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Show i . . . "ij ' """"" ' Hill' j'W JP' : '! Church Scrcts arc exposed vras begun Jm M I M lM S SOlTy Of Ufcclfl Lrch Leader7 shows uP monstrosities 1 jw W 1 M I W 1 W By Don Oarlos W. Musser. 11 of Religion of Latter-day Saints. H fesdF r H W Hk Hi - J ( I I Copyright, .1908, Don Onrloa W. Musaor. V i SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING I J. CHAPTERS. 4 ' PART 1. t ' J. TMf most: interesting story of n Hf " i 4. Utah written by .Don Carlos Mus- ! H 4- ser, detailing matter In which the 4 H : entire country is Interested, was v bcfiun In The Sunday Tribune of :- B January 5. The father of the J author Is a pillar" In tho Mormon j church. Mr. Musscr, who tolls the H I- ston was himself a missionary of K V the Mormon church, who presided -? w l . over tho Turkish mission. He was ! V . .j. born in Salt Lake and knows m whereof he speaks. The first r m ( v chapter details Ihe marriayo of f f 4 t,le husband of a third wife, after -V 1 1 the latter had been married six- r j, .j. ten years, during- which time she v H had borne to the honor and slory -S of her husband seven children, to b M j, 4 his fourth wife, tho last one be- r 1, -r comlnp the favorite. The third r B ' wife was one of hundreds of B plural wives In Utah. t- The second chapter discloses how B y the prophet officiates at n re- B 4 markahle wedding, and Martha I- L? .i y and Elizabeth find favor in the 4 m -j. night of the Lord. The hero is -I- h y introduced. The promptings of 4" .the Evil One arc overruled, tho y H- v 4 mission to England Is detailed and 4- 1 . a burning testimony Is piven. ! 1 j' y Tho third chapter treats of the 4- Word of ths Lord according: to that 4- t blessed volume, the Doctrine and 4 n? 4 Covenants, which says it is 4 4 "(juidc and powerful, sharper than r" 4 a two-edged sword to the dividing: y 4 asunder of both joints and mar- 4 r 4 row." It also gives details of the 4- j 4 4 dinner given by Elder Mahrud to 4 4 Apostle Royarp, who reads his 4 y host a lecture on the observance 4 1 4- of religious duties. 4 I ' 4 Chapter four talks about the 4- j , 4 Mormons being a peculiar people, 4 4- and also details the taking of a 4 JrwL 4 misrlon and a new wife by 4- H r Elder Mahrud. while a slako 4- W i f president expounds the Word of 4- ' f the Lord. 4 i 4 . Chapter five tells how Emma 4 ' 4 Beckstead becomes Mrs. Alexan- 4 H y 'er Mahrud for time and Mrs. Jo- 4 j j 4 seph Drlgham Johnson for eter- 4- I' J 4- nity. How Satan is given latl- 4 " j 1 h tude in Zion and how the Saints 4' 'r i v foucht his satanic majesty. v iiM ' 4- Chapter six deals with the fact 4- H it 4 that Rita draws nearer the brink 4 HU V of apostacy. How Georgo goos 4- t 1 ' ' 4 to the farm; how Emma entertains r ' 4- two apostles, and the warning to 4 1 4- the bishop. 4- ( I 4- Chapter seven tells how Marshal 4 J j J .- Humphrey sups with a. traitor to y I y Oo3' how an exl,c 5n 1110 aU3C T 1 , I y t truth seeks entertainment and r j i , y flads an exceedingly fair dnugn- 4- H j I 4 ter, who Is destined to become a y f-"1 j r beautiful mother in Israel: a vl- i , J 4 sion and Its interpretation told at 4- i 4 tho fireside. 1 4 Chapter eight details the wed- 4 4 ding of Bishop Mahrud: the splen- y j 4 did surprise given Elizabeth; how j- 4 Brother and Sister White brought v ) y Jennie to Zion in order that she y . 4 might have her endowments in the v J J 4 Lord's house and be improved in 4 y health. y Chapter nine tells how many of 4- f 4- the Saints grow cold and how 4 p 4 Satan is apparently triumphant in 4 k ' -y Zion; how thfl cup is drained to 4 B,' 4' the bitter dregs and the capstone 4 - 4- of humiliation is experienced by 4 KM 4 the faithful; tho Woodruff maul- 4 V; f y fecto; God is again triumphant y Vp 4 and the Saints are happy. -r it k 4. Chapter ten details the address 4-4 4-4 of Sister Rogers to the Woman's 4-, K fl' T leha society, tell? how George is 4- H f 4 called of God as was Aaron, and 4- 4 the rebellion of Rita is cited. 4 H( y Chapter eleven tolls how Rita 4 HfJ y received hT rcwanl; gives tho 4 Bffri J 4 facta regarding how the bishop 4- nl , y whs tried. Details the transforma- 4 Ut j 4 tion of Constance into an aveng- 4 9 ' y' ing angol: tho author pays his re- 4 4 spects to Hisliop Alexander. Mah- 4 P I i T ru1, t I PART 2. 4- .. 1 4. The second part of Mr. Musser's 4 i , 4 nairative is in four chapters. The 4 i Hr 1 J 4 irst one gives the history of 4- I H, J 1 4L Mormon polygamy. 4 i 'Jt 4 The second chapter gives the 4- "A i T revelation on the eternity of the 4- 1 J ' 4 inarriago covenant, Including phi- 4- I 3 ! 4 rality of wives. Given through 4 j 1 j t Joseph, tho- soer, In Xauvoo. Han- 4" J j 4 cock county. Illinois. July 1, 1SJ3. y I k j ; food's Kingdom on Earth CHAPTER in. j "ii Tho MIormon church is as much a I fcj political machine as it is a religious i ' ' j institution. 1 The Mormon church if tho rev el a- j tions of God (3) to Joseph Smith. Jr., ftccount for anything inuat ever re-j i main a political niachine. The church's fouudatiou is said to I l vest Upon Iho promise of modern and 1 continuous rovclaliou from the Al- " might3'. The Doctrine and Covonnnts. at once tho most important, and sacred i book of the Mormon church, is a com- , J pilation of so-called revelations as foind- upon the Latter-day Saints us the Xa, thunderous voice of Jehovah was bind- ' ' .j tnp upon Israel in the wildcruess. This ft book contains abundance of proof of , t the above statements. .( From its very nature, M"ornionim is J a state reliprion. Tn the carh- days of ' i ' the church its prophet, soer, "r?ud"reve- 1 ' ator Josi)h Smh, ,lr.. not onlv held L" j local political offices he was not. onlv! i' lieutenant-geueral of all tho armies o'f I :j i-ho Lord, known at hat time as the I . Xauvoo Legion -but he became a can- I TT i didatc for the high oiTlce of the L'rcsi- ! , i i lc-t of the United States aud sont . ? j ' lers of Ihe church on special missions j I to stump for him. Can any Latter-da v 1 j - Sa.iut deny that the huvch" was in poll'- :-, ) ics, and that it was the ambition of ' then- prophet to govern at that time? 'j ; Lm those early das the living oracles . 