Show THAT RICHFIELD DISCOURSE The Substance of What President Joseph I Smith Said ThereIn There-In the Richfield Advocate of Fb 20 appeared a brief synopsis of n discourse dis-course delivered by PresIdent Joseph of the Se P Smith at the conference < vler stake on the previous Sunday afternoon af-ternoon I was evidently a Imperfect Imper-fect and misleading report though perhaps not Intentionally so and merely mere-ly gave a few Isolated and disconnected discon-nected sentences the intervening remarks re-marks being represented by stars It conveyed the idea that President Smith was preaching polygamy The Tribune copied a part of this report and also an explanation from President Smith I appears that the New York Times which recently published an attack on President George Q Cannon has an editorial on this discourse The Herald Her-ald is able to present the substance of what the gentleman said on that occasion occa-sion and which he states formed theIst the-Ist of his remarks I will be seen that what he conveyed to the congregation congre-gation has been misconstrued and it is being used to create a false Impression on the public mind President Smith read the Sth chapter chap-ter of Romans and took for his text the 29th and 30th verses For whom he dId not foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of Ws son that he might be the firstborn among many brethren Moreover whom he did predestinate them he also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified jus-tified them he also glorified The speaker then went on to state that the whole business of mankind was to become like Jesus Christ and to conform their lives in harmony with His divine teachings and doctrines doc-trines taking his life as an example In all things President Smith enumerated enu-merated many of these doctrines as given in the Saviors own language Love your enemies Do good totem to-tem that hate you and pray for them whlch despitefully use you and persecute perse-cute you Resist not evil but whosoever who-soever shall smite thee on thy right cheek turn to him the other also And if any man will sue thee at the law and take away thy coat let him have thy cloak also Add Matt 712 Taking Tak-ing these doctrines as the rule of the gospel how very far were the lives of mankind In general and even of the Latterday Saints from being like the life character and attributes of the redeemer re-deemer of the world Yet It was our chief business to become as he was full of love truth Justice meekness humility forgiveness and kindness In closing his address the speaker incidentally related a conversation he had with a minister some fifteen years ago on these points about a follows The minister contended that the ilor mons were not making any effort t become like Jesus as they believed in marriage and Jesus claimed the marra minister was not married at all This was disputed by President Smith Nowhere did the New Testament ever Infer that Jesus was not married and there were many passages which in his judgment inferred very strongly the marriage of Jesus As marriage was a law l of God from the beginning of creation President Smith said he could not believe that the Savior wh came to fulfill all righteousness would disregard that law and remain unmarried Again he asked the minister min-ister if he could disprove that the marriage mar-riage at Cana of Galilee was the wedding wed-ding feast of the Nazarene Why should hp have been called by the master of the feast and reproved for furnishing the best wine at the last Again the intimacy and close relationship rela-tionship which seem by the scriptures to have existed between Jesus and Mary and Martha very strongly indicated in-dicated that they bore a closer relationship rela-tionship than sisters to him Therefore to be like Jesus a man should be married for as Paul say Neither is the man without the woman wo-man neither the woman without the man In the Lord ruhis was the substance sub-stance minister of his conversation with the ReferrIng to hlmsef the speaker said that while he endeavored to do the will Of God and honor his law to the best of his knowledge and ability he was taking care of and providing for his family but at the same tim tamny at tme proposed pro-posed to honor and keep the law of the land |