Show Silver and the Joseplutes SALT LAKE CITY April 2 80 Editors Herald The position fallen by the high I priests of the Jodepbite order relative to the introJucton of Mormonism or as they would perhaps word it tee reintrodueiion of the true and ever lasting gospel by or rather through Joseph the Seer is that he was 0 prophet of God arjd duly appointed and ordained by the heavenly Mel chizedek and Aaronic priesthoods to usher in the dispensation of the full ness of times that he came in fulfillment fulfill-ment of prophecy as uttered by ancient prophets and apostles The prophecy of Daniel is greatly favored by them parts of which read about I as foibws In the days of these certain kings the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall break in pieces all other kingdoms and fctiud forever shill never be thrown down or given to another people Now Sirs the elders ol the above order affirm that this kingdom king-dom through the instrumentality of the stove titled person was established estab-lished or set uP This being the case as per their own showing how is i that they claim to be that kingdom king-dom when it is well known that they came not into existence as an organized body til many years subsequent sub-sequent t the organization of that kingdom by Joseph Smith jr and not until many years after his death And when they did bring about an organization it came not according to tbeir own pull abed statement through their present head by direct revelation from God but through one H H Deain a Spiritualist though b might not have known that be was such This Spiritualist Mr Deam laid claim to having received a revelation of instruction how and when to organize a church and which church he or they were pleased to call the true Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints This would seem to signify that God through his servant Danielhad made some kind of 1 mistake since it become necessary to reorganize his kingdom or church and give it into the hands at another people The lesnlt of toe said organization was instead of the people coming to young Joseph the Prophet as did the people to John the Baptist and also to Joseph the I seer he young Joseph went to them Mark you I say not that he received not special instructions eo to do But whether those instructions came from God or not is another no thing I is very doubtful i God EO instructed him But to give a kind of semblance to the corrertnesa of their position they tall us that the kingdom or church established organized setup set-up by God through Josenh tho Seer was afterwards rejected because ot wickedness and apoatacy on the i part of the twelve apostles and others of the holy priesthood Doubtless God was not pleased with the rebellious rebel-lious and wicked of his people He never has been But he is not such a revengeful being to cast 08 reject his entire church kingdom because of the wickedness of a few or even the misconduct of many Such a line of procedure ia not all in accord with his past acte The history of his dealings with his ancient peopleas recorded re-corded in the Bible is abundant proof Besides God does not and the Josephites ought to know it forego his promises in any such a manner Then to the query may come up in the minds of some When did the twelve and others of the priesthood apostatizs I Was it before the Seera death or afterwards after-wards should suppose it will be conceded by the Josephite elders that Joseph the Prophet and Seer forsook for-sook not his God but remained faithful faith-ful to death How was it then with the quorum of the twelve apostles Did they not most of them especially es-pecially those of them that came to these valleys remain faithful to Joseph and Mormonism Those of that quorum who departed from the Mormon faith did so I believe before be-fore his death Whatever there might be said of their conduct in relation lation to Mormonism on tneir way to this country and after they arrived it certainly cannot be said that they remained not its adherents up to Josephs death If one or more of them I mean of those who came here had been previously a little shaky i seems that they retraced their steps and were restored to full fellowship with their quorums I think the Josephite priests should reflect at least twice on this matter before be-fore they speak once Tne fact of the whole matter as averred by nearly all I I who have taken any pains to investigate investi-gate the beginning of Josephiteism is that the foundation is not of the ad mantine kind but of the sand sandy J SILVER |