Show POSITION OF THE let me ale explain not to you learned gentlemen who know all about these things n but for the enlightenment lighten 0 ment of others who may read this as well as yourselves the catholic claim is that jesus 4 christ organized C his church nineteen centuries ago and that from that time to this there has been an unbroken line of succession in in authority and a preservation of all the truths of the gospel tho the protestants te claim on the other hand band that while jesus established ilia hia church and taught his gospel when then on earth in tho the course of LL a few centuries false teachers arose who buried christianity with pagan philo philosophy ophy and forms of worship foreign to its spirit and genius and the truth of the gospel was either subverted or its beauty buried beneath the rubbish of human invention the great church of england says that laity and clergy learned and unlearned all ages ages sects and degrees have been drowned in abominable idolatry most detested by god and damnable to man for eight hundred years and more official homily on idolatry wesley said eaid that the reason the spiritual gifts of the gospel were no longer enjoyed vs r as because the christians had turned he athens aai a again 0 ai n and only had a dead form left such is the position of protestant and catholic mormonism accepting the N he facts of history as protestants do and easily perceiving that men have transgressed the laws and changed a tho the ordinances of the gospel or as protestants put it turned heathen again or that all sects have been drowned in in a abominable bomin abIo idolatry for years and more mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 say insist that such being the case the only way the gospel of jesus christ can be restored and divine aut authority iori to administer its ordinances regained 9 is by a reopening of the heavens and committing of a new dispensation of it to men which is exactly what mormonism claims to be the ibe gospel of jesus christ restored to the earth and that is the message wo we have for the world and the declaration I 1 desired to make at your parliament |