The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-26
The Three Book Salvation.
rn the Editor Of Tup HERALD.


President of the Reorganized Church
appearing in TIE HEgALD, July 10Th
being refused, beg lief to occupy
short space in your columns, to sho"
my grounds for the challenge. 1 will b'
as brief as possible.
From Joseph Smiths discourse o.
June 28th, published in the Tribune June
Both, we have the following words;
He detailed the manner in which the
reorganization took place. Ii oegana ~
1851, with members who were lden'illeu
with the church in Joseph's tiIne-oiie
branch at JeffersOuyille, WAYNE County
Illinois. organized by Thomas r 0IeTn =
and one near Ballot, MlSso t, a' w; a
number of the saints IN Southern W. W.
cousin and Northern Illinois: ne
movement began with these. Ihey m' I
together for prayer, and were ulrecteu
nv tbe shirt to take the book OF DOC
trines and Covenants. made prepara-
tions for and held conference IN } uhe
1852. at which conference they paSseu
resolutions indorsing the Bible, BOOK ol
Mormon and Doctrines and covenants
as tbe law to govern the church. Ihey
aappointed a committee and elders' VINO
hegan laboring and holding conferences
each year up TO 1869, OF when tlIle seven s'l
were chosen to represent the apos.e
ship. and a number OF seventies sSco W." NJ
chosen. At the conference Oh io9V 1uI.
Smith and his mother, MI bli i
ioinine because directed so to do alter
anneaIing in prayer, and he then accept
cd tha platform Of the books and pledg-
ed himself TO teach nothing but what
should be approved by them.
In his detail of the gospel, he does not
name st. Curly, St. Shane and st:
Marks. These being the founders OF
the Reorganized Church. The organlzas
ton was as follows:
First.-The above named saints, ana
few others, met in solemn prayer pc
fore God to see what they should do lot
salvation. This was II the year 1921,
when the spirit of truth, the Holy
Ghost directed to take book of Doc
trine and Covenants for their salVailon.
Second.-Our year after this. at pub
lie conference, the spirit of truth, the
Holy Ghost changes his first policy and
tells them TO take the Bible, Book OF
Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants
as the groundwork Of their salvation:
Third.-Again the spirit of truth, the i
Holy Ghost changes his policy, at a |
public conference held in 1860, that their
plan of salvation was to be the Bible, |
the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and |
Covenants and an apostolic power re-
presented by seven persons.
This is the detailed manner IN which
the Reorganized Church OF Jesus Christ
took place, between the years OF 1851
and 1860. The church OF Marks, Shane
and Gurley was organized nine years
before the Prophet. Scar and Reveiator,
Joseph Smith, became member OF the
Recognized Church.
It was in this same year he pledges
himself to be obedient to their confess
zion of faith, the spirit of truth, the
Holy Ghost, being his director in answer
o prayer. 1t was then that Joseph
smith places the massive chain of theOl
'gical slavery around his neck, by pledg
ng himself to teach nothing but what
hould be approved by the confession
f faith by the Jews, 1.-THE Bible) the con-
ession OF faith by the Nephites. (the i,
SOCK of Mormon) and the confession of
aith by the Mormons, (the book of Doc
rine and CovenantS.)
What confidence can we place upon
UGH changeable mode OF salvation?
The salvation of the Lord, the Jesus {
nd the Christ; is not the history of the {
asst, the predictions of the future, but !
ne facts of the present embodied in the :,
sdemption or gathering of the Zion of !
cd, the Israel of God. the judah of l
cd and the Gentiles of God. '
scattered Joseph. or Zion :
= the Ishmaelites. Gen. 1928; 1922. Y
Second.-He scattered the ten tribes
Israel bv Solmanezzar, King of As (;
ria. 1. Kings. Il. 8
scattered Judah by Nebu- :,
iadnezzar, King Of the Babylonians.
an. 2.
Fourth.-The Lord gave the Holy a
host to the Gentiles or Romans. which t
ade them mighty in scattering his b
'ople at Jerusalem. III. Nephl. 8; a
att. 20:l7. Il
Paul tells US that the scattering of 6
rael, is the salvation of the world. T.
ON. 11:15: abstract and independent Z.
all books. therefore. Joseph Smith is o
rong in depending on his Three 81
Ook Salvation and seven representa- n
yes of the apostolic power. IT
The Holy Ghost is a spirit of truth
I'd has but one plan of salvation, and b
erefore. could not have allowed NJ
lange OF faith as one would change his ~
Othing. v
Angus MCDONALD,
A free-thinking optical professor o.