1 preached politics from tho pulpits of I I the church as freely us lliev preaohcil faith and ropeulanco. Mormonism waE Hie kingdom of God on oarth, Joseph . Smith, Jr., was the Lord 's anointed vice-. vice-. j regent, endowed with every power and . authoritj- M.o act in his stead in all matters political as well as spiritual. ' His word was just as binding to the I 1 saints ns the voice of God could be. His . I blcssiuc or his curse was just as though . ! the Almighty had uttered it himself. : Jle was supreme in Zion. and it vns the dream of his lu'o that tho time would I come when he would be supreme I I throughout the world. Tf a member of . the church had denied the church "s . i right, to mto politically in those days, 1 ho would have been tried by his bishop ' for aposraev. Every Latter-day Saint ( understood then that the church was the I kingdom of God on earth; that it. was j the stoue Daniel saw nut out of the ; mountains without, hands, and that it . was destined to grow aud fill rhe whole I oarth ''and break and consume all other j kingdoms. " c The burden of the message of the elders traveling over the earth was: : "Come out of her. my people, that, ye . may not bo partakers" of Jier sins and I that ye receive not of her plagues. " j Converts to Mormouism were taught I that it was necessary for them to conic i up to Zion to escape, the terrible .julg-j .julg-j ments that, were to be visited upon the J earth. And many thousands of faith-j faith-j fttl saints left their homes in the old I world and .journeyed to the new. to ) the land of Zion, where the president of the church was hailed, or at least I regarded, as the prophet priest and ! king tho personal representative of ! Christ Jesus. The early sermons of i the living orncles fairly teemed with j treason to the government of the United ; States, and io havo said in those days ( that the church wns not the literal earthly kingdom of God would have been an act of apostacy. Xo Mormon could have retained his fellowship in the church in tho forties, fifties or sixties six-ties if ho had said tho president of the church was not the temporal as well as the spiritual head of the kingdom. And tod.ry no Latter-day Saint can be in harmony with his leaders if ho denies them theright to dictate to him in political po-litical as well as rolicious affairs. The living oracles of rho church have never dreamed of anything olse, Unquestioning Unquestion-ing obedienco in all thing5; to the presiding pre-siding priesthood has always been an much a requirement of the Latter-day Saints as has been tho payment of tithes or baptism: and to deny this either shows a lamentable ignorance of conditions that have always existed, or a wilful desire to falsify. I The church has been prostituted to I political ends from its organization in I IS30. ! The obedicuce-lo-the-priesthood idea, j which earlv gained such firm foothold j in the minds of the saints, gives to the presiding high priests of tho church tre-mendous tre-mendous power which thev have used i to further their political ends. There j has never been a time since the church j was organized when tho presiding au-t au-t thorilies could uot control the Mormon vote, and swing it to whichever side of the political fence they saw fit. There may have been times when the leaders of the church refused to handle the Morinon vote, whon the Mormons were I left to vote as they saw fit, but tho : power was there just tho same and has i been used to tho disgrace of the church ! and to the humiliation of many of her high-minded devotees times almost with-I with-I out number. Of the two evil phases of MormoniEtu j polygamy and priestcraft tho latter ! is by far the most serious aud difficult to deal with. The former can bo legislated leg-islated against and finally suppressed. You cannot legislate against priestcraft. You cannot legislate against a man's belief or his superstitions. Priestcraft is responsible for all the trouble, as it is sense-loss to call that trouble perse- cut ion. It is not. Mormons are suffor-I suffor-I ing the ofTcetH of their own acts. They have attempted to cut themselves off from the authority of the United States, under the delusion that the God they worshiped would enable them to have their own temporal aud spiritual government, gov-ernment, and that ho would euablc thorn to subdue all other governments and reign supreme throughout the earth. This delusion has brought them into (violent opposition to the genius of ; American institutions and the result has been more .or less painful to tho church. ! Mormon polygamy is obnoxious to the 1 civilization of'the nge, aud will, in time, : be entirely suppressed. Priestcraft is a more terrible foe to advancement ; and much more diflicult of suppression. It leads lo all manner of vices, t is j through priestcraft that anointed lead-I lead-I ors oi the church hnvp been able to control in political affairs. Is there any man so blind that, he 1 cannot see how impossible it would be . for one believing in tho divinity of an- other, to fail to sustain that other in j any oflice his ambition coveted? If you believed that God had appointed a certain person as His pcrsoual representative rep-resentative on earth, aud had endowed him with power to bless and curse and loose and bind ihi ITis name with the assurance that whatsoever he did on earth would be done in heaven, and if this man so endowed from heaven, this personal representative of Al-1 Al-1 mighty God should aspire to a political politi-cal office, would you not sustain him with all the strength and influence you possessed? Of course you would. And hero is the condition iii Utah. In L'iah mcu who are not exception-I exception-I ally bright or capable in any respect, whose experience in life has" not been such as to inspire the average man of the world with confidence in them, whose attainments in life have not been such as would command (he at- tention of the world's grout, arc sus-i sus-i tuined as prophets, seers and rcvolators of the Most High, Hundreds of thousands thou-sands of people either believe or protend pro-tend to beliovo that these men are the duly appointed and authorized agents of Jesus Christ on earth, aud that I hoy , and (hoy alone arc empowered by divine di-vine right to proclaim laws, both temporal tem-poral and spiritual, to the world. Is it strange that if these hundreds of thousands thou-sands of people do realty believe this that they would sustain such men in .umr .course they would pursue? "Do men gather grapes of thorns, i or flgs of thistles?" i In Utah men who havo