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Show OBEYS CONSCIENCE AND 11 CHURCH 00- MORMOM MISSIONARY CONVERTS CON-VERTS LADY MEMBER OF METHODIST CHURCH. WRITES OF HER CONVERSION. 00 Elder Oliver Jensen, who is nqw on a mission, has been quite successful success-ful in proselyting to gospel and has mado some warm converts, as the following letter from a lady convert to a friend of tho Methodist church will attest: Dallas, Texas. My Dear Mrs- Hetherington:- I feel, that sinco you showed such a kindly interest in me by asking mo to come out and welcome our dear Bro. DeBow and family, that I want to acknowledge receipt of tho card and explain why I was not able to do so, much as I love to fellowship with all of you and them also. This is rather a late hour to do this but still I feel constrained to write you, and hope you will pardon me if my letter seems rather lengthy. Some three ytars ago, tho fact was brought to my knowledge that our Methodist school for missionaries in Chicago was instructing tho missionary mission-ary students much that was contrary to tho teaching of the Bible, so much so that really honest souls who had sat at the feet of these instructors said theyt simply could not go into tho mission field and teach such heresy and blashemy to tho heathen nations because it was so contrary to the doctrine that the' apostles taught and therefore opposed to tho doctrine of the church of Jesus Christ as it was established just after Christ departed from this earth and whkH in other words was termed tho Kingdom of God by John the Baptist. I, of course belonged to the Methodist Meth-odist church or embraced Methodism, and I was mingling with the dearest I kind of folks in the world nnd just 'went nlpng doing whnt I thought my duty, having fulfilled tho require-'ments require-'ments of the laws and ordinances of tho Methodist church nnd felt that I was doing right according to the light I had. Some time passed and circumstances circum-stances with which you are probably familiar mado it impossible for mo to attend church as I was confined to my bed a great part of the time, land much of this time I spent read-ling read-ling and principally the Bible. ! Up to this time I had not boon 'impressed much with the importance of doctrine but entertained the views of most people that one must be broad in this respect. Bnptism to mo meant no more than an outward form not meaning so much, more of an outward sign of an inward grace, not particularly one of the ordinances required particularly of God for entering en-tering his Kingdom on earth, but as I read the doctrine as it was laid down by Jesus Christ which was first faith, through repentance, baptism bap-tism for the remission of sins, and lastly the laying on of hands for tho gift of tho Holy Ghost, I knew I was one of those who had fallen off from the true doctrine of Christ and had I to be classed as helping to bring I about the great apostasy prophesied by Chirst himself and also Paul and others, and so I knew I was out of his organized Kingdom on earth. Then I noticed that the titles of those officiating in tho churches I now days were not the some as those in the church organized in the primitive primi-tive church in the days of the Apostles, Apost-les, of which Paul says were for tho 'edifying of tho body of Christ, Eph. 1:12, nnd theso should exist until all I would come into a unity of tho Faith, 'this fact shows that the churches have broken off from Christ's, for his ordinances have been changed by man mado creeds, His laws trans-! trans-! grossed and tho everlasting coven-nntant coven-nntant with Christ through the shedding shed-ding of his blood, has been broken. Heb. 13:20. Wo also read in Isaiah 24:5 of tho falling away from His teachings. In ' ( Continued on pago 8.) |