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Show Silver and tlio JusqdiiU-s. Editors Herald: I Our JosephiLi mirtHionary brethern -bould net tnku it amiss becausB occasionally I h ive something to Bay of them, tlnir meetings and their toachinga. Thip, I ihink would be wrong on their part. At least, it woulu hardly be right for them to do so, as my object in to doing is not to hurt them or their cauae. ludeeJ, I take it that it wOull he aumething wonderful, next to a miracle, if it became possible that at.) thinjf I can do, say or write could iu any way even dim the truth proclaimed by Judephitcp, Mormons or any others, much Ipsa prevnut it from Bhining forth and ts Icing eflect upon the minda of the noblo and good. It ought not, it must not be thought for a single moment tbat I urn hostile to tho good that the loving souls of our new Josephite ministers may perhaps per-haps hope to do and the satisfaction i which that prospective good must bring to their now troubled epirite. Llostilo, no I Why on oartb should it bo bo, Whim mado of ono blood all nationi may go j On to liude?, happiness and heaven, above or below. As tho Rods of tlmir fni th may determine, you know. Notwithstanding this, however, I aeo no good reason why Brothers Blair, Lufl, Uerry and others abould come to Utah on special business, as ia evident from their manifestos, aud not bo noticed in a friendly way by some ono besides special friends aud abettors. It should he underalood that their claims to supremacy subject them to oriticism, etc. While wo oau well afiord, and indeed should, pass by their personal peca-dillos peca-dillos I they are not all perfection any more than the rust of us) we must not lose sight of tho lact that these men oome among us, representing to uo m.u iiiuy iuw mw iruo npub huh uuu ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ; that they are the representatives ol the only true church of Christ now upon the earth; that Ihe church in tbeae valleys and mountains with her priesthcoJ have been tried, "weighed in the balances and found wanting," teio. Surely if their representations be all O. K., i. e. all gojpel, some of our very kind friendB and intentionally intention-ally pure and upright men aud women wo-men will find it out and let me and others know it, that wo may yield submissive obedience to the requirements require-ments of such apostles and ministers and ebttiin a full and complete palva-tion, palva-tion, whioh salvation "full and complete" com-plete" most assuredly cannol be attained at-tained to, if their position ia well and truthfully taken, in the Methodist, Metho-dist, Bjptitt, Mormon, or any other church excepting the Jaaephito Church. But one thing is a marvel to me, tbat these accredited ministers of Christ should oome to us and preach: "Woe be unto me if I preach not the gospel," and then go too and preach anything else but the goapil. For they must acknowledge, unleaa they are ignorant ol the fact, that if polygamy, endowment), aeaIinga,eto.( are no parts ol the gospel, that while they keep preaching at, hammering away at, polygamy, endowments, seahnge, etc., they nearly, if not entirely, en-tirely, for yet the true and everUtting gospel whioh teaobca repentance, etc. Therefore, if I wore oae of them and poeaeesed the prieaihool as they claim to posses, I suoul'i cry unfo them repentance, etc. For woe would be unto me if I preached not the gospel. J. Silver. Salt Lake City, Dec. 29, 79. |