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Show mefft iaafifltoiaaaaaiwa ;frdrrftt hMM43g&ki Afc 4 UTAH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. jWasBaaasggiBigiasgaaeMBaeSBggf5 Utah Christian Advocate. SALT LAKE CITV, UTAH. JUNK, 18S7, Editor JgAIU'INrS NELSON, J. 1). URLIL.UX, Associate Editor iil're-- at the Salt Lake City Post Office second ckicn matter. i SS i?3im2v3:s One Year m advance, tf 10 or more, C!u - - -- - - - - l.X). - T3 ctti Any porson gettingup a Hub will re eesvcii copy tree, rfubecriptions may at any tune. igin For advertising rates apply to the Pub I ijbet ot the Utah Cufttrivx Advocate ialt Lake- - City. Oilier m the Method nt Church, Third South Street. JCvtia copies of this paper can be had s the rate 4 75 rents a dozen Irota 0, H Parsons Salt Lake City If np subscriber fails to receive the Advg ai'e promptly, we will esteem 't A. favor to he uotitied at once. , We print ia this number of The Advocate the first part of a sor man by Bishop S. M. Merrill of the Meth'xlLt Episcopal Church. The Biah op gives a clear, logical exege sis of his text, and we commend It to a careful perusal of all interested in the subjeer. -- The annual meeting of the Utah Mission will be held at Mount Pleasant, Aug. 4th. Bishop Walden will preside. Bro, Morris writes us th-he has provided entertainment for the preachers and their wives and the teachers in the Mission, ho are all expected to attend. Numerous arrests of cohahs have been made of late and among the more prominent transgressors igtit by the deputies, is Bishop Budge of Idaho. This rabbid Mormon was cornered in Ogden. He v s admitted to bail in the sum of $,000, to await the action of the grand jury. o- .i winding up the sermon found in another column of this paper Orson Pratt said: If we do this, Latter-da- y 8 tints, glory and honor and immorality and eternal lives, and thrones, and kingdora8,and dominions, and creations, and worlds will be gives to us, and our posterity will increase until, like the sand on the stfi shore, they cannot bo numbered. Amen. Tn President Cleveland has issued an executive order prohibiting the importation to the Teritory of rifles .Alaska of both breech-loadinand ammunition (for purposes g trade), and of intoxicating liquors unless the customs officer is satisfied that thsy are needed for sacramental, medicinal or scientific pur- All citizens p. se9. will be grateful to our chief magis-rrat- e for this wholesome order. g law-abidin- Salvation has Army m.ickedZion . Oa the arrival of the company to this city posters scateted broadcast all over town announcing that guns would hv placed on Main street and that ne city would be bombarded. Several of the members wear jps and strange regalia. We do n t approve of some of the extremes and peculiar methods of the Sahadoa Army, but we re-- -4 pert the zeal, earnestness, an I heroism of its members. The w.-ic- t Ab uii ri oclock on tin morning f Jtirm Oth, a deliberate bur unsuccessful attempt was made to burn the new post oITich at Meant Pioasiut. Utah. Mr. Bearmean is a very firm ami outspok-u- i Liberal, of the Lava! Lagu also of Mount Pleasant, .aud conse-qnent- iy has the whote Mormon bitterly arrayed against him. May not this explain the mystery? el-imc- Satan and the Son of God never iweJI at once in the heart of man, To&chfrrs who seek to inculrata tie Siiffift, are wolves ia sheen's clothing; for example, a tew weeks ago, . young Mormon was shot down can&iitute not mean to convey the Idea "to thes very plausible and convincing! ar- them tint he was to be with tliea guments, simply because they always in the body, for he had W, know nothing of the real spiritual fore expressedly told them: p is expedient for you that I go away-fonature of Christs mission. if I go not away the Comforter We confess that we firmly believe in the doctrine of the indwel- will not tome unto you; tmf; If j ling of Christ in the believers go away I will seed Mm unto yoa when he, the spirit of truth heart. We believe it is strictly is St. to Paul come, lie will guide you Into all writing scriptural. bow I he shall t&keof mine the Ephesians, says: my truth knees unto the Lather of our Lord and shew it unto you. John IB that he 7, 13 & 15. Jesus Christ Thus Christ was to be ever preswould grant you according to the riches of his glory to he strength- ent with Ms people through the ened with might by his spirit in Spirit, and the ChristianChurch ha Judge A. B. Carlton, one of the the inner man; 7 hat Christ may never advocated bis bodily presUtah Commissioners, whose