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Show Saturday, February PAGE THREE TIIE JOURNAL, LOGAN, CACHE COUNTY, UTAH 0. The Journals Cross Word poraries for over a century. Thus a knowledge of God, as a Personal Being, based upon actual association, was carried through the Deluge. Moreover, God had revealed Himself to Noah in a special manner, for of him we read, as of Enoch, that he walked with God. In like manner God made Himself known to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob, with whom he had such direct communication as to be called from that time down, to the present the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob. Unto Moses the Lord made Himself known by intimate and personal association, of BY DR. JAMES E. TALMAGE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE which, fact a single instance may suffice: And the Lord spake TWELVE APOSTLES, CHURCH OF JESUS unto Moses face to face,, as a man speaketh unto his friend. CHRIST OF LATTER-DASAINTS (Ex. 33:11.) SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL VISION New Series No. 2 j Ah, the objector may say. But it is also written: No man hath What is God Like? I pray you be not shocked at the boldness seen God at any time; (John 1:18) and that single sentence of isolated. from its context, singled out and of the question, for it is put in all sincerity and with reverential Scripture affirmation, intent. Many of us have thought about it and some few have had made to appear as an absolute and the courage to follow it up by the aid of reason, research and Man with his mortal limitations cannot look upon anything v but the results achieved and announced by investigators side such limitations of wmoil His eyes cannot even endure the are numerous and diverse. , glare of the .electric light which he himself may produce; and The question involves comparison and analogy. Who or what .he may have to aid or supplement his physical capacity by suitable is sufficiently like God as to justify us in saying that God is like glasses. He needs the microscope to afford" him sight of the very unto him or it? To the conscientious reader of and believer in small, and the telescope to give him a glimpse of what lies in the the Holy Bible a definite answer appeals with an intensity that 'upper and outer deep. Moses understood that he could not look and explained, may he convincing. In the very brief account of the stages of upon God with unaided vision and has so affirmed in Book Moses are e in lines of was' which the made formed and earth The the part: "The words of fit creation by opening abode of life plant, animal and human as recorded in the first God, which he spake unto Moses at a time when Moses was caught up into an exceedingly high mountain, and he saw God chapter of Genesis, we read : And God said. Let us make man in our image, after our like-- 1 face to face, and he talked with him, and the glory of God was ness; So God created man in his own image, in the image of God upon Moses; therefore Moses could endure his presence. (Pearl Great Price, Book of Moses 1:1, 2) . Later verses of the same created he him. ;of ' LITERAL, NOT FIGURATIVE chapter explain further: And the presence of God withdrew made be could declaration in this from Moses, that his glory .was not upon Moses; and the man what change wording By WHAT IS 1. GOD LIKE? out-pray- Puwio mk I. S4 tt, Ok r . Story CkaraetarlsUe C4 Dood t. 8a taglrs F.aialo toad (1. Amerlraa tX Eat away operatic so. SX Protall oa erase SX Gives k.ek SX Poeeeutnc 41. Mot mark Savor ft. Cable meter IX Abandoned da. Abya.ea 4X Character la liaele TomS fX At ao time Cable J. Bora ft laitalledt tar. ix IVidi HirhiiT U. ; SX I IX H. , Perform S7. 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Ml aot 14 Inick Mill- tor . IS. IS. S,J. lHi from 4 4 riiM tartar i for-th- Solution ot Yesterday's ACIOSS brmiou Puzfcte 7, Fort pretlr a. A weight of India iu burr bedtime The child's prayers are good mental hygiene. God . lie tells a benevolent whatever misdeeds lie heavy on his .conscience, and sure ol God's love he asks to be iorglven and he asks a blessing on all , those he loves. No matter how naughty he has been, such a prayer, sincerely spoken, turns him Into a good boy once more, and he sleeps the sleep ol the . innocent to awake . In the morning with a Iresh start on a new day. . In homes where children do not say such little prayers, mother must assume the happy task ol seeing that her child goes to sleep at night with a clean con- science and the 'leeling that he Is a good child. II the hour before bedtlriie Is given over to story . telling and quiet, leisurely talk, it becomesquite naturally a time lor con- child easily unlidences with-th- e tnouble- hlmsell o burdening some thoughti and anxieties. not does The wise mother throw away this opportunity. She sees in it the way to keep In touch with her child's inner llle, currents emotional the with which lie beneath his actions and which, more than anything, determine what kind of man he will become. . ' at At this time, more than her Is she sparing in, any other, Censure, allectionate, understanding and cheerluL Nothing is more destructive to the child's wholesome development than a 'burden ol guilt carried over from day to day. Nothing that any child has done during the day Is unlorgivable at bedtime. The child who Is tucked into that, bed with a consciousness though he has mado