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Show Read the Classified Ada PROF. YOUNG ON THE MORMON RELIGION Distinguished Speaker Predicts That the Mormon People, by Living Their Religion, Will Become Intellectual Giants and Their Communities the Centers of Attraction. Professor Ix-vi Edgar Young of the state university delivered the following follow-ing eloquent nddress in the Ogden Tabernacle yesterday afternoon: I come into your presence today with the desire of savins something that will be beneficial in us all I have come with the Invitation of the presidency of the itake. and. in standing stand-ing before you, in a way feel that I must hoe our kindness of heart, your sympathy, the prayer In your heart that something may be said and d'oppeJ today that will lift us all to better life. There are many thlna that hav been running through my "rMnd the last few hours I have brought to Ogdon with me my friend and brother Mr O. G Thomas of the Century people, New York Gltj " Is his first trip to Utah and the firet time he has seen any of the peopb who belong to the h fob, tbat have dene so much to build up these great mountain districts. We Welcome him here, not (inly I alone, but. wh'ti 1 ray welcome. 1 voice the thou; hi of every man and woman who Is a member mem-ber oi the Hunch t is the beginning begin-ning of the year, when you aud I Lave turned back a few pat;-.-- in our lives and seen and tried, to scan carefully care-fully what our motives have been In life, what our past year has been and as we face the pres. nt year, we face the future, and I take it every true Christian. I don t care where he lives or who ho Is not on'y is II m fined V every Christian heart but to every human soul that lives, if he Is sincere in life, be is looking forward for-ward to the present, looking forward to the future, with a determination in1 his heart to make himseli all that he ran by virtue of the dlvtnlt) which God has given him Question Put by a Woman. It has been my pleasure the last few days to be In California on some historical work and to meet a great many people who have come to Inter-view, Inter-view, to talk over this matter of Mormonism and tl.e attitude of the Mormon people toward life, and to- 1 ward i heir fellow men, and toward the problem of life. The other day a woman of the staff of one of the Ijos Angeles papers asked me this question: ques-tion: "What will the Mormon '(lurch do :n the future to solve the great social problems of life? Have you a contribution con-tribution to make to civilization, or have you not If you have not. I chum that Mormonism in no sense of the term can claim for itself di-inlt di-inlt and that it has a messace to: the world, and If it ran. then it Is n -otinnt with some truth, some rlch-U069, rlch-U069, some wealth of power." Not only you and I. as nembers of the Church of Jesus Christ, but as 'Christians, whoever we are natural 1 put that question to ourselves and I to all humanity and to anv nrnnl-I nrnnl-I zztlon that makes ihe same kind of profession the Mormon church makes. ' What has the ' irmon church t ontrlb-1 ontrlb-1 'ited to the uplitt of humanity" What can It contribute today, and. by the race of God. bat will it contribute In the future"' And H is quite true that poflbl .ifier ;ill the criterion I b which it must be Judged will be i this one thing. What will the church stand for in the uplift of the human ra'c" Tbat article that appeared in the Deseret News of last evening concerning con-cerning a certain altitude- of certain club women in New York asainst this people I don't think it Id worthy of answer. Hip I want it understood that when a woman who (rofes.- to I be a mother, and who Is a mother. I says that Mormon children are illlt-leiate illlt-leiate and Immoral, she tells an untruth un-truth before the world and before her God I dont want to take to task any' human soul nor any feilglOUl denomination denom-ination who i9 not of my faith and your faith, but 1 do hold that it is an American dream that was laid down by the immortal Benjamin Franklin when Franklin told the French ambassador that before oti judge the American cause you see to It that before your God vou can say ' i judge because I have studied thin qi estlon with m soul." And this is a dream. I sa . an ideal tbat has been . left to the American people, and It is still our dream and Our Ideal, never ' tc judge, never to pass a statement concerning an Individual nor a society soci-ety In condemnation especially until we have studied Cue whole matter without souls and then pass care In j the kind of judgment that we eive It ha6 been said recently, not only i yesterday in the meeting which Is told so explicitly by the article In the evening eve-ning paper of last night, hut lias been ! said In a Mothers conir.