Show DEFENDS MORMON CHURCH upholds tithing and says latter day saints enjoy the fullest freedom salt lake april 15 the services at the tabernacle sunday afternoon were marked by the first public utter ance at a sunday service of apostle heber J grant since his return from the foreign mission field the main address however was made by mahi mathi thomas whose impassioned i defense of church integrity and purity waa was unfortunately cut out short by a vocal breakdown all great dispensations have been caused by the outpourings of goda gods spirit said elder thomas in the course of his talk must talie take I 1 i a spiritual inventory at some time aa as also must communities and nations they find there Is something lacking but god has bas directly promised through the mouths of bi his In inspired prophets to pour out his spirit to all men and this promise he fulfills the present era Is undoubtedly the one of highest development in the history of tho world la it every phase oi of mans physical and mental activity a most wonderful pr progress otress took place durin during the last century humanity went forward at a bound this means that gods spirit waa was then poured oui out as it bad had never been before A farra belief beef that it Is 3 gods spirit works in us and about us Is an ini important bulwark in the faith of the latter day saints it Is part of our religion to believe that the founders of our great groat vv government were inspired that our civil liberty was born of god As we look about us we know indeed that god must bo be a god 0 of love a 3 supreme intelligence above us all As gods spirit came down to us new now ideas arose commercial mercial merc lal cal and religious freedom appeared men learned that they had a rig right ht to worship god as they saw fit fil man began to know that he was a free agent that there would be nothing but emptiness in the glorification ot of god by an automaton and through the revelation of god arose that new religion known to many as mormon ism 9 a religion of sac of working for others mormonism Is a religion of lovo and that matter we have heard so much about lately tithing which is love and sacrifice our tithes however are never taken from the tho poor or stolen from th the 0 reoh they are voluntary throughout lo 10 the exact sense of the he word the offerings are blessed as they have strengthened the church and enabled it to carry the truth to td all nations nat lons 1 I believe in the right of every man mail to worship god ae he thinks right I 1 demand that right for myself it 11 false to say that we are overridden over ridden by our priesthood statements to that effect are lies too we ire have an unconquerable qu erable spirit of loyalty but we an ar not servile we give allegiance to the heads of the church because wo we kno them believe in them and love them we are going to prove by our worm what we are and although the is daily daale becoming coming Pe more militant w wt i are ar striving to bo be tolerant the church is going to make gigantic strides it Is an example of that development caused by tho of 0 tha the spirit of god gd |