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Show TEACHING BY EXAMPLE. Elder Jesse M. Baker of the stake high council then addressed the conference. He spoke of tho power offccxamplc, '.asserting '.as-serting that it was more potent than pre-copt. pre-copt. Ho counseled obedience to tho priesthood as a. sacfaiartl for members mem-bers of tho church. Rcxburg Standard. Let us briefly review sonic of the most prominent personal examples that have been set before the Mormon people, peo-ple, remembering the truthful conclusion conclu-sion reached by Elder Baker in his remarks before the quarterly conference confer-ence of tho saints dwelling in his part of Idaho. Joseph Smith, the first, president, of the church, was a. profligate of tht very 'lowest order. Jn Kirt.la.nd he caused to be erected a temple, which i ho hypocritically dedicated to "the Most High God," and turned it into ' a bordel-house, to which lio invited his favorite brethren and sisters to indulge in-dulge in the most, obsceno orgies that ever disgraced humanity. Indiscriminate Indiscrimi-nate sensual indulgences were there participated in by men and women, without regard to marital ties. To such an indecent extent1 did this behavior be-havior carry that" the people of the church, coming to a knowledge oft tho facts, rebelled against the maintenance of the lechery and loathsomeness. This is proved by the fact that when the church was driven out of Kirtland a great portion of the saints refused to follow their leaders, preferring to tc-main tc-main whero they were and having nothing noth-ing more lo do with the lecherous outlaws. out-laws. IL was a notorious fact at Kirtland Kirt-land that Joseph Smith had sustained illicit relations with a certain woman, whom he dared not marry; and when it became necessary for him (o find somebody to father the illegitimate child that was afterward born, he chose a certain alleged widower who aftorward became famous in the church. To this man, the indecent Smith sot for fh. his Sony plight and begged of him to marry tho woman. This the good brother accommodatingly accommodating-ly did, and he was immediately received re-ceived into tho inner councils of the lecherous priesthood and -was favored with permission to" engage in as much concubinage as 'he desired. And ho was liberal to himself in obedience to his lusts and to the prophetic permission. permis-sion. Again, in Nauvoo. the lustful Smith seduced tho wife of a brother in the gospel, who became so enraged that he threatened to take the prophet's life. The natural cowardice and brutality brutal-ity of Joseph's heart here came to the surface. He bogged the man who had been so grievously injured to take one fif his (Smith's) wives as compensation for the wrong! These are but a few out of hundreds hun-dreds of such escapades well known to have been pulled off by the . man who is act up beforo tho people as an example ex-ample of godly perfection. This is the character that the saints are instructed to emulate in their own lives. When the whole truth is known about the man. bis violent, deal b appears as the natural consequence of the life he had led. The Tribune believes that the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints has bad one very good man for presidentand presi-dentand wo shall spare mention of his name in connection with tho rest. All of the others, in more or less degreeand de-greeand in some cases partially cx-cnsablo cx-cnsablo undor surrounding circumstanceshave circum-stanceshave lived lives of hypocrisy, deceit, robbery, and wholesale debauchery. debauch-ery. With tho otic exception,1 thcy have all presontcd to their followers examples which would damn tho character char-acter of a decent, dog. While thcy wero practicing polygamy thcy havo denied to (he world that they believed in the system. Indeed, one of them protested in Prance that the church was wrongfully wrong-fully accused of polygamy, and a so-rics so-rics of other immoralities that would disgrace a savage, and at tho same time this man was the possessor of live living wives in Salt Lake Ci.ty! Without going into the lives of all tho prophets, let us contemplate the present highest example that is set before be-fore the Mormon people. Joseph P. Smith, in testimony under- oath, has, confessed to all tho world that ho is a criminal in the eyes of tho law; that he contemptuously defies the commandment command-ment of the Almighty; that be ik tho father ot children to whom the law denies tho blessedness of legitimacy; that he is a bearer of false witness in tho interest, of Ills mm lnUi,v I the lust of his brethren p the gov- crning priesthood. He lakes money 1 away from his people in the blasphemed blas-phemed name of God, and utterly refuses re-fuses to make any sort of an accounting account-ing to i.hom as to its disposition. And in tho few years that ho has been reigning in abaoluto despotism over the church he has becomo a very wealthy man. having deliberately abused his privileges and opportunities as president presi-dent of the church for his pergonal Rain. lie has ongaged so persistenly and actively in commerce and money-making money-making that bo has neglected his rcii-ftious rcii-ftious duties. He is' apostate from the church, and is guilty of unchriBtianlikc conduct, in that be exercises tyranny over bis followers and imposes his hato upon men who protest against bin admitted ad-mitted climiunlity. Joseph P. Smith knows that he once received a letter from the late Apostle Toasdalc. informing him that if be (Smith) sent any more mcu down to Mexico for him (Toasdalc) to marry in polygamy, the apostle's next message to his prophet would be iu the form of a peremptory resignation from the apostolatc. At tho same moment, Joseph Jo-seph P. Smith, who considers it to" bo his sacred duty to lie in order to foo? tho Gentiles, was saying that tho church countenanced no polygamous marriages. He swore that personally he had never performed a polygamous ceremony since tho manifesto a barefaced bare-faced lie, because bo is well known lo have done ihin thing; and on more than one occasion. If the truth wore fully known, it would bo additionally eslablishcd that he has himself taken more than one now wife since the manifesto. mani-festo. Hvcn Gcorgo Tcasdalo became tired of the prophot.'s activity in procuring pro-curing concubines for bis favorites. The poor man's conscienco smoto him at last,' and be rebelled against the wholesale disregard of the law and tho manifesto that was being thrust upon him by Smith, the lecherous hypocrite. Such are tho examples thnt arc sot before tho saints. And such as tbeso -are the priesthood, obedienco to, whom is recommended "as a safeguard for members of the church. ' |