Show A synopsis of f a discourse preached in great salt lake city sun dag march 26 1865 by rev mcleod matthew 7 chap 15 aud and 16 verses versea to the omniscient jesus the future was as the present he saw the long lon line of pretenders who w would uld rise up clothed in in tile garb of prophets and of heavenly messengers 0 claiming to be the sole dispensers of salvation the vice vicc gerenas of god on oil earth uttering great swelling ta words of vanity r to and lead astray the ignorant 0 and credulous and in closing 0 ill up his immortal discourse containing conta containing inin g the grand gov ering 0 laws of life the alie ethics for tile the aa ages ics acs ile he uplifted a voice of warning beware of false prophets which come to you in sheeks clothing but inwardly they arp are ravenous wolves and with compassion worthy of his generous heart ile he gave to the race a sure test of character a principle which if faithfully applied will guard us from deception enable us to unmask terrorists to expose their showy creten preten pretensions to detect the ravenous s wolf even though clothed in the lamb like of many saintly professions fes ye shall know them VT 11 itco the false christ and false pra prophets ever and ag aaen rising slug up to blight the hopes of thousands are not the stra strange and fearful phenomena phe nomina that superficial minds with based breath represents t them hem to be I 1 pre presaging gagin direful disasters dist figour fondest hopes a breaking 0 up of the old foundations while our pity is awakened jor their dupes we laugh to scorn the inane babble odthe of the pretenders our faith in christianity ty is only the more confirmed and with fonder confidence we cling to christs profound philosophy the history of bf the christian church for more than eighteen hundred ysais attests the truth krutil pre presupposed supposed I 1 jm in I 1 christy christs warning ill th the e text E ever v cr and a again cra in false 0 prop prophets liets have risen up arrogating to themselves I 1 know not what holy names or what high and godlike functions but proclaiming claiman 9 princia principles les antagonistic to ti the le P principle ri licia lesof christianity and virtually disputing the empire emp P i rie with the nazarene Nai arene with eyer ever assurance proclaim ing an I 1 improvement on alie efio old celii religion 0 on ane new wand gid an more excellent wo way ly to tile the beatitude of the future fili ure some of the pretended pe tended heavenly messengers have been poor brainless faai fanatics ies distinguished gui shed only by their unbounded r arrogance a and nd vanity and the regret is that they were not always allowed to live and die without aven even so much as a bre breath ath of persecution se being r raised i against them Christ christgau iau charity should have provider them in sau di asylums r but al of so call ef ed c christian hr i s iaia n lias has too loo of 1 ddn in the alle esti estimation their l aulisi I 1 rin z d them into mar martyrs ars yrs giving occasion wil fo for r the canonization of of ignorance and crime others again of the false prophets have been cool and deliberate deceivers concocting concoct ing of demoralization often without even the merit of originality tumbling jumbling together the elements of effete and antignat ed absurdities and abominations resurrect resurrecting resurrection in g and galvanizing the corpses of old and exploded errors and systematized crimes that before the splendor of christianity had shrunk away into darkness y and by tile the various processes of lies craft and intimidation gaining authority over ove r multitudes and it for the most unholy purposes in the hallowed name of religion crushing out manhood lofty aspirations ns blasting the purest hopes and crucifying the holiest hollest sentiments of womanhood but in the text we have a principle to aid us ii in n detecting e and exposing a the deceptions often practised practiced by mens infidelity to principle and by his inhumanity to men upon his brother a principle of hi infinite finite value ranging itself anion among self evident and eternal truths in its simplicity suiting i itself to the capacity of the least pretending minds in its universality 0 of f application meeting and solving t othni otherwise wise dark problems kroblen is of cali ethics ic s and commanding the admiration and respect of the most philosophic minds it is the purest morality and the most transparent lobig 0 in the die simplest fl form orm no process of elaborate orate reasoning could render the conclusion more irresistible a tree is ie known by its fruits a goo good d tree bri ngeth forth good f fruit alit a corrupt tree bri ngeth forth evil fruit these are tile the ivl ajie aa chael ii of reas ae aning 0 behold eio L t the C tile grand conclusion causi cl on by the fruits ye shall know them and if we shall ever