Show that doctrinal dispute misa webster insisted in her correspondence east that thestine the thes same sine doctrine was not taught by mormon missionaries as taught here at home that here the church teaches that god is a polygamist and jesus christ had a plurality of wives we denied denial that the church teaches that doctrine Joc Joe trine and the pastor quoted a lot of at amons preached in the past to prove misa websters position then pies partridge wrote a letter telling him where the doctrine of the church could be found polygamy is clearl clearly yset set forth in those books but he says he knows of no revelation on the subject c t f god being a polygamist and jesus jeans christ carl t having a plurality of wives on the latter proposition he says davs that men have argued that the faithful women who loved jesus jeans and ministered to his hia wants were his hia wives and he does not believe the argument unreasonable but this with me he be continues is only a matter of speculation and not profitable to teach as doctrine rev kev wilks now replies reading the enquirer a lecture on the side for not knowing what the doctrine of the church is and what is now taught we know that polygamy has been discontinued and the old sermons which the pastor quotes pre are not taught now by the church in fact the questions in dispute only appear as president partridge says bays in sermons and writings on the doctrine of poleg gamy there is no revelation on question sow now in conclusion lotus let us say that it seems that the pastors who are drawing their pay from abroad as rev wilks is doing doieg desire to keep up the old fight while the mormon people are desirous of letting the dead rest past bury its past it may be profitable to the ministers to agitate tate those old questions but it is is of no profit to the public |