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Show TEXTS AND HSRSEWHIPPING. One youth measuring his age by the time that he has been perceptibly called of God Is so afflicted with procaclty when he gets In the pulpit that his assumption as-sumption of Infallibility nuturallj asserts as-serts Itself as a text and will not permit him to escape from Its brazen audai Ity It Is scarcely necessary to go further with language to indicate the Rev. Mr. Smith, apostle and assistant prophet. set r and n relator, who shows the w..n- ra that God can perform by translating translat-ing him from one vocation to another It was as If the chief of the prophets had said to him: "Heretofore thou hast been a weigher of butter; henceforth be thou a weigher of men." And instantly, in-stantly, even the walls of the building, to say nothing of the officers within, bowed In awe before him and the whole institution of the Z. C. M. I. became as an idolatrous business temple to his greatness. " livery head of a department had just cause to thank God that the chief prophet hud not selected Hyrum for rdher man's job In the Institution. As ono of them remarked: "He could lOf do much more damage than was already al-ready being done up at headquarters. but ho might have raised Hall Columbia Colum-bia with the big store " It appears that this apostle has had emotions; and he has revealed them, or permitted them to be revealed, to a man not yet an apostle not being named Smith) Ills desire Is to use a horse-whip. horse-whip. The old grocery Instinct of getting get-ting baek and cracking away at something some-thing is still strong within him. And more and more his egotism shines OUt. And particularly does it betray Itself In his sermons His tirade against the Catholics and his claim of friendship friend-ship with President Roosevelt all come from egotism grown beyond the poor environment of his present position. As he thinks of himself all the time, and as ho should have variety in his discourses, dis-courses, we suggest to him the follow ing as good texts for sermons which ill have two merits, one that tin y will always relate to him, and the other that they will give large play to his fancy In Indicating his rich and varied Character to his enraptured hearers "The Lord will destroy the house of the proud, but he will establish the border bor-der of the widow. ESvery one that is proud in heart Is an abomination to the Lerd Though hand Join in hand he shall not be un-miiilshofl "Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly, but the proud he know eth :fnr off. Whoso privily slandcretfa his neighbor, neigh-bor, him will I cut ofT. him that hath nn high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. "The Lord shall cut off all flattering lipa and the tongue that speaketh proud t hlriK. "Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain "Answer a fool according to his folly lest he be w ise In his own conceit. "Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? ' For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. "Doth the wild nss bray when he hath grass? 'And the wild asses did stand In the high places; they snuffed up the wind like dragons. Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment, and a babbler Is no bet ter. "The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious but the Hps of a fool will swallow up himself. "The beginning of the words of his mouth Is foollshess; nnd the end of his talk is mischievous madneSB." His intimate knowledge of scripture will enable him to Identify each of the foregoing, and perhaps his versatility of mind will enable him to make many a sermon upon them. But If he likes horsewhipping and attendant at-tendant pleasures better than he does preai hlag, he should call at the Deseret News office some day and practice on one of the editors for a while. A double dou-ble Kood win be thus accomplished The Heaven-endowed grocer might administer ad-minister some slight justice, ami also might acquire some skill for future use in time of great need |