Show p t JUIXiK iXlm sos VM JIL001 > fit I iTOEtET i fur rcvir Of Judge Amlcron t Ikci lon inlho naturalization raw s I j < n Salunlny was JIlCft8lrllr Jiumctli 2 laving IKIII written after the rti tkringof the iItcIOU anti its ltlas ill tyJk Therefore hil IllOcred UK grojinl taken b > the Judge touching all Uio principal poll of lili argument 1 it could not ilaoor atc iiion particular question In the limlfcxl f tee at our command Wo shall Uicrifure take up the different dif-ferent topics l dwelt upon bj tbo fL Judge as occasion hall offer and J 1 how how much truth tlitru is in f his conclusion The following extract from the decision is I one or Uiomoit rtranrK able luftrencos tree diawn from chtiiuou iiriented in any court Iut def Iladis Judge Anderson taytr taytrToo evHknce also Miows that Wood atonement a one of tho doctrines of tiN Church under which for ocrtam fTrfnethe offender hall sutler death us tiN onH means uf atoning for his Iran sroiUons and that any memlier of the Church has a rfcht to M liw Wood Judge Anderson follows this ttato ment with Ome extracts from discounts dis-counts delivered more than thirty Kwn jcara ago coutalniUtf the opinions of Brigham Young Jcdul jab i 31 Cmnt aud other on the drcadiul consequences of committing commit-ting fm uuto death such as referred re-ferred to ly tin Apostle John 1st I Ii KpiUle Slli cliapcr 16th icrse Hut those parts of tho dicourcs which explain the meaning of the pealvtrs the Judge canfully omits lie also excludes from his summing nji those passages from the Doctrine nud Covenants that wtruoOtred in evidence which would liau rendered ren-dered his conclusion inios lc or at least aU > urd Here are the pasagcs tainted out to the Court the whole volume hnr inj beiii fircd in CMdtnco l > 3 counsel fur the objector And now behold I speak unto tho Church Thou shall not kill and ho that kills shall not bare forgiveness in thl i world nor In the world to come und again I say thou shall not kill but he that killeth shall ieDact Cm iiI 1 n no n And it shall iomo to pas that if any j > ersons among you shall kill they shall be delivered up and dealt with aeeordmg to the laws of tho laud for leracmbcr he hath no forpivcues and it shall be proven according to tho laws of the landltkl v 79 It was evidence that the ree Jalious In the Doctrine and Core imnts ire ritwwl by the Church as diviueami authoritative and that me opinions 01 nm pusm in the Church IntelerjoMtion he may occupy arc only to be considered 1S opinion Also that any teaching rontrar to the revelations of God Is I notrtoened Joy tbe Church as its doctrine W h > did Judge Auder fOil suppress tins evidence and color the < iuotation < i lie gave with his own unwarranted iiiftrtnci as to their meaning Is this conduct worth of a judicial mind Would it be conidtnil fair LLH In a I Q Uetnie or coulrmcry oral or on l < nj r upon luj Mil jecl of civjliccxl discussion In order to still further cxui < chU conclusion the Judge makes three I olited and disxiuucttvd quotations quota-tions from an address Ij C W IVnrcse duJivereil III the Twelfth Ward Afcembli Hill October 12 1SSJ They hare been cunningly MkiUtl anti the context excurd so that they Mill apear to I tho reader as endorsing the idea expressed by the JUdge I But if as many other extract from the same discourse had been given to tliovf what the fofoC1ker WIi realty uBtabhhing they would hare been fain to the Judge ale nod out rBgiotirf deduction This is Judge Andersons first quotation is from this address ago ThOW according to the dortrmo of IVositeiit Hrigbam iounp the blood of Jesus Chrit as 1 hat hon n you atoned for the original MU flint for sins that men commIt and yet there are sins which tune commit for which they cannot receive any benefit through the shedding nf Cbn < tV Wood Is Ihat a trite doctrine Ills true if the Bible 13 true That is Iliblc doctrine But this is only part of the Ira Smith Hero is the rest of It which the Judge took pains i j to omit I will direct your attention to one or two paisages of scnj turo which bear on this ubject In the first place I will refer you to the words of the Lord Jesus Chn twhlch you will find in tho lth chapter of the Gospel according ac-cording to St Matthew and tho 31st and 32 d verses namely Where jrol RSVUII ojonall manner man-ner of nu and blispbem shall be forgiven for-given unto men but the blasphemy tuptiost the holy Ghost Minll