Show WHAT wHAP IS MORMONISM Sunday nd Dec De 25 29 2 having boxing been set sot apart this year ye as a ts a day da upon which I to commemorate the birth of ot the 1 Joseph oseph on Dec 23 2 the th I News takes this opportunity of ot pro pre renting on this ts page some historical I facts pacts and reflections which we hope hop will Blit wl interest all al our readers rader oven een those thoe I who ho may ma not agree agee with wh us u Mormon Mormonism ism is a subject subject that no person can afford aford to ignore Mormonism claims to be bc Gods plan of or salvation But ut salvation refers to t human affairs and in this life le on earth eart as aswell a aswell well wel as a hereafter herter The Tue key I oy note to t tho the meaning of ot the word was given in the tho song ot of the angels at the birth of ot our Savior Glory GOT to God In the tho highest highest and on oct earth peace good go will wi toward men nien Tho very VCr purpose pUI of ot salvation is isto Isto isto to bring peace pac to earth and good gd wilt will wl toward men as a well wel as glory gor to toG God GodIn G In the te light of this glorious manifestation maJe tation let us ask ak Has 1 any of ot the and accepted systems of ot philosophy or religion brought brugh sal g ration to the world orld In the sense that that It ItI I has ha established pence peace pe among nations i and good will wi among men Neither the tho Vedic religion nor not Brah Bh nor Buddhism has ha saved the i millions of ot India Inda from the curse of ot caste cast of ignorance superstition Iu op oppression oppressIon oppression starvation and ad misery Budd Budel Buddha Buddha ha has been called cled the tho te light ot Asia and ad there thero is no doubt that he taught many exalted truths and Inculcated inculcated I morality of a 3 high order ordet But Buti i the tho Hindus HIndu notwithstanding are arc cr help helplessly lessly less divided in classes caes without without social I intercourse with each eh other It If I we wo may judge from results the Hindus are the I victims of ot one of ot the tho most despotic cruel and degrading d ring systems s slem of ot re religion reI I ligion Neither their religious teachers i nor their philosophers have brought them a message of salvation Human I sacrifices are arc but of recent date and ad the position of ot woman has ha but recently by tw foreign pressure been ben lifted Ite at I the level of tho the boasts glut the shark and md crocodile I A mother brought her Infant here I She saw sw Its tender playful smile J She shed not one maternal tear She threw throw It on a watery bier bierWith bierWith With Ith grinding teeth tore The smiling Infant that she sho bore bre breShe She shrunk not ce its Is cries rles to hear I That is a ct sad sd but true pIcture ot of the I condition of ot India before betor the tho predominance I I nance nanco of ot European Influence i i Japan Is IR a very vcr interesting country countr t jt ShintoIsm and Buddhism are its Is prin principal mm cipal religions Is nature worship It I has many good and and re remarkable rei i 1 o features and ad numerous shrines havo hao been en erected In honor of oC oCI Its Is gods gods but until the country countr wad we w I opened to influences from abroad it re remained r in Iii Ignorance and darkness al ul although though the tle Japanese o aro a a gifted gired race r t There Thero was no salvation salon in their old religions China has ha its Taoism and ad Confucian ConfucianIsm I Ism lam as ai well wel as Buddhism but we wo know that neither has ha been ben a of ot salvation activation to that that nation naton Many Man un China men are aro ar both Taoists Confucians and und Buddhists but they the are oro no hotter better beter for fOI that tt Confucius was a great and ad teacher Ills His Ils pure life lre was Wai a stand standIng standing Ing protest against a tho the Iniquity of or his hI time And ho accomplished a reat deal for Cor his people He Ho Inculcated rev lev reverence reverence erenee to parents and elevated the home but China was not saved sac fiern falling into a condition of or lethargy from m which it took tok the tile thunder of ot o oI I Japanese European and American can cannon cannon cannon non to awaken It I Mohammedanism has ha played its It part partin partIn in tho history of or the world Utter the tho song 0 O my soul ut the tho flight f ht and return of or Mohammed Prophet and priest who scattered abroad both evil ovll and blessing Huge wasteful empires Huge founded mid and hallowed slow persecution but lUt crushed the bias blas blasphemous 11 rites ot of tIle tho th pagan Mohammedanism has ha performed a agAt groat gAt mission ml m and end Its Us missionaries day da 1 aro are meeting to some nomo lomo extent the he h spiritual needs of or some Imo races but the tho world shows plainly that thit It I has ha not been saved by that religion The Te terrible massacres of professed d Christians ChrIstans In the thc