Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-19
Answers Misrepresentation OF
Ministers Regarding Belief
OF Latter-day Saints.
ADDRESS IN THE TABERNACLE
Holds That Through Christ, the Savior
OF the World, Alone Can Sal
walton he Obtained.

,sslance to Christ as the Savior of
,be world: all other names are as the
nm TO the mountain. for in him alone
csp salvation be obtained. Convinced
~ the efficacy of answering misrepre-
,sr,ation. Elder b. II. Roberts spoke
enontly sunday afternoon at the tab
ornaele before a large audience, his
thesis being the above.
The meeting which was the second
session OF the twenty seventh quarter
IL conference Of Salt Lake stake, was
opened by the choir's singing. What
gas witnessed in the heaven" prayer
,elnp offered by Elder Davis, After the
sbolr had sung our Mountain Home
So Dear" Elder Roberts spoke in part
as follows
asince the Iatter-day Saints proclaim
Ms mart Of their creed that they believe
tho Bible 70 be the word. OF God they
scent the declaration of Peter saying
,hat Christ Is the cornerstone of saliva
ion notwithstanding the fact that we
make no pretension to teach new
GOSPEL, yet there seems to be a great
Misunderstanding In this matter.
u am reminded of this by the publ
cation Of the proceedings of a great re-
Nalois conference held in our state, In
which we are charged with UNFOLDING
other names than that of Jesus, the
christ These aspersions must not go
unnoticed. for they reach the iunda-
4 mental buwarlts of our faith. the
nsssaee in the proceedings | refer to
Z unioue. as II gives praise to the Lat
4 ter.day Saints. II discusses what should
4 he the attitude OF Christian ministers
towards US. a spirit of kindly tolerance;
Il hut greatest of ALL IL accuses US in
words OF politeness be 1t said, Of belit-
Ting the name OF Christ.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
There are at least three misrepre-
Il sentatlons In this passage. 1t would
no held that Mormons do not hold
Al Iesus as the Savior of mem secondly
4 that our very vocabulary casts aside
The name OF the Savior. and, thirdly,
mat the Mormons have other names on
4 par with that of Jesus Christ
sThe idea that we hold Joseph Smith
q rs equal to the Savior is a misrepresen-
a tatlon Of early origin in our history.
4 When there were less than 200 men
A m Far West to defend II, when our
a people faced the confiscation of their
Il property, the commander-in-chief OF
a Inc military forces said that he would
a that he could invoke the great Spirit
upon them TO rebuke them and en-
tighten them so that they would no
lareer worshin a man. At this time
some ladies visited the prison where
joseph was and asked to see the person
the Latter-day Saints worshiped as tne
Lord The prophet was pointed out ana
when the ladies' asked Joseph II he held
himself to be God he replied, i am
merely minister of the gospel
The Scriptures say that God stands
in the congregation of the mighty Inc
prophet was Gods servants he was In
strumental in delivering Gods word;
but as the mountain above the hill so
does the name OF Christ rise above that
Of Joseph Smith or any other man
am surprised that intelligent men
should think otherwise.
JESUS THE CHRIST.
In the Book OF Mormon. on the title
page you will find a preface containing
what Joseph found on the last OF the
Nephite plates II explains why the
Book was written. 10 convince the Jew
and Gentle that Jesus Is the Christ.
the eternal God
With us Jesus Is not only divine by
deity itself. possessed of God power
The speaker then read several pas
sages from the Book of Mormon, prov
inq thai to the Latter-day Saints Jesus
Christ is the sole Savior of the world
and Of mankind. Thus Nephi pro-
claimed Jesus to be the Savior OF the
world. but the greatest evidence OF
all Is what the Savior said when ne
appeared on this continent.
Behold am Jesus Christ. whom the
prophets testified would come unto the
world"
This is our belief" continued Elder
Roberts Take our form OF baptism
does Il not say:
Having been commissioned of
Jesus Christ ! baptize you In the name
Of the Father and Of the Son and of
the Holy Ghost, Amen
Thus always Il is the life of Christ
that is prominent among us This
morning the sacrament was partaken
IN hundreds Of meetings throughout
Zion; whose life did the bread and
water symbolize-that or Jesus Christ
The Savior.
SPIRITS IN PRISON.
In fact. we outstrip the world in
comprehension of the meaning of the
coming and atonement of Christ. The
tables can be turned, for what do the
churches Of the world for the untold
millions who died before Christ's COM
ING before his atonement?
Alma, the Book OF Mormon prophet.
lhld down the doctrine that the coming
ot Christ being predicted there was as
much efficacy In looking forward to
Hs coming and in obeying the princi-
Ipes tey knew as there rs from the
Iaet mat we look back now to tho
uine OF the Savior. We believe that
az whether before or after the pro-
pauoh OF Christ, had an opportunity TO
~ saved by the mission of Christ.
Nhat becomes Of those neglected
snee the coming of Christ? Less than
,hita OF the people OF the world
NV NV OF Christ and his mission. What
~ netn' are they to be eternally lost?
tne gospel teaches us that they will
le an opportunity to be saved and
ag even hope to take part In the first
correction This doctrine in the
lpnres Is called The everlasting
hsy only the sons OF Perdition'
Christ "N"''on through
-. mus can the Christian world accuse
~. hot holding forth the Christ as
~, savior OF men? Copies OF the
co,.sh Mormon and the Doctrine and
r,,s,,ants' In which his name Is un-
AZ naov upheld as the Savior. are
numerous almost as the autumn
rn,ns yet modern minister Is so
bsE.n,rned as 10 impute To MS tha
'''lnE Of his name
SUFFERING FOLLOWS SIN.
somsa, followed by suffering. thus
ths, ne by suffering must atone for
this me inhdel will say that