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Show WHITNEY OH OUIIO ' at cache umm Apostle Sees His Punishment, but Not That of Polyg-! Polyg-! amous Mormons. ' Special to The Tribune. LOGAN, July 29. The quarterly conference con-ference of Cache Btake was in session here Saturday. But one representative of the hierarchy, Apostlo Orson V. Whitney, Whit-ney, attended. N Newell W. Kimball, stake vice-president, gave the report from his jurisdiction jurisdic-tion to the conference According to this rerort the stake Is prosperous, and each ward In doing well. One ward, Hyde Park, was reported as having made an umiBual record, doubling Its tithes the past quarter over that of last year, and it was held up as an example of falth-fulnoss falth-fulnoss to tho othors. Apostle "Whitney wns the speaker of the morning. He consumed the time In a doctrinal address al&ng usual lines, until un-til he reached the Haywood trial at Boise. Tlrefi he warmed up. because It gave him a chance to denounce sectarian sectari-an ministers. The occasion of his remarks re-marks was the testimony of Harry Orchard, Or-chard, and his alleged repentance, which Whitney ridiculed. He said certain sectarian sec-tarian ministers at Boise had persuaded Orchard to believe that if he would repent re-pent and confess, as did the thief on the cross, he would inherit salvation and go directly lo heaven. Such teaching the apostle denounced as false, -and Its teachers as false teachers. teach-ers. He said Orchard will go straight I to hell, where he will expiate his crimes In hot sulphurous fumes, before there will he any hope for him. Apostle Whitney alleged that murder and adultery aro the two sins for which repentance Is unavailing, because a person per-son guilty of cither takes away In life and virtue that which he cannot restore. Hence, for such a person the prospect Is an open, llvlnc. hell. The law governing gov-erning in such cases, the apostle insisted, insist-ed, la irrevocable. Vlcniious atonement will not avail. The turpitude of the culprit cul-prit Is such as to make personal atonement atone-ment necessary. The picture drawn by Apostle Whitney was equaled In gloom only by the fate of the transgressor. Apostle Whltncw did not say that transgressors of tho "Woodruff manifesto aro on the high road to hades, but the inference from his logic was Irresistible. He did not say that those of the hierarchy hie-rarchy who have established dual houses at the. expense of civil law are bound for the same place as Orchard and will be his companions in suffering, but It would be difficult to reach any other conclusion con-clusion from his premises, The address of the apostlo was heard by a moderate congregation in silence, but when the saints were In the streets they gnvc voice lo their sentiments In no uncertain words, eomo approving and others doubting the wisdom of such doctrine, doc-trine, because of the natural,, logical and necessary inferences Issuing from It. |