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Show lamest truly The VOL. l. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, OOTOBE1L after the conference, and ruy servant Chrd;ian Advocate. Uta.li J oseph shall be appointed to preside oyer it by the voice of it, and vdmt he saith to thee thou shaft tell. (Sec. 2G :10. ) llenvTuUon given to V'iim G A ry Devoted to Evangelical Cl kianity Education. Temperance and General FewR in Utah. itch examples might Le multiplied indefinitely, but these are sufficient for illustrations. They show unmistakably that these revelations ( ? ) had for their first and Bishop Wiley, D. D. Bishop Fowler, B. P. T. C- Hitt - Smith-E- - T- - .Tayne. W, Lincoln. A. V. Avlkin&oii P. A. H. Franklin. J T). Giliilau. M. Nelson, F. Brock. G 21. Jeffrey, Ij AvJjJCIClil . U j. ll J 4 WAS JOSEPH SMITH, JUN., A PROPHET OF THE LORD? iiuv. HV V. A I ) K i'X A. By way of spijiu pr (In meat of the Book of Mnru'-lorn paper, we propooc 1 " ft Hi (Dll&UK'l I f u treat i" Hu tr iTtiPh !,oi - 1 at the head of rldj article We shall endeavov to aspui-by eiiatibns trom .his v.ku-revelation'', and legitimately hf loug'i to Pun and Ti basis of grows out of ilmm. h- -! Il.o iuinly the and book of Doctrines Covenants, in older that adherents and oppo nents may stand, upon a common r v-cidi- kuc-ig-di.'i'.- ej ,ii uc-de- th rc-er- vc P" IraTH'Ctredr'hir'tr.hwird'r-eSo have hors-- thUUs. -- - , death abusive remarks crimes that ho had committed had been discovered, and the old ones were much magnified. i heir accusations wca- nut vij.y again: t him hut against his brother iiyrum, and uihei proniuiei.t Uion ;n X.iuioo There soonird to he no end to the oi wln.-- those good ioeii wore Vs most ol tin tnno until a athour ones in n is oc.ujucd :y dule'-i.nand a ecu dug Joseph and Lis fronds of the most heinous crimes. (Pages 2o? r. ! . At the third meeting, charges semned to be still more definite, and some that he had ) t t wives cir away get sought from them and had many times committed a Bilim yd l Page 2.13.) At that big about iwK) per-Sj- h sul".cBbc'L p Us following in--'--- ' ! ! . i i that there k ' I i (Ml s 'ixaroJeTinly tweav; betorft fJotl and ih y.0,;,rb!? thren' rroundcu, tint you by v,iiUm you are wdS give your life, your liberty, your for the destruction itU'.uoTiee, your a of Joseph MTiiili and his party, so hdp yoiGod. (lagc Tim account of the final ii.ser-vi-between bmitliand she voung mo: is exccoiingly in testing. A her a Jong 2Grlce a .n t s.i it : Gif' P tUi a littiCtl IV U G; 'ib-iie- l uii, go'ng tu b.e with you i,,ng ; m ail i oi be many mon'bs iiufil 1 cu that, ap") iired in t! j evi , If any man's influence becomes troublesome, property on a cun be cu ins itm mission wlcio-o- r '.nith pniub co. ,.t u bli t Brother ured : . ! vt - j hnaiiV G of ;k cl bent tu-- i ei i I. n j as OVr saen i i. ion, ode r T! u lni-,oJi. linai it j u. lb a tv ,ic! i Lave I'ld o ou-r-- ii er ibiy r ti Book ot Mor'n.'j.a 1. BtiUio:. of 3 o a t 8iu!tii Lcr (i ab.uut it. T,.'!,T'!iT f";-- U.v ll th-'-'ii- . p--- 'io t - J.'.ii. j O 1 v.e icufi wiie willi ;.u ! ,V,- ' - 'Wist' r m iv, y M iP I b. - .1 C, u pl joa i dutui ta iD bur loo one iu.t -- t.-l- i , 1 1 o 1 ! 1 1 ! ! i:i,-iav- - "-- 1 i- - . i s ; , -- ( 1 -- I--. . u-- .u j ! -- . i - - i I f il u v' ; Mmtj, : v 1 1 r Si -- 2.s&oi L'-gi-- A J -- . ak- - n o; siuh a clmit.c arm r!i. ; .i- - A-- cm and bv Hie tre ti'aCi o.n to- :hi e;,: :o,ud s m.'L- the . it is ? i take-- Ojui-.dl- iu 1 I-- bold.' . 