Show REV MR A letter to mr B H roberts robt arte rte building salt lake city utah dear sin sic in reply to your pen let leterle leter setIn ln the be of the ath of may la in which you ad drew me oo on the strength atron irth of what you vow aw in the ibe chicago record of april at I 1 wish very bri fly but plainly to make the following allowing statement stAte meni I 1 abe paragraph irom from the record to la fairly correct as a digest of my original statement I 1 bad said agod god flies took from me all hope la in this present system ot of churchea chur sebu chee robes 0 11 1 1 he bowed we me that this apostasy this denying the power or the holy spirit this preferring false falee d ethis being an amusement bureau for the he world was waa all to be expected la in these last days 32 tae presence of abe unregenerate Ken erate to in the pulpits and at he be lotus table today to is most moat horrify inge then the shortened report you saw aw do deba injustice in that this to in the coo con was lion from at al that system ot at things JID in hiday his day laa in a point in ID hand ahert 2 jrr 6 14 bau no 17 contains the corn com baand that takes taka me out from this man made eschewing all al denominationalism denominational rai I 1 kal esi also alao note noie I 1 go out irom from you unto christ chnat as aa my centris anti and object rhe atie blessed god has baa dwalt with me to separate we me from all that to la ot of human tradition or just unto kilo hla name lb ibe only Ool newt I 1 2 iber eiore in v ow ew ot of this you will we aee bow utterly groundless ground leaa la in your pa dauffer uffer I 1 am free re no more to be en tangled wilh the abe yoko joke of human bondage I 1 am a poor ool to jump irom the frying pan into the fire are 8 allow me to say that what I 1 look falip la Is not the latter day saint baluto b and ano their but the be datril led jed lives and the god word of 01 bite an aa it breathes in abe records ot of the former day saints baiata ot of boj goi lodeen for the now new testament Teet Te amun stamen theli RB acob who obeyed god rattle rather r men man prom from the ou word standard Stan darda she he churches ut 0 christan dom nave departed ack to the standards baor baca to liao ibe only authority under the ibe SUL eui I 1 laa 16 ro Fo the law und and to the it they bey speak not according to tuia 1 I word it Is ia because there is a no light in I 1 n then them 0 11 1 1 4 lastly lot jet me point you to a word that mat io 10 the OY ey or of all the true of god makes a clear case as to just juat where you and as to enst what credence men should put dinou in ou or of auy a uy y other othen who ra so ee a word or utter a aty liable that lie ie oot not lu la the book of books the complete revelation at 01 god to fallen man planes find bad it sug eug at the close of the last chanter ot of the be revelation verses versee 18 and 19 it if any man shall add unto those these things god shall add unto onto him bias the that are written in this book and also it if any man shall ball take away rom the words of the book of prophecy i god shall hall take away hit bi part out of abe book of life paul under god ao an authority for UP wrote in gal 1812 but though we br or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you tuan than that we have bays preached unto youg you let him b be accursed and abig gospel be re melved by revelation from jesus jesu christ gove own word la Is with prayer that god might indeed bring you u under odor the be blood so that god set see the be blood over you and hen you to be clean and pure by his hie word and to men so 80 I 1 am in his keeping B R went super tr wis WIB may FALT falit LAKE CITY may to the be rev bev fred B R dwart dear sit sir your favor of me lost inet replying to 10 mine published in the NEWS of the be 8 ata la of may we was received several days agy ago but I 1 a 0 k tae ane liberty of holding ll it from publication tiOU until I 1 cluad find and the time lime to witte out the be following aus answer war that thin too might appear in we some woe ae ot of the NEWS you will pardon me I 1 am sure bure if I 1 take up the several beveral iteld of your reply to my NEWS letter in the ivere riot to chian whian you have set them hem own this brings we me to your last item first the question stands thus thue I 1 have a before me m a professed mlkle let er who announces to the world that thai god tied nad bbown to so him the apostate condition a ot the christian churches and he proclaims himself separate parate ae forever from those man maa made churches and thelt their mil these facts coca ing to my knowledge through the pub to ie arese prese and knowing that god himself more mere than seventy evenly years aijo nad had revealed to joseph smith the apostate condit lup ot oi Christan df in and bestowed upon him and others divine authority with a commission to preach the and bund build up ane 00 cibaron of chalet I 1 felt in duty bound to make these heie truths known to you especially so as you deemed to be at least approaching the truth ruth hence my letter to you through the NEWS and ana bow do you treat this solemn ut ul an important irum from gou 06 with petit patient nt prayerful bud and a desire to kaw w the truth ruth ot at ity no but without investigation you propose to condemn it Is by one single