main dwell in your hearts byfaith C. ence. part from evil. business in Utah is to draw a big III. 14-- 17. These Mormon Elders are thereThe June revision of the registra- salary from the Government, has fore either grossly ignorant with So we are in good company. Of tion lists has dosed on all precincts written a despicable card to the course, we do not believe in a bodi- regard to the teachings of the throughout the Territory. The Springfield (Mass.) Depub ican, ly or physical Indwelling of Christ, Christian Church or guilty of willnumber o! persons have greatly de- noteworthy because of its willful but in his spiritual Indwelling; ful misrepresentation of the truth, creased from that of any previous misstatements of facts relating to Christ dwelling In the heart by year owing to the disfranchisement Utah. Tie is also evidently at the faith. The unregenerate heart is CLOMNG- OF THE SCHOOLS of the women and the number of bottom of an article that recently The Mission schools in the Terriand It carnal, sold under sin; persons who were cut off or drew appeared in the Chicago Times , must therefore be changed, born tory have now closed after another back from voting under the breathing the same false and mis- again, so that it becomes spiritu- year of busy work. The attendlaw requirements. leading spirit. The Advocate does of ance generally has been good, and ally minded. Then the It Is gratifying to learn that the not care about making personal Christ will dwell in thatspirit heart. ia many instances largely mcreaed revealof shows that has this city attacks. Judge Carlton registration Paul says: u If Christ be in you , above that of previous years. The the Liberals have a majority of ed his inner man. lie has been a the body is dead because of sin; teachers have labored faithfully voters both in the second and the Commissioner here for five years but the spirit ia life because of and successfully, and the seed fifth precincts. The first precinct is and his course is well known. The righteousness, Rom, ,8.10. And this sown will bear its fruit. doubtful. The schools in this city hav country will at least be posted as to great Apostle and Christian hero, the name of the man and officer he triumphed over all difficulties, by shared in the prosperity and the For the purpose of carrying out is. One of our contemporaries his rich and satisfying experience,' outlook for advance and increased the act of Congress, making an anpungently comments: He is having that Christ wag within him the usefulness ia brighter than ever. nual appropriation to provide arms his of glory. If any man has siir uke academy, (Congregational) say now. The Gentiles of Utah and equipments for the milita, will haves theirs by and. He has hope not- the spirit of Christ, he is none eiowd with public exercises at H&mm&4 the following regulations have willfully betrayed the people he of Ms, Rom. 8, 9, and the prayer Hall. During the year 265 students h&m been issued by the War Depart- came to defend, and he Is now trybeen registered and most of them have beea of St. Paul for the Ephesians, and ia constant attendance. Excellent work has ment: The Adjutant General of ing to justify his betrayal by circuin fact, for the universal clinrchj been dose is all departmenas. m wel the army shall annually, on or be- lating fake impressions about as Dr. W hedon beautifully says, dered work, the schools are rare that surfore July 1st of each year, report then). It will be strange I! they do Is, own spirit or temper pass the higher departments of Hammond to the War Department the num- not make the real facts known that Christs Hall. Throughout the year, the young or on faith, have maintained a flourishing debating by may of comes. Let ber regularlly enlisted, organized when the proper time and society; and had, in connection own our our natural withliterary pare, supplant and uniformed active militia in our friends in the East take notice. it, a prosperous reading room, temper in our hearts , so that we colugiatk institute, (Presbyterian.) each State anti Territory, and this live and The comsiescement sxerdses of the Salt to a Leo lias written letter may speak approximately Pope report will be the basis of action would in our place. Lake Collegiate Institute were hold at t! taken for the ensuing year. Re- Bishop Ireland in which, be says: as Christ Presbyterian Church, at which the attenLet pastors do their beet to drive the Paul thus pm yes for the condidance of visitors and friends of the students quisitions for any or all public plague of intemperance from