Show EXPOUNDS TRUTHS OF MORMONISM lB B S Hinckley Delivers Address ss at Special Service in the Tabernacle RELIGION WELL DEFINED HISTORY OF CHURCH DETAILED FOR BENEFIT OF VISITORS B S Hinckley delivered an address on or Mormonism at the special tabernacle ser services vices ices yesterday afternoon giving a con concise concise cise else outline of the beliefs of the church for br the benefit of or tourists and visitors Professor J 1 J 1 McClellan played the PH grims chorus and another selection from fron the Communion in G C by Batiste and an old melody as his part pan of the program The attendance was wa smaller than at recent fast day services s Mr Hinckley Hinckle said the special services at nt the tabernacle were not for the sole sois purpose of for the church but butIn In view of the fact that so many visitors visitor and land tourists wished to hear the great or origan origan organ igan gan as well as to learn something about aboul the th religious rellious beliefs of the Mormons spa special cial dat arrangements for these services hn hod hai 3 been made He said the Mormons did not aol notI wish to Induce any anyone one to join their I church hurch unless he felt moved to do so but bul I should be bethe bethe that a mans religion was or the thing closest to his heart and all the members of the Mormon church were in in spreading their religion Hf H said that most of his hearers doubt doubtless doubtless doubtless less wished and expected to hear some something i thing distinctly Mormon but in common with other ether oth r Christians the Mormons were Interested in spreading the cause of mor morality and right living He said the re religion religion ligion of the Mormons was well welt defined as S well as practical and easily under understood understood understood stood Although some said that Mor Mormonism monism was narrow and exclusive and In I some respects he lie said the Mormons might be open to criticism they were wore will willIng willing Ing lug to submit their religion to the proof i of or Ih it fruits whereby all aU might Judge its Ibi it I worth The Tho speaker said he believed that Mormonism by its history bore testimony to the divinity of its origin Prophets History Given Most lIo t of his hearers Mr Hinckley said had Iad a general knowledge of or Joseph Smith the tIle founder of the tIre church and the pub public lie lic also knew in a general way of the mall email t I ginning of the movement Then Thenh he h rehearsed the history of Joseph Smith from his birth in IQ Ii Vermont in tell telling tellIng ing of his experiences fifteen years later r at Palmyra N Y where Joseph said he I IH Son and i and was H visited by the Father I lat latr T by the Ule angol angel Moroni who subsequently disclosed the golden plates on which the Book of Mormon wan WIlI wa written and from which the book was translated b Joseph Smith He lie told of the founding of l the church in 1830 at Fayette N Y whAn the organisation was waB effected with only six Ix members He lie briefly reviewed th the movements of the numbers ambers of the to O 0 Jefferson county count Missouri fi and then to Nauvoo where Josoph Smith and his brother were killed Then telling of the journey of the pio pioneers pion and of tire the con conditions conditions n I s to Salt Lake valley they found July 24 H 1847 18 j Mr Hinck Hinckley ley py compared the present conditions Mr Hinckley said many attributed the success of Mormonism to the leadership of crafty craft and designing leaders and it had been said salt at the th time of Joseph Smiths death that the organization would fade away awa TIt real strength of the church he said was due to the truth of its principles and the devotion d and work of its members Illustrating this devotion Mr Hinek ley ly told of one man who had ha traveled travel d many thousand miles much of oC the time without ut purse or scrip in advancing the work of the church This he be said was only an example of what thousands were ere doing all the time simply because they believed it was Gods work He said the Mormons beli believed ved that the Father Son and Holy Ghost were three distinct per personages and that God in some way wa hears and answers prayers He said the Men Mor Mormons mons mona believed that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were guided and directed by b God and that God Is the archi architect architect t t who holds in his hands the destinies of eq men and nations nation Mr Ir Hinckley said the building up of this thi commonwealth in the west chal challenged the admiration of the whole world and It compared well with the work of the th Pilgrim fathers who were actuated by hy the he same motives mothe In conclusion Mr Ir Hinkle Hinckley said Mormonism was so practical that it meant 16 18 ounces to the tIte pound and 12 1 inches to the foot every day and andU andt U It t also alec meant that debts were ere never out outlawed la |