Show TUB O JY WAY The Deseret 1 News Nc of Sail Inko Ilko In U IIA editorial columns he claiming tint the th Ch Is la the only ani true religion roll g I ou We find the lie foregoing In Iii n a paper Poper that circulates extensively In the Northwest Wonderful Ina t It 7 Wo tn 0 wore err under the Hint everybody ao no with religious movements In iii Inthe Inthe the nineteenth and nn twentieth centurion centuries was fully tull that tits tills claim linn has been bum net forth from the very beginning of ot the ot or that which Is III called calle the Mormon church hurch Any ny religious organization which docs doell not snake n ft similar claim Is III l to I say nay the th leant inconsistent If It doos not ns os ert nett HH Its superiority lo to other religious It proclaims nt at once Its Ita It II and raises tho the question of ot the reason for tor 1111 It existence Whon het the tho Prophet Joaeph was flat favored With n a communication from tram the Ihl heavens In the appearance to him lm of ot tho the In thoI anti and the 8 urn n ho he won told In tin to 10 his hlA earnest O Inquiry ns nil tn to which cf ct the Die religious linns tlonA ho Join john that he was to go after r nonn of ot them for tor or they the had nil 1111 gone Bono rOI out of ot tho way wa nail and were wore teach leach teachIng Ing tag for tor doctrine the tho commandments ot of otmen men The Church of ot Jesus Christ Christof t of duy Saints wan uns organized and set net up u for tor the tho Introduction that IK Is tho the of ot tho the pure Gospel Oo without the tho Interpolations and vagaries of ot men by which mankind had been heen led astray for centurion centuries Every doctrine principle ordinance ceremony ordina ordination ordination tion nerd commandment In this Church hUll hen heel heen received by communication I from heaven by revelation Inspiration nail nd the power of at the tho Holy Ghost This Thill In is Its great distinction from all other religious societies extant This claim Is III the secret CRUSO of ot the hostility towards It exhibited by hy the r ministers minister of ot the age They Tho resent It bitterly They take It as n a reflection not only upon their but upon their pretense of at au It Is l II true trio that none of oC them with tho the exception of oC the tho dignitaries of at atthe the church that claims direct succession lion sion from tram tho the original Apostles pro fosses fossen more moro than lint mental montal Impressions and intuitions Intuition to or others ns as n the tho source of at their coil call to the ministry In fact the ce ot of di dl direct root communication from tram God Clod to man manIn manIn In III recognized and made n tenet of oC faith throughout hout modern Christendom denial therefore of any an actual author authorIty Ity by It from tram Deity Delt to them ought not to arouse In hr them the anger which they manifest and certainly does docs not Jus jun Justify lIty the Iho ho hostile which they thet take towards a Church which ns ne ast t that divine authority tins has been given to 10 It by present revelation They may 1111 take with this assertion fill seek leek to controvert It by proper menus means which do not Include physical force misrepresentation ml or enden r ra to In Injure Injure inJure jure those thoe who wino entertain It The eo l 1 Mormon ormon Church tarns takes I the Iho ho ground that lint It has haB he the the only anI truo true religion In the sense that It Is of direct divine It was set up by Jesus Christ the tho founder of the prim primitive Christian faith He declared when on all earth that nit nil other systems tint Ills were Vera wrong and Ills JIll only anI was wan the way wo IhO tho truth lruth and the life Ho Ito has haB made mado tho rho HI some Nuno mo declaration concerning Ills his Church In the latter days which Is la the tho former Church restored in every evory ular There Is la no other rational po post lion that It can cnn take No matter how much It may mo offend attend those thole who do not H with It or admit HH claims It U must be that or nothing more marc than an another another other othor toot added to 10 the tho mass mAilS of ot h heterogeneous lero conflicting religious faiths It bo ho understood that In taking this position the Church of ot Jesus Christ of oC Int t at day Saints does dONI not deny or seek leek to belittle tho the good gOOl that has been done don by hy devotional and ond sincere work workers workers ers era In tho the religious cause couso during the tho past Pl t C centuries No matter mattei what poetic particular ular church or society they LitO may have havo been connected with whatever teor of or truth they thoY have hav hI presented or effort they the have hao Iao mode for tor the uplifting of at hu liu for tor the promotion of at faith In God fur for the prevalence of oC morality for tOr forthe forthe the eulth cultivation of that which brings peace kindness brotherly love nail charity which disperses tho tin clouds of or r superstition Infidelity and und skepticism and that aids In the lute suppression of or orf 1 strife selfishness war 1 savagery I f we avo 0 commend them for tor and bid bill then them Godspeed In their good works work II j f Wo We believe hellev that nil truth and every t good thing thine comes from tram our mernal 1 Father othor nIl anti we know knoll that It harmon hurmon Izen with that which we have received I from Him flint lit Hut He Ifs toe has Himself re reo vented His hits word worl and nud His Iii will In these n H last days dllY and commuted committed a dispensation i to Ills servants upon whom lie He has hns placed d authority to proclaim Ills His truth and administer In the ordinances of His ills house declaring that what they per pOI perform perform form In the way n He lie has hils appointed shall be b owned and recognized recognised of or Him that what whal hat they seal coal on all earth shall be 11 p sealed In la heaven and what they tho loose nose on earth shall bo be loosed In heaven In J Jl 4 l n this souse conse then the Mormon Church ChurchIn In Is veritably the tho only true truo religion and anda a an 1111 such euch It has been boen printed to the world tar for or more than seventy yearn There Thero Is III some come religious truth In to ev every O cv cry ery sect lect under tho the sun There lire are good people In nil all the various churches as all there thero are outside of ot churches In lisa Hea Heathendom ns nil well ns liS it In Christendom They are till all the children of our Father lie He will Judge them according to their light and anI their works Ho He will give them His ills Spirit according to their faith and their sincerity He Ile will ac nc accept accept rapt the tune good they do but reject tho evil elI And Anil he ho will wilt not acknowledge o anything that Is II done dono In Ills His name ammo unless un unless less He lie has haR Himself bestowed author authority authority ity to 10 perform It II Tho The ordinances ad nd administered administered I ministered without that authority are aro void and of ot so called is II i Gods truth Tho The Mormon Morman Church Is III doda hods Institution It vas established by b Him and Ho lIe will wilt sustain It Tho principles for tor or which It stands are arc divine and II nIl that Is III why wh they will twill prevail This Thill Church has hils had to 10 maintain a n position of ot defense from the beginning It has been blell assailed from nil all quarters and I with all nil kinds of ot weapons but It will conquer and overcome nil opposition by h the power of t truth and the strength of at till the Almighty nut It has hall no light tight against anything that Is III good true progressive enlightening and nn saving raving whether In hr temporal or Intellectual or 11 spiritual things It Is for tar the welfare of humanity at largo large and seeks Feeks tho the of oC the tho living and tho the dead of ot nil all raven ages oges beliefs hellet and national nationalities hies It Ignores nothing that Is III good It wants nothing R that Is III evil It li h a tho o champion of or right light and It will conquer end and overcome as os sure an nn that tha t truth will triumph over error find light will 11 ills 1111 OIe tho the darkness |