Gospel Themes: A Treatise on Salient Features of "Mormonism"Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
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Gospel Themes: A Treatise on Salient Features of "Mormonism"
Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
All the organizations named are strictly within the place of the
Priesthood: but in addition there are auxiliary organizations, such
as Relief Societies, Sabbath Schools, Young Men's and Young Ladies'
Mutual Improvement Associations, Primary Associations, and Religion
Classes. The Relief Societies, which form a vast net-work over all the
stakes, wards, and most of the missions, are women's organizations,
for the care and comfort of the sick and the needy. The Deseret Sunday
School Union has a membership of over 150,000. The Mutual Improvement
Associations are what their name implies: the sexes meet separately,
except in monthly conjoint sessions, and study systematically religion,
history, philosophy, and the arts and sciences. The Primaries are for
the training of children too young for membership in the Mutuals; and
the Religion Classes are for special instruction to the youth of both
sexes. Church schools exist in many of the stakes, the most notable
being the Brigham Young University of Provo, the Brigham Young College
of Logan, and the Latter-day Saints University of Salt Lake City. Old
folks' committees, for the entertainment of the aged, regardless of
sect or creed, are another institution of the Church, and are found in
most of the stakes and wards throughout Zion.
For further information on Priesthood and Church government, the reader
is referred to D&C 20,68,84,107,112, and 114 of the Doctrine and
Covenants; also to the "History of the Church," Volume III, page 385:
and Volume IV, page 207.
The Gospel Dispensations
CHAPTER I.
Introductory
One Plan of Salvation.--As there is but one Savior, so is there but one
plan of salvation. There never was, and there never can be, another
"I marvel," wrote Paul to the back-sliding Galatians, "that ye are so
soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto
another gospel; which is not another; but there be some that trouble
you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel
from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have
preached unto you, let him be accursed."--(Galatians 1:6-8.)
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