Show FAITH WE GIVE place to the following communication which is dated meadow feb 24 1890 the article on faith in the semiweekly of february is causing much surprise and comment among latter day saints because it is so essentially sectarian and therefore opposed to the teachings we have received on the first principles of the gospel As we understand the plin of salvation we must not only believe in the lord jesus christ but we must repent and be baptized for the remission of the sins we have repented of james says faith without works is dead in the article referred to au all that is mentioned as needed for our salvation 1 A is s faith so say many of the cairis christian ti an sects again no penance is required what is repentance and the persecution almost all true believers are subjected to if it is not penance at any rate it I 1 is the penalty paid by seekers after truth for their faith when christ was upon the earth what was his teaching did he leave us nu commandment except to believe in him did he H leave us nothing to do for him and for ourselves christ himself felt the need of baptism how much more then is it needed for his followers paul wrote to the ans faith hope charity these three but the greatest of all is charity or love as it it is rendered in the revised edition of the new testament christ said A new commandment give I 1 unto you love loe one another thus showing that sol something more even than fal faith th and iise ded if space hermitte per mitte go 90 on quotin quoting tie the injunctions our baht upon us by the redeemer eemer requiring works as well as faith his apostles and disciples continually preached repentance and baptism and if faith was all ail that was needed for our salvation what need would there be for repentance and baptism it would render the labor of our missionaries who are sent to the nations of the earth an easy task all they need do would be t to go through the b highways i chwa s shouting C believe in only beneve the lord jes is christ and ye shall be saved your eternal eteria salvation is assured buethe but the rue believer in the gospel knows known there is some hing more needed than faith mighty as it is works good works are required at our hands aud if not given then indeed would our faith be accounted dead M A Y G while the principle of faith was the theme of the article of which the above is a review and while it omitted to loution roe ution other principles bf the gospel gospe yet it contained no statement which ws was intended to convey the impression that works were not necessary to be added to faith the author wrote from a standpoint which pro pre supposes faith in christ and the works of right to be inseparable real genuine faith in christ will produce works as certa certainly luly as life will produce motion hence the term faith in this sense includes sno ludaR works work s without it h out their being mentioned in unnumbered instances the sacred writers use the word faith in a manner and sense which include works without specifically naming them and this must be remembered in study ing the scriptures otherwise they cannot be correctly understood rho fhe objections urged against the article apply with equal force to the quotation with which it opened believe in the lord jeus christ and thou shall be saved pl f these were the words of paul and silas tu to the jailer and his house were they sectarian doe trine no for the reason that the kind of belief which paul and silas bad reference to would inevitably produce the works necessary unto salvation this is the kind of faith of which dr isaacson was writing |