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Show 2. "Lectures on the Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon." <br> 3. "And they" [the children of Zion] "shall remain under this condemnation until they repent and remember the new covenant, even the Book of Mormon and the former commandments which I have given them."-Doctrine and Covenants, Sec. 84:57. <br> 4. "I spent the day in council with the Twelve Apostles."…"I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts than by any other book."-History of Joseph Smith, Millennial Star, Vol. 18, p.790. <br> 5. "Wilford Woodruff is the prophet and seer of this church."…Joseph Smith was a prophet; Brigham Young was a prophet; Wilford Woodruff is a prophet, and I know that he has a great many prophets around him and he can make Scriptures as good as those in the Bible."-Apostle John W. Taylor, Conference, Salt Lake Tabernacle, April 5, 1897. <br><br> THIRD-The Mormon Church makes belief in the person and mission of Joseph Smith as a prophet of God an essential article of faith, so essential that the person who rejects the claims of "the modern prophet" is of anti-Christ. <br><br> CLAIMS <br><br> 1. "But behold, verily, verily, I say unto thee, no one shall be appointed to receive commandments and revelations in the church excepting my servant Joseph Smith, Jr., for he receiveth them even as Moses."-Doctrine and Covenants, Sec. 28:2. "For I have given him the keys of the mysteries, and the revelations which are sealed, until I shall appoint unto them another in his stead."-Same, Verse 7. "And I have sent forth the fullness of my gospel by the hand of my servant Joseph."-Same, Sec. 35:17. <br> 2. "Joseph Smith is the New Witness for God, a Prophet divinely authorized to teach the gospel and re-established the Church of Jesus Christ on earth."-New Witness for God, Thesis IV, p. 151. <br> 3. "Which is the greatest dispensation? Ans.-The Dispensation of the Fullness of Times, opened through Joseph Smith."-Catechism Chap. 18, Question 4. <br> 4. "I will ask them" [faithful saints] "if Joseph lived and died a Prophet of God, and what would they answer? All men and women know, by the power of the Holy Ghost, by the spirit they know it."-Journal of Discourses, Vol. I, p. 81, Brigham Young speaking. <br> 5. "Every spirit that confesses that Joseph Smith is a prophet, that he lived and died a prophet, and that the Book of Mormon is true, is of God, and every spirit that does not is of anti-Christ."-Millennial Star, Vol. V. p. 118, Brigham Young speaking. <br><br> FOURTH-The Mormon Church makes faith in the Mormon Priesthood, and submission to the same, essential to man's future blessedness. It teaches that authority to officiate in the gospel is vested only in the said priesthood; that this priesthood is the only medium between God and man; that it is invested with the very power of God himself; so that when it acts and speaks it is in the most real sense God who acts and speaks. <br><br> CLAIMS <br><br> 1. "Men who hold the priesthood possess divine authority thus to act for God, and by possessing part of God's power they are in reality part of God."…"Men who honor the <br> [Continues on next page.] <br><br> |