preached treason trea-son against the United State and who have committed blunders that would be ine.vcusablo in school children arc hold to be prophets of God. They arc not. only held , to be prophets of ' God. bur. j they claim to be, and rhey testify in i the name of God that thev are. i-Iun-j dreds of thousands of Saints believe i them and bonr solemn testimony thai J thpy know (hoy are prophcis of God j through iuspiration. Can these hun-j hun-j dreds of thousands of Saints be other wise than treasonable so long as they j sustain traitors as their loaders? Would it be possible to believo a traitor i:o the Xation to be a prophet of God without considering his traitorous acta and utterances ut-terances as not traitorous, but proper and praiseworthy? "By their fruits ye. shall know them," Contrary to the spirit of Christ and American ideals, these prophets of God -o-high pricst9 of Mormouism have always al-ways sought political control. It has ever been their hope and fondest, dream to sec the church get eo nil powerful thai their enemies all who arc not members of their church would be at their merer. So devoutly have thev prayed for this timo to conio in tho past that some of the more treasonable of the living oracles, borne away bv their spirit of hate for the government, have declared the church's independence indepen-dence from tho Tabernacle pulpit. T know there are thousands of younger Mormons who will pronounce mo a liar, whon they read this, and so I propose to quote for their benefit from some of the oarly sermons of their leaders. On page IQi of volume o of the Journal Jour-nal of Discourses, Hebor C. Kimball, prophet, seer and revelator, is reported report-ed to have said in rhe course of one of his sermons: "We are ihe kingdom of God; wears we-ars the STATE of DESEBET; and we will have- you, Brother Brigham. as our Governor nust as long as vou live. "We will not have any other Governor.''' In another sermon recorded in the Journal of Discourses, on page 251 of volume 5, this same oraclo said: "Is there a collision between us and the United States.? No; we havo not collashed: that iis- the word that sounds nearest lo what I mean. But now tho thread is cut between them and Us, and we never will gybe again; no. never, worlds without end," (Voices: ''Amen.") And on page 253. this holy prophet (?) with power to bless and curse in Almighty S name, said: "I have said for years that, never no, never again, will I be ifiubjee. lo such cursed scoundrels as the United States governmonf have sent here as officers. of-ficers. T say. in the name of Israel's God. T will nor." (Voices: "Amen ") Amasa Lyman, one of the apostles, prophet, seer and revelator, preached a sermon in which he said: "Now the Lord has got ua here, our enemies want to drive us farther still. I But now comes the declaration that meets with a hearty response ISRAEL ISRA-EL IS FREE! I "Free from what? From labor, from ; toil, from watch? Xo. not at all. Then what are we free from? From the re-i re-i straint that we havo been uuder. Now we are declaring boldly thrffc we arc the kingdom of God, and that in tho I strength of God wo are determined to ! defend it and lo defend the truth."--Journal of Discourses, vol. n. p. .'521. John Taylor, one of the most spirit ua! minded of all the church leaders, and the successor to Brigham Young in the presidency of the church, is reported report-ed in the Journal of Discourses." volume vol-ume 5, page 247, to have said in tho course of one of his sermons: "All you that are willing io set fire to your property and lay it in ashes rather than submit lo their militar' rtilo, and oppression, manifest it by raising -our hands. " (The oongregation unanimously raised their hands.) " know what vour feelings are. You have been persecuted and robbed long enough; and, in the name of Israel's God,' we will.be free!" (The whole congregation responded "Amen," And President Brigham Young said: "I say amen all the time to that.") On page 275 of volume o. of the Journal of Discourses, Hcber C. Kimball Kim-ball is reported to havo delivered him' vSell: as follows: "In relation to those soldiers coming here, they never can come, so long as the Lord God Almighty gives us strength to resist thorn. And that, is not all. There is no man who can rule over this people but Brigham Young." (The congregation shouted "Amen.") "And so long as we uphold him as the man holding the keys of this kingdom," king-dom," he shall rulo ap Governor of this people. What a foolish thing it would be for us to drop Brother Brigham aud say that a wicked man should have that position! Oh! the hell and sorrow sor-row this people would see! But. we will never have another man so long as he liveth: and then it shall be his successor in oflice the man whom God Almicrliry appoints, and no other man. "The brethren talk about our freedom. free-dom. Why, we are just as free as the old veterans of the Revolution were before they got their independence. "We have declared our indepeudence-But. indepeudence-But. gentlemen and ladies, wo have got to maintain that by the strength of .Jehovah, And that, man and that woman wom-an who cannot stand up to the test, J. ask you lo leave as quick as you can; for when the time of the test comes, as the Lord God Almighty ' lives, if you then leave us or betray j us. lhat is the end of you. h "Brother Case was talking about our being an independent people; and 1 say we are independent just as independent inde-pendent as we over shall bo, until wo completely gain the victory. " "When the United States have done thoir best, then other nations will rack)? us. aod.so things will go ou, until every ev-ery natiou has been brought into subjection sub-jection lo the kingdom of God." And this on page 276: "Everything spoKen of that has not been fulfilled will have to be fulfilled in this dispensation. The kingdom of God is set up in degree: it. is "in cm-bno, cm-bno, and it; will i-.ontinue to receive strength. The child has prpcjaimaM lis l'tbcrnv. althongli it'-hViB not' g'ot. its full growth. The child . is frqe,;. , but it has uot to whip out all tho wicked r.nt bring them into subjection li the king dom of God. or to the kingdom of hi; .father. We are the boys that art being brought to this l03l. God in go j ing to test every one of us men, wo i men and children. ! "1 will say hero in tho name of Js rael 's God. that I. will not