| Show f T TT T T Discourse Delivered Sunday After Afternoon Afternoon noon by Charles W Pen rose OUR RELATIONSHIP TO DEITY I Speaker Deals With the Subject of the Godhead and the Belief of Saints present at It the tho Tabernacle yes yesterday yO afternoon Mere wele favored an nn Interesting discourse by KMer Charles CharlesW W who took up tho subject of ot the Godhead and reviewed from tha tho the principles of oC the dospel u believed In ond practised by b the Mormon Monnon people The meeting MIS over o er by b President Anguli M MCannon II Cannon Tho choir sang tho hymn High on the mountain top lop topA lopA A banner h unfurled Prayer Ira er was wai offered by h lder 1 Joseph Tho choir further lIng nang lIngo 0 o God Thou great greal Thou Hood good Thou wipe wife Eternal Is III Thy name Elder Charles W was tho speaker He pleasure ut III with Kith thu Iho In public wor worship ship and hoped he would be hI by thu Ih Spirit of or Truth fruth In lilt his utterance Huld ho hOI the prom to 10 His lies I when He left lert them and It was Willi to 10 and KUlda them Into all 1111 truth tu lu them things present and tn 10 come It Itna Willi na the Spirit of ot j I the Unlit and Ufa of or nil all ll upon the earth ami UH It II power was Willi Riven cn unto all ull who would r seek after II It KMer J lion took look up Ull thu Iho nub Iu of or tho tha We Tell crea creatures tures of oC our Father he that who wlm IH It tho au author author thor of oC all 1111 things to whom wo nil OWl owe our allegiance argument IH Is presented patented by h thu tho hu Wo 0 havo had fathers of uC our which corrected UH UK and wo WI them the we not much lather bo ho In III subjection to the Father of oC live 1107 Tho spirits of uC mor mortals talA Instead of or bellm proud and II 11 el rn should tractable and obedi obedient ent Jemis Christ ehrl t whon on the earth endeavored to make this I clear to those by hy whom He III Will wui In III teaching them how to pray Iray He lie told 1 them not to UMe vain repetitions hut but tu pray after this Our OUI Father r who art In heaven hen veil hallowed bo hll Thy nami etc etl He said He lie represented the Father and that when Ills paw j Him they MV the Iho Father Hu lIu had hilI come to 10 manifest t God In the tho Mesh ne h hIn In the beginning of oC tho hook book called the tho on which nil 1111 Christian sects haRe their fulth It tt IH III stated that Clod Ut UH UK make man In our Image litter after our likeness and let them have hlo dominion over the of ot the selL sen and over the fowl fow of ot tho Iho air over or every living thing upon the tho earth And It was HO Who as nod talking to toTo tofa To fa Himself or to Illi Hon The fhe turcs lell ell UH that In JI the beginning Willi M tho Woid and the Word AVord wan with God Jod and the Word waH Clod John I 1 In III to 10 His ifill Father Jeans out tho Idea of oC Iho unity of oC tho in 1111 to 10 personality hut but unity In spirit purpose attribute etc ell ellel iee el John v 7 The make It clear cI I that thai God 1011 IB IR tho Father rOthel of or the tho nil hu nilman man race that JeHU Christ Is 18 Ills be he beloved loved II Hon and that they the are two to separ Hellar separate ute ate and M If vc e me meto to 10 believe the them In III a II proceeding from the presence of oC Clod which 1118 tho Immensity of oC space which IP the life lito the light of ot all 1111 things animating everything that lias life Then the Godhead l Is III composed of oC the Son und and the tho Holy Ghoul three distinct Un s or personage This uis made clear at thu baptism of Jesus when the heavens were tho Spirit of or God descended upon Him In the form torm or sign of DC a Il dove 1101 and andu u II voice heaven was heard h declaring InK ing This IH my beloved Bon on In whom I J well II am lun pleased speaker MM the Saints d God lod understanding understandingly und r ly Iy for they that lint was las relit real really ly I truly our Father 1 Jesus Is call called ed the Firstborn of every and not only Is He JJ the Hun Hon oC God but the spirits of oC nil ull men and women are ure urethe the sons lIon und daughters of oC 11 It fht knowledge of ot this given men hope and strength nud encouragement making them better able to battle with tho and lento te ts of or life The he personal ity lIy of or the tho Godhead said the speaker been he en made manifest to tin hatter r day Faints In the e nf of the Father ather I the lion Him to the boy Joseph Jo Smith Ihler referred to 10 the tho efforts made by b creeds and LIlli denominations of th thA day hi to explain that Ho wax a God without form body parts or passions tilling the of or yet ot taking laking no room mont Their description of Deity Delt said ho he IB Is a n splendid tion of nothing not IH 18 a II lint Hat contradiction of terms torms They Th y declared tha tho Father t to bo ho Incomprehensible sible the th Hon Ho Incomprehensible and tho Holy Incomprehensible yet not three Incomprehensible but one In Incomprehensible comprehensible and there la Is no n wonder that they In contusion confusion The speaker then turned his hl atten tion to the restoration of 01 the tho Gospel In the early part of at the nineteenth century I God lIol the Father and IlIa Son Hon I having condescended cone to 10 reveal them Helves Iel to th tI Joseph lie IJo spoke of or tho possibility of or revelation In day 1111 as IIA In limes past and showed such an Idea wn In exact accord with the lIll of or truth out the of ot the theory as 1111 taken tram from the th Jant chapter of ot that thai there was Willi to bo no nomore more revelation The In h hi 1 did not Prohibit God from unto Ills children but simply placed condemnation upon any 1111 man who attempted to 10 add to tn that which was III written writ ton In ho tho wok book of IC Revelation Thu cald was Willi called thu tho word of or God hd but It contained more than tho word of ot loll God for tor It was a II hl tor of Hie 1 dealings with Ills 1111 children also narrated many things done by corrupt men menThe The fhe book Itself of 01 revelations from Jolt God that were not In tho compilation tion If It ever eer there was a 1 time when wh men were In need of at light from the throne of DC grace thu thel speaker contended It uio tO Thu rho remainder of was WM 11 to 10 a IL review of tho principles of ot the tho and to 10 the IIII hope hOllO of or Ih ho of oC exultation In thu Kingdom of ot Go l Hu He those tho e present not acquainted with tin Iho belief of the Mormon people to AlIle for 11 Ii testimony of oC hose things the lie Lord would purely make known to th m milid and will The paid ho have como to I these thelle al to God Goll They lire a II good people leople and are If I no menace to thu Iho nation an ilK Is III reported Their enemies s were act actIng Ing In an 1111 did the Inti eA of oC old and In n I day dllY to conic the Ihl Lord would reward them according to 10 their work The h choir sang Pence Ho II and till the benediction l was Willi pronounced by Patriarch Julin Juhn |
