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Show J1 artment e-ure- n in the Salt Lake Tabernacle Sunday, Nov, 13, 1927, by ; ' ELDER LEVI EDGAR YOUNG. Delivered than the Holy Bible The Book of .Mormon has been fead by many peep) and some have understood it. some have not understood it , of the divinity of the jTh proof Mormon iBook of does not lie r' jwttfcout the book, it Iks within the (Reported by Frank W. Otteratrom.) pages of the Vook, just as the (proof of any divine work doe. The ? My brethren and aleters end Tou will realize how important , proof of the Book of Mormon is to him. la the Book of Mormon devslopmrn -and if frtends. The hymn that wee auny spiritual It embodies these great principles Wo hold faithfully to this doe-trlthe from Is taken choir the of hy and in it I s a pr.nctple that I have annunced, certainly it , Addres collection. published Wesleyan many years aye In England. The composer of the hymn was John Wesley, one of the most noted men whe Veer Heed, and the founder of Methodism. Me recognise In Methodism a movement for the spiritand ualising of the human race, hisamong th, great characters of tory who sought to bring about a of the principles of ethic, baaed upon the Christian creed were John Wesley and his brother, Samuel. When we listen to a hymn of thl kind we are truly lifted np In our spirits, for such men wrote and spoke by the Spirit of God. We have other hymns that eaprees not only the Spirit of God. hut they tell us what it means to worship God in spirit and In truth. Wo are only too glad to ntng them for they are the hymns ef Zion, and we eay to the stranger within our midst that the blesaed songs that UTt your souls to God. we gladly ng with you. This Is a conference of tbs Pioneer stake. There are ninety-nin- e stakes of Zion throughout the western part of the country hre. Most of them, of rourse, ere within era 'the confine of Utah. These ecclesiastical units. Every Mormon Is a member of a stake of Zion. Ms have about one thousand ward 'in the Church and over each ward presides a bishop with tare Over each stake is a president and his two counselor, and all members of the Church of Jesus Saints, are 'Christ of Latter-da- y members of some ward and stake Of Zion. Because of this, every Latter-da- y Saint becomes a worker "MorrnorUam" is In the Church. essentially a pragmatic - religion, for its Idealism is expressed In service to humanity. , As a rule, the selections rendered .by our Tabernacle choir as well as .these rendered by the organist on tho great organ are those of the masters of song and music. Daily ifcitals am given hero by courtesy the First Presidency of the jtf Church In honor of tho tourists who visit Salt Lake City. Our programs always consist of tho com- positions of some of the great riss-.tesuch as Handel. Hayden, Lisst, , Mendelssohn. Mozart. Schumann and many others. In this old bullJ- ing Hayden's Creston" was given a few months after tho dedication of the building occurred; and from this pulpit have sung the great artists both of America and .Europe. Constitution , .In 1ST7. when thewas one hunpf tho United States dred years old, there gathered In thousands of Philadelphia the city of people who came to celebrate the anniversary of that grast A choir of one thousand voices sang "An Appeal to Truth. the words of which were composed by Schiller,- the German poet, and the music by Mendelssohn, tha same German composer. That - beautiful poem was sung here one choir. year later by the Tabernacle ,1 ay this by way of Introduction lor the benefit of our friends who have corns here today for the first tme. We welcome you and hope that you will find hero in this .building that same spirit of Christian fellowship and Christian worship that you have in your home, end vthich you crave particularly a ben yon are away from home. latter-da-y Salma Thankful. Saints have much We Lalter-da- v to be thankful for. Ms have been gathered here In the- - lops of the mountains and the state of Utah la slowly growing into a greater com' mnnwealth. We hope that th day wfli come when all illiteracy will blotted out from the social Ills be ' of this state, when every man and woman and child wi'l become educated 'and when education shall be held on a far higher scale than In any other place in the world. This may sound rather etareme to you. ; but when yon stop to think that the Saint place hi average Latter-da- y ideal far off In the star, and that he firmly believes that th glory .of Gpd Is intelligence, and that Jnan cannot be saved In Ignorance. coon--eelor- s. rs ilocu-.me- - L.D.S. Garments Trie No. Wt. Flat ..95 3 Light Wt. Rib ..$1.40 5 Medium Wt. Rib . .5175 6 Med. Wt Rib Ecru$1.75 52.00 7 Heavy Wt Rib 8 Heavy Wt Rib Ecru52.00 9 Ext Hvy. Wt Rib 52.25 10 Ext Heavy Weight Rib I Summer Ecru II Imt SECTION THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1927 .... 