Show MANS IANS DEBT TO T JOSEPH JOSEH What man Is there today who Is not reaping a harvest harest of ot good god ideas and sound practices from the tle doctrines originally promulgated by the boy prophet of ot tho century Joseph Joaeph Smith Josiah Quincy stated with great care cro and exactness that it I would be no sur surprise surprIse surprise prise to him should it turn turn out that the ho Mormon prophet ft a man of ot his own time was the one ono who had most profoundly impressed the world worl by his thought and guided its It development by hr bY his ills suggestions and ad teachings But as n in the days das of ot any other prophet whether ho were a a formally recognized and duly duh appointed one like hike Isaiah or Daniel Dniel or only an individual voice crying in the wilderness like Burns or Emerson it is as truo true now is as then that th t the haughty haught will wi smile smi and m tho the wicked revile revie whenever it Is announced that tat God has h raised up a aman a ama aman man ma to declare His word or has haa In tn Inspired a prophet to disclose the things thing that shall be b hereafter Nevertheless a calm survey surcy of what has ha already come como to pass ps in tho the ways of ot the world at large to say sa nothing hero of ot the eternal development or 0 evolution of ot the tho Church itself Itsel would serve servo to confirm the faith of modern Israel Isrl and to t silence the tho detractors of ot ho tho people whose loader leader veritably communed with Jehovah Of or these thes facts fact only a few Cew can be referred to here her in the paragraphs that follow tol ow Lot Let Lt us u consider first the fact ot of f revelation When Joseph Joeph Smith announced that ho 10 had hn received revelations from irom the Father and ad the tile Son Sn the civilized world raised a shout sout of ot derision saying that revelation bad had ceased cd with Christ Chit and ho tho Apostles never nover novel again aIn to bo be b in vogue ogue until the tho days das of ot the restitution of ot all al things thIng But note tho the change Today To belief belet in the revelations that come from experience from nature and from natural discernment or in intuition tuition Is professed by so s many edu educated eu educated cat people that they tey probably form torm a majority while those thos who do not be b in Individual revelation of ot some somo sort sr scorn rm to be few Cew and becoming rarer raer Joseph Jo ph Smith maintained that tat every ever Individual is I entitled to t receive levola revelation ion tion to if Ir he lie will wi only prepare himself for It I and while at first this doctrine seemed seme at variance with wih the tho prevail preval InS lag ng thought of oC practically all al men it its Itis itIs is s vindicated today toa among thinking people cople in a manner and ad to a 1 degree that tha aro are truly remarkable On tho the theother other hand belief blot in the Biblo seems to o be waning simply because bauso by mammy revelation Is 1 regarded as a incredible The way to health is another fact When Joseph Smith declared against the tho ho use of ot tobacco and ad hot drinks drin men menas menn menas as n high hIg in the te scientific worM world as a Mr 11 Huxley Huey gave S vo out the tho to opinion that puffing Ing fing of ot tobacco tobo smoke was wa no more hafl than the drinking of water How marvelous the change that has ha como come to t the te thinking world on this sub jet In these days total abstainers train from tom tobacco and stimulants aro a multi multiplying plying on every over ever hand had their thol propaganda Is s heard head in almost every even capital and amid certainly in every land ln of or progress and civilization and what this signifies to tr tho the health heath and morality of ot time the world at largo large Is ir 16 beyond bond computation Next let us consider mans origin and destiny When this modern Prophet declared dele that man ma may rIse to tho the attributes of deity delt the world was liest amused aused and then amazed ot at time the boldness of ot such teaching today toda the tho believers in a spiritual evolution that makes for tho the perfection of oC tho the human soul and that results In the eternal progression of ot mankind seem to comprise practically all nl d ing In people The Tho To trend trond of ot the masses mas es esmay may bo toward a socialism that seems seem to lead le to t anarchy but tho the greater thinkers have no such inclination When the Prophet announced that God G is man perfected and that man Is God In embryo If It that expression may maybo ma mabe mayho bo ho reverently used time the ridicule and scorn acorn sor with wih which this doctrine had ha to contend remade made mae it resemble in the time opinion opinIon opinIon ion of 01 01 unbelievers something akin an to blasphemy Today Toay the tho doctrine dorIne Is more amore or o less corroborated by b the tho to philosophy of ot tho the age fe and ad is tolerated tolerate and patron patronized patro patronized by those who a few tow years bJ ago aco seemed to regard it It as infamy and Im Impiety piety The Tho Te doctrine of ot spirit and matter mater is another fact tac When hen the tho Prophet indicated that tat matter force and energy are Inde lade Indestructible the learned theologians th at ut once