Show A gentleman who has taken mUch In ln lerest In tn Ir tho articles In tho the Deseret Maws owa In reply to the attacks by the tho convention upon the Mormon writes to us oc op oppressing ocr pressing r his opinion that the tho News Newa bad had the thc best beat of oC the argument but Jut to know whether tho the Saints reject r Christianity In nil Its Us branches with nil all Its doctrines In ng the whole system anti and tho the gospel It proclaim The Tho Church of at Jesus Christ of ot Latter rAtter Latterly ly ny Sainte dues does not take the position let forth In this query It accepts o c Christianity that Is Urtha the Christianity of oC Jesus Christ ChIet In all Us Its branches branchell and with oil all Its doctrines Bul It regards modern Christendom with Its multifarious ious ions sects and denominations and preachers and many of oC Its Us contradictory tory notions na as entirely different from that hat Christianity which Jesus Josue of oC Naz Nazreth ireth reth and Ills His Apostles promulgated There Is In however some H me measure of truth In every religion extant that wo we e ett certainly tt do not reject There me are good people In all the religious organizations both bath in Christendom and in heathen Jom om they we certainly do not nol con eon condemn condemn The systems I stems of religion which men have hae Invented aro human and there thore therefore fore roro are arc nut not to be regarded us as n author authorized authorIzed of oC God Whatever good there may maybe ma maybe be bt In any un of them Is divine That which IA Is erroneous is from Crom mortal man manor manor manor or from tho the Evil One None Nono of them could rould continue continuo In existence but for the measure of f truth therein contained Put But they thc all embody errors that stamp them as manmade and anti therefore unreliable unreliable unreliable liable Tho The Church of Christ muot munt mU t come from rora Christ and Its doctrines must be beluch beluch luch as ns lIe He reveals not merely the time commandments of or men inca The good which some somo men and nOlI women Associated with situ those systems Lire are able to h we recognize and believe it la Is no an to God nut Rut when men nil at minister ordinances and ceremonies In Inthe inthe the name of Deity which they have not ben b n authorized a by b the Lord LOI to per form fona they the assume a n position which Is III displeasing to the Almighty and their official acts nets In Ills IUs name are arc utterly empty m t and void old OT e 0 oo 10 not flOt despise e or repudiate any principle Of truth that Is to be found In any system of or religion no 1111 matter by What name It Il may be called Any n thing that Is hi true trul In theology theOlog literature litera lure science or art In any Invention or project we WO ao M Mc edit c t and It blends Into the tho truths of oC religion which tho the Lord Lout has hns revealed in these thele Just as I drops of water unite In one mass amass mn s as nil soon loon as they coalesce For Truth is k truth tie found on Christian or on heathen hethe ground There Then are some mat great truths in oriental n 1 religion as well Veil as os in the oct Iet sects that tha t rail all themselves Christian ono one of ot these Inese conies comas into repulsion impulsion with wits the now nOI revealed Il from heaven and which Is commonly MormOn lormOn lm bm t 4 This Idea Is clearly cl firl set forth In elm W tie language o In the nook BOOk of Mormon as AA follow 1 nit all things which i a sic RIO s good of Gods sod and that tut which is II m nil evil U rn lh of tr the devil doyll for tor ih lies II I an enemy unto God and a gaInt hIm continually a ath and on th to sin and Rn J to do 4 that hilt I II tit 1 continual hold tbt h Which I II of f p Cod J aM sn en n to tu 19 JI od d continually hl tort fore thing which th 11 iid io t do 10 good ROOd anti and to lov io 10 and to tv JN Cre MP n p mm Jilin ID IC I tn i of c Vr W V 11 not Interior w em Uh Wi to inter fete rOff the t of any An Ining that Is 18 true and nd Lt to tu mankind no matter mattOr from train whence It II prot 4 We do d not to the m of good men and end women l to in elevate and Improve humanity on jn the tho contrary we wish them th m Go i ed d If It they Ut Laye anything better or more ad J J I l thOU than that hal which we ic me calved wo WI I ead to 10 accept It Il Jul wo we know thIs God Jod has opened up Uj upa n a 1 Pow now dispensation von tho dispensation of ot tho the fullness of or times In which Ho Ito will wiil gather In n ono all that are aro In Christ Ho Ito has net act up Ills His Church again al ln on Oil earth and committed authority to chosen men to administer In Ills His name and teach the truths truth which Ho ne reveals reveille As All there thero can he ho but ono one OliO true Church of or Christ no tie how 10 many branches It may ma have havo In nations we wo do ito not nt regard orty alt of ot the conflicting sects as na divine or authoritative tIe tive Our mission Is to preach tho the Gospel i of ot Jesus Christ to every eory creature both bothIn In Christendom and In heathendom rind and call celli upon nil all people everywhere to re no repent pent Ilont of or their ulna Inn believing In Christ and to be Lc baptized ed by one ono having au nu authority n u for or tho the remission or of sins which comes through the thi atonement with the promise that they who obey oLey shall re me the gift of tho time Italy Holy Ghost which nil aft things timings guides Into nil truth shows to come comae and reveals the thc Father and the tho tI o Son Homi It Is III the ever everlasting everlastIng lasting Oo cl proclaimed by b Christ Himself wilma when on earth and by b the th Apostles whom ho sent Bent Into the world for tor that purpose Is IB the tho only WRY way of ot salvation Time The Chuch which He lie has haR sot up today Is 19 organized utter time the pat pattern pattern pattern tern of at tho the early earh Christian Church anti and andUs Its Us ministers hold haM the tho maine authority power keys koyn 1 C fI and Inspiration that were ivere given ghen to holy hol men of old This Thill lit IS I our position ns as to tho the Church of ot time the true and 1111 the tho living God Clod and Us It attitude toward other religious rell creeh creo and societies Moieties While we take this anO a II claim tho the right to worship God Gad ac nc according cording carding to His revealed will nimI tho tim dictates of our own consciences conscience wo WI accord the ti same right to nil 1111 people up upon on Ott the tho taco face of ot the earth I t them wor war what or whom or when tty Hie may |