| Show 1 1011 mi I II 0 lIi II A t wee k ao th the r News ly by an I r to 1110 tl th OA n church to tte ot cf to tile the In pr pI I n I 11 I et etHI mentioned by II b the th Apo tl Ieter leter HI lit We WI then theu demo nitrated from tron th that Urn Ihl of Christ wai wa and U I e to I be prach 1 to the dJ dd a ns flA mil fi to the th living That It Is Isto to the spirit ot of the departed n It IS voll volla OI a II as to in the Closely eel 1 to 10 that doctrine li Is s the ot or for the dead We W therefore now flow meet some objections which have hao been raised by modern preachers against the hit evident meaning of the tho Ian hart I dingo of the Apo tle Paul Kite 1 what shall haIl they do ijo which are tiro for the tho If the dead deull rise no not at all Why Wh are lire they tho then Ihen Imp hap for the thc lend I Cor er xv X 29 The Tho objectors use uso this singular argil mint merit Patit spoke of ot those will who vine the thO rite In the third person What shall they tire the do who are aro baptized for Cor the dead Not ot what shat shall we do The Thc In tn ference Is Ir then drawn that those who were vere baptized for tor or the thc dead were here heretics heretics tics ties That Is i a most remarkable bit JI of at atren ren Let us take some similar references In the same on chapter chapler Therefore whether It were I or they so po wo we preached anti and so po ye believed Verse Vero 11 Hut every man In hl hi his own order Christ the first fruits afterwards they that are lire Christs at Ills His corning Verso 23 Hut But Home omo man will say nay how ho are th the j dead lead raised up And with what body b dy ln do tl they thoy come Verse 35 3 As Au Is t the Irth such are mO they that lint aro liTO earthy o rth mid us as Is 18 i the tho such are thoy tho also aiHo that are illY heavenly Verse Verge IS S SWill Will iii anybody with t ordinary sense claim chain that the use of ot the word they tho thoIn In I these thre lies A nie excludes the tire the faithful Saints to 10 whom he Ire was writing If It this view vie Iea were ere to he be taken there would be bo a r far Car worse muddle In Inthe Inthe the minds of ot sectarian theologians than thun prevails at present and that would Indeed d be a 11 monstrous calamity Hut ut it Is I not nol to be bo supposed that everybody In the tho Church at Cor Car CorInti Inti or elsewhere attended to the Iho rite spoken pol On of or by IJ the Inspired writer He lie n referred to 10 those thos who dill did attend to It and ond did I hI rot root find fault tault with thorn them He lie was wall reasoning on the Ille reality of oC the from front the dead In opposition tion to the th notions notion entertained by h some SOllie Persons II who had hind teen been led away by b Greek philosophy lie Ho denounced their heresy and In doing so o he cited a Il well known fact which he did lid not nt denounce or 01 deprecate It Is clear char from his lan Ian language guage that baptism for tor the dead was practiced In the Church and ani Paul re referred reo erred to It simply a U as an In argument In III 1 favor aver avor of or the th Objector to tn the doctrine that there Is la evidence of or the practice of ot the tho rite In the thc Church nt at t a tt very early per period led iod Perversions of ot the Ih doctrine which occurred then and subsequently subsequent form no argument against It On the con coil contrary the counterfeit Is evidence In fa fit favor faVOl vor VOl of the tho genuine It I Ic to so with the tile perversion of the ordinance of oC Uati tUm for tor the living Th many spurious forms lear hoar witness In support of the fact flitt that there In Is ono one true and valid ceremony U i 1 U l I fit ru titer her that thai In is un tin net act of o voluntary ol and from fran th that i the conclusion Is la reached that Its vicarious administration Is II i Impo filble Again the reasoning Is faulty Cault Apply It to 10 the doctrine of atonement on which vicarious carlous baptism 1 is h founded and we ee e whether the argo argument argument ment meat will hold holl good Christ died for sinners the Iho Just for or the unjust Their ob dl nce or had nothing to do with the vicarious act When hen they limy be become come obedient they the will obtain Its lis it boric bone fits So with b m for tor the dead The Tue vicarious act Is performed by b the Iho liv iRK ing In and anti when hen those who ho are dead dealt be lie obedient through faith arid and anI repentance rl tance tenee they the will receive the tue benefits of the baptism performed In their behalf Rejection of ot the doctrine of or vicarious ordinances Involves 9 rejection of the thedo doctrine do of atonement on the tho validity of which depend the whole Christian Hut lut the glorious doctrine of or baptism for fol and the redemption of oC the tire dead who died without knowledge of Christ has hall hia not b been en tn taken by the Saints from a mere mero or two of ot scripture It 11 has come cOllie to them by the revelations