be tram moled in the purposes of God: Jicichei should any other one. I have said tin day of petting is past with me, and it should be past with all good nvjn. I hoard ni' leader say, thy other day j that he could manage the affnirs ot i this people and of the United Stales and of Europe with more case, to Ihe mind tiling he can listen lo the littlo, peevish, trifling complaints Lhat women bring to him. ' ' Flore is another gem from the snmc heaven (?) inspired oracle. It is recorded re-corded in tho Journal of Discourses, volume 5. pace 2J9: "The church and kingdom to which we belong will become the church and kingdom of our God ami His Christ, : and Brother Brigham will be Presi j dent of tho United States. (Voices re-I re-I sponded 'Amen. ') "And T will tell vou lie will be something some-thing more: but we do uot want to I give him the name; but he is called and ordained to a far greater station than lhat, and he is toroordained to take that station, and he has got it; and I am Vice-Presidftnt, and Brother Wells is secretary of the interior yes, and of all the armies in the flesh." ' And again, Brother Hebor 0. Kimball Kim-ball exclaims: "How good it is to reflect that the day has come, when we havo. declared our independence. This wo have done because the Lord God has said it to His servant Brigham. We arc" independent inde-pendent of these troops and thoso poor, miserable, ungodlv scoundrels that they call civil officers." I believe that many of the younger !Mornions arc entirely ignorant' of the teachings of the living' oracles in the early days. I know that it was not unlij after I had served tho church as a missionary that I becamo acquainted with them, and that if I had followed the counsel of my file leaders mind your business and do as you aro told I never would havo . known of the unpardonable un-pardonable nonsenso voiced bv men whom I had sustained as prophets, seers and rovelators of the living God. And though I did 'not always obov counsel, I did try to mind my own business. I believe everybody should do this. I conceived it lo bo "mv business busi-ness to know the history of mv 'Church and State, and when, in studying that, history. 1. found that; leaders whom I had proclaimed to the world to bo especially es-pecially commissioned and annointed .vicegerents of Christ, to the nations of the earth, were guilty of treasou to my country, and guilty of many indecencies inde-cencies as foreign to the gentle and sweet spirit of our Lord and Saviour as darkness is foreign to light, 1 fell that it was my business as a member of the church and a citizen of Iho republic, to oritieise, and T did so. I. found Hint, rtrmt PJirv In thn cnii-if- nf flirJef and the scntimont. of tne nation, and in violation of tho pledge given the nation by the church, men whom I had sustained as leaders to the Church," and whom I had proclaimed to tho world as prophets, seers and revolators wore seeking political control, and building a literal kingdom within tho United States and under the protection of the stars and stripes; and I felt that it was my business to do all withiu mv power to thwart them in this work. And T believe there are thousnnds of young men and young women in (ho church today who are in entiro ignorance ignor-ance of what the church really stands for and who, if they were enlightened on the subject, would renounce the church as they would any other treasonable treason-able organization. At ono time in the history of the Mormon church, tho Journal" of Die-courses Die-courses was a very important work. Tt contained the sermons of the living oracles, or-acles, tho leaders of Zion. the earthly spokesmen for God Almighty. Those sermons were considered authoritative. The Saints treasured them up as the word of God unto tho church. They were as precious in those days as was the Doctrine of Covenants or tho Book of Mormon. Thov wore of more value than either of thoso books if such a thing were possible as thev were considered con-sidered in the light of new rovelntion. When President Hcber 0. Kimball declared de-clared that as long as Brigham Young lived tho Saints would havo no other governor. the congregation said "Amon." They behoved that Almighty God had placed those words in the prophet's (?) mouth, aud they full- expected ex-pected that Brigham would bo governor gover-nor until ho died, and then his successor suc-cessor as president of tho church would also succeed him as governor of Utah. When the living orncles declared that the church wns indopendont of tho United States, tho Saints shoutcfl "Amen." Thoy believed firmly that that was the word of tho Lord unto them, aud that it would bo but a few months, or years at tho most, when i: I Almighty God would baro his michty I - arm and strike this nation and make j ? it subject, to the kingdom of God on i earth, and that Brigham Young would be the rulor of that kingdom. But in tin years that have come since then, the Saints have -aeeu lhal thoir prophclswcre not only mistaken, ' but were childishly foolish, and so the Journal of Discourses has been role-1 role-1 gated; it has not been published of late ; years, and vory few of the younger Mormons and none of the recent con-: con-: vorts to the faith have had a chance 'to read it. Thousands of thein have 1 never heard of it, ami when told of the ! inconsistencies and treason of the church leaders a few years back, thev feel that they are being lied to, and they denounce the person who tells them' as an apostate, or an enemy to the truth. They are sincere. They ' f.'ihnot believe that the men whom they have been taught sinco. childhood to regard as holy -mon of God, placed on earth to .draw men unto II im. could 1 be guilty of such treasonable idiocy. Many thousands of the Saints who now believe lhat Ilober 0. Kimball is a God in Heaven, with angels to wait upon him, would be inexpressibly 1 shocked to read in one of their church publications the verbatim report of the sermon wherein this same Kimball uttered false prophecies and rank trea son against the government: of tho United States. Thousands of cultured 1 Lattor-day Snints who havo grown up in the church believing that Hebor C. Kimball and other departed leader? of the church arc now gods, with kingdoms king-doms and principalities to reien over throughout the endless ages of eternity, eterni-ty, would be most, painfully surprised I to read the following