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Show TIIE DESERET NEWIi, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, Church Department. Five) (Continued From ) tbta is all an illusion does not fit the facts of history." Admits KTideoof. Michael Idvorsky Fupie, UaD. profsa-o- r John Hopkins for II years, Coluaa-tiat lillB-ka- a. of A. described by Robert ons of bis pupils, at tks saost aver mot. says la inspiring man bis book, Tbo Now the epilogue of Sons. Seri toner Reformation, 3 92?) "No scientist can contemHfe of the plate the mlffhty theme, man, without pauainff reverently and recalling Tsanyson's lines, dedicated te a Uay flower plucked from the crannied wall: 1 hold thee here, root and all. in my hand. l,- iui Mower but if 1 could uo do: stand are, root and all. and all lihjt n )ou ail, what God and I dniul'i know slectro-dynami- n, X well-kno- nan i man can the dtMctibe more beautifully Hosiery of organic life. Can the which for Tennyson knowledge was earning he Advanced even a nny bit If the iife of man la 1cwed in the light of the costnia proc-o- f creative ,s,j. n mi attempt is not without some pi online, J' uleicwHkl a vibrating fingers speeding along the kcyLonrd ItkS elect ho waves through quiescent1 space aioure my emotions, and wonder at the harmonious response of the billions and billion of ar panic cells to the physical processes which animats Fadcrewskls ethereal touch. But uiy wonder is amplified a thousand fold when I listen to the tuneful message which this performance of perfect physical coordination conveys to rne from the internal world of I'ndcrewaktA was re consciousness, where I corded by the creative soul of seme heaven born genius. Find Power Within. I rAnnot resist, then, crossing which separates the houndary-lin- e the external material world from the internal world of my consciousness. Here I find a power which Is a! work creating this internal world. This power is a manifestation of a new entity in the existence of which mankind always ;e ed and called it tbs soul of bl ninn. This belief Is the essence extracted from all human experiVo physical reality rests ences, bionder and de p r foun-- d upon r nil of cxpcrencf t.i.m this le- No words of mot tal .1 'The soul Is the cie,u ve r residing in the body of m. in and guiding its functions so an o make the life of man a cosmos, a creation of simple law and beautiful order. Our belief In the existence of the creative soul Is the or gin of our beLJcf in the existence of a Creator. "Our present knowledge, derived from mans experience ever since he began to live a human life, rejects the hypothesis that the creative power of man's consciousness j the highest form of creaThe creative tive power residing in us la, therefore, the origin of the belief that oar creative soul is a part of Him who endowed the electrons and protons, the atoms and molecules, and the tintlest units of living matter wttb those attributes which maulftst themselves in the cosmic pro-named cenflve e on eve Subjective, But Rrsl. The cosmos of consciousness is a pvvi hie reality. It is subjective, course of but it is an real to us so. for the objective instance, physical reality of electrical radia- tion rev,ils Just as electrical radiation the existence of an entity, the electrical flux, so t lie psychic realities of our reveal the existence of an entity the soul. The ultimate natures of these two entitles are hidden behind a cosmic veil which so far lias remaJued Inipenchabie. Their manifestations, . , how v er. are perfectly clear. the soul does not Act and how does the beauty of the miMt appear In the world of our or how do the on'tounrs; physical realities revealed the last 4S0 by science during vears. become subjective realities It would In our sensitive selves indeed be a very great achievement if we could reduce these psychic actions and reactions, the operations of the creative power of the soul, to the simple laws of Newton's dynamics. Put why despair tf we cannot. FnlUi Jshiflcd The actions and reactions of an Individual radiating atom have not v.-- t boon reduced t.v that simplicity but that fact does not shake any ne s faith in the radiating power Our faith in the f the atom. creative poser of the soul should be at least As aronj, for surely the world of consciousneaa. the product of that creative power, hi ultra-materi- al ultra-materi- . "TP PARTMENT. live After Death? Does Man at leant as real aa atomic radiation. The existence of this creative power la the most fundamental human experience in the course of centuries of centuries, so that today It fts just as axiomatic as Newton's laws of motion; and it Is a sefflcient proof of the existence of the coul, although tla actions and reactions of the soul are for the present, and probably will remain forever, entirely outside of Newtonian see dynamics. "Our Christian knowledge of th spiritual forces revealed by Christ la deeply rooted in the solid ground of human experience of nearly two thousand year. It Is a house built upon the hard rock of experience, and not upon the shifting sands of arbitrary hypotheses. This anowrltdge. like sc.entific knowledge. Is the extract of Innumerable observations and experiments recorded in the history Of human lives. is. It therefore, as carefully tested and as trustworthy as our knowledge of physical forces. Dealing as it does with the laws of actions and reactions of spiritual forces, it may be called spiritual dynamics. a Revealed "Yea. God' IMtvRkpllv 193fc realities spiritual are invisible; but they are Illustrated And made intelligible by the ph)sicAl realities revealed in the phsical things, which are made. Htr Oliver Dodpi now 80 years old. noted