| Show sunday services Servi oes thel regular services ot the church of jesus christ of latter latte ru ausy saints were held in the tabernacle Taber oacle yesterday afternoon at 2 elder eider charles charle W penrose of the stake presidency presiding or r joseph joaeph baldwin ot of the university of texas being invited to lo address the congregation said be come came there today to be a listener ligten er he was wae delight ed ho he remarked remark edwith with the sweet music of the illustrious choir his soul bad beu been made glad with the singing sio ging and his hl brief stay in utah loulu long be by him his hie visit to this thip territory was wag one of the moot moet delightful periods of his life he had bad been received well by the people of utah and greatly rejoiced at what he had seen and heard he had bad had the great honor of meeting with four hundred bundred teachers tea obera at provo and was exceedingly cee glad giad at witnessing the marvelous marielou marve marv louB elou interest taken in educational matters by the people of this thin territory there Is ie a hungering and thirsting after education knowledge and truth here such as ae he had bad seldom ise aaen D Tho threat great question confronting f the whole human family was truth one of the old poets in singing said truth is truth troth reler it my may be found foe on n christian or on heathen ground jesus christ was the embodiment of truth in him was all truth he was tie the light of truth when he was being tried before pilate the great quo qu s tion was asked him what la is truth J jesus answered 1 I am the truth truth elevate eleva tep it uplifts while the th absence of truth degrades falsehood drags down dowd and degrades eg rades while the truth makes a min man tree free it makes a man free because it to is a law of god and he Is the ibe source of all good truth makes people free tut falsehood makes them slaves science is truth and history to is tru truth th when it corresponds with facts truth is a power and makes free while the opposite enslaves good comes through righteous laws properly and every blessing comes through a strict adherence to the law jaw of god every curse curee and all buffering come through lawlessness fal aseh od leads men astr astray the fruit of a false life its ie misery esus jesus says 1 I 1 am the truth follow me and eternal life 1 he was the truth he was the truth hence the remark follow me paul says save follow me as I 1 follow christ he tried to follow christ he tried to embody the truth hence he said follow christ IJ washington embodied truth and 0 her gr at anal ana good met med have exhibited the truth in doing good to their fellow men the speaker enlarged on the subject of truth and pointed out in forcible language the great blessings enjoyed through living jiving a godly life aud and the terrible punishment lunio ted on all ali who lived a false life ELDER JAMES E TALMAGE was the next speaker he said he be was greatly pleased at the truths just enunciated dr baldwin had bad given forth some very sublime remarks that day what he had said was profi profitable tabie and contained much foud food fir reflex tion As ae we have beard GOJ la Is the fountain of all truth in one of the modern revelations recorded deJ in the doctrine ani an i covenants we read yo ye were also in the beginning with the father that which is spirit is even the spirit of truth aud and truth la Is a knowledge of things as they are and i as they were and as aa they are to come the spirit of truth is of god all truth is in independent in that sp sphere herein in which god has placed it to act for itself all blessings are based on the observance of righteous oras jaw while as has baa been stated condemnation is the quence tf of a violation of I 1 law aw human or divine the speaker cited the story of two misers miners whose only ambition in life was to accumulate gold old alter a time one of theta died and shortly after his hie spirit pint appeared before bis bib lormer former corn com panto in life but in a most haggard tired and wretched condition he told his big companion that he be could find no peace nor rest in consequence ot of his selfishness this contains a very profitable lesson lor for all people in this lite hie our hearts should go out to others herein lies the secret of true hap happiness pinesE DJ good to all men 0 DR DB WRITE ON PRAYER 51 jn in the light of beacon was wag the subject of dr E E whiter address delivered before a large audience in the tabernacle last devalk ing the speaker began by saying that modern thought had touched christian faith at no polut point more unfavorably than that of prayer and that the aim ot of the discourse diaco uree v as to re i ove doubts respect respecting ink the be efficacy of prayer which have their source in what is supposed to be reason ur or philosophy he next analysed prayer into the three elements of worship con cession and Petit petition ioD and then stated its true nature prayer is neither language nor posture it to la not expression ot any kind hind it la Is the lilting of the soul to god in reverent worship heroic and earnest believing supplication its effic cy was considered in its effect ou the one who prays or its subjective efficacy and in its effect on OD gou god or lie its objective efficacy anu anti the argument was limited to these theme terms as thus defined in const consi ering the subjective efficacy of prayer dr white while began with the settled settle d principle of psychology that every act of the aau soul intellectual or moral increases its power to not