| Show 41 i Ift 14 NOT oT Iii Worcester Spy Hill Sp B n rally Is 13 a It ItI I fair Journal j nal but like Ilko so o 0 many man of ot our Jr when It essays t III It speak about t Mormonism It 1 Is IH apt to 10 tor I r substitute for tor fact t This I III article oti ml The t I shown ID In a II recent 1 wt i or of Christian ChrIs lion Science In III It Wh h tHo t Spy takes occasion to fay oy Joseph iv 1 J Smith anti and nr ll the tho Christian Scientists ts flits art artIn In fn n tt way say wa to deity deify their founder i Now deity deify means to exalt among the gocs regard or Ot worship S a aa 3 a II n rod god adore It means mean to Invent with j divine attributes or onti lint the thew w statement lent Is III equivalent to tot a charge t that th tM thu Latter day Saints are arc man Ii worshiper It Is an accusation that thaI has line been Invented by b somo reverend F St i 1 antagonist of ot their faith whim whon falling failing i to facts upon which tp t I formulate i a U charge It Is reiterated by lIy others Ii tp too Indifferent or to busy to Invent l gate for foi or themselves tl and yet anxious lous tu tt tl tlc tte contribute e c their straw to the general which It Is hoped Mormon MormonIsm 1 i Ism 1811 will 11 be sacrificed In a grant grand auto tt i da tin fe te f fil il i Nothing 1 I Is farther Carther from crom the truth however The Saints arts art artleSs sil less lois given glen to man worship than most followers of or the Christian They fhe vi believe bellove In anti worship ex ly thu ho if l God of ot the Bible Dible the tho God Clod f Abraham i iI I Isaac antI and Jacob God the he I d Father Futher Ills Son Jesus Christ and the tho iI Holy 1101 Ghost They stand M nh nn New Ne Testament platform so 80 clearly stated In Ini i tho the first fir epistle to the Corinthians 14 lO For though there thore be that are called t Ic gods whether wheler In tn heave h or In earth as ns I 1 there thero be gods many antI and lords many man 1 to us there Is hut but one oTIc God Gosi the I Father of ot o whom are aro all things thing and we weIn weIn wei i I I In Him and nd one Lord Jesus Christ by byi i i I are nil all thing and ami we by Him lUm HimI t I 1 Cor Car 8 i L 6 G This Is I No man Is deified by hy the Church or orI I any aty or of Us Its members Th Joseph JO ph never claimed dl t vine at In any nn other sense than thann d nil all n 1 the Children of ot the l t Father 1 I i may fAdy mu relationship with rUh 1 iti Him He Hert I a 1 i e rt ii 1 servant ervant of or God and ever aver con cn conscious lt t of fallings s lint shortcomings i tt and the necessity of or the guardian wire vItro L of or the Almighty Neither In ISIs his writ wilt writIngs writIngs 1 Ings lags nor his hl discourses lS cnn n a syllable I be bel found intimating that he regarded I himself a Anything but a n weak wea 4 mont mout though chosen cho en to perform a n great grent 1 mission In the world I I And that Is III how he Is III now regarded by the member m of ot the Church and andL L how In fn dun n time all nl the world will willIe low Ie him tilso He lie was wall a witness for tor God aed It n a Prophet of the Most High a IL L mes ms messenger Henger of salvation a 1 herald hurald of oC millen milieu millennial Ij nial daI glory glor tl on this earth firth When the visions with which he was Willi favored are arc I i 41 considered when It is III remembered that lint Ills his mind was opened up to comprehend the tho past lla t and the future as ai well as a the tho present when the work he ho accomplished I pushed In comparatively short tIme linde is ii scrutinized without preJudices prejudice 1 when hen he Is finally seen passing from tram this earthly the glory glor of oC roar mar martyrdom I j It will vilI bo be understood why hy ho Ira 1 should be classed among the greatest l prophets that ever CIer lived hived d upon the earth I r and aud why wh history hi tor some day da will accord L i him that place nut Hut that Is 18 far from deification The Hebrews do not deify dairy j t Moses MORes nor do the SaInts Saint deity the thet t Prophet of ot this dispensation The matter may mn ns as n well be clearly I 5 understood ul The newspapers that deem while writing about Mormon I lito isn should take tako pains to make correct 4 statements For no cause cuu e can be well 14 f 4 served sered The Mormons i are Ir neither f nor klein Idola Idolaters I f tars tors They honor love loc and respect the themen he hemen I men Go r tI entrusted entrust to declare unto j K l them the of or life lICe and salvation L but the they worship Him alone atone who has hIlS hasi i J j made mode tho the heavens and the earth and andE the mighty might waters E j |
