The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 25

Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 25: March 15, 1890 HE mission of the gospel, or what is commonly called Mormonism, appears to be to test men and nations and institutions, as nothing else will. It has the effect to draw to the surface, from the hidden resources of the human heart, manifestations that would, under other circumstances, remain entirely concealed. Every Latter-day Saint, who has had any experience in the world, has seen this illustrated. People whom they thought very honest, 'very truth-loving and very sin cere, have proved, when the gospel has been brought in contact with them, to be the very opposite. People who have borne. A high character for loving God, for believing the Bible and for a willingness to obey the truth, have often been proved to be rank hypocrites when the gospel has been brought to them. Men who have stood high in society, and who have had a fine reputation, have shown them selves to be utterly unworthy of confidence and to be enemies of truth. The gospel has brought to the surface the true features of every character, and has shown how many professions are false and hypocritical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.