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Joseph Smith 
 
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 Joseph Smith 
 
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 By Nephi Jensen^ President of the Canadian Mission 
 
 The Master said, *'I came not to bring peace, but a sword/* 
 Carlyle evidently had in mind the sarnie thought when he wrote, 
 "Every fact is a battle.** he bigger the "fact,** the greater the 
 **battle.** Truth is the biggest fact in the world. Its clashing 
 with error is the irresistible conflict of the ages. 
 
 Every great leader of men is in a measure a personification 
 of truth. The degree of the truth he lives and teaches is the 
 measure of the stir he will make in the world. Christ was ^'the 
 Truth.*' His words and works made the shallow, spiritless de- 
 fenders of old and venerated error rave and gnash their teeth. 
 
 When a timid reformer with his insipid sentiment, half 
 error and half truth, comes in contact with the thought and 
 opinions of his time he makes no great disturbance, but when 
 a bold prophet of (rod, like Joseph Smith, with his bowels full 
 of truth, and the flame-breath of the Almighty upon his lips, 
 announces his deep factp about God, man, and eternity, all the 
 forces of .error are lashed into a fury, tb.e wicked frown, the 
 mob raves, and tL<e paid teachers of painted half-truth let loose 
 "the dogs of war** and persecution. 
 
 The very roar that went up when the boy Joseph 
 Smith announced his first vision proclaims the divinity of his 
 mission. For a name that "thunders so loud in the index** must 
 be attached to something more than human. 
 
 What is In the homely name Joseph Smith that the mention 
 of it should make the wicked rave and the righteous rejoice? 
 Why does it provoke curses from the high priests of error, and 
 call forth praises from humble Saints? Why does it divide hu- 
 manity into two distinct classes, those who bitterly hate him 
 and those who ardently love him? 
 
 The right answer to these questions is the biggest fact in 
 the historv of the nineteenth century. It is not found in the 
 word "delusion.** The dim eyes of deception never saw as 
 clearly as Joseph Smith did the great fundamentals of religion. 
 Ebillucination never founded a perfect church organization and 
 gave to the world a great philosophy of religion. Mental ab- 
 beration never banded together tens of thousands of men and 
 
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 women of varied tastes, temperaments and intelligences, and sent 
 them forth to sacrifice all for the salvation of the human race. 
 
 Nor can this great prophet's message be driven out of the 
 court of the world's thought and opinion by shouting, **Impo8* 
 tor.*' His mark upon his age is too deep to be erased by the 
 tongue of slander. **A false man," says Carlyle, **cannot even 
 build a house." And yet Joseph Smith laid the foundation of 
 a Church and enacted a superstructure thereon so perfects in 
 adjustment and practical workings, that it has called forth un- 
 stinted praise from even those who hate his name. He be- 
 queathed to this Church a legacy of truth and faith that has 
 nerved his followers with courage to subdue deserts, and fired 
 them with a self-forgetting devotion that impels them to give 
 all for the salvation of mankind. Did a delusion ever give 
 thousands of men and women the fortitude to face the slander 
 and slurs of the wicked and the madness of mobs? Did a 
 **fraud" ever redeem deserts and build sanctuaries of learning in 
 a wilderness? Did a religious falsehood ever put the love of 
 God and man in the human heart? Did perjured stories of 
 revelations from God ever send men out to give their time and 
 money freely to bring souls to Christ? Did pure-hearted women 
 ever pay the homage of their tears at the shrine of a lie? Did 
 true men ever give their hearts' blood for a theological fake? 
 
 The explanation of the power of Joseph Smith's name is 
 not found in the epithets "delusion" or "impostor." It is found 
 only in the word "truth." And what a flood of truth he 
 poured into a shallow world of "cold hearts and hastening feet." 
 
 His career commenced in 1820, when he was given a 
 vision of the Father and the Son. That year Herbert Spencer 
 was born. The names cf both these men have been heard 
 around the world. The one is the synonym of doubt; the other 
 stands for superfaith. The one was the high priest of evolution; 
 the other was a prophet of a living belief. They both strove to 
 find the same thing, the knowledge of God. Herbert Spencer 
 used the key of reason, and Joseph Smith the key of faith. 
 Herbert Spencer sought to find God through an endless analysis 
 of the crust of things. Joseph Smith went by prayer right into 
 the presence of God. Herbert Spencer ended his long life say- 
 ing, "God is unknowable." Joseph Smith, when only a boy of 
 fourteen, saw the Maker of all, and heard the Voice that had 
 stilled the storm and stayed the wave. 
 
