Show I 1 T 0 R IA L EDUCATION IN ur w bu latest number of the christian advocate contains an artl arti article eid eld on in IU utah s it la written it 13 baxter daxter A hawkins a il lawyer who claims to have spent the astonishing period of two months in utah from which it Is to be inferred that bo ho la Is able to enlighten mankind on all things pertaining ining to the mormons cormons Mor mons s we are ate sorry that tho the gentleman did not make better use of his hla time while here as judging from hia bia article on our educational affairs ho he merely took for gran granted ed what was told him by persons who take inke supreme delight ln iii misrepresentation without enquiring into iko the facts himself he appears to be no fool and of course we must not admit the idea that he can dan be a knave for who that writes for BO so pious a paper as the christian advocate would ever wilfully state that which ia Is untrue lintrue dexter says that president brigham young enunciated dixs a principle of action and of social duty that no such thing should ever exist in the mormon state while ruled by him liim as tho ameri can free public school As the gent gentleman lemans two months visit wab was made last falls tali it Is very clear elear that he ho cannot pretend to have heard this statement himself the supposed speaker having then been a year deceased the truth is prest young never made any such assertion it isad is admitted that he wag wai opposed to the public school system with its many defects for reasons that were to him good and sufficient if not to everybody else but he was a friend to education as can iru ird proven from his hia public discourses coursed cour bei sei and as clearly evidenced bythe educational establishments which he liberally endowed frouz his private property president young was a practical man and he establish a of practical education one that would nit nii fit the pupils lor lot dett active ive lve life and not train them all with the expectation of obtaining a living without labor we notice that many eminent men are expressing views on this question similar to hiss hips hi and they are not on that account accused of being belag enemies s to 16 men inay may dlf dif differ feras as mode of effecting in a given object without either air them thom being opposed to its accini ashment I 1 agreeing as to thou theu d to the means meads v 2 mr hawkins thinks the alor mormon leaders loaders too exclusive on the subject of education he would have them employ teachers not of their faith ai and id send bend their children to irrespective of the creed qt of those who establish them the i gentleman and those from wilo whom m lie lle has drawn his inspiration are welcome to hold what views they on this qu question esdon bard are fre freo free 0 to establish anti mormon bich fich boia bola in and to endea endeavor vori through christian advocates and other papers to obtain ald aid from the public abroad for the benefit vf of auti mormon teachers here but we ve mu must st bo be allowed to have equal liberty in differ differing lug with him aad and them and in meeting their by tto iio counter unter measures d r our par standpoint la is this P 1 a religion revealed direct from the almighty it la Is our duty to train cur eur children id the true faith whilo wo c desire to give them nil all the education ed u cation catlon our means will permit iti iri secular knowledge this being aiso also a duly duty required of ua us by our religion wo are under the g tationa ga a tiona of conscience and divine law to train them in the 8 spirit p atit and letter ietter of the gospel revealed tous teachers opposed to our falth faith are not competent to bal baa instructors of our youth schools conducted on anti auti mormon principles br established by enemies to our church are merely traps for our offspring introduced for the avowed and special object of leading away from our faith falth children whose parents can neither be persuaded threatened nor forced luto sectarianism or infidelity would ihnot it not noi be the height of folly inconsistency and wickedness for fon men and women who have endured more than death for their religion to voluntarily place their child children under the care and age ageo persona whose main object oly act is to subvert and and destroy that religion every reasonable and unprejudiced person will admit that u upon or n the ground occupied by the mormon formon people they cannot possibly be too exclusive on this matter and that every manor woman whap who professed 1 faith in mor monism 1 and yet sends a child to be educated by an anti mormon is open to the charge of inconsistency if n not 0 d 0 of f InSiDe insincerity eri erl aty mr hawkins awk ins affer offers arguments on the elevating tendencies of education to which no mormon will offer any objection for we all desire to see the people of utah young and old advancing g in all ali useful knowledge but we do not think that our youth will ivill bo elevated to a higher state of social existence by persons who W ho deil dell gilt in resenting our doctrines and intentions and who would teach our children to despise the faith of their parents and influence them if poy pos aible to despise their parents aleo also naeshall we shall therefore use our influence ag as far ag as it extends to