become the dupes of bearing za down our M manhood itself at their shrine it will be because we close our eyes to the light refusing ing 3 to act like deathless intelli fencers gen genc cers ersi who in the wreck of all else have one proud right reserved not to be bartered for the wealth of worlds the right to think and act for ourselves subject only eternal principles of morality which are arc always and evertrue to every high and worthy interest the right to move through gli tile the world as god al might ys freemen calling no man master but christ kneeling at no do shrine bu t the shrine of virtue and truth bending the knee only to almighty god in that act of highest st intelligence when humiliation teenus to exaltation and when even tile the lowly supplicant is permitted to claim li kindred indred with ti alie lo 10 highest and casting off slavish i fear toe x t laim am 1 feather Fc ather who art in f heaven and who that ever breathed that prayer at a mothers mother knee while we the dear hand af pf tenderness rested like a benediction n on the head bead of the young ij immortal could ever submit to be aw swayed by spiritual tyrants by fruits fruit ye shall know them tian this is the grand and terrible gerrib le test exploding as by volcanic forces the ille ali theor eo ries ies concocted by ignorance fanaticism mad ambition crime and consuming tile the very mantle hanif of R saintly authority wrapping the prophets foi form ni and exposing deface defaced d and odious chord character to alie scorn and lo lowling loathing of man mankind lind I 1 to plead anything without showing the c depth and staple grounds and reasons for authority to demand unreasoning obedience to dogmas and theo theories ries has ever been the trick of the oppressors of mankind whether arrayed in regal or sacre vestments this is the divinity that to the ignorant doth hedge bedge about their tyra tyrants rits this is the first and last argument of the enemies to tile the race authority the right divine to govern many and in every age age 0 multitudes have listened with dilated eyes and open mouths to mock thunders of the self constituted Ju of authority but christianity tears away the drapery that thai we may inay see the trick behind tile scenes often converting the awe of credulity pervading in 9 the ilic hearts of the worshippers wor shippers into loathing and contempt or with deep indignation against the crime crime perpetrated in the name of the highest upon immortal minds I 1 meet with a theory of reli religious n i faith and practice dignified by the name of a system purporting to be a now new revelation with doctrines ordinances practices and usages nowhere sanctioned in what we have been tau taught ht to believe as god s great legacy of mercy to man the christian revelation and what is my duty as the possessor of thought and reason undoubtedly if I 1 notice it at all I 1 to question tl the now new claimant to obedience whence came you what are your purposes put poses what is your genius g e enius dius the th c 3 nature of your yo ur mission among men and what aliat is the response from heaven of course a new and more glorious religion to meet the fell necessities and cravings clavings cravi of the rising a age 0 c but is loud and arrogant utterance enough to convince reason to elicit fl faith and secure discipleship disc most certainly not presently I 1 ask the question where do you tend chatis your y our philosophy r I 1 care for none linne of your metaphysical definitions your windy declama eions your pompous dissertations respecting the gromes of your high authority I 1 have no time to go through ad the dark intricate labyrinth of wl wr at your advocates call the reasoning by which they th ey at last iasi all dribbled drab bled and a nd befogged 11 at the shrine of the something called du authority thorit tho rity ty nor is there a necessity for entering on the arduous and hopeless task the great master has provided a test principle and in nature I 1 see examples illustrative of its truth that stern test festl I 1 apply that startling 0 question I 1 ask what are arci its fruits f this abi s to tile the false system is the sentence of doom tile the dread conclusion of the mighty argument against it as it stands like a culprit lit the bar of public opinion and boasted authority wraps tile the mantle of guilt yet closer around its coward 6 heart arf as if to conceal its horrid secrets the remembrance of its many crimes brunes when as from the lips of god the bucs i iles tion peals out what are its fruits 9 this takes the subject out of the region of the vague and mysterious placing it in the region of fact and philosophy I 1 take one and another of the doctrines of the theory its professedly vital Q germs erms and bring to bear upon it the lessons of history tho laws law s of mans inner life and what is the result tic the laws of custom and