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dlioh' we 90 nold some views which
ire little different from those held
~ other denominations, but we do not
isk you to believe anything which we
an not prove by this Bible" Cholding
[ up).
How careful they are at first: and
,ften In curiosity the would-be victim
listens. then follows the statement, I'VE
believe In faith as first principle of the
Gospel, and in repentance and baptism
for remission of SIM" Most anyone un-
acquainted with Mormonism will won
der after such statement, what the
difference is between it and other
Christian teaching" Afterwards comes
the teaching of laying on of hands,"
and the amounting with Oil which has
been blessed, and then the little differ
ence in baptism is explained and the
while the listener is led on so gradu-
ally that he falls to discern the diver
gence Of Mormonism from Christianity.
Let us examine for ourselves and see
If they believe our God. the Christian
Jesus, the Holy Spirit, as We have been
taught; whether our faith. our baptism
and our repentance Is that of the Nor
mon.
We are taught that God Is infinite.
self-existent, that there is no God, but
one; that God is a spirit.
MORMON GOD.
We have never been able to find any
thing definite as to the beginning of the
He was not always what He is now. In
the New Witness, page 465. Joseph
Smith says: We have imagined and
supposed that God was God from all
eternity; l will refute that idea and
will take away the veil. SO that you
once as we are now, and is an exalted
man and sits enthroned In yonder heav-
Iens. That is the great secret"
The Father has body of flesh and
bones as tangible as a mans. More
than once have we heard it said, What
man is, God was: what God Is. man
may be-" Every man may be.a god of
a world If he has more than one wife.
One of the questions of the ''Child's
Catechism" is, rs there more than one
God" Answer, Yes; there are many
gods"
| What will this teaching do for the
little ones in our Sabbath schools and
kindergartens? Will not this carry
them back to the days Of idolatry and
many gods?
Again the prophet. Brigham Young.
says, There is no other God in heaven
but that God who has flesh and bones"
Adam is our God. He is the God Of this
world. He Is our Father and our God
and the only God with whom we have
to do.
Creation-"The head God called to-
gether the gods, and sat in grand coun-
Gil to bring forth the world" (Joseph
SMITH. when our Father Adam came
into the Garden of Eden he came into
: it with a celestial body, and brought
Eve, one Of his wives, with him. Orig
ham Young). Each god, through his
, wife or wives. raises up numerous
family Of sons and daughters !.
:, for each father and mother will be in
condition to multiply forever" (Sur;
Mrs. Lees hope for children).
5 Jesus Christ and the Father are two
iperSOnS possessing every or
, gan, limb and material part that man
possesses. Jesus is a Son of God, just
as any man Is the son of his father"
i There is no other God in heaven but
5 that God who has flesh and bones"
: Goseph Smith; Compendium.
r HOLY SPIRIT.
In the Key to Theology" Is given
g words of P. z. Pratt, when speaking OF
: electricity. The purest most refined
+" and subtle of these substances .
a is that substance called the Holy Spir-
q Itit,
: are the peculiar manifestations Of the
l. Holy Ghost?" Answer: Amongst 9TH
n lers, visions, dreams, prophecies, speak
,e ing divers tongues. interpretations ol
W tongues, discernment Of spirits ant
=, ANGELS" etc.
y Is this your idea of the Holy Spirit?
'e Seminary girl insists that she sees the
ighost of friend twice, etc. Is 1t the
l. effect of kahuna or is she victim o.
e. this false religion which is permeatinl
at into every native home on these Isl
"A ands?
~ them If you would battle the disease.
u The instructors of the. youth in on
d. Christian schools of Hawaii have no
I done their whole duty to those intrust
to ed to their care, If investigation of thi
ht subject and instruction given Is neg
in ha
J., AS to the origin Of man, one of tn
Id hymns may answer the question:
IL I'm the heavens are parents single?
LII mo, the thought makes reason stare
G. Truth is reason; truth eternal
nd Tells me, I've a mother there"
lv In the next stanZa the word mothe
- Is written with a capital letter. an
this means that the head God has wiye
n and that human spirits are pro-create
cg in heaven before their bodies are pre-
he created here.
of Sin is necessity to mans exaltatiol
es Catechism 13, p. 32-33-Questior
WAS 1t necessary that Adam shoul
an ,partake of the forbidden fruit?" Al
'iy swer: Yes; unless he had done 80
I'D would not have known good and ev
tn, here; neither could he have had mort
er- posterity."
on Young people are told by their spiri
BE- ual heads that they have to do wror
tul things in order to learn better. Do Il
To Hawaiian youths and maidens ne,
Ird such instruction? Great effort Is beii
ow put forth to remedy certain evils. soci
Inc sins, which have been presented befo
Inc the public lately in striking colors, al
this Is all very well If 1t Is the most e
les fectual means by which true Christi'
cal people can be aroused to duty; but
Sc warming note has been sounded; 7
Ike evil before us today is only beginni1
de- of the sad condition of social affai
which we will soon have to fat
Fou brought on by such teaching Use t
Ire, "ounce of prevention etc. Are o
md Hawaiian young people ever to reaii
You the pure home life so beautifully q
ur picted by our pastor in his Saba
hat evening talks IL they are fostered u
me der such teaching?
the The tabu system of old never laid
ga Oppressive hand upon woman as
ac- Threatening her today.
and BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD.
'teh Morrnons base their doctrine of 'ba
'tism for the dead" on the passage
nae NAT the Bible. found in 1st Peter 3:1S-21.
,e. The papal doctrine of Purgatt
10 y,a5iGo5 hIIf holding III