| Show Objects of Great Work Addresses Delivered by Elders George W V Middle Middleton ton and w V E at Salt Lake Tabernacle Sunday August 21 1910 ki bY II F r W ELDER GEORGE GEORGEW MIDDLETON W truth has hns ha ou OCt o oI liE search earh ear h oft utter otter r deal dea of ot the In InI 1 a I a great c r T I I tere l of ot mankind 1 sInce first the tho history of ot our OUt race began th hilory ot of knowing tha tho truth a It Tb tb that men havo been bren l bit b ben bT n C great grat sacrifice to th every overy make t I end nd IUM that Ihal th y might learn the truth i willing tr to tivo Iho In gar ben hav ha haVe They The ThY t I li c en n trusts of ot bread Ireal to meal ids the reviling the envy on e th Ih the pew pc men nen In order that thy they fIl w their of 01 of ot the e eulon slon the pos po BUlit mankind And the hl tor of ot truth beginning hal hns ha been one grand rold tl t from with that thaI end In view to or nr arje a ic possible at the poa poe rhe je as nany flar II 8 nut flUt how do we Vi u lon t f truth have ho obtained the tho truth know i V I en th we WO midst of ot the many mil Illta millions Ilu presented by our phys physical lions IOn that thaI are Ire contact with our and by b our ical kal al know when whenn we w to low h are fIllOW men Then TheE I II of the truth eulon slon tit er In n Is S se we n Ir with which we wo can get In U Ii I ft S I spirit n fl no wih Ly by proper methods of at life dictator to tou toas wilt will be b the 1 I believe b that I at belee wil will to us UI when nn an ct u ant anil wH consul up for tor our proposition C It Is IC In with whether nalon universal I truth I or not The the lh great grent rent be bc bet divided In nil all boon b n ni IgOl orld has hal different different reels holding t teen een with tho the other othor Ideas Idt u one oo maintaining discordant wih that thaI Its Ite Il view and ind each urh the th correct one ene Tho The world I was th wa ha hate arrayed called fo fa ha nrc cJ of sc II against the tho world of ot times th U It religion and Ind JUtS hns 11 maintained i It found error In that thai dogma that which at was wac held by b the people to be 1 nature of ot attin Dut But In the vory eTY n divine there cannot be bo two sets cete ell of ot things tin other with the truth one on discordant and ind both bolh be correct Somebody has hac d somewhere b When hen we wo O get el nt at atthe irr tr universal truth It will be ho con can continent IS the great wi with Itself laI It will wil not ml v mien principles that are discordant with wih oth other othe principles that It has ha advanced The Tho er r suit fault e lies bag been that people have hava had a aart 1 agart gart art of ot ta the truth they have had ho homent a fat ment cf t f the tho great circle and have ewed the tho magnitude and the tha tot Dot per of ot the circle Itself Now I 1 that Ihal there Ihre Is ic n a means whereby se e may be b enlightened co o 0 that we may 1 the truth when It comes la Ia our Hie Itte You know the principle of at att 1 III nt at the tho lt It t f wireless s telegraph how uniting staling station the tho Instrument has boa ho IU Iti projected up Into the air and tt Cey ty y are arc IrD giving oft oe wae by h b the electric force torce general tl tI by ty the apparatus and these e waves wa ins IUS t over oer the valleys and mountain mountains ind 1 MI They mean nothing they lace hive no ni l to the object that ae n th L they t y eme In contact with wih until come to ta another Instrument In n a I recel Ing that Is I tuned like the thes s eTtia Instrument That ThaI Instrument which Is h tuned to 10 vibrate In unison don the Intelligent message bud and tho the Information that was Wi sent Jent Jento lout o from the the tending station slaton HAn IY OF oi SPhERES Sow o ow I 1 believe helee that thaI this truth In the tha ther r world has hn a parallel In tho the mental world that tha t from froni tho the great t turre of omniscience and omnipotence rc e emanating the Intelligence and cI 11 wm m of ot the Ihl Creator CreAlor anti and If It ne we hove have hn tnt the e t brain cells cels nf ot ours In harmony hArmon these vibrations we can them tiem But Dut If I we 1 are arl not living 1 b such way that thaI wo we ran cnn vibrate In with wih them they will wi NIR us 7 suet Just as 08 the waves vVe pass plU ITer the rivers river and an valleys give no lu naK at because there Is nothing there I receIve b It I It If we I rend read the history of ot atit th it worlds great grent nt Inventions I believe u IC recognize this thin fact that whenever ICY ity great truth Comes come to 10 the world worl nn aa nf aaI I rule It has hes ha rome come to two or three tilt dlf dl r nt Ind In widely separated iter Ir the earths surface I take lake It I that hit fat II It ii I an Indication of ot the vibration of ot thU thie tl part rat of or the omniscience of ot God on ont the t Impalpable ether so sn n that when men ir tr training their theIr brains anti louis by b roper II r method of ot i study tudy lt ud and proper 4 1 of ot life they the can reeve receive that lin In They Tl get It the message mII and It and they give a new de tie of or knowledge to the world old So 80 Uh the Ihn faith that wo se have hn espoused IM n 5 lo of ef f the things that It II Inculcates Is la laba that ba of at