Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-07-11
Latter Day Saints
Who They Are. History
and Doctrines.

Joseph smith. III mas no dUllldUlOu
with the Latter Day Saints, whose
headquarters is at Salt Lake City,
Utah. commonly called Utah Nor
mons. Some people suppose the two
TO be the same but this is mist AXE.
The Reorganized Church neither
teaches nor practices any doctrine or
principle that is no wholly and irdis-
putably within the laws OF the land,
and harmonious with the code OF good
morals. 1t is well established fact
that the Utah Mormons have detied
the laws Of the land. The president
of that church. Joseph F. Smith mot
Joseph Smith, the president OF the
Reorganized church, confessed before
the Senate Committee in the SmOot
case that in the matter Of himself
living with tive wives, he was living
contrary to the laws of God and of
the land. An accepted tenet of the
ReorganiZed Church reads: Let no
man break the laws Of the land" also
''be subject to the powers that be-"
This church has never been known to
act contrary TO law. nor has IL ever
upheld member of the church IN 80
doing. 1t never did sanction pol
ygamy. 1t does not now do so. 1t
meyer can in the future. for the
reason that its constitution provides
against it. 1t says: Thou shalt love
thy wife with all thy heart and shall
cleave unto her and none ese." The
marriage ceremony buds both man
and woman to one partner in wedlOck.
They covenant 10 keep themselves
wholly for each other and from all
Others" during their lives. The
church articles also say, I'VE declare
that we believe that one man should
have one wife, and one woman but
one husband except in case of death. :"
No church on earth has so distinctly
stated itself as being opposed to pol
ygamy. No church on earth has done
as much as The Recognized Church
to expose the corruption OF Utah Nor
mOnism. No other church is as well
prepared to make such exposure. Can
the reader therefore, not see the folly
Of cOnfounding the two churches?
Can he not see the injustice Of sland-
erlng the Reorganized Church 10y in
any way assOclating it in his own
mind, or the mind Of the public, with
the corruption carried on in the name
of religion in the Utah Mormon
Church?
The doctrine of the Reorganized
Church is identical with that of the
New Testament church. The prin-
ciples Of its doctrine are: Faith, Re-
pentance, Baptism by immersion for
the remission Of sins, the Laying on
Of Hands for the gift OF the Holy
Ghost, for ordination, and for bless
ing Of children; the Resurrection of
the Dead; and Eternal Judgment.
Its Organization also is identical
with that Of the New Testament
Church, with apostles, prophets, evan
gelists, pastors, teachers, deacons etc.
The chief instrument in the hands
of God in the founding OF this church
was Joseph Smith, Jr. He was born
In the year 1906. on the 23rd Of Dec
ember, in the town of Sharon, Wind
sor county, Vt.
When about fifteen years Of age he
was greatly wrought upon in regard
to religion and set about to discover,
If possible, the true church Of Christ.
He had observed with pain and
great concern the divisions and dis
cords in the world among the sects.
More especially was he made to feel
and sense the evil effects of this con-