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Show 4 sess a portion of divinity, a po~tion of infinite power, knowledge, goodness and truth, and that these qualities are God, and should be worshipped wherever found. I am an I know the God in whom I beinfidel to this doctrine. lieve, and am willing to acknowledge Him before all men. 24 I frequently think, in my meditations, how glad we should be to instruct the world with regard to the things of God, if they would hear, and receive our teachings in good and honest hearts and profit by them. I have been found fault with a great many times for casting reflections upon men of science, and especially upon theologians, because of the little knowledge they possess about man being on the earth, about the earth itself, about our Father in heaven, his Son Jesus Chris½ the order of heavenly things, the laws by which angels exist, by which the worlds were created and are held in existence, etc. How pleased we would be to place these things before the people if they would receive them! 43 I would ask the Christian world a question, ... what do you know of God? Take all the divines on the face of the earth and place them in this stand, and beyond the attributes of God they know nothing of Him; they are entirely There is the difference between ignorant of His person. the various religious sects of the Christian world and the Latter-day Saints. We do know God, ... 31 OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN This reminds me of a little circumstance that transpired here a year ago last swnmer. *** You, no doubt, well recollect Elder Day (a Baptist minister on his way to California), who used to preach to us so nicely. 1 He put up at my house; I kept him while he stayed in the city. He I preached was a gentleman, very kind and very good. 31 one day when he was present. In the course of my remarks, I brought up the subject of the Deity--at the point touching the character of our Father in heaven, upon which he I dropped the subject desired the most to be instructed. He went to dinner with me, and turned to something else. and while we sat at the dinner table, he said, "Brother Yotlllg, I was waiting with all my anxious heart,with mouth, eyes, and ears open to receive something great and glorious." "What c;1bout, brother Day?" "Why, as you were describing the Deity, and just came to the point I was the most anxious to have expounded, behold you waived it and turned to something else." I smiled and said, "After I had |
