Show ELDER V W of jesus christ irons a monday evening at the tabernacle 0 W penrose delivered a lecture on the above subjects it being the third lecture of the series to be eiven this spring by bome of the leading members of the church he bagan by saying that the right signification of the term gospel means good news glad tidings and not as many seem to think the word of god doea the gospel of jesus christ from a mormon standpoint differ from any other yes answers elder penrose it does the gospel of jesus christ ie the good news or glad tidings brought to this world by the lord atter jesus was through with administering administer inc iu the old world he came to this world to administer to his children en this continent and the book of mormon is just as much the glad tidings of jesus christ as is the bible for it tolls of the he did on this laca recorded by mormon here elder penrose read from the book of mormon page a passage containing the words jesus uttered when ha arrived in this world and found here bis sheep belief in jesus is the first requisite of salvation second repentance third baptism this is the gospel of the lord on the method of baptism speaker read again arom the book of mormon and the bible showing that the right way is by immersion people should believe beli evo repent and ba baptized in the name of the lord jeaba christ for jesus ie god in so much as he possesses the attributes of his father in heaven however jesus and god are two separate and distinct personages the speaker recommended strongly that all young people turn to the the doctrine and covenants Coye nants and read it all lor it contains many things of great worth to everyone especially ally explaining the gospel of christ from a mormon standpoint in modern times reading from the same book the person shall go down into the water and come out of the water of all sins feopent and be baptized in the name of father son and holy ghost when one goes down into ahe waters of baptism then it is that he receives the holy ghost the only plan of salvation is through jesus christ and he has laid down hia way in the latter days and the only way to salvation is by this way bat it is not alone io tee doctrine and covenants that the lord has told his children how they should be baptized many passages in the new testament ment point out this as toe right and therefore the only way in confirmation of this elder penrose read a number of from maehew ard 3rd cap mark ast 1st cap acts of the apostles ath cap 19 cap etc one must be born of the water and of the spirit yon eo down into the water in the likeness ot the buried christ and you come up again in the likeness of the resurrection of christ thia is the testimony of jesus this is the blessing of god some people think that the lord brought something abw to the world but he the gospel of christ was old he did not bring anything new only the goabel the everlasting gospel of the living eternal god |