The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-11
LATTER DAY Saints
William Kelly Explains Who and What They
Are.
NOT same AS A NORMAN Saint
Rest Their Faith Upon Old and New
Testament and Book of Mormon.
PolYgamy is Objected to, but They
Believe in Direct Revelation-Havs
Gone Back to Purity and Belief Of
Early Church

Two missionaries OF the Keorganizsd
Church OF Jesus Christ OF LATTER Day
Saints, William Kelly, of Kirkland,
o., and II. H. RobinSon, OF Iudepond-
ence, Mo-. are in the city. and yestrr-
day morning and evening conducted
meetings in Cooperative hall on the
West Side. Niateen persons. four OF
whom were children, attended the
morning service.
Mr.. Kelly was The speaker. Hs is
somewhat patriarchial in appearance,
but might be counted more than an
ordinarily good speaker wsre it not
that the beauty OF many Of his sentences
is marrei by the fact tnat he fails
10 appreciate tn" value OF agreamant
between the snhjsct and the verb. He
took for his text these words from the
book OF St Matthew BAT what think
We? A certain man mad two Sons; and
he came 10 the frsS aud said: Son, 60
work to!ay in my vineyIri.' H an
swered mud raii: i will not; bat aft.
erwari he repent@d ami went. Aud hs
crme to the second ami said lik9wi7o.
and he answered aud said: 4 90, sir
and went not. Whether OF thsm twain
did the will of his father? They say
unto him the first. Jesus said unto
them: Verify | say unto You, that the
publicl ms and the harlots 20 into the
kingdom of God before you
A LONG DISCOURSE.
Mr.. Kelly spoke for over IN hour and
evidently could have kept right on all
day, as he never seemed TO lack for q
word, He said he proposed to speak
of those things which relate TO our
present and eternal welfare The eff.
feet Of the teaching of Christ upon
thDse in His day, he averred. WAS very
much the same as that produced by
other men divinely lnspirei. There
was no wonderful power displayed that
compelled men to accept what Christ
said As truth. His words were directed
to the intelligence Of mon and they
were left to choose for themselves be-
tween the right and the wrong.
In speaking Of John the Baptist, Mr..
Kelly said that many accepted the
message Of the great io"erunner. Yet
we have very little account of what
John did However, most people es.
tecmad him a prophet aud the common
people heard him gladly, There is an
integrity in the common people, said
the speaker, that is not always found
in those whose stations are higher in
life In commenting upon the two
sous referred to in the text Mr.. Kelly
gave it ss his opinion that the first son
had no business to speak to his father
as he did, but the fact that he after
ward repentod and did the work, fur.
nishes good idea of the nature Of re-
pentauce, which is simply the chang
ing Of ones mind.
The speaker did not particularly as
sail other churches. although their
points OF disagreement were con-
demned, and when he told his hearers
to beware Of the leaven OF the Phari-
sees. inference may have been that by
Pharsees was meant those whose re.
ligious code will allow no sanction of
the doctrines of the Latter Day Saints.
The points connected with the practice
and belief OF the saints that are most
Objectionable to the mass of Christians
were not dwelt upon.
WHAT THE SAINTS ARE.
After the close OF his discourse Mr..
Kelly explained to The TRIBUNE re.
porter that himself and colleague were
in the city 20 sec il they could not
bring together tho members OF the
church here of whom there was at ono
time quite number. He gave the re.
porter TO understand that the Latter
Day Saints are in no way connected
with the Salt Lake Morm0ns, who are
Improperly called Latter Day Saints.
The real saints, that is those who are
represented by Mr. Kelly, rest their
faith on the old and the new testament
and the book Of Mormon.
They believe in the laying on of hands
and all the other practices of the apos-
ties, claim to be endowed with the gift
of tongues mt their gatherings, reject
but profess 10 believe in
direct revelation from G)d as in the
days Of old. In fact they claim to
have gone back to the belief, purity
and practices Of the church as they ex-