Show REV WILKS REPLY 0 still harps on polygamy bishop keelar Ise elfr answered 1 editor enquirer in your jour reply to my question conc concerning ern mormon doctrine jon desm fe m to have overlooked my main point I 1 quoted from mormon authorities to show that mormons cormons teach that god is a having many wives and that jesus christ when on earth indulged in the same habit you refer me to the iha anti polygamy manifesto as a later revelation on the subject bat 1 find nothing there touching the subject as it refers to the divinity I 1 did find that the practice was waa to be suspended ana among I 1 the saints because the law of the state prohibited it I 1 need not ask aak is the law now violated because lecause all that the enquirer or angus M cannon claims is ia that no plural marr marriages lages are solemnized now and the latter admitted in an interview inte iview with a reporter published in the salt laka lak 9 tribune that 9 1 children are born to plural wives in some instances so much for the practice of polygamy now about the i doctrine is ia it not a fact that apostle john W taylor prec pre c ed or talked on polygamy in the auvo pi stake tabernacle er sept 26 and did not the enquirer redart the address in which he said that polygamy was firmly believed behaved in by the saints and he tried to show the young 50 ang people that it was correct for the prophets and apostles specially honored of god were polygamists ista now I 1 submit that to an outsider that looks like teaching polygamy but perhaps apostle taylor was not speaking with official authority I 1 do not deny the right of cormons mormons no to teach and believe what they please providing they do not teach that which will lead to the violation of state elsw law but why deny the truth and brand as falsifiers those who simply abate the doctrin doctrine esaa sas found in mormon books and taught by mormon officials now I 1 must say a word in reply to bishop keeler ile he too kindly palies by the points of greatest 9 importance in nay commini com muni cation and tacitly admits that mor mons do believe in a polygamous god and a polygamous messiah and re plies to th the a last part of my articled article 3 2 no brother keeler I 1 was not afraid of criticism when I 1 only stated what I 1 fo mormon books the reason I 1 asked the editor not to call me a falsifier and a hireling was because when a statement was made a few weeks ago in reference to exciting facts I 1 that are no secrets one higher in authority in the church than brother keeler called the speaker a liar and a hireling and then admitted the facts and I 1 did not want the editor to fall into the same dame t trap a p I 1 am obliged to you for the r 7 ex explanation of the practical work of the mor mon church from which I 1 learn two things first that some officials in the mormon church do considerable work for which they receive no pay in cash that is ia exactly the case in all churches and millions of dollars in casti cash and produce are handled every year the cos cost of one cant to the church second that tome officials in the tha mormon chuich get pay in cash or kind for the they render that i t too 0 0 its is exactly the case in other churches and wao can caa object to it does no not t the master say tae laborer is worthy of his hire hir a sae also what paul says bays in 1 cor 9 14 Y ur nr exhortation bro keeler is ia kind and brol brotherly horly and I 1 promise you that I 1 will never call a morann bishop or 01 official oa of any kind in that church a hireling by way nv my of reproach whether hage he gets ta hi hia 3 salary from the church directly or indirectly in oart dart or in all lam not anxious to continue this discussion but if it is continued ll I 1 desire that whoever takes gakes part in it will keep to the main which I 1 will restate miss webster made certain statements concerning mormon doctrine to wit that mormons cormons teach that thai god is ia a polygamist having many wives 2 that christ was a polygamist polygamy as a doctrine is taught among the saints today for saying thele thee things the enquirer brands miss webster ss Ps a falsifier I 1 find all these doctrines taught by authority of mormon books and by mormon officials ot of which I 1 furnish proof therefore miss webs webb or er ought not to be branded as a falau fier unless home later revelation of similar authority is produced in evid dence annulling previous revelations JOSEPH anks |