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Show ENFORCING A LAND JUDGMENT. Just a document which may be taken into account in considering tlio protestations protes-tations of tho Mormon hicrarchs that they do liot interfere in temporal affairs, af-fairs, and therefore do not contravene tho civil by the ecclesiastical power. Ve give ot in full: Officer of Stnke. Clerk, ' HlchfU'Id. Utah, Junu ".3, HlO.'i. .Corn Hlrdsall, Monroe. Utah. Dear Sister. J3y direction of the stake presidency, you arc 'hereby Informed that at tho KC8Hlon of the hif-h council of tho Sovlcr stake of ZI011 held June !!, 1 10::. yon wcr" excommunicated from the Church or Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for fnllure to comply with the decision de-cision of the first presidency of . tho church in the .case ot James IS.- Leavltt v. Coin J31rdsall. Very respectfully, .. '. .1. M. LAURITZKN, Stake Clerk and Clork of 711h Council. In this matter the church, from beginning be-ginning to end, had arrogated to itself the powers and authorities of tho civil courts. Jt was a. contest over title to land, which only the courts and the processes of established civil law may be permitted to determine. In this particular par-ticular instance it cannot bo argued that tho church authorities kindly tendered ten-dered their services toward an amicable and just settlement of tho controversy becauso the case had arisen in an early day when the courts of the Territory were imperfectly organized. This happened hap-pened during lhe years 11)02-:!,' sis rtiul seven years . after Statehood. Jt waa merely oue of the tyrannical nsiump-tions nsiump-tions of authority that arc continually thrust, upon the. people by the priesthood, priest-hood, but which happened to become known. . , Hut observe the thi;eat to other faithful faith-ful Mormons Ihnt is contained iu tho conclusion. Cora 'liirdsall would not submit to loss of her properly at the hierarchical command, and now Cora Dirdsall is no longer a Mormon. Tliat'y Mormon justice. |