induce all later latter day faints to avail lavall themselves of such educational facilities as are within the purview of our own institutions which will be improved as fast as possible and to beware above all things of placing the feet of their little ones on any path that diverges from the straight and narrow way that to the lives every non mormon school in utah Is necessarily anti mormon from the very nature of the local conflict and is therefore a bypath by path from rona the one way of life and exaltation where there ia 13 no simple problem more easily capable of P perfect berfect demonstration than let the wise consider and understand CHRIST eist RIST NOT ate THE ONLY PRIEST 1 SOME time ngo ago we noticed a letter from mo correspondent signing himself himself cog log GM if asand and I 1 unripe 4 and remarks in an article under the heading of ivd id the christian church continue IG I G 0 M sk denied that tho christian church had apostatized and ariu asserted we could not show that it bad we gave some proofs of the fact in the tho above named article and and now we are in receipt recel p t of another long letter from 10 cl M sl covering seven pages coolac foolscap lap cap aize alze we will proceed to botlee notice briefly because the writer ass assumes unies a less obnoxious attitude than at first avoiding nicknames such buch fi ag as roe joe mith and tha 9 u ungentlemanly insinuations n which defaced hs hid first letter efter and a florda us an op opportunity of bf touching on ansome some points vol poi f t that 4 a hlll ibea of interest to many na ny who aa aro our doctrine G M now says saye tho christian church visible pleads guilty to the charge that years ago she was to hil bil 11 appearance hopelessly corrupt the people in nearly all the christian churches throughout christendom were at that time shipping worshipping wor idols as senseless as the golden balo half alf this is an entire ff change iange of ba base e the barof 0 M an admission n of bf that which at first he defied us to prove but he nov now takes the ground assumed by many professing christians that it does doea not matter matler much aboul about a church so long as a person persona believes in jesus Cf christ irist he says 6 the ithe church sayes saves taves nobody 11 at fint first G 11 deelaree dee lared fv ichrist arist has always had al a church iu upon po n the earthy now be fie denies the h absolute necessity for such a church anasa and says bays s in relation to tho apostasy apo staey stacy all thi corruption tion and mis chief is ia traceable to fo one cause viz viza that the church about eight centuries before lost sight of 0 the fact that jesus beius christ is the only priest in the whole uh universe iverse and had sad saddled died christendom with a human priesthood he finally asks in view klew of the declaration Believe 1 in id the lord jesus christ and thou be saved etc what need have we of an earthly priest all this turns upon the single point tuat that nothing else is required to secure salvation except simple belief in jesus christ this whis is not a n true doctrine doc trino unless something is implied in belief or falth faith more than the naked word itsell itsel denotes now we are bure cure that neither G M nor those who think gith with him will deny that something ang more than this is requisite r for fon 0 instance ia Is net repentance required as well as faith if so then saving faith implies works without which faith is dead christ says himself df in vain ye say lo 10 lord rd lord and do net not the things I 1 say and when he sent his A apostles postles to preach the gospel to all nations he instructed them to baptize believers and sald said he teach them to observe all things whatsoever I 1 have commanded you he also told nicodemus except a man be born of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the nf bod god now if baptism Is necessary the apostles said eaid it was lefor for the remission of sins it requires an authorized person to administer it for it la Is to be solemnized in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost ghost and here heroes s the need of a priest or in other words one divinely appointed to act in the name of deity jesus was wag a high priest after the order of Melch isedee not the only priest spriest but one of an order to which he ordained his apostles baying paying As my father sent me even so bend send I 1 you whosoever sins bins ye remit they are remitted unto theland the mand bins sins ye retain they are retained 11 they were thus constituted priests as much as jesus jesua was but helas he was the offering as well as the priest and in that he differed from them I 1 as well as in his birth and sin ain losness if jesus is the leonly priest in inthe the universo what are they whom john the revelator rev Bev elator saw and heard singing to christ thou hast made us unto our god kings and priests and what are great high priest le mst est and others upon whom was sealed an everlasting priesthood that arideth ab ideth continually G i M ia is right when he traces the corruptions corrupt ions in the apostate church I 1 al I 1 hum all ail byte 1 bub 1 buu but wrong in 1 his statement that in ULM ino only true priest driest and in the assumption that we need no iao other there are many ordinances in the true church