None Can Preach the Gospel Like the Mormons Do

DESCRIPTION: "We're going to preach the Gospel To all who want to hear, A message of salvation Unto the meek we'll bear... For none can preach the Gospel Like the Mormons do." The song outlines what the Mormons will teach
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (Cheney-MormonSongs)
KEYWORDS: religious | Mormon teaching
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 142-143, "None Can Preach the Gospel Like the Mormons Do" (1 text plus a fragment, 1 tune)
Roud #10864
NOTES [227 words]: Since the Mormons have several books that they consider scripture that are not considered scripture by any other denomination, it goes without saying that no other Christians preach the gospels LIKE the Mormons. Whether the Mormons preach BETTER is another question.... Cheney's notes say that the Mormons "preach the gospel with conviction and forcefulness rather than with logic or from a background of scholarly training." This fits with the very foundation of Mormonism; Joseph Smith "did not follow the path of earlier Protestant reformers, like Martin Luther or John Calvin, learned men who reasoned their way to new interpretations of the Bible. Smith... had little schooling as a boy and rarely attended church.... Nothing prepared him to debate with the educated clergy as Luther and Calvin did" (Claudia Lauper Bushman and Richard Lyman Bushman, Building the Kingdom: A History of Mormons in America, Oxford University Press, 1999, 2001, p. 2). Instead, he claimed that he had been given direct revelation and proceeded from there. I can't personally understand why anyone would find this convincing, but no doubt I think too much.
The song contains one dramatic error derived from the King James Bible, in that it calls the God of the Old Testament "Jehovah" rather than the correct YHWH; for this, see the notes "Guide Me, Oh Thou Great Jehovah." - RBW
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