Show AS TO DOCTRINE pres partridge makes reply TO THE HEK ALto lie ile aeils of the polygamous ou r relations Kemi ions of 0 the prophet joseph Josep lik smith to the editor aitor it seems that an article written by me which appeared in the enquirer not cot long since has created a elight riffle among some boma of the people of the east and aad nong anong a those who have felt to 10 animadvert im upon the sentiments therein expressed is the saints hera d the organ ot of the reorganized or Jose josephita Joeeph phito ite church in the article alluded to I 1 took the 08 liberty to express plainly some gome of my own views aa to t 8 divinity and etel ni ahr v ol of the marziale damage marzi age cosecant cove cant the hera d evidently indulges indu igea in some bome rather strong language in denouncing the position which I 1 take upon the f ablest it is pretty well understood that the organization above i starred to denoun i es ea empra demphs icalla the revelation on marriage and denies positively that the prophet jo joseph eph mith ever re ceven a revelation on the subject or ever practiced araci ced poly polygamy zamy by enteric en terii 4 into the wari maneage fage covenant with women other than nis his one legal wile wife I 1 can very well understand stand the futility of ent entering eting into an arg argument ament with the followers of joaeph the son eon of the prophet on this thin suba ic as aa it in id prett well understood that thai they make this ibia denial in the tha fale face ot or i new troy bitable evidence anile zest le siding ding in millard county some years ago and as aa the probate judge oi of the chanty I 1 took the affidavit of the pr peels s plural wives ta V the effect that hey were married to him in the tha city 0 kaivo Ia ivo 1 apo J givant the date thereof subsequently I 1 had bad a conversation with josepn joseph president of the church at salt sait lake city in the tpring pr or bummer of 1885 I 1 had recent recently jy te turned hom dom a mission and learning lear that joseph was in the city called upon him we having been baen playmates together in boyhood and in our cony maision ra ision when asbed 05 01 we me if he be denied that his hia father bad a plural ity of wi es married to him hie death he replied that he bad not yet been convinced that he had haa I 1 then cited him to those affidavits affidavit 3 allude 1 to end others and offered to go with him to asit T two iwo 0 of bis fathers wives abc were I 1 ving in salt like oily cily at the time but declining to go he be virtually acknowledged that it might be tzue tine ty by saying savins if he did have more than ono one wife he sinned and als remarked ked that this is not the tae ony only thing in winch which he s B nned thus virtually de noana ng his father as aa a fallen prophet and th a ie aa I 1 view it the only consistent pait position ioa he ha and his followers can assume but it is not my design to dilate upon this phase phage of the subject as I 1 am not advocating the practice of polygamy at presen present tg although the correctness ness of that doctrine docta ine is ia of ample proof toe the whole tenor ot ol the revelation given iven through the prophet joseph smith leads us na to believe that to the increate of nt beings who obey the gospel and pur sue the vath marked out by god the tha father there will be no end but it would woud appear that the Beora aniz d church have repudiated the prophet ana the doctrines that he pr mul gated ai well and hwe now gong gone back to the sectary sectarian sec tari idea of placing g a limit upon int diligent progression it is ia written in the first i d chapter 2nd and verses veree 6 now we aro the sons ol of god and it doets no yet appear what we shall be out dut we know that when he shall alpar meshall we shall be ba like him all the tha te of holy writ indicate plainly PI that endless progression gres sion and eternal increase of glory and of knowledge is the destiny of organized zan laed and besides this is ie the only rational gift tiala that can be taken of the subject tais taia aping cn ceedee then it follows as aa a natural a cuenca that there is a possibility of man becoming at some time in the he t eternities to came a god with alli that name implies in that case what IQ III to become of mans faithful helpmeet woman Is balleto she to be discarded and a ceat off damned or anibal bated 0 or r is she to be right along with her companion a sharer in his hia glory a co recipient of his power of his hie power a per taker of his happiness and his joys christian world have ba va put a limit to progression and well may mav the lord have eaid to joseph that they speaking ot the churches churchea of modern christendom were an a abomination bomi nation in his eight sight for they have transgressed the law changed the ordinances and broken the everlasting coven covenant antl teach ing for doctrine arine the vre cats of man having a form of Godlin godliness eEs but denying the power thereof fiven even darwin ism li is in advance of the ideas of modern theologians for of the two there is wore more consistency in the evolution theory th than P n in the doe doctrines brines trines of an eternal standstill with no progression or increase innovations upon accepted meet with opposition truth may be despised because of its simp icily and lack of popularity while error may be respectable from the number of its ita votaries vot aries but read nor popularity can never make it truth and in th the e end truth will wili triumph over error it remained for the P 0 p bet josephas Josep bas the mouthpiece of god to enunciate the doctrine 0 of eternal of intel levence le gence that man is destined to en an endless increase of knowledge and power for knowledge is power and therefore he when the man adam in the garden of eden partook of the fruit of the tha tree of knowledge the lord god said behold the man is become as one of us and that he might fulfill his deit destiny tiny he was waa driven out that he might not partake of the fisit of t abe he tree of life and live forever thus por braying the fact that knowl knowledge edze carries carriea with it corresponding power man was waa created in the image of jod male and female created he them la Is this I 1 think the doctrine ot of eternal progression and increase is and abs tbs being the cace lo co what condit condition ion in the eternities to come is bomin to be ba relegated by our sell styled CL austian friendt friends where i should be the abe partner of mans tolls toil the willing sharer of his joys and his bis sorrows if not by his bis side n all time to come if she was cou cited wort by to share equally io in his bis she not also be a pAria kir tr in his exaltation and nd elory 7 I 1 but our apostate apos fate friends of the he be i organized church e seem e m to be c conform ing ine their tenants to harmonize harmon sze with tha reet reat rf the apostate churches and if the late ite utterances of their organ voice their tine sentiments they now rei noanoa bounce the chief cornerstone of the superstructure established byth by the ePro prophet joseph ie cont revelation and now claim that jesus laid down the rule that all should be governed by tha tbs written word woid lone thus removing the stone from under them helyes as wel as all other oher churches or people who lay claim to any inspiration thay raise the ther r hands bands la in boy ho v horror at the bai bae a idea being entertained that we may have a molher maiber in beaven as well as a father which doctrine dd earine was taught by the father of this president vf rf the church but he takes it upon himself to denounce bis father and aein repudiate diate the doctrine he ha taught while claiming to bs his legal EDWARD provo nov 30 1897 |