| Show i Worship of God Necessary To Welfare of Humanity An Address by Elder George Q Morris in the Salt Lake Tabernacle Sunday August 14 1910 I liv b V r V 1 I y brethren and slaters I most mOlt farnum delro that wo shall continue together durin tho re rl rew ot thelo ot w r rth hall continue with UH ua and th the Lord that our worship shall ahall ho bo acceptable to t hi hm H It Is n thing for a 1 Urge larae number r of ot mon men ana women to torather rather together In u In to worship tho I havo ben been with that fact during thee During all 1111 tho gel o othe of the rail men an and 1 women navo been r ng the tame thing thine In ono form or It mav ma bo that they the havo hao met ni lI wo havo hao mot mat today to I those things those thole principles prInciple of o vital importance to 10 our salvation llon or It ma ho that they ha vo gotten to ether in m tle ceremony At sr r t rate tc they hlo been to tho lord to cin c In my m own I havo th thi f that It Is III urr in that tho family the rord It In Is entirely necea ry f rr r their greatest good for their h for their eC r hat they the worship tho Lord In spirit imd In truth PROBLEMS OP OF LIFT LIFTMan Man Isn finds lf placed In this earthly firth I existence without any per Iler tonal knowledge of ot the pant without of his hla coming without any an dear clear sight or knowledge from o oln n Individual powers of perception tho th future Ho finds him Hlf HI surrounded by all tho of ot tte world orld h he within himself all 1111 the manifestations of ot lit which to 10 the human family ram II and lo to th humn hurt h art all the feelings that dwell thoro all lh t Us exist and thin life lIe l Is Indeed n problem In my m mind no man can correctly Interpret It II no man can understand It no man mall manon on can sui u live this life In th sense Insl unless ho worships In and In truth to the tho text that Elder Smith poke of there thero l I one In tn the an lent faith waR wan Olleo cle de lh red to the t tho I att r rd d dUo y Saints believe In and I t he o oll ll lIels e tl i with wit h regard to their c n that It their bellet In Deity DeilY Just ju 1 for tho few folY moments that I nm you If It wo 0 rosy mal enjoy the Spirit of ot the Iho Lord I like to that with you As I r have Bald there thero In IB something In I the human buman heart and thero haw nl al UT teon 1 eln that lends leads men lo 10 It way b that they the will worship tho thoun un sun It may mRY bo tho mountains mountain It may ml It be th the great rivers rhen or It may be bl great principle in lifo life r I nomo 1 mani malil manifestation f o f power that thy In contact with This has beet blet the tho hlll try of ot the th human family they lIno bf tn n worshiping from the tho beginning They have hae be boon n worshiping an nn Infinite Y of ot things In nn an Infinite variety o waTt and nd tha tho worship Is 18 continuing lda We worship wor others worship way and always that It I founded upon a II peoples r n of ot DoltS and their bly 19 10 him CREATION OF 01 MAN MANIn MANra In ra the tho beginning wo understand that th Lord revealed himself to his crea rea creat t res upon the th earth We 1 are arf told loW In tie Bible that In III tho beginning the 1 rd r the tho earth and nit all there Is I In Thero Is IB no need n ed for tor u UR to go Ira Int Inh any an of ot the method or Ihl hi creation or to any an of ot thA problems that sel so 1 much and over oer which thera thero Is l so much con contention In connection with this W We also road the th Lord oat creat created ed f ho created him In his Image I bellevo that In III till grut revelation wo 0 find tho groat that hl o Is to 11 us u and to lh th human family that In III the be bo beginning ginning the Lord lArd created cre nil all things lI that ho created man and that ho wIled treated him In his own e Now I be beI o that from that great truth lruth there Is not much In III con on al to the details and tho things thIng with that but I bollt that In ono form torm or another that truth has AI found lodgment In most nil hearts harl They The mill may havo a n con n that their Creator Is Ie me ne ing or 01 another but I that r i 1 throughout all of ot the uj rd have hae Mt that they ro tho of a II power or ana nfl thit they were to that poorer r being or of ot Its tt lons cr r forms form I Thero vero cro some somo of or th the nC r men who hud Imd the truo t run of ot Dally Dolt and they continued him In spirit lI and In truth but after a while tho most of or hu nun m n family seemed to te havo hwe lost till tho truth Si 8 mo were werl OtO Mme verc crea rea lions in III the th world such nn aK I have re reo i to 10 some lImo were vero offering human e SOmo 10 their off in the healed Iron Image of a I manner so worship went on In one ona a I anther to tho con Mn that people had end and tho e Ire wre n nil of or one n liB tho apostle Ia aul 11 Hay IR The rd hns hn ere cro al ot ho the earth arth of or one onA tl dwell A Uon Ullon the nt or thA earth Into k n all cut up P divided a 0 laBes by these thellO lIefl Ind conceptions and I wore were worshiping all kinds kind of Images creature and ln In 1111 kinds or ways MISSION OP OF RA Tho Lord revealed himself us liS I said to ono and ond continued tu Ct for many centuries hut lifter a II while people to u II degree lost tho Idea IdeR