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Show Church Department THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, JUNE IT. 193S AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE A PECULIAR Why I Believe The Gospel Of Jesus Christ Cates, a Daughter of ham Young By Susa Young lV1itor ncHo bom uihKt Uio Brig- of different degree were Prosethose lytes of the Gate' or Unntlle "ho were converts had addicted to Judaism, but se t that Joined not foimull) by rtr unic iton and baptism 'FroseMo of Itighteounmum wer those who formally, and publicly entered the Jewish Church by such rite of t For the admlsison three h of Righteousness. clrrum-ciHiothing wore required, baptiam ami snerui were to for the nun. women b. bnl.t.ri-,- .in offer , or fourth tlte the rownanL TIiW la Iho latllnim of an trUt'le br Author on lcr eoorrHon to dAclrlnra of Mormonlnra, HMTlHM-OONnHMATIO- Baptism I had accepted ns perfectly natural. Hut a little study of other Churchea and creed showed me the wide divergence on that point. Then I asked why bap tism lurtK- dot.-- ll.ipu.sn, - young pmoon it nd lmlixpbj iiiitin xion a ht null, ntf of for of Tbr children pro., inre w otclylf fcmMc -If -, od or, doubt-fu- l tv.t tUm of lb." fall,, r to lo inw'l) 1,'ir) oblid lo h,no He-In, Hm r Iut name Irt one ofwhb h brew denomination, by Unown bene.forth t bey we,,, to to the .tnitfoKue and to Hi. - i own ministry. Moreover, tea hing wtw concerned entrance Into And as He left His hi daily with lh Inn i king-du- . Disciples, liu parting instructions were to administer this ceremony, thono who believed and were baptised would be saved, those who rejected It would be damned. That disposed that baptism of the argument with or was might be asdispensed claimed some creeds optional that it wan only the oulward sign of an inward grace." ItaptWra Symbolic. Hnptlum is a symbolic actresur-It Christ's burial and typlfie rection. as well as a new birth for the individual. And submergence in water was the only logical way to perform this symbol. Hence the tnolatence of tho Savior upon this ordinance for Himself at thu hands of John the Baptist Symbols are a very part of all sentient life. From the highest intelligent group-lifto the lowest savage associations, comrau symbols are imperativeonetobrain or from nlcat thought intelligence to another. Tho very are am group words I owing written or spoken symbols which who convey my ideas to those read these words or hear them ftavior preached one spoken. The of doctrinal sermon. Alt the restwas his teaching and preaching picassembled or stnrlea through torial symbols called parable be eamly compre-honiewhich could bv the "common people who were th who only ones may heard him gladly. No man be. own property, buy or soil. a cut queuth or inherit, become without abroad or travel aen, vote, civic symbols to protect hi rights, his life and his property. Hymbois may be very sacred or very silly. But the symbol of baptism by Immersion la the vivid symbolic pordeath, burial, and the trayal of the of the Bavlor of the resurrection World and as such I solemnly acIts truth. cepted Reads Reference. I read Paul's reference to the the baptism or Jesus; symbolism of S. 4. Col 2:12. I Cor. Roman 0: S. 10:2. we that are dead "How shall In sin, live anjr longer therein T Know ye not. that so many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised into his are Therefore we death? burled with him by baptUm as Christ like that into death; was raised up from the dead of the Father, by the glory even sa we should walk in newness of U(e. For as we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, ne ahalt be also (lifted) la the Likeness of his resurrection. "Burled with And again: him in baptism wherein also e ore risen with him through the faith of the operetiou of bun God, whe hath raised from the dead' And all were baptised unto Moms in the cloud and hi the sea. Another symbolic reference to Bcrip-turn- s baptiam as given In the or rela that of could That symbol generation. never be applied to sprinkling or ponr.ug as every mother known The babe which comes to maturIs always subity under her heart or birth fluid. merged in a liquid I Bo. again. found my good reasons for hAptlsm by immersion. Now what are the Ideas of other Christian sects on this vital point? An elaborate article in the British Encyclopedia on baptism describes its ancient practioe and unknown origin as a part of Hebrew, sod even Pagan, Egyptian, in Grecian various forms. Malay rituals This article nates that baptiam for the dead was practiced by the eartill into the fourth ly Christian century We are there told that some sects discarded baptism others leave It optional with the believer. The ancient Hebrews practiced times. baptism from theirin esrlieet The Uf of VCdershelm writes e d i nsw-birt- Jesus ;H Proselytes to Judaism were I,-- ri-- fn 'I I . t i ge quern-lion- FASTING from food and drink, has been observed among abstaining