The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-14
TWELFTH WARD.
g1der PenrOse DiscOurses on Blood
Atonement.

rho Twelfth Ward Assembly Rooms
=. dsnseIv crowded on Sunday even
TO hear Elder C. w. Penrose discuss
10 eubiect of Blood AtOnement as a
..Not Of the Mormon Church. After
,;-ging and prayer, Elder John Morgan
+,oI, the stand and said that in the abb
souce Of Elder Penrose, who had doubt
So. mistaken the time, he would fill up
az time intervening. Elder Morgan re-
ssarra3 TO the large assemblage as an
aT;dence of the fact that there IS great
s.a~ast in the Mormon question, an
i-terazt which runs through the clYI-
I'D world. Commencing inSignIh
lily with little TO cause 1t to be the
rocinient of attention of the world. II Is
,ow the most conspicuous inquire IN the
1orId. It is evident that there Is some
tbing in our principles, even to visitors,
tbot cannot De explained away;
There is a strong power arrayed
sgainst those men or governments, thaI
o2 tradition; it Is stronger than any
mower except Gods; there IS ever anu
always an opposition TO Innovations
from whatever source: -
EIder PeurOse, having arrived, TOOK
the stand and said that while not beng
obIa ia arrive on, time, the audience
wouId not blame him when he stated
mat one of his little boys had diSlocated
his elbow and the speaker could not De
present earlier.
Proceeding directly to his subject the
sne9ber said blood atonement was
Relieved il by all the Christian denoml-
nations in one form or another. The
J,gtter-day Saints have been greatly
rnisrepresented in this connection
and it would be his purpose
IN show what the doctrine as we regard
It's. It is very gratifying to note that
the people who oppose US are cOnapelieo
50 resort to Misrepresentation TO oppose
rs. One good arises out OF Inc attack
anon us-We are always actVe ana
stirred up to life, whereas staSnatlon Is
death. The subject OF my remarks VIII
hecommenced with by remarks from the
iote President Young ana J. H. Grant.
PIood atonement is founded on the sac
,ofce made by Jesus Christ for the sins
AZ the world. Referring to Adam and
I've eating the forbidden fruit, the
sneaker said that in the fOreknOWiedge
II God they too would sin, and ne ar
RANGED for a means of return to grace,
and God gave up his son as sacrifice.
Tbis was the foundation of blood atone
ment. 1t was typical Of the atOnement
nv means of which crimes actually com
mitted could be expiated. All had
sinned but Christ who had Sinned not,
like lamb of the slaughter, laid down
his life that all mems sins might be
atoned for. Christ atoned for
Adams sin, by which death came
The atonement by Christ brought
life again, but people must be
gagged by their individual acts; i
people reject this atonement, they
cOnsign themselves to endless punlsi--
ment; but if they accept 1t their sins
are propitated by Il blood Of Christ. All
the denominations believe in the atone
ment for sin by the sacrifice OF Christ
in other words blood atOnement. The
speaker then read from the Scriptures
to show that by the shedding Of blood
vas sin atoned for; but in order that
individual blood might not be offered
up, Christ died to save all; read from
Leviticus to show that the pouring out
of the blood, which means the life, was
the only plan for renting sins; and
but for Christ's sacrifice, individual
sacrifice of life would have been neces-
Bary for PREPARATION; in former days the
blood Of innocent animals was shed as
( representation of the blood of the
Messiah; and so in our sacrament we
drink wine or water as the case may lie
as a token of the blood of Christ;
whose blood was shed to atone for our
sins. The Latter-day Saints believe in
the remission of sins through the blood
Of Christ, and the waters of BAPTISM
where sins are washed away thereby,
and are fit to receive the Holy Ghost,
which makes all things pertaining to
the gospel plain; but after this, when
those who had received the gospel sin
again, they may by repentance obtain
forgiveness, but there are others which
repentance alone cannot cover. The
speaker then read from the Journal of
DisCourSe7, volumes, in relation to sins
which men commit and that cannot be
stoned for except by the shedding of
blood; and that If many knew their
situation, as it is, they would pray that
their blood might be split. President
Young maintained this doctrine, and if
the Bible is true, it is true 81 Matthew
was read on this subject showing that
the sins Of man should be forgiven by the
Atonement of Christ, but sins against
the Holy Ghost are not so forgiven; be-
cause the sinner has been cleansed
and sire ngthened, and gone, in the face
OF his new knowledge, to sin. First
eplStle Of John, 5th chapter, in
relation to SHINING unto and
not unto death, was read, and
the former should not be prayed for
even, as nothing but death could atone
Tor 1t. Further quotations were made
from Scripture to show that after a man
has entered into the full faith of the
gospel and committed the unpardon-
able sin, he has placed himself beyond
repentance and must pay the penalty Of
bis shining, and cited instances wherein
the greatest atOnement-the life itself,
or IN other words, the bloOd-had been
sacrificed in order that they might there
after be saved This was the doctrine
eenunciated by President Brigham
Aoung. Who are such people as are
referred to? Those who shed innocent
blood, and hanging is not the proper
atonement; his own blood must be the
2tOnement. And there are those who
cannot be forgiven even by the shedding
OF their blood; they are men who have
proceeded in grace from point to point,
and been In the way Of the highest ex-
altatlOn. have shed innocent blood and
these will suffer the second death. 1t
Is not true that sin is the result of ig-
noranCe; an idiot cannot commit sin,
because he cannot comprehend the
measure and consequences of his acts;
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