With regard to redemption, Paul said: All the children of Adam are redeemed from the fall by the aton- ing blood of Jesus, and all infants are redeemed as well as other peo- ple. There is no infant or child that has died before arriving at the years of accountability, but what is redeemed, and is therefore entirely beyond the torments of hell, to use a sectarian term. And any doctrine, such as the sprinkling of infants or any religious rite for lit- tle children is of no effect whatever neither in this world nor in the world to come. It is a man-made doctrine, and therefore not ordained of God; and I will defy any man to find in any of the records of divine truth any ordinance instituted for the salvation of little innocent chil- dren; it would be unnecessary on the face of it, and the only thing that can be found is where Jesus took the little ones in his arms and blessed them, which is and would be perfectly right to do according to the order of God. But the sprinkl- ing of infants or the doctrine that infants go to hell under any circum- stances is a doctrine ordained of man and not of God, and is there- for of no avail and entirely wrong and displeasing in the sight of God. So much about the infants. I will say again they are redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ, and when they die, whether of Christian, Pa- gan or Jewish parentage, their spirits are taken home to God who gave them, and never go to suffer torments of any kin

If there is an Emperor, a King, a President, a ruler of any nation or people, whe- ther a monarchy, kingdom or repub- lic, that takes away from any of his subjects or fellow-citizens the right to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscien- ces, he deprives them of a right which the God of heaven has guar- anteed unto them. These are the sentiments of the Latter-day Saints. We believe in giving to all men freedom, freedom in spirit and action; we believe in religionists of every creed and faith enjoying the liberty to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, which right is guaranteed unto them by God Himself; and the man or set of men that would de- prive their fellows of this God-given right assumes a responsibility that they must answer for before the bar of God. If I had the power and control of the whole world I would never think of depriving any man, woman or child of this natural; this inherent right, whether their reli- gious views were true or false. Can you find from history that God at any time forced any man to heaven or Hell? No, you can not. And we as Latter-day Saints claim this right and privilege for ourselves to wor- ship God, to believe in God, and to believe in the records of divine truth—the Bible, the Book of Mor- mon, the Doctrine and Covenants and the revelations of God.

And I will here say, as I wish to be understood by all men, that our faith is, there never has been but one Gospel upon the earth though to-day there are six hundred three score and six different religi- ous faiths, all more or less diverse one from another; but there is but the one true and everlasting Gospel, and never will be any more, and it is the same Gospel that was taught to Adam, to Noah, to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs, and which Jesus and the Apostles preach- ed; it never did vary in the least in one single instance, nor never will. And I say, if we teach any other Gospel than that which was taught by Jesus and His Apostles, we teach a false Gospel, and shall be under condemnation before God, angels and men.