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Show - , - . ' ' ' ' - ,1 ,' , ;rhumb 1 ' ,. i , '1, . DrPortrYlent The THE , I . A D.,. FRET' NEWS1, SAILIRDY, - , .... 1, ' ; ...........- -- . .1 A . '. 6; 1937. - NOVEMBEO, Viracle ',Of ' filifr. Mc(loin. principal of Ow For Somiloory. deo endow of Overi boolls, two of sollich art t roleos.A4 reprnmay 17 ado Me.miltst robitshooff Company, Boatoes, Naos ingmodo 1key are "r'. S. .54,1diers 1'104 sna Tenteliae itterillitooL') IOW stranre sivea the fortunes of Mile! Barely century ago it was announced by the editor of a country newspaper that he would undertake to publlan a strange book which had been transiatfti from golden plates that were re-tfarmer't boy in f at lityri. N. Y. This, startling dm nouticement stirred the countryside to the tempest. .breath fang .tha !lamps of raging forest fire in rvi, Junin. '4Prfolil every quarter .of the hart. let tame sinister ,10.0,,peringx that the book should not issue from the press. Preachers and laymen alike opposed the publication of this unThe farmer folk popular wotic. from the spiritual were aroused of the day by the anlethirgy nouncement that the '"Goklun would soon bcpublathed In the English language. The laymen willingly united with the clergy in paging a bitter persecution against - the young man who had been given the golden had long repotted in plate which the magic hilt. be spirit of preita dice, and persecution was an intense that the other editors who lad. been asked to publish the Prange book. had flatly retorted. When Mr. Grandin of Palmyra reluctantly deckled to publish the wave of resentment swept book. The frontier community. It was thought that if the: book ever Ito Cued from the preys it would result in inestimable harm. Palmyralt pious citizens considered it4 their sacred duty to spare the world a 'Prot-die- o ts tire- - remarkable charges the hath wrought! No promade by Joseph Smith phery Wn LIM hitve seemed as able and Impossible to the C it I Mlle of Palmyra as if he had predicted that the following century, mild bear the message Of torniohitone to all the civilised nation( Of the earth: that Converts by the 'thoit. their batlye fiends 'would kali lands and ' redeem the 011ettert What Century Wastes Of modern IZion What would the iweledieed puma Ince at Palmyra have Said If the pereeetited Prophet bad told, bird llisse that the coming eon fury would see eat of Ins grand-Move-s espouse the coupe of ?Mon. InOrtiam' haeoltie lin fictive leader vast amount of b! Pre-venting the publication of this tin tonal book. t The infuriated eitizens held MIMS piectingto where they made secret to ideal the rnantoteript while plansmale member. of the Sown the family were working in the fielJs.were circulated and eignerl by many people in an attempt to dissuade the publisher from print., In the Palmyra branch and assent- hie hundreds of narrow of the Chase family for whom the temple 'work wouid be done? Yet this Incident has ,beeome history., When Mr. Cole pOblipbeil gorblell extracts front the nitintiseilvt if 7.1 Front Page Six) the captive and adminiater relief the eick and the afflicted." A few months ago In the city of York. Pennsylvania. I read those ordt. I had- been die teeing tor a little While an article that appear- . ed that morning in the local per with respett to the great curity Ilan inaugurated by the .tehurch, and had tried to show that in the Chtirch., before People were admonished to acquire wealth. they Were given a great admonition to Peek first the kingdom of God arid lila righttousnesa, end' after that. If the trough' wealth, that they Would week it for the purpose of doing good; then they would use that wealth In the him fuller outlin- ' ed here When I had e4urcit' finished mei-ti- GI , - ' ' - - ' - ' sett. - : , - ,, .... .. ,. ,. ,., ., .,..,..:..,. ' - virtue and the power of t ' this Church hove tone from the '1 book which Was taken from the I Magic hilt in scitetern New York. secret The of the survival. sod growth of this religion which wst Inintured noon the amerlean from tier. but soon enveloped the earth. repose In the Nephite Cheerio-leWhose only peer Is the Holy g'The Romano, of An Old home" is a resdithie sanative. IdanS of the Incidents Orloted are the actual experiences of the author and it tierces a. sa lisitx of Salt bake theetrical "esi. der." It, hortative actually