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Show 'WHAT OF DEAD?' ASKS APOSTLE James E. Talmage Speaks at Second of Doctrinal "Christ's: miion was woefully Incomplete In-complete If it was to the llvlnx oolj lWh.it of the dead?" Apostle James B iTalrn declared In an address de- lleered In the Ogden tabernacle Frl-jday Frl-jday night. The .speaker declared thai ! ace 0 ruing to the testimony of writers of the scriptures the spirit of Chrlt wont to the spirit world after It left His body on the cross. As in the flesh Christ was a man among men. co when (His spirit left UW body He was a spirit among spirits. lie went to the spirit world to proclaim salvation unto the spirits in prison. Ills mission there was no! without a definite purpose. He ,dld not go there to heap further suffering suf-fering upon them. He. as a savior, .went to sa C." - Tho meeting as the ,-ccond of a It rles to be held during the winter I months by the Ogden and Mount Og-Iden Og-Iden stake genealogical committees. , Fred C Schade of the Mount Ogden stake committee presided over a capacity ca-pacity congregation. The musical portion por-tion of the service was under the direction di-rection of Lester G. Hlnchcllff. with Sam '. Will taker at the organ con-sola con-sola winiam Gardiner sang the solo. J"I Have Heard of a Beautiful City." OOMPLl INCE w tl ll LWV Apostle Talmage said the compll-jance compll-jance with laws and ordinances of the gospel was essential to salvation and I that salvation w as assured becuso of ho atonenient of Christ. The principles prin-ciples and ordinances of faith, repent-lance repent-lance and baptism, arc absolutely essential es-sential to salvation, he declared The speaker said it was the absolute right for an Individual to know that Jesus is the Christ and "If wo know Him we should obey Him. Such faith leads men to take stock of them-eivea them-eivea Uepentanco Is not merely a thing of sorrow and tears, but a determination deter-mination to get back to the place whore we ought to be. A truly repentant re-pentant person will recognize the foulness foul-ness of the atmosphere of sinful places and will seek after that which is pure "Baptism Is absolutely essential to salvation. It Is tho portal through which we enter Into the eternal city. This principal and ordinance was taught by Christ and surely the au- llinr rt .li'nllnn aliull, I kl the right to prescribe the manner of en-.trance en-.trance into the kingdom. There is a consensus of opinion among theologians theolog-ians that the birth b water mentioned mention-ed liy Christ means baptism. PR ( I'M ll 1 1 N i M ' Win n Christ told Nlcodemus that a man must be born of water ami the spirit, he did not set any limitation as to time or place. The cbUn has o? tho world today do not teach that : baptism Is essential to salvation because be-cause they have no definite Idea as !to what provision, if any. are made jfor those who died without observing this ordinance. Baptism for the dead was taught and practiced anciently, that It Is not a modern ordinance only In the sense of restoration." The speaker declared that when i Paul in his address to the Corinthlm-I Corinthlm-I asked, ' What shall they do who ar baptized for lh? Qead. If the dead rise inot, why are they then baptized for 'the dead."' he was speaking asa philosopher, phil-osopher, and as one who Was lnsplredl bj Christ, and was discussing a sub-I Iject with WhlC hhis hearers wen fa-1 miliar Paul, the speaker said, was I discussing the subject of the resur-! Irectlon and knowing that baptism fori the dead was practiced by his hearers hear-ers he questioned them, "If the dead aro not to be resurrected, why waste time i'i being baptised for them?" Elder Talmage declared that the authority to baptise was lost In the darkness of aposlacy. TheolOgialS, the unbiased and unprejudiced admit It, ho said. He said the Church of England Eng-land declares that clergy and lalty alike had been lost In Idolatry. That I great hurch proclaims the fact of the I great aposlacy and LOSS of priestly authority. au-thority. ' W." the speaker said. proclaim that and more. We proclaim, pro-claim, the morning breaks, the shadows shad-ows flee The priesthood has been restored In the manner predicted by ancient prophets." I Authority to administer in holy ordinance or-dinance Is not gained from a knowl-- knowl-- iIk'c t,f the Bible, any more than authority au-thority to sit as a Judge in a court of Justlco is obtained by a mere knowledge of law." the speaker declared. de-clared. The gospol is something more than a book. As well might you tell la student of chemistry to read his i books and keep away from the laboratory.'" Tl Ali IRDIM UNCI Joseph Smith, the speaker said, declared de-clared that an anifel from heaven conferred con-ferred the priesthood upon him and i Uiver Cowdery There was something some-thing more than book learning then That was an actual ordinance" the speaker said. He also explained that Klijali had appered to Joseph Smith as predicted Ly Mallchl, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers, and the dead are being prepared pre-pared for the ordinances that are being be-ing performed for them by the living Referring to the eternity of the marriage covenant as taught by the L, 1. S church. Apostle Talmage called call-ed by ministers and officers of the Uiw, which unites a man and awoman "until death do us part." "Why should death be an Invited guest at the marriage feast?" ho asks. He replied, re-plied, "They can do no more because they lack authority to bind for time and eternity. To perform an ordinance ordin-ance to be tn effect beyond 'he grao requires the authority and power of, tho priesthood of God." |