Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-13
Burden Of the Remarks Mad!
Sunday Afternoon at the
Tabernacle.
ITS DISTINCTIVE FEATURES.
Baptism Tor the Dead One of the Lost
Ordinances OF The Christian
World.

That the church OF Jesus Christ OF
Latter-day Saints has no compromise
with the Christian world, was the bur-
den Of the remarks made yesterday af-
ternoon at the Tabernacle. The sneak
crs were President Richard w. Young
of Ensign stake, Elder James q, Tai.
mage and Elder John Henry Smith. Tho
latter dealt principally with Temple
work, pointing OUT that this feature No
the Gospel was not a part of the So
called Christian faith
The choir sang the hymn,
All hail the glorious day
BY Prophets long foretold
Prayer was offered by Patriarch An
gus NJ. Cannon
The choi further sang:
We're not ashamed to own our Lord.
And worship Him on earth
President Richard W. Young WINS
the FIRST speaker. lie said ne epprecl-
oted fully that the object for which IN,
Later-day Saints had assembled was
To strengthen their faith and uartaI,e
of those things which would the hefto,.
prepare them for the iourney,of he.
For the benefit Of strangers present tbl
speaker said that the Church had No
regularly appointed ministry, that is.
IN the ordinary acceptance Of that OK.
preston, IL claimed, however 10 have
IN lt olhcers duly commissioned 10 adj
minister In its rites and ordnance
men holding the Priesthood of col
VINO, while their addresses were oft
times crude, were able TO attune then.
souls to the spirit of the occasion, and
BRING themselves in touch with their
congregations. A peculiar Character
isuc Of the Church of Christ was that
all male members thereof I'm good
standing, occupied positions which gave
them the right to oficiate among the
people ana called upon them to think
and know and act for themselves.
The speaker referred 10 the mission
and teachings Of Jesus Christ and d.
Iected attention to the fact that Nor
monism,' so called, was based upon
His mission and His teachings. He
was distinctiYely friend of the poor,
lmpal ing TO them the same counsel He
save TO others. The religion lie ad-
yocated was one Of love. charity and
forgiveness, 1t placed mankind upon
a common level, shattered an semblance
of class distinction, and offered sal
walton unto all alike. For the most
part Christianity was based upon the
teachings OF the Man Of Nazareth, and
While In many respects II fen short Of
the standard set up for.meu TO follow.
70 had it's effect for good. for II gem
Grated a belief IN the divine mission of
Jesus Christ The churches of the dav
therefore, had done much to prepare
me nations for the Gospel message, and
by reason Of their efforts, Mormon
ism found 1t comparatively easy to
stamp the mission of Jesus Christ with
divinity
President Young spoke Of the attl-
tude of the Christian sccts one toUardg
the other each one concedng the 9TH
ers claim TO being right He pointed
out the absurdity of the proposition,
and said that "Mormouism" opposed
such a position and asserted that there
could be but one true Church existing
upon the earth The Church OF Christ
must necessarily be a fac-simile OF
that which existed IN primitive times.
n must contain the officers placed there
Joy the Redeemcr Himself 1t must ad.
here to the same principles and ordl-
nances ana point the way to a truer,
q higher llfe.' 1t must believe In a
God in whose image men are made It
Iuusl accept the doctrine or continuous
revelation and be willing to admit that
God reserves the right to communicate
with His children as He sees fit.
The speaker continued along these
lines at some length and concluded b.
bearing testimony to the divinity Of the
mission Of Joseph Smith; to the authen-
ticity Of the Book of Mormon, and to
The final triumph Of truth as revealed
90 men in latter DAYS
ELDER JAMES Z. TALMAGE.
The choir sang the anthem Jesus,
] my cross have taken" after which
Elder James Il. Talmage addressed the
meeting. He asserted that the organl-
zatlon Of the Church OF Christ was in
itself sufficient evidence Of its divine
origin. such a structure could not
have come as o result Of the machlua-
tons OF mortal man, and particularly
from the brain of one so commonly re-
garded as llliterate as Joseph Smith
was. IL came nc a time when there
were many churches upon the earth,
and WHEN u required more courage than
that usually possessed by immature
youths, to herald the dawn Of a new
iQlth. This boy declared that he had
seen God, and followed this declara-
lion with proof positive that such a
statement was true. He established a
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