The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsTalmage, James E. (James Edward)
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The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Talmage, James E. (James Edward)
Latter Day Saint churches; Latter Day Saints
When will men awaken to the imperative yet persuasive summons to
repentance? Are not the awful vicissitudes of the days of war and death
sufficient to arouse us to some realization of the solemnities of
eternity? As a nation we have valiantly waged war for the vindication
of the rights, privileges, and liberties of men. As individuals we are
summoned by the call of God to resist iniquity, and to make peace and
reconciliation with Him through obedience to the laws and ordinances of
the Gospel.
Only through active, vital faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, effective
repentance of wrong-doing, baptism by immersion for the remission of
sins, and the bestowal of the gift of the Holy Ghost or the higher
baptism of the Spirit, can salvation be attained in the Kingdom of God,
for so the Holy Scriptures aver.
The pleading call of the ancient prophet is yet in force. Hear ye, and
heed: "Now I say unto you, that ye must repent, and be born again:
for the Spirit saith, If ye are not born again, ye cannot inherit the
kingdom of heaven; therefore come and be baptized unto repentance, that
ye may be washed from your sins, that ye may have faith on the Lamb of
God, who taketh away the sins of the world, who is mighty to save and
to cleanse from all unrighteousness." (Book of Mormon, Alma 7:14.)
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REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY
A Law unto Man from the Beginning
THE Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints accepts Sunday as the
Christian Sabbath and proclaims the sanctity of the day. We admit
without argument that under the Mosaic Law the seventh day of the
week, Saturday, was designated and observed as the Holy Day, and that
the change from Saturday to Sunday was a feature of the apostolic
administration following the personal ministry of Jesus Christ. Greater
to us than the question of this day or that in the week, is the
actuality of the weekly Sabbath, to be observed as a day of special and
particular devotion to the service of the Lord.
The Sabbath was prefigured if not definitely specified in the record of
the creation, wherein we read, following the account of the six days
or periods of creative effort: "And God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which
God created and made." (Gen. 2:3.)
In the early stages of the Exodus the Israelites were commanded to
lay in a double portion of manna on the sixth day, for the seventh
was consecrated as a day of holy rest; and this was signalized by the
Lord's withholding manna on the Sabbath day. See Exo. 16:23-30. There
is no proof that Sabbath observance by Israel at this early date was
an innovation; and it may be reasonably regarded as a recognition of
an established order by reenactment in the new dispensation. Later,
when the decalog was codified and promulgated on Sinai, the Sabbath law
was made particularly explicit, and the Lord's rest was cited as its
foundation:
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