| Show MORMONS STRIVE TO GET KNOWLEDGE Brigham H. H Roberts Addresses Large Assembly at Granite Stake Tabernacle I 7 WOULD PENSION TEACHERS Encourages Education of of oj Y Youth Youth Keep Keep eef Bible Out J of the Schools Schools' Brigham 1 II Robert a IlI IJ an ann n t o if C Ulo about t 1 last I ht a af nf the tho lit Granite stake sloke tabernacle on The Tio Mormon View of Education Tho ho Ice lec- turo turc Was Ins given under the Ow thc auspices ol ut oLAo thy Y I MM 1 I. I A A. A Pr Ir Professor Ce feor Nor Charlesj Charles j Kent ent nt f ind the Uc lJ Granite ladles rus i furnished t tho th music I The Thc people co le of It t the United States tales I I. I suid nid Mr fr nO Roberts tm would be ue greatly gl surprised If IC they thc even o heard hc that an nn t 1110 movement cn existed among UJ th the Mormons Thc They am brought UI up belief that th tIn the i- i mill amid encouraged in the time presiding officers of or tho timo church aro arc the members of oft interested In holding 11 t till tho church in Ignorance and that the authorities of nt tho time church In general 1 ur are unfriendly toward to education the of uC the time cli r ith the Y leaders lIi i li have cilc encouraged lra im In Ir r manner possible tilt till cause I ol education mal anti the time establishment of or an m system r torn Kach J-ach leader olIto of ot the tho Ito church from tho Prophet to Iho tIit now Jf president Joseph 1 1 V. V Smith have 0 boon bemi equally zealous sealous III In Inthis tilts this direction The Time erected erect ed cd b by 11 the time church bear Indisputable evidence evi u dence of tills this x Joseph Smith sai said No oman man can cali be he saved in Ira ignorance and that no man mun could bo be saved only univ a as at he o obtained knowledge This Timis does docs not mean worthless JUlO knowledge gP Inactive o knowledge but ut It m moans maxis a s applied knowledge Unapplied knowledge II like ke unapplied power means nothing ills Tor A to I. I Conic CUniC Is it iL not lot a n. m wonderful incentive in inthis I this quest l after J knowledge for or mankind mankind man man- kind to lo know Imo that thai tho tim knowledge he hO obtains in IH this life will rise with wHit him himon on omm the tho resurrection tiny day pointed out that flesh am awl armil blood could not enter limb Into tho tito king kingdom dom dam of or Heaven u. neither can they I Joseph Smith pointed out that there Is u wealth which can bo ho taken luken into i time the world to come Tho trained faculties faculties' fac fac- I tills this equipment t may bo VI taken talen I IS S Into the future futuro life lin This Timis noble in incentive in- in n- n 1 Is a of Mormonism I I. I Time The glory of God Goll IH Is intelligence I This Is Iff our byword and yet rot they say t I Mormons ha have hano no Interest in lion tion Th j ministry of the church h Js Is 8 designed de du I signed 1 to he 10 a learned ministry tl Our system of selection ma may be he different t tto to that of or other churches Our ministers min main I IsLets are arc called from rum the ranks They Chey need Hoell n not l of necessity be ito college c grail grad The They ma may be mechanics bankers bank hank j ers emit or 01 the thoy Ina may bo be university men Hut But whatever er they ther be he they ther arc chosen with I regard reg-arll to what power the they have o of ob obtaining oh- oh ohI I knowledge 1 Home oine of these ministers have thought that they thoy could fold their arms ha 1 and wait walt for knowledge 1 to coni to J thom them and have neglected their thell 1 calling S 1 wi Vo me to tr treasure n nr r up Ufo it-Ufo continually that wo we may nty speak p ak out but of oC a fullness of knowledge Taught ht II by G Coil nl People are arc tau taught ht by God Cod and ana not 1 by the time wl wisdom dom of ot man Herein lies the difference between time tho Mormon church and other churches Mr here hero quoted various arlous sec sec- from front time the Doctrine of Covenants CO bearing upon the time educational LIonal question Deltoid Behold what a scope is here Weare Wo Yo are art commanded to acquire all nIl knowledge knowl knowl- edge concerning concerning- all an people the past pastin in its richness of or experience upon and under tinder time the earth all of knowledge knowl edge are thrown open It IB not hot the case with us OH nH with Ith witha a teacher who ho ordered oi all nU books exclusive o o of oC tim tho Koran Koron lolIo tobe to lo bo lIo burned d. d For said sall be lie be If it they agree with the Koran thc thoy arc aro 10 superfluous If IC they timey do ii not a areo ro with the tue Koran thA thoy richly deserve PHUl O to bo 10 burned Our stand tand is not so narrow I as Ui that All iI has luau not boon been revealed ro to lo loone one ommo small mall fraction Cra-cLlon ot of a Cl The were not without their I prophets ts God Cod reveals Himself to all I Ills servants independent ot time or time anti locution I The Time second great lender leader of of ot this I S church Brigham Young had hall concep I S tion o of education that many no now are beginning to realize V Hero lIero the toe speaker read extracts from I S 5 the till gi of ot Brigham Young rio dc- I cred between the tho years 83 and I S 5 1 13 S G Vv School chool Teacher h ro the sky and the earth meet S I- I wo vo sec ec the horizon on But nut if It we travelS travel tra S to 0 the thu point which marked marlell our OUI hurl hori S. S zon a a. new h horizon opens out before u ui It la Is thu tho Ham with lg wll n we have l' l reached ono onu sphere of or 5 5 knowledge another OI opens up before us and so on through h eternity n I I would strongly approve of our oum- ic legislature lauro passing art rl act the Iho object I. I of or which was waH lo to p pension our school teachers T Te We c S e owe them much They Thc S rry our fUr y through 23 years of Ir their n life UCe And ut 1111 moreover I j would like lIko to see Utah lead In lu this ibis move c ment S With thu h investigation which tool look S Place in Lu conjunction with the th founding founding of th the Rhodes Oxford Scholarship ll th solution of the time t century education edu du cation was concluded The Thc introduction of tho time Bible Into Inlo common schools choll comm cnn on only I und end In con con- fusion We c Lt as ts well 1 n ns nu others of other at are nrc particular who Interprets tile the Bible to our children We o 0 have havo Sunday schools Y M M. M M. 1 I. I A. A antI and u all nJ wi- wi h have n. n t tin hl he I hope I that our nUl will m n r Of VT vr become omne sectarian sec see S I. I I S L |
