| Show asi VE COOK GOOK H SALT LAI lal E cay sunday june 15 fi editors despret mew 8 it has been asserted alt lat ht jos cooka statement macii liti methodist church of or th tr unanswerable the ta rut 1 was very little to a aim alm W I 1 I 1 preau prelude deyl dell consisted plia unsupported assert ns and thre threats tn ata having a with me members ambers 0 of the anel churches la lu this ci city i i women who are ale appo oppose 08 boulam monism and especially p pi know ihnow 1 that maluy many of fie ibe h ly y regretted mr cook Coo kabe hate and he had bad bidd alak 1 harm to the came causer utah than buch such junob no ta patient workers agu asU as kew SeW kirby barrows dd olbers counteract in mr cooks lecture fimi timy america was truls truly SA L 00 many of his admirers ad i had allowed hla hia t where the conclusion X 9 lime peroration had pa neither his hia t iiii bis ciurea on the tha aerts of llalon gave any evidence 0 f breadth ol 01 thought ard aad crimination which the pu putt been led to expect inko a lecturer lec leo tuter SW fai polygamy ia is concerned 1 lyl ivl il ya it other phu pha phanes phones les of the is an open question and ri 4 sible hible persons of whatever fait cognize mr cooks W rip jip entertain and exar well weli tw ais als all other k eleita jolls such views aa as be he ples pi bab bat whatever the serm ed with mormon T p they will hever never he mry wry con cor the practice abolished SM mr cook to the cont standing stan atan ding the united b have the powen powei ta tec tee convel convert into a 9 desert and annihilate its ita citizen PU ast 1st doubt there are plenty astr div fanatics who are win min hap sable able to PI vided aided they were I 1 taa tha v authorized by tile the civile that ia is just what nept alk w done it the one hundred thousand duo dut deop vail vall against and bupp iari lall 0 institutions of forty wis nis people leople it can only tua be toa R lormer former possess superior 1 commend themselves s tiko ol 01 the latter 4 cant min minority or ity are ike ite tempt to spread thet their al ak institutions by any violent and for the overwhelms 91 to resort to the sword t to to handful of fanatics of weal an a incapacity capAcity la which t tsi bc 0 people a will never mever r m make male aak pal 1 e but the real animus ates uaen nien of mr coc coo when be 0 went out of his hia way sy abuse and sarcasm doubtless thought vou you we D lack of log logic 10 on OU ads the book of mormon ivi eject been to benefit ben bee molls mons an ana and ld win via etheo what he c con 0 n error ha would elre elfe avoided all stead of purposely arc art antagonism but 11 his ii dr df New newman manta mansA boo bobaj mr beechert Bee nee chers chera atti tuM with his own contempt dj r sarcastic har haT dastic sneers convene pres pree slop to the really t 1 portion ot 0 P his q audience tg at moro numia to 6 impi i i with the importance and ability of joseph cook than to win the people of utah to what he understands to ba the true gospel of christ it iras was simply another manifestation 0 of the old spirit of intolerance that kwas felt by so many nell neil reli religions gibus veople people towards every everything thing I 1 mor long iong before polygamy was elther efler taught or practiced when that grand convention is helito leid beld to which mr cook referred I 1 to 0 o demonstrate the fraudulent char 4 I 1 acter aeter of the book of mormon and joia jola joseph ewh eph smiths pretensions and to prove to the world that the mormon church is built upon solomon mon moa dings romance romances doubtless 1 you will have able representatives there to fositt sift the evidence and the character of the witnesses and give to the world a verbatim report rl ot the proceedings the whole loxla will anxiously wait the meet inid this grand council and peruse wilh with ili intense tense interest the reports of its deliberations which jet let as hope will be given to the public just as they occur without either varnishing or gar gat garbling bling sf 41 t diioro editors evening news it it may perhaps be considered u unfair a to hit sit cooks lecture on the ol 01 religion j because he had only onvy about hait halt li lif the time he usually occupies in its Us deil dell delivery very verr but bat he was particular to impress upon his audience the central point of his argument and 41 the only one which could lay any 4 claim to namely that 14 the latest development of science 1 upon which nearly neatly all its students 1 aie ate agreed la Is I 1 that life precedes organization u argued mr hc of C if life ilfe precedes organization is it not fair air to conclude that it eu tw ceede it these may not be the exact words mr cook used but they give the sense correctly all the bible thumping and rhetorical flourish about laying his dying head OB on that sacred book was only 0 o much pyrotechnical display to illuminate this one central idea nobe noue now how hoy much logical demonstration at ration of immortality does this is statement contain there is in reality nothing new ne w in it the most ultra atheist believes organized 14 forms to