Show THE SAINTS IN THE following appears in the og of october 21 one of the most widely circulated news papers in norway the latter day saints concluded their conference last mon day with a very fair in their assembly room 27 Oater hans gade the two previous days had been occupied with several meetings held both in the morning and afternoon the capacious hall ball was handsomely decor abed with wreaths garlands garlanda and a great number of flowers round the jo rostrum strums and it was all the time crowdle crowdle with listeners lit eners the gentlemen on one tilde side of the hall and the ladies on the other twelve missionaries were present among whom were one from denmark and one from sweden these briefly their doc doctrines triness which are an founded on the bible and on the book of mormon and doctrine and covenants these books they consider inspired similarly as the bible AS moses on ohp abe mount received the commandments ot god so the founder of ef mormonism joseph smith by divine revelation had found his religious system engraved on two gold plates buried in the ground this to evidently a misunderstanding on the part of the reporter on the kh day of april 1880 he founded the church with six members niem bera and now there are mote more than followers scattered in the various countries this remarkable success gave them proof that the church was bless blessed d by god the saints expected the speedy advent of christ they believe in divine revelations also in this age if we under stood them the speakers correctly they held that they had bad received divine authority to carry on their work we have given a literal translation which will be interesting to some of our readers it 11 indicates that a change of public sentiment in favor of the saints to is taking place A few years yeara ago no paper in norway noray would pub lish anything about the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 except what was abusive and tended to place them in a false light only afew a few years ago when the saints saint in that country applied to the government to be placed in the same legal position as other christian dissenters the theological faculty of decided that the Mormon Mor mons sl were not a cr christian sect and could conse quentin not expect to have the benei benefit fit of the liberties granted to Christians I 1 1 I low atia it is admitted by bublie opinion st at least it if not by the de theological moss backs of the faculty that the doctrines ot of the saints are founded air on the sibie bible ju this is one step forward towards final complete recognition |