52.25 Silk & Wool, 53-7- 5 Wool 53.50 12 Med. Wt 13 Med. Wt Pt Wool 54.00 taste If Mss or Lady aad whether sew er old etyle. rt anywhere la Footage prepa'd u. a a. mar return any pair not Whv Pay More? satisfactory Tow N. L. Hansen L D. S. Garment Man ItBrigham City. Utah. ethics which sooner or later must become a foundation for the whoe moral system .of tho human race This is why In our homes vou will a prayerful find people, cbil- who - oend their people to dreo school, 'who" sup port schools and who gather hi their priesthood meetings, and come together in other meetings for the purpose of intellectual and moral uplift. We hope to see the the dap when -- every membsr Latter-day Church of Jesus Christ of an be called Saint may man or woman in the true sense of the term. And we hope that every other individual in the world may become so well educated and developed in mind, spirit and body that the ignorance of the world shall have been done away wtrn and the kingin the dom of God established hearts of the human race. It was Robert G. Ingerso! wno once declared. before & body"of-Harvs- rd students, that the only darkness in the world is ignorance. I believe this to be a fact, and it ia the onhr darkness that we have to fear. Ignorance! 1 do not stand here to say that we have rooted out ignorance from our soulw far from It. We people are merely struggling on as yon are, striving to understand the law and the waya of Divine Providence: doing what we can to fstablish the Kingdom of God in tho world. In our human imperfections there is a glory because the glory of life consists In overcoming, In working and In struggling for thiT'WSMbry of ourselves and for attaining unto a likeness of the God who is the Father of the humtn race. I am speaking ny way of introduction to what. I wish to say further, and I do H for the reason that many peope misunderstand our motive and our purposes in life.- It is our knowledge. s it im yours, dh at human being a. child of theevery same God. God la of th6 human race, and with Mendelssohn can we sav as he said in his -- Elijah: Then shall youf light break forth Lord our Creator! How excellent, O Lord, are thy purposes and thy works! This summarizes the foundation of the beliefs of the Latter-da- y Saints. Th Book of Mormoo, Thia year. 1937. we people are asked to read one of the standard Church works, th Book of Mormon. Th namely Book 4t Mormon Wa written by divinely inspired prophets on this continent, and handed down to this day and age th - fdj-cate- d Th rri lies there. Mountains loom path we take. Tonder peak rises sharp and cledr. Behold we clfonb, w clinch, drawing near its summit Deeper grows the way and slower our step. Mountain! loom upon the path we take, Tonder peak rise sharp and is worthy of reading. clear. twin a rerent reading of this book Behold us now on its head I find the following great virtues uplifted tabulated. These virtues I have Arriving .here at last we all listed, andthey teach the same sing our song. glorious virtue and fthter and Indian Traditions, principles as the Holy Bible. I wrote down the following virtues The Pawnee !ndasi declares tn found in the writings of tbs Proph- an o'd tradition called the Hako' et AlmdV Hcjaught the following. that life means the chmning of a and where we "We must be obed!rt to God and great mountain shall approach, to the top of tn his word. We must know charifyTcom-psssloirTOuntsttrThmghtr the eternal hospitahry, temperance, Great us8plnt shall come to us and into the home of eternal chastity, trutMuiViers. industry, lead thrift, prudenre, patriotism, pa- lfe. When reading the Hako you almost fee! that --you are considertience. meekness. loa!ty, diligence, Runyan's pilgrims Progperseverance, mercy and all of ing ress or some of the cantos of these great ethical principles may Dante's for Divine Comedy h summarized in these four both of these great poems declare word gf truthfulness, mercy, larger hon-c- at ir-and show that life mission, a purity. And these four atUl day to .day to the forth er summarized in one word, climbingof from God. throne our love for God and h!s holy work. Las Caac. the Spanish writer, Now if this book which we hold who was a ompamonof Columtty be- - divine teaehes such-ethi-cal bus, declared that the native peoprinciples, certainty it" is worthy of ple of this new land have become careful thought and study. a lost people and must be redeemHistory of American Indians. ed; and the word of God given to The Book of Mormon is the his- them. Las Casas declared that the ind-awere naturally a religious tory of the forefathers of the American Indians. There are today people, a worthy and peaceable within the present confines of the peopie, before the whites cams to United Stgte some 309,90 in. America To give you something of an diana. Possibly at the time of the Idea as to how the American Indiscovery of America by Columbus dians Interpreted the teachings of there were 509.99. i think this day Christian missionIs a very conservative estimate. the early wish to relate to you the I There ar in the state of