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Show I "The Fourth Wise King" Editor Tribune On Monday morning 1 generally glance over tho morning pa-pors pa-pors just to seo what tho ministers and the prophets have 10 say, -nnd turning over tho pages of Tho Trlbuno of lost Monday morning I came to the unpro-nouncahlo unpro-nouncahlo namo SJodahl. A weighty namo and a weighty man, surely, and 1 began to read his address to tho Latter-day Latter-day Saints. I read it through and In holy silence laid tho paper on my table with, this ejaculation: "Now I imdorstand why we had a comet this year and why It remained re-mained so long ovor Salt Lake. Heavenly bodies attract each other,-, and Elder hjodahl was that comet's attraction." I gazed out of my window. Before me stood the temple with its holiness to tho Lord written on the outside. What is written within, well, It is not for your eyes and mine, my dear fellow, to sea but this we may be sure of. Eldor SJodahl has his revelations written somewhere under the soats. Ordinary Mormon mortals mor-tals could not gazo fully upon them and live. In the old days minor prophets were not thought much of. and we need not wonder If in an advanced America they are at low discount. Balaam was a kind of a prophet, you know. He was tho proud owner of an ass, and a3 to which of tho two was tho more prophetic, many conjectures are afloat, and the question still remains In doubt. I am thinking that if soma of our modem prophets had an ass and the question was propounded which was the wiser, we know to whom the verdict would bo given. Get an ass. Eldor SJodahl. nnd wo will listen to the 'ass. Doctrines and covenants and illuminations illu-minations arc all very gpod, Elder SJodahl, SJo-dahl, when they are of tho right kind; but yours, with their sections and co-soctlons co-soctlons won't stand tho test of the weakest brain in Provo. I could, you know, fashion a doctrlno or covenant, .and before promulgating It Just bury it In the ground to give it tho mark of antiquity; an-tiquity; or hetter still. I could say an angel carried it from the high heavens and out of breath gave it to me with tho words: "Shout It out for all you are worth, tho world has been going to damnation for the last nineteen hundred years. Joseph Smith, the Lord was waiting wait-ing a. long tlmo for you. Full long the devil has laughed at tho Pauls, tho Cyrils, the Augustlncs, the Gregorys, tho Basils and the rest. Assume straightaway the mantlo of tho prophet and shout, and If the world docs not listen lot it go to hell." Poor nngol. It's no wonder you wore out of breath when you reached Joseph Smith for flying through the air for nineteen nine-teen hundred years to And the right onu was a hard Job. But did you llnd tho right one? I'm thinking this morning you did not. You should havo waited a few years more for Sjodahl. He was your man, the man of tlie all-embracing knowledge, the man of tho Illuminations. and tho stars. Poor angel, but I should not say poor, for have not the Illumined line of prophets rewarded you? Yes, they have, and men gnze today upon an exact Imago of your crowning Utah's Mormon temple. There you stand blowing your trumpet to tho east to awaken that idolatrous idol-atrous pagan stubborn east to tho sweets, the lights, of Mormonlsm and illuminations illumina-tions of SJodahl. Poor angel. I am afraid your task Is a hopeless ono; no. I should not say altogether honolpss, for one SJodahl SJo-dahl heard your blowing, and, lo, he camel Now, poor angel, as you have him hero. JubI turn that trumpet of vours round on tho Desoret News building and blow some senso Into SJodahl's head and the illuminations and covenants out of It. and pleaan do it at once, for after last Sunday's display of celestial and terrestrial terres-trial fireworks, ho Badly needs It. I am sure Brlgham Young's statuo will nod approval. Ah the sun peeps over Utah's peaks, forth from SJodahl's mind came a light which showed the Mormon peo-iplc peo-iplc the beauty, the truth of Joseph Smith's doctrine. Sections and co-sec-Hons and covenants Included. In comparison compari-son to the philosophies of India, the Ignorance Igno-rance and pestilence of China, tho still backward state of Japan, the thraldom of Russia. Catholicity, the illumined SJodahl declared had done a great deal for the world, but he sadly added (I uso the words of The Tribune): "It is nevertheless never-theless a fact that it 1ms failed to save the world, and we find wherovor we go under that system familiar conditions to those tbat we have encountered In Russia." Good for you. SJodahl! After that illumined pronouncement, the Catholic Cath-olic church is trembling in Its boots, and the members of it have lost thftlr appetites. appe-tites. Just .Imagine Bishop Scanlan a Russian czar and sending Tom Kcarns, J B. Cosgrlff, Martin Mulvoy and William O'Meara to Siberia! When these gentlemen gentle-men arc going, wo may have another Illumination Il-lumination from the Illumined SJodahl telling Bishop Scanlan to send George Sheets In charge. Tho Protestant peoples arc not free, declared th weighty SJodahl. Well. In secular matters I always thought they were as free as anybody else, and In religious rnattors It Is too much freedom they have, at least to my way of thinking; think-ing; but then, I have not got an illuminator, illum-inator, and "there's the rubl" The sound of the angel's trumpet caught SJodahl's car in the cast, .and then. too. there was a light and a star, and SJodahl. the fourth wiso king, rose up and said: "Lo. I como!" and Salt Lake has a comet In It ever since. It was Monday evening the day after the "eventful," and Salt Lake experienced a storm. Jt was no wonder; it wns tho Illuminations and the spirit of SJodahl abroad. Yes, surely, and there lie walks himself. Michael Forrest Bees him coming and at once his oil cape shelters The Tribune, paper is ignited and SJodahl illuminations arc strong. Two llttlo newsboys sheltering In a doorway see tho Illumined pass and are strangely silent. It is only for a mm 1 moment, for soon these words come: Ei I "Say, kid, did you feel anything?" Ma ft "Yes. kid. 'twas like the lightning-" Kid. QM fl whisper, he came here from the east led Wit 1 by. a star. You're right, kid. he did, and Mm I they Bay the star now shines in Vilon's WM I TOBLVS DOOLY., JR. Ml I |