necessitating a priesthood to adMI administer DIster nister them and if they were not needful for the perfecting of the Saints jas sas aa well as the work of the ministry christ would not have placed in his church ja postles apostles prophets evangelists ge lists pastors teachers aa nor ordained men to the authar authority IV which he had received from the father I 1 but G M X and many others are puzzled over oter the tho question of the fate faie of those who have passed away from earth during the time there was no true church upon the earth and is not satisfied with the doctrine of baptism for the dead to which he says say a there is but one reference ference in the whole bible bibie ITh the edif difficulty arises from his misconception of the plan of redemption and the condition pf af the departed diate into heaven or ban ashment ashment to an endless hell bell at death is is a doctrine of apostate christianity buthot but not hot of christ nor his apos ties when the savior died he did not go straight to heaven in the presence rot lot the father but to the spirit world whore where he preng preap preached hed to the spirits in prison pilson 11 he preached the gospel to them that were dead that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but jive live according to god go in jn the tho spirit this shows that those who in the flesh do not hear the gospel preached by authority nor bava hava the opportunity of obeying the ordinances thereof will hear it in the world behind the vail vall and the baptism for the dead which would be just as true and necessary if there were no allusion to it at all in the bible is instituted for their benefit all the ordinances needful can in like manner be administered to the living acting for the dead spirits can ban hear believe repent and obey in all things that pertain to the spiritual states state but those ordin ordinances anz hnz that belong to the earth must be administered on earth and here again is the need of a divinely appointed priesthood understanding by divine direction how where and with what limits or extensions these sacred ordinances can be properly attended to will G M tell us how ail all men shall be judged by the go gospel as declared by paul when millions upon millions of them have neer never heard beard the gospel unless the means we have pointed pointe dout bout is provided for them thorn A human priesthood that is one invented or authorized only by man I 1 is worse than nond none none its in cum bents benta teach for doctrines the commandments of men theay set up ceremonies and ordinances of the irown fabrication they delude mankind with their vain superstitions and even when they perform any ordinance after the pattern shown in the scriptures it Is 19 utterly void and worthless because not stamped with the beal seal of divine authority through the teachings of this human priesthood darkness has come upon the minds of men in which G M and others are struggling and groping like blind men for the wall but thank god the gospel is again revealed the priesthood is again restored and those who lov iov ngy i rather than dark darica inay hee bee and ana learn and obtain the falness of the blessings of the plan of redemption and become saviors on mount ciori this glorious llan reaches back to all who need deliver dellver deliverance anee ante from death and hell bell and forward to every son eon and daughter of bf our race who wh oshall shall desire to see and serve god it disperses the gloom of a false theology unfolds the eternal purposes ot of the almighty for the exaltation of his children and welba together the broken links of the chain of the priesthood by which the fathers may be made perfect perfect with the children batan satan be defeated Chrls chris christs ts rule established and the earth with its itt people be lifted up and clothed with the glory odthe of the father we must defer notice of other points in G Ms letter till a future time KE VIS vision 1021 AND REJECTION OF SCRIPTURE IT ia Is expected that the revised new testament the work of a number of english and american scholars and theologians will shortly be published to the world of course no critical opinions can be justly given of the merits or demerits of siaw VA edn T aal kol ago alo awo the public but it is asserted a as a positive fact that many changes ian tan and emissions occur in the e new liew volume arid azid that among the latter are the last twelve verses of the gospel according to st mark the effect of these there alterations of oi the standard version are much dreaded by many conservative persona persons who fear that skepticism will be reinforced by the tact admission of the fallibility 0 the scriptures which have so iong long jong been appealed to as the tho very word of god the fact that many passages hitherto relied u upon n a as inspired declarations will nto now w b be p pronounced spurious and that thai others will be so changed that their signification will be altogether different from the accepted interpretation will no doubt prove a heavy htow blow against the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of holy writ and it is not likely that the new version will be accepted aa as absolutely correct any more than the old the consequence will pro babiy 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