Show LAST ALWAYS BEST New Revelations Take Precedence Prec-edence of Old LIGHT ON MORMON DOCTRINE Blshep Whitney Accounts for Inconsistencies of Faith The Church About to Send Missionaries Mission-aries to the Learned as Well as to the Unlettered Tt was imprcscd upon the congregation at the Tabernacle yesterday afternoon by Blahop Orson F Whitney that new revelations reve-lations or commandments from God al vuya take precedence over the old ones and If there Is a teeming conlllet the old comnuindments iihould bo disregarded and the new ones obeyed The story of Abraham and Isaac was used to Illustrate this principle of faith The law against the taking of life had been establlHhed Ions before the time of Abraham said tho bishop but when God commanded Abraham to shed the blood of his favorIte son showed his readiness to obey and would have obeyed had tho command com-mand not been Interdicted LEAVE THIS ISSUE TO HIM No matter what he commands said the speaker he expects us to obey and no matter what his former commandments command-ments have been he oxpeela ua to obey It b our duty to obey his commands In all things and leave the issue to him Bishop Vhltncy said that It seemed to him that a new era was dawning for Mor monlnm Its signs arc tho establishments of colleges universities schools and bu reaux of Information Heretofore the church htiH sent out unlearned men tis missionaries In the new era foreseen by the speaker It will end out men of learning learn-ing to ineach to ho learned The world of philosophy art letters and science will be entered by men versed In those accomplishment ac-complishment ALL KINDS FOR ALL PEOPLE Not that I would detract from the thousands of noblo men who have dono such a prcat work for the church cx plulricd the speaker but It Is not Just to send out only ono kind of preachers when there arc a thousand kinds of people to bo converted Bishop Whitney commented on the fact that one of the projfcjaors In the 15 V academy at Provo was now engaged In writing a philosophical treatise In dcfoiiHo of Monnonlsm and expressed the hope that God would Inspire other men to treat the doctrine from a philosophical musical artistic and poetic standpoint In recounting the things essential to salvation fiom time Mormon viewpoint Ilshop Whitney mentioned faith as the duaL repentance as the second and bap tltm by Immersion the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands and baptism for the dead as other essentials Tho dead he said could learn faith and led repentance but baptism being an outward ordinance could only bo administered admin-istered to the living |