Show the tho following article ter terminates injates a remarkable chuo philosophical s revier review written by brother peter A droubay and translated by brother louis A bertrand many readers of the NEWS sews will confess we think that the former frenchman discourses very logically in his communications and handles with great 0 ability all philosophical matters A few word words on the philosophical system exposed by mr ch clit mauv c ty I 1 n la Solid nolia arite journal of rarig 68 PINE rine tooele thoele valley march 1869 mr has been led I 1 thay think to als this j conception of deity by tho the the tho necessity in in which he was morally involved in having agod performing no miracles at all and indeed here is the great objection that philosophers oppose to the theologis ts if your god performs mirac lesHe lesHo breaks the laws laws by which the universe is governed ile he contradicts himself he is no god besides it is impossible to stop for a single moment one of the laws ruling the physical world without at the same time destroying at once all other laws for instance had joshua stopped the sun all the solar systems must have ave been annihilated equilibrium have been destroyed the the earth precipitated on one side the moon on the other and the final result must have been a ending the whole world now this objection falls to the ground if we restore to the word miracle its true sense Mira miracles clet clot are facts of ehica which the determinative laws are still foras eor for as soon as miracles are no more the result of a capr caprice iee lee as soon as like other facts they are ruled by laws lawi god does not contradict himself but ho he applies the law in this as in everything it is on oil accorn account of this objection that mr faul Fau vety who had accepted the definition of mi miracles miracles as it is given by the Catli catholic olic church could not conceive forlan for an instant the idea that god might be a personal bein being boing g distinct among other beings having his bart own will and reasoning and and achim acting because such a God would woula certainly be able abia to perform miracles and that is why ho he has hag been led to conceive and to present to us his god who contains within himself a little of all existences but yet definitively is nobody wow now let us examine the aim alm aim alm which is pursued by mr nin Fau vety this aim is indeed as great as it is meritorious and worthy of tempting the ambition of a noble mind should his dream be realized the law being the direct expression of reason would i ame uge the whole world minority or ma majority 0 rity would exist no more but mankind mankin d calling themselves brothers would form forma a united family no more murders hatred and envy would vanish away with individual interest no more sins no more adulteries adul teries our senses would only awake to satisfy legitimate aspirations marthat War that old rello relio of barbarism would decimate no more of mankind our will being determined by reason would rife rafe rule ruie our desires and would only gratify legitimate ones so that bur bodies receiving no more as formerly iuli till I 1 U these poisons which were accumulated accumulated there there by a depraved taste would by degrees regenerate and all this cursed retinue of sores ulcers etc etc f would soon disappear disa aisa pear from theace of the the earthann eart ert hand pleasures would become delthy as well as human bodies besides individual merchants would disappear to make room for a general cooperative operative co society and humanity bei bel being ng rescued from the social evils by W which ich it is now tormented would stride III lii ike a giant towards its glorious destiny but it seems to me that this is no more a dream what I 1 am going to say is not perhaps h very svery modest odest but perfectly true the latter ay iy t ter day saints are ali alt united as a people the they thoy chave have no majority nor minority but hey they vote unanimously on all political or religious questions which arg submitted to them shedding of innocent blood is the bigah of vil Til lany prostitution and adultery ery cannot exist among them A privileged eged caste or 0 social serfs are unknown in utah U tah all their women without exception affirm themselves in their dignity of moth ers and ana wives and they consider it their thein paramount right and duty to raise and educate tho the rising generations the latter day dak saints have forsaken tor lor the use of tobacco inu and strong drinks this regimen bears already its own fruit secret diseases are unknown among them and lately the mass af of the people have constituted themselves into cooperative operative co societies thus we have as a people arrived at this same end which is pursued by an eminent philosopher of thee thet old world are the latter day saints a people of philosophers have our leaders headers spent their lives in reading the books of the wise ani and intelligent men of the earth verily no at least they do not look as if they had bad done dono so go then to what fountainhead fountain head did the creaton of this society the founder of our religion go the simple the poor the unlearned joseph smith applied directly to god to ask wisdom and god revealed to him principles which will save mankind now this god as unknown to you philosophers as he was to the athenians when they were visited by paul reveals daily to the leader of his people what is to be done by his wor shippers in order that they may mayi marlive live and prosper every philosopher has discussed or rejected god hence their impotency every true latter day saint kneels down before him as a little child saying father what dost thou want of or me I 1 am ready to do thy will hence their strength and wonderful prosperity the philosopher says I 1 my aly reason my science my principles I 1 am of age I 1 am free freel no more songs by which my childhood was rocked no more of those stories of my nurse I 1 have searched I 1 havo have found mankind here is my book french people here is the remedy which shall save you til ill but no man has time enough to hear bear his words the latter day saint knows knovs that reason science p principles fmc pies ples and so on proceed directly ibo iro from m G god od he k knows that no di discovery whatever has ever been effected in sciences or arts but by revelation and that this same reason so much extolled by philosophers lo is but gods voice within ourselves and they gather gathen to together ether by thousands from every clime and and country of the earth it is the living god whom wo we serve who gives us the power of forsaking our native land and family to emigrate into an unk unknown jonm country we W 0 ar aro are 0 sustained in our danger dangen sand comforted b by y his hi I 1 s spirit during the lo absence of those whom we wo dearly love and from him we ve possess the full assurance that we are invested with the pro promises of tho the present life and the life that is to come summarily a philosopher and n latter day saint aro are like two tivo masons engaged in constructing a different building tho the philosopher is losing his time to provo prove to his architect that he is not an architect tho the latter day saint has immediately commenced his work and he adds every da day a few stones to his building which towers already most molt majestically towards the tho hc he heavens avons avens pen peter A droubay drou bay |