| Show I T THE f MORMON POI POINT T Of Prof Proc Neson Nelson Author of Preaching And Public SpeakIng as a Publisher I TO START NEW HEW MAGAZINES Opening Chapter of the First Artcle And h the New is Needed Proto Prof N L Nelson head of the to cle of English In the Brigham Young Youn and author ot of PreachIng and Speaking Is im about to start a nw new quarterly maga magazine zine the tite title of which Is to bo The Thc Mormon Point or of View The Tho first Isue Issue Is to appear It I Jan I 1 In the tha following article le which Is to be the openIng chapter of the issue the pro professor fessor sets forth why In his judgment this magazine Is needed needed Js Ills Ideas are couched 11 In ti th ol WiY WilY THIS MAGAZINE lB IS NEEDED upward from trum my study win windo do dew toward the east I see soe a cent range of mountains rugged and PrecIpitous tous In their lower love reaches covered midway wit with 0 a sombre belt of III limes s lastly capped In time the dazzling whiteness of eternal snows Ort On the south I 1 lok look out upon 0 a splendid val valIe al alIcy Ie Icy lately t A desert echoing to the metallic screech ch of the cricket nw now variegated with garden mend meadow ow field and orchard and broken hero heru and there thereby thereby an by a succession of ruml tow towns lS The connection between what I see re pec front the tho two windows of my the snowdrifts on on the tha mountain tops and the smIling valey alley out too obvious to need pointing But In n a more spiritual sense let Us 1 this miracle of over again Let Jt those dUlling bank of congealed health und and beautiful by heMens own blue but wIthal cold and ami distant stand for tor tIme the religious ideals of man mankind kind Next l t the tho aley alley a al b be conceived as barren and lot Its and throbbing evidences ot of otle life Its marvelous of for form le color sound antI and moton motion be counted for what they world of Mam Mammon mon In which we ve live and breathe and have our being overlook al all te theeb thin and st still see ree vast lt stretches retches ot among mankInd Then rhin the th of oC this m magazIne la Is to to help molt those thoo mercy lony idealizations of theology and cause e theta them to flow to the thirsty nley of spirItual hell dil dig up the canals and laterals to the regions of the tho human heart help direct the emancIpated streams of God Gods truth up upon upon on the ho social 11 moral and spirItual le te eerie In 1 a world given u up to greed and Religion must mullet b be socialized I it has to too long ben been cultIvated for the tho sake of 1 a hypothetical of the tho imagination and nd hereafter of our dreal dreams There here Is no heaven oth other r than thant t te e hero and n nc no hel hell more dread rut tul than that which overtake overtakes the sin sinner nor ner every he could bu but t ralza realize to the deadening effect the or of his evi evil deeds That there thero will be n a future heaven both n as to mental tate state and also allo 4 as to time nd and place In which time tho hero here and now shall have advanced In IneffablY In can doubt that observes observeR the trend ot of human life That ther there wi will also be a tu future both I as to and mental of oC the daly daily of dill die cord carll In perhaps h by a 11 all also past quel ques question ton tion to In te of life after tenth who vho notes the pro downward tendency ot of the un Unrepentant repentant These future epochs to tn the tho soul may ho he fill pint to 0 hear In mind however IR this that future being IrO the tho outcome DC br present states do not Ilter differ from their sore ors In kIn kind but only In deB and consequently that any here and t Is heaven or hel hell to us tie nt at a given time In el the Iame same sense that Aen the tho future wl wilt be when It In turn becomes our hero here and now I Furthermore ns as we ne shall be able to realize toso those future states only as tIme thus thua brings us Into them It follows that the only heaven man need strive for tor the only hell ho need ned tear Is the h heaven aven Or the hel hell or of daily living I It Is the failure to 10 keep this demon elemen tar tail tact In mind that hn has Ild led to most of the shams and reo re Illon Men walk through this life Wih their eyes cued gued upon n a lo I In th tIme mb the only par nOise MIe th time universe hM has to offer them the paradise nf at the natural which h Is the world nr und them their Imaginations being wih with a rr mystic to beatific iston In time and space they tail to nM find and nd commune nn wih with God and Christ d daily IT t from m the thet 0 t rIsing to the setting of oC the sun Bun dream InG ing I as they do or of II a heaven beyond the bounds ot time Ind and space they be como td their In Inthe the social world world orld and L brY deed he Ile en ji n Is I LI yet t tilted to to knol I it Is tha that mon men mene e blinded to the tho majesty ahO glory It t GOds Goda creations bele neither enjoying the bliss