o life that shall r enable nt I Ii t get gt In communion with the great reat that Iha shall hal be the monitor that ih Ihal utah ll dictate to us u when hon truths are pre ore f I r I OJ reception whether they th Ire tre ar of tt 10 lor or not It I In is n R source of treat treet that we can get et In Ini inti i turn urh ti rn t n I that Ihal we w e cnn can an recognize r th he truth when It I comes to our life lre AM what t a I great thing It Is I when hen the tho truth floes does dOI time mt Into our lives livee if it f It toniC to 10 enlighten us u so o that we w can alk lk br by the le direction of ot Its It light If It I It I omes omu t be an en In admonition In our life and an a v of ot our being how It IL nl e and exalts us u And when that of at truth comes omeR It lomes ome with s C mandate mand le that tbt we WI do render It II I or r r rise S o It means menns nothing to 10 us I It doe d me n 1 good 1 to know that any nn thing l s or true tre or great If It I 1 do lo n nt t r p t my life In accord with wih th Ihl at t beauty beay nr Cr rr that greatness which hu bu hl conic come In my roy thought It His Is Ix better That thI I J ohluM never know knol the truth Ihal th i ti that thet It I should come COIe Into Inlo my m life Mia and Dt thet tha I 1 fall fal to ta render ren r ohe obe Jere deree dence to It I If I a truth comes come to me nd I f not recognize Us Its 11 Im un Importance I prane t the extent that I live In accordance with wl It It If It I do not make It I a Part of my life f anti nn walk by Hu Its IR nd ad m I then I feel tel In myself that thet I II hr I degenerated and that thaI I nm am not In to that high standard of ot life le leIt that It t git me m satisfaction I In IP sin r n nt not t In the that I am nm mae ter tr rol 11 of my mental menial and I de tie Pet Ii note nt In ln n f nv v own conception of ot my m mt melt elt Better Bettt if tn t have hee never known tho the t ar lTd Vv b hn th that 1 It should come como to 10 you 0 that I V Slew should hould not ant render obe obee AI e to It 1 OF PIONEERS tone We e Ir ire 1 M 1 n P people In a n transi l ton knew 1 Those ThOe people who ke ne tt Ih v lr dy of our story who whoM the Persecutions and driving and aM M In trick trIals those people who left their ta c 1 o blood on tho the desert by b tho the V 5 I t they e clime CAme here hore are aw Ip passIng parsing Ion 1 f t faith one h by one on And nd that ten ot that actuated them that hm them OUt om thi th thIs i men of ot oak to 10 carve th the fo country ry nail lay loy In Inte the te I I n one t this b by empIre on one they thy within are aw and t I wonder It If the thit sin r lr will II 1 come up In our 1 Ion In fl Ua u that faith 1 letl III II that the they lived tr far erht that ot I Imprint ulon upon IhNe these valleys an ami In ln the lives V ot of P u e who are In the last lut twilight of ot their noble career It I la is III necessary n cetar that wo we should hao trials anti and per Ir persecutions In order that thaI we I may develop that character that thu U Is I necessary to live Ivo tho the transcendent truth and I 1 wonder what whitt condition U I going to coulD como to us that will wi de ilo develop In us this newer generation that high t and lint men Ini condition that nigh high standard of ot character that tin has haR loft left lef Us its Il upon these thele valleys of or the mountains I 1 would not lot ot do co with wih the work of ot traducer It l Is a element tho r I II 1 necessary i In our lives live lve to pulverize out of or UM us tho tile dross dro I In order that the gold might shine As Al Individuals Individual and aa as com corn communities munitie we can not nol well veit wel dispense with the work of ot tho the traducer with wih the one bo boo because who would woul destroy detro our character cause cu o we would cease CIA O to make that growth that we will wi make under the tho conditions that wo we meet under Inder tho conditions that these men mon met mot with and that In a measure confront us nt at altho atthe tho the present time They are Iro n a part of the great plan toy for your growth and my m growth and It U is II necessary that thaI they should holli be bo In our midst that wo we should meet with the tha opposition that will wi pulverize out ou I of ot us u the tho dross drol In order that tha the gold old might shine an as anthe the poet beautifully says All Al nature Is hut but art unknown to thee All til Al chance direction which thou not nOI see ell ellAl All Al discord harmony harmon not understood evil good All Al partial evi universal GOOD rnO I EVIL JU JUSo So when we are oro tried with wih the tho words word of at the traducer Ira when our characters character arc maligned and when evil evi things are lre put Into our dir lives that flint wo we e never noer have thought ht of we ve should thank God Clod 00 that In the working out of ot tho the great plan there are tho those n o comB condi conditions that will wiil wi develop In n us u character thit will wi enable us ld to shine by b tho the light of ot the truth divine A ft f coo w months month ago ngn 1 I wn was coming out of ot the tha city of ot if Boston and I met n to gentleman who woe W connected with one of the tho loading leading institutions Institution of ot learning of or that Ihal famous city 11 