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Show THE BUGABOO OF BIGOTS. No hoy having: acquired a perfect knowledge of the truth of the gospel will turn from It unless he has committed sin, of which he has not repented. Joseph Jo-seph F. Smith at Millard stake con-feronco; con-feronco; reported In Flllmoro Progress Review. Here is tho commonest of the common com-mon bugaboos held up to shrinking saints in order to frighten them out of tho very thought of apostasy if tho3' should ever conclude that they had been deceived. It is tho old cr3 against thoso who havo left the church in spite of tho nasty accusation impliod and the threat put out to awo tho people into subjection against their honest convictions. con-victions. Nono but bigots and fnnntics could entertain the view expressed above b3 Joseph F. Smith. He assums that ho and his likeB aro tho only ones of God's creatures that havo tho truth, and that all others aro in gross darkness. No matter how exalted tho intelligence of tho non-believer, tho crassb'-ignorant believer is his superior in knowledge, and thereforo entitled to deliver tho eternal ultimatum and pronounce tho eternal damnation. Smith is among tho most ignorant of mankind; his instincts in-stincts arc totally unrefined; his nature is brutal in the extreme; ho hns no charitable char-itable feelings; he is selfish and utterb disregardful of the needs of tho unfortunate unfor-tunate even among his own following; ho seeks nothing on earth but a ran-dizoment ran-dizoment for himself and a competenc3' for his numerous families. In the pursuit pur-suit of his objects ho bends all his onorgics to gathering in tho tithes of befooled subjects, under threat of removal re-moval of their names and tho names of their beloved ones from tho recording angel's good book. lie is a robber in the blasphemed name of God. If Joseph F. Smith wore possessed of one-tonth tho intelligence of most of tho men whom ho has arbitrarily ox-communicated, ox-communicated, or who havo volun'tarib-apostatized volun'tarib-apostatized from his sinful beliefs and practices, the Mormon church would bo better off, and he would stop talking tho utter nonsense which we have quoted. |