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Show his owx coxuuer. Recenixy Sam Small, mote appropriately ap-propriately known a3 "Small Sjm." preached In the city of Philadelphia, lie took for his text the firt verse of the second chapter of the first epistle of SL John, which reads thus: "My IllUe children Uiese things write I unto you that ye tin not." He U reported to have saM"that there existed a disposition among men to justify their commitment of tin by some supposed law of necessity, and proceeded to show the fallacy of such excuses. Ho asserted that no man was compelled to f Id; tliat he tinned because he wished to gratify some passion and he did It sgsJnst the resistance re-sistance of his nature aud the com mandmenU of God." ir the reverend fraud ha 1 sele eted himeiras a horrible example of the kind or depravity to which he referred, re-ferred, he coukl not have gircna more adequate detri-tion of his own condition. We proved In yesterday's yes-terday's issue tliat he had been guilty of braakln- several of tho commandments or Gjd, among them the express inhibitions against mtu "bearing false witne3s"again:t his neighbjr, engain; In tack-bit-ing and falsehood, al! or which he has been perpetrating agaiust the Latter-day Sal nls. The "supposed law or neces.ity" which led him into tills base conduct was, wc presume, pre-sume, the-need of getting "money, equipments and endowments" for thep.-ojMcd JlethodUt University atOgden. The hypocrisy or this religious, barnacle Is dKgus'Jng. |