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Show A HUMBUG MIRACLE. If there can be any such thing as a wondcrless miracle, Apostlo Hebor .7. Grant happened to think it up while talking to the saints at the Cache stake confcrcnco last week. According to tho Logan Journal's report Mr. Grant delivered himself thus: He related the Inslanco of Prcsldont Joseph V. McMurrln bcing shot and recovering re-covering entirely from two terrlblu wounds after being blessed by his brethren breth-ren and promised that he should recover. It was a miracle, he said, and ho rejoiced greatly that the power to perform such miracles was In the church. If faith in miracles depended entirely upon tho "miracle" performed iu the case of Elder McMurrin, there could bo no faith in miracles. And for the simplo reason that Elder McMurrin and miracles aro total strangers. Tho facts are that Joe was a Danito defonder of tho lawless ones of tho church, and that at ono lime tho United States Marshal and his doputies horo mado mattors rather warm for criminals of tho polygamous polyg-amous stripe. Ho joined tho others in calling enforcoment of the law "porse cution for religion's sake," nnd on thut nceount constituted himsolf one of the avengers. Thero was ono certain deputy United States Marshal named Collin, for whom Elder McMurrin entertaiued no small hatred. Elder McMurrin and other thugs of his own choosing waylaid way-laid Collin on ono dark night at Social Hall alley. (It is just north and across tho street east of the Salt Luke thoater, as it was then). The plan of McMurrin miscarried, because instond of gtviug Collin the beating nigh unto death that was intended, Elder McMurrin received a "run around" bullet wound in the abdomen. Subsequently Elder McMurrin McMur-rin was wnutod in court lo tell how the thing happened; but ho was spirited away under tho certificate of a willing physician to tho effect thnt his procure ment beforo the court would entail fatal consequences. At tho sumo timo tho wound was not so sufficiently dangerous danger-ous as to prevent his removal hero and there, at any and all times, to escape the process of tho law. But tho causo for Apostlo Grant's referenco to tho case as being au exemplification ex-emplification of tho miraculous was undoubtedly un-doubtedly duo to the fact that tho criminals crim-inals whom McMurrin had sought to "vindicate" in a personal act of thug ism promised him Hfo becauso ho had defended "tho Lord's anointed." Joo McMurrin was morcly scratched, so to speak, but Grant and the other fakers would have it appoar that he was fatally fatal-ly wounded and miraculously- heulod. Tho wonder is that Apostlo Grant did not continue along tho usual lino by saying that tho murderous McMurrin was ono of the persecuted ones in the causo of religion, and that for the same sake ho was a near-martyr. |