Show REMARKS EY BY PRESIDENT GEORGE Q t I 1 at the cobern tabernacle acle sait lake ody C ty sun day sept 1893 REPORTED BY ARTHUR WINTER I 1 have been very enterer ted in ID have made der moses I 1 am bure that when I 1 tay bay we klad glad to nar bear n ar his bie voice once more in ID our midst I 1 only express the feelings leelin ue of every heart RO he has baa had bad a very severe il neep and for a while his hie life seemed to be almost nearing dearing its ite close cloa but the lord in answer to prayer coupled with god nursing and care bas baa restored him to comparative health and I 1 am very glad to bear him speak as he hits has today I 1 can bear tt tos to the truths he has spoken concertin concer the gospel and the divinity diVID ity of the MIMA JOLl of the prophet jui jot epi and the future isaure ot of this w rk rb and thin thie in im the I 1 privilege lege tnt we all have this constitutes the strength ot of this latter day work every man and woman with it bait baa the privilege leke ui 01 knowing for himself anu herself respecting the abe trube that are by y tue the elders ol of this ibis the lord has bab given uld hid holy to every one who has bae obeyed the aos pel pal in sincerity a and ild in truth and bo however little they may ki ow in acme directions direct lone cur ur father in iii iiii i luite kind has baa given them a knowledge in that direction which ie 18 of the utmost importance to them concerning couce aning met A man may not be very learned he may not know much about tile sciences of 0 world he may ejot he be able to many principles that are taught but bur when the vital principles ot of tiute with niazi ovation bal arft ara net forth jn in hs bs hearing bearing ho hn is aule able to discern truth from error anu and to rasp the truth anu and testily testify to it 1 I 1 his makes him bim a power anil and when thousands are united who sire are in 10 possession of this gift it makes a mighty power in the earth the first presidency have just returned from chicago as ss so you aej know we have had a very iut r eting visit president woodruffs health notwithstanding we had some little fear ar about his enduring the fatigue of the journey is bettor belter I 1 believe than it has been since the dedication of the temple emple 11 he bus received benefit physically from the trip belag with the choir was a soure of continued delight to us to see gee the manner in which the cuoio acquitted itself the character of the which were given to it and the good feeling that thai was manifested on op every every hand it has often been remarked since hince the choir belt here that their visit would w ld be productive ot oi greater good than thai almost any number dumber of missionaries mission an en I 1 am prepared to believe this statement it shows how the influence of this work is going forth lorta we have an exhibition of the manner in which our father cau dippel prejudice and soften the hearts of the people so aa he promised he would do from time lime to time in beall be all of his church suppose it had been announced five years ago thai mat within that period the tabernacle choir would go to chicago and enter upon a musical contest to which the singing organizations of the whole country had been invited to conoe come and participate and that they would be received with honor and be credited with the best beat sinking singing though only receiving the second prize who could have believed it it would have been a difficult matter for the people to co b kave av comprehended under the theu then existing circumstances and to be told that audiences after having paid a dollar fur for admission would ask to 10 have sung eung that hymn which is in so sweet to our ears eare the composition of sister bister ellza eliza R snow 0 my that d wel leu etc would have pounded founded incredible to the bulk of the people but it shows what the lord can do at chicago everything went off in the most moat pleasant manner it would be difficult to ask aek for kinder treatment in fact I 1 do not bee how it could bu be given to us I 1 leel very thankful that this ibis is the case I 1 RM am thankful to see people free from prejudice to see them look at the latteri latter i y saints sainta as they truly are to see bee us in our true light and recognize the fact that we are struggling with them in our way to advance the human family anu and to make progress for thereto there la a spirit of progress abroad in the world at the pre present time a to improve of course there are differ differences enece in views view as aa to how this progress iress shall be effected and the methods that shall be adopted to achieve the ends ende natural naturally ay we wink anink that our method is the best beat others have not agreed with us in this view but people now are almost compelled to acknowledge that hat with all 0 aur alleged faults and sins we have been making progress and that we ars arft a progressive people and that pe he lines which we have adopted as our lines of progress are worthy of consideration a d examination because the results are such as to warrant the world to in paying attention to this of course we need not expect that there will tw b any ally very great hurry burry in acknowledging our worth or i g us ua in our true character the air ban baa been ailed with