4 twA .'cu, cvaoi'ii h fir it ".it'd lb. fl P - hi - i r I am of the i t.iiu.y the so, ).: .Ltion no: Known :.iu:u liupl jj..,; a'viv iivi win bands. ILe am mg this people fur twenty years of the Later-Da- y article id entitled, Conspiracy of r more. I shall go to lest for a The author, Horace sivsoH, Narivoc. (Page 2o8.) artihis in Now on the supposition that concluding Cummings, ; vs a was 8mith tits prophet, them events On T2rt.li, 1832. j I respectfully Mibmit the above nar- aia in lend full of mystsry. In was simply t us recai a little of the rative, a Ii i. ii is a true s ecitr.l of events urn th.it uiou A OW that cctuallv trunnirrd. The maim tll el oiiunii.' s.,i; tsl lu 'buy oi our cmiirv. has bru ccrcfully sci uLnized tifio nation j wdisfit-ol authontii-whuare rruper It ly" in Cfliury 1 i . Is . , v. and ItOve ;mrro'Pd ir diir.iuT,-'.i-ij u- urn tonui-rc ague. by t j p pmeation. as an unporTtht and nciAi 3 IWOiOj U't c!lVl'PUr3 Ut Jhiutory connected with, "vjmtic. '.nun-p d m 1; sts v oip J. an ' f hi '! 1- .of tin- cori'jifaiv Ml i" ti.. V i . be : .u .. i pr-cI.. c vc. VI IV ;C. . i j ii.u I o at i.'i IlU'v'I logs j ve re of Pomb P.scliua, v. 1 of frw i at nv.i- i Aid 1,11 rip Ly i:)vit.,uUi, ,;j p,, ,ri .i i , vuiuls d O jf'Mt t r ( . 1, s; CIK Poout jvbh jtf , V,h ?v . i ..I o' tn.v V .'jjvv. u Ii . .pi..i .1 ill living n .j. Laarns, yr: lily the J.s ui-- j of Po:r".t w tl1 U'j-c- ) i I'im siuntiou is biiefiv jifi: fine. LVrsi .isi : pv..e.-:5;iu i' tifi-- , t " ot tin liUi a .nigli p.iiunioplt. cpiei-()f (Jon- lh rpr.ny of 1S4L a very hg :i .pc p, j. pipy Earl v 1 1 . 11.. i i Apia .iil ed by J'UuUS Ik B ike C'ty. in 1b- i cr.enve--Viici-ru'-- i' - i- le-iv- i i I - - n tcil'Leg fo plOVf tl Pi 8lliifb was kilie 1 oy ;i band of vulisp.m tors among his own. people, I call yom attentioi to an mti (')-i i continued: Ia . (iprjnp V j , ; ib'd-tr.-P- jnni-oc;- hi-m- . w i cr'iisi-niiuii-.- ' I It han averted so oft hi and so positively that he was killed by a mob of 'wi'-kedGcntilea, ll at moat people liave accpped that stuteioHrit as a finality. 1 proi'-vto show, Imwever, f?o..t Mormon f i . - u-l-- viif.-Lioir- r aci-used- 1 j , i i A ti w - n j tl.-ai- vthmcnt in t towani Joscjh. i , (W-5.- ) i : more Still (his argument does not have weight. with some people. What then ai e t h ('facts regards n i; Smi id s. - , thus f 1 -- 1 imu-iiJK(-iiuu- .i aT'-- ' u.-1- pocIs. - r ti !;,a The pecor.d meeting is described 1 , 1 celesti.u neu riago lw it., .in th, .r r pprev.d, certeaif members v, ere most bdtcily op posed to it, and Joseph as a to rmd were taller destroy him," (Page 27rj.) - HB-'L- T 1 on me a Mu-fi- 'nht Ji-i- w A y ( , days will Le poureu our upon Sit gmmn.g ct that place, for bt hold, .the Soul hern StaU s Khali be divided against the Noi them States, and the Southern wiil cull on other nations, even Stareh "ound. toe nation of Great BnUiin, as h is Tim first thing tl at impresses upon called, and they shall alsoyall tl.cm-si other nations, in ordir td defend one v) priding these "prophecies Ives against other no: ms; and tuns character is the utterly hobe-diwar hail be poured out upon all nations. n it shod come .j pr.-- af'er manj Ant arc, t'u ;tt marks them. 