Show njg ite JIE AND hijman human BRAIN braik wore WORK JT IT 13 singular how inconsistent men jv 2 t ithe IlDe coine when they take an in active part in attacking the system popularly known as mormonism s when the mattery matter pus jus exam inellie ined iv 6 ia not so singular after all for how can a person be thoroughly he fizits fights the e truth au and ids seeks i to t overturn things that are immovable members of antagonistic political parties and ministers of opposing a f C sects will cordiale cor cordially diall unite in a 4 combination against mormonism oven even I 1 lin ain if in I 1 doing so they have to sac rifled ri flee tenets and policies which at other times they cling to with bils bus tenacity h liberal convention the bane of the party who has fig lured vired tired prominently as a Meth methodist odit lecturer and supporter roused to wrath in 9 a denunciation and attempted ridicule of mormonism declared that a revelation inside the brawl braai of man was worth a thousand foid fold ino more re than any revelation out I 1 side of the brain no matter where it came from or words to that effect if the liberal exhorter really be leves ieves in his own assertion the tho thedeth meth 1 Iodis odiste todis ts can have no further use for dimand to be consistent he should at once resign his membership of that church for what is methodism if jf the revelations on which it professes to be found founded bel bol are only the con of human brains if the does doeg not contain revelations tyro from hi power superior to mortal brains then methodism is all ali fal fai sefor ii n it claims to bet ba built on the bible as the revealed word of almighty god so far as the principle ef of revelation is methodism agree except in this important distinction that while methodism professes to few re ve lations relations communicated years ago to men long since dead 1112 mormonism sms in addition to those revelations accept capt as divine other communications 11 received in in our times by living apos atie atle sand V and prophets methodism MU no leo xgo than mormon iati fab be based on ii the productions of human brains the system of the former ras gaa was vaa arranged by men but its principles are professedly those of f the holy holk scriptures which accord in ing to its teachings are not the de of human reason but the words of df thu the eternal god phe idea conveyed by the metho orator is simple in the the clever cleven but superficial skeptic who nho claims that an onest honest god od is the noblest work of man 11 takes exactly the same ground is as the f mormon Ic liberal illiberal malt mait 5 ail ull the religions of all the age Z swi J w gods and hd cere care ceremonies wo ane dia dla fig of mens brai bral brains na gy thiis impractical denial of the theeb adz of supreme being forit eor for it is unreasonable to suppose that a personal deity reni neni remains through ages dumb and ex expressionless nessi ressi oui oni ess concerning himself anthis and his will fled flea nd ills his ways wass if he does doeg manifest mani fest himself reveal truth and primul commandments to mortals mortal reye revelations lations must be of infinite ay more importance than anything professing lag aag tobe to be religion that 0 origin rigin i ates ia in the brains bf men sua sul such revelations will constitute true religion while the the inventions of men no matter how bow much good they may contain mingled with the vain ima lma imaginations inactions of their inventors cannot be go so designated for the true religion the way the truth and the life must come from god to mally malis man instead of emanating from mortality with its great variety of views and vagaries if there is no religion in the wor world 1 I but that whIch has originated inside the brains of men then all people are justified in going their own way according to the suggestions of their own minds and nd are under no obligations of obedience to god or responsibility to any divine tribunal banes enunciation loudly applauded by professedly christian annj cormons mormons 11 is simple infidelity sheer unmixed atheism it exposes pose poso the real sentiments of the person who uttered it and the ancon inconsistency sis tency of those pretended who will endorse anything that is aimed against mormonism in striking at our faith it smites every religious creed in christendom it is the exact opposite of the truth for the only things of real value among all the multifarious systems of religion which men have invented are those which originally proceeded from the almighty framer of the universe universes being revealed by him to his chosen servants at biffl different er periods and in various places so far as these have been incorporated in the creeds of men those creeds are of worth and will benefit mankind in time and eternity while the additions that have proceeded from human brains are but as chas chaffy and will be swept away by the blast which will purify the world and be burned up in the fire of everlasting truth the great superiority of what is called mormonism over tile tiie the dif ferent religious systems existing in the wrid world is in the divinity of its origin and continuance therein is its strength as well weli as beauty and because of that it outlives all the efforts and forces which have been arrayed against it and will stand unscathed before the wrath of men and nations while it spreads forth light and truth to illuminate all people p re who will open the windo windows wa of their souls to its divine influence and saving power |