of opinion may change but the ethics of eternal einal et principle P pie are arc as the nature of god and the system that arrogates to itself the right to auar them justifying evil practices sanctis sanctioning III n il high c crimes almea and placing the dil diadem id cin of haintl iii t ship on the bai hoary i airy brow broni of naine nameless abond abominations inactions Is ia not of I 1 god I 1 press upon it the question what are arc its fruits and until that question is satisfactorily answered an siver I 1 have a controversy with it I 1 care little for its great pretext efi its threats I 1 despise its mock sanctity I 1 trample on 0 lifs its very god I 1 loathe his altars are bloodstained and polluted tile the moloch of lust and of crime the best feelings and purest instincts of my nature rise up against him and in his darkest scowl I 1 flino flanc 6 the protest of virtue still a asking the question what are its fruits 7 does it develop the elements of the christ like in its disciples exalting td the race in intelligence anil in all the sympathies and afier affect eions that embellish and beautify existence giving a charm to the humblest home and a glad gladness nesB to the saddest heart or does it tend to canker and embitter the heart of woman robbing her of the proud consciousness of equality with man and of sole proprietor ship in the inheritance of his affections in itself a grand clement of elevation to the race because exalting her in self respect whose rise god hath bath decreed and all history verified shall precede the elevation of the race Is it op posed to intellectual moral mo r al progress dastil distil distinguished for its grasping in avarice its insatiate lust of 0 unjust gains and an d of debasing pleasures then were an angol angel from froin heaven to proclaim the abomination I 1 would denounce deno unco hint him as a deceiver hurling an at his head the word of the preat Great teacher the eternal principle in thu the text now christianity can bear all t tests C As and from the fil firey rey br ard cal 1611 issue at last like the hebrew martyrs unscathed and glorious 9 lori look at her fruits in the families scattered through our broad land where christ like virtues are arc cul and lessons of maralit morality Y 1 are arc taught look at the millions of the even as yet non profess ing who have been nurtured il in t christian house households bolds at the knees of the glorious mothers of our country an and d who have drank in iii lessons of ennobling philosophy from froin the lips of those pure intel dihel ligen cers to whom america owes tier her proudest fame whose praises shall be as their vir tues bues and whose enduring ments shall be the fidelity of cheif children to the file principles cl plea they have inculcated in their teachings afi 91 and enforced by their example 1 look at tile the fruits of christianity in our institutions of learning lea riling and science our hospitals and lio houses of refuge for the poor the needy and the unfortunate at the great greab religious religion and sand missionary societies wi with th their fruits of purity ripi ripening e in evary at ou dour sani tary commissions and ol 01 our ir christian com missions i i the good sa sas sai i maritan maritana mar itans s of america at the long line ine of minister ministering ilig 31 angels in the abel form onn of women in ot our ir military lo cheering cherring by their presence the abodes abode of pain and dof 10 ing by their words of sympathy the crushed hearts of even th the 0 sick isick and wounded enemies af U our cou chuu u try y if great evils ye yet abound ibo und hi m christian comma communities cities tile the pro testing Y voice 01 cc of the divine religion is ever heard ringing afif ou against them it I 1 t sil shields i 1 Js ii no 0 0 pres sanctions no corn connives rives at no iio iniquity and is ever elbr true to toj lid principles of rectitude to gods glory and to mans well being the wrongs wrongs ra tile the climes in the case of false religions are not abuses but sanctioned practices their natural fruit in the de deree degree ree in which men approximate the standard christian morality and yield obedience to the laws of christ do they divest themselves of evil practices wid and rise to the grandeur grin deur of christian manhood but in the degree in which men yield their reason and will to the claims of false religion bendin bending serf like at their shrines anac and practising practicing their frantic doctrines is there a trampling t on the philosophy of virtue and a departure from the dof morality this is the great difference beware of the false prophets which come to you in cheeps clothing for inwardly they are ravening wolves ye shall know them by their fruits c r LARGE quantities of opium have been received in china from pe persia where it appears the herb is is cultivated to a considerable extent |