Show ft ROOM FOB BLACKS Mormon r Thoology Arouses Cclored People HOT TALK QVER A CORPSE Patriarch Minor Airs His Views and Causes Trouble His Narrow System Would Shut Men Out of Heaven Because Their Skin Is Black Eugene Unrns coiorcI1 tiled last week at his hOle 2K > East Sixth South street o a severe attack of typhoid 1 fever of shOt duration and Was buried lust Sunday Sun-day He was employed as a sceneshifter scene-shifter at tho Salt Lake theater before huls death I He was 21 t years of age and was to have boon married on the day on which his funeral occurred Funeral l services over the remains of the dead mal were held at Ow I residence Sunday afternoon At tlie I request of the family Rev D A JJro vn pastor oC the First Baptist ctiuich conducted the services Following his remarks of condolence con-dolence and sympathy to the bereaved friends who had gathered Patriarch Miner president of one of the quorums of the seventies of the Churrh of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints made a few remarks Jn the course of the dissertation dis-sertation he stated In substance that nil that ever existed of the dead man lay in the casket before the t altar SOUL VAS DOOMED I He further I said that an Ethiopian could not each i the state of exaltation necessary to entrance into heaven Ills soul was doomed before his birth The patriarchs remarks caused awe and consternation among he t heaicrs and precipitated an ecclesiastical scrimmage The Kev Mr I Jirown replied l to the remarks re-marks of the patriarch referring to a quotation from the BIble to prove his bo saved contention that any man can on the I conditions of salvation I laid down in the ScriptuivH Jtfshup t A ICmpey president uf the Slate Fair association attempted to reply to Mr Brown but was denied permission 1 to talk 1 Accordingly Accord-ingly the war of Ideas was averted and the services continued Burns was a grandson of Abel the body servant of Joseph the Prophet Abel was a negro and according to the remarks oC Patriarch Miner Is the only one of his race who ever succeeded In gaining entrance within the pearly gates The reason he was so successful In accomplishing that feat according to the patrluch was his loyalty and 1 service serv-ice to Joseph the Prophet and his bell be-ll f that the Mormon religion Is the only one that ever happened ABEL SON OF IT AM Abel the son or Ham ant body servant serv-ant of Joseph the Piophet died and was translated The children whom he loft In this world may never be exalted to that state according to the patriarch The reason assigned by the patriarch for the nonadmission of Ethiopians to 101 the other side is the fact of their dusky skins No man with black skin i may enter en-ter the gates of heaven said the patriarch pa-triarch TRUTH NEVER HURTS This is hardly the t place to I bring I forth matters of truth said the venerable ven-erable patriarch as he aiicended the pulpit pul-pit after I Mr Brown had concluded his remarks but the truth ought always to be told The truth never hurts Immediately before the altar rested the casket containing the remains of the young Ian In life he was upright his friends said and naught had been said against him The church eulllce was packed to the door with sorrowing friends Both black and while who had known him In life attended the services serv-ices to mourn his death There were teal ant sorrow from relatives and friends fllJt3HAT suVITAT M1XISU SAID HJ repeat t the I truth must be told continued the aged man In continuing the blrangb panegyric He quivered and shook In The throes of Intense excitement ex-citement 1 am president or a quorum seventies 0 the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints I 1 am hereto here-to bear testimony not to the man who Is dead but to his grandfather Abel STAYED WITh Til ID PROPHET fr h cannot refrain from speaking of the exceptional qualifications of Abel the hot servant of Joseph the Prophet His loyalty to the prophet was wonderful wonder-ful He stayed constantly at lila side until the prophet was translated Tie believed implicitly In the Mormon faith and was rewarded for that belief For his services to tho prophet and his faith in our religion he was raised to the order or-der of the MclcheFldelc priesthood He war the only colored man who ever lived that belonged to that order THREE CLASSES OF SPIRITS Ft Is not to he wondered at too when you consider the teachings of our church In relation to the colored people AVc believe that there aiv l three orders of spirits In UK flrsi clam an Included tie phi that have never been incarnated incar-nated Having never been given a human hu-man body they arc doomed to grope In darkness throughout eternity There Is no redemption for them I The second class Includes the splrlls which have been Incarnated They have been given tho t privilege of coming Into t the l world and iCing redeemed through I the plan of salvation that Is open to 113 That class Is the whites The third and lest 1 class of spirits Is the class that fell Because of their fall they ar compelled to reside in bondage They all given carnato bodies but can never lift the yoke of bondage That class of spirits Includes the iijgroa Abel I the hot servant of the prophet believed In Joseph Smith as < I prophet and the latterday dispensation IlcncC he wan exalted and so far as Is known he la I the only one of his race who ever overcame the conditions of his bondage JUST ONE ChANCE I ° For the colored race however there Is 1 exalted state In the next world Inlo which they may go Provision his been made In the teachings of the Prophet Joseph so 1 that the negro may stop up Into that preliminary Plate ol exaltation and when he eU there a chance Is I given him to accept redemption arconl hag to the teaching of Joseph Smith MK BROWN OBJECTS Mr l Blown immediately i arose t and declared de-clared that such teachings existed in lHIt no sIch < Sisl r the Bible In refutation of the assertions asser-tions of the pati larch ho read several seleclonf from the Bible citing instances in-stances where len with black skins had been saved He attempted to calm the feelings that had been aroused by the I remarks of the patriarch He offered assurances oJ hopE and salvation to the friends of the dead man Bishop N A Empey then attempted to gaul the attention of the audience to reply to Mr Brown He was refused lilt privilege < > L speaking by those in charge of the services Bmnss family are Mormons though the young man Is said lo have never affiliated af-filiated himself with the church lie was a member of tho Stage Mens union rind oUicr orders of this city Members of the union were pallbearers and the union attended the services In a body |