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MSS SC 292 - Questions to be asked the Latter-day Saints
Number of Pages: 2

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Andrew S Gibbons
	Questions to be asked the
	Latter-day-Saints
1. Have you committed murder by shedding innocent blood
or consenting thereto.
2. Have you betrayed your bretheren or sister's in anything
3. Have you committed adultery, by having any connection
with a woman that was not your wife, or a man
that was not your husband.
4. Have you taken and made of use of property not your own
without the consent of the owner.
5. Have you cut hay where you had no right to, or turned
your animals into another persons grain or field, without
his knowledge and consent.
6. Have you lied about or maliciously misrepresen<te>d any person or thing
7. Have you borrowed anything that you have not returned or paid for
8. Have you borne false witness against your neighbour.
9. Have you taken the name of the Deity in vain.
10. Have you coveted anything not your own.
11. Have you been intoxicated with strong drink.
12. Have you found lost property and not returned it to the owner
or used all dilligence to do so.
13. Have you branded an animal that you did not know to be your own.
14. Have you taken anothers horse or mule from the range and rode
it, without the owners consent.
15. Have you fulfilled your promises in paying your debts, or run
into debt without prospect of paying.

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16. Have you taken water to irrigate, when it belonged to another
	person at the time you used it.
17. Do you pay your tithing promptly.
18. Do you teach your family the gospel of Salvation.
19. Do you speak against your brethren, or against any principle
	taught us in the Bible, Book of Mormon, Book of Doctrine
	and Covenants, Revelations given through Joseph Smith the
	the Prophet and the Presidency of the Church as now organized
20. Do you pray in your family night and morning & attend to secret <prayer>
21. Do you wash your body and have your family do so, as often as 
	health and cleanliness require and circumstances will permitt
22. Do you labour six days and rest, or go to the house of worship
	on the seventh.
23. Do you and your family attend Ward meetings
24. Do you preside over your household as a servant of God
	and is your family subject to you.
25. Have you laboured diligently and earned faithfully the wages
	paid you by your employers.
26. Do you oppress the Hireling in his wages.
27. Have you taken up and converted any stray animal to your
	own use, or in any manner appropriated one to your benefit
	with accounting therefor to the proper authorities.
In answer to the above questions, let all men and women Confess
to the persons they have injured and <make> restitution or satisfaction
And when catechising the people, the Bishops, Teachers, Missionaries
and other officers in the Church are not at liberty to pry into sins
that are between a person and his or her God, but let such
persons confess to the proper authority, that the adversary may not
have an opportunity to take advantage of human weaknesses and
thereby destroy souls.