| Show priesthood A word for elro a P rose 14 J a better nis thou II 11 lili religion wu well Zo furj abot to 1 enslaved by his hl A 1 alre fee ilan lor for ni an Eal wallter lter I 1 eps epa your comments in in SMI sundays JAYd issue I 1 on tho the r address or of mr penrose during daring conference evince a rn sea of criticism antic wb ich I 1 us as one of runny many admira 0 W V being a five mormon you will andon this additional intrusion on your time and attention the writer ill ii well acquainted with mr and regards grda rc him a mike head licit j sod and shoulders ABOVE TEX AVERAGE MOli alOS in 10 intellect and morals moral perhaps j jou on may scoff at tho the idea or of morals in a polygamist lint but lot let mo me assure you that uch such cases casci do exis exist t though I 1 grant you they are ara very rare mr penrose is in one of taoso tincaro conn coni con i verts converted originally by the iho first principles of mormonism niem nod and being boida a man of considerable ability of por irso was soon called to abo the ministry possessing strom re igloo iou impulses he very natu naturally became AS AN AW AUTOCAD ADVOCATE OF III ai ho he understood it end adil at that time there was nothing about it worse than ilan other religions roli niona after a whilo while the doctrine ot of polygamy etc began to bo be talked of find and it purported to bo be divino dirino in origin tile ho same came ai m other doctrines of tho the church mr P found lim olf bound to lo defend or denounce denon it ho he adopted this repulsive practice as oil an article of hill bin faith and has bos over ever since defended it on bible grounds alter after advocating it for many aoam lie ho at last embraced it nod and took epou I 1 himself additional ties nig having be been talin almont cial constantly on eta in a public capacity as writer 30 aad preacher pr oacher ho he has publicly declared thousands of ilare limes imes that ho know joseph smith to be a true prophet and that brigham was lua bia lawful successor that both wele men of god that mormonism lormon iam WM was of divine ditino origin etc ila ho ranks anka high in ia the iho priest hood and has hag consequently placed him himself self under the vano various US obligations attaching ling thereto ho be has been sealed up to eternal life anti and promised thrones and powers oto etc in ia the next world with willi a posterity numerous its as the he sands upon tho the sea eca if to bohia big covenants i and the apostates doom arm DAMNATION OF THE DEEPEST DYE DIE should le lc prove unfaithful mr P is an aa honest moo mini as the world goes id and of ot course courso believes there is domn good in Mornion nm ina and fools perhaps others that thai if be h rejects ono one doctrine ho he murt fount reject all then there is the effect that a great many years argument slid and public advocacy of mormon dogmas dogmas have had his own mind ai as the record lie ho las has made which must all bo undone should he pow now cast aside the ho tenets of mormonism aud and ho he would guold have to hi bu in possession ot of more st antich matil lood thin I 1 think ho he at present ios ose bees eeds to fit ct him h nn for any I 1 uch each an ordeal my I 1 owen for thus lithe is the fact act that I 1 know goow that mr P is not lot in in accord with mormonism as it now is no matt r low much lo bo may try to persuade himself to the ilia contrary flo is too honest find and altogether too intelligent to a grest great many of ano vital points of church doctrine as interpreted by the present management in 0 t tn two we ond and two mke make tour four the iho world over and you cannot continue conTi conn noe octa a sano man to the contrary just as rasy easy of solution is tle the right or wrong of a number of s which go toward maklon up p a mans character for io costance ioa tance stance it if we bestow alms upon a needy parson we WB do not have hav to stop and consider whether we have performed a bochl deed or not if f wo we wilfully injure another w without about cause we wa do not stop lop to consider if we have done a bad deed wo we know in both cases cages just how the matter stands these minor points form a very important part of a inacio mano real religion and it is a clear caso that any dogmas which wim KNOWS raux CIPLIS any act will not bear ifie lLo light of this lind kind of is u wrong an intelligent and honest nian man pol poi sedges this capacity of as to the correct nm of matters which como come under his bis own and consequently must have an opinion favorable or unfavorable of everything which interests him sufficiently deatly to male make an impression oo on his mind consequently having tho erper ienco he be has and nil holding tho the position ho he does docs mr P knows that a treat many thin things 9 9 which are called mormonism ormon ibm and alad rhioa brigham young as 03 leader of tho the church endorses cannot be right lie knows still farther that there is so FO MUCH N AND M LIONG existing in tho the church that it over balances tho the dood th therein eroin knowing this then bow cm call lie ho conscientiously advocate mormonism in general it to pe be a mormon merely meant an ac quie quiescence sence in bertain doctrines it ita would be a different matter but to be by a mormon a mm man must bo be obedient to tho the priesthood io in all ail things thing spiritual and temporal so that t tho 0 ism i is fa simply obedience to the leaders ers of the church religious Pelig ious principle C le now las has very little to do with it N mr penrock Pen roce roee fori for mi tance if free from all obligations to the he church could and would discuss in his paper many fill iden idea which now lie ha dare not boue touch h upon for fear of giving cille oco to bohia his superiors in the tha priesthood and he know that if brighom young was to 0 o say my charles Oh arlea tako take in my son in law as assistant editor or let my son eon take lake charge of the office nod and you assist him or go to dixie adnie and raise corn core or charles take anothEr wife ald and so go to the be sandwich islands or any albar thing in tho