Show fo for r the news H R G S L city jan 14 1853 prest P P pratt sir can a man attain to a cele bial exaltation simply by an obedience to a written law an answer to the above question proposed solely for br information at your earliest convenience through cli the columns of the news or any other I 1 man manner eryou you shall see fit will be thankfully received by your friend and brother in search of truth L E harrington C C gr S L acty jan 14 1853 yes I 1 love god with all thy heart is a written law fulfil fulfill it and thou attain to celestial I 1 exaltation your brother and friend P P PRATT mr L E harrington query are we to understand the above ques tion and answer in their broad literal signification or in some narrow spi meanings if spiritually what is that spiritual meaning and what would I 1 that spiritual meaning be when translated into the I 1 literal meaning of that spirituality if literally what shall we do with the second section of this whitten wi itten law to wit and thy neighbor as thyself Is not the last part of this written law as good as the first and is not he that offen deth in one point guilty f all or are we to understand that if a man loves god with all his heart he fie will be so filled with disinterested benevolence that he will have no love for himself and consequently has no love for his neighbor 1 because the law does not require him to love his beig neighbor abor only as lie be loves himself Is love lova alone the fulfilling of the law or is it the principle which stimulates the lover to keep all f the commandments so that thereby he may attain to celestial exaltation if love is the fulfilling of the law why are there so many borka and ordinances laid down in the law as necessary for man to practice to attain to celestial exaltation if that portion of the written law above quoted is sufficient for man to attain to celestial oel estial exaltation 1 what is ia the use of modern apostles prophets pastors te teachers aAers revelations gitts and ordinances living oracles and works without which faith would be dead we have asked these questions feeling that the a above b ove answer needed a little explanation to the casual reader if not to the in search of truth and we have no doubt that when the explanation I 1 is made we shall see eye to eye and brother I 1 pratt is ennit entitled led to as much space in our columns as I 1 we haye d in q if he to explain |