Show I I I MORMONISM NOT NOTI NOTA I A NEW DOCTRINE Apostle Orson F. F Whitney Declares Declares De De- clares dares It Is but Eternal Truth Restored REVIEW OF THE CULT Rewards and Punishments of Hereafter Comprehensively Comprehensively Comprehensively Treated What hat is IN IH necessary al to tu man In iii the thel lH l plan lan of salvation In this world and time the rewards and amid punishments of or a life lre hereafter wore were c lu told In a comprehensive ln review l of ur at the tabernacle taber taber- uncle nacle Sunday un ay afternoon by Apo Apostle tc Ol Omm on I F. F Whitney The a address a was Iathel for fOl the benefit o of if v visitors than o of the lit tle members of oC the lie church of or orTe Te us Chil t of 01 the tIme da Latter day Saints It I consisted of or an aim exposition of ur th the points on which that thaI church a agrees with other denominations tons to together ethel with wih an ami elucidation of supplemental teachings teaching culled from coin the works orIn of ur time the Prophet Joseph S Smith imm I tIm Evan E Stephens who has Imus recently been to Europe was back In iii his old place as us leader of or th choir which rendered the tho hymns Hark Listen to tho tue Trumpeters an and O 0 0 01 ily My Father and all l time the anthem In Iii Our He Redeemers Redeemer's Name Joseph 13 g. Taylor presided an and amid prayers wet wet-c offered for or the thc health of oC John U. U Winder who has lias been Ill 1 but bul who vho it I wail wasi intimated Is recovering Hebel M. M Wells els pronounced the time bene bemie- diction Mr h Whitney to tock look k occasion to tend scud tenda a rebuke after some rome of those who left heft before the tile ad addresses started before he ho entered on his main subject for tor the afternoon I am airm reminded cd said Cl he lie of ur the theold old couplet about those Who Vio Thu to the time church repair Not ot for the sermon but hut time the music there It I I is no ho fault Caul however If people have to leave eave the time services er to take trains traine an and It I Is better that the they should t Iff before tl the lie C ls start started ell than thun during time the services Many strangers however cr I behove believe be be- hove lieve arc are still left len who have o ha come here not merely to hear the great l organ t or ti r time thc magnificent choir choh but to learn caln something of or Mormonism If H I Imay 1 ml may have the thc spirit ur the Lord to al aid which makes malies If manifest Ills His teachings teaching 1 will vili wi en endeavor O c to enlighten these ther a ato as asto asto to what Mormonism means Not a ii Now GO Gospel iO iHl c. c loi I Is a nickname fur CUI lh the gospel of or Jesus Christ Christ If I you I h to timid lind what is Us Its Is doctrines doe doc oc- oc trines trifles aims hns an and pores pin es you ou need only learn th the doctrines aims fn and pud of ur the ancient Christian church Mormonism Is to us the ancient Christian faith restored Wo l do O not miot preach a now gospel opel We Pc do du not dare m I. I Is II not nol il lr r ti Ul 9 a ta t ti I n t mm ro 1 UJ U ii mini If J I ii tun 11 Il Mormon gO gospel Is nothing more niome or le les ies than time Iho everlasting gospel un un- changeable In Iii this a ae rc c and auth t dispensation aJ God Clod hah hus purposed H d to gather In lit one ne all al timings things in Christ h to 10 unify His work to tl all al things He Ftc has done lone to tu towing wing brio to pass ass all aJ the timings the prophets have spoken since the tho world be began an This Is s the time last time him God Gud will wm speak Io Today a he lie Is ushering in the millennium 1 lie has hus given glyen his revelation ro ela ion tion In lii these tle latter lays days preparatory to tu tho ho coming of Ir the K King ng of In Kings I More Than Meie IJ Goodness We me 0 c believe he lie said al In substance lJ tance that thieve there arc are good people in all churches that thieve there is g good in ha all ul religion Go God will wi save all ul goo good men This does ONI not nol do tie away uway with Avith ih another great fact that Gu God has spoken an and auth revealed a a. plan plait of salvation al It I is 11 not for rOl nU man maii therefore c to tu prescribe his hll own oiin 1 0 scheme by b which he hf Is to tu be bl raved i u e A guU good life ml might ht o fa have been If Ir God had sal salt said that It Il would he be Since H He Ho has s said something else besides c the Ow guo good life of its itself lr is 11 of uC very little effect Mormonism J recognizes the thc necessity sit sity I of work an and amid self help more than hum an any other religion But BUl after man luau mUl has done dUle his little all ni there Is II something ll else c nece sur This hj something is II taught time the lal ll by ancient scripture Th The Ilie speaker then laid all stress Stross en cit CI the time necessity sly of ot repentance baptism by br Immer Immersion lon and bullet belief beler on Jesus Jelus Chi Christ Christas hi hias as components of the scheme of salvation sal sal- alaton al- al ot aton These ho lie declared are arc the time Voids Lords and amid man Is 18 Ii not Jut freed from frum sin simm unless he lie with thc those these he lie continued I l not new because truth Is eternal A lie le lera may ra- ra rabe be bo new but the gospel which I Is eternal truth luth to tu man for Ul his hIlS salvation is h tho the same aimie ale yc c tel a tU U I al and amid Gu God did id not lut give to I Jo Joseph Smith a u new doctrine Ve We Mormons however er did not get ret this doctrine only from trum roam Uie lie Bible Ju Joseph eCh Smith received this gospel o el b by ela rc Ion tion tOI with wih time the powers s of the time priest hoo hood While hlo stands stand on out the lie rock ruck of revelation U It does not deduce anything that Is Js new nor hOl deny al any nimy- thing that Is old uld It I provides for em tin tl salvation of oC all al men j Just t as al Jesus Christ anti and ant time the apostles provided provided- ru l l that thaI men len shall hal be bu saved c a according to tu their merits an and accor according ln to their W The Time speaker rJ tl cr then went at al length into the tho question of or tho ho Hf life hereafter After quoting tol several cral c ral passages pas las sages oges of sculpture in 11 support of or the time thea a assumption that thUl every man mal wilt will wil bo be ju judged ge In lii the time life lre hereafter according to hii- hii hiP works ho hI hIld waid ld Men Iel will wi bo be o a assigned to IU different te degrees reps of glory in the Fathers Father's house This hll 1 la Is f good od ancient Christianity find and It I Is good oo mo modern eln Joseph Smith taught that boll Itoh has hns its Is ent compartments that homo lomu men are punished more moro than others an and timid that rewarded ell some ate more mor than titan others other Referring to the time writings of oC Jo Joseph eph Smith Mr lr referred to the thc different stales in the time after life JQ showing show show- in lag ing successively what Mormonism teaches concerning thu tin sons lon u of perdition l- l Lion tion lun for whom there l Is no 10 hope of or orthe the bodies o JC celestial and the bo bodies l t tel or- or He ITo lc clammed claimed that is in hum a advance unco of or if the time doctrines relying m on oil 01 which Dante DunlO wrote his Inferno no Ju lit the hue thirteenth century in let that tho tIme Latter day a Sal Saints tits provide c that the thereat great reat men of or tho the past PUt ma may occupy the hl highest hest places In him the kingdom dum if IC vicarious vicarious' work I is dono duno ono for CUI them on onearth onearth earth This Thus may seem Oel I to you ou presumption presumption tion lion or arrogance on aim our part ho concluded but we ire present presen these teachings Ill all humility u as aa men who into fi al I mi t. t have received of oC the good goodof of God Led and andare are arc anxious to have hac others receive of ot It it It I |