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Show A KEJECTED COMMUNICATION. Kill Allow Holllster a Substitute. To the Editok of the Tkibcke: O. J. Hollistcr" said, in reply 'to my polite challenge, "Ellis proposes . . . .to defend his announced toleration of polygamy." That is an , error. I said I would reply to his attack upon me, and respectfully invited Mr. II. "to be present ami defend his propositions." did not challenge him to deny my propositions, but lo defend his own. In reply to this bo says 1 ought to be clubbed. The same, reasoning would have made him club Jesus for saying, 'let him that is without sin among yon east tho first stone" at the woman who had been indulging in practical Christian Chris-tian polygamy. For a follower of "the Lamb of God,'" Mr. II. is more belligerent belliger-ent than there is any necessary for, ns Mrs. Partington would say. He says he might debate with me if ho eouid kill inc. That is no evidence that he has right on his side. It only shows that when a man is fullv imbued with theological theo-logical bigotry, lying and murdering come easy to him. Mr. Hollistcr is afraid, perhaps, to undertake to defend his own reckless propositions. I will allow him to send "Hollo" as a substitute. Mr. Hollister shows a lovely christian spirit when he says, "damn him and his theme and nil who listen to him." The "theme" was made by (). J. Hollistcr, Hol-listcr, and perhaps it deserves to be damned. That Mr. II. should damn people who will not bow to him as a christian Baal is natural. "Believe or be damned" has long been tho cry of more brilliant theological parrots than Mr. Hollister. Tho peoplo who listen to mo nre Infinitely In-finitely superior to auy one who could speak of thein as O. J. Hollister has done. Being intelligent people, they go, of course, where they can hear a gooil lecture. I do not 'condemn Mr. Hollister because he cannot appreciate a good thing. In abusing me and thirsting for my gore, he is only giving us his own photograph. It has ever been the custom of cowards to sling mud at tho man whose arguments they could not meet. Judging Mr. Hollister by his venomous letters it was such men as he who crucified Jesus. In later years, ho would have held office in the inquisition. Iu Geneva, he would have collected the green wood with which Servctus was roasted. That ho wants to kill mo is tho result of his worship of a God who, according to Mr. H.'s theology, the-ology, roasted and murdered his own children. You can always si.o a man up by his conception of God. If I have erred in daring to lecture in Salt Lake without consulting the deputy collector, tho blame is his. Neither "O. J. Hollistcr" nor God have ever intimated to me what I ought not to say in public, Iu fact, J doubt if even the third person of the trinity has paid much attention lo what I was doing, do-ing, being so busy inspiring sermons in behalf of a stricter observance of the Lord's day. It is hardly the fair thing for Mr. Hollister, a devout christian, to take my life without making an effort to convert mi and bring me into the fold, but I am not afraiillo die. I will reply to Mr. Hollister's attack upon me in a public lecture in the federal courtroom, court-room, Sunday next, -at 8:30 p. m., and once more I respectfully invite him to be present ami defend his own propositions. proposi-tions. Chaki.es Ellis. |