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Show Church Deportment , THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1939. Where Is God? - sonal God be- harmonized with the SOME years ago, a .man who had .' Jensen 7,7 a scriptures that teach that God is a Nephi By Joined our Church Alublished .. .. .. Spirit and that He is everywhere pres pamphlet in which he set forth his of St Paul The Apostles use here for the garden Ile said to the ent? reasons for leaving the Church of his : of the word "image" unquestionably assembled difetples: "Handle Me and The answer is not difficult to find. young manhoog, to become a Mormon. refers to a personal likenesS, and not,' see, for a.4411rit hath not flesh and, Consider a simple illustration, You ---blood alle see Me have." .. Subsequently, the pamphlet came to to any moral similarity. place a t eautiful perfectly formed rose de- - who Christ is bere is Who Jesus who grew to manhood this nig a of brilliant clergyman the attention in your living room. Therose has -to be in the image of God's per- - in press human form and who rose dared substance, limitation, or magnitudeof the Church from which the gentleson? The answer to this question will from- the dead with a tangible body enand form. It Is a distinct living man in question had severed his con- Said us in our search for a correct of flesh and bones is the Son of God. and exists in only one place at nections. The el ergyman attempted a ception of the sense in which God is a He was with the Father from the be- atity; But from out, the pure soul time. personal being. ginning. He created this world. He of that rose emanates a Spirit the reply. of this world and its Jesus Christ was in infanci just is the In the reply he criticized the Mor- of the rose, that fills the ento Redeemer. Savior child. He is the King fragrance like and He boyother grew any mon idea of God and insisted that it room. By its Spirit, the rose is tire is not philosophical. In that regard, hood and was in appearance like other of Kings and Lord of Lords, the very, actually everywhere prisent inthe eternal Father of Heaven and Earth. room. he quoted from the teachings of Ail.- - boys. When He reached manhood's so like He is, in very, truth, our God; the was full much other He estate, God. of nature to the stotle, relating Likewise, God as an individual is men that the Jews said of- Him, "Is God of this earth. This reference- - to the Greek' phild-soonly in one place at a time; but by , not this the carpenter s son. After It will be asked, pher's idea of God has real historical--- His the power and influence of the Spirit How can the idea of a localized per resurrection, Mary mistook Him significance. that radiates from His glorified presTowards the close of the Middle ence, He is In every part of the inAges, the philosophy of Aristotle came finitely vast universe. into great favor with the clergy. The of lines The beautiful Tennyson ' Greek philosopher was placed on a true. are plane of almost equal authority with , come and go, they vanish, they are (Continued from Page Five) the Apostles of Christ. Aristotles'i temporal; but things spiritual live and Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, s thought soon commenced to shape of gathering genealogies in the and never fade, never end. The And Spirit to Spirit can speak; endure of the Old World in rproportioaspects of Christian theokgy. n. men in this Church and king- - Closer is He than breathing, His idea of God was adoPtediy the to our istN''n efforts and eagerness and strong Nearer than hands and feet." Was God withhis theory that names of dom live the sprir tual life. Help secure to the enthusiasm - Church; with- -as we comes from the other-sid- e A recaptureby the Christianour dead. 'We must take the first t truth about God give help to those who have passed world of the became the accepteVdoctrine of the step. The first great vision came to basic need of the Is the veil. the greatest beyond Church. In time, the concept was re- - the Prophet Joseph Snfith when he world Christian today. to-tOut Of Temple Doors terie phase that Gtxt has'went- into the Woods- and upon his A few months ago, one of The most -neither body, farts or passions. As we work in the temples of the beloved and eminent local divines knees prayed for light. The Lord did This idea of a formless, invisible, not volunteer it. All the great reveLord, as we seek our genealogies, as preached a very vital sermon in this and passionless God became fastened we attempt to work out the salvation city. The heart and core of his dig-- , upon .the whole -Christian world. It lations that have come to the Church course was put into the pregnant has thrown into- utter confusion al- - have come in answer to an expressed' of those who have gone before, we are "The world's greatest need is Most all the doctrines of the Christian desire on the part of the leaders-o- f - also assisting indirectly in spreading phrase: revitalized a religion." the knowledge and spirit of the latter-dareligion, it has made an insoluble mys- - the Church. It is so in our individual The doctor's conclusion is pro' work through the nations of the tery of the doctrine of the trinity. It lives. That which we obtain comes ,,,,' foundly true. It is equally true that has made meaningless, the whole nar- world. Theo, thousands of men and the Christian religion will never be reof to us own desire. a our result is rative of the personal relations b- ewomen, unpaid, with no hope of mavitalized until Christians have a deftween Jesus and His father. It has That key Will help us in our genealogterial reward, who work for the dead inite and na-----e intelligible idea reduced the glorified resurrected ical research. in the temples of the Lord, are eloand being taf God, and abiding ture Christ V an immaterial myth; and quent expressions of the spirit of the faith in His overruling providence. Divine Guidance latter-dacast doubt upon the doctrine of the work. Such unselfishness This foundation for the revitalization unLet of us the set resurrection forth body. courageously, physical appeals to the' present generation, of religion was laid in 1820 by the of the greatest needs of the daunted, to seek out the names that which in spite of its frivolity and great Prophet of the new day of God's Christian world today is a clarification we is still lessness, thinking deep spiritual power and glory. need, and somehow they will , of the idea of the nature and being thoughts, the thoughts of eternity. if to come will of the of us, In the that year, spring of God. Where and what is God? This The other day I watched a crowd there Was early in the western part living e is the question of all questions in the Lord that we should possess them. of workers out of the Salt Lake of the state of New York a most un' We must do all we can to bring torealm of theological thinking. I thought as usual boy, fourteen years of age. His people, Templelovely is "eternal energy," says Hergether the lost ends of the threads of I sawithem come out. It seemed for soul became greatly stirred by revival ,bert Spencer. "God is the power not life, that we may perform to His sat- a moment as if the voice came to me meetings which were being held in his us that makes for righteousness," I the doors of the temples neighborhood. He was moved to deep - toncludes John Fisk.