Show KEEP TO THE STANDARD 1 1 ALTHOUGH the fundamental doctrines oia oil of bun bur church ch are laid down with such plainness sno ant ano definiteness that no misunderstanding need arise concerning them em occasionally some sonie individual will take t it upon himself to td expound a principle in a fashion peculiar to himself and according to his own private notion thus creating dissension where til thi there c re should be only lythe on the unity of the faith falth ll 11 this is usually occasioned by a desire for distinction the expounder t der wishes to show his own smartness lie lle a lins bips to shine as original lie he thinks v perhaps perlia ps he has struck something so methin hitherto undiscovered and regardless of alie t penh anent establishment of the foch foundation atlo atio n of our creed attempts to put plit strange moa mma tenal into it tho those se wha seek to tifis unsettle ettle ettie that which has b reri ell eli settled hy acknowledged authority should dij alj be vie wed with distrust and their theli theof theories fes ies with extreme caution E ev e ery r y inan man has the righetto night right to his opinion but every man has not tiie the right to td teach his mone mene opinions for doctrine LI light fr from in the lord Is free to all who see dit tit fu it Iti inspiration is a free gift to e every ve ry oh one i Q who obeys the laws re yell yeli veale igl igi d and comes colnes into the proper conditions editions dit ions lons llev latton lation is designed to be geli geif general eral erni in the church and not confined to given glen officers or individuals bui bur light inspiration revelation and other gifts from go atoman dt oman man are bestowed according to td tle tie of the recipe recipient elit clit as well a as his hh diligence in striving to obtain them lt it qs does not follow that because lie be so receives lie he is divinely authorized to instruct others ay afy iy house is a house of order saith the lord I 1 the head of the church receives revelations for the church A caution has been given edth to the church to receive not the revelations lat loris ioris of any man therein but those that come through the head this is to saye the church from schism to prevent ven f confusion and to establish a standard which shall be the end of controversy every member may drink of the waters of life for himself or herself freely direct from the eternal ana and dd ever flowing fountain but t the he word of the lord for the govern ment direction and doctrinal institutions af of the church chimich will be given to the church through the head only the man who holds the keys is the final finai earthly judge of doctrine and discipline the opinion of one who is not all au to declare the word of the lord Is not dt increased in value by being print words are arc re but words when placed jil lin cold type t and published 0 on n paper paler inthe in the course of argument in rit tit expressions may he be used and similes s drawn which will not stand tile the test yf comparison with the tiie reco t eq ed standards of our faith which is to prevail ok evall exall the argument or the es cb ului LiMl glied ed principle it needs no reasoning to show that the latter ables wile wilc the former passes away with the using us lili lilt every mail moan who pre preaches iches or writes for publication ought to be vry very v careful in his language and critical as to his cwi ow n intent tent t a and the spirit by which he is actuated A desire to excel or shine as original brilliant and oratorical is verv likely to lead a man into error and aud folly fill A Ali ati umble humble spirit and an eye sin single 46 to ta the glory 10 Q of f god and tile the are a rc essential to all an authorized preacher of the gospel of christ if he strives to show how he knows vs instead of howsam how simple p simpie le arld alid and arid yet at in mighty figh tyis is tile tiie truthie truth he is quite likely idely to tomake make grave mistakes other people astray we are requested t to 0 pronounce I 1 on the correctness of ideas advanced ad yance d in I 1 n public alic meetings that are co contrary to the e revelations of god to the gourch Gh and which every one with a common understanding of settled principles ought lifto to know for themselves are erroneous it is a good thin thih thing to know sound sound doctrine it is avle to become thoroughly acquainted edW with itil the published standard authorities thorl ties every elder in israel should be 66 familiar them and the SpIrit which guides guidea into all truth will be found always harmonious with self qulie quite alte recently we have haye heard of a notion entertained and expressed in public that jesus jeslis was baptized for the remission of tile the original sin and of sommie soffie ome discussion on that singular doctrine if there is any one principle nafle of our faith which is more clearly and definitely laid down than another it seems to us it is that of baptism kin gln for the remission of sins sins the doctrine doctrin is ii that all have sinned not in the following of adam as an old sectarian heresy has it but in themselves by their own doings little children are whole from the foundation of the world and if they die in their infancy cannot be condemned i because they are redeemed by the blood of christ men llen are accountable for their own sins and not for adams transgression that is an established part of our creed original sin or the sin of the fall was atoned for on the cross by the shedding hedding im of blood and as in adam all die so in christ shall all be made alive death came through adams sin life in inalie the resurrection comes through christs righteousness and sacrifice so all that are ard in their graves the just and the unjust must be raised from the dead and ve be judged according to their own individual works of actual sins commes cornea comes in baptism to the tile repentant believer through the sh eddin of christs blood thus the atonement WAS for adams transgression unconditionally and for the tile sins of all mankind conditionally every one will w ill lii receive the benefit of the tile former no matter w what hat he ile does or does not in bein heln heing being raised from the dead only those who lio iio accept the conditions of the latter in ili the go gospel will receive the benefits that flow from it the remission of sins and the blessings blessing of the everlasting covenant jesus was without he had need to b be c ba baptized paize d why seeing that lie he was as sinless and baptism is lor the remission ints 10 of sins in he gave ave the answer himself to filfli all ali righteousness if he had not been baptized bap tied he would have become a sinner by the omission one law jaw would have hav c been left ted ed lie he would not have am righteousness He declared axce except t a man moan be born of water aud of we the spirit he cannot enier enten into the kill kingdom of god how ilov then could cou d lie he have entered into the kingdom himself if ile he had bad not been baptized d both with water and with the ilo iio holy noly spirit ile he was the one exception to the tile rule of sin therefore he lie was nas the tion alonto to the rule of baptism nill nili for tile the remission I 1 of sins nut but tile tiie baptism itself was esse essential fitial for the reason we have advanced there is no such ordinance known to this as baptism for the remission of original sm slit using that te term rin riu to signify the transgression transgress ioli loli of adam baptism is for tile the remission of actual sins adam was baptized for tor himself as we read in the writings of moses liose 1 in the pearl of great price jesus was baptized for himself and not cot for adam as we read ill in the thit new testa and the atonement necessary for adams transgression and the sins of the whole world was wrought out at once by the shedding of the tiie blood of the sinless jesus the lamb iamb without bleir blemish lish and without spot this is the doctrine trine of the church as taught in the doctrine and co covenants enacts in the book ofA of mormon formon and in it the holy 11 bible whose readeth reade leade tb let him understand |