| Show QUESTIONS A Columbus Georgia Dec 26 G lS 15 To the J Editor Dear explain through your our valuable pa r the tho following nil ap apparent parent 37 16 says that hp he Is asked to take another stick and write upon Ullon It for tor Joseph the tho tHIck stick of When Jacob blessed Jo Josephs ephs two sons eons he said lea Gen 49 19 that Ephraim should become a mul ot of natIons We understand ot of course that this multitude ot of nations refers reters to the many tribes ot of Indians tIe de descendants ot of lehl Lehi In reading Mum Alma 10 14 traces his ance ancestry try to Lehl Lehi who caIne from Jerusalem and who Is n a descendant of Ch ChWe We have so far been unable to find findan an any one to solve lime HIe problem therefore for tor the tho benefit of others as aswell well as ourselves we respectfully ask for tor time tho desired Information The rhe News Is III nn an eVer welcome vIsitor Your brethren In time the cause ot of truth II P N NJ J A Tho rho discrepancy thich troubles our correspondents and which l In only ap apparent parent prent I is caused by the assumption that the tribes ot of Indians who were once n a multitude ot of nations are all 1111 descendants ot of Lehl Lehi Thatis a 11 rule take Lehi It Is Ia true was a descendant ot of Ma Manasseh Dul Ish Ishmael mael vho with his hili family joined I L hl hI and his sons In their colonizing ot of this continent also Zoram the servant ot of Haban who accompanied them wore so the Prophet II Joseph explained lie He said too that It if the larger plates ot of Nephi had been translated this would ha have 0 been tully fully revealed But Dut the smaller plates were utilized and the tho Book Dook Qt of Mormon Is but butan I nn an abridgment of the tho entire record I The Tho people of must also be betaken betaken i taken into Inlo account among time the early In inhabitants I habitants of this land look Dook ot of Mar for Marmon i mono mon P EzekIel calls this record The stick ot of Joseph which Is In the hand ot of Ephraim and the trIbes ot of Israel his followers v 19 The blessing of Jacob concerning the sons eons ot of Joseph placed before ilo takes In thIs matter Gen 15 1520 O In the tho last days too Eph Ephraim raim Iii is the tho Lords firstborn In time tho new MW and everlasting covenant and the stIck of oC Is now In the tho hand or of and the trIbes ot of Israel his i anti and may be appropriately called either the stick of Joseph or the stick ot of Ep Please answer anser following questions In yOur ur paper I Section 20 Doctrine amid Covenants Covenant says aR In verso verse 76 the Elder or Priest shah administer thu tho Sacrament Ue lie 1 with the church Does Docs mean maan for nil all to kneel The writer I hM has hind had the tho privilege to 10 visit several I Places ot of worship One place time the Elder i or stand alone while the theother theother other sits the next place the one wilt kneel while the other sits the next place the two wilt wIll stand or kneel to together gether cether Please answer which of at nil all these are right Yours In the Gospel JA 3 A M The rhe spirit rather than the tho exact form torm formis Is the great thing needful In this administration However It Is im that nil aU the forms form given shen b by revelation should be carefully observed It If the Elder or Priest who ho uses use th by i In n manner mannor and kneels while doing so wo think the ce mony Is properly performed Ire He kneels Is with Ith or In the presence ot of the Church Circumstances some somo sometimes times render Inconvenient It for tor toral all al the th members to kneel hut It if one of at two brethren ad administerinG at ministerinG the emblems can kneel loth can do so eo and that we regard as better anti to answer the purpose In view Iw Uniformity In All such Ruch things Is greatly But Dut none ot of us should bo be too Jt A letter tram from Cache Valley allo contains n a lengthy ot of some that have occurred over th the of the number ot of ot of the Church ul at atthe the time ot of its organization when It ItI itis I is stated 1 In Church history We Vc no not now t U cull call orif o t and ordain same Bome ohe ot of tho the bret ryn to different of flees or of the etc Some take I time view that on only six persons persona had bad teen baptized up to A 6 1 anti and others claim that several more harl received that ordinance and orne ot of them were ordained but they think that this conflicts with the statement the tho Church was wall organized on that date dato with members The rho explanation Is 19 simple Six per none were score necessary under the laws or of ortho time tho State ot of New York to form the tho corporate bod body ot of tIme tho Church lion Six persons subscribed their names to the legal document that hind to be filed But Dut several others lint had boon baptized previous to the tho date ot of the Iho ecclesIastIcal organization as may maybe be seen from ChurCh history and some Home ot of them wore were called and ordained to the tho after Joseph and Oliver lint had been accepted nit as leading Elders ers ot of the Church Wo We hope this wilt set tie tic the disputes Another qU question front from the same Is Cnn Can the tho negro race rec receive le the Holy I Ghost That ma may appear vcr very simple to die I Icuss cuss hut but It 11 that lint some ot of the In think that negroes S ma maybe bo baptized In water but not b by the Ho holy Spirit strange to say tho they arGue that such persons may be eon con confirmed firmed members by the laying on or of hands but the tho Holy Ghost must not bo be sealed upon them anti even quote What they allege they heard President Young say ay to that effect The answer Is 13 certaInly rhe negro race ma may bo be baptized anti and confirmed and the latter ceremony necessarily in eludes the tho conferring ot of the tho Hol Holy Ghost upon the baptized l repentant be believer e eThe The difficUlty has arisen rota Croin 1 a mum ot of the tho remarks said uld to have been made modo by tr Youn Ito He explained that while negroes could become members ot of time tho Church and enjoy enjo Its gifts and blessings anti and be become como come heirs ot of salvation they could not hold the Priesthood nM nail It should lIot be 00 conferred upon the theone then None one ot of that race are entitled to It nor would It bo be ot of benefit to them If H the they were ordained as the they are under the tho ban baa b by Noah oah upon Canaan Canann the tha son ot of Ham anI and his do de But Dut that race raco may receive the ble blessings ln B of salvation and have the testimony ot of Jesus and enter Into the ot of God having been born ot of water and ot of the spirit They rhey may know that Jesus Is the Christ whIch the they cannot without the witness or of th the holy Ghost The Saints In the early Church ot of Christ were all baptized b by one spirit Into one body whether the they were Jew or Gentile b bOnd nd or tree and all drank Into one spirit 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