- - "God is mind, isfaction the work which He, our ofthat through -sts Lord of will come the us as one has of the Father, given Mrs. "God avers Eddy. principle, love," heaven to redeem the world, to desired to know which Church he is a spirit everywhere present," ef- - most important parts of this great change it for good, to accomplish the shuld join. One-d- ay he read the firms practically the whole 'Christian -day plan. Itis our duty to secure purposes of our Father in Heaven; text: "If any of you lack world. as complete genealogies as possible, to and perhaps through no other door wisdom, let him ask of God, that givWhich of these statements gives a discover our fathers and mothers back may these hosts core to give us help. eth to all men liberally, and upbraid-ttrue description of the Almighty? In the last generation, to connect, if May God bless us in our work and eth not; and it shall be given him." all frankness, we are compelled to say th0 way before us, that our fath- open In his unspoiled simplicity, he took it be with may that all of these definitions contain a possible, Adam, our ers and mothers may be revealed to these words to be the veritable words, element ottruth. God is "eter- - first father upon the eartha duty us, that the necessary work for them of the nal energy;" he is the "power that which we cannot escape. This great may be done in the temples. That is divine promise to the test. In a grove makes for righteousness," "He is love," latter-dawork will go forward,very the responsibility that rests upon the near his father's home, he bent his and He is a spirit." Latter-daSaints: God be with us and knee and bowed his head and pleaded in to the largely proportion energy But God is something more than sustain us and Inspire the leaders of with God for the wisdom he so sorely with which the Latter-daSaints as-all of these significant things. God i this people with the full spirit of the needed. While he prayed, there apall sume the responsibilities and privglorified, intelligent, latter-dagreat work, I pray in the peared above him a pillar of light good, personality. He is the personal lieges ipvolved in the doctrine of uniname of Jesus Christ. Amen. transcending in glory the sun at noonwho controls eternal energy and versal being which, as I have salvation, day. Within the 'circle of celestial it work for righteousness. He is an of stood two glorified heavenly be-ready said, simply expression ...7 Is a spirit and His most distinctive atwant peace in the wbrid. We light ve in the eternal, universal love of God for want love express majestic tribute is love. l and to exist ings One pOinted to the other and said: , When we affirm that God is a per- - His chilchTn. the and all throughout earth, among "Joseph. this 8 My beloved Son; hear sonality, we mean that He is a per- peoples of the world; but there can The From Reward Work The Him." sonal entity having definite form, in-never come to the world that spirit of The spot on which-thI thehave feeling also, mydear dividuality, and a certain abiding peace and love that should exist, until ,. . is holy This ground. It is the cradle of most is truth place. who mankind will receive God's-trutplainly brethren and sisters, that those and taught in the first chapter of the Di- - give themselves with all their might God41 message unto them, and ac- - modern faith. The day on which he ble. In that chapter, we are told that prayed is one of the most significant and main to this wjrk receive help knowledge His power and authority in the annals- of this world. It God made man in His own image and marked., which is divine, and neNer found in of the long lost likeness. The text, unmistakably re-- from the other side, and not merely the wisdom only of Jos-- the restoration totman truth about the actual personal na ., fess to the physical form and indiVid- - in gathering genealogies. Whoever eph F. smith. and being of God; and Ushered ture . God. of seeks The to on affirms those the . other language uality side' help in a new day of revitalized religion. the noble, inspiring truth that as is receives help in return in all the af-- , the foryt of man, so is the form of qod, fairs Of (WO I icAtlihink'birno batiltr"' Ir;t9?""nall. 11'91.1Pg' Pe(3141Ifnr tr"lu-ol- 't t,,,,, 1..,,i4- -, Church and perhaps with some older In Palmyra's Temple of Trees This vital truth is taught with even Shone anew the Light resplendent, more plainness in the New Test- preparation for one's labor on the Ones too, they know the Gospel is true, amentIn Paul's profound letter to farm, in the office, wherever it may but they do not know that they know A Youth's troubled soul to appease the Hebrews, he tells us that Jesus be, than to ,spend a few hours in the it They have not yet made the dis With truth and glory transcendant Christ Is "in the express image of temple , to partake of its spirit and to eovery, but they feel it in their hearts. , are almost afraid to testify to From out celestial burning, Cod's person." They --oneself for the benefit unselfishly that effect, but let them cling-t- their If there should be any doubt about give Spoke again the voice Eternal t of those who have gone- beyond the belief and be the world "image in Genesis, faithful, and the Lord Answering a Seers heart yearning 'are Nell. 'Pile of the the will give them a testimony.--Pr- es. spirit things With new Easter' news, supernal?' ring to a physical likeness, that - doubt -- (TabernacIe 'Adklress) ' Is dispelled by this plain statement givat thibgs of life- .- Things material - nudger Clawson..,,., - 4,. . . dr -- ......, - .7-- - -- , law-give- 1 r - - - - Of Vital Records ,E xtent Olin-trie- . to-u- s , long-los- I he - - - y I ; - of-th- y i, -- co-m- - -- the-ho- nd his'sours-salvation;-a- -- latter- t; -- hope-givin- o - ..vital y y - a y - - es - form. good-wil- at boy-pray- ed h - men.--Pre- s. , . o ,co, , - |