and conception of or Daily nolty that true Then tho Loid 1011 sent Bent to the tho oarth his only on I begotten gotten Hon and I take It that he en camo mo to thu tho to tl establish In the right true truo conception of DullY Deity the right wor whip hip of ot Deity Ho came as liS a Q men he grew up from child hood ho associated o with his follows fellows ho pursued his hi course In life lite ho WWI was a man men ho Illio nil other othor men In that respect but In Inn another n other respect thore was Iti III hint him n dl vino 1110 nature a 1 divine part that enabled him to IIvo among his hiM fellows and to n better tetter life than over bon lived before his time limo was waH In him that which enabled him to compre hend tho meaning of at human lIt more completely than It had over been 11 before tor There Thore was wat In III him tho power to closer to Deity any man had ever et r lived lIell bo tore fore there thore va waH In him th power to 10 redeem the th family and Savior So the tho family havo hao had In their midst t tho Iho Son Bon of at Clod GoI who bo by I his and hy by his pre precept taught them tho truth Ho He that thal principle and he h converted other mom men and women to tn the which ho brought anil which ho re received roo 1 from the thA heavens Those men those truths to others othra until they tho were ere carried over the then civil civilized world AntI and thy they gathered to them many man who accepted truths and established them In their thell own lives and andIn In III their own on hearts a II while after a the himself hurt had been put putto putto to rl ath mth by hy tho evil that dwells In hearts of o men mn t by y the tho Intolerance that natural man Inan possesses p nud had hm hlA people they endured they tho wern wr true to faith and Ind thoy tho promulgated ed trl thA ruth until ther carne n time when again tho ho evil power ower seems to prevail OVAr the th earth had th up Ul hand men women WIM put to death or I end ended ended ed their days according to th nature of ot otmen men Then there came n aln n de dp from tho truo conception concept Inn of ot Thero were thoRO who en entrusted n trusted with tho tnt tru faith amI the true conception but In the th of n 1 few fl centuries th y hal had mixed that concep conception tion with thi thA vain aln philosophies of ot mono men They l tho lIlI true Christian doctrines with the tho philosophy phy Ih of ot tho mystics m and whereas th Idea of ot the nH was definite and clear their Creator and con his hiI and his hili purposes IUt It wn not long until tho Ideas concern concernIng Ing tho Creator wore m man noon oon to promulgate thA doctrine that God without form torm was with without out body hod without part without pas pal passions ons that ho was n 11 vague e that pervaded nil tho Now that wan not tho Christian doctrine d of ot Dolly UIt Although It mav Inny have lIen been maintained h y part of ot the tho Christian world or all 1111 of ot the tho Christian world that Is lB not the th doctrine of Deity as nil the taught It t to his hi followers If you will recall th ho teachings of the you OU will re remember reo member tho simplicity Implicit of ot hla hll teachings concerning Deity you OU will remember that n h referred 1 to Clod as all astha the tha as nil Ills hI Father To TI my m that ti most moat It Is t most mOlt It Is most moRt hopeful hO to the tho hii hu heart that relationship which ho tho Savior taught of fatherhood In the tb of ot the tho world orld I to re refer r fer fOr to ono lU l briefly which this of th Savior This ThiR Ie s the th chapter of ot Paint John It I will refresh our minds as IB to his at nt toward his rather Father Ho says THE DOCTRINE Let not your h art bo troubled l ye e In God bellevo also In me meIn In III my In Fathers house housA nto many mansions If It were not BO 0 I would hlo told tol 1 you ou I go to n for you And whither I go 10 ye e know the tho theM M ye e know Thomas unto him Lord wo kno not whither thou how can call wo know tho th way WI Jesus unto him I nm am the way a athA tho thA truth and the life lit no min man cometh unto the Father but by mo me If It yo known mo me yo 0 should havo 1110 known my m Father allO and nn from henceforth yo o know him und havo 1110 seen him Philip f unto him Lord show us UR tho Father It th us U Jesus with unto him havo I J br n so 0 Ion with you yot ot ho t thou not nol known me Philip ho J that hath SP U Ume me hath Keen lIton the thA Father how say MY ost thou show us WI the tho Father The Tho Savior continued along the o line promises thorn the thA comforter h hat t come mf to them and then down lu t twanI wanI tho end nd of or the chapter ho hn 11 I go ITO unto tho for my m fath 1 Is 19 creator 1 than limn I And now I have hac told you before It come comei to pIl i that when It 11 haa hM como comoto comoto to pass H yo 0 might l elove hellove I r will not talk much with you ou for tor tho of this worM world com cometh cometh eth ana nothing In mo me OF Now I take It that that IH tho hr that l I the Christian teaching concerning deity God U b our Father J You 1011 will remember that soon the n of the Savior Mary went to the sepulchre and round found that It had lIeen opened ua d that ho was gone gono and thou thon sho f I J hUn him In tho garden and he mud 1 U IJ j r that It was ho who