English scientist, has written many books upon scientific evidences of survival after death. The following Is taken from a special article written for "Has Science Found God (Crowell and Company, 1ISI). "What wonbr then If the attempt la made to explain every mental proeees aa a chemical action In the cells of the brain, to explain every action of live things aa the activity of physiological process and to hold that when the physiologies) process Is Interrupted or the machinery destrojed. all vitality necessarily ceases; in other words, that life and mind ar the making of sn organism, and that when the organism ceases to function. they completely perish, encounters Difficulty "And yet many biologists have themselves, when they began to philosophise, encountered a real The mechanism was difficulty. complete as far as it went; the physical processes of every action could be traced, either in fact or in imagination. Rut there was an outstanding difficulty about rn-s- i which could not bo extouenc, plained hv mochjnim. '1 h ir own iwari'iiws of the pi oc going on was Itself something moi than the mere processes. Th- ro wore things in human nature which escaped thetr ken. which seemed to bo of a different otder, something which made of moehanifcm, but which transcended It. something towards which mechanical science gives no clue. The sense of beauty, for instance, what piece of mechanism could contemplate its own beauty? What mechanical device could understand its own workings? How could human beings plan and contriv and design, and form theories, and seek to apprehend tho universe, if they were nothing more than mechanical structures. The only way consistent with philosophic materialism was to that consciousness was a kind of Illusion, and that these mysterious functions could probably be reduced to mechanism if only we had suffb lent knowledge, llut the formation of such a hpothcsu as that is conspiciouslv irrational It is leaving the safe ground of science, the exploration of reality, and denying some parts of reality, itself such denials are lllrgimste and are themselves superstitious. More Than Machine ' It haa becomu pretty obvious that human nature Is more than meibamsm. The mechanism is at work and demands study. Physical enerrv and the physical and chemical processes aro utilised in the working of the organism, but in evvrv aspect the individual important transcends those Kvcn tha mere sensations of colour and tone are more than belong to the phvsbai world. there is nothing cxipt vibrations of different frequency, Emotion, again, the emotion raised b poetry, drama, music, far transcends the admittedly physical basis of these things. Man plans and contrives and directs the forces of nature to higher end; he ua and dominates the material universe. He has some understanding of t. he feels sympathy and affections, he has faith and hope and low. These elements in His nature are far more than chemicni process going on in the brain. These higher attributes are displaced and manifested by chemical processes, but in th- msclves they transcend and outlast thm, thev belong to other order of existence. interpenet rating and utilizing the materia), but not limit bv or coextensive with if. ltittUNolMv 'Kargin "Well, that is the view to which some o us have been Iei. that la aup-Po- s? c. DUCATIO THE PURPOBK AND VALUE OF CHURCH 8KMINAJUKH. "The Etbirta Stewart. Richfield Srmluary. of God la intellmore k a owl edge and intelligence in thia life through his dUlgenco and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come." "It Is impossible for a man to be saved in ignorance.' Religious education Is education at its higheat. U finds its end in men's Joy here and in their exmen altation hereatfer. It enable to mAke more rich and significant their relationship with their world about them, with their fellow men, and with their Maker. It I our labor, our business and our calling. to grow in grace and knowledge from day to day And from year to jear. To do this w must get an intimate acquaintance with the words of the Lord as contained in the standard books of the Church. We are told that a man may become a God. "As man now is, God man once was; as God now ia, may become." Thus, If a man is to attain Godhood he must think and act like a God. Ho mut know and obey all laws not pertaining to thl earth only, but to the creation and the Ilf before and after this one. lie must have a thorough knowledge of the geographical, historical and soda backgrounds. He must have an understanding of the principles of the Gospel and tho Church organisations. He must know the underlying principles of the worlds great religions and have a knowledge of the conception of God. He must know the human nature and how to control It in the Individual to attain the greatest happiness. It is hts duty to gather every item of truth and right, and reject every error. "If there I anything virtuous, lovely, or of we good report or praiseworthy, seek after these things" The seminaries are established for the teaching of these things and many more. "To Uncover hidden k nius is better than to dixtov- r a gold min Th s M'nary deAn institution velops glory igence' "If a person gain ladr. whi'h dlwovrs inlu. hiiM-- - the view vvhih iiivim philosophers Hence the a pi ion prejudg-iiun- t And pivjudico are now Jf there is testimony bearing upon the perennial existence and survival of these higher thing we need no longer look at it askance, or consider it as foreign to our perception of rtality. Reality Is a much bigger thing than the mechanicians had thought. They are true as far as they go, but we can go much further. Testimony to survival is no longer