reference to the jewish scriptures yuu you cite we me revelation Bevel atlon 22 aj ob apker apier and vert verses is I 1 am noa ot no unfamiliar with this passage your ri ret elenoe to it comes to tj me lage the abe retrain refrain of an old aid familiar air of et a worn doubtless out so song in g bed and convinces we me that thai you doubtless are in contact with what hat the ibe drw calls calla mormonism Mor for the ferat time else you would not rely with such confidence upon an argument that has bag been so olten and to Is so selly exploded lot me set it out opt fur for you at some for I 1 testify onto aulo every man that bearnth the aura wura oi the prophecy ot at this thin book if soy any calil malil mait shall hall add ut ui to these thing god add auto him the plagues that at arc written ID this thie book boob and it if soy man shall take away from the words of the book of wid prophecy gud god shall taker take away his bis part out of we the book of lle life and out oat of at the holy city and from the th things which are written in this book J rev 22 Is 1819 19 the christian argument your ment as inferred infected in your letter jetter la is as aa follows follo wf WE this passage occurs in the last book of we be bible in abe last chapter of that last boox book and in the he last verses but two to in that less last chapter and therefore any menage purporting to be a revelation irom from god alter after these theme words were written it an the apocalypse to Is to be re jetted at once because it la a a violation of this supposed formal elsing up of G ails jda completed revelation thus you dispose 0 of the revelations which god gave to the world W orld through joseph deith to this cavalier reply of your there are several answers ana were each of which to la sufficient to destroy your promises first it must be remembered that the he apocalypse was not placed as the oat lasi look book ot at the bible by the apostle john or soy any other of the inspired writers of the now new testament nor la is it the last jast beok of tue me now new resi fes ament leeolon leet lon that thas wes written it la in almost the uneal u nan logoua opinion of bible son sono olare lars that toe in book ot of revelation was written while the apostle john was an exile on the isle ol 01 patmos and that he did not write fats book called tue gospel acour ding to co st john 1 until after his bin return from patmon 6 11 6 1111 weight of evidence now tends goods to prove J says canon farrar speaking pea klog ol of the bouk of revelation iha 13 it is la a not the list last book lu in chronological order that it was written nearer the tuan the end of st ft johns period ot apostolic activity amid the churches oi 01 asia that the he last accents of revelations fall upon out our ears earn are to not those of a treatise treaties which it in such music 00 oon taina agalos so many tor terrible ribAs visions of blood and fire but rather those of the goepel which tralle tells us tuat that tue word was waa made fifth and of the whish tires formulated the he most moat blessed truth which wo a ever uttered to human dearte abe truth that god to Is love tole widely 4 biblical scholar you will observe places both the abe gospel anu and the be epistles ot at tt john after the apocalypse in alie order itt u their prod and in this be but voices duio tue tile opinion so ta far r ike as 1 I know of all bible scholar saip it therefore follows that it the arde w rits in revelation aad chapter oh apier an aul j verses meau iyua later inlet that no more revelation was to be given I 1 or written then the apostle jonn john himself because the met violator of nis a own fur ne he wrote both we ois gospel aud and his epistles alter after ho he wrote alie apocalypse you sir upon rt will vill not I 1 am sure cure insist upun auen an tagisia tX gisia oi 01 the word of jod as to make ms tie apostle himself a violator of his awu and gous gods word yet be doea this it if your exegesis us u right 9 bt second the apocalypse had bad no connection with the other books of aba now new Teer ardent for many years after it is was writ rit teo toz and under the most ua liberal boral construction the prohibitory fords do you ya quote could only rotor refer to abe book of revelation alone boat just the tow pages wat constitute that thai book had not the whole bible or of which it no part at the time it was wae atau it must have hare been just juat the abe attle agle pamphlet called revelation that thai BO an was to so add to and not 9 is completed koume of gods goas reve giorla IP A aa a matter of fact there Is ie thing in 1 the scripture anywhere that at 0 go o much so ae hints biota at ai goda volume f revelation ever being completed and brover ever closed third if you will read the passage with a little more kou au will see bee that thai it la Is only man that Is ie to add anything to this tale par cular book of revelation nut not iud roe language la IN al soy auy man shall add fiote these things god shall add unto loi lan abe plagues amit are written in is IB book etc while this forbids mail an adding to this baug ot revelation t nowhere goals up time anuth m jtb of gun god he la billi free to add revelation Lore to regeia voia doana a ana volume of 01 scripture to volume catli tl kiri H overwhelms mea man with the 