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Show HARKING BACK TO DEFIANCE. Somo nttontion has heretofore been paid 1)3' Tho Tribuno to a sermon preached at Logan by Presidont Joseph V. Smith, on Sunday, November 21, 1909. Tho Logan Republican has President Presi-dent Smith, in that sermon, saying: But tho only way I know of to get tho spirit 01 tho Lord and keep It with us Is to observe and to obey tho commandments com-mandments of the Lord; that If. tho wholo thing, to keep tho commandments of God. In other words, and ns President Smith said at the Davis stake quartorl3-conforence, quartorl3-conforence, held at East Bountiful on March 20. 1S99, and reported in tho Deserot News, "Wo fcol determined to do. tho will of God nnd keep His commandment to tho bost of our ability. abil-ity. Tho doctrino came from God. The matter of stopping it camo from our Government." Is there over to be a time when hon 0SI3' or expression and rcclitudo of practice can bo expected of these Mormon Mor-mon leaders who are saturated with the polygamous thought? If ono wore to nsk Joseph F. Smith if the Mormon church, or its spokesmen nnd leaders, aro teaching potyganvy, an indignant denial would bo entered. And 3'ct these men, all of them, aro continually dinning din-ning into the ears of their more or less confiding followers tho soundness and the godliko righteousness of pol3'-gamj". pol3'-gamj". Espcciall3' is this true of Joseph F. His mind seems to run to that subject. sub-ject. It is probably not so much his friult as it is his heritage. It may be contended b3' some who havo not tho view that The Tribuno ontortaius that our comment herein is a bit far-fetched. But it must bo recognized recog-nized as a fact that The Tribune has had a long- experience with Joseph F. Smith and his lawless kind. |