sweet (?) and i Ohrisllike (?) sentiment from the prophet, seer and revelator. Heber 0. Kimball, recorded in rhe Journal of Discourses, volume 5, page 95: ' "May the Almisrhtv bless you! May ! tho peace of God be with you aud upon your children and your children's children. forever and ever! And may God curse your enemies! (Voices: 'Amen'.')" I feel to curse my enemies; and when j God won't bless (hem. I do not think He will ask me to bless them. If I j did it. would be to put the poor curses to death who have brought death ami destruction on mc and my brethren-- upon my wives and my children that 1 buried ou the road between tho States and this place. "Did I ever wrong them, a man or a woman of them, out of a dime! No; but. r have fed thousands. where I never nev-er received a dime. Poor, rotten curses! And tho President of tho United States, Inasmuch as he has turned against us and will take a course to persist in pleasing the ungodly ungod-ly curse3 that aro howling around bim for the destruction of tins people, he shall bo cursed in tho name of Israel's God. and he shall not rule over this Nation, because they are my brothren; but .thoy have cast; mc out and have cast you out; and I curso him and all his coadjutors in his cursed deeds, aud, in the name of Jobus Christ and by tho authority of the Tioly priesthood; and all Israel shall say Amen. Send 2500 troops' here, nu- brethren, to make a desolation of this people! God .Almighty helping me, I will fight until un-til there is not a drop of "blood in my veins. Good God! I havo wives enough to whip out tho United States; for they will whip themselves. Amon!" Here is another bit of treason that should shock any member of the church that has anj' lovo at all for his country. coun-try. It was uttered by Apostle Orson Hyde and will be found in volume 6 fo the Journal of Discourses on page "''Do J believe that the United States will bo divided? Yes. I do: and the prayers of all the Saints throughout the world should be t.o that effect; for thoy wage war against the kingdom of God, and have fallen upon that stone with an army; and let them be broken, oven according to the words of Jemis. v n h "This prayor should not. bo confined to our enemies in our immediate borders; bor-ders; for they are only tho blind too'ls of a power that has decreed our overthrow; over-throw; but should extend, with increased in-creased faith and 7.eal. to that power that hnndles these tools. "Govern Utah who will, Brigham Young or his duly chosen successors can alone govern the Mormons." We Mormons have always mado capital cap-ital out of the fact that. -upon arriv- ing in the Salt Lake vallo3' then Mexican Mex-ican soil we raised the Stars and Stripes. Our historians havo dwelt upon the fact that while the vanguard van-guard of Mormons, under tho leadership leader-ship of Brigham Young-, were iu the wilderness, thev gave five hundred of their ablo-bodied men to fight for the United States in tho war with Mexico. Whenever Mormon loyalty has been questioned the ciders havo pointed to the "Mormon' battalion-" and to the raising of the American flag in the Valley of Salt Lake in refutation of tho charge. The great bulk of Mormous, thoso who wero born iu tho church and those converted in foreign lands, have never questioried this part of Mormon history. Thoy aro sincere in believing that tho Saints wero driven out of Nauvoo at the point of the bayonet bay-onet io starve to death ou tho plains. I They tire sincere in . their belief that j the great American government was a party to this inhumanity, and that to make tho destruction of the Saints more certain, the government sent to them while in the midst of a wild and un known country surrounded by savage hordes, to draft from them "the five hundred men referred to. The are sincere in Iheir belief that the leaders lead-ers of ZiOn hoisted the flag of stars .and stripes on Ensicn peak through their love of America and her traditions. tradi-tions. They have never questioned this pare of the records. Thoy havo never failed to point to this part of the history his-tory of iheir church when preaching the gospel as missionaries or when at I tempting to create sympathy at home for their church. But the facts of the case are en- i tircly at variance with the record as kept by the church, li is a. fact that before the Latter-day Saints left Nauvoo Nau-voo for tho West. Apostle John Taylor, Tay-lor, who succeeded Brigham Vouug to (he presidency of tho church, wrote to Queen Victoria, offering the services serv-ices of tho Mormons lo establish a British colony ou the western shores, of America, It is a fact that when the church leaders failed to make sat-isfactovy sat-isfactovy terms with the British queen., they decided lo cut themselves adrift , from the United States, journey to 1,1m j West, aud there ou Mexican soil build an independent stale, over which Brig- Jiam -Young was .to rule as prophet. pripst. and king, it is a fact that in- Continued On Pago Nineteen. POLYGAMY I; Continued From Page Eighteen. Jrl of the United Stales government Tftlnff the Mormon pilerims in the Merue3 J01' fivc hundred soldiers, 'oizbt n the Mcxmaii war, the Mor-Wers Mor-Wers scnl r. delegate to Wash-3nn Wash-3nn to implore tho President ol' tho fod' States to permit them to fur-A fur-A these five hundred men in order Enable them xo sot to ths West. a.it is a furthor fal-t thar, the money 5 (o those five hundred Mormon sol-ii sol-ii vrns afterwards paid, over to an iarv of Brigham Young to take to help the .Mormons make their $henthe Saints arrived in the Salt ie'vallov and concluded to make that Bair rtoppjn.tT plici thev did hoist the ' md. Stripes from the summit of I peak, and at the Bame timo de-themsolves de-themsolves independent or tho States. In hundreds of rr-elivered rr-elivered bv the "living oracles" ie days this statement finds its vindication. Tears afier the Mormons entoren ike valley, Apostlo John Tnylor d a sermon that, is recorded in 6 of the Journal of Discourses, Tvhieh he said: relation to the kingdom of God. i it? Is it a spiritual kingdom? b it a temporal kingdom? Yes. ; relate to the spiritual afTairs ? Yes. Does it. relate Lo the il affairs of men? Yes. " s the kingdom 'that the prophet abont, that should be set up latter times, going to be a f Yet. And a RtateT Yes, it ing to be both church and to rule both temporally and ily. f - time was