| Show APOSTASY OSIS AM NI I A 1 it the readers of or Ih Ni Xe News am aro nf aware avart the ibe i 1 of n title this Ihl city CI a I few C l days ago published a R of ot o the tho Address to the World IVorid ld Issued I Il by I the th April conference of ol the tho th I Church of ar Jesus Christ l of oC Saints Tho rho document of 1 tho II thi t clergymen com coin commences hy by h Intimating that the thu Address of n the tile Church ChuIch while professing to 1 bo be boa boa bea a declaration of or omits much mich that Is II essential to a mm 1 correct under understanding standing of nI o and Ald which Is Ill II of ol a it I horrible ami wd shocking hoek nature fl tu rt and Ild that this concealment culls calls colI for tor the U II I seems to ta be lie hI the mite fate IH of IC the macin 11 hers beI IS of ot the Church In this n le e as lS It 1 was tins 11 the rate fate of or o tho first followers of or the tite Redeemer to be lie everywhere spoken ok en I If It they tile the state as us fR correctly as au U their command of ol human hlll n language will permit their views and Ild give gle reason lot for rO the tho hope within thom them someone Is sure lure to 10 contradict thorn thom and tell them they Iho art nio Insincere or Ignorant and anI do donot donot donot not know what they the believe beleI but must take the Ihl word of o the Iho opponents sir what Ihl t their theli views are arc art If Jr J they endeavor to do ito right and Iso offense to ta no man loan still fOul someone Is II there to ta speak them thOl and tell theta them that they thea are hypo hype hypocrites hp crites cries Ind criminals In 11 short they the ate aie everywhere Ier ere spoken guInt But flut ut no limb Truth will wi een el n through contradiction and amid ald to io tho au nl authors thors thorR ot of the thc It is i only nimy necessary sary ay to suy Al nt nl this time tm that the Ih Mor Mormons mons Juice have nothing to tu conceal cotil but that they IhlY desire nil al the world to 10 know what arc aro 11 also that they th y themselves know what they believe and do not No 0 one otto who hits has 1119 slit stu studied Ilu died oily oly through spec spectacles highly colored by prejudices l Is a competent on oil that t I ha t subject ct much hutch luch less M authority What aro Iro the tIme alleged shocking shock In doe doc doctrines trines trifles that tIme the authors of oC the tho Insinuate tho the Address hoeR does not set et forth timid and Ind that they thc undertake to ex cx poso lIas One Is this that the Church claims claIm to Pt II bo ho tho ho only tinly authorised church of oC Jesus Christ on tIme the th earth eurth that a universal apostasy took lok place In lit II tile the early ages aieS and that the tho Prophet Joseph was Ial a Li 1 now liOi witness for COl Got God whom no one OlO cnn can reject except to 10 his hIs eternal verl Can et students of nr ecclesias ecclesiastical history hIRo sincerely doubt douht a n uni universal un nit I Ie versal e 11 I apostasy of It C the church Do Donot Donot Donot not the Scriptures predict such an apos apostasy tally tasy IUN culminating In The Time man of ot sin sn sitting In lit II tho thu temple of oC Dod that Is In time thu Ihl church claiming divine attributes mind and Dowers And Auth do un 0 not lint lat the Iho samo sonic Scriptures toll us IH ot or the beginning ot of this apostasy Paul warned the bish bishops ohms ops Op of oC that rm rout aiO men would w uld mine perverse things and the later hater hooks honks ot ol the New Noll Testament contain of ol the of ot antichrists among amone man the Ih churches The hl picture drawn of ot atthe the branches of oC s tho tito church In InAlia Alia Iu allows the lime conditIon c as catty as its time the part 11 ot of the tho apostolic age e watt wag threatened with the re ro removal moval of o if Iho candlestick wits wan lukewarm multi and about to bo po rejected Could Paul of have been roe rec recognized a as AI a Christian Christinn bishop by b any church hut but one In on an apostate condi condition thOu tion when he Iw marched through the tIme thet t teem In Iu secular pomp ami hall hail wom lom women en n slug his bin hi praise Would the tho churches or Alu Minor Greece Africa arid else elsewhere el elsewhere o where whre have been swept away awny by hy tho the Mohammedan If it they lint