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Show ORM NREVIVAL Elder Roberts in the City Seeking Converts. OT THE ACCEPTED CHURCH I, A ,.ERY DIFFERE. T D_OCTRI~E IS . .. THA'I' HE TE.:\ HES. ktn,,1/t;6 A NEW VIEW OF THE GOSPEL. Discourse. in Which'. It I~ Held That the. Latter Day ints Have Been Sadly lllhrepre ented. e;, ..~~ About 125 p.ersons gathered at Academy Hall, corner of .Elm and Fifteenth streets, yesterday morning to hear the Mormon evangelist, Elder B.· J{. ·Roberts.· ·Half · a dozen only of the number were women . . · It was the first appearance in Cincinnati in recent years 0f ·an advocate Mormonism, and the ·majority of the crowd were present · frem curiosity and of 0 1n the expectation of hearing discussed some of the Mormon doctrines most prominently fixed in the public mind. The speaker was received with respectful attention all through. · There · was nothing in the discourse .in . fact .that varied much from accepted orthodox hrJ tifln poctrines. ThiS' may haye been because Elder Roberts did not reach the point where he would have been called on to justify the existence of the Mormon Church as a separate institution nd to explain the peculiar doctrines that di~tingul.sh it from other denominations. '!,he general drift of his discussion was to show that the Mormon Church is a thoroughly Cliristian organization. ~~ ~ / -·~ ~ a-e&'C.- /~..__, z:f?~ Their Church NaDie. IN DEFENSE OF MORMONISM. Elder B. H . Roberts, ·a Mo.I'mon miss'ion.ary from SaH Lake City, Utah, delivered a d·iscourse in d tense o,f the Mormon faith at Academy Hall, corner of Fift eenth and Elm stree ts, y s t erday afternoon and evening. In his remarks h ~ explain e<l the teachings of all oth r churches very cleverly, at1d, while he ad ·-0cate(i :\Iormonism, h e d!d ·n ot e ncoura.ge any ot his auditors to follow ·him un~ e s th •y ~aw. lit to co so, w!,t:h their onscl nee guiding them. E1d r Roberts was g1· eted with a. larg~ aU<Hence 1 at both of his sermons. 1 I 0 t~ qy 110 ~ ·. e - - 7 - ~ ~~ |