to coma, and now is, id has set up Hi? kingdom upon th, and He is determined that ill be in subjection to His1 laws. "What Js the kingdom of It is God's government upon to and in heaven." in that same sermon, and found 3 on pages 26 and 27 of the olnme o the Journal of Di&-he Di&-he aid: I now. having been forced from ited Statc9t after having beeu time and time- again from our iv our murderous enemies; hav-filled hav-filled all the requirements that r man could require of us, nt every law necessary for us rve after all this, and more, shall we suffer those poor, le, damned, infernal scoundrels here and infringe on our sacred ("No!" responded throughout serna'cle, making tho walls of the C tremble.) It shall be 1 he kingdom of nothing with u. Thai is my believe, and we will stick to wiU maintain it; and, in the 6 Israel's God, tho kingdom of J II roll on, and all the powevs of ad hell cannot stop its progress, mward, ONWARD. OXWATtD. rhis time heuccforth, to all .m . arc the Faints of Uod: wn be kingdom of God. and the n hell and all the. wicked men h cannot lake it from us. We ilc and have dominion .in the lid they cannot help thomselves. m take their own. course. Tho.r ;ht against us, if rhoy like, can back out and leave us; but gdom will go on. ' Tlicy -may hat course they please. The Bgdoni is ours, and ivc arc Christ's. id Christ is God's." . In volume five, page 186 and 3S7, , j bu Taylor preacheo another sermon, r which is found the following j p'ciiage: iMJ. VSonie people aak. 'What is priest - odi' I answer. 'It is the legiti-, legiti-, ite. rule of God, whether in the . vcus or on the earth,' and it is the (.;, ? legitimate power that has tho , pit to rule upon the earth; and when . skwill of God is done on earth as it. -in the heavens, no other powor will ir nile. - tm iWell, then, if we are the only pco- f that God acknowledges as a na- i in, have not we the right to the til PKcp which wo enjoy? Who owns Ififc" gold, the silver, and tho cattle ..fen a thousand hills I God. Who, JJKb, has a right to appoint rulers? Mm'db but Eini.or ih man that Plo ap- jyPVTc cannot find :i nation upon the - Vr n'"s obtained its dominion , (power to rule, from God. If there tfu-Wjny people, except this people, J them not. B'What are wc engaged in? We are jleed .in building up the Kingdom jB.God, and many of you have been alBainod by the revelations of thp Al-f( Al-f( II". to hold the power and aulhori-;K6f aulhori-;K6f the holy priesthood. Resides I ,you have been ordained kings and Kn?j, and priests and priestesses to JdRur Lord; you have been put in pos--pion of principles thai nil tho kings, t h Katea. and powers upon the earth SlhV entirely ignorant of; they do not 4 f?ertand it; but vou have received JV.W nom the hands of God. B WBk The kingdom is jmt upon the shoul-r,wBf shoul-r,wBf of President "Young and his peo m to carry it out, and by whom? By .word God bv Him who holds do-Mil do-Mil Sl0B throughout the universe; " liftTO? late President Brigham Young Utt Mr, ere. Hian.v sermons in which lie ilMi w.ltl' a11 Nearness he was PfflnBPible of, that lormonism was the 'ffl!!'1. kingdom, of God on earth, and -itfKi u "R oracles of the Monuon urtM-"!?", Werc "dowod with powor from m Vi0 0V,J"" 1 all matters, wheth-'.W'C0."HMi wheth-'.W'C0."HMi or religious. The Journal ikiti'$couTB.cs n"xry ifloms "!vilh the utuBL a" ile tr(?ason of this great pio-'SJE.i pio-'SJE.i AJ?'l because there is no Lat-i"Br'lj!i'J'Sk,nl Lat-i"Br'lj!i'J'Sk,nl in full fellowfihlp but Mn: y t0 tcnifv at all times utt ,i;t'lpe,tt a" occasions, that he knows t'mliU?1-' ?.nd through tho spirit of -BES"011 .fbat BriRlinm Young ia batf enihouod in the heavens, with .mtvlnt t0 rillf! ,)vcr an(1 nngels for mp and becUFC I believe that 1 Latter-day Saints who do so testifv nre eithei' ignorant of what President loung used to teach, or lliey aro wilful wil-ful and blasphemous liars and traitor? to their country, T am going to offer a few quotation) from the early ser-meas ser-meas of 1 his treasonable prophet". In a discourse recorded in the ,loui nal of Discourses, volume i, page 257, President Young said: "With us it must be the Kingdom of God all the time; it must b that or nothing. The time has come in which that must bo tho common feeling with tho Saints. ','Ab Io thcworld's boing iu fellowship fellow-ship with us, it never was and it. never can be, Wc cut off the Gentiles just .before we left Nnuvoo; and thoy have cut us off from their fellowship. Tho thread is cut that lias hitherto connected con-nected us; and now we have in act for ourselves, and build up tho Kingdom of God on tho earth, which wo will do, by tho help of tho Lord; for He has decreed that His kingdom shall take the ascendancy over all other kingdoms under heaven. ft was observed by Prother Spencer that the time had come for' this work to be making far more rapid strides than it. has hitherto done. You will find out that it has not been by any act of our own that this thread has bfen out. but we will now have to sustain, sus-tain, ourselves or wc will go under." In nnother sermon recorded in 'the same volume and on pago 321) of the Journal of Discourses, President Young said: "We have a nation here in tho mountains moun-tains that will be .a kingdom by and by, and "be govcrnod by puro laws and principles, what do you call yourselves. your-selves. ome may ask? Here aro the people that constitute the Kingdom of God. It may bo some time bet ore that kingdom is fully developed, but the time Avill comp when the Kingdom of j God will Teign freo and independent. "The timp arrived when wo have I either to be trodden under foot by our enemies and die, or to defend ourselves and our rights; and which will it bo? .Every man and woman feels their hearts fall them when they "think of submitting to the oppression and unlawful unlaw-ful abominations practiced by our enemies, en-emies, and sought by them to be introduced in-troduced into our society; and wo will not submit to such wicked and unlawful unlaw-ful treatment, "whether it comes from . tho United States or United Hell, for tho terms are synonymous as the government gov-ernment is now conducted." On June 4. 