'ihey u.that skivi Khali rif up against its, honor to a human inteihet. much their Tuosn-iN- , v ho shall be mars milled and discijilined fwr war. And it ehai! Takea less CPatirahJe to Gcm ah'-tli it Be reimiiirdfe pc-- u s, wo mi.: o.a..e ver-Section. f.'-.: c x nip! s v, hyi,r: bat of the Jo nil viH maishal arc "An I misciy t'loa ch ut :eUi I Frail r .ic c.:c'c'1ir. i ill sou. k unto oii this But vcnly t1 cs cornslU.Ui'Uili vey the thr.tiiit. won IMit t AtAl vuirr p unto tlie land (PJ yp if lhr.il Will n,.i - I hno Y it h CAP' Pt CuIUUU. from w lnuiee you come. Let there be n of ewn uttrutvm seK th' L.Iom.IAi.k.. tilt- mlieni-t.uic; 'Hy and iworft. by croU made, or bought, as scemctli you and mourn: shall woild a ot take and math-retthe tu no me, and it Tmpuit uood, property thyself cartoand and U, f.amn tor the pinnae,, place spc'cd.1 voiir ; yen, even of Buy m.d iluindei-ojHirtion piojierty heac:i, fiiickos, and the wdiiij, i,cafi. Rt l."us.'" (her. sh ill all save the tin. fi rce and vn'id lighting Y.nth vouSi'n rt of thy lands, and 1, the Lord, to be emnh of the ibitimts inn yn.nde Pa v thc the da.r mine finger is guppoj t of thy family. and vestcidiy. but f. el the .vrato and nds: nation thiM-coi. tilled ai.iiv V In rcL re, let rr.ct(d irh the i,aKtcfiinc hand ot an (Almighty God. vlifa sKtsf ..:c, 0.U11 l aosu u ) 1 l,i. end of'all decreed,tii'itbath ha-,r. He-i. U...su pnat-"hi thi up fall t,c' 'SutioriS; v i vt .on 1 s, I'nto Martin was erv nf tin, Sljts and (.nhe biuod ot th ,)fmdi e Jt cccuc to . iti.c iu inn- the nd Snd Jits k unt- -. the nc l'i-- of 8 bfi i t u f ih-- k c, ulvti.-- tlwv g! caUse v:h grow u. . coi .cKpom pf p'K ir tu iurtii. avmgf-i. les r,e iu- it . i.n stand o lg! d i iitL-orunif io! Pm- u.iJ until ol be moved, net lh6iH) The whole drilt of these revelu-- t come; for behold t t'unveth (puckly, thir ..j.! ..ids ln-- e,nU-r.- ' (8cc. CliJoions ( I) is this : Smith is to be radii the Lord. Amen thnso i,ivu,.iticni that Nuv ti t us examin-- tins document the head, and if on any account he w me given in a time of great trou- must be Note, first, needs any mans money, it soiuswliHt card ally that the pofend fate is Dccem-h- er tJ iO. more wicked even watched their opportunity to cake hi life, and were eontin Jolting to a ndly At kiiv'-- this wicked IV. ling became bo strong' and gcneini, lurnmi; h certain class, Lett it was resolved to hum an tbnt organizaticui, or set i i could utter enable them to their wk ked purposes. Page 151.) the of The occasion couspiraeyjs also clearly stated. It seems that the immediate cause of these wicked proceedings was tin fact that Joseph recently presented the Wlieiefore it is lawful that hejlfiibd, just one month and six lays should have one wife and .hey bforc 'fimi-i- Lad his ieP:uiou ) Ih- - e uhcr Ivtlij 1832, President twain shali be one flesh, and all this that the eurlh might ?nwer Jackson issued a proclamation New against the milliners, and followed the end of its existence. with this Sec. it by preparations for war. Detake in connection 02 : , And agdin, as per- cember 20th, only five days before taining to the 1V of the Priest the revelation, Gov. H.iyne. of hood : If any man espouse a vir- South Carolina, defied the Presigin. and desire to espouse- another, dent in a counter proclamation. and the first give her consent ; and (See H Footprints of Time'' by if he espoue tne s.ecuaia, ani l