the tho proposition To Today Today Today day this doctrine has become an ac cc accepted ac opinion in scientific circle nod and andIs Is taught in every high school and amid del col college ol ollege lege loge of oC the civilized world Tho The Prophets statement that tt all al substance la Is 1 matter mater and Md that tt thero tero La i ir ii I r i r 1 1 c no such uch ns its I immaterial sub substance substance substance stance caused profound commotion Just then the tho to modern religious world was WM entering enterInG upon a controversy bo be b tween religion and science In iii II relation to spirit and matter For tho tIme scientists of tho the day da were just junt beginning to maintain that all ni manifestation of or net action foil may bo ho reduced to modes moles of or material motion moton and that tho ed cd immaterial if it It exists hRs has in common with wih what what id I known unknowable and Inaccessible to can not manifest itself in this sphere and must therefore remain forever un unknowable and nd Inaccessible to t human sensation Such a mt L spirit was WI of ot course coure not cognizable by tho U o pro processes processes ceases of or human thought thought At tho same amo time that that scientists wore 1 dealing these trenchant blows af nt a er or errors or roes tho ho theologians that is tho orthodox ones wore were ore feebly maintain maintaining ing lag that a belief blet In the immateriality I of ot the spirit Is synonymous with a areal areal areal real belief belet In the immortality of ot tho the soul and that materialists are ar atheists Joseph Joeph Smiths doctrine was W that all al force is manifested by matter sOIe of ot which Is too fine to be known by our human modes of ot cognition while tho the mind of ot man tho the ego or entity that makes him an intelligent person is hr from eternity Prom From this it seems plainly to follow folo that the mind of ot man maa can not be bo destroyed that it It fore tore can not be that It would survive tho the dissolution of ot tho the material body and if I that bo ho pos possible possIble possible sible tho the destruction of ot tho the spiritual body would not not affect its existence and powers gowers wor but would servo lero only to cur curtail curti curtail tail ti Its Is expression of ot o them This view not Inot yet grasped even by the psychologists will wl no doubt prevail in of o all aU the guesses of the tho learned and unlearned about abut the the origin of ot mans intelligent personality The mere statement by tho the Prophet of mans with God rais mis raised ris ed a worldwide storm of ot denunciation ridicule and ad argument against It while the subtler doctrine Just referred to was wa wa of course coure totally beyond the mental horizon of current religious conceptions and was but ex cx explained to the world at large largo These liner finer and moro more sweeping deductions from the Prophets teachings teaching were wore not greatly eat developed in tho the preaching of the tho Elders since they thoy wore WOI not necessary to an understand understanding ing of the Gospel plan of or salvation but they have havo stood for tor the edification of ot earnest seekers seeker after truth and have hav been a priceless treasure to those who sincerely appreciate a glimpse of ot things which tho the Angels desire to look ook Into int And Anti then wo we must consider the tho practical practical sociology of ot the Prophet For he was eminent not only In the tho to subtleties of ot metaphysical doctrine or In the masterly and fearless ferles logic which was V embodied without ostentation In inthe tho the plain plan truths enunciated by b him but also in other fields felds In tho the sphere of ot sociology wo we call cal attention to tho the teachings teaching of the the Church as a to cooper cooperation cooperation aton In Industry as a to unity in public action acton concerning the special work to tobo tobo tobe bo be performed by tho the Saints and such works work as tho the establishment of ot Relief Belief societies Sunday schools and other similar simia organizations All Al these and ad manly other units of ot sociology sociology ogy og clearly discerned by Joseph as ns matters mater auxiliary to practical religion and as a helpers holper and handmaids there thereto there thereto to must mark him as a a genius In n the tho I sphere of ot the new science that has haI ha practically had ha its Is birth since the tho Prophets day I Last Lt and greatest of ot all al his Is works we wo may note his call cl upon the world to repent and ad believe beleve tho the Gospel and his repeated declarations and rovola revola revelations tons to the effect that the time Is at hand even at tl tI t i p II doors For while tho the world has profited and perhaps every ever one has ha been benefited by the application of ot the tho Prophets teachings teaching in some form tor the greatest great t and most lasting good to all al men will como come by hearkening to his statement that the Lord shall como come quickly go ye e out outto outto outto to meet Him Because tho the time is surely at hand and the day da draws nigh when God Gd shall judge judg tho the secrets secret of ot otmen men according to the Gospel and I happy is that tat servant whom the tho Lord when he shall hal find so doing |