 In the age that Huxley glibly talked about an "absentee 
 God," and learned theologians bowed at the shrine of a rhet- 
 orical image, Joseph Smith re-discovered the true and the liv- 
 ing God. In the teeth of the age-old doctrine of a God "without 
 body, parts, and passions," this bold proph^ declared that the 
 
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 Lord of heaven is a tangible personage of tabernacle, in whose 
 exact image and likeness man was made. He boldly brushed 
 aside the Nicene CounciPs '^congeries of words,** descriptive of 
 the Trinity, and plainly averred what the Bible clearly teaches, 
 that the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost are three dis- 
 tinct personages, but one in mind and purpose. While the 
 faithless priests of shallow creeds were standing afar off, calling 
 to God m the cold words of learned theological formulas, Joseph 
 Smith re-announced the warm, pulsating truth contained in the 
 Lord's prayer, "Our Father which art in heaven." 
 
 His first vocal prayer was the first real faith cry that had 
 gone up from this cold, superstitious world since the dense 
 darkness of the middle ages had driven truth from the altar 
 and living belief from the human heart. It marked the be- 
 ginning of an epoch. It was the beginning of the real modem 
 spiritual rennaissance. 
 
 That prayer was the greatest act of a human soul since 
 paganism killed virile faith and turned the simple religion of 
 Jesus Christ into an empty show. The boy who prayed that 
 day in the silent woodland had a heart as deep as truth, and 
 lifted higV ^ heaven. He had the faith that defies fate. Around 
 him wei:s :^^e sophistical theologians with their hearts full of 
 doubts and their heads full of theological abstractions, wrang- 
 ling about empty forms and dead ceremonies. All the notions, 
 customs, creeds, and dogmas of the time, denied the possibility 
 of a real answer from God. But in spite of doctrines, dogmas, 
 and doubts, he believed in him who said, "If any of you lack 
 wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men Uberally, 
 and upbraidelh not; and it shall be given him.** The living 
 faith of this boy pierced the blue dome through which no 
 word had passed for seventeen centuries, and called to the 
 earth the Majesty of heaven. 
 
 When this boy walked out of that sacred grove, that day, 
 he was greater than the most learned theologians and profound- 
 est philosophers. He knew the key to the knowledge of God. 
 Hie had a power greater than that possessed by a potentate. He 
 held in his heart the most powerful thing in the universe, the 
 omnipotent faith that makes the powers of heaven the servants 
 of men. 
 
 Before Joseph Smith saw that vision, in answer to a prayer 
 inspired by a specific Bible promise, the Bible had for cen- 
 turies been a mere fetish. It had been a dead letter, containing 
 the decrees and promises of God to another age. He put spirit 
 and life into the dead letter by demonstrating that God would 
 do today the very things he promises in his book. By the magic 
 touch of this prophet*s faith, the Bible became in fact and 
 
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 truth the Book of God, a compendium of Bib veritable prom- 
 ises to all men of all ages and all climes. 
 
 At a *hne when the theologians of all creeds and churches 
 said that the Bihle contained all that God intended to reveal 
 to man, Joseph Smith, by divine inspiration, translated the 
 Book of Mormon from the gold plates which contained the rec- 
 ord of God*s hand-dealings with his '*other sheep,** the an- 
 cestors of the American Indians. Before he knew that John 
 the revelator had predicted that in "the hour of God*s judg- 
 ment** an angel would *'fiy in the midst of heaven having 
 the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell upon the 
 earth,*' Joseph Smith declared that these gold plates liad been 
 revealed to him by an angel. In less than a century after he had 
 given the Book of Mormon to the world, as the gospel brought 
 to the earth by an angel, nearly half a milHon people had 
 accepted the message. These zealous followers of Joseph Smith 
 have translated the Book into fourteen different languages, and 
 they are sending the message it contains to every "nation, kin- 
 dred, tongue and people.** (Rev. 14:6.) Thus was literally fulfilled 
 a Bible prophecy, the meaning of which had not been discovered 
 by the most profound students of the scriptures. 
 
