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Show hTAMItltl) IlOOklOt' I III: CMUKlll. A cornepondent at Coalville, Hum-mlt Hum-mlt county, eondi the subjoined communication, com-munication, to which an anawer la requeited through the columua of the Ni.ws: In I'. II Illcharda and J. A. I.lllle'a Coinenilluiii It la stated tbtl "1 lio lliblo, Hook or Mormon, Ilook of l)oeirlni unit t'oveuaiita, 1'mrl f (Irctl Price and K ly-tilga ly-tilga of Joacph, the Hoor, are our glldea In falili and dnclrlnn. 'Itio Drat fourlm o been adopted aa mipti by a rotooltbo Halm In general Conference," Would you ploa-M) gliuttuulatnnf tlio Conference whin UiU waa done? Would you alao bo kind enough toanawor ttio nuontlou, Should imttlio t'oarl of (Iriat I'rlco tut on Hie aaiuta of tho lueelhu boufcoa of Ibe KalnU aloug wltli the other threo books uientlooedf Onthelaatday of the general Conference Con-ference which convened In thla city October 0, 1SS0, the book l mentioned were aubmllted to the vote of the memberaof tho Church. Ihemlnnlra of the proceeding! were pulillahed In the DrsEKrr Nehb at the time. The general aulhorllleaof tho Church were llret unanlmoualy tualalned; then l'realdent Ucorge (J. Cauuon laid: I hold in my lian I tlie biwkof Doctrine and Cover am and alao tho bonk 'llio Pearl uf (Iroat I'rlco, which bonka contain con-tain rovelatlona of Mod. In Ktrtland, tho Doctrine and Cnvoiianta in It original form, a Ural printed, waa submitted to tho pillcere ot tho Ciiurrh and tlio member of the Church to veto upon. Aa ttioro iiavo been addition made to it by tlio publishing orreieta-tlon orreieta-tlon vthlch ware not coutainod Initio original edition, it ha been deemed wWa to aubmlt thotio tionka with tbilr content con-tent to tho Confiironce, to boo whother IhoConfennce will volu to aoocpt tho booka and tlieir contonta a Irotn (led, and binding upon ua aa a people and aa a Church. President Joaeph r.Nuuth aatd. I innvo that we reeolve andacteplllio nidation contained In tbtuia tiooks, ai rovola ion frouiUoiUotbeCliurcti of Jeiua Christ of I,atter-tiay halnta, and lo all tho world. '1 lie motion waa seconded and aintaln-ed aintaln-ed by iinaulmoua volo of tlio wboloCou-foronoo. wboloCou-foronoo. In accepting tho Doctrine and Covenants Cov-enants nnd l'eirl of (treat l'rlce aa coutalnloi; tho word of (lot to Hla people, Ibu lliblo and ilook of Mormon aro nlao accepted, for these works are expressly endoraed at Inspired writ-Inga writ-Inga in the revelations given to the Church. One quotation will aultlco to mako till clear. Inn revelation given In April, IBM, tliu Ijordaayt: And gave Mm power from on high . to translate tho itook of Mormon , , , which il fl(l til in'inralion, and 1 continued to miu ra by tliu mini, torlngof angil. an 1 is declared uiiln tho world by them, prmlng to il,o world that tlio Holy fifriplaietiire (rue. Doc and Cor. aco, xx, tt II, Thla la an iuaplred tMtlmony to the Inspiration and divine authority au-thority of Ibu Itiok of Mormon and theltlble, acceptu I by tho Cnurcli In the conferouce above referroj to. The atatementlu thu CompotiJIum li perfectly per-fectly correct. At tothui'icoudqueitlon, It follow from what la ulready til J that tho I'cuil of Ureat i'rlie ehould bo found among tliu otlur standard works uf the Church lu our meeting hoists. I'liu authorltUsol the Church hivu repeatedly repeat-edly expressed Ihemielves tu that ellecU |