the form no muter matter charles Ln arliM it or not dot ho he would bo be compelled to oboy obey i THIS 18 16 OF TODAY TO DAY CAY on andl I 1 I 1 defy any ant ono to tl di diprose prove it ow whether it is bett better or lor for a maul mau to grovel blindly in all this muddle trying to make maka himself believe that il 11 brigham does doca wrong it does not affet the principles and that god will reine remedy cir these matters in his hia own owl due timo lima or to stand eland true to his ha manhood and reject w what list lis hu judgment cannot ap ali provo prove I 1 say god clod culps 8 lacci M who bell haji themselves mens M acts do DOL tl 1 l principles but 1 to ia tile the I 1 a acu ts ot t iua b providing wo the u princia plea which govern what brigham males make it t by his big actions aclin modified in ia different localities 11 7 tho the personal istler of ilia 11 potty kings rod and empei emmor ore bishops bibo bisbo ps mettr on aai presidents of stakes who the principles and these kite ore bra always 10 BBL AND separate parate Ee or combined so that tha ilia modifications do not help tho the matter much dleon I 1 havo this 0 to PAn panrose roso arid and all intelli int Moru Nolia iong toas that abat I 1 ike ot it ull nil freeth lokre it H that ihm the lie ignorant murmon mormon merits menla sympathy as the dape of the iho leaders but that the iho intelligent ones once or are 0 either tho the colleagues of the leaders or they have sold their manhood for lo 10 broad and butter AU tho the argil monts boata ou oain isings ings and throats ata which the church preachers and wrixon lers may bring to refute this well founded olief tollef will never change it ono iota and just juatco so long on olle intelligent man loan reMil lits in ilk the lie bag jIng ot 01 priest I 1 hood lie ho li is subject to the criticism and nd contempt of all good mon mcd who understated abo situation I 1 do not believe mr penrose Ic nrose deserves such ench criticism as I 1 know him to bo be on the bo whole a good man con si doring n circumstances awl nl this consideration is ill not a trifling tri fliDR one yet ho he cannot object it he should it no difference 0 obe o bo judged jig cI by tho the rule that A MAN 13 knob it by 17 TUB THE coutair JIB HE lot him remember poor dog tray tra 1 bough innocent himself bo be is in lialis to gel ge iulo trouble through hid hi to as ag so on general principles I 1 would my to all good men in the ho mormon 0 n church and nd there hero uc arc a preil great many more thin bin tho the world is ready road to believe whon when you sea aeo anything Dyt hint which do not seem to you right cetor mind bellier your bishop or yo your t 1 r does it says it or on dors e s it battery yourself your BOlt whether it be ba right or wrong sail and tl 11 wrong avoid it slid and denounce it as aa ao an honest man should do suppose you yon di didlake atako an oath of allegiance to tho the ent hood and your holle housty ty still tells you yon that a being so 00 oath I 1 have bava no right to d ire dirc gard it think thick of tho the os under which most moat of yon were pla d at tho the time you accepted thew obligations gat ions yon yoe wore were either cither betrayed bol rayed or frightened into their acceptance such an oath is ii of NO MO MORE MORAL FORCE than a promise majo at tho the muzzle ol of a tolver vcr io in the hands handa of A robber and should bare no moro more effect on oa the mind of an honest man think ot of this yo ye intelligent mem born berm of tho the mormon Ll ormon church and remember every time you bear testimony or of administer in tho the offices to the matsuro of priesthood p rieste which you yon claim to hold thet you are further farther compromising your manhood in tho the eyes of your I our god your follows and your elven step out boldly and it if you feel that hat you cannot face the record you yon have hato already mado inside think how much worse a one you will have haro the longer you remain to your manhood mau bood believe not in men who toll you they are clod of god unless their doo and acts are corroborative cori of their assertions BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KOW KNOW tybil As most of tho the men who mako mak 0 these protes siona boar bear inferior fruit or are entirely barren you will not have much difficulty I 1 io iok ing their true statu st atu lu in your on the mormons cormons ia general ji ditora bo be rood good enough to 10 remember that you yoa have a problem to deal with winch which bean lint a flight resemblance to anything you yon liy have seen elsewhere and lot let charity over ever be uppermost upper in your minds when reviewing the acts of this most peculiar people thoro there are thousands or of them who today to day ARE ABE YOUR TOUR STAUNCH FRIENDS nod who stand by YOU yon as ranch much as is their consciences will allows allow but bat call not endorse mazy many of it your harsher eg I 1 am not pleading mercy for them thy they deserve little pat pathy T w who he f remain main in in tho the chomyn cimpl camp but give them good advice rather than abuse and show them that we are ro charitable chri blo sod ind intelligent opponents ant nt at the samo emo time bo be I 1 it t understood lot thera be no jack mormon pulley educato educate thorn them to our standard etau dord NO KO VOWS DOWN TO but bot for the avowed leaders the head anil and front of this thia hallorn anomaly Y the 0 creators catora or of all this tron blo 10 they ey deserve neither considers on nor pym pithy For forty lorty yera years they love hava deliberately worked to bring rin about the very tory state of things WO we soo bee lowi dow and they are directly responsible for all ho trouble the church has had bad as well OB as what they have mado made for us na pour hot shot ioto into them until they cry out oat hold enough and even after thit it will py pay you to watch them for a mormon flag of truce io ia the lianda of any of the be leaders is used only for treachery BROWN SALT LAKE cur cirri april 11 75 1 1 EVERYBODY will bo be as merry us as he ha can fit at the spelling school to night |