had not nob b been en In u II condition that Hint called for Providential nce Is It not true trite that the city elt that claimed tuSh domination and wan wait generally ly U 10 1 an itS Uh hy thu tho Father corrupted the morals as nil well UN U the thit doctrines exclaim exclaimed in ed ell Tha Ihl n uC ml ha hal ho Im the patron of ot adulterer U tt uaN III as 1111 protected that Ihal the tho man mall of tIC sIn ln In should hould be I rev an us soon oon nn n the tho obstacle Will was 1111 It If this ob oh wa Wit WIll 1101 not the tha church organization lion tion d by b dIvine Inspiration what whitt tyas II it II I J Ii It not true trite that heathenism he was taught In the Its very vory chAir of oi Dill not hot the of or CrItie C a fearful pin lure tUI of the condition of aC his And did not denounce th lb the church on as an of ut rejected r lh time IJ rom of or a R Hit t Uit I t u UI quote Or Pr lieu Den J n nII II a lecturer on In thU Ihl thUU U Is tn an Odor error In doo 1100 lIh or I In practice 1 or 01 mi su mil l n In him b Ii which th thc c hiu hii ili thi MUM t s c ever er mulled I that m not nol be Ii h rohl m 10 I 1 cut rb miss I and thu Ih t I wAil NA mit by bi 11 name amino denied a i In III inI I I I II and ii nil mist ll rid an II m an mi ii I II lid III 1 re tu I rum on nn Ih t hi e ha n church hurch cli U Iii nut ml it t II n II V I i lii 1 re ble li by II I fact ocl hut lit Is litin IsI in III I I l eit I I I i 10 ry in I 0 nur ott r t It Ii I Km I nu immitI HO so l loud am rits the mIte theof of concerning l a 11 I J 5 W r fearful y that every onry believer must be lie for fot its Il II tse I l and 1111 so o clear are thi tho limit the lie proofs that from thin tho of ot the thic Apostle thin tho to 1 of If t Iniquity watt wan w already nt at work that till thu thi melancholy re rn record cord of oC Its ItH advancement In III each sub I ago nerve sero limit hut to 10 convince l us till that tim I though all 1111 flesh I Is gra I grass rn Die Ihl word of ot them tho l lAIrd ord for ever fI Theology nt at r tho Early Christian Church p 1 89 Perhaps no Clearer historical evi II evidence dence of or the tho apostasy predicted by h the exists than the record lII of the tio great council at Nice A J 1 D 3 Ii Con hull hud just In lii establishing lishing himself upon Ullon the throne tim ratio through Intrigues arid and ap n and wicked though he hI was doel orl to tn Interfere In III church matters n U liar her harmonize monize tho lImo various Interests Tho Time Christian Christiana whose favor lie sought ho found round divided anti hating bating Melt other otheron on au account of ot differences of ot o opinion timid and this was detrimental to tho Ih SilO atc cello of or his hili policy For political rca rea stills 1111 he Iw convened that council hoping to tl tho tIns Christians Just juat then tere ITro In the vortex of o the Arlan Arian con coil controversy Over OCr bishops and IIII 1200 of or n a lower grade attended cud and limon among these were two to onta lives of the bishop ot of ionic Homo was tens thieve thoro with many of his hIm followers foJ and tho the pagan paon Emperor himself was wasa wust a t conspicuous uH figure lIure Arius IJu lost lo t time the lIght the tho council coull ll formulated a u rod creed deed and attacked u a at curse to tn ml It and when the result wits was d to t I Ithe the Emperor he ho nt at once say Sll the tho re 10 records 0 cords corll recognIzed In III the unanimous consent CO of It the tho bishops thought though It II was vas not unanimous the tho work of ot God Go and tid received r It with reverence declaring that lbs t all itt 1 till should Id be banished who alto refused to I to 10 II it mid atmil making tile tho of or Arlus n it cup mob offense of ens II 5 Hero Here then theil the this church stood tood face to 10 fice with the secular tiler m and Ito tho representatives of the church crawled clI in lit the dust 1181 before the tho worldly power Hero 1110 a 1 question of ot that gull con tho the church was Willi ill III cus etl at al the tho command of ot a I pagan ruler Iuler for 01 political purposes entirely Hero flero heles was WIlS mantle made nn In offense against the Jw state the heretic lIable to punishment accordingly Horn boro 1 thou then tIme the church nn nil far no nl represented at nt Nice formally abdicated