FASTING, as a religious exercise to increase humility and Especially was this custom folobl.Ua favor from tho heavens. lowed in times of mourning, of distress and tribulation. That fasting revealed religion ws cannot doubt, and from true had Its origin in throughout tho world and became worship the practice spread the heathen; with thorn, howover. it war firmly established among of the appease their torture body in order to means accompanied by of subfasting was a people of the gods. Among the nearer unto and thu the to flesh drawing spirit T ordinating thethe Psalmist, said; humbled my soul with fastDavid, for his gieat ministry by a ing" l M one prepared himselfKUJah. likewise, went forty day on fast of forty diys, The Savior placed the strength of food furnished by an angel. upon this practice the divine approval Before entering hi ministry and fasted nights. he forty days There were la Israel certain set times for fasting, and in tunes of tribulation it was the custom for special general fasts. In course of time Ihle excellent and useful custom became abused, l or that reason our Iord gave definite instruction to his disciples: "When ye fast. he said, 'be not a the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto But men to fast. Verily I aay unto you, They have their reward thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face: that In thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which secret, and, thy Father, which seeth (n secret, shall reward thee When his disciples failed to heal the youth possessed of a openly 'This devil, the Lord said unto them in answer to their quti.n kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. not arc extended Individual fajrta for the ordinary good Ijotlg They may have been necessary in the case of Moses. Elijah and Christ, but the Lord does not require us to engage in such pracSaint. tice. Fasting la a peculiar custom among the Latter-da- y The Iord has said: "Also, I give unto you a commandment that The ye shall continue In prayer and fasting from this time forth. members of the Church are called upon to fast one day each month and drink food to both mean la from abstaining Fasting Interpreted from the evening meal lo the evening meal of the following day. fast The equivalent of these meal may be given to the Bishop a for the poor. During the fast the mind should dwell on offerings each and teach assemble thing spiritual and the people should to them. In testimony other and speak of the goodness of the and humility of spirit pro-!.m- I bet, t w proselyte .teppeil ater, of baplmri. out of be t , on h t that be was h. moral or not n spiritual h1!!!!, but In regard race, to ht fanner religion, famname, habits, country friends. The ily relations heand was taught was first thing Into new that a he entered God of Ihe the relations with was to he despise Hebrews, rehis former deity and tocounnounce allegiance to his Further, the proselyte try. was taught the natural bonds which had bound him to parents. wife, husband. children, kindred, frlenda and race, no his longer existed: and thatIt all never past was as though had been The Homan Catholic church acaacrammts. seven knowledged which number, according of to the T.ent Catechism of the council bv Is established by he H r pt u es and the lu.liiion of the lathers of whoh council of the authority baptism was the first. of Baptiam The aairament a Is defined by the Church one instituted by Jeaue Christ, o wash away original in order ones sin, and all those actual which may have been comto communicate mitted. to mankind the aplrltual regeneration and grace of Jesus Christ and to unite them a living members to their head The most essential part of the the ceremony of baptism In folCatholic church is a lows: At the church door the the godpriest first asks father and godmother what to the child they present chu.ch? Whether or not they are its true godfather and godmother ' If they be to live and die in the true Catholic and Apostolic faith? And what name they It? AH profane intend to names, a" those of the heathen and their gods, must be rejected. After the usual have been asked, the priest makCN an exhortation godto the godfather and mother, with regard to the devetion which ought to accompany the whole performance. The exhortation being ended, the priest continue the and calling the ceremony: child by the name U is to be given It. ask It as follows: What dost thou demand of the church? To which the godfather answer. Faith. The lhefruit priest add what anof fatth? The godfather swers, Eternal life. The priest are desirous if you continues, f obtaining Eternal life keep Thou God's commandments. shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, etc After which he breathes three time upon the child's face, and at tho same time say. Depart from this child, thou evil spirthe it, and make room for Holy Ghost, "This being done, with the thumb of hla right hand Kba makes a cross on the child foreead. and