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Show J. GOLDEN 'S RETORT. Apparently they still occasionally talk in the Mormon church concerning the "Smiths-Son-ian Institute," as that organization was namod some time ago by The Tribune. President J. Golden Kimball of the first council of seventy iB regarded as a blunt man in conversation, but at the same time it is generally admitted that occasionally he surely strikes the nail on tho head. We are told that in a conversation con-versation on tho subject of Smithizing the Mormon church, as pointed out by The Tribune, Mr. Kimball asked, "Don't you think there is a little truth in it?" "Well, Brother Kimball, you must remember," was the reply, "that it wns the Smiths that started the church." But J. Golden had a reudy rejoinder at hand in, "Then I must have been laboring under a misapprehension. mis-apprehension. I thought that this was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints, and that God Himself started start-ed it." President Kimball is not a bit poetic, but ho appears to have struck tho truth here, in so far as tho pretense of the church is concerned. However, he is undoubtedly aware by this timo that tho Smiths aro in the habit of taking all they can lay their hands ou in tho church, and that it makes no difference to them oven if it is supposed to belong to tho Almighty. There are JoBeph P. Smith, president; John Ilenry Smith, counselor; Hyrum M. Smith, apostlo; Georgo A. Smith, apostlo; Joseph T Smith, Jr.. apostle; John Smith, presiding presid-ing patriarch; and David A. Smith, counselor to tho presiding bishop. Meantime it must bo recollected, too, that with his vast polygamous family to draw from, Joseph F. has still plenty to go around tho fat places whenever they shall fall vacant and that other 3'oung men in tho church aro expected lo keep off his preserves. |