The Literary Digest reports on the August 29, 1898 session of The State Presbytery of Utah; the Presbytery charges LDS missionaries of not being open to potential converts about the Adam-God theory.

Date
Sep 24, 1898
Type
Periodical
Source
The State Presbytery of Utah
Critic
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

"President Woodruff and the Mormons," The Literary Digest 17, no 13 (September 24, 1898): 380

Scribe/Publisher
The Literary Digest
People
The Literary Digest, The State Presbytery of Utah
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

"Seventh—One thing more. The missionaries carry veiled gospel. They do not say all they have to say in the first sermon, nor in any 'field' sermon. They do not even give the people “meat,” much less “strong meat.” They feed 'milk.' It is safer. Better adapted to weak and sensitive stomachs. Faith, repentance, baptism by immersion, for the forgiveness of sins by 'one having authority,' and imposition of hands and the stock doctrines commanded by Joseph Smith and his successors to be taught 'to the world while the Adam-god, immediate revelation, infallibility of the Priesthood divinity of the Book of Mormon, celestial order of marriage, God as a polygamist, Christ the husband of three wives, salvation for the dead by vicarious baptism, the duty of tithes, implicit obedience to the Priesthood in all things, personal or blood atonement for the pardon of the unpardonable sins and such like doctrines, they reserve until the digestion of the new covenant is improved and he can take 'strong meat.'”

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