Utah aries, of tory Sagoyewatha or Red 3.000 Indiana. Most all of the tribes have bren gathered on to the res- Jacket, and hia Interpretation un-of Christian teachings aa he ervation some 169 of them with- the derstood them. Sajmyew&tha or in the present confines of the Red Jacket, was a Seneca Indian. United States. The Indians are be- The Senecas were the most iming educated by the government portant tribe among the Iroquois schools. The children are being Indians, and from them we have taught the principle of Christ and obtained many beautiful legends. thousands of them have listened to Red Jacket died in January, 1830, the missionaries of various Chris- near Buffalo. He never became a tian churches and slowly are com- Christian. It was in 1&0& that Red ing to understand the ways of Jacket delivered his famous truth. The Indians however, have speech fn the presence of many of his people and wire men. always been misunderstood. In the The Latter-da- , Saint, hold that the gathering was a Mr. Cram a time will come when they will unfrom Massachusetts. Mr. derstand the principles of the gos- Cram had told Red Jacket that the pel of Jesus Christ, for it is our Indians must have the Christian be saved, that they firm belief that when Christ came religion to the earth, and after his resur- dwelt in jo darkness, and all of ha rection be gave his divine message people would be lost unless thy into the faith Thev to the people of this continent. thewer n great error al! thtr forebears of the Indian rac of nd rn how to raut day. Therefore we have a very!1 lh Great Spirit. To thia Red sympathy for the American!, ' Indians, and in the history of the er: , the State Of Utah have had very wlf1rid. h nd Great Spirit that we few Indian depredations. It was t"1 Ile Brigham Young s teaching that U Is better to feed the Red men than "r5" out here P VarTl i fcs ,akn bl Sm-ntTo- m before aliaj carried j a -- n bPHi to-i- wor-gre- . ent d ,h rcroachmett of ,he! dred years ago and translated andi opened that we may see clearwhites upon their lands. There are our published and while th Book of were ears are nntopped, so thjt wars in our early history, but ly; Mormon does not take the place we have been to hear distinctof the Holy Bible, it is supple- the policy of the people was to ly the words able ou have spoken. For them with equity, mercy, all these great mentary to the Holy Bible, and thank contain, th. doctrine of our Lord "'I Juritce and today thousands th. Grfat g ,n , Jcsoa Christ, as H them ot India"- though not members of Brother this council fire wa - , r.:' "d T.hin hA" w It y you at your ?Jheof the came tho Savior human ,hP "rcy and goodness of the quest that we came together at thia race. The prophets who wrote the Mormon people toward them. um. We have listened with atBook of Mormon were hke ths The Indiana of America, have tention to what have said. You prophets of the old Testament a rich folk lore and folk legend requested us toyou our minds speak 7 In the Book of Mormon and I think they are as beautiful freely. This gives us great Joy, for find such nsmes as Lehi and you as the folk song it and mythology we now chnsder that we stand Alma, Mosiah snd and traditions and legends of any othbefore ou, and can speak ers who were mighty many men snd rac that ever lived. Fortunately what we think. Ail have heard prophet These prophets were di- through the department of Inand all speak to you as voice, vinely inspired of God to write dian affairs at Washington, we are jour one man Our minds are agreed. just as the prophets of the Old gathering up these many traditions Brother, you say ypu want an Testament were inspired and you and folk songs. Many of them answer to your talk before you will find in this remarkable boob have been and they In- k av this place. published, It Is that for it is a remarkable book belief in the y i u should have one. as right a wonderful dicate you are a the teachings of Judaism, of old of li'e and the power of great distance from home, and we meaning which stood for a belief ln ona the great spirit. It is only recently do not wdlvdo-detai- n you; but we Godt th creator-o- f the- world, and I found among the Piute In- wdU first look Nek a little, and tha Father-o- f tha human race. that the the dians tell what our fafhrs have told ns legend concerning Th Book of Mormon defines very great Balt Lake. I am going to and what we have heard from the clearly the principles and doctrinea read few of these white people. a ou, therefore, given to mankind by Jesus Christ Brother, listen to what we say. our Lord It is the second stand- as we have gathered thm, because than Tnere was a time when our fathers ard work of the Church and goes I believe they indicate, better the of owned all this great island. Their something hand in hand with the Holy Bible anything els, seats extended from the rising to It gives clearly tho teaching of the depths of feeling that these natives thi to the setting sun. The Great Spirit