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by those in whose interest it has beer
erected. Possibly l may be answered
as L many times have been, that The
discussion Of doctrine is not profitable
that to discuss doctrine in the Chris.
tian church has a species of fatality
TO 1t, that it is introducing controversy
controversy resulting in excitement
contention and apparent separa ton
This we know, has been the history
/ of the churches from time immemoriaI
/ This is the only answer, that if il
can be conceded that Jesus Christ has
SO carelessly wrought in the mission
which His Father sent Him upon. and
in the interests of which he called his
/ disciples, so carelessly, that the preach
ing of the doctrine of Jesus Christ is
calculated TO destroy its own organf-
cation, it is time this event occurred
and that the character of the doctrines
Of Jesus Christ. which He came to
teach, and for which He died, should
be We'll known everywhere
Reading from the Gospel by st. John.
President Smith continued:
This from the 18th chapter OF. Johns
Gospel-the prayer of the Master for
His disciples, and also for those who
The question, as I have said, in this
religious movement. is this: Is this
mission of Jesus Christ. a worldwide
one? Was that to be the intention of
God? Were all portions of this world
to be reached and to have declared to
them the Word of God by those sent
TO continue His work until the end of
time? Was it those other portions also
that We're to be sanctified by the Word
of God? Our inquiries, our desires, and
our interests for all, declare these
questions to be just as vital now as
ever: and the question is just as far
reaching as it was when uttered by
the Master, and when He made this
statement: AS Thou hast sent me,
will also send them They should con-
tinue forever unto the children of
men and be that which is to be found
They should be such
that they will never pass away though
everything else of the human charac-
ter should pass away: because of the |
love exhibited to men, man
kind might come to know that the |
price of truth alone should stand and /
that everything else that could be I
shaken, should be shaken and fall. I
We come this morning with the idea /
to do that only which has been de- I
clared to be the word which shall be |
found upon our lips. We have no in
-erest other than that in our effort !
to preach to the children of men; and
while it may be said that the price
IF life and salvation are open TO the
inquiry of every man who chooses to
cad the Sacred Word, there are eva
lions everywhere of the Masters mean
ng, and when men pray: Our Father
Who art in heaven; hallowed be Thy
name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will
De DONE these very men will arise
rom their knees and absolutely and
positively deny the strictest and
,traightests deductions that anyone
nay draw from the meaning of the
Word itself. We have d statement
made by Him like this: My doctrine
$ not my own, but his that sent me-
Found in the It'll Chapter of John,
nd the 18th verse. If any man viii do
lis will, he shall know of the doctrine.
lie makes this statement in an
wer to inquiries by those around
lin: My doctrine is not my
wn, but his that sent me-
'hrist has never called a man to miss |
epresent Him but endowed each to +
reach that which He had confded to
i'm. Christ came to teach man and to
iscipline them in taking out from I
themselves those evil and wrong things t
18th which man has always been af-
icted, and to teach them to secure
and justice among men,
hitch is in men, because of Gods love I
Or them. And there has never been I
nything accomplished by instilling {
lar in men, It is not productive of
God results to teach by trying to ?
care men. It is not fear, but love, J.
nat is constantly required in teach
lg. 1t was love that sent the Mas
n. It was love that characterized
very act of His life. On one occasion Z
Re was angry; it was only once that {
lie was excited. Then, when in the
ourts, He saw that His Fathers
ouse was made a house Of merchan- :
Use instead of a house of prayer"
Continuing, President Smith sought 0
} show that enforced goodness had l
D moral excellence, that goodness must
e from within; it was from the i'm I
cling power of religion in the heart
lat evil tendencies must be subdued. L
and ms people dld not DelIeFe III
,tal depravity; if total depravity in
lie individual exists, it must be at the
al of life and not at the beginning, Z
II men may resist all impulses for s
pod and the strivings of the spirit 4
ltil evil is unrestrained.
The teachings and doctrines of Jesus
hrist are to make men better. to1 Il
nctify them to Cody lives. Not that [
en- shall reach a state in this life IN
hich they can not sin but that habits
righteousness may become fixed so q
lat men shall not have the desire G
sin. fl
The doctrines of Jesus, He declared r
ere not His doctrines. but those OF
e Father who sent Him. They were
ught by Him so clearly either dl-
CITY or by necessary inference and
lplieation that the Apostle Paul
eaching them for fourteen years. con-
.atuIated himself on his return to the 4
ethren at Jerusalem, that he found
at he was in harmony with them.
g in His word