Dorian by Nephi Anderson
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page 68 of 201 (33%)
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"What is the principle trouble with all this learning of the world that it does not lead to the truth?" "The world's ignorance of God. Eternal life consists in knowing the only true God, and the world does not know Him; therefore, all their systems of religion are founded on a false basis. That is the reason there is so much uncertainty and floundering when philosophers and religionists try to make a known truth agree with their conceptions of God." "Explain that a little more to me, Uncle Zed." "Some claim that Nature is God, others that God only manifests Himself through nature. I read this latter idea many places. For instance, Pope says: "'All are but parts of one stupendous whole Whose body nature is, and God the soul.' "Also Tennyson: 'The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and plains Are not these, O soul, the vision of Him who reigns? Speak to Him there, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet, Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.' "This, no doubt, is beautiful poetry, but it tells only a part of the truth. God, by His Spirit is, and can be all the poet here describes. 'Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?' exclaims the Psalmist. 'In him we live and move and have our |
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