The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-01-15
LATTER DAY
SAINTS HOLD
CONFERENCE
STATE MEETING HELD IN
WHEELER'S HALL IN MINOT-
MINOT BRANCH NUMBERS FIF-
TY-ONE.

The State Conference of the Reor.
lganized Church of Jesus Christ of Lat.
ter Day Saints was held in Wheeler's
Hall, across from the postoffice, Sat
urday and Sunday, Jan. 10 and IL
Elders VIM. Sparkling of Minot, ]. E.
Wildermuth of Fargo, and j. S. Wag-
ener, Of Bantry, presided, the regular
routine OF business was carried out
throughout the day Saturday, reports
OF officers and ministers of the church
were read, and also of the committees
The reports were very gratifying and
showed the church and its work in
better condition than at any previous
time. Additions to the church have
been made in many parts of the state,
principally at Minot, Fargo; the Mi
not branch numbers now 81.
For years Elder Sparkling was the
only travelling minister in the state,
now there are six. Besides the regu-
lar church organization, these people
maintain Sunday school, and Young
Peoples Religion. These young people
are making a vigorous campaign to
get every member of the church to
make scientific study of the scrip
lures. Elder ]. C. Paige will assist
Elder Sparkling in some special SER
vices to be held every night for two
weeks at Wheeler's Hall in the same
building as the Odd Fellows hall. All
welcome. Come and compare your
faith or belief with that Of the Latter
Day Saints.
To learn of any organization or re-
ligion, one will get more correct infor-
nation from it's members than from
its opponents. For this reason we ask
to be heard. What is called Protes-
tantism bases the necessity for it's ex-
istence upon the assumption that
there was an apostacy from original
Christianity, after the days Of the
Apostles. From the days of Luther
down is has been their aim to reestab-
lish true Christianity thru the med
ium of a reformation. We as Latter
Day Saints, claim restoration of or
iginal Christianity through the Med.
ium Of special and direct divine reye-
lation.
This means the restitution of the
original form of the Christian church,
all it's doctrine and the administration
of the Holy Spirit as existing in the
day of the Apostles.
SANDER, falsehood, misrepresenta-
ton, and Calumny, the Devils own
weapons to fight the truth, will never
answer this claim, right or wrong. We
affirm that the ethics of the restored
Gospel as represented by this church
are identical with the apostolic belief
and practice and that Salvation is
now offered to mankind upon the same
terms as announced by the Apostles
themselves.
True religion, today, is a Divine
theocracy that affirms Gods active re-
lationship to the church to be- the
same today as it was in New Testa-
ment times. We deny the truthulness
of the statement that it was the will
lof God to speak to the church in the
first Christian age by direct official
revelation and then to remain silent
in all subsequent ages Of the church's
history. Our claims for the Book Of
Mormon (Which purports to be his
tory of the former inhabitants of
America and Gods dealing with them)
are based upon two divine principles
angelic administration and the work
Of the Holy Spirit. Who but an infidel
or atheist will deny either Of these
principles embodied in the admins
trative economy Of God? The admin
istration of Angels is an element in
human history that represents both
power and beauty according to the
Bible, and the administration Of the
Holy Spirit lifts the work of God high
in the realm Of Divinity, spiritual
power and utility.
Men bore testimony that they saw
the Angel, and the gold plates from
which the Book of Mormon was trans
lated, they affirmed their testimony
in death, it has never been impeached,
and stands today as beacon light to
the world in support of the divinity Of
that book. Anmient American tradi-
ton and archaeology confirm every
great fact in the Book Of Mormon,
both civil and religious. These facts
were scarcely known when the Book
Of Mormon was first published. The
teachings Of the book are equal to the
ethics Of the Bible, it's denunciation Of
polygamy is clear and pronounced,
"For there shall not any man among
you have save it be one wife; and
concubines he shall have none" Jacob,
2 chap. The book Of Mormon is q wit
ness for Jesus Christ and affirms his
mission to all the world and shows
that the Gospel was preached in the
New World as well as the old. The
writer's arrayed each other in many
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