The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-15
FORGOT TO MENTION
ONE COMMANDMENT
That One Was the Seventh, but
Then Joseph F. Smith
Was Present.
IT WAS In TABERNACLE
ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Speaker Was Elder Joseph E.
Robinson, President of the
California Mission.

The services at the Tabernacle Sun
day afternoon were attended by an
audience which tested the seating ca
pacity of the lower portion of the
building. Elder Joseph E. Robinson,
president of the California mission,
was the first speaker. His subject was
confined principally to the doctrine Of
baptism for the dead. He said that
baptism for the dead was the most
sacred and glorious that Saints can
engage in. The principles of tho
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day
Saints, he contended. were founded
Christ. 1t is by this gospel that all
questions can be met, and he dwelt
upon what Christ said was the greatest
of the commandments, that is. 'Ihou
shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all
thy soul, mind and strength, and thy
neighbor as thyself," Upon this hangs
all the law and the prophets.
ments forbid, he enumerated thou
shalt not steal, thou shalt not lie, thou
shalt not kill OF covet, but omitted to
say, as was undoubtedly expected of
him, that thou shalt not commit adul-
terry. Joseph T. Smith was sitting
short distance off and Immediately be-
hind the speaker. The juXtaposition
speaker may have prompted him TO
keep silent on that vicious vice. He
did, however, say. In effect. that man
living In the gospel Of Christ would
be true to wife and family and there
would be no necessity TO raise any
question as to family relationship.
The speaker quoted copiously from
all fn
the Mormon contention that baptism
for the dead is a divine ordinance,
provided for in the economy of God
for the redemption of the countless
millions who have died strangers to the
gospel of Christ.
Elder Ben Rich Appears.
The choir sang ooh, Ny Father,
Thou That DweIlest," and Elder Ben
E Rich, president of the Southern
States mission, was introduced as the
next speaker, who prefaced his re-
marks by reading the lines of the hymn
Just sung. S'The hymn he said,
(which was written by one of Joseph
Smith 8 wives, teaches that we lived
before coming here and that when we
die we will 90 back to where we came
from, carrying with US the knowledge
we have gained while living here in
this probationary state, with the prom
ise that we will enjoy the fruits of
our earthly knowledge with our friends
beyond the veil. The Latter-day
Saints are as little understood as any
people on earth; but nearly all the
people OF the nations of the earth have
heard OF them. The one claim that
they have to make which differs from
most peoples IS that the Latter day
Saints aim TO follow In the footsteps
of Christ. God sent his own Son to
put in operation one plan of salvation.
That plan was revealed to Joseph
Smith, the prophet of whom we are
followers. Cod Mr., Rich said,
''has had kingdoms upon the earth
overthrown. God, In the latter days,
raised up prophet. We claim that
prophet was Joseph Smith; that he
lived here upon the earth; that he ocu-
pied an exalted position in the world
The speaker believed in the Isle of
Patmos story as revealed by John that
he saw the angel which was to establish
the everlasting gospel. "Belief IN dead
prophets" the speaker said ''never
did save any one; on the contrary, it
has condemned many. James said, be-
fore the coming of the Son of Man, a
living prophet would come upon the
earth. Elders and seventies would be
sent into the world to preach the gos-
pei. We believe that an angel from
hOoSNp Va icuShp tnS Soopci duk gave IL
to living prophet, This is what the
world calls Mormonism 1t is what we
call the doctrine of the Latter-day
Saints"
The speaker closed by relating a
story of couple of men he once heard
on train discussing the contention
held by Christian believers. that every
body in the final day would be Judged
by every deed done and every idle word
spoken, a condition which they didn Il
take kindly to, IN fact. didn t believe
The speaker put in and tried TO show
them by illustration Of not believing
thing simply because a person could
not understand it, and wound up with
the declaration that everyone would be
Judged by the deeds done in the body
and that every act Of person on this
earth is put in book Of record, which
will be opened on the great Judgment
day. One of the men exclaimed "My
God, won It that be hell?' That, the
speaker said, will depend on the life
lived here on earth.
President Smith Concludes Meeting,
The choir sang an anthem. and the
hour of worship was brought to close
by an Invocation for heavenly guidance
by President Joseph +. Smith.
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