Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-12
PERFECT HARMONY
WITH HOLY WRIT.
Principles of the Church and Its
Doctrines Considered by
Tabernacle Speakers.
PEACE AND HARMONY FOUND
Communities Where Dwell Latter
day Saints Arc Without the Dis
turbng Influences Elsewhere.

A larger number of the general au-
thorities than are usually seen at a reg
ular Sunday service were In attendance
at the tabernacle yesterday afternoon.
Included among those present We're
Presidents John r. Winder and Anthem
George Albert Smith, Orson F. Whitney
and Anthony w. WINS. and Elders Sey-
mour b, Young, Rulon S. Wells and
Joseph w. McMurrin, of the first coun-
ell of seventy.
Three speakers addressed the gathers
ing, Elders McMurrin, Wins and Grant.
Tho theme Of each was the harmony of
the principles and doctrines of the
Church OF Jesus Christ of Latterday
Saints with the gospel as taught in
holy writ.
The. service was presided over by
President John r. Winder. The selec-
lions rendered by the choir We're "All
hail the glorious day." "An angel from
on high" and God is our refuge. :"
Elder Rulon s. Wells offered the invo-
cation, and Elder George Albert Smith
pronounced the benediction.
Z ELDER JOSEPH w. M'MuRRIN. Il
"a very great and solemn truth is
expressed in the hymn beginning IAN
angel from on high. the long, long ST
lence broke" said Elder Joseph w.
McMurrin the first speaker of the af-
ternoon. There IS an abundance of
evidence in the Church to prove that
an angel has wendell his way from the
heavens and delivered a latter gospel
dlspensation to the world. One great
evidence is found in the congregation
he was addressing. he said. They had
been gathered from many nations, in
obedience to the commandments Of
God This gathering had taken place
despite the fact that before accepting
Mormonism, they had been fully in
formed of the many obstacles and diff
ficulties they would meet in rendering
obedience to the gospel Of the Son Of
God. Most OF the men and women
who enigrated to these valleys had
no expectation of worldly gain, but
We're led by the hope of spiritual
wealth.
Another evidence Of an opening Of
the heavens and the restoration of the
Church of Christ is that thousands who
have complied With the requirements
of the gospel have received atestimony
of the divinity of the work with which
they have become identified. In the
cities, towns and villages occupied by
the Latter day Saints, peace and hap-
people exist an abiding assurance that
the gospel of Jesus Christ is the power
of God unto salvation. The establish
ment of this work was predicted by
prophets who lived hundreds of..years
ago. Had Isaiah stood upon the land
now occupied by the Latter-dav Saints
he could scarcely have described the
place more infinitely than he did In
looking down the stream Of time thous-
andS of wears ago ..g
AS to the principles believed by the
Latter-day Saints. 1t would have been
impossible. said 49, speaker, for Jo-
seph Smith to have conceived them
in his own mind. Some OF those prIn-
ciples were known To. the Christian
world. but many We're entirely new
to earth's inhabitants when revealed
anew in the last dispensation. this in
spite of the fact that they are entirely
scriptural: the fate of infants, for in
stance, who die before arriving at the
age of accountability. AT the Begin
ming of the nineteenth century the be-
lief was almost universal in the Chris
tian world that children dying without
having been baptized We're eternally
lost. The truth regarding infant sal
walton was revealed through the
Prophet Joseph Smith to the effect that
all children are saved by the atoning
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This doctrine was not new by any
means. but 1t was unknown to the
Christian world of latter days until the
advent OF the Prophet Joseph. The
same doctrine applies to the countless
millions who have died without having
heard the name of the worlds Redeem
er. These principles are too great to
have originated in the brain of Joseph
Smith or of any other man not moved
upon by the Holy Ghost.
ELDER ANTHONY w. WINS.
The hearing of Paul before Agrippa
and before Festus upon charge of
heresy was recited by Elder Anthony
w WINS. The great apostle to the
gentiles was so convinced of the truth
of the doctrines of Christ which he had
espoused and so earnest In their de-
tense that he all but converted the
Jewish king, who believed in the words
Of the prophets, albeit that Festus.
who believed not such things, declared
Paul to be mad by reason of much
learning.
The Latter-day Saints. proclaiming
the same principles of salvation SO
stoutly defended by Paul. have been
declared to be deluded. What Is there
in all the teachings of Mormonism that
cannot stand the scrutiny of Scripture
and reason? asked Elder WINS.
Referring to the Book of Mormon, the
speaker declared that that volume
caused an increase of faith in the Bible
Were 1t otherwise, just censure might
attach to believer in the Book of
Mormon. The last named Scripture is
more plain In some respects than is the
Jewish Scripture, but they coincide
strictly one with the other.
Elder WINS read extracts from the
Methodist confession OF faith relative
to BAPTISM. and with them comma rod