of ot God Cod In the nineteenth century In is made male maleto to the text In lit the Epistle to 10 tho the Co Cu simply sImp to show that the tho rite was wag In the early corl Christian Church The manner of ot Its perform performance performance ance anee tho persons persone r ns who may me attend to It II and thorn thon for whom It may irmy be 1 ad nd cannot be learned from front the Ihl dead ded letter If tI er of ot apostolic writings Everything relating to It has hiss been n made mad known through modern rela revelation revelation tion Them Is l not any an doubt con concerning It among RIO on those who have been Leen enlightened by 11 Inspiration In the present IJ lIt times Proofs are not lacking of the accept acceptance anee ance of ut the ordinances performed In their behalf by b tho tito spirits spirit of ot the de lie departed parted p who have hac been minIstered to be behind behind behind hind the veil and ond administered for by b their relatives In the tho flesh The glo glorIa gb rIa work wo V In the holy Temples Tempie In be bc halt half of at t the th dead del d In is not In vain aill There Thiro la is joy In the M ILMI uIt lt world The rite fh unIon prison doom havo l on Hosts of have boen net Hill et free Crt Not NotOM ono OM vicarious alt act In their thur behalf will mutually be he lost bat The Tho time will come when every ever knee will how bow and every tongue tOil III III confess that Jesus Jesue Is 18 thu tue They lh will fill believe bellove thoy they will repent they will become anti the ordinance established by U divine command for or ovary creature having been I ln Attended to In thou their behalf because they th till could not perform them theta In person they will come coins out of ot darkness Into glorious light bight and bo be numbered with sIth tho the redeemed relle mc out of ot every overy over nation and kindred and tribe anti and tongue who rhio will willell well eeli ell the tue ransomed ran throng anti and rejoice In iii thu tho mansions of at the thu Father ather l through tho tire wrought for or throat thorn by bythe bythe bythe the Son iori anti and the tire sons saris and daughters of ot It God who followed hint Him n a tire the th Captain C of oC The Tire Infidel assertion of modern preachers that there are Aro only two sources from front which Information an nil to religion can CUll bo be drawn the tIre of at atthe the church anti and tho IK it of ot modern theology and theologians Tho Tire fathers are arc long u I since dond and nad gone anti ami many litany ot O mem wore were In iii deuce dense spiritual darkness The scriptures such tich AS ns have huo been preserved are so variously Interpreted anti amI ill dIll distorted totted by h uninspired ministers that they thoy form no rio guide to mortals The Tho Idea Iden that the Source of nil all In lu Inspiration revelation Is dried up tip that the Father of oC lights with whom there thero Is IB no variableness nor a n shadow of oC turning U ir so radically changed chan that he Ito cannot or will not communicate with iris his children on ott earth that they who whon ho honek n nek k will NOT receive that they timey tho who WK leek will NOT that to them that knock knoek knO k the door will NOT be bo opened Is IN Isso isso so MO li rational un and obnoxious ous to 10 the spirit of ot faith that It U could only bo ho entertained by I the lead leaders ers ors of tire the blind and their deluded fob fol followers lowers who are aro all nil In the tho ditch of ot colt can fusion fu lon together That Christ preached prenchel to tire the spirits In prison 1111 lon that the tho living Saints were CIO baptized for the deal dead that salvation will be offered to every soul Boul either In lit Inthe time the body hod or out of oC the tire body bod and that not one shall shah be lost host who cpa can possibly be saved arid anti yet that except a ii man be 18 born of oC water waler and of ot the spirit he ire cannot enter Into Inlo the tire kingdom of ot God Clod anti and that these are among tho the doc doctrines doctrines trines of oC Christ which are aro essential to him religion can he be demonstrated front from tire the fragments of Inspired writ that have uwe conic come down to us from front the past t Hut But the knowledge obtained concern concernIng concernIng Ing lug them thrum and other glorious principles pertaining to tho the redemption of or man muon mankind kind by 1 the Church of ot Jesus Christ ot of Saints has hM through the manifestations of or heavenly beings In iii this age and by hy the gift of ot the tiie Holy Hol 1101 ho t to those who ho Twelve r ele and obey tho tire truth Doubt concerning them threat has lied lIel and the time spirit which Into Inlo nit nil truth unfolds them until they are areas areliS areas as liS dour clear to tie Ille spiritual vision Islon as all ma IUn material tonal objects are to the natural eye ee In lit the tite lh light of the sun at nt 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