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The Fundamentals Young taught that Adam was promoted to be the god of this world: “He (Adam) is our Father and our God, and the only God with whom we have to do”. (J. of D., Vol. I, p. 50.) 2. This Adam-god is a polygamist. “When our Father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him”. (Brigham Young, J. of1D., I, 50.) 3. The Mormon officials teach that those who build up large polygamous establishments on earth, will be promoted to be gods in the heavenly world, and will rule over kingdoms. Take this heathen teaching of Joseph Smith: “God Himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted Man [in other words, simply a big Mormon]. . . . And you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves, the same as all gods have done before you”. (J. of D-., VI, 4; Comp. 283.) 4. It will be seen that Mormonism believes in many gods. “Are there more gods than one?' Yes, many”. (Catechism.) 5. These gods continue to have children forever. “Each god, through his wife or wives, raises up a numerous family of sons and daughters, . . . for each father and mother will be in a condition to multiply forever and ever”. (The Seer, 1, 37.) This is directly contrary to our Saviour’s teach- ing in Mark 12:25: “For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven”. It seems incredible that such dishonoring heathenish views of God, the Almighty Creator and Governor of the world, should be held and propagated in Christian America, by an organization calling itself “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints”. Paul’s statement in Rom. 1 :21-24 seems verified in them. 6. They teach that the Holy Spirit is a kind of ethereal substance diffused through space. “The purest, most refined and subtle of all these substances (such as electricity, galvan-
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