Show alvie its pasi as compared with ahe present i of the ve are waiting anxiously waiting not merely waiting but standing on the grand old threshold bf tho grand old mystery of time ti onward urging restless untiring thing moving like a torrent like a stupendous avalanche on which not only man but the whole animate organism of the globe yes of the imponderable universe hangs as by a subtle an intangible thread which no english can explain oh this universe this tangible universe ah who can explain it all we know of it all we have ever read of it or thought of it resolves it in our minds into one great compound of forces from chico we cannot absolve ourselves but which we meet everywhere glaringly staring at us defying Us to alter a single law of its existence to change one principle of the forces of its mysterious and mate centre indeed are we not ourselves a mysterious force in the midst of this great centre of forces this budding growing expanding universe always a mystery always a problem which no mathematics however profound not even the calculus of differences itself can explain not a rotting leaf in the orchard not a weed on the highway but by the processes of its own rottenness indicates force the very processes of separation into the ultimate atoms if such can be reached of which primordial existence itself is composed argue a force which to finite minds is itself a mystery as profound as that which fain would account for the existence of a single atom of matter itself yes of matter itself for no man has yet been found capable of giving a reason for the ex of a single atom of matter we all know that it exists but the why and wherefore will never be explained by mortals the atheistic thinker granting such a one possible can never grapple by intellectual ability alone ie ability outside of divine inspiration with the problem of life and force if indeed there can be a separation of these terms my researches teach me that philosophers know no moro now about these two latter than those of three thousand years ago knew they have never yet demonstrated whether life is the cause of organization or organization the cause of life the illimitable force found in the rolling tide in the whirlwind and the earthquake grand and ever resting as immensity are as much s now as they were to the grecian philosopher flow wrape therefore in ignorance are all the wo eveaj blade of grass every ray of light every flower and vegetable form opens to our minds and eyes divine beauties which no raphael canja aint nor no photography as ours when shake speare byron and ched their radiance every great man every thinker feels that heis made greater by his reverence for a power higher than himself I 1 pity a manao lost to inborn divinity as to allow himself to detract in ahe least from the self sacrifice the devotion the divinity of jesus what nobler what diviner spirit could exist life itself was freely offered that all might secure eternal life joseph smith at the age of 25 years taught the world more than all the philosophers thata ever lived be taught that the universe represents god in this one sense viz that under the presidency of god the bather and god the son ho holy spirit is the all pervading i orce of the universe Popo Bays all are but parts of one stupendous whole whose body nature is and god the soul Tru ewhen applied to the holy spirit ahe doctrine and covenants speaking of that spirit and not of tho per of the rather and son of it would be impossible to be rue says he is in all things and round about all things and is the ower by which all things are governed its operations then govern and sustain the principles of growth and decay of life and motion jo ph smith the expounder of this truth was not its author but simply its revelator however derogatory to the fact the opinions of sectarians sect arians may be what the world calls mormonism is the essence of truth revealed truth eternal dmd unchangeable it is the only plan by chich can advance to glory and exaltation such is the plan of the eternal God adapted to ohe lowest as well as the most enlarged capacities true religion should bo abo one great what is there outside of it else than this can make a man happy ivonn adversity cornea upon hiat fhe teachings of jebus which have proved to bo the one great light have enlightened the darl mess of this world skepticism flees before it all doubts as to the existence of an unseen world vanishes forever it has proved to be the daystar day star of hope to the despondent the balm of gilead to the sorrowing joyful as the dawn of day to ane distressed it not only embodies all that ia necessary to mans future happiness but teaches his experience as a spiritual being long before the organization of the earth itself hear how miss landon has caught the conception of this beautiful idea in the following verse we must have known some former state more glorious than our present and the heart ja haunted with dim memories shad aws left by past magnificence and hence we pine with vain enthusiastic hopes that billj the eyes for their own vanity again how beautifully has young in his night thoughts illustrated the fact of mans immortality thus can it bo and shall spirits die shall mana loae for whom all else revives v no resurrection know shall man alone imperial man be sown in barren ground less privileged than the grain on which he feeds CDE |