Show A SAMPLE MIRACLE The Juvenile Instructor of August 1 15th which goes out with the indorse ment of the dominant church of Utah among the trusting people of this State and among Saints generally has an account In which it is squarely said that a child was mired from the dead In Kllbirnio a village of Ayreshire Scotland The account goes on to say that the child was attended by physicians I physi-cians and died that tho father was a good Saint and wanted to send for the 1 I ciders to administer upon the child I but the mother who did l not believe in the business refused until the child I died and then consented that then the I father went to the president of the I branch and besought him to come I and administer to the child that the J elder prayed that while the hands of I the brethren were yet upon the childs I head the lips of the little fellow moved his eyes opened and when the ordinance i I o1 nance was finished the elder with much power said to the father In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I promise you that if I you let no one attend I tend the child nor como near to him except yourself even to give him a I drink of water on the third day he shall arise and ask to go out In the I street nnd It all happened as predicted pre-dicted that the child who had been dead on the third day Insisted upon going out Into the street with his l father But as this elder still Jives It Is necessary it appears in the Instructor II to show why he could not do those things every day I says that a little while after this incident this same elder 1 el-der who was In the habit of calling I upon a widow who believed In the Gospel Gos-pel and who had a son about 10 or 12 I years old perfect in form and feature so far as the upper part o his body was concerned but whose legs were withered He had never walked One Sabbath morning on his way to meetIng meet-Ing the elder called at the widows house and he heard the voice of the Lord crfme to him saying Command that child to arise and walk But he hesitated and as he did go his fear Increased In-creased The command was again given him Still he was afraid and the olce came a third time Then as he turned away the last time a voice entered I tered his soul that brought him immense im-mense grief which said Thou fool thou has lost thy gift and though he has prayed and mourned ever since It has never been returned to him I is not necessary to dilate on a yarn of that kind T is like Brother Robertas ancestors that came to him I and tQld him he must obey the priesthood priest-hood It Will go out and be believed among the good Saints until they get intelligence enough to understand the fraud because fraudIt certainly Is I always = is because all those miracles are p rformed away off across the senor sen-or across the mountains or a distant somewhere They are like Brother Penroses cure for smallpox and they are bunglingly put together They are like that story that was published in the Millennial Star last winter of the yahoo elder down In Tennessee who when a man had his hand crushed by the slamming of a car door administered adminis-tered to it and made the hand well All the natural laws are Set aside all the physiological l laws are set aside and they are never seen by anyone from whom any proof can be gotten This thing happen in 1848 fiftythree years ago and it is so transparent that something had to be fixed up to explain ex-plain why that terrible elder who starts the blood in the heart and arteries I ar-teries after they have grown still for a long period of time only performed that one miracle and how after he had raised the dead was afraid when he was ordered to command the withered with-ered limbs oa child to bo made sound and that because he was afraid the Allcompassionate was angry with him and took away = his gifts Every such story that Is put out only intensities the belief of sensible people that while there are many devout and sincere Mprmona the aim of the above and like absurdities Is to build up an Institution tution to be a political 1 and commercial machine perpetuated for the sole purpose pur-pose of working suckers |