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Show EMBARRASSMENT AND SHAME. Elders while abroad in tho vineyard feel to have the Holy Ghost, but many of them, when they get home, act llk.j the devil. 0 Go to all the quorums In this city, and you will llnd some of their presidents and oflicers as corrupt as the devil. There arc many of the seventies who are spiritually dead and damned, and so are many of tho elders, iuny of the presidents of quorums are like a pipe which needs to ho burnt out, before It is fit to be used. It is the same with many of the high priests and others. Sermon of President Jedediah M. Grant in the Seventeenth ward school house. Salt Lake, October 2, 1850: Journal Jour-nal of Discourses, volume 4, pages 188 and ISO. Of course, this is another of those quotations which come to us iu tho earlier history of this community; but it is not here presented with any intention inten-tion to judge the present altogether by the past. Here is something out of tho history of tho day that would seem to indicate that no particular change has occurred, as against tho conditions described de-scribed by Elder Graut: Joseph F. Smith. T would like to sav. Mr. Chairman, If you please, that it "is very embarrassing to me to publicly announce an-nounce my private domestic affairs before this committee. a u Senator Dubois. Then you regard nil of those in the priesthood among the presiding pre-siding authority as in the same category with yourself? Joseph F, Smith. Yea. "What was it that was so embarrassing to Joseph F. Smith 7 And what is it that would be equally shaming to his coadjutors in the presiding high priesthood, if exposed to the world? Without going into the testimony at length, it ma' bo briefly and truthfully stated in theso words: Mr. Smith and most of his associates in the hierarchy (we do not protend to Bay all of them, although wc have no proof .satisfactory to ourselves that we would "bo untruth-. untruth-. ul in .making such an assertion), aus- tain family relations that aro entirely contrary to tho law, tho commandment of tho church, and the sentiment of Christian civilization. They aro ongagod In filling tho population with unfortunate unfortu-nate illigitimntes, who aro brought into tho world without blanio to themselves, but who may livo to curse their fathers because they will be considered outcast. out-cast. They aro bringing into the midst of legitimate children hero a condition con-dition which in tho futuro may rise to vex them, and which may provo to bo a grievous moral thorn In tho community side. They aro setting an oxamplo before be-fore thoir people that no honest man would desire them to follow. They aro blasphoming God in their daily lives and making for themselves damnation after death, accepting their own words for it. Can you wonder that thoy aro em-barrassodi em-barrassodi And aro you able to dotcct any particular difference between tho conduct of the day of Smith aud that pursuod in the day of Grant? |
