The San Francisco call., 1896-04-20

from Salt Lake City to make the address.
When he got through-at nearly O'Clock
he had at least enlisted the sympathy il
he had not won the faith of his big audi
ence. Once it gave him a sudden and sus-
tanned burst OF applause.
Elder Henry S. Tanner, president of the
California Mission. presided. In brief
address of his own, preliminary to the
introduction of Elder Grant, he said: "In
calling you together here, and in working
daily in your midst, we seek only your
good, the redemption of mankind. We ask
you to listen to the doctrine of redemption
as we understand it. The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints has been
much maligned and misunderstood. Our
reputation is not our character. We ask
you to take note of our character, the lives
we lead and the professions we make, and
Judge US by these rather than by what our
enemies or the misinformed may say OF
u.s."
The opening remark of Elder Grant was
an Endorsement of this statement and a re-
iteration of that which declared the pur-
pose of the church and this meeting to be
the redemption of men. He looked for
ward to the time when the Church oil
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-he
called it nothing else in his entire address
would convert the world.
1t was impossible, he said, to give more
than the briefest outline of the tenets OF
the church in single address. He ran
through the articles of faith, with brief
comments. The Latter-day Saints believe
in the Bible-believe in it too strictly for
many, he said. Henry Ward Beecher had
been quoted as saying, eff one is to take
the Bible literally he had better join the
Mormon church" In that Mr.. Beecher
spoke truly.
1--WE also, however believe in the Book
of Mormon as presented by Joseph Smith, u
said the speaker. "We believe in God, the
Eternal Father, his son Jesus Christ and
the Holy Ghost. We do not believe that
these three are one.
'We believe that all men may be saved
except those who once having received the
light shall deny God.
I'VE believe that souls may be saved
after death by vicarious effort in their he.
half. Those who deny this must deny the
gion. For Christ died that we might he
saved. We believe, too, that he went
further than that; that he extended saliva
ton to the countless millions of souls that
had passed into the great beyond before
his coming. We believe that during the
three days that his body lay in the tomb
his spirit had gone TO preach the Gospel to
the spirits and offer them salvation. For
this we have the word of the Bible. We
believe in baptism, and there is only now
completed in Salt Lake City the temnIe.
which has cost millions of dollars and the
toll of many people forty years in build
ing, where nothing goes on but the cere-
mony of baptism both for the living and
the dead.''
The speaker referred to the report that
the arch-murderer, Holmes, had been re-
ceived into the Catholic church. Like
wise it was the belief of tie Latter-day
Saints that no sinner need be lost except
those who committed the one unpardon-
able sin referred to.
1--WE believe" he said, .'in the gift of
tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions,
healing, Interpretation of tongues. ETC.. and
the laying on of hands for the gift OF the
Holy Ghost; the same organization that
existed in the primitive church, namely,
apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evan
ge!ists, etc.
1T is just little strange" continued
the speaker, "that in view of these things