mistakes, his mother thinks he Is a good huboy, will try as lar as It is manly possible to merit her faith In him on the morrow. -- ... i -- a close synonym. Clearly these terms are used in the passage but his glory current in the language, figured before him. cited in the literal sense in which they-arIf it is possible that such change be wrought upon the human In Genesis 5:1 we read of the day in which God created man, and and made he God of as appears in the case of the Hebrew children, the three, likeness in assured him; the that body are again so in the third verse of the same chapter we are told that Adam1 and in the case of certain Nephites, all of whom werecame out furnaces cast into his called and ; they his after own in that his tected .fiery son likeness, image a although their so or smoke fire of smell garments, it upon without even the name Seht.. One would have to imagine an interpretation such work to Lord 3 changes upon the the latter pas-lithis for even that in be to absurd surely possible suggesting strained as of the the can resembled it Seth eise that endure, but that means functioning organism of physical anything Scripture sage of test under his upon even looking that of be to father.) the high so as very image closely spiritual organism, his father Adam AH these uses of the word image are translations of the (the glory of God. and that of the same Hebrew term; it is therefore consistent to hold that they Prophets who lived between the time of Moses unto the people as Him of declared and Lord is also saw the of Such Christ original birth the. .same andrthe one meanings have Nebuchad-- , they knew him. Consider the words of Isaiah;- - "tjr the year image as descriptive of the golden effigy set up by idols. to as term of the uses of applied other ithat king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, nezzar, and Then Thou Note further the significant passage in the Decalog: high and lifted up, and his train filled the Itemple. man am a because of I likeness am or woe for me! undone; is said unto thee 'any I, any graven image halt not make etc. (Exodus 20:4). This injunction especially forbade ciean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of jmclean lips : for with idolatrous pur- - jmirie eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. (Isaiah 6:1, 5). the making of images or likenesses of things in the common and used are plainly and the expressions pose; SCRIPTURAL DISPENSATIONS THE VARIED DAY literal sense. difThe Among the most essential chronological order of the dealings of God with man, as , CHRIST LIKE UNTO THE FATHER and adults between of ferences successive recorded in scripture, demonstrates the; passing, THE CURRENT DISPENSATION children Is their greater tendency covering a third of a century, Jesus definite periods and epochs, as in history in general; and each During His earth-lifand fatigue. to overstimulation .Christ was in every physical sense a man ; His body of flesh and of . thesecriptural periods, has been .appropriately, called a disFollowing the long' period of spiritual gloom, the great and JXhe, young child cannot long aver Christ: an and that jthe Scriptures camerthe.-timreal,: bones was tangible one ' ttitnc specified in scripture keep his attention pensation. Thus "we have the dispensation of Adam; of Noah; of latest and generar apostafcy. nervous dawned is the image of God, (2 Cor. 4:4 the image of the invisible God Abraham, it last or from the upon without suffering days; of Moses, .each named, and conveniently so,. by the as the dispensation of fulness, of hia person (Heb. 1:3). mother a the In permits the ancient 1:15) image foretold (Col. Many express will manner strain., and word world prophets. communicated the God in by the whom Hi$ name of the man to ' . because , On the man Joseph Smith, whose name ha3 come herself to . be annoyed night of our Lords betrayal Philip, one of the Apos- as the prophet at the head of that respective period the 1820, young year wont stay put, her tles, said unto Jesus: Lord; shew us the Father and it sufficeth The inauguration of every new dispensationf after that of to be known by good or evil repute throughout the world, was because he flits constantly from and time with so I been, unto you, Have long saith and him, in Jesus doctrine us. practice one thing to another, with conAdam marked the culmination of a period of Wickedness and greatly distressed over the confusion Father seen the he bath denominations that me. of sequent demands oh ' her time not known thou sects and Philip? bast and such fitfd "per- among the divergent contending yet every from the "way of the Lord; apostasy general1 Father? the ' (John Shew us 14:8,9.) he the then. and attention. and how sayest thou sought iod of apostasy was primarily characterized by the joss or for- the time. In his prayerful search for the truth She does not realize that it is full with The Scriptures are definite in declaring that Jesus Christ i3 feiture he As can fervency prayed God the people in general. wisdom that Godlone give. natural for him to play with not tbe tT?e reeffeTth!ethEteroairFathei!fliirit0i3 Satan had been busy of soul he became conscious of a great light descending upon him, one toy or to pursue one activity thetisoBucceMiveopeSassy Dn'in j we address . or one line of thought for more i geeds of unbelief amidst the fair flowers and the and he has solemnly made record as follows : affirmed with equal certainty that man is in bodily form the Lholefome grain 0f the Lords planting, with the result that men than a few minutes at a streten. whose two saw When the light rested upon meI personages, of this shortness of God. Because of the of the Chnst, very image likeness , no longer and, taxing their ingenuity to the limit, they brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the attention span in young m varymt degree The adult body of sum conform, conjuring up some kind of the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name, and children the wise mother sees to thdr Sinatio'n r wild Is broken contour and shape of the spirit that tenants it. Granted t at conceptjon more the e Deity better, representing mysterious said, pointing to the other This is my beloved Son. Hear Him,. it that her childs ofdayvaried on one s own part work from ills transgression, the short resulting Into periods through as being impersonal and in fact and scores of thousand's vyho have reSmith knew, Joseph of is man a rest. and imperfect many and play or as entailed through heredity, ceived in their hearts divine witness of the truth of this mans e from the The bored, whtny child Is often THE LATEST APOSTASY Body, and in the measure of his defects differs tired Son Jesus His and Eternal Father God the has become know. affirmation one who that however, is no Let 'us"'considefthe "most recent'of "these declensions the - too - long type. Imperfection or deficiency in thebutindividual, Las men! The A Father concentrating unto throiigh" like form are in Christ perfect to the contrary. great falling away from the truth which developed rapidly after proof that perfection is upon one activity. A variety Jesus old. Remember that when jody of flesh and bones as tangible as mans; the Son also. They playthings Is helpful. Many centuries before His birth in the flesh, HimselfChrist,- the closest the apostolic ministry of Doctrine and Covenants 130:22. And in the physical form, turally He left the phymanifested was draw the child from some in mission Jehovah, as completed our and mortality Lor(ys worshiped then known as block is man! such and likeness of God, quiet activity, to a certain Jaredite 'prophet, saying to the man: Seest tjes wj0 had been duly 'ordained and commissioned to build up image or the the floor, who upon one has God than describe all able to building even could be better Who Yea, acthe church which He had founded, and for a time the Gospel was such to thou that ye are created after mine own image? of "pictures," eximage. Behold, preached by them in its simplicity and many, were brought to seen Him? As has been demonstrated, the patriarchs and pro- making the as riding tive men were created in the beginning after mine own pursuits of my spirit; and phets of old spoke of God as a being whom they had both seen press wagon or playing train. condition that insured them salvation. But with the this body which ye now behold, is the body to as whose I in so as latter these And own even and and testimony heard. their days, overstimulating eliect oi forward'with The appear ing of the apostles, men stepped precepts, I created after the body of my spirit; play than that of one unrelieved periods cf social especinto theeC tonin' the' spiriTwhl I appear unto my people in the and clouds of error thickened until the whole world fell into a the actual person of Deity can be more effective children ls young among The in made formanifest has been God 3:15-16- .) whom unto had Prophet mankind person? again state of spiritual darkness, .because to be guarded against, it is, flesh, (Book of Mormon, Ether man has persistently gotten God. Man was no longer willing to believe in a Divine Smith', through whom the Lord has opened up the dis- ially darkness Joseph fine for little children of course, of spiritual ages long Through afof God of times, has" given us this positive but the adjustto together, play after whose image he had been created,; but tried to construct pensation of the fulness - refused to acknowledge or admit his high estate as a child Unable " " child is called . " each which which ments Father. firmation: Devine indescribable his of they but something theories of a mysterious embodied in the image and likeness social situathe to make to exalted and an is man, are own we to now, his upon as once was God Himself called God. For ceturies the Church of England has officially and it Is best to conceive of organic form and structure superior are taxing, tion secret. Being, he felt proclaimed this View: "There is but one living and true God, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great alone with be to entirely him for human body, and professing belief m a Supreme to today, and the great God who holds this his playthings at Intervals dureverlasting, without body, parts or passions; of infinite power, If the veil were rent constrained through rejection of the plain and simple tnith, who upholds all worlds and all things by ing the day. and the devise no in to its world and fantasy orbit, Now, a thing that possesses parts wisdom and goodness, of a Personal God, Himself visible I say, if you were to Mothers of high strung to make fllirmSbte to was andean His. itself-b- e to ,po be a power, of unit, that, cannot aiacLrequiring Ur give jSeingrTHHflgltjBpaitlyat itJielpfulthe usual non-l- li: wouM see Him like s man, in form like your-ancr see IBm.Lodajvyott