Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 66: December 15, 1904 Joseph Smith taught, and the Book of Mormon teaches, that innocent children, who die before arriving at the age of accountability, are redeemed by the blood of the Savior. This doctrine was also set down as a heresy, and ministers said that thousands of children were in hell, as a result of some body's failure to secure for' them the baptismal ordinance. This doctrine, denounced in the Book of Mormon as an abomination in the sight of God, was strenuously taught by one faction of Christians for more than two hundred and fifty years. Now comes the great National Convention of Presbyterians, held in Los Angeles in 1903, and officially discards the doctrine of infant damnation as being untrue, unscriptural, unmerciful, inconsistent and unjust. We are glad to see them make a little closer approximation to the truth. Had they listened to and heeded the voice of an inspired prophet, they might have dispensed with this false and cruel dogma three-quarters of a century ago. 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.