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Show NOT JESUS, BUT JOSEPH. After expressing the belief that Joseph Jo-seph Smith was a prophet of God and that tho Mormon church had the rob-pel rob-pel of Jesus Christ unto salvation, another an-other man has been dlsfcllowshlpped by Mormon authorities for holding the view that Joseph F. Smith Is not a prophet of God, as shown by his own testimony at Washington. The test then Is not whether Jesus Is the Christ the Redeemer of nil men, but whether Joseph F. Smith Is a living oracle of Almighty God, possessed of superhuman rights and authority to outrage nil humanity while demanding from all humanity a. special reverence. The church becomes, then, not the Qhurch of Jesus 'hrlst of Lntter-day Saints, but the Church of Joseph F. Smith, commercial brigand, law-breaker, traitor and oppressor of the poor. To adoro him Is to be faithful; to refuse to take him at his own estimate and to question his seml-dlvlnity Is to apostatize. apos-tatize. How long will a Just God permit this horrlnle profanity to continue? There Is nothing like, it nn where else In the civilized world. It Is the most hlas-phemous, hlas-phemous, outrageous Insult to God and man that the world can show. The Roman Emperor who made a go.l of his horse and demanded that the brute he worshiped as a god was no more a pagan, and demanded no more Idolatry from his people than does Joseph Jo-seph F Smith, who substitutes himself for Jesus In his church and makes his people heathen by forcing them to bew before him, a brazen Imag". |