was wall 11 H told her JI tJ KU go to his dl a IL I J toll thuin ho Ima und ha WON to u to his m J Junto unto her Father unto his Clod and unto tint her hur Clod in tho of o St lit LUK is III a II pa age that 1 wish to n I i 1 to you ou It 11 brings us t tho It IM Is when hit ho shows h helf i n elf to his hili disciples and they the and do not how ho It 11 m IJ hu Ha says my hands and my feet that It In hi I myself mu m und tI r n spirit hath halh not flesh and Md bones bonoll an at o 0 too nio 1110 Aid when ho hall had thus thu spoken he showed them his hla hands hand and Ind hili foil And while they thoy yet It believed iK not for f Joy and d he Iw Mid ld unto 0 yo 0 hero any meat And nd they thc glo him a II Ie of ot a 1 broiled fish and of or an un honeycomb And ho 10 took It and did ot oat beo bIa thorn And ho said sahl unto them These are nr tho words which I sp ko unto jou ou while hlll I was y yut t with you uil things must bo fulfilled which HI written In III the tho law of ot Mo tt l and In the th prophets and In tho concerning me Then jhon opened he their understanding I that they tho might 1 the 8 SeTh I turcs turell Ann ld unto them Thus It Is writ ten and thus thull It behooved Christ to ut f fer r and to rise from frem th the dead the third du And that repentance remission of or sins nM should hould be hed In hi hili nam among omon all nations beginning at lit Jeru Jp salem And ye f of theo And An 1 behold I send tho promise nf ot my m Father upon you ou but tarT ye In III tho city elt of Jf Jerusalem until yo yu be en tin dued with power 1 r from on high And ho led thorn thom out na liS for as IlS to ho hn lifted up his hi hands hand and bl od them And AlI 1 It to paIlS while he blessed bles then them he ho w was u parted from thom them fUrled up Into heaven A nUI PICTURE Now I read roa 1 this my brethren and slaters find and friends because b It Is IB a II wonderful of or Deity e p the Savior Is ls our lord because he hI wan endowed with tho Ihu power and glory of ot his hili Father and wo we havo hlo u II pic picture litre ture hero of a II being of or an nal being of ot an exalted 1 Ing who wat wa tangible who ho definite form torm who hat had the Iho Image of ot his hiM rather lathor and t tU U Imago of ot nan tran and who was filled ll with lovo 00 and for his hi h hren ren with whom hom he hI was Willi Now there Is mystical about thU he was there he subjected himself to to their examination they Mt of his hll hands handl and his Mesh and hN hi bones hOMS yet t he wa was ho hl Is IH Clod Ond lint ho nC In their sight Into heaven and wont went unto his Father who is 11 In tn lie l 18 like hU hi Father As All AllA Apostle A h Paul say he Is I In tho vi vy v Imago of his and an I po POs s h M th power 1 glory of his Father This ThIll IB 1 tho thA Christian this Id III tho Christian teaching this th Is III tn truo conception of or D 1 lt and hn h n 1 ha nn known w It t given gl to t ancient n Israel sm they worshiped I iv II Clod with body an RId 1 with port and with of l v and pity of ot other passions that ar aro exalted pure and tr tru tho th Savior to the world lh th thone ono one perfect man that has hns ever ver lived hn hA brought that Mme conception of ot deity to tho UIA human H Heven ten even went o far n lo to wiy IY Vo 10 that havo hao seen Ben me mo havo Been n my m Feather and tho Apostle says 1118 he In III In th tho verv ery of his hili Father Now No mj brethren sisters sl and friends ls that IH III the t doctrine of ot truth that Will tho th human family If they tho will ar lit copt It and all that belongs to II It In III kl key to human life upon that truth based nil all truo of ot lito and human that wo we ore children of or God that we Wf are hla hll offspring that hit hi Only nl Uen Son hn hOIl been among us and lived 1111 with us UR as asa a human family ond portrayed to us tho l ct urA and delivered 1 to us th perfect doctrines of ot life and salvation THE WO WORlO HUD ASTRAY Hn 1111 the tho world departed from the doctrine What Is II tho Iho conception today toda Has Hns It not gono back to the tho ages a B Only recently one Olle of ot the tho mont Intellectual men of ot tho time has hns Riven his conception of or theology and his hili Idea Idoa Is III that Dolly It III an omnipresent ont ent energy that extends throughout the universe that Deity Is the principle 1110 of or that comes Into all 1111 things In tho oarth and sustains nil that about the tho samo as lIa tho doctrine of ot tho middle ml ages where the personality 10 II 1111 t of ot God was rejected the tho substance sub of ot Delly Delt as IU I havo ha explained It ns a we wo under understand stand It was rejected and where Deity Dell considered to tn bo a moro essence n mere mero nothing con can love such a 11 Deity Who l u n Deity Delt I tell ou no m tho greatest and noblest ot or the tho human heart henrt Is II a n God that Is t In tho form of man but possessing nil the Infinite powers that we attribute to Dolly Dolt There Thero Is h so 10 lovely love thero thAro Is IB nothing so o beautiful In all the creations of or Rod at lis n II man who Is like There Thero Is nothing BO power powerful till ful in nil this worM world us IB a man mil who In ns a dill did the Savior the power of or God 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