| Show MORMONISM INCULCA INCULCATES rES PURITY Remarks mado in the tho SnIt Salt Lake CIty January 1 14 1900 by PRESIDENT GEORGE Q CANNON of tho Eler Elders with Doctrine of Similar to that of Ill ti ted Opposed L by Erth Earth to be Cleanse from SIn Contaminating Influence or of EI I hlo hare wih with Q a crat great dOI deal of 01 pleasure as I hove have no doubt al all have to the remarks ot of Our brethren thIs d af afternoon What Is II lh there r that is 15 tor more delightful than to hear men letty on oon I corning the Iho prIncIples of oC and the existence o of God Our broth nn ren have given unto us a good 0 Ido Idea of at the tho manner mannal lb In whIch IQ awn may moy I In n A knoll l ot of the Gospel of 01 Jesus Christ and o of the tho existence ot of the Father and th the Son Son remarks mark have Impressed rae me baus because tey they are very ery similar ls to 10 the teachings ot of l ancient t rv ants Of 01 God I If we hat had two of at the the old Apostles pOte ot of the hero here this afternoon and they were to stand up CS as our brethren have done dODO and declare I the Gospel of Jeus Jesus their would 0 be exactly elm lar liar to th those o that Wo we have h heard rc ThC The doctrines we have Ilten listened to 10 are the tho doctrines they In God nr and andin In H Ills Sn Son Jesus Christ repentance of sin for the remission ot of sIns aln the Iho laying on ot of hands hande lor or the tho receP ton Ion ot of the 11 holy Ghost I it Peter vere to stand In Ia our midst would nt not this thisbe le be lila hIs teaching Was I it nl not hi In lag when he be Wa was upon the earth Wa Was tl it not the teaching ot of the other Apos Apol U ties 8 They al all preached do doe trino lud they promised unto th those who r received le ad and ob obeyed I It the tame same that our brethren base havo men toned tinned loy told the people ople that they should have havo the tho Holy Ghost host and the gifts of at the holy Oho Ghost t on antI that they should bl hA able ablo to perform mighty works In the name of Dr th lr Lord Jesus In fact they pointed out the came path or of I slaton salvation that thal has I been n pointed out this noon I MODERN Am AND ANCIENT SI SITI TI TION N There i is 01 one thing that ought to UI u to 10 be very N gratifying le whatever our enemies may moy say aay about us however much they tay may derIde and despise U us wo ve know that we IMe have er eta braced precisely rIs l the lamo same Oo Goppel el 18 as WI cas taugh taught b by the Lr Lord Jesus and Hs Ills Immediate disciples The Tho Saints hind hael the same experience os as WI we weare nr are havIng Their names were cast out as evIl I the they were despised they were persecuted In this respect we are alke alike And It la 15 a consolation to us to know that thal thIs Is the tho ease CUBe I It is a a strange thin thing that In our day religious people I who oppose the work of Go God cannot see how similar theIr conduct Is to the on an cleat clent persecutors ot of the Church of at Christ What was th rl In Joseph Smiths message or testimony that should orUS arouse such hatred I nit WI was manifested 7 I le lie declared that ho he hll hail sn seen the Fath Father I Ier er and the Son and that angels hal had ministered to him and him the princIples or of salvation What WIS was ther there thereIn In that to arouse such Intense animos animosIty I Ity Wh Why should ministers and people array themselves agaInst him Ind and those who nelv revolved hil his testimony They for per persecuted him and the they eventually slew him Why WIS sias It so Wa I it not nn an exhibition or of the same that the persecutors ot of the Saints of 01 OD lcd In an cleat clent days possessed lse was It that thol Isaiah halah JeremIah JOSS and other falc said to cause couse them to be kie killed They declared that God gave them Is Ills word anti and they to deler deliver that word to the people But Satan WI deter determined determined mined to destroy them It he could and he arrayed the world against them The result was many of at thom them ha had to 10 lay laWn down theIr lve lives So with the Apostles Was ther there anythIng In the doctrine the they taught that should excie excite the ho lI ha hatred tred ot of the world as It did They taught italy holy prInciples pure doctrine and un an adulterated truth hut but the world coull could not boar bear the truth Satan Solan WI was deter determined mined that It should hould not be taught anti and he to destroy the work ot of God Godby by slayIng the mt inca upon whom God aDd ho conferred Ills authority So I It Is In our da day ExamIne tu the J of at the tho Saints who are faithful to 10 their religIon and what Is there In them that should cause men to bo be Im Imbued bue wih with the I spirit ot of murder against the leople people Te The Saints were driven from their homes In the tho Eat East What were er theIr crimes Al All manner of at lel lies were told agaInst them Tey They were accused of at everything that WI vaI vile 10 Md and the possible feeling of anImosity wa was engendered In Inthe Inthe the public mInd mind just t as I It la is nt at the time Tay Today this whole naton nation Is stirred up n against nt the people or of those mountains What ha have we done what are we 0 doing to arouse this antipathy You lou mingle wih with the