-s? io New York City, that Mormonism is Mo- hammedism snd tbat the Book of Mormon is simply the Koran over i again, that the two are the same, that the two teach the same doc- I trlnes, tbat ihe idealism is the same. snd the lady quoted last evening Is said to have said In the pulpit that j she has spent her lifetime In the s.tud of comparative religions 1 know more in ten minutes In the study of comparative religions than in thai whole lifetime of that noted speaker, If I Judge of her by her criticism of! tho Book of Mormon and the Mormon I people. The Mormon Problem. I ha?e put this sh a siorl of foun dation to mv talk for far and wide 's this MOrtnon problem today taking hold of the world and workiiiK us way among the children or iricn rar and wide is It being commented on more than rer; far and w ide is it reaching but proclaimihc Us light aud Its understanding un-derstanding or the meaning or Christ's great misnlou. far and wide Is It permeating the vcr hearts and homea of the people of the clvlllted world, and within one month of todny. ir all goes well, though It Will receive I believe, a criticism, an opposition, strenuous opposition from all Chris Mail beople. there will be shown In pictures the history of this church add the people ven briefly I' Is true, hut a history, a picture which, if pro perly Interpret. d. will show the nw o oh all ihe continents where It may be seen that at least hat the Mormon church had a hlstorv . and I think a History or which the people may well feel proud. I rerer to the moving pic ures. that have recently been in Cal tfornii, produced bv a company that first came to ihe fimr presidency and risked permfasloh to pTeacnl liw tory of this ( hnrch In pictures. It has cost tin- church nothing, but It has some very dramatic episodes, and they Intend to put on the history of the united church In America and al so the work of the Catholic friars In that state in early days; then again thtey intend to put on a great man .historical features Tor the children ol j the school and eventually will put on a hlstor of Methodism Presbyterlan-' Presbyterlan-' Ism and all tho churches that have ! made history in the world, that lire m;iy get mental impressions of what he people of these different 3enoml nations have done. So this Is one means by which I think truth is going to be promulgated in the vorld. und not only will ihe truth of MoTmonism be promulgated, but the truth which every religion has and the great fiei sages wMCh every relidon gives to the race will also be more or less appreciated ap-preciated by those who see the pic , tures Not Like the Koran Mormonism is not Mohammedanism nor is the Book of Mormon in any sense like the Koran. Ihe holy book of the Mohammedans Take the Mo hammedan bible, the Koran, consist i ing of the revelations given to Mohammed, Mo-hammed, a book that has never made an impression on the civilized races I of the world, a book that is today be ing relegated because though It does contain some very beautiful ethical teaching and instructions, it is a hook that contains no great philoso jjjfcy of life and above all there Is not in all the confines of the Koran one great institution of civilization der! oped that the race may live up fo There is the objection to the Chris Man trinity there Is the objection that Christ is the Son of God and the Redeemer of the world: thrrf 1i The statement that the Christ was also a prophet like Moses and Abraham and Isaac and all of the prophets of th" Old Testament, but they deny his divinity di-vinity and then, exclusive of the great ethical prinf iples, I stand here ready. I :ind I do it in humility to say that not one great Institution of civiliza tion is depicted and Blood for by the holy book of the Mohammedan poo pie Power of Book of Mormon On the other hand, the Mormon Book of Mormon Is altogether different differ-ent 1 say. as I result of some per sunal study, that the Book of Mormon Mor-mon docs not only portray In a Simple lodlike manner the same institutions' amonj? these people that settled on this western continent as existed among the .lews, but I hold that tho Bool of Mormon portrays some In stitutlonal life, that the world. In its onward march and intellectual growth Is approaching and will approach, in carrying them out. will make the Book of Monnan a contribution to tho Civilised world wherever you find civ lllration 1 here Is in that book the most splendid description or ramily life, or clan lire, or tribal life, national lire, civic lire. I think that you will rind in any modern or ancient work and above all. there has never been .i book outside or the Old Testament that has made and can make the contribution con-tribution to the moral lire of man that the Book of Mormon ran do ir you will take up the book or Alma, a book that has always been ol Interest to mo - I love it heartily; you will find by carerul perusal a description or what we call the great council When I use that term I use It something as the old Anglo-Saxons use it; they used the term as meaning a count il of wise men In this book of Alma you will find how kings and how the j prophets of Cod at certain timea ca'l- ed together (lie men and tho women of their kingdoms, or their governments, govern-ments, and. when (hey were assembled, assem-bled, the kings or rulers would rise and present the groat problems of life, material and spiritual, before those peop'e ii n 1 let them comment upon them, speak vote and have their say That resembles what we call In history his-tory the Teutonic rorm or government govern-ment planted on the American soil by ihe Puritan? It is said to be tho. fin ' est type of democracy the world has ever seen, where all the people come together In an assembly to talk over the spiritual uplift of their co-labor era. The Book of Alma. In the hook of Alma you rind those great meetings where the rulers are taking counsel or (he followers: y,u will rind the Instructions given by I those rulers; of the people asking: them all to unite to bring forth as a cosmopolitan whole united to bring; forth the best In society and in them selves, that society an! themselves j are capable of, both ethically econom-Ically, econom-Ically, civilly and religiously Now thlR institutional history proclaimed I In the Book or Mormon shows so distinctly dis-tinctly what kind of people did settle, here when they came to this continent. conti-nent. It shows their