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Show THE DOGMATIC CREED. (Inncrlbul to tho Phoplict Joseph F. Smith.) Bollevo us I bcllcvo no more, no less; Tlmt I inu 1'lnhl and no one clso. confess; Feci ns I fcol; think only its I think: Kat what I out, mid drink but what I drink. l.ook ns I look; do nlwaya us I do, And then, and only then, Will I fellowship with you. That I nrn rlKhl. nnd nlwnyu rlnht, I know. Because my own conviction:) loll mo eo; And to ho right Ih nlrnply thin: To he Entirely, In nil respects, llko mo. To di.-vlnto a hair's breadth, or bccln To question, nnd to doubt Or hesitate. Is sin. I reverence the rutlu If It ho Trnnslnted tlrs, nnd then explained by mo. Uy churchly laws and custom I abide. If they with my oplnlonn coincide. All creed nnd doctrines I concede divine, Excepting those, of course, Which dlsiatfroo with mine. I-et Rink the drowning-, if ho will not suvlm Upon the plunk Hint I throw out to him: Iet starve the hungry. If hu will not cut My kind nnd quantity of bread nnd meat; Ix-l freeze tho nukod, if hu will not bo Clothad In uuch garments As aro cut for mo. 'Twcro belter, thul Iho ale): should die than Mvo. UjiIohs they tnko tho mcdlclno I give: 'Twero better slnnuru perish than rcfuno To bo conformed to my pocullnr views; 'Twcro better that tho world stand than' iiipvo. In any other way 1 Than that which I aprpove. Logan. , -A. D. |