to be felt 11 ill this heaven heMen nor helping tb 1 in increase crease creo that blas blIss for themselves In tle tle only OIly WRY way It an aim be trying to Increase the tho bliss of the here ad and now for tor others Lt Let the mind travel for I a moment over oer te tho that have been contrive contrived through the ages to blind blindman ma man to his only heaven the here zd row and ond make him shirk his duth duties In It First the that bliss II is hn ha I located In 11 a still stillmore more somewhere second that t to attain It wait mAn cnn can do nothing for tor hImself tho blessed Savior must do i It all thIrd the consequent degeneration of th the vIrile worshIp of doing Into it 11 maudlin worship ot of merely singing and fourth the mechanical con can conception that salvation Instead ot of being al an Is to living growing state tato of the soul l is an external or tato ot of thO the soul that can be affected by the pry pray ore erR Ind and of other men b by the tho absolution of priests or b by the per I funning Conning ot of the buIlding or of and tImings of like nature sixth the consequent variety ot of pitiful subterfuges designed to bribe Peter and cheat tul ful of their barefaced traits the tho result of St It all being that the tho Naly really vital relations affecting the tho destiny of relations which minister ministers of the gospel gopel cal call secular at i left 1 in the tho language ot of these lame same caled called Ind and chosen I to the de devI vI vii that is IR to say In the hands or of ormen men and women who have not got reo re Saints Saint realizing al amo they thoy do that salvation Is n a progressive corn com Ing Into harmony with law that heaven the expression llon of that hoe har Inon Is IH I a stAte of the soul which In inevitably causes gravitation towards I a place that both state and place arm alO alOI I ow and ever eer wi will be on this earth realizing I repeat thele fundamental truths truthe their religion finds no place tor fot the pious plou artificialities aOe above enumerate enumerated ate Tat That Is to Iny say In theory In practise the they are far from being them Although It I is preached every Sunday ner that the tho gospel involves the su toW ot of mans activities secular or other one principle of truth being holer than they go on looking toward a hypothetical f heaven to t the shameful neglect ot of tM the here and nw now al all the time knowing but not realizing that the heaven to come can ho he entered only by him who hl hs seen seem and felt Celt and lived the heaven that Is here I What la is the matter flintIer They are stilt In Babylon They are stilt tl struggling with the tide ot of h heredity redl Their are above water r Is to say ny they seo seethe tle bother but J th h bodies are swept OI t by the almost current of tradition I nd Or to ret return to my first figure gure their ideals like r snow banks 10 lie In the blue heavens of theory When confronted by lome some desperate condition ot loel socIety t they wi will al say My and sa say truly wi will never be settled I tt II h settled to tho Coap l I n Emit t when a asked ked to point out the definite remedy for tor I it In the GOfel GoSpel leOnle they return a vague ague nn answer They y lee see the snow on I the mountain top toji they know knoy Its hu hut how to make It reach tim tho social oci 11 spot they are arequito ne Quio quito content to lao levo solely to tIme tho Lord the while they go on living a respectable 1 1 that Is to sa say the 1 narrow life which custom them nd convention have saddled upon Iet ole me not b be to too le severe re however Saints done dorto something toti toWard cutting loso loose from so much indeed that the doing elite ot of their la is made nado the tho doing occasion r on PAge tv I TH Lt POINT OF VIEW VI t Continued tram from page pue 1 lit at present of ministerial alarm In colonising tor In instance they have carried out the tho policy polley of small farms with over every family In polio poe session or n A hom tn n domestic life they tome coma to regard adultery as 01 n a crime second ohly to and mAde the tho or chAstity for tor loth Oti axes 80 too the they believe In the tho right ot of every nil as well 1111 n ut ot h Cry worthy fIRn to honorAble but are b by choice ot of the tho lesser lesaer of two from longer acting out the ideal Some Home till itS 11 lid the tho bren tried nit found practically beyond atO not till far enough troll flon All AS yet Other Ideals are loom Ink up before heal its 1111 tho dawn of pro giess brIghtens bAto day but alter nil all III said It l is extremely difficult for them to tle inertia which hoId them In the tho ruts of oC next to Impossible to leonn lensen complete Iy the dOUgh of their Practice tice drags WOe tully behind theory Naturally would It were trues than It isi whenever the tU unity of PrecePts II A choice Db as asIn In politics every nels acte In II a away way to con conserve promote his own ideals Ideal rather than the