Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-02 | Page 4 | Keep Your Word Sacred

KEEP YOUR WORD SACRED. The Deseret News of Saturday night was Illuminated by ' a Message of Slor monism." heinr a declaration of President Presi-dent Joseph F Smith, chief prophet of the church, to the young elders who are laboring in Chicago. According to the account given In the News the most Important part of that supreme messago was: KELP YOUR WORD SACRED.'' That It a wonderful message for the present leader of the cult to enunciate. He has evidently, by some transmigration, transmigra-tion, passed into some era of burled generations or has passed Into some millennium yet to come. His ow n life and teaching are on- stant inculcations that there is no necessity ne-cessity tu ke.-j, sared a word unb ss il bo pleases the gi er. that one maj obtain ob-tain the rights of life and liberty Under a promise solemnly made and then defiantly defi-antly broken, that one may pledge his covenants to Almight) Jod in the r r. -ence of thousands of his fellowmen and then proceed to ea.h- that pledge and to lalm Immunity In the name of the i hid whom he has blasphemed: that one-may one-may testify as a witness before the high" si parliamentary body of the world and then may acknowledge In the tabernacle of his own people that he perjured himself to escape the traps set by his ' enemies ' "KELP Y H it KI SACKED ' That Is The Tribunes text to all Utah And for teaching that doctrine this paper and Its owners have been defamed and vilified throughout this State as the enemies of peace and order For teaching that same doctrine men have been excommunicated from the Mormon church, their families ostracized, ostra-cized, and every possible effort made to ruin them In theLr business affairs. For calling upon the president of the church to heed that same teaching one of the martyrs of the church John H Scott, has nearly lost his life. KEEP YOT W WORD SACRED That is what the Xatlon Is demanding demand-ing from Utah today and It Is becaus Of the refusal of the Mormon church In Utah to heed tht demand that the present pres-ent American war is being waged But they Will keep their word sacred in Utah these hlerarchs of the Mormon church or they will go elsewhere to break li Was It an apocalypse that utteramc of Joseph F. Smith "KEEP YOUR WORD SACRED " Did he see, for the first time in his life, a vision a vision of a puiifbd people peo-ple freed from the bonds of superstition and law-breaking, regaining a place of honor in tie- world, uplifted bv good deeds, loyal to the Nation which has piotecti-d them. an. I obedn nt (o the God whom they believe has led them0 If all The Tribune has fought for could he written in one sentem e it ould not be better than this, and we thank Joseph F smith foi II we commend it to his attention and obedience, and in the name of the Nation and the pledged word of the people of I'tah we demand from him its fulfillment. K BEP rOUR Wl IRD SAi RE1