the fold of tions that shall what fol- who were awarded diplomas was so great produce exhortaassiduous and Christ by for in preaching this act property provided and to shine before all its models of ab- lows, namely: to be rooted and that seating room in the church was insufwill be made by the Governor of tion, stinence, that so many calamities with which ficient, and the doors and halls were crowdChurch and State grounded in love. In the language of ed with spectators. The exercises weie I the several States and Territories this rise threatens bothendeavors be averted. W ordsworth, Rooted like a plant, the most pleasing character, may by their strenuous on the War Department. Of the admost is excellent The above therefore always alive and and ST, masks school (Episcopal) $400,000 appropriation in the act vice, but calculated to produce no growing; and grounded like a closed entertaiaiog excercises, coasletieg Utah gels $J704. little stir in the ranks of the laity building and therefore firmly es- o recitations, declamations, essays, dialogues and motion Songs. The school chape! an tablished in love. The late and highly esteemed Dr.V of the Roman Catholic Church, was packed full, and the tidy drosses and saloon-keeperin A returned Mormon, missionary joyous faces of the pupils, with the profusW hedon, in his comments on r spel- a large number of the United States are Catholics. lately tried to amuse Ms audience ion of flowers, made one of those attractive lings, Gal. 5, 21, enters this solemn The Pope is wrong in speaking of by relating how he had rnet three scenes that make old folks feel young. Ths warning; and here we record our from the Methodist ladies, who told him pupils rendered their parts with earasstss intemperance testimony against all Darning, driving and animation. Intemperance is that they had Christ in the heart, It is a fold of Christ. even in private circles. Of the 113 girls at Rowland Bail, twelve the Christ! In never of fold whole found in a ahrist their heart. are of Mormon parentage in good atandlng. branch of a whole system of con And of the 320 ia attendance of St. Mark's most lamentable fact that This was a a is It Reeled revelry , just as card 'playing mystery beyond the school, are of Mormon parentto those are there intempergiven of the darkened age. comprehension is a branch of a whole connected SALT LAKKnEsminr. (Methodist. ance, who are Church members, mind of this spiritually ignorant system of venture and gambling. The Salt Lake Seminary flila year gradubut membership in a church does Elder, and as usual was made the ates Misses Clara F. Heath and Asia Bryant, Precisely to this degree that these not constitute in the subject for laughing and ridicule. of this membership city, who are the first graduates of conniwith the prevail, especially fold of Christ. do know if not institution. the The art department attenWe Methodthose vance of the Christian Church, will The works of the flesh are uiani ist sisters said that, but if they did dance has been 40, the mnsic department atfrivolity, gliding into revelry, exfast, which are these, adultery, for- we do not see that there was any- tendance 20; and the school proper, 14 of travagance, and irreligion prevail. uucleanness lascivious- thing unseriptural in the state- whom 40 are Mormons and 15 or 2b mor are from! apostate famiiie. Rev, X, . It is never conducive to health, ami nication, Iliff preached the baccalaureate sermon at in the best sanitary institutions is ness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, ment. emulations, wrath, the Methodist Church. The Board of Trust-pe- a strife, variance, believe in We a whole accepting We do not believe not practised. think the school has done remarkably mur- Christ; Chr;.-- t In his divine and huis washed in seditions, heresies, envying, that a Christian,-wiwell past year; tetter, in fact, than the drunkenness. revelling and man nature: Christ as our example, year the before; and the boarding department the Wood of the Lamb; who has the ders, like: Of which I tell you be- as our Redeemer, our has been full for nearly the entire Behest such high priest, year, love of Cod in his heart, and infel fore, as I have shu told you in time us our king, as oor judge; Christ ligeiifly and deeply realizes the tin? they which do uch first and last a whole Christ. MOiniOV CHURCH DIVORCE. etii : of his redemption will have past, things shall not inktrii the kingMore than that, we believe in When to room tend the bail desire ui Goorgo Wadi of Peoa, Sumany Gal. V. do 21. dom of (rod." whole