 Pursuant to divine revelation he organized the Church of 
 Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is an exact duplicate 
 of the one the Messiah established eighteen centuries before. 
 This Church has in it every officer which the Christ placed in 
 his primitive Church, from the council of the twelve apostles, 
 high priests, seventies, elders, and evangelists down to the minor 
 officers, priests, teachers and deacons. These officers are en- 
 dowed with the holy Priesthood, which has come down to them 
 through men who had received it by actual ordination from 
 Peter, James, and John who came to this earth in the nineteenth 
 centur/ for the express purpose of imparting the Priesthood. 
 In this Church are present the real gifts of the Holy Ghost;; 
 prophecy, revelation, visions, healings, gifts of tongues, and the 
 interpretation c' tongues. 
 
 While Egyptian was an absolutely dead language, unknown 
 even to the foremost scholars, Joseph Smith, by the light of in- 
 spiration, translated from Egyptian the lost Book of Abraham. 
 The prophet*8 explanation of the Egyptian figure^ in the fac- 
 similes printed in the Book of Abraham have been proven to 
 be correct. In the accomplishment of this work of translation 
 ^lone, Joseph Smith affixed the broad seal of divinity upon his 
 work. 
 
 Through divine inspiiation he was given the true prophet*s 
 foresight. Twenty-eight years before the outbreak of the Amer- 
 ican civil war, he predicted that a war would commence with 
 
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 **the rebellion of South Carolina,** that the '^southern states** 
 would **be divided against the northern states,** and that the 
 southern states would **call upon Great Britain** for assistance; 
 and that this struggle would "terminate in the death and mis- 
 ery of many souls.** Every detail of this prophecy became 
 tragic history in the death-stiiiggle between the southern and 
 northern states of the American Union. Over a million graves 
 in the American Union today attest the true prophetic power 
 of this most remarkable man. 
 
 In the place of spirituality, he found sentimentai^ty. The 
 preachers talked eloquently about th^i Pentecostal, cloven 
 tongues of fire, but never dreamed that people living eighteen 
 hundred years after Peter preached and "pricked the hearts" 
 of sinners, could enjoy the Spirit which testifies, reveals, and 
 prophesies. While the divines were still graphically describing 
 the great things God had done for his people of old, Joseph 
 Smith fervently testified of the great things God is now doing 
 for his people of today. He re-affirmed the promises of old and 
 demonstrated their validity. 
 
 He answered the question, *From whence came man?'* in 
 the way in which the poet and philosopher is now beginning to 
 answer it. In the words, "Man is that he might have joy,** he 
 gave the best and truest explanation of the purpose of man's 
 existence. While the theologians were still saying that man was 
 merely a son of the sod, he declared man to be actually and in 
 truth the son of God, destined in the "eternal years of God," to 
 overcome, improve, develop, increase in intelligence, wisdom, 
 goodness, power and glory until he becomes perfect, "even as 
 God in heaven is perfect." 
 
 He exploded the infinitely cruel doctrine of eternal punish- 
 ment, that arbitrarily consigns to the eternal, unquenchable 
 flames all non-Christians, and gives wingd and harps to all, good 
 or bad, who simply speak the words, "I believe on Jesus.'* He 
 re-affirmed the declaration of John, that man will be "judged ac- 
 cording to his works." 
 
 He dispelled gloom from the tomb. He denied the narrow 
 dogma that man's hope of salvation is interred with his bones; 
 and taught the beneficent doctrine of salvation for the dead. 
 
 He gave to the word heaven a new meaning. He took out 
 ^ it the impossible notion of winged angels everlastingly playing 
 on harps, and declared heavv'^n to be a place where the truest 
 human ties are inviol^.te, and the gentlest memories of this life 
 are mingled with the joys and glories of the life that has no 
 end. 
 
 He gave to the world the most salutary, hygienic rules, 
 contained in a divine revelation known as the "Word of Wis- 
 
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 dom,** which prohib .8 the use of tea, coffee, tobacco, intoxi- 
 cating drinks, and the excessive eating of meat. Subsequent 
 to the proclamation of this revelation, scientific investigations 
 have demonstrated the great value of these wholesome rules of 
 practical living. The observance by the followers of Joseph 
 Smith of these and other laws given by this prophet has re- 
 duced their death rate to 8.3 persons per thousand annually 
 as compared with the rate of 13.5 persons per thousand in the 
 United States at large. 
 