America had and have Kingdom of God. Th!s is of is a little folk song had made it for Jhe ue of the to be established upon kingdom this earth day. There i certal on Indians He had created the buffalo, tha lteThe Book of Mormon tells about sung by the bear, and drer for food. Fie the Infinite value of the human occasions. made the bear and the beaver, and soul, and the fatherhood of God. The cottonwoods are growing their skins served ua for clotl.'ng. The spirit that you and I have, snd tall. He had scattered them ovr the which Is fathered by God himself, are cottonwoods growing The country and daugnt us how to laha la capable of endless progress. Vou tall. them. He had caused the evrth to and I are endowed with power to cottonwoods are growing The produce corn for bread. Ail this develop throughout the countless tall and verdant. he had done for his Red children, ages of eternity. The Book of Morare cottonwoods growing The for he bvd them. If we had any mon teaches our divine relationtall and verdant. disputes about hunting ground, ship to God and as we lift our hearts snd souls to him our Mak-- r. - Here Is the Indian philosophyr they were generally settled without the shedding of blood; but an he draws graciously Unto us. that-agrownature seems and tb day came lipnn us. Tour fored:ine relationship be ing and unfold.ng snd developing. evil" fathers crossed the Great waters twen God and his children is There is an evolution, in fact? in and landed on this Island. Their you numbers were nature. And whv shouldn't These are some they found teachings and I and the children of the friends and notsmall; enemies. T hey of the Bunk of ofthe Mormon. 'It is Great Bpirit grow like the cottonus told fled had from their they merely summary that I give, and woods, taller and taer. toward own for tear of wicked I that w can say the source ot life from day to day men. country and had cme here to .ijoy that po three greater rightly us These old Indians have Wt their have ever teen embodied thoughts The) asked or a In ideas of religion, that are very small religion. we took on seat, work ever given and written any pity them, b beautiful and as We sang the fathem their request, and the hand cf man. are also mous Mormon hjmn, "Come, granted the three grnt prlnc hey fHes that oo Come Te taints." at the hegmn.ug fhev sat down among us. AW gave find in t1' and meet, they gave us 1 iv Bible, and are this meeting. 1 should like to them corn In return The white eopis the three f mdamrnTal truths made of read for you a Pawner Indian poon known br vl for the redemption song that I think embodies the had now found our country iMtrgs ot the human raccMgpy people very spirit of the comirg of the were rn raved beck, and - more have read he of came among us. Vet we did not Mormon Latter-daSaints to the and hire the reading of any hook It the Greet falt Lake. The valley Pawnee fear them, we took them to be reqajree studv You cannot obtain Indians sing it every spring snd friends Thev called us brother frm the Jb;k of Mormon its fall. After the harvest dav the We beloved snd gave them At leneth their ,hrtu?ht bf merely reading come together around the fires In a larger seat it. The book requires 1nerea.-number and they srud. Were the woods and realizing that the wanted more there in this eorgregaVon land, thev wanted a fol- have great mountain to climb our lower of the Zen da our minds were country, esta. the and rivers to ford, they must gah-e- r great Persian book, he would tell for the winter This song opened and w became . uniy. us that In order to understand the ha food as Ware took place. Indiana were become common to them Zends Vesta the Persian drops on Iher go out Jnsearch nf peace and hired to fight aga nst Indian, and his knees many times each day the dawn of a new day: manv of our people were detroyed. and night and paa to the great They also brought strong If'jucr Father that he may hare the spira if long us. it was strong and powMountains loom upon, the of it erful and has slam thousands. understanding of that .path we lak. work, bo we should 'Tonder peak rises sharp and Brother, our seats were once the Book of Mormon and study - clear, Holv and yours very small. VY0 Bihle with tbs same degree f have now become s great people: Behold it stands with Ps head faith No work of an history ha and we have carcelv a place left uplifted. h&d mors books pufcUh4 about K Thither go we since our path io spread pur blankets. Ton have 'nJim - . Xe-P- up-ric- - o-be H- y mas-terf- fa'-g- f gqt our country, but are not satisfied, y6u want to force your religion upon us. Brother, continue to listen. You say ou are sent to tell us how tq worship tha Great Bpiritr agreed ably to his mind; and if we do net take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter. Tou say that you are right and wre are lost. How can we know this to bs tree? We understand that your religion is written in a book. If it was intended for us ss well aj you, why has not the Great