Balkan in Armenia 1 and elsewhere show how far tar fallen rai en from froin humanity Is tho the Mohammedan world It I Is clear that the tho world needs nes salvation Can Cn any of ot the tle Christian sects save IIVO It The fhe Greek Grek Catholic religion has Ims had bad Its it day anti and ad its It test tt It Is 1 tire the to religion rOU lon lont t J p pi i f f of ot over Oc sixty sity million souls In Russia But how are arc the conditions In that tha country The Tho Greek has no not saved the Russians from front dense anco ano and aI superstition or from tho the hee hicl hd l lot of ot the tho to tyrant The millions milons of ot that tha that country c ore are tre struggling for tor light and freedom but but thoy they have hare to tight fight o a achurch church In alliance al a co with tho oppressors And the tho bearers of light like Tolstoi Tos ol olare are marked marke ns as 1 enemies of ot mankind and ad excommunicated To the tho Roman Catholic church tho the world is indebted for many blessings To 0 tho the scholars of ot the tho Vatican Is ia due duo the preservation of ot Inestimable In treas treasures trea urea ures of ot literature and art Sculpture painting music owe to Romo Rome an am n eternal debt of ot gratitude Cardinal Marln Boccaccio Villon Vlon Rabelais are names name In the history ol or music and literature The Tho To arts ar of or horticulture were Improved by Roman monks monk In the tho days of ot Shakespeare Europe turned for tor literary skill for tor taste in art for knowledge of ot tho the cul cui cultivation cu of ot the tho soil sol for statesmanship I to the Roman educated priesthood Notwithstanding the failures weak weaknesses nesses ne cs and sins of ot Rome the tho tho world has been blessed through the measure of ot truth culture and civilization that church had and disseminated But the tite Roman Catholic religion relon has not brought salvation to tho the world orld It I tyas las not flOt brought peace to nations naton or good will wl between man and man alan Spain Spin once a vast vat powerful empire has hns dwindled In Importance and in influence influence fluence Portugal has shrunk still stillmore stillmore more mor France today cannot hold its Is own as a compared to Germany or Eng England England land Inn Illiteracy and antI Immorality are prevalent all al over the Roman Roma Catho Catholic Catholic Ic lic world orld Reports Report from Paris say that a wave of crime Is sweeping the country countr Catholic Belgium brought to the Congo state a regime of cruelty that hai ha made the world shudder So far from bringing peace and good will wi Catholic countries are extorting from starving staring millions the he money needed for Cor guns and warships and the ranks of their citizens are torn with sith strife and dissension rend and Ind thus furnishing a soil sol for tho the growth of anarchism Catholicism has not brought salvation Nor has ha any an of the tho numerous Prot Fret Protestant sects sect Protestantism offered the he blessings blessing of ot human liberty lb crt to the world orld It taught Individual respell sib I t J And under its banners na nations lons tons have hao flourished The sciences and arts have been fostered and dis discoveries and Inventions have multi multiplied multIplied plied pled By BJ Protestantism the human race raco re has ha advanced to t a marvelous do Hee greo gee of ot education But none nono of ot the tho Protestant sects has ha brought to the world or any nn port part pt of ot It I that salvation ot of f which the angels sang at nt Bethlehem that hat peace and ad good will wJ for tho the of oC which our Savior came Tho The Protestant world Is slipping away awa from rom tho Scriptures and tho the Scripture doctrines It 1 is 15 engaged on in war ex cx It is torn tor by class clas wars and andt andI I it t is a a great get question queston whether another French Fench revolution is not among the near ear possibilities not in Franco Franca but nearer carer home There Thele is no peace on n earth And how can cn tho the Christian world expect to save savo the time par part art of ot tho tile human family fa m I unless it Jt is saved frt first itself There Thoro is need of ot some direct Inter Interference Interference ference by tho the Almighty in tho the affairs or of f man There Thero Is need of ot more mor rove atlon laton This need claims clams tho the Lord Lard supplied when ho called caled the tho Prophet Joseph JOSph to proclaim ho tho Gospel of ot this dispensation to the te world It I is this Gospel that is given glen to o bring peace pe to t tho the human huan heart to o elevate the tho homo home and the tho family to o establish Justice between man and ad adman man and finally between bet cen nations naton to prepare preparo prepo the world for the tho acceptance of f the tho Lord Jesus esus as a the tho Ruler of one great human brotherhood That is the he aim rm of Mormonism That Is I Gods plan of ot salvation |