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I came across this version of the last Article of Faith as cited in John W. Gunnison's ''The Mormons:'' | I came across this version of the last Article of Faith as cited in John W. Gunnison's ''The Mormons:'' | ||
:"We believe in being honest, true, chaste, temperate, benevolent, virtuous, and upright, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul, we 'believe all things,' we 'hope all things,' and hope to be able to 'endure all things.' Everything lovely, virtuous, praiseworthy, and of good report, we seek after, looking forward 'to the recompense of reward.' But an idle or lazy person cannot be a Christian, neither have salvation. He is a drone, and destined to be stung to death and tumbled out of the hive" (John W. Gunnison, ''The Mormons or Latter-day Saints in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake'' [Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1860], 40). | :"We believe in being honest, true, chaste, temperate, benevolent, virtuous, and upright, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul, we 'believe all things,' we 'hope all things,' and hope to be able to 'endure all things.' Everything lovely, virtuous, praiseworthy, and of good report, we seek after, looking forward 'to the recompense of reward.' But an idle or lazy person cannot be a Christian, neither have salvation. He is a drone, and destined to be stung to death and tumbled out of the hive" (John W. Gunnison, ''The Mormons or Latter-day Saints in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake'' [Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1860], 40). | ||
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I came across this version of the last Article of Faith as cited in John W. Gunnison's The Mormons:
Can you identify the source of this unusual version of the 13th Article of Faith? How do you account for the changes?
To see citations to the critical sources for these claims, [[../CriticalSources|click here]]
The source of this version of the 13th Article of Faith - as noted on page 38 of Gunnison's book - is Elder Orson Hyde's newspaper called the Frontier Guardian.
There were many versions of "articles of faith" prepared by various early Latter-day Saints to support their missionary efforts. Most of them had essential items in common (belief in God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost; the necessity of faith, repentance, baptism, and the gift of the Holy Ghost; etc.), but there were various differences among them.
The following is an excerpt from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism:
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