Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-14
clearly marked cut in the revelations

clearly marked cut in the revelations
from on high.
1t is an unfortunate fact that too
much liberty is allowed the young peo-
may 20 wherever they desire with
out guidance or restraint on the part
Of the parents. This condition rs
fraught with peril to the morals of he
children. We are nat now living in the
pure moral atmosphere of the early
days in these valleys. The vices Of
the world are showing. and too many
fathers and mothers are obivious to
the fact that their children are facing
dangers on every hand. Unless great
caution is shown, boys and girls may
be thrown into the society Of men and
women Of vicious habits and become
contaminated from such association.
Parents are under obligation to avoid
placing stumbling blocks in the way
OF their children's faith Respect and
reverence for those in authority in the
Church of Christ should be cncour-
aged. Sighting remarks made by par
cnts may bear evil fruit in years To
come, when lack of confidence in Gods
servants has driven II child into the
darkness of apostacy,
PREST. JOSEPH SMITH.
President Joseph II. Smith addressed
the meeting. Re declared that, as he
was certain that some day death would
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he obeyed the commandments of. God,
he would meet Christ the Redeemer
face to face. Continuing. he said, My
Experience in life has been such that |
can truthfully say, and do say, that
| know that my Redeemer liveth and
that God lives. There are many Lat
| ter-day Saints who have the same tes-
| timony. Throughout my life | have
| endeavored to forsake sin and to come
unto the Lord. have called upon Him
| in prayer and have sought to keep
| His commandments and have needed
| the promise that whatsoever will keep
| the commandments of God shall sec
| Him and know for q surety that He is.
~ feel impressed to bear testimony
to the divinity of the mission of Jesus
| Christ and of the mission Of Joseph
| Smith The world has ridiculed the
prophet and has rejected his claim to
inspiration No man can consistently
| believe in the divinity of the work OF
| Christ ard at the same time ignore
| Joseph :. nth, because the work OF the
latter Is founded upon the doctrines OF
the Redeemer. 1t was Christ Himself
who gave to the Prophet the truths
upon which the latter-day work is es-
Christ is the door to salvation
| There is no other name under heaven
| by which mankind can be saved. vi
I the many sayings. OIL jesus Only d ie"
fragments have been preseHved-.per-
| haps only hundredth or thou
| sandth part of what he taught. Joseph
| Smith has revealed nothing but what Is
In harmony with the gospel OF
| Christ. Those who oppose Joseph
Smith and yet say that they believe IN
Christ, have not truly Christian
spirit but are in reality anti-Christ."
People scott at the idea of new revel-
atoms in these days said President
Smith, because the saints, in Missouri
and Illinois, declared that God had
revealed Himself again, were per-
secuted. Their houses were burned
over their heads. they were driven
hither and thither by mobs,their Lead I
ers were murdered, and they We're
forced to flee from the confines OF civil
lization If they had surrendered their
religious beliefs they would have been
received into the society of their per
secutors. but they stood for God anu
not for the favors of men. The spirit
Of persecution which then ragged Is IN
the earth yet. but he who has a hfm
testimony that this work called Nor
monism is Gods plan of salvation VIII
not be moved by the opposition OF the
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