Spirit given It to ua, and not only io us, but why did he not give it to our fore- fathers? and the knowledge of that book, writn the means of understanding it correctly. We only know what ou tell us about it; how shall we know when to be- oftcn hue! V' your arrows no more In your brothers blood. Thaa the groat man will make you to increase greatly, and be happy io this good land. Te shall keep the dance of peace which the Great Man has appointed. When ye observe It, ye shall know if ye are clean in your hearts by a sign Having said these words, Gard was wrapped ia a cloud and floated up into the lapd of souls. CoiM.wrnlng the Creation. In a remarkable work entitled Histoire Dee Nations Civilises du Mextque t de LAmerfque Cen-trawritten by M. Brasses u de Bourbourg, and published in Paris m 1857, we are told that the most ancient people of Central America and Mexico were th Quinmes, who came from th east and Cod delivered them from the pursuit of tbelr enemies. They believed is God and the Trinity. The folis most ancient the legend lowing they have concerning the erection, from the M. M. 8. of Chkhicaste-nangle o; Why I Believe the Booh of Mormon. By Nephi Jensen. Man CoM Sot Write. ROBERT O. INGERSOLL COL. aaid: If th first man bad found a book, he would have know it that God had wrifien U This conctUBion of the brilliant agnostic is very sound. It is based upon the Idea that, if the first man In the world had discovered a book, there would have been no Ua possible way of accounting for existence extept upon the hypotheGod was the author of it sis It can be said with equal consistency., that if any man In any age of the world should find a book which man could aot write, he woud be compelled to conclude that it was produced by superhuThe Book of Mormon man skill. i just such a book Book of Mormon To sayhat-thcould not have been produced by mere human skill is a very sweeping assertion. It calls for Ary positive proof. In order that our discussion shall be very definite, let us confine oUr investigations to Just seven verses of one chapter. In the first seven verses of the Third chapter of Helamsn, ws have this language: And now it came to pass in the forty snd thifd year of the relrn of the Judges, there was no contention among the people of Nephi, save it were, a Little pride which was in the church, which did cause some little dissensions among ths people, which affairs were settled in the ending of the forty and third jear. And there was no contention among the people in the forty and fourth year; neither was there much contention in the forty and fifth year. And it came to pass in the forty and sixths yea, these was much co ition. and many dissensions; in the which there were aa exceeding great many who departed out of the land of Zara hernia, and w'ent forth unto the land northward. to Inherit he land; And they did travel to an exceeding great distance; insomuch that they came to large bodies of water, and many rivers; Yea, and even they did spread forth into ail parts of ths land, into whatever paxls it bad not teen rendered desolate, and without timber, because of the many inhabi-tant- a who had before Inherited the land, MAnd now no part of the land was desolate, safe It were for timber. etc.; but because of the greatness of the destruction of the people who had before Inhabited the land It was called desolate And there" being but little timber upon the fsce of the Und, nevertheless the people who went forth, became exceeding expert in the working of cement, therefore they did build houses of cement, in the which they did dwell As you read the simple narrative. you will, no doubt, say that there is nothing remarkable about tt. But notice the language closely. We have in this very short account a statement of three important historical items relating to ancient Central America. First. There is the statement that Xephitea, who had lived In South America, moved northward to occupy a portion of Centra! America, which had previously been occupied by th Jareditea. Second: It Is here stated that the timber In Central America w'as destroyed by the first occupants of Central America. Third It is here recorded that the Xephitea, who moved into Central America, used cement in building. All of these Items of history were written Into the Book of Mormon In 18Z9, by the young farmer, Joseph Smith. Are they true? In 1908. Dr. O. F. Cook, of the Cnited States Department of Agriculture, went to Central America to make a study of plant life, with th view of ascertaining the relation of plant life in Central America to plant life in North America. After prosecuting his investigations for a number of months, he returned to Washington, D. C., and compiled his findings. These findings were published in Bulletin No. 145. Bureau of Plant Industry, In H99. At page 18 of this bulletin, we read ths follow ing Many localities which ar now occupied by apparently virgin forests ar shown by archaeological remains to be regions of