The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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... become generally evident , the assumed certainty of its imminent decline has been the more confidently pro- claimed . The fall of the spreading tree , whose branches afford unfailing food and shelter , has been predicted time and again ...
... become generally evident , the assumed certainty of its imminent decline has been the more confidently pro- claimed . The fall of the spreading tree , whose branches afford unfailing food and shelter , has been predicted time and again ...
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... rich and poor , learned and unlearned ; and the pleading invitation to enter and become partakers of the blessings that pertain both to mortality and to the eternities beyond is freely extended— to The Mustard Seed and the Tree 17.
... rich and poor , learned and unlearned ; and the pleading invitation to enter and become partakers of the blessings that pertain both to mortality and to the eternities beyond is freely extended— to The Mustard Seed and the Tree 17.
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... become usual for churches to embody the fundamentals of their belief in condensed form as creeds . When asked for a con- cise presentation of the principal doctrines accepted by his people , Joseph Smith , through whose instrumentality ...
... become usual for churches to embody the fundamentals of their belief in condensed form as creeds . When asked for a con- cise presentation of the principal doctrines accepted by his people , Joseph Smith , through whose instrumentality ...
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... become titles of respect and profound significance . To this fact history lends definite and abundant testimony . The term " Christian " was first applied as an epithet of contempt . You know how it was hurled in hatred and dis- dain at ...
... become titles of respect and profound significance . To this fact history lends definite and abundant testimony . The term " Christian " was first applied as an epithet of contempt . You know how it was hurled in hatred and dis- dain at ...
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... become extinct . Yea , and this because they shall dwindle in unbelief , and fall into the works of darkness , and las- civiousness , and all manner of iniquities . Yea , I say unto you , that because they shall sin against so great ...
... become extinct . Yea , and this because they shall dwindle in unbelief , and fall into the works of darkness , and las- civiousness , and all manner of iniquities . Yea , I say unto you , that because they shall sin against so great ...
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Page 195 - If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Page 161 - For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Page 361 - come from the presence of the Lord; And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Page 75 - For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 75 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth
Page 253 - BUT as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Page 168 - in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left. . . . And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Page 187 - 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. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Page 252 - The terms of salvation are equally binding upon the quick and the dead: "For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Page 59 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.