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Show IE GLORY OP ENOCH ihric I read the communi-iTr communi-iTr paper entitled "Shang-ach" "Shang-ach" and it was "very en-me en-me because T was in Or-bithc Or-bithc iiH'idenls mentioned Vliappcncd. Hut first, let .got to Orderville. fand I, soon after our con-trmonism, con-trmonism, moved troin-Eng-i? Ju I hone days lands in ihcap. Wiihiira year or ed efforts of father and T rs of seven acres of fine i. Salt Lake City- and lUur-inrt lUur-inrt was a deep, rich soil jas a good gardener. "We a sinull way, we labored !cdf bettor than we did in closed our eyes to many I.Kclosed our minds to reason I Vbclicvcd that urn improv-iwas improv-iwas a direct blessing of ptMffi. our conversion to Mor-HjVuRS Mor-HjVuRS were going well with pprjest of high station in the ftrcli culled upon us nud de- Blessings and benefits to .be jiftiv the L'uitod Order of jJMlien thought that he was iiflp holy mun. but we after-VH after-VH that he was an "agent " wKjivorking on a commission Jcnt of all the properly he ?Mt Knoch. '- This priest and Jjkind "labored'1 with us, Xflfrnectings in our house and SB?0 or(' J1ukc us good ,W-,rc enough to bo ''conse-iMKwc ''conse-iMKwc "purged ourselves of !nd "put tho world be-leeding be-leeding our lit tie farm to R. trustee. The first step Order of ICnoch was to property of everv kind nine, trustee. This cerc-cil cerc-cil Hie "consecration." nl deeded the farm to C, trustee, we wero duly the Order of 1-lnoeh. The nony consisted of a series in which the candidate Snoch, a .just and good . i" the "Bible. The first loHic the candidate as d, that is, in an old lmr-rcnclied lmr-rcnclied lo the knees. We a thai this raiment was liumilnv and that Knoch 2 man. v( t,- ,,.,,.,. lRLi.tl,c T'resonce of a man JjK'tno aagel Gabriel. He told iR'c "purged of tho 'earth" jHewatert" ,lm hv ,ie SBm Prrc'- l,)on 113 1,0 would 9Kt l,reeiice in the flesh JB&p,nfi. opened, even as JMlled in the Jlc-Hli in the ; Tith this he hung a imrl ,,iy ."CL',C 00 which was 2Kv om,c . Hclshazza r. ' ary fm Solomon" for his name. 1K oro )asscd into another SBPffi,ncd "H-flcdgcd mem-iJmjfy mem-iJmjfy V Order of Hnoch "In 1KvIc fiV or six men who JMtfttino institution as father Kl; -i?"1 cro "Re(- apart" c .Tlic far... father Hina irot,l.cp B,'l"i" was AKvnrU roU"cl'v, "oce of land wanted it, and for this reason wo were "set apart" lo go to Orderville. At Orderville there wero about a hundred hun-dred men. Their work consisted of cultivating cul-tivating about a thousand acres of potatoes. po-tatoes. All flic men woro tho "garments "gar-ments of Knoch," that is. burlap shirts, and they wore known bv the names written on the tags hung to their necks. All the hind at Orderville stood in the name of Brigham Young, trustee, and. all the potatoes raised there wont to Brigham Young, trustee. The only buildings at Orderville were tho moss hall, where the men ate their meals, dud the barns and sheds where they slept. Some of fnc icn wore wooden shoes, some wrapped their feet in rags and some went barefoot. Under direct orders from Brother Brigham the bill of faro was very plain, because Knoch lived on simple food. "When tho two apostles set out to visit Orderville they were counselled by Brother Brigham fo wear the garments of Knoch throughout all (he ."journey southward of Provo. But thoy disobeyed dis-obeyed counsel and were strong in thoir pride. They did not put on the garments gar-ments of Knoch until thev reached Orderville. Or-derville. and they hid lheir good clothes in thy bushes nearby. Two brethren who had lost Hie spirit and who mut iored and murmured against the blessings bless-ings of Knoch found (he clothes of the apostles and fled from Orderville with them. When Brother Brigham learned these things he was exceedingly wroth, for these things made the people mock Knoch. And Brother Brigham then counselled the two apostles to-- labor with the faithful at Orderville, and they labored until the harvest was ripe. "When I he pofntoes were harvested and hnuled to market there wns nothing at which we could work to make money for Brother Brigham. He did not relish the idea of bonrding us during the winter, win-ter, so ho sent word to Orderville that he deemed it wisdom for the brethren to return to their several homes. Of course, none of them had any homes, but Brother "Brigham ;s message was understood un-derstood to mean every man for himself and tho devil take the hindmost. Orderville Or-derville disbanded, and every man, clad in nothing but a gunny sack shirt, sot out to gel somewhere as best he coiild. I'ather and I, after four weeks of walking walk-ing with some work by the wayside, wearv, worn and foot-sore, reached Salt, Lake vallev. We started JUG anew at the job of milking cows at a dairy farm south of the citv. But, air. Kditor. my season with fiiioch made me ricjier than before, Tu return for 1113- interest in tho little farm 1 was given "a little true wisdom. The view T obtained of tho fraud, pretense, greed and hypocrisy that permeates the svstein of the Mormon priesthood was worth more 'than tho farm to me. I am glad that they took the farm and paid tho price bv awakening my slumbering reason. Tif this sense I can truly say thai 1 enjoyed the "Blessings ot Knoch." And the Milling that have not paid from that dnv to this is more in dollars and cents than the farm was worth. Very truly yours. g K0LBABi Port In nd. Pro, t-Vbruarv |