Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-02-10

w believing that those principles that
we're essential for the salvation OF man.
kind eighteen hundred years ago are
essential today. We believe this. ior one
reason, hccau,e the scriptures teach that
God Is the same yesterday, today and
forever; that lie is without the shadow
OF turning that lie is the SAME IN the
Gospel aud In the way OF salvation 90 us
who live today as lie was to those who
lived eighteen hundred years ago. We
90 further than thai we believe that this
Gospel that Is taught today was taught
by our savior, aud that II was received
by Moses and Adam. and that 30 has
been among the children Of men from
the beginning Of time. We do not be-.
licye that the Gospel has been preached
continuously from the creation Of man.
but We DO declare that whenever the
authority OF God has been upon the
earth, and O Gospel disDcnsaton has
been committed TO the children Of me 4.
its laws and ordinances have been the
same. The Apostle Paul testdgs that
the same doctrines be had received were
preached before unto Abraham. aud also
TO the Israel Of God under Moses. We
believe that our father Adam under.
stood the principles of faith, repentance.
baptism and the laying ON of hands:
that be had perfect knowledge Of the
atoncmenl that was TO be wrought out
by our Savior, that he taught Il to his
children. and that they, as they spread
abroad upon the face Of the earth, took
this knowledge with them, and thereby
was spread the belief that Is held by all
nations iu a Supreme Being and the un.
Outstanding that they have, TO some cX
tent. OF the a,oucmeut We believe that
this Gospel has been preached from the
beginning Of time, aud that IL will be
preached until the end Of time.
We not only believe that those who
live today will hear the doctrines Of the
Gospel, but that uil who have ever lived.
though they have died without hearing
d. will have the Gospel preached unto
them. Tai is in accordance with the
scripture. The promise Is made that as
In Adam al died, 80 shall IN Christ all
be made alive hut we do not believe,
as many do who profess to be followers
OF the Savior, that because we are made
alive through the atoncmcnt we shall
therefore be brought up aud exalted in
the presence OF God. We believe that
the bonds OF death will be broken, and
that every soul, whether good or bad,
believer or unbclicvcr, will be brought
from the grave In the due time OF the
Lord. through the atoucmcnt OF our
Savior Then we believe that there will
come "a day Of judgment, when the books
shall be opened, md every man shall be
I. judged according to the things that are
written, whether they be- good OF evil.
/ We are not 10 be judged according 10
/ the professions that we make, but We
are to be Judged according to the deeds
that we perform in our lives. This Is
the testimony that we read IN the Rev.
Citations Of John. John was shown the
/ history Of the world, Il may be said. lie
saw the time when there would be an
I apostasy from the things that had been
, introduced by the Savior and taught by
the Apostles; when men would turn
away from them. as the Apostles test.
! fed. and would be turned unto fables;
4 when they would seek alter men who
would teach them the doctrines and