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Show THE MEDDLESOME PRIEST. Go to all the quorums In this city, and you will Unci eome of their presidents and officers oh corrupt as the dovll. Sermon of Jededlah M. Grant In the seventeenth ' ward achoolhouse, Salt Lake, October 2, 1856; Journal of Discourses, volume 1. page 1SS. The sermons delivered at. this conference confer-ence of tho Mormon church would indicate indi-cate that tho brethren havo returned to the old st3'le of preaching, when the words of tho prophets shot forth as flaming darts aud tho elders of Israel were compelled to do ,spmo tall dodging. dodg-ing. Thoro is somo doubt as to what will be the effect of this searching out tho moto in tho follower's eye, while in tho orb of tho leader reposes the beam. Lot us make a guess by pursuing Elder Jedodiah M. Grant a little furthor, on tho next page of the same sermon: T understand that tonight, while wc have a meeting here, there must he a party got up in this same ward. I would see them iu Tophct beforo I would allow al-low 1L So, as you will observe, the high and might' among Israel wore, going to prevent pre-vent the people from having their innocent inno-cent nmusements. :But histor' shows that the schonid was a complcto fizzle, for if thero ovor was a community upon the face of this earth that indulged more iii dancing", and "the like, than this peoplo did after that sermon we should be glad to hear of it. Tho girls and the" bov-s "staumped" all ovor tho houses of worship; the old men and the mothers kicked thoir heels together and "swatted" hands as they swung in tho Virginia reel. The hoodlums whooped, while the bo3's spat tobacco juice on tho stove. They ull hud a merry swing of it and all hades couldn't stop 'cm. That was the result of the "purity" efforts of the presiding, high priests who had suddenly found Puritanical ramrods ram-rods in their spines. There ma be a similar effect to follow fol-low this-' latest spurt of virtue iu the priestly hypocrites. You never can tell. |
