A great quote from Elder Richards

[Archaea]

Elder Richards in an Open Letter to College Students wrote:
"What if Hebrew prophets, conversant with only a small fraction of the surface of the earth, thinking and writing in terms of their own limited geography and tribal relations did interpret Him in terms of a tribal king and so limit his personality and the laws of the universe under his control to the dominion with which they were familiar?"

Stephen L. Richards, Improvement Era, 36 no. 8, (June 1933) 453

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Elder Richards in an Open Letter to College Students wrote:
"What if Hebrew prophets, conversant with only a small fraction of the surface of the earth, thinking and writing in terms of their own limited geography and tribal relations did interpret Him in terms of a tribal king and so limit his personality and the laws of the universe under his control to the dominion with which they were familiar?"

Stephen L. Richards, Improvement Era, 36 no. 8, (June 1933) 453

Can you provide the article in its entirety?

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Can you provide the article in its entirety?

I'll look to see if I have a copy of the entire article.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

I'll look to see if I have a copy of the entire article.

I would assume he expanded on this thought, so I'm curious what else he had to say on the matter.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

I would assume he expanded on this thought, so I'm curious what else he had to say on the matter.

I may have just lifted it from somebody else's talk, never having seen the entire article. I don't have many articles in total from 1933.

[YOhio]

Is this it?

http://eyring.hplx.net/Eyring/faq/ev.../openlttr.html

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by YOhio

Is this it?

http://eyring.hplx.net/Eyring/faq/ev.../openlttr.html

He was a lot more enlightened than many LDS leaders who followed him decades later.

[YOhio]

Another great quote...

If you will take the counsel of one who loves science and reveres
religion, permit me to admonish you: Never close your mind or your heart;
ever keep them open to the reception of both knowledge and spiritual
impressions. Both true science and true religion are the exponents of
truth. Their fields are different, their provinces are distinct, but their
purposes are identical--to enlighten man, to give him power, to make him
good and bring him joy. Never abandon a time-tested thing of worth until
you are very, very sure that the new is better. Be not ashamed of faith in God. It has been the incentive for the noblest things of life.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

He was a lot more enlightened than many LDS leaders who followed him decades later.

Our modern leaders appear to be chosen because they are great administrators, not great theologians, thinkers, philosophers or scientists. Our bureaucracy is large and perhaps that is the sort of leader which we need today, but if you look at the debates within the Church at the turn of the century and its participants, much of what we rely upon today was artuiculated then, and the modern leaders do more administration than philosophizing.

[MikeWaters]

the leaders of the church are most worried about the least among us.

Philosophy is the last thing in our minds.

Decreases in percentange of YM going on missions--defcon 5.