THE ACORN. VOL. I. JUNE, 1904. No. 5 AN ADDRESS DELIVERED IN DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES BY ELDER CHAS. SMURTH-WAITE. "Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into ALL Truth." St. John, 16th Chap., 13 vs. Fellow Students: It being granted that the Spirit of Truth has come, we will try to determine this morning what truth is, for if we do not know what it is it would be difficult for us to be led into it. The Duke of Wellington, the hero of Waterloo, which event forever silenced the guns of Napoleon, and sent him into exile on the Island of St. Helena, for the rest of his days, was once observed, at a time when he occupied the most exalted position in the British Empire, that of Prime Minister, intently watching the boys as they were at play in the schoolyard at Eton, the great English school. A cabinet minister asked him why he thus stood gazing. He replied: "It is not that I am looking at boys only. I see here England's future heroes and great men; her soldiers and sailors, her generals and admirals, her statesmen, her orators and preachers, her authors and poets, her historians and sculptors, her bishops and philanthropists." So this morning, we are not speaking only to boys and girls, but to future great noble men and women of Utah, and the great Church of Christ, whose high destiny it is to educate and to save the world. Lord Francis Bacon, the greatest of modern philosophers, tells us that Lucretius, the great Roman poet, who died in the year 55 B. C, well said: "It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see the ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and see the battle and adventures there of below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene) and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below." Jesus, in the 18th chapter of John, and the 37th verse, states that he came into the world to bear witness unto the truth, to which Pilate asked, "What is truth?" and went to the Jews and told them he could find no fault in him at all, which was the truth. So this morning, we have for our theme "What is Truth?" It is imperative at the outset of our career that we should find out what truth is, that peradventure we can then seek it and find it. Perhaps you already know it. Those who do, please indicate it by the uplifted hand. You who do not answer will ask the question to yourself, and see if you can answer it. I will give you a definition: Truth is what is so. That is axiomatic, that