Show GARBLING AGAIN IT to is almost waste of time to argue with or reply to an adversary who persistently misstates jonesen fife position makes garbled quotations changes ones language and proceeds to reason from it as an admission and winds up with ribald abuse we shall therefore make but brief allusion to the latest effusion of this kind from J the daily organ of slander and vulgarity it says the doctrine and covenants Coven atts says of such men even if subject to like passions as others that after ordination whatever they shall speak s eak shall be scripture the will athe bf the lord the mind of the lord the word of the lord the voice of the lord and the power of god to salvation 11 I 1 the doctrine and covenants does not say anything of the kind in any part of the book there is nothing in the mormon creed that makes the word of any man divine the revelation intention Intent intentionally io n misquoted by the organ of prevarication says concerning the preaching of the elders sent out as missionaries to preach the gospel 1 and nd whatsoever they shall speak when moved upon by the holy ghost shall be scripture shall be the will of tho th lord shall be the mind of the lord shall be bethe the word of the lord shall be the voice of the lord ana and the power of god unto salvation the words we have italicized are omitted purposely by our opponent and yet they form the hinge on which the whole question turns it is only when moved upon by the holy ghost that the words of holy men of old were called scripture 11 it is the same now in the chu church ach of jesus christ of latter day saints this declaration does not place the iiren men authorized to preach M lie jos gospel above the laws af god or of man ma i n it does not make their thoughts gods thoughts nor their word gods word 1 it simply places their utterances when m moved oved upon by the holy ghost on the same plane of authority as the utterances of men similarly commissioned and inspired ages ago in order to convey ther the false impression that these men are considered in the church to be above subjection to the laws of the land he says further on in the same book it is commanded that none of these shall be tried or condemned condemn edor for any crime save it be defoye the first presidency I 1 this too is a a falsehood a wilful misquotation quotation miB an intentional perversion the book does not say so either further on or elje elsewhere where in designating how every member and officer of the church shall be be amenable for transgression it pyo provides vides that a bishop of the church must be tried before the presidency this is obvious to those who know anything of the church organization because the bishop is himself a common judge in israel and it would not be proper that he should try himself or be tried by one holding no greater authority that is all there is of the matter it does not refer to any other officer than the bishop and the revelation prescribing this rule says specify specifically cally that this trial is to be according to the covenants and commandments of the church it has no reference to the civil law but there is a revelation in the same book which commands that if any man in the church kills robs lies or commits other crime he shall be delivered up to the law of the land this is the doctrine of the church it is the law of god to the church the courts of the church are only ecclesiastical they only relate to church matters and to fe fellowship flow ship and they do not interfere in any way with civil or criminal courts under the laws of the land A attempts to make the contrad contrary y appear are simply exhibitions of shameless mendacity As to the epithets that follow thena them th they ey are characteristic outpourings of a bitter spirit and call to mind the saying of the savior out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speak eth 11 A succeeding article article of a personal character against a correspondent on lead and silver whose views do not correspond with those of the ranting writer to is a stream of scurrility suJ suitable tAble only to the lowest haunts of degraded humanity and which proclaim the character of the being who flings his mud at the mormons cormons Mor mons and misrepresents their faith and purposes |