act and creates a tendency to abet again iu in the same way power and tendency ency being the results of all psychical action this thin principle is the central jaw of education and culture of habit and character the result of psychical activity Is greatest when accompanied and energized by feeling the deepest and mot most transforming tran forming feeling being love it was next shown that the subjective effect of prayer depends on the nature of the being to whom it is offered the influence of fetish worship the worship of idols and the gods of mythology was traced and tine the principle reached that by prayer man is changed into the likeness of the ue be ing he be worships wore hipa this was also aleo sp to hero worship wora bip anti and illustrated by the degrading influence of a corrupt king apon the people as an repeatedly shown in english and french history the principle was then applied to the worship of god the all ail excellent the absolute perfection and to christ the embodiment and manifestation of the anfin to te god and the perfect man gisyer to uch ucb t a being is ia the highest exercise of the soul the most transforming and uplifting of subjective influences the most moat ideana ot of theaotis the thea ouis best beat life growth and culture this fact la is conceded by all writers writer 8 JI whatever may be their views respect ing the effect of prayer on god in discussing the objective efficacy of prayer dr white first considered the two objections object iona based on the im mutability of god and the assumed I 1 immutability ot of natures natured na turee jaws althe invariable order of nature in answer to the first objection it was shown that by an immutable decree an immutable god may make prayer the condition ot of his blessings blessi oga and mer cief and the answer to prayer drayer may thus be the fulfilment fulfillment of au an eternal purpose moreover the fact that prayer is a subjective good shows that it Is in in bp harmony armony with the maiure ol of god the well being of the creature can never be in conflict with ane nature of the creator the second objection to is based on oa the assumption that the creative flat exhausted omnipotence it assumes that god created a potential universe and after setting ito forces and laws iu in mo tion locked the door through away the key and has since stood outside I 1 but if there be a god back of nature the presumption is in that there is if it god in and over olef nature that if her foro forces Newe execute his will they are under and obedient to it the imminence of god in nature la is a necessary cou consequence sequence of creation itself toe invariable order of nature means meana that bat the forces of nature each acts according to invariable law force is not law law is the mode in w which hick force acts the forces of nature not the laws jaws are the fundamental facts fact forces vary one force even changing tou to another nother the in variable ness of DV nature ture is in law not dot to la force the presence of a free will in this universe of law is the au supreme fact ase t A free billeau will can use the forces of nature each accord inz inn to its law the I 1 in evarl variableness of law does not stand in the way of a divine free agency man uses the forces of nature to ijo do his will he puts one force over novt r against another and thus disturbs the ta invariable order pa this tact fact was enforced by happy and striking illustrations physical Puy force is not dot omnipotence the physical is subject to the spiritual the laws and threes forces of nature natura execute the creators will the concur of natures laws and ghag will is affirmed by reason itself the miracle has a small place in boua answer to prayer toe pray prayer et that heals the sick nick may neither annul nor oft contravene any physical law jaw faith in the objective efficacy or of prayer to la reasonable any fact re gi vested in universal and tested by universal experience la its a sure basis of philosophy or faith prayer is such a fact it is a universal instinct and impulse of the human race ari moreover it la Is the highest justinea Just inet an the deep deepest eilt impulse of man ill la Is there no DO objective correspond corre sPon deccer N Is there nothing beyond prayer that corresponds to and answers this thin universal instinct a a impulse of ma A T there he r 0 I 1 is 8 not a 8 0 created re R led being J that has ao an instinct or desire desir which has bag not an objective cor IP relate and satisfaction this was waft shown aboin by striking atri king illustrations relating f to animals and plants Is man mocked if so it is in the saddest I aa a 1 well as aa the strangest fact in the zint Is verse veyre but man to is not mocker eat 1 prayer opeus opens the he spirit of ina man n to the it divine spirit it to is the condition of spiritual action and harmony wita the nature of gou and the nature and jevest peat needs of man the fact that we may not know how bw prayer enoves god is no reason wit lor doubt like liike te Is ane unsolved and an d un ua solvable mystery ot of nature and cal lire life is 18 no exception the argument closed with the apall alipit cation ot of the principle of the ultimate test teat of all doctrine whether of alm ilm philosophy or faith by their fruits yo ye shall know them PY in a few son bences it was shown that a record 0 of the fruits of prayer drayer would be a cata I 1 logue ogue 0 t the lie grandest gran deat victories and noblest virtues of the race prayer has been the hope aud solace of the th wisest and best beat in all aagep areo |
