Smith 20 become learned, to
seek learning out OF the best of
books, seek learning by study and
also by faith. In every good book