1S64. President Young delivered another sermon, which is found recorded in volume 10 of the Journal of Discourses, aud in which he eaid; i "We see that, the kingdom of God is established, will the Lord defend il 'Suppose the nations of the United States should send delegates into Mex . ico to negotiate and transact business with That government, and the suithori ties there should look upon them as impostors, and scourge them and 'a?t them out. what course would the go crnment of the United States take? i Thev would declare war against . .Mex , ico,' to vindicate the honor of the na I tion. Do vou not think the Lord will chasten the nation which has killed TMk prophets, set at naught Hisvinos I sage, and scourged and cast, out Jlh J servants? Is he -now chastening them? He is, and will continue "icr eunstc,u them until Ho is satisfied, and they rcan to rebel against Him am against 11 is government: on tho earth:" Today, there are in the neighborhood of two thousand young, men. elders in the church, performing missionary work in various pnrts of t lie world. Kor the most part these young men are natural ly bright and intelligent, though but a small per cent of them aro fitted through education or experience to teach thos,e with whom they come in ccm tact' regarding the- true situation m Mormonism. They go into tho world to bear testimony lo the divine authen 1 ticitv of the Book of Mormon, and to , warn .the inhabitants of the world against the terrible judgments AlmighU in' His auger is about to visit upon I hi earth. They testify that they know beyond the' shadow" of a. doubt that Josoph Smith Jr.. Brigham Young, VYii I ford Woodruff, Joseph F. Smilli ami others of the church leadors, past and i present, have been especially endowed 1 bv the Lord to lead, guide and direct ii j all things pertaining to His will. It is safe to say that i0 per cent of iIiom-missionaries iIiom-missionaries are in entire ignorance re carding the teachings above quoted. They labor under the idrn that the , Mormon people have always been rln most patriotic and loyal of all the in habitants of the -world. They har never read anything to the conlrar.v I They will reail unfiling to the con I trar'y. An angel from heaven could not. change their opinions in this r spect. The quotations given above :tr from what was at. one lime the met important of church works, and yet. scarcely one of these two thousand tl i dors thiit arc now out, and of the tens of thousands Of ciders who have been out within the past Iweiity or thirty years, kuow anything about, the Journal Jour-nal of Discourses. The work is nut . accessible to them. And because of tho fact, they have no desiro to kuow , anything contrary lo that which they . ha'vo been sent, out to leach, thoy would not read the Journal of Discourses if ! thev had an opportunity. ' Tho majority of the .Mormon elders ; believe that tho United States gov- i crnment is directly responsible for tho ' cruel assassination of Joseph aud lly- j rum Smith; and for tho cruelties prac- j ticcd upon their people in carlv days i by lawless mobs. They havo all been through the temple and ' have subscribed sub-scribed lo the oath of vengeance against, this government, but tho majority of them took that oath thoughtlessly and without undorslandiug its awful import. im-port. Tt is with the hope of reaching somo of tho more frceniindi'd and intelligent intelli-gent of those young ciders that this chapter has been prepared. It i believed be-lieved that out of the thousands who in their suporslit ions ignorance proclaim pro-claim that they know the leaders of Mormonism arc divinely conunissioncil. there mav be it few who will rend the treaionable titlurances of those leaders as quoted in this chapter, and bo led thereby lo investigate. It. cannot be otherwise than humiliating humiliat-ing to members of the churchy who have in tho past rendered unquestioned obedience obe-dience and allegiance lo tho church authorities, au-thorities, believing them to be all that rliey have claimed for themselves, to find that they were guilty of such disloyalty dis-loyalty as is indicated in the sermon quoted. And no 3'oung Mormon with a particle of love for his country can continue lo stand before tho world and teat if' that his leaders aro might)' men of God after he becomes acquainted with their godlessness. The great ques- ! i.ion i how lo get young Mormons lo : investigate the other side of IJicir religion. reli-gion. If their attention can once- be gained, i he Utah question will be solved for all time -to come. 'But so long as they aro blinded by tho superstition that God has chosen their people, and especially their. leaders, nbovo all others on earth, it will be well-nigh impossible impos-sible to get them to consider both'sidcs of tho question. Tho following quotations from the Journal of .Discourses are submitted merely as additional evidence that tho prophets of tho M.orinoti church were, and are, false prophets; that they were unablo to sco farther than ordinary men, and that they were led away by their own weaknesses as ordinary'mcn are frequently led nwa". These" paragraphs para-graphs not only should convince members mem-bers of tho church that their Ho-called prophets were and are without tho gift of nrophcoy, but thoy should also demonstrate dem-onstrate that thev were and aro without with-out loyalty and patriotism to this great country and her sublime institutions. During the years that our nation was divided against itself, and was waging wag-ing that tremendous war for .the abolition aboli-tion of human slavery aud tho conservation conserva-tion of the Union, it was' not only unaided un-aided by Mormons, but it was without their sympathy. The leaders of the Mormon church believed and proclaimed that the nation would becomo divided, and. as lias been shown in a previous quotation, admonished the Saints to pray unceasingly that this might bo tho case. Living oracles (?) testified in tho most solemn manner that that war was a isitation from Almighty upon thi3 nnt ion, becauso of the martyrdom of Joseph Jo-seph Smith Jr. On May. -1. 