CARD to the Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
DEAR BRETHREN: Certain parties who appear to be anxious for notoriety, and who desire to take advantage of the prominence and achieve the dignity which discussion with the Elders of this Church would give them, have sent to representative Elders of the Church challenges to hold discussion upon the doctrines and the validity of the authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. People of this kind in California and elsewhere have of late been very persistent in demanding an acceptance of their challenge-the question, for debate as they put it, being:
First-Was Brigham Young the lawful and legitimate successor of Joseph Smith (the Seer), to the prophetic office and presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Second-And is Utah the appointed place for the gathering of the Saints in the last days as spoken by the Prophets of God, including Joseph Smith, the Seer?
... We leave this for the Lord to prove and sustain, and we think it folly to submit the claims of our Church or the Priesthood to the arbitrament of man. ...
Your Brethren, WILFORD WOODRUFF, GEORGE Q. CANNON, JOSEPH F. SMITH, First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
[Source: 1894-June 2-Deseret News Weekly 48:747 (June 2, 1894); also Nordstjarnan 18:200-201 (July 1, 1894) as quoted in Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
Q1 answer: No. William Bickerton was.
ReplyDeleteQ2 answer: No. The gathering will be to the city of New Jerusalem (i.e., Zion) to be built upon this land of America by the American Indians. The city of New Jerusalem is mentioned in 3 Nephi 20:20-22; 21:20-25; Ether 13:8. Its exact location, somewhere in the 48 states of USA (except not in Utah), will be revealed only after the Choice Seer, the future full-blooded American Indian Moses comes forth.
Brigham Young was a FALLEN apostle, as was John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff. They once were apostles (pre-1844), but fell from their apostleship because of apostasy. All apostles of the LDS church since then were and are FALSE apostles.
ReplyDeleteThe very beginning of this entry should read "[CHARLES O.] CARD."
ReplyDeleteCorrection: The very beginning of this entry is correct as written. See the very last comment.
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ReplyDelete" ... the people who are seeking for truth and looking for the evidence which the truth always furnishes,can more readily obtain this knowledge by calm investigation and close observation than by controversy. ... "
ReplyDeleteTwo of our very recent three converts to TCOJC (WHQ: MonPA) did exactly what is stated in this quote above from the 6-2-1894 news article. One of them said: " I HAVE FOUND MY CHURCH HOME!"
Finally, if the current 15 apostles (or 1st 70s or 2nd 70s or area 70s) in the Salt Lake Utah Church of LDS repent of their heresies and come forth with a broken heart and a contrite spirit and are baptized and confirmed into TCOJC (WHQ: MonPA), who knows what great work the Lord will do with them in the future?
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