beetle back In 'St whit the ;lays et open bowery, then to the Story of the old Statist Nall which preceded the halt Lake Theater by a few years end then tells the story. lof this famous ottrOctures a palace tot art in the desert.. The Stories. on Mart and bark Matte, the riot arid loll Of local dramatic sitasoriations and home talf ent, the eccentricities of actore in. eluding the famous 'tag artists tg eennuy Just paet, ell live simile In this reinarkal3le human dleua alOn. combine history and re. Monte in this CNithedral In the Des.. yet and by picture tells story i , Patti Tyrol 4Coatinued thoutittols tit mop) to whore, it for many ye ts littoal pal- ace of drama. Th, tipliogue tells of the last gala perforetanee on these famous Old boards.i Oct. Id. 10211. Added are picturet of President Sieber J. Grant, who for many years Was principaPmenee of the theater. a pleture of the failing wall, and the latest painting, of George ix ryper. author of the abook. actor le the theater for half, rentury and lie last manager. 'Thia painting of iMr. Pyper, produced on this page Is by lee Greene Iticharda, weed Utah artiet, and has a decided Italt Lake thew-te- r that the boat la atinopphere---iIf Maude Adams. l4in01111 Vtah trete whose, career berm- - on die Salt Lae Theater Mere, and the picture hanging 011 the well Is of the old Salt Lake Theater. The picture Is now in poseemoloe el the Itrigham Young University.. that Christianity In the World toility points tohi the entireeitsof life and teachee highest the plainness ilea.", there is a religion hi the world that teaches the trot lire and hew to Obtain happiness. I 'tell you, Ibis religion does that To obtain ti fattest of loy hence 'MO her.jqd union Of the reeettled, in hotly and she pith! the Dortrine end Otvetiants. God has revealed the way of life. There Is a Christianity that show e how to overoome acifishnete. and to live Wel know that it a truly God-likham taught our ttoopt'e that.: teat-hethe (nether and It goes correct tine of riehee. It teachee the common brotherhood of team and. In addition to that, it points the way to eternal glory alai evere happiness in the press-orlasting of God. If such a religion as that Is In the earth. we need look no farther and ask for ho morel and in humilitY. hut with a sineerity born bear you of dpepeat eotivictiOn.-testimony that that ClielatianIty. known by its nick iname in the world as Mormon bum?' is het'e. It to God help us th limbs-stanlielleve in St; and to ohry It I bumItems In of Natal the bly pray Christ. Amen. l a i , , ! , , ' e ' ' .; it - complete d , elthin - ' . - . ' ' - g ' , 1 Itself. , ' Reliving the 40 years of Its etta Istroce, turning the pope on muck of the past front .which the future is foretold, the November lame of ' ' , enhaw, of tbe 1411'm-herto rob the har.torised of hie pi 4(iit youthful prophrt treeattre. now stands an Imprrie ive building. a Moreau of Infos, motion. for this sacred into has ie. done the 'most fruitful fk.ld for ml"inreeIllork activity" exrept on toe in Salt Lake City. empte eittreme PiiIrny,iii 'prejudiced tiloophi it uteri., ridiculouir that nt the nivriplfoit the etrange book pliould 'attempt to pay for en NSlion tit WO tallies, .vet St ekeemitt more abourd to ,expect that homier tree to be toad. In the frontier village id Warne etainty It was likely thotight that the ofte etittion would firVier be mold. amply wippleing thy public until the end ' t of time. It watt; indeed..; boid undertsk.. toe to issue an edition of 11000 les at a time when there were old few reader In the frontier, hunts. yet its dieciples knew that It was no ordinary book. In lite Modern age of universiat knostiedge when the agencitot of commerriab lam 'tell the world of new books. there ar. but- tithe of the books mibilsbed Which !tiring a profit Se the author and the publialtera. The vest majerity of the nee hooka are forgotten by the Keller. Doti that eliw there cone from the press. Few firme dare publish as edition al large att the ralmyra ede tion of the iltook 'Mt Mormon. most of them limiting the fleet printing of their hest books ta all ',edition et Ltioo copies'. Into every nook and corner .tot the earth Ibis ',Wang book front Out thorrnagie hill. bee pone, touch. big the heart of Its deders as the Voirett of .114 berme speak trots out the dust. The irdraele Of Inenten ! in to liefotmd in the eats ted book 'which tone lie name lie this new and sarongs. reltgion. The H.:, .. efiteraltite to or;twat , thr , , , Pew :.,-:----- lniow may i Teat to - 'came trp, he wan a dot, penriemsn or In that locality and asked me a for copy of the acripture that I have had read. And he said. been a student of eeonomitra tinI wean never life and have to nily the world or heard better mate ment with referertee to the proper use of lichee. I did not believe It timid he found." 