Show MR KELLY TO APOSTLE LYMAN john dellys open letter to apostle francis M X lyman MY ill quondam friendie frien dIt lt Is i with anin glod feelings or surprise anti anil in digna lion that thai I 1 addre sa sms you ou on this occasion through elt tho the columns of 0 the une lit in reference to your utterances at the ihn recent richfield conference beld nl lt ilon alvr salva co IF u when I 1 met you about three month as ako at fillmore gild anil heard sou uter i la in your most dulcet tones the apparently sincere and kenoly words 1 I love ariu eat its a brother brot liw little altur di lil I I 1 ex esi hect irk in ar til guv alture to tc reail read its em aua ilou from the same panic hoiu ce the th rollou inc luar as a reported in the tribune abreo tuen mn m n colbe herlson and ami sla alter e min man had tho ig tit they couba do just all aa they ilca nl und and s 1111 letuli their Pt andIng jn in th ill livrsh liv reh they were badly fooled fool l and so wa one john kelly ft cot fillmore who hid hai done arno tat absolutely absolu icly wrong im but lul had lost faith in young and ahrn nl v charged char Kl walh till aposto WON fairly Tr ollied at t tho the mouth und lind anti amt wild and livi call I 1 inay jut just observe in passi lne na tha t yul you might haie hai e added to th ahr IVINO list of 0 houn rable men who clait iod the tha right to think for or themi s ives the naino tit oc our vorley sire fire ito ho b ifft ft tho charch abent abbottt tha lh same time as I 1 ill did rut put to return to my lily ow 0 n case if ac I 1 mistake nils tako not yuu you haxe hao fre qui ciuk antly mentioned my lily naine in public ira I 1 county I 1 am veil uell known knon but so sa far as aa I 1 ani am abate always I 1 rays lit in a complimentary way hence it VERY STRANGE that in a place where I 1 all am not known know 11 you houll associate it mith ath the characteristics acte so graphically within quotation marks you surely mutt must have hat drawn largely lir cely oil oat lour ln ina agin atlon or I 1 sou ou w wre ere re bartly barely conscious of your utterances utterance a ahen ft hen you manlutac 1 lured NIt bout warp or woot woof one to lo hutt butt you though it seems almost incredible that thal one on sot set apart to ciul the hanner rAn nr of truth should so far folget himself as a to moke make statements that have no foundation in fact act imply to enforce lit ahli teachings neither you nor any one elbe has ever seen rno me eairly froth at the mouzli and become angry anil wili wil I and lloud when hen charged v a ith th apo apostasy stacy those epithets you must know on oil reflection rall cllon are am not applicable to me and I 1 think my any bora both mormon and ami gentile gc nellt mill IH all boar witness that I 1 am not a man of 0 that kind beside Res ldes ihy aay should I 1 become angry n hen chalked fc ith apos tacy lacy which I 1 consider neither criminal nor but simply a contos slon that cane has learned learn tl som ethl today of u bach he was ignorant yesterday it IL Is to apostates so called that wo we ow 0 e many of our nor reforms and much of our liberty ot of speech and or the pr presa easta tile the mormon church la Is composed largely of aro apostates states nom from other soc societies iett and it ili 13 1 3 making great R eat effort to increase In creao the number vor for I 1 hat I 1 cit ci y sal are aio missionaries alss sen sent t forth I 1 could point mint out many ligue ague and questionable lit in your random talk at I 1 moni llon roo oc but as they doriot donot br c chally concern me I 1 forbear very respectfully fully JOHN KELLY |