Israel.itlsb origin and there is not in all the Koran of: its 156 sections of levelations. there is not one that ran Ive you and me I thi doctrine of life and immortality of the soul that can be given within three chapters or tho book of Alma , which to my mind solves this prob -j leni or dealh and Immortality to my entire satisfaction I would like to have two scholars not of our church, whb don't know us. two unbiased men who want to see the truth of thing take up the study of the Book of Mor mon and the Koran, and. Bay. studj the two for one month then oxteti I that study into a year then eiteftfl It Into ten years. And I hold that no person can become o student of com pa rati ve religion under vears and years of hard studv But I believe wilh all my heart that were those scholars to get those two books, tha-within tha-within a month thev would both smile very heanlly at the statement that the Book ol Morraou Is anything like be Koran of the Mohammedans. It is quite true there are some thoughts he same. You cannot pick up two books In all the world but what you cab find thoughts the same. I hare here two books. "Science and Ideal Ism" by Hugo Murlsterberg and the Book of Mormon I find here a thought that la given exactly as by the Prophet I was going to say almost the ex- ' act words, certainly the same rh"ughi, but it does not mean that Hugo Munsterberg does not hold the truth; nor does it mean that that great psychologist has taken a Study I of the Book of Mormon and compiled his thoughts from it. but it does moan 'that every thinker, that eerv man who looks upou life in seriousness anri with the idea to know life, to st idj and to give hli best to humanity human-ity and to God. ir shows thftt ever such being contributes to the truth of Cod, which la the Gospel of Jesus ; Christ. ' (Continued on Page 8. t PROF. YOUNG ON THE MORMONRELIGION tContinued Prom Page Six.) I didn't want nor do I wish to con-tinue con-tinue a criticism of the person who ( makes such a statement I sad it was hardly worth replying to but mj soul was aroused at midnight last I night in reading this article; it ls so (foolish, but I want to sav. as I have 'said before within these' walls that II the Mormon people will live true to that life and light which thev Know to be true, there is nothing in i tho world bv deed, by thought or by word that can detract from the truth which wo hold sacredh true. What are some of these sublime heights of Mormonism'' Is there anything that makes uB grow not in pett wa, in a little way. but in the big way. G.alms of the Church. I remember once, in passing through the gallery of the Vatican in Home, there is a little plcturo there of Rcmbrandts of the attitude of a Dutch student. Th0 student has apparently ap-parently been reading a book and has not become satisfied. You can sec-how sec-how he has been Intent in getting from that work possibly some solution solu-tion of a problem n life, but the picture pic-ture 6hows him looking at the book and yet stretching out his hands to his God and you read the pravcr on his lips, and what is the prayer' It Is that God. his Creator, will give him the great light and the power to live It. You read that this is the ! prayer In his heart Now if vou and I I w III see the great truths' of the I Oospel of Jesus Christ, for that Is j what we mean when we use the U rn 'Mormonism.' It will be with the same attitude, for we have made Iv.ld assertions, we have declared that the religions of the world have not the priestly power of Jesus Christ; secondly. sec-ondly. w0 have made the claim boldlv and fearlessly that tho religions of the world, although thev contribute much of truth and light and understanding under-standing they have lost the evc-rlast- i lng covenant and the power to act in God's name. Why have they lost it? Here is a fundamental of Mormonism Mor-monism In a ?ense is the kc to the whole situation. Message Through Mormonism. The Mormon people have held and 1 do hold and will alwas hold, that' When Thilst came with his great gos-pel gos-pel message to tho world, he had som means of dlnK (hat gospel message to the world What was the means"' There ifi but one method of givlng a message to the world- it L mn6l be through somebody and some organisation through which it speaks.' land there hue ner et been a mes-1 (sage siveu to the world but what it has come through sun-lod and then I you pet organization, an organized , effort for thr purpose of giving that I messace That ls whv Christ had a church, there was an organized effort, ef-fort, a harmonv, an order of men through whom the great light and the priesthood of God could be given to the race. We hold that power was lost We hae made the claim that It was lost: we make the claim that it w-ag re-established in the last days 1 through the Prophet Joseph Smltli through the ministration of angels I looming from the throne of Cod to direct di-rect how through the priesthood the ;g08pel of Christ has the power to j save the race That is our claim It to the point and the foundation on j which we do plant our feel What grows out of If Have there not been In the world systems of ethics'' Oo back to the time when Foles the Greek naid to his followers " Re-I Re-I member that we are composed of the same elements that the earth is composed com-posed of, viz fire and water and earth and air If ou will understand under-stand those elements and put them together we will come to ethical principles" Thpn came Socrates, who said: "Remember that we are children of the gods, an1 If we will have faith in our mental niakup it will become supreme and we