Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-21
SUNDAY SERVICES.
p II. Roberts Delivers Dis
ii'', samr,c Replttc with Interest
and Instruction.


,,,,,ors se,yiccs were held ut the
Ma salt lake CITY SUNDAY,
i,,.h %. 1892, commencing at
MAY" counselor Joseph Il. Taylor
p NJ, NV"'
r,s choir sang the hymn beglnning'
i' ~ .,and, with Lnla surrounded,
aop. leptby power divine
pnyer was offered by Elder Joseph
II. Dean. ,u,,o.
us dleii,ho great Redecmer died
hsafsrael'. daughters wcpt around
rbs pheslhood Of the Third ward
,amipistered the sacrament
ELDER u. u. RoBERTs
-. the speaker. He presumed 1t
..,,h, be taken for granted that In u
.an,reaatlon so large Ms the one pes
y, an tina, occasion there were more or
,..of those not Of the faith OF the Lat.
5ay saints. Probably some Of
Men came out OF cufiotltyi anu
ns .s IL would be well, perhaps, tor
~ 10 ,xpound the fundamental
',ineiples aud docttines VI their
rsnrch for the instruction Of those
.,snrrrl, that they might not come
,,ste In vain, but be maue acquainted
IN some Of the great princi-
y. fin which the Latter
~ saint. believed. Such In
.irgction, he took ", would prove
.o1ally profitable for the Saints, since
Iwonli, at least, refresh their minds,
svep N nothing new was taught In
Sssd n would be extremely difficult to
ieseh anything new 10 the Latter.day
ssInts. Al any rate, he felt his own
liability 10 do 40. In his researches
mi Ciospel studies he had often been
snrprised 10 lind that when he thought
lie had discovered some new ldca u
would not bu u great while before be
learned the fact that II hau Oeeh
known long ago ny Elders who were
hboring Ia the ministry before. ne was
torn. but perhaps, under the inepitn'
lion OF the Holy Spirit, one might be
fortunate enough 10 make new comOi.
nations with the known facts, anu
leach the old things IN little different
manner from what Others had taught,
And thus create new impressions on the
minds Of those who heard.
Among the people Of tho world the
Latter.day Saints were regarded AZ
ycry blgoted class, very narrow-mind'
,daud very exclusive In their idens Of
religion. lie supposed that this im-
pfession had gone abroad In couse'
anenee OF the very peculiar position
mai The Church OF Jesus Christ had
taken In relation 10 the revelations OF
God. Nearly all modern sects OF de-
uoninatinns might refer their origin
10 the researches, TO the genius OF or.
SANITATION of some man who LETT tue
older forms Of religion aud established
something new, to which doubtless he
gave his own name Or some name
descriptive OF tho circumstances sur
fuundlng the sect when II came into
eIl1tence. Thus the Methodiste, fol-
lowers OF John Wesley, received
lbelt name because OF the precise
methods adoplod IN the worship DIES.
cnbed by this great reiormeri me
LutheranH took their Daue IN the
same wny from Martin Luther; the
Calvlnists, usually known ~ Pfetby-
tsflans, took their name from the style
Of church government inaugurated by
John Calvin and his followers; and
stfom some circumstance or otner of
ns kind the religious accts OF the day
bad become known.
In the Church Of Jesus Christ II
was quite different. This Church re-
isfred iis origin not 10 any man or 10
the labors Of any men, hut claimed 10
have been founded by direct revelation
from God; aud In that fiTst revelation
which might be regarded M the source
from whence the Church sprapg, It
was announced 10 the youth
fol Prophet Joseph Smith that
the creods and religions Of men were
not acceptable 10 God, were not recog-
nIed as His Church or His Kingdom;
but, on the contrary, that those crceds
were an Accumulation Ia His sight; that
they had reduced religion TO n "iorm OF
godllnesa," lacking the power thereof.
Because the Latter-day Saints gave
this account o. thoir origin they were
looked upon NJ bigotcd aud narrow
minded, because they esteemed all other
religious to be wrong and their own
alone TO be right.
much In that position that should ex-
cuse their friends for looking upon them
e blgo;s, as egotlair, and In a measure
eyen as the enemies Of all other religious
sec,s and denominations. II was a POSI-
ton, indeed, which needed explanation
Ia orier 10 take away from II that APP
peamnce Of blgotry which those who
booked only upon the surface Of things
We're very llatlc TO attribute TO them.
Yet he Thought II came with an Ill
grace from the Christian world to
speak Of blgotry, especially II based
upon the ground that the Latter'day
Saints were no few In number In com.
parisou with the great body Of the
Christian people In the world.
The task he proposed 10 set himself
that afternoon was TO show, " he could,
that "Mormon" theology was more lib.
ernl and broader than the general con-
ceptions OF the Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
aud that white there might DO u seem
Ing ground for the charge OF
bigotry against the Iattor-day
Saints, II was only In seem
my. In proof OF this lie de-
sired TO call attention TO passage
q scripture recorded In the Book VI
Mormon-a book held by this Ieople to
be OF equal authority with the Jewish
scriptures, Hence II was the word oil
The Lord TO them. II contained thu
Inspired utterances OF tue prophets
who Inhabited this continent In an.
Client TINES. The circumstances con.
hecled with the passage which lac
would now read were very interesting,
One Alma had been travelling for some
years among the heather OF the lanu-
py THIS lac meant those who refused IL
believe in Ihtlsi thu f.amauitpa fran,