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Show BIBLE TRANSLATORS lit! OFF OH TANGENT Apostle Ivins Gives Reason for Mormon Opposition to Christianity. "We believe the bible contains the word of God In so far an It 1h translated cor-roctly, cor-roctly, but wo also believe Hie Book of Mormon lo be tho word of God." declared de-clared Apostle Anthony W. ivins In a lengthy address at the tabernacle Sunday Sun-day afternoon. Apostle Ivlns began by naming a number num-ber of the beliefs held by the Mormon church which are the same as those of other Christian denominations, as he expressed ex-pressed It. lie spoke of those to whom the other churches are opposed and presented pre-sented tho customary arguments 10 provo that the Mormon beliefs were right. "We believe the seventh day should bo kept holy," he said; "we believe In God the eternal father, and In Jesus Christ, his son. We believe In the Holy Ghost and by so doing we are protected against temptation. In these things we do not dltfer from other religions, but we believe be-lieve that God's word Is revealed outside of the bible. We believe that the Book of Mormon came from God and that the ministry of Christ, is portrayed through tho history of the early race on the American Continent Just as much as it is through the record of the creation and deluge. "If a farmer had found .some golden plates, inscribed with a foreign language, while he was digging on his laud and had taken them to some learned man to be translated and they had been found to contain the history of an unknown race, the world would have accepted them as being valuable, but because of the fact that these plates tamo Into the possession posses-sion of Joseph Smith In a miraculous manner it has been doubted n:ul ho has .been called an Impostor. The world Is 'full of people who doubt because they do , not understand. "The Book of Mormon tells of the history his-tory of a race which inhabited this continent con-tinent many years ago. whose forefathers left Jerusalem at the time of Zedeklah, king of Judah. Read It carefully and decide de-cide for yourselves whether this Is the work of an Impostor, or the work of God our eternal father." John R. Winder presided and Elder Arnold M. Scliulthess offered the opening ' prayer. |