The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-06
MORMOHISM HASA
PRACTICAL BASIS
Deals Directly With All Phases
of Human Sorrows and
Delights.
ELDER ASHTON SPEAKER
EXPoUNDs THE DOCTRINE TO A
TOURIST AUDIENCE.

"In dealing with the practical problems
of poverty, vice and crime the Mormon
church stands without peer in this
age" declared Elder Elias Conway Ash
ton at the regular monthly tourist service
at the Tabernacle yesterday afternoon
There We're about LOCO persons present.
The discussion If the doctrines Of Nor
monism and the organ recital by Prof.
}. J. Mcclellan were thoroughly enjoyed.
Elder Ashton, quoting from the seventh
chapter Of Matthew, took for MS text.
BY their fruits We shall know tnenl,
Eis talk followed a prayer by f. W.
OttersrOm-
Il know Of no better criterion" said
Elder Ashton, referring TO MS text Dg
which the deVOteeS and co-reh6lonlsts OF
MOrmOnism want 30 be judged IMAM by
their work / recently read IN an en-
cyclopedia that MOrmOnism was seGt
founded upon revelations 10 Joseph
smith, the prophet ana certain tsc l-..S-
that We're given TO MIN 10y anselC n'tIlla;
But the Mormon faith is not rounded
alone upon the record of a people VINO
lived upon this continent long ago, any
more than the Methodist, the Presby-
terrain, CONGREGATIONAL OF any oL4er Iallh
is founded upon the prayer books rom
which they derive some of their teach
ings.
Mormonism Is History.
s'The Book of Mormon is essentially a
history of anteCedents of the American
Indian upon this conunent-an enHgnL-
eued race that attained a high degree
OF civilization. 1T Is a record Of the
prophets who ministeTed to these people,
just as the age Of renaissance ana re
vivalism followed the EliZabethan period
i'm ENGLAND. SO will this age be followed
by a period Of learning and conscience
awakening, and the Mormon people be
teVe that they win take great part IN
the coming renaissance. They believe tn9I
d
than mere cOmmercialism, the dealing IN
stocks and bonds and they feel there IS
a higher endeaVOr.
place from which mans spirit came, the
object of his life on earth and his deS-
tiny i'm the hereafter. Joseph smith was
not solely "a prophet of events. He made
holder professions than that, and with
all the VehemenCe of his nature ne de
clared that there would be new dls-
pensatiOn. lie parted company with the
orthodoxy of the century and with the
doctrine that hell was paved with the
souls of babes that had not been baptized.
He parted company with the radicalisn
of Luther and Calvin.
cO-eternai, that we are what we are be
cause Of the innate quality Of the mlnd,
modified by cycles through which we pass,
and that the enlargement Of mental and
spiritual horizons would come in other
cycles TO which we pass, MOrmOnism eX-
tends hope to the living soul, to the
souls EndL nave lNcU ana 70 illc 5tuA5
that shall live in the future and ~
are entitled to the same degree OF glory,
LatteT-Day Saints believe i'm the oppOr-
tunity to grasp and grow and enlarge
spiritually and mentally.
God Reveals His Mind.
''The theme that distinguishes Mormon
ism from other faiths is the firm belief
in the capacity and power OF God to re-
zeal His mind 70 His children of the
earth. He is anxious for the progress Of
His children, and he adds preCept upon
pTecept TO help them. We do not believe
that the Bible is the final word of Cod
We believe that he reveals and viii reveal
10 His children as the emergencies Of the
hour demand. If God is the same today,
tomorrow and forever, as the Bible says,
then why Will He not deal directly with
His people and give them instructions,
as i'm the days Of Moses, Daniel, Ezekiel
and Jeremiah2
''MOrmonism presents a logical basis of
life It has solved for me many prob
lens. and It solves for others I see I'm
the devotees of the faith a kindness,
charity, love for fellow men, and de
VotiOn % God.
.'Aformonism will take a leading part in
the spiritual awakening Of the world, tn
the revival and renaissance that shall
follow this period Of commercialism and
invention
prot. Mcclellan delighted the audience
with a rendition of Mascagnl s Prelude
from ''Cavalleria RustiCana," Iiemare's
'TntermezZo," and an old melody, 81
Need Thee Every Hour arranged 10y
himself, as well as the famous Largo
from Handel
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