Show ARTICLES ON MORMONISM i tt V under we design giving series ap aply for the JI doctrines of the church christ of le aliey bwy contain anything or to tho experienced members of that church wo trust they will bo f benefit botho rising generation assist in furnishing arguments for the IKO of newly appointed defenders of the faith and prove of interest to all who read themi will IT conceded ht ait an attempt of klirs is best lo 10 tho beginning and wo start with some remarks upon alio firt principles premising that the s adopted simply be has como into popular ue ft s a title of the doctrines of lie daiy diy saints and tho word cormons mormons Mor mons because that is the name by which the binti are generally designated although neither woid correctly applied nor accepted chiefly affected ayite use i yo faith is ali commencement of re faith in the true god is the first principle of true As there i but one god for alie inhabit chant of tho earth to obey there can but if loiero were ii multitude of gods to people owed reverence thero might tie a number of different au sed religious creeds for truo religion does not originate with man it comes from deity for lie benefit of man and glory elioso ever cometti to god must believe that lie is no man by lii fre arches can find lugod lie may by and by ing and pondering upon the wonders of creation disown internal and external nature come to hie suro conclusion that there is a sod and to ayery small extent mako an estimate of his character but without tha manifests himself iu some manner fin iteman a knowledge of infinite deity the speculations of liui man beings concerning god are many land various and a vast of their condu sioni and rain human learning no matter how extensive and human ilo matter liow are of naces eity inadequate alono to the acquisition of a knowledge of divine things hence person enlightened direct from of deity than iho inoel erodito collegian alio has not received this divine illumination J to proper feitli in him on his account he lias at different periods of the worlds history manifested hiim clipson whom he has deputed to acir witness of his existence and attributes to and declare alie history manifestations and revelations given m olden times are in alio bible thoo eliat ibave been vouchsafed to man in alio latter times are embodied in what is known as Monno hism by the ewo beirn that god is alie rather of the human race As every seed in nature bears its own kind it rca to conclude eliat man hears some semblance to the being from whom ho sprang and this klea is confirmed by the divine declaration that godmare God made man in own imaged hiir father in heaven i lion a personal being he is a spirit but ho is alao en clothed in a tabernacle tabera acle in other words he is an immortal ing binau immortal every faculty and io be found in mortal man exists in lie ot its perfection in die acison of deity those gloriosi glori qualities which iso wide a di unction between man and hie amr are or rather cm duplicates of he perfected at of ho eternal father i being a individual atoil in his personality cannot le but by alie holy spirit which pro food from hia and per all alie immensity of he can ec and tard tW rd carence nA rence all yet alie being power over till his proceeds by law aal giving laws to all his ii himself by law and never li thea eternal principles of truth justice and mercy alio laws tho laws of god and he ever with them and with higher dayi which per jiin to man must finyo in god in or to become exalted into his pret ence man to peael that poc tio iw liow to obtain salvation from jui nd it effects among which flo birrow and pain and death as th to learn in relation to cheso important pj taught of y in attempt to learn of him faith come by hearing in ther bordi ii developed by the divinely appointed to speak jn tho name of tho lord feitli is awakened in alie human heart it is A principle existing in every soul but in tho condition of mien humanity w dormant until quickened the word by tho of lie cirit of trual aromo faith in tho coal of man and by its force lie in led to ull upon the lord and josf light to wo his any to repentance and obe aro higher grounds to faith beadi ond im on aro may latte some sayat a future time but r this will suffice for the hi view of the limited space at mand for this subject abc alie fatherhood of GOK glorious truth that must at sorce aimo impressed upon every oner of our rac it the dof danl it is full of and and who are ith its c ty to deeds occo exalted an boriin ori in and anil dan liters ofilio ln clra n tl and s destiny is glory and dominion and of ahn almighty franica frani cr and governor af abo |