2 p.m.
After
opening exercises and the administration of the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper,
Apostle [Francis M.] Lyman continued:--spoke on False Doctrines, beginning by reading “Doc.
& Cov. Sec 29, 40, 45 inclusive”. He said “False Doctrines have been in a
number of cases, from the beginning of the church, found here and there”. “There
is a doctrine entertained by some opposed to the Word of Wisdom, to wit: that
Wine, as a beverage, is for the use of man.”
“Charles W.
Stayner, a number of years ago in Liverpool, received numerous revelations, one
of them, that he, himself, was the re-incarnation of Moses who led Israel from Egypt,
and that Orson Pratt, and others, were ancients, reincarnated. Arthur Stayner,
brother of the former, became impregnated with the same doctrine. Both of these
were arraigned before the High Council, and, though they humbled themselves and
acknowledged the authority of the Council,--their erroneous doctrines are not
removed from them.
He read
form Hebrews 9, Ch. 26, 27 v. “There is but one birth and but one death, but
one incarnation for any one individual”.
“We ought
not entertain any erroneous doctrine.” (James Godson Bleak, The Annals of the
Southern Mission, September 10, 1893, in The Annals of the
Southern Mission: A Record of the History of the Settlement of Southern Utah, ed. Aaron McArthur
and Reid L. Neilson [Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2019], 760)