Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-23
Interesting Addresses by Elders
Andrew Jensen and Joshua
II. Paul.
DIVINITY or "MoRMoNISM. "
Proof That the Apostasy Was Uniyer.
sal and That There Was Need of
A Restoration.

The services at the Tabernacle yes
terday afternoon were unusually well
attended and the speakers were Elders
Andrew Jensen AMI Joshua H. Paul,
who related interesting items of their
experience and pointed out the differ
ence between the religion Ct the Lat
ter-day Saints and that which is be-
lieved by the Christian world
The choir song the hymn;
"Behold the mountain of the Lord,
In latter days shall rise.
Prayer was offered by Elder Samuel
j. sudbury.
The choir sang the anthem:
40 come and let us sing unto the Lord"
Elder Andrew Jenson was the first
speaker He said he had had many
opportunities of addressing fhe Saints
in many lands, but in none of them
did ne feel the timdlty which charac-
terized his efforts here at home.
Speaking Of his missionary ,areer,
Elder Jensen said he commenced Il in
his native land and had continued 1t
more or less ever since. He had had
occasion to test the Gospel and the
promises of God To His children 0nd
had learned that He was the same IN
all lands and was ever ready ~ Dess
and benefit those who would bow IN
humble submission to His Will The
experience of the Latter-day Saints
was that God was the same ycster-
day, today and forever and that when
shA a tyfl N IN,
serve Him, He was ready to open up
the way and overcome all obstacles in
their behalf.
Elder Jensen spoke Of his travels In
the old wOrlG and particularly those
with reference TO the Holy Land. He
said he was somewhat skeptcal with
regard TO the exact location of the
many important points of interest to be
seen there, despite the fact that he was
an implicit believer I'm the mission of
Jesus Christ and in the incidents con-
nected Herewith as recorded In Holy
writ When being shown these points
Of interest, he was wont TO associate
them with similar points of interest I'm
this land, calling attention to the fact
that in the new world there were also
places which We're just as sacred per-
haps, as those In Palestine. The Hill
Cumorah was one of these sacred spots,
the hill which held the plates from
which the Bood of Mormon was trans
lated.
The speaker referred to the many
conflicting creeds and denominations Of
the day, and traced the history Of the
apostasy, pointing out conclusively that
IL was universal and that as John Wes-
ley had said the Christians has turned
heather again and had only a dead
form left, They teach for doctrine,
said the speaker, the commandments of
men, having form of godliness
but deny the power thereof
The speaker traced the condi-
lions leading up to the secession from
the Roman church in different parts of
the earth. and then took up the refor-
nation led by such men as Martin Lu-
Their John Wesley, Philip Melancthon,
John Knox and many others, who had
organized churches suitable to the con-
ditions surrounding them. He had
found in his travels a peculiar state of
affairs religiously, particularly In
Palestine, where the Jews and Moham-
medans hated the name, Christian"
regarding the religious sects of the day
as innovations upon the system origin
ally introduced
Elder Jensen pleaded for greater uni
~ and felt that the Lattcr-day Saints
should be exemplary In thia respect, II
was never intended that the world
should be divided and D-divided as
they are today, but rather that there
houd be a unity of the faith all see
ing and believing the same things. He
spoke Of "Mormonsm" as the pure
word of God and said that II was the
same in all parts of the earth. all who
embraced II being moved by the same
shirt and sDpalkiur and bQlipVinp tho
same things. Such was the message
brought forth by the Prophet Joseph
Smith. 1t was the word of God, deliv-
cred TO an unlettered youth, and car
red with II the gifts and blessings
characteristic of the pure Gospel OF
Jesus christ II had come to us through
n divine channel and differed from the
religions Of the day in this particular
The speaker bore fervent testimony