in the mit Christ heart. having or the dancing party. Moreover he County', recently was arrested for unaro Christ have cruel God does not that They Give me part lawful tohahitation, he (.fibred the fulW-inj- : say: could not do it without grieving the fled the flesh w;th the affections of thine heart. f divorce in evidence at an instant He demands the spirit of God. As many whole heart. There can he ins good btfib. and lusts, Gai. V. 1 4 dino In February last bo paid Itiffjop W a reprint elsewhere in this issue as are led by the spit it of God they vision of the heart between God Stephen Walker $10.00 for the preoioo-Rom, H. 14, and the world,' A without comment an extract from are th sous of God, once document, and this is an other illustration lawyer a sermon by Apostle Orson Pratt, and these only are truly in the asked Jesus; Master, which Is (4 the way the priesthood of the Mormon of fold Christ. Church grind the faces of the poor dupe the treat commandment in the tl.'il preached in Salt Lake City, Jan. trust ia them for their spiritual law? Ifirit 1873. and published in the Jesus answered him; Thou CHRIST IN THE HEART. Deseret Nr, its. March 12th of the shall love the Lord thy God with ty;The divorce, reads: It is common among Mormons to all thy heart, and with all we the person by tbrm same year. Great changes have thy soul, Know alltioorgo tVaiio andprrti Manjret Wad If, oso befor Christians of make sport and with all thy mind. taken place in Utah daring the Thai cer- wife, tefm e her inarriage to bun Margr! Miles, hereby nmtnnily covenant, promise aisfi ai? fourteen years that are gone by lieving In the possibility of Chn'U tainly implies complete surrender dissolve all the leiathns which haw Wth&fri teivwn ns n husband and wife, sail to tef since fheiteliveraoceo? tkistsrmoo. d writing in the hear I, and we have to God. Our natures must bo toted wirwlvet sepsunto and apart from each other p'S time forth In witness where,? we here People generally have become bet- time and again listened to the most transformed so as to be controlled thla UQiO Wt fmr ItfHriX almost and blasphemous the to true with repulsive and led ter informed by the spirit of Christ, we A.Pw, bsmmit OmU', this 23th .lay of FetiiJ8f7 regard mi. attitude ami purpose of Mormon-ter- n. caricature of this blessed doctrine must accept of him in his fullness Pig1. sri in Le presence of Stephen Waite? , BisfeA and teitert MurmanL First Oon'esetor, as rev e sited in G od s word, W e ra use The disloyalty of Mormon.-is- m by Mormon Elders. (ihontte IVAMJSf It ta claimed, ia the first place, present our bodies a living sacri.4SMAfmAKKT has been made known; the Chri'A that then a and had body, and misery of polygfice, holy, acceptable unto God, "Ste People who have besa ewst over the he heart in cannot a of dwell the helm the which is oar reasonable .service. amy have been portrayed, Vab&ch Route express ihso selves ous doctrine of blood atonement person; secondly, that when t m Shortly before leaving the earth M with its elegant fe'iulpmeot has been explained, the guilt of the Savior went to heaven be - ended Christ said to big disciples: Lo, hot more particularly with the Lo 1 throtsgh C. 5f Ha mpmn bloody massacre o! innocent emi- with fek body, sad is m buster act with you always, even unto procured eiai Agent, N. IS Wtodw, the end of the world, but le did grants at Mountain Meadow by among men. Write to him, in the streets of Salt Lake City, by: a depraved, cowardly saloon-keeper- ; he died with an oath on Ms lips, yet Bishop Whitney preached him right through the gates into the city, simply because he was a exemplary young man. Mor monism in fact teaches no man that he is sinful, and in neea of a pure heart, but that a form of morality (and that very low) is salvation. The body carrying with it the mind of Christ, is known by its fruits, no swearing, no stealing, no drunkenness, being some of the Let every one negative results, that names the nam of Christ deso-cal- led leading Mormons has bee proven, etc. Bat comparatively few people aside the Territory have any intelligent idea of the many strange teachings that have been woven into the religious-politic- al system Ve shall print called Mormonism. extracts from Mormon publications1, believing that they will be read with interest by most of the readers of The Advocate, not because of any intrinsic merit but in order that the difficulties of Mission work in Utah may be better understood. To Mormons r f - self-surrend- pm-pl- d er 4 s three-fourth- s n s - I bea-jtiins- s -- Rb-&- |