not bo fonen uuto Jn n And whosoever speakclh a word l against the bun of Man it ehall be for given him but whosoever t > eakeh i a a word a3lnot the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiicn him neither in this world neiiner in the world to come This is further explained in the Rune connectIon and then the text is quoted from tho Xphtle to the Hebrews bOth chapter 26th verse For if we sin mICellJ after that wo have received tho knowledge of the truth there rennineth no more sacri five for siiis Also from the santo Epistle 0 chap 4th verse as follows For it imJ1Oibo for those who were once enlightened and have tatted of the henxenU gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost Anti have labial the good word of God and tho powers of the world to come romeUthe shiU fall away to renew them again unto repentance seeing they crucify themselves the Sou of God afresh and pat him to an open shame mcr commenting on the fact tlit the early Christian Church laid the q doctrine that there were Ins lr I a which the blood cf Chr t would not I atone if committed b1 llCnoJII5 who had once been cleiu etf from tin and had received the 1I01J Ghost the annexed tcxtj a > cited in this adtlres from 1 Cor v iG con ctruing a gross sexal sin For I rerihy as abvcnt In bode but procut in ypint have judged already sis though I were present coneccrnlng him tliu hath done this deed 41 ro deUcrnch nu one nnto Satan far the destruction of the flesh that tho spirit nwyl > esaTxl in tho day of tho Lord Jesus J Let it be remembered that the f pamphlet containing the address In full was presented in eTl evidence WeE We-E quote further from page 23 Ji Now what kind of sinsnro these j for which men cannot get forgiveness The Apostle John say In the tamo I Epistle I read from just notho3rd I I chapter oC theFlrstrPitlo of John I a > o nmrdcrer hath eternal life abiding in him Tho man who commits mnrderw ho imbrues his hands in tho blood of Innocence In-nocence cannot receive eternal life because he cannot get forgiveness of that sin What can he dot The only way 10 atone is to shed his blood hanging is not the proper method I rcferyou now to the 9th chapter of the Book of Gene fih verse I Whose sheddetli man blood by man shall bis blood bo shed On the 2Sth pagcjthe subject iF I I earned further and the annexed passage occur 1 Well is there any other cm In that A mall may commit which ii worthy of death I think there Is I will refer you to one in the nook i of Leviticus 8th chanter and 10th verse And the man that ronimlttcth adultery with another icons wife even lIe that commilleth aiullcry with bu neighbors wife the adulterer nnd the adulteress fihall surely lie put to dealtThat That was the law of God In the days of Moses It was the law of God previous to the days of Moses as you will find by reference to tho Ilook of Genesis It has been the law of God from the beginning The address tin ii deals with the question as to the execution of the death penalty and thows moot emphatically that while murderers should be put to death and that if the law of God was fully carried oul adulterers who commit this deadly l sin after enllghtment by the Holy Gliwt and having nude special covenants with God to abstain from such transgressions would also suffer tho samepunisli mcut as the only atonement poui I ble for their crimt Itcanoul be Intlictnl b1 the officers of the law Page 31 says If a man commits a crime he is to bo delivered over to bo dealt with according ac-cording the laws of tho land The I Church can withdraw fellowship from him but tho Church has no authority to execute thin death penalty A man may bo deserting of death but it is not in tho province of the Church to kill bo must bo delivered over to be dealt w ith according to tho Ian of the land It was Dot to bo expected Hint Judge Anderson would quote cx IcuEively from this address But haTing picked out part of a paragraph para-graph which appeared to suit bis purpose from page IS then jumped to page 30 and then skipped over to age 43 common fairness would hae suggested that he should make at least one quotation to chow the gist and object and whole tvudtuci of the address But no not a word does hegnc as to tills For instance he might have cited this from pares I 36 356The The law of tho land fays that if a man kills he shall suffer death nut tbo laws of tho land dont say that the adulterer shall bo put