| Show THREE PREACHERS in reporting last sundays Bun daja religious meetings in san jose joae cal the merciny of that city elty names two ad addresses dreises by one dr maclaren Mao laren a presbyterian one by an elder burton of the reorganized or josephite church and one by elder bider henry 8 tanner president or 01 the california mission of the church of jesus chhiet of latter day saints in tue addresses addressed each speaker made reference to one of the others elder tanners address was chiefly on the book of cormons mormons in which he showed the divine principles taught therein and refuted a oblige by dr maclaren Mao laren that the witnesses to the book of mormon had bad recanted testimony thereto elder tanner also pointed out several of the presby te ter rians larrs misstatements ml estate meats made the sunday bunday previous in rela relation tiou to the latter day clay saints the address of dr maclaren Mao laren in which he repeats some of his hia accuse tiona against the latte rd saints and adds adda makes prominent one fact viz that however nice the san ban jaae J use presbyterian preacher may be socially as ae a christian gentleman he be does not shine prominently through his speech tor for the reason that thai a christian and a gentleman gen tieman would never put pot forth the statements which lie he alleges to bo be ol of historical fache without first having I 1 verified them by competent authora ties and ordinary common sense acid as such verification Is in impossible would not have stooped deliberately to bear false fales witness against his bis elder burton of the church presents a curious addressing addre ad dressin eRin which he be aimse everal blows at the latter day bainte these blows blow however fall short abort of the mark as an usual in his bis remarks be says one thing that will be very satisfactory to the sainte bainte what ever the leaders of his bis own organization may think of it namely out our the reorganized church creed cread to ie entirely different from theirs their tha latter day saints since the artl art cles of faith of the latter day sa sat sainta t were written by the prophet joest jasenn smith whom elder burton also j mits mite to be a Pro prophet obet the cial claim m 0 of something If entirely different 1 1 for jr burtons bartons Bur tons denomination is worth no oot ing he also says say in his reference refe reece t tu Q built by the saints sainte ancial ancient mt and modera let me say may right here that no temple except one was ever built by the express v direction of god and that one is not in k i this country great man that to know all that the Al almighty alright might v ever did or did not dc M whether or not he commanded th the k antediluvians to build temples and that the command was waa carried out in the city zion or elsewhere or that the temple of the lord named in samuel 1 9 was not dot his temple or if athla was that the temple built by kinay kin K So solomon lomori as stated in 1 kings chap oh t a 5 6 7 and 8 was not or that the te geoa va ale built by cyrus recorded io in jear ezra chapter 6 was no not t by the lo 10 fjords rd s dirsa tion aioo or that that thai named in 2 nepal 5 ig Z aad those mentioned in Hele Hela haai inala 3 9 and elsewhere were unauthorized of 0 the lord since the elder eider referred to assumes to believe both book nr mormon and bible or that the kart land temple still standing in ila this Q country was not commanded by himor that it wits wan not hio hib express direct direction io that was given to the prophet joseph on january 19 1841 regarding tj the nauvoo temples temple which was built in ila this country and afterwards was as destroyed by enemies enem iee and all this in view of the statement made by the prophet joseph whom mr burton admits WIM wa a prophet ot of god that the almly almighty tit informed him concerning such holy bouses which his hib people are K always camm commanded to buildt build 9 unto hla his holy boly name this thia denial of the lords direction in anany such instances recorded in the bible book of mormon hou aid doctrine anti ana covenants will not weigh much against the facts faite of history ancient and modern the historical truth 1 that several temples have buys been built by express direction of the lord both in ancient and modern times there are live five now standing in this country and six have been built four of them in utah mr burton may not know of them any more than be may not know of the existence of the great salt lake but his bin denial of the euprea direction of the lord in regard to their construction if la as absurd as would be his denial of the existence of ae be lake merely because he be did not nave have personal knowledge thereof I 1 with regard to the san ban jose bual business it may be noted that elder tanners reference to the preacher who assailed the latter day saints was wa courteous and brief anti and was maue made merely by way of introducing the subject this retraining from any criticism or comment upon the opposition t was proper in a missionary such criticism ean can be safely left to bothem As R d general rule it lie is the wiser course to leave them entirely alone they may sling mud 21 2 1 but the missionary cannot descend to that business it to i his bis duty to contend for the faith once delivered to the bainte not to dei de claim against any mans ideas of rew re ligion hla his contention for the faith Is ie to proclaim lt it with boldness and the power of god to declare the gospel ma message he has received to expound the doctrine which the almighty hanve baa revealed aled for man mans Is salvat salvation ioD 2 to preach christ and him cruci crucified fled to point out oat the house that god has hag built for the safety of his people those who hear the doctrine who behold the beauty symmetry ac aad d strength of the be bones may compare the same with that which they already possess and truth trub will not suites suffer by comparison the wise man who to is offered a better house than he occupies is willing to masks aake the change when he is con COD vinced of the improvement it brings and the transition is much more satisfactory than when he is forced out of lasola the old dwelling without alog the advantages of the new place 01 ol abode by we wiser course unnecessary and discussions are avoided itis itie only in exceptional oases cases that discus done on OB religious topics are permissible since they usually engender irre legious and angry feelings |