tho people plo here and you wi will find tat that the great eat bulk of 01 them ae are striving to lve live righteous hives They are not trespassing upon their neIghbors They are re not honest honel They ar are not living lives ot of violence but Ive lives ot of and quiet INCULCATED In ever every Sunday and whenever there ar are meetings held here the thu prIncIples of te the Gospel of Jesul Jesus ChrIst ore are taught and the SavIor Is held u up as an example to the people They he are are told that they must must if IC they Ivo live theIr religion follow tho example whIch the Savior Salor set rel and the they are taught that If they do not do this they or are not Is Ills disciples and are not worthy or of the nae name ot of Saints So It Is throughout al all the tho rn con of at the tho people wherever Lat It Saints lve live What erel effect does thIs have hao I It has this effect The Saints Iro are living up to 10 a higher standard ot of purity than any an other people tb that know of oC In the world today No peOple with whom I Iam lun am value VIrtue as dt do the tho The crying sin In Inthe inthe the world lodo today Is Virtue Is very er much depreciated I have heard It said laid that 1 a young oung lan man who grows up to 10 manhood and rota retains Ins his virtue Is looked upon In cIrle circles as un unmanly Unmanly manly Our Jut not nol had much experience with Jho hw world In thIs dir direction ton tion but from rota the Ile little we have had wo we know that Virtue Is II light thought or of But Dut how Is It 11 wit the day Saints Wo IVo look upon virue virtue 01 as su premel OO God ha has revealed to tous tous us that ho who upon n a to lust after her shell deny the faith I he rel repents nl This Is the standard I that we endeavor to 10 hao hae our young oung people Iv lIve to 10 Thos Those who practIce un on acts among us sooner oner or later loler lle lose the faith and ond leave leao us The They tal fall into the ho dark and apostatize This wo We Weare are thankful for tor because It Insures the purl purity or of the people You wh who have had bad experIence In this Church look back I and ask alk yourselves What Whal ha has ben been the fate of men with whom you have ben been acquainted who have been cult guilty of 01 un virtuous conduct In almOl almost every In Instance Instance stance you OU wi will find that such men un on unless onless less they have repented have nao flen fallen Into this dark Ind and apostatized is the tho resul result ot of such con conduct conduct duct II In title manner GD God Is cleansing 19 ills Church from iniquity The of 01 the Church cannot do I It alone Tey They cn can enforce the law ot of God as far as they Ec ree I it Is applicable to cases but there are aro many things done In secret which no one but God and those who do dothe dothe the wrong know But that thal wrong secret ret thought I it may be will i unless It be r re of sooner oner or later brIng terrible Cn consequences I It wi will brIng ho loss lOR ot of the Spirit ot of God j I It wi will brIng dark darkness ness neu an sal after atter awhIle I It wi vIll bring a complete alienation from th the truth We mour mourn o r those who apostatize but I It Itis is 19 better that the Church hould b be i cleansed l ot of men and women who aJ are unworthy ot of membership than that they remain In the Church and bo be an otense offense la In the sight of 01 God and Injure InJuN the work ot of God od In this way a hIgh standard Is bing being raised among this leople C Ire on a bl higher her plane lano than the tho world general generally Wo We have higher conceptions of le life ot of lifes duties and and ond or of the tho Oo pel ot of Jelus Jesus Christ than II Is generall entertained In the world arid Not Nol lUl but there here are men In the tho world who feel DS as we do but I Iam nm am speaking now of oC societies We ar are area a a society and a as such we entertain thes these views anti and have these concep conceptions lons PURITY Di BY SATAN Now ow the purer eIe and the nearer WC we 10 live to God the tho stronger wi will b be the opposition ot of Satan to the work ot of God 10 lie wi will continue to influence Jen men against the tho people ot of 00 God And nd strange to 10 sa those oer whom he appears to have hae the tho greatest sl Influence and who ar are the tho active In their efforts agaInst the work of at God are thos those who call themselves followers ot of the Son of Ool al Is I it not nol a a strange thing that men who claim to tobo tobe bo be teaching the people righteousness and to be leading them In the tho path or of ortruth truth should light the truth and leel seek to destroy a people who have pushed what the Saints h have 10 1 Lok Look at what has len been done here anti and where can you OU find anything like It on the tho face tace ot of the tho earth A people gathered out from various na an lons with al all theIr traditions anti halt hab its Ils and ni all their fase false education brought together here and made one possessing unIon and love and exhibit lag Ing those qualities whIch It Is supposed In the the religion earth of 01 Jeus Jesus Christ wi will O Of COUNe course for tor 01 all this opposition there lre are certain reasons advanced lut but let lel them b be Investigated and ond It wi will be found that