Show ADHERE TO FAITH WAY TO SAL SALVATION Apostle Grant Says True Gospel Gospe Gospel Gos Gos- pe pel Should Be Be Accepted Without Interpolation BASIS OF MORMON BELIEF I I Gospel Quite Good E Enough ough Without Quibbling Over Mere Merc Figures of Speech hT That l Is not a IL religion but Ur i Is s r a facsimile of the una unadulterated ul- ul cn crt creed ed established bv by th the Savior that it Is In fact tact a restoration restora- restora which tion of the thc orS original nal Christianity in the tile made nan Interpolations o of oi two thousand years ears have been ellmIn elim In mated ed was the main r of oC emphasis emphasise at i the e regular Sunday discourses in the Tabernacle yesterday afternoon Many In attendance the speakers to a a. largo large extent ad addressed addressed ad- ad dressed themselves to a general explanation ex ex- and summary of Mormon ormon doctrIne doc doc- trine trino for Cor or the benefit henet t of those not of the church ChUlch The speakers were John M. M Knight I and Apostle Heber J. J Grant President Anthon II 11 Lund first counsellor counsellor coun coun- of ot the church presided at the thc services in place of oC President Joseph F Fi F. Smith who Is confined to hI his home as a n. result resul t of ot the shock caused b by the death eath of ot his close clos associate and fellow churchman John Henr Henry Smith In his address John M. M r. r Knight de declared declared de- de dared that I if there is one thing characterIstic characteristic characteristic char char- of ot the Latter day Saints it Is their unswerving implicit belief in the divine mission of Jesus Christ as the Savior lor of oC the thc world This steadfast faith Is Js tho the foundation of ot their religion ho he said and in this age of r f doubt and equivocation concerning te fundamentals thIs o of Christianity the they tand unique In the world as th the thc preservers of oC Gods God's orl original plan for tho the salvation of tho the human race After tracing and reviewing the doctrines doctrines doc doc- trines as set down b by Christ and as given to the tho world b by his apostles tho the speaker declared declare that in ione Aone of Its fundamentals or essentials s s MormonIsm Mormon Mormon- Ism at variance with those prime teachIngs teachIngs teachings teach teach- ings o of the gre great t master lieu Heir Clone Cloe to Co o the I Line Inc Is not a reformation It ItIs ItIs itis Is far tar greater than any of the reformations reformations reformations reforma reforma- o of history ho he declared It Is the tho complete restoration o of the tho Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian faith aimed at tho the final redemption redemption tion of or the world The prophet Joseph Smith than whom no greater over ever lived upon the face race of ot the tho earth came not as a reformer as did Luther but butas butas butas as a restorer of an undying truth the light of ot which had hall been beon dimmed and dissipated J by centuries of oC manhandling He came calne as the prophets of old to deliver Gods God's message again to his people and to establish a nev ne and true truo plan of or salvation We give full tuB credit to all the great reformers of ot history and we grant that they were all inspired of heaven but none came with that direct God-given God authority that marked the words and works of oC the prophet of ot the nineteenth century Martin Luther that great reat Elijah o of the reformation who broke the shackles of ot a suffering world and re re- re lighted the lamps of or truth on earth was Indeed Inspired of ot God but not In Inthe Inthe Inthe the larger sense that was true truo of ot the prophet Joseph Smith Such reformers as Lu Luther ther were Gods God's instruments In bringing about a condition ripe for the restoration of ot Christs Christ's teachings teachings' on that great scale that marked the birth of the thc Christian era in the meridian o of time Entrusted with True Gospel Goel And as the mission of ot Jesus Christ was tas divine so is Ie the mission of ot the Latter-day Latter Saints who are entrusted with the advancement an and working out of or the original given Christ gospel Apostle Grant addressed himself to the tho subject of oC Immortality and particular particularly particularly ular to the views of ot the Latter day Saints in re regard ard to the hereafter He Ho Homade made much o of the fact that tho the Mormon people taken as a whole are aro the only Christian people possessed of or a definite tan tangible conception of oC such matters He said there was no doubt but that the thc subject o of Immortality was of more vital Importance and Interest to therace tho the thorace thorace race than any other subject confronting confront confront- confrontIng In ing It it He l from Senator Albert J. J essa essay concerning mens men's views on the hereafter to show that no other people have the a assurance that rests In tho the Latter day Saints I r have known great reat men said ald Apostle Grant to Uto say ay the they would rather rathor possess a definite assurance of or life beyond the tho grave grav than to hold all the tho w wealth of ot the United States StateR during the brief tenure of or their life Ilfe here This assurance Is the property of ot ever every true Latter day Saint and It costs them nothing rather It Is the source of oC great happiness and Joy We e believe In the resurrection and the preservation of C our l Identity be beyond ond the veil ell in tho same degree In which wo o hold that Identity here thou though h In Ina Ina ina a much more exalted and enlightened sense The ministers of or the world and andall andall all nil the great thinkers on roll religion lon and Immortality arc are too much given I cn to equivocation an and qualification In considering con con- these matters The They lose loso the spirit o of the Idea an and content themselves themselves them them- selves with quibbling over the letter or the wording of oC their belief We f believe God to bo be a definite tangibility tan tan- and not a misty to fog floating through h the universe c. c not an Indefinable Indefinable able something tho nature of whose being being be be- ing men cannot grasp nor un under under- er- er stand Con on Theology Here th the speaker referred again to Senator erld Be cs c's essays eSlas In which he ho tells o of vital questions put to a alar lar large c number of or- prominent ministers an and the inability of an any of ot them to an answer answer answer an- an decisively ely without qualifying qualifying- their beliefs These questions concerned the nature nature nature na na- na- na ture of God the question of ot Christs Christ's divinity an and tho the question of ot Immortality Immortal Immortal- It ity From the tho nn answers given f en A Apostle postle Grant argued uell that the true truo spirit of Christianity had vanished from the tho world except as It I is 18 observed an and kept alive all b by the Latter day Saints They proved he ho said that none or of orthe orthe the leaders of oC the so called Christian creeds were able ble to stand tand upon the fundamentals fundamentals fun fun- of or Christianity and declare their actual belief In those fow can you OU expect such priests of ot otIce Ice to warm the tho souls of men ho how can such apostles of ot Int interrogation redeem the world he inquired The They complain com com- plain of a lack of oC faith In tho the people today but they thoy themselves are arc re responsible responsible re- re for it for Cor the they preach of ot things that have no life liCe nor spirit The speaker read at nt length from the discourses of oC Henry Drummond one ot of the greatest g philosophic writers of ot the nineteenth century Ho lie took Issue wi with Drummond In the latter's latter pessimistic outlook upon Christianity saying the thet t fault au was not with Christianity in Its true sense but was the result of mans man's Garbling and qualifying Interpolations Tile The choir rendered ered a number of oC an anthems anthems anthems an- an during the services ces Angus M r. r delivered the Invocation and Car Carnon arnOn non Richard W W. 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