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ministers. “Any person who shall be so wicked as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of these apostate [Christian] churches, will be sent down to hell with them unless he repents of the unholy and impious act”. (The Seer, Vols. 1 & 2, p. 255.) Our Saviour said to His disciples, and to all who should become His disciples to the end of time, in Matt. 28:19: “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptiz ing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”. ARTICLE 7. WE BELIEVE IN THE GIFT OF TONGUES, PROPHECY, VISIONS, HEALING, INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES. “ ” ARTICLE 8. WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE TO BE THE WORD OF GOD, SO FAR AS IT IS CORRECTLY TRÍ NSLATED; WE ALSO BELIEVE THE BOOK OF MORMON TO BE THE WORD OF GOD. " ” 1. The priesthood can make additional Scriptures: “Wil- ford Woodruff is a prophet, . . . and he can make Scriptures as good as those in the Bible”. (Apostle J. W. Taylor, Conference, Salt Lake, April 5, ’97.) “The living oracles [pretended priestly revelations] are worth more to the Latter-Day Saints than all the Bibles”. (Apostle M. W. Mer rill, Conference, Salt Lake, Oct., ’97.) 2. Paul tells us, on the other hand, in 2 Tim. 3:16, that all genuine Scripture “is given by inspiration of God”. The disgusting doctrine of plural marriage is omitted from these Articles of Faith. But it still stands in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants as a revelation from God to be observed under pain of eternal damnation. Yet as Mrs. Orson Pratt said: “This pretended revelation was simply a dishonest trick on the part of Joseph Smith to cloak over his own wicked and immoral life, and to keep the peace in his household”. I t will be seen that the Mormon people are required to accept the pretended revelation sanctioning plural marriage, on pain of eternal damnation, from the following quotation from this bogus revelation which still stands in their official book: “For behold I reveal unto you a new and an everlasting
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