The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-09
EXPOSURE OF DANGEROUS NOR
MONISM.


MONISM.
AS is a very dangerous
and insidious poison it is well to refer
to il again. 1t is only dangerous to
ignoranceto people OF low passions.
1t cannot deceive an educated person
who is informed as to its real doctrines
and history. 1t gets in its work in all
the states for il readily finds that kind
Of mental soil we'll prepared for the re-
ception Of its seeds that are scattered
by it's industrious agents, numbering
thousands now, who go around, like old
satan of old, seeking whom they may
devour. What we shall do today is to
copy a few of their tenets-articles of
faith-What they profess to believe.
Mormonism teaches that there is a plu-
rality of Gods just as heather nations
through the ages have taught. In
their c~atechism, page 13, it is taught:
20. Are there more Gods than one
A Yes. Many"
In their Key to Theology" page 80,
you will find this:
"A General Assembly, Quorum, or
Grand Council of the Gods, with their
president at their head, constitute the
designing n creating power"
They teach that Adam is their faith
er and God, and the only God" That
God, the Supreme, is but a man origi-
nally. Let us quote to show this wick
ed thing called Mormonism really says
as to the Almighty Father, the creator
of all mankind:
A brief statement much used by their
public speakers, runs as follows: What
man is now God once was; what God
is now man nay become"
In Doctrines and Covenants. Sec.
$50: %.
THE Father has a body of flesh and
bones as tangible as mans"
For Journal of Discourses. Vol. 6.
Page 3.
God himself was once as we are now,
n is an exalted man, and sits en-
throned in yonder heavens. That is
the great secret.'-Joseph Smith, April
Z, 1874.
Smith was the founder, the originator
of this ~stupendous fraud. But listen
to their great leader Brigham Young,
who had some eight or ten so-called
wives" In a talk of his, he uttered
this abominable stuff:
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. He helped
to make and organize this world. He
is Michael, the Archangel, the Ancient
of Days, and about whom holy men
have written and spoken. He is our
father and our God, and the only God
with whom we have to do."-Sa1t Lake
City, April 9, 1852.
They teach a female deity"-that
Jesus Christ was not begOtten by the
| Holy Ghost, but was begotten by the
Father, who was a man. This Father,
it is stated by Young, was 1.-The first Of
the human family" What horrid
stuff. And yet there are blasphemers
to teach, and fools to receive such aw-
ful statements. We will pain our read
ers with one more of the vile teachings
of the Mormon leachery. 1t shows to
what deep degradation the men Of
innumerable wives" nave fallen when
they ear give to the world such work
of infamy and blasphemy and false
hood. OF the adorable and gracious
Son of God, Jesus Christ, the Righteous,
one of the Mormons called Apostle"
OrsOn Hyde, president of the Twelve
Apostles, in a so-called sermon preach
ed October 6, 1854, gave the world this
most offensive statement:
IF at the marriage of Cana of Gals
lee, Jesus was the bridegroom, and took
unto him Mary, Martha, and the other
Mary. whom Jesus loved, it shocks not
our nerves. If there was not attach
ment and familiarity between our Sa-
viour and these women, highly improp-
er only in the relation of husband and
wife, then We have no sense of pro-
priety. We say it was Jesus Christ
who was married, whereby he could see
his seed before he was crucified. I
shall say here that. before the Saviour
died he looked upon his own natural
children as we loo upon ours"
We ask is this sort of blasphemy and
foul falsehood to be tolerated in the
name of religious liberty? The morals
and sentiments of the bangnio are more
decent and more religious than such
d~isreputable and most disgusting stuff.
1t is no wonder that moral communi-
ties weary of such slanderous and ly-
ing teaching as that giveni We could
give you much more that is most wick
ed and offensive, but this is enough to
show that monstrous doctrines are
taught by these heather emisaries of
lust and satan. 1t is only by printing
some of their vile impurities, so i'm
pious and irreverent, that our readers
can be made fully acquainted with the
denominations they teach in their pull
pits and house to house visits. That
is u apology for soiling our columns
with such coarse, hateful, damnine
nonsense.
DIR. ALDERMAN BEFORE TULANE