Ideals ot of hi hio his o Nor is III there the slightest oc there thoro him to l n from ecclesIastIc nl ci superiors o expect ot him to 10 atit Its III to him ot 01 horse souSe lenk lies lIel tho tie only coloring 0 truth II I the charge or of union n and state All 48 the tho Mormons lt lIll lIllOn On O Involves the tho of oC his hili n as and activities It follows hut and nil the functions ot of gOY goV to 0 It must to the tho name standard of f is any other truth or duty Ih bite how ow Mormons do otherwIse shah not together It la is this all inclusive notion ot of rl re that Slat ot of the should attack instead of stooping to a fAlse asil ct to sonic somo detail In iii Intha the tha expressIon ot of It Why cant you be liko the tho rest rost of Us T iroe Cleveland was waa nn an to comS doWn to tile the Worlds dead deall loci hovel ot of conventionality I acceptIng such Buch Id lp pC liCe o us sane for tor 1 a s st t of cal oils oU th thU oUt ot of Is III r tOt for 1 a hypothetical futUre Mr haVe havo I rom Ieti hed Peace as 1 IL reward for such 1 a ft also alao the 8 good ot of nil all anti tIlt It yo ye were VerI ot of the world the lie World love its He own hut Dut may the tho dar da neVer V 11 I MormOns Mormon shall value thAt love higher their Ideals leuIs fur tUf t o Love Iove of at the world Is death No lio cannot l tI with Any h on n nOt r with Lilly other Sst system ll at t variance with Il its tot tor dOl dois not bring Into the world till the peace or of 1 a pu SUrrender It brings the of oC Gods own truth Let the the And the lie coward take tallo warning therefore and ami amid d n to tho ho other ide There I b lit III ilie Church Chuichi ot of JSU Christ d of for tor tile hu or the Otis aliI 11 i agaInst error and In Injustice inJustice justice r and howsoever Nor cnn can wrong escapa us by being social ed cd edUcational I C 1111 1 e or for lor truth ree rec no artIficial Ministers 01 o may lOllY a to their work tp what luCy call cat short hort ot of the thes s social ot at the tho world A Arid lilt this brins spit to my poInt I A that bitt We need to change or o Ill rush II r eni ire t lie 10 range of our lUr m 11 It has ha to toJI JI per th truth tie pur purely l Scrip Vs 11 n a rell t I wo we ha have Vo sue BUC c ct dil ji 1 jU Jue that class ot of P OpI hOnest gui lobes spir It was wall to have as lit sOn OMS S for tOr title now at t society But there hero therea a are o others no lees l d ded ed eu In tho meth methods otiS of at doubting Thom ns ui ll of art att melh mechanics nl 8 oM business Who SlUe oH ell Ct authority as I nothing even though R It be to whom no scheme Chemo ot of lI sOcial cl l r orm cnn can Very far bo beyond old th II sInge Indeed t the I con cOli dimInishIng I r returns t ot o Our ur ml mis work It in III pretty Netty that the tho World orld has n durinG the tall halt cen tilt ve red lr aroUnd fr from m the tho to he Thomas t po of oC mInd ScrIptural propaganda i 1 no flO longer loner effectIve N Now OV is IN no arguing agaInst facts Those These men b be nl d dt t to 11 as they eUn be riot M as the they i nt If the Meals Ideals ot of CM can be In lilt terms ot of eci coca enco anti philosophy It tho th Principles our cad cAli be identified with the facts d In ill economic Und s A a processeS then lIen thy they will tor to J jUst t now th relations ot of man to hl hIs man Is thU oho or of hUmanIty this lila of thO gospel ti tat Into Its lis educatiOnal and b Is more maIO urgently among th Saints titan the world l li In any Ihy dIrection tt n o ot the way We Iro arti nil all that th this III d so eo nucleus chi called d Is d deStined to lY Int Into th the I it h bf dreamed there nor prayed there thero It can como come only os nis the result of nt 1 a gradual social gradual shaping hll and mould In ot of the tho indivIdual liar nf loony with definIte of tr lh Cioti CAnnot canno bring It about Independent Iy by pf It tn man n any more hi can saVe awe Inn liuni 11 without mans mOlA Surely Burely then nl l hg a pc lj holding Perfect a OUrs and yet making widespread shipwreck ot of the e ner to COOPer th re lit IS b bt thinking 5 the tho ot of their expression In blIp Met lined of at melting the of lying cold collI tnt till the ot of and thO ho truths that hidY flow DW down nit the tad spirit spiritUal Ual deserts dellert ot of the here now flow It Is knowledge that SaInts If so fluch to give to this Hili arid corId On the contrary We h beet ell tu In directions rather than limn to for tor this g particular has mil been fulfilled Many shall r rUh h to aUd fro frd frold ld knowl lIgo shall he be fI Dut III DUll pit of the l the to and tr fro continUes It III In this tar lilt then that rm cAll beet help the It Mn nt n a ot of Ie lint Unify Into ho grand et r he pl the truths which 1 now servo to dl distract For lila th tho i ot of the tho knowledge according to the Mormon Point ot of n ler penK than Let Iel me 11 not from p It ble bie 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