will lire above the materiality of this world and become a part of the pant-nestle gods of the universe." a Tstem of ethics grew out of that. Yon come on down through the ages. U has been said bv a scholar of Rer-llo Rer-llo that in the neighborhood o 37,000 different ideas have been advanced since the days of Christ, creaitng some form or ethical stnndard, audi yet. Bays the learned scholar, when vou simmer them all down. they come back to the same principle fundamentally on the verv fact thnt we believe In the ministration of an- 1 gels of the communion of God; through prophets What grows out I of it? Not Sensualism. The lady says in her speech before those mothers and other women that Mormonism stands for sensualism;! that it stands for the Immornlltv In-j dlvidnallv and of socletv. that Is as impossible, if we carry out that fun-' damental that I have, mentioned, asi It Is impossible for the. Bun not to, shine. an, If you plant yourself on that statement or that foundation In-1 dlTjdually and socially that God lives; that wo are to become His children' In rlshteousnfss, bv our communion; with him you have the foundation for 1 the most splendid System of ethics that tho world has over had givn to It Why? HecaiiEo it makes of you and me divine souls and, by virtue j of our divinity raising ourselves to 1 the stature of a manly power and ! Incoming supreme in all the intellectual intellec-tual and moral efforts of life. Even Truth Outside the Gospel. The Mormon people do not believe thai there is no truth outside of Mor- monism Far from it We do bc-lleve bc-lleve there Is no truth outside of the gospel 01 Jesus Christ We hold that lio human soul lived but what there Is more good than bad In him. We hold there is no church organized, but what contributes some good to I the race. I hold that Drlgham Young was right when. 0n time In the Tab-ernaCle, Tab-ernaCle, he said 1 Know, all ye peo- ' pie of various religious beliefs that 1 where there Is a church 6pire there Is truth there because It Is a church j Bui we do bold that the Gospel of Jesus Christ involves and Includes all truth. Jfow what in our testimony If we hold this as fundamental and If we say too, that we lieHexo in the priesthood of God1 W hat is our testimony, tes-timony, if e. arc trying to live up to the principles of the Gospel of Jesu.i Christ " I should like to speak about nmo historical features of this case, for God is our witness that we are proud of our history Will Be Intellectual Giants. I should like to speak of some ; things that have been done in a civic. In an economic. In an ethical wav, land I do not forget the fan that we have made our blunders too 1 do not forget the fact that the men and women In this great work are mortal I know one who is very mortal one who nor will be able to get one small percentage of an understanding Of this great gospel truth and he never will be able to approach it In 'living it perfectly, and I suppose we all lcel the same way, but this is true, that if i and I will live up to some of the marvelous truths and all of them thai the Prophet Joseph Smith has given through his dlvlnlt In the inspiration of Almighty God, the Mormon people w ill et be proclaimed pro-claimed the Intellectual and moral giants of the world and they will seo onr goodness, I hold that John was right In his words till John 1 He brings out thei fact that Borne people ar? so in the dark that they never will see the light even when t 16 before them. but. uiy faith is that, ns we grow in ages ' to come, our children mir children's! children and as generations come and ' go and progress Is made in these communities and tho localities throughout the world in accordance I With facts laid down and the principles prin-ciples which we advocate I hold those Mormon communities will become be-come great centers of life and that yet the race will say "Come, let ills go up Info the House of Israel and I there partake of the understanding of the people who havo lived near to their God " "Mormonism, though, will not corae I in and take us there, we will not1 get there through some Involuntary I act. but. If we carry out th funda-mental funda-mental ethics I have pointed out, It j means w ork your Individual w ork and mine out on God's acreage IM uie.MiK work In cleansing our hrnrtal iand c sting from om souls hatrejH disregard tor law and substituting fori thm love and lov,. lor lav,- and order! and eve thing g od, and the piestlotfl for you and 111c at the beginning this year, and all the days to coraafl Is that our llu- may m en for Iti ' a ;t 1 in- fr-.M .s li : o material. Ism that seems to get hold of onr J very vitals and substituting for IH life of h:h( and toll, of faith a aw prayer, knowing that God will be tittjfl d 1 food and that His law will works out for righteousness. 1 Mormonism Misunderstood. Oh, Mormonism. how mlsundeeJ stood you have been! I remeraberM though, that good word that one oK the best sells that ever lived In thS history of this church when shel I said- "With all of our faults ansK I blunders, my faith Is in thr. intPgritjB ) of all God's children to God. and thaB all will yet work out for righteous- ness find truth through the work otw I God's children. Mormonism ls in theft world to condemn no one .it s jn ther 1 world to have every humin being;" there ls no feature about if that saygj ' j to one man You are a sinner'' and I 8 am a saint," but it says to every hu- I man being, "You are as good as I am 5 and are in some respects better, anil" 1 am going to search in your soul for Its truths that I may make them a " part of my soul " |