'Yet it given to the world in it..10. when the hook of Mormon wart puhlished the by www I he think prophet Joseph. then only in his twenty-fourtyear, have thus allialtd to aortie of those teachingS. Oh, I rOtild go on. You know the great Ciortpel of love that la in the 'Cluirein von know tlint la the great Gospel of co In the Church, exemplified. highly' In the work of Ofthe !leiter in work the tin' rrh society.Association. the Sunday niary Schools end perhaps others of out with whowe Work Nve organization.' are so familiar. In other words, not the GPNriel only teaches a way of life Mrindividirals hut also for all the pe.plo in all the world.... every nation that will receive It. came across this wtatement Shim morning. It was made by on who was a great teacher of Mot monism: "The spirit el Mormotthrm is one et industry. It cries out against an that interpretation of scripture Makes labor a curse and it proclaims work to be a brand of human happiness. While It trusts in Coil the spirit of Mormonism never leans upon the in A. It' heroism that forbids leaving to Divinity which can be done hy humanity. can the best you end keys the the Lord.'Isaid one of the Mormon prophetwi Idleness is an iniquity that the spirit of heMormonism spurns. whether it gilded with gold or clad In poverty. 'The Pi ler ehall ubt have a place in the Church, "say( this fiord( of Comrnandments," A Trask Peespective It la the duty enjoining upon ell, rich and poor alike. that ,tlicre shall be no idleness or treifishnee4 In the Church. bull love unfailing: that there .shall be blip for the Widows and the orphans; that There shall be brotherly kindness t' and brotherly love upon every hand., and then when all 'hie is arvonsplisheri. there will come into our Jives a true perspective of life After all, one of the most glorious principlee of the Mormon religion Is the one that has been railed eternal progrems, or onward-Dor- a of life. I haven't time I4 speak of that as I had thought to do this afterIs noon. Every Loners:lay Saint familiar with it. Every man who knows anything about the Mormon religion, knee'. I that Ile Worn; that Its httrty. I,Wthe glory of onwardnes and progresslin life There is no such a thing tor surtie in the life God has revealed. It is progress and growth and development and now say, why shouldn't omen a religionwhy shouldn't such a Chrirs tiering draw people togeiheit why it appeal 10 people? it 'dope. Every man nd woman who understands it thrills with the very thought of the possibilities of life. Incidentally. may I pause to say that among the finest adrireirtes the Gospel of Jesirs Christ are the women. They foil a sensa of In duty. The lady 11.4Mitilltiriell mission ()Otis sire among our beat of love exponents of this Gospel and of setviee that I have been here today. ,nientioning Every woman recognisert in it thepOssibilities nt the highest happiness of lifethe inane life, so dependent Upon wornanhoortis the finest part of the tlosial of Jesus Christ. the enduring unit of life. That relationenship, when property lived, dures forever and around,' its hal- lowed precincts, or sham' vitiator the finest memories, the highest hooey, the highest ambitions. and the truest ideals of life. This being true there Is morint the grereful the sharpened sickles of the Videos of new the and strange religion were golden latryrot In the reaping field at :Ohm. No pie- whitened PherY'. however irereattowitile. s would have teem el mbre ptepate latens than the decioretion that: The coming wilt witness ' an- elaborate centary monument ct tiwning the magic hill. articled by the nimterotta diaciplett of the "Cold montimerlt la the morn. ory of the test of the Nepritteit who 'buried the gulden record in the painted hill. Thit !Smith Jamas, 'would have been expelled from .Wayne County foxicier tiput 'they were if the boy Josiepts'ital ere eft that the tooting tieitttry would Witness