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Show 2 ligion, or whatever you call it, which you say God has revealed; it is confusion to me, and if I submit to and embrace your views and theories I must reject the facts which science demonstrates to me." This is the position, and the line of demarcation has been plainly drawn, by those who profess Christianity, between the sciences and revealed religion. In thes e r espect s we di f fer f rom the Chris t i an worl d, for our r eligion will not cl ash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular. You may take geology, for instance, and it is a true science; not that I would say for a moment that all the conclusions and deductions of its professors are true,but i~s leading principles are; they are facts--they are eternal; and to assert that the Lord made this earth out of nothing is preposterous and God never made something out of nothing; it impossible. is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist. 3~ All true science is ours when it is fully understood *** Science may shake hands with my religion. 46 This is l'Mormonism" and it is founded upon al 1 truth, upon every principle of true philosophy; in fact the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only true philosophy in existence. There is not one particle of it that is not strictly philosophical, though you and I may not understand all the fullness of it, but we will if we continue faithful .. 5 HAVING EYES THEY CANNOT SEE I do not marvel that the world is clad in mystery, to them He is an unknown God; they cannot tell where He dwells nor how He lives,nor what kind of a being he is in appearThey want to become acquainted with ance or character. His character and attributes, but they know nothing of This is in consequence of the apostacy that is now them. in the world. 12 All nations, tribes and communities of men worship something, it may be a stump, a stock, a tree, a stone, a figure moulded in brass, iron, silver, or gold, or some living creature, or the sun, the moon, the stars, or the god of the wind and other elements, and while worshipping gods which they can see and handle, there dwells within them a crude and undefined impression of a great Supreme |
