Show HOW GOD GAVE GAlE A LATR MESSAGE Tourists Hear Explanation of Doctrines of the Mormon MormonS S Church J P GODDARD SPEAKS TWO THOUSAND HEAR ADDRESS ADDRES AND ORGAN AT TABERNACLE Principles of Mormonism were ex expounded expounded pounded to an audience of nearly 2000 tourists and ad visitors by J P Goddard S at the th tabernacle yesterday afternoon and a program was given on the organ by Prof Proto J J McClellan McClelan Instead o othe of the usual promptness there was a de delay delay delay lay of ot nearly twenty minutes while the crowd was ws obliged to enter by only one door the incident being explained by bythe b bythe the statement that the key to the other main entrance had been lost The speaker explained the nature of the service servie telling of ot the observance of the first Sunday of each ech month by bythe byte bythe the te Mormons as fast day when instead of the regular afternoon service at the tabernacle there wOre were w re services at t each of ot the meeting houses house In the forty eccle ecclesiastical wards of Salt Sal Lake He said the custom had been to keep kep the taber tabernacle tabernacle nacle nace closed cosed on fast fat day but this had been changed change to accommodate the many tourists who wished to learn ler something of Mormons and an Mormonism and to hear the organ Most people Mr Goddard Godard said sid had more or less les curiosity concerning the Mormons and their beliefs belets and concern concernIng concernIng concerning Ing the tee people of Utah many had be beliefs belef lids lef that were erroneous He said sid the position of elder In the Mormon church he regarded as one of the choicest of his possessions It I being the authority given by God to preach His gospel and to administer His ordinances Belief Belef in the Bible In explaining the beliefs of the Mor Mormon Mormon Mormon mon Mr Goddard Godard said sid the church ac accepted accepted the King James Jame version of the Bible as a the word of God Go so s far as asit asIt asit it was correctly translated so s that any Biblical quotations he might make would be b from the same Bible as was used us by all al Christian denominations He said sid the Mormons also als believed In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Book of ot Mormon which many may know as the Mormon Bible and In that respect the Mormons differed from other denominations The Mormons believed beleve that the Bible is an imperfect and incomplete guide and to support this statement he called cle attention to the differences In the beliefs of ot the vari van various various vanous ous Christian denominations which took tok the Bible as a their sole guide Quoting from the articles of ot faith he hered read red the statement that the Mormons Morons believed in the Bible so s far as a it had been correctly correct translated and also als in inthe Inthe Inthe the Book of Mormon Moron without qualifications qualifications tons as the word ord of God Go Continuing he said sid the Mormons also als believe beleve all al that God Go had revealed all al that He now reveals revels and that He will wi yet et reveal many important truths to His children He said sid the Mormons also als believe bleve in inthe Inthe inthe the book bk of ot Doctrines and Covenants Covenant and the Pearl of ot Great Gret Price contain containing containIng containing ing Smith revelations given by God Go to Joseph Josph New Message From God Mr Goddard said sid the belief blet of the church was wa that through Joseph Josph Smith God brought forth a new ne dispensation in these th latter days days In the same way the speaker said sid God Go had ld revealed him himself himself sel self to Adam and later to Noah Noh Abra Abraham Abraham Abraham ham and Moses Mos giving through them dispensations of ot the Gospel and by this he tie meant that a dispensation was a anew anew anew new message mege from God Go to His people Later Lter he said sid Christ came cm to usher in ina Ina ina a new dispensation and after each one of these thes prophets had received re elve the mes message me mesSage sage tze of God Go the people ppl had apostatized apostatized At the beginning at of Christs time tinie on onearth onearth onearth earth he said sid the Jews had been found to bo have apostatized and although they held to a certain certin godliness they refused refuse to accept His Son and refused to acknowledge Gods Gos power pwe to reveal His will wi to man manOf manOf manOf Of Joseph Josph Smith Mr Goddard Godard said sid the church believed bleve that the Mormon prophet had been ben called cale of ot God Go Just as Adam Noah Noh Abraham Abrham and Moses ose and the early erly prophets had hd been called calle and that Joseph Joeph Smith came like the others at a time when the people of the earth erth had apostatized apostatised from the true church just as they had In former times He said sid Joseph Smith came to a people who worshipped wor a heathenish concep conception conception ton tion of ot God G believing him to be b without boy body parts or passions Most of ot his hearel hearers he said sid would agre agE that man mankind mankind mankind kind had ha apostatized since the time of ot Christ and there had been a need for ne reformers the Roman Catholic church being bIng the only denomination which held hehl to the belief that there had been ben no and with wih that statement all al Protestantism took tok issue Isue Speaking of the reformers Mr God Goddard Go Goddard dard said sid they had hd been n ee and had performed their work but that none of ot them had claimed clime that he was sent by God o to restore the gospel but each one sought to restore the toe gospel as it I had been ben taught by God so far faras faras faras as he could define lenne it The result resul was that today toay there are ar as as many sects in inthe Inthe inthe the reformers Christian church as there have been I The Book of Mormon the Book Bk of Mormon Moron Mr Goddard related relate the Mormon belief belef in InIs Its Is origin saying it I was a history of the ancient people who about 8 OO years before Christ came to the American continent led by Nephi N From that time until about abut 40 years after Christ the prophets kept records of the tho life le and travels trave of the Nephi tee and then than they were given Iven to Mormon wHo wl abridged them and wrote the record This record was wa turned ture over to Moroni Mormons son sn who wh included In the history of his hi time and then burled buried the record in the hill bill hi Comorah which was in western weter New York In 1823 he said sid Moroni had told Joseph Smith about the book bk and In 1827 1527 he had ap appeared pero and turned ture the record over to the Mormon Moron prophet by whom It U was translated translate and anti given to the world In outlining the story of ot the Book of ot Mormon Moron Mr Ir Goddard Godard said sid that whether or not his hearers accepted the belief belef of the Mormons as 98 to its Us origin and divine Inspiration it taught prin principles principles of ot morality and right living and that a careful and unbiased perusal of Its contents could not fall fal to be 0 of ot benefit towards strengthening the faith of the reader He said sid the Mormons Morons I believed beleve it I to be the only record of the ancient people who Inhabited the American continent and for that rea reason re reaSon son sn it I was of special interest to Americans Moroni came to t Joseph Joeph Smith as a resurrected being and turned over to him ilm the plates plats bearing berIng the Book of Mormon said sid Mr Goddard and In this act he ho fulfilled the prophecy found In Inthe inthe the th Bible in Revelations |