reforesta-to- n Thus in th district of Alta Vera Paz relics of two or three very different A Book -- tht "When all that was necessary to be created In the heaven and the earth was finished, the heaven being formed. Its angles measured. Its limits being fixed, heaven found itself created, and heaven it ws Brother, you say that there Is called by the Creator and the Masbut one way to worship and serve were neither men nor the Great Spirit. If there be but ter. There birds nor flowers, woods animals, one religion, why do you white nor scones; vallages nor forests. people differ so much about it? . . . There was only ths heaven Why not all agree, as you can all The legend then pictures a counread the book? cil between the Fathers and the suBrother we do not Understand preme .Creator, after which the these things We sre told that your word is spoken and the earth religion was given to your fore bursts forth- - from the darkness, fathers and has been handed down with and mountains animal; from father to son. We also have a bird great and flowers. The Kgend religion which was given to ear shows' further how QuetzalcohuaU forefathers, and has been handed breathes, into. man the. hreaiu of. down to us their children. We life on the seventh day. Then Worship that way. It teaches us to later as the fathers and mothers be thankful for all the favors we forgot to praise God, tlje earth was receive; to love each other; and I obscured. to be uniied.' We - never quarrel The legend shows how God tried about religion. to inspire' his children with two Brother, th Great Spirit has fundamental thoughts: lj ths made us all. But he has made a taste for labor; (3) the love tor great difference between his Red true religion. and White children. He has given M. de Bourbourg shows how the us a different complexion and dif- race was divided into two families, ferent customs. To you he has the one nomadlq and savage; the given the arts; to these he has other agricultural and one with no institutions or opened our eyes. We know these things to be true. Since he has policy or organized religion; the made so great a difference between other with regular forms of govus in other things, why may we not ernment and a hlerarchial and reconclude that he has given us a ligious system. different religion according to our The. oldest example of a prayer understanding. The Great 8pirit in American liturgy is a prayer of does right. He knows what Is best the Xahoes of Central America. It for I A children; we are satisfied. runs: Hail Creator. Hail Former. Brother, we do not wish to de- Regard us! listen to us. Heart of stroy jour religion or take It heaven and earth, do not leave us. from you. We only want to enjoy Do not abandon ua, God of heaven our own. and earth. Give us repose, a gloriBrother, you have now heard our ous repose, peace and prosperity, answer to your talk. This is all the perfection of life and of our we have, to say at present. Oh. being. Grant these to us. Such were the words of the Hurakan famous Red Jacket. Down through The person who became the chief the years the American Indian has deity was Quetzal cobuatl. He was wondered why it Is that the whole a reformer and lawgiver, and Christian world had become di- taught them, agriculture. He devided in its teachings an in' its termined to go to the unknown beliefs. A son of one of the great- country. Then when he had done, est Indian chiefs living declared he gathered his brethren around at the opening of the great war in him and said: Know that tho 1914 that if the Great Spirit had Lord your God commands you to really spoken and the world had dwell In these lands which hs hath l.stened to him. the white race subjected to you this day. To him would have buried its tomahawks he returns whence he ties come. forever. But he goes only to return later, for h will visit you again when The Legend of GartL have arrived In I wish to read you but one more the tim shall The Legend of which the world shall have come legend called an end Gard' translated from a Spanish te M. de Bourbourg closes with a manuscript. I shall not comment remarkable prophecy of the High on it, but leave that for you. The Latter-da- y Saints believe that the Priest Man!, In the Court ofin Yucathese forefathers of the American In- tan. He addressed the king dians had the gospel of Jesus words; At the end of the third period, Christ ages ago, that they lost the a nation white and bearded shall gospel through disobedience to the come from ths side where the sun word of God, as ou and I lose the with It a sign (th light of God. This is a legend of rises, bearing all the some of the Indians that roamed cross) which shall maks to flee and. fall. This nation along the north coast 409 years gods shall rule all the earth, giving ago: to those who shall receive it Many snows ago. there lived a peace who will abandon young Hoopa named Gard. He in peace and only God, knew the stars and the habits of vain Jmages to adore the adore. the trees. 