...........18-Minister Conger reports the probability of another great Boxer uprising in China.............. .19 Secretary Shaw announces the distribution of ten million treasury funds among the banks of the country...........................................................At a negro National Baptist convention in Birmingbam, Ala., addressed by Booker T. Washington, 110 people are killed in a stampede caused by a false alarm of fire.................. President Roosevelt starts on his western trip........ sends 600 more marines to Colon....... cally received at Cincinnati........................... .20-The Navy Department .The President is enthusiasti.22—Cuba requests the with drawal of the U. S. artillery companies now stationed on the island. .. Reciprocity with Cuba is the subject of President Roosevelt's speech at a Spanish war veteran's dinner in his honor, at Detroit........ .23-The President abandons his further trip to the northwest owing to a surgical operation, an abscess having formed on his leg as a result of the recent accident at Pittsfield, Mass...................... 24-The cruiser san Francisco sails for Panama to protect American interests......... .Rioting increases in the coal regions....... The Republicans of New York nominate Governor Odell for governor of that state, with F. W. Higgins lieutenant-governor, and endorse President Roosevelt.................................... .25-Charlemagne Tower is selected to succeed Andrew D. White as ambassador to Germany.... ........26 General Funston, in his annual report of the department of Colorado, declares that the abolition of the canteen has had a deplorable effect on the army........................................27-The coal operators, with the civil and military authorities, arrange for the resumption of mining under protection of soldiers...... ..28-A second operation is performed on the President's leg. ......29-In Porto Rico 1,200 schools open .30-President Roose with an attendance of 55,000 pupils.... velt decides that he cannot interfere with the coal strike........ General Chaffee relinquishes his command of the Philippines to BrigGeneral Davis. October 1-Violence continues in the region of the coal strike........ J. P. Morgan effects the organization of the International Mercantile Marine Co., a ship combination with a capital of $120,000,000................................... 2-Amos S. Kimball, Chambers McKibbon and Charles C. Hood, are appointed brigadier-generals in the regular army.................3-President Roosevelt confers with the coal magnates and officials of the Mine Workers' Union, but fails to cause a settlement of the strike........... 5-The President holds another conference in Washington on the coal strike........ .........6-Governor Dole of Hawaii suspends Auditor H. C. Austin from office; and it is discovered that Auditor Wright is $17,000 short in his accounts.... ......................8—The G. A. R. procession of 20,000 veterans is reviewed in Washington by President Roosevelt and Commander Torrence............... .9-Gen. F. J. Stewart of Pennsylvania is elected commander-in-chief of the G. A. R........ The 31st anniversary of Chicago's great fire is celebrated, Secretary Moody spoke on "the navy".... .........10-The G. A. R. encampment is concluded, and San Francisco selected as the next meeting place ..11-The Crown Prince of Siam is in Washington......... 12-The street car strike in New Orleans is settled..... .13 The anthracite coal operators have agreed to the appointment of a commission to be named by President Roosevelt, to arbitrate their differences with the miners...... ............15-The great coal strike is practically ended. A common ground of agreement was reached between the operators and miners. The work was done by President Roosevelt and a committee of arbitration of six: John M. Wilson, E. W. Parker, Geo. Gray, E. E. Clark, Thomas H. Watkins and John L. Spalding, and Carroll D. Wright, recorder. .......... FOREIGN.-September 15-Archbishop Falconio is chosen apostolic delegate to the United States........ .......16-From 300 to 1,000 converts have been slain by Boxers in the province of Sze-Chucu, China .Queen Wilhelmina opens the Netherlands parliament .........18-The Windward, with Lieutenant Peary on .19-The queen of the Belgians ...Secretary Hay's Roumanian ........20-The government board, arrives at Sydney..... succumbs to a lingering illness...... note causes great stir in Europe..... of Haiti, fearing intervention by the United States, have taken energetic steps to end the rebellion...... .25-M. DeWitt, Russian min....Johannes Orth ister of finance, starts for Manchuria..... succeeds Prof. Virchow in the chair of pathological anatomy in the University of Berlin.............. .26-Recent earthquakes in Turkestan kill nearly seven hundred persons and injure a thousand.................... 28-Captain Sverdrup, the Arctic explorer, arrives at Christiania in his ship, the Fram............ .29-Emile Zola, the famous French novelist, died in Paris...... ...An open insurrection is declared in Macedonia, where 3,000 insurgents have organized a provincial govern.30-The battleship Wisconsin reaches Panama. October 1.-The Pius Fund argument, begun September 15 before the Hague Tribunal, is closed.. ..2-Because of disagreement with the young king, General Weyler is reported ready to resign from the Spanish ministry.... .........The Central American Court ment....... of Compulsory Arbitration is installed in office at San Jose, Costa Rica; Guatemala not participating.... ..........5-Coal in large quantities is being loaded in Great Britian for the United States...... Thousands of Parisian workmen attend Zola's funeral; Dreyfus went unnoticed in the crowd.....................9-At a strikers' riot in Gibraltar, five men are killed and several wounded... ................The Irish leaders, Redmond and Dillon, sail for America..... ....11-The high and low sections of the Church of England disagree over criticism of the Bible............... .Ten strikers are killed at Gibraltar by the cavalry .12-The Geneva strike has collapsed, and the men are called upon to resume work......... ...........13-American Generals Young, Corbin and Wood are entertained at luncheon by King Edward ...The revolution at Haiti is spreading.. 14-The Hague arbitration court in the Pius Fund case, decides that Mexico must pay the United States $1,120,682 in Mexican currency...... ....15-Santos Dumont proposes a trip in an air ship from Paris ..........16-John O'Donnell, M. P., is sus.Mt. Soufriere is to San Francisco..... IMPROVEMENT ERA. VOL. VI. DECEMBER, 1902. No. 2. THE "MORMON" DOCTRINE OF DEITY. A REJOINDER TO REV. C. VAN DER DONCKT'S “REPLY” TO ELDER ROBERTS' DISCOURSE ON THE ABOVE SUBJECT. BY B. H. ROBERTS. I-THE FORM OF GOD. I have read with great interest and care the Rev. C, Van Der Donckt's reply to my discourse on "Mormon" doctrine of Deity. With regard to his Reply in general, I observe three things: first, the Reverend gentleman labors with some pains to demonstrate that "Mormon” views of Deity with respect to the form and nature of God are at variance with the Catholic and even the orthodox Protestant views on that subject; second, the "Mormon" views of Deity are in conflict with the accepted Christian philosophy; third, that "Mormon” doctrines stand in sharp contrast to both Catholic and protestant ideas respecting the unity of God. All this is easily proved; and would have been conceded cheerfully without proofs. "Mormons" not only admit the variances, but glory in them. The foregoing, however, is not the issue between Mr. Van Der Donckt and myself. After the variances referred to are admitted, these questions remain: Which is most in agreement with what |