falsehood les lies ft the foundation lon tion of 01 alro almost itil the that is s arrayed against this Church I It lUl has ben been t so from the begInning Joseph Smith n a pur pUtt man ot of God I a senant ot of God who faithfully desIred to ben bene benefit eft the people was accused ot of al all man manner ner ot of wickedness Ter There Is scarcely a crIme that he was not charged wih with and ond men renly really thought they would be doing God servIce by slaying him and doubtless some ome who engaged In hIs a as assassination did think they were doIng Gods service But Dut tle the true truo followers of Jesus Christ wi not persecute an any anybody body It Is contrary to Hs lila religion and teachings to persecute and ond to do evil to other people N Nevertheless WI we SIO pee those who rho are professing to bo be Is ills followers guilty of such things Now aU all these things Instead ot of cool coolIng lag Ing our ardor or slackening our Ie zeal zealIn 11 In the work ot of God ought to have havo th the opposIte effect We to rejoice before tho ho Lord when hen we 0 are counted worthy to have hae our names cat cast out as evi evil and to be I as our Lord and Master was for tor le lie was cruelly persecuted and slandered lie Ho told us that Is ills tel tol lower lowers should be Persecuted and hated and ne lie gave geat great prOmIse promises unto those who ho were thus persecuted 10 0 DE BE SIN Il It Is n a gent great contest that la Is no now be beIng belag lag Ing Is the great last conlest contest Men Ien think that thal thIs work tay may be ex cx or delred destroyed They have thought hl so 80 for the last Int seventy years But Dut the lArd Ird hn has made mado premises cn I It antI not nol one word wIll 1 be unfulfilled We shall go D forward from one trIumph to another and the work wi will rl roll forth In might and Jer power un on I II ft shall fl fill the earth T Tte Lord la is laon isen on en our side aide on and lie will send forth Ils ills I judgments upon the wIcked cal delo deso wi will felloW Our Elders who are goIng forth are aro tul fulfilling a great mil mis Ilon slop They rhey Irl are deliverIng the message that God Cod has revealed and the tho nUon natIon of the earth wi will b be let loft without excuse The Lr Lord ha has told UI us In many rev ela tona Ions that le lie hal has given to us In these last days das that there wi will be desolating scourges and sicknesses go forth after the testimonies ot of lila IlL servants and the earth wi will bo be cleansed train wicked wickedness I ked ness In a revelation given before the I Church was 1 organized the Lord says A AI I For u scourge shall go forth among amon the tho inhabitants ot of the lie tarth earth and shall continue to bo be poured out tram rein time to t time I It they repent not until the earh earth I Is empty anti and the In thereof nr are consumed away and utterly destroyed by the brightness of my coming Behold I tell you OU those these things even os as I also toll told the people ot of the tho lon tion or of Jerusalem and my word shall bo be verInel verified a at time os as I It bath ero been verified Doc and ond Cot CO See ec 6 1920 Many predictions hoe have b been en made on ont t this s subject God has bos stretched forth Is Ills hand to o JB lila work Je lie Is going to cleanse this earth from the which prevails upon I it le leIe lie lieIs Is Ie G going l to destroy the Iho works ot of Satan Balan und anti In order to do tItle lie He wi will have hac to detro destroy those who vIo serve Satan A as 10 lie did in the days ot of men wi will repent There must b be a lon of at this kInd or wickedness wi will perpetuate itself upon the tho face tace of 01 the tho eath earth We can fe see this In al any society Let ono one wicked man ho have Influence In InI ina I a cirle cIrcle and In u a little while ho wi will corrupt the circe circle n a young oung than who Is Impure anti lascivious and lot let him associate wih with other young oung men inca and ana he wi will soon d defile o them I If they eon can linus to 10 associate wih with hll him Therefore In order to tD have hare 1 a pure people such as G God designs to 10 have le lie must destroy the work Works ot of darkness and those who practice thom them It was so with lie tho They were so 0 corrupt In oi all theIr WI ways that there wa vae only one tamlY family that could bit be spared anti and tram from the predictions that hare ben been made In these last days das It will be some porno somethinG thinG thing similar The wIcked wi will be do de ed with 01 all their works of at dark darkness ne ness bause because 1 a pure society ha has to I be established There Is to be a thousand years of at peace Ine and righteousness when Silan Satan wi will b be bund bound 1 so that he shall not have power over the hearts ot of the children or of men inca anti God Is about to usher thin In Satans Balane power must bo be broken und and thIs earth b ho redeemed Cnn Can you OU cn can ot of any way of 01 redeeming I it only by destroying the tho works of 01 darkness and the workers of at Iniquity We have In tho neighborhood d or of two thousand Elders out In the world preaching the tho Al AU the Christian world have hae thousands ot of minI minIsters sier laboring along among the tho nations What do they acom Are AN the tho |
