| Show Silver After Luff SALT LAKE On April 12 SO Editors Herald Palm xix 7 The law of the Lord i perfect converting tho soul According toreportGrand MatarLufl of the order of Josephite on last Tuesday eveniug the 6th iDs preached a sermon from the above text and it would appear i report eayeth truly tint instead of his reasoning to that text or in accord therewith he reasoned from or away from it a fault which is very common com-mon with ministers of bis class Why this should be is perhaps not my prerogative pre-rogative to say yet to my finite mind it seems complete folly for anyone any-one to take a text at all unless he confines himself strictly to that text better say a half dozen words to the point than a hundred irrelevant I suppose however i ia a fact that a certain class of minds whose natural bent ia to talk much do so and nc > should wonder nt such persons in uld they take for their tfxt Sehh Nun Jesus wept or the like wandering into celestial marriage and doctrines quite foreign to the subject posedoctrinee that they know no more about tbac a 2 yearold child knows about the use of a carpenters plane But tc the subject What law of the Lord God did David the sweet singer ol Israel refer to Was it the law ol baptism for fbe living or dead The pelestial marriage lw or law of the ten commandments Or what was hi Judging from the pretext the sensi be or reasoning mind would conclude that ha the Ptalmist specially referred to the law which governs our planetary system Is it Lot obvious bat David had given his mind more or less to the study of the science of astronomy Whether he understood that science as well as astronomers of our day do we are unable to say Isis Is-is pretty certain however that he understood enough of it to enable lira to instruct others upon the subject sub-ject and his own soul himself being cc averted to the belief in 1 God and which conversion might possibly have been brought about by the assiduous etudy of the heavenly bodies When reasoning with in fidele as doubtless there were such in iis day aa well as now he could point hem to the wonders of the heavens as evidence of the existence of a power divine On one particular occasion said he When I consider the heavens sun moon and stars which thou hast made etc David knew well that such marvelous and glorious manifestations came not by chance and rightly thought that no well balanced mind could possibly give such a subject serious thought and exclaim there is no God No the law of the Lord God is perfect converting the soul etc How many skeptics there have been and are still being converted to a i belief in a God through a careful study of the heavens etc cannot perhaps easily be computed If we were to say legion we should come very near being correct I therefore Grand Mater Luff on that particular night had lectured his hearers wisely and truthfully which ho would have done had he possessed the same astronomical spirit or influence possessed by Israels sweet singer when he said Tha I law of the Lord God is perfect converting con-verting the soul be would have done ore gcoi at least perhaps converted infidels i any were present pres-ent to a belief in Israels God Excuse me Brother Lull if you please for my seeming dictation 1 am one of your special friends though you may not think so J SILVER |
