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Show Fcriner Qml LOS Missionary Tdis 0? Life Behind Iron Csirtai Approximately 300 people jammed the recreation room of the Roosevelt Stake House Sunday Sun-day evening to hear Fabian Gi-roux, Gi-roux, former missionary to Czechoslavokia for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, tell of life behind the Iron Curtain. He addressed the Roosevelt Ward sacrament meeting. meet-ing. One of the last missionaries for the LDS. Church to labor in the Czech mission. Elder Giroux was expelled from that country after the Communists took over. He said they were branded as spies, and the people who accepted the gospel as presented pre-sented by the Mormons were immediately labeled as accomplices accom-plices and had their property confiscated and lost their jobs Other Christians faced similar circumstances. The young convert, who accepted ac-cepted Mormonism in Cleveland, Cleve-land, Ohio, several years ago, labeled the Communist party as the "Restored Church of Satan," and rather convincingly proved his point by telling of their program pro-gram as he compared it with the doctrine and beliefs of the Lat ter-day Saints, who claim their church is the restored church of Jesus Christ. "Everything we stand for, they are violently op- posed to," he repeatedly told his audience. "The gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of love, and the Communist Com-munist gospel is a gospel of hate," Mr. Giroux said as he began his address." "There is only one way the world can subdue those who have repudiated repudi-ated God and denied the practice prac-tice of Christian principles, and that is by teaching and living the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and shutting out hate, envy and greed from our hearts, and literally lit-erally loving our neighbor as we do ourselves," Mr. Giroux warned his very attentive audience. aud-ience. During his discussion Mr. Giroux told of various miraculous miracu-lous manifestations that he had witnessed where God's hand had been seen among those good people who are faithfully living the gospel as they learned to believe be-lieve it. "Although denied the right to meet in a body (only five persons can meet together), the church membership gathers together in fives or less and partakes par-takes of the sacrament and studies stud-ies the gospel together," he said. "They are afraid to say their prayers out loud because of the fear they have that sound recording re-cording devices have been placed in the walls of the rooms," he further stated. Mr. Giroux, who is a personal per-sonal friend of Drs. Vere and Don Johnson, is employed in the Ogden High School. He is a convert from the Catholic Church, and is taking a very active part in the LDS program pro-gram in Ogden. |
