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Show DENYING TIIE COMMAND. The fflat.ist.tas bear out our assertions that the elders doot encourage Immigration. Immi-gration. They are not emigration agents, Tt was on the 18th of the post month that the Dcseret News reprinted n lot of statistics from tho Millennial Star, the official organ of the Kuropean mission of the Mormon church, and published a Liverpool, England. The figures wero intended to show that the missionaries of the church are making no effort, to bring in aliens to Utah, as has been contrarily asserted by opponents op-ponents of. tho polygamous .cult of Utah, Incidentally, however, the charge and its denial by the DeBcrct News have placed the church organ in the position of repudiating, for itself and the hierarchical twenty-six which it roprcsonts, tho pretended revelations of the Almighty. We will make excerpt from the Doctrine and Covenants in' order to demonstrate the point: The time has come when the voice of the Lord Is unto you, go y out of Babylon; Baby-lon; gather ye out from amonp tho nations, na-tions, from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other Wherefore the decree ha'tli pono forth from the Father, that they shall be Blithered Blith-ered In unto one place upon the face of this land. According to the supposed word of the Lord, if the miesionary ciders did their proper duty they would urge all converts to conic out of the Babylon which is soon lo be; destroyed because . " ' t of her' wickedness, to substantially quote tho authoritative law &ook. They would, be emigration agents of tho most persistent kind. They are sent forth into the world to warn tho inhabitants in-habitants to repent and flee to Zion. All through the Doctrino and Covenants appears tho imperative mandato that tho church and its omissarios 6hall hasten this work, because the timo of tho Lord is short; that the du- of judgment judg-ment fast; approacheth, when the all-consuming all-consuming vengeance of heaven shall Jay waste all but the sacred land of Zion, built in the tops of the mountains. For no other purpose arc the missionaries mis-sionaries sent out into all nations, kindreds, kin-dreds, tongues, and peoples, than to gather thorn unto tho land of Zion, if wo nre to believe tho commandments protendedly delivered from heaven. But Tho Tribune will "deliver a key" for tho guidance of the studont in thin matter. First, it is now dangerous danger-ous lo practice polygamy here, and there being a sufficient number of women to supply the demand in such surreptitious cases as aro givou tho sancLion. of the "Lord's anointed," the need for importations from foreign lands has- disappoared. In tho second place, money is required to bring. to Utah from foreign lands people who aro so unfortunatoly situated as to be unable to pay their own way. Mormon Mor-mon converts afa largely of this class, who need the pretended uplift more than all others. But, you sec. the prophet needs all tho money he can get hold of for his personal use and that of hiB courtiors of Iho royal polygamous court; for thej' far-seeing prophets as they are do not know at what moment their sins may find thorn out and they shall be compelled to ficc between the daj's. So the poor who are tillable till-able to help themselves aro to be permitted per-mitted to remain in wicked Babylon, to bo destroyed along with the condemned. con-demned. As to whether the supposeed commands com-mands of the Almighty shall bo observed ob-served or sot aside by the leaders in Israel altogether, depends upon which course pays the best iu tho good, old, hard coin of tho realm. |