Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

i Christ Is responsible for it as is also
Joseph Smith--aye more, for it was
| through Christ that Joseph Smith re-
| ceivcd and uttered these principles to
the world. Therefore. | repeat that
1 the man; who receives on. processes to
! receive Christ and to believe in Him,
and who claims to bc&a Christian. and
| yet denies the mission Of Joseph Smith
| and the doctrines that he taught, per-
| petrates an Inconsistency that should
not exist among Intelligent men. Men
| should find out the difference if any
and should point out where the differ
1 ence Is. | know that men conjure up
things that they conceive to be out Of
harmony and that appear to be neon
| sistent with the doctrine of Christ; but
there is not a doctrine taught oil, adj
vocated by the Prophet Joseph Smith,
that Is not in strict accord with the
! doctrine taught by Jesus Christ. They
| do not disagree, and we are capable
of demonstrating that fact: indeed. it
needs no demonstration, Let the I'M
biased mind take the writings Of the
| ancient apostles and the doctrines ut
! tered by the. Son of God Himself and
| then compare them line by line, word
by word, principle by principle and
truth by truth, with the doctrines adj
vocated by the Prophet Joseph Smith,
and there can be found no disagreement
and no disharmony between the two.
How could there be? A house cannot
be divided against itself, 1t is Gods
house! it is Christ's work that we are
engaged in, Christ's commission to
man: and the Prophet Joseph Smith
was instrumental. in the hands of the
Lord in laying the foundation of this
work. If the so-called Christian world
despise these doctrines they only prove
their ignorance or hypocrisy in assum-
ing that attitude. and they manifest
their rejection of the real truth when
they do it, for no intelligent man, who
is familiar with both. can find dis
tincton or a difference. except that he
conjure 1t up in his own wicked heart
or perverted mind in order to de-
ceive and mislead.
Now, | say to YOU my friends, my
brethren and sisters in the covenant of
the gospel. j stand by these words: /
accept these doctrines. believe them,
with all my heart. have received
them without recourse. want nothing
better; and yet. If there be anything
better, let it come; and. if it shall come,
] shall pray earnestly that I may be
broad enough and big enough to re-,
ceive it, / understand that the gos-
pei taught by the Prophet Joseph, and
that which was senunciatad by the Saw
ior Himself embraced all truth per-
tanning to the salvation and the eXal-
tation of man, and there Is nothing
good and true, and right or righteous
that does not come from. or is not of
God, or that does not pertain to His
work and to the life, growth and adj
yanCament of the souls of men until
they become like unto Christ. for they
We're fore-ordained and pre-destined to
become like unto Him in whose
image they are. who is the forerunner
who is the way. the light and the life
of the world. who is the door of saliva
ton for the children of men, and any
man who seeketh to climb up in some
other way or to enter by any other door
Is pronounced. by the Son of God Him
SELF as d thief and a robber. There
is but one way; there Is but one name
given under the heavens by which men
can be saved and exalted into the pres
enca of the Father from whence they
came, and that is the name of Jesus
Christ. the Son of God, who was begot-
ten by His Father, and born into the
world. He grew to manhood in the
midst of men. and delivered His mes
age to the world. Il little part OF which
has been recorded by His faithful dis
ciples. but only q hundredth part of
what he said--ayo, perhaps. not thou
3sandth part has ever been told or re-
corded. But little is recorded; we
have II III the New Testament, the
statement of the four evangelsts who
testified of Him. He was buffeted and
disowned by His people; He was re-
jected by them; and His offer of life
and salvation to them and the world
was spurted and rejected by them.
They cried out against Him and called
Him Il "deceiver.'s They called Him
'Beelzebub." They called Him a wine
bibbar and a friend of publicans and
sinners, and they charged Him with
all manner of evil-but falsely, not
truly. When they took up stones to
stone Him, He said to them: MANY
good works have 1 done in your midst;
for which of these do We now seek to
stone me?'' For evil He had not done,
but good He had done. He had healed
their sick, given eye-sight TO the blind,
unstopped the ears of the deaf, cleans
ed the lepers, raised the dead. and adj
ministered life and comfort. consola-
ton. happiness and joy to the inhabit-
ants of the earth. He had declared God
His Father unto the world He de-
clared, also.sto the world that He came
not to do His own viii but the viii of
His Father who sent Him He declared
that he was not so great as His Faith
Eer. My Father said He, SIS greater
than L.44fJohn IL: 2s.) He prayed +
God, and He commanded His people to
pray unto God in His name. and He
promised them that >yi1a S,,fsx-eps tfa,,E