1862, President Presi-dent ncber C. Kimball, tho prophet, seer and rcvelator who boasted wives enough to whip the United States, delivered de-livered himself of this language, found recorded in the 10th volume of the Jour-nal Jour-nal of Discourses, on pago 46: "The South and North aro at war with each other are slayingeach other and if they were not doing that, they would be trying to slay us; this thev do already in their hearts, and tho sin is the same upon tho nation as though they did. it in reality. T am a mart3'r in the sight, of God, and so is Brother Brigham, and other men of God whose Jives thoy havo hunted. God will chastise chas-tise them and all those who havo a hand in seeking our destruction. " " The -wicked aro slaying tho wicked, and the North calculates to use up the South in a few days. . Tn this they arc mistaken; they will whip each other, first one, then the other. Let tho Saints acknowledge the hand of God in it. all. War and bloodshed will follow fol-low the gospel1 of the Son of God until un-til it has spread over every nation, tongue and people who ro.icct the gospel gos-pel after it is proffored to them and who have spilled innocent blood or consented con-sented lo it." In volume JO of the Journal of Discourses Dis-courses will be found a sermon delivered de-livered by Apostle Wilford Woodruff, who later became president of the church. In tho course of this sermon Apostle Woodruff said "Who frustrated thp army in their designs? The Lord our God. and now the judgments that have come upon the Nation in consequence of their treatment of, this people are a. eorc vexation lo them, but it is the hand-dealing hand-dealing of tho Almighty, and -wo cannot can-not help it. Everv elder in this church who lives his roligiou,. knows that this which is now transpiring- is according to the, mind and foreshadowing of the Holy Spirit, and those out of tho church mav know it if they will " " Who can stay this war that is devastating de-vastating the -whole Nation, both Korth and South? No human hand; it t is out of the power of man, excepting by the repentance of the whole Nation, for thoy havo shed tho blood of tho prophets, driven this church and people from their midst: yes, the very people that hold the keys of salvation for the world, they havo banished from their midst; they have turned thoso keys that will seal thnir condemnation, and for this the Lord our God has taken peace out of their midst. Will there ever bo any more peace among them? Xo, not until tho earth is drenched with the blood of tho inhabitants there of." The following quotations are from sermons delivorcd by Brigham Young in 1S63, and reported in volume 10 of the Journal of Discourses: "The waste of Iifo in the ruinous war now raging is truly lamentable. Joseph, the prophet, said tho report of it Would sicken tho heart. And what is it all' for? It is a visitation from heaven, bocnuse thoy have killed tho prophet of God. Joseph Smith, Jr. Has not tho Nation consented to his death and to the uttor destruction of the Latter-dav Saints, if it could bo accomplished? ac-complished? But thoy found that they could not accomplish it. " "We have done everything that has been required of us. Oan thoro any-thiujr any-thiujr reasonable and constitutional be asked that we would not perform? No. But if the Government of the United States should now ask for a battalion of men to fight in the present battlefields battle-fields of the Nation, while thcro is a camp of soldiers from abroad located within the corporate limits of this city. I would not ask ono man to zo; I could see them in hell first. "What is the cause of all this waste of life and treasure? To tell it, in a plain, truthful way, one portion of the country wish to raise their negroes, or black ulavcs, and the other portion por-tion wish to free thorn, and, apparent ly, almost to worship them. Well, raise and worship them; who cares? I should never fight one moment about it, for the cause of human improvement is not, in tho least advanced by' the dreadful war which now convulses our unhappy couutry. "Ham will continue to be the servant ser-vant of servants, as the Lord has decrood. until the curse is removed. "Will the present struggle free the slaves? N'o. but they arc wasting awav the black race by thousands. ' " Clan you destro.v the de crees of Almightv.' You cannot. Yet our Christian brethren think they aro going o overthrow the sentence of tho Almightv upon the seed of Hani Thoy cannot do that, though thoy mav kill them by thousands and tens- of thousands. " "According to accounts, in all probability proba-bility not JP.S3 than one million men. from .20 to 40 years of age, havo gone, to the silent grave in this useless war, in a little over two vearn; and all to S ratify tho caprice of a few I do not link I have a suitable namo for them. Shall we call them abolitionists, slave holdors, religious bigots, or political aspirants? Call them what you will, they are wasting each other away; and it seems as though they will not be satisfied until they have brought universal destruction and desolation upon tho whole country. It appoars as though they would destroy ovprv person, perhaps they will, but'l think they will not. "God rules. Do you know it.T It is the kingdom of God or nothing for the- Latter-day Saints, "Havo thoy got through? No. they havo only just commencod the work of wasting "life and property. They will burn up overy steamboat, every village, vil-lage, every town, every hoiipo of tholr enemies that, comes within their reach: they will waste nnd destroy food and clothing that sjiould feed and comfort womon nnd children, and leave them destitute and beggars, Tvitbout homes and without protectors, to perish upon tho face of all tho land, and all to satiate unhallowed 3nd hellish appetite for blood. And this awful tornado of suffering, destruction, woe and damnation they would hurl upon us if they couldi; but they cannot, and I say. in tho name of iFrraol's God, thoy never shall do it. Wc will havo pence if wo have to fight for it. Thoy havo not the power' to destroy Ib'fael; neither will they have." But what's tho use of quoting -more? This chapter' could be drawn out indefinitely; in fact, volumes of tho samo nonsensical treason might be 1 ropublished from the sermons of tho early prophets, seers, and rcvclators pf tho Mormon church. Other volumes might.be written, or reproduced, from tho sermon's of present-day leaders in the church, which, while less radical in utterance, nevertheless breathe tho same spirit of hatred againBt. the Nation. Na-tion. A Mormon, understanding and fully enjoying the 6pirit of his religion, re-ligion, cannot remain true to his church aud loval to his country. The kingdom of God on earth is opposed to all other kingdoms and governments on the earth. In the mindH of its subjects, it is destined to break r.:.d consume them. I (To bo concluded next Sunday.) |