cit In our conversa conversation conversation tion Uon about social conditions In lifter differ different Iller ent enl parts of ot tho the world I 1 asked n ked him about tho the situation In New Neo England and nd he he saul Rid Tho The conditions Irl tire re far from tram being satisfactory socially Ho lie 10 said Id This modern life la is making such a n di demand for tor the tho main of ot households In respectability hlll that our young oung people popi are nr re refusing r refusing fusing to get gel married and our people that are lre married arc are not rearing chil children dren because they the cant live Ihl up to tho the requirements of ot this high tension life and rear children The result of ot It I ho said aall I II is that our Intelligent classes clashes 1111 e are railing falling to reproduce themselves and nf the Irish and tho the Pol Polish ish bh Jew JIm and the tue Italian are coming Into Inlo this country and occupying It and overrunning the country That ThaI Is 19 the t p condition of ot New England the Ihl land that hed shed the th glory 1101 of ot American let It letters letten ten terl to 10 tho the ends of ot tho the earth the Und land that produced Its 11 Emerson Emerlon Its 18 Long JI Longfellow fellow anti And alt all al that galaxy of oC Intel Intellectual Int l men of high principle who gave America n a name In the tho world of at letters leter Ia In the tho world worl of ot Intellect That land la n Is II going out of or the hands hand of ot their descendants de Into Inlo the tho of ot aliens alien and foreigners those tho e thAt are re reo recruited recruited from the dree s of ot continental Europe That Is I tho the condition that thaI Is 19 coming on In New Nio England and I thought that thaI what this gentleman of ot that thit section of ot the Ihl country 1 II is probably probAbly ably true tru of ot other sections of the tho coun oun country country try Ir It I Is la the way In iii II which our coun cotto country cOln try I is 18 going ainI I thought of ot what I tr had seen Men only onh a few tew months before back In the city cl of ot Rome MODERN MODEn DEGRADATION You go through h those great grent reAl monuments monte ments of ot 1 the Intellect of ot ancient Rome the th Coliseum eum and the Pantheon anti and nd you perceive Col that a n of ot giants ha hR occupied the This la is manifest by ly bythe b lythe the things they the conceived nod executed ed Id hut but we ve do not set see Ill the giants giant of Intellect there thare now new hut hit this modern mo ern that thaI over pawn fl of ot the earth creeps the th old ruins to turn to In merchandise the remnant flint In is II left of ot them I thought It oas WU the name came Im old oh story only n a thousand years or two hack of ot race suicide of at the th methods N of high tension life developing among the tho In intellectual lo anti the cultured classes cla 1 of ot Rome Rome tho the failure allure of ot the tho Intelligent classes to 10 reproduce themselves anti earel the helots the slaves that were er true to 10 th the laws la we of at nature going golno on and re cc reproducing re producing themselves them and they the are tho tue Italians of ot today tod TIlE THE TiE FUTURE HOPE Thit gentleman In the course counse ouro of oC his remarks In of our people said You Toil are most fortunately lo In located catel The great grat revivifying thing so socially socially 0 has bas been the contact of ot the soil the tilt new colonial movements where whore pea peo people pie pia lIve lve true to tho the laws law lOl of ot nature Hut when they congregate In great groups In cities It Is II there they th deter deteriorate lorato morally and Intellectually Anti And An Anho ho he said Your people who occupy that hat unction section leton of at the country countr that was Wil arid arhl and nn of ot necessity l in sp settled will wi not have these conditions making nn an inroad upon them to anything like the extent that we do 10 In the tho nore thickly settled etl parts Ira of our country countr In tho the very er ery sterility of ot the soil sol Is II of at the tho divinity of at that Inspiration inspiration tion that led eople to the of ot tho the mountains In the tho very vory or con condition condition on that seemed a to hardship that mule mode ml e the struggle of ot the early pioneers a great Kat struggle and In put great hard hardships har hardshIps ships Into their their live hives 11 wits was IR the condition that 1 I Is to the race thaI we ve belong to and hind hand down on tho the Institutions tons that our fathers have lived anti and bled bl anti ond tiled died for far to the tho th ages age yet et un unborn unborn born horn It 1 will vill wi perpetuate a race that IB is true trul to 10 the religion that we wo e hav havo h j en eM true trite to the th principles of ot our grout great country anti and Its Il cause anti It needs nothing but hut H it I mind to tl calculate that tha In an age ngo nAo not very sery far tar distant from froni the tho present prent there I Ito II is isto to rim rl here that Ihal light l h of Intelligence of ot ton that thaI Is 18 to enlighten world When hn the th other sections section ot our great country have gone Into that deca which grown out of nf tho tue very VI von con condition Ion that prevail If It I we are |
