Show JD Z E S a 0 0 TT TJ IR RS S 0 BY ELDER AISBITT I 1 delivered in the irth ward meeting I 1 bouse house ra se sunday juday afternoon afoon arwe A 93 REPORTED BY RY J my IRVINE NE I 1 presume w we e all ail understand the spirit of the lord is in the congregation gre gation gatlon of the saints if wedo we do not understand it and if there Is I 1 any one that does not realize the tiie necessity of enjoying it it would be a perhaps for to get up here for a while when a person is called cal cai ledu leau upon po to address a congregation gre gation gration and notices the upturned faces before him iv alting baiting wis wishing liln ilin P very likely praying for tile olie blessin blessings ga which they particularly desire I 1 think that no man can look upon such a sight unmoved he mu must mut t feel his own ignorance and weakness and dependence anti and when he this I 1 believe that all ali orations trat ions will be an advant advantage ae and blessing to both the speaker ad and the hearers aud and lam iam I 1 am sure that is my object this afternoon I 1 have no pens personal onal ai am nAtion to serve but I 1 do want to bless biess and I 1 do know that I 1 neel nee l to be blasej biesel ble and anti this ohis 1 is 13 3 the piam plate appointed 0 o far a as this ward is cone ernel for the reception of thoe tho e blessin blessings 4 which pertain to the public bublic services vices of or the church loius jesus christ of latter day saint saints here i is s the place where there hould should be intelli intelligence ence here hen is the where there should he be wisdom m here is the place to expect revelation and that not ili in any vague varue misty half understood under stool tw I 1 ene en ene eue e lo lost lot t or covered covene 1 up loy ily y a multitude ot 0 words word 3 but divested of every eveny th that atwill will deprive us of knowledge as to the essential principles pier w liali belon belong reuis re illy tily to revelation rhe file world however holds very pee peo su id ideas e a i in re regan ari ani arl I 1 to olih vils E eveny every vers very ilder elder in irael israel atio will louk look fach yach luck tack upon his experience if it reaches reicho even seven to the early lil ili history atory of or thi 4 church will com reli rell eril erli how h 0 iv od I 1 and mythi mythical earthe carthe the ideas in retard regard revelation were a as 4 then ther held by mankind it is 14 true that the rn mis ts es ei of or the people as well ai a the teachers believed that in the an ant lent time timea lere bere iere had llad been some oln om oin min mm at in n with the autelli intelligent int elligen yen ren es e who u d behind the vail vall rhey rhes all aneed agreed all did atall at all ali events evenus that the p rit was made matilde m iiii fet t and its utterances utterance i recorded Ina lna in a book chey believed that with out oat that book the world was in a lost condition that men were left grope in lir Tir kirkness d kness an and d to wander in ignorance but bat with that book was wat heli bell believed evel that every man ani aal every woman eoula could understand the neives nelves n elvea elves they could quid understand something of their origin and the purpose for which they were dwell ing upon the earth the destiny de stiny which belonged to the lium hum in fam fatu ily ani and also the proc processes esses essai by that dei destiny tiny could be best boit secured bag buc it is astonishing I 1 what a little light will do for a man it is astonishing how our mind mads 4 expand when we e receive tile tilo key to 0 o the situation and when we look at the vast difference there is between the com manity who inha dinha ic dt these theme mountains and the communities of the nations from which we have been gathered probably most can see pee and are aware that between the tile two there exists a 4 great grait and ever widening in gulf bien men waa wao reject the principle ci le of revelation in any direction must st become stunted they muk cease to live because revelation is the tile element of life bre it is the secret of growth it is the power of increase and it is only in proportion to the tha receptive ability of a man or woman or child that they can increase inease in intelligence now low row divested of all extraneous or outside ideas divested of all the mystery that has been thrown around the idea of revelation by man madd made teachers divested of all traditions and thoughts that have beba written in regard to it what is i the essential idea involved in rev revelation alap in ith its si simplicity M p c lil what is ig there that IB ig dime difficult u b of i what A there that jt should need nm maa of classical education U fo explain it jt what there la that them there be theoe theca laige colleges and thia this emmea d arn arr army zy ct of ministers in arder order that the world may MV be enlightened in regard to the principle of revelation revea tion Why wh when you coine colne to pro probe beald and to reach the foundation loun Joun dation or of the idea it is nothing more nor leai less than the communication of int e rice fice po pp ses ed by b one in bujard cj jd to 03 subject remains in ignorance that is all there is ia involved in revelation and whenever you find tind a human I 1 eing being who is ignorant 0 of or tiny subject