misrepresentation the very atmosphere has been so be clouded with falsehood and misrepresentation that it Is has been almost impossible to see ee us through it but it to if gradually clearing up aud and men en and women are be ginning to look at us ua with different lights and to acknowledge that indeed the latter day saints are accomplish ing a great work allusion has been made to out our financial matters I 1 believe that ii lu other communities if the same in debt edness and obligations had been resting upon them that have rested upon us there would have been a great det deul deti I more financial trouble rouble than we have had bad there has not been a failure yet of any of our banking dinst institutions 1 tut ions but I 1 believe there would have bee i bad it not been for the conservatism L ism m of the people and for the disposition to be patient and not get excited I 1 am delighted in seeing this feature of our character exhibited and recognized the spirit which the gospel brings iiii if among the people you can feel it there is a serenity of mind a calmness and a disposition not to become excited or to run to extremes I 1 nave have remarked once before here bore that in my intercourse with leading men I 1 have endeavored to create the he ip impression in i their mind that we could be relied dpn up upland Dand and not be car ried away by every will othe althe wisp wiep thiele thib is our true character and it is well to have it and known referring Re ferrine again to chicago there to is so an extraordinary being wit essed there in the convocation of this parliament of religion sas i as it la Is called I 1 suppose all 01 you who road read the papers papera know more or less leas concerning concerting conc erting this while we were there there was a japanese a learne i man wb who took the opportunity afforded him very much however to the disturbance of some oi of his hearers tu to give his big rea BOUB why the japanese or the heathen as he called them did not receive christianity he held up the conduct of the christians lu in ft a light that was not dot very flattering to us UK if we come within that category at any rate a attacked the conduct ot of our nation as a christian nation aud and we are part ot of the nation for or the manner in which the japanese had been treated and said it the fruits of christianity an ae they bad leen shown to them were the atle genuine fruits or of that religion they were not willing to accept chris ti anity I 1 that ii if the i parliament of reli religions gione was to bee aee ourselves as others iee bee us his bia address would beono be one of the most atile able that bat bad been delivered livered ue it in ie oetter to have plain talk about faults and defects defect and ana have them set net forth plainly in a kind spirit than it isio into be tolu tola that we are perfect I 1 would rather listen to censures it they are just and fair criticism upon our methods than to be told we had bad no DO faults common sense douse ought to tell every one tuat we are not faultless we nave have many faults anu ana we nave many characteristics that can be prop erly critic criticized criticised leed but of cour course seit it we are critic leed we would like to be criticised criticized in the right spirit and with a proper feeling there are some things that abat are got going uk to puzzle this parliament alter after a while awhile as I 1 view it that jig is the orthodox christian part of cf it I 1 consider we are christians though hough we are not lecog nixed dined always as orthodox but the orthodox in their teaching have conveyed the idea that the savior came and taught truths which had bad never been heard of before in the world one sneaker speak erin in his address said that there had been sum some truths that had not been revealed until jesus jesua came and that there had been a great many things lor instance in theOld the old testament that were suited to a barbarous age and that the men who practiced them hem had not much knowledge of god he alluded to the sacrifices under and provi cus to the law of moses and thought bow improper they were only suited to u barbarous people and age but the inhabitants of the earth had emerged from bal bai and ignorance into light convoying conveying the idea that abraham and moses and the prophets knew but little concerning god anu and the plan of salvation as taught by the lord jesco christ but here bete como come the Budd buddhists hista and the followers of confucius Con CoD lucius and they prove that abat long before the savior was born many mady of the truths which he proclaimed were taught by their loading leading men this la is likely to good ground for inal in ft delity and for men thinking that after all there to ie not so much in this chrle chris aiau religion as those who advocate it assume because if buddha and confucius know knew these truths where are the claims of the christians that the savior was the first to introduce them in his him sermon ou on the mount men put themselves ina in a false position by making such statements forthe for the gospel of the lord jesus christ is as old aa eternity happily we have been delivered from that foolish error by the revelations which G gl oil has given unto us god has revealed unto us himself was taught the caspel in the same purity