be the result of bome some bome some 4 inherent po powen power wen in nature by bome some termed florce lorce by others life and add by the pantheist god but lir lit this life precedes and really organizes i the tho plant the tree the noxious insect and the poisonous reptile as certainly as man and if it this fact alone proves that tha t man continues to exist a as an organized being after the death of the body then it follows ef necessity that all the fhe lower animal and vegetable forma forms also continue to extin exist after their present forms forma have bave crumbled to dust there is no question a at t least with the great majority of material fists that the life principle whatever it may be always ba hab has s I 1 existed and will always continue to exist and to manifest itself in the only possible w way namely through organized organ izad material torme forme but mr cooks disco discourse urBe teft left unsolved r the Inte intensely neely important question which ha hns has 4 agitated the mind iu lu ail ull ages as to whether thia this life ilfe principle when once organized id fhi human form orm was organized forever or whet whether herit berit it la is liable like ilke the outward materials in which it clothes itself to return to fhe the elements of which it is composed po ted aed if mr cook or any other scientist can prove that inen men and women existed as organized Int eill elii before being clothed with mortality then it will necessarily follow that their organization ii by the dissolution of this earthly body but it la Is just as or imposed by any present known scientific methods to prove one point aa ail the othen othel therefore so far as mr cooks looks argument goes goe 4 we are arc left in 10 the same uncertainty R aa 13 to whether we lre are to continue to enjoy an individual iu existence exis exia tonce tence and consequently ahi afi an organized form af after ter beath or whether according to the 1 theory we are event aily ally silly to lose jose our identity by being I 1 abic abIl absorbed libed again into the dil 1 ol 01 the universe Nha vever tevel t the ultimate destiny of the hurn hura rj soul may be there are tons tena ol 01 of men and women now living who know by bv the evidence of inear senses J the r benses senses ih that organized int 1 I rul PuL does dots doss not end with th the dissolution of ahls 8 material body nut nut bat so lt mit wit a cledge goes thib this faiet Is not capable of a mathematical mAthematic af demonstration any more than thau it would be possible to mathematic mathematically liy ily lly demonstrate strate ethe the existence and nature of light to a man who had never enjoyed the power ot of vision the tho blind may believe in the existence of light as others may in the realities of the spiritual worlds but neither can know until their eyes are opened to behold the glories of each As to mr cooks second proposition the necessity of living GO so that ourselves and our record should be in harmony with the divine will the reverend lecturer made this part of his discourse dieco disco urae Urao very impressive and his well taken with one exception all believers in god recognize the absolute necessity of being in harmony with his nature if they would be happy hereafter all who understand themselves know that perfect peace and happiness in this life can only be ben vin viD joyed by the harmonious exercise of all the bacu facu I 1 ties unhappy ness being the result of as wickedness consists in the gratification of one faculty or set of faculties at the expense of the rest both these classes of persons would be very glad to have their past record blotted out as mr cook baid eaid so far as it is at variance with right and truth but can it be done there la Is a way provided by which forgiveness for wrong may be obtained from both god and man but that cannot change the facts of the past they are stamped on the mans own soul in indelible characters as eternal aa as himself no atonement by another no agony or tears of his own can ever change or wash them away he may truly repent be may bring himself into perfect harmony with the divine nature he may regain the respect and affection of his fellows even of those be he has wronged but nothing except annihilation can erase from his soul the record of his past life the severest most merciless judge we shall ever meet will be ourselves not as our narrow ignorant dark and selfish natures are today to day most of ua us are very lenient to ourselves and very unmerciful to others but there is a time coming when men will nolon gerbe able to deceive themselves or othere others when the refuge of lies and hypocrisy will be swept away and each individual will stand before we fits fellows his true life and character revealed in the light of eternity there la is no escape from this and ages after our sins bins are forgiven and rol foi for gotten ay by iy all but ourselves our oura elves pelves we ahall ishall remember with sorrow and shame every act and word wold which has been contrary to justice and truth the only way to 10 escape a bad record is not to make independent |
