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Show FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY. In .-i sermon which Prcsidont Brigbam j Young preached in tho tabernacle in onrh- days, he Avaxed warm in denuncia - ! lion of Federal officials who had been sent to straighten out matters In Utah. After ho had delivered a somewhat uncomplimentary un-complimentary opinion of these gentlemen, gentle-men, he remarked that some of the saints would he fearful that he had "let the cat out of tho bag."4 Ho had no caro for that opinion, because, said he, many of tho brethren had used a similar expression Avhen the pohg-amous pohg-amous i" revelation ' was mado public in ISd.'I. He further remarked that before be-fore "the purposes of the Lord" Averc fulfilled it would be necessary to lot I a good many more cats out of the bag. Brigham Avns adAiscdl3' prophetic, for the reason that ho Avas aware of the ! policies to which he had fallen heir, and also because he knew the nature of the heritage that ho had clctormincd i to leave to his successors. And the prophec- has been fulfilled j time and again. j It was fulfilled when .losoph F. Smith j began to lot the cat out of the bag by repudiating tho Woodruff manifesto, after it had served its purpose of procuring pro-curing Statehood. It was fulfilled when the chief priests reverted to their law-breaking, nfter Iheir petitions for amnesty had served the purpose of procuring forgiveness for their former offenses and freedom to enjoy the rights of American citizens. It. Avas fulfilled whon tho church leaders devoted tho money and property of the church to tho promulgation of polygamy, and the defense of polyg-amists. polyg-amists. after they had procured the re-hirn re-hirn of that property from the master in chancery under oath I hat they would forever abandon the promotion of that doctrine. . ' It was fulfilled when the perform- j ances of now polygamisls "had been ex- posed, and the church refused to discipline or excommunicato the criminals, crim-inals, but devoted itself to their protection pro-tection and reward. . It was fulfilled whn Joseph V. Smith and his favorite business partners en- j tored extensively into commercialism ' jAvitli the financial backing of tho ' church, after a sacred promise to re- fraiu from this thing had procured the i snfeguaid of Statehood. j ft Avas fulfilled Avhon the president of the Mormon church procured tho election elec-tion of one of his apostolic, stool-pigeons stool-pigeons lo the United Stntes Senate, I nfter a solemn pledge to forever abstain j from interference in polit ical "affairs. It was fulfilled when Joseph R Smith continued to permit the alleged revelation revela-tion commanding the practice of polygamy polyg-amy to be printed in th official lawbook law-book of the church, after his promise, given under outh to the whole country, that he Avouid havp it expunged therefrom, there-from, j It was fulfilled when the president of ; the church refused to fulfill his sworn undertaking to have the Woodruff manifesto, mani-festo, inhibiting tln practice of polygamy, polyg-amy, published in tho DocVrino' nnd Covenants. 4 And it is Iqdny fulfilled in the lives of I ho Tanners tho two blackest of the black cats that have boon permitted to cseapo tho bag. Their new polygamy has been exposed upon evidence that tho church will not attempt lo dony. Yet they strut the streets in all tho pomp nnd circumstance of royal courtiers, cour-tiers, posing as the perfumed and pampered pam-pered progeny of a Daphne tho Intest darling delights to bask in the favor of Venus, Thesp criminnls aro permitted to peacock their Avnys along our thoroughfares, thor-oughfares, handing out their pomaded sneers to the decent men and women with whom they come in contact. Verily, and yon, A'crtly, the hierarchical hierarch-ical cals nro being lot out of tho bag! |