'Wide ss the eagles fly whom then bearded men I The Indian legends. say again, was he known for his lore of peace. as you beautiful are aa anything He walked in the paths of humilIn ancient days. The Inity, and clean f was his heart. Hls will find culturally, words were not crooked nor dou- dians are not developed ble. He went everywhere, teaching but we believe they can and they cultured a will become people. A the people the beauty of meekthe Book ness. He said to them, Love peace, I said at of thehistory the nd eschew war and the shedding of.. Mormon-tel- ls of blood. Put away all wrangling the forefathers of this race and all who finally compiled and the spirit of wrath. Dwell to- prophet and left them for gether in the singleness of love. of the records at the close declares the present an be one hearts heart. Let your and of the book that If you or I will So shall ye prosper greatly, we the great one above shall build you read It with a prayerful heart, or not W up like a great rock on the moun- will understand whether tain. The forests shall yield you has come through the will of God. The Words of Alma. abundance of game, and rich nutty seeds anFhcamThgred-flecke- d t will read you a few words from salmon shan never fail in the the Prophet Alma in conclusion. rivers. Ye shall rest In your wig- These words express to us somewam in good joy, and your chil- thing ot the beauty of the Book dren shall run in and out like the of Mormon. It Is a poem as beauyoung rabbit of the field for num- tiful as any pealm of David: unto all the ends of the earth? ber The report of Gard went I . O that I were an angel, and 8. For the Lord doth throughout the lard. Gray bearded could have the wish of mine heart, grant unto behold, all nations, of their men came many days Journey to that I might go forth and speak own to teach nation and tongue, sit at his feet But one day. Gard with the trump of God, with a hia work. yea. In all that went from his wigwam and was voice to shake the earth, and cry he see tit fit that wisdom, they should have, gone many son Hie brother was repentance unto every people? we see Lord th therefor doth that distressed and feared. At first he 1. Tea. I would declare unto counsel In wisdom, according to said: 'He ifeachingthe people every soul, as with the voice of that which is just and true. and will come back thunder, repentance and the plan I. I know that which the Lord But his people feared, and in of redemption, that they should hath me. and I glory a few das they left the wigwams repent and come unto our God, in It. commanded I do not of myself., and began to search the hill and that there might not be more hut 1 glory in thatglory which the Lord vabev for their ' Gard. They sorrow upon all the face of the hath commanded me; yea. and this through the forests. Dav earth. !s my glory, that perhaps I may be afer day they beat up and downln 3. But behold, I am a man, and an instrument In the hands of God for-- 1 the mountain. They houted in ought to brinr some souf to repentanc; In the gloomy canyons, but no sound to be content with the things and this is my Joy came to them but the echo of which the Lord hath allotted unto In the Book of Mormon there their own voices. One by on they me. is not only a deep religious truth abandoned the hunt, and returned 4. I ought not to harrow up In throughout the entire work, but it to their homes In the valv. Tut my desires, the firm decree of a embodies a body of ethical princiriill the brother wandered on. As just God. for I know that he ples unsurpassed In all history. Af h went through the forest, he ex- gianteth unto men according to ter the philosopher Spinoza had claimed aloud O Card, mv broth- their desire, whether ft he unto written his System of Ethics, he er. if Indeed you are already in the death or unto life; yea. I know aid o? the Bible: It must become land of soul, then pak to me at tl.at he sllotfeth unto men accord- the foundation for human end-- , least one word with tho voice of ing to their wills whether they be vor. human wishes, human life and th wind, that I may fcnowkJt for a unto salvation or unto destruction. human faith. So I think the 5. Tea. and I know that good Book of Mormon Is destined in time certainty and therefore be con-- 1 tent al! before come to a evil and hare lay down system of ethics 'Then Gard ca,me to him from men; he that knoweth not good for the race that will eventually the sky, and spoke to hls brother from evil is blameless; but he result in helping to raise the race 'Listen. I have been in the land that knoweth good and evil, to him to the thron of God In spirit and of souls I have beheld thr great ft is given according to his desires, In truth. Read the Book of Morman above. I hate come back to whether he demreth good or evil, mon. my brethren and sisters and earth to bring message to the life or death, Joy or remorse of try to live up to its doctrines. ReThen I shall returd to the conscience. member always that from