he) unaric.s oauc-rt; p not was no vowed to are virgins, and ha re difliculty adjusted nnti other man, then is hb justified ; he March 3d, 1883, when a compromise cannot commit adultery, for they bill, satisfactory to both factions, are given unto him ; for he cannot introduced by Kerry Clay, became commit adultery with that thai be a law. Now go back and read Smith's longeth unto him and to no one vise; and if die have ten virgins ievelatmii again iu the light of given unto him by this law. he can- ili'se facts, and you can see that the war v hieh he thought was not commit adultery, for they b me and to him, given they long intuolly upon the notion , did not LeD therefore unto him, justified. recur afor 'tunrlv thirtu gears. Can any conclusion be readied Tim "war did not corne when fie with more absolute certainty than ex pi cted it, and. indeed, the that these revelations sprang from which he described, except iu a Smith's own heart, and mark his very few particulars, ?ierer did at ( luracter and hb ciiVu instances i the fiiif- rent periods in his life rest claims that But their is mm. revdution that the inspiration of is that he was a is held as an absolfite proof of his us Le: examine piophetic power.' mairyr to ins faith ; that he sealed his teriruouy with his blood. it,Stc.'S7: concernthe saith thus Lord, Now to any one who stops to Kink, 'Verily, ing the wars that wjll Hiortly come to there is iu his violent death, no LcrunninSpii tbe, rebellion in Routh iciim- - evidc(l( r fh.it he was or was not n .Virohn.t. vvbwh vv ill nato in the tlegfi tmi mifafiy' f n.rnv ; till Luid. Good v ill come that war p.'iphet of The - main object the bolstering of Smith's anthonty. On the very natural supposition that h wished to be the leader of a sect, and tu bind the people to him with a sort of supertitious fear, these pretended revelations ate the most natural thinp-- in the world. Their origin, on that supposition uuvicwer, would be vastly different from the pretense. Everything, however, is made snbtei vient to Smiths advancement See other revels ions. Take Sc. 42:12 14. And if ye desire the glories of the kingdom, append ye my servant Joseph Smith, Jun.. and uphold him before me by the ain I pay tied if von ve inCa (lesiie the nivs- t levies of rim kingdom, provide for him food and raiment and whatsoto accomplish the ever he w work when ,ilh I Lave commanded him; "and if e do it not, lie shali remain unto them that have nnSo him, that I may mvseif a pure people befoo me. Again iu Sec. pegd, we have a command to Martin Hama, who seems to have had some money : And again 1 command time that t not covet thin- - own thou property, hut impart it freely to the printing f tt'e Book of Mer moil, which contains rhn truth and od. Again in the s Bld'-k- . NO. 18S4. j THROtrUH JOSEPH, BOARD OF MANAGERS. E- - great , but the laborers are few.' ? aviji ;.a n.uH 1 j:r p.n-s- - ol LW- - in ,i,i ig d.e lOuih-it- by s vfinir-i.i-- . sdr.-ig- duN. , rV; ii.e nue. ' Onlir mu d1 t,iud c. uven, :n i'f v t-- - ( ' "n c N l.fib, i I . '.i-- .i? uj r, in inter .J- h-- - "u-u- I r (mu I - J ig uund A sud Iu b i.o v .ir.s'-.d- i uM iin-- I'!.l - in, my of i-i- in fi.e hu best nn J.v-ynu.r- h sO!u.-- ' m.r tm-nds- . Bought bv 'ci iniury. . ?. ; a'.r.Jid ri van j fin." nf -: . no pi see s s".'Tt(! hit? anil's niv'.-- I cecan make it more iin-'i.i- vyr l IS V r 1, 9- 4 I i |