its 11 power and flit authority to a n ot of cull cruel anti and paganism That was WIH II a long lou stop stel toward tho Iho tiu universal apostasy When we wo state atte our belief beller a I uni universal nil versal apostasy took place In lit the early ages 10 o a ourselves on S ground and fully full sustained by 11 ecclesiastical history H It Is itt I necessary to re remember member however hower that wo wa do not claim that by this apostasy every truth was taken tul ln away awn from time the children of oC moon men menus us till well ichI as lit all righteousness On Ott the contrary we lye 1 fully recognize that tha t there have keen beep good and amid noble men muon and und wo women woo men In all ages agos and among all nations II ns nit are aie such today to u every everywhere eor where who have hae had the time light of ot many manya a it I precious truth and nod who have lived lives 1115 of righteousness and passed away awa o receive their glorious rewald What hilt VI ve Hie church Im as s Instituted by h the Inspired servants ot the Lord was discontinued The chuich Is the Lords forth form ot f spirit spiritual ual government and this form Corm wan vms overthrown by b the time hostile forces forced Just as the government of ot Poland to use an Illustration was abolished when whoa tho the country countr was divided between the ag aggressive neighbors When we say lay that thata a it government hilt has been beon thrown that Iho t does dolS not hut mean that nil alt the people under II II the time government arc lle annihilated ed or that they Iho lire are re totally changed in Iii their characteristics It 1 means that they arc uro placed under n a new regime and have hl IJ become sub Hub subject jeet to new nel conditions That ThatIs Is III what happened in lit the tho th ecclesiastical cal eni world through the time universal apos apostasy tasy 10 It II was a it revolution by h which Gods term of oC spiritual government through implied b A etc Cle was done away awny with and a II voi Id Idly ly Iy substituted Now ow If IC that is not nol an mitt historical fact there Is 15 no such thing ns till history As s 8 through tho thu universal apostasy I the Church organization of oC II the New W Testament was overthrown Is the reestablIshment of oC that organ organization This Ibis we w claim was lane done through tho the Instrumentality of ot the Pro Prophet Im phet phel Jo Wilt who ho was WUl raised up III for At Ol thai hint purpose When hen the authors of ot tha the Bay mitt all that he II brought nothing now lo to the time truth already and no superiority of ot Christian Ideals and therefore Justify his rejection as u It Pro idiot phot of or God they contradict thom theta themselves selves solves for Cor It la its the tho very ver or fact that Unit ho lie ht forth truths forgotten by b b time the teachers of o the tle theological world anti Ideals of oC i ejected by IJ them that thaI caused the time enmity that Ihal pursued him to 10 the tiit very r death of or martyrdom It U must he be admitted that our claim that hat the Prophet Joseph Wits was a It messen messenger me en ener ger er sent rent p nt men God G tl cannot bo be demon demonstrated to anyone who refuses refuse to be believe behove hove lieve it Nor NilI can cami the time divine ii I vi mie in of our Lord ord timid be ho demon lemon demonstrated to In those that prefer to 10 deny dOilY It lb Time The Th acceptance of or a messenger from front Soil lot In is largely lan I II n mutter of o choice cholee with those who time the message The This evi evidence dence lenc may ho he helming lix hut hili It II U Is I without force of or conviction until the heart Is III prepared by hi b the tile Holy 1101 Spirit to It tho them Impression When the he authors of or the lie lull boIl matt or that th time Mormon l have they lucy do not mint care II to have havethe tho the world Mill hear and sod gIve the n II general and the time of the Church hureh through the Jo Joseph eph as tie A nn nil III I Mt 1110 II on they 1111 imro ir of ot U Is on one of the Important truths the bite Mormon I lder proclaim pro They flu appeal to 10 history mid to tile tho of or tile the Holy 1101 I Spirit In Inthe time the nuh soult of all 1111 who are fire willing to 10 Know the thie truth for far a 8 of ot thIm teaching on thin this subject |