and with the same power and gifts wat that it was taught to the twelve ap apostles whom the ard L rd chome a as a his disciples e a we have been taught that jesus himself was the revelator so BO to speak he was the being who revealed tu to adam and 10 his bl children to abraham to moses and to the prophets the plan of salva tiou and gave them the laws which they practiced the offering of bullocks and other emals anti and rowls fowls was typical of the great offering 1 be made and there was a purpose in view in making these offerings but it is consummate fully for this generation to suppose they can measure and fudge the lord by their knowledge or can fully understand his methods of dealing with the children of men in former ages age unless he reveals this knowledge to them this generation should not lift itself up in e and think that it embodies all knowledge and is ie superior to every preceding prece diug generation that has hag been a conceit that all generations have more or less e n berta oiled and it has proved the ruin and downfall of many of them they have thought they aney were the foremost in the of menan i that no one u butil atil they lived had made such progress as they too many of our scientific men and religious teachers are puffed up with this kind of pride they think they understand science ano ani the constant endeavor of some is to reconcile the bible with science while there are others who abo wink think they bey cannot be reconciled but it is the fashion now to extol so science leDee and many ministers 0 religion almost worship it in doling doing so they think they are keeping abreast of the he spirit of the age yet the truths of the gospel are eternal and after all it will be found that science will have to agree acree with them the rhe truths which god has revealed are immutable and they cannot be weakened or shaken I 1 by science or discussion it if scientific theories differ from them the theories must go down we bear considerable about evolution who lie is there that believes more in true irue evolution than the latter day saints tine the evolution of man mala until be shall become a god until he be shall sit at the right hand band of the pathea fataei until he be shall be a foint heir beir with gesual that in ie the gospel of jesus christ believed in by the latter day saina that to is the kind of evolution we believe in but not the evolution of man from some low type of animal life there Is in a tendency today in the scientific world to entertain and advocate such ideas concerning the origin of man the attempt is made to prove that man has baa come up from the low depths through the stone age the bronza bron age the iron age until he has baa reached his bis present can this lip la incorrect man la in the son eon of godana came here bere perfect from the eternal worlds adam was made in the image of god G d and he stool upright before him his ob children ildren however fell into dark atas at as aa and sio sin and corrupted themselves and probably there were times when they used flints just as geologists now attempt to prove and afterwards bronze and iron but not ma Js a original condition he came from god perfect perie ct and he was wae so BO intelligent as to give names to all the animal creation and be became their lord and master he know knew goj god and walked with him and god was i ot of a simpleton then he know knew I 1 fust list au aa much as ae scientific men do now I 1 ti alink it bat bag not been necess necessary iry for him to go to school since th the e days of mf adam in order to learn knowledge lie he always knew fenew what he comprehends toi yand he could teach adam that was necessary to be taught not ordy only that but mei mea who lived li ved aa 98 lung long as aa they did must have leomea an immense amount think of it adam living nearly a thousand yean fearrl 1 what pro progress grems he would make in the knowledge ot or earthly things clug even suppo slug he started out ignorant so with the others until theearta the earth was filled with knowledge but men corrupted themselves and fell feil into darkness and sin and became so wicked abat god in order that wickedness night inight not hot destroy his purposes had to send a flood to wipe them out 0 ul e excepting X a few enoch walked with god hundred aad sixty five years and the bible says saye h was waa not tor god to k him binn if jae he walked with bod aou that length of time he must have aown so bething about him and about the heavens and about the or gani ot of the earth anti and something about what is called science now ge geological logical as aa well as astronomical our revelation a tel leli us that bat lot i ot only odly lie he but his city ws was translated they were all taken wilb the exception of melba melbu saleh who was left on the earth because the promise had been made to hixia him that through him oue should arise abo should be the progenitor bitor of a now new world thin proved to be noah his bis gra gradison grait wison jeon after that the earth waxed worse and worse until the flood was wae sent and destroyed the world I 1 might read you some thit g to ahw yuu how bow much adam knew about too the gospel ebere are many precious parts of the bible which have been beed taken from it it has 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