one of the t,atrgertt hulled boards in the world the Mare cheater road. In the shadow of the atot--y of the Magic bill. telling the I ; Magic book. lite bearers have been raged If he had am that the llint Would t.time when tourists by the thousands Would git the steered bill each IONtilOn: that tour missionaries would be rentirred . each day tell I the friendly and welt throng the story lot atm 'sieved hill. the magic touch whit hes been Salt by thousands irtall parts of the Tabernacle Address (Continued - ill- , ' ... pi1-I- ' ' ., ,,, ... ript-rre- - i' yorld tor they reed the "Gold Fie into 0), night the tn tourists row Mager amid the effltvet of the lighted mon- lament. listening. tt were. to the t owes from the MeO, e enttil tem' form otid hot be (thliked tiny it when it ramie from the pret.t. tititt hold hare heen hio dolohl iltooe,ht't lite irontlater hitdi doctored in stoteren ttortio that.. i "Within a reottirvi tlito hv more hoi,e tWeT1 reed and propie than there row ere iti11 la I of a ill the New 1glam1 ift.,ites., he translated and ruiblidied into a, arbre of Innatisea, be- nearly the moat a Weir read book rowing in the inrId eltrepi the The et uhieli the ithod isiilmyro tirtOrey has heon road hy roole netrle than there aro It Ih itewthil time in tr1,z Me..a Ott, the state of Ne inapirtd ttv tiliii-intrihave pone from it riVetS ends of the' earth IS erserhot pre. plytes. than there were inhabitants in Wa,vneI'mlitty in ISM. The prejudiced phpulore tt l'id. myna entployed a firm at ent.ineers from Rochester to excavate in the till! 17urnorsh In the vain hope of finding the gold! taste ',et") trenehes and long tunnels averred gold-plate- , , the tke.k ot hIR remiletrs that the "'Gold Mlle" - tog the hook. A rtanitottee, beech d hy a local ministrir. called at the Smith borne ohild the men net. absent. and begeril the 11"01"'r tn show tboto the mono-scrip- t. Shp.reittlits- ,rewitre,11 altat nel rt I ti.,4sd their wicked plan to It4litre the roOpted otta ototent An unscrupulous editor hoot a br,ghboring ronlreuntlY 'Inn,' !to the Grandio offkoe emit Sontlity and etpied section from the while it itt being IA up usetipt in type. In SeVelin I a.uea hi MK lie published gotttled o.'paper and mutilated execcpts from the Stook of Mortrion Ittattotoertpt fin an attempt to poison the public, mind' against the frirthcioming book. This unethical Joditor. solieited toiberripticins for itq paper., offer; to lug Ile readcra alt reed the -- Ginn Pintaorportorilly through the columns of his paper Itelore it was Saatted from the press in book form., Sotm after It watt rumored about that Joseph Smith had the gold plaice, a alethodell class leader, WUlard Chase, erChloYed Magi' elan from a distaist city to tome to Palmyra and find the by moans of hitt, emit powers. Other people resorted to magic an effort to locate the Serino! cod before its translation covid eonipleted, yet It ell ended - $19ortO4 , , Mc Gavinl- 7 ' ' ' - : . Morniohisni , By E..,Cecil - ' the Improvement Ere, beraldiog the fortieth anniversary of Ile mita hcation was issued from the press this past week Within this Magazine JOU, den. odes- of world chime, le noted Ly President l'reaiderit I lebetal. J. 'Reuben (let, Jr., and Elder John A. Witiume.- of the Commit. e4 the Twelve.. thee prontipent writ, era contributei It Is an interest. Ina time. sell illustrated and trze rails much thit has taken place. during. the pion 40 )'elirs both in ,, Church progress end ',economic elision fa the 'world. The feature Article. 'The Church lAmdte Into the Future" , was wrtt- ten by l'reahlent Clerk. VretUdeut Gronee first Elia article of 40 root ' two Is reprishiced and another fere lure discoed 40 years of thane. Firtures and littleidt relate the of the megalith story and- growth during Its 40 years. ' - c : A : , - - th-an- ' - - - , 1 T , to 4 ' ) , Many features of especial hitless to the women of the Church 'ere , to be found in :the October Mote of the Relief Society magazine. 11Weve Include an midmost by Cresalont Ilrant, e 'store- of the licit Mit MI.: Sinn Centennial. by Manama W ilirtot Cannon. tieveral playlets irem term, ahead the pinning teacher cit the Relief- Society. In etidition to the lemon deport,-mental, one lemon on Sex &Meatless le fortified be a short article, zee babes Corns titled !Where Jayobealk i 'IlleMr by Virginia - ' : I - - t ' |