 His niche in the ages is secure. His mighty fact is already 
 conmiencing to thunder louder than the mendacity of his mis- 
 guided enemies. The story of his triumphant faith is the most 
 thrilling incident in modem annals. It gives hope, light, and 
 life. It is the beacon that lights the way across the dark chasm 
 which ages of ignorance and superstition have placed between 
 man and God. Tens of thousands of true-hearted men and 
 women who have heard this story of all-conquering faith hove 
 gone in quest of the knowledge of God widi a sincerity and 
 fervor so genuine that they hav i received that witness of God's 
 Spirit which has made them so certain of God's existence, the 
 divinity of Christ's mission, and the reality of the future life, 
 that the besetting evils of this world have lost all power over 
 them. 
 
 What a man he was! He was a seer. With the white light 
 of God's Spirit he saw the past of nations now covered with the 
 dust of ages. He was a prophet. By the inspiration of the 
 Holy Ghost he saw tomorrow and tomorrow's morrow. He 
 was a teacher. He gave to the world, at its most enlightened 
 period, a sane, sensible, original, and comprehensive religious 
 philosophy which has successfully weathered the opposition of 
 the learned and the persecution of the wicked for nearly a cen- 
 tury. He was an Organizer. By the aid of divine inspiration 
 he established a Church so perfect in organization and internal 
 workings that it commands the praise of even those who de- 
 spise it. He was a leader of men. By the magic power of his 
 pure character, genuine sincerity, and deathless integrity to 
 truth and God, he gathered about him, as his aids and lieuten- 
 ants in the work of righteousness, a coterie of men of the high- 
 est probity and the greatest native intelligence. 
 
 He belongs to the ages. The trumpet call of his mighty 
 faith-fact will yet reverberate through all lands and climes, and 
 turn a doubting world back to God. All who heed the clear, 
 shrill outringing of this deep, certain note of hope will forever 
 honor this true prophet of God. As long as men aspire to fer- 
 vent faith, love, the truth, and honor God, they will hold in 
 eternal veneration, the name of this great and good man who 
 discovered faith taught the truth, and glorified God. 
 
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 Of thi Ohuroh of Jasui Ohritt of Lattar-4ay Saints 
 
 1. We believe In God, the Eternal Father, and la 
 HU SOQ, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. 
 
 2. We believe that men will be punished for thelf 
 own sins, and not for Adam's transgfression. 
 
 3. We believe that, through the atonement ol Christ, 
 all mankind may be saved, by obedience to tlie laws and 
 ordinances of the Gospel. 
 
 4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances 
 of the Gospel are: First, Faith in the Uord Jesus Christ; 
 tecond, Repentance ; third. Baptism by immersion for the 
 
 emission of Sins ; fourth, Laying on of Hands for the 
 uift of the Holy Ghost. 
 
 5. We believe that a man must be called of God, by 
 "prophecy, and by the laying on of hands," by those 
 who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer 
 in the ordinances thereof. 
 
 6. We believe in the same organization that existed 
 In the primitive church, namely, apostles, prophets, 
 pastors, teachers, evangelists, etc. 
 
 7. We believe In the gift of tongues, prophecy, reve- 
 lation, visions, healing, Interpretation of tongues, etc. 
 
 8. We believe the '^ible to be the word of God, ai 
 far as It Is translated cc rrectly ; we also believe the Book 
 of Mormon to be the word of God. 
 
 9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He 
 does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal 
 many great and important things pertaining to the King- 
 dom of God. 
 
 10. We believe In the literal gathering of Israel sntf 
 In the restoration of the Ten Tribes. That Zion will be 
 built uprn this continent.. That Christ will reign person- 
 ally upon the earth, and that the earth will be renewed 
 and receive its paradisical glory. 
 
 11. We claim the privilet ; of worshiping Almighty 
 God according to the dictates of our conscience, and allow 
 all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where 
 or what they may. 
 
 12. We befieve In being subject to kings, presidents, 
 rulers and magistrates, in obeying, honoring and sustaining 
 the law. 
 
 13. We believe In being honest, true, chaste, benevo- 
 lent, virtuous, and in doing good to ALL MEN : indeed w« 
 may say that we follow the admonition of Paul, Wobelievo 
 all things, we hope all things," we have endured many 
 tilings, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there Is 
 anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praise- 
 worthy we seek after these thiners. 
 
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