demonstration. In" addition-t- o void, yet ascribing to this shapeless them, for a as man; and others If you would know to what condition the minds ofmenhave selves in all' the person, image and very iorm and likeness two, short rest perientity the --ailrihuteS of omniscience, omnipotence, of nap, one or the ed - was created in. J.heveryl ashiongjniage Adamread day when theyn of God, put odsto their eome during eotiception uTrespect aCt anancoiP talked and rciax op-ostill and He walked, human mind, a received instruction in the and quite from, and D. may of God, A. by promulgated been engraved 325, Nice, forth at the council bed. Soeeply has this error human another. the with and rt he talks one man of communes, that as versed with Him, precept and dogma, church which thus showed itself to be in the very depths so rigorously impressed by DivineI.-H- e is, bora in the Man belongarta 4he Order.fif-th- e nuin ar man, being i apostasy WA .may well pass over ihe question of controversy form ol the in NOTICE as God being of conception with the laws and com to Gods become abhorrent Athanasian of compliance later the the Nicene Through has and of the God, eJ lineage f to the as authorship the physical image of Logan Home Building Society. martyrdom in testimony of the en Creed. We read as the labored and professedly learned issue mandments given of God which mark the path of progression, many. Yet men have suffered for Meeting Stockholders rank the godtship, attain to man for made is it council possible the half a ecclesiastical and following: of the nobling truth. A century he of may eternal of heredity to the principles neither in death burned the by apos was unity, operation by We worship one God in trinity, and trinity The regular annual Stockholdbegan Abinadi, a Nephite prophet, Father. Eternal of his status there For the ers substance. nor Meeting of the Logan Home the was approach dividing confounding the persons, tate priests; and this evil thing; we know,, then true in may of itrtiouM Society wUl be held at ourselves and another Building and us sincerity; Let study image of man, is one person of the Father, another of the Son, Chamber of Commerce that Christ should take upon him thecreated I the Logan in . s, the Holy Ghost.. But the Godhead of the Father, Son, ,and Holy in part at least, what God is like which man was oclock p. m. on Tuesday, at De Such February 11, 1930. The purpose in other'wOTds, h. said that man was creaa'hVd 'nTmen Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty is the Holy Ghost. such of the meeting is to receive the and the such is down Son, come the is, Father as should God and that God, and Financial unAnnual Reports face the Ghost the and Son and Holy the uncreate, go blood, and Father uncreate, The and take upon him flesh to elect a Board of Statement, Son incomprehensible, create. The Father incomprehensible, the Directors for the coming year, of the earth. (Book of Mormon, Mosiah 7.21.) The Father eternal, the and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. and such other business as may MAN TO GOD OF not are PERSONAL MANIFESTATIONS there come before the meeting And etemaL Ghost yet the and property Holy Son eternal, race in Board of Directors givenio the.human " """Knowledge of a Personal God was are not three there As also one eternal. but . and after the threrntemalr, before both ny li, . J , Hatch God with and talked the beginning. Adam nor three increated; but one uncreated, Secretary!. incomprehensibles, ent from s, of voice Diet, M So likewise the Father is almighty, the transgression and. if the one incomprehensible. New series stock may be secBuildare Home and the Holy Ghost almighty, and yet there ured by Prospective abided aLTg memfor Adam fived to see many generations of Son almighty made be should is er Father God, So the one application not three almighties, but almighty. .bedoubtless and of company the they office !at the advanced not years, his posterity grow to the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God, and yet there are fore the above date. - Advertisement three God& but one God! Can you understand it? I freely confess that it is beyond my ofEmih power of comprehension. Moreover, who can conceive of the exPrepared ed with God as recorded in Genesis, Nations renounce poison gas and Xthed in the Book of Moses wherein the istence of an intelligent being without parts and devoid of feeling tlien keep on experimenting in order lifore is thus given: I beheld the heavens of d and passions? Do we not read of Gods wisdom, of His anger, face to be ready la case temptation should love? His of count instances Anger beyond and have we not overcome lliwu. hetafkewith meTevens a and love are passions. They are possessed by mn, who is the fulness and in their purity they are posset of Great Price, chiUof . NORMAN TORP 14 West Center and 33 North' Main Latter-da- y Saints Moses 7:3,4. . Christ Jesus of repudiates of Church The J txp'iifetime of his father di TRANSFER g We are here to serve Noah, who lived many ye; ars rri manifested 'belief in that illimitable, formless being, without parts or pasat Godhaa him from Earned God, have CALL Lamech, must tvjstente o the )iving personal tmmt t e pro-beg- at j I orun-anythin- g, e, I non-existe- God-lik- -- non-existe- nt, Apos-sicall- yy Be-in- g,, -take -- -- the-Cre- . 1 i - -- al. Jhn -- -- -- . bn f un Gand ,nr ,h' 1 Prescription Drug Co. J 503 |