afterwards another on Its breast pronouncing these words: Receive the sign of the cross on thy forehead and in thine heart. Whereupon hoa take off his short prayer, cap, repeats and laying his hand gently on for the child's head, pray sechim a second time. This new-bot- APOHTI.RH ;! r- of n.i r SMITH Ird Fro-ely- . PEOPLE II Y KLDfcTK JOHKFU VTULDINU OF TIIK OODNC1L OF THR TWRI-V- s ond prayer being ended, the salt In case priest blesso bthe leased before; it was qot takes which being done, he a little of It. puts In the childs these k pronouncing mouth, word: Receive the salt ofa wisdom. He then repeats third prayer, after which he put on h is cap and exorcises the Prince of Darkness, commanding him to come forth out of him who I going to d At the ond of 'he i hr again makes the lie of tho crus on the child Mgn forehead, lay his hand on Ita another and repeat head prayer. After this fourth prayer, the priest Uya the end of the stole upon the child, and adThe mit U into the church. engodmother godfather and reand ame time, the at ter Apospeat with theandpriestthethe Lord a tles' Greed toPrayer, a they advance havward the front, which exerprleM ing reached, the and cise the devil once again, saliafter the exorcism, takes the with mouth hi va from thumb of h right hand. With ears this he rub the child's and nostril, and. as he touch- a es hW right ear. repeats Ephphetha Hebrew word, "Be thou which signifies. the same which Jesus opened man who the to Christ said was horn deaf ahd dumb The he priest then asks whether alt renounces the devil and etc. hU work, tho pomp. The godfather answer in the then The affirmative. priest anoint the child between thea shoulders in the form of cross, and after that lay stuie hi violet stole, and put on a white one; when tho child M respect again questioned with the to his belief, to which ansuitable make godfather swers in hi name These preliminaries being ended, the priest take some of the baptismal water, which he pour tlutee on the child head ain the form of a cross, and he pours it, aay, T baptise thee, in the name of the Fa-of ther. and of the Bon. andcare the Holy Ghost. taking to pour the water at the same the time that he pronounce words. This being done, he snnomt the top of the child's head with the Chnam (consecrated oil ) in the form of a croup, lays a piece of white linen upon It head, to repre-cn- t the white garment mentioned In Scripture, and put a lighted taper Into the child' hand, or Into (hat of the godfather. The form for bupLsmg adult is longer and more imposing. (A secret name given to the adult.) Copied front Encyclopedia of All Re-- I intone) A few sects practice the rile by ox--- . Faith ' Faith in the reality of immutable divine law. vest the soul with the awful mm sc of accountability to a Moral Governor of the universe. This abiding feeling of responsiJun true m l bility to one who holy t the real monitor oi the soul. It la by the unerring guidance of this inner moral force that we are led safctly past the iccfs of moral dinger and pitfalls ot vice. a seeing him He who endure invisible Is kept by that who very sense of the nearness of God. In harmony with the pure purpose Of the Most High. Faith long range view' of time, make eternity part of the present and gives to our every thought an act an eternal significance. Thi efdeep ono of the fect of our deed sober u and put u on our guard against (he reckleasuea of the Out of the conspirit. sciousness that life U not a swiftly passing idle moment but an of limitless posihillt ies eternity come our deep sense of Moral Value The settled conviction that a vital eternal diflerence there between right and wrong is tho strong enduring armor of the oul. NR FI JENSEN. I I 1 1 it an Both ( hi the A post k foretold a great falling away, a general apostasy, a long era of which w ax to spiritual darkne ho succeeded by a new dispenaa-Uo- n distinguished by lh restoration of the Gospvl and the f the Church of t'hrwt Tho on earth for the last time that the new Kcripturo affirm t to comprise all the authority, powers, and mft ttture-fo-ofr earlier dispensations, and distinctively a time of restitution. reorganisation, and restoration. It is appropriately named and the tho iLktst Ihspenaatlon. of Fulness Dispensation of K the of th Talm.isre Tin James Council of the Tweive eMah-tishmei- Our earth 'V I but one stage In the course of the ooul's eternal progrowi. a link connecting tho eternities Past with the eternities yet to cow. The purpose of our mortal probation is that of educatrial. and tost, tion. training. wo demonstrate whether wo will obey the commandment of tho Lord our God and o lav wheribv hold of the hound less opportunilk In the eternal of advancement it world, or elect to do evil andIn tho the boon of cltixenahlp K James kingdom of heaven Talma? of tho Council of ths Twcl vo. foi-fe- I Immersion, noticeably the Baptiste who refuse to bairtiao infants, allowing adult only to partako of the solemn rite |
