Show A TIMELY RECOGNITION PLEASING I feature of Christmas celebration by the A Saints in ill the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and ami Five is the erection unveiling and dedication dedi dedication cation caHon of the monument to Joseph Smith the Seer of tine the Nineteenth century at his birthplace in Sharon Windsor County Vermont lie He was born there on December 23 d 1805 At this centenary of his advent Win into the world it is a fitting time to commemorate that event and Rive give g e honor to toan toan an It illustrious SJ man U whose mission has been hut hit little under underStood J 1 Stood but whose name as was predicted pr at the beginning of his active career is known throughout the thc world for good or evil He made malc his hii mark upon the history of his time tittle Un Under Under Under der divine divite inspiration i he founded rind and built up tip the Church of Jesus Christ Christof of Latter day d y Saints faints after the fiat which sl Christ himself set ct up while in iii ii the flesh I It is conceded c r to be the mast complete tc and powerful po r 1 organ r an in ih tile the tl e world Starting n with six members m on t i th h day lay of April 1830 it has grown into a vigorous rigorous bOl l hundreds of thousands the members of which arc are scattered t in all the 1 1 y civilised C nations while its central location r on the western slope of the tile Rocky Hocky Mountains finds a il dwell dwelling dwelling dwelling ing place for devotees who form the thc majority of the population population population tion of a n sovereign State of tho tics American Union The prin principles he lie advocated arc are both rational and scriptural They account for the origin of things spiritual and atul natural They explain Deity and Gods t relation elation to humanity They answer the souls inquiry Whence am all I what am mu I whither am I going The They reveal the reality of They settle theological disputes that have hare been beets carried on through cen centuries centuries They disclose the doctrine of Gods personality manifested man manifested in Christ His divine Son in the power and light of the thc Holy Ghost by which He is omnipresent They expound j i the truths concerning the fall of man the plan of 1 tion and the future of the human race in the various condi conditions and degrees in the many man mansions of the Eternal Father the justice and mercy of the Almighty His purposes i in ill relation to His Ilis I children who inhabit the worlds He Hc has formed for fr their dwelling d places throughout r the extended universe and open up tip to the understanding of mortals life j and light and immortality everlasting During his short ca career career reer on earth he lIe translated the records containing the ancient history of the American continent built cities and temples brought forth knowledge knowle ge wisdom and philosophic truths to toa toa a greater extent than titan any other man esteemed as a prophet a sage sae or a revelator rev lator He scaled sealed his testimony with his Ills Mood Ills His II is name will bo be enrolled upon the list of the mar martyrs martyrs martyrs It is venerated now by oy people of all lIl nationalities and tongues He lie is also decried despised and rejected by hy nu numerous millions who do not understand his bis works or his words It will take time as well as labor and the spread of intelligence to make him known as he lie was and anI is and will hill ill be His Ills followers have hare no doubt of the ultimate result The erection of a monument i not to his 1115 memory full fill particulars of which will wilt be given m in our next Saturdays edition is a fitting tribute from the people who esteem him as a man of God raised a up p to usher in 11 the greatest I of all divine dispensations preparatory to the thc second advent of the tile great Redeemer the Christ the rightful King over over all the earth Honored and blest be his ever great name I |