unacceptable. Indeed, we should expc something of the kind. What survival means and what its implications l. are. mav still remain to be e But then is a prims rose for Investigation. Wc are not traitors to science when we explore mental processes, and surprising however unusual they may be. There is a large amount ef evidence that personihiit individuals persists, ality continue after the destruction of their bodily organism. They may find D difficult to manifest their continud existence; but, according to the evidence, they have managed to do so. Th evidence must b scrutinised with great care; but there is no reason to dlnbelteve it sn a priori grounds. The body of evidence has grown of late now and 1a growing. .So that manyjean, no doubt hav that their loved ones continue, that they are still and help ng and guiding, v,athing aa of old; that nuMiie do not go out of existence, that these highvr attributes of man aic junt as real as any Ihtr. mor real because more p Mistent that theic will be a time of reunion Hut intelligence and character and 'aMs and Aptitudes persist, and that love is tii dominating force in the unl-i- v - a umr- - f.ir greater and take. al-tr- d. ascer-taincv- fa-ti- i d ontmu- l ni !ii,e Eight ) Granite Seminary Principal Selected foMii r principal Chac, L S. e'm.n.tr at J'rea-'oIdaho, w Hi he prin ipal next t th Uianl'f seminary. Eld r Joseph 1' M ri ill. Church eom. .isslom r if o iiuiion s. Mr Chase m now the Cniver-eii- y of the nrtp1etmg maWork for hi'hiigo dowoi degree, f i he I n .ar t joring in PhreJan hlfry pnn ,'t ln- i 1 t' eplreo on to do rood or great things, help on to find himself hiU or talent from help to ae coins to waste, or kindled in one heart the divine flro which ftllo hi aoul with high reeolee, should looked upon with favor and respect, for th dcatiny of man and nationo depends upon leadership, Th world need men with vision, courage, capacity and valor. Becauoo of their great help In discovering latent duality and developing It. th Seminaries ar a factor In nation building. It great ha a tragedy for a mam to dio without giving to tho world ond mankind tha boat h has. To do this he must first find th work or . field to which h 1 boat adapted, develop the instinct Of secondly achievement and noble endeavor, then do his bom to attain victory or success. Unices th mind works there Is no learning. Unless tho will operates there lo no training." The Individual must do tho reatl work If he lo to gain knowledge. The teacher can only stimulate In us the desire to learn. Wo must develop ability to rise to any occasion. to meet any emergency, to do superior thing or common things In a superior way.us to coThe Seminary tenches operate, ts love and respect on another and our teaehera. It instills in an a reverence for all for suthings sacred, a reapect laws It periors, elders, end all makes us humbla and teachable It instills In ua a faith that leads to prayer and serviceable activity. th study of tho history Through f tho Church lia this dispensation wo learn to respect trad honor our hav rioneera, to knew what they ws might undergone for un, that have the privileges and blessings which w enjoy today. It develops In us a greater appreciation tor the Church, greater faith and prayer. It Inspires u to greater works, higher Meala, and wholesome attitude toward all honorable work. It builds for ua a confidence in ourselves, a trust In fellownarn. and a faith In God. W ar taught to look tor th good w In people, to help them all can, to sympathise with ethers for their shortcomings and Him and to forgive all men. jta, seventy lime, seven. Man was plarrd upon tills earth works for a divine cause, ttod Is tho through men.of Kducatlon in tho humnnuy building up and Is an image of divinity achievement, not a gift; a process not A product. This world is just a big home with God as th Father, and we the children. We are placed her to do his will and are all rewarded according to our works. Through th Seminary w learn to do God's will or work and develop good habits. Ws develop character, and honesty Is so vital a part of character that upon It an Individual la either made or lest. Wo learn to stand up for our own convictions. Wo develop bodies, clear, strong, vigorous minds, and noble, couraghealthy eous spirits. Wo mlnglo with Inand stimulating people, spiring learn to enjoy good llteratur ond appreciate good music.should supKellglous training ethical plement the moral and sihool." Tu religteaching of thethe ious teaching, Hemlnary lends valuable service end offers regular, systematic help that powerfully supplements hums teaching, "From the standpoint of character and rtttsenahlp the work of the Seminaries squares absolutely with the real spirit of Amerlcsu Institutions and traditions and fosters A met lean Ideals In n generation which tomorrow will be our leaders." SKMINAIIY 8 is for Savior, the hope of mankind, K education through his tewchlnga I find M mental growth I at quit o each day, Inspiration that I have to pray, N the nocesalty of living th truth. A active service I rive in my youeit. ft itghtqoiM living, with Joy as Its rneimure and Y i. tha yreurnlug tor heave nly troiBur $r kkantis cdkich, So min Ary Wf KXCl lyitON FROM SUGAR CITY SEMINARY During th latter part of May, H. Jester Itoraen. principal of the 8u;ar City, IdAho, Senior Remlnnrv, accompanied a group of his 1932 acmlnary grad un to on a to Salt Iake City. vistrip ited the Ktnto Capitol, They Th Dca-cr- tt Vowa lren, the fttate Penitentiary. an T other point of In and about the city, and pent one day doing baptismal In th Temple. Such a trip uork ha become an annual affair wth erai of th senior AMAfeMurtea n Idaho. )t 1 |
