| Show sunday services religious services were held bold in ia the iscle at salt lake city suit sunday day june 26 25 1893 commencing at 2 p pm m the choir sang the hymo hymn coM commencing meno though deep deepening ning trials throng ot your our way press on press pros on yo ye saints of god prayer was uttered by elder redden reddon allred the choir further sang san behold the great redeemer die A broken law to satisfy ELDER 0 W addressed tile congregation on the subject of the inspiration of the bible tak taking U 9 1 for 0 r a text pauls remarks to T timothy I 1 M 0 t b y and that from a child thou hast bast known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through ith faith which is ia in christ jesus all scripture to if given by inspiration of gods god and la Is profitable for doctrine for reproof fr correction for instruction in righteousness he prefaced his bia discourse by expressing his pleasure that ao 80 large a congregation was pre present on the day got act apart for rest reat and fhe he worship of god notwithstanding the many inducements duo du cements emente offered by way of worldly pa pleasure asure we the speaker sneaker referred to the suspension of 0 F eminent preachers the ministry for teaching that k the bible to la not in every chapter and gertso the very word of odd god he as considered that their suspension was proper seeing that they hati had agreed solemnly to support and if promulgate rom the creed of their church if they could not do so 0 o consistently they ought to leave that church and go where trev could advocate what they believed unless adless they could convert the church to their views ana persuade it to receive its creed but bat bbb speaker hold held that the bible which to is a collection of books translated from the hebrew and the Greek does not claim for itself what orthodoxy claims for it aue e scriptures which timothy had bet a a child were not dot the bible MS its we have it the new testament was not then Or written itten may mauj of the writings of the ancient prophets spoken of in the book we ve have not but timothy might have havet them helln and the scriptures were wen only abla to make him wise unto salvation I 1 through faith which is in christ chrid jesusa J J all scripture is not given by inspiration but all scripture ved given by ij is profi profitable tab that hat to is the proper rendering the word is intili to in the text is an interpolation 0 we the translators and makes nonsense ui ol the passage the latter day saints believed it in the bible and showed their faith by their works but they were laut given to blell latry nor did they clos cloa their eyes to the fact that the original nn i books ol 01 the bible were not dot in existence tence eaDd and that some of the bh books included in the volume were evidently prepared according to the best natural u understanding and experience of the writers the speaker showed from many quotations that it is in not a book which way may be destroyed but the living word of god baroun the living oracles and by the holy ghost asa as a present guide mat are essential christ la is she way the truth and the life not the deau leter let r which kelleth kil leth it Is the spirit n blob mabeth alive and goldeth into all truth dependence upon the collect io i of books which does not cuu con tain all the writings of the prophets was wag shown to be the cause u of much religious dissension and aad tile the 10 lo mation of sects that many pro profound fouLd biblical scholars who were bialt worshippers wor shippers bad baa not a practical la is th tb in the bible they so exalted was wan proven by quotations which they rejected as aa part of the christian or creed eod the restoration of the gospel and the authority to preach it with the hoi holy y ghost and its accompanying gifts wa dwelt upon and the speaker bre emphatic testimony to the truth of thee the e things and exhorted exhort eo all present to gi give va heed head to abe them M he gave the bible bi ble d ue or cr dit as the most valuable book it in existence and fr all that is claimed for it by its writer showed the cur 0 of its doctrines in the book of mormon and doctrine and cove but urged the greater import ance of the spirit by which tiie the prophets spoken or of in those bj abke ke were inspired which is free to all who repent are baptie baptized d for or the remission oweina and receive the imposition of authorized hands by which it is in lu in parted the discourse was supported I 1 y numerous citations from the old anu new an I 1 wai wa I 1 to attentively by a very large congregation the chir sang the anthem atte the gathered SaI saints rits 21 2 1 benediction by elder claudius V spencer |