day to Hoopa land of souls. The Great man vo and learn, and in the 8. Now, seeing that T know day w has eent me to tell the Hoopas that these things, why should I desire words of the great Mendelssohn. wKn in more than to perform th work to In hls Elijah: 'Then shall your peace they must dwell their neighboring tribes. Put from which I have been called? light break forth, and the Lord God 7. of vengeance you all thoughts should T desire (hat T our Creator, shall role in all the Bhy WImH your hearts clean Redden were angel, (hat I could apeak world. Am ea. lb' e d; Senahu-Caha-b- do-s- THREE my-wis- h; 11 types of primitive civilizations ia- dlcmte that as many ancient populations have occupied successively the same area which are now being cleared anew by the coffee planters a a though for the Tim-tim- e , At page 14 we find the following; The survival of the animals on the hills is hardly to be considered possible, for the pyramids and chambered buildings which covered the fcumrait. aa well aa large areas of the elaborately terraced approaches, appear tp have beet, faced ail over with cement. These quotations furnish com- -' plete confirmation of the three items of history which appear in the third chapter of Hel&man Dr. Cook confirms the statement in Heiaman about the successful occupation of ancient Central America. He substantiates the state-nhumus-inhabiti- nt inHelamanabout the . .. structlon of ths Umber. Moreover, he also verifies the statement in Heiaman about the use of cement. A few years ago I had a conversation with a friend, who was inclined to doubt the divinity of the Look of Mormon, concerning the verification of the historical matter in the third chapter of Hela-ma- n, furnished by Dr. Cooks bulletin. I explained to my friend that these three items of history were written into the third chapter o? HeLman by an unschooled young farmer eighty years before the scientist had made the discoveries right on the ground. At the conclusions of my argument 1 naked: Where did Joseph Smith get th Information for this one chapter in the Book ot Mormon eighty years before the scientist made these discoveries? fc dont know. replied my friend, modestly. The skeptics admission that he did not' know from what source Joseph Smith obtained the information for the third chapter of Heiaman is most significant. In effect, the doubter confessed that he could not explain how one chapter in the Book of Mormon could have been written in 152.9 h mere human skilL And yet. within ten minute of the time h4 made this confession, he had boldly asserted that the whole book was He rallied from hie a fraud to discomfiture, and attempted evade the argument hy asking: What does it matter?" Of course, it matters very much. A young farmer without college training, who had never been within three thousand miles of Central America, eighty years in advance of certain archaeological discoveries ln Central America, put Into print three- - great historical facts about ancient Central America Surely, this is a most extraordinary performance. It call for an explanation Where did Josepn Smith get hi Information for this No man at that one chapter? time could have told him all of thes things. He did not read it in any book. There were no books that contained K. Did he just make a gue and guess correctly. That is unthinkable. Mamfestl;., there I no escape from the conclusion that he received these items of ancient history from a divine source. There no other plausibi explanation of the writing of the third chapter of Heiaman ln English at the time it was written. 1 Obituary. TTCKER. tu Worth Tucker, who lost bl, llfo In an accident at Yellowstone Park, Nor. 5. was born In Ash County, North Carolina, Nor. JO, 1J70. His parents, Masel Tucker and Ena line Dollar, with their family, Joined the Latter-da- y Baint Church and came to Utah In 1J04. In 110$, Mr. Tucker married Florence A. Pulsipher at Cleveland, Emery county, Utah. In 1000 they moted to Colonia Mexico, and were active In Ila, that country-i- n helping to start Industries. He erected and ran a flour mill and held various responsible positions ln the Church., He returned to Utah In 1008, settling again tn Emery county. He later moved to Draper, where ha engaged in dairying and farming for a time: then he and tha family moved to Salt Lake City. Mr. Tucker was a kind and loving husband and father and well respected by hls friends and business associates. Surviving sre his widow and the t. following children: Mm. Bell Ivan E. Klrtly, Dora, Andrew, Jeseie. Weeley. Cleone, all of "alt Lake; Mre. Emaline Sanderson of Helper, Also surviving are his mother. Emaline Tucker, and the following brothers and slaters: William Tucker, Mason Tucker, Mrs. Loreta Johnson. Salt Lake; , Moses Tueker of Utah; Florence Johnson. McDole, Calif.; Ida Johnson. Richfield. Idaho; Mrs. Jennie Adams, Price. Funeral services were held in the Miller ward witltJnterment in tha Mlii Creek, cemetery. Nov, OvI-at- Clp-eUnd- J. |