Show TOURISTS HEAR MORMON SERMON I II I Thomas Expounds Expounds Expounds Ex Ex- Ex- Ex pounds Principles of Religion Religion Re Re- ligion to Visitors ORGAN RECITAL IS GIVEN I Large Congregation Listens to Full Ful Program of Rare Merit Merit Principles of ot were explained explained ex ex- b by Thomas to a gathering at the time Tabernacle made madeI I up mainly of ot tourists yesterday esterday after after- noon As usual on the first Sunday of or orthe time the month the service ser was especially especial for tor tourists and n asIde a lee from Crom the time brief address of or Mr lr Thomas there was an organ pro program ram rendered b by Edward P. P Kimball assistant For his first number Mr lr Kimbal played pled a Welsh elsh air with wih variations which was followed b by Andante by Chauvet Guilmant and Meditation In E Flat b by Wilkins The Te second number God to Thee closed with wih Nearer My h which was effectively rendered with wih time the sox vox human humana a accompanied by tho full rul organ Time The musical program was ended with wit the tho March on ems themes from Lohengrin b by Dubois Dubols Mr Thomas reviewed the custom of the time Mormon church In calling caling on m members from front the Ume bench workshop or 01 I Im I'm to testify on tho time for their faith talt and amid explained that practically every adult male malo member of time the church bore tho priesthood and was suppo supposed ed to be able ahle to appear at an any anytime time to give his reasons for belief beleC In lii his rel religion lon Illustrating this Mr Ir Thomas said ho lie 0 believed beloved the time b best st reasons ho he could give for tor hl his belief boier In Mormonism were to tell tel what Mormonism stands for and Ind to quote from time the articles of 01 faith He lie read from the articles those assertIng asserting assert assert- ing lug their belief belle In God the time Father In iii Jesus Christ and amid the thc Holy 1101 Ghost and the time article which says SIf time the Mormons believe that man shall bo be punished for his own tran transgressions g and ane not for tor forthe time the tit transgressions of or any anyone one omm else ehe Including Adam Tho Time belief beler of ot the time church hurch in the time essentials of or salvation was outlined the speaker saying that tha God lund had hal laid haiti down certain requirements requirements require require- ments In ills Ils plan of salvation am aunt and that through thou strict and literal observance ance and Ind in no nu other manner was salvation to he bo obtained Th These se ho said sKid Included baptism by Immersion immor Immer- sion slon in water and mind tho time laying on o ot of hands for fez time the gift It of ot tho time Holy Ghost as well wel us mis repentance and observance o of Gods God's other laws laws of oC In Jn reviewing re the thc his history tor of ot Mormonism llor- llor Mor Mor- monism Mr Ir Thomas said by many 1 it I was re regarded as a 1 most peculiar Ism and man many visitors to Salt Lake were wore surprised to lo learn hearts that the persons and men who bore eve every I mark of or be beIn being being be- be In ing rational human beings being were Mor Mor- or- or mons He lie le said that It took the time experiences ex ex- of or time the Pilgrim fathers rathers and Roger Hoger Williams llam and anti others to bring about the thc part palt of or the time Declaration of Independence which granted absolute absolute lute religious freedom om and that from that flint date dute as men b begun an to think for themselves Ule they d wl widely el In their beliefs and amid Mormonism was ono one of or the tIme many Isms that grew grems' out of 01 those conditions Regarding the time di divine divine divine di- di vine orl origin ln of or the tIme Book Bool of 01 Mormon Mr Ir Thomas said it was ivas received through time the direction or of God and yet its ts presence o might ll be accepted on time the same Cm basis I a as time thc revelations Y rot of r I un dent clent history that are b being found round through scientific search and investigation Invest Invest- Invest Invest- gation Ilon ulon among the time ruins of oC Egypt pl pi Believing In tIme the Master Mr Ir ThomaN Thom Thom- it us aN said sai ho lie had little time to find fault raul with wih the time regulations which He lie had hind nude mude In laying down tho time plan of or sal sal- vaton Time The Mormons he lie said be- be le- le literally in the time resurrection of ot le ed the he bod body e c even 1 as Christ came Corti forth from rom the time tomb an and amid appeared d In the time body boe before Ills disciples dl He lie told the time visitors that time the they could look look about hem and see the time evidences of or ma- ma In tho time Mormon religion rellon and amid that hat the they were wore the tho builders of a n com com- As S to tho the charge o that is materialistic he lie said time the he reply relI would be le Of or course courso it Is Is but ut ns os to the thc charge that Mormonism was vas not riot spiritual he lie said that was a mistake He Ie spoke of 01 tho time Mormons as home ionic builders and anti said Maid that in all al the worM world could not be found round a people who regarded reg the time sanctity of or the time home a as high highly 1 as ns did dil time the Mormons In Jim this he said there was ono one rule rulef ot of f virtue and purity among the Mor- Mor llor- llor mon loomis which applied to men and wo- wo nen incus alike wo 1 |