| Show Silver to the Josephites SALT LAKE CITY Feb 4 1SSO Editors Herald Concerning the JoiBjjhier in my communication to you of thu 23 J ult I woald like to hays said Jre bi wy of advice to Elder Blair president presi-dent of the mission but I feared to extend that commucicaiior knowing that apace in a dully paper ot the character ot ue HERALD I5 frequently needed for more weighty matter Perhaps however you will now permit per-mit me to consider my thoug etc Now aa it is written It ChriSt came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance it ia presumable that His servants would do likewise But Elder BJ1irbliin bern especialy and I only sent to call DIsh Mormon sinners sin-ners to repentance ihe whole of them having strayed Ike I lost sheep from the true fold or embraced an apostate faith as per the Joseplnte theory it wouli not bo bib province tQ in any way warn outsiders of the impending wrath to corns upon them unless they repent and foreake their sins There ii without doubt a fine field here in Utah among us outsiders for Joeph I ite missionary cpterpripea Of ibio however I may possibly have more to nay hereafter Notwithetanding tho fact that Brother Blair is especially on a mission mis-sion to the Mormons ol Utah aa he la the representative of the man who it to put the church in order I tbirk that he Blair would Lava displayed dis-played much mere wisdom bad he first before commencing his giant efforts tD convert tho Mormons called the very small band of Josephita con UEJomsts hero together and put them in good shape good order and at least have made them or endeavored endeav-ored to have done eo aa liberal minded one to another aud to their Mormon brethren and sisters as he I professes to ba himself Illfeeling illliberaliam and intolerance most certainly have marked the career of the Jcsepbitea hero for some time past and I think they Lave not yet become convalescent I remember not long since attending one of their small meeting which was held in my own house Eleventh Nard I remained quietly until opportunity was given the people present to speak being one of the people I attempted to speak but the president Brother Hudson bade me sit down stating that it was a religious meeting Why sirs I was teaching them good religion reli-gion aching them lo veif l it were possible and do groJ to their enemies and enid if they would do so they weuld become better men and women I happened the other day to be in a certain house a sister of the Josephite body was there A sister Mormon was dying Our Josephite sister was asked to go in to help to soothe her in her att dying moments Not I indeed let them Ctt one of their own people was tho reply How Samaritanhke aye I If some of the present members of the Joaephito churchbefore becoming such possessed a bad spirit they certainly cer-tainly possessed a much worse one afterwards So much so was this the case on one particular occasion occurring oc-curring about one week alter baptism and confirmation ol the person referred re-ferred to that as bad as I wa myself my-self I was constrained to rebuke the very picked spirit manifested Tome To-me the manifestation of so bad a spirit io no evidence of divinity or superiority over the spirit possessed by their Mormon brethren Now if Brother Blair wishes or has the slightest hope 01 getting the Mormons to accept the idea that he represents the true Latterday Saint gospel he must seek to purge the Reorganization of every and all spirits that savor of antiChrist And as there are two or three rather grave I charges preferred against Elder Charles Derry by some certain person information of which I will furnish him Blair if be will kindly call upon me and which if found true on investigation in-vestigation either wholly or in part and Brother Charles has not repented of and made proper reparation and does not manifest a willingness to do so he should be dropped or disfellow ehiptd And tho case of a woman r member of the Reorganization who if the law ha3 been interpreted aright has two living husbands one and possibly bcth of these husbands for want of means not able to have the thing righted by legal divorce should be put in order by the Josephite Church especially as that church through one or more of her apostles was partly instrumental in bringing this about and that church professedly opposed to bigamy polygamy polyg-amy etc It will be readily perceived by the above that I am anxious to have tho tcue Church of Latter day Saints purified nod made fit for good men and women I should not therefore be regarded by tho Joseph ites as their enemy but rther cs their true friend I hope then that Elder Blair will accept the doctrine that the wounds of a friend are better than the kitEea of an enemy I J SOLVED |