1130 id gincie of kilo hie existe moe goo goodness duess iea and d power to save ave allow me to 90 point jyun t another very similar to te jr oue one under and even evea omet quoted in controversy with upon tola tale very question tion Y ye d intall 11 not got add to so the wora which I 1 oum COM add lend you shall yo ye lacht got irom from it dout iv 2 sup bup apac the same ame line of reasoning anoula lii applied to thin passage as you apply fo alx prohibition to add to or dimin iab in we the book of revelation aa ae would then be under we noce allty sy ot of rejecting fe greater part of the bedle wie itself jl 1 think sit sir you will now DOW see aee how n worthy your grounds are for so rejecting the great work to blob I 1 call your attention you lave vs however become an ancon guri witness to the ruth of that bat same game crork arx for in the book of mormon M history oi of the h ancient II 11 abig bis western hemisphere revealed 1 the world by joseph smith tue toe prophet one of the angeleni prophets lord as saying and words shall bl hiss forth unto toe tn uj y As of 01 the arn aarto fur for a standard sian daru unto of the house heuse 01 01 mf jr people abion are mel and because my word shall was hiss this many of et toe the gentiles shall hall say may bible I 1 a bible we slave have ga got a bible E aw m there cannot bs be any aay more bible Bi ole ILI 11 nepal chapter 29 2 8 taie airs sir to tie ja a very coull commux Mou cry and we the lot argun argument ment if an argument it is be called against wis message deage Mormon isaa I 1 has to deliver to a world it has been little used of 01 bif go however because she be christian jetty have learned what a broken fed a it is and 1 almost ought to feel reul go ui to you toe or referring to so it itzoe do you have determined to reao rethe the message to la III my first artter bor I 1 called your attention ionas as it arill IU give our young people who are 1 S so 0 o well wail acquainted with this lul ful ballment oi at the old prophets cords too as an their heir lathers fathers were years ago 10 opportunity u ity tu to see ee that that predie vou atoa was waa a true pro but of et all persons who ought not to bave made such an objection as that r in your reference to the me mo booling oling chapter oba jiter of revelation you sir air are the last the man who claims that gd has baa showed bowed tj him the apostate condition of the present system of churches to scarcely arcely Bc in a condition to take any one to task for adding to trio the completed volume of gods goda cevela tion to man are you not somewhat afraid my friend that some ome or of the orthodox brethren will be taking you to took task for violating what you and toey regard as gods prohibition to further revelation briefly to your third statement to tle effect that you are cooki looking ag for the he latter jay day saints and their but the spirit led lives and the goa cud taught word of life as a it breathes in the records of the former day saints of gd indeed Furt further boron on you add from the old word standards standard the be professing churches of christendom brist endom have departed back to the he atan stan darde back to the be only authority under the sun it la is true irue my friend you may not be looking fur for the latter jay saints and their prophesying but it the churches of christendom nave as you say may wr woo fully departed from the old word standard siau dardi it if indeed as your attitude charges timey are to in a state of apos aboe then they are airs without divine authority to preach we the gospel or administer its ordinances and have been in ID that gost condition As a long as their apostasy has hag lasted aud it if you ato are not looking for the bittor aay saints and their prophesying prophesy logs you ought so as a consistent mao man to be looking fur for some ome people to whom goj goi has restored d his authority and whom he as has baa commis boned t to preach his gospel goepel and itie establish his church again upun upon the she earth to be looking tor for the spirit led lives and toe the god taught word ol of his as as it breathes in tie record of the me firmer farmer lay jay salute saints la indeed commendable but has it ever oc 00 corred to you yon sir air that those spirit lej lei lives and the god taught word ot of ills ilfe as it breathe in the record of be former day aimy saints Is to be found among a people taught the gospel by a divinely commissioned ministry wh wb were and apostles Apost lea ot of god who were receiving the wor jorj i of god so as living oracles ora olea anu that hat where you flad find toe the people of spirit iod livesa lives 9 etc tor for whom you are looking you will find and them hem to be a people taught as be former format day stints sainte dereby an inspired priesthood mm of god to proclaim his word unto auto the saints and ana to the he world mind and not led by bj self constituted reform en are denying the power of god and talking with an appearance ol of leara lug about soona oom completed plated revelation to fallen man to 90 which god is to add no more A spirit led lea people will not be instructed by such spirit dead leaders in conclusion I 1 again call your at leation to the great work of god ahiah he has box 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