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Show ;LUi!DCIuOM ALSO TELLC"" -"LZLECED.TEtlPLE.'SEGCBTC science as the cause of her" husband's ness. She believed herhusband knew he had broken the law of the lar.d and of the church. James H. Wallla.Sr., who d.vulged the endowment-honse oaths, was recalled re-called by Attorney Worthing on, representing; repre-senting; Mr. Smoot, and paid that he had been telling of these obligates- for several sev-eral months, perhaps s rear, but be could not remember any tames except Mr. Owen, who Is employed in gathering gather-ing testimony for the protestants. Mr. Wailis corrected his testimony in regard to the oath of vengeance. This oath, he now says, contains nothing' concerning vengeance upon "inhabitants "inhabi-tants of the earth," but is a pledge fto avenge the blood of the slain prophets upon "the nation." fThe attorney for the protestahta Were not ready to proceed further owing ow-ing to the non-arrival of witnesses who have been delayed by storm. The hearing hear-ing was adjourned until afternoon. At 2 p. ol August Lundstrom of Salt Lake was sworn. He was born In Sweden and became a Mormon six years before - 1 1 : WASHINGTON; Dee. 15. In her tes- timony regarding the alleged marriage - of Abram Cannon and Lillian Hamlin in June, 1896, Mrs. Fred H. Ellis, at 1 that time a plural wife of Cannon; said she could not testify from her own ; Knowledge who performed the cere- - mony between her husband and Miss Hamlin, and said she had supposed ' . President Smith had done to until he ' testified on the stand here last spring. . I On cross-examination Mrs. Ellis was asked why she opposed the marriage be-' be-' tween her. husband and Miss Hamlin: She said it was. because she believed the t manifesto prohibited such marriages. She went to President Smith and asked him if such a marriage, (explaining the case, but withholding the names) could be Ugal. and was told it could not. y Attorney Van Cott asked the witness what she meant by sayiiujthat she b- . ... ueved her husband's last marriage killed him. , Mrs. Ellis ascribed worry and con-; coming v America, ne naa neia nign positions po-sitions In the church, both in Sweden- and In Ctan. He testified that he went through , the Temples in Salt Lake and IjOgan. He had beard the endowment obligations taken tak-en six times, he said, each ceremony consuming con-suming from six to eight hours, according to the size of the crowd. He said oaths of sacrifice and of retribution were administered. adminis-tered. The whole proceeding was a series of obligations, said the witness, but he could not remember all of them. The first in order, he said, was the law of sacriflre, which bound each person to give his entire means and talents to the upbuilding of the Mormon church. The next obligation was that of retribution, in which each person covenanted and promised to "ask God to avenge the blood of Jose.ph-4bnith upon this Nation," and to teach "our children chil-dren and our children's children to do the same to the end of the earth." The next obligatioi was that of chastity. Mr. L-indstrom said he remained a Mormon Mor-mon until he found many-inconsistencies in the beliefs taught. "I found a weak spot in. the wall, and when I touched It a hole was made that was Mg enough to crawl through. The foundation was not sound," he said. The witness had discussed these weaknesses weak-nesses with officials of the church. The hearing was continued until tomorrow. - |