| Show AN OPEN LETTER TO MR CLAY J B Walden Return u Courtesy Fronl the Minister Salt Lake City February 2 1895 Rev B F Clay City ily Dear ilr Olay Last month during your revival services I received re-ceived from you a letter relating to mistakes incidental to lfe I This letter I cherish and will keep and further it will be my sincere endeavor to profit by your sincere words of counsel and advice I have a right to believe you received my acknowledgement of same from the fact that my mail has conveyed nothing of late from the dead letter office in writing you now I almost al-most fear to write lest I may offend and to do that with you would cause reproach pain and anger at myself I scarcely know how to go about telling tell-ing you wnat I think but to cut the thing down short I am satisfied you made a mistake lately and I think upon reflectivn you wKl concede it and there will be no repetition You made a mistake in signing or even acquiesc ing in the ministerial resolution recently re-cently set forth relative to the Utah commission The Protestant church in Utah took up the thread and made it alive which the Mormon ChUrCh had just laid down I ask yon in the name of all reason and justice what on earth do you know of your own knowledge about the workings work-ings of the Utah commission or of the election returns I take i there can be but two answers an-swers either one of which win convict you of transgression First I you know sufficient about it to warrant your signing those resolutions conclude that the wicked will at once you were dabbling in poiiticS which is apart from your duties as clergy man This lessens your influence among the ungodly Second I you dont know anything about this mater you have made even a more grave mistake in signing what appears to those having some knowledge know-ledge of the facts an unwarranted unjust un-just assault upon men of honorable careers and characters instigated for political design and launched forth and backed by political partisanship and chicanery How a man of your experience Wigh Yur mindedness breeding and literary training to say nothing of your innate desire to do good could see his way clear all of a sudden and without warrant war-rant to draw forth a lance under the garb of religion against for all you know the innocent is something I cannot fathom I have refrained from sending youths I you-ths note before now with the belief I and with the earnest hope that you I were too good and too smart a man to I affix your signature to such an instrument instru-ment and that at the earliest moment I you would publicly repudiate that which now appears to be true My friend Mr Clay let me ask you and your brother ministers to adhere to the spiritual saying Judge not lest ye be judged especially when the honorable court of Utah can save you the trouble I am very sincerely your friend J B WALDEN |