pe pertaining Staining to any direction of human thought or in regard to th any ank useful nield field of human experience there revelation is Js an absolute necessity now then revelation may vary in degree decree it may mak vary in character aeter acter raeco according ing lug to the elie ap necessities of the case according to the tile intelligence ence enee of or individuals the mo mother who guides tile de etiny of a daml family ly and endows endow sIt sid it with all the comforts of domestic and social life finds herself surrounded by a few crude men and women or as we call them boys or girls you consider the character of or this oln olT offspring spring when they were born they tiley were lie iio helpless less and in infancy they poss possessed essT no intelligence savel cave tho thome those e animal instincts which lead only to the preservation of lite life but in a few weeks or months the spirit s irit of intelligence begins to dawn rhe the rhe the mother watches the growing spark and feeks seeks f i to fan it to a flame fiame to point out the remedy where difficulty occurs in early earls experience to ex plain the educational process through wirch wll wil cli cil the tile child must pass to man or womanhood and to show hilow that wh when en the first efforts are made and anti even when the are comparative failure failures 3 that these only stand as i sentinels ent inels or points men hi fit the great highway ot of success prompters teri to ultimate and anil final huc tuc t acce cew cow eow rhe probability is that every overy young wom ku who ha bat i earned learned to mae mao idalie broad lias jim had an ail experience of or this character anu and it is true that many of the first trials unless the mother wat clied elied very closely would not le ito fcc ucc e fui ful the hrell broil mih t bo be he helvy heavy ivy or it i jee iee JeC decomo gour sour now it is the tile mother 1 duty to reveal to give from her in ili tel ool ligen ilgen e to one cue comparatively ilo iio rantz solution or renedy dortht d tn edity culty rhe young girl is expect ej el to li listen aten to tile tiie mother she ha the tile faculty to receive tw liw intelli getice that is c 1 arid atil in I 1 to put pui that in teil tell gene into practice and nhsn vh n th the 0 bread was wis heavy mottier showed the caie cale ca lue wil hii w illi ihli il li ir brought abndt that condition it the tiie brea hrca I 1 wis wiy our a little ing in element had hail to be put into ane doulk dough in order eliat the a idairy might he re ronne roune live a little oda soda ur nofria vla via and k nd and thi uli 4 a revelatory procer process 4 from the mother to the child if you take tike one of our good mothers in el who has rovan res rey un anier ler ier the wei lit ut of ex per pen perince onee once you will nind find that she pow pos vole esses e a vait va valt it ift fund of information and in every direction of dome tic tiu or ocial social life she is the great stand ard of or appeal and even when uie fie datura daughter 11 ter has lias become a mimed aimed woman manahen when she pa pae sinto echito the r responsibility s visibility of motherhood when bickne s 4 taker takes hold bold of the darling that GJ GO has given her she instantly appeals to the hi higher hiher her hen or wider in tel tei telli gence genee a and nd exper experience lonce of f the mother anti and that which themo the mother by the advantage of years year by the experience through gli which she hw has passed has lias gained she communicates eates cates unto the daughter and thus the daughter becomes the recipient of revelation and as it is with the mothers and the daughters so also it Is with the father and the son so alo it is with tho thoe ei who are learning a trade so 0 o alo al o it is with those who attend at en 1 our dailyer our oun sabbath scho reho oland the very fact that we are so constituted that we can receive revelation in thee thoe channels is a cevela revelation tion lion in and of itself written in the fundamental organization of the human character that revelation 1 Is 13 3 not only ble and desirable de but I 1 ilat that it ii is alo alco al o a necessary and inevitable element pertaining to the hl highest liea ileo well wel fare inre are and nd the grand destiny and future of 0 tho thoe those e who submit to its varied prod pro bessei from flom day to day I 1 now this character of intelligence may be belaik said sald to mark mart the very lowest pha phases phares wes ses of human life but whilo man is is an animal while he has his physical necessities while he Is surrounded with domestic life while he ie is subject to and is a member of the social arena of life there are alsa attributes of character which are beyond this physical this animal and this social mt thame there is something in ia every evry man and in n eve evely woman which mai mar of the divine in all tho the cir clr of life there is a reaching dut aftab something dom eom ething which is bay beyond ond the tho grab them there is a soaring n bf the spirit a seeking after soi roi eoma soma no thing to which the present su surroundings r roun dings give no clue man rian fe feels el that he ia la is 14 he not only fels feis fe Is that he is but thousands and mil mii ions ioni of or i the tiie I 1 hum lumin lum in fa family trilly