to death Therefore There-fore tho penalty however deserved cannot be inflicted Also In regard to the opinion of leading men In tho Church he might have made title election from the address I I The law of God is item mount When men give their views upon any doctrine the value of those views has h-as the value of Ibo man If he is a wise man a man of understanding of eTjicneneo and authority such views are OI great wcigdt with the community commu-nity but they are not paramount nor equal to tho revealed law of God The revealed law of Godas hown in this address Is that if any man commit crime he shall be delivered up to the law of the land that members mem-bers of tho Church sliall not kill and that if tiny do they ohall not have forgiveness In this world nor in the world to come And the sentiments sen-timents of the leaders and the people on this subject are emi haticalh e pnsseI Why did not Judge Anderson An-derson drt cite this jossage from the ad All this shons that the Lord dos not delight in the shedding of blood neither do Ilisservants Wore told that wo shall not b blood rtied erx Wo are to be temple builders bend of old was not allowed t build the temple becan e ho was not clean from tho blood of his generation And the people called Lattcrd a j Sin from the head of tho Church down to the humblest member have a horror of the heddtag of human blood Thor are not a bloodyminded jwople They Thej are a forbearing people our coward I ly persecutors are well aware Judge Andersonin his partial and biased opinion made no mention of utterauccs of the leaders of the Church whIch were presented In evidence and were utterly at variance vari-ance with his sanguinary conclusion conclu-sion lie dIsmisses all this class oft testimony of-t with the words An effort was made to show that tho blood atonement us preached by Ilng ham Young and Jcded ah Grant is I not now tho doctrine of tho Church This tea mifrepre cnlatlon of the facts No such ilTort was made i The proof offered went to show that no fuch doctrine as that alleged by the oljectors was ever entertained by the Church It Is true that It appeared In evidence that there had < been no teaching for n great main years In I regard to the ideas advanced Jy the preachers named and that the address nn blood atonement quoted from was delivered in answer to the erroneous ide concerning i set forth by ant Mormons But no such semi admission cs the Judge Insinuates was made during the examination I was denied then and denied new that any Church authority ever declared the doctrine that men should Ixj killed for 1IICY And we challenge Judge Anderson on or whoever prepared the one sided document that bears his name to produce from the evidence presented pre-sented in this case any proof whatever what-ever that the Mormon Church holds or ever did hold the monstrous doctrine asserted by the Judge and hich we hare quoted at tie beginning begin-ning of this article As to Its practice the best answer we can jive to the accusation that men have been blood atoned for ipo tacy is that ofltrcd In the ad dress which the Judjo has s honorably honor-ably C cited Has there ever been e tO of blood shedding by the authorities of the Church or bJ the sanction of tho Church outside of the regular operations opera-tions of the criminal law I say there h not and let those who say there have been such instances bring forth I their proof The burden cf proof is upon thOU p 33 Well the best answer to all these i stones is that they cannot produce a single case of blood atonement cannot can-not produce one Individual case of a man or a woman in this Territory who has suffered at the hands of the Church this penalty which President Young laid ought to bo inflicted upon persons guilty of capital crimes T42 Even Judge AndeiMm was I ashamed to mention the only nt tempt made to roe a < of this I I kind which failed E sIgnally as t I j cover the author of it with con I tempt and expose them to the ridicule ridi-cule of all classes of the community communi-ty We do not care to express our feelings in view of the gross misrepresentation mis-representation of our faith and principles contained in the para graph we have taken from the Judges decision We only present the truth And let tho e who per vent the doctrines we hold whether for hllcalor other purpose remain re-main in the hands of Him who shall deal out justice to all 1 His OH n due time |