ELDER B. H. ROBERTS

Arose and read the hymn beginning:—If you could hi'e to Kolob," which the speaker took for a text, and began his discourse by a reference to ideas of the universe that were entertained less than 500 years ago. The earth was then regarded as being the center of the universe and that all those shining sus and worlds revolved around it, and were created to give light to the earth. That theory was known as the Geocentric theory. It was also believed the earth was flat. Elder Roberts then traced forward the evolution of thought upon the subject; as also the invention of the telescope and other instruments, down to the present time when space is known to be infinite, and people, as it were, with countlese shining stars, many of which are regarded as habitable. The lecturer then spoke of the doctrines enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith relative to the infinitude of space, and the indestructibility of matter, and so fused the various lines of thought, as to clearly demonstrate that so-called "Mormonism" is not only in harmony with science, but has, in many instances, been in advance of the thought of the world.