have an inkling of the tho great fact that they have been and millions and millions uuro havo 1140 fw qu kaup laup of 1 I wio wro alix grait great fact that when tb they ey leave this stage of existence they will continue to be and it is the tile realization of such things which establishes the idea outside bavido of any a ny ath other er special revelation that our origin is 13 divine as aswell well weil as human man when i n we sense these ideas when wilen they become interwoven into the fabric of our live lives when we instinctively feel that we do possess this characteristic there must be certain elements and certain principles which will minister to the growth of such idea ideas just as there are elements of and in nature which mit mil minister hister to the welfare of the lower so there are elements which minister to the higher and fitted forthe for the thu cultivation of or e every attribute of the human charae charac character crry erry er no matter liow ilow low low we nye may esteem it to be or how lofty lorty we may conceio conceive e it to bo be there are resources in the economy of god for the development and growth and glory of that characteristic hence when a man realizes that he had a pre existence when lie he realizes that the present existence is but a transitory coridi tion when lie he realize realizes that there is a vat va t and illimitable future before him he be desires daires da dei ires to comprehend how he shall best minister to his individual welfare in that thai tha future and anti here hero steps in tile tiie necea necessity sity revelation ba ed upon philo ophy based upon human necea nece necel A i lie de and human needs the only way that Q e can be educated in thi this 4 dire dionis tion is by revelation coming to us from outside out ide ido source from lil ill higher her hen intelligence 8 from eho iho e who K h re ive passed through the elf self s elf belf same elpe r ence vence as we our oun elves elvei have and will lor jor ever la pass now then as a fundamental mental pro eess ess for our in this respect we have given us tie gopel go liel pel aliat nat hat go gopel lel lei is just juht as systematic and jut ju t as orderly as are the de all ails 4 of e in a school it is just as orderly and sy bys as are ara the 63 y shiell which our boys hoys are Lau tau inand luand hrand train 0 1 in hi the va various bariou riou rlou hran bran branches ches chei of edlea oon bion or trade it is jut ut u t AS orderly and systematic as ti th education rive hive to the ther r daughter 1 P or i anat nat tint mo hiers liera give agneto to married iris irl iris itou vou you never find a mother in mining raining her eh children ildren for dom eslie estle ile egin to tell them in the first ji lae alace how now to make one of or those very vers ver rich cakes thau thai ve we sometimes make ourselves sick with at christmas you would scarcely find a man who took au an apprentice bein begin to teach him hirn in the first place lome some of the higher hig dig her branche brandies 4 of his trade you would carvely find a te teacher icher begin to teach his pupils the advanced principles principle 3 pertain pertaining lag jAg to a classical education abere is 13 an order there are steps and baid processes in ili every ed dire we take in heir order and in their rime and place now one of or the most startling revelations that has been given to the human family in intoe toe day and age in anich we live by the elder elders of or israel to a dark and benighted world is the great fundamental idea of the fatherhood of god now this may not appear so startling to the american citizen whose mind is impregnated with the idea that the human hung farrill family yare are equal that one man is is as good as another and sorn born sometimes beimes a little better but in the old world there exists conditions of class and of caste you who have come from england or fromang from orom any ans european nation will realize what I 1 meau mean by class and caste there is the charmed circle of the royal blood into which the plebeian never enters enten there is the larger circle of the aristocracy or as we call them the upper ten and into the precincts of that circle jealously guarded a as they are a stranger scarcely ever enters then you were surrounded in england by what is called the in middle middie I 1 addle ela cla classes eq and oven th they thes ey look upon the lower classes as being made ot of some material distinct and different from themselves but when the elders of israel landed ill in old england and proclaimed the fatherhood of god and laid the axe at ut the root of caste and class they were preparing for the foundation of a kingdom that should recognize the essential unity 1 of the tho human family and andoe of necess necessity l etythe the brotherhood of man it is quite true that tinder under home pome godal or political circumstance cum stance a bear hear ot at a certain unity and lind equalia equality among the human eara fara family lly ils but isyou if you attempt to pub put that unity an und and I 1 equality into practice what are tile the results